Chapter 653 Palace Hall, Kou Niangniang
"In the future, all the affairs in the palace will be held by the internal government. Both the yamen left by the Ming Dynasty or Manchuria will be abolished. The food, clothing, housing and transportation required in the palace will be managed by the internal government. The expenses required will no longer be paid from the internal government, but will be paid by the national government."
In Beijing, Lu Si just confirmed a major matter, which is that the newly formed Inner Palace Department is fully responsible for the affairs of the palace.
Originally, it was planned to be called the Inner Palace Bureau, because many yamen in the Ming Dynasty had the name of the bureau, but considering that this institution would be in charge of palace affairs in the future, it was equivalent to the former cemetery of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchurian Interior Department. It was inconvenient to be managed after the bureau, so Lu Si was directly upgraded to the department.
In terms of the structure of the foreign government, Lu Si also had requirements for streamlining the matters. For example, in the previous Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Revenue Department had two houses, the Ministry of Justice, the Supervisory Office, the Seal Office, and the Seal Office of the same month, and the Seal Office. Other institutions were rich in the Fatang, Baoquan Bureau, Sanku, and the Warehouse Office. The ownership of officials outside the capital was unknown, which caused the administrative system to be unable to handle matters in a timely and effective manner.
The reason why a large-scale peasant uprising occurred during the Chongzhen period of the former Ming Dynasty was that natural disasters were only external factors, and the root cause was that the government system from top to bottom could not relieve disasters at all.
No matter which dynasty or generation, bureaucracy is inevitable.
But Lu Si was able to suppress this bureaucracy as much as possible from a systematic perspective.
Therefore, Lu Si asked Gu Junen to customize the specific institutions of the Dashun Six government, if the original institutions can be merged, and try to maintain the layout of one government and four departments.
If you want to be efficient in the local area, the central government must first be effective.
The person who served as the governor of the Interior Department of the Palace was Gao Qifeng, the former eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty who had just arrived from Shandong. This former eunuch of the Ming Dynasty was once affectionately called Liu Bowen in Yancheng by Lu Si.
Gao Bowen is not disappointed with King Lu Chuang's reputation. Recently, he has recruited and secretly bought many people for Dashun with old relationships.
Among them, the eunuch Lu Jiude, the Fengyang Army Supervisor. According to Gao Qifeng, Lu Jiude claimed that he was old and wanted to return home to support his elderly care.
Lu Jiude's hometown is Yangzhou controlled by Dashun.
Lu Si also admired the eunuchs of the Chongzhen Dynasty, such as Wang Chengen who hanged him with Chongzhen, Cao Huachun who was the top scholar in Nei Shutang, and Cao Huachun who was the admiral of the East Factory, and Lu Jiude who was "diligent and skilled in military training."
The four generals under the command of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, Huang Degong, Zhu Ji, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong from Fang Guoan and Zhu Ji were promoted by Lu Jiude. Earlier, they were both eunuch Lu's commander and the army were very close to Lu.
The reason why Ma Shiying was able to mobilize Huang Degong was that Zhu Ji fought against Zuo Ni and was also closely related to Lu Youde's secretly getting close to Huai Yang.
Therefore, Gao Qifeng's "unified front" with Lu Jiude was very satisfied with Lu Si. He instructed Yangzhou Prefect Zheng Yuanbiao to provide convenience for the exchanges between Gao Qifeng and Lu Jiude, that is, let Zheng Yuanbiao take the money and let Gao Qifeng give it to Lu Jiude.
In addition, he ordered to take care of Lu Jiude's relatives in his hometown and appointed a nephew of Lu Jiude as the local township chief, and he had to pay attention to some of the Lu family's affairs. Yangzhou also invested in the repair of the ancestral tomb of Lu Jiude's family.
As long as Lu Jiude is willing to surrender, especially if he can bring Huang Degong or Zhu Ji, even if he is only one of them, Lu Si will not sting a reward for the reward of a count so that Lu can return home in glory and take care of the elderly.
This kind of reward was also called by Gao Qifeng to pass the message.
Since ancient times, eunuchs have been awarded titles, but not many have been awarded since the Song Dynasty.
Lu Si used the Earl to reward Lu Jiude, showing his sincerity on the one hand, and on the other hand, it showed that he was only capable of being a talented person, and was not conservative in employing people and rewarding people. This is the atmosphere that the new dynasty should have.
In addition, many people from the Nanjing Inner Guard Office also showed favors to Dashun through Gao Qifeng. Lu Si ordered Gao Qifeng to hand over to Gao Jin's office and then worked in full-time in the palace affairs.
The Admiral of the Palace Department is an official position of the fourth rank. Lu Si has already told Gao Qifeng clearly that the latter was quite excited because the highest rank of the eunuch in the Ming Dynasty was the fourth rank, but often only the eunuch of the Sili Bing or the Admiral of the Imperial Horse Supervisor can be promoted to the fourth rank.
Although he was a military eunuch in the Chongzhen Dynasty, his rank was the sixth rank of the internal officials and supervisors. Now King Lu Chuang directly promoted him to the governor of the Inner Hall of the Dashun Palace and awarded the highest rank of eunuchs. He was naturally glad to express his loyalty to the King of Chuang in addition to his favor.
Soon, Admiral Gao got into the role. He first expressed his opinion on the merger and abolition of the former Ming and Manchu yamen, and proposed that several bureaus could be temporarily retained, such as the Washing Clothes Bureau, the Wine and Vinegar Noodles Bureau, the Siyuan Bureau, and the Bell and Drum Office, and then merged and adjusted after a few years of operation of the palace hall is on track. In this way, the chaos caused by the restructuring of the palace institutions in Dashun and the inconvenience of the Crown King.
"Since I hand over this inner hall to you, you can do it boldly."
Lu Si affirmed Gao Qifeng's opinion and asked him to come up with a specific plan as soon as possible. The number of personnel admitted and retained in the palace must be detailed. The amount of funds required for the operation of the palace's internal department in one year must be reported as soon as possible. Then the household government will list the items specifically.
"In the past, everyone said that the affairs of the emperor's family were private affairs and had nothing to do with the outside court, so the emperor had a special inner treasury in the palace. I think the inner treasury was also removed from the future, and there was no private matter for the emperor's affairs."
After the internal hall of Lu Siyi Palace was officially established, both eunuchs and palace ladies should have a formal salary, which means salary. His emperor, Dashun, and the empress and concubines, would also receive salary in the future.
Regardless of whether the descendants of future generations have any money, this system must be decided by him, Taizu. As for whether the inner court can engage in some business in the future, it is a later story.
In the past, some ugly rules in the palace had to be eliminated, and eunuchs in the palace could be given a certain vacation. The palace servants did not die of old age in the palace for the rest of their lives, but should be repeated every few years. If they were promoted to female officials, they could stay in the palace, and those who could not be promoted should be let go home to marry.
This surprised Gao Qifeng because since ancient times, women who entered the palace, regardless of whether the emperor favored them or not, were all women of the emperor. Now the king of the king has determined that the palace servants are not unique to the emperor, and for the palace maids, it is undoubtedly a great blessing.
"In the past, did the imperial villages, real estate, etc. be retained in the palace hall to supplement the cost of the palace, or should it be handed over to the Ministry of Revenue?" Gao Qifeng deserves to be the "old palace".
Lu Si thought about it and belonged to the palace industry before his life. The movable property was transferred to the household government, and the real estate was transferred to the local government.
Gao Qifeng persuaded that even if all the land should be transferred, the fields and other places should be charged a certain amount of land tax.
One or two can be done.
After all, the country is now innovating and is in a mess. The cost of the palace depends entirely on the allocation of foreign governments, so there is inevitably a shortage of support.
Lu Si pondered for a moment and agreed to this persuasion, asking Gao Qifeng to do things in a realistic way.
Chapter completed!