Chapter 228 The mortgage is gone! What about the debt?
Giving chicken soup is not the solution to the problem. The most important thing is to rely on practical actions. The most important thing right now is to fill the vacancies of court officials! Logically speaking, for an emperor who has been reduced to a province, the size of the court should be corresponding.
However, Zhu Youjian was not prepared to do so. Objectively speaking, the Ming court had streamlined its official allocation a bit too much. There were only more than 14,000 officials in the imperial official system nationwide. Such a scale of officials in one province
There isn't much land.
Zhou Yanru, Chen Jing and other cabinet ministers came to the dormitory with Li Rixuan, the minister of civil affairs, the minister and others, and started the first personnel meeting since the Qingjun side incident.
"There has been a lot of turmoil among the imperial officials recently, and I naturally know that. Now I will talk about the arrangements to deal with the turmoil. All the vacancies of officials need to be filled. According to the existing regulations, the vacancies in the center will be filled by officials from the counties of Beizhili Prefecture.
To fill the vacancies in the prefectures and counties, the vacancies in the prefectures and counties will be filled from the outstanding members of the Supervision Department, the Customs Department, and the working groups. In terms of grade, it is not suitable to be promoted too far. At most, it can only be promoted to one or two levels, and it can be leveled.
Tiao (tiao) is the best! The Supervision Department Yamen will become a formal court department, and all officials will be included in the government system. The Customs Department is now very important and will be officially established as a permanent institution. The grade will be adjusted to a fourth-grade Yamen. The original operating system will remain unchanged.
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Since it has been broken, we must seize the opportunity to establish a new one! Taking advantage of the fact that the courtiers had no idea, Zhu Youjian boldly conveyed his will.
"Since only one province listens to the imperial court, the entrances of the various government offices of the imperial court seem a bit bloated. However, I feel that it is not appropriate to lay off personnel at this time. What work should so many people do? It is perfect for opening up the offices of the imperial court to communicate with each other.
The work assigned to provinces, prefectures, and counties will be carried out in advance to the work assigned to the provinces! There will be a governor's office and a governor's office in Northern Zhili. The governor and the governor will be provincial permanent agencies in the future to jointly control the power of a province! The governor has overall control.
Provincial military, political, civil and legal affairs, the governor is responsible for government and civil affairs!"
"Your Majesty, will there be three divisions in the province in the future? Which of the central ministries need to be subordinated to yamen? How will the jurisdiction be delimited after the subordinate departments are established?" Li Rixuan, the Minister of Personnel, asked his question.
"The three departments are retained, and the Chief Envoy's Yamen is merged into the Governor's Yamen, and the governor's deputy assists in handling civil affairs! The six central departments, Dali Temple, Metropolitan Inspectorate, and Supervision Department Yamen are all under one body! The functions involved in the six departments' subordinate agencies belong to the governor
Yamen control, officials are recommended by the six ministries, the chief prosecutor of the Ministry of Personnel, appointed by the governor, and directly managed by the governor's yamen. The inspectors assist the governor in handling legal affairs, and the Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are assigned to provinces, prefectures, and counties accordingly! In the future, matters related to criminal law
Affairs were no longer handled directly by the local administrative yamen. Instead, they were reorganized with reference to the imperial court's precedent of joint trial by the three judicial divisions. Penalty, prosecution, and sentencing were divided. Punishment fell to the criminal department under the jurisdiction of the governor's yamen, litigation fell to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and sentencing fell to Dali.
The commander-in-chief of the temple and the capital will assist the governor in handling military matters! Let’s set up six departments first and straighten out the functions and powers of the governor’s yamen, and then discuss other matters.”
The restructuring of administrative functions is a very complicated matter. Zhu Youjian wanted to restructure local authorities with reference to the division of functions in later generations. As a result, he found that after the matter was discussed, it was chaotic. Even though he knew in his heart how to go about the general direction of change, he would not know for a while.
It was difficult to explain this matter clearly. In the end, he was a little bored, so he only gave a general outline on the spot, and then he would implement it step by step. In fact, the setting of the central court of the Ming Dynasty and the functions of later generations
The setting is not much different, but the local management system is slightly different from that of later generations.
The monarch and his ministers discussed this idea for a while, and finally decided that the Governor-General of Zhili and the Governor's Office should be located in Baoding, and that the Governor-General should be appointed by cabinet minister Wu Gang. At the same time, they also decided on one thing: Shuntian Prefecture's promotion of rank and the
Treat the provinces as one. The main reason for doing this is because a dignified court cannot just take care of one province, right? Rather than setting up an agency, it would be better for the court to directly become the governor-general's palace. After Shuntian Mansion was promoted, the court would at least
There are two provincial administrative agencies that govern it.
Although this meeting only discussed a general direction for the restructuring, the significance was significant. The important thing was that it allowed the courtiers to come out of the great changes in the capital and change from a state of having nothing to do to busy working on the restructuring.
Work hard.
Before the meeting, everyone was thinking about whether to go south or stay in Beijing. After the meeting, everyone was thinking about whether to stay in the central government as a Beijing official or to be transferred to a subordinate organization to become a local official. Although the so-called local officials are the furthest away.
Baoding, which is closer to the capital, is still in the capital. But this matter is still very different in the minds of the courtiers. Even if it is diverted to Shuntian Mansion, it is still out of the court!
Just when Zhu Youjian was finding something to do for the courtiers, Fu Shuxun, the Minister of Household Affairs, ran into the palace. He came to find something to do for the emperor.
"Your Majesty, all the previous creditors from the Ministry of Revenue have been asking what to do with the debts they lent to the imperial court in the past few days." After Fu Shuxun saluted, he opened his mouth to ask about the imperial court's debt problem.
"What should I do? Isn't it time to repay the loan yet?"
"Your Majesty, all the prefectures and counties we mortgaged have rebelled! Even if the repayment date comes, we won't be able to cash in."
The so-called creditors that Fu Shuxun mentioned were actually the white gloves of the courtiers and eunuchs. Only now did Fu Shuxun realize how wise it was to ask the white gloves to lend money to the court, otherwise it would be impossible to collect the debt now. He came so actively
Asking about debt issues is, to put it bluntly, asking for money for yourself.
He became a master by borrowing debts, and he is talking about the current Zhu Youjian. When these debts were borrowed, they were pledged with the regular taxes of some counties in the south. The creditors sent people to collect the debts directly from the yamen of the prefectures and counties where the mortgages were made.
As a result, the south suddenly changed its owner, and these mortgaged prefectures and counties were no longer under the control of the north, which meant that the mortgage was suddenly gone!
"This is indeed a problem. How about waiting for the imperial court to organize its troops and pacify these rebellious prefectures and then repay the debt?"
"Your Majesty, it is difficult for the creditors to agree to this method of repayment, right?" Fu Shuxun almost became anxious on the spot after hearing the emperor's repayment plan. He would wait until the chaos was settled before repaying the money. This would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse. Can the court be able to settle the matter?
It's hard to tell if it's chaos.
"The minister should be clear about the current financial situation of the imperial court. All tax sources except Beizhili have been lost. After a while, can we still find a prefecture or county that can be used as a mortgage?"
"How about replacing it with the prefectures and counties in North Zhili to provide the mortgage?"
"Shang Shu! If we mortgage the prefectures and counties in Beizhili, how can the imperial court be transferred? We can't let all the courtiers drink the northwest wind, right? This will definitely not work! But I do have an idea, do you want to hear it, Shangshu?