Chapter 366: Redundant officials are not redundant
Not many people paid attention to Wang Gongchen who fled. In fact, Hexi is now a self-contained area. The officials in Liangzhou City are busy with official affairs all day long. How can they pay attention to the ministers and envoys from the imperial court?
As long as he didn't come for Ye Hou, it didn't matter. When he left, he was polite and thoughtful, and even gave some "local specialties" as gifts. What else could Wang Gongchen say?
Ye An is very busy now, and the officials in Liangzhou City are also very busy. There is no way, there is a shortage of people!
The number of officials in Hexi can no longer meet the needs of the increasing number of positions, and is completely different from when the reform began.
At the beginning of the reform, most people believed that Hexi had too many officials and was bloated. Some people even said that if Hexi did not abolish redundant officials, it would most likely follow the footsteps of the imperial dynasty.
Indeed, Ganliang had many local officials, far exceeding most of the state capitals in the Song Dynasty. Although it could not catch up with the four capitals of the Song Dynasty, the gap was not big.
However, in Ye An's opinion, Hexi is not that there are too many officials, but that there are too few officials. The so-called redundant officials are just not used properly.
After all, Hexi is not short of money now.
The land in Hexi is constantly expanding and the system is constantly changing, which makes many problems difficult.
Xinjiang Prefecture needs a large number of officials to fill it. There are many cities there, and what's more terrible is the vast territory. One Xinjiang Prefecture can be worth the entire Hedong Road of the Song Dynasty...
This land was difficult for the Han family to manage. Just look at the attitude of the Han and Tang Dynasties towards the Western Regions.
In the understanding that "those who are not from our race must have different hearts", the Western Regions can only use cities as strongholds and rule by force. They have never thought about governance, let alone local development.
But now the Xinjiang Prefecture that has been merged into Hexi is different. Not only do they have to send officials to manage the city, but they also have to send people to go to the villages and countryside. County governance is no longer the most basic political system in Hexi.
The emergence of units such as townships, towns, and villages has begun to infiltrate the power of high-level officials downwards. Why does the imperial power not extend to the counties? It is nonsense. The real governance system should start from the villages to centralize power!
The local squire system has begun to disintegrate in Hexi. Even farmers can easily go to Liangzhou City to lodge complaints. The role of local squires in maintaining local security and assisting the court in managing farmers has been gradually abandoned by Hexi.
The more and more people are educated and literate, the more people are polite and understand the law. The Hexi government does not recognize squires. They have no official background. In many places, squires who bully their neighbors are often severely sentenced in Hexi.
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This move is not only illegal, but also offends public opinion and arouses public outrage. "Bullying others by force" is something that people deeply abhor whether it is now or thousands of years from now.
What is the fundamental means that led to this situation? The answer is a large number of grassroots officials and newspapers!
Newspapers in Hexi are not only published in Liangzhou City, but also in all the prefectures in Hexi, and even in rural areas. Although the number is not large, there will definitely be them. Although they are not so punctual, they will definitely appear.
The most common entertainment activity for many villagers and farmers now is to listen to the literate people in Zhuangzi reading newspapers. They listen with great interest to everything from the trends in the official circles of Hexi to the small strange things that happen in nearby villages.
For them, knowledge is no longer an untouchable thing that can be shelved on the shelf. On the contrary, the popularization of education has enabled almost all children to embark on the path of reading, it just depends on how much they read.
No farm family would refuse to send their children to school. Firstly, there is no money, secondly, they do not have to be forced to study, and thirdly, there is a subsidy. As the saying goes, a half-grown man will ruin me. If a child can manage a meal in school, where can I find such a good thing?!
Besides, children can earn more money for their families after they study and become literate. If they excel academically, the government can even send them scholarship money. I heard that some people can get up to a hundred guan, but after they get it, they have to go
I work as a government official... but who would be so stupid as to refuse such a good thing!
"The Huaxia Wisdom Palace is open to the common people from today on. Anyone who is literate can enter, and all the books in the library can be read, without restrictions...Grandpa Tian, this...can there be such a good thing?!"
When the news of the opening of the Huaxia Wisdom Palace was spread throughout Hexi through newspapers, everyone found it incredible.
However, there was a clear statement in the newspaper in black and white and the people could not help but believe it. More importantly, everyone discovered another even more explosive news - Hexi was going to hold an official "examination for admission".
Examination and admission, isn't this a system similar to the imperial examination?
Anyone with a little knowledge will know that the reason why Liangzhou Government issued such a decree is to meet the increasing vacancies in official management. Most people think that this is a manifestation of the lack of officials in Liangzhou Government, but only Ye An understands this.
It was the beginning of the reform of the official system in Hexi.
It has its own methods and channels for recruiting officials. It was the first time to try to screen college students after graduation, but now they really can't wait. It's not that there is a big gap in officials, but that there is a big gap in civil servants.
"Dedicated people for specific tasks" is always the most efficient administrative method. If Hexi's system wants to be efficient and proactive, it must open up the selection of civil servants and at the same time improve the remuneration and staffing of each position.
In the Song Dynasty, there were many occupations that were originally considered lowly but had rights, such as labor servants, yamen servants, higher-status li chiefs, square officials, and the most despised scribes in the yamen, etc. There are too many to mention.
Ye An wants all government personnel, even those who are employed, to become professional and become civil servants who can effectively handle affairs, so he must expand the recruitment scope and personnel quality of the team.
Nowadays, there are many young people in Ganliang who have improved their academic qualifications and received ideological education. To put it harshly, Ye An's move is to bribe them.
It's just that "bribing" here is different from despicable behavior, but a kind of positive binding, giving these young people with ambitions and ideals the opportunity to participate in the construction of Hexi, and also changing people's attitude towards fixed occupations and despicable behaviors through them.
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In Liangzhou City, high-ranking officials from Hexi gathered again in the government office conference hall. This time, even Fan Ziyuan came. Not only did he come by himself, but he and Liu Han also arrived with the 2,000-strong Swift Army they had trained.
, the purpose is to be reviewed later.
Everyone in the conference hall spoke one after another, expressing their opinions. Some supported the move, while others opposed it. But this was the effect Ye An wanted.
"Marquis Ye, I think it's inappropriate for these young people to join the officialdom right after they graduate from school."
Ye An smiled, looked around and saw that there were many hesitant people, and said with a smile: "What is constant in this world? Who can tell me that he will not grow old? His position will not be replaced by others?
I'm afraid not?
The world belongs to us and to young people, but in the final analysis it belongs to young people! If we don’t train them early, where will we find someone to replace them when we really need them?”
Du Fuzi nodded slowly on the side and said: "What Ye Hou said is very true. You have also seen it. Which of our students who graduated from Liangzhou University is not a talented person in his own right? Even if he goes to a profession that he does not know at all, it only takes a few days.
With just enough effort, you will be able to fulfill your position."
This is true. The strongest thing about a highly educated person is not the knowledge in his head. On the contrary, it is his ability to learn things.
In this way, Hexi carried out official reform and changed many positions directly into the public service system. For example, government officials were changed into traffic police and patrol police, and police officers were changed into criminal police.
Not only are their responsibilities more clearly defined, but unified salaries and benefits are also provided, and their social status has been raised to a level they never dared to imagine.
As a model, the Liangzhou Prefecture Yamen took the lead in making changes and separated the originally integrated "public prosecution and law". As a result, the Arrest Court, the Judgment Court and the Supervisory Court appeared in Liangzhou City.
This is only a change in the judicial system. As for other functional agencies, they are also developing rapidly, and all officials and minor officials have become civil servants in official status.
Civil servants, as the name suggests, are civil servants. There are a large number of officials in the government system. A large part of these people are not official. After everyone becomes civil servants, the so-called official status disappears.
All those who work in the government are civil servants, and there are dedicated people responsible for specific tasks. The superiors will regularly test the completion of official duties in the school, and evaluate the performance based on their merits, which is also related to the payment of monthly bonuses.
For a time, the official system in Hexi has undergone earth-shaking changes. For officials, this is a great thing, which means that they have obtained the official status they dream of. Although they have to be assessed for official duties, they are also blessed with bonuses!
To the common people, they just thought it was strange, but soon they discovered that the officials they usually had to deal with had changed, becoming enthusiastic and patient, and doing things very quickly.
It used to take a day or even three days to go to the Yamen to register your child, but now it only takes a cup of tea, and everything will be done for you. When you left, you didn't forget to remind your child to do it when he reaches school age.
I need to apply for another enrollment certificate...