The end of the Dinghai Jingcha, it seems that a storm has passed, but as the saying goes, one wave after another, Gao Pragmatic's actions did not stop for a moment, and he even planned to take advantage of the victory and pursue the victory. The side of the Xin School is more
I feel that the pressure is huge and I am overwhelmed.
The day after Ding Hai's inspection in Beijing, Gao Pragmatic went to the meeting to explain that after the previous "Acquisition and Use Notice" was approved, he and his colleagues in the Ministry of Revenue worked together to finally complete the establishment and rules and regulations of the two additional departments and eleven divisions.
It can be submitted for memorial.
Two of the eleven departments of the two departments are the Audit Office of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Customs Office of the Ministry of Household Affairs. According to what Gao Jingshi said in "Qi Yong Shu", the Ministry of Household Affairs should also follow the example of the "Four Ministers System" of the Ministry of War and add additional offices.
Two ministers are in charge of the two offices full-time.
What both the government and the public know is that there is a big difference between the addition of two ministers to the Ministry of Household Affairs and the addition of two ministers to the Ministry of War by Gao Gong in the past.
The addition of two ministers to the Ministry of War basically just added two more official positions. Among them, the minister of Rongzheng is equivalent to directly parachuting a civilian official to the Beijing camp to lead. There is no new organization within the Ministry of War. It can be said that the minister of Rongzheng is a direct "subordinate"
"That's Jingying.
The other minister is more like a reserve cadre. Gao Gong's original intention was that once something happened somewhere, or an important minister unexpectedly became vacant, the court might not be able to find a replacement for a while, so the minister from the Ministry of War could directly take over.
superior.
During his tenure at the Ministry of War, the main task of this minister is to pay attention to the current defense status of various places, to fully understand the border situation of all parties, and to be able to perfectly replace any important vacancies of important border ministers (generally referring to the governor of the Nine Borders region) at any time. So.
In other words, the Ministry of War does not need to set up another organization for this purpose.
There is no need to establish another organization, which means that although two third-rank officials have been added, this reform cannot be regarded as a "structural" reform. It appears as some kind of supplementary improvement under the existing system.
The highly pragmatic reform of the four ministers system in the Ministry of Household Affairs is obviously different from this. It not only added two ministers, but more importantly, it added two departments and eleven departments. This is a typical structural change. The most intuitive change of this change
, that is, the household department has become more expanded.
As we all know, the status order of the six ministries is "officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and work." The status of the Hubu among the six ministries is second only to the Libu, which is in charge of the affairs of the world.
This can even be seen from the nicknames: the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel is known as the Heavenly Official, and the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu is known as the Local Official. The remaining four ministers can only be ranked one behind, each divided into four official positions of spring, summer, autumn and winter: the Spring Official of the Rites and the Spring Officials of the Military.
Xia Guan, Qiu Guan in the Ministry of Justice, and Winter Guan in the Ministry of Works.
At the same time, in terms of the size of the staff, the Department of Husbandry surpassed the Department of Personnel, and at the same time surpassed the other four departments. It has always been the largest government office in the imperial court. [Note: The staff of the Department of Personnel is not large, let alone the Department of Husbandry.
The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry are all small, roughly equivalent to the Ministry of Rites.]
It was originally the largest government office, but now it continues to expand, and as soon as it expands, there will be eleven more departments. This is amazing.
What is the level of a secretary? Logically speaking, it is not high. The official in charge is a doctor, and his rank is the fifth rank, which is not as high as a prefect.
However, the Ming Dynasty is different from the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the officials in the capital are not as good as the officials in the capital, because the officials in the capital have great power and have enough oil and water. In the Ming Dynasty, the officials in the capital are not as good as the officials in the capital. Not only are the status of the officials in the capital obviously higher than that of the officials in the capital, but they are also easily promoted and have more power.
It is also big, and at the same time, it is not like the foreign officials who are watched every day by the Metropolitan Procuratorate (the Metropolitan Procuratorate here includes the governors and inspectors dispatched by the Metropolitan Procuratorate in their own capacity).
Any doctor among the capital officials, as long as he walks and sits upright, is completely worthy of being a seventh-rank censor. This is not the case for foreign officials. There is a master of press above your head, even if you are a second-rank chief minister.
When the envoy saw the seventh-rank official, he would often call himself a lower official and bend down to apologize.
Moreover, among the six ministries now, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Work each have only four divisions, and the Ministry of Household Affairs is originally divided into thirteen divisions according to the thirteen provinces (the Chief Secretary) (the same is true for the Ministry of Punishment).
In this way, you would directly add eleven divisions. Isn’t it an exaggeration?
However, being highly pragmatic is not an exaggeration. In his thinking, the Ministry of Household Affairs in the three-province and six-ministry system was originally called the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Matters related to people's livelihood were almost all managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs. What would be the concept of this in future generations?
That means that the Ministry of Household Affairs is at least equivalent to the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, the Audit Office, the People's Bank of China, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the State Administration of Taxation, the Bureau of Statistics, and the Municipal Supervision Bureau.
aggregate.
At the same time, the Ministry of Household Affairs is also involved to varying degrees in some functions such as the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
From this point of view, it is obviously not enough to divide the departments according to the thirteen provinces. It must be further professionalized and directly subordinated in order to do all the work in a clear and orderly manner, instead of having to find the corresponding yamen for many things.
In the end, they started arguing with each other.
For example, let’s take the issue of salt affairs. Guangyan salt erodes the Huai District. Why is it that the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs cannot manage it well? There are of course many reasons, but one of them must not be ignored: the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs cannot control Guangdong’s finances, including salt.
service.
The Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs can manage the collection of grain taxes in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang, but this is only the grain tax. Most other financial affairs are still under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Ministry of Household Affairs. As for Guangdong, it has nothing to do with the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs.
It's related.
In other words, the salt affairs official sent from the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs to Yangzhou could only manage the salt affairs in the Huai District. He could not intervene in the erosion of Guangyan salt.
aim to resolve.
However, at the same time, since the household bureaus in the northern and southern Beijing are nominally at the same level and are not subordinate to each other, the Beijing household bureau cannot control the Huai District Salt Affairs Bureau, whose superior is the Nanjing household bureau. Therefore, it is obviously impossible for it to do so.
For the stability of the salt affairs in Huai District, blame Guangyan, which is under your jurisdiction - my sons are so good at fighting, what are you going to do? You can bite me if you can!
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Therefore, Gao Pragmatic resents the division of administrative power, which results in the disunity of powers and a structure in which localities are at odds with each other. This division results in the inability to form a "national game of chess" and causes various things to fall into internal friction, which ultimately damages the
the overall interests of the country.
Therefore, he has always believed that it is problematic to divide financial power according to the thirteen provinces. Moreover, the administrative structure of the Ming Dynasty is also very unique. In addition to the thirteen provinces, there are two capitals (South Zhili and North Zhili).
Therefore, many specialized matters must be managed by special agencies. At the same time, the privileges of the two capitals must be revoked and administered together.
Of course, in view of the positive significance of the Nanjing Sixth Department, being pragmatic does not mean that the entire Nanjing Sixth Department must be turned into a nursing home, but that the situation of "North and South coexistence" must be changed, and it is clear that the Beijing Sixth Department is the leader, and Nanjing cannot be alone.
In the world, only in this way can government orders be smooth and the top and bottom can be united.
These truths need no explanation for Gao Pragmatic. His thoughts and actions are almost instinctive. After all, the experience of the Hong Dynasty is there. Good or bad will have its own effect.
The only thing that should be noted is that the greater the power, the more effective supervision is needed. It is okay for him to be at the helm of the household department now, but if he is transferred in the future, such a large household department must not have any problems, otherwise if he is not careful,
The result is disastrous.
However, he has only been in office for about two months, and the imperial court's financial dilemma cannot be fundamentally improved immediately. Obviously, the emperor cannot transfer him for the time being, so there is no need to be too anxious. The supervision issue will be discussed in time.
The most urgent task is to put up the airs of the big household department first.
During this Dinghai Southern Inspection, the Xinxue School lost many positions in the southern Zhili area of its base camp, and its morale was relatively low. Gao Pragmatic's memorial came up, although Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue were very nervous, and the outside world also talked about it.
But it didn't create much resistance.
Early the next morning, Zhu Yijun's imperial edict came down, approving the Ministry of Household Affairs' reform of the system of four ministers and adding two right ministers to take charge of the upcoming Audit Office and Customs Office.
At the same time, the imperial edict also clearly requires the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, Gao Pragmatic, to recommend officials at all levels such as the two ministers and the eleven ministers, Yuanwailang, and principals as soon as possible, and requires him to report it immediately after discussing with the Ministry of Personnel. If the Ministry of Personnel has any differences with him,
Opinions, then both opinions will be reported at the same time, "I will make my own decision."
Having said that, in fact, no matter whether it is the emperor or other officials of the foreign court, everyone thinks this sentence is just a cliché. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has been the stronghold of the Practical School since the beginning of the fourth year of Longqing. Although Yang Wei cannot be regarded as a complete Practical School,
school, but judging from his past performance, it is obvious that he cannot object to Gao Pragmatic's recommendation, and the so-called conflict of opinions does not exist at all.
As a result, Gao Jingshi's mansion in Jinggongfang, Zhaohui, once again became bustling with people. All kinds of officials tried their best to attract Gao Jingshi's attention - such an official title was in his hands, and as soon as he heard the name
Knowing that almost all of them are positions of real power, who wouldn’t want to get a piece of the pie?
However, it is a pity that Gao Pingshi's house "highly displayed the war-free card", and Menzi politely told the officials who came to visit the same sentence: "My lord, I have been busy lately and have no time to meet with guests. Please forgive me."
Not to mention other officials, even officials from the Shixue School could not enter the gate of Gaofu. So there was nothing we could do, so everyone had no choice but to leave with a smile on their face, leave their greetings, and leave.
Gao Pragmatic is not deliberately being pretentious. At this sensitive moment, it is indeed inconvenient for him to receive guests. Otherwise, you have your origins and he has his connections. Everyone comes to ask for an official. Who will Gao Pragmatic give it to or not? No matter who he will give it to?
No matter what you do, you will be criticized easily - this is almost inevitable.
In fact, Gao Pangshi had already made a decision in his mind regarding the candidates for the two ministers in charge of the two departments.
Gao Jingshi, the right minister of the household department in charge of the Audit Office, plans to recommend Yang Junmin. Gao Jingshi, the right minister of the household department in charge of the customs office, plans to recommend Zhao Yumin.
Yang Junmin, courtesy name Bozhang and nicknamed Ben'an, is the son of the former Minister of War, Yang Bo. He was a Jinshi in the 41st year of Jiajing, served as the head of the Ministry of Officials and Households, and served successively as a doctor in the Ministry of Rites. In the early years of Longqing, he was promoted to the deputy envoy of Henan Province, Wanli
In his early years, he served as a servant of Shaoqing. His father Yang Bo resigned and retired. Yang Junmin also took the initiative to resign and return to his hometown to serve his father.
Later, Yang Bo passed away, and he became the original official after Ding You expired. This year, Ding Hai just passed the imperial examination, and his performance was excellent, meeting the conditions for promotion.
Yang Junmin is highly pragmatic. Although part of the reason is due to factional considerations and the need to continue to unite the Jin Party within the pragmatic school and maintain its purpose as his main support, another part of the reason is that Yang Junmin himself is good at finance.
Shanxi officials in this era were relatively unconventional. Among them, those who performed well were generally divided into two types: one was good at border affairs, and the other was good at finance. Yang Junmin belonged to the latter.
In the original history, Yang Junmin held the official position of Minister of Household Affairs for eight years from the 19th year of Wanli to the 27th year of Wanli. This alone shows his strengths.
You must know that the position of Minister of the Ministry of Finance is not easy to get, especially in the years when the court's expenses are huge. If you fail, you will lose your official position or even be held accountable. In the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance "
The probability of "accident" is very high, and it can be regarded as a high-risk occupation.
Yang Junmin was obviously not lucky, because during the period when he was serving as the Minister of Household Affairs, the war to aid Korea and fight against the Japanese broke out.
Although the real military expenditure for this war was mainly provided by Zhu Yijun's internal funds, and the Ministry of Household Affairs could only be considered as a preliminary, the outbreak of a war of this scale and lasting for several years would also have a serious impact on the domestic economy.
Yang Junmin's credit is that he did not let this war seriously affect the people's livelihood in the country, and various economic indicators are basically stable, which is why his position is secure.
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However, Gao Pragmatic did not intend to let Yang Junmin be in charge of the Customs Department, because the Yang family itself was a wealthy family with many industries. It also engaged in border trade, and the trade volume with Tumut was quite large.
Although I have never heard of Yang Junmin himself having any economic problems in the original history, in order to avoid the situation of "managing himself and supervising himself", Gao Pragmatic still planned to let him manage auditing instead of customs duties.
As for Zhao Yumin, he was an old acquaintance of Gao Pragmatic, whom he had known since they were in Guangxi. Moreover, Zhao Yumin did not have a strong backer in Beijing, so it was easy for him to get in touch with Gao Pragmatic very early. Later, Zhao Yumin also always stood by him on some matters.
The highly pragmatic camp has never wavered.
In addition, perhaps Zhao Yumin had seen highly pragmatic economic methods when he was in Guangxi. He later imitated many of them according to the script when he was an official in other places, and the effect was not bad. He seemed to have a certain understanding of financial work.
Zhao Yumin has already served as the right-hand minister of Huguang. In terms of rank alone, he can be transferred to the position of Minister of Household Affairs. At the same time, Gao Pragmatic also needs to promote some of his own people, so as to form a centripetal force.
But there is a little problem with these two appointments: Yang Junmin and Zhao Yumin are both from Shanxi.
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