"The affairs of the world are first in the economy, and the second is in the system." Li Ze pressed his hands on the big case, looked at the civil and military officials sitting in the middle of the hall, and raised his voice. "You must have also seen that under the rule of my Wuwei, now the economy and people's livelihood are thriving, prosperous, the old are supported, the little are taught, the poor are dependent, the difficult are helped, the widows, widows, lonely and the sick are all supported. If you want to go up economically, you need to have institutional constraints. Wuwei Dutian, clean up Dingkou, Tuntian, grant field, and remove the stubborn disease that has plagued Datang for many years. However, the success of Wuwei is only the work of a town, and if you want to implement the world, it must be implemented by the imperial court, otherwise the name is not right, and the words are not good. ”

Speaking of this, Li Ze's tone gradually became stern: "However, the Tang Dynasty has fallen to the point where it is today, and the root cause is that the government system is not suitable for its major drawbacks, and the court and the princes do not want to forge ahead, but regard the DPRK-China system as a tool for seeking interests and attacking political enemies, restraining each other, restraining each other, making it difficult to do things, and it is easy to fail, which is also the second major disadvantage." Local secession, land annexation, blocking the way of speech, and monopolizing the road to progress for the common people are the three major evils. Only by eliminating these three major evils will Datang have the possibility of defeating the traitors and the hope of reviving Datang, so this political reform is imperative. ”

With Li Ze's sonorous and powerful voice, the tide of Wuwei's political reform kicked off.

Abolish the three provinces, set up a separate prime minister, and take charge of the government, directly responsible to the emperor.

Set up the Ministry of Officials, the selection of texts, the honors, the administration of the examination, the Department of Officials, the Department of Seals, the Division of Honors, and the Department of Examination.

Set up a household department, in charge of the world's finance, civil affairs, including land, people, marriage, money valley, tribute, etc., under the household department, degree branch division, gold department, warehouse department.

The military department is set up to be in charge of the selection and examination of military attachés below the sixth grade, as well as military orders, military registration, military training, etc. There are military divisions, staff divisions, driving departments, and treasury departments.

The Ministry of Engineering is in charge of civil engineering and water conservancy projects and national agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and consists of the Ministry of Industry, the Tuntian Division, the Yu Division, and the Ministry of Water.

The Penal Department was established to administer the Decrees, Criminal Laws, and the prohibitions of the State in vain. It consists of the Criminal Division, the Metropolitan Litigation Division, the Comparison Division, and the Division.

There is a department of rites, in charge of ceremonies, sacrifices, and imperial examinations, and there are departments of rites, ancestral halls, food, and hosts.

The six ministers are Shangshu, Zheng Sanpin, the adjutant is Shilang, and the fourth product, and there are Lang Zhong and Wai Lang and other positions.

In the political reform, the status of the Yashi Observatory of the Supervision Organ has been greatly improved, from the past from the three products to the three products, the subordinate Imperial History Zhongcheng is the fourth grade, and the Imperial History Observatory has three courtyards, namely the Taiwan Academy, the Palace Courtyard, and the Procuratorate Yuan.

There are nine temples, five prisons, and twelve guards.

The Nine Temples and the Five Prisons basically inherited the original Tang Dynasty system, but the military system of the original Tang Dynasty was reorganized, from the original 16 guards to 12 guards, the original Zhichong Mansion was canceled, and the forbidden army, border army, and local armed forces were canceled. In other words, after the political reform, the armed system of the Tang Dynasty only left professional soldiers based on the twelve guards. The local governors no longer have military power, and all military power has been taken over and placed under the unified management of the central government.

On top of the local government system, it has also been greatly simplified. Set up a state, the governor is the history of the thorn, the state is a county, for the county order, the county is a township, for the township head, the countryside is a village, and the lizheng is set up. In the state, the history of thorns is the mainstay, with a long history, don't drive, Sima as the deputy, and another Si Gong, Si Cang, Si Hu, Si Tian, Si Bing, Justice, and Si Shi Qicao. In the county, the county order is the mainstay, and the county commander is the deputy, and the county lieutenant is the deputy, and the adjutant is set up corresponding to the seven cao in the state.

As soon as the policy of political reform was announced, the world was immediately shaken.

Because according to Wuwei's public edict to Tianzheng, almost half of the official positions were ruthlessly cut off, that is to say, this part of the people will be unemployed.

As for the incumbent officials, the intensity of reform is also unusually large. All remuneration is converted into money. Like the prime minister of the first grade, the annual Yulu is 10,000 copper coins, the second grade is 8,000 guan, and the third-grade Shangshu level is 5,000 guan.

Compared with the price level under the rule of Wu Wei at that time, this standard was actually quite high. If converted to the current coin, a lizheng, that is, the village head, can also get a salary of about 400,000 yuan a year.

But this has been matched by the removal of a large number of privileges.

For example, the relatives of officials are exempted from military service, housing, transportation, and land, and their children and grandchildren enjoy privileges such as priority in school enrollment and being officials, all of which are gone. And once retired, the treatment immediately shrunk significantly, take the post of prime minister, when he was in office, 10,000 per year, but after retirement, it suddenly shrank to 1,000, Li Zheng at this level, after retirement, it will be ten per year. And if you make a mistake and are dismissed, removed from office, or have committed a crime, then I'm sorry, you don't have anything.

After the reform of the bureaucratic system, all the titles of loose officials were abolished, and in the past, many people did not have a ministry, but with the title of a loose official, they could also receive the corresponding money from the imperial court, and the number of these loose officials was much more than that of the incumbent officials. Just like Li Ze's son who is not yet old is a seven-grade yin official, he will only cry if he doesn't have any, if he is according to the current standard, he can also receive 3,000 yuan a year, but after the reform, the title is gone, and the salary is naturally gone.

In other words, only those who do things can get money.

Moreover, in addition to these, the officials of the past could serve the people in a fair and open manner, and the miscellaneous labor used in their homes was paid for by the government, and these hidden benefits were all gone.

All in all, all the treatment you have as an official is the price that is clearly announced. It does seem like a lot of money, but as an official, the cost is really not small.

This salary system, it seems that the officials get a lot, but it is carefully calculated by Xia He, the secretary of the Du Branch, with his subordinates, taking Wuwei as an example, in a year, it can save at least one-third of the expenses. If you dominate the world in the future, you will save even more money.

If these reforms only shook the officialdom, then the next reform to enter the officialdom will make ordinary people, including those wealthy businessmen, happy.

The imperial court officially abolished the probation system, the recommendation system, and the shadow official system, and all officials had only one way to come and pass the imperial examination held by the imperial court every three years.

The county holds a county examination every year, and the winners can participate in the provincial examination, and the state holds a provincial examination every three years, and the winner can participate in the final examination held by the imperial court, which Li Ze called the national examination.

Whether it is the county examination or the government examination or the final national examination, the content of the examination has been greatly adjusted, and the Tang Dynasty in the past may be able to win with a poem, but in the new national examination, the weight of poetry and song has almost been reduced to a dispensable level. The focus is on national policies, current affairs, etc. Although the specific test depends on the next first national examination, the general direction has already been decided.

This opened the door for the descendants of ordinary people and businessmen to enter the official system, which in the past had been difficult for them to enter.

What ordinary people don't know is that before this announcement, a fierce debate broke out in the first court meeting presided over by Li Ze, and in the eyes of Xue Ping and others, Li Ze's political reform is simply too harsh for officials, which will lose people's support.

And Li Ze sneered and asked: "What is the human heart?" Whose heart is it? ”

What is the human heart?

Whose heart is it?

Is it the hearts of the officials, or the hearts of the general public?

There is a lot of help for the righteous and little help for the unjust, does this more or less mean the officials, or the hundreds of millions of people in the world?

Compared with the salaries of officials, how much do ordinary people earn and spend a year?

How much does the imperial court earn in a year? How much does it cost?

Is it more important to use the money to support officials, or is it more important to use it to improve people's livelihood?

When he said these words, Li Ze threw the survey and statistics table that Xia He, the secretary of the Du Branch, had worked so hard to make with his subordinates on the table, and asked everyone to take a look at it, and take a look, is his political reform harsh on officials?

Nowadays, even in the most prosperous place under Wuwei's rule, an ordinary family of three, if you just rely on farming, your annual income is only more than 100 yuan. Compared with the income of officials, it can be described as a heaven and an underground.

"If anyone thinks that his income is low, he can go into business. Now the businessmen of Wuwei, as far as I know, can earn more than 100,000 guan a year, and people like Jin Mantang can earn more than 1 million guan a year. Li Ze sneered.

After seeing this survey statistical table, Xue Ping was finally speechless.

After a day of fierce controversy, under Li Ze's strength, the political reform was successfully passed, in fact, the opposition of Xue Ping and others was just a battle of words, and the people sitting in that hall, Wuwei and his family occupied an overwhelming advantage, that is, they raised their hands to vote, and the hands of those who opposed it were almost negligible.

After the resolution was passed, it was quickly reported to the emperor who was recuperating in Zhenzhou, what could the emperor say? It's just a matter of reading it once, and then putting on your own seal.

Soon, this political reform was sent to all areas under Wuwei's rule by Pegasus in the form of an edict.

And the next thing is the main thing.

Who will sit in these positions.

If there is a difference in beauty, there will naturally be a clear water yamen, a comfortable position, and of course, there will be a thankless position that may be a tired dog. The next scramble, not only Xue Ping and his family, but also under the rule of Wu Wei, everyone also has different ideas, and everyone wants to occupy a better position.

After the adoption of the announcement, the meeting was adjourned for three days.

Wuyi did not calm down because of the adjournment, but boiled even more under the surface of the water.