Chapter 557: Gradually approaching the peak
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Mid-September.
As a temporary political alliance, Wang Gongchen is now temporarily wearing the same pants with Wang Yan, so Wang Gongchen instigated his former subordinates to report Sima Guang's mistakes in Shuzhou, saying that Sima Guang caused the death of hundreds of innocent civilians in Shuzhou City because of his negligence in governance.
Politics is just that, at that time, Sima Guang was at fault but not guilty, and he tried his best to remedy it after confirming it. But as the governor of Zhou, he was on the scene, so theoretically Shuzhou happened, and he couldn't escape the blame, not to mention that it also involved his nephew Sima Xiaohua, who defected to Western Xia.
At that time, this incident was treated coldly, and Sima Guang was not treated, but now there is a political need, so Wang Gongchen instructed his protégé to turn this matter over and fry cold rice.
Not to mention what Sima Guang can do, but since someone has been poked out, it is necessary for him to temporarily stop performing his duties and go to the Yushitai to explain clearly. In the imperial history, Ouyang Xiu does not advocate doing this, but the old Ouyang does not fully represent the imperial history platform. is still the truth that Dayan said at that time, Wang Gongchen's ability is still very great, and when the bureaucracy under Ouyang Xiu's rule wants to "do things according to the rules", Ouyang Xiu, a person who cares about fame, has no good way.
So with the help of Wang Gongchen and Wang Yan's attack, at a court meeting in late September, Han Qi took the opportunity to open fire and proposed: the measure of returning most of the diplomatic power to the cardinal.
What's even more weird is that Zhao Zhen, who rarely has the energy to participate in a court meeting, supported Han Qi's proposal.
Then it is equivalent to the Ministry of Rites being castrated as a eunuch, and the other businesses of the Ministry of Rites have not moved for the time being, but the "diplomatic power" that originally belonged to Zhongshu was obtained by Han Qi.
Because in the matter of Fukang's splitting legs, Sima Guang completely annoyed Lao Zhao. It was also at the time when Lao Zhao was most like Long Aotian, and there was a precedent, so of course Zhao Zhen took the opportunity to issue a holy decree: deprive the Ministry of Rites of foreign power and belong to the cardinal.
At the same time, the establishment of the cardinal government was upgraded by half a level, and it was officially on the same level as the Zhongshu Sect.
This is a major political reform of the Great Song Dynasty, which means that the Great Song Dynasty has no prime minister, or now Han Qi and Fu Bi are both the prime ministers of the Great Song Dynasty at the same time.
This not only represents Zhao Zhen's dissatisfaction with Zhongshu at the twilight of his time, but also represents a return to the origin, which has a precedent. For example, the diplomatic power of the Liao State was vested in the Privy Council of Beifu, and there was also a period in the history of the Great Song Dynasty when the diplomatic authority was vested in the Privy Council rather than the Ministry of Rites.
To put it bluntly, this is just a business adjustment. In the period when diplomatic power was owned by the Privy Council, theoretically the Zhongshu was also the ruler, and the Privy was the minister. However, because most of these periods, the Pingzhang and the Privy Counsellor were two people, so the attribution of governing power was not too important.
This kind of thing often happens in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are too many examples, for example, a while ago, the Ministry of Industry belonged to the Chinese Book for a while, and then belonged to the Third Division. For example, the Supreme Court of Dali Temple, the governing power will be attributed to Zhongshu for a while, and it will be attributed to Yushitai, and now it is managed by two fathers together.
The same is true for the pastoral division, which will belong to the Chinese book for a while, and belong to the Privy Council for a while, depending on the political needs of the time.
For example, the agricultural department will belong to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the independent organization Sinong Temple. In the end, it was simply divided into several pieces, and even the military department had its own part of the cultivated land to govern it.
So now the politics of the Great Song Dynasty has reached a new situation, and the Ministry of Rites is still there, but the governing power has been weakened by the emperor and Han Qi, and the diplomatic business has been allocated to the Privy Council. But Han Qi, the person from the Ministry of Rites, didn't want any of them, just handed over the jurisdiction.
And this diplomatic jurisdiction, now Han Qi has been handed over to the privy capital to Cheng Wang Yan. Therefore, de jure speaking, Wang Yan is now in charge of the affairs of the diplomatic mouth, but he is only based in Beijing.
Given that Beijing is also one of the capitals, no one said anything. Anyway, the place that needs diplomacy in this era is definitely the closest to Beijing.
If it is to apply the habits of the Liao Kingdom, this will become the difference between the northern and southern provinces. Of course, Han Qi did not admit this, the appointment to Dayan was only temporary, Han Qi would gradually cooperate with the ministry, select the people he wanted, and then set up the Privy Council's own Foreign Affairs Department, and then appoint an envoy.
Anyway, there is only no reputation, in fact, the previous Industrial Department and the Ministry of Rites almost knocked out the dog's brain, which means that the big goose won, and the big demon king is now really the "Prime Minister of the Northern Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty". grasped the power of the monster of the Industrial Division, and by the way, took over the diplomatic affairs of the Great Song Dynasty.
Given that Wang Yan is a hawk and belligerent, he is now taking over diplomatic matters. This also represents that Lao Zhao turned to a tougher thinking in the twilight of his later years.
By the way, the Privy Council was upgraded, and of course, the level of the Great Bird was also raised by half a level. The salary was generously raised by the imperial court by one and a half levels, and the reason why the salary rose more was because Han Qi reformed the officials and gave a war disability subsidy, on the grounds that Wang Yan had suffered from pneumonia on the Qingtang battlefield and had been in poor health, which was regarded as medical expenses.
As for how much the current salary is, in fact, the Great Demon King himself doesn't know, because he hasn't received a salary since he became an official, and he has never received it in the household department.
The Great Song Dynasty household department was really backward, and did not open bank accounts, only gold and physical goods were found. For example, there is a special supply of cloth, salt, tea and rice every year, and it cannot be discounted according to the regulations. After two years of accumulation, Da Yan was no longer too lazy to collect it, at first he had to use a few ox carts to pull it, but now he was afraid that he would have to use a train, and he didn't want to get it.
I once received a reminder from the household department that "if you don't take the money again, you will be charged a management fee", however, when she received this kind of painful notice, Wang Yan was crossing the Huangshui River. I have to sigh that the household department is really creative. So I didn't know if they were really charging the management fee of the Great Demon King now?
Da Song is really backward in these aspects, and it will not be flexible. Even during the period of the county governor, Wang Yan was regarded as a central commissioner rather than a magistrate, so the "money and grain relationship" was in the Bianjing household department, for example, at that time, Funing County was only responsible for other people's expenses, not Wang Yan's salary.
Now in the same way, the Daimyo Mansion does not pay the salary of the Great Demon King, and has to go to the household department to get it. Damn, who has the heart to take that little change, and now Erya's equity dividends in the Northwest Investment Bank are more than the salary of Wang Anshi, the prime minister.
By the way, at the end of September, in the Daimyo's Mansion, Xu Langshan finally got married. After starting a family, his need for money was much greater.
The reality is very cruel, the income of a project engineer under Xu Langshan is as high as the seven departments of Xu Langshan, the head of the machinery group. Lao Xu came to talk to Wang Yan to see if he could increase his income to support his family.
In this regard, Wang Yan could only lend him some money, but there was no other good way. Wang Yan will not carry out such reforms, and he will not relax this opening for at least 20 years. Lao Xu can't give up the administrative editor if he wants to.
It is true that there is such a rule in the future. For example, some state-owned enterprises at some times always have administrative departments, but obviously they cannot enjoy the treatment of enterprises if they have administrative departments, and this is a legal issue. As a result, wages will be inverted, and the income of the head of a vice-ministerial-level enterprise is not as good as that of a grassroots salesman, which is very common in the period of major distribution reform.
The way to turn around is very simple: in principle, you can work more and get more, but the purpose of the administrative editor is "to serve the people and be a public servant", so you can't enjoy corporate treatment in addition to political correctness or legal principles. It's okay to enjoy it, and the dispatch remains the same, but the red cap is removed and the organizational relationship is erased, so that it can be distributed according to the rules of the enterprise and the total amount of profits.
That is to say, take the red top for money, which is too many examples in the reform stage of later generations, the uncle of the big Yan and their factory director get more than 1,000 wages this month, and the monthly salary is more than 100,000 after taking off the red top next month, which is a hundred times more in one breath.
It is only known if it is reasonable or not, but Wang Yan did not compromise in his hands, and Xu Langshan had only two ways: resign and get out, or continue to enjoy the treatment of the administrative editor.
It is foreseeable that in the future, these will be problems brought about by development, and there will be all kinds of chaos. But it's going to rain, the mother has to get married, and if there is a problem, she will solve it, this is the political guidance of the Great Demon King: there is no one-size-fits-all thing, and there is no policy that is always correct. In his position, try his best......
In mid-October, Cao Qing, a special envoy sent by Wang Yan to Dengzhou to understand the situation, brought news, and Wang Gongchen also replied. Cao Qing and Wang Gongchen's remarks basically confirmed the truth of the incident off the coast of Dengzhou Port that Liu Shengyin sternly recounted.
Therefore, in late October, Wang Yan, who is now also the temporary envoy of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Privy Council, officially sent a letter of the Great Song State to Goryeo: he will urgently visit Samhan to resolve some bilateral issues.
"No matter what, you have to salute first and then soldier, and go to Kaijing first to get Fujiwara Mitsuko home."
After several months of circling and carrying out several political tearing and see-sawing, he offended a large number of people, and now Wang Yan is inevitably booing with this letter of diplomacy from the Great Song Dynasty signed by himself.
In this regard, he could not send an envoy, so he followed Wang Yan and appointed Cao Qing as a special envoy to enter the Liao State to go to Beijing, ask to see Xiao Hui, the governor of the Northern Governor, and give gifts to the Song State envoys, asking the Song State envoys to transit from the Liao State to Goryeo.
It was not until the beginning of December that Cao Qing brought back the news: the diplomatic port of the Liao State refused to issue customs clearance discs, and refused to allow the Song State to visit Goryeo to transit through the Liao State.
At this point, the Great Demon King blushed and didn't say a word for a long time.
It's a pity that the time to sanction Liao has not yet come. Now that deflationary materials are unsalable, the situation has become more serious, and the entire Daimyo's government, whether state-owned or private, has begun to have the voice of pills.
Even if the price of goods falls madly and the appreciation of silver rises to an extremely unreasonable level, it is necessary to let those wealthy merchants of the Liao State who come from Yanjing look at people with their chins, exchange pieces of silver and almost plundered prices for a large number of industrial products and agricultural and animal husbandry products in the daimyo's mansion.
Now Wang Yan personally grasped the bulk transactions, and personally brought the tax messenger to supervise each transaction, looking at the bloody silver one by one, he sighed in his heart: those silver are the protection fee of the Great Song Dynasty every year, and it is also the silver transported to Goryeo by the Fujiwara clan, and every transaction is bloody!
But there is no way, even the Great Demon King is now pinched by the Liao people. This batch of manufacturing industry is the spark of the Great Song Dynasty, and they cannot be allowed to die of deflation. No matter how cheap it is, you have to sell it.
The Great Demon King has already given instructions: have more understanding during the special period, and tighten your belt to overcome difficulties. But no matter what the circumstances, no factory is allowed to stop production, no worker is allowed to lose his job, and no equipment is allowed to be wasted.
No matter how low the price is, it will be sold to Liaoguo, and it will be sold whatever you want.
The loss part is given by the Daimyo Prefecture to export subsidies, and designed products include but are not limited to: soybeans, pork, chicken, eggs, and some daily necessities are within the scope of export subsidies.
Non-subsidized items: flintlock pistols, gunpowder, Shenmu run, machine tools, steam engines.
This kind of thing is unique because it is the comprehensive monopoly of the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, in principle, although it is also affected by deflation, it can continue to make profits without subsidies.
The subsidy funds come from the iron bonds issued a while ago, as well as the feedback of the monopoly profits of the Industrial Division.
The magnitude of the damage caused by this crisis is not yet well assessed and cannot be calculated. But the most conservative estimate of this lost productivity is that it can be converted into thirty naval frigates.
Therefore, in addition to forbearance in the midst of all difficulties, Dayan has strengthened his intention to purchase equipment to form a navy.
I can't bear ......
The First Railway Engineering Bureau and the First Water Conservancy Engineering Bureau have been rushing to work, but the railway from Daimyo to Dengzhou is still half a month later than the expected opening time.
The original plan was to open to traffic in December of the fifth year of Jiayou, but it took a lot of money to rush to work in the severe cold before it was accepted in early January of the sixth year of Jiayou.
Just do it, the Great Demon King still encouraged and commended them. After that, he took the freight train for the first voyage without stopping and went to Dengzhou quickly.
This is because the Liao State does not borrow the road, and the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo do not border each other, so the envoy of the Great Goose must take a ship in Dengzhou......
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