Chapter 960 Restructuring

However, over the past 100 years, the system has been complicated, the institutions have overlapped, and many unsuitable old policies have not been abolished, and new systems have continued to appear, and after the implementation of the new law, this phenomenon has become more prominent.

The ancestors relieved the power of the feudal towns, but allowed the descendants of the founding heroes to serve as officials for generations with "grace and shade", resulting in a state organization with neither a fixed number nor a full-time job.

Many idle institutions and officials who have nothing to do in name to name are flooded with the form of government, like gold mixed with earth and stones, so that the bureaucracy loses its due value.

The second is to take his official position instead of appointing his position, and the official position is contradictory and chaotic between name and reality.

The official system of the Great Song Dynasty originated from the period of secession and had a strong color of the small court.

At that time, Zhizhou mostly had military positions, and when they were granted, they were either civil or military, but they actually still belonged to the pattern of feudal towns.

Officials, positions, and dispatches all use official names, plus honors, honors, and the inner hall is rampant to seal officials, making the official system even more chaotic.

Since then, the state has continued to use it, and there is no free hand to sort it out. After the addition of the empty three-province system, the official system was not only not clarified, but became even more chaotic.

During the reign of Princess Wang, she advocated that as long as each institution could restore its functions and roles, the purpose of reform would be achieved.

For example, Sinong Temple and Dushui Jian have played an important role in innovation and have received the "reality of Dong Zheng's official system".

But in fact, it is still "not right, not right".

Take yourself as an example, the full name of the official position when you were in the South China Sea should be - Chongren Baoshun Zuoyun Xuande Meritorious Hero, Shangzhu State, Founding Duke of Cangwu County, Baohedian University Scholar, Special Jin, Prince Shaobao, Zhijiao Prefecture Military State Affairs, Quannanhai Four Road Transfer Envoy.

In such a large number of titles, in fact, only the last two are serious official positions.

And in the Great Song Dynasty, such a situation is a common phenomenon.

For example, Su Yuanzhen's official is the palace servant Yushi, and the dispatch is the governor of Zhengzhou, but he took his own salary level and impeached the imperial historian Cai Qu, who was really responsible for the impeachment work, once, which is the confusion caused by the unclear position.

Because the official position of serving the imperial history in the palace can not only be an official, but also a dispatch, and there are other people in the court who really do this dispatch.

For example, when Zhao Gong showed his strength and impeached Chen Zhizhong and removed from office, it was on this assignment.

And Zhao Luan's official at that time was a bachelor of Hanlin.

This is the reality of the existence of the phenomenon of redundant officials in the Great Song Dynasty, and a large number of posts are mixed with reality and fiction, giving many people room to be lazy, resulting in the situation that officials do not seek political affairs in their positions, and pass the buck and blame each other is very common.

Moreover, the official position is not only unworthy of the name, but the advancement between the official positions has reached an astonishing thirty-seven ranks.

All of this leads to the existence of a subordinate department, and several higher-level management departments at the same time, and the subordinates often do not know who is the real manager.

There is not even a single one who can really manage effectively, and some subordinates have worked for many years and don't know who their superiors are!

Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the drawbacks of redundant officials and redundant administration and improve the efficiency of the imperial court.

How? In fact, it is not difficult to return the decree to the corresponding departments and restore the three-province system in the Tang Dynasty, which can basically straighten out the official system.

The Great Song Dynasty now has the existence of Menxia Province, Zhongshu Province and Shangshu Province, but they are all places where the title is entrusted, and the place where Yuanrong is raised, and is called "Jilu Official".

However, the real central government affairs have set up another name, called "Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi", which replaces the three provinces to exercise their powers.

This is still the chaotic pattern of the small court, which is no longer in line with the current vigorous atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the ministers asked to reform the official system, proofread the "Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty", divide it with the functions of the current Great Song Dynasty institutions, return the three provinces, and restore the institutional scale of the Great Imperial Court.

With Shangshu's left and right servants shooting as prime ministers. The left servant shoots and serves as a servant, and he does the duty of serving; The right servant shoots and serves as a squire in the middle of the book, and acts as a secretary of the order; In order to play the functions of the Chinese book, the review and review of the door, and the undertaking of the book, the actual power is attributed to the top;

At the same time, the governor's political affairs were renamed Zhongshu Shilang, Menxia Shilang and Shangshu Zuo and Youcheng;

All provinces, Taiwans, temples, and prisons shall be dismissed, so that each institution will have a fixed number, a fixed number of personnel, and a fixed duty;

Many institutions or provinces or mergers, such as the three divisions, can be deconstructed, attributed to the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry;

the Court of Inquisitors, which may be in the Ministry of Officials;

The trial court may be assigned to the criminal department.

In the past, "officials" were only used to determine the rank and order of the people, and there was a great confusion with dispatch.

In this reform, while "returning the government to the official", it can also "change the official with rank", and the scattered official will be named the official, and the original official will be sorted out and merged into the name of the salary grade from the three divisions of the Kaifu Yi to the thirty-seventh level of the general Shilang, as the purpose of "sending Lu".

After the two were exchanged, at least nominally, the Great Song court restored the Han and Tang dynasties.

These are probably all the contents of Zhao Yuanfeng's restructuring in history, changing the soup but not the medicine, resulting in no improvement in administrative efficiency, which is still dragging on than in the past.

The benefit is only to save 20,000 yuan in administrative expenses, but at the cost of lower administrative efficiency, because its essence has not changed.

In order to avoid these problems, Su You wrote in the recital that first, the Tang Dynasty has been hundreds of years old, even in the most powerful Kaiyuan period, the population, economic scale, lifestyle, and social structure have undergone tremendous and profound changes compared with today.

The fundamental purpose of the restructuring is not to restore the old system for the sake of restoring the old system, but to better serve the new dynasty.

Therefore, while collating the "Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty", it is also necessary to sort out the current official system of the Great Song Dynasty synchronously, clarify the relationship between the two, and the best thing to do if it can be translated, directly translate, and the rest must be increased or decreased to ensure that the needs of a premise are met, that is, everything must be done by someone.

For example, the departmental functions of the Chinese book need checks and balances and supervision, but when it comes to the grassroots level, it still does this, except for reducing efficiency and increasing administrative costs, there is no benefit at all.

In addition, there is the procedure process, such as 500,000 yuan of river construction funds, major homicide cases, crimes of rebellion and rebellion, and one or two times of travel expense reimbursement, and social security incidents of stealing chickens and dogs.

This point can not be underestimated, the huge failure of Yuanfeng's restructuring in history is that it takes a lot of time for the approval of small things, resulting in the stagnation of government affairs, and finally exists in name only.

After the system problems are sorted out, there are also personnel problems.

There are two main personnel problems, one is the exit mechanism of personnel, and the other is the salary mechanism of officials and low-level civil servants.

Historically, once the official withdrew from the government, the income was completely gone, the Song Dynasty made some reforms, but the effect was not obvious, for the retired ministers, more palace positions, as a pension, resulting in redundant officials.

Without job security, a civil servant cannot be expected to be professional. Now that the finances have improved, the annual revenue of the South China Sea has increased by tens of millions of yuan, and the income of the state tax has also been included in tens of millions of yuan, and the solution of the problem of redundant troops in Beijing has saved millions of yuan, and this part of the fiscal surplus is as high as 20 million yuan per year, and some of it can already be used to solve the problem of pension for civil servants and the income distribution of officials.

Just like doing business, if you want to get a return, you must first pay.

Pensions for officials must be paid after they retire, and if officials are removed from the bureaucracy in advance due to corruption, crime, etc., they will not receive a penny.

Similarly, the salary increase of middle- and lower-level officials should also be deducted from a part of it, and it will be paid at the end of the year according to the performance of the year.

This will ensure that they can actively do things, and also make a large number of people from humble backgrounds interested in participating in the operation of the grassroots government, and local officials will no longer be the only local heroes to rely on.

This will be a profound social change, with this, the feudal society can realize the political power to the countryside, the village elders, patriarchs, the gentry have been holding the grassroots political power of the society, will be torn open by this system, and the ordinary people, can also get a greater respite.

The salaries of these people are in the hands of the government, the county and the state, so that even if they are rogue officials, even if they are new to a place, they will naturally gain the strength to confront the old gentry in the township and stand on the side of the government.

Therefore, the Yuanfeng restructuring in Suyou's plan is no longer just on the surface, but has gone deep into the bottom of the official system.