Chapter 1115: The Crisis in Qian Qili
Although the Ministry of Finance is a new institution, many of its institutions are actually directly transferred from the Ministry of Taxation, so the Department of Finance is not a new business, and the Securities Department of the Department of Finance has existed for a long time.
However, there are still not many people who know about this securities office, and ordinary people will not pay attention to an institution that specializes in managing securities trading, but many practitioners in the financial industry in China, especially those in the relevant industries of the regime, which have only appeared in large numbers in recent years, know and know very well.
Because they are the ones in charge of the Securities Department!
The Securities Department is the institution that directly manages all securities companies in China, and the two major domestic exchanges, namely the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Guangzhou Stock Exchange, are under the direct jurisdiction of the Securities Department.
Is there a lot of power? It depends on what kind of agency it is compared with, if it is compared with the previous inspection of the Ministry of Taxation's grain collection department, it is naturally far inferior, but if it is compared with other division-level agencies, the power is still very large.
The Securities Department is only one of the many subordinate institutions that Chen Lifu is in charge of, although in order to carry out his work better, he is directly the director of the Securities Department, but his own post is still the right deputy director of the Financial Department, and at the same time he is in charge of some other institutions, and his real power is not small.
The number of deputy positions in the Tang Dynasty is generally not large, and there are usually one or two deputy positions under the first leader, and there is basically no situation where there is no deputy position without real power.
The deputy positions are basically all substantive positions, and they all have real power.
A county is almost the most typical representative, according to the reason, from the county seat of the six products, by the county order of the six products is pressed to death, but the county order is usually the overall administrative affairs of the county, will not be exhaustive and everything is personally grasped.
Because they don't have the time and energy to do it all!
Therefore, the county officials usually take on some of the affairs that the county order does not have enough time to personally take charge of, and are generally responsible for local economic development and education development, and the real power is also not small.
Chen Lifu, as the third in command of the Financial Department, this is a typical deputy position!
From the former governor of Xingquan Mansion to the deputy director of the Finance Department, to be honest, Chen Lifu doesn't know whether this is good or bad for him.
Xingquan Mansion is a place of great political significance, serving as the prefect in Xingquan Mansion, which can basically be regarded as going to gold, and then can directly follow the path of local officials, and finally go to the local government to serve as a political envoy or even a governor, and become a minister of feudal territory.
However, after bypassing this step, he directly served as the deputy director of the financial department, which is also of great benefit, because although the right deputy director of the financial department is also an official of the fourth grade, which is the same as the prefect's rank.
But everyone knows that compared with local officials, even if they are of the same grade, Beijing officials are also half a level higher than local officials, which can basically be seen from the promotion route of officials in the Tang Dynasty.
When a local governor is transferred to Gyeonggi, he usually serves as a squire, and the two are of the same rank, but even then they are considered promoted.
In the same way, if a squire is sent to serve as a governor in a local area, if it is not a special case, the situation is usually considered a demotion in this case.
There is no doubt that the deputy director of Zheng Sipin is more important than the local prefect who is also Zheng Sipin.
Chen Lifu's appointment is actually a reflection of this, Chen Lifu is not transferred from the director of the inspection department to the right deputy director of the financial department, but from the director of the inspection department to the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture, and then from the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture to the right deputy director of the financial department.
Although Chen Lifu did not serve as the prefect of Xingquan Mansion for a few days, and did not have time to go to Xingquan Mansion to take up his post, he had just received the appointment papers, and he was notified of the dismissal of the candidate within a few days.
But even if this is the case, he has to write the words "Governor of Xingquan Mansion" on his resume, at most he adds a remark: not in office.
In this case, in fact, Chen Lifu is also a little unsure of his own path, whether it is correct or not, although the Beijing officials are good, but the local officials are not necessarily bad.
Especially in recent years, the wind trend in the imperial political arena has exacerbated Chen Lifu's worries!
What wind direction?
That is, to pay attention to the experience of the local government when promoting!
For example, when the Hanlin Academy selects newcomers, almost all of them are selected from the local level, and the first criterion for selection is that they need to have experience in governing the local government.
At the same time, the empire has had many governors in recent years, and the new governors, without exception, have the experience of ruling a government.
In addition, there is another point that in recent years, the newly promoted Shangshu and Shilang of the empire have gradually had a pattern, that is, Shangshu has been promoted from the Shilang or Governor.
And the interesting thing is that even if he is promoted from the squire, but this squire has basically had experience in the ruling party, some have served as governors or Taoists, and the worst has also served as the prefect.
In other words, in order to become a scholar, you must have a career as a local leader, even if it is not a high-level position such as governor or Taoist, but you must have been a prefect
has not even been a prefect, which shows that this person's political career has always been on the edge of the political arena.
In this way, Chen Lifu has to worry that his lack of experience in the state capital will affect his future career, affect himself to become a scholar, and then affect his entry into the imperial study.
Well, although there are no clear regulations, but ordinary civil officials want to enter the imperial study and become the minister on duty in the mouth of outsiders, and they are not even qualified to compete without the title of Shangshu!
If it is an ordinary official, he will definitely not consider whether he can enter the cabinet as a scholar or enter the imperial study, but Chen Lifu is not an ordinary official!
He has great ambitions, he has lofty ideals, but he has been working hard to enter the imperial study, and he has worked hard for the prosperity of Xuanping in his heart.
Besides, putting aside these ideals and inner thoughts, even Chen Lifu himself knows that his career is valued by many important people, but His Majesty said that he is a talent, and many big people on top also value themselves.
If nothing else, it is very likely that he was included in the list of key training by the Ministry of Officials, otherwise he would not have been able to sit in the position of director of the inspection department back then, and he would have been working for three years, and he would not have been appointed as the prefect of Xingquan Mansion some time ago.
Just from these two appointments, fools can guess that Chen Lifu is the target of key training!
Chen Lifu himself is also very clear, so he may hope that other low-level officials, the dream in this life is to become the six-rank county commander or the four-rank prefect, but Chen Lifu knows that the fourth-grade and even third-grade positions are just his springboard, and if he goes all the way smoothly, it is very possible to become a waiter.
And Shangshu is not without hope!
It is precisely because he knows that he is the target of key training, so Chen Lifu is a little puzzled whether his appointment is a good thing or a bad thing.
After all, in any case, in the imperial political arena, the experience of the ruling party is very important, and now that he is the deputy director of Zhengsipin, he will definitely not have the opportunity to serve as any prefect in the future.
Could it be that I want to go directly to become a Taoist or governor in the future? But there is no precedent for this!
So when he entered the city, Chen Lifu was a little worried, this became the Beijing official of the fourth grade, the right deputy director of the financial department with real power, which is almost the goal of their life for most officials, if it is an ordinary official who learns that he has become a deputy director, it must be happy to die.
But Chen Lifu is different, so he is a little nervous, even worried!
What to worry about?
I'm worried that the importance of myself has changed, and I'm worried that I won't be able to enter the imperial study in the future and become the minister on duty!
Chen Lifu is worried about his future, and similarly, there are many people who are worried about his future at this moment, such as Qian Qili, the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation.
In the past half a month, he has been fighting on the front line of political struggle, and he has directly fought with other people who want to split the tax department, wanting to protect the tax department as much as possible.
However, splitting up the huge tax department has become the consensus of the government and the opposition, and even the Son of Heaven has acquiesced.
In the face of this general trend, Qian Aoli is also quite helpless, and in the end he can only compromise, but he is not a defeat during this time, at least, the Ministry of Taxation has also retained its core power: taxation!
At the same time, some powers to ensure the smooth collection of taxes were retained, for example, the inspection department of the grain collection department was still retained and was not abolished, and the tax inspection team was not taken away, but remained in the tax department.
At the same time, I also got the Customs Department back!
In this way, although the Ministry of Taxation said that it had split several important agencies, it retained the power to collect taxes and took back the customs authority, which can be regarded as passable.
But even so, Qian Aoli also felt the hostility of the government and the opposition to him!
Although the reform plan of the Ministry of Taxation has been decided, after all, no formal decree has been issued, and the establishment of a new department and the transfer of business to the new department are not something that can be decided in a day or two.
In addition, although the Ministry of Finance is a newly established institution, the personnel are all divided into the past by the Ministry of Taxation, and most of the senior officials of the Ministry of Finance in the future are also transferred from the Ministry of Taxation.
To put it bluntly, the future senior officials of the Ministry of Finance are all his old subordinates in Qianyi!
Some of them are still the juniors he values very much, such as Chen Lifu!
It is not difficult to see that although the Ministry of Taxation has been split, Qian Aoli still uses the influence of his old subordinates to save the country with a curve, and includes the newly established Ministry of Finance into his sphere of influence.
However, even so, Qian Aoli is still a little worried, this reform of the Ministry of Taxation is very likely to be the biggest crisis he has encountered since he entered politics, and if he is not careful, he will lose his official position!
He has offended a lot of people, and now that the Ministry of Taxation has been split, will it cause a large-scale attack from the outside world, and then cause his title of Minister on duty to be unstable.
Well, in fact, this is true, many people actually regard the reform of the Ministry of Taxation as a sign of Qian Aoli's resignation, and a bunch of people are grinding their fists and preparing to impeach Qian Aoli, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to completely pull Qian Aoli down!
It's the same as when they impeached and pulled down Qian Mengjiu, Wang Wenhua and others!
There are a total of nine positions for the minister on duty, if you don't kill these old guys in Qian, how can they get into the position?