"From this year onwards, from now on, the standards for the assessment of local officials by the Ministry of Officials have all been changed!" Zhang Lingyang looked at the officials in the palace and said: "Since the beginning of a few years, the criteria for evaluating local officials have been changed to the degree of improvement of the people's living standards, the degree of local economic development, the degree of development of education in various places, and the degree of improvement of local public security.

The cabinet and the six ministries went down to discuss, and a month later I was given a detailed statement. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"After talking about the official assessment, let's talk about the problem of public security in various places. Beginning this year, from the imperial court to the townships below the provincial, state and county levels, the county has set up inspection departments to be responsible for local public security. The officials of the inspection department are selected from among the local officials, and the assessment will be carried out from this year, and those who meet the standards will serve as the officials of the inspection department. ”

In the past, the people in charge of criminal cases and public security in various places were county magistrates and county officials. But how many of these officials have a special understanding of criminal investigation? Isn't it relying on the following officials to detect?

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang directly set up an inspection department similar to the police department in later generations, and selected Xu officials with criminal investigation expertise to serve as officials of each inspection department.

"Regarding the issue of the creation of the Inspection Division, the Cabinet and the Sixth Ministry and the Nine Secretaries will also submit a detailed statement to me in a month."

After talking about the problem of the inspection department, Zhang Lingyang talked about the corruption of officials, "In recent years, as the treasury has become more and more crowded, some officials have begun to blush and begin to exploit local people and business travelers.

Starting today, all officials who embezzled more than 10,000 taels of silver will be held accountable, and the male members of their families will be sent to Siberia, and all the female dependents will be charged to the Department of Teaching. If the amount of embezzlement is less than 10,000 taels, all his family property shall be confiscated, and he shall be demoted to a commoner, and his children and grandchildren shall not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination, shall not be allowed to study in the royal academy, and shall not be allowed to join the army. ”

Looking at the ministers below, Zhang Lingyang sneered: "Don't you like money? I will punish you for ruining your family.

Don't you like to give women? I will let your wives and daughters be given away. ”

Looking at the scene of the ministers below bowing their heads and saying nothing, Zhang Lingyang smiled deeply and continued: "In addition, except for the family members of the Qin prisoners who were appointed by the imperial court, the rest of the people are not allowed to sell at will, and no one is allowed to buy or sell human beings for any reason.

Anyone who has a slave or a maid in the family, as long as he is not a person appointed by the imperial court, will be destroyed from today onwards. ”

This time, the court can be lively.

These officials and masters, who are not a group of slaves, once the slavery of these people is abolished, who will serve them tea and pour water in the future? Who will give them back before and after the saddle? Who still warms their beds and folds quilts?

Zhang Lingyang completely provoked the anger of the public this time.

In the face of the ministers' admonitions, Zhang Lingyang didn't seem to hear them, and let them shout there.

It wasn't until the ministers shouted that they were tired and calmed down, that Zhang Lingyang opened his mouth and continued: "Of course, I also know that you officials and masters are used to being served, and if you suddenly remove the slaves from those slaves, you will have no one to serve. ”

"Is that good? You can hire servants on the terms of employment, and of course, outside of the Great Zhou, if you buy some slaves, I and the court will still recognize you. ”

In fact, Zhang Lingyang thought about this matter for a long time before making this decision.

In doing so, firstly, it could liberate the population of the Great Zhou, and secondly, it would allow the ministers of the central government and the local gentry to look beyond the Great Zhou.

So even though the opposition was high, Zhang Lingyang decided to do so.

You must know that some wealthy families, sometimes there are only three or five family members, but they need dozens or even hundreds of people to serve them, which is undoubtedly unbearable for Zhang Lingyang.

Of course, as the largest landlord in the world, the royal family undoubtedly has the most slaves.

Even, Zhang Lingyang has already thought that from this year onwards, the palace will no longer recruit eunuchs.

Of course, it's just that the people of Da Zhou are not recruited as eunuchs.

Zhang Lingyang's idea is actually very simple, since the appearance of eunuchs is the emperor's attempt to prevent other men from cuckolding him, Zhang Lingyang naturally cannot cancel the eunuch system.

After all, Zhang Lingyang doesn't want to be green on his head, nor does he want future generations to be green.

So Zhang Lingyang thought of a way to select people from the colonies and prisoners of war for castration, and then enter the palace for systematic training, wouldn't there be qualified eunuchs!

Of course, the palace maid is an exception, judging from the situation of the Great Zhou, among the palace maids in the harem, except for the female dependents of the status prisoner of war, in fact, most of the rest are women from official eunuchs.

The women of these official eunuchs, who stay in the palace for three or five years, will actually be released from the palace, so they are not slaves.

Why were the women of the eunuchs sent to the palace? Isn't it his family who wants to fight for wealth? Which woman who can be sent to the palace is not as beautiful as a flower?

If one day they are favored by the emperor or the prince, won't the wealth of the sky be at their fingertips?

Therefore, as long as you look carefully, you can find that those palace maids in the palace or female officials and other palace maids are all from official eunuch families.

This is not surprising, because their family education and connections and money connections are determined, and they are higher than others at the beginning.

As for the important issue, that is education.

In fact, in all dynasties and even in the 21st century, there is no such thing as absolute fairness in the level of education in various places.

Just like before the Song Dynasty, the economic and cultural centers of Hebei and the Central Plains were naturally the highest level of education, so before the Song Dynasty, many of the military generals who could mention their names were born in the Central Plains.

After the Song Dynasty, the economic and cultural center was transferred to Jiangnan, and the level of education there was naturally much higher than that of other places.

It's like the Great Zhou, in fact, the people who are on the list of the imperial examinations every year in the Great Zhou are all scholars from the south of the Yangtze River.

It was not an overnight effort to change this state, so Zhang Lingyang did not carry out drastic reforms in the first education.

However, Zhang Lingyang has also discussed the education support in poor areas with the cabinet and the six ministries and nine secretaries.

As for what kind of statement the cabinet and the six ministries and nine secretaries can come up with in the end, Zhang Lingyang himself is not very clear.

However, in Zhang Lingyang's opinion, if he is not satisfied, he can choose more students from those poor areas in the Royal Academy.

After all, compared with the rich Jiangnan, educational resources in poor areas are more scarce, and this can make up for it somewhat.