The county is the most basic government agency in ancient times, and the general officials in charge include the magistrate, the county officer, the chief officer, and the warden, who are generally appointed by the imperial court, and in addition to appointing these officials, the imperial court will also appoint officials who are independent of the county government and independently manage the teachings and disciplines of private schools and students. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the Ming Dynasty implemented the system of officials serving in different places, that is, officials such as the county, the county, the chief, the teaching, and the discipline were all people from other provinces, and in addition to the chaos in recent years, many people from other provinces did not dare to go to the post at all, so Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, and Shi Jinchen, the prefect of Shunqing, dared to appoint Yang Xuan.

Because Yilong first suffered the scourge of the local thyrs, and later there were rebellions, in addition to the teachings hiding in the houses to escape, the former magistrate, the county prince, and the lord Bo were all killed by the local thugs.

The county yamen is very large, boxy, is the courtyard of the six entrances, there are walls built around, the front Xuanhua Fang, that is, the commonly known south wall, is the place where the county government decrees, notices, and official documents are posted.

When they came to the gate, the official opened the gate, and the group entered through the gate. On either side of the gate is another small door, guarded by two soaps.

Entering the gate, along the long road, there are two courtyard houses on both sides, the left side is the dining hall and the prison, and the right side is the three-class yamen, that is, the legendary Zhuang class, soap class, and fast class quadrangle courtyard.

At the end of the road is the instrument gate, and the door is opened only when the new magistrate takes office, or the superior official inspects. On both sides of the instrument gate are two small gates, usually the county magistrate, the county and the general officials mostly enter and exit from the small door.

The door that guards the instrument door has already ordered the people to open the instrument door to welcome the group into the instrument door, enter the instrument door, and on both sides is where the six rooms are located.

The three rooms of the soldiers and penals are on the left side, and the three rooms of the officials are on the right side, and there are scribes working in it.

After passing through a ring stone workshop engraved with the deeds of the ancient sages, the front is in the middle of the lobby, the left side is the hair room, and the right side is the tent room.

First, pass through the lobby platform (a place for the general public to watch the trial), and come to the lobby, where the magistrate of the county gives orders, and is also a symbol of the power of the county government.

Passing through the small door behind the lobby, I came to a courtyard, and behind the courtyard is the second hall, which is the daily office of the county.

On both sides of the lobby, there is a small courtyard, which is the county officer, the main book, and the warden's room, which are rarely equipped by the county, and some counties often have only one warden to help the county handle official business.

Passing through the second hall, there are two master's rooms, which are the rooms for the master's office, and behind them, there is the place where the county minister, the lord Bo, the warden, the master, and the elder rest place.

After a garden-shaped arch, there is a soap guard, half of the people are forbidden to enter, this is the three halls, that is, the rest place of the county, on both sides is a quadrangle, probably three wives and four concubines in ancient times, for the different dependents of the county to live.

Behind the three halls is a back garden, which has rockeries and various rare trees for the magistrate to rest.

After a brief round, I changed my clothes in the back hall and rushed to the lobby to be promoted to the board of directors.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial court was three provinces and six departments, and in the local area, it was three classes and six rooms, imitating the six departments of court officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and set up six rooms, which were attached to the left and right of the county court, in fact, in order to ensure the operation of the yamen, and included the contract room, the recruitment room, the account room, the treasury, etc., a total of ten rooms.

There is 1 secretary office in each room, just like the directors of the bureaus under the county government in the previous life, and the staff below them are called "saving points", "book office", "book service", "Xu officials" and so on.

The officer's room, with 1 secretary and 1 point, manages the promotion and transfer of the county's officials, issues a letter of appointment, and registers the county's jinshi and people who are officials in other places, and works under the direct leadership of the county, just like the personnel bureau in the previous life.

???? Household house, set up 1 household book, save 1 person, in charge of the county to collect taxes and silver, pay grain taxes, and fold the collected imperial grain into silver taels, and then sign the silversmith to melt the broken silver into the furnace and cast it into ingots (50 taels), ingots (10 taels), coins (5 taels) and other models, and solve the imperial treasury. In addition, the household is also in charge of the "fish scale atlas", the inventory of money and grain, etc. In the event of a famine for three years, the household also specifically handles matters such as disaster relief and grain release, just like the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Taxation Bureau in the previous life.

???? Gift room, set up 1 gift book, save 1 person. The room is in charge of worshipping gods, sacrificing holes, and ceremonies. During the imperial examination, assist the magistrate, the teacher and other examiners to organize the candidates to take the examination, supervise the venue, distribute and collect the examination papers, etc. There is a Cambodian room under the ceremonial room, with 1 Cambodian book, who is in charge of the letters, business cards and posts of the county, as well as presenting the county edict and handling invitations, etc., just like the office and the propaganda bureau in the previous life.

???? The barracks, with 1 military book and 1 saving point, are in charge of recruiting soldiers, horses, and training in the county. In addition, matters such as post stations, soldiers, city defense, and bandit suppression are also under the jurisdiction of the military room, just like the armed forces department in the previous life.

???? The punishment room has 1 criminal book and 1 person, and its responsibility is to be in charge of civil and criminal cases in the county. There are 4 servants and 8 prisoners, just like the judicial bureau and prison in the previous life.

?? The workshop, with 1 person and 1 person, is in charge of the county's sericulture, weaving, construction of the temple, construction of water conservancy, minting of silver, destruction of money, etc., just like the various economic functional bureaus in the previous life.

?? In addition to the six rooms, there is also a sending and receiving room for registering and receiving documents, transcribing the list of documents, etc., with a total of 2 people, just like the office in the previous life.

There are 2 people in charge of managing the treasury of the county's money, also known as the account office, and they are responsible for part of the responsibilities of the Finance Bureau in the previous life.

There is a person who is in charge of the forms and confession records that should be filled out by the plaintiff and the defendant in the county trial case, and there is a total of 1 person, just like the clerk of the trial court.

He is also responsible for managing the warehouse of the granary, and the warehouse has 4 warehouses and 4 buckets, just like the grain bureau in the previous life.

There are a total of 36 people in the ten rooms, except for the people who are served, imprisoned, stored, and douzi who have 5 taels and 5 yuan a year for many years, the other personnel have no money and money, and can only rely on meager paper and pen fees, copying fees, food expenses, etc., so they can only rely on seeking various personal interests to maintain their lives.

In addition, these personnel have a tenure system, and after the completion of each five years of service, the magistrate will give a certain reward to open vacancies.

In addition to the six rooms, there are three classes, including soap class, strong class, and fast class, each class sets up a team leader to assist in the management of the affairs of the class, and its responsibilities include:

The soap class is responsible for the county to rise to the court to ask the case, execution and other matters, just like the modern government staff, set up a team, the county is under the jurisdiction of the county soap a total of 16 (there are county officials, the main book is increased by 4 each), just like the previous office, the judicial bureau.

Zhuang class, also known as the people's strong, is mainly responsible for the county's city defense, pass guarding, poor bearing, urging, levy, etc., like the armed police in the previous life, and like the tax police, the county has a total of 30 people, of which 16 are guarding the four city gates, just like the previous tax bureau, or township clerks.

Fast class, also known as catching fast. Responsible for arresting rape and robbery, solving cases, and releasing prisoners, just like the criminal police in the previous life, there are a total of 8 people in the county, just like the criminal police brigade in the previous life.

In addition to the regular third shift personnel, there are also 2 doormen, such as the security guards who watched the gate through the previous life.

7 sedan chair drivers, the ancient county magistrate was mostly civil officials, and he sat in a sedan chair when traveling, these ancient drivers were of course not as chic as the drivers in the previous life, and when they stepped on the accelerator to idle everywhere, these ancient drivers were completely hard work.

There are 2 lamp husbands and 2 watchmen, who are responsible for working in the middle of the night.

The three shifts plus various other servants, a total of 65 people, in addition to the fast shift annual salary of 11 taels, the others are in the number of 5 taels and 5 yuan.

Of course, this is only a full staff, and there are a total of 101 scribes and officials in the county, but because of the chaos, they are not full at all.

First there was a rebellion of local tyrants, and then there was a mutiny, and those scribes and officials were purged, although now I heard that the county government was rebuilt, and many of the past scribes and officials returned, but it was less than 2 percent of the heyday.

With the help of the secretary, Yang Xuan spent half a day drawing out the personnel structure of the county government, and then set up a comparison with modern government agencies, and then carefully analyzed and verified his various judgments.

The first feeling is the lack of staff, why the county governor listened to those officials in the past, mainly because he has no eyes and ears. He was born as a military general and did not need a sedan chair driver, so he could turn 4 of the 7 sedan chair drivers into staff members to help him handle government affairs.

Second, the functions of each room are not good, there are too few people in each room, in addition to the ceremonial room, the other five rooms are only one chief scribe, save a little one, you need to know that this is the major bureaus in the previous life.

Although it belonged to the **** society in ancient times, the county magistrate sat in the county government and was as decisive as the emperor sat in the Jinluan Palace, but the personnel of the major specialized agencies were so at least that they completely affected the professional ability of decision-making.

After thinking about it, Yang Xuan decided to strengthen the officials' rooms, household rooms, and account rooms, and set up a political style room under the officials' rooms, which was responsible for two people, responsible for supervising the secretaries of each room, and the behavior of the three classes of officials, and dealing with these unfit officials at any time.

In the past, because I majored in economics, I had a little understanding of finance-related departments.

During the Sui Dynasty, the household department was not called the household department, but the people's department, and later avoided Li Shimin's obscurity, so it was changed to the household department.

Since the Later Tang Dynasty, prevailing in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court has set up three envoys in charge of the country's finances, including salt and iron, household department, and degree branch three parts, and its chief official is called Ji Xiang, whose status is slightly lower than that of the Song Dynasty Prime Minister (see the governor's political affairs).

In terms of duties, these three envoys are like the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of the Interior in the modern sense, and their responsibilities are so great that it is conceivable that after the restructuring of Wang Anshi Yuanfeng, the three envoys were abolished, and their duties were assigned to the Ministry of Household and the various ministries of the imperial court.

It is the account office, which is quite close to the modern finance bureau, but it is only responsible for the management of flow accounts, cash flow, and material flow, and is not responsible for tax collection and overall management of money and goods.

For households, they not only bear the responsibility of tax collection, but also bear the civil liability (household registration, land registration) responsibilities of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Xuan still has a lot of respect for the yamen of the three divisions, and now it is not people who are most lacking in the troubled times, but money, and now it is necessary to strengthen the tax collection duties.

If, as in the past, the household is in charge of civil duties such as population and land registration, and is also responsible for tax collection, not only is its function inadequate, but it also makes false accounts in order to give people the impression that the tax collection is complete.

Since the Hongwu period, the land and population of the imperial court have not increased in the slightest, which is the reason.

In this case, Yang Xuan decided to reorganize the households and accounts according to the model of the three envoys in the past and the current Finance Bureau and the Civil Affairs Bureau.

After the reorganization, Hufang was only responsible for household registration, land registration and various civil duties, and in consideration of the re-clearing of land and the clearing of household registration, the number of people saving points in the household increased by 2.

The account office is different, like the Finance Bureau in the previous life, it is the department that coordinates the tax collection and financial expenditure of the county.

In order to strengthen the management of the account office, in addition to the establishment of the account wardens who coordinate the overall situation, the number of people who collect taxes and the general ledger has been increased to six, making it the largest department of the county government.

Third, although all parties have set up chief wardens and each class has set up team leaders, either there are not enough persons in charge, or some have no person in charge at all, and there is no way to effectively track down what happened.

For example, there are 30 people in the people, and there is only one team leader, which is obviously insufficient. For example, if you look at the prison guard, there is no person in charge.

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It took half a day for Yang Xuan to summarize the five major drawbacks of the yamen of various generations and decided to gradually correct them in the future.