Although the administrative rules of the Tang Dynasty did not seem to have too many loopholes, officials at all levels could also restrain each other, and in recent years, the supervisors have made them dare not come nonsense.

But no matter how strict the rules are, there will always be times when the lights are dark.

As for the solution to this problem, Li Yuanji's answer is decentralization.

Of course, no matter how power is decentralized, these local tycoons will always hold the power alone, and after the army has become independent, all that remains is the change of the government.

Although there is no military power, the power in the hands of the magistrates is still not small.

"I have decided to use Jingyang County as a pilot until the end of the year!" How to decentralize power, Li Yuanji did not talk to Ma Zhou alone, but put it in the cabinet meeting to say.

The lifting of the curfew is not a trivial matter, and it is not appropriate to put it directly in Chang'an as soon as it comes up, because once something goes wrong, it is a big problem and it is difficult to recover.

And placing it in Jingyang, which is not far from Chang'an, is naturally the most suitable choice.

"First, Jingyang County's economic capacity is relatively good!" Li Yuanji continued.

Although there are still many people who oppose the lifting of the curfew, since the emperor has proposed it, he has also chosen a small-scale experiment, and has not caused any big battles at the beginning, if they oppose it again, it will be too shameful for the emperor.

Although the cabinet has a lot of power, don't forget that this is ancient times, this is the era of the supremacy of imperial power, as long as the emperor says a word, even Fang Xuanling has to submit his resignation obediently, and there is no capital to resist at all.

The ministers nodded in approval, because what Li Yuanji said was right.

With the beer workshop put into use, Jingyang County's economic capacity has jumped beyond many areas, although it is not as good as those old areas, but a large number of workers in the beer workshop, plus the priority to purchase food in the hands of the people of Jingyang County, which also makes the people have some spare money in their hands, although not much, but it is better than other places.

And the most direct proof, is the business atmosphere in Jingyang County, after the beer workshop put into production, has become lively, now there are many businesses choose to open a branch there, in order to support the construction of Jingyang, the beer workshop has also set up an office in Jingyang County, vendors can place orders in Chang'an or Jingyang.

Compared with the two, Jingyang is closer to the workshop, although Chang'an is very convenient, but there are many people here.

"Second, Jingyang is closer to Chang'an, and it is also more conducive to keeping the imperial court informed of the situation so that improvements can be made."

"Third, it can attract some wealthy people to go there......"

"The Fourth ......"

"The Five ......"

Li Yuanji said five reasons in one breath, some of which are convincing enough, and some of which are skeptical, but they are also the kind of people who can't understand and can't find specific reasons to refute them, so they can only leave the problem to time to deal with.

"Then let's test it in Jingyang for a year, but Chen suggested that the curfew time be postponed to the second hour, after all, there are still too many unknowns, and it can be regarded as a buffer." Seeing that Li Yuanji had put forward so many reasons in one breath, Fang Xuanling could only nod his head and agree, and gave a little advice.

Unless he is stupid, he will refuse Li Yuanji at this time.

Didn't you see how well prepared people were? I really don't know what Ma Zhou's goods said about moving the emperor.

Huangfu Wuyi, who was also sitting in the cabinet, quietly shivered, but he knew the truth, this matter was really not Ma Zhou who moved His Majesty, but he mentioned it to His Majesty, and then aroused His Majesty's interest, and then summoned Ma Zhou to inquire about this matter.

Of course, Ma Zhou, who was summoned yesterday, and the views that Ma Zhou put forward before were far inferior to the views that His Majesty said today, Huangfu Wuyi felt that it seemed that His Majesty had already had this intention, but he had never found the opportunity.

shook his head violently, whatever, the curfew is canceled, at least the household tax will be more, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and our emperor Fu Wuyi will also fantasize that one day there will be too much money to spend it.

"Lifting the curfew is not a trivial matter, so ......," Li Yuanji continued to say slowly.

Fang Xuanling sighed in his heart, the emotional focus is waiting here?

I said that I always feel that something is missing, for a while, Fang Xuanling wanted to cry without tears, and now that he has agreed, then no matter what Li Yuanji says, it is not good for him to refute it, although Li Yuanji did this to save the face of this group of old ministers, but this is too aggrieved, right?

"The key to the success of this matter lies in the government, and the current government system cannot meet the needs after the curfew is lifted, so I have decided to redivide the Jingyang government......

Li Yuanji's words frightened many people, redividing? It's easy to say, but everyone knows that once it succeeds, it will be a reform of the entire Datang officialdom.

Although the imperial court has been changed, and the responsibilities of various departments are clearly divided, if it involves the following states and counties, it is not as easy as the imperial court.

After all, the imperial court is at a high level, and there are only a few thousand people, and the states and counties below involve tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people.

Well, let's take the county as an example.

The county has a county commander, who is responsible for coordinating the county's government affairs, the big brother of the county.

The county magistrate, the deputy prefect, is responsible for assisting the prefectural order.

The chief secretary is the inspector, who is responsible for checking documents and supervising county affairs.

The county lieutenant is a person, this is also a big brother-level figure, although he can't make a decision, but this has a lot of power in his hands, all the decrees in the county, have to go through the hands of this person, the above three have made a decision, after the check, the specific implementation will be handed over to the county lieutenant, including administrative, judicial, financial and other aspects, is specifically responsible for the official affairs.

There are hundreds of officials below, and if you subtract some, it is estimated that these people will die of headaches.

Just about to refute, Li Yuanji immediately spoke: "Now these chief officials have too many things to be responsible for, so that they can't take care of the whole thing at all, so many places will also temporarily put some things on hold due to problems such as lack of manpower."

I felt that the burden should be reduced for them, for example, the county lieutenant was only responsible for administration, and the judiciary and finance were separated, and the county governor was responsible for the coordination of the various yamen.

The independent judiciary was under the direct management of the imperial court, but was dispatched by the county order. In addition, the county order no longer needs to hear and adjudicate cases, and a special yamen is set up in each prefecture and county, and these yamen are responsible for it. The independent judiciary is only responsible for maintaining law and order, arresting criminals, searching for evidence, and other things.

The financial independence is still under the jurisdiction of the counties, but the level is equal to that of the county.

In addition, the establishment of a professional fire yamen to ensure fire prevention and other safety hazards, and the fire yamen is based on the military system as the core, personnel also enjoy military treatment, and their main task, one is to extinguish fire, the other is to prevent, all the shops that open, need to accept their inspection, qualified before opening...... "Li Yuanji crackled and pulled out a lot of words, which made people a little dizzy to hear.

But no matter what, they still understood the meaning of Li Yuanji's voice.

The first is to weaken the power in the hands of the county lieutenant, and the second is to raise the rank of Cao Shi under the prefectures and counties, and Cao Shi is the official under the county lieutenant who is specifically responsible for various affairs.

Third, the judiciary became independent and was directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, depriving the county of the power to adjudicate cases.

Fourth, a special yamen has been set up to try cases, which means that this model will become the norm in the future, and all prefectures and counties will lose the opportunity to try cases independently, and the advantage of this is that the possibility of favoritism and malpractice will be reduced.

Fifth, set up a fire department.

The five main points, calculated and calculated, except for the greater impact on the county lieutenant and some impact on the county order, there is actually no specific impact on the entire county.

Instead of being downsized, they were most worried about the workforce, which would be expanded, so that some jobs could be added.

Judicial independence......

I kept recalling these four words in my mind, and I thought of Li Yuanji's explanation of them.

After a while, Fang Xuanling was shocked in his heart, and couldn't help but look up at Li Yuanji.

Then looking at the other colleagues around him, although he had long known that Li Yuanji was not very human, but this time Fang Xuanling was still deeply shocked.

It is not so much to cooperate in solving some problems after the lifting of the curfew, but rather to further strengthen the centralization of power by Li Yuanji.

And this time, Li Yuanji directly cut off the local lifeline, to be precise, it cut off the last glimmer of hope in their ill hearts.

You can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't have the heart to defend people, and there is nothing wrong with Li Yuanji doing this.

It's just that this hand is very clever, first withdrawing the military power, canceling the Zhichong Mansion, and then taking away the right to judge cases and the right to public security in the prefecture and county.

The position of Wuhou does not have much combat effectiveness compared to the army, but it is an existence that cannot be ignored.

And at this time, once the county commander or the governor wants to rebel, then only those administrators can be called under him, to put it mildly, as long as the imperial court firmly controls the judicial power, for these administrative personnel to rebel, even the army does not need to send out to solve the problem.

"In this case, is the Criminal Department also going to make some changes?" Fang Xuanling asked.

Li Yuanji smiled slightly, and had to sigh again that Fang Xuanling's head was really smart, and he said so much, but he grasped the crux of the problem so quickly.

If it weren't for Fang Xuanling asking like this, the others would still be dizzy and couldn't understand it now.

Especially Zhang Xingcheng, who looked confused.

"The Criminal Department does need to make some changes, but it is only an internal subdivision of responsibilities, one is to cooperate with the contact issues after the judicial independence of various states and counties, and the other is about the handling of death row prisoners, I feel that I will always make mistakes, the power is in my hands, sometimes it really makes people lose their minds, I don't want to kill a person by mistake, and I don't want to let go of a person who should be killed.

Therefore, I have decided that in the future, all the handling of death row inmates will be reviewed internally by the Criminal Department, and then brought to the cabinet for discussion......"

"What?" Fang Xuanling and the others were taken aback and exclaimed again and again.

Why is the emperor supreme? Is it because he has the power of life and death that he has the power to control the life and death of the people in the world, and now he has taken out this right? Anyway, they were shocked......