Chapter 39: Three Classes and Six Rooms
Yang Lin didn't have time to rest, so he couldn't wait to take people to the warehouse to count, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there were still 10,000 loads of grain in the warehouse.
Wu Yin, the head of the household, introduced that when the local rioters occupied Pengzhou, there were 50,000 quintals of grain in the treasury, and it was a pity that 40,000 quintals were consumed in less than three months.
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, plus a total of ten rooms for the development room, the recruitment room, the account room, and the treasury, which were attached to the county hall to ensure the operation of the yamen.
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 three-year famine, the household also handles disaster relief and grain release, just like the Civil Affairs Bureau, the Taxation Bureau and the Finance 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 chief officer in organizing the examination of candidates, supervising the venue, distributing and collecting 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 chief officer, as well as presenting official documents and handling invitations, just like the office and 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 work book and 1 book, 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 previous economic bureau.
In addition to the six rooms, there are also two rooms for the registration and receipt of documents, transcription of pleadings and other matters, a total of 2 people, just like the previous petition office.
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.
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.
Responsible for the management of the granary warehouse, the warehouse is subordinate to 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, and the number of people in the upper echelons to ensure daily operation exceeds the regulations of the imperial court.
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 no money, and can only rely on meager paper and pencil expenses, 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, they are evaluated by the chief officer and given a certain reward to open vacancies.
In addition to the six rooms (ten rooms), there are three classes, including soap class, strong class, and fast class, and each class has a team leader to assist in managing the affairs of the class, and its responsibilities include:
The soap class is responsible for the county magistrate's promotion to the court to inquire about the case, execution and other matters, just like the clerks of the modern government, with a team head, a total of 16 soap subordinates under the jurisdiction of the supervisor (4 more by the judge and the officer), just like the office of the previous life, 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, most of the ancient officials were civil officials, and they took sedan chairs when traveling, these ancient drivers were of course not as chic as the drivers in the previous life, and the accelerator stepped on everywhere, and 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 the staffing of the county government stipulated by the imperial court, but even if the current Xiangru County has just been recovered, the county government is far less than such a number.
Now that the government has retaken the county seat, those suppressed officials and officials have become active again, and everyone has returned to their posts before the soldiers took control of the county, and now they can show off their military might.
With the help of the secretary's office, Yang Lin spent half a day figuring out the personnel and daily operations of the county office, although he felt extremely unreasonable, but quickly formulated countermeasures.
Once the son of heaven is a courtier, and the new official takes office with three fires, and most of the scribes who are not suitable must be replaced, so that the new policy can be implemented (even if the governor comes, most of the Yamen scribes are their own people).
In the West, it is popular for central governments to form cabinets for prime ministers and prime ministers, while local governments form cabinets for local governors, who select suitable candidates to join their own large and small cabinets according to their own governance directions, and assist in governance as their wings or arms.
In the previous life, the directors of various bureaus of local governments in China were all officials, iron rice bowls, with ranks, although the top leaders had absolute authority, but they were not completely selected and appointed by the local administrative heads as in the West, but appointed relevant qualified personnel as members of their own teams (small cabinets) in the existing civil service system.
In ancient times, the county governor and the prefecture were responsible for the system, except for the state judge, the county magistrate, and the chief officer, in principle, the six subordinate officials and the three classes of officials were appointed by the chief official.
However, the Ming Dynasty implemented the system of serving in different places, and the local magistrates, county magistrates, Bo Zhizhou, governors, and other large and small officials were all from other provinces, and these people served as officials for only three years, and it was difficult to establish power in the local area, so they had to rely on the officials and local squires, so as to form a ruling structure in which officials, officials, and squires were combined.
Yang Lin was a local, who had previously collected taxes in the local area as a squire, and later trained to fight, unlike those officials who served in other places without a foundation, and as a state judge, he could have drastically reduced personnel before taking office, and established a team that was completely subordinate to himself.
But that movement was too big, and the authority of the Ming Dynasty was still there, so Yang Lin didn't want to be impeached.
After making up his mind, Yang Lin decided to first select and appoint people he could trust, and gradually and slowly carry out the reform.
Entering the lobby, everyone came to pay homage, and after prostrating and bowing, everyone lined up in two rows, and then met one by one under the roll call of the chief of the house.