Qian Gongfu said: "Your Majesty, why don't you mention Huangyou? ”

Zheng Lang has many loyal fans in the court, and there are fewer high-level fans, but Qian Gongfu is one. Zheng Lang won't say how good Huangyou is, but as the emperor, you can't help but mention it. Although Xianping is good, can it still be as good as Huangyou for a few years? Moreover, such a great rule was still when Wang Ze rebelled and the Yellow River burst its embankment.

Wang Anshi, who had just returned to Beijing, said: "Jun Yi, incomparable, the rule of the emperor's blessing is regulation, there are several conditions first, the government is clear, the finances are barely healthy, and the government decrees are smooth. It was a very different time and a time than it was. If we talk about restructuring, when Zheng Gong participated in political affairs, he did some benign restructuring. After entering the Zhongshu, he did very little, only a bank supervision and farmland water conservancy law. ”

To be clear, good is good, but it cannot be adopted.

Zhao Ji said: "Jiefu is reasonable, let's take a look at the rule of Xianping." ”

I'm not for the restructuring of anything, I have to come step by step, and cut the officials first, but I can't say it.

At the moment, this kind of negotiation is very satisfying to everyone.

As the prime minister, whether it is Lu Yijian or Han Qi, Wang Zeng, Ding Wei all talk about prestige, Wen Yanbo and Song Zeng Gongliang and others are in the middle, but Fu Bi and Zheng Lang do not talk about the fight, the former prime minister was the first to enter the court, the first to leave the court, and all the officials avoided it after seeing it, Zheng Lang was the prime minister twice, and they all banned these cumbersome etiquette. Even if the discussion is now, it is a matter of sitting down and negotiating. There is such a democratic atmosphere.

The first is that Zheng Lang doesn't care, the second is to make everyone feel respected, and the third is to let everyone dare to speak.

Everyone will not suspect that the emperor does not take Zheng Lang seriously.

Although it is still a black hole financially, after the various ministries and departments in the capital have been sorted out, at least in the capital. That's talent.

So what can the rule of Xianping have, everyone works together to recall, a little far, if you say Qingli, Huangyou, Jiayou. Everyone can say that one head is the Tao. Said Xianping. Many people are unfamiliar.

Zheng Lang coughed and said, "You don't have to be in a hurry, the illness comes like a mountain, and the illness goes like silk." It is not a one-day task to eradicate the country's current malpractices. I say two other things, the first of which is the military. ”

Everyone is sitting in a precarious position.

The country is seriously wasteful, and military spending is the largest one. If there were no troops in the northwest, the black hole would not be so big.

Zheng Lang said: "Originally, there were less than 300,000 soldiers in Shaanxi, including some township soldiers and Tibetan soldiers, after the invasion of Forgiveness, Shaanxi soldiers became 450,000, and there were more than 100,000 volunteers. In fact, the people of Western Xia were struggling to make a living, and since the confrontation with our army, they have lost more than they won. I heard that Liang Zuo was injured under Xiao Guan. Shaanxi doesn't need to use so many soldiers anymore. The first is more than 100,000 stabbing words of righteousness, although it is righteousness. The cost required is not as good as that of the Forbidden Army, but it is not either. Originally, Shaanxi developed the Sanbai Canal, almost able to maintain self-sufficiency in normal years, even if there was a famine year, the state warehouse had a surplus, and the country could survive the disaster year with a little relief. More than 100,000 volunteers were drawn, more than 100,000 households were harmed in production, and in addition to the original large number of township soldiers and soldiers, the state originally only provided a small amount of grain to Shaanxi, but now half of the military food has to be transferred by Jiangsu and Zhejiang. How serious is this waste alone? ”

"Zhigui is selfish," Fu Bi sighed.

Does he know more about the process? The reason why the 170,000 volunteers came out had nothing to do with military needs, and facts have proved that in the past three years, these volunteers have not played any role on the battlefield at all, except for training and delaying agricultural production.

played a role, encroached on the rights of the Privy Council.

Sima Guang said: "Your Majesty, the minister repeatedly admonished at the beginning, but Han Gong didn't listen. At the time of Renzong, because a large number of border people were reduced to village soldiers and soldiers, the Sanbai Canal was opened, and the price of millet was still more than 30 wen, the price of wheat was nearly 50 wen, and the price of rice was 100 wen. At present, the price of millet in Shaanxi has reached several hundred wen, and often a bucket of corn and wheat is transported to the front line, and it actually reaches 1,000 wen. Not only is the country seriously wasted, but even the people's lives have been affected. Your Majesty, please think again. ”

The peasants are a little better, but the people who are suffering are the urban residents, who work normally, nearly 100 wen a day, if the price of the text is in 100 wen, if the price is a little harder, they can still use some money for other purposes, if it rises to a few hundred wen, the money for making rations is not enough.

"What else?" Zhao Ji asked Zheng Lang.

"Shaanxi has more than 100,000 township soldiers and cavalry, since the Western Xia sued for peace, the imperial court left 100,000 soldiers on the front line, and 100,000 soldiers in Jingzhao Mansion is enough." Zheng Lang still wanted to brush off an extra batch of soldiers in his heart, but considering what happened next, there were too many brushes back, and the DPRK and China would have concerns, and the soldiers would continue to be cut, but not at this time. He also said: "Some of the relatives of the township soldiers were engaged in agricultural production, and the Fan soldiers also had their own pastures, so they would not supply much, and the 100,000 forbidden soldiers would have food in Jingzhao Mansion, and the food waste alone would be reduced by half." Then Shaanxi's military spending can be in and out of the country in a year, with a mistake of more than 10 million. ”

"Quasi-edict," Zhao Ji was tempted, the debt can be paid back slowly, but it can't continue to be owed. This is the most important task.

"There are 300,000 soldiers in Hebei, which is also a lot, and the minister thinks that 200,000 is enough."

"Will the Khitan ......?" Zeng Gongliang asked suspiciously.

"No, as long as the 200,000 forbidden troops are left to deter enough, Ming Zhong, please believe me," Zheng Lang said. Yelu Hongji is too late to play, and he still has the heart to think about the Song Dynasty? He also said: "The Khitan also began to degenerate like my dynasty, but the difference is that His Majesty saw the shortcomings of our dynasty and worked hard to make new achievements, while the Khitan Emperor was not the same, and only cared about hunting." At this time, the annual tribute of 500,000 yuan a year and the mutual market were still very important to the Khitan. Coupled with the 200,000 forbidden troops stationed in strict defense, the border generals are not careless and do not provoke, and Hebei will be fine. ”

In the military, Zheng Lang also has the right to speak, Zhao Ji said: "Accurate." ”

Zheng Lang did not say what to do if these soldiers returned to the capital, but when they returned, what the imperial court paid was only maintenance, and raising a soldier on the border and raising a soldier in the forbidden city was at least half of the difference.

Two edicts were made.

The specific way to retreat, this is arranged by the Xifu, Zheng Lang doesn't care, and continued: "The second is the diversion of officials. ”

"Triage?" Fu Bi asked in surprise, another new term.

It is not only a diversion, but also a clear responsibility and division of labor, but this time it is the locality. Each state and county not only has a prefecture and a county, but also other relevant officials, the Song Dynasty bureaucracy, no, it should be the biggest shortcoming of the entire feudal dynasty bureaucracy is the cultivation of all-round warriors. Understand military affairs. Understand water conservancy, agriculture, investigation, business, taxation education. That's impossible. Moreover, there is also a phenomenon of overlapping and overhead in the local dialect bureaucracy. Therefore, Zheng Lang came to a diversion, clarifying the division of responsibilities between the envoys and the officials of each state and county, and at the same time clarifying the mutual supervision function, which not only divided the rights of local officials. It will not be dictatorial, form some strict constraints, and will not delay the implementation of government affairs. The division of labor among the various officials is clear, which is more conducive to specialization. Human talent is limited. Even if they are officials, some are good at law, some are good at military, some are good at government affairs, some are good at management, and some are good at investigating cases.

That is, to let the local officials make the best use of them, but in this way, the states and counties will inevitably lead to the expansion of officials.

Of course, the Beijing officials have been flooded, and the following has long been flooded.

But it's different. Zhao Yan said: "Zheng Gong, since the merger of the idle department in the capital. A large number of Beijing officials were laid off, which led to a lot of discussions. Zheng Gong proposed this, does he want to settle these Beijing officials? ”

If that's the case, Zhao will be very disappointed.

"No, this is a major malaise of our politics. Ladies and gentlemen, most of you have served as the head of a prefecture and county, and even served as the governor of a border region. But do you feel struggling? I don't know, but I'm struggling. People have their strengths and weaknesses. But I am asking all the governors and counties to understand everything, but is it impossible? Zheng Lang asked Yan Jun's question. Zheng Lang has been there for a long time, and he has also accumulated a lot of experience in the governance of officials.

He still has the height of the later generations, a hard drive in his mind, but when he went down, although he made a lot of preparations, he was still in a hurry, and it was only a virgin Taiping Prefecture at that time, if he arrived in Hangzhou at the beginning, there would be a big mess. Later, it was a little better, but even then, everything could not be done as expected. It's impossible to understand everything, it's a fantasy novel, not real life.

This is a question, but I believe that there will be no second person here who can surpass him in the rule of officials. Zheng Lang said: "Besides, the officials of all states and counties have been flooded, should they be deposed one by one? ”

Zhao Mian still said: "Zheng Gong, it is overflowing, but in the end it is not justified, and the problem of redundant officials in the local area can be slowly solved. However, from the system, there will be an invisible increase in officials, and it will become even more flooded. ”

Like the state banning Miss, it is obvious that it has become a pretense, but it has not been banned, but it has become a gray industry, and only the powerful and those with underworld backgrounds can survive, resulting in countless tragedies, so some people say that it is better to legalize it. But what will happen when it is legalized? The sale of spring industry will bloom everywhere, and the whole society is already full of money worship thoughts, which will make countless women morally degraded.

Zheng Lang is taking a long exam.

For their controversy, many people are on Zhao Yan's side, but the more than 700 Beijing officials are really a headache. What about the one who doesn't have a disciple protégé, Zheng Langruo, including Shi Heng and Zhao Ji, counts as ten protégés. It's not much, some people are more.

After a few years of peace, the official morality was corrupted, and the wind of competition was blazing. Zheng Lang's proposal is tantamount to giving some people a chance. Where to go, one by one is at war between heaven and man.

Zheng Lang thought for a long time and said: "In this way, let's abolish some prefectures and counties, for example, the area of Fengzhou is less than a few tenths of Yongzhou, and the population is less than a few tenths of Yongzhou, but the officials are more than half of Yongzhou. If there are many prefectures and counties, there will be many officials, and the service will be complicated and the people will be worried. Another example is Weizhou, there is the Deshun Army in the west, and the Huaide Army in the north, if some adjustments are made in the middle, most of them are under the jurisdiction of Weizhou, and the north and west are respectively under the jurisdiction of the Deshun Army and the Huaide Army, which is not only conducive to the mobilization of troops, but also conducive to the reduction of officials. Another example is Gyeonggi, which is the primary crunch of the country, and Zhengzhou and Huazhou are small in size, so why can't they be classified as Gyeonggi jurisdiction? It can not only increase the strength of the capital, but also save officials. If Zhengzhou is abolished, more than a dozen state officials and more than 400 government officials can be saved, and this time alone, it can save 100,000 yuan. ”

Fu Bi and Zeng Gongliang glanced at each other, and it was only at this time that they slightly understood what Zheng Lang and the emperor were singing.

When he was in Fanlou, Zheng Lang once said, but he didn't dare to say much.

The first of the two measures to solve the problem of redundant officials is Wang Anshi's measure, which is to cut 20 to 30 small prefectures and more than 100 counties if the whole country does a good job. The second is to control the career of officials, reduce the number of officials, mainly reduce the grace and shade, control the number and number of imperial examinations, reduce the initial appointment of officials who enter the imperial examinations, and delay the injection of officials. It's not enough to pass the Jinshi exam. It is necessary to further defend the election.

The second method is Song Xiaozong's strategy. Those who have reached the age of 70 or more, if they have no special ability to persuade them to retire, are 70 years old, and their wisdom and body are declining. didn't have an outstanding performance before, is it really Feng Tang Yi Lao? Or Jiang Ziya? Even Jiang Ziya didn't start his career after the age of seventy. There are also special cases, such as Zheng Lang is over 70 years old, and it is estimated that he will retire. The imperial court may not give in.

Second, like in the time of Xianping, once the officials were flooded, they were forcibly persuaded to retreat and reduce them.

Then there are the relegations and additional officials of the power of reduction, and even if they are additional officials in some idle institutions, there are also uncontrolled envoys to the local states, counties, and prisons.

The phenomenon of reducing the subordinates of the three government officials is also very serious, not only the political officials are swollen, but the three government officials are also swollen.

Liquidate the divisions and reorganize the number of officials.

At the time, it was just a casual remark, one way or another. There will be a lot of controversy when it comes to implementation, so Zheng Lang himself is laughing at himself. It's a castle in the sky.

But at this time, one of the things they thought of was to clean up the divisions and reorganize the number of officials. What we are doing now is to clean up the departments, but not under the banner of solving redundant officials, but under the banner of solving the problem of government decrees.

Isn't that so?

Both of them looked at Zheng Lang a little nervously.

After all, it is easy for the speaker and easier for the listener, but I don't know how difficult it is to do it.

Zheng Lang also knew that it was difficult, Song Xiao solved the problem of redundant officials four times in his life, and he really succeeded, but every time he solved it, even if he was the emperor, he was blocked and attacked by the following every time. After fighting with the scholar for a lifetime, he finally compromised with the scholar.

It's not too young, everyone is finished together. What a high-ranking scholar and doctor, he is nothing, he has become nine beggars and ten Confucians, and he is not even as good as a beggar. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was a little better, but later the old trick was repeated. And then obediently make a dog of the full court.

You know, you can't be angry, you have to take your time, if you don't solve it at this time, there will be no chance to solve it.

Even if the timing was good, Zheng Lang also played some tricks. This diversion is one of the means, and it is necessary to cut officials, and there are also some advantages to the diversion, the work is more detailed, and some officials are also arranged. Now that there are 25,000 officials, can it be cut to 15,000? No way. It would be nice to be able to make 20,000 officials. Of course, once some small states and counties are cut and the population swells, more officials will have to manage it. Helpless also. Therefore, it is necessary to control the arrangement at the same time as the cut, but it is impossible to cut it to 15,000 officials. As for the less than 10,000 officials at the time of the True Sect, it was just a dream.

It's not that you want to cut it yourself, you have to let the people of the world call for it!

Zhao Mian was silent, and then Lu Huiqing said: "Gong Zheng, Your Majesty said to reflect on the governance of Xianping, and Xianping will lay off 195,000 officials in four years. If so many officials had not been cut, the state would have to pay tens of millions of dollars a year, how could it benefit the country and benefit the people. I think that Zheng Gong has the intention of reducing the number of prefectures and counties, but it is not wrong, some prefectures and counties were established for various reasons at that time, although they were narrow-minded, they had to be set up, and now they are not needed. These states and counties can reduce the number of local officials, but why do they reduce them and at the same time make the local officials clogged? ”

Isn't it said that the rule of Xianping, the rule of Xianping implemented many good strategies, and the retrenchment was an important part of it. Why not?

Zheng Lang looked at him suspiciously, and said in his heart, could it be that this kid can see through my thoughts?

looked at Zhao Ji, closed his eyes and didn't answer.

Zhao Ji understood, Lu Huiqing mentioned it, it depends on what the ministers think, and said: "Let's end here today, Zheng Gong's intentions, everyone can go back to discuss and discuss, oh yes, publish what Zhao Qing, Lu Qing and Zheng Gong said in the newspaper, and see how the world's scholars evaluate it, so that it can be adopted." ”

Then he said to Zheng Lang, Fu Bi and Zeng Gongliang: "The third prince stays and speaks for me." ”

It was Zheng Lang's idea, when he entered the Chinese book, there were more government affairs, Zeng Gongliang simply worked hard for the capable, and almost handed it over to Zheng Lang together. Zheng Lang is short of time, and Zhao Ji is still very young and frizzy. There is a precedent that Liao Shengzong did a good job as an emperor, not in his hands, but in the hands of Empress Dowager Xiao. If there was no Empress Dowager Xiao, what would have happened if she had handed over power to Liao Shengzong in her teens? The same is true for Zhao Zhen. Confucius said that if a big country is less than 30 years old, it will be very difficult to take over. But there is a premise, don't run into strong women like Wu Zetian and Cixi, otherwise you will be miserable.

Gao Taotao's return to power is not necessarily a bad thing, but the emperor's education must be paid attention to, and ordinary people are not very good at this time, Zheng Lang asked Fu Bi and Zeng Gongliang to be helpers, and the three prime ministers came to teach.

If it takes a few more years, it will at least be more perfect than the Song Shenzong in history.

When everyone left, Zhao Ji said with a smile: "Gong Zheng, if you want to be strong, you will want to be strong, you will want to be weak, you will want to be strong." ”

"Your Majesty, although this is also a kind of way, it is a small way in the end, and the festival is only a supplement, and benevolence, loyalty, and simplicity are the foundation." Zheng Lang said. Some intrigues were used, but Zheng Lang didn't want Zhao Ji to learn it. If you pay attention to these tricks, you will enter the evil path in the future, and even step on Yang Guang and the like, or become Jiajing. None of this is a good thing.

Three prime ministers are on the Pope.

The minister below is writing a recital. What is the rule of Xianping? It doesn't matter, Guan Jian is the emperor's edict to let everyone write about the rule of Xianping. One by one, speculation. This is the bad habit formed by the wind of competition in the past few years, the emperor asked you to write, not to write what the emperor wants, but what you each think in your hearts.

Just write about the bureaucracy.

This is the most admonished, and they are adopted one by one, not because of the supervision system of the Qing calendar, but because of the restoration of most of the system in Xianping. The first is the guarantee system and the implication system, officials must have a person to protect, if the official of the guarantee makes a mistake, the direct boss and the sponsor must be punished, if the amount of corruption is serious, the boss and the sponsor can even be dismissed. The second is that the guilty are not allowed to be reused. The third is the separation of political speech, and the governor must not have a protégé or child to advise in Taiwan, nor can he recommend a Taiwanese counselor, who must be appointed by the emperor himself.

It is not a reform, but a restoration of the ancestral system of the true sect.

In fact, it is a restructuring, at least the officialdom since the peace of the peace.

The edict was issued immediately, and Fan Chunren immediately wrote to avoid it, because he was Zheng Lang's student, and he couldn't avoid it. Zheng Lang said: "Yaofu, let's do it, Yanchen, don't do it, I'll give you an important position." The Taiwan admonition is deserted, and the Supervision Department is even more deserted, and the Taiwan admonition is the eyes and ears of the emperor, and the Supervision Department is the eyes and ears of the Taiwan admonition. I'll leave it to you to preside. ”

"Okay," Fan Chunren said. As long as he doesn't supervise the imperial history, anything can be done, and he looks at the official position far less than Sima Guangwang An Shi. Fan Chunren didn't know what kind of errand Zheng Lang gave him, it would be very, very important!

Autumn is getting deeper and deeper.

The controversy suddenly became louder.

The financial cashiers of each prefecture and county were published in the newspapers together, not only the cashiers of this year, but also the details of the financial receipts and expenditures, and the cashiers of the prefectures and counties during the time of Zhenzong and Renzong were also published in detail.

Let's compare together.

At the same time, the controversy between Zheng Lang, Zhao and Lu Huiqing on the diversion of officials was also published.

The following is a comparison of the number of officials in various ministries and departments inside and outside the government and the opposition.

Can you still not understand?

Many scholars wrote to Zheng Lang asking Zheng Lang to abolish this measure of diverting and increasing officials, and the top priority was to reduce the number of officials, rather than to make the division of labor clear among the state and county officials and openly increase the number of posts. Zheng Gong, you can't compromise like this and forget how you got to Beijing. I heard that you went to Beijing to enter the Chinese book, all the way to the people to welcome, from Zhengzhou to the capital, the flow of people on both sides of the road has never been interrupted. How can you compromise when the country's finances are so poor?

In the early Song Dynasty, there was no literary prison, and it didn't matter if the big mouth was aimed at the emperor, and various newspapers, even the newly established ten evening newspapers, all discussed this matter.

In the face of this surging public opinion, Zheng Lang had to gather important officials together and then discuss, let them read the newspaper first. After everyone watched it, Lu Huiqing, Zhao Xuan, Wang Qi, Lu Zhi and other officials said together: "Zheng Gong, the people are appealing, and they have to think twice." ”

Then he looked at Zhao Ji again.

Zhao Ji walked around, and finally waited for everyone's discussion to end before he said: "Yes, if there is no control and blind diversion, the state officials don't know how redundant it is." In this way, with my intentions, a compromise strategy. There are too many officials, since there is also a division of labor for the localities, so that the responsibilities are not clear, the government decrees are not smooth, and the length of the employment is redundant and increased, then it is necessary to reduce and reduce, from the capital to the local prefectures and counties and supervisors, the posts should also be clear and limited! ”

Fu Bi smiled bitterly, finally came.

Everything he did before, including letting the minister talk about the rule of Xianping, was for the emperor's words. (To be continued.) )