Cao Yongli is the right servant of the ministry, he has always been a centrist, when Zu Donglai was in power, he was not allowed to reuse, and now Zu Donglai has fallen, Cao Yuanshan has absconded, and the official department is the largest in his official position, and he has become the actual official of the ministry.

As the de facto leader of the Ministry of Officials, Cao Yongli was naturally concerned about the issue of the administration of officials, and now with Li Guanqi's permission, he coughed lightly and said loudly: "In the new law, the reduction of redundant personnel, the selection of talents, and the selection of talents and talents are not subject to the selection of young officials, regardless of their background and qualifications, these ministers have no opinion.

What the minister was suspicious about was that the new law stipulates that a person who is over 50 years old in the local government may not be the chief official of the main hall of the prefecture or county. ”

This is indeed Li Guanqi's own idea, and he came from it according to the changes in the retirement and internal retirement system in modern society. In modern society, men retire at the age of 55, let alone in ancient times, when life expectancy was generally not high. And as a young man, Li Guanqi himself must also hope that his official team can be younger.

So hearing that Cao Yongli questioned this, Li Guanqi couldn't help frowning slightly, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong with this?" ”

Cao Yongli pondered for a while, but still said boldly: "The ministers are in charge of the officials, so the information about the officials he knows is relatively comprehensive. At present, there are not a few people with more than 50 people in charge of the main halls of prefectures and counties across the country, and if the imperial court suddenly orders the dismissal of them from their official posts, it will inevitably affect many local officials and arouse strong resistance from them, and the ministers are worried that this will affect the implementation of other new laws.

At the same time, if 50 is not allowed to serve as the chief official of the main hall, then many officials who are nearly 50 years old will no longer be at ease with political affairs, but will concentrate on speculation and profit. How can these problems be solved? ”

Li Guanqi didn't expect that this new law, which has been proven by modern society, will have so many drawbacks in this era, and his face couldn't help but blush slightly, it seems that although he has more than a thousand years of knowledge than the people of this era, he still lacks the necessary understanding of the officialdom and cultural heritage formed by feudal society for thousands of years. In this case. Some assumptions that I took for granted are inevitably a little out of touch with reality.

Nodding vigorously, Li Guanqi said in a deep voice: "Cao Yongli said very well, this article is suspended. If other people have any opinions, they will also talk about it and brainstorm ideas! ”

Lin Bai saw that Cao Yongli's opinion was humbly accepted by Li Guanqi, so he was not reconciled, and said loudly: "Your Majesty! The minister believed that the practice of setting up private councils in provinces, prefectures, and prefectures was very good. However, the role of the Metropolitan Procuratorate cannot be ignored. The emperor should further strengthen the power of supervision over speech officials, control hundreds of officials with public opinion, control and evaluate at all levels, clearly distinguish rewards and punishments, and clarify responsibilities, so as to increase the intensity of the implementation of government decrees by all ministries and departments."

Li Guanqi nodded secretly: I had taken it for granted before, and I didn't realize the difference between China's feudal dynasty and Western countries, so I rashly wanted to set up a people's parliament and implement decentralization. But. Now that I think about it, it kind of doesn't work.

Lin Bai made this opinion. There is a reason why the civil council divided the power of imperial history, and he had the intention of planning for himself, but there is one thing he said right, that is, if you want to successfully reform, you must control the hundred officials from top to bottom. In other words, it is not only not possible to decentralize powers. It is also necessary to centralize power.

If power is not concentrated in the central government and the control of the imperial court over local governments at all levels is not strengthened, then no matter how good the reform is, it will be a dead letter. The policies that have been painstakingly formulated at the top have been registered and filed at the bottom, and they have not been implemented at all.

So in the current context of the Great Qian. It was still necessary to strengthen the centralization of power, but Li Guanqi did not want to concentrate all power in the hands of his own emperor. Because in the long run, democracy is the general trend after all, and dictatorship will eventually be abandoned; Even if you don't think about it for so long, the emperor's power is too great, and it will do more harm than good, and he can't guarantee that his children and grandchildren will not have one or two faint monarchs.

Lin Bai said implicitly, in fact, what he meant was obvious, the civil parliament can only play the role of picking up the missing and filling the gaps, the main supervision system of the imperial court should still be the imperial history platform, and if the power of the imperial history is further strengthened, then the political performance and personal character of the officials can be strongly controlled, which is indeed a good way to improve the efficiency of the bureaucracy.

It's just that, in this way, the personal conduct of the imperial historians has become more and more important. Therefore, there must be a department that can restrain these imperial historians. ”

Thinking of this, Li Guanqi opened his mouth and said: "Your idea is good, you can consider giving the imperial historians the right to evaluate officials, but how to use this assessment power still needs to be further discussed."

The evaluation of officials should be well-documented and use data to speak, rather than being left to the mouth of the supervision official. It is necessary to restrain each other and prevent some people from concentrating power and doing too outrageous things. Well, you can consider that the cabinet should have the power to contain the imperial historians. You will study these contents carefully with the three cabinet scholars and then report them. ”

After Lin Bai sat down, many ministers expressed their opinions on issues of interest to each other, and as long as what was said was reasonable, Li Guanqi accepted it with an open mind. The discussion was always in a harmonious atmosphere, but as the discussion progressed, some headaches were put on the table.

As the discussion deepened, everyone became more and more open, and Zhao Pu also took the initiative to say: "If the emperor wants to promote my great work, he should give priority to talents." The so-called talents should be based on governing the country, but what the current scholars and literati value is to write poems, and they will only talk exaggeratedly, despise the people's livelihood and facts, and mislead the country with clean talk.

Therefore, the ministers believed that the future selection of scholars by the imperial court should take enriching the country and strengthening the army as the primary task, sweep away useless empty words, seek practical results, and combine the study and governance with the solution of the national economy and the people's livelihood. ”

Zhao Pu was born in cloth, and the reason why he was favored by Li Guanqi was that he became a cabinet scholar at a young age, relying on his understanding of current affairs and people's livelihood, and the views he put forward now coincide with Li Guanqi.

So after listening to his words, Li Guanqi nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, what Zhao Pu said is very true." If the official, the pillar of the society, and the parents of the people, can only talk highly, and ignore the civil affairs, what is the use of me wanting such an official?

In the spring season that is about to begin, I have decided to cancel the poetry and songs, and instead take the test of political policy. Moreover, the questions of the imperial examination since then have been like this. Don't students think that current affairs and people's livelihood are irrelevant? They must pay attention to current affairs and care about the national economy and people's livelihood. If you don't care about these, you won't pass the exam, and you won't want to be an official. (To be continued......)