Chapter 149: Northern Reform Measures
In the second year of the Apocalypse, since Shen Yu came to power and became the first assistant of the cabinet, the cabinet began to carry out continuous personnel adjustments in the northern provinces, and a large number of officials with grassroots administrative experience were promoted.
In the first month, the Cabinet promulgated the "Conscription Act", stipulating that the conscription of conscription should be limited to 100 miles, and the maximum number of days of work should not exceed 20 days. For those who are more than 100 miles away, the construction project must be submitted to the imperial court for approval to avoid the suffering of the people traveling long distances.
Conscription usually requires the people to travel long distances, so it shows that although the agricultural tax is not high in the dynasty, the conscription is relatively heavy, which is also the reason why so many people hide their household registration.
At the same time, it was also stipulated that in principle, the people must go to the service, but if they really can't get out, they can also pay the money, but the discount has been raised to 20 wen a day. When the local government receives the money, it must hire another worker to make up for the shortfall.
The main reason for the collapse of the conscription system is that the people can not go after paying money, and in some places they can not go as long as they pay twenty or thirty yuan. If someone does this, other ordinary people will be unbalanced, and they can not go if they pay such a little money, so why don't we pay some money and not go?
So what can the government do after getting some money? In the end, most of this money was not embezzled. In the absence of official conscription to organize the people to repair water conservancy, the water conservancy in the northern provinces will naturally become worse and worse, and more and more land will be abandoned.
Now you have to go, if you don't go, you can afford to pay so much money, so naturally you can not go. Twenty yuan a day can be converted, and the government can afford to hire workers.
The last article stipulates that the government must also compensate for work-related injuries and deaths in the process of forced labor. The necessary money and grain shall be drawn from the land endowment.
The introduction of the "Conscription Act" by the Cabinet is a reform in response to the current problem.
The cabinet then reformed the evaluation standards for officials, including water conservancy repair and the promotion of armor protection into the main evaluation items. At this time, the essential problem in the north was that the water conservancy was in disrepair, and the officials who could repair the local water conservancy and protect the armor against bandits were useful talents.
At the same time, the Jingcha was also reformed, from the original six-year inspection to three years. Every year, the year of Si, Hai, Yin, and Shen is checked once, and the new Yin Shen Jing check is a small check, and the original Sihai Jing check is a big check. Xiaocha refers to officials with meritorious achievements in the local area, which are first recorded in the case file, and generally do not carry out job transfers, so as to avoid the phenomenon of transferring officials too strictly and leading to the capriciousness of local administration. Officials were dismissed. In addition to the dismissal of mediocre officials, meritorious officials will also be promoted.
The Ming Dynasty Jingcha was placed in the year of Sihai, which is more meaningful. Because of the rush of the sea, it is the year of the stagecoach. If one of the four zodiac signs in a person's eight characters will clash with the other, and impulsiveness will mean change.
Yinshen is also the year of the stagecoach, and it is the same as the 'four eternal births', which is for the wood to be born in Yin, the fire to be born in Si, the gold to be born in Shen, and the water to be born in Hai.
Sihai rushes to each other, Yin Shen rushes to each other, and the impulse moves.
The law in numerology is that when you encounter a year of opposition, there will generally be some changes, such as going far away, moving, and also including the rise and fall of officialdom.
In this turbulent year, the unlucky officials are definitely down. However, in the past, there were only '巳 and hai' Jingcha, and some officials did not have 巳 and hai in their eight characters, and Jingcha did not have much impulse towards them. However, the cabinet suddenly came up with a 'Yin and Shen' Jingcha, which immediately made some officials complain bitterly, and at the same time made some officials excited.
These officials also know some numerology, and naturally know the power of 'Yinshen' Jingcha, and some officials who are unlucky naturally feel that they are finished. And those officials who have good luck in the year of Yin Shen are naturally very happy, as long as they work hard to make some political achievements, there is a great possibility of promotion at that time.
The distinction between small and large inspections is more of a system set up by the top leaders of local administration, and China has been a 'liuguan' country since ancient times, and this system has certain benefits, but it also has bad points. China in the 21st century is also a system of bureaucratic officials. The badness of the bureaucratic system is also common in the 21st century. For example, when the leader is in charge of the locality, he will put forward a big slogan and goal, so as to make political achievements. As a result, within a few years of the implementation of the policy, this leader was transferred and replaced by a new leader. As a result, as soon as the new leader took office, he rejected the policies of the past and put forward another development strategy.
As a result, they tossed and turned, and made a lot of anticlimactic things, which was simply a waste of money and waste.
Although the new Beijing inspection system is once every three years, as long as the local leaders do a good job, they will generally be promoted after six years of service, so as to avoid being too strict with the officials.
Shen Xiao's reform was strongly supported by Zhu Youxiao, and on this day, Shen Xiao submitted the list of the first batch of officialdom personnel to Zhu Youxiao.
In the list, almost half of the inactive officials in the northern provinces have been dismissed, and they have not been cut down, but transferred to some inconsequential posts. At the same time, almost all the officials promoted were county magistrates with experience in grassroots administration.
Such a list was placed in front of Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao saw that there was a big change, so he asked Jinyiwei and Dongchang to verify some of them.
Wei Zhongxian reported a few days later, "Your Majesty, the slave maid asked Dongchang to check, and Shen Shoufu's list did not find any problems. ”
Wei Zhongxian and Shen Yan have a good relationship, and Zhu Youxiao naturally won't listen to one-sided words. Tian Ergeng's report was five or six days late, and it was obvious that a more in-depth investigation had been done.
"After Wei Chen sent someone to investigate. Those local officials who have been transferred have basically done nothing. Most of the grassroots county orders promoted by Shen Shoufu are quite famous in the local area and are praised by the local people. Tian Ergeng reported.
"Okay, I've worked hard to love Qing." Zhu Youxiao was relieved when he got the results of Jinyiwei's investigation. It was determined that Shen Yu was not using the promotion of officials to form a party for personal gain, so Zhu Youxiao immediately contacted Shen Yun's personnel transfer list.
Although the officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty was corrupt and strict, it was not without officials who were willing to do things for the people. At any time, there will be a group of officials who want to do something practical for the people, and this feeling is innately present to some officials, which involves personality issues. Although these officials are likely to be corrupt, they are still in such a corrupt environment, and it is naturally impossible to clean them up completely, but they are also more concerned about local management.
In addition, this period was, after all, an era of popular Confucian culture, and Confucian literati became reactionaries despite publishing a lot of books and reading too much. But there are also many civil officials who still have a certain amount of recuperation and feelings.
If you want to find these officials, it is very simple, just go to the local area and talk to the people. For those grassroots officials, it is obviously impossible to deceive the world and steal fame like Li Sancai, because there is no capital. If they mess around on the ground, there will inevitably be public resentment, and if they do practical things for the people, they will inevitably have a certain good reputation.
The promotion of these positive energy officials is absolutely immediate. As the so-called official level crushes people to death, when he encounters a serious official, the officials below dare not fool things. (To be continued.) )