Long before leaving Beijing, Tang Yi found Gao Gong and had a heartfelt discussion, and the new coup law has been carried out for five years, with remarkable results, but also many problems. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the cabinet now, Gao Gong is over sixty years old, Zhao Zhenji is much older than him, and Chen Yiqin is sick and frail, and he can't bear the heavy government affairs, so the cabinet is bound to adjust.

In addition, with the change of national policy, the increase in commercial taxes, and the need for overseas, the complexity of government affairs has increased by more than ten times.

Tang Yi set two main axes: the authority of the first cabinet can only be strengthened, not weakened, the principle of unanimity between the cabinet and the elders remains unchanged, and the number of scholars must be guaranteed between five and nine.

Although Gao Gong likes to take power, but after working for many years, he also knows the limit of his ability, the huge court, and the complicated internal and external affairs, he is by no means able to carry it alone.

As for the issue of the six departments, Tang Yi hopes that it will be completely adjusted, and it is best to divide it into more than a dozen departments, each corresponding to a share. Gao Gong also appreciated this idea, but he thought it was difficult to implement it all at once, after all, the six departments have existed since the time of the Duke of Zhou, which lasted for two thousand years, and he had long been accustomed to it, and the sudden abolition of the six departments would inevitably cause a backlash from everyone, including His Majesty.

In fact, Tang Yi also knew that he was just throwing bricks and stones, and when he saw Gao Gong's opposition, he immediately threw out the idea of merging the six parts of the north and the south. The original framework remains unchanged, and the official position remains unchanged, but the vacant position of Nanjing's pension has become an actual position.

Gao Gong thought about it and readily agreed.

Of course, considering that there will be a strong backlash, Tang Yi accompanied Longqing on his southern tour, and he leveled the emperor and solved the candidates of the southern six departments, as for Gao Gong, he used his strength to suppress the power of the capital's counterattack, and then the two of them joined forces in the north and south, cutting on the one hand, and increasing on the other, and quickly gnawed down the hard bone of official reform.

According to the plan, the six Shangshu became twelve, two for each of them, called the left and right Shangshu, with the left as the honor, and the affairs of the headquarters were overlooked. All the squires are of the same rank, not on the right or left, but on the specific government affairs are different.

Taking the household department as an example, the left Shangshu is in charge of the budget, household registration, and land endowment, and the right Shangshu is a full-time commercial tax, each of whom has a waiter as a deputy, and the other two waiters are in charge of tariffs and industry and commerce.

The functions of the household department have changed from simple household registration and taxation to formulating financial budgets, planning the direction of industrial and commercial development, and actively expanding overseas economies.

The Ministry of War is about the same, adding a Shangshu, two squires, the quartermaster part that originally belonged to the Ministry of Household was returned to the Ministry of War, the left Shangshu is responsible for formulating national defense strategies, mobilizing troops, the right Shangshu is responsible for logistics, recruitment, selection of generals and other affairs, the remaining four squires in addition to assisting Shangshu, in the event of war, to transfer the governor to coordinate the affairs of the theater. In this way, the military department has become a veritable general and a prime minister, and its authority has become extremely heavy.

In addition to adding a scholar, the officials also received a crucial power, and the power to preside over the imperial examination fell to the officials.

In fact, in the early stage of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination had just been produced, and it was presided over by the Ministry of Officials, and then it fell to the Ministry of Rites.

was deprived of the power to preside over the imperial examination, so what is left of the Ministry of Rites?

Tang Yi also gave the Ministry of Rites two extremely heavy powers, the first is to promote education throughout the country, set up schools, according to Tang Yi's vision, to make the literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty reach 30 percent within 10 years.

It doesn't sound high, but it's actually quite scary, at the moment the literacy rate of Daming is less than 10 percent, except for a few prefectures in the southeast, such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, etc., there is no more than 20 percent, and it is so ambitious to mention the whole country to 30 percent in one breath!

Tang Yi planned to allocate 3.5 million yuan to the Ministry of Rites in the sixth year of Longqing, and within three years, it would reach 10 million yuan, exceeding the expenditure of the Ministry of Rites.

In addition to running schools, there is also one item, that is, foreign exchanges, cultural export, preaching the way of Confucius and Mencius to the vassal state, absorbing foreign students, to put it bluntly, it is the export of the system.

After having these two powers, the Ministry of Rites is too lazy to preside over the exam, and has to run all over the world, build schools everywhere, and run overseas to toss, where can there be kung fu?

Only the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs remained, these two yamen were relatively professional, but there were more and more large projects, and the city was becoming more and more prosperous.

Tang Yi took Longqing to inspect the situation in several counties in Suzhou, without exception, the supernumerary personnel in Suzhou are beyond imagination, among the six-room scribes, the largest number of households has twenty or thirty people, and there are a lot of errand servants below, otherwise the tax burden cannot be levied.

If you want the horses to run, you have to give them grass.

If you want to benefit from business taxes, you must have enough officials to carry the heavy tasks. Commercial tax can be different from the field tax, all year round, the field tax is twice in summer and autumn, very easy, but the commercial tax happens almost all the time, a little negligence, there is no tax.

Long Qing asked about various places, and the situation was similar, and he readily agreed to Tang Yi's suggestion, first merging the six departments, and then increasing the number of officials from top to bottom, so as to truly shoulder the responsibility......

"Alas, I really didn't expect Your Majesty to be so good!" Mao Kun sighed, he arrived in the southeast ahead of schedule this time, and he was ready to mobilize the forces of all parties, Longqing dared to launch a full-scale offensive without nodding, no matter what, it was also final.

How do you know that it's useless, just Tang Yi took Longqing around and talked about the situation, and the emperor took it all. And it gives more than you think.

Even Longqing left a royal pen everywhere, the restaurant got it, and the Fengzhou wine workshop also got it.

The king of a country, inscribed to the merchants, this is an unprecedented favor, and the proposition that agriculture and commerce are the foundation has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"The old man admits that I mistook Your Majesty, he is really wise and foolish, if Your Majesty can live for another ten years, and your Excellency continues to govern, maybe we can achieve our expectations without blood."

Mao Kun and others gathered under Tang Yi, and all they wanted was to limit the imperial power and jump out of the vicious circle of rise and fall and chaos.

"As long as this restructuring is successful, most of our goals will be completed!" Tang Yi took a deep breath and said with relief: "Originally, the strength of the inner court was not as good as that of the outer court, but now that the six departments of the north and south have been merged, the power of the officials has been completely integrated, even if it is Your Majesty, it is nothing more than to reverse the will of the entire civil service system." ”

Seeing that his wish came true, Tang Yi didn't have much joy, "Mr. Lumen, I have taken advantage of His Majesty's trust to get to where I am today, and I have already made his country scattered and powerful, I really don't know how to face Your Majesty!" ”

Mao Kun said with a smile: "My lord, Your Majesty's kindness and magnanimity are indeed rare in ancient times, and he reigns for one more day, which is our luck, and my lord must try his best to escort him." ”

Tang Yi nodded, "I know, when I finish handling the affairs in the south, I will immediately escort His Majesty back to Beijing, Feng Bao's evil slave, and Li Guifei's shrew, I won't let it go!" Don't think that they secretly connived at His Majesty's indulgence in women's sex and those ugly things that harmed His Majesty's bloodline, I don't know at all! From now on, I will never allow them to harm Your Majesty in the slightest! ”

Maybe it really responds to that sentence, stupid people have stupid blessings.

Longqing's weakness and generosity were actually moved by Tang Yi after a long absence, and he couldn't bear to calculate the poor Emperor Majesty anymore.

In the following days, Tang Yi made every effort to deal with the revocation of the Southern Sixth Division, and he arranged a special person to accompany Longqing to Songjiang for a turn, and then took the road to Hangzhou, saw the West Lake in the snowflakes, visited the quiet Lingyin Temple, and watched the song and dance with graceful sound and beautiful figure......

Even Longqing had to sigh, the deep palace is ninefold, pretending to be gold and jade, but it is far from the best place in the world, there are countless magnificent scenes in the world, and I can't wait to spend my whole life and visit it again.

Good guy, Long Qing actually pondered, "The world is so big, I want to go and see it!" ”

Tang Yi is not so bold, Longqing has been touring the south for several months, and the expenses are seriously exceeded, and if he continues to toss, there may be many impeachments!

Tang Yi said that he let Longqing agree, and returned to Yingtian at the last stop, worshiped his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, sent his achievements to Zhu Chongbaxian, and prepared to return to Beijing.

If you want to play, you'll talk about it later.

It may be perfunctory for others to say it, but Tang Yi's words Longqing believed it a hundred times, and he finally nodded, this time he did not take the land route, but took a boat from Hangzhou to the north, preparing to go to Yingtian.

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The six ministries are not just a few officials, there are also a large number of officials, and there are so many yamen, and there are military and political affairs of Yingtian, which should also be dealt with. Since ancient times, personnel transfer has been the most troublesome, and it is said that redundant personnel are eliminated, and the more people are laid off, the more people are laid off.

Tang Yi merged the six departments of the north and south, and the difficulty was still above the layoffs, and he was busy every day, constantly receiving and appeasing, and rarely had a little leisure.

I finally found a little time to rest, and was about to sleep for a while, when Mao Kun suddenly changed color and ran in.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has gone north."

"What?" Tang Yi jumped up in shock, "Mr. Lumen, didn't Your Majesty say a few days ago that you didn't have enough fun?" Why didn't you even arrive at Yingtian and go north directly? ”

Mao Kun took out a letter and sent it to Tang Yi, "This is a secret report from our people, Your Majesty has only said it for too long, and the affairs are busy, so he is bent on going north, and the people below dare not resist the order." ”

Tang Yi held the letter in his hand, sat down again, his face was very ugly, and he said for a long time: "Mr. Lumen, did you say that Your Majesty noticed my plan and immediately returned to Beijing, wanting to overthrow the new policy, and even blame me?" ”

Mao Kun shook his head slightly, "My lord, if there is unfavorable news in the capital, Shiyue and Juzhang will not fail to send the message." The old man suspected that something was wrong in the palace. ”

"Palace? Is there any evidence? Tang Yi was stunned.

"No, we can only wait and see what happens." Mao Kun said helplessly. (To be continued.) )