88. Political reform
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"I invite all the adults to come and discuss today, there are a few things. (To read the latest chapter of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wรจn Aishang Novel Network) "On February 25, Zheng Kezhang returned to Anping City, and immediately convened a meeting of important ministers, thus opening the first act of Dongning's official reform. "First, although Wannian and Tianxing are called one state, they are small in area, but they are only one county, and Yu intends to revert them to counties, I don't know what a few adults think?"
The official Hong Lei frowned, the demotion of the state to the county means that a considerable number of officials will be demoted, isn't this a life?
In this regard, he immediately came out to dissuade: "Shisun, although the two states are narrow, but the household registration is tens of thousands, even in the mainland, this is the size of the state, it is better not to change it, so as not to panic the ministers." โ
Zheng Kezang was stunned, he didn't think that in ancient times, the demarcation of administrative regions should also look at the population in addition to the area, so that Zhu Jin's promotion was not to show his status, he was pondering, so he listened to Yang Ying's echo.
"There is some truth in what Lord Hong said, this domain still needs to be calm at the moment, and the intention of the grandson to descend to the state should be slowed down."
"In that case, let's postpone the matter for now." Seeing that Li Jing was about to open his mouth over there, Zheng Kezhang hurriedly took the initiative to attack so as not to be opposed again. "Then let's talk about the second thing, the Dongning General System Envoy was originally an expedient measure, but now Mr. Chen is sick, and relying on Lord Feng alone to deal with the center has remained unchanged, so Yu Xiang has been abolished along with Chengtian Mansion."
Everyone was shocked, just now you fought for the position of Chengtianfu, and now it has only been a few months and it will be abolished again, this is not a joke, but the people present are all old and cunning people who have been in the sea for a long time, Zheng Kezang's words are obviously not finished, naturally no one will immediately jump out to oppose it.
"Yu is ready to take charge of government affairs in the central government affairs hall, and there are two members of the hall to participate in politics and two members of the council, Mr. Chen can participate in politics on the left, and Zheng (Fu) Yin is transferred to the right to participate in politics, all of which are positive and second, Lord Feng is the left senator, and Hong Qingsheng is promoted to the right senator, all of which are positive three products, and they have the right to participate in politics and senate on state affairs." Zheng Kezhang is going to use Zheng Xingying, the old man of the Zheng family, to replace Chen Yonghua, who has been ill for a long time, to suppress Feng Xifan, and Zheng Kezhang is also afraid that Zheng Xingying's corpse will occupy his position, and he will use Hong Lei to contain Feng Xifan. "Under the participation in politics and senatorship, two members of the main secretary of the Zhengliupin governance will be set up to replace the original position of the Zhongshu Sheren, and two members of the Zhengqipin Dictionary will be set up to praise the main book."
The political hall was the official office of the prime minister of the Tang and Song dynasties, but it was never set up in the Ming Dynasty. Left and right to participate in politics, left and right senators in the Ming Dynasty is the assistant of the provincial political envoys, the responsibility is to guard the government affairs and in charge of grain storage, tuntian, military affairs, post transmission, water conservancy, Fuming and other things, generally speaking, the former is from the three products, the latter is the fourth product, similar to the Qing court in the provinces under the governor of the Taoist set up. However, with the chaos of the local bureaucracy at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the increase in the power of the governor and governor, the power to participate in politics and council was gradually usurped by the political envoys subordinate to the governor and governor, which was almost equivalent to an additional title. Therefore, the important ministers of Ming and Zheng were still a little puzzled at first when Zheng Kezhang suddenly threw out these old yellow calendars that were checked out of the pile of old papers, but when they heard Zheng Kezang announce that the grades of participating in politics and participating in the council would be upgraded by three levels, and then thinking about the title of the political affairs hall, the important ministers couldn't help but look at each other.
Zheng Kezhang didn't care what Chen Yonghua would think, he just put his plan on the table: "The names of the other six officials are also all vacant, and in the future, the household department will be changed to the tax department, the warehouse department, the Baoquan department, and the branch department, and the responsibility for checking the household registration contained in it will be handed over to the police department reorganized by the criminal department; โ
The police are vigilant and supervising, "The History of the New Five Dynasties? Shi Hongzhao Biography once recorded that "Hongzhao sent troops to the police, carried out killing, and died for all crimes". The Biography of Lu Ying also has an account of "the latter ordered Han Deba to be the beacon envoy of the capital, and the police were very", so the ministers were not able to figure out what Zheng Kezhang meant.
"In addition to the Police Division, the Penal Department has a separate Prison Administration Division in charge of the prisons; The Ministry of Industry is divided into the Salt and Iron Division and the Camp Division, of which the Salt and Iron Division is in charge of various workshops and iron smelting, salt making, and sugar extraction, and the Construction Division is in charge of the civil engineering construction system, the use of utensils, the method of ditch and weir dredging, and the mausoleum for 100 million yuan. The Ministry of Rites was renamed the Department of Ceremonies and the Department of Schools; The Ministry of Officials was changed to the Department of Trials; โ
Zheng Kezhang gushed in one breath, these are all things he has been thinking about for a long time.
"The military department is in charge of the military service department, the military affairs department, the ordnance department, and the military law department, of which the military service department is in charge of military aircraft advice and staff, the military affairs department is in charge of military registration, inspection, military expenses, military salaries, ordnance acceptance and allocation, military merit and military selection, and the ordnance department is in charge of all kinds of weapons, firearms, gunpowder, military ship workshops and manufacturing, and the military law department is in charge of military discipline and judgment, punishment and the drafting and revision of military rules and regulations; The Department of Hospitality was changed to the Department of Commerce, which was responsible for communication with foreign vassals, and the Department of Commerce and Trade was also in charge of the establishment of commercial halls in foreign cities. The Inspectorate (Metropolitan Procuratorate), the Chengxuan Division (Lifan Yuan), and the Adjudication Division (Dali Temple) were retained. โ
Although they are all old foxes, they are also overwhelmed by Zheng Kezang's generosity.
"Each department shall have a director and a deputy officer; There are a number of chief officials under the department; In addition, there are two more job management details. As for the state and county," Zheng Kezhang said word by word. "The two prefectures and two counties of Dongning abolished the officials below the governors, tongzhi, counties, and counties; The state and county chiefs were renamed Yin, the state is five products, and the county is six products; Yin Zhi is set up according to the central divisions to run errands, the state house is seven products, and the county house is from seven products; After the houses are set up, the state and county Yin does not care about the details, but only supervises. โ
Zheng Kezhang said, the hall was silent, everyone didn't have time to digest what he said, and after a long time, Chen Yonghua, who was ill and attended the meeting, asked tentatively: "Shisun's restructuring does not seem to be similar to the system of this dynasty, dare to ask Shisun what kind of situation will be placed in the Ming room in this way." โ
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted the attention of the audience, yes, setting up an official system without permission is equivalent to killing the king and rebelling, but it may be a real opportunity for the Ming Zheng regime, so the ministers looked at Zheng Kezhang with eyes expecting an answer one by one.
In this regard, Zheng Kezhang shook his head: "The system of this domain is not similar to the Ming Chamber, so Yu must revise them one by one, and externally, it is better to use the name of recruiting the shogunate officials, so that it may eliminate the image of this domain as a division in the eyes of outsiders." โ
The ministers looked at each other, obviously unable to understand the true intention behind Zheng Kezang's move of holding the pipa and half-covering his face, and many people even secretly believed that Zheng Kezang was just trying to cover up, and even showed an expression of eagerness, presumably either admonishing or persuading.
At this time, I heard Zheng Kezhang say calmly: "Loyal to the legacy of the two generations of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, although it may lead to the jealousy of the Qing Dynasty and raise troops to attack, but if there is a time to return to the mainland in the future, it is not a banner that commands the world. โ
Zheng Kezhang paused, and expressed in an associative tone: "Of course, from the participation in politics and the senate to the local subordinates, we still have to continue to use the officials of the Ming Dynasty. โ
Ke Ping seemed to think of something, and looked at Zheng Kezhang with a strange face: "This seems to be similar to the official and dispatch system of the former Song Dynasty?" โ
"It is the official and the dispatch, with the official of the Ming family as the official and the official of the domain as the dispatch, so that everyone can be reconciled." Zheng Kezhang made it clear that he had assigned so many positions, not only would all redundant officials be swept away, but also a considerable number of officials would be promoted, which could be described as a great joy. "Nor will the bright room be frightened."
Chen Yonghua, who was sitting on the brocade stool given by Zheng Kezang, lowered his eyelids, but he could see the faces of everyone in the hall clearly. I saw that Hong Lei, who had just been appointed as a senator by Zheng Kezang, looked secretly happy, and the ceremonial official Zheng Bin looked indifferent, and Yang Ying and Ke Ping hung their heads and didn't know what they were thinking, but no one stood up to oppose it publicly, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, more than ten years of hard work only in exchange for a change of dynasty?
However, Chen Yonghua has long been tied up with Ming Zheng Zheng Kezang to share honor and disgrace, and his health is not good, as long as Zheng Kezhang does not immediately turn his back on the Ming family, he can only turn a blind eye, so he hesitated for a long time but only reminded: "The grandson has made up his mind, and the minister naturally has nothing to say, but the Yang Hu Department and the Ke Criminal Department are all old ministers of the domain, and it is not suitable to be in the same column as the new one, and I also ask the grandson to be decent and decent, or add two more senators." โ
"There are enough prime ministers, and a few more will be more than a few politicians." Zheng Kezhang chuckled, obviously Chen Yonghua's compromise made him feel that he had won the battle. "But what Mr. Chen said is also reasonable, Yang Qing and Ke Qing are both the fathers of their own domains, and it is really not appropriate to be on the same list as the newcomers, in this way, Yang Qing transferred to the Yan Division, and Ke Qing transferred to the Trial Division, and the status of the two divisions is particularly important, so the officials of the two secretaries will trouble Mr. Chen to play to King Ning Jing and set it in the third grade."
Ke Ping is okay, but Yang Ying is as uncomfortable as eating a fly, although he has the power to supervise hundreds of officials in charge of Fengxian, but compared to the God of Wealth that everyone has to look at, it is self-evident which is more important, but now that the household department has been demolished, if he doesn't do this, I'm afraid that he will only have to go home and relax, so even if he is unwilling in his heart, he has to kneel down with Ke Ping to salute Zheng Kezhang and thank him.
"The two adults are both veterans and important ministers, and there is only one kid left, I dare not accept this bowing ceremony, get up, get up quickly." Speaking of this, Zheng Kezhang seems to associate something. "In this way, in the future, in addition to the great court, there is no need to bow down to participate in politics, senators, Wu Pingbo, Zheng Qing, Ke Qing, and Yang Qing."
In the Ming generation, the etiquette system is very strict, even the ministers have to bow to the king at every turn, and sometimes even kneel for half a day, so Zheng Kezang's words are amazing, even if Yang Ying has any opinions, he has to follow several other people to thank him again, of course, this time there is no need to kneel.
"There are a total of 20 divisions, including camps, taxation, warehouses, treasures, branches, police, prisons, salt and iron, camps, rituals, schools, judges, joining the army, military affairs, weapons, military constitution, commerce, inspection, understatement, and trial, a total of 20 divisions, of which Yu has appointed the division and deputy director of the Military Constitution Department in advance, and has just awarded Yang Qing and Ke Qing the second division of trial and inspection, and the remaining seventeen divisions should be commissioned, and you can draw up a charter for Yu."
Zheng Kezhang threw out a big bone -- the officials of the Seventeenth Division, the nineteen deputy ministers, and the multiple chief officials, ambassadors, and deputy envoys -- this bone made everyone present a little bit geared up, so that they had already left behind the unhappiness of the dismissal of Chengtianfu, but Zheng Kezhang would not discuss personnel now, and had to let them go back to prepare one or two, and in addition, for the purpose of appeasing Feng Xifan and preventing his dog from jumping off the wall in a hurry, he also had to leave one or two seats for him.
"Your Ministers understand." Chen Yonghua was the highest-ranking one among the people present, so he took the lead in replying: "It's just a sudden restructuring, and I'm afraid that the affairs will not be able to be completed in a hurry, and the grandson should be patient." โ
"Yu naturally understands this truth." Of course, Zheng Kezhang knows that the division of the pie is to be beaten to the point of bleeding, and of course it cannot be implemented all at once. "Yu still has to keep filial piety for 26 months, and I hope there will be good news from Qing and others at that time." What everyone was most afraid of was that Zheng Kezhang was young and eager to succeed, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this reply. "Of course, the rest can be slowed down, but the positions of participating in politics, senatory, chief secretary, and middle secretary don't have to be so cumbersome."
"It's nature." Hong Lei replied impatiently. "Please rest assured, the ministers will definitely complete the affairs of the ministry at the beginning of next month."
"It doesn't have to be." Zheng Kezhang smiled. "The Ministry of Officials is also going to be restructured, so even if Hong Qing is appointed as a senator, Hong Qing will be in charge of this Ministry for the time being." Hong Lei was even more excited, but he didn't expect that this was deliberately connived at by Zheng Kezang. "By the way, Zheng Qing, Yu wants to pay a visit to the prison country, and I also ask Qing to make arrangements."
Since Zheng Kezang still wants to use the tiger skin of the Ming Dynasty, it is imperative to meet with Zhu Shugui, the king of Ningjing, of course, it should have been negotiated before this, Zheng Bin naturally understands this: "Please rest assured, the minister will meet the prison tomorrow."
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