Chapter 1021: The Gospel of the Scholars of the World

If Feng Zhou wants to take charge of the voice in the Criminal Department and become the leader of the Criminal Department, he must have the obligation to give power to the Criminal Department.

As long as he does this, he will be the uncrowned king of the criminal department.

As for what Lu Yu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, will think.

Of course he wouldn't think much of it.

After all, he is already sixty or seventy years old, and he is bent on paving the way for future generations, so he will naturally not offend the junior Feng Zhou.

It is better to bully the old than to bully the young.

Feng Zhou's suggestion, to put it simply, is to expand the number of officials of the Criminal Department and arrange for them to act as "inspectors" to supervise the local law and order situation in the following states and prefectures.

They are not only supervisors, but also supervisors, and they also have a set of yamen teams around them, which are directly managed by the criminal department and are not subordinate to the local yamen.

To put it simply, it's just to mix sand underneath.

Of particular importance is the Jiangnan area.

It is the land of fish and rice, and it is the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty, which is related to the cultural context and taxation of the Ming Dynasty, and it must not be lost.

Therefore, there are six departments of Yingtianfu in time, and the yamen of the capital cannot let go.

After all, Jiangnan is the most important thing in the world, and the competition between all parties is the most fierce, and one more criminal department can help the imperial court to control finance and taxation more easily.

"Lord Feng's proposal is really good, it can strengthen the supervision and control of the imperial court over the local government, but is the number of people too much?"

After a long time, Maang, the secretary of the household department, raised a different opinion, and said with a wry smile: "According to Lord Feng's meaning, at least the number of officials in the criminal department will increase by dozens of times, and the monthly expenditure alone is not a small amount!"

"As long as these new officials are given basic living allowances, and there is no allowance in the form of subsidies, no matter how difficult it is for the imperial court, this bit of silver should still be able to come out, right?" Feng Zhou smiled lightly and retorted indifferently.

Feng Zhou was not angry, and asked lightly.

The important ministers present looked at each other, and even Zhu Jianshen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, couldn't help but move his thoughts.

This amount of money and food is really not much, and it can be said that it has just met the basic needs of life.

Even the servants of many large families earn more than this every month.

"It's so low, are those Jinshi willing?"

Wang Ao, the secretary of the ministry, couldn't help but exclaim, his face was full of disbelief.

"The Ming Dynasty not only had jinshi, but also lifted people. After all, the Ming Dynasty produced a large number of people every three years, although some of them can become officials, but most of them can only be idle, this is not the future of scholars, right?"

Feng Zhou said,

At this moment, everyone stopped talking.

Although the literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of the Great Song Dynasty, after all, the population base is large, even if it is one in ten thousand, it is tens of thousands. It's easy to say that there is a way, but the days without a way are quite hard.

Everyone has been cold for ten years, in order to one day leap into the dragon gate.

However, if you fall into the first place for a long time, your psychology will inevitably be unbalanced, and if you make some actions that endanger society, it will be worth the loss.

Feng Zhou continued: "After ten years of hard study, you will become famous, but you will continue to wait for an official position that I don't know if it is possible, this is called real pain!"

"In this official's proposal, although they are only classified as the lowest officials, and the subsidy is also the lowest, but if they perform well, they can directly become high-ranking officials, which is the real hope for them!"

He smiled, shook his head and pouted: "Besides, although the subsidy is pitiful, it is not a problem to support themselves or even a family of four, but the days are a little hard, and there will always be a day when they will come out!"

As he spoke, his eyes were cold and slowly glanced at the important ministers present, and he said indifferently: "It's better than that they all became reserve officials in the Jinshi, and they still need to be supported by their families, at least they don't have to feel too guilty, right?

The small court meeting was silent all of a sudden, everyone really had nothing to say, Feng Zhou had said it to this point, if they chirped crookedly, in case the news leaked, the fun would be great, and whoever opposed it would definitely become the mortal enemy of all the scholars in the world.

No one present can afford such a responsibility, even today's Zi Zhu Jianshen is no exception!

And why is Zhu Jianshen opposed?

He laughed and said directly: "I think Lord Feng's idea is good, what do you think?"

For Zhu Jianshen, the most important thing at the moment is to attract the talents that belong to him.

After all, he is only eighteen years old this year, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are all left by the previous emperors, and they are all old qualifications.

These old guys are used to being officials, and one by one they are good at bragging, and they are strong in reasoning, so that the emperor often encounters such and such obstacles in implementing his own policies, and he can't find enough manpower to break the situation.

Because Zhu Jianshen has been the crown prince for many years, he has cultivated a group of loyal ministers, but after all, the number is limited.

He wants to get rid of the old ministers of the previous dynasty, and he wants to promote his own people to the top, where does the fresh blood of so many officials come from, it is naturally the spring festival once every three years, and the selection of the system held from time to time.

Before, he didn't know how to arrange these protégés, but Feng Zhou came up with a very good idea to send 'inspectors' to various government offices in the name of the Ministry of Shape!

What 'inspector' sounds good is actually a kind of disguised, clear supervision of popularity, supervision of the conduct and ethics of local officials, as well as the performance and evaluation of officials.

Of course, the song on the sealed boat did not say this, only said that the 'supervisor' was sent to supervise the local criminal prisons, and as for whether other matters would also be reported to the yamen of the criminal department, it was not for him to seal someone to manage.

As long as Zhu Jianshen intervenes in time and pays more attention, he will definitely be able to select his own talents from them!

After all, Feng Zhou is only twenty years old, which is about the same age as himself.

In fact, this is the vertical management system of the Criminal Department, in addition to this, he also wants to completely incorporate the law enforcement power of local governments into the supervision and management of the 'Inspectors', and form a dual management system with the local government, so as not to give these local princes the opportunity to act arbitrarily.

Zhu Jianshen had the atmosphere of a wise monarch, and naturally saw the benefits at a glance, especially the benefits of his emperor's rule, so he did not hesitate to express his support after he made sharp words in Fengzhou and said that the rest of the ministers had nothing to say.

The rest of the important ministers naturally saw the benefits, they were all bigwigs of the court, and naturally hoped that the more authority in their hands, the better, and the more obedient the local government, the better, and the proposal to seal the boat was also of great benefit to them.

Seeing that His Majesty expressed his support, others did not want to offend the scholars in the world, and they did not dare to oppose more.

As a result, a proposal that was likely to cause turmoil in the court was so easily passed at the small court meeting.

"In this case, then send the first batch of five 'inspectors' to Suzhou!"

Feng Zhou nodded lightly, and directly said, "The water there is very muddy, I want to see if the local officials are still driven by the imperial court?"

Everyone was silent for a moment, then nodded in unison.

Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou, in the north of the Yangtze River, can be said to be the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most powerful place for local tyrants and merchants.

The pilot here is clearly the hardest walnut pick!

This sealing boat is really a big pattern, and it is a minister who is suitable for overcoming obstacles!