The reason why Du You wants to reunite with each other is to borrow Du You's prestige. Because Li Jifu made another big move.

As we said, Li Jifu is a doer who loves to ponder and a practitioner of fine management. As for how big his family is, Li Yu, the emperor, knows far less clearly than the prime minister, so the emperor is always correct in the general direction and always confused in many details, which makes Li Jifu's heart invisibly more. Since becoming prime minister, Li Jifu has been thinking about the national economy and people's livelihood and the strategy of cutting the feudal domain. After being in power, I worry about all aspects. After worrying too much, the ruling Li Jifu found a serious problem, that is, the administrative efficiency of the imperial court led by him was low, and the administrative cost was very high. With the accumulation of his own writing of "Yongzhen National Accounting Book", Li Jifu immediately made a new statistics. The "Yongzhen National Accounting Book" promoted the great disarmament of Yongzhen, and the number of soldiers was reduced to 200,000. According to Li Jifu's statistics, the targets of the layoffs are officials.

On the fourth day of the sixth month, Li Jifu said:

From the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty and the thirteen dynasties, there are no more officials than the National Dynasty. After Tianbao, the Central Plains Su soldiers. More than 800,000 can be counted in the register, and the rest are businessmen, monks, and Taoist priests who do not do (agriculture) production. At present, there are no less than 10,000 domestic and foreign officials who rely on taxes to pay their money. There are more than 1,300 counties in the world, some of which are set up as prefectures based on the land of one county, and some are set up as counties by the people of one township. Please ask the emperor's edict to have a detailed abolition, the official position can be thrifty and thrifty, the state and county can be cut and merged, and the way to enter the government can be reduced.

In addition, the old system of the country, according to the grade, the establishment of a grade, the official to achieve a grade, the monthly salary of 30 (Li Yu: a monthly salary of 30,000, a lot!) ), Zhitian Lumi is not a thousand hundred. Since the beginning of the hardship (Anshi Rebellion), the number of "envoys" has begun to increase, and the income of officials has also begun to become rich. In the calendar, the monthly salary of the ministers reached 9,000 yuan (Li Yu counted for a long time, dumbfounded: the monthly salary is 9 million!!!! No wonder there are fewer robbers! It's better than a safe horse! Not counting rice grains. No matter how big the state is, the stabbing history has reached a thousand (million monthly salary!). ）。 Chang Yan was the prime minister, and only then did he begin to restrain the restrictions, and Li Mi measured his idle dramas, increasing with the matter, and it was said that it was a general economy, and it was difficult to reduce it. There are still cases where the name is abolished, or the amount is gone, and there is still a difference between the thickness of idle officials and real officials. Please have a detailed review of the materials, miscellaneous supplies, and measure to smell.

What Li Jifu means is that although nearly 200,000 people have been disarmed, the burden on the people is still too heavy, and there are many prefectures and counties, many officials, and many people who are not engaged in production. Where the fart is bigger, there can be states and counties, how can there not be many officials? Therefore, Li Jifu suggested that the establishment should be reorganized, prefectures and counties should be abolished, the number of officials should be reduced, and the financial burden should be reduced. Moreover, the salary system of officials is also relatively chaotic at present, and there are not only many officials, but also the salaries are extremely high, and there is no limit to the salaries of officials. Moreover, after the Anshi Rebellion, the official system was chaotic, and there were too many temporary "envoys" (festival envoys, observation envoys, consolation envoys, pacification envoys, and military viewing envoys, etc.). Although some positions are there, they have nothing to do, and some "envoys" have ended their term of office and are not doing things, but they can still get a salary. And now those who don't do things take more than those who do things. As a result, the court was overburdened and financially burdened. Before starting the war, it was necessary to re-establish the official system and salary and welfare system of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise the low administrative efficiency would drag down the operation of the army, and the high expenditure would crush the finances of the imperial court.

Knowing and seeing with your own eyes are two different things. Li Yu was really moved by the sentence "People who often work hard with three points and treat food and clothing with seven points", and couldn't help but think of the difficult years in his previous life. When an innovative cadre was in charge of Li Yu's hometown, the apportionment of funds was called more than one! From the age of seven to seventy, almost no one was spared, and Li Yu was swept away with seventy yuan in his sophomore year of high school to build children's amusement facilities in the name of the next generation, and as soon as the construction was completed, he rented the venue to people for business. Li Yu still remembers that in the third year of high school, his teacher was dragged by the buckle for five months' salary, and only 200 yuan per person was paid when the year was approaching. Such cadres were also praised by some unscrupulous literati as using thunderous means to prove the bodhisattva's heart and sing praises of virtue.

Fuck the thunder tricks!

On the fifth day of the sixth month, Li Yu ordered the servant of the Ministry of Officials to discuss with Pei Yan, the middle section of the matter, Wei Guanzhi, the middle scholar, and Li Jiang, the head of the household department, to discuss the reference research and determine the relevant matters. Eighteen days later, the Ministry of Officials approved the annexation of 808 officials inside and outside the province, and 1,769 people from all over the province. A total of 2,577 officials were cut, accounting for a quarter of the country's officials. This number startled Li Yu. I didn't expect that there were so many idle meals inside and outside my court. With so many people being reduced, the imperial court will be able to save hundreds of thousands of stone money and grain every month, and with the new Yulu system, the money saved in a year will be enough to fight a small-scale war. Thinking of the many streamlining mechanisms experienced before the crossing was ineffective, but the more streamlined it became, the more it was streamlined, and the pride filled Li Yu's heart.

With so many people laid off, it is inevitable that more people will be offended. After all, officialdom pays attention to connections, and if you cut one person, you will often offend a group of people. If you cut a quarter of the officials in the world, then not many people in the remaining three-quarters will have a good impression of you. Li Jifu, who proposed the reduction of officials, quickly became the target of public criticism, but unfortunately most of Li Jifu's layoffs were made by high-ranking intellectuals at the time. In the second half of the first year of Xingzhi, Li Jifu's popularity fell sharply. A new batch of newspapers and periodicals appeared, and criticism of the ruling party suddenly increased. The old fable of "three people become tigers" has been used in a new and more violent way. I remembered that in history, Li Jifu's reputation deteriorated after the second ruling and redundant officials were cut, and even the evaluation of Li Jifu became bad, saying that Li Jifu had a small belly and chicken intestines, and he would repay his eyes and focus on flattering people. That's why Li Jiang was able to pay homage to the prime minister later. Li Yu couldn't help but be a little worried, Li Yu had been observing Li Jifu for the past few days, and the fifty-year-old Li Jifu was already full of gray hair, and he seemed to be very depressed in his heart. Li Yu thought that perhaps Xianzong's distrust of Li Jifu under the pressure of public opinion was the cause of Li Jifu's cerebral hemorrhage caused by excessive pressure.

Think about the several major things that Li Jifu did after paying homage to the prime minister, the 33 towns and festivals made the reversal, wrote the "Yongzhen National Accounting Book", wrote the "Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers Chronicles", planned the pacification strategy, and then reduced redundant officials, each of which required great courage and strong perseverance. Officials who have always been mediocre will be praised, but capable ministers have a bad reputation, and those who do things often bear notoriety, such as Zheng Yin, who has no achievements and is filthy and silent, has the reputation of the prime minister, and everything Li Jifu does is far-sighted and beneficial to the country, but he will be pointed out by Wanfu. Zeng Ziyun has shrunk since then, although tens of millions of people have gone to me. Although there are so many people who obstruct, criticize, and even slander, they have not stopped him. How could such a representative of such an outstanding feudal official be allowed to be drowned in saliva? In addition to using Du You to enter the political hall to share the pressure of Li Jifu, Li Yu also made an important decision.

When public opinion criticized Li Jifu the most, Li Chan issued an edict. Zhongshu Shilang Tongping Zhangshi Li is loyal to the country, dares to do things, repeatedly makes great plans, makes a century-old long-term strategy, and consolidates the foundation of eternity, which can be called a good assistant. He was crowned as the Duke of Zhao.

Li Chen's high-profile reward has become the greatest support for Li Jifu. Li Jifu locked himself in his study overnight, and the next day he watched things as usual. Of course, there are still people who speak ill of Li Jifu in front of Li Xu, such as King Xin, after coming out of the mouth, Li Yu was full of color. In the end, Li Yu said:

Li Jifu is a great person.