Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Law Change
1. Change the name of the capital to Chang'an, and maintain peace and stability for a long time;
2. Order the Qintianjian to change the yuan on a certain date and revise the calendar;
3. Implement the provincial and county system throughout the country, abolish all counties, counties, state capitals and other administrative units in the country, set up 20 provinces throughout the country, with the governor as the supreme governor, and each province has a number of counties under its jurisdiction, and where the population of more than 100,000 people can be set up as counties, 100,000 people as lower counties, 300,000 people as middle counties, and 500,000 people as upper counties, and the county commanders shall be appointed as the chief officials, and relevant officials shall be set up to assist the county orders, and each county shall have a number of townships and towns, and villages shall be set up under the townships and towns;
Fourth, the compilation of household registration, five for the family, ten for the guarantee, all residents need a grade of household registration, according to the population to levy taxes, increase the law of joint sitting, one person to commit a crime, one family to sit, one to commit a crime, one to protect the sit;
5. Rewarding military merits, prohibiting private fighting, and formulating a military knighthood system and a famous field system;
Sixth, open the way of speech, set up a scholar's desk, allow the people to write to the court to "point out the pros and cons of Chen", all those who write do not have to have taboos, and all the articles are submitted to the Shangshutai for submission;
7. Streamlining the organization, each yamen of the imperial court needs to investigate all the yamen under the headquarters within the year, and abolish the old yamen that do not do things, and each yamen will abolish one subordinate yamen at least within one year;
8. Chang'an University, affiliated to the Ministry of Rites, is selected and recommended by students from all over the world, and in addition to the traditional disciplines, the university needs to offer disciplines such as law, medicine, agriculture, and translation;
9. The establishment of the forbidden army is only under the command of the emperor, and the young and strong are selected from all over the country to join the forbidden army, and new military training methods are adopted to prepare for the establishment of military academies;
10. Establish a cabinet and select outstanding officials of the imperial court to join the cabinet and be responsible for the implementation of law changes.
The above ten reform opinions are ordered by His Majesty to be circulated to the world for implementation.
Shang Yang's Limu Weixin has achieved very good results, and the people know that the imperial court is a man of words, and the emperor is a man of his word, and what he says is a sure thing.
Therefore, as soon as this edict was announced, although the government and the opposition were shocked, they all knew that this was something that the emperor had made up his mind, and no one objected.
In fact, a few days after Shang Yang wrote a letter at Noon, Shang Yang selected 19 of his opinions on changing the law and handed them to Wang Mang, and Wang Mang also sighed that Shang Yang was really bold after reading it.
For example, Shang Yang proposed to abolish the prime minister system, thinking that it was enough for only one emperor in the world to speak, and there was no need for a prime minister to make mistakes and divide powers, but Wang Mang knew that the current situation of this article could not be carried out at all, so he changed it to a cabinet system and slowly figured it out.
Shang Yang also proposed to abolish the old bureaucratic selection mechanism, which currently touches the interests of too many people, Wang Mang also put it down for the time being, change the law, change the law with the changes of the world, and with the advancement of the law change in the future, it is natural to change the law more deeply, and then you can come up with the imperial examination system and directly replace the old system.
In addition, Shang Yang also proposed to abolish the army, especially the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, and then reduce military spending, but now that the war in the south is undecided, Wang Mang does not want to fight with the army.
Many of the opinions put forward by the Shang Yang made Wang Mang stay in the middle of the country, but Wang Mang also told the somewhat disappointed Shang Yang that within three years, these systems of the Shang Yang will definitely be implemented.
Of course, Wang Mang himself also mixed some things into the first change, such as the provincial and county system, the original Shangyang was engaged in the county system, but Wang Mang waved his pen, and it became the provincial and county system, as well as the birth of the cabinet system, the abolition of the prime minister system, in the current situation where there are prime ministers in the whole continent, it is not easy to do, but the establishment of a cabinet, and then the division of power, Wang Mang feels that it can still be done, but the current cabinet because of the vague responsibilities, many officials will not oppose his establishment.
In fact, as Wang Mang expected, after these ten reform opinions were issued to the yamen, they set off a lot of waves, but because everyone had expected it and did not hurt the fundamentals, coupled with the impact of Wang Mang's killing of Fang Xizhi and the construction of the imperial study, the officials did not have any major objections.
Although the scholars of the six ministries saw the establishment of the cabinet, they did not take it to heart, but they just felt that this was a temporary institution for changing the law, and when the imperial court promoted a work in the past, some temporary work leading groups would also be established, which were not permanent institutions, and they didn't matter.
Wang Mang naturally did not explain the deep meaning of these decrees, but only promoted the Shang Yang to the Shangshu Order, which was on par with the Zhongshu Order, and was included in the cabinet together with the six ministries and nine secretaries, and the cabinet promoted the vigorous Wang Mang reform (the first time) in the Great Qin State.
Jing Zhaoyin, or Chang'an Ling Lin Guodong has been very depressed recently, the capital has been renamed Chang'an, according to the situation of Chang'an, it can only be a county, so Lin Guodong has become a county order, although it is the top county order in the world, and its authority is not even less than that of the ordinary governor, but the county order? Lin Guodong always felt that there was no Jing Zhaoyin to listen domineering.
At this moment, Lin Guodong is looking for Wang Mang to report to the imperial study, since the completion of the imperial study, Wang Mang's eating, drinking and Lazar are all carried out in the imperial study, the emperor squats here, and the ministers have to squat here.
"Your Majesty, the minister has already found out the situation of the Taiping Temple, and according to the available evidence, the minister can conclude that the nameless female corpse must be related to the Taiping Temple. Lin Guodong kowtowed.
Wang Mang knew that Lin Guodong was going to come to him to talk about this matter, but he didn't know much about the specific details, so he said, "You talk about it carefully." ”
"First, the place where the minister found the female corpse found a secret palace bag, and then the bag must be a thing in the palace, and there is only the Taiping Temple near the treasure bag and related to the palace; second, there is only one Taiping Temple within a radius of two kilometers where the female corpse was dumped; third, someone saw that the woman had appeared near the Taiping Temple, and seemed to be looking for someone; fourth, the minister developed an inner line from the Taiping Temple, according to the inside information, the woman had appeared in the Taiping Temple, and had a conflict with the nobles in the palace; fifth, the Taiping Temple Lord had the same face when the minister went to investigate。 ”
The above five points are enough to prove that the Taiping Temple must be related to this matter, and the minister believes that the Taiping Temple and other cadres should be detained and seriously interrogated, and something will be gained. Lin Guodong said.
Wang Mang's eyes flashed, he looked in the direction of Shangyuan Palace, and said, "Does the Queen Mother know about this matter?"
"I should know. Lin Guodong said: "When the minister went to investigate, he happened to meet the girl from Shangyuan Palace. ”
"That's right. Wang Mang frowned and asked, "Do you know what Bao Xi was doing at that time?"
"It should be on behalf of Shangyuan Palace to pray for blessings and incense. Lin Guodong said.
"In this case, you go to Shangyuan Palace with me, let's report to the Queen Mother in person, the Queen Mother has always loved the people like a son, if it is really a good thing done by the Taiping Temple, the Queen Mother will not spare them. Wang Mang stood up and instructed Deng Fang: "Deng Fang, pass on my will and drive to the Yuan Palace." ”
"Yes. Deng Fang nodded and exited the study and immediately arranged it.
Li Lan has taken over the position of deacon and eunuch left after Feng Bao's death, because he is responsible for a lot of work, he can't often listen to Wang Mang, so Deng Fang has taken over Li Lan's position and serves Wang Mang full-time.