The reason why everyone was silent was that Zhu Gaoxu's power was becoming more and more stable, and second, the grassroots officials all came up from the primary, middle, and university levels, and the whole thinking was different from before.

They are willing to follow the order, and since they choose to be officials, they must follow the law of the Ming Dynasty.

Unless you quit your job and quit, you can eat as much as you want, with whomever you want.

You take the money that Zhu Gaoxu gave you, and you have to do what Zhu Gaoxu asks.

If you really have a clear conscience, who you eat with, why you eat, how much money you spent, and who paid for it, you can report it truthfully.

How difficult is it to report it in just a few minutes and write a few crosses?

In short, during the Zhu Gaoxu era, especially in recent years, the management of officials became stricter and stricter.

When Zhu Gaoxu seized the world, many officials applauded and celebrated, because they doubled the salaries of the world's officials at that time.

Unexpectedly, now that Zhu Gaoxu is firmly in the country, he not only replaces them with a large number of young officials trained by the new school, but also has more and more strict requirements for them.

To tell the truth, there are quite a few former DPRK officials who resigned in the past few years.

Many of the Jinshi of Hongwu and Yongle were gone.

I really can't do it, I can't eat out casually, and I have to report it after eating, and many people can't stand it.

So Song Ke didn't dare to eat when he arrived at the scene, so he turned around and patted his ass and left after speaking.

The other officials looked at Qin Han one after another.

This is going to be replaced before, and everyone is rushing to wash the dust for the new prefect.

But who dares now.

Qin Han looked left and right, and said: "Since everyone is here, stay one more night for the time being, and hold a meeting tomorrow at the hour, and the official will talk about how to reform the system." ”

The officials were surprised, so fast?

The new prefect just came, and the next day he made the first fire?

But the prefect said that everyone had no choice but to stay and wait for the meeting tomorrow.

After sending away the officials, Qin Han took his family and followed a few personal guards (all sent by the emperor) into the prefect's yamen.

Now all the county officials, government officials, and provincial officials (three divisions and governors, governors, etc.) in the Ming Dynasty live in their yamen nearby.

Qin Han's house was in the backyard of the prefect's yamen, and when he entered, the backyard was a little messy, and someone was cleaning it, because the previous prefect had just left not long ago.

Qin Han couldn't help it, so he found a room to put down his belongings for the time being, and waited for them to clean them.

Then he called for the governor.

But humanitarian, Governor Wang has something at home, he just returned to Hangzhou last month, and he will not arrive until the day after tomorrow during the holiday.

Qin Han had no choice but to call a clerk.

The official's surname is Zhou, and he is usually Governor Wang's entourage in the prefect's yamen, and is responsible for the internal affairs in the yamen.

Zhou Wei is relatively young, he just graduated from college the year before last, and then the examiner was the third, and at that time only the top two positions were taken, he was hired as a clerk, and is currently the secretary of the Suzhou Mansion.

The local state capital and counties of Daming have six rooms, corresponding to six departments, but Zhu Gaoxu has successively added several departments in the center of the Beijing Division, which are only available at the provincial level so far, and there is no corresponding one in the state capital and county.

This restructuring should be carried out in an all-round way, from top to bottom, and the relationship should be straightened out.

Zhou Wei was less than twenty years old, and after seeing Qin Han, his attitude was very respectful.

Qin Han asked him, how many people are there in Suzhou Prefecture and counties now? Including officials, officials, and miscellaneous duties.

Qin Han really asked the right person, Zhou Wei immediately said: "Suzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over seven counties in one state, and those who have been compiled are all recorded, and those who are not compiled must be checked in the register." ”

Qin Han smiled: "You first said that there is a compilation. ”

Zhou Wei said: Suzhou has an establishment of 96 people, and the number of counties has an establishment ranging from more than 70 to more than 80, and a total of 635 people are in use in seven counties and one prefecture.

Suzhou is relatively wealthy, and there are more staff on the staff than most of the prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty, and there are only fifty or sixty people in ordinary counties.

Of course, most of them were officials, and only a few were officials.

For example, the prefect yamen has 96 people, and there is only one prefect for officials, three tongzhi, three direct judgments, one magistrate, one governor, one zhaoma, as well as medical officials, doctors, professors, teachers, etc., adding up to more than 30 people.

Among them, the doctors and teachers were included in the official establishment after Hong Xichao opened hospitals and colleges, and some craftsmen enjoyed the treatment of officials, but they were counted as officials.

This is still a large state in Suzhou, and there are only one or two small prefectures with knowledge and general judgment.

After Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, in order to consolidate the rule of the grassroots, he successively added several officials, and now it has exceeded the Hongwu period, but the structure of the overall state capital is still similar to that of Hongwu Jianwen Yongle.

This time, he wanted to carry out a major correction, unify and coordinate up and down, and be more conducive to management.

After a while, Zhou Wei took a booklet and inquired about the miscellaneous duties that were not in the compilation of seven counties and one state, including the third class (soap, strong, and fast), horseman, doorman, prison, patrol, laying, ferryman, Zhaifu, sweeper, drummer, shifter, grain office, craftsman office, tun office, fishing office, cangdou-level storehouse, servant, archer, etc., just reported for a long time for a long time, Qin and Han were in Yunnan as a fellow knowledge, most of them have heard of it, and a few have not heard of it, so it can be seen that Yunnan is not equipped with that place.

Including the new communication tower and postman at the post station, although there are official characters, they are also counted in the miscellaneous duties.

According to the final statistics of the seven counties and one prefecture, there are about 2,468 people in various miscellaneous jobs, and basically every county has 3,400 people, and some have more than 500.

That is to say, in the entire Suzhou Mansion, in the Hongxi Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 people who ate financial meals (the local Jinyi Wei has not been counted).

There are also village chiefs below the county level, big security chiefs, and security chiefs, all of which are not counted, because the former chiefs of the Ming Dynasty have now been changed to village heads, big security chiefs, security chiefs, there was no salary before, and now they get salaries, and they all eat public meals, but the wages of this group of people are very low, if they are all added, it is estimated that it will be thousands.

This number is nothing in the future, and any county is thousands or even tens of thousands of people who eat financial housing.

But in ancient dynasties, records have been broken, and it is far more than Hongwu Yongle.

Most of them are after Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, and there are many things to do below, and he keeps expanding his manpower.

Fortunately, Daming is quite rich now, even if the current number triples, Zhu Gaoxu can support it.

But in the past few years, Zhu Gaoxu has also found a problem, because there are more things below than before, and the new department has been added to the center, and the following state capitals are crazy about hiring miscellaneous jobs, anyway, as long as they have money, they can be invited, and all relatives and nephews are stuffed into the yamen.

Qin Han actually held the previous information of Jinyiwei in his hand, in the first year of Hongxi, all the people who ate public meals in the seven counties of Suzhou Prefecture added up to more than 500 people.

It is only 15 years since Hongxi, and it has more than quadrupled.

If it is not controlled, it will be the same as the clan in the future, more and more, and after a hundred years, it may be the same as later generations, and tens of thousands of people in a county will eat public meals.

"Suzhou Prefecture is one state and seven counties, how many people are there now?" Qin Han asked again at this time.

Zhou Wei is not a household secretary, but this kind of important number, most of the officials in the prefecture and county should have points, as long as the people who want to remember it, they will definitely remember it.

Let's start with the original historical data.

In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), Suzhou Prefecture governed 7 counties, with a total of 491514 households and 2355030 mouths, ranking first among the 18 prefectures under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili. The population accounted for 29.26% of the total population of Jiangsu Province, which had a total population of just over 5 million at that time.

In the fourth year of Hongzhi (1491), Suzhou Prefecture governed 7 counties, with a total of 535409 households and 2048097 mouths.

After a hundred years, Suzhou has lost hundreds of thousands of people, and we don't know how the Ming Dynasty developed.

Important events such as the Jingnan and the Northern Expedition in the middle should not have affected Suzhou much, but the population of Suzhou has dropped by hundreds of thousands.

After that, the population of Suzhou remained basically at about two million until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the statistics of the population of the Ming Dynasty were quite chaotic, and sometimes women and children would not be included in the statistics, because not long after the death of the Ming Dynasty, in the thirteenth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1674), the population of Suzhou reached seven million.

If Yongli was killed in 1662 and the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty was regarded as the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it would be more than ten years, and it would be impossible to send so many people.

In such a gross estimate, there should have been four or five million people in Suzhou.

Under Zhu Gaoxu's rule, he encouraged childbirth, developed the economy, attached importance to commerce, and built water conservancy, and in just 15 years, Suzhou now has more than one million households and more than 6 million people.

The next day, the new prefect convened a meeting of the principal officials, and the meeting was held in an empty house in the prefect's yamen, and the principal officials of the seven counties plus the eight prefectures of Suzhou were about the right place.

The main officials present were the prefect of Suzhou, the same governor, the general judge, the magistrate, the governor (Governor Wang has not yet returned, and will be replaced by Zhou Wei for the time being), Zhaoma, the local medical officer (the director of the hospital), the professor, the principal of the primary school, the principal of the middle school, and the ambassador of the tax department.

Each county has a magistrate, a county, a prefect, a canon, a teacher, a primary school principal, a middle school principal, and a tax ambassador.

Among them, there were only a few important county governments in the Ming Dynasty, and not all of them were available, and they were not influential, but Zhu Gaoxu levied taxes throughout the country, and the Hongxi Dynasty set up tax ambassadors everywhere, and the county-level ones were Zhengjiupin, and they were also Zheng'er Bajing officials.

Dozens of people sat down in each county, and everyone was talking about the meeting and the new prefect one after another, when suddenly someone outside shouted: "The prefect has arrived." ”

In an uproar, everyone at the scene got up one after another.

saw Qin Han and his wife Yan Xiaoshao walking in, except for Liao Liao and a few people such as Tongzhi and Tongju, many people did not know that he was Mrs. Qin Han.

A female dependent suddenly came in, and everyone was still stunned.

But fortunately, it is Hong Xichao now, and there are female teachers in the school, so everyone was stunned, and they didn't think of anything, and greeted Qin Han one after another.

"Sit down, today's meeting may be relatively long, everyone, don't panic, let's have a meeting and rest for a while." Qin Han laughed and adjusted the atmosphere first.

There was laughter all around, and everyone was thinking, what is going to be longer?

After Qin Han sat down, someone found that Yan Xiaoshao was also sitting on Qin Han's left, and someone at the scene suddenly whispered, and everyone was even more shocked to learn that Yan Xiaoshao was Qin Han's wife.

When Qin Han came in just now, he was holding a bunch of materials in his hand, which he put in front of him, opened the part, and then said: "Today's main thing is to reorganize the yamen at all levels and improve the functions of each room. ”

The surroundings were moved, after the emperor ascended the throne, he did a lot of things in the central Beijing Division, and there is no impact on Fuzhou County at present, but I didn't expect this day to finally come, many people also know that the imperial court will do this sooner or later, and many officials on the scene are Hong Xi from primary school, middle school, and even after the university examination, so although it was unexpected, there was no noise.

As a matter of fact, in recent years, the emperor has gone to Suzhou to readjust officials in order to carry out experiments, and more than half of the dozens of people sitting here today have come up after a new education, of which less than 20 people have relied on the imperial examination to become officials in the three periods of Jianwen, Yongle, and Hongwu, accounting for about one-third.

Qin Han continued, the imperial court has already set up a cabinet, but also set up a new ministry, the provincial yamen in the past few years has been improving, its original corresponds to the Beijing cabinet and the ministries, the restructuring, Jiangnan Province for the pilot, the province of Suzhou is the first pilot, all the yamen to adjust, with the Beijing division.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the Suzhou Yamen was changed from the original six rooms to twelve rooms.

Public housing, military housing, household housing, officials' room, ceremonial room, torture room, workshop room, school room, department room, infirmary, arrest room, tax room.

The public house, also known as the prefect's yamen office, has one secretary (equivalent to the director of the office), two deputy officials, and seven wardeners.

It is mainly responsible for the work of connecting with the prefect and the two co-governors and the remaining eleven rooms, and handling all the official affairs of the prefect's yamen.

In later generations, the secretary was the secretary of the prefect, the two deputy envoys were the secretaries of the two governors, and the rest of the officials were office clerks.

Someone immediately grasped the main point, originally there were three Tongzhi in Suzhou Mansion, and just now Qin Han said that there were two Tongzhi, which means that someone may be kicked out?

"In the future, all the prefectures and prefectures in the world will be one and two vices, that is, one prefect and two people with the same knowledge." Qin Han said at this time.

brush, the faces of the three acquaintances at the scene changed greatly when they heard it, and the three of them couldn't help but look at each other, which means that one of the three of them was either transferred away, or he was not a fellow acquaintance?

But Qin Han signaled them with his eyes at this time not to worry, he still had to talk for a while.

Qin Han then went on to say that the barracks were in charge of war preparation materials, the recruitment of new soldiers, the retirement of veterans, and the construction of military units, and was also responsible for liaising with the local garrison.

The eyes of the three Tongzhi at the scene lit up, because this was under the management of Tongzhi before, but now it sounds like there are a lot more rights.

The household is in charge of land statistics, household statistics, local grain storage for war readiness, collection, handing over, retention of grain taxes in summer and autumn, retention of the government's own silver, management and expenditure (including the payment of salaries of all officials), and liaison with local banks.

In the eleventh year of Hongxi, the first bank of the Ming Empire was established, and banks were established one after another in the location of the yamen of the provinces, that is, the provincial capitals of later generations.

At present, after a few years of operation, the effect is average, can not be said to be good, but not bad, there are still many people do not believe, but with the use of more and more convenient, but also to get interest, the current use of the bank is more and more.

Everyone listened to the meaning of Qin and Han, and in the future, a major government like Suzhou will also open a bank.

The office is in charge of the appointment, dismissal, performance evaluation, and promotion of officials below the head of each county in Suzhou Prefecture.

Many people's eyes lit up at the scene, in the past, the counties belonged to the counties, and the government returned to the government, but now this means that the county lords below are responsible for the officials in the government, and the power and position have become stronger.

(End of chapter)