The discussion between Zhu Jingyuan and Xiao Jinan determined the idea of the management of the Nanyang reserve.

However, Zhu Jingyuan did not give targets to the yamen at all levels, but set a rule that they should be dealt with at any time when encountered.

Moreover, during Zhu Jingyuan's own tenure as governor, all migration operations had to be reported to Zhu Jingyuan.

If Zhu Jingyuan does not respond, he will wait three months before moving.

If Zhu Jingyuan responds within three months, he will be dealt with according to Zhu Jingyuan's orders.

However, in fact, in the early days of the reservation relocation operation, Zhu Jingyuan usually responds with "immediate execution".

Therefore, in the early days of this operation, it was equivalent to Zhu Jingyuan's approval for all migration orders.

When the relocation of the reserve area becomes a daily affair, Zhu Jingyuan will no longer respond.

In practice, there would be a practice of waiting three months after the issuance of a migration order.

This three-month period can be used for the appropriate personnel to correct the error.

After Zhu Jingyuan basically finalized this matter, he began to think about another issue.

After Zhu Jingyuan officially assumed the post of governor of Johor Province, when he began to directly participate in the affairs of Johor Province, he received a number of approvals from the central court.

Most of these applications were made before this year, or even in the first half of last year.

This includes the approval of the Johor Provincial Decision Review Application last autumn.

Death row inmates, who were supposed to be executed after last fall, lived through the entire autumn and winter of last year.

Now that it is summer, the Ming custom is to execute the condemned prisoner before spring and after autumn, and it is not executed in spring and summer.

So this group of condemned prisoners lived for an extra year.

Zhu Jingyuan was a little stunned when he saw these documents.

"This reaction is too slow, the matter of Xintianfu will definitely not be delayed until the next year......"

So Zhu Jingyuan went to check the situation of more documents, asked the clerks from the government office to the political envoy department, and briefly counted the speed of transmission of various official documents.

Then Zhu Jingyuan found that the speed of uploading and issuing most official documents in Johor Province, Malacca, and even the entire Nanyang region was far lower than that of Xintianfu.

Many of the more outrageous ones have gone beyond the previous regulations and practices of the imperial court.

For example, the autumn final review.

However, after careful analysis, Zhu Jingyuan also found that the situation has gradually improved in the past two years.

Especially after I came to Nanyang, the efficiency of almost all affairs has improved.

Including the approval document that I didn't know when it came down, it was also directly implemented when I took office.

Obviously, there is an impact on one's own personal identity.

But even so, Zhu Jingyuan felt that this efficiency was still not enough, and it still couldn't be compared with Xintianfu.

After Zhu Jingyuan had a basic understanding, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

"The efficiency of this bureaucratic system is really a bit low, and Xiao Jinan still said that there is no problem here?"

Zhu Jingyuan had such a judgment and emotion, so he sent someone to take the initiative to contact Xiao Jinan, wanting to learn more about him and also to hear the explanation of this political envoy.

Can these officials who came out of the vassal kingdom be qualified to serve in the Ming court?

Is it because of the real lack of bureaucracy that the unqualified corpses are vegetarian?

Zhu Jingyuan is now Xiao Jinan's subordinate, but he is also Xiao Jinan's top boss.

Coupled with Zhu Jingyuan's identity as the prince and prince, Xiao Jinan, the political envoy, received the news and immediately came to ask for a meeting.

The two sides simply greeted each other, and after the servant served tea, Zhu Jingyuan directly talked about his discovery.

Xiao Jinan was a little panicked after hearing this, and hurriedly explained and asked:

"Your Highness should have found out, the situation in this regard has actually improved."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly:

"I did find that two years ago, things were quite chaotic from top to bottom.

"Things have gotten a lot better in the past two years, otherwise we wouldn't have met like this."

Xiao Jinan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately continued to explain and explain the situation:

"Due to the great expansion of the territory of the Ming Dynasty and the large-scale withdrawal of feudal domains and provinces, there was a shortage of officials everywhere a few years ago.

"We, the officials who have been transferred from the vassal states, were also a little at a loss when we first took over the affairs of the central court system of the Ming Dynasty.

"Now we, the officials from the vassal states, have basically adapted to the logic of the affairs of the central court.

"The university students who expanded their enrollment in the first year of the armistice have also begun to graduate in the past two years, and they have quickly been added to the ranks of officials.

"At the same time, the imperial examinations have also been expanding in recent years, so the official system has been basically supplemented.

Therefore, the operational efficiency between the internal levels of the yamen at all levels is also rising rapidly.

"After His Royal Highness Tebin came down, the documents that needed to be decided by the imperial court could also be responded to quickly.

"Things will definitely continue to improve in the future, so I didn't report on this in the first place."

Zhu Jingyuan frowned slightly after hearing this:

"Then has Xiao Buzheng considered how much of this is caused by my personal influence?

"What if I'm gone? Will the efficiency of the yamen at all levels here fall off a cliff? ”

Xiao Jinan hesitated for a few seconds:

"Your Highness, with all due respect, our local affairs in Nanyang may not be greatly affected.

"However, matters that need to be contacted by the imperial court and need to be approved by the imperial court will definitely be affected."

Zhu Jingyuan suddenly thought of something:

"What Xiao Buzheng means is that the key issue that restricts the efficiency of the current yamen is the response speed of the imperial court?"

Xiao Jinan knew that this topic was more sensitive.

But it is this special topic that can make this special prince really care.

Only his identity can really meddle in this kind of affairs.

If you can play a role in this matter, you can leave a good impression in his mind.

This is definitely very beneficial to my future career.

So Xiao Jinan carefully considered the language and carefully explained his judgment to Zhu Jingyuan:

"Your Highness, with the continuous promotion of the policy of withdrawing feudal domains and establishing provinces, the number of political envoys and prefectures of our Ming Dynasty has increased several times in the past few years.

"In the days of the feudal kingdoms, most of the affairs within the feudal kingdoms were decided by the king of the feudal kingdom.

"Including the issue of the autumn final review.

"There are not many issues that require a direct response from the imperial court, and most of them are handled by Honglu Temple.

"After the vassal state became a political envoy, there were a large number of affairs that needed to be decided by the imperial court.

"A typical example is the issue of the autumn final review.

"Judging from the review of the autumn decision, the number of review documents and cases that the relevant yamen of the imperial court need to handle has also increased several times, or even more than ten times, in the past few years.

"Originally, the scale and configuration of the corresponding institutions of the imperial court were to deal with more than 20 political envoys directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

"Now it seems that it is no longer enough to deal with the current new situation.

"In the opinion of his subordinates, the policy of withdrawing the local feudal domains and establishing provinces has advanced to a critical juncture, and it is time to adjust the various ministries and institutions of the imperial court and the local administrative divisions.

"This kind of thing, our magistrate originally had no room for beaks, but His Highness can."

Zhu Jingyuan had already fallen into deep thought.

What Xiao Jinan said is obviously reasonable.

He promoted the abolition of the feudal domain and the establishment of provinces, turning the vassal state into a political envoy, and the number of political envoys in the imperial court soared directly.

The ordinary officials of the central court officials and household departments may not be able to remember how many political envoys there are below, let alone the officials and general situation of each political envoy.

The information and archives sent by the political envoys can no longer be handled by these imperial institutions.

Otherwise, it is impossible to drag on until the next year.

It is likely that he came to Nanyang by himself, so the relevant yamen picked out the affairs of Nanyang and dealt with it in advance.

Even, in addition to the fact that the local area was originally the Huangzhuang model, and the density of grassroots officials was originally higher than that of other political envoys, it is likely that there was also this kind of factor that the imperial court took care of the places it managed.

This kind of problem is indeed a major issue, and it is true that it cannot be hastily determined.

So Zhu Jingyuan and Xiao Jinan continued to discuss for a while, asked for more details, and asked him to go back.

Then Zhu Jingyuan himself sent a telegram to his father, Emperor Zhu Jianyan of the Ming Dynasty.

Confirm the accuracy of the relevant information directly with the central court.

The next morning, Zhu Jingyuan received a long telegram.

Zhu Jianyan first confirmed Zhu Jingyuan and Xiao Jinan's speculation.

Now the central court really can't handle the daily affairs of the subordinate envoys.

This has been the case for a long time, starting with the large-scale withdrawal of feudal provinces and provinces, but it has only recently been recognized as a problem.

The previous years were covered by the problem of the lack of officials.

Before, Zhu Jianyan himself, as well as the people of the yamen headed by the officials, took it for granted that the hands of the yamen at all levels of the imperial court were insufficient, so they could not manage it.

After several years of all-out replenishment, the number of bureaucrats at all levels has been basically filled.

Although the level of middle- and low-level officials is still not fully guaranteed, at least the posts that should be held have already been done.

Then the imperial court found out that even after the yamen at all levels had people, they still couldn't manage it.

It's really too many files to handle at all.

Even, even if they add people to the Central Bureau, the superiors of these people can't manage it.

In the past, the Ministry of Finance, which corresponded to each political envoy, would have a Department of Officials.

Now that the number of officials in the department has increased several times, the officials in charge of it are not at all able to recognize who the people in each department are.

As a result, the Ministry of Officials recently put forward a proposal to abolish and merge some of the political envoys and expand some of them.

For example, the political envoys of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Haidong will be merged, and the political envoys of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiaozhi will be merged.

Burma, aristocracy, and Yunnan were merged, and the two Korean envoys were merged with Japan.

The North Zhili formally established the Political Envoy Division, the Northern Zhili merged with Shandong, and the Southern Zhili set up a separate Political Envoy Division.

The north and south of the Ming Dynasty are not two provinces, and a large number of "directly governed provinces" can reduce the management pressure by changing the political envoy department.

All in all, the suggestion of the Ministry of Officials was to reduce the number of political envoys.

Zhu Jingyuan now asked about the issue of administrative efficiency, and Zhu Jianyan directly threw this question over.

I asked Zhu Jingyuan what he thought of the reform proposal.

Zhu Jingyuan began to think after reading it.

It is very difficult to adjust the structure of the central court and the division of local administrative divisions.

In practice, it is definitely not a matter of changing a few names on a document, adding a few departments and personnel, or drawing a few lines on a map.

The key is that the current Ming Dynasty is completely different from any dynasty in history, any dynasty and country in later generations.

In my own history, I can't find a complete correspondence, so I can directly learn from historical experience.

Zhu Jingyuan can imagine that Emperor Shizu could not leave direct guidance.

At most, it is to pass on the experience of modern management to future generations.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's memory of modern management experience, it is the most efficient for an organization to manage five to six subordinate organizations, but the cost will also be relatively high.

Usually it is more appropriate to manage about 10 subordinate agencies, but it is more difficult to manage more than 20 subordinate agencies.

As for the more than 30 or even more than 50 subordinate organs, it is basically impossible to manage them.

The number of political envoys in the Ming Dynasty has far exceeded this level.

There are usually two directions and ideas that can be referred to in the treatment solutions that management can provide in later generations.

One direction is grading.

For example, if there are 36 subordinate institutions, then set up six branches, and each branch manages six subordinate institutions.

This will inevitably increase the number of managers and reduce the overall operational efficiency.

After all, there is an additional intermediate layer for conveying information and orders.

It corresponds to the centralization of power in ancient times to the unified system in modern times.

The other direction is decentralization.

Give more power to subordinate institutions, and give subordinate institutions some matters that were originally under the jurisdiction of higher organs to decide for themselves.

Reduce the number of things that the parent organization needs to deal with.

This will inevitably reduce the control of the parent organization over its subordinate institutions.

Originally, because there were too many subordinate institutions, the relevant personnel of the superior institutions couldn't remember who was below.

Then give power to the below, reduce the chance of brushing the sense of existence from below to the top, and after a long time, you can go your own way.

It corresponds to the ancient feudal statehood, and the modern system of local self-government.

After Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the area ruled by the dynasty expanded on a large scale, and truly controlled all the core areas of Shenzhou.

However, in terms of system, the county system is still implemented nationwide.

That is, there are two levels of administrative division.

When it was just unified, Qin had a total of 36 counties, which was later adjusted to more than 40.

At this time, it was difficult for Qin Shi Huang's central court to accurately control the situation in all counties.

Qin Shi Huang's frequent patrols include intuitive reasons for controlling places.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, in the early days, feudal states and counties coexisted, and in fact, the method of dividing feudal and delegating power was adopted to help control the vast land that was difficult for the central court to directly control.

In the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the country was officially divided into thirteen departments (states), and each ministry was originally placed with one assassin.

The history of the assassin was originally a supervisor sent by the central court, and gradually became a local administrator in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, and the name was changed from the history of the assassin to the state pastor.

So far, the administrative division of the core area of Shenzhou has officially shifted from two levels to three levels.

Since then, the emperors of all dynasties who have been relatively happy with their achievements have tried more than once to change the third level back to two levels.

Because they all know that two-stage efficiency is higher than three-stage.

But they all failed to some extent without exception.

At the same time, the process of turning the central dispatched agencies into local administrative agencies is constantly repeated.

The "Dao" of the Tang Dynasty, the "Road" of the Song Dynasty, and the "Governor" and "Governor" of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, they were all dispatched agencies, but they all ended up sinking into local agencies.

At the same time, the intended two-level administrative division was changed to three levels again.

The last attempt to change the three-level to the two-level was that the big head first changed the government to the province, and the bald head tried to abolish the province and keep the provincial and county levels.

In the end, the government was changed to a province, and the province was finally changed to a city.

Except for the historical habitual name of "Fucheng", there is no practical effect.

It is natural to say that the county seat and the provincial capital can be said, but the city town is very awkward to say, because in history it was originally called the government city and the state city.

Now in order to reduce the number of political envoys, it is natural for the officials of the Ming Dynasty to merge the existing political envoys.

However, in doing so, the scale of the political envoy department has been expanded, and the number of prefectures and counties under the political envoy department has skyrocketed.

This is to move the pressure of the upper management downward.

In the past, the number of governments managed by a political envoy was usually only a few to a dozen, which was less than that of the political envoys directly under the central court.

At the same time, however, it should be taken into account that the level of the local officials of the political envoys and the ability of the officials of the central court are incompatible, and the number of more than a dozen prefectures is already quite a few.

If several densely populated envoys were to be merged, the number of subordinate offices would exceed twenty or even thirty.

In this way, the government will definitely not be able to manage it.

In order to manage subordinate prefectures that were already beyond their management capacity, the political envoys needed to set up internal dispatch agencies, such as the "Dao" used by the Great Yuan Dynasty in the province.

The end result is likely to be an additional level of administration under the Legation Division.

From the three levels of political envoys, prefectures, and counties, to the four levels of political envoys, provinces, prefectures, and counties, except for the provinces, which became political envoys, the rest returned to the model of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

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