Chapter 436: That's it

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For the combat effectiveness of the official position of Zhongcheng in the imperial history, Liu Sheng has always recognized it.

What kind of official position is Yu Shi Zhongcheng?

——According to the existing framework of the court system of the Han Dynasty, the Imperial Historian is the Third Duke, who theoretically controls everything under the Imperial Palace;

As the No. 1 deputy of the Imperial Historian, he theoretically only has the right to 'assist the Imperial Historian in governing the government', and does not have much administrative autonomy.

From this point of view, the rank ratio of Cheng Qianshi in the imperial history can also be said to be more consistent with the authority.

After all, in addition to the Imperial Doctor, whether it is the prime minister's chief official of the Prime Minister's Mansion, or the Shaofu Supervisor and Cheng of the Shaofu, or the deputies of other Jiuqing, they are all ranked around a thousand stones to a thousand stones.

But in reality?

In the context of the Imperial Doctor's 'only being a sub-phase, regardless of his own genus and ignoring his own duties', the real controller of the Imperial Historian is actually the Imperial Historian.

In some extreme cases, Imperial Historian does not even need the permission of his superior, the Imperial Doctor, to make administrative decisions autonomously.

This is a bit frightening.

Who is Dr. Goshi?

Yaxiang!

According to the political tradition of the Han family in the past few decades, it is even more direct to regard the imperial historian as the number one candidate for the next prime minister!

Not to mention that the Imperial Doctor is ranked as the third duke, with 2,000 stones in the ranks, a silver seal and a blue ribbon, and even the lord of the Marquis of Che at every turn.

Under such a premise, can the Imperial History Zhongcheng of Rank Qianshi really resist having so many slash identities to get the Imperial Doctor?

Obviously, this requires a great deal of political wisdom and skill.

Especially under the premise that the particularity of the Imperial Historian's subordinate government makes everyone in this subordinate government must pay great attention to the personal relations and contacts between themselves and other courtiers, the Imperial Historian Zhongcheng, who cannot get any network assistance, must be extremely careful to handle the relationship between himself and the Imperial Historian.

Therefore, Liu Sheng dared to say with certainty: Those who can rank in the position of ministers in the Han family and wear a gold seal and purple ribbon on their waists may not all be ruthless.

But those who can sit in the position of the middle of the imperial history in the Han family and have been in office for more than three years must be old oilmen who have been up and down for a long time.

But Rao is like this, Liu Sheng also feels that his past self still underestimated the combat effectiveness of Zhongcheng in the imperial history at this moment.

Let's just say that the few suggestions put forward by Yu Shi Zhongcheng on the problem of official corruption are enough to see that Yu Shi Zhongcheng has endured these officials with unclean hands and feet for a long time.

Looking at Chen Jianfang's proposals, how strong and even 'appalling' are they?

First, all the agricultural taxes collected by the local government need to follow the rules set by Emperor Taizu Gao, that is, 'living within their means';

In addition to the daily operation needs of the county government, other expenses such as canals and roads are no longer allowed to be withheld by the local government.

After all the agricultural taxes have been paid into the state treasury, the local counties and counties can apply for the allocation of funds from the government treasury.

What do you mean?

The so-called 'living within the limits stipulated by Emperor Taizu Gao' is actually a system similar to the 'administrative budget' of later generations.

It's just that unlike later generations, the administrative budget that can be put forward by keeping accounts: today's Han family's 'living within the means' is based on the administrative expenditure of the past year.

That is, if a county spends 1 million yuan in administrative funds this year, then the administrative budget that the county can withhold in the second year is capped at 1 million.

What is a cap?

- That is, as long as this number can be reached, the officials will definitely strive for this number!

This alone actually has a lot of room for maneuvering.

Just imagine: a certain place has only 1 million yuan in administrative expenses in a certain year, but in that year, the place directly spent 1.2 million yuan, what will be the result?

The answer is that instead of being blamed for 'exceeding the budget', the county will receive an administrative budget capped at $1.2 million for the following year after a very perfunctory review.

In short, it's easy to get more of the administrative budget the following year – just spend a little more this year.

Even if you don't want more budget, you can deliberately spend the rest of the administrative budget in a given year to ensure that the administrative budget for the following year does not fall.

So what does Chen Jian mean by mentioning that local counties 'live within their means' and that local counties are no longer allowed to increase the proportion of interception on their own?

- Liu Sheng can think of it with his knees: Chen Jian wants to intercept the proportion of the county and directly condemn it to 30%!

Regardless of drought and flooding, and not to mention uselessness, no matter how much agricultural tax revenue is, only 30 percent can be withheld.

As for natural disasters and the like, then report them to the court;

The court will dial it again.

If you want to have more administrative budgets, raise the base.

Under the fixed tax rate, we should strive to cultivate more wasteland, and strive to let the people harvest more grain and pay more agricultural taxes.

It has to be said that below this era, this kind of measure linked to similar performance is undoubtedly advanced to the point of being a little excessive.

But Liu Sheng was surprised to find that Liu Sheng was really a little moved by Chen Jian's first suggestion······

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Second: All the funds allocated by the state treasury of the prime minister at the request of the local county must be reviewed by the subordinate of the imperial historian and sent to supervise the imperial history.

Standing office, should first send the collection of the history of the wind to verify, and then the allocation of payment, and then by the collection of the history of the secret monitoring of the progress;

In case of emergency, it should also be dispatched to verify the history after the fact, so as to ensure that the funds allocated by the treasury are actually used.

If the first suggestion greatly restricts local counties from obtaining public funds by withholding agricultural taxes, then this second suggestion basically blocks the opening of local counties and counties to apply for public funds at will.

When the Prime Minister receives a grant application from a local county, it needs to be reviewed by the Imperial Doctor's office?

- You must know that the Imperial Doctor is a sub-phase who is born to be against the prime minister!

Although in practice, there is not much close relationship between the Imperial Historian and the Imperial Historian's subordinate government, the theoretical connection alone is enough for the Imperial Historian's subordinate government to have a political stance that 'whatever the Prime Minister wants to do, direct opposition must be right'.

This means that in the future, unless it is a large-scale project that has been specially discussed by the court and funded by the Son of Heaven himself, the Prime Minister will not want to get any approval for the transfer of public funds in the Imperial Palace.

In other words: whether a certain appropriation is approved or not will no longer be decided by the Prime Minister, but by the Imperial Doctor's subordinate government.

- Aren't you looking ahead and looking backwards?

- Isn't it to 'Xiao Gui and a certain follow', because Xiao Xiangguo will approve the applications of all local counties by default?

Never mind!

Anyway, Xiao Xiangguo has never been a doctor of imperial history, and your prime minister's office does not dare to refute the approval, and my imperial doctor is a refutator!

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Let's look at Article 3 again: All funds allocated by the court, whether they are transferred by the treasury of the prime minister or the internal treasury of the Shaofu, should be posted in the local counties and counties to clearly inform the people.

The money applied for by the county government shall be posted in the seat of the county government; The money distributed to the county government is posted by the county seat.

Lubu should not only publicize the amount of money, but also publish the details and whereabouts of the money afterwards, and make it available for verification at any time.

Where the local county or county is required to cooperate with the investigation, the local county shall fully cooperate, and should not be obstructed.

This is undoubtedly the original version of the fiscal offensive, and 'subject to popular scrutiny'.

Liu Sheng didn't dare to say to what extent this move could curb the wind of corruption;

But Liu Sheng is sure: the cost of this initiative is very low, and it is so low that if it is useful, it is necessary.

As for the last one: If the Imperial Historian is a member of the Imperial History sent by the Ya, and in the process of a single outing, when two people die in the same county at the same time, the Tingwei should send officials to investigate thoroughly, and let the county guard here be relieved of his post as soon as possible.

After the situation is clarified, the next step will be taken according to the situation······

"In the past few years, there have been precedents of the abnormal death of the Imperial History in the local county, resulting in something not going on?"

Liu Sheng asked tentatively, and his eyes turned red when he saw Chen Jianhu;

The hall was quiet for a long time before Liu She shook his head slightly embarrassed and said: "In the early years, it was a land of abundant dragons, and it established the prestige of 'Imperial History Mound';"

"Since Emperor Taizong Gao, it has been Qinghe County, and it has gradually become a forbidden place where the imperial history would rather take a detour for thousands of miles than pass by at will."

"In recent years, whenever the errand of Qinghe County has been examined, the historians have all wept bitterly, and immediately dragged their families to hang their seals;"

"Even if there are occasional people who are willing to go, most of them explain to their families before leaving: take care of the things after death for themselves······"

"What's even worse is that the vast majority of the later generations have done a good job in advance, and most of them have not been able to return the whole corpse ·········"

Listening to Liu She's rather sensitive 'spoilers', Liu Sheng's brows had already been screwed together.

——As everyone knows, since the later years of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Qinghe County has produced the 'first plan' of the Han family's plan, that is, the first county to enter Beijing to receive the plan, and it is also the county that has been the 'most' for more than ten consecutive years.

But the world is also clear: just like the place of abundant Longxing, it is the most solid foundation of the old Liu family - Qinghe County is the base of the Dou family of the Empress Dowager of the Dynasty.