The emperor was forced to put it badly, but it was really bitter for His Royal Highness the Prince.

Not only did he not have a chance to rest during the New Year's Festival, but he also had to leave his delicate newlywed wife and sit in the Qinzheng Hall bitterly to deal with all kinds of music that almost filled the hall.

When Jia Cong came, the recital on the dragon case almost drowned the prince's brain, and the attendant on the side was putting a few plates of dishes that were about to be cooled on the stove to heat, and it seemed that the food had been served for a while.

Liu Hong is indeed very busy, he Lao Tzu is enjoying a rare gentleness in the harem, and the cabinet is pressed to him except for the bachelors who stayed behind.

He also wants to go back to the East Palace to enjoy himself, but reality doesn't allow it~

"Brother Prince, take a break. You see this sugar gourd is big and round, come and taste it......"

When Liu Hong looked up, the sugar gourd was about to reach his mouth.

He put down the pen in his hand, pounded his back that was about to stiffen, and then took the sugar gourd and took a bite, complaining to Jia Cong while chewing.

"I'm tired to death, and I don't know what the ministers in the court think, knowing that my father won't look at these folds, and I have to send them to the palace. You see, all of them are against reforming the bureaucratic system. ”

Liu Hong pointed to the large number of pieces piled up next to the dragon case with his free finger, glanced at the wooden man-like chamberlain, and continued to Jia Cong: "Na, the other pile is against the right of your father to open a mansion and build a government for you, and many of them are looking for some trivial things to impeach you. ”

Ha?

Jia Cong's interest was smoothly aroused by Liu Hong, sat on the Taishi chair next to him, and shouted to the chamberlain: "Then who, turn over all the twists and turns of impeachment against me, Ben Hou take a look." ”

Opposing the emperor giving him too much power, this Jia Cong can understand, but impeaching him is too much.

Liu Hong gave the waiter a look, and the waiter who was still a wooden man immediately sent a large number of folds to Jia Cong, and put pen and ink and refreshments on the table with great eyes.

Jia Cong didn't doubt him, so he opened the top one and read it.

"Huh? Not to impeach me? However, this man's statement about reforming the bureaucratic system is a bit interesting......"

Jia Cong's face first showed a look of surprise, and then he showed a thoughtful look, picked up the pen and read it on the fold.

While reading it, he said to the prince: "Fourth brother, although this person's advice is a bit bookish, it also has a lot of merit, you can also read it later......

After waiting for a long time and not seeing the prince respond, Jia Cong raised his head suspiciously and looked in the direction of the dragon case after dropping the last stroke.

I saw that a large number of folds on the dragon case were being quietly moved to him by the inner attendant. And the prince, who was still busy and didn't have time to eat, was sipping wine and enjoying the food on the table.

Jia Cong slapped his brain and said angrily: "I'm really stupid, I actually fell for the fourth brother again!" ”

"Where are you stupid? If you are stupid, can your father give you the right to open a government and build a government? ”

Liu Hong squeezed his eyes at Jia Cong, pointed to the wine and food on the table and said, "Why don't you come and eat some too?" ”

Jia Cong shook his head and handed the fold in his hand to the waiter: "I won't eat it, I just met He Chong and his wife when I was shopping, and I ate in the restaurant." The fourth brother will take a look at this excerpt later, and I think it is necessary to let the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate take a look. ”

Hearing Jia Cong say this, Liu Hong was also interested.

He put down his chopsticks and flipped through the folds that had been sent by the waiter.

I saw that this excerpt turned out to be under the rule of Shuntianfu, and Yang Sinong, the governor of Zhuozhou.

The dignified prince naturally won't know a Zhizhou from the fifth grade.

But Yang Sinong also has another identity, the nephew of the imperial concubine Yang, after Enyin entered the national prison, Yu Yuanyou asked for grace in the third year of Yu Yuanyou and went to the border of Shaanxi and Gansu to serve as a county commander.

After serving for three years, he could have been transferred back to the rich land of Gyeonggi at that time, but because he took the initiative to stay in office, he was not promoted to the governor of Zhuozhou until the beginning of this year.

This person is average, knowledgeable, and not very good.

But this person has a tenacity, can endure hardships, and can eat and live with the peasants because of the promotion of potatoes and corn.

Relying on this tenacity, Yang Sinong built water conservancy, popularized improved seeds, and built the arid small border county into a small border county in only three years, which not only achieved food self-sufficiency, but also had a surplus to support the surrounding states and counties.

Based on this, the two saints are impressed by it.

Imperial Concubine Yang didn't expect that among the waste of her mother's family, there would be such a special talent.

"Minister, Yang Sinong, the governor of Zhuozhou, please Saint An. His Majesty wanted to reform the bureaucracy...... The power of the prefecture and county is very heavy, and the political affairs and law and discipline are almost concentrated in the hands of one person, and it is difficult for the people who are in charge of the government to check and balance the chief officials, and it is easy to breed corruption and arbitrariness. Therefore, the minister thought that the reform of the official system should be the first in the center and the focus on the locality. If the power of the local government is concentrated in the political envoy, the prefect, and the county commander, the peace and tranquility of the local people depends on the integrity of the officials appointed by His Majesty......"

Yang Sinong's admonition is also simple, he is relying on his own experience and vision, he saw that the local power is concentrated in the hands of the chief official, for the people, the autocratic system, all depends on the quality of the chief official, there are few checks and balances, it is indeed a chronic problem for thousands of years.

Liu Hong did not immediately express his opinion, but first glanced at Jia Cong's criticism.

"Not only the government and law, but also the power of financial endowment is also in the hands of local magistrates, the central government reduces the endowment, and the local government increases the endowment without authorization...... Therefore, the reform of the local bureaucratic system focuses first on the separation of powers and on supervision. It is divided into three powers: administrative, judicial, and supervision, with the political envoy department in charge of the people's livelihood, and the procuratorial and procuratorial department in charge of criminal and prison affairs, and a supervision department to supervise local officials, who have the power to play directly in front of the emperor......"

Originally, Jia Cong wanted to directly "borrow" from the more mature policy of separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial in his previous life, but at this time, the wisdom of the people had not yet been opened, and it would not work at all to engage in the Western system in the previous life.

It is better to settle for the next best thing, first put forward the power of supervision, and establish supervision departments at the local level, so as to form a separation of administrative, judicial, and supervision powers with the political envoys and the procuratorial envoys.

This can be regarded as the separation of powers of imperialism with the characteristics of Great Xia, and there is nothing wrong with it!

Of course, this is just Jia Cong's idea, whether it can be approved by the emperor and the cabinet is still unknown......

However, Liu Hong is still very optimistic about Jia Cong's "separation of powers" strategy.

Although at this time, Great Xia already had the Dragon Guard, a supervision yamen, but the Dragon Guard was a "spy agency" that only belonged to the emperor, and naturally did not deal with the civil and military forces in the court.

If the level of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can be raised to the same level as the six departments, and then a direct agency of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can be set up in the local area, such as the Supervision Department of Jia Cong's advice, then such a supervisory body should not be so resisted by the courtiers...... Let's do it!

Liu Hong has confidence in this, but the confidence is not so sufficient, who is okay would be willing to have more than one father on his head.

"According to your meaning, you want the Metropolitan Procuratorate to set up subordinate yamen in the local area to check and balance the political envoys?"

Jia Cong shook his head and stretched out two fingers.

"The duties of not only the Department of Political Envoys, but also the Department of Supervision shall be to supervise local officials, and at the same time to supervise the trial and judgment of cases in accordance with the Department of Procuratorial Envoys and local prefectures and counties, and have the right to question and supervise the areas where there are objections to the case......"

To put it bluntly, this supervision department is the procuratorate of the previous life, supervising the judiciary, investigating corruption, and so on.

Jia Cong didn't know much about this, so he could only try his best to improve his plan for setting up the Supervision Department according to his almost vague memory.

Liu Hong listened carefully to Jia Cong's views, and finally stopped eating, and wrote on the paper with a pen.

The two of them spoke and wrote one by one, and it took nearly an hour to finally write a thick notebook and let the chamberlain send it to the emperor of the harem.

"It's finally over, fourth brother, let's take a break~"

Jia Cong was paralyzed in the chair and unwilling to move, Liu Hong rubbed his sore right wrist, looked at the two piles of music in the hall, and smiled helplessly.

He also wanted to rest, but these excerpts were either not authorized by the cabinet to be approved, or the cabinet thought that they must be important pieces that must be sent directly to the imperial court.

If it is rested today, the two days of Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day will not be over.

And there is an excellent helper in this hall, how can I let go of this good opportunity!

Thinking of this, Liu Hong's face was full of bitterness and tiredness, and he complained to Jia Cong: "Don't mention it, my father threw everything in the court to me, and I haven't slept much for several days." Look at my eyes......"

Jia Cong glanced at the prince's face, he did have heavy dark circles under his eyes, and he looked tired and weak.

(Princesse Zhang Liu: My husband was really tired last night, come on, go cook a bowl of ginseng soup, and the palace will send it to the prince to make up for it later!) ）

Looking at the two large piles of music, it seems that this emperor is really not a human thing.

There are many short-lived emperors in the past dynasties, not for no reason!

"Okay, okay, I'll help you!"

Jia Cong gritted his teeth, the prince was very good to him, and he was a wise monarch, so tired that he was tired of where to find such a good monarch.

He sighed and muttered, "But I can't help in vain, the fourth brother has to do me a favor......"

Liu Hong grinned when he heard this: "You said, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help!" ”

……

As the God of Wealth in Great Xia, Lin Ruhai, the head of the household, may be the only one in the dynasty who is still working overtime in the Yamen in addition to the bachelor on duty in the cabinet.

The table was full of official documents sent to the center from all over the country, and Lin Ruhai had to record and summarize them while flipping through them.

What is the most important thing about Tobe? It's the dizzying numbers.

Approaching the New Year's Festival, such as Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites are busier than usual, correspondingly, these yamen send a document asking for silver from time to time, so that the household department has to be busy.

"Ministry, the Marquis of Yongfeng is here."

The scribe greeted Jia Cong very brightly, and then after delivering tea and snacks, he went to guard the door in a proper manner.

When Lin Ruhai saw his son-in-law coming, he unceremoniously threw him a bunch of papers.

"It's just in time, count these accounts......"

Well? Yes~

Jia Cong was stupid on the spot, it is not appropriate to enter the imperial city today?

It's a pity that no matter how reluctant and tired he is, he still has to do the work arranged by his father-in-law, and he has to do it beautifully.

He picked up his pen and began to bury the whole person in the pile of briefs again.

"By the way, uncle, I have found you a good assistant, and I will come to the household department in a few years."

"Oh? Who is it? I can actually get a good word from you. ”

Lin Ruhai was also curious, he still knew his little son-in-law very well, and ordinary people would never be praised by him and recommend it to him.

I only heard Jia Cong say: "It's Sister Bao of the Xue family, I just told His Royal Highness the Prince, and then asked His Majesty, Your Majesty said, let Sister Bao come to the household department to try after the New Year, and use the title of director to assist my uncle in handling the affairs of the household department." ”

"Xue family girl?"

Lin Ruhai's first reaction was to say something ridiculous, but then he frowned and pondered the mystery in it.

While transcribing the accounts in the calculation documents, Jia Cong told Lin Ruhai about the experience of meeting He Chong, Baochai and others in the market today.

Lin Ruhai didn't think that this matter was just that simple, his daughter and son-in-law recognized the talent of the Xue family's girl, and he Lin Ruhai also recognized it.

But transferring a woman to work in the household department is not just a matter of being recognized by one's own people.

Recently, there has been a lot of turmoil in the DPRK and China because of the reform of the official system, and they have all been sealed for the New Year, and there is no sign of subsidence in the slightest.

The emperor easily agreed to the Xue family's girl to join the household department at this moment, what a coincidence!

Lin Ruhai pondered the deep meaning of the emperor's move in his heart, and could roughly guess why the holy will was like this.

The talent of the Xue family girl in the matter of wealth has been appreciated by several important ministers in the court.

At the beginning, when the imperial court allocated grain, grass and property to the desert, it was the Xue family girl who took the lead and took over the task of the household department with the Beijing Chamber of Commerce, and did things beautifully without the slightest mistake.

Based on this alone, Lin Ruhai, the head of the household, has to be praised.

Therefore, the emperor is planning to use the Xue family's girl to slap those officials in the face who are vegetarian in the court?

If you don't do things well, you still oppose the reform of the bureaucratic system?

Not even a woman can compare, it is better to hang a rope on a tree with a crooked neck!

Lin Ruhai could already think of how the emperor would be furious if he was forced to be in a hurry, and he shook his head helplessly.

Forget it, it's okay to have someone who is proficient in wealth and accounts to help, there is really a shortage of such talents in the DPRK!

……

Weng and his son-in-law were busy until the sky was dark, and then they took a car back to Rongguo Mansion together.

When he got home, it was dinner time, Jia Cong went down the mountain like a tiger, and when he threw himself on the dinner table, he frantically shaved rice into his mouth.

"This kid, when he went to the palace, why did he become so hungry?"

The doubts of the elders made Jia Cong almost cry.

Whose baby can't get rest for the New Year, he has added two shifts in a row!

"Suck and suck...... It is not suitable to enter the palace today, so I went to the Qinzheng Palace, and was pulled by the prince to approve nearly 200 pieces. Later, I went to the household to find my uncle, and I ...... again Well, this doesn't count ......"

"Two hundred? Are all the people in the court crazy? It's all sealed, and it doesn't stop! ”

Lin Ruhai really didn't know about his son-in-law's affairs in the Qinzheng Palace, so he was immediately stunned when he heard this.

Jia Cong nodded his brain: "That's just the part I reviewed, the prince hasn't had much rest for three consecutive days before, and most of them are against reforming the official system." There are also some who oppose my opening of the government and even find reasons to impeach me. ”

"Where are they opposed to reforming the bureaucratic system, they are worried about their jobs!"

Before Master Lin and the old man who was also frowning on the side had time to speak, they saw Baoyu put down his chopsticks and said with disdain: "I have heard many people say that Your Majesty not only wants to reform the official system this time, but also implements a new examination method. There are many people who are worried that they will be dismissed if they are not able to pass the assessment, so they go around in tandem and join forces to attack innovative strategies! ”

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That's all for tonight, continue tomorrow, good night!

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