Tang Dezong fled to Hanzhong in embarrassment, changed the Yuan to Xingyuan, and took the meaning of revitalizing the society.

As a result, Hanzhong became Xingyuan Mansion.

Zhang Gen went all the way to this point and found that Hanzhong had not suffered any damage, but had a very strange state of stability.

Entering the city at this moment, the people on the street are also beaming, and there is no such sorrow as in the past two years.

Zhang Gen knows what the reason is, the harsh taxes that urban residents need to pay have been directly halved after all calculations.

It's not that Zhu Guoxiang received too much, but Song Huizong collected too much!

Shen Yourong lifted the curtain and watched, and said to Grandma Yan: "Mom, this is Xingyuan Mansion, it is really prosperous and lively." ”

"It's hilarious." Mrs. Yan smiled from ear to ear.

The two of them are not mother-in-law and daughter-in-law now, but a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and Bai Qi has also become Zhu Guoxiang's adopted son and stepson.

At the beginning of the Zhu family's father and son, Mrs. Yan was so frightened that she gradually got used to it after a few days, and now she even enjoys this identity a little.

She couldn't help with things and suddenly began to believe in Buddhism, chanting scriptures and praying for blessings every morning and evening, praying for the Bodhisattva to bless Zhu Ming from winning battles all the time.

The carriage is quite big, and Wen Xiaomei, An Niang, Zhang Jinping, and Zheng Yuanyi are also in the car.

Wen Xiaomei and Zhang Jinping are both in mixed moods, only An Niang and Zheng Yuanyi are the purest, and sometimes, the wider their horizons and the more thoughts they have, the more troubled they are.

The Yamen of the Lizhou Road Transit Division is still magnanimous, and now it has become Zhu Guoxiang's mansion, and the number of servants has decreased significantly.

The female dependents were arranged to the back house, and Mrs. Yan, Zhang Jinping, and Zheng Yuanyi shared a courtyard.

"It's much better here than Daming Village." Mrs. Yan said with a smile.

Zheng Yuanyi hugged the old lady: "I'll accompany the old lady to go shopping." ”

"Good, good!" Mrs. Yan was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut.

Zhang Jinping was calm and calm in front of her parents, but she was worried in private, always dreaming that Zhu Ming was wearing armor and covered in blood, and then she woke up from her dream sweating profusely.

Accompanied Shen Yourong to meet Zhu Guoxiang, after Zhang Jinping's greeting, he couldn't help but ask: "My lord, is there any news from Dalang?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Two days ago, I received a war report that Dalang had conquered Sanquan County. ”

"It's okay to have nothing to do," Zhang Jinping took out two letters and said, "This is a letter from my daughter-in-law and Yuanyi's sister-in-law, please send it to Da Lang with the official document." ”

"Okay." Zhu Guoxiang nodded.

After chatting a few more words, Zhang Jinping got up and retired.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The family members of Hanzhong officials, you can contact Yourong a lot, and you can also invite those female dependents to go on an autumn tour." You come from a big family, you are well-informed, and you usually need to be more helpful. ”

"Yes, my daughter-in-law is retiring!" Zhang Jinping bowed and left.

There were only two husband and wife left in the house, Shen Yourong's face changed instantly, and he asked in a reproachful tone: "They all said that they would let Qi'er be a civilian, how did you let him lead the troops to fight?" ”

Shen Yourong is rarely angry, everything goes according to her husband, and today is the first time she has been angry since she got married.

Zhu Guoxiang could only be appeased: "He has his own ideas, and he can't persuade him, so it's good to have a lot of experience." ”

Shen Yourong didn't quarrel much, so he sat there sulking and didn't give her husband a good look.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "I have written a letter to ask Da Lang to take care of him as much as possible, and there is nothing dangerous about the military Chinese position." ”

Hearing this, Shen Yourong's anger subsided slightly, but he still didn't speak.

Zhu Guoxiang felt awkward, and after a few words of comfort, he slipped away under the pretext of dealing with official business.

Zhang Gen and the scholars were summoned, and when they arrived in the lobby, they found that there were quite a large number of people.

The officials of Lizhou Road, Xu Fuyan, Liu Ying, Liu Huiyuan, and Fu Xing, as well as local scholars from Xingyuan Mansion and Lizhou.

"I've seen Zhu Xianggong!"

The collective salute was made by scholars from all walks of life, adhering to the respect for Zhu Guoxiang.

The other officials didn't give any good faces.

Zhu Guoxiang bowed: "I am shallow in my studies, and I am not good at managing the political people." Although I invite you to come and watch the government, I am actually afraid that there is something wrong and I hope to get the axe of your gentlemen. ”

"Don't dare to be, I'm waiting for the defeated army, how can I find the mistakes and omissions of Yuan Zhanggong?" Xu Fuyan didn't have a good airway.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher, and please give me advice." ”

Zhang Gen was thinking all the way that he would definitely be scolded when they met, and asked Zhu Guoxiang why he rebelled. I really saw it at the moment, but I didn't have the desire to speak, the wood was already in the boat, and no matter how much I asked, it was in vain.

Thinking about it, Zhang Gen only asked: "Can Guanzheng really leave in March?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang smiled and said, "When the time comes, listen to the court." ”

"Okay." Zhang Gen decided to run away after three months.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "In the past month, all the decrees that have been issued have been copied, and you can familiarize yourself with them first, and then decide which yamen you want to govern." Today, when discussing the issue of restructuring, I hope you will speak freely. ”

A subordinate officer took out a blackboard and wrote on it with chalk.

Lizhou Road was cancelled, and it was merged into Xingyuan Mansion together with Jinzhou, and then changed Xingyuan Mansion to Hanzhong Mansion.

Everyone felt that this was an extra move, but it was just a change of road to a government, from the previous level of the state capital to the subordinate level of the state government.

Zhu Guoxiang suddenly said: "If you occupy the fourth road of Sichuan Gorge, you will set up Sichuan Province." The province has three chief officers, who are in charge of civil, military, and criminal affairs. What do you think? ”

Zhang Gen suddenly had a spirit, this is an extra level of administrative units.

Originally: Central - Road - Fuzhou Military Supervision - County.

At present, it is: central-provincial-government-prefecture and county.

This is the result of the discussion between the father and son, to put it bluntly, it is to get the Ming Dynasty over, and the local administration is more detailed and vertical.

In fact, there was also a first-level invisible unit in the Ming Dynasty, namely: Dao!

Those who belong to the chief secretary are divided into guards, and those who are subordinate to the judges are divided into patrol roads. There is also a military preparation road for war, a study road for examinations, and a military clearance road for military rectification. A single province often governs multiple state capitals.

Chen Dong asked: "That is to say, in the future, the government and the road are comparable, and the imperial court is only in charge of the province?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "If there is no Sichuan Province, the four roads of Sichuan Gorge will be scattered and easily captured by the rebels." ”

Hearing this sentence, Zhang Gen agreed very much.

The four roads of the Sichuan Gorge are said to be a whole, but in fact, they are all working independently.

Huang Yi served as the transit envoy of Chengdu Fulu and concurrently served as the shipping envoy of Sichuan Province. When the real war was fought, he could only mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Chengdu Mansion Road, and the other three roads could not obey his orders, and they had to be temporarily sent by the imperial court to pacify the envoys.

Moreover, if the economic and pacification envoys do not have the power to open the government, it is difficult to actually manage the various roads under their command.

The practice of the Great Song Dynasty was convenient for the imperial court to collect taxes and to directly manage the localities. The price is that the whole country is scattered, and the officials go their own way, and when there is a war, it will be a mess.

Zhu Guoxiang also said: "The official system of the Great Song Dynasty is too complicated, and in the future, it will only be subject to dispatch. Officials and positions were changed to fictitious titles, which were used to bestow honors. ”

Liu Ying couldn't help but ask, "How do you get it?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Officials, positions, and dispatches, regardless of the fictitious title or the actual position, which grade is higher, will receive the salary according to whichever one, and it is impossible to have one official and two salaries, and one official and three salaries. ”

This is to reduce the expenditure of Yulu, and the treatment of officials in the Great Song Dynasty is indeed outrageous.

Zhu Guoxiang also said: "Low-level officials and officials, Yu Lu has been promoted compared with the Great Song Dynasty. As for the material money, job subsidy, additional expenses, job fields, etc., all of them are merged into job subsidies and reduced accordingly. ”

The income of high-ranking officials in the Song Dynasty was too much.

Take the prime minister as an example, the money alone is 300 yuan, which is purely a food subsidy, and Lu Mi has to be calculated separately.

Compared with high-ranking officials, low-level officials and officials have so low salaries that they can't even support themselves.

Zhu Guoxiang's reform was to greatly reduce the number of high-level officials, slightly reduce the number of middle-level officials, and increase the number of low-level officials and officials.

It is not allowed to support unpaid officials, and the number of officials is to be determined according to the regional situation.

If there is really not enough manpower, temporary workers are recruited, and temporary workers are also paid, but they must be approved by the higher level of the yamen.

The official system has not changed, and the system of the Song Dynasty has been followed.

The officials are divided into multiple levels, and now the promotion of the official is very fast, and when the territory is larger in the future, it will be more difficult to promote the official, and at most it will be promoted to the seventh grade. Unless the emperor is alarmed by his outstanding political achievements, he can be given a fellow jinshi background, so that he can be promoted to the seventh rank or above.

At the same time, there was a strict evaluation system for the officials, and the senior officials had a term of office - the senior officials of the Song Dynasty state government also had a term of office, but it was basically not strictly enforced, and the county-level officials did not have a term of office.

Zhu Guoxiang then asked the subordinate officials to write down the specific official positions.

The system of shogunates at the state level has been greatly streamlined, and it is clear that their respective responsibilities are no longer as restrictive but vague as in the Song Dynasty.

After reading it, Zhang Gen thought about it carefully, this kind of official system has obvious advantages, the opportunity to kick the ball is reduced, the opportunity to dump each other is reduced, and the officials who really want to do things can be stronger.

Zhu Guoxiang did not completely abolish the preferential treatment given to officials who were fined money to buy crimes, but the crimes sentenced for perverting the law for embezzlement, not to mention capital crimes, cannot be exempted from even ordinary punishments.

That is, to intensify the crackdown on corruption so that officials do not leave anything to chance.

Liu Huiyuan stared at the system after the reform, and thought to himself that if the Zhu father and son won the world, they would have to be cautious as officials in the future. Corruption is really going to kill the head, and even if you don't become the prime minister without corruption, your income is far inferior to that of the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, the petty officials became more moisturized.

Today, I will only talk about these system reforms, and Zhu Guoxiang asked them to give suggestions, but no one was willing to speak.

After the dispersal, Zhang Gen met with a few people and discussed the pros and cons of the reform.

Xu Fuyan said: "Zhu Thief has not set up the imperial examination for the time being, and under the shortage of scholars, the promotion of officials will be very fast." He also gave the officials a grinding survey system to improve the salaries of the officials, and I am afraid that the officials will be much more honest, and they will actively do things for the sake of promotion. In this way, a major stubborn problem of the Song Dynasty was solved, and the officials no longer blindly fished for oil and water. ”

Liu Ying said: "Streamlining official positions, clarifying powers and responsibilities, reforming the two stubborn problems of redundant officials and redundant expenses have also been solved. The imperial court will never be able to do it, and which prime minister dares to change the law like this, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it for a year. ”

Fu Xingzhong sighed: "I finally understand why Zhu Chenggong can't break it." It's better to paint on a blank sheet of paper than to scribble on a masterpiece. ”

This descendant of the Fu family is a little bit of a thief.

Not only for the people, but also for the sake of doing something, and another bit of selfishness: betting on the new dynasty!

The higher the official position and the deeper the background, the more you understand what the Great Song Dynasty was like.

(End of chapter)