Chapter 119 Establishment of the Constitutional Yuan Framework
The morning dynasty begins in a tumultuous and ends in silence.
In the past, if the emperor arbitrarily appointed a person who was not of the bureaucratic class, he would often be targeted by the entire bureaucracy.
For example, the current privy deputy envoy Wang Deyong, like Di Qing, is also a military general, and has been suppressed by the entire civil official group, and some people even say that he has a unique appearance and the appearance of an emperor, framing him for his strange remarks that he may rebel.
This led to Wang De's cautious words and deeds, and on weekdays, like the clay statue of the Bodhisattva in the temple, he was silent, and easily did not speak, so as not to say the wrong thing and be attacked by the civil and official group.
But today, Zhao Jun has the support of the prime minister's group, and the rest of the senior officials dare not speak rashly because they can't see the situation clearly, so the situation is much stronger than Wang Deyong and later Di Qing. They are also more powerful than them, and the bureaucrats and doctors are divided.
Some people support and some oppose, and on the whole, they are far from being like Wang Deyong and Di Qing, who can be called a person facing the suppression of the entire class.
In addition, Zhao Jun himself was decisive, and the remaining opposition was easily divided and dealt with by him, so the establishment of the Constitutional Yuan and the people who ruled it passed without any suspense, so far the Constitutional Yuan is located above the two governments and three divisions, and the hundred officials are controlled!
After the next dynasty, many officials went back to change into regular clothes and went back to their yamen to work. Zhao Jun also went home and changed into a purple robe, and wore an official hat with two wings on his head.
I took a picture with the computer's own camera, and it looked good.
Zhao Jun brought the notebook with him.
The lifespan of a notebook is generally about five to seven years, but it is also related to the computer configuration, frequency of use, use method, maintenance, etc.
Now this state is definitely not maintainable, but reduce the frequency of use, do not run large games, only do some data storage and data entry, be careful not to fall or break, it should be no problem to use it for ten years.
Therefore, he plans to bring a notebook to the office of the Constitutional Yuan every day, mainly for data entry, and to screen the data submitted by various yamen, and then send someone to investigate and see the situation.
Enter the palace from the Xihua Gate, go all the way to the east through the Chengtian Gate, not far to the back door of the Daqing Palace, through the back door is the back cabinet, the office of the Constitutional Yuan today.
Zhao Jun's place of residence is just outside Xihua Gate, about four or five hundred meters away from his place of work, and it takes less than eight minutes to walk, which is very convenient.
The size of the back pavilion where the political system is located is comparable to the Zichen Palace, after all, the Daqing Hall is the largest building in the palace, and the area is also large, in addition to the main hall and the left and right east and west, there is only one back pavilion standing, and it is naturally built larger.
The palace pavilion is magnificent and tall, towering and towering, it is paved with glazed tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, there are eaves and bucket arches that are raised all around, there are bells hanging in the corner, the autumn wind blows, and it rings crisply.
Zhao Jun walked into the hall, the environment in the hall had already been arranged, the main seat was facing the door, it was Zhao Jun's desk, several tables were arranged on the left and right, and there were wing rooms and a large number of small rooms on both sides, which were used to store materials and the rest of the clerks' work rooms of the Constitutional Academy.
"Zhiyuan!"
Seeing him come in, some officials greeted him and saluted.
The overall framework of the Constitutional Yuan has been completed, and it is generally done according to the standards of the Political Affairs Hall, which seems to be equivalent to a copy of the Political Affairs Hall, but it is more powerful than the Political Affairs Hall.
Zhao Jun felt that there were still some problems with this framework, so he read some official documents sent from all over the world on his desk, and waited for the rest of the people to go to work.
Lu Yijian and the others lived far away, and they were slow to go home and change clothes, and it took half an hour before they arrived one after another.
"Meeting!"
After waiting for everyone to gather, Zhao Jun waved his hand.
There is a meeting room in the wing room on the right side of the back cabinet, which is specially arranged for meetings.
And they followed him into the chamber.
Zhao Jun sat on the main seat, Lu Yi and King Jian Zeng were on his left and right hands, and then Wang Sui, Cai Qi, Sheng Du, Song Shou, Fan Zhongyan, and Yan Shu each sat down, a total of eight positions.
Zhao Jun himself served as the meeting recorder, after all, he could type by hand, and the typing speed was fast, which was definitely much faster than writing with a brush.
After everyone is seated.
Zhao Jun looked around and said: "Today is the first day of work and the first meeting of the Constitutional Yuan, I think we should not rush to start government affairs first, but get the entire framework of the Constitutional Yuan right, what do you think?" ”
"Isn't it just the same as the rules of the government hall?"
Wang Sui said.
"That's not good, the political hall is the political hall, and the political institute is the political court."
Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "And the Constitutional Yuan in each period should have different frameworks and government standards, which should be changed at any time according to different situations. ”
Lu Yijian said: "Then you say." ”
Zhao Jun said while typing: "First of all, the current planning and strategy of the Constitutional Yuan, now I have a black eye, and it is definitely not possible to do it directly." Although you have experience and I have theories, it may be possible to combine them with each other, but at least I, the prefect, should also figure out the situation. ”
Wang Zeng proposed: "We can ask the various departments to submit all the documents and let them sort them out, and we will manage them and give solutions." ”
"How's that going to work?"
Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "Isn't this nonsense?" We are here to solve the problems of the country, not to solve the problems of various sectors. What we need is to assign strategic tasks and ask them to execute them, not them to throw problems at us! ”
"I see."
Everyone immediately felt that the goal was much clearer, and suddenly felt enlightened.
In the past, when they were dealing with state affairs, they would report the problems to the government hall from all over the country, and then they would solve them.
For example, where there is a natural disaster this year, we need to provide disaster relief. This year's tax revenue is not up to standard, please forgive Yunyun from the imperial court. Or a certain imperial historian found a corrupt official, reported it, and asked the court to make a decision.
The affairs of the state are all squeezed into the political hall, and each minister deals with it by himself, and if he can't handle it, he asks the emperor to make a decision, causing them to become problem solvers.
But in later generations, a huge country has so many things going on every day that it is impossible to trouble the State Department for everything. If the local government can handle it, it will be dealt with, and if it can't be handled, it will be reported again, and the State Council will give a guidance plan.
If all the big things are reported, then what development is needed?
Zhao Jun said: "The goals of the Constitutional Yuan are very simple, one is to maintain national security, make officials efficient, make politics clear, and reduce or even eliminate local oppression of the people. Second, it is necessary to enhance the development of productive forces, strengthen national strength, handle foreign relations, and solve economic and agricultural development. ”
He looked around and put forward his own opinions: "Generally speaking, what the Constitutional Yuan should do is to give guidance in the general direction, deal with minor problems in the localities and various yamen on their own, build and create departments directly under the Constitutional Yuan, and carry out unified planning and rectification from top to bottom. ”
"What do you think we should do now?"
Fan Zhongyan asked.
Zhao Jun thought for a while and said, "It's September now, so we have to complete this year's goal." Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is definitely not possible to start construction directly. In the next three months, I asked the departments to produce a year-end statistical report. A new department, the National Statistics Department of the Great Song Dynasty, was established directly under the Constitutional Yuan to verify national data. ”
"How many people are there?"
Fan Zhongyan frowned and said, "I said before that I wanted to streamline officials and solve the problem of redundant officials, why should I set up a new department?" ”
Zhao Jun said with a smile: "There is no way to do this, even in later generations, our country will have a statistical bureau for national statistics and national economic accounting, draw up statistical work regulations, statistical reform and statistical modernization plans, and national statistical survey plans, organize, lead, supervise and inspect the statistics and national economic accounting work of various regions and departments, and supervise and inspect the implementation of statistical laws and regulations." ”
After he finished speaking, he licked his tongue, stood up and walked to the door of the conference room, and shouted to the outside: "Someone." ”
"Zhiyuan!"
A little eunuch nodded and ran over.
The meeting of the Constitutional Yuan is very important, and the subordinate personnel of the Constitutional Yuan have not yet been transferred, so Zhao Zhen sent some eunuchs to come over and wait for the dispatch.
Zhao Jun said: "Take nine glasses of water." ”
"Yes."
The little eunuch was shocked and was busy doing things.
Because Zhao Zhen's personality is not strict, people in the palace often lose their work.
For example, once even Zhao Zhen himself didn't drink water, but he was afraid that Wang Shouzhong would blame the palace maid, so he forcibly refused to drink water.
After beckoning the little eunuch to fetch water, Zhao Jun sat back in his position, and then continued: "Statistics are conducive to us to find out problems, solve problems, and then seek better development. In the future, the National Department of Statistics, the Road Statistics Bureau, the State Statistical Office, and the County Statistics Bureau, will collect all the statistics required by the Economic, Agricultural, and Constitutional Institutions. ”
"Will this collide with the powers of the three divisions?"
Lu Yijian pondered: "I remember that in the fourth year of Taizong's Chunhua, there was a total division, which was responsible for coordinating the national counting, but because the three divisions also had the same function, they only existed for more than a year, and they were finally abolished and merged into the three divisions. ”
"This is where Zhao Guangyi is short-sighted, each yamen must have its own statistical data, but the country must also have statistical data, so that it can be compared and find out the problem."
Zhao Jun said: "In the future, whether it is our country or Western countries, statistics can not be afraid of trouble, we must count more, find out more mistakes and loopholes, otherwise how to see the results of development, and how to find out those problems in development?" ”
Now that the position is different, we can't just focus on punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, or find out what grievances the people have, and then take action to settle the unjust cases and let the people praise them.
Isn't it nonsense that the prime minister of a country only deals with these issues day by day?
Therefore, in his position, he has to have a certain government.
The above-mentioned problems will certainly be solved at hand, but the main direction is still to focus on national development.
In order to understand the country's development and formulate the direction of future planning, it is necessary to understand the country's overall data in order to find targeted solutions.
Although Zhao Jun actually knew a lot about the problems of the Great Song Dynasty, such as the harm of three redundancies, land annexation, and the low combat effectiveness of the army. But it is still unclear how serious it is and to what extent.
He needs to look at the data and field research at the same time to make a judgment.
This is also the way of doing things for the leaders of our country in later generations, only by discovering problems and then raising problems, can we solve them, rather than sitting in this position and making decisions at the moment of a pat on the brain.
Therefore, Zhao Jun chose to do nothing after taking office, just carry out data co-ordination, and then do some other things.
When everyone heard that Zhao Jun began to say Zhao Guangyi again, they looked helpless.
Don't talk about them.
Even the officials couldn't stop him from scolding Taizong.
Never mind.
Anyway, Zhao Jun is also scolding his own ancestors, and he has a fart relationship with them?
Lu Yijian and the others didn't hear it.
"So this year's strategic plan, is it to do statistics?"
Yan Shu asked.
Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "Not only that, but also vigorously promote the cross-introduction method to prepare the most adequate food and grass for the border army." After that, it is necessary to set up a firearms bureau, a creation bureau, gather talents, and carry out secret manufacturing. Firearms, cannons, steam engines, etc., should be prepared in advance. In addition, a geological department will be established to explore the minerals of the country, especially coal and iron mines. ”
"Well, it's for the Industrial Revolution?"
"Yes."
"Is that all?"
Lu Yijian asked.
Zhao Jun thought for a while and said, "The power of the three divisions is too heavy. ”
"You want to dismantle the three divisions?"
The crowd was shocked.
Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Well, let's talk about it later." I believe that the division of powers and responsibilities of various departments is not clear, and the division of the responsibilities of officials is not clear, and this is a big problem, and it is necessary to rectify and determine the responsibility system. For example, the Constitutional Yuan, I am responsible. The Constitutional Yuan is the first organ of state power and is accountable to the government alone. ”
"Can you elaborate on that?"
Wang Zeng asked.
"Very simply, the government should be graded at different levels, and the functions of the government and officials should be clarified, and in later generations, we will call this the system of collective responsibility and the system of individual responsibility."
Zhao Jun explained: "In later generations, we have a large number of ministry-level departments to coordinate national affairs and subdivide a large number of affairs, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Health. People's Bank of China, National Audit Office, etc. ”
"The role of these departments is to exercise their functions and powers in their respective fields, to solve the difficulties of the people in a practical way, to become responsible departments, and to provide assistance for the development and construction of the country."
"The national conditions of the Great Song Dynasty are different, and they are still in a feudal society, so they should be rectified according to the current situation. For example, the Privy Council can be a separate department, but there is still a Ministry of Defense under the Constitutional Yuan, that is, the Ministry of War. ”
"My suggestion is to establish a clear division of responsibilities and establish a system of individual responsibility on the basis of the original Song Dynasty. For example, I have set up a Ministry of Agriculture and asked the Ministry of Agriculture to increase the country's grain output by 10 percent this year. ”
"Wait."
Before Zhao Jun's words were finished, Song Shou interrupted: "I remember that you taught children the percentage, 10%, is it a requirement to increase the national grain production by 1 out of ten?" ”
"Yes."
Zhao Jun nodded.
"How can that be done?"
Song Shou was stunned.
The rest of the people were also surprised.
Although Zhao Jun has proposed to go overseas to find high-yield crops.
But this kind of thing is a long-term plan, and it may take years to do it.
In the case of such a large original productive force, it is simply difficult to achieve such a task target.
Zhao Jun was dissatisfied: "How can you not do it? Ease land annexation, carry out variety improvement, establish universities directly under the Ministry of Agriculture, subdivide agricultural disciplines, train agricultural experts, and study more agricultural knowledge, the Constitutional Yuan will provide guidance direction, as long as we move in this direction, we will inevitably achieve the task goal. ”
"What if you can't do it?"
"If the Constitutional Yuan has provided correct guidance, but they still can't reach it, it means that the following are all groups of corpses with vegetarian food and wine bags and rice bags. If the ability is not good, change people, corrupt officials and corrupt officials should be investigated, arrested, and killed, I don't need to say more. ”
"Okay."
Everyone had no choice but to respond, now Zhao Jun is the boss, and there seems to be nothing wrong with what he said, so he can only nod and agree.
"I will make charters for each department in the next few months, and within this year, I will complete the statistics on the data and the survey report of each functional department. Moreover, it is necessary to let out a rumor and tell everyone that the reorganization and reform of various departments will be carried out next year. ”
Zhao Jun looked around at everyone and said: "The name of the department can also use the original name, for example, the Ministry of War does not need to be changed to the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Rites does not need to change the Ministry of Education, but the responsibilities and requirements of these departments must be clarified." In the future, the Constitutional Yuan must see that each department has its own internal affairs, instead of what you don't care, I don't care, everyone kicks each other's ball, understand? ”
"Yes."
Several people saw Zhao Jun's resolute and resolute behavior, and they all responded unconsciously.
When I think about it in hindsight, I feel both surprised and emotional.
What was surprising was that they had found themselves gradually beginning to obey Zhao Jun's leadership.
What I feel is that Zhao Jun's leadership ability has been recognized by them, and it is even better than they imagined.
The reason for this is that his plan is sound and purposeful.
If he had made drastic reforms at the beginning, they would have resisted and hoped to persuade them.
But now Zhao Jun did not immediately change the system, but only on the original basis, to clarify responsibilities and subdivide power.
This is not a bad thing for bureaucrats.
After all, in the past, the emperor deliberately blurred and overlapped the functions and powers of these functional departments, just to prevent the functional departments from having too much power and posing a threat to the imperial power.
Zhao Jun did the opposite, subdividing power, and did not care whether there was a problem of excessive power of officials, so for bureaucrats and doctors, this was a good thing to improve their power.
Naturally, there was no objection in this case.
And until now, Zhao Jun has not immediately proposed to depose a large number of officials, and carried out a situation like Fan Zhongyan to strictly control the door shade and enter the office, which made ninety percent of the officials disgusted.
Then it means that Zhao Jun has not planned to move the basic plate of the doctors at least for the time being, and has not touched their bottom line.
The path of reform is much more gentle, and they can naturally accept it.
The only problem is that Zhao Jun's handling method belongs to the warm boiled frog style, which improves the power of officials on the surface, but after the division of responsibilities is clear, some departments are dismantled and listed separately.
For example, after the dismantling of the three divisions, the power of the prime minister will be weakened a lot, and some of the functions of the three divisions will be transferred, and the financial power will be greatly weakened.
However, this is also within the acceptable range.
Anyway, they are not planning to act, if Cheng Lin and the others object, then let them have a headache.
"This year's task is data, and everything is based on data!"
Zhao Jun had better make a summary of the meeting, and then grinned and said: "I heard that your salaries are all quite high, let's first count the income data of officials across the country, officials have different levels, and the salary and treatment can be different, but they can't be too far behind, you say yes." ”
"Huh?"
The audience was dumbfounded.
What do you mean.
As soon as he came to power, was he going to cut our wages?
(End of chapter)