The list of more than 10,000 people sent by the Dali Temple and the Criminal Trial Court rejected their request and re-approved their opinions after a busy morning of verification by the Constitutional Yuan.

Among the more than 10,000 people, more than 300 officials, killed more than 100 people, and more than 200 people were not killed, and the lightest of them were exiled to Lingnan.

A large number of gang members and underworld forces, except for a very small number of people who were forced to join and did not have much evil deeds, most of them were beheaded, and more than 7,000 people were sentenced to death, and the rest were punished heavily, even if they did not commit crimes to death.

When the review order of the Political Yuan was issued, Dali Temple and the Trial Court were all stupid, since the Song Dynasty, even during the Taizu period, there had not been such a large-scale killing, not to mention that there were so many officials.

Qian Zhengwei, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Zhang Kui of the Tongzhi Trial Court hurriedly reviewed.

At this moment, in the Dali Temple, the two gathered in the hall, looking at the official reply sent by the Constitutional Yuan, their faces were not very good-looking.

It's not that they have any collusion with these criminals, or that they have something else to do with them. It was purely the feeling that the instructions of the Constitutional Yuan were ridiculous and unacceptable to them.

"Since Taizu, it has been an iron law of the Great Song Dynasty that the doctor cannot be punished, and it is already intolerable for the prefect to send the Imperial City Division to arrest officials."

Zhang Kuo was the first to speak, looked at Qian Zhengwei and said: "Although he arrested all the criminals who violated the law, he also had to go through the Yushitai, Dali Temple, the Criminal Department and the Criminal Court. ”

Qian Zhengwei glanced at the other party, Zhang Kui was actually the same year as him, he was forty-eight years old, Zhang Kuo was forty-six years old, and Zhang Kuo had been a Shaoqing of Dali Temple before, and he had been a partner with the other party for a while.

It's just that Zhang Kuo later resigned from the official office because of illness and went home to recuperate, and he didn't return to officialdom for ten years, and he was only transferred back recently, otherwise he wouldn't have just been from the Sipin Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized and the same knowledge of the trial and punishment court.

However, the trial court also belongs to the powerful department, in charge of officials and the verification of the punishment of Dali Temple, so although the position is not as good as Qian Zhengwei, it has more power.

Therefore, Qian Zhengwei smiled bitterly and persuaded: "You only recently returned to Bianliang to take up your post, I'm afraid you don't know the recent rumors, the officialdom has been restructured, and all ministries will obey the orders of the Constitutional Yuan from now on." What's more, with the power of the Constitutional Yuan now, controlling hundreds of officials and issuing government decrees is not considered to be overstepping their authority, so be it. ”

"How can this be?"

Zhang Kuo said dissatisfiedly: "Isn't this a violation of the ancestral teachings? ”

"Save it, the prefect doesn't care about Zuxun."

Qian Zhengwei shook his head: "Now that many prime ministers and officials support him, the weight of the Constitutional Yuan is an inevitable thing, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have not objected?" Is it useful to oppose it? ”

Zhang Kuo was silent for a moment and said, "Anyway, I won't sign this word, and I will directly find the official family for review and deliberation at that time." ”

"If you don't sign it, you won't sign it."

Qian Zhengwei sighed and said, "What I can only tell you is that it may be useless to find an official." ”

"Humph!"

Zhang Yu didn't speak, snorted coldly, and got up to leave.

Looking at the back of the other party leaving, Qian Zhengwei shook his head, Lao Zhang only returned to the court recently, even if he heard something, but he didn't see it with his own eyes after all, how can he know that the sky of the Great Song Dynasty has changed now?

In the afternoon, the Dali Temple handed over the ruling document back to the Political Yuan, which only had the signatures of several officials of the Dali Temple, and the characteristics of the official system of the Song Dynasty were here.

Each department not only has a supervisor and deputy manager, but also a large number of subordinate officials, whose names include the posts of hookup, promotion, and hooking.

A document, a decree, needs to be signed by these officials before it can be implemented.

As a result, various departments pass the buck to each other, pull each other's strings, and the policy is promoted, as long as any one of them does not sign, the policy cannot be promoted, and the administrative efficiency is extremely slow.

That is, Zhao Jun arrested some officials of Dali Temple and deterred Dali Temple, these people did not dare to disobey, if they were replaced by others, I am afraid that this word is not easy to sign.

The Constitutional Yuan didn't say anything after reading the new official document, and it was sent to Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division, and the formulation and judgment of the crime were generally done by the Dali Temple and the Trial and Criminal Court, and the execution was carried out by the Kaifeng Mansion before, but now the Imperial City Division has been added.

As for the matter of the trial court, Zhao Jun did not do it immediately, but wrote it in a small notebook. In the future, after the new system is promoted, all kinds of officials who have performed badly will be criticized and demerited, and posted in the official newspaper.

Under the new system, in the future, all personnel who have demerits will not only be promoted slowly, but once they have three demerits, they will be dismissed. Therefore, this small book can be called the death note in the future.

Soon after, the decree approving the death penalty was issued, and it was determined that the first batch of executions for the most heinous crimes would begin in December.

This process can take a long time.

Perhaps by the time Zhao Jun left Beijing, the execution ground on the outskirts of Tokyo was still sending people away every day.

The next day, the notice of the restructuring of the Criminal Department was quickly issued, and the original Shangshu Xia Zhu of the Criminal Department was changed to a scholar of the Baohedian University, because the previous six Shangshu were Jilu officials, so they only needed to change their official positions.

But at present, the Criminal Department is obviously going to become a real power department, and Li Di no longer serves as the deputy envoy of the Third Division of Salt and Iron, but has changed to the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and he went to the dispatch, leaving only the official behind.

If the world had thought that Li Di had been dismissed as an idle man before, but now with a new notice, the officialdom has exploded.

On this day, it happened to be the time for the monthly newspaper.

In the past, the newspaper was issued by the Jinjuyuan, which was simply the propaganda and distribution agency of the imperial court, forwarding the decrees issued by the imperial court to Zhulu, and at the same time forwarding the official affairs submitted by Zhulu to the various ministries of the imperial court.

The headquarters of the Jinjuyuan is in Bianliang, and there are also various roads, which are equivalent to the Propaganda Department of later generations, as well as the propaganda offices and propaganda bureaus in various places, and the current directives of the Constitutional Yuan are also issued by them.

At this moment, among the major offices in Bianliang, the Privy Council, the Three Divisions of Salt and Iron, the Household Department, the Duzhi, the Zhongshu Province, the Menxia Province, the Yushitai, the Zhitai, the Yintai Division, the Tongjin Division, the Fa Yuan Division, the Sanban Yuan, the Kaifeng Mansion, and the Nine Temples and Six Prisons, the officials performed their duties and did errands as usual.

It's just that the efficiency of officials in the Song Dynasty is really not high, many officials lazily work day by day, although there are also a lot of serious work, but at least most of them work slowly, even if they encounter affairs, they are all able to delay, rarely efficient.

This is the current state of administrative efficiency of officials in the Song Dynasty.

But soon as the newspaper was distributed, these officials couldn't sit still when they saw the latest news.

Because they never expected that it would really be restructured.

In the Privy Council, some officials commented: "I didn't expect the recent rumors to be true, the Constitutional Yuan is going to be restructured, and it will be changed to a multi-ministry system." ”

"Isn't it a great thing that a lot of new departments have been added, and that idle officials are being selected?"

"Yes, but Cheng Xiang is not happy, he is the prime minister, now what is the Ministry of Finance, the original household department is only in charge of the population, and the future treasury revenue and expenditure will be managed by the Ministry of Finance."

"There is also salt and iron to be separated, and it will be included in the Ministry of Geology, which is the department in charge of minerals across the country, which seems to be very similar to the Shaofu in the Han Dynasty."

"The Ministry of Rites has also been divided into a Ministry of Education, and in the future, the Ministry of Rites will be in charge of etiquette, and the affairs of schools and imperial examinations across the country will be managed by this Ministry of Education."

"It's good that our Privy Council is fine."

The crowd said.

The rest of the departments also have their own discussions.

And the news spread quickly, so that many officials who were idle at home were ecstatic when they heard about it.

Many idle officials rushed to tell each other, informing their colleagues of the news of the officialdom reform, and the imperial court would add a large number of departments, and they, scattered officials and idle officials, would also be able to be dispatched.

For a time, there were officials everywhere in Bianliang, using their connections to find out the news, and even many people had already begun to move to see if they could transfer themselves to a department with real power.

Although Zhao Jun's relationship can't be found, but Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, Song Shou, Sheng Du, Cai Qi and even Yan Shu Fan Zhongyan, which of them is not a protégé, a former official, a colleague and a friend?

So after the notice was sent, the threshold of these people's homes was about to be broken, and all kinds of relatives and friends came to the door to inquire about information.

And the three divisions next to the Privy Council are a different picture.

In the degree branch, Xia Zhu, the deputy envoy of the third division, was crouching in his office to correct the documents.

He is quite diligent, after all, there is no room for sand in the eyes of the Constitutional Yuan, if the government affairs are not handled properly, it will be terrible to end up with Liu Yuanyu.

Xia Zhu is a man who is inspired to enter the Constitutional Academy.

At this time, an official from the concert hall came in from outside, first bowed to him, and then put today's newspaper on his desk.

Xia Zhu put down the official document in his hand and took the newspaper casually.

Recently, all kinds of news in the court have been flying all over the sky, and he really has to pay attention to the official news at any time.

When he opened the newspaper, the first thing that caught his eye was a letter written by Zhao Jun about reforming the official system.

The content is sprinkled with hundreds of words, but there is actually only one core idea - now the officialdom system is chaotic, the administrative efficiency is low, and the division of responsibilities is not clear, so the official family ordered the Constitutional Yuan to carry out reform.

After the restructuring, the official was redetermined, no longer in the form of sending officials and sending them as before, but what kind of official it should be is what kind of official, the upper and lower levels are clear, and the power of the prefects of each department has increased, and unless it is an important document, it is basically signed by the chief official.

But at the same time, it also determines the responsibility system, for example, if the head of a department determines that he has signed a certain document, then this person must be responsible for this document, once there is a mistake, the light will be a demerit, the worst will be dismissed, and even if it violates the law and discipline, there is a risk of going to prison and being killed.

"Sure enough, it's going to be restructured."

Xia Zhu squinted his eyes, there is a lot of news these days, and people can't tell the truth from the fake.

At present, the restructuring has been determined.

This is because the newspaper said that a new criminal department will be re-established, and the new criminal department will formulate the charters of other departments, and the restructuring of various departments will officially begin at the end of November, and it is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Therefore, except for the Privy Council, the entire officialdom system must be overhauled. Judging from the current situation, it seems that the new department is only second only to the prime ministers of the Constitutional Yuan.

"That's not right."

Xia Zhu suddenly noticed that he was the secretary of the criminal department, although the criminal department was just an empty shell, but he was also the secretary of the criminal department.

Why was the Criminal Department the first to carry out the reform, but he didn't get any news at all?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly put down the official document and was about to leave.

At this moment, an inner attendant with a few guards walked into Xia Zhu's degree branch office, and went straight to his office in the backyard, saying, "Deputy Envoy Xia is here?" ”

"Yes."

Xia Zhu walked over, frowned, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

The chamberlain said, "Your Majesty has a will. ”

Xia Zhu hurriedly surrendered his hand.

The chamberlain took the edict and said: "Due to the restructuring of the Criminal Department, the Political Yuan has discussed the appointment of Li Di, the former senior scholar of the Imperial Palace and the deputy envoy of the Third Division of Salt and Iron, as the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the deputy envoy of Xia as the scholar of the Baohe Palace. ”

Xia Zhu shook his hands and calmed down for a moment before saying, "The minister accepts the order." ”

He didn't ask why it was Li Di and not him, because if he asked, it was in vain that it was an order from the Constitutional Yuan, or perhaps it was an order from Zhao Jun.

After the waiter left, Xia Zhu's face was more grim.

Although he hid it well last time, Liu Yuanyu's confession alone did not pose any threat to him, but it obviously made Zhao Jun very dissatisfied.

This made Xia Zhu regret a little why he was so cheap, so he had to mention it to Liu Yuanyu casually.

The main reason is that I didn't expect the official family to trust Zhao Jun so much.

You must know that today's officials have always been suspicious and extremely jealous of party strife, so once someone holds great power, they are often deposed and demoted.

Even prime ministers such as Lu Yijian, Li Di, and Wang Zeng have been in and out of the court several times, and they have hardly held real power for a long time.

Therefore, when Zhao Jun suddenly ascended to the throne, he shocked the court, and countless people in the court did not want to have a political system with such great power, and it also controlled a law enforcement department like the Imperial City Division, so the opponents were like a wave.

And Xia Zhu has his own qualifications, but he is only the deputy envoy of the third department, whether it is the prime minister, the cardinal minister, or even the governor's affairs, it has nothing to do with him, so he is naturally dissatisfied, so he wants to see if he can take some eye medicine and stumble.

I thought that Liu Yuanyu would create some trouble for the Constitutional Yuan, let the officials see if the Constitutional Yuan was capable, and depose him and put him up, but I didn't expect the power of the Constitutional Yuan to be so terrifying.

It is terrible that a deputy envoy of the third division of the hall, plus the entire division has been deposed.

Now this Zhao Jun is not only in power, but also has the strong support of the official family and many prime ministers, and has established a huge force in the court.

And although he has not been exposed, Liu Yuanyu has already confessed to him, obviously Zhao Jun will be jealous of his existence whether he believes it or not.

It seems that I should be more restrained during this time, and I can't move lightly.

Xia Zhu groaned.

At the same time, the rest of the departments are also in different positions.

Cheng Lin, the third envoy, was naturally annoyed, he was a third-secretary envoy, with a high position, and he was not even a minister in the blink of an eye, and he wanted to become a secretary of the Ministry of Finance.

Judging from the current situation, the status of each ministry is slightly lower than that of the previous three envoys and privy envoys, and it is about the same as the deputy envoys.

Suddenly encountered a "demotion to the official", Cheng Lin was naturally unhappy, so he planned to oppose it the next day.

The rest of the yamen officials are different, and some are complaining that the imperial court has nothing to do this time, and they have to reform the system.

Others were overjoyed and felt that their opportunity had come.

Others have an indifferent attitude, anyway, they were mixed before, and they will be mixed in the future.

I don't know that many of these officials will regret it in the future.

(End of chapter)