Three things, it doesn’t matter what happens to the Kong family, if you are dishonest you will be cut off. Including those officials who strongly oppose it, there is no problem in directly confiscating their homes. Perhaps there are upright officials who serve the country and the people, but they don't understand Wang Yan's talents and strategies, and they support the Confucius family. But more of the opponents are large groups that serve their own vital interests because of their right to speak. Such a person dares to speak to Wang Yan on behalf of the world's scholars when Wang Yan has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in Bianjing. This is really audacious. We must cut off a few leaders and seize a group of responders to carry out basic work. construction.
If the civil servants rebel in ten years, they will be nothing. After the court hall was half empty and Bianjing was almost paralyzed, there were no more civil servants in the whole north who clamored against Confucius. As for those passionate scholars who are easy to be fooled and cannot withstand agitation, they no longer make bluffing remarks. Wang Yan did not kill many people, but he ransacked many people's homes.
If the family is really poor, then that's it. Depose him directly and let him become a civilian and work for himself to make a living. If something is found, a problem will arise. The family property was confiscated, the servants were disbanded, and all the male members of the family over the age of fifteen were demoted to hard labor and resettled nearby. The originally majestic officials in the DPRK were mostly building bricks in the city of Luoyang, and it was difficult for them to die.
As for the remaining two matters of state-owned land and commercial taxes, it is actually not that difficult, but there are enemies everywhere.
He has an army of 100,000 in Bianjing, nearly 50,000 in Shandong, and another 100,000 in Hebei. The Northern Army, including the Weiwei Guards, has 200,000, which is 450,000 troops. The Western Army as a whole surrendered. Although there were many landowners in the army, the upper echelons of the Western Army had made up their minds and resolutely supported Wang Yan's leadership, and would punish anyone who opposed it. At the same time, he also sent five thousand people to train the new army and purify the team. Even if there was some rebellion, it was suppressed by the Zhong family and other high-level officials. The number of the Western Army, including Xiang soldiers, Xiang soldiers, and Fan soldiers, totaled 400,000.
There are a total of 850,000 troops. According to the current exaggeration of military strength, an army of one million is an understatement. With such military strength, suppressing the North is not a big problem.
This number must be false. What is false is not the 150,000, but the original Song army except for the Fubei Army and the Weiwu Guard. It's not for any other reason, but because they are on empty pay, the establishment of many troops is extremely weak. The real number of people will definitely not reach 850,000, and around 600,000 should not be a big problem.
The crux of the problem is that there are not enough people to implement it. This is a big project and requires a huge number of people. This problem was solved by raising scholars in the Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years. Wang Yan directly recruited students over the age of seventeen, and together with local officials who had never made their mark, they went deep into the countryside to measure land and conduct the first tax collection work on merchants in the city.
Of course, if you want people to work, there must be corresponding incentives. If you want to inspire, you need to know what people want. As for those students and local officials, what else do they want? Of course they want to become officials and make a fortune.
It is impossible to get rich, and anyone who gets rich will be punished by the king, but their salary can be increased, which is enough for them to live a reasonably good life. As for becoming an official, he is reforming the official system and will open up the promotion path for those officials. Instead of being an official, plus if someone does well and is promoted and appointed, they are all clamoring to do it.
However, in order to prevent officials from taking root in the local area and colluding with local wealthy families, land inspections and tax collection in other places were still implemented. In case of resistance, troops were directly mobilized to suppress and confiscate the houses, while all the men were still used as laborers. These are valuable labor forces, and we cannot simply kill them to gain advantage. Even an old man who wants to die has to lift two bricks before he dies.
The fastest progress in these two areas is of course Shandong, Hebei and the Gyeonggi region, followed by the northwest region. Due to the contraction of the Western Army's defense line, 100,000 soldiers and horses were withdrawn to suppress the local areas. The destination was Luoyang.
This is to quickly pacify the north and carry out reforms with a strong fist. The other point is to go south to fight the war of unification. At this point, he thought that moderate reform was no longer possible, and the only way was to suppress the country with a large army.
As for the hidden dangers these bring, Wang Yan is not afraid. Nothing else. He lived long enough to ensure that the results of the reform would not be repeated. Based on the three hundred years of the ancient dynasty Guozuo, he himself could account for nearly one-third. So one generation is dissatisfied, two generations are dissatisfied, and three generations are dissatisfied?
So there is nothing to worry about, just press hard.
The matter has been explained. Although there are basically no officials who are sincere and sincere towards Wang, the goal is there and the means are there. If it's done well, then that's it. If it's not done well, that's a problem. And it's not that he doesn't have his own channels to get the news. The emperor lacks a sense of security and doesn't trust others. This is a common problem. Although he didn't feel insecure, he didn't trust anyone. So he still has an intelligence agency in his hands, and this time he directly opened a government agency.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
The agency is that agency, and the name is just a code name, Tingwei, Huangchengsi, etc. They do the work of a spy, so his spy agency is called "Jinyiwei". Mainly because he thought the name sounded nicer, and he had been to such a world before. Although he didn't do anything related to that world, it didn't stop him from appreciating the name.
As for other government structures, the changes are still quite significant.
The three provinces of Zhongshu, Menxia, and Shangshu were abolished, and Dali Temple was raised to become a separate law enforcement agency. Yushitai was raised and merged into the Metropolitan Procuratorate to become a separate supervisory agency. The Ministry of Household Affairs continued to manage financial affairs, and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs became a legislative body. The Ministry of Personnel still manages the appointment, promotion, and demotion of officials as usual. The newly-established Council Office is the highest administrative body, with jurisdiction over the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Education, the Imperial College, the General Supervisor, etc., as well as the administrative affairs of various local governments.
The above ministries, in addition to the chief and deputy chief officers of the Council Office, together with the chief officers of other ministries, have a total of seven people. They form a cabinet, led by the chief officer of the Council Office, to jointly handle national affairs.
Because the Board of Governors has been merged into most other departments and involves a huge amount of matters, everything must be handled by them, and the government affairs are complex, so they brought in the academic and talkative experts from the Hanlin Academy to act as think tanks. The cabinet advises. Those in the Hanlin Academy are all Jinshi. Although they lack practical experience and many of their opinions are deviated from the reality, their brains are still sufficient. They have no decision-making power, so it is not a problem to act as a think tank. There are good seedlings that can be used after being seen by the highest authority.
In addition, he merged the Ministry of War into the Privy Council and renamed it the Governor's Office. This was not an official position in the Republic of China, but the highest authority of the military that supervised the leadership of the world's troops. It only focuses on military operations across the country and does not have much involvement with civilian groups. Only civilians are responsible for logistics supplies, and the central government still controls local armies.
Those who govern the country only manage the country, and those who fight only fight the war. In this way, as the emperor, Wang Yan directly controlled the legislative power, law enforcement power, financial power, personnel power and the most important military power. With the five powers in hand, you can sit back and relax.
In addition, a police force was also established, which was under the command of the director's office. It was equivalent to the later Ministry of Public Security, which did the work of the police, which is equivalent to the current government officials and police officers. They are all formal civil servants with high grades. They are still filled by those government servants. In the future, they will be gradually trained by veterans.
The administrative divisions are still based on the original roads, prefectures, counties, townships and Bao. Other administrative systems are based on the reform of the existing structure. After all, it is vertical management. What is the yamen above, there are departments below.
As for the most basic administrative unit, this time the Baozheng and District Chief were no longer held by wealthy households in the countryside, but instead were appointed by the government. And several positions have been added, responsible for Yibao's public security, people's livelihood, taxation, getting rich, etc. These people can also be promoted, can see the future, and work hard.
As for the dissatisfaction of the wealthy households, there is absolutely no such thing. Whoever dares to shout loudly will have his whole family build roads and dig ditches on the spot. It is so hard. With a million-strong army in hand, even though half of them are trash, it is still easy to take control of some wealthy households.
The three redundancies of the Song Dynasty, redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses, were solved by Wang Yan regardless of the fact that the whole country would rebel.
His official system and administrative reforms, coupled with the large-scale arrests and demotions, vacated many seats. So many useless yamen were abolished, and the situation of multiple people working in one job was also solved. Government functional departments were streamlined and detailed. The chemical functional department has personnel working in various places. Even the current number of officials is somewhat insufficient, and there are vacancies in many places. This solves the problem of redundant officials.
The Northern Army and the Western Army are currently undergoing training at the same time, as well as the 200,000 troops promoted to the central government from Hebei, Shaanxi and other places will also be trained. Those who pass will continue to serve as combat soldiers, and those who fail but have a correct attitude will be allowed to return home. Joined the police force. The Xiang army, composed of refugees, was abolished and became free citizens. However, it was attached to the Ministry of Industry and became a construction team to work and earn money. In this way, the problem of redundant troops is solved.
In the case where both of the above are resolved, even though there is no longer a Zhao and Song clan, no offerings to the Liao Kingdom, and other things, the expenditure may be even greater than originally. After all, these are necessary expenditures. No matter what, officials and soldiers must be guaranteed their military pay.
The salary of a civil servant is already very high, so he maintained the original salary without any increase or decrease. But to streamline the army, he has improved the welfare benefits for the remaining professional soldiers. The number of people has decreased, but the expenses are still higher. Adding the two phases together, the cost is much higher than before.
But there is a saying that goes well, as long as it is a matter of money, it is not a problem.
He has ordered that "treasure money" be the official currency throughout the country. Although gold, silver, and copper are still in use, they are gradually decreasing. Of course he cannot force people to use paper money, but he can regulate it. After all, all he gives out are banknotes, so it is certain that those gold, silver, and copper currencies in the past will become less and less with consumption. What he has to do is to keep printing money.
He is not afraid of currency depreciation. After all, even if he over-issues, it is still within the acceptable range. Moreover, homes are constantly being searched, and all kinds of farmland, grain, grass and treasures are constantly being put into the warehouse. So much of the wealth of the gentry and landlords has been harvested by him, and there is no problem in spending it for two or three years. And as long as two or three years have passed, everything has been basically sorted out, and it will definitely not collapse, and it will be very safe...
Luoyang is a large construction site, not counting Ziwei Palace. Various infrastructures in the city, such as drainage, hard roads, etc., are all being renovated and constructed to make it look like an imperial capital.
With Luoyang as the capital, the people who are most unhappy must be the people of Bianjing. On the contrary, the people of Luoyang are the happiest. Not to mention the other policies that Wang Yanxin implemented, they supported this good emperor, but Luoyang returned to the status of the imperial capital, and the resulting rise in housing prices was good news for the people of Luoyang.
Not to mention the major renovation of various infrastructures and the re-planning of the city this time. Although Luoyang was originally an imperial capital and nothing was bad, it was still not as good as it is now. It felt completely brand new.
Snow is falling in the sky, and it will be New Year's Eve in a month, but the hustle and bustle of Luoyang City has not diminished at all. Although the weather is cold, the energy is still there. There was smoke on people's heads and the heat was still there.
In the grand and magnificent Wanxiang Palace, there are officials wearing cyan robes, white jade crowns on their heads, and a layer of red patches sewn on the left shoulder. The patches are embroidered with golden auspicious animals. They line up in front of the ministers and face them. In the distance, someone sitting on a pure gold dragon chair with his legs crossed raised his hands and said, "I would like to inform my emperor that the construction of the Sheji Altar and the Ancestral Temple have been completed, and the enthronement ceremony has been prepared. Please give me your permission."
It is said that it is cold at high places, and the emperor is the loneliest. Wang Yan felt that it was impossible not to be lonely. This fucking boss is in the Vientiane Palace. He is sitting on the dragon chair on the high platform. If you have bad eyesight, it will be difficult to see the person who is talking. It would be strange if you are not alone. He could also understand that this was for the sacredness of the emperor, but to be honest, among the thousands of ministers below, there were only a few fools who believed in this sacredness. The fools themselves believe in this divinity.
To put it simply, whether it is the emperor or the officials below, whoever believes in the other is a fool, and they all want the other to believe.
The speaker was Zongze, Minister of Industry. This is also the anti-gold celebrity in history who promoted Yue Fei to the top. He used to be a county magistrate in Shandong, especially the magistrate of Dengzhou. Where is Dengzhou? That's the outlet to the sea. There used to be a lot of business there, and ships came and went frequently, either going north or south. As one of the top leaders of Dengzhou, it was impossible for Zongze not to know about those things. No matter how well he hid them, they were right under his nose. These were not the Imperial City's spies from Wangjiazhuang. After all, the things in Wangjiazhuang were what Wang Yan wanted people to see, and there were many things elsewhere.
Zongze was dissatisfied at first, but later sadly discovered that the whole of Shandong was someone else's territory. If he lifted this lid, he would immediately separate Shandong. Considering the external situation and Wang Yan did provide a lot of support to various parts of Shandong , leading the people to live a good life, they can only bite the bullet and admit it. Later, he retired directly, out of sight and out of mind. After all, everyone from top to bottom was Wang Yan, and he was not happy at work.
Now that Wang Yan is in charge, he doesn't have to be so verbose. He directly gives Zongze a sign and is in charge of the Ministry of Works, in charge of national infrastructure construction. The Sheji Altar, Taimiao, was newly built outside the city. The function is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty. One is for worshiping the grains of heaven and earth, and the other is for worshiping distant ancestors and entering groups.
"Follow the original plan."
He was so angry that his Dantian was filled with anger, and he used the generation technique. His voice spread in this magnificent highest hall, with great majesty and the air of a great emperor.
Zongze bowed to accept the order and continued to stand back in the team.
After waiting for a while, no one said anything. Wang Yan stood up with a swing of his dragon robe, turned around and left. The eunuch said angrily "Retreat" from behind.
This is the meeting held on the first day of each month. It’s nothing else. It basically summarizes the work of the past month and makes a report. Of course, I picked up what I could say. There are many secret things in an empire, and it is impossible for everything to be discussed in the great court. After all, there are so many people, Wuyang Wuyang, who may still want to solve the problem at first, but later it becomes a battle between different opinions. Therefore, what was discussed at the meeting were all the work progress of each department and general data.
The purpose of this is to let those officials know how far the empire has developed. At the same time, every imperial meeting will be recorded by a dedicated person, compiled into a newspaper, printed, and sent to the hands of local officials. On the other hand, it is also because some things cannot be taken into consideration at the same time, and some people have gone too far below. In such a large court, there may not be direct ministers who will criticize them, so give them a chance.
As for the eunuchs who just shouted to quit the court, this time he did not abolish the eunuchs and all appointed female officials. When I was in Jinyiwei, I was still a little immature. Eunuchs are selected from poor families who cannot survive with many children in the family.
So obviously, what he wants to do is to eliminate poor people. If you can study and take the imperial examination, why do you gnash your teeth and cut off the roots of your descendants? Of course that's now, not later. After all, when officials are saturated in the future, it will become more difficult to be promoted and promoted, and there should be many people who are ruthless and take shortcuts if they don't want to do other jobs. The competitiveness is there. Compared with the imperial examination, it is obvious that you have a better chance of getting ahead as an eunuch. This is a human problem.
Another thing is that if his descendants are married or weak, then it won't work if all the palace members are fucking women. If you are looking for a man, the emperor will have so many women, and the mortal body will definitely be unable to deal with them. Over time, the emperor's hat will inevitably become indispensable. So even if he abolishes eunuchs now, there will definitely be more eunuchs in the future. This is also a human problem.
This is the reason why he did not abolish the eunuchs this time, and to be honest, the eunuchs are indeed more powerful than the palace maids, and the hard work is not included. As for the original batch from Zhao Ji, some were sent to the Shoutai Temple and Sheji Altar, while many others stayed in the Imperial City of Bianjing.
He planned to open the imperial city of Bianjing for people to travel. And Zhao Ji spent so much money to build the Long Live Mountain. It cannot be in vain. Simply open everything up and let the eunuchs collect tickets and act as tour guides.
The ticket price is not high, only 500 yuan, which is a 500 yuan note, half a month's salary of ordinary people. In this way, rich people can watch it casually, while ordinary people can just grit their teeth and enjoy it, which is pretty good.
Wang Yan rode all the way back to the harem, but there was nothing he could do, the place was too big. Although the architectural style of the Sui and Tang Dynasties has made great progress, the overall building still stands out. Therefore, all the buildings in this Ziwei Palace are very grand. Accordingly, the spacing is large and there are many open spaces. Now this palace is also a large construction site, designed by the architects from the Ministry of Industry to make full use of the open space. The pavilion and terrace of the palace must be complete, not obtrusive, and must be integrated with the original building.
Nowadays, these people's thoughts are actually quite unrestrained and their imaginations are quite sufficient. The design drawings are very overbearing, and some buildings are even stacked in the air. Among them, the covered bridges and plank roads are particularly beautiful. As for the scenery of mountains and rocks, it goes without saying.
If the Ziwei Palace had not been destroyed, it would have been a grander royal palace building than the Forbidden City. It would have been a great creation in the history of human architecture. Now it has been filled in and expanded by architects. It can only be said that the atmosphere of a great country is there, and how can the barbarians of foreign countries predict it.
Although Zhao Ji came down and became the curator of the Royal Library and indulged in painting and calligraphy all day long, he also paid attention to his son-in-law's actions. He was not convinced, and just wanted to see how Wang Yan could be better than him. Even though he was optimistic about his son-in-law and spent so much money, he felt that he was a peerless wise king. He sometimes dreamed that someone was looking for him and wanted to help him restore his country...
In any case, Wang Yan has finally achieved his family's small goal of being able to run wildly for a while.
Once in the harem, it will be lively.
The kids were so bluffing, running around in the snow, having snowball fights, building snowmen, and several women working together as female celebrities. This was infected by Jin Lian. I didn't want to go out in this weather, so I just sat together, muttering to each other while making clothes and shoes. It was a good and serious relationship.
When Wang Yan came back, he just said hello, without any messy etiquette. With the help of the palace maid, Wang Yan took off his outer robe. He sat there and took it from his master's arms. He was only over a year old, and because he couldn't go out to play, he stretched his neck with red eyes and envy to watch his brothers and sisters playing in the sky. This is Yupan's child, whom she was pregnant with during the rebellion.
Seeing Wang Yan playing with the child again, Jin Lian looked at the jade plate on the side with a smile: "Do you think all emperors are so idle? Why do I feel the same as when I was in Wangjiazhuang? Yupan, you Was it the same when daddy was emperor?"
Zhao Yupan shook his head and smiled: "Although my father is not diligent in government affairs and likes to have fun, he is not as leisurely as our officials."
She has adapted to it now, knowing that Wang Yan has a big heart and never cares about it, so she has no taboo about saying anything.
"I know people well and make good use of them, so I can be free. No matter how free I am, I am still better than my father-in-law."
Zhao Yupan shook her head and smiled again. She did not deny this. It was not like she had not known everything these years. Her father did not get away with being named a foolish king in the history books.
"It seems it's time for lunch. What are you going to eat today?"
"It's snowing today, so it's time to boil the mutton and drink some rice wine to warm up." Li Shishi played with Qing Xiao's little hands. She couldn't give birth to children, so she was particularly close to children.
Wang Yan nodded and waved his hand to the palace maid waiting on the side: "Go and notify the Food Bureau to cook the mutton..."
