The court is bloated?
Don’t need that many people? !
The officials who heard this sentence were all frightened, and each of them transformed into a scroll king and worked hard.
Unbearable.
Want to lie down and show off?
Or retire and return home?
Xu Yi lightly said the next sentence.
"Do you also want to be a traitor to the current government?"
As soon as these words came out.
All the officials were trembling, not daring to say any more words, and everyone transformed into the King of Volume Kings.
Then it turned out that Xu Yi was right.
There were obviously only about half of the officials left, but in the end they achieved 150% efficiency.
The efficiency of work is even higher and better than when there were twice as many officials as before.
This is still the result of Xu Yi's improper deployment. If he undergoes another reasonable deployment, this efficiency can definitely be doubled!
More than half a month later.
"about there."
Xu Yi looked at the list in his hand and nodded slightly.
The fundamental purpose of everything he did during this period was to screen out the unfavorable factors in the court and screen out talented cadres.
If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.
He didn't want to eliminate the unfavorable factors and select capable people step by step during the actual operation. Although this would be more accurate, the speed was too slow.
With absolute force to suppress everything, he can accomplish these things in a very short time.
It took more than half a month to eliminate these unfavorable factors.
More than half a month of high-pressure policies have screened out capable people.
If anyone else had done these two major events, it would have taken at least several years or even decades to accomplish them, but it only took Xu Yi just over a month.
Of course, all this is based on the premise of having absolute force.
If you don't have this premise, you still dare to do this to Xu Yi, and you will blow yourself up before the matter is resolved!
The most famous example is Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.
Logically speaking, the legacy left to him by his father, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, was not bad, and he himself was not a bad emperor. There was no way he would die in his lifetime.
But the Sui Dynasty died in his hands.
The biggest reason for this is that he still wants to bring down all the major families in a short period of time without absolute force.
In the end, the major aristocratic families were not dragged to death, but the Sui Dynasty was dragged to death...
If he was like Xu Yi, possessing absolute force, what would the family members mean? Kill him with one slap!
In the court room.
Xu Yi waved his hand.
Cao Zhengchun took two steps outside, took out the imperial edict, and read it loudly.
"From now on, the Wu Dynasty will abolish the original six-ministry system and change it to a nine-ministry system."
There is no destiny or edict from the emperor. Xu Yi has never believed in heaven, and he does not take his status as emperor seriously. There is no need to read it out every time to show his sense of existence.
Although the ministers felt a little uneasy after hearing this, no one stood up and said anything against it - even though Xu Yi did not talk to any of them about such an important matter, he decided it with one word.
This was something that seriously damaged their power as courtiers. In the past, they would have been in trouble!
But in the previous series of events, Xu Yi had already elevated his monarchy to a supreme level, much more exaggerated than Zhu Yuanzhang and Qin Shihuang!
The whole world has become his one word. He can do whatever he wants. No one can stop him or even dare to stop him.
Cao Zhengchun kept talking and continued.
"The new nine departments are the Ministry of Administration, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Information Security, the Ministry of Culture and Education, and the Ministry of Martial Arts."
In fact, it is a fusion of the modern system and the ancient system, and a more detailed division of certain functions.
Of course, some departments don’t have them anymore.
For example, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Family Planning were not important enough to form a department in ancient times.
In the future, when their weight increases, it will not be too late to establish another one.
"Cai Jing is appointed as the Minister of Administration... Zhuge Zhengwo is appointed as the Minister of National Security... Zhu Yiwu is appointed as the Minister of Information Security... Liu Jiyan is appointed as the Minister of Martial Arts."
This should be the most concerning point for the ministers. After all, it is related to their own rights and status.
How can I say the final result? There were some surprises, but not many. Most of the people deserved it.
Some people even jumped several levels. Although they caused some dissatisfaction, it was only due to pure jealousy.
Xu Yi's arrangement of these positions was based on the performance appraisals of these days and their usual evaluations and abilities.
In short, they can sit in this position because they are capable enough to sit in it.
Those who are capable will live there!
This was Xu Yi's personal tendency revealed to everyone at this court meeting.
After reading out all the more important positions among the nine departments, Cao Zhengchun did not stop, but took out another imperial edict and continued to read.
"In addition, in addition to the nine departments, there are three additional academies, namely the Academy of Science, the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Martial Arts."
"The administrative level of the three academies is the same as that of the nine ministries, but it does not participate in any administrative work. It is only responsible for the research of academics, technology and martial arts. Your Majesty will temporarily serve as the president of the three academies."
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar below.
The Martial Arts Institute and others can understand that they study martial arts!
In this ancient world of martial arts where high-end force can determine everything, it is not unacceptable to establish an institution that specializes in martial arts and have it alongside the Nine Divisions.
But what are the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering?
Why can they be tied with Jiubu? !
Immediately some court officials stood up.
"Your Majesty! A humble minister..."
"Huh? Li Aiqing, do you have any opinions?"
Xu Yi sat on the dragon chair and glanced at him lightly.
The other party suddenly broke out in cold sweat and said quickly.
"Your Majesty has misunderstood, I have no objection!"
"Where are the other dear ladies?"
"I don't have any objections!"
joke!
They are not stupid.
Not to mention Xu Yi's current attitude, just looking at his behavior of directly serving as the dean of the three academies, we can see that he attaches great importance to these three academies. Do they dare to have any objections?
So, very logically, the reform of the court was completed.
Although there was a certain amount of chaos at the beginning, it soon became orderly under the combing of Xu Yi's powerful memory palace.
Although it seems that there have been great changes, in fact, they remain the same. The functions of these departments are not much different from the original six departments, but they are more detailed.
After the reform of the imperial court was completed, it was the turn of the local imperial courts, provinces, cities, counties, and towns to continue, level after level.
If those aristocratic families were not eliminated, this process might be very troublesome.
For the vast majority of imperial courts, especially the ancient imperial courts, they had strong central control, but when it came to the local level, it was almost the domain of the major aristocratic families.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are local emperors.
They can do anything casually to invalidate or 'localize' your policy - the so-called localization means that it can be used by their family members.
This is one of the reasons why the aristocratic families are so powerful that it has been difficult to deal with them in all dynasties.
But that's different now.
All the aristocratic families have basically been wiped out, and the policies of the imperial court can be smoothly distributed to all provinces and cities.
It was at the county, township, and town level that we encountered some troubles again—the local gentry and wealthy people intervened.
Then, Dongchang and Hulong Villa, who had been prepared for a long time, dispatched.
And then... there will be no more.
Even the aristocratic families have been wiped out, let alone these wealthy country squires?
The nine-ministerial system was decentralized to the township level, which represented that Xu Yi's Wu Dynasty successfully extended its tentacles of power to the township level and officially spread throughout the world.
In the past, the township level was the most difficult to overcome, because the central court was not so powerful and could not control it in such detail, so it could only rely on the squires in the townships.
But now, with the help of the nine-ministry system, court officials are allowed to go to the countryside, and the concept of "rural officials" is introduced, and they can naturally be controlled.
“It’s time to start implementing policies!”
At this point, Xu Yi finally started his real reform.
The first step is education for all.
Xu Yi did not directly introduce nine-year compulsory education.
Some things can be overcome with hard power, but there are some things that even if you have unrivaled strength, there is nothing you can do.
If nothing else, the problem of teachers cannot be solved.
You don’t have enough teacher resources!
This is no longer the time for a hundred schools of thought to contend.
In this era where the Confucian family is dominant, there is no problem if you let them teach Chinese, history, and even ideological and moral character.
physics? Chemical? biology? geography?
What the hell is this!
Even in mathematics, which has a high sense of existence, not many people are proficient in it in this era. This is the foundation of modern science.
If modern science is compared to a building, mathematics is the foundation.
The entire modern science is built on the foundation of mathematics.
There are not even enough math teachers, let alone the next nine years of compulsory education.
"If you can't get it through nine years of compulsory education, it's okay to get a 'pre-school'."
The so-called 'preschool' is actually to teach them how to read.
"Thousand-Character Classic" and "Three-Character Classic", as long as they can recognize these basic characters.
In order to reduce the difficulty, Xu Yi also specially created simplified Chinese characters and Chinese dictionaries - who can remember those traditional Chinese characters with more than a dozen or dozens of strokes at every turn?
The reason why modern China has been able to complete universal education in just a few decades and increase the literacy rate of more than 1 billion people to over 95% is that simplified Chinese characters definitely played a crucial role!
Some experts and professors are also calling for the restoration of traditional Chinese characters. Every one of these people is either stupid or bad!
Traditional Chinese characters raise the threshold for reading, while simplified characters lower the threshold for reading.
Which one is better or worse can be known without any comparison.
Orders were issued from the palace.
"First, establish public preschools across the country, with the number of no less than 100,000!"
"Second, recruit scholars from all over the country to serve as teachers for a fee, and the number will be no less than 300,000!"
"Third, all citizens aged six to eighteen, regardless of gender, must go to school! After one year, the literacy rate shall not be lower than 70%!"
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Each of the above items is extremely difficult for a country, but for Xu Yi, it is not that difficult.
First of all, after confiscating the properties of so many wealthy families and gentry, Xu Yi, or Wu Dynasty, had reached an unimaginable level of wealth.
Whether it is providing 100,000 preschools or providing free education to tens of millions of people, this is not a problem for him.
The only ones who are a bit troublesome may be the 300,000 scholars.
You can find it if you look for it.
According to an uncertain unofficial history, the number of officials in the mid-Ming Dynasty was as high as one hundred thousand. Based on this calculation, the number of scholars in the Ming Dynasty was at least one million.
There is no problem in selecting 300,000 scholars from among millions of scholars.
The problem is that these scholars regard themselves as noble and take the imperial examination as their first goal. It may be difficult to get them to voluntarily become teachers.
Even if the teacher is paid, it will be difficult to attract so many people.
But the problem is not too big.
Just put a knife to their neck!
National Scholars:······
Of course, simply holding a knife to their necks can force them to become teachers, but it may not be possible to get them to teach with their heart, which is another matter.
In order to stimulate their motivation, Xu Yi resorted to another big move - civil servants!
Ahem.
As the saying goes, the end of the universe is the exam.
Although civil servants are not officials, they are actually eating from the government!
If primary schools, middle schools, universities and other institutions are launched in the future, they can serve as principals, directors, etc., and their administrative levels will not be low! There is even the possibility of being transferred to become an official of the Ministry of Education!
In a word, although civil servants are not officials, they are reserve personnel for officials. For scholars, this is definitely an unbearable temptation.
Isn't it that they study hard just to become officials?
Now that they have the opportunity to directly become an official reserve, how can they miss it?
More importantly, in order to allow these scholars to become teachers with peace of mind, Xu Yi also came up with a cruel trick - within five years, there will no longer be scientific examinations across the country!
He was very dissatisfied with today's bloated official system - after he killed half of them, there were still more than 70,000 officials in the country.
In comparison, the number of total officials in the Han Dynasty was 7,000, the total number of officials in the Tang Dynasty was 18,000, and the total number of officials in the Song Dynasty was 34,000 - this has been called "extremely redundant".
After being killed by Xu Yi in the Ming Dynasty, there were still more than 70,000 officials. One can imagine how bloated the number of these officials were.
If it weren't for the thought that these officials would be needed in the future to continue to conquer cities and expand territory, they would have been abolished long ago!
But that is all in the future. In a short period of time, these officials will be bloated and redundant for Xu Yi. Naturally, it is impossible for him to expand the number of officials at this time.
Without the imperial examination as an upward path, civil servants naturally became the only choice for scholars.
(End of chapter)
