The budget system is a new thing. Even if the four major authorities think it is necessary to implement it, the scope involved is too wide after all. Once it is implemented, it will be implemented nationwide. There are too many places that need to be coordinated, so we must be cautious.
The result of caution is to keep discussing.
It is not only necessary to improve the flaws in this system. No system can be copied mechanically and must conform to the current situation. Not only Zhang Xi, but also Zhuge Liang and others are very clear about this.
It is also necessary to set up some transitional means to slowly let the central ministries and even local governments get used to this system. It cannot be implemented suddenly, otherwise everyone will not know how to do it.
To implement this budget system, the biggest problem Dahan currently faces is the lack of personnel.
Just as Jian Yong complained, the Ministry of Works, which needs to implement a budget system the most, has very few people who can actually write qualified budget reports. And there are so many projects across the country and a wide variety of projects. It is difficult for the Ministry of Works to implement a budget system. All the literate people are sent out to prepare budget reports, and this manpower is not enough.
Let alone the local government, they don’t even know what a budget report is, let alone write one.
Therefore, this matter must be implemented, but it cannot be implemented in a hurry. It must be done step by step.
And how to promote it step by step, these things still need to be discussed carefully.
Forget about others, Zhang Xi and Liu Ba, the two instigators, will definitely accompany the entire discussion to the end.
Therefore, on New Year's Day of the second year of Zhangwu, Zhang Xi officially had a holiday. He went home to worship his ancestors and celebrate the New Year with his wife and children. After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhuge Liang took him to the mansion again to continue discussing the implementation of the budget system. .
This is really idle, and something happened. If I had known better, I shouldn't have talked so much with Liu Ba.
In the end, after wrangling for a long time, Zhang Xi suggested that if it is really risky to fully implement it now, then let's draw a circle in the north of Chengdu and create a special zone.
Well, Hanzhong is actually a very good place.
The area in Hanzhong has been recovered for several years. After these years of recuperation, the population is slowly recovering, but the cultivated land is slowly being abandoned. This is a place that needs vigorous development and transformation.
If Hanzhong is to be vigorously developed, the number of projects that need to be built and repaired will be very large. Not only will it be necessary to build various water conservancy facilities, but also military facilities and city walls, etc. There are a lot of things to wait for. Do it, just in time to test-run this budget system.
In addition, the current prefect of Hanzhong is Huang Quan, a man with both civil and military skills and good character. Having him coordinate the promotion of this budget system should put people at ease.
As for the problem of insufficient talents, Zhang Xi suddenly remembered, wasn't Ma Di running the imperial examination on a trial basis at Nanzhong? !
It has been almost three years. The first batch of talents from the imperial examination system should have been selected, right? !
Transfer a group of these people to Hanzhong to serve as assistants to assist the chief officials in implementing the budget system. Wouldn't we already have the manpower? !
Moreover, these children from poor families who came from the imperial examination, whether in Nanzhong or Hanzhong, just served as assistant officials. Unlike the officials who came from the imperial examination system, they had a grade as soon as they became officials. Most of them were chief officials of the same department. In this way It should not arouse the aristocratic family's vigilance, feeling that this is robbing them of their right to speak and their jobs.
What Zhuge Liang has to do is to ensure that these assistant officials have enough opportunities to rise, so that they will not only be assistant officials all the time. In this way, the implementation of the imperial examination system will unknowingly allow the children of poor families to have a place in the court, and in the end It would be logical to replace the imperial examination system with the imperial examination system.
Zhuge Liang also didn't expect that Zhang Xi's proposal of a budget system was not enough, and he also related this budget system to the imperial examination system. What the hell, it's troublesome again.
But Zhuge Liang thought about it and felt that Zhang Xi might be right. Ma Di worked in Yuexun County for more than three years. He not only vigorously developed the iron ore and gold mining areas of Yuexun County, but also provided the Han with a large amount of iron and gold. At the same time, he presided over the imperial examination and selected more than thirty young officials with good abilities.
These officials, Ma Su, are temporarily arranged in Yuexun County, either as assistant officials in the government offices, or as chief clerks in the ironmaking workshops, which are all low-level official positions.
But there were so many people that Ma Su, the governor of Yuexun County, couldn't arrange them. Moreover, these people sometimes did very overlapping tasks, and there was a feeling that they were overstaffed. Not only Ma Su was dissatisfied, but also these scholars with imperial examination backgrounds were very dissatisfied. dissatisfied.
For this reason, Ma Su has written to Zhuge Liang several times, asking Zhuge Liang to help resettle these low-level officials who came from the imperial examination. If they don't arrange them, no one will be willing to take the imperial examination.
After all, there is no way out after passing the imperial examination, so it is better to continue studying and traveling at home, or even join a noble family, which may have more prospects than taking the imperial examination.
It was time for Zhuge Liang to seriously think about the issue of the way out for talents in the imperial examination.
After much thought, Zhuge Liang could only choose to agree with Zhang Xi's suggestion.
Allowing these people from the imperial examination to serve as assistant officials will not attract the attention of the aristocratic families, and secondly, it will give these people from the imperial examination a glimmer of hope to continue to maintain the imperial examination system.
Besides, there is also an advantage for people who come from the imperial examination system, that is, by looking at their imperial examination results, you can know what aspects of things they are good at.
The imperial examination system itself is to select scholars by subject. The imperial examination established by Ma Di in Nanzhong was not that complicated according to Zhang Xi's suggestion.
If you think you have a lot of knowledge and know everything, you can take the Jinshi major. If you think you have a deep knowledge of classics, you can take the Mingshi major. If you think you have good arithmetic skills, you can take the Mingshi major. If you know the law, you can take the legal exam.
At Zhang Xi's suggestion, Ma Su set up four subjects to select scholars: Jinshi, Mingjing, Mingshu, and Mingfa.
Which aspect these people are good at can be seen from their origins.
Now Zhuge Liang waved his hand and removed half of the people from each of the four departments and went to Hanzhong to form the Hanzhong Preparatory Department, which was under the jurisdiction of the Hanzhong Prefecture and was responsible for the implementation of the budget system of each government in Hanzhong.
At the same time, Yang Yi was appointed as the head of the prediction department to preside over the daily work of the prediction department.
Zhang Xi actually raised objections to this candidate.
This so-called head of the Preparation Department now seems to be just a department head under the Hanzhong Prefecture. His rank is not high, and he can be regarded as the head of a county.
But if you wait until the future, once the budget system is promoted nationwide, this forecasting department will become a benchmark, and the status of the director of this forecasting department will definitely rise, and it is not impossible to even become a high official in the imperial court.
It's not good for you to ask someone to do this. Why do you have to let Yang Yi, a small-minded villain, do this? !
Zhuge Liang sighed at this, and then asked Zhang Xi: If you look among our people, can you find someone more suitable for this position than Yang Yi? !
Then Zhang Xi was speechless.
Yang Yi was best at arithmetic and overall planning. He also worked hard when handling supplies for the Northern Expedition. When Liu Bei returned to Hanzhong, he specially summoned Yang Yi and commended him.
This man is talented, but he really has no morals.
So what if he has no virtue? Where is Yang Yi's talent? Zhuge Liang's meaning is very obvious. Even if you don't divide the factions, if you look for them from the Jingzhou faction, Yizhou faction, and Yuancong faction, you can find someone who is better than Yang Yi. If someone is more suitable, then I will withdraw the appointment.
Zhang Xi couldn't find it, really couldn't find it.
Having Liu Ba is the best gift God has given to Liu Bei. If Liu Ba did not take charge of Ji Han's daily economic work, I am afraid that with Liu Bei's frequency of conquests, even if Shu has the reputation of a land of abundance, it would not be able to withstand Liu Bei's troubles. .
And now Liu Ba is the Minister of Household Affairs, and he has a lot of things to do and is under great pressure. If you ask him to head the Hanzhong Preparatory Department, it will really be too long for his life.
Liu Ba is already over fifty this year and is not considered young. It is already very difficult to deal with so many things at this age.
Moreover, Zhang Xi remembered that Liu Ba didn't seem to have a very long life, at least he couldn't compare with people like Deng Zhi, Liao Hua, and Zong Yu.
Yang Yi, just Yang Yi.
But Zhang Xi still worried and suggested that Zhuge Liang must keep an eye on Yang Yi. After all, this guy is almost the same as old Wei Wei. In such an important place as Dubu, what kind of trouble could it cause?
In this regard, Zhuge Liang could only sigh and tell Zhang Xi that he actually knew all this.
To put it bluntly, Ji Han's talent pool is still too small.
Although Zhuge Liang has spent nearly ten years planning and working hard to distribute paper and promote engraving and printing, in the entire Shu, the power of the aristocratic families still has the upper hand, and the number of students from poor families is still small. They can only be To settle for the second best, to use one's talents instead of one's virtues.
Zhuge Liang knew very well what kind of person Yang Yi was. Even if there was a choice, Zhuge Liang didn't want to use it, but now he really has no choice.
In terms of character and talent, Yang Yi is indeed not reassuring, but in terms of talent alone, it is most appropriate to put him in the position of the Preparatory Department.
Let’s talk about it in the future.
If that doesn't work, let some guy who has nothing to do every day and has time to wander from the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Households to take on more tasks.
Everyone is thinking very hard about this guy being at home with his wife and kids every day, right? !
(End of chapter)
