Regarding the sudden system changes, Cao Kai, who was sitting next to Kong Zheng, felt that he had to talk about this issue.
He felt that Su Yonglin could not go too far on this matter.
It's okay to take away the personnel power, but now we still have to do this.
Not to mention how much labor costs need to be paid and how many official positions need to be added, these are all money, and as a result, local officials will have more constraints on what they want to do, and they will lose a very powerful deterrent weapon.
This infringes on everyone's interests.
But just as he was about to move, Kong Zheng quickly tugged on his sleeve.
Cao Kai looked at Kong Zheng in confusion. Kong Zheng frowned and shook his head slightly, signaling him not to talk too much.
Cao Kai was very confused and didn't know what Kong Zheng meant, but since everyone decided to advance and retreat together, he couldn't mess around to avoid being dissatisfied and abandoned by his colleagues.
In this era where everyone needs to work together to survive, what he does is very likely to affect his future career.
So Cao Kai still held back.
But Cao Kai held back, but some people didn't.
For example, the current Financial Secretary Yuan Wailang and Zhang Wenyi, an official of the old Jin Kingdom who was born in Yanyun Han, raised their concerns.
"It is good for the general to pay attention to the law, but this idea is too difficult to achieve. In the past, the local Xing Prison incident was handed over to the local government. If they were all placed separately, I don't know how many more officials and staff would be added, and how much more expenses would be added. ”
As soon as he said this, Kong Zheng noticed that Huo Jianbai frowned and looked at Zhang Wenyi with some surprise. It was obvious that Zhang Wenyi did not communicate with him in advance.
Kong Zheng secretly felt happy. He felt that these Yanyun Han people were still vulgar and could not even control their subordinates. So he looked at Su Yonglin again, expecting to see Su Yonglin's displeasure.
But Su Yonglin still smiled appropriately as if he had everything under control.
What Zhang Wenyi said is indeed the problem.
In the past, only some major cases and death penalty cases needed to be handled by the judicial department of the central court. Some trivial local matters could be handled directly by local officials. I have never heard of setting up special judicial agencies in local areas.
At a serious level, this is called usurping local authority, which doesn’t sound good.
To be honest, this is something that consumes a lot of money and energy, and it may not be possible to organize so many judicial talents across the country. How to set up these departments and how to arrange so many judicial talents to take charge of the affairs are all difficult problems.
It costs money, it costs a lot of money.
However, before Su Yonglin responded, Huo Jianbai stood up and refuted Zhang Wenyi.
"Without rules, there is no circle. The general wants to establish laws and regulations for the future country. This is a good thing. What is there to worry about? Moreover, the phenomenon of redundant officials has been serious since the Song Dynasty. Zhang Yuanwailang, don't you know? ? How can we talk about not having enough manpower?"
Zhang Wenyi looked at Huo Jianbai and seemed to feel something, so he lowered his head with embarrassment.
If nothing else, what Huo Jianbai said is also reasonable. The phenomenon of redundant officials in the Song Dynasty was so serious that there was a serious shortage of official positions in the court. When new people came up, there were not enough positions. The old people were always worried that their positions would be replaced by new people.
Because too many Jinshi were admitted and there were not enough official positions in the court, many political incidents were triggered. This was one of the problems that Wang Anshi urgently needed to solve during his reform, and it provided sufficient manpower for the old and new party struggles in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the private sector can provide several times as many applicants as the imperial court needs for recruitment. Does it mean that if the imperial court needs officials, will there be dissatisfaction with the recruitment?
The scene became a little awkward for a while.
The leader of the faction is silent, and you, a subordinate, stand up and take over your duties. Isn't it a bit too much?
Seeing Zhang Wenyi blushing and about to die, Su Yonglin smiled slightly and spoke.
"It is because of the unprofessionalism and lack of dedication of the local government that there are so many unjust, false and wrong cases, and that there is a saying among the people that there is a snowstorm in June, which shows how many grievances there are. I have seen this type of thing in many places I have visited. Haven't you seen enough?
This kind of mistake was made in the past, and I will never make it again. If there is a shortage of talents, then we should set up specialized institutions to train talents. If problems arise, we must correct them. If we don't correct them, should we just leave them alone and ignore them? Just pretend that you don’t see the grievances among the people?
I know that this will consume a lot of things and a lot of money, but doing this will serve the present generation and benefit the future. We cannot not do it just because it is difficult. This is not the way to do politics, let alone the way to be a human being. "
Su Yonglin looked at Zhang Wenyi and said slowly: "Your worries are not unreasonable, and they are also practical problems that the court needs to face. This does exist. You are right. That is why we have to solve it, isn't it? "
Su Yonglin's attitude was obviously very firm and could not be shaken.
So everyone said yes again and again and no longer objected.
Zhang Wenyi also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that he had barely survived the social crisis.
However, Kong Zheng, who had been silent all this time, noticed something interesting.
A highlight that was mentioned by Su Yonglin in one sentence.
To run a school to cultivate specialized talents?
this……
What means?
Could it be that Su Yonglin plans to cultivate specialized legal talents?
Want to open another school?
What is taught is not traditional Confucian classics, but content related to law?
Kong Zheng was very concerned about this issue, but Su Yonglin didn't seem to want to explain it in depth. He didn't dare to ask now. He could only hide his doubts in his heart and prepare to ask at the right time later.
After the administrative and judicial aspects were determined by Su Yonglin, the highlight was the military aspect.
Su Yonglin did not set up the ineffective Ministry of War. Instead, he retained the Privy Council and still set up the Privy Council Envoy and Privy Deputy Envoys. However, he limited the Privy Council's authority to daily military management and logistics management, as well as the promotion, rewards and punishments of military personnel. Responsible for handling.
The real military planning and military command powers were transferred to the newly established departmental staff council.
The Staff House will be expanded from the Staff Division within the army. All personnel have military experience and were promoted from the army. The heads are the Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff, who are responsible for military command.
The current Liberation Army will be reorganized into the national army in the future. The five major corps and the Imperial Guards and Huben Army, including all military departments, belong to the Privy Council in terms of organization, but the real command power lies with the Staff Council, and the Privy Council and the Staff Council are directly responsible to the emperor. .
Of course, this result was no surprise to the subordinates.
Su Yonglin himself was one of the earliest founders of the Liberation Army, one of the three later giants, and the savior who saved the Liberation Army in the end. The current Liberation Army was reorganized by Su Yonglin.
The military aspect was originally where Su Yonglin could do whatever he wanted. No one had ever thought that he could bargain with Su Yonglin on the military aspect, unless - he was tired of living.
How to arrange the army, how to set it up, how to train it, and how to fight are all matters that Su Yonglin can decide with a single word.
There is no other reason than his achievements, his prestige, and his military ability.
Don't talk about him, Zhao Guangyi didn't do anything to control military force with civility before the donkey cart drifted.
Many senior officials in the Privy Council at that time were military generals. Before the war, Zhao Guangyi also abandoned the civilian government and discussed with the Privy Council alone without colluding with civil servants.
For the founding emperor and the enterprising emperor, the army was not something that outsiders could interfere with. As long as they could command it, it would be commanded by themselves.
But if the emperor himself is an incompetent person, loses his prestige in the army, and the society is dead, then naturally there is nothing to say. All means must be used to prevent the army from getting out of control.
After the three big heads of administration, justice, and military are solved, the next few peripheral central agencies are actually not important.
The settings of the Academy of National History, the Academy of Xuanhui, the Academy of Hongwen, the Academy of Jixian, the Academy of Astronomy, the Imperial Academy, etc. are all modeled on those of the previous dynasties. They were all present in the Jin and Song dynasties, and they are in the same vein, so they are not important.
The central system has been basically determined, and what needs to be paid attention to next is the local system.
Su Yonglin carried out some great changes in the local system.
The first thing to bear the brunt is the [Xing Shangshu Province] system.
In short, Su Yonglin wanted to turn the Shangshu Province system, which was only a temporary measure during the Jin Dynasty, into a customized one, and even fix it as a first-level administrative division under the country.
This change is really big.
