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Once he was stable, all the officials recognized his abilities and no longer had any wandering thoughts. Even the ambitious Wei Qian was so frightened by 'Zhan Ying' in the past two years that he returned to his previous style. He no longer wanted to roll up his sleeves and arm-wrestle with the emperor. After two years, he gradually discovered that Zhan Ying Although it rekindled from the fireworks, it was not as scary as imagined, and then it gradually became less daunting.

Just because the throne is secure does not mean that the world is peaceful. The imperial court for more than a hundred years has left many sequelae, and is now eroding the national power of the Huang Kingdom little by little.

Chapter 143 Stunning mountains and rivers (nineteen)

Although the political institutions of the Huang Kingdom are excellent enough, no matter how excellent the system is, it is useless without the right people to implement it.

Wenzong's policy of governing the country by checking and balancing power for many years has produced very troublesome sequelae.

The first is the situation where the responsibilities of the civil service group are ‘unclear’. In order to provide checks and balances, Emperor Wenzong decided that although the Six Ministries were in charge of all affairs, five temples divided up the power of the Six Ministries. Where rights overlapped, there would naturally be fights. Although You Hongyin adjusted personnel in various ways, he still treated the symptoms but not the root cause. This kind of The situation is reflected in many institutions, even local governments are not immune.

Second, the number of troops in the military attache group is redundant. In fact, there are supervisory agencies on the civilian side, but on the military attache side, the decisions are made by various high-ranking generals. There are no sound official positions in the army. All business systems come from the generals' own staff. Although the military attaches do not like the distrust from the court and hate the supervisory troops sent by the emperor, in You Hongyin's view, rights must be restricted to last long, otherwise, it is just letting them go. Destruction also leads to chaos.

In addition to the various problems faced by civil and military officials, the long-lasting peace in the world has also seen the serious phenomenon of 'land annexation'.

This is unavoidable. If a powerful empire is born for a long time, this problem will always arise. The once wealthy landowners will become richer and buy the land from ordinary people to expand their own capital and lose the land. Ordinary people are becoming increasingly unable to make ends meet. If coupled with heavy corvee taxes and unreliable local officials, then the people who have no living conditions will become refugees. If there are too many such refugees, it will also There may be a civil unrest.

When this kind of situation is not serious enough to rule, the court generally will not take care of it, nor can it think of taking care of it. But they don't know that this kind of land annexation is a sign of the country's subjugation. Whenever it is very serious and has affected the stability of the empire, it is noticed that When things get serious, and you try to prevent resistance through reforms and restructuring, you often fail or consume a lot of energy, or even damage your vitality.

Although the land annexation of the Huang Kingdom is serious, it has not reached the point of subjugation. The Huang Kingdom has a strong foundation and few foreign enemies, so it can still afford to wait. Therefore, You Hongyin also understood that if he wanted to carry out this kind of reform that touched the interests of all nobles at the beginning, it would be safer to take a break and further improve the government, adjust the system and optimize officials first.

You Hongyin proposed a proposal to standardize the positions and powers of officials at the court meeting. In the past, although there was a scope of authority for each official, it was never recorded in a book. It was only a description of a dozen words, which was too general and informal. The new emperor requires that all positions be delineated from top to bottom, with detailed descriptions of responsibilities, and the preparation of supplementary and temporary response plans.

For example, starting from the cabinet, in the past, the cabinets had their own areas of expertise, so they were used to handling small matters separately. Major matters were discussed, and the discussion was almost handed over to the emperor for approval. Finally, hundreds of officials discussed it at the great court meeting, and the emperor finally made the following decisions. resolution. But now, the responsibilities of the elders have been completely clarified. Two people form a team. Each of the three groups is responsible for a part of the affairs they are good at. Two people in the same group handle half of the affairs at the same time, and then exchange and review each other. If you are undecided about a minor matter, you can ask the person responsible for the matter to come to the cabinet to inquire and discuss and resolve it together. Major matters were still handled together, presented to the emperor, and officials met at court to discuss affairs.

In addition, You Hongyin requested that a duty should have three lines of decision-making, execution and review, but there should be no duplication of duties. For example, the Ministry of Rites is responsible for festivals and reception of foreign guests, while Honglu Temple and Taichang have the same duties. The temple needs to divide responsibilities and clearly define them.

At the same time, the job responsibilities remain unchanged. If there are any increases or decreases based on actual changes, they can be reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. This job responsibility is also the basis for the year-end performance evaluation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. For positions with strong practicality, it is necessary to describe them in as much detail as possible. Cabinet, Six Ministries and Twelve As an important minister has too many duties and work content, the job description conditions can be relaxed to avoid being too strict and unable to adapt to changes.

If an official is interested in a certain position or the position is not suitable and needs to be transferred, etc., the direct leader can apply to the Ministry of Personnel. For low-level officials, they will discuss and decide with the cabinet. They only need to apply for the emperor's seal for approval. For high-ranking officials, the Ministry of Personnel and the Cabinet need to apply. A preliminary judgment will be made and then discussed together at the DPRK meeting.

All the officials were confused.

Yes, this set of so-called official job descriptions does indeed divide the scope of work and the power in hand. It may endanger the power of your position, but it is not sure whether your power will become greater or less. At the same time, they also know that the scope is clearly divided, and there will be no more quarreling and snatching like in the past. However, with an extra step of supervision, there will be new inconveniences. But the emperor released the six ministries and the cabinet and even said that the officials could not give up their rights. Originally, this right was firmly in the hands of the emperor!

That is the power to appoint officials.

This feeling of mixed good and bad, with a knife in the candy, made all the officials start to wonder what to do. Gradually, they thought clearly about the benefits behind this plan and understood that the emperor just wanted to make the court official system more detailed and standardized. After all, these officials who had studied for many years agreed.

And this matter was naturally carried out by the Ministry of Personnel. From top to bottom, slowly sorting out, suddenly, the whole officialdom atmosphere became clear, the three lines of decision-making, execution and inspection were clear, and the operation speed of the entire court was unknown. How many times faster than before!

After three years, the queen finally gave birth to the eldest prince, and both the officials and the two queen mothers seemed to gradually understand that the emperor was a person who was more diligent and unwilling to waste a lot of time in the harem, so they gradually stopped urging the emperor to let him go, and the heir to the throne was also there. The harmony between the emperor and the queen was a blessing for the country. It was Queen Xie who was envied by many women in the backyard, and even rumors began to spread that the queen was a female demon.

Xiao Yinzi mentioned this kind of thing once to You Hongyin, but he didn't care. The queen can handle it herself. He doesn't have time.

"Yes, you can sneak out of the palace when you have time to eat delicious food and drink on the streets, and you also call it looking for talents lost among the people and want to be a Bole." Xiao Yinzi couldn't help complaining.

This guy relied on himself as a master by his side, and he dared to run out of the palace with a few guards. Occasionally, he would take the two queen mothers and the queen out to escape the summer heat, hunt, etc. during festivals. He was quite restless.

"You are nagging again, Xiao Yinzi, if you continue like this, you will be more than ten years older than me. Be careful that your hair will turn white early." You Hongyin still retained his past habits in front of Xiao Yinzi, and never put on airs.

Xiao Yinzi glanced at his body that had not been exercised for a long time and snorted with disdain.

You Hongyin followed his gaze, looked at his unmuscular arms, and said indignantly: "Being an emperor is so busy that I don't have time to exercise."

Xiao Yinzi didn't want to continue this meaningless topic, so he said: "When are you going to mobilize the army?"

You Hongyin was a little surprised and said: "Okay, you have been with me for so many years, Xiao Yinzi, you are getting smarter. Now the civil servants here are almost smoothly sorted out, and those who are incompetent and greedy have basically been cleared out. It is indeed time to mobilize the army."

"Are you going to cut the army?" Xiao Yinzi thought for a while and said.

"Yes," You Hongyin said, "There are too many guards in the capital and local troops, and most of the local troops are militiamen who are half farmers and half soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is really poor."

"But although disarmament saves military expenditure, if there is a war in the future, it will be a great loss." Xiao Yinzi said, "Moreover, disarmament will inevitably involve the interests of senior generals. Whether they agree or not is another matter. Maybe there will be a mutiny, which will be enough."

You Hongyin said, "Of course, I have thought about what you said, but in recent years, you have also seen the implementation of many policies, and the treasury tax revenue has become more abundant, especially the commercial tax, which has begun to gradually increase. If you have money, you don't have to panic. I don't just want to disarm, I also want to completely change the military system."

Recruiting militia is naturally not as good as raising professional soldiers. Although raising professional soldiers is more expensive, it is professional.

However, the matter of changing the military system is naturally not something that he, the emperor, can change at will. There is still a discussion process, and You Hongyin recalled several senior generals who guarded the border and were in charge of the local army, asking them to report on their work and come back to discuss the matter with the cabinet and the Ministry of War.

You Hongyin can only give a general military system framework. The flesh and blood in this framework still needs to be filled by people who are more familiar with military affairs and are always dealing with military affairs. It needs opinions from all sides to find loopholes and finally formulate a system that is suitable for the current Huang** army in all aspects. ◆思◆Rabbit◆在◆Online◆Read◆

In general, the new military system is still a system of three systems: Beijing Guards, local troops and border guards, but the biggest point is the emergence of military assessment and military division.

This military division is not simply divided according to different weapons, but according to different duties and combat methods. These are deduced and designed by You Hongyin with reference to the modern military system, which is more scientific and more coordinated.

The assessment represents the professionalism of the army, eliminating unqualified and lazy soldiers, reducing the number of troops, and improving the combat effectiveness and mental outlook of the entire army. In order to appease the soldiers, You Hongyin also improved the reward system to avoid the practice of not being able to recruit soldiers. At the same time, in combination with various situations, a strict number of people was given to avoid the situation of eating empty salaries. The salaries of the generals will also be greatly increased to prevent the generals from over-exploiting their soldiers and at the same time not restricting the gray income of the army, such as taking a part of the spoils of bandit suppression.

This military reform is more difficult than the change of the civil service system of boiling a frog in warm water, because the civil service system of Huangguo is actually quite good, while the military system is much worse, so it is naturally troublesome to change.

And You Hongyin's performance after ascending the throne has always given him a lot of points. At the same time, many of the military officers are really loyal to him. No matter how difficult this military reform is, it will go on.

However, it took nearly six or seven years to complete the reform from top to bottom. The Beijing Guards and local troops, which were originally redundant and had long been fed by the peaceful life and had no fighting spirit, have also regained their style. The border guards also benefited from the rotation policy and had the opportunity to recuperate.

At this time, You Hongyin finally started to reform the land system. This reform, which could not be touched before the government and military power were completely sorted out, finally kicked off.

Chapter 144 The Great Mountains and Rivers (Twenty)

You Hongyin hesitated between the Single Whip Law and the Land Tax and the Land Tax.

The so-called Single Whip Law is to merge taxes and labor service, and distribute land taxes, corvée labor, and miscellaneous labor service on the land, that is, the labor service is attributed to the land, the land is measured and the people are counted, and the land tax is collected according to the land. The land tax and the head tax are no longer mainly head taxes, but are mainly land taxes. Then, the head tax on the people will be immediately reduced, especially for those people without land, the tax will be reduced a lot. Of course, those landlords who own a lot of land will have to pay more taxes, and their interests are indeed greatly affected.

The Land Tax and the Land Tax are more intense than the Single Whip Law. To be precise, the Land Tax and the Land Tax are based on the Single Whip Law. The poll tax should be evenly distributed into the land tax, and a unified land tax should be collected, which will completely solve the dual-track taxation system of collecting both poll tax and land tax. That is, the poll tax should be completely abolished, and only the land tax should be collected.

As for the modern public ownership of land, which is more conducive to agricultural development, it is not realistic under such a ruling situation.

What You Hongyin hesitated about was whether to proceed step by step or to do it all at once. If the gradual implementation of the "One Whip" system was carried out, it would be very difficult to reform it during his rule.