Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 1050

[Chapter 1050 Deepening]

the Palace of Political Affairs.

The civil and military ministers all looked submissive, showing Zhao Xu’s supreme authority.

Nodding in satisfaction, Zhao Xu gave Xiao Guizi a look.

Xiao Guizi understood, and immediately called the two young eunuchs who were serving on one side, and ordered the two young eunuchs to follow him with two thick stacks of documents.

When he came to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, Xiao Guizi handed out a book.

The contents of these documents are all the same, and they are related to a complete top-to-bottom restructuring of Da Song after Zhao Xu ascended the throne.

“From today onwards, the post of prime minister will be removed and replaced by the cabinet. There will be nine cabinet ministers tentatively, and one cabinet chief assistant will be selected to preside over cabinet affairs.” Zhao Xu said slowly, “From now on, all government affairs will be discussed by the cabinet ministers. Then submit it to Yu Zhen for approval.”

For Zhao Xu, this restructuring should be in-depth, but should be appropriately conservative, in line with the characteristics of Dasong’s own history and culture, as well as the current stage of historical development.

He won’t pick up others’ wisdom and play the Western land’s tricks.

For him, the essence of any system lies only in the people who implement it.

When people are rotten, no matter what system is ultimately bullshit, a piece of it has to rot.

For example, in Jin State, one of the Five Overlords in the Spring and Autumn Period, the system of three armies and six ministers established at the beginning of the founding of the country is the oldest democratic system.

At that time, the monarch of Jin State was called Xujun, and his rights were restricted.

The country’s government affairs are in charge of the generals of the Chinese army in turn, which is equivalent to the prime minister, with the assistants of the six ministers.

This system was advanced and strong at the time, but in the end it ended in a trio of promotions and sadly withdrew.

However, since the establishment of the centralized prefecture and county system, Daqin has been on top of the world, and finally unified the six countries, but it also died.

But at least Daqin once created a glorious history and made immortal achievements for all generations.

It is precisely because of these lessons learned that he decided that Dasong is still a centralized country dominated by his emperor.

After all, if you go to play Xitu and talk about each other and hold you back, should Da Song continue to develop?

He didn’t want to argue for three to five years over whether to build a bridge.

If this is the case, the Western natives really wish for it, and they will die of laughter.

Furthermore, his most fundamental purpose is to remove obstacles to the development of technology, education, industry, commerce, agriculture and other industries through restructuring, not to put a spell on himself.

Thinking of this, he continued, “After the cabinet is established, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Accounts, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Punishment will be cancelled. The ministry was renamed the Construction Department, the Shangshu was renamed the Minister of Construction, the Ministry of Officials was renamed the Personnel Department, the Shangshu was renamed the Minister of Personnel, the Ministry of Criminal Justice was renamed the Department of Justice, and the Shangshu was renamed the Minister of Justice.” Zhao Xu said slowly, he did not mention the Ministry of War, because the Ministry of War will cooperate with the army business discussed together.

After such a restructuring, the status of the previously very high-ranking Six Ministries will be similar to that of the Department of Commerce under Yang He, the Department of Industry under Chen Xu, and the Department of Foreign Affairs under Dong An.

Of course, the titles of Yang He and others have also changed during this restructuring, namely Minister of Industry, Minister of Commerce and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

After announcing the restructuring of the core institutions of the imperial court, Zhao Xu talked about the restructuring of prefectures, counties and counties, “In addition, from today onwards, the prefectures in Dasong will be renamed as provinces, and the prefects will be renamed governors. name.”

The term Xingxing was derived from Zhongshu Sheng, the central institution of the Tang Dynasty.

He abolished states and set up provinces in order to further erase the bad customs of the past state pastoral system.

After a pause, he continued, “At the same time, deepen the system that county magistrates, county guards, and provincial governors are only in charge of government affairs, the judgment of criminal responsibility is in charge of the supervisory courts at all levels, and the arrest of thieves and public security are carried out by Wuhou at all levels. function, rename it…” All the

civil and military ministers in the hall held their breaths, only Zhao Xu’s resounding voice.

There are many things about the restructuring of provinces, counties and counties. Just like the abolition of the Ministry of Rites, he also abolished redundant institutions, such as the Li Cao in the Six Caos.

However, some additions have been made, such as institutions for agriculture, industry, and commerce.

In fact, it is basically to reduce the court organization and move it to the provinces, counties and counties.

This is called sparrows, which are small and complete, and this is also a common method in all countries.

Regarding the government affairs part, Zhao Xu read for about half an hour and drank tea three times.

But even so, what is said is only a brief content, and the specific content is still on the thick documents.

“These reforms are related to the national system, but I also want to carry out some reforms on the customs of the great praise people.” Zhao Xu said with a smile, “For example, from now on, the common people in the world will not kneel when they see an official, they only need to bow and salute. Of course, there is no need to see me. Kneel.” Zhao Xu said.

To make a bow is to bow hands relative to each other. He thinks this is a good way to salute. There is no need to change to modern etiquette such as shaking hands, and it can also avoid skin contact and spread diseases.

Not kneeling is to blur the harsh vulgar custom of dignity.

It was about government affairs, Zhao Xu cleared his throat, and looked at Chang Wei and other generals.

After pondering for a while, he said, “For the army, I have decided to formally establish the army, navy, and air force. Needless to say, the army and the navy, the air force is currently composed of hot air balloons and airships that are about to enter the ranks, and the air force will be further developed in the future. ”

On the basis of the three armies, set up a defense department to command the three armies. I will concurrently serve as the minister of the defense department for the time being. At the same time, the defense department has a general staff department, which is directly restructured from the Ministry of War.”

The functions of the staff include battlefield logistics and formulation of combat plans. Such matters are in line with the previous responsibilities of the Ministry of War.

Therefore, Zhao Xu simply restructured the Ministry of War into the General Staff Department.

“The minister of defense has a general of the three armies, and under the general there is a captain (army commander), a commander (division commander), a school lieutenant (brigade commander), a battalion commander, a capital commander (regiment commander), and a general banner (company commander). , Xiaoqi (platoon leader), team leader (squad leader).” Zhao Xu said one by one, which is basically the same as before.

After talking for a while, Zhao Xu poured out most of the things.

Taking a deep breath, he said to everyone, “What I didn’t say is in the documents in your hands. Today, I will first confirm the candidates for the cabinet, and then the cabinet will promote the reform.” After

finishing speaking, he looked at the ministers, “Liu Fuyuan He is the prime minister, and he will serve as the chief assistant of the cabinet from now on. Six of the other eight people will be filled by the former six ministers. This is seven people, and there are two other candidates, one is Mi Yan, and the other is Ma Yuan How about it?”

“Your majesty is wise. When Mi Yan was in charge of Ning Jindu, he worked hard and achieved outstanding achievements. He was indeed qualified to enter the cabinet. As for Ma Yuan, when he was in charge of Jinzhou for His Highness, he also won the hearts of the people. Now it is full of vitality again.” Liu Fu laughed.

In fact, this cabinet candidate was not decided by Zhao Xu at the moment, but the result of discussions between him and Zhao Xu.

Now, what he’s talking about is just a scene, in fact, there are other reasons for choosing Mi Yan and Ma Yuan.

This royal relative of the Mi family can check and balance the royal relative of the Yang family.

And Ma Yuan, a veteran of the three dynasties, was upright and upright, and could act as a stick in Zhao Xu’s hand to beat others.

Furthermore, due to the lack of officials in Yanzhou, he absorbed many former Dasong officials into the officialdom and pushed Ma Yuan out, which can also unite people’s hearts.

Of course, on the one hand, it can also constrain officials from the Yanzhou lineage.

He is very clear that being an emperor is like nature, maintaining the balance of ecology.

Excessive expansion of any species is the destruction of nature.

(end of this chapter)