In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 205 Take the officials first and cut them down
Now that Zhao Yurui came to the Southern Song Dynasty, he decided to manage the officials well, not for his own retreat, but for food and making money.

The emperor's main topic today is to make money. Unexpectedly, the first thing to do is to spend money. In the next five years, at least 3000 million yuan will be spent on officials.

The Dayuan Road was established, the Dayuan system was set up to set up envoys, and the Dayuan Dusi was set up.

The envoy of the senior officer system is Yan Ying, the commander of the chief officer's capital is Ruan Cong, the former admiral of the Dinghai Navy, and the deputy commander of the capital is Ji Hu'er, who was born in the Wei Palace.

Fujian Road and Guangdong Road are responsible for relocation. At least 25 households will be relocated to Dayuan every year, and [-] households will be relocated in five years.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang provide ships, and private ships can be hired.

Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian Sanlu prepared cattle, tools, seeds and initial grain.

The money to buy cattle and farm implements was paid by the imperial court.

The method adopts the military style, that is, the garrison mainly selects young and strong from the 25 households, one for every ten households, and there are [-] garrisons in total.

That is to say, the big officials adopt the military management model. After 25 households have immigrated, one army will be drawn from every ten households, and the rest will be responsible for farming and planting sugar cane. Set up a big castle——.

One county is set up for [-] households, and five counties are set up for senior officials.

For the sake of efficiency, Zhao Yurui used the military management model in the early stage, mainly to facilitate the management of immigrants. After a few years, the population will increase, and the management can be gradually relaxed, and it will be the same as that of the local area.

Zhao and Rui came to power with a mutiny, so they should be regarded as relatively powerful emperors in the Song Dynasty. Today's first major event, no one objected, because the money was all paid by the court.

But the imperial court has no money, the emperor pays for it himself, and everyone knows it well.

The emperor paid for it himself, so what can everyone say?

Everyone just has a question, when will the emperor's money run out?Why is there so much money?

Everyone knew that Zhao Yurui ran the poker room and sugar, but they didn't expect that the emperor's money seemed to be inexhaustible, and he had more money than the Song Dynasty.

"Let me now talk about how to reduce expenses." After the emperor finished talking about the officials, his tone changed: "Deng Shangshu, how many officials are there in Song Dynasty now? How many were there before, and how many are there now?"

Deng Ruoshui got up immediately, took out a piece of paper, and explained to everyone.

At the beginning of Taizu's founding of the country, there were more than 5000 officials in the Great Song Dynasty. When it came to Song Zhenzong, it increased to more than 9000. When it came to Song Renzong, there were more than 17000. When it came to Song Huizong, it was as high as more than 48000.

The substantial increase in the number of officials means that the imperial examinations have been greatly expanded.

In the Tang Dynasty, more than 30 Jinshi were admitted every year, in the Ming Dynasty about 100 people/year, and in the Qing Dynasty less than 100 people/year.

How much is the Song Dynasty?In the 319 years of the Song Dynasty, a total of 115427 Jinshi were admitted, with an average of 361 people per year!
Some emperors set the admission criteria more broadly. For example, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty admitted about 21 Jinshi during his 1 years in power, with an average of about 500 people per year.

That is to say, in the Tang Dynasty, if you want to be a Jinshi and become an official, you must be in the top 30 in the country; living in the Song Taizong period, you only need to be in the top 500.

Not only that, the Song Dynasty also had various other ways to become an official. The emperor mentioned above can play a special role, that is, he can appoint an official at will, and the officials of the capital can recommend, yin fill (men yin), etc., and even directly buy an official in the middle and late stages. .

So now in the first year of Baoqing, the Ministry of Officials counts officials across the country in December according to the emperor's requirements. Those who are dispatched to work are about 800 people, and those who are not dispatched but have dismissed official ranks are about 7000 or more than 3000 people. There are more than [-] officials enshrined in the shrine.

Add up a total of more than 4.

Among them, the latter two are those who take money without doing money, accounting for one-third.

This is only for officials, and it is impossible to count the officials. After Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, the Ministry of Officials made statistics in March, and the statistics have not yet been completed, because this is a local establishment, which changes every month. The preliminary estimate may be More than 60 million.

During the Song Dynasty, only in the reign of Song Zhenzong, there was a large-scale reduction of official services, and a total of 19 were cut at that time.

"The officials in the ancestral hall are basically officials who are above the fifth grade and cannot serve, or are old and retired." Emperor Zhao Yurui said in a deep voice at this time: "These people are of high rank, do not work, and have high monthly payments. There are various benefits (such as silk cotton, even housing and medical insurance) that cost the imperial court 600 million guan every year."

What is this concept?Both Zhao and Rui have more than 1 people in the entire department of the Zouyuan, and the whole family of 120 artisans across the country is supported by the imperial court, with a total expenditure of only [-] million guan.

"I admit that they have contributed to the court and the country when they were young, but this will allow the court to support them for the rest of their lives? Is this fair to other people who are still in their positions, like your dear friends, who are dedicated to the court? Everyone Aiqing's monthly money is not as good as some officials who enshrine the shrine."

Swipe, all the ministers have flushed faces, some are quite angry, and some don't care, all kinds of expressions.

If these are all traitors, everyone will think, when I retire, I want to be treated like this.

But there are not many treacherous ministers at the scene, and everyone may not think so in their hearts.

Let’s not talk about those who have scattered official ranks, either they bought the official ranks, or they were subsidized by their fathers, basically the second generation of officials, the second generation of rich, the second generation of honor, the second generation of clan, and some were demoted or transferred. If you leave your post, you don't need to work with money.

Anyway, it's all just taking money and not doing anything.

Although the monthly benefits of this wave of people are relatively low, there are still a lot of people.

These two waves of blood-sucking worms cost the Southern Song court about 1000 million yuan a year to raise.

After the emperor finished speaking, the people below were silent.

Everyone knows what the emperor means, and he may want to reduce these two waves of officials.

But these two waves of officials affect the whole body, not only including almost all the nobles and high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty, but also inextricably linked with the current officials.

How does this move?
Most of the former are the second generation of officials. Don't the current officials want their sons to make up for them in the future?
Don't the current officials want to retire by themselves and enshrine the shrine?

Not to mention the outside of the capital, just the dozen or so bigwigs sitting here today, who don't want to be pampered by their descendants, and who don't want to be supported by the court after retirement.

This is working against the officials of the world, and it is destroying the tradition of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.

The emperor had only been on the throne for less than a year, and he began to think about this earth-shattering event, and the audience fell silent.

At this time, the officials looked at each other, and after a while, Wei Liaoweng, Minister of the Ministry of War, stood up.

Both of his sons were reused by the emperor, Yinbu was unnecessary, and he didn't want to be raised by the court after retirement.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I believe that the selection system for officials can be gradually modified and improved, and some idle officials who don't do anything can be eliminated."

"But this matter has to be done step by step, and we can't rush--"

The emperor had just secured his position on the throne, Wei Liaoweng didn't want the emperor to offend officials and nobles all over the world.

Because this group of people includes civil servants and military officials.

Zhao Yurui smiled, and said slowly, "I'm not in a hurry, of course I'll take my time."

Zhao Yurui revealed his solution.

The first step is to use the development of senior officials as an excuse to select half of the loose officials to serve as real positions for senior officials, and then the senior officials will take up their posts.

"In the future, all officials must have real positions, and their ranks will be determined according to their positions."

"You get monthly money for grades, and you get benefits for real jobs (i.e. cotton and silk jobs, etc.)"

The selected person will have a fixed product and a fixed position, and the official publicity will increase their income by one to two times. At the same time, they will be very popular if they have a real job.

For example, if you were a loose official who only received ten guan a month, you can suddenly go down to become a county captain or even a county magistrate, aren't you happy?Are you not excited?
Of course, after you pass by, you may also find that you are just a fortress or mayor.

But after you go up, it is difficult to get down, and all the staff are under militarized management. After you pass, it is basically impossible to get out.

The father of the official and the father of the rich businessman in the mainland, why haven't you seen your son for a long time, okay, you can also go to the officials to see, and then, you don't have to come back.

Zhao Yurui's first step is to clear half of the scattered officials to senior officials, and give priority to those who are not very strong in family background, that is, they are easy to bully, especially those bought loose officials, it is best to clear them.

The second step is to provoke the masses to fight against the masses.

That is to say, the imperial court decreed that a certain proportion of the remaining scattered officials would be selected as local real positions.

Of course, this number is limited.

According to the number of scattered officials from all over the country, one of the five will be selected for two rounds of written examination and interview. The written examination score accounts for [-]% and the interview score accounts for [-]%.

This gives everyone ample room for manipulation during the interview.

"Let all participating candidates report any bad deeds of the opponent at any time, and exclude the opponent from the exam—"

The emperor's move was really ruthless, and the ministers immediately knelt down after hearing it.

In the name of choosing a real job, let the scattered officials report to each other.

In the name of an interview, I'm here to fight my father.

Of course, the imperial court gave priority to choosing the stronger father.

After such an operation, there are more than 7000 scattered officials across the country, and there are about 2000 left.

The more than 2000 people began to organize exams, once a year, and they could get real jobs if they passed the exam. If they failed the exam for three consecutive years, they would cancel the dismissal.

Of course, most people will never pass the exam.

Three years later, there are almost no scattered officials.

The emperor planned to use three years to gradually cancel the dismissal of officials.

Except for a few hundred people with strong family backgrounds who will be filled as real jobs, the rest will be eliminated.

Among them, Zhao Yurui naturally didn't say anything about the matter of being a fortress chief to go to farmland and interviewing for a father.

When he said his way, all the ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling that it was still possible.

As for the ancestral hall, the emperor directly said that those who were served before will continue to be enshrined, and will no longer be enshrined in the future.

This means that for the time being, you have to spend money to support them, but future officials will not have this benefit. After these people die, the finances can save a lot of money.

The emperor said two ways, and all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief. The emperor did not rush for quick success, but still wanted to maintain the stability of the court and gradually reduce it.

If forceful means are used to cancel the dismissal of officials and the worship of temples, it will definitely cause necessary turmoil.

But Zhao Yurui didn't think so in his heart, because he had just been enthroned for less than a year, and the army hadn't been fully trained yet, so he had to bear with it for the time being. Wait a few years and see, those who serve the shrine will also have to leave.

Moreover, his top priority now is to focus on dealing with the big landlords. The officials have to let go of their nobles and put comfort first.

After talking about this matter, the emperor said again: "In the future, all over the Song Dynasty, we need to set up staff and posts to ensure the number of officials."

At this time in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were 17 roads, 36 prefectures, 125 states, 38 armies, and more than 700 counties.

In addition, nearly [-] Jimi prefectures, counties, and caves have been established in minority areas such as southern Sichuan, southwestern Hubei, western Hunan, northeastern Guizhou, and western Guangxi.

The ethnic minorities will not be moved for the time being, and each branch, each prefecture, and each prefecture must determine the establishment.

With a wave of Zhao Yurui's hand, Deng Ruoshui, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, immediately picked up the manuscript and read it again.

(End of this chapter)