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

Chapter 206 I specialize in killing scholar-bureaucrats

Zhao Yurui's restructuring is still relatively large.

Like the imperial court, there are six departments (six divisions) in Luli, among which there are now several divisions in Jiangnan two roads, which are for pilot purposes.

Three years later, these divisions will also be set up in various branches, and the number and establishment of officials have been prepared in advance.

The same is true for all prefectures, states, armies, and counties.

In the past, there were no such six houses below the county level. In the Ming Dynasty, there were six houses, and they were only officials. Now they are all officials.

That is, below the county level, there are the county magistrate, the master, the county lieutenant, and the six house masters (household, ritual, soldier, criminal, worker, and official), and nine officials.

A county, no matter how big or small, has nine officials.

All armies, changed to counties or states, have the same number of officers.

In the state capital, there are magistrates (zhizhou), Tongzhi, Tongju, Tuiguan, and six Caos (households, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers, and officials). Each Cao has two deputies, a total of sixteen officials.

There are envoys and deputy envoys (2 people) at the first level of the road. Among the ten divisions (hukou, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers, officials, merchants, firearms, taxation, and city ships (roads with ports)) each division has one When it comes to two or three departments, there are department heads and deputy heads, and there are about [-] to [-] officials at the road level.

In the past, whether it was coin casting, salt tea, transfer envoys, appeasement envoys, or inspector envoys, all kinds of messy official positions were gone, and they were all merged into the ten divisions of each road.

In some places, there are two roads and one road.

In this way, Deng Ruoshui finally said that through the restructuring, there were more than 3000 local officials in the Song Dynasty, and with the addition of officials from various ministries in the capital, there were less than [-].

According to the current monthly money, after the fixed salary, the annual expenditure of the imperial court is about 300 million yuan.

"This is based on an average high salary of 2000 yuan a month. In fact, there shouldn't be so much." Deng Ruoshui said: "With various subsidies and real goods, it can definitely be controlled at around [-] million yuan a year."

Eighty guan a month is quite a high monthly fee, but Zhao and Rui have to consider the benefits of middle and senior officials, such as working land, silk, cotton and other expenses, so they count in Gaoli first.

If you think about it, the two officials who only take money and do nothing in front of Fengci and Sanguan add up to close to 2000 million guan. If you think about it this way, the annual expenditure of [-] million guan in office is not too much.

Ge Hong immediately said: "Your Majesty is going to reduce the number of officials again?"

"It won't eliminate much." Zhao Yurui said, the more than 3 officials mentioned just now included military attaches.

Now the military officer is not in there, only civilian officials.

Civil servants only need to reduce more than 4000 people.

The specific reduction will be decided by each state government, first reported, and then approved by the emperor.

Because at present, all the prefectures and prefectures in the country have basically changed their chief officials, and most of them are capable and willing to do things.

The county level has not been reduced, but will increase, and many officials may go to the county.

I have to say that the emperor's big move is still very shocking.

Just about to enter the second year of Baoqing, the emperor will wantonly reduce the serving officials and loose officials.

"We must set the number and fixed positions. In the future, we will increase the number of officials according to the population of each place. If the population does not increase, the official position cannot be increased, and none of them can be added." The emperor said solemnly at this time.

This cut will basically lay off some officials and corrupt officials who do not work in the local area or who used to be attached to Shi Miyuan.

For example, Lu Ziyu, the magistrate of Liyang County.

Lu Ziyu is the son of Lu You, a famous poet and patriot.

But Lao Tzu's heroic son is not necessarily a hero, just like Qin Hui's descendants also died on the battlefield for the Song Dynasty.

When Lu Ziyu was the county magistrate of Liyang, in order to please Shi Miyuan, he forcibly confiscated [-] mu of grain fields in the name of demolition and gave them to Shi Miyuan.

At that time, Shi Miyuan bought land for Lu Ziqian for an acre of ten guan.

Lu Ziqian gave the common people five guans per mu, and he took five guans per mu for himself.

Some people were dissatisfied and wanted to go to Beijing to sue the imperial court. Lu Zizhen led people to intercept them, burned the houses of the people, arrested the people and put them in a study class, filled them with urine and feces, and forced them to write a deed. give them.

The crimes committed by Lu Zixuan in Liyang are too numerous to be recorded, and the heavens cannot tolerate them.

Zhao Yurui only found out about this when they searched Shi Miyuan's grain field.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to reduce the number of officials, Zhao Yurui directly ransacked their homes and executed them without trial.

Zhao Yurui's attitude is very obvious. They have a more gentle attitude towards the elimination of scattered officials and officials who serve as temples, and they will take it step by step.

For this group of officials on duty, the imperial court directly cut them down violently. Those who are honest and willing to return to their hometowns are fine. Those who are dishonest will find an excuse and arrest them.

These people are basically corrupt officials from the original place, and they have no good feelings to talk about, so they will kill as many as they can.

In addition, in addition to reducing officials, the emperor also requested that a total of 40 officials and servants be cut across the country in batches.

He hated the officials very much, and expressed that he wanted to be the same as Dinghai County, and he would kill the killers. The number of officials in each county was fixed, a large number of people were cut, and a new batch was recruited. Ten thousand.

The new recruits are mainly relatives of military generals in the local garrison.

If there are any objections from all over the place, they will be killed directly.

The emperor wanted to go to war and kill a group of serving officials and even a small number of officials, which really shocked the ministers.

Because the Song Dynasty had a tradition of not killing scholar-bureaucrats.

But the emperor also said that many officials in the Song Dynasty are not on the way of Jinshi, but are recruited and bought officials.

Killing civil officials is to serve as a warning, letting officials all over the world know the emperor's style of doing things.

If you don't work hard, I will kill scholar-bureaucrats.

More importantly, the bulk of the money spent in the Song Dynasty was because of the corruption of these officials.

Zhao Yurui planned to budget 4000 million yuan for the military last year, accounting for more than one-third of the entire imperial court's revenue, which is already quite scary.

But the big money spent by the courts of the Song and Song Dynasties was not these.

Official salaries only account for about half of military expenditures.

More expenses are spent for unclear reasons. For example, as mentioned earlier, in the 17 years of Jiading, the maintenance of Jiankang navy ships cost 30 yuan, and they can directly buy dozens of new large ships and hundreds of medium-sized ships.

No one knows how much is actually used, anyway, the local officials must be full of fat and water.

In the courts of the Song and Song Dynasties, such unclear expenses were the big ones, and this happened everywhere. The money minted could still lose a lot of money, but the officials who minted the money made a lot of money.

Therefore, Zhao Yurui wanted to rectify the officialdom and kill the officials.

This is also one of the ways to cut expenses.

At least the officials and servants who have just been replaced will restrain themselves.

Of course, the official character is the main reason, and the system is a more important thing. These systems must be slowly formulated and gradually improved by Zhao and Rui.

On that day, the emperor summoned a group of ministers, and basically set four major events to be done next year, reducing officials, reducing expenses, developing high-level personnel, increasing business with neighboring countries, especially the matter of changing war horses with Xixia.

From the next day, a series of imperial edicts and general documents began to be issued to various parties.

In the second year of Baoqing, Zhao Yurui began a major restructuring of the Song Dynasty, rectifying officials across the country.

Zhao Yurui has the confidence to dare to do this. Since he took power in February, he has replaced a large number of local officials and gained control of the whole country.

Reorganize the national army, reorganize and train soldiers, and firmly grasp the national military and political power.

Now it has successively negotiated peace with Jin and Xixia, put down Li Quan, and temporarily stabilized the four weeks in the country.

Zhao Yurui must seize the time to rectify officials across the country to lay a foundation for their own accelerated development.

When Cui Yuzhi was in Lianghuai, he farmed hundreds of thousands of fields, thousands of horses, and elite soldiers capable of fighting. After arriving in Sichuan, he accumulated tens of millions of money and hundreds of thousands of grains, and the officials and the people were sincerely convinced.

So Zhao Yurui knew that there was a huge gap between useful officials and useless officials.

If the officialdom of the whole country cannot be rectified, it will be useless to change the Song Dynasty. If he alone, he is the Qin Emperor, Hanwu, Tang Zong, Song Zuming and Taizu all possessed, and he will not be able to change the Song Dynasty.

The next day, the officials went to the court to discuss matters. As soon as they arrived at the Nangong Gate, they saw two lines of large characters painted in black paint on the left and right walls outside the Nangong Gate.

On the left is: "Reuse virtuous ministers, select good generals", and on the right: "Diligence and thrift, love the people."

Civil and military officials saw it, and they all had strange expressions.

After entering the Nangong Gate, you will go directly to the Daqing Palace.

The walls on both sides of the main entrance of the Daqing Hall were also graffitied.

On the left is: "When an official does not make decisions for the people, it is better to go home and sell tofu."

On the right is: "Men serve as soldiers, defend their homes, guard their wives and children."

At this time, the civil servant came up from the left, and the military officer came up from the right. Everyone looked at the two lines of writing, thinking about each other.

The emperor didn't say anything about being a soldier to defend the Song Dynasty, these empty words are to protect your wives, children and homes.

Let the Mongols and Jin people come in, and the homes, wives and children will all suffer.

After going to court, the emperor ordered people to distribute this pamphlet.

The above is Cui Yuzhi's experience as an official, all his achievements.

The imperial court compiled it into a book, which will be distributed to various places one after another, so that officials at the road, prefecture, prefecture, and county levels can learn from it.

The imperial court should vigorously publicize Cui Yuzhi's ability and call on officials from all over the country to learn from Cui Yuzhi.

There is also a negative teaching material in the back, which is Lu Zizhen, and it is even marked that the whole family of Lu Zizhen was killed as a warning.

This is to ask the officials all over the world, do you want to be Cui Yuzhi or Lu Zixuan.
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In January of the second year of Baoqing, not long after the Chinese New Year, Qian Hongzu and some people came to Quanzhou Port, looking at the densely packed ships ahead, his face was extremely solemn.

Qian Hongzu was Shi Miyuan's confidant. In the 15th year of Jiading, Qian Hongzu served as Guangxi economic strategy and appeasement.

In the 17th year of Jiading, Shi Miyuan killed Zhao Mian. Hu Mengyu wrote a letter to Zhao Yurui to accuse Shi Miyuan (the manuscript naturally fell into Shi Miyuan's hands). Shi Miyuan was furious and demoted Hu Mengyu to Guangxi. When Hu Mengyu passes by, kill Hu Mengyu.

At that time, Qian Hongzu really wanted to kill Hu Mengyu, but luckily someone around him dissuaded him. After he hesitated, he finally did not do it.

It really saved his life.

Not long after, the emperor mutinied and seized power, abolished Shi Miyuan, and then wantonly replaced local officials.

Those who were demoted by Shi Miyuan were reused, and those who were reused by Shi Miyuan were basically demoted or abolished.

Shi Miyuan ordered him to kill Hu Mengyu. Somehow, the emperor also knew about it, but he did not do it. Soon, the emperor came to the imperial decree to praise him. He was transferred at a higher level, but he was not demoted.

In July last year, the emperor decreed that Qian Hongzu would be appointed as an envoy to Fujian, and the prefect of Quanzhou, Zhen Dexiu and Yang Gongwen, the governor of Quanzhou, would be the deputy envoys.

(End of this chapter)