In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 289 One Mansion and Three Courts

With Mrs. Lu and thousands of experienced and loyal and obedient wives, as well as some female eunuchs from the previous Ming Dynasty, the various yamen in the inner court were quickly straightened out and began to get on the right track.

The number of people in the entire inner court exceeds 100. According to the salary system set by Lin Rui, the monthly salary alone is more than [-] million taels. Fortunately, the most important thing Lin Rui lacks now is money.

After a while of statistics, all the gold and silver property seized have been calculated. The amount of silver alone is as high as 7000 million taels. If you include gold, silver, jewelry, utensils, calligraphy and painting, shops and real estate, etc., the total value is probably not more than [-] million taels. two.

When the inspection was first carried out, it was all carried out by the young infantrymen themselves. It was transported directly to the inner treasury of the imperial city and sealed up. People were sent to guard it day and night. It was not until Mrs. Lu and Zhang Xiuying arrived with their people that they started counting and making records, so basically This eliminates the possibility of corruption.

The 7000 million taels of cash will all be cast into ingot silver coins by the silversmith. Lin Rui has also asked the silversmiths to start thinking about how to cast exquisite silver coins in batches.

After all the departments were on track, Lin Rui no longer had to worry about these chores. Naturally, there were Mrs. Lu and six deputy general managers, each performing their duties in an orderly manner.

Even Zhang Xiuying is no longer in charge and can enjoy the happiness in the palace leisurely, but Mrs. Niu also serves as the commander of the first army.

The first legion was also split and reorganized by Lin Rui. The personal guard battalion and escort battalion were taken out, and some tall and powerful soldiers were selected from the entire army to form the Royal Guards Army.

There are ten battalions of the imperial army, each with 2000 men. Two of the female battalions take turns guarding the palace city, and the remaining eight battalions are responsible for guarding the imperial city.

From now on, these 2 members of the Royal Guards Army will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General, but will be placed under the Inner Court. The inner court will be directly responsible for military pay and logistics, and the ten battalion commanders will be personally appointed by the emperor.

The First Legion will be the same as the other legions, except with an additional cavalry battalion and a chariot battalion.

As for the guard and public order in the capital, the garrison will also be responsible for it from now on. Except for the [-] royal guards guarding the imperial city, there will no longer be any field troops stationed in the city.

From now on, the field army will mainly be stationed in the periphery of Gyeonggi Province.

The inner court was on track, and Hong Chengchou also straightened out the various ministries in the outer court. Lin Rui held the first civil and military meeting since he ascended the throne in the Huangji Hall, announcing the powers and functions of the central institutions of the country.

In the future, the Central Committee of the State of China will implement a political system with four branches of power: one government and three courts.

The Metropolitan Governor's Office controls the military and basically replaces the previous Five Military Governor's Office and directs the world's military affairs. The emperor also serves as the Grand Governor. It consists of the Military and Administrative Department, the General Staff Department, the Logistics Department, and the Military and Legal Department. Each of the four departments performs their own duties.

As for weapons and equipment, the manufacturing supervisors of the Ministry of War and the Royal Family are responsible for building them respectively. In the future, the Ministry of War and the Royal Manufacturing Supervisors will form a competitive relationship, and the Logistics Department will select the best for procurement.

The cabinet was changed into the Government Affairs Council, which was responsible for leading the world's government affairs. It had eight departments under its jurisdiction: the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Commerce.

The names and grades of the officials in each ministry are the same as those in the Ming Dynasty, except that the first assistant of the cabinet was changed to the prime minister, and the second assistant was changed to the associate minister. The title of bachelor is still added. The only difference from the Ming Dynasty is that the prime minister is the chief minister. First grade, assistant manager from first grade.

After all, with the new dynasty and the new atmosphere, you can’t just copy everything from the Ming dynasty, you have to make some changes.

Then there is the salary of officials at all levels, which has been changed from annual salary to monthly salary and uniformly issued Chinese banknotes. Lin Rui is not as stingy as Lao Zhu in this area of ​​salary, and it is still very high.

Officials' salaries are divided into three types. In addition to the monthly salary, there are also annual bonuses and integrity-supporting silver. In total, a prime minister of the first rank can get tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, and each minister also has 5000 to [-] taels. The lowest There are also five taels from the ninth grade.

The Inspectorate remained largely unchanged and had supervisory powers. Dali Temple was restructured into a court with legislative and judgment powers. Of course, all legal provisions must be approved by the emperor for the time being.

The local political structure remains unchanged, except for the abolition of the capital command department and its replacement by the commander-in-chief of each town. After all, the top priority is to maintain stability and unify the world, not to carry out drastic reforms.

However, Lin Rui still explained to Hong Chengchou, Zhang Han and Sun Chuanting. After reading Chongzhen's edict to abdicate and subjugate the country, Sun Chuanting finally chose to submit and was appointed by Lin Rui as the head of the Legislative Yuan and Zhang Han's supervisor. The first one is a senior official.

"Hong Aiqing, the Administration Council is no better than the previous cabinet. No one will restrain you, and you don't have to worry about being impeached. You can just let go and do what you want. Officials who are disobedient and inactive can be dismissed. I will not interfere with specific matters. , I only look at the results. However, although you have great power, you also have great responsibilities. I hope that you will no longer be as cautious and cautious as before, and you do not need to speculate on my imperial heart. You only need to follow my wishes. As government affairs continue to be implemented, even if you cry out for rebellion every day, your cabinet prime minister will still be as stable as a rock.

On the contrary, if things don't go well and make me dissatisfied, even if you express your heart to me, I will kick you away and replace you with someone else to be the prime minister of the cabinet. Do you understand what I mean? "

"My lord, I understand. Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will do my best until I die!"

Seeing what Lin Rui said so straightforwardly, Hong Chengchou was sweating profusely and quickly knelt down to answer.

Although he was frightened, his heart was also trembling with excitement. After all, according to Lin Rui's opinion, as the prime minister of the cabinet, he was extremely powerful, even more powerful than the previous prime ministers. In the Government Affairs Council, he could make decisions with just one word.

The only pity is that the military power cannot intervene at all. Of course, he also knows that if the Government Affairs Council dares to interfere with the military power, I am afraid that the entire Government Affairs Council will be destroyed from top to bottom.

"As long as you understand, I believe that Hong Aiqing is a smart person, and I am not the Ming Taizu. As long as Hong Aiqing can remember his rights and responsibilities, I believe that our monarchs and ministers will be able to start well and end well, and create an unprecedented prosperous age."

Lin Rui nodded and said no more. A smart man like Hong Chengchou would definitely understand what he meant.

That is, in the past, civil servants locked the emperor in a cage, but now all civil servants are locked in a cage. In this cage, the civil servants can perform as much as they want, and continue to perform well.

If the performance is not good, just throw another batch into the cage and continue to perform. If you dare to reach out of the cage, you will be confiscated and exterminated.

Then Lin Ruicai told him the tasks of the Government Affairs Council this year and next. In fact, there are only two tasks. One is the reform of government affairs, which requires the improvement of various institutions in each province as soon as possible.

After all, if a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. According to the current bureaucratic system and efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, no policy can be implemented in place.

The main purpose is to subdivide the powers and responsibilities of each department, formulate corresponding reward and punishment assessment systems, incorporate officials from various places into the bureaucracy, and grant corresponding grades.

The second is to first implement the new land policy and formulate a commercial tax system in the entire Beizhili, Shandong, and Shanxi.

After beating Hong Chengchou, Lin Rui assigned tasks to Sun Chuanting and Zhang Han. The Legislative Yuan and the Supervisory Yuan were much simpler. The main task of the Legislative Yuan was to refer to the Ming Law, formulate a Chinese law, and then establish a law. The college trains professional judges and prosecutors. In the future, all provinces, prefectures and counties will dispatch judges and prosecutors to be responsible for the judgment of criminal proceedings in various places.

In the future, officials of the Supervisory Yuan and the Legislative Yuan will no longer take the imperial examination. Instead, the law school will recruit scholars directly, train them themselves, and be assigned to the two houses after graduation.

The Government Affairs Council still follows the path of selecting officials through the imperial examination. In this way, the entire scholar population will be divided into two groups, and the civil servants will also be divided into two categories, one is from the formal imperial examination, and the other is from the academy.

It is no longer like now, when all civil servants come from imperial examinations, and the interests of all scholars are the same.

Moreover, they are all classmates and teachers, and they are all closely related to each other. How can such a monopolistic scholar class not cause problems over time?

Therefore, Lin Rui felt that the first thing he had to do was not to transform Confucianism and scholars, but to break and divide the entire class of scholars. As long as their monopoly was broken, the subsequent transformation would be very simple.

Those scholars will learn whatever is tested in the imperial examination, so the core of the problem is not Confucian conservatism.

Instead, the emperor continuously castrated Confucianism for the sake of his own rule, making Confucianism conservative and exclusive, and used it to obtain officials.

In order to limit the imperial power, scholars also had to choose to play tricks on Confucianism. After all, Confucianism was just a tool for the imperial power and scholars to restrict each other. The result was that the road became narrower and narrower, a vicious circle, and finally reached a dead end.

(End of this chapter)