hotmtlnovel Chapter 486 Imperialism with Daxia Characteristics
Chapter 486 Imperialism with Daxia Characteristics
Chapter 486 Imperialism with Daxia Characteristics
The emperor was forced to ruin his life, which was really a hardship for His Highness the Crown Prince.
Not only was there no way to rest during the New Year's Day, but he also had to leave behind his delicate newlywed wife and sit miserable in the Qinzheng Hall to deal with all kinds of memorials that almost filled the hall.
When Jia Cong arrived, the memorial on the dragon table almost overwhelmed the prince's mind. The waiter on the side was putting several dishes of almost cold dishes on the stove to heat up. It seemed that the food had been served for a while.
Liu Hong is indeed very busy. His father is currently enjoying the rare gentleness in the harem. Except for the bachelor who stayed behind in the cabinet, all the official affairs of the imperial court are placed on him.
He also wanted to go back to the East Palace to enjoy himself, but reality didn’t allow it~
"Brother Prince, please take a rest. Look at the candied haws, which is big and round. Come and try it..."
When Liu Hong looked up, the candied haws almost fell into his mouth.
He put down the pen in his hand and hit his stiff back, then took a bite of the candied haws and complained to Jia Cong while chewing.
"I'm exhausted. I don't know what the ministers in the court think. They know that my father will not read these documents, but they still insist on sending them to the palace. Look at these, they are all against the reform of the official system."
Liu Hong pointed with his free hand at the large pile of memorials piled up next to the Dragon Case, glanced at the wooden servant, and continued to say to Jia Cong: "Well, the other pile is against my father opening a palace for you. There are many people who are in charge of government office who find trivial matters to impeach you."
ha?
Jia Cong's interest was aroused by Liu Hong smoothly. He sat down on the imperial chair next to him and shouted to the chamberlain: "Who, please open all the memorials to impeach me. I will take a look."
Jia Cong could understand his objection to the emperor giving him too much power, but impeaching him would be too much.
Liu Hong winked at the chamberlain, and the chamberlain, who had been acting like a fool just now, immediately sent the large number of booklets in front of Jia Cong, and placed pen and ink and refreshments with a wink.
Jia Cong didn't doubt him, so he opened the top book and started reading.
"Huh? You're not here to impeach me? But this person's views on reforming the official system are quite interesting..."
Jia Cong's face showed surprise at first, and then he looked thoughtful. He picked up his pen and started to review the fold.
While reviewing, he said to the prince: "Fourth brother, although this person's advice is a bit scholarly, it also has many merits. You will also take a look later..."
After waiting for a long time, there was no response from the prince. After Jia Cong made the last stroke, he raised his head in confusion and looked in the direction of Long An.
All he saw was that the pile of papers on Long's case was being quietly moved towards him by the chamberlain. The prince, who was too busy just now and had no time to eat, was happily sipping wine and enjoying the delicious food on the table.
Jia Cong shook his head and said angrily: "I'm so stupid, I fell into your trap again, Fourth Brother!"
"Why are you so stupid? If you were stupid, could my father give you the power to build a government office?"
Liu Hong winked at Jia Cong, pointed to the food and wine on the table and said, "How about you come and have some too?"
Jia Cong shook his head and handed the booklet in his hand to the waiter: "I won't eat it. I just met He Chong and his wife while shopping and had dinner in a restaurant. The fourth brother took a look at the booklet and I I think it’s necessary to let people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate take a look.”
Hearing what Jia Cong said, Liu Hong also became interested.
He put down his chopsticks and opened the folder that the waiter had given him.
I saw that this booklet actually came from Yang Sinong, the magistrate of Zhuozhou under the rule of Shuntian Prefecture.
The majestic crown prince would naturally not know a magistrate from the fifth rank.
But Yang Sinong also had another identity. He was the nephew of the imperial concubine Yang. After Enyin entered the Imperial Academy, he asked for grace in the third year of Yuanyou and went to the Shaanxi-Gansu border as a county magistrate.
After serving for three years, his plans were greatly improved. He could have been transferred back to the prosperous land of Gyeonggi Province at that time, but because of his initiative to stay in office, he was not promoted to the magistrate of Zhuozhou until the beginning of this year.
This person has average talent, average knowledge, and not very good abilities.
But this person has a tenacity and can endure hardships. He can eat and live with farmers because of the promotion of potatoes and corn.
Yang Sinong just relied on this tenacity to build water conservancy projects, promote improved seeds, and transform a small, dry border county into Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall in just three years. Not only did he achieve self-sufficiency in food, but he also had surplus to support neighboring counties.
Based on this alone, the two saints looked at him with admiration.
Even the imperial concubine Yang did not expect that such a special talent would emerge from the bunch of trash in her parents' family.
"Your Majesty, Yang Sinong, the magistrate of Zhuozhou, would like to ask for your blessing. I heard that your Majesty wants to reform the official system... The power of prefectures and counties is very heavy, and political affairs, laws and regulations are almost concentrated in the hands of one person. It is difficult for the assistants to check and balance the chief officials, and it is easy to breed corruption and autocraticism. Disaster. Therefore, I believe that when reforming the official system, the first thing is to focus on the center and the most important thing is on the local areas. Local power is concentrated in one person, such as the chief envoy, the prefect, and the county magistrate. Whether the local people can enjoy peace or not depends entirely on the officials appointed by your majesty. Whether it is honest and honest..."
Yang Sinong's advice was simple. He relied on his own experience and vision to see that local power was concentrated in the hands of a single official. For the people, the authoritarian system depended entirely on the quality of the official, with few checks and balances. This method is indeed a chronic problem that has existed for thousands of years.
Liu Hong did not express his opinion immediately, but first took a look at Jia Cong's comments.
“Not only the government and law, but also the power of finance is in the hands of local officials. There are endless cases of central government reducing taxes and local governments increasing taxes without authorization... Therefore, the reform of the local official system focuses on decentralization and supervision. Administration and justice should be divided. , Three powers of supervision: the Chief Executive’s Department is in charge of people’s livelihood, the Punishment and Prosecution Department is in charge of criminal and prison affairs, and there is also a Supervision Department to supervise local officials and have the power to report directly to the emperor..."
Originally, Jia Cong wanted to "borrow" the relatively mature strategy of separation of executive, legislative, and judicial powers directly from his previous life. However, at this time, the people's wisdom was not yet enlightened, and it would not work at all to adopt the Western approach of his previous life.
It is better to retreat to the next best thing, first put forward the supervisory power, establish a supervisory department at the local level, and form the separation of administrative, judicial and supervisory powers with the Chief Envoy Department and the Provincial Envoy Department.
This can be regarded as the separation of powers of imperialism with Daxia characteristics, and there is nothing wrong with it!
Of course, this is just Jia Cong's idea. Whether it can be approved by the emperor and the cabinet is still unknown...
However, Liu Hong is still very optimistic about Jia Cong's "separation of powers" strategy.
Although Daxia already had a supervisory office called the Dragon Guard at this time, the Dragon Guard was a "secret agency" that only belonged to the emperor and naturally had no dealings with the civil and military forces in the court.
If the level of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can be raised to the equivalent of six ministries, and then agencies directly under the Metropolitan Procuratorate can be established in local areas, such as the Supervision Department under Jia Congjianyan, then such a supervisory agency should not be so resisted by courtiers... right? !
Liu Hong is confident about this, but he is not that confident. No one would be willing to have multiple fathers.
"According to your opinion, you want the Metropolitan Procuratorate to set up subordinate yamen in local areas to check and balance the Chief Envoy?"
Jia Cong shook his head and stretched out two fingers.
“Not only the Chief Minister’s Department, but also the Supervision Department’s responsibility should be to supervise local officials. At the same time, it should supervise the case trials and judgments of the Procurator’s Department and local prefectures and counties, and have the power to question and supervise localities that have objections to the case... …”
To put it bluntly, this Supervision Department is the Procuratorate in the previous life, supervising the judiciary, investigating corruption, etc.
Jia Cong didn't know much about these, so he could only try his best to perfect his plan for the establishment of the Supervision Department based on his almost fuzzy memory.
Liu Hong listened carefully to Jia Cong's views. In the end, he stopped eating and started writing on the paper.
The two of them spent nearly an hour talking and writing, and finally wrote a thick letter and asked the chamberlain to send it to the emperor in the harem.
"It's finally over, Fourth Brother, let's take a break~"
Jia Cong slumped on the chair and refused to move. Liu Hong rubbed his extremely sore right wrist, looked at the two piles of memorials in the hall, and smiled helplessly.
He also wanted to rest, but these notes were either not authorized by the cabinet to review, or they were important memorials that the cabinet believed must be sent directly to the emperor.
If we take a break today, we will not be able to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Eve and Zhengdan. Moreover, there is an excellent helper in this guild hall, how can we let this good opportunity pass!
Thinking of this, Liu Hong's face was filled with bitterness and fatigue, and he complained bitterly to Jia Cong: "Don't mention it, my father has left all the affairs in the court to me, and I haven't slept much for several days. Look at the circles under my eyes..."
Jia Cong took a look at the prince's face. He did have heavy dark circles under his eyes, and he looked tired and weak.
(Prince Princess Zhang Liu: My husband was really tired last night. Come and make a bowl of ginseng soup. I will send it to the Crown Prince to replenish it later!)
Looking at the two piles of memorials, it seems that this emperor was indeed not the work of a human being.
There are many short-lived emperors in the past, and it’s not without reason!
"Okay, okay, I'll help you!"
Jia Cong gritted his teeth. The prince was very kind to him and a wise king. Where could he find such a good king when he was exhausted?
He sighed and muttered: "But it can't be in vain. Fourth brother also has to do me a favor..."
Liu Hong grinned when he heard this: "You said, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help!"
……
As the God of Wealth in Daxia, Lin Ruhai, the Minister of Household Affairs, may be the only first-rank official in the country who works overtime in the Yamen besides the bachelor on duty in the cabinet.
The desk was filled with official documents sent to the central government from various places. Lin Ruhai had to record and summarize them while flipping through them.
What is the most important thing about household affairs? Those are the dazzling numbers.
As the New Year approaches, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites are busier than usual. Correspondingly, these yamen will send documents asking for money from time to time, so the Ministry of Revenue has to be busy as well.
"Bu Tang, Marquis Yongfeng is here."
The clerk welcomed Jia Cong in with a wink, and then served tea and snacks before going to guard the door in a polite manner.
When Lin Ruhai saw her son-in-law coming, she unceremoniously threw him a pile of documents.
"I came just in time to calculate these accounts..."
Um? Ah~
Jia Cong was stunned on the spot. Isn't it appropriate to enter the imperial city today?
It's a pity that no matter how reluctant, hard or tired he is, he still has to do the work arranged by his father-in-law, and he has to do it beautifully.
He picked up his pen and once again began to bury his whole body in the pile of official documents.
"By the way, uncle, I have found a good assistant for you. He will come to the Ministry of Finance after the new year."
"Oh? Who is it? I can actually get a good word from you."
Lin Ruhai also became curious. He knew his little son-in-law very well, and no ordinary person would ever praise him and recommend him to him.
Just listen to Jia Cong say: "It's Sister Bao of the Xue family. I just told His Highness the Crown Prince, and then asked His Majesty for instructions. His Majesty said that after the New Year, Sister Bao will try out at the Ministry of Household Affairs, and she will assist her with the title of principal." My uncle handles household affairs."
"Girl from the Xue family?"
Lin Ruhai's first reaction was to say something ridiculous, but then he frowned and pondered the mystery behind it.
While copying the accounts in the calculation documents, Jia Cong told Lin Ruhai how he met He Chong, Baochai and others in the market today.
Lin Ruhai would not think that the matter was just that simple. Her daughter and son-in-law recognized the talent of the Xue family girl, and he, Lin Ruhai, also recognized it.
But transferring a woman to serve in the Household Department requires more than just the approval of one's own people.
There has been a big turmoil in the DPRK recently over the reform of the official system. It has been sealed for the New Year, and there is no sign of calming down.
What a coincidence that the emperor easily agreed to let the girl from the Xue family join the Household Department at this moment!
Lin Ruhai pondered the deep meaning of the emperor's move and could roughly guess why the holy intention was like this.
The Xue family girl's talent in matters of wealth has won the praise of several important officials in the court.
When the imperial court allocated grain and property to the north to the desert, it was the girl from the Xue family who took the lead and took over the tasks of the household department with the Beijing Chamber of Commerce, and managed the matter beautifully without any mistakes.
For this alone, Lin Ruhai, the Minister of Household Affairs, had to praise him.
So, is the emperor planning to use the Xue family girl to slap the officials in the middle of the court who are eating the corpses?
You can't get things done well, but you still oppose reforming the official system?
He can't even compare to a woman, he might as well be hung on a crooked neck tree with a rope!
Lin Ruhai could already imagine how the emperor would get angry if he was pushed too hard. He shook his head helplessly.
Forget it, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter if there is someone who is proficient in wealth and accounting to help, there is a real shortage of such talents in the court!
……
Weng and son-in-law were busy until the sky turned dark, and then they took the same car back to Rongguo Mansion.
When he got home, it was dinner time. Jia Cong was like a tiger descending from the mountain. He rushed to the dining table and started to eat rice frantically in his mouth.
"Why is this child so hungry after going to the palace?"
The elders' doubts made Jia Cong almost cry.
Whose baby couldn't get any rest during the Chinese New Year, so he had to work two overtime classes in a row!
"Suck, sniff, sniff... It's not a good time to enter the palace today. I went to the Qinzheng Hall and was dragged by the prince to approve nearly two hundred memorials. Later, I went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to find my uncle, and... well, this doesn't count..."
"Two hundred copies? Are everyone in the court crazy? They're all sealed and they won't stop!"
Lin Ruhai really didn't know about her son-in-law's stay in Qinzheng Hall, so she was stunned when she heard about it.
Jia Cong thought hard: "That's just the part I reviewed. The prince has not had much rest for three days in a row. Most of them are against the reform of the official system. There are also some that are against me opening a government office, and even There are also people who are looking for reasons to impeach me.”
"They are not opposed to reforming the official system. They are worried about their own jobs!"
Before Mr. Lin and Mr. Zheng, who was also frowning at the side, had time to speak, Baoyu put down his chopsticks and said rather disdainfully: "I heard from many people that your Majesty not only wants to reform the official system this time, but also implements new policies. There are many people who are worried that they will be dismissed if they fail the exam, so they are joining forces to criticize the reform strategy!"
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I’ll stop here tonight and continue tomorrow. Good night!
(End of this chapter)