Cutting 1719

Chapter 325 Determining the System
"The emperor is here."

After entering the Kunning Palace, Ning Yu suddenly found that there were many more people in the Kunning Palace. In addition to the Queen Mother, Chen Caiwei, and the usual female officials, there were also two imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital.Of course, due to Ning Chu's initial creation, the imperial doctors are all from the south of the Yangtze River. There are not many of them, but their medical skills are still very superb.

"Congratulations to the emperor, the queen is happy, and the pregnancy has appeared."

An old man bent down and said softly, he is Ye Gui, the new envoy of the Imperial Hospital, known by the people as Ye Tianshi, a well-known national player in the south of the Yangtze River, who has the ability to cure diseases with his hands, and Ning Yu asked him to do this by name The new envoy.

When Ning Yu heard such good news, he felt a little excited in his heart, and said: "This time, Mr. Lao, sir, you have worked hard."

A smile appeared on Ye Tianshi's face, "The queen is in good health and there is nothing wrong with it. It is indeed a blessing for the country to give birth to a dragon and a phoenix in the future."

The queen mother on the side also laughed, "You have become the emperor, and now you have become a father, and I and your father are relieved a lot. If there is no good news, I am afraid that you will have to choose the draft if you don't want to." elected!"

Speaking of which, there is actually another problem, that is, after Ning Yu was determined to succeed to the throne, he soon faced a key problem, that is, he had no heirs!For any group, ensuring inheritance is extremely critical, a matter of life and death, and cannot be ignored.

Therefore, someone suggested to the queen mother that she wanted to draft for the emperor!Now there is only one queen and one noble concubine, it is really too little!At least a few dozen more must be selected to ensure the inheritance of the royal heirs. Of course, this matter was also refuted by Ning Yu, and he should pay more attention to the people of the world, and don't always care about the emperor marrying his wife.

Of course, Ning Yu is also a little overjoyed now that he has a future. He glanced at Cui Si who was lying on the bed, his face was flushed, and immediately stepped forward to hold Cui Si's little hand, He didn't speak, but his eyes met with infinite affection.

Chen Caiwei on the side looked at Cui Si, then at Ning Yu, but she was a bit disappointed, and then smiled, as if nothing had happened, but this scene was also seen by Ning Yu and Cui Si, and the two The man smiled, but he embraced Chen Caiwei and whispered some whispers together.

Soon, the news of the queen's happiness was also spread among the outer courts. Cui Wancai, as the head of the country, naturally attached great importance to it. He personally invited Ye Tianshi here, and asked about the relevant situation, but Ye Tianshi was naturally helpless. Needless to say, both of them belonged to that class of learned people, and they chatted happily for a while.

"Brother Ye, the old man also heard that you were called a half-immortal by the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and praised your superb medical skills. You even cured Kangxi's back sores back then, and you even kissed him with your pen. I gave you a plaque titled 'No. [-] in the world', is there such a thing?"

Speaking of this matter, Ye Tianshi couldn't help showing a bit of embarrassment on his face, and sighed: "To tell you the truth, Kangxi did invite me to Yanzhi back then, and he did give me the plaque of No. 17 in the world, but the old man I have never been proud of this. I have been a doctor for decades, and I have worshiped [-] people as my teachers. What I have learned in the end is medical ethics. From the emperor to the pawns, they are all doctors."

Cui Wancai laughed loudly, "Speaking of which, Kangxi can be regarded as a blessed person. To meet such an expert as Brother Ye, he deserves his name to be number one in the world. I never knew what Brother Ye thought. Yearning for it, I even had the idea of ​​throwing myself into Xinglin, hanging the pot to help the world, maybe it can't save the world."

Ye Tianshi's face showed a bit of emotion, "Ye knows that with his own strength, he can only save hundreds of lives at most, but now that brother Cui is in a high position, it is related to the livelihood of tens of millions of people. the avenue of salvation.”

At the beginning of April, Ning Chu officially launched a series of decrees such as the "Imperial Great Chu Civil Officials Law" and "Imperial Great Chu Gong Lord Law". Adjustments have been made, and many changes have been made in details to better adapt to the new situation.

First of all, in terms of the structure of the central government, instead of using six ministries as the backbone, the six ministries were further split into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Organization, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Agriculture. Ministry of Health, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Religion and other departments, the ministers and cabinet chiefs are still ministers, and there are left and right ministers and departmental doctors below.Of course, above the ministries, an Executive Yuan is set up for coordination and management. The Executive Yuan is directly responsible to the cabinet. There is no dean, and only an Executive Yuan is set up to run the company.

Some of the functions of the original six departments have basically been split. For example, the original Ministry of Officials was usually responsible for the four departments of Anthology, Seal Inspection, Jixun, and Merit Examination. Now it has become the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Department of Organization. The Ministry of Household Affairs is an institution responsible for managing soil fields, household registration and national finance. It has thirteen divisions. It is now divided into the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and so on. Therefore, the entire structure has undergone great changes.

At the same time, the original Ming Dynasty Metropolitan Procuratorate was retained, and the original Supervisory Yuan of the Fuhan Army was changed to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, with Zuo Du Censor, Zuo Zuo Du Censor, Zuo Qian Capital Censor, and The thirteen supervisory censors divided by provinces have been adjusted in terms of grade. The grade of the censor will be raised. Patrolling salt, tea horses, patrolling water, supervising the army, and garrisoning fields are only responsible to the cabinet and do not report to the Executive Yuan.

This is also the significance of Ning Yu's strengthening of supervision. He intends to completely separate the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which exercises supervisory power, from the Executive Yuan, which is in charge of administration. Its organizational structure will not be influenced by outsiders as much as possible.

As for the original institutions such as mansions, courtyards, temples, and divisions, they will be integrated into various ministries one by one. For example, the institutions related to the Ministry of Rites include the Clan Mansion, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, Pedestrian Division, and Guozijian. , Qintianjian, Taiyuan Hospital, Jiaofang Division, Senglu Division, Daolu Division, etc. Among them, Xiangzong Renfu, Taichang Temple and Guanglu Temple belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while Honglu Temple, Siyi Pavilion and Pedestrian Division belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guozijian and Qintianjian are classified as the Ministry of Education, and Tai Hospital is classified as the Ministry of Health.

As for the Department of Jiaofang, it was completely abolished by Ning Yu, and the newly planned Etiquette Department belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Department of Monk Records and the Department of Taoism belonged to the Ministry of Religion, so these departments will be completely managed by each department.In addition to administration and supervision, Ning Yu also listed the judiciary separately, that is, Dali Temple to be responsible for the review and rehabilitating the prison.

In addition to these, what is more important is that the institutions related to the Ministry of War have been completely divided into the Privy Council, which consists of the General Staff Department, the General Logistics Department, the General Armament Department, and the Military Science Department, which are responsible for the command of the entire army.Of course, for such an important department, it is naturally a trade-off, that is, the five-army governor's office is in charge of the army, and it does not have the power to transfer troops at ordinary times. It must have the emperor's military amulet and the order of the general staff before it can be transferred.

After formulating these systems, the most important thing is the final confirmation of the cabinet system. Of course, it is not to expand the power of the cabinet, but to reduce it to a certain extent, which is the joint ministerial meeting created by Ning Yu. Of course, there were six officials involved in the past, but now the number of ministries has increased, and the status of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple has been elevated, so it will appear more independent.

Ning Yu expressly stipulates that the Executive Yuan, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple and the Privy Council are at the same level, and the cabinet bureaus coordinate, but they must not force the subordinate departments to do things. All plans and decisions should be directly decided by the ministers of the ministries and reported to the Cabinet for approval.If the approval is not passed, the plan will be readjusted. If the approval is not passed twice in a row, it can be directly submitted to the emperor for approval.

From this point of view, Ning Yu resolutely opposes outsiders to guide insiders. Although those elders are very good at guessing people's hearts, when it comes to more professional things, some outsiders guide experts, so they only give approval. power, but not direct decision-making power.

As for the local administrative agencies, Ning Yu did not copy the Ming and Qing systems, but completely changed them. Therefore, the so-called governor has long since lost its original meaning, but restored the position of the chief envoy. A province's civil affairs and financial power.As for the original procuratorate, it was directly under the supervision of Dali Temple, and it was only in charge of the judicial power of a province. As for the supervision, the Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was in charge.

As for the local military affairs, a general officer has been set up, under the dual leadership of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Privy Council. The daily training and the source of troops are under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, while the Privy Council is in charge of combat operations. Timely command and strategic mobilization, etc., in order to better manage the local army.

Of course, the daily military affairs in the province are handled by the province’s chief military officer and the provincial Privy Council. The Provincial Privy Council will regularly go to the Central Privy Council for reporting and personnel rotation. Basically, it can be said that the local military forces have been completely received by the central hands.

Below the provincial level, it is simplified to the second level of prefectures and counties. The so-called prefecture level is completely abolished, and small counties are merged into large counties. The department is under the control of one department, which includes the departments of civil affairs, education, support, and business promotion. It also sets up patrol roads to handle affairs such as patrol police, fire protection, and household registration in the province. At the same time, each province has also set up business roads. In charge of agriculture, industry, commerce and various transportation affairs in the province.

When this series of adjustments and plans were introduced, Cui Wancai felt a little conflicted, because according to the new plan, the local power will be significantly reduced, while the centralization of power has reached the highest point in history.

"Your Majesty, if there is no financial and military power in the local area, it may be a bit too harsh. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the power of the three local divisions was suppressed so much that it seemed a little heavy for the governors to take a look at the overall situation. Bingmiaomo, the catastrophe has been overcome, thanks to this."

Cui Wancai's meaning is very simple, if you don't give the local power, if there is any trouble at that time, there is no way to put it out immediately, but in Ning Yu's view, this is completely limited to the local situation, and even Jiao Songming puts more emphasis on the inside than on the inside. Suspected of external evils, but in fact the power is too great.
The reason why the governors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were not non-permanent positions, and even had to be rotated regularly, was also something to worry about, because the local governors could control the wealth, military, and criminal power of a province, and their power was so great that they could almost It is not in Ning Yu's interests to cover the sky with one hand.

Ning Yu sighed softly: "There is a first step in everything. The recovery of power at the local level is due to the massive expansion of the central ministries. Road for vertical control."

This is not something Ning Yu gave the officials to negotiate, but a decision that has already been made, and there is no room for negotiation other than acceptance.In this regard, Ning Yu even acted much tougher than before, because this kind of division of power between the local government and the central government obviously cannot achieve fair ends.

Of course, as far as the ministers are concerned, they are used to all kinds of changes in Ning Yu, so they will not be surprised.It's just that when the new cabinet system came out, it made people feel a little unmotivated. Compared with the cabinet that took over the overall situation in the Ming Dynasty, the power of Ningchu's cabinet was almost too small.

On the contrary, the new Executive Yuan has become the center of the system. On this point, Ning Yu's purpose is still very clear, that is, the Executive Yuan is an institution with greater power, so it cannot be controlled by one person or a few people. All ministers are required to participate in joint cabinet meetings.

For the six departments that have changed their appearance, the civil servants don't know whether they are happy or sad. At best, there will be more and more positions to become officials, but the gold content of these officials will undoubtedly decline, and the power will also be much smaller.

Ning Yu handed out a new manual to the ministers, on which the responsibilities of various departments have been written clearly and plainly, like the original imperial examination was assigned to the Ministry of Education, like the selection of officials was assigned to the Organization Department, As for the original Secretary of General Administration, it has now become a company run by the Executive Yuan, and the original third department has been upgraded, but it is only connected with the cabinet and the emperor.
A trace of worry flashed across Li Fu's face. In his original view, the changes in the government affairs structure were nothing more than a change of name, and the actual things were changed. In terms of departments, the cabinet has become a bit useless, and the emperor can completely control the employment and financial power in his own hands by directly directing the various ministries.
"Report to the emperor, now that the inner court no longer interferes in the affairs of the outer court, where should the power of this batch of reds belong?" Li Fu's question immediately attracted many people. Strictly speaking, the eunuchs did not approve the reds But later, there were too many things and the emperor was too busy, so this part of the power fell on the head of the eunuchs. Now that there are no eunuchs, this part of the power will naturally attract attention.

"The matters discussed by the various ministries of the Executive Yuan are submitted to the cabinet, and a joint meeting of cabinet ministers is held to approve or not. I am only responsible for auditing and tracing, and I am no longer responsible for ordinary political affairs. Matters related to relevant departments in the provincial memorials will be submitted to the cabinet together."

A slight smile appeared on Ning Yu's face, and he continued, "Any matter involving the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple should be submitted directly to me, and matters concerning the Privy Council will also be handled by me personally."

This attitude is obvious. For these most complicated and huge ordinary government affairs, the emperor is only responsible for tracing back time, and whoever is responsible at that time will be whose responsibility.However, the supervision, law enforcement, and military power were all held by the emperor himself, and he used these things as a whip to drive the Executive Yuan and the cabinet forward.

(End of this chapter)