Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 248 System Revolution
Regarding the rank of officials, abolish the current chaotic system of ranks, honored officials, and real officials in the Song Dynasty.

Simply divided into nine grades and eighteen grades, it abolished the Song Dynasty's system of multiple officials for one post and enmeng that caused redundant officials and inefficiency.

In addition to the restructuring of the central administration and the bureaucratic class, Fan Zhuoyuan also carried out related restructuring of the subordinate staff.

Official governance is more important than official governance. They directly contact the grassroots and are also the ultimate implementers of imperial policies.

Wang Anshi's new law can be said to have been ruined by bad officials, turning good governance into bad governance.

During the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, because centralization imposed great restrictions on local bureaucrats, grassroots rule basically fell into the hands of subordinate officials. Whether local officials could secure their positions was often determined by the subordinate officials passed down from generation to generation.

For disobedient bureaucrats, subordinate staff can use various means to not cooperate, make excuses, or even threaten to frame them, etc., so that officials have inferior performance and are dismissed.

They have rooted in the local area for generations. When the father dies, the son replaces him. In the local area, both black and white prevail. How can a county magistrate who turns every three years be able to resist.

Especially the system implemented by Fan Zhuoyuan now greatly limits the power of the scholar-officials. If the subordinate officials are not restricted at the same time, the bureaucracy will be completely useless, and all localities will be controlled by the subordinate officials.

Therefore, subordinate officials in all places under Fan Zhuoyuan's rule are no longer held by local people, nor can they be inherited from generation to generation.

If both the father and the son serve as subordinate staff, then the two places need to be separated and cannot be in contact with each other.

Subordinate staff also need to be selected through the imperial examination, or selected from among the meritorious sergeants. The term of office is changed every five years.

According to their different functions, subordinate officials are in charge of six ministries. Like bureaucrats, they also have performance appraisals.

That is to say, on the basis of the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the class of subordinate staff was originally allocated completely outside the staff, but in Fan Zhuoyuan's case, they were completely included in the establishment. Although their salaries came from local taxes, they still belonged to the central court.

In addition, reforms different from those of the Song Dynasty were also made in the military system.

Now Fan Zhuoyuan has [-] elite soldiers of the Jie army in his hands, and another [-] troops composed of rescued slaves.

These [-] troops are standing elites, and locally he intends to restore the Fubing system during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Speaking of the fubing system, the main reason for its decline is that after the unification of the Tang Dynasty, the territory expanded extremely widely. If the original fubing had their own equipment and food and grass to join the army, it would take a long time to go to the frontier.

However, the government soldiers cannot stay at the border for a long time. If they are allowed to stay for a long time without giving money to support their families, coupled with the exploitation by the superiors, then the government soldiers will flee and the family will go bankrupt.

Therefore, this led to the collapse of the military system in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and it had to be mainly recruited. Coupled with various reasons, the situation of Jiedushi's separatist regime finally appeared.

But now Fan Zhuoyuan's bases are no more than Yanyun, Taiyuan, Zhending, Hejian, and Damingfu.

The implementation of the Fubing system can greatly save military expenses, and the army is integrated with farming and warfare, and it also has relatively strong combat capabilities. With the standing elite, it is enough to expand the Quartet.

Of course, when the power expands to a certain level, Fan Zhuoyuan will gradually abolish the government soldier system and replace it with professional soldiers and conscripts recruited by the local government to complement each other.

The foundation of the Fubing system is the land, and every Fubing is the heir of an owner farmer or even a small landlord family, so when the system is established, it is natural to carry out land reform.

Land reform is not uncommon. Civil officials who are a little familiar with governance can come up with a package plan. After Fan Zhuoyuan put forward a few points, he let Xiao Zhonggong do what he wants. With the Xiaojie army as his backing, he used force as an endorsement to implement it. Full support.

Its implementation process is nothing more than surveying the population, classifying classes, and then returning the land to local people, allocating acres, distributing seeds, farm tools and cattle, etc., and arranging corresponding agricultural technical bureaucrats and subordinate staff to enter the fields to guide the people.

These are not the most difficult, the most difficult is how to deal with local tyrants.

The problem in the Yanyun area is not very serious. Yanyun has experienced wars and turmoil in recent years, especially the four prefectures of Yun, Dai, Shuo, and Wei, whose population was basically robbed by the Jin army.

In the Yanyun area, only a small number of wealthy families remained, and these wealthy families also had a miserable life. In the early years, when the Song army came, they robbed one wave. Later, the Jin army came twice and robbed two waves.

Not only did the population suffer heavy casualties, but even the inherent fields could not be guarded.

For them, Fan Zhuoyuan asked the Han family in Jizhou to represent them, and asked each family to report the situation of their own land.

Then let people go down to clear the Zhang to establish the boundary, and carry out hierarchical taxation according to the policy.

The so-called tiered tax means that the amount of tax will increase if the amount of land holdings exceeds a certain base.

The more land you own, the more taxes you will pay. If you annex land to a certain extent, you may even be bankrupted by heavy taxes.

After the Yanyun Hao family learned about the new system, everyone was taken aback, but they were not qualified to bargain with Fan Zhuoyuan. After revising the land size of their respective families again, they honestly cooperated in measuring the land.

Keep the land holdings of each family at a reasonable level. If the occupied land is really too much, they even have to take the initiative to divide the family, distribute the land to their descendants, and let them establish a separate household registration to avoid tax pressure.

In addition to these areas, there are several areas that originally belonged to the Song Dynasty. The most typical one is the Han family in Xiangzhou, which is where the Han Qi family is located.

The local people have basically been their tenants, even Xiangzhou Yue Fei is no exception.

Such a family can be regarded as a top family in the Song Dynasty, and there are countless weaker ones.

They are deeply rooted and famous in the local area, and most of the people are bewitched by them.

Xiao Zhonggong didn't want the influence to be too bad, he didn't attack all the wealthy families, but targeted the biggest ones like the Han family, plus the worst reputation ones.

First, they investigated these family scandals through Jinyiwei, and then spread them widely among the people through stage and nursery rhymes in order to tarnish their reputation among the people.

In addition, some sufferers were lured to go to the government to file a complaint, and then the related cases were held in public, which made these families notorious.

After that, it will be the last step. The court will send subordinate officials to arrest them. If there is any resistance, or even massacre the court subordinates, then it will be even better!
Directly mobilizing the army to encircle and suppress, under the oppression of such absolute strength, even if these powerful families joined forces to resist, and even hired masters of the rivers and lakes to assassinate, they were all successfully suppressed.

Under the New Deal, there was no such thing as a ruler and scholar-bureaucrats co-ruling the world, let alone a saying that the scholar-bureaucrats could not be punished.

Those who dared to resist were all beheaded by the clan. After the land was confiscated, they were directly distributed to the landless peasants on the spot, ruining their reputation.

The peasants, who were still bewitched by the wealthy clan, received such benefits, and immediately changed their faces, completely siding with the New Deal.

(End of this chapter)