The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 238 Is the county magistrate so attractive?
"Although the city lord and the county government are important, if we follow the administrative department's organizational structure and open yamen, the number of officials will be too many, which will increase the financial burden. I suggest that it is better to appropriately reduce the number of yamen." The second uncle saw Song Yingkui. It meant that the county government should be basically modeled on the current organizational structure of the city lord's administrative office, and he quickly expressed his concerns.

"The county is the foundation of governance. If the yamen are not complete, many affairs can only be pushed up or down. The result of pushing up or down is that the gentry will use public tools for private use, and the city lord's control over the local area will be weakened. In the end, it will be imposed on the people. The burden may not be reduced, and financial expenses may not be saved. Again, as long as you work, there will be expenses. If you want to save expenses, you cannot do a lot of work.

Let's do this. After the county government is restored, some affairs that were previously under the town office will be moved up to the county, such as the Penalty Department and Courts. From now on, they will be directly under the jurisdiction of the county government. The county government will set up police courts and police prison stations in important towns. , the town and township offices have no control over these two matters.The affairs of the tax bureau and the financial department must also be tightened up to the direct management of the administrative department and county yamen, and the township bureaucracy's right to speak on these two matters should be deprived as much as possible. "

According to the experience of later generations, county-level administrative agencies are complete first-level administrative agencies with independent local legal powers. Therefore, Song Yingkui felt that if Yungu was to be established as a county, county-level yamen should also have corresponding responsibilities.Second uncle's suggestion of appropriate downsizing is not very appropriate.

"Okay! Let's try to see what you want first. If the expense is too huge, we can discuss other options! Tomorrow I will start arranging the establishment of Taoyang and Taosha counties, and strive to combine the two counties and two district yamen this year. Things fall into place.”

"My uncle and the county government should use a dual-officer discussion bureau system, with dual positions of the county magistrate and the county magistrate. The magistrate represents the city government and is responsible for supervising the county affairs. The county magistrate is the government magistrate. All orders in a county are issued and responsible for by the county magistrate. Execution. The order signed by the county magistrate must be reviewed by the county council members and reported to the administrative office of the city government for record before it can be issued.

All matters that need to be signed in a county must be reviewed by the members of the county council bureau. If the county magistrate has objections to the matter reviewed, he can seal it and report it to the administrative department for decision.The county magistrate has the power to organize proposals and supervise, but has no direct right to use seals.The county council bureau is the final agency responsible for affairs in a county and is also the seat of authority of the county. The county magistrate's duty is to organize and supervise the council bureau's normal performance of its duties. The county magistrate's duty is to lead the subordinate yamen to implement the council bureau's resolutions.In addition to the county magistrate and county magistrate, the county council bureau also elects five to eight subordinate government officials to serve. "

Changing the chief official responsibility system into a collective responsibility system and setting up dual chief officials was a method of checking and balancing power that Song Yingkui thought of based on the experience of later generations.Otherwise, for a small political power like Yungu, the authority of the head of a county is too great, and the chief officials of the county may be allowed to control local affairs, forming a powerful local force that is too big to be controlled by the city government.

When the second uncle first heard Song Yingkui's idea, his first reaction was that this guy was going to do something new again.But then I thought about it, and I felt that this dual-officer bureau system seemed a bit interesting?In this way, the county magistrate or magistrate no longer has the final say on county affairs, which is conducive to the administrative department's control over the county government.Strengthening the authority of the City Lord's Palace, doesn't it mean strengthening the authority of the Administrative Office?This has to be done, otherwise the administrative office will become the secretariat of the city lord's palace.

After discussing with the second uncle the main issues of establishing a county government, the second uncle returned to the administrative hall and publicized the matter.

Then, officials of all sizes in Quanyun Valley exploded. People like Guo Kaifeng, Han Yuhong, Li Junhao and others came to Song Yingkui that night to inquire about information and serve as official posts.

The next day, several mayors who were close by heard the news and rushed to Taoyang City to brush their faces in front of Song Yingkui.Even Yang Shunan and others who had been serving in the army were interested. They came over and expressed tactfully that they wanted to be a county magistrate or county magistrate.Ordinarily, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the positions of county magistrate and county magistrate are not too high in the Yungu system.But officials from top to bottom of Yungu showed a strong interest in this position.

If not for anything else, it’s because the names of these two official positions are nice.The official positions of town mayor, department director, director, and general manager all sound like they are not high-end, but the reputations of county magistrate and county magistrate are great.

Speaking of which, none of the current officials in Yungu had served as a county official, especially the head of a county, during the Dazheng period.Even Song Yingkui's second uncle Jiang Yunjin, although his rank was higher than that of a county magistrate when he was an official in Dazheng, he still never served as a principal official in a county. He had always been in the rank of Zuo Er officials, let alone other officials. of people.

Being the county magistrate or county head gives the impression that this official function is common all over the world, especially in Dazheng.In the future, when you meet people from other places and you say that I am a department director or department director, how can they know what I do?But if I give you the title of county magistrate, whoever comes will treat me as an official.

For the Yungu bureaucratic group, which is overwhelmingly mud-legged and of indigenous origin, becoming a county official is too attractive.This does not depend on the level of officialdom, salary or status. The key is reputation.After becoming a county magistrate, all the previous struggles and efforts have been recognized and valued. Who can remain calm?
"Uncle, get ready. We will hold a temporary counselor's meeting in a few days. Let's vote on the magistrates and magistrates of Taoyang and Taosha counties. In the past few days, I have seen people come to me to seek employment. It's really annoying. It's a dead man. Since everyone wants to be an official, let's vote with a show of hands. If the province bothers me, I won't be this evil person." Everyone wanted to be a county official, especially the county magistrate, so Song Yingkui was prepared to use collective voting. Let's deal with it, and whoever gets more votes will be the one to do it, so as not to make people complain about this kind of nonsense.

These people are also pig-headed. There are not only two counties in Yungu. There will be more and more county magistrates in the future. Is it necessary to be so anxious and angry about this matter?

"City Lord, this matter will be decided by the Council of Counselors? What will happen when the counselors come to compete for this position?" The second uncle also heard a lot of rumors and knew that it was not just the township officials below who were interested, but also several people from the City Lord's Mansion. The counselors are all looking for official positions in the county.

"Anyone can do it as long as there are enough people to raise their hands to vote! However, in order to take care of the township officials below, my opinion is that the post of county magistrate should not be restricted, and the post of county magistrate should be taken from the chief officials at the town level. Otherwise, the officials below will feel that there is no hope for promotion, which will hurt people's hearts." Judging from the recent situation of office candidates around him, Song Yingkui was afraid that the counselors would snatch up all the official positions in the two counties and not give any chance to the officials below him.

"Which city lord, do you think I can also seek a position as county magistrate?"

Song Yingkui never expected that even his second uncle would be interested in becoming the county magistrate!It really makes people speechless. Others have never been officials, but you have been a bigger official than the county magistrate. Why are you so tempted!
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