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Chapter 141 Ruyang’s restructuring, ten times the number of officials!
Qian Yunsheng and Li Yunzhong were overjoyed after hearing Liu Sheng's words.

Qian Yunsheng was promoted from an ordinary county clerk to the magistrate of Fuguo County. It is said that he was promoted to five ranks in a row.

Li Yunzhong was promoted from a clerk to an official.

I thought to myself, isn't it equivalent to being in charge of the money and food affairs of Ruyang?

Although he is only an official of the ninth grade, he is still an official.

In order for this official position to become more legitimate and valuable, I have to do things well...
Liu Sheng used Qian Yunsheng and Li Yunzhong, not because they were very talented, but simply because they had been with the Chinese Ministry for some time and had certain abilities.

Among them, in order to show his determination to work with the Huabu, Li Yunzhong also sent his family to Tianmu Mountain before coming.

In addition to these two people, Luo Huaiyu, the official of Queshan, was also transferred to Suiping as magistrate by Liu Sheng.

As for the positions of Queshan Chief Secretary, Dianshi, and Household Administrator, the Queshan Lishu who performed well in the first two months will fill the positions.

Other vacant positions in Suiping County will also be selected based on Wen You's suggestions after Luo Huaiyu takes office.

In addition, Liu Sheng also transferred Zhao Deyou from the military and political officer system to serve as Runing's general judge, and transferred Zhao Deyou to the third regiment's military and political officer.

As for the political commissar of Huben Camp, Li Guofan, a sentry political commissar who performed well before and after the Battle of Ruyang, was promoted to the post.

After Qian and Li thanked each other, Li Changwen asked doubtfully: "Chief, does the responsibility of the Finance Bureau overlap with that of the household housing?"

Liu Sheng said with a smile, "I was about to talk to my husband about this."

Then, Liu Sheng explained his thoughts on the administrative organizational structure.

When Liu Sheng builds his country in the future, he will definitely not copy the administrative departments of the Ming Dynasty like the Qing Dynasty.

This is not to say that it must be new and different, but that the administrative structure of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was too inefficient.

When productivity develops rapidly in the future, this administrative structure evolved from the three provinces and six ministries system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties will become even more backward, and it will never be able to support the administrative work from the central to the local governments.

For example, the Tang Dynasty inherited the Sui Dynasty system, and the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty systems also drew heavily on the previous dynasties, mainly because the founders of the new dynasties did not know the future changes, so they could only learn from the previous dynasty's models and draw on the experience and lessons of the previous dynasties.

Because the administrative structure and management model of the previous dynasty were often more in line with the people's sentiments at that time, you only need to cross the river by feeling the stones and make certain changes based on the lessons of the previous dynasty.

If the rulers completely ignore the previous dynasty and arbitrarily fabricate new administrative structures and implement new models of management, they will often make big mistakes and cause the foundation to collapse.

Liu Sheng is different.

He comes from later generations and knows the historical trends and changes in the next 400 years.

There are also various mature systems and administrative structures that can be borrowed from later generations.

Therefore, he can completely build an administrative management system that is both advanced enough and more suitable for the current social situation based on the experience of later generations.

Of course, in order to make it easier for officials and people to accept it, he will establish a new administrative system step by step.

Just like this Ruyang restructuring.

The three positions of county magistrate, county magistrate, and chief registrar still exist, because they have similar meanings to the first, second, and third leaders of the county in later generations.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court had changed flexibly. Only counties with heavy tasks appointed both the county magistrate and the chief registrar. Counties with light tasks and few affairs often had only one county magistrate and chief registrar.

Just like before, there was only the chief registrar in Zhenshan, and the position of county magistrate had always been vacant.

Ruyang County must have heavy tasks, but Liu Sheng did not have suitable candidates for county magistrate or chief bookkeeper, so he simply left it to Li Changwen to find them.

The six offices and four offices of rites, households, officials, and workers in government and county offices still exist, but their responsibilities have changed.

Among them, the Lifang will be mainly responsible for the spiritual civilization construction and government propaganda work of the county, and will also be responsible for various reception work.

Educational work will be separated from the ceremonial room, and an Education Bureau will be established directly to take charge of teaching.

Household rights have shrunk the most.

Households in the Ming Dynasty were mainly responsible for land management, household registration management, tax collection, money and grain transfers from the prefecture and county treasury, etc. They had great powers and responsibilities.

Not only is it easy to breed corruption, but it is also difficult to do a good job. After all, the task is arduous.

Therefore, Liu Sheng followed later generations and split up the Finance Bureau and Taxation Bureau, leaving Hufang only responsible for land and population affairs.

The responsibilities of the official office and the work office have not changed much for the time being.

Because the official office is equivalent to the personnel department, and the work office is responsible for various projects in the prefecture and county, it is basically sufficient at this stage.

The barracks and torture chambers were directly cancelled, but new recruiting stations and trial houses were built.

Among them, the recruitment station is only responsible for recruiting civilian warriors from the private sector, and then handing them over to the local civilian warrior camp for training.

However, the recruitment offices are not under the control of the military, but are under the control of the prefecture and county officials, which can be regarded as a threat to the military administration by local civil affairs officials.

Because after all, this time cannot be compared with later generations - in later generations, because transportation and communications are extremely developed, many local departments have central vertical management, which will not delay things.

However, if the same thing was copied in the seventeenth century, it would not only require a lot of officials, increase financial pressure, but also easily delay important matters due to inconveniences in summons and transportation.

It can be said to be very unwise.

The establishment of tribunals, rather than the establishment of courts in one step, is also based on the current situation of the times.

The existence of courts does not depend on the popularization of the law. After all, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this regard for future generations.

Just talking about the reserve of legal professionals needed by the government and the private sector will not be enough.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, litigation became common in many places, and litigants had already become a profession.

But now that litigation has become common, the number and quality of litigants cannot be compared with those of later generations of lawyers.

As for the legal personnel gap in the government, the gap is even greater.

Forcing the courts directly will not work at all, and it will be easy to act like a tiger instead of a dog.That's why Liu Sheng first set up a trial court.

In the past, the execution room was responsible for the trial, judgment and prison management of cases. It was also easy to breed corruption and create unjust, false and wrongful convictions.

The court only has the power to hear and make judgments on cases, while the prison is independent and directly managed by the county government.Although corruption still cannot be eliminated, it can be reduced.

Correspondingly, a patrol bureau will be established, which is equivalent to the police station in later generations, and will be responsible for maintaining public security, investigating cases, and hunting down criminals.

A fire station will also be established.

This department cannot be said to be newly built, but can only be said to be a formally established regulatory department.

Because our country had specialized fire fighters as early as the Zhou Dynasty - "fire masters" inherited from ancient times.

In ancient times, before people learned how to make fire, fire needed to be specially managed.

The so-called control means not only not letting the fire go out, but also not letting the fire burn down the residence or tribe.

In the Zhou Dynasty, it was called "Si Xuan", in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was called "Fang Yu" and "Lighting Fire Army", in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was called "Fire Fighting Soldiers", and in the later Qing Dynasty, it was called "Fire Prevention Team".

Moreover, in the Song Dynasty, there were special fire trucks, fire water guns and other tools.

Therefore, it was natural for Liu Sheng to establish the "fire station".

The reason why it is not called a fire department is because fire protection is not as important as it was in later generations - the density of housing and population in cities cannot be compared with that of later generations, and the dangers of wildfires are not as great as in later generations.

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When Liu Sheng first started speaking, Li Changwen asked for pen, ink, paper and inkstone to record.

The future "prefects" all did this. Of course Qian Yunsheng and Li Yunzhong were embarrassed to sit there comfortably, so they also asked for paper and pen to take notes in a decent manner.

When Liu Sheng finished speaking and took a break to drink tea to soothe his throat, Li Changwen looked at the records and said: "I summarized it, let the leader see if it is correct.

According to the leader, the six-room auxiliary county government used to manage, but now it has become four-room, six-bureau, three-room and prison, right? "

Liu Shengdao: "As far as the county is concerned, it should be the fourth house, the fifth bureau, and the eighth office, because I am also planning to set up an inspection station, a relief station, a patrol station, a health clinic, and an immigration station.

Among them, the Supervisory Office is equivalent to moving the work of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the county level, but it is no longer allowed to report anything. It must investigate and collect evidence before filing a case and reporting it.

The relief center is responsible for various relief affairs and has jurisdiction over the former social welfare departments such as the Almshouse and Luzeyuan.

As for the patrol station, it is a subordinate department of the patrol bureau in the countryside; the health center is a subordinate department of the Fucheng Medical Bureau in the county.

As for the immigration station, I don’t need to say anything. I think you should know what its responsibilities are. "

Li Changwen nodded and said, "What about the mansion?"

"The mansion has four bureaus, nine bureaus, and three bureaus. In addition to the five bureaus that are one level higher than the county bureau, the four extra bureaus are the inspection bureau, the trial bureau, the medical bureau, and the fire bureau.

In terms of relief, recruitment, and immigration, the government is only responsible for managing subordinate departments and is not responsible for specific work, so it is only set up as a department. "

Li Changwen frowned slightly and said, "Prefectures and counties have added so many subordinate yamen. When more prefectures and counties are ruled by the Huabu in the future, I am afraid that the expenditure on official salaries will be very large. Has the leader considered this?"

"Of course I have considered it." Liu Sheng was not surprised by Li Changwen's doubts, "If there are more departments with duplicate functions, it means redundant staff, which is naturally not good.

But these additional departments we have added are equivalent to refining the original responsibilities of the sixth house, making the officials' work more specific, so that they can be more efficient, and it is easier to find the responsible person if something goes wrong.

As for the increase in salaries due to the increase in the number of officials, we can just increase the revenue from the sources.

As long as the place can be managed well, both the people's income and the court's tax revenue can be increased. "

After hearing this, Li Changwen still had some doubts, but he was not ready to say anything now.

He thought that if Liu Sheng's plan really became a financial burden, he would just give him advice in the future.

Then he asked another question, "How to arrange the officials and servants in these departments?"

Liu Sheng smiled, "This is also the key point of this restructuring - except for a few exceptions, the vast majority of officials in the Ming Dynasty cannot be promoted no matter how well they perform in their positions.

This makes it easy for officials to become corrupt, and even control a certain aspect of government affairs in a place. For generations, they become local snakes, which seriously harms the central government's local management.

As for the servants, because they were recruited, they had no salary and only a small amount of money and food subsidies.

Among them, yamen servants are regarded as a low-ranking official (the same as a low-ranking official, not really classified as a low-ranking official), and the third generation is not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

This can be said to be the main reason why police officers take advantage of their official duties to seek personal gain and extort money from the people.

In response to this kind of phenomenon, I plan to divide the officials into four levels: senior officials, superior officials, middle officials, and subordinate officials. They can be promoted through performance assessment like officials.

As long as senior officials work well and have political achievements, they can be promoted to officials without any hidden bottlenecks.

At the same time, the yamen no longer requisitioned servants, but hired them instead, giving employees a salary that could at least support themselves.

In addition, such employees, as non-staff personnel, can also be converted into regular personnel through examination or outstanding work performance. "

Liu Sheng's approach is actually to use the civil servant and non-staff model of later generations.

But after saying it, Li Changwen and the others did not praise him. Instead, they all frowned and looked solemn.

Qian Yunsheng and Li Yunzhong didn't dare to say anything, but Li Changwen didn't have so many scruples.

He was even a little anxious.

"Chief, we have just established subordinate departments of prefectures and counties, and the number of officials has already increased too much in the Ming Dynasty.

If, as the leader said, officials can be promoted and servants can be replaced by employees, then the number of officials in a county may be more than ten times that of the Ming Dynasty!
The number of officials has increased so much that even if our Hua Department has gold and silver in the future, it may not be able to sustain it! "

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