Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 375
Ordinarily, Li Shimin would have to rest for a day before holding the court meeting after the exhaustion of the carriages and horses, but now is an extraordinary time, so he just greeted the Empress Changsun symbolically in front of the gate of the imperial city, and then directly summoned the minister Taiji Palace discussion.

The incident of the students blocking the door made him very annoyed, and it completely ruined his good mood when he came back from the northern tour and was ready to claim his credit. This time, he conquered four tribes and expanded thousands of miles for the Great Tang. Shouldn't there be a grand celebration party to have fun with the loss of the country's soldiers and horses?
However, no, Xiao Yu was so focused on doing business that he didn't understand Li Shimin's intentions. Therefore, when Xiao Yu took the lead in reporting to Li Shimin the work of Chang'an in the past few months in the court hall, anyone who saw Li Shimin's displeased expression Fear.

If there is no comparison, there will be no harm. Chang'an, the capital of the country and the most populous city in the world, was completely defeated by Shanyang. This is the failure of the policy and the incompetence of the rulers. Then a series of reform measures will start in Chang'an Yes, this is probably Li Shimin's intention to shake his face on purpose.

And why do you say 'again'?

Because the reform of the citizenship system at the beginning of the year was already fierce enough, but this time, it will be more drastic, and the entire six departments and nine ministers will be changed, or in other words, there will be no such thing as six departments and nine ministers in the future.

The first announcement was to abolish all the money and food management parts of Taifu Temple, Guanglu Temple, and Sinong Temple, and then combine them to form the Ministry of Finance. Daily consumption of supplies, military equipment, pensions for soldiers and so on.

In other words, after the establishment of the Ministry of Finance, any other department has nothing to do with cash. If you need to spend money, you need to get a receipt to ask them for reimbursement. Partial management, disorganized and inefficient.

People in the Ministry of Finance will do some accounting, budgeting, and auditing work, but the data is kept confidential. If you use it too much, someone will check you.

If you want too much, it is impossible. If there is a budget, the difference is too far, so it will not be approved.

The quantity used does not match the quantity received, so it must be returned, otherwise, you will still be held accountable.

Moreover, in addition to facing the supervision of the chief official, the local finance department also faces the management of the higher-level yamen.

If you want to talk about why Li Shimin has such a great determination to reform, it is because he has not been idle in Shanyang for more than three months. He has read all the management departments two or three times and has a thorough understanding. Before Sun Xiangfu was in Shanyang, It is by this method that the financial power is tightly grasped.

The second is the reform of the judiciary. The imperial censor's supernatural stuff will become history in the future, because in the future, the court will no longer discuss such trivial matters as the courtiers' personal behavior, and will only follow the rules.

Yushitai will merge with Dali Temple and Tingwei to form the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice will have the right to manage the law-making of the entire country, as well as illegal trials. For those officials who behaved indiscriminately in the past, they will not fight in front of the emperor, but will be punished directly by the Tingwei according to the law. The file will be included in the official's promotion evaluation.

Therefore, if officials dare to bully men and women in the future, the Ministry of Justice can directly issue an order, and the court will take the person, try, convict, and pronounce a sentence. Regarding the results of the Ministry of Justice's sentence, although the emperor has the right to amnesty, there is no reasonable reason. Next, it is not easy to reject.

When Sun Xiangfu was in Shanyang, he never once rejected the judgment of the judicial department.

Of course, for small things like eating snacks on the street and wearing improper clothes, the new law will also abolish the items that are really punished, from the original more than 1000 to one hundred. Within the period, more than [-]% of the above-mentioned aspects of the code of conduct for officials and common people have been abolished. It is not a real crime, and there will be no heavy punishment. There are many small things, warnings, demerits, and fines.

Now that there is a Ministry of Justice, the functions of the Ministry of Criminal Justice have been completely changed. In the future, it will be divided into four parts: the Public Security Department, the Detective Department, the Anti-Explosion Department, and the Investigation Department that specializes in obtaining evidence for various cases. Prosecutor's forensic investigation.

These four departments will completely change the functions of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, which had little sense of existence in the past, because, after the restructuring, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has the strongest force under its command besides the city defense army.

In the future, the county government's arrests and tolerances will all belong to the Public Security Department of the Ministry of Punishment, and the county soldiers under the county lieutenant will belong to the Explosion-proof Department of the Ministry of Punishment. With the addition of a judge from the Ministry of Justice, then the judicial prison system of a county will be Established and relatively independent.

The county magistrate is only in charge of production and local construction, and only has the right to supervise and report to other departments in the county, and cannot forcibly interfere.

As for the judicial department, although it is under the supervision of the county magistrate, it is also responsible to the higher-level judicial department just like the finance department. In a sense, he can even control the county magistrate for breaking the law.

This not only weakened the rights of local chief officials, but also made the law and prisons independent of the entire power system, and added to the dual-track system that Sun Xiangfu started playing in Shanyang two years ago.

After such a change, the management of internal affairs will be much easier. How much money the imperial treasury has and how much money can be spent can be found out by asking the finance minister.

Prison justice across the country, not the death penalty that needs to be executed by hook, can be sentenced by them according to the law. Even if the sentence is sentenced by the county-level justice, it can be appealed to the state-level judicial department, or even to the Supreme Court in Chang'an. , investigate the case, focus on evidence, and punish. The ultimate goal is to reeducation through labor and compensate the victims for their losses. The death penalty is rare.

Local security and explosion-proof work are also managed by special people. The main work in the early stage is to prevent the township law from disposing of the people indiscriminately, and to control the life and death of all the people in the Tang Dynasty in the hands of the court.

Afterwards, the functions of the Ministry of War will remain the same, and the functions of the Ministry of Industry will be slightly changed. In addition to helping the court complete major projects, it will also cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce to manage the manufacturing industry of the entire country. It will be a supervisor and will no longer be managed independently. They were also classified as a department of the Ministry of Industry, which expanded its manpower and industrial resources many times.

The Ministry of Households has less money and food management, but more taxation tasks, because Li Shimin wants to copy Shanyang's tax system, and Changsun Wuji was the first to support it. The voice of opposition, now that the emperor is so strong, who dares to object!

After that, there are the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, and these two departments have also undergone considerable changes.

Honglu Temple was assigned to the Ministry of Rites, together with Taichang Temple, Taile Temple and other departments that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites. In short, the Ministry of Rites added the functions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the Ministry of Officials, there is an additional training department. In addition to managing officials' performance evaluation, promotion, appointment and dismissal, training officials' governance skills has become one of their work focuses.

Finally, it announced the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Commerce. The Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of the cultivation and production of the world's fields.

The Ministry of Commerce is in charge of commercial trade exchanges, commodity quality supervision, import and export control, etc.

Then, after this round of reforms, the original Jiuqing disappeared entirely, and became the ten departments of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Law, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Commerce.

For these ten ministers, Li Shimin also made appointments, and the candidates came as soon as they opened their mouths. Obviously, these reforms were something he had thought about for a long time during his stay in Shanyang.

Wen Yanbo, Minister of Officials, Yu Shinan, Minister of Rites, Sun Wuji, Minister of Household, Hou Junji, Minister of War, Gao Shilian, Minister of Finance, Yu Wenshiji, Minister of Punishment, Wei Zheng, Minister of Law, Sun Zhengming, Minister of Agriculture, Yan Lide, Minister of Industry , Shangshu Du Zhenglun.

Among them, Li Jing, the original Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was promoted to the right servant of the Shangshu, Fang Xuanling, the original minister of the Shangshu, and Zuopushe of the Jin Shangshu.

This series of reforms was announced by Xiao Yu's anger. His position is naturally not guaranteed. He did not announce his dismissal in public. There will definitely be arrangements later.As for the three provinces, they basically remained unchanged. The original Jiuqing were all transferred to the ten departments as the second in command. Three products.

Ma Zhou, a native of Zhongshushe, was directly appointed as the right servant of the Ministry of Commerce, which can be regarded as skipping several levels.

Sun Xiangfu actually doesn't care much about other people's official positions. It's good that his own position as Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture has been confirmed. The ministers in the court have already had expectations for this official system reform. Even most people's grades have been promoted, so naturally there is nothing to object to, but after the announcement, the establishment of the new government office and the arrangement of middle and low-level officials will be busy. It's okay, let them be well organized.

A series of official appointments directly used up the entire afternoon. However, Li Shimin did not intend to let Xiao Yu and Sun Xiangfu out of the palace, plus Hou Junji, Li Jing, Fang Xuanling, and Changsun Wuji. , were invited to the Imperial Study Room for dinner together.

I thought that Li Shimin would talk about the procurement of armaments as soon as he came in, but he didn't expect him to be the first to ask about Du Ruhui's health, "Can Zhengming be sure to cure Keming's disease?"

"As long as this winter passes, it should be fine."

Du Ruhui's pulmonary tuberculosis is an early stage disease, and the medicine is easy to take effect. A few days ago, the guy from Du's family who went to the house to pick up frozen cauliflower said that his condition was getting better and he basically didn't cough much, so basically there was no problem.

Hearing this, Li Shimin's expression relaxed, and he said, "In this way, the country will not lose a pillar. I will go to his house to visit the sick later, there is no problem!"

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "You just need to wear a mask, just in case."

Li Shimin was no stranger to masks. Moreover, Du Ruhui's illness was almost on the verge of recovery, and the infectivity was already very low, so it would not be contagious to Li Shimin, who was in his prime.

"Zhengming relieved me of a big worry, then, let's talk about why you let Xiang Xiang go to Sichuan!"

All right!It turned out that Xiao Yu even told Li Shimin about this, and Sun Xiangfu would not tell Li Shimin that he had watched TV dramas in later generations, and that in the next few years, Tubo would become a powerful enemy of the Tang Dynasty, so he just made up a reason, "Shuzhong is rich in products, has a large population, and borders Tubo and other tribes in Yunnan. It is not only a strategic location, but also a commercial center. Once developed, it will be a new economic growth point for our Tang Dynasty. In the next step, Shu There will be many industries in China that need to be reformed and adjusted, which may touch the interests of some people, and those who have not been in the center for a long time and understand the new development model of the imperial court are not qualified for such a difficult task."

"Even you can see that Shuzhong is a strategically important place, but it's the same as what the pharmacist thinks!" Li Shimin looked at Sun Xiangfu with some relief, and handed him a roll of secret guard's intelligence paper.

After Sun Xiangfu took a look, he frowned. Sure enough, although he changed the history of Tang Dynasty, he still did not change the history of Tubo. Come to think of it, although these things seem to have nothing to do with Datang, if you think that Datang wants to devote all its power to attack Goguryeo, it may have something to do with it.

These forces are all in the back of Datang!What if there is something wrong here when Datang and Goguryeo are fighting?
The power of a top military strategist is that he can smell danger through small things. No wonder Wang Hao said that Wang Lin's plan could not be put on the table. Before his sneak attack plan was actually implemented, Li Jing had some insights into the situation. .

(End of this chapter)