Wentang

Chapter 556 National Plan 2
The title is wrong, this should be chapter 558.There is no way to modify the title, that's all.Feel sorry.

(Chapter 557 felt like it was going to be 404, so I set it as a public chapter and updated it, and then deleted it. You can use the search engine to find what you want to see. Hmm... that chapter is all private goods and has nothing to do with the plot It’s big, it doesn’t matter if you watch it or not. Those who are interested can look for it, and those who are not interested can just watch the next plot.)
Li Shimin should be very satisfied with the cabinet system. The next day, he circled a place in Chengtianmen, the cabinet office, and then selected people he trusted to take up the post.

The cabinet has one bachelor as the head of the cabinet, six bachelors to assist the bachelor's work, and the rest of the officers follow orders.

His caliber to the outside world was to select talented people to prepare for counseling, and all the courtiers in the world rejoiced and praised the emperor for being wise and good at accepting advice.

Because Li Shimin had done similar things before, when he was still the King of Qin, he established a literary museum to recruit talented people from all over the world for consultation.

Therefore, in the eyes of the ministers, this so-called cabinet is a replica of the literature museum, where the emperor reserves talents.

To prevent anyone from seeing something, the cabinet members were not selected from the existing circle of important ministers, they were selected idle officials and sages from the opposition.

The eldest grandson Wuji became the first cabinet scholar, temporarily in charge of cabinet affairs.Ma Zhou, a servant of the province, served on duty and was promoted to a cabinet bachelor.

This is a significant step forward for both.

The eldest grandson Wuji once again entered the core of power-the year before last because of the reason of the queen's brother, he was forced to resign from the post of Zaifu.

Speaking of which, like Yue Shan, both of them have no actual positions, and they both work in the court with idle jobs, and they all rely on their personal influence on Li Shimin to participate in the court affairs.

But now Changsun Wuji has stepped into the core again with one foot.

Ma Zhou also entered the cabinet step by step from an unranked provincial servant on duty, and officially became Li Shimin's adviser.

It can be said that the cabinets currently selected as bachelors are all future important ministers in the court, and now they can take off after Li Shimin makes the cabinet regular.

The first task after the establishment of the cabinet was to help the emperor sort out and summarize the opinions and suggestions that Yue Shan led people to sort out, and then analyze them one by one for Li Shimin to listen to.

Although Yue Shan, the instigator, tried his best to refuse to work in the cabinet, he was still arrested and accompanied him to study.

Looking at the stacks of documents several feet thick on the table, Yue Shan wanted to die, and lay down on his desk in frustration, motionless.

On the contrary, Changsun Wuji, Ma Zhou and others' eyes were as bright as light bulbs, tossing and turning excitedly.

Glancing at the dejected Yue Shan, Changsun Wuji felt amused, and deliberately asked, "What's wrong with Cuilan? She's not feeling well."

"Yeah, I'm really uncomfortable and need to rest. You guys are busy and leave me alone." Yue Shan said weakly.

"How can I do that? You led someone to sort out these materials, and you need to explain them yourself." Changsun Wuji said jokingly.

"Ah!" Yue Shan suddenly sat up and hugged his head and shouted, which startled Changsun Wuji and others.

Then he said with a straight face: "I'm done, let's start."

Changsun Wuji held his heart and pointed at him, speechless for a long time.

Yue Shan came to the materials as if nothing had happened, and said: "These are the first editions of the materials, and it will take a lot of time to fully understand them. It is almost January now, and we must come up with this year's plan as soon as possible, so we don't have that much time. Checked one by one."

As he spoke, he picked up the top bookcase and said, "Here are the questions after my preliminary screening, and there are only more than a thousand. Now we will study these with all our strength, and formulate a work plan as soon as possible and submit it to the saint."

Changsun Wuji then said: "Heroes see the same thing. These materials were obtained by Marquis Yue's investigation of hundreds of people. Even if we have three heads and six arms, we can't sort it out in a short time."

"So the best way is to select some representative issues to make a plan, wait until this year's plan is completed, and study the remaining materials with great concentration. Do you have any comments?"

Ma Zhou and several other scholars nodded to express that they had no objection.

The only people who have the right to speak and make decisions in the cabinet are the bachelors and a few bachelors. The rest of the staff are all clerks, and they are obedient and do not even have the right to speak without permission.

So as long as the decision passed by a few of them is the final decision of the cabinet.

After unifying the thinking, the rest is simple.After analyzing the questions that Yue Shan personally selected, hundreds of questions were eliminated, and less than half of them were left.

There are two reasons why there are so many internal culling:

One is that Yue Shan did it on purpose. If he did everything, what would other people think?So I deliberately stuffed a lot of problems that can be eliminated, just to save everyone's face.

The second is that there are indeed many deficiencies in his ability, many things are not well thought out, and the seemingly good suggestions are analyzed by others and found to have many problems, so they are eliminated.

And through communicating with these people and observing their thinking angles, Yue Shan felt more clearly the thinking angles and ways of doing things of these elites in Chutang, which was of great help to his growth.

Most of these members of the cabinet were idlers before, and now they have the opportunity to participate in national affairs and are naturally very active. They really work around the clock and even forget to eat.

However, the results were also very remarkable, and finally came up with a plan after two weeks.

Looking at the other people with tired faces and bloodshot eyes, Yue Shan, who was full of oil, felt ashamed... In the future, he should not participate in such things, so as not to spoil the atmosphere.

Submit this thick and frightening memorial to Li Shimin, and after he read it and revised it, he brought it to the ministers for discussion.

Yueshan worked hard to mobilize people to find faults with the country, and found tens of thousands of problems at once, which caused a sensation in the capital.

Some people are worried and feel that what they are doing is not good enough.

Some people think that Yueshan is grandstanding and the country is thriving, but you want to say that there is a problem.

There are still people watching jokes behind their backs, don’t you brag about the world’s peace every day, keep bragging now.

But as prime ministers, they are more looking forward to.

Sometimes it is a lucky thing for the court to be able to find out the problem, but it is sad to not be able to find out the problem.

Once the problem is identified, everyone sits down and discusses how to solve it.If the country is in chaos without finding the problem, that means the country will perish.

Many people are interested in what problems Yue Shan has found out, and they are looking around for news.But it's a pity, Yue Shan has long been on guard against this move.

He divided the questioners into groups according to their industries in advance, and the groups had no contact with each other, and all they could get in touch with were the few questions he raised.

Only some members of the final review team can really get in touch with all the issues.And these people are trustworthy, they will not disclose this kind of secret to the outside world, and they dare not disclose it.

Therefore, outsiders can only get individual cases after inquiring and inquiring, and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false.

It can be said that everyone's hearts were lifted by what Yue Shan did, and they have had a miserable life for several years.

After waiting for such a long time, I can finally get a glimpse of the secrets, and all the prime ministers are also looking forward to it.

When they learned that what they could see were only a few hundred selected ones, instead of the tens of thousands in the legend, everyone was inevitably a little disappointed.

But when they opened the plan to see the contents clearly, they all showed shock.

This is an unprecedented plan.

All kinds of problems are classified into categories, and the scope is marked according to the priority.Every problem has a cause and a solution.

This is not the most important thing. The real core is that this plan uses a lot of data.

For example, in the construction of roads across the country, which road sections are planned to be built this year, which places will pass through, how much is the price of food in these places, how many people are needed to build the road, what is the cost, and how many days will it take to complete...

This is truly a groundbreaking move.

In the past, when they made a plan, everyone found out the problem, discussed it and reached a consensus to estimate how much money it would cost.

As for how long the construction period is and whether the money is enough, those are the affairs of the people below and have nothing to do with them.The result of this is corruption...

But now, this new plan has controlled all controllable things within a general range, allowing the sage and Zaifu to have an intuitive understanding in their minds.

Even if there are problems in the actual construction, everyone knows that they can quickly make a judgment, and then come up with targeted solutions, saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

Another groundbreaking point is that many related problems are put together to solve them as a whole.

When solving the first problem, by the way, solve the second, third, fourth and fifth problems together, which can save a lot of time, manpower and material resources... This was impossible before.

In the past, when making a plan, everyone sat around together, solved one thing when they thought of one thing, and started to do it again when they found new problems after solving it.

Many related problems can obviously be combined and dealt with. As a result, due to the lack of overall planning, a lot of repetitive and ineffective labor has been carried out, wasting resources in vain.

Now, the Zaifu finally knew the reason why Yue Shan had to work hard and mobilize hundreds of people to find fault with the country.

Because only when you know all the problems, can you stand on a high ground and do overall management.Otherwise, we can only think of one problem and solve one as before, lacking overall planning and forward-looking.

Qingshuihou really deserves to be Qingshuihou, if you don't make a move, it's nothing, but once you make a move, it will be extraordinary.

The prime ministers also look at the cabinet that made this plan differently.I thought it was the second literature museum, but now it seems that the emperor has other ideas.

But they didn't think too much about it, because the places that provided advice to the emperor had no real power and could not threaten prime ministers like them.

It took four or five days for the prime ministers just to read and think about this plan. It's not that they are slow, but that every decision is related to the safety of the country and has to be cautious.

The final result is that there will be no changes in general, but some details have been adjusted, and a few suggestions that the ministers themselves came up with have been added, and finally a complete one-year work plan for the Datang version has been completed.

However, it has entered February at this time, and if it drags on, this plan may only be implemented next year.So Li Shimin overbearingly skipped the process of deliberation by the officials, and just let everyone know about it at the court meeting, and directly implemented it nationwide without even discussing it.

This plan covers many aspects, but roughly only a few aspects.

The first is the establishment of the academic and political system and the imperial examination system.This year, we will set up tribute colleges in all the provinces of the world, hold Taoist examinations, and select talents for the country.

Under the Guozijian system, academies will be opened in every state capital across the country within five years, and academies can also be opened in some counties where conditions permit.

At the same time, private academies are also encouraged to recruit students to study, but private academies must accept the management and supervision of the local education department.The teaching materials used must be approved by the Department of Education, otherwise it will be considered illegal.

There are many other terms and conditions, so I won't go into details here.

Whether it is the academic and political system or the imperial examination system, a large number of talents are needed. Fortunately, Kong Yingda has reserved talents a few years in advance, and Yu Kexun has brought a large number of talents from Dizhou, which is barely enough.

Even if it is not enough, you can recruit from the outside. Of course, the priority of recruiting must be the supporters of the new school.

In short, Kong Yingda and Yu Kexun are full of fighting spirit, vowing to make unprecedented achievements, and their names will go down in history.

The second is the construction of national roads and the cleaning and excavation of rivers. China has attached great importance to the construction of roads since ancient times. Since the Qin Dynasty, all dynasties have spent a lot of resources on the construction of national roads, and the Tang Dynasty is no exception.

The cleaning and excavation of the river is also a top priority, because of the freight, irrigation and other functions related to the river.The key is that if the river is not cleaned regularly, it will be silted up, which is especially prone to floods and cause floods...

The construction of galleys and river courses is a long-term project, which must be carried out in a planned manner by section and time period.Even without the Yueshan court, the relevant plans would be formulated every year, but with his proposal, this year's plan is more scientific and comprehensive.

The third is the continuation of the great development of Lingnan.Everyone thought that the development of Lingnan would take many years to see benefits, but no one expected that a large amount of food would be provided to the court in the first year.

Due to the locust plague and drought in Guanzhong, there was no harvest throughout the year, and all the land in Lingnan was replanted with grain. During the autumn harvest, millions of shi of grain were provided to the imperial court.

As for the white sugar that Yue Shan proposed at first, it was ignored by everyone.

These days, there is nothing more valuable than food.Although the price of white sugar is higher, the Tang Dynasty is not yet rich enough to plant sugar cane on good land, at least not right now.

Seeing the real benefits, the imperial court became more enthusiastic about developing Lingnan, and will devote more energy to developing Lingnan this year.

The third is the development of the north. Jieli was captured by the Turks and survived. Datang can finally develop the northern homeland with confidence.

Of course, how to attack the last main force of the Turks is a core secret and will not be discussed in court.

This plan mainly proposes how to stabilize and develop the land in the north and restore local production.

……

After this plan was passed, Yue Shan finally got some leisure, and slept with the door closed for several days before coming back to life.

But his good days didn't last long, and soon Li Shimin's order blew him out again.

"From now on, if there are any suing people who are not subdued by Shangshu Province, they will be enshrined in the East Palace and ordered Chengqian to make a decision."

(End of this chapter)