I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 593 Official System

No official system is absolutely perfect, let alone the Song Dynasty, even later generations have no absolutely perfect official system.

Whether any system can achieve the expected value of the system depends on the people.

When Zhao Xi conceived the reform of the official system, he drew lessons from the practices of many later dynasties, and had to combine the current situation of the country, on the basis of ensuring stability, to design an advanced official system that was in line with this era as much as possible. .

For example, the official ranks, the official ranks of the new official system reform, Zhao Xi used the practice of later generations to set the official ranks as 25 levels of salary.

The first level, which does not involve rank, corresponds to the king.Originally, the king of the country had a salary, but his father was too polite and canceled the salary himself.Zhao Xi is nothing more than recovering again.

In setting up this level, Zhao Xi also wanted to clarify the false thought of the so-called common world.In essence, it is impossible to sort out whether it is a common world or a family world.

In terms of function, the king, like his ministers, is a part of the management of the dynasty.The actual meaning is in fact very different.

But in this era, there is no controversy, and no one is going to dispute it.

The second level corresponds to the rank of the ministers and workers, which is the first rank. It has nothing to do with the lord, but only with the official, or related to the official salary.

Those in the second level include princes, queens, princes, concubines, and some members of the cabinet, and some veterans who were once listed as three princes and retired from office are also among them.

The third level, that is, the current second-rank officials of the imperial court, mainly the cabinet members, the crown princess, the concubines of the inner garden, and the wives of officials who have been appointed first-rank imperial orders.

Ranks four to seven, this is the backbone of the dynasty, chief aides of the six divisions and nine ministers among civil servants, chief aides of governors from all walks of life, chief and auxiliary officials of the lecture hall, workshop city, supervisory yamen, Royal Bank, state-run temple, Shiyi temple, etc. , and even chief officials of important state capitals.

Military generals include the heads of various garrisons, the chief instructor of the martial arts hall, the chief officers of the garrisons of important state capitals, and the chief officers of some border garrisons.

This level is basically equivalent to the political level of the country.

The reason why the official rank corresponds to the dispatch shows that the purpose of Zhao Xi's reform of the official system is to finally realize the correspondence between dispatch and official rank, at least for officials above the seventh rank, and the official rank must eventually correspond to dispatch.

The eighth to twelfth ranks are the foundation of the dynasty, from the chief officials of the prefectures to the county magistrates, from the servants of the six departments and nine ministers to the doctors with important functions.

As far as generals are concerned, it includes the military chief officer at the military box level.

From the twelfth step down, from the auxiliary officials of the state capital to the county lieutenants in Xiaxian County, Bo and so on.

This refers to the grade salary of the official or officials.The reason why it is so detailed, and there are different official ranks in the same dispatch, this involves a seniority issue.

This is an unavoidable problem in any era.All official systems are in the form of a pyramid, and the higher the top, the fewer positions there are.And there must be many more jobs with the same qualifications.

For this idea, Zhao Xi quoted the practice of the later generations of the emperor.In terms of official and grade salaries, the channels for the promotion of officials at all levels have been smoothed out.

This official rank salary is equivalent to the rank salary of later generations, and the dispatch salary will correspond to the post salary of later generations.

Taking the future cabinet members as an example, Fu Bi was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Tiansheng, Han Qi was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Tiansheng, and Wang Anshi was a Jinshi in the second year of Qingli.

They are different in terms of official status, or rank or grade.Han Qi and Fu Bi are on the second level of salary, while Wang Anshi will be on the third or fourth or fifth level of salary.

However, in terms of dispatch, they are both members of the cabinet, and the dispatch salary will be the same.

Similarly, Wang Gui and Wang Gongchen were also Jinshi in the second year of Qingli, and their official posts were the same as those of Wang Anshi. However, because one may become the cabinet and the other may be in power at most, the official salary can be the same, but the difference in dispatch salary is very large.

For example, in the group of people in the second year of Jiayou, Lu Huiqing was already the chief official of Shiyi Temple, while Su Shi was the official of Huangzhou.There is not much difference in the official salary, but the dispatch salary is quite different.

However, like Zhang Dun and Su Zhe, they are dispatched in the lecture hall, second only to the chief adjutant of the lecture hall, and are equivalent to the servants of the six departments and nine ministers. Although there is a difference in dispatch salary from Lu Huiqing, the difference is not big .

Once they are both discussing politics, they will be directly equal.In terms of sending salaries, it is the principle that the high should not be low.The cabinet, deliberations, and court meetings determine the dispatch salary.

The reason why the reform of the official system took so long this time was that most of the time was wasted in formulating dispatch salaries.

It is easy to determine the salary of the official or official rank. Taking the fifth-rank officials with the same qualifications in the current dynasty as an example, the highest salary, the lowest salary, and the average salary of all the fifth-rank officials in the country can be basically determined. .

But dispatch salary is quite complicated.Basically, it involves all the current positions of Guochao.From the imperial court to the localities to the army, and even the edicts, wine supervisors, salt and iron supervisors and so on.

Under the leadership of Jia Xian, the approval of the entire dispatch salary was obtained from a large amount of salary information from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Under the principle of stability, it was finally finalized after two years of discussion.

It was also because of this process that Zhao Xi understood how chaotically the court spent money and food every year.

Perhaps most officials don't know the source of their salaries at all, and even the doctor in charge of this work in the Ministry of Household Affairs can't fully understand it.

For example, an official, in the Qingli year and the first year, has his own official salary. He is the head of the general prison. In fact, he may not have even entered the door of the general prison, but this salary will be paid to him by the household department on schedule.

Then, after years of hard work, he became a member of Zhongshushe, and had a noble official position in the palace, and a specific position in the state capital or the six ministers and nine ministers.

At this time, the official's salary was completely messed up.

The salary sent by the official to the official, the salary of the palace of the Qing Dynasty, the salary of the dispatch, plus the government grants to the ministers and workers involving tea, wine, kitchen materials, salary, artemisia, charcoal, salt and iron, horse materials, family members, and servants There is nowhere to settle accounts for clothing and materials.

If there is another official or lord's restaurant...~
Zhao Xi still remembered that after he ordered Jia Xian of Workshop City to take charge of this work, Jia Xian really broke out in a sweat when he gave the report for the first time.

Fortunately, officials in this era are not proficient in numerology, otherwise, such a chaotic and cumbersome salary method, loopholes can be exploited arbitrarily.

But Zhao Xi had to hold his nose to admit it, and had to redo the salary ladder on this basis...~
Jia Xian said that once the imperial court regulates the salary, this alone can save the imperial court hundreds of thousands of money and food every year.

Zhao Xi really didn't care about saving money, the current imperial court was not short of money, he just wanted to be clearer, understand more, and have fewer loopholes.

Zhao Xi's support for Wang Anshi's establishment of a system of establishment is in itself serving the final reform of the official system.

This is also the reason why Zhao Xi can tolerate some of Wang Yu's minor problems...~Wang Yu's establishment system, whether it is from taxation or payment, is indeed detailed and practical.

This time, all subsidies will be cancelled, and all subsidies will be paid out in coins, and then the salary plan of rank, dispatch and lord will be implemented, which is clear to the court and to the ministers and workers.

(End of this chapter)