Chapter 410 The Initial Formation of the Shogunate
The first to arrive were the scribes stationed in Wu County.
These include Bu Zhi, Wei Jing, Chen Jiao, Xu Xuan, Qin Song, Chen Duan, Du Ji, Jia Xi, Yuan Huan, Yuan Ba, Yuan Min, Du Xi, Zhao Yan, Fan Qin, Yan Xiang, and Yan Jin , Lu Dai and others.
In addition, Wu Fan, Wei Teng, Gao Dai and other scholars were also on their way north.
Liu Feng directly announced the plan he had been thinking about for a long time. He wanted to adjust the Zuo General Shogunate.
In the shogunate, there were originally one chief historian, one Sima, two doctors, and two people responsible for staff and military affairs. One was the false military governor, responsible for salaries, and the other was the war military governor, responsible for ordnance. In addition, there were still three officials. There are twenty-nine servants and thirty-one people.
Liu Feng felt that these shogunate positions were obviously not enough. At this moment, he had decided to adopt Cao Cao's hegemony model. His position as shogunate was to become a coveted position for people in the world. How could such a small amount be enough to accommodate the people of the world?
Therefore, Liu Feng carried out a large-scale expansion of recruitment with a wave of his hand.
First of all, the number of chief historians and chief ministers of the shogunate was expanded to one chief and five deputy officers, with a total of six chief historians and six chief ministers.
In addition to this, there is naturally no objection to the reorganization of each Cao Cao into five departments: the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of War.
However, the Ministry of Industry needs to be adjusted and temporarily split into the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of Resources. At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Internal Health will be added. and the Audit Department.
The Ministry of Personnel is equal to the Ministry of Organization, the Ministry of Accounts is equal to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Rites is the two ministries of foreign affairs and education, the Ministry of War is the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Punishment is naturally the Ministry of Justice.
Liu Feng wanted to improve scientific and technological productivity, so he split the Ministry of Industry into two, with industry as a separate department, and a new Ministry of Science and Technology to encourage innovative technologies.
At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture, which encourages mulberry farmers, promotes agriculture, rural areas, and agriculture technologies, and plans and reviews the number, types, yields, and planting conditions of acres, is also under the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Ministry of Health was a position that Liu Feng had wanted to establish for a long time, but he never had enough power and money to advance it. Now it is time to set it up to deal with the large number of infectious diseases and poor sanitary conditions in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
As for the Ministry of Water Resources, they saw the benefits of the renovation and new water conservancy projects in Jiangbei, so they established a department to promote the repair, new construction, and planning of water conservancy facilities within the Liu family's sphere of influence.
The Ministry of Transportation is naturally responsible for roads. At the same time, it will cross-train engineering talents with the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Engineering, nurture professional engineering teams, organize them into examples, and promote them. The ultimate goal is naturally to eliminate the most terrible feudal period in China. The foundation was laid for the complete abolition of corvee, the most stubborn and insane evil government.
Of course, it is impossible to achieve this with just a few engineering teams. The most important thing depends on the development of technological productivity.
Only by using gunpowder on a large scale to dig out mountains and roads and increasing the proportion of mechanical power in the project can the ancient practice of relying on manpower be completely solved and the soil of corvee be completely eliminated.
The Ministry of Manpower is actually a department separated from the Ministry of Household Affairs and is used to count the population. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, population and money, grain and taxes were almost equated.
Strictly speaking, the head tax is much higher than the field tax.
Not to mention the land tax system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was one out of fifteen taxes. Even including the additional taxes levied by the Eastern Han Dynasty court and corrupt officials, it was much less than the head tax.
In order to contain the household department, Liu Feng dug out this area and formed a separate department.
The Ministry of Manpower is not only responsible for the head tax, but also the task of census and population census to ensure Liu Feng's control over the population in his territory.
Objectively speaking, this seems to be a redundancy, but the problem is that Liu Feng currently has many talents and few official positions. The official positions at the county level can no longer satisfy these talents, but there are not so many county governor positions, let alone Liu Feng also wants to dominate the government, so the separate department of the Ministry of Manpower obviously has more advantages than disadvantages.
As the name of the Ministry of Public Security implies, for a qualified national system, the military and police systems must be separated. Liu Feng tried to transform the yamen into public security, but Liu Feng was not in a hurry and made up his mind to proceed slowly.
The final audit department and internal health department are the internal review and execution departments.
As a result, the shogunate had a total of eighteen ministries under its jurisdiction, with the chief minister in charge, while the deputy chief ministers were divided into first to fifth, and were in charge of two or more departments.
As for the six Sima, they are prepared for the generals who lead the army outside.
Subsequently, Liu Feng immediately announced the appointment, appointing Zhong Yao as the chief historian (official history) of the shogunate, Dong Zhao and Chen Qun as deputy chief historians, and the other two were temporarily vacant.
The official department is the first of the hundred departments and is undoubtedly the most important.
Liu Feng preferred Chen Qun to serve as Cao Yu (equivalent to Shangshu) in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he had already asked his father for someone. It's just that Chen Qun is still serving as the county guard in the three counties of Langya, and he needs to be replaced first before he can be transferred to Jiangdong.
Many people feel that Chen Qun's nine-level Zhongzheng system is the dog of the gentry, and that it is going backwards and reversing the course of history.
In fact, these people only know one thing but not the other.
In the historical circles, the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System is a recognized progressive policy.
If you think he is lagging behind, you have to compare it with the imperial examination system, and Chen Qun's nine-rank Zhongzheng system is not the same thing at all as the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the two Jin Dynasties.
For example, the focus of Chen Qun's Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System was to put forward an objective standard for evaluating talents to standardize the inspection and promotion system that had become increasingly excessive at that time.
But in order to usurp the Han Dynasty, Cao Pi ceded part of his power, which caused the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng system to go awry. Within a few decades, the Sima family usurped the throne and had to cede power to the nobles to buy their support.
By the time Sima Yan was in power, although the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System had the same name, it was completely different from the system at Chen Qun's time.
It really makes no sense to put all the blame on Chen Qun.
Rather than saying that Chen Qun is the bastard of the gentry, it is better to say that Chen Qun is the enemy of the gentry.
Chen Qun's original intention in formulating the nine-level Zhongzheng system was to compete with local governments for clarity.
What is Qingyi?
To put it simply, it is the local right to speak.
As we all know, the inspection and promotion system in the Han Dynasty was the most important way to become an official, and the things to be inspected were your moral character and filial piety, and your abilities were second to none.
In this case, it can be said that there is a chaos of chaos. Everyone is having trouble with filial piety, and the difficulty is getting higher and higher, so that Wang Xiang has a mythical filial piety behavior like lying on the ice to beg for carps.
At this point, problems arise.
The first question is that the road is almost at the end, and the carps lying on the ice have come out. The next step is not to go up to the sky to grasp the moon?
The second problem is that the burden is too heavy. As filial piety blossoms, the difficulty increases, and the cost naturally increases sharply, and it is easy to be overturned and exposed.
These two problems made the nobles feel that this road was unreliable and too difficult, and they could not continue to do this.
Otherwise, if you fail to become an official, your life will be lost first.
As a result, the smart and resourceful nobles found another better way, which was to flatter each other.
The elders brag about the younger ones, the younger ones brag about the elders, and friends brag about each other. It only takes a few words to help people become famous, and there is no chance of falling over. This is a godsend.
This mutual flattery is called clear discussion.
Since the Qing Dynasty was born, it has been in the hands of the nobles. There is no need for Chen Qun to be a licking dog and establish a nine-level Zhongzheng system.
Many people don't know how terrifying Qingyi's influence was in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
At that time, there were two famous scholars in the Central Plains. One was Li Ying, a famous scholar in Runan, and the other was Guo Tai, a famous scholar in Taiyuan.
Guo Tai was good at criticizing people, and he and Xu Shao jointly praised Xu Guo. Guo Tai went south to Luoyang to visit Li Ying. Before leaving, there were thousands of cars in Luoyang to see Guo Tai off.
Think about it, if a person goes to Beijing to visit friends, and when he leaves, thousands of luxury cars see him off, how influential is this?
The reason why Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty launched the disaster of party imprisonment was deeply related to this huge influence.
No emperor can bear the loss of personnel power. If a famous scholar opens his mouth and gives a few good words to another person, the latter person will gain fame and scholars will recruit him to serve as an official.
If this continues, what else will the emperor do?
Chen Qun's nine-level Zhongzheng system actually adheres to Cao Cao's employment philosophy. His core idea is to nationalize the power of Qing Dynasty from the local level, and let the state arrange people and select talents. In essence, it is to improve the inspection system. patch.
Even if the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System originally decayed slowly, it would not be as bad as it was in history.
The key is that Cao Pi and Sima Zhao, in order to become emperors, directly returned the power of Qing deliberation to the nobles.
This was an explosion. Although the Qing deliberation power was originally controlled by the local gentry, it was only the power of local public opinion and had no legal effect.
To put it simply, celebrities in the local area used to praise each other. Although you are famous, whether you can become an official depends on whether the officials follow this trick and recognize you or not.
But after going around in a circle, Cao Pi and Sima Zhao returned the Qing deliberation power that had become legally effective after returning it to the central government to the gentry.
This means that your reputation is backed by the law. Regardless of whether the official recognizes you as a person or not, you must be recognized as an official. And except for Dazhongzheng who is responsible for reviews, not even your superiors can decide your promotion.
This caused the authority of the superiors to be completely lost. All officials who wanted to be promoted had to please the Dazhongzheng and Zhongzheng. In this way, the central nobles only needed to control the power of the Zhongzheng, and they could easily monopolize the official career.
So stop scolding the Ninth Grade Zhongzheng system for being bad. The real bad ones are Cao Pi and Sima Zhao.
If Cao Pi's transfer of power was just a matter of temporary urgency, and after usurping the Han Dynasty, he began to suppress the gentry and take back power, then Sima Zhao simply failed and sold off his family's foundation before he even became emperor.
Sima Zhao is really much worse than his father and brother.
Chen Qun was not only the founder of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System, but also the founder of the "Wei Code". He was extremely talented and was good at summarizing ideas for leaders and forming legal provisions.
The value of such talents in Liu Feng's eyes is no less than that of Wang Zuo.
Therefore, Liu Feng would rather leave the official department temporarily vacant and wait for Chen Qun to take office. Anyway, with Zhong Yao as a long history and himself as a general, he does not have to worry about the department not being able to operate.
The second most important thing is naturally the Account Department, which is equivalent to the Ministry of Finance. It controls expenditure authority and funds, and is undoubtedly one of the most important departments.
Liu Feng originally had a candidate in mind, but now he changed his mind and actually appointed Yang Xiu as Cao Cao of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Yang Xiu had an excellent memory, and on the way south, Liu Feng also discovered that Yang Xiu's mathematics level was quite good, which was more than enough to serve as a Cao Cao of the Ministry of Revenue. Moreover, the Household Department has few secrets, and things are complicated, especially numbers, which are quite heavy.
Regarding squeezing Yang Xiu, Liu Feng said there was no pressure at all.
Later, there was a ready candidate for Cao Yu of the Ministry of Punishment, and that was Du Ji.
Du Ji's ancestor was a master of law, and the father and son Du Zhou and Du Yannian were even more famous in history, leaving their names in "Historical Records" and "Han Shu".
Du Ji himself was also very good at law, and Chen Shou praised him highly for being lenient and fierce in order to benefit the people.
Liu Feng knew how to make good use of people, so he would not leave Du Ji alone.
Cao Yu in the Ministry of Rites is temporarily vacant, and he is waiting for someone to come.
Subsequently, Zhao Yan was temporarily appointed to the Ministry of War.
There is almost no trace of Zhao Yan in the novels, but in fact, in the official history, his talents, abilities, virtues and status are extremely high, on the same level as Man Chong.
Zhao Yan was Sikong when he died, and Man Chong was a Taiwei when he died. In addition, Man Chong had more food than Zhao Yan, so Man Chong was slightly better, but the two were still roughly the same level of Cao Wei bosses.
Zhao Yan was different from Man Chong in that he was not an old minister of Yanzhou, but he went north to defect to Cao Cao from the south after Cao Cao took the emperor to order the princes.
He made his fortune during the Battle of Guandu, where he helped Li Tong pacify Runan and opened up a large rear area for Cao Cao.
After that, Cao Cao promoted Zhao Yan to join the army, and he quickly displayed abilities beyond Cao Cao's expectations.
That's right, what Zhao Yan is best at is not strategy, tactics, or bravery, but reconciliation.
Zhao Yan was able to make Zhang Liao, Yu Jin, and Le Jin, generals who were hostile to each other and had little communication and cooperation, temporarily put aside their disputes and start cooperation under his adjustment.
But don't underestimate this point. Apart from other things, if the second master had Zhao Yan as an assistant under his command when he was in Jingzhou, who was responsible for coordinating the generals, then Mi Fang and Dr. Renba would not have rebelled.
Zhao Yan was good at running the army and was good at mediating conflicts. He helped the generals and was a very suitable candidate for Cao Cao's appointment in the Ministry of War.
Next, the Ministry of Agriculture was appointed to Du Xi; the Ministry of Water Resources was appointed to Yuan Min; the Ministry of Industry was appointed to Zhuge Jin; the Ministry of Engineering was appointed to Lu Dai; the Ministry of Resources was appointed to Yan Zhen; the Ministry of Public Security was appointed to Xu Xuan ; inner guard The ministry was appointed to Jia Xi; the Ministry of Science and Technology was appointed to Yan Xiang; the Ministry of Transport was appointed to Bu Zhi; the Audit Department was appointed to Yuan Huan; the Ministry of Health was appointed to Hua Tuo; the Ministry of Commerce was appointed to Chen Jiao; the Ministry of Manpower was appointed Gave it to Qin Song.
Chen Duan was appointed as the governor of Zhenjia, and Wei Jing was appointed as the governor of Bingcao.
Yuan Ba and Fan Qin were appointed as practicing doctors.
In addition, Liu Feng also set up an organization called the Cabinet, whose task was to assist Liu Feng in handling government affairs. The temporary members were Zhuge Liang, Lu Xun, and Pang Tong.
The shogunate's deputy minister and various ministries summarize it and submit it to the cabinet, which will take effect after approval by the cabinet.
At this point, Liu Feng's Zuojun shogunate began to take shape.
(End of chapter)