Chapter 271 Official Yamen
This was the case for the next few days. Zhu Biao went up to listen to the government every day, went down to review the memorials, and then discussed with his father and emperor.
The most troublesome thing among them was reviewing the memorial. Zhu Biaopi had a headache, and finally seized the opportunity one day. Ru Taisu, an old guy, wrote a memorial of 50,000 words because of his fart.
Zhu Biao rushed to tell Lao Zhu. With a wave of his hand, Lao Zhu ordered people to press Ru Taisu to the front of Fengtian Hall and beat him with thirty court sticks. No.
The next morning, when Zhu Yuanzhang came up to court, there was a swearing, and all the courtiers knelt down and begged the emperor to appease his anger. Zhu Biao also pretended to persuade a few words. Finally, the emperor ordered that all subsequent memorials must be concise, and the administrative documents should be formulated for about five years. Below a hundred words, let the emissary tell the gains and losses, be concise and to the bone, without complicated words between the lines, and never quote classics and classics for long speeches!
The memorials in the next few days were indeed much more streamlined, and Zhu Biao felt comfortable reviewing them, but the civil servants were still not used to it, but the generals and nobles were overjoyed.
In fact, Zhu Biao attaches great importance to this not only because it will waste the time of reviewing memorials, but if it goes on like this and becomes a habit, the official style will inevitably become empty talk and ideals, and the government is idling in the paperwork, but no one is doing it.
Empty talk harms the country, hard work rejuvenates the country, and historical references are solid. Zhu Biao does not want to let officials dawdle in the team and spend their office time year after year on superficial words.
And Zhu Biao has almost planned the integration of the government offices, especially Zhu Biao knows that the provincial capital of Zhongshu will be abolished in the future, so he has to arrange a few spare government offices in advance to ensure that the six departments can support the common government in case of emergencies. keep the country running.
Moreover, Zhu Biao has to form a prototype cabinet. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang is watching, that is, the Central Secretariat.
At present, Zhu Biao has no time after finishing the memorial. In such a big country, there are too many things big and small every day. The labels have to be checked one by one.
Zhu Biao intends to imitate the Song Dynasty and set up a palace scholar. The post of a university scholar is in charge of the left and right, and he is a consultant. The rank is the fifth rank.
For the rest, it is necessary to set up a general affairs department to be in charge of accepting internal and external chapters, press releases and rebuttals. For all matters such as petitions from all parties, appeals for grievances, or accusations of wrongdoing, etc., the reasons for the appeals will be written in the bottom book, and the petition will be submitted. to smell.
To put it simply, it is responsible for the communication of information between the royal family, the imperial court, and the world. This includes issuing imperial decrees, reporting, and complaints from the common people.
If someone wants to write a small report to the emperor, they will deliver it to the envoy, and if someone wants to face the saint, they will arrange it, and they will also be responsible for keeping it secret. In this regard, they Be professional and have a range of perks.
It is also necessary to add Dali Temple, which is equivalent to the Supreme Court of later generations. It is in charge of the trial of criminal and prison cases. Its mandate is now a little too heavy.
Then there is the clan mansion. Now that there are more and more princes, it is time for this department to be established. With Zhu Biao, he can directly control those relatives and relatives of the emperor. In the future, he will be responsible for writing the genealogy of the emperor and recording the clan. Members' children's concubines, titles, successors, birth and death years, marriages, funeral posthumous titles, etc.
Zhu Biao also abolished several yamen, such as the Taichang Temple in charge of sacrifices, the Guanglu Temple in charge of banquets, the Taipu Temple in charge of horses, and the Honglu Temple for entertaining foreign guests. These conflict with the duties of the six ministries, and they should be centralized rather than dispersed.
There is also Zhu Biao's own Zhan Shifu, which is an organization responsible for assisting the prince. Zhu Biao feels that it is useless, and he has to cut himself for this kind of thing, otherwise how can he convince the public? It just so happens that his Zhan Shicheng Yang Xian also died up.
Then it is time to prepare for the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is the department in charge of the internal affairs of the palace and royal property. In the future, Zhu Biao plans to transfer the powers of treasure banknotes and printing to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs will be a giant in the future. Relying on the authority of Ming Dynasty, he will sweep the wealth of the world. Everything he gets will be used to cultivate talents, promote scientific research, build bridges and roads, accept orphans, and establish professional colleges.
These cannot be promoted by the righteousness of the country, but can only be achieved by using a large amount of wealth resources. The reason why Zhu Biao never cared about money is because he knows that as long as the foundation of Ming Dynasty is perfected and the great voyage is opened, the world's silver will continue to flow inflow.
Because Daming is too far ahead of them, silk, tea, porcelain, etc., too many good things make their mouths water, enough to make them risk their lives across the sea and bring money to Daming to buy these things.
There is nothing to be afraid of plundering the world's resources openly and honestly to supply a country. Da Ming has absolute advantages even now, and is still recovering. As long as the scars left by the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty are resolved, Da Ming will Start a new future.
What Zhu Biao needs to do now is to be stable. The future is so bright, so it is even more important to lay a solid foundation. The tall buildings are built on the ground. Zhu Biao is willing to spend ten years laying the foundation, so that China can take the lead in this wave of the times.
Zhu Biao put away the bottom few sheets, those are about places, it is not the time to take them out yet, the best choice is to slowly rectify according to the current situation from top to bottom.
As for the six departments, we have to wait a little longer, and now it will be chaotic. The central administrative structure that Zhu Biao envisioned is that the emperor directly governs the six ministries and nine ministers and the prime minister, and the cabinet assists the six departments to supervise.
In this way, the system is clearer, the responsibilities are clearer, and the centralization will be further deepened. Zhu Biao picked up a thick stack of papers to find his father, as long as Lao Zhu nodded, then he could start to prepare.
All the way to Jinshen Hall, Zhu Biao looked nervously at the old Comrade Zhu who was frowning and flipping through it, but thinking about it, there shouldn’t be any problem. Some of them existed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but they were abandoned in the Yuan Dynasty, and since the founding of the Ming Dynasty Since then, it has been adjusting the government offices.
Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of tea with a heavy complexion, Zhu Biao's heart skipped a beat, what was not planned?
As a result, Lao Zhu sighed: "Why didn't you figure it out sooner, you kid, you really don't give up your life when things are not imminent!"
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(end of this chapter)