The rapid development of Yunzhou has put considerable pressure on Kyoto.
The status of the capital was originally snatched by Kyoto from Yunzhou.
If Kyoto is not as developed as Yunzhou in all aspects, Your Majesty will not want to move the capital after unifying the south, right?
Based on this secret consideration, when Gu Nanxi decided to gradually apply the new policy of Yunzhou to the entire Dayun Dynasty, he encountered almost no resistance.
Gu Nanxi's first strike was towards the civil officials. The situation in the Zhou Dynasty, where there was no distinction between military and politics and civil officials ruled over military officials, had been proven wrong by bloody facts.
Therefore, the military and politics must be separated! The highest command of the army must naturally be in the hands of Gu Nanxi himself.
However, the highest level of Yunzhou's new policy is only at the prefecture and county level, which is not enough to be directly applied to the current Dayun Dynasty.
After analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the systems of past dynasties, Gu Nanxi combined them with his own actual situation and created a set of exclusive systems tailored for Dayun Dynasty.
At the central level, the "two governments and three ministries" were abolished and "three provinces, one court and one ministry" were established.
Three ministries: the Secretariat, the Palace Museum, and the Chancellery.
Zhongshu Sheng: Responsible for decision-making. The system of the prime minister with real power in the early Tang Dynasty was restored, but the number of prime ministers increased from two to seven. They were the highest administrative officials, in charge of national affairs, and had the power to make recommendations on decisions and some executive powers.
The prime minister was a trusted official of the emperor, who was directly responsible to the emperor, avoiding the drawbacks of the Zhou Dynasty where "many departments were responsible for the government and the government was hindered by each other". The six ministries (office, household, ritual, military, punishment and engineering) were responsible for the specific implementation.
The prime minister currently confirmed is Cui Sanlun, and the rest are to be confirmed.
Menxia Province: Responsible for review and strengthening the power of review and rejection. Responsible for reviewing the edicts and policies drafted by the Zhongshu Province, rejecting them if they are inappropriate, forming a check and balance on the Zhongshu Province. Also responsible for monitoring the discipline of central officials. The chief official is the Shizhong.
The position of Shizhong was intended to be reserved for Song Zhizhou. After Song Zhizhou had gained more experience in Xiangzhou for a few years, he would be promoted to Menxia Province.
Shangshu Sheng: Mainly responsible for coordinating the six ministries to carry out specific affairs and managing national archives and documents. The chief officer is concurrently the prime minister.
First House: Privy Council
The Privy Council: Independent of the Three Provinces, directly under the Emperor. It was responsible for the military affairs of the country, such as troop movements, appointment and removal of generals, border defense, horse administration, and arsenals, but did not directly command troops. The head of the Privy Council was the Privy Envoy, and the responsibilities were clearly divided with the Ministry of War, which was responsible for the selection of military officers, ceremonial guards, logistics, and other administrative matters.
Department One: Audit Department.
Audit Department: A new independent agency was established to supervise finances and report directly to the emperor. It integrated some of the audit functions of the original "three departments" and was responsible for independently auditing the financial revenue and expenditure, military expenditure, and major project expenditures of the central ministries and local prefectures, and reported directly to the emperor. The chief officer was the Audit Envoy. The Ministry of Revenue was deprived of its auditing power, so that it could focus on the management of household registration, taxes, and warehousing.
This combination of punches left the Great Zhou court, which was hiding south of the Yangtze River, stunned.
"Powers and responsibilities are clear, there are checks and balances, efficiency is prioritized, and imperial power is supreme." Grand Tutor Tong summarized Dayun's central reform.
He sighed for a long time.
I originally thought that Gu Nanxi was too sentimental and emotional and couldn't be a good emperor, but I didn't expect that she was so sensitive to politics.
Master Tong smiled bitterly. Is it true that there are people who are born with knowledge? Are there people who are born to be emperors?
If Gu Nanxi knew his feelings, she would definitely tell him that all this was because she was standing on the shoulders of giants and had thousands of years of historical experience for her to refer to!
But the reforms of the Dayun Dynasty were not limited to this.
In terms of the management of officials, the Dayun Dynasty adopted a policy of high salaries to maintain integrity. At the same time, it strictly controlled the establishment, broke the rampant favoritism, strengthened examinations, and formulated clear and quantifiable standards for the assessment of officials.
This quantifiable information includes tax collection efficiency, public security conditions, settlement rate of cases for improving people's livelihood, project completion rate, etc.
This kind of quantifiable assessment standard can, to a certain extent, reduce the number of mediocre and incompetent people who get promoted through gift-giving and connections.
When Yunzhou Weekly announced this evaluation report to everyone in Dayun Dynasty, everyone was shocked.
"Hahaha, if the Great Zhou used this method to assess, I would not have stayed in the position of county magistrate for more than ten years!" Someone laughed and cried.
It is difficult to be an official in the Great Zhou. If you want to be an honest official, you have no money to give gifts and there is no way to get promoted.
Being a corrupt official not only means you will be condemned by your conscience, but also scolded by the people. You will even be afraid of having your grave dug up after you die.
They not only banned the reforms of Dayun Dynasty, but also paid more attention to it.
Gu Nanxi simplified the local hierarchical management, abolishing the five-level structure of roads, states, military regions, prisons, and counties of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and instead established a three-level structure of provinces-states (prefectures)-counties.
This will not only avoid redundant officials, but also make government policies more smooth.
Among them, the most unusual point is that the province, as an agency dispatched by the central government, does not have a permanent chief official!
Every two years, the central government would send a Xingtai Shangshu as an imperial envoy to be in charge of the supervision, coordination, and emergency affairs of several provinces (provinces). He had the power to "act at his own discretion" and would be removed after the task was completed.
The core purpose is to supervise local areas, coordinate cross-regional affairs, and respond to emergencies, rather than becoming a fixed-level administrative agency to avoid becoming too big to be managed.
At this point, the Zhou Dynasty court fell completely silent.
When Gu Nanxi was holding her coronation ceremony, the people in the south were actually silently watching her laugh.
Gu Nanxi has nothing. He only has a large piece of land but no foundation at all.
In the eyes of these people, it is like a makeshift team. Even after they rely on their high military strength and conquer larger territory, they are still a makeshift team.
However, this time, Gu Nanxi acted decisively and made drastic changes, which shocked everyone.
When Zheng Changtu was drinking with his colleagues, he heard them sighing.
"What on earth did the man in the north eat to grow up? He can fight, control people, and is even better at politics. Can a person really be so omniscient and omnipotent?"
"I really think that the reforms in the north are aimed at our Great Zhou. Break the extremes of one civil and one military, eradicate redundant soldiers, control costs, and prioritize efficiency."
The person who was speaking smiled bitterly. Could it be that Da Zhou was testing the North?
Lord Zhu, who was in Nanjun, was so envious when he saw the local policies in the Yunzhou Weekly.
[Local finance is mainly based on unified revenue and expenditure, supplemented by retention incentives. ]
【The central government determines the annual fiscal budget based on the population, area, strategic position, development needs, etc. of each state. It allocates funds to local governments for official salaries, public works, education, disaster relief, etc.】
【At the same time, a performance retention system will be established. For states that have exceeded their tax targets (without excessive levies), have made significant improvements in people's livelihood, and have good public security, the central government will reward a certain percentage of retained taxes in addition to the approved budget to stimulate local governance enthusiasm.】
"Ahhh! Gu Nanxi, why don't you call me? I've had enough of being a high official in the Zhou Dynasty!" Lord Zhu sighed. (End of this chapter)
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