Some people in Manchu civil and military affairs looked at Han Yang enviously, and some were indifferent.
The newly appointed Yushi Zhongcheng Ouyang Xiu came out of the class and said: "Officials, I don't know what kind of statute is to incorporate the Song Dynasty Bank into the Household Department. Is it a separate one or is included in the four departments under the Ministry of Households?"
As soon as Ouyang Xiu said this, Han Yang seemed to have been reminded and hurried out of work.
Zhao Zhen did not answer Ouyang Xiu and Han Yang's questions, but looked at Kou Ji and smiled calmly: "Four brothers, let's talk..."
Kou Ji nodded and went out of the class and said: "The Great Song Bank is the country's most important weapon. It stores almost 50% of the Song Dynasty's money, communicates with the North and the South, and is responsible for coin circulation and issuance.
Has gradually become a major lifeline of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty Bank was merged into the Huhu Department, and merged into the four departments under the Huhu Department. The four departments could not accommodate, and the single case one, there were a little more disputes.
Therefore, after careful discussion with the officials, I decided to change the four departments under the Ministry of Household to the Three Divisions.
They are money division, tax division, and warehouse division.
Dasong Bank will move into the money division of the three divisions of the Ministry of Households. "
As soon as Kou Ji said this, Manchu Wenwu looked astonished. They didn't understand the deep meaning of Kou Ji's words.
Even more do not understand why Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen changed the four departments under the Ministry of Household to the Third Division.
It seems that the original four branches of the Ministry of Households, the Department of Warehouses, the Branch and the Ministry of Finance, are retained only by the Ministry of Finance. The functions of the other three departments seem to be split up. North Korea is not clear about civil and military affairs.
Kou Ji knew that after he said this, the officials would have doubts in their hearts, so he calmly said: "The specific political affairs hall will then issue an official document to you."
Upon hearing this, the civil and military men of the Manchu dynasty did not dare to say anything, and bowed to salute, "Hey..."
Kou Ji arched his hand at Zhao Zhen and retreated to the train.
Zhao Zhen slowly said, "Han Yang and Han Aiqing, with great hard work and outstanding meritorious service, I am going to transfer Han Aiqing to the post of Minister of Criminal Justice. What do you think of Aiqing?"
Manchao Wenwu looked stunned, and the expression on Han Yang's face froze.
Before Han Yang could speak for himself, he heard Kou Ji shout loudly, "Official Shengming..."
With Kou Ji taking the lead, Kou Ji's old schoolmates and a group of military ministers quickly agreed.
For a time, nearly 70% of the officials in the court praised Zhao Zhen Shengming.
Han Yang's face was even more uglier than eating flies.
Seventy percent of the officials in the courtroom agreed, and he could not justify himself.
"Then appoint Han Aiqing as the official book of the Ministry of Justice... and Fan Zhongyan, the minister of the household department, and take the post of the official secretary of the Ministry of Justice..."
Zhao Zhen quickly stated his decision in the congratulations of the Manchu Civil and Martial Arts.
The Manchu dynasty civil and military all agreed.
After going down.
Han Yang took the lead in leaving the Chui Gong Hall with a sullen face.
Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu came to Kou Ji amid the congratulations of the courtiers.
Kou Ji's eyes lingered on Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu, and finally fell on Fan Zhongyan, "The burden on you is unprecedented, and you have to work hard to shoulder your responsibilities.
After the official documents of the Zhengshitang are issued to you, you should quickly make adjustments to the Ministry of Households based on the official documents of the Zhengshitang.
Set up the new household department as soon as possible, and at the same time make all local households and yamen related to the household department familiar with the new regulations of the household department. "
Fan Zhongyan respectfully saluted Kou Ji, "The lower officials will certainly not let down the high expectations of the officials and husband..."
Kou Ji nodded in satisfaction, exhorted Ouyang Xiu a few more words, and then left the Chui Gong Palace.
The next day.
The official documents of the Zhengshitang were sent to the household department. After Fan Zhongyan got the official documents of the Zhengshitang's restructuring of the household department, he was shocked and sweated.
Fan Zhongyan hurried to the bamboo courtyard to ask for advice.
After arriving at the bamboo courtyard, I saw Kou Ji was building a wooden building with Di Yong, Zhao Ze, and Su Shi.
Fan Zhongyan was overwhelmed to manage the wooden buildings. Instead, he approached Kou Ji with the official documents and asked in disbelief, "Sir, is the power of the Ministry of Households too great? The three divisions under the Ministry of Households? The Secretary of Money not only controls the Great Song Bank and the Great Song State Treasury, but also controls all the branches of the Great Song Dynasty, including the salaries of officials, the expenses of various academic societies, the money for repairing bridges and roads, the distribution of military expenses, etc. .
The Taxation Department is in control of the world's commercial taxation, Dingkou taxation, and supervision of all industries in the world.
The warehouse is in control of all the permanent warehouses, official workshops, and all the minerals in the world.
The Ministry of Households now not only has the original functions of the Ministry of Households, but also robbed some of the functions from the Ministry of Industry and Yushitai.
Such a function has surpassed a ministerial government office.
Mr. and the official are reorganized in this way, are you not afraid that the Ministry of Engineering and the people of Yushitai will make trouble? "
Kou Ji casually placed a wooden block on top of the blocks played by the three little guys of Su Shi, then turned around and asked Fan Zhongyan with a smile, "How do you think the power of the court will be distributed to be stable?"
Fan Zhongyan was taken aback, frowned slightly, and said, "Isn't the current distribution of power not stable enough?"
Kou Ji smiled and shook his head, and said, "Of course it is not stable. The two highest yamen in the central government are the Zhengshitang and the Privy Council. The Privy Council is for the time being. Under the Zhengshitang, there are six departments, and each of the six departments has four schools. unit.
Local government offices are basically built in this way.
Officials issue a decree, and there will be a scene where the two parties are fighting, or both parties agree.
Fighting against each other and fighting to the end, it is very likely that there will be no result, but the business will be delayed.
Both of them agree that if something goes wrong, both sides will shirk their responsibilities.
As a result, no matter whether it is a good or a bad decree, it will not be implemented from beginning to end.
Because the decree may not be communicated, they will be pushed back.
When accountable, they also shirk each other.
The end result is nothing more, or 50 boards each. "
Fan Zhongyan said solemnly: "There are officials who mediate from it..."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The official mediation is limited to the court. After you leave the court, the official mediation is really achieved? You have served as a magistrate many times. You should understand that the power of the official will be Where to stop."
Fan Zhongyan frowned and fell into silence.
Before the Great Song Book and Newspaper, Zhao Zhen's power almost stopped in Kaifeng Mansion.
Zhao Zhen issued a decree that he wanted to implement it in the localities, and it would be impossible for every three to five years.
With the Da Song Book News, the Da Song Book News proclaimed part of the imperial court's decree to the people, and the Da Song Di Newspaper and official documents clearly conveyed all the imperial court decrees to the local officials.
Under the supervision of the people, the local government had to urge itself to implement Zhao Zhen's decree as soon as possible.
Although there are many violations of the local government, but at least after the appearance of the Song Book, it has a stimulating effect on local officials to implement Zhao Zhen's decree.
But even so, arguing and arguing with each other happened frequently.
Local inspections and supervision have not missed a letter to the court for this purpose.
However, both sides are right, and the court can only play 50 boards each.
The board has been hit, but the key decree will still be evasive when it reaches the local area.
And there is a growing trend.
For decades, the imperial court has not raised many taxis that are used by the state. Instead, it has raised a number of delicious and lazy taxis.
Local officials are far more interested in poems, poetry, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and beautiful food than in governing the local area.
Therefore, the imperial decree has always been difficult to implement.
Zhao Zhen's decree can be sent to the desks of various local officials, but it is almost always implemented very slowly, or it will not be implemented at all.
Kaifeng Mansion is the only one who can strictly abide by Zhao Zhen's various government orders.
Seeing Fan Zhongyan frowning and not letting go, Kou Ji smiled and said: "When the officials and even the imperial court issue orders, there will always be various problems when they arrive at the local level, even when they are held accountable. No one can be found, which shows that the power distribution method of the imperial court is not stable.
Therefore, it is necessary to implement a relatively stable power distribution method and rebuild the power distribution method of the imperial court.
Be stable, effective and concise. "
Fan Zhongyan stared at Kou Ji and said, "Sirs and officials have a new way of distribution of power?"
Kou Ji smiled and asked: "What kind of power distribution method do you think will be stable?"
Fan Zhongyan hesitated and shook his head slowly.
He actually had some thoughts in his heart, but he felt that the thoughts in his heart might be quite different from the answer in Kou Ji's mind, so he didn't say it.
Kou Ji patted Su Shi playing next to him, and asked him to stand on the blocks he had built.
Only then did Fan Zhongyan notice the blocks built by Su Shi.
A triangle.
There was one missing corner on it, and Su Shi stood in the missing corner, smiling at Di Yong and Zhao Ze who were building blocks next to them.
Fan Zhongyan stared at the triangle and fell into deep thought.
Kou Ji's voice rang in his ears, "You can also find something to try after you go back..."
Fan Zhongyan is a wise man. He understood Kou Ji's thoughts when he looked at the triangle.
Fan Zhongyan stared at Kou Ji, and asked in a deep voice, "Mr.'s point is that the angle is the safest?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "To be precise, it is a triangle. If a corner is missing, you can't stand firmly. If both the Chaozhong Yamen and the local Yamen are triangles, the situation of mutual excuse will be greatly reduced.
After the complicated division of power between North Korea and China is simplified, the responsibility will fall on everyone.
It's easy to see who has the problem. "
Fan Zhongyan stared at Kou Ji in astonishment, "Mr. gave the Ministry of Household such great authority, because he wanted to..."
Fan Zhongyan didn't say anything afterwards.
Kou Ji nodded and said: "So I said you have a heavy responsibility, you have to deal with it carefully."
Fan Zhongyan thought about it quickly and solemnly said: "But in this way, there will be a weaker party."
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, and said, "You mean the Privy Council?"
Fan Zhongyan nodded solemnly and said: "The civil servants are good at planning and fighting. When there are more civil servants in the court than military ministers, the military ministers will be overwhelmed.
I am afraid that the scene of a hundred weak soldiers in the past will reappear. "
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The future power structure of the Privy Council is not only limited to military ministers. More importantly, civil servants can bully themselves if they are not afraid of being stubborn."
Fan Zhongyan was taken aback.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "They may be weaker in the court, but after they pick up their sons, none of you can stop them."
Fan Zhongyan said solemnly: "So you can't squeeze, let alone bully, you can only deal with it impartially."
Kou Ji smiled and nodded.
Fan Zhongyan clasped his fist and said, "Students understand..."
Kou Ji waved his hand and let Fan Zhongyan leave.
After Fan Zhongyan left, Kou Ji left Di Yong, Zhao Ze, and Su Shi to play by himself, and he returned to the study alone.
The power structure of the court is the longest question Kou Ji has been thinking about.
Kou Ji came up with the idea of using the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty.
The cabinet system can be regarded as a relatively complete system in the feudal dynasty.
Far stronger than the system used by the Song Dynasty today.
But the cabinet system also has drawbacks.
So Kou Ji finally gave up.
Then Kou Ji thought of a constitutional monarchy.
However, considering that the royal family could not surrender power, he was unwilling to meet Zhao Zhen's sword soldiers, so he also gave up.
As for Zhao Zhen's death, Kou Ji never thought about implementing a constitutional monarchy through Zhao Zhen's son.
Because Kou Ji is not sure that he will survive Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen is younger than him, and his body is stronger than him. He is not a figure in history and can predict his life span, so he can't bet on this.
So Kou Ji abandoned the constitutional monarchy.
Then I thought of the separation of powers.
However, the separation of powers of administration, legislation, and judiciary proposed by Westerners does not apply to today's Great Song Dynasty.
More importantly, Westerners have realized the separation of the three powers for many years, but have not really realized the separation of the three powers. The mutual penetration of the three powers is very serious.
So Kou Ji considered for a long time, and finally combined with the actual situation of the Song Dynasty, formulated a set of three-three system and three power separation with politics, finance, and military as the main power.
The top of power is naturally the emperor.
The second is the political affairs hall, which manages political affairs, the household department which manages financial power, and the Privy Council which manages military power.
Below the three power yamen, there are three small power yamen.
For example, the money division, warehouse division, and tax division under the Ministry of Households.
Below the three small power yamen, three points again.
By analogy, it constitutes a pyramid-shaped authority.
This is Kou Ji's three-three system and three-power separation yamen specially tailored for the Song Dynasty based on the actual situation of the Song Dynasty.
There are checks and balances and interdependence between power and power.
No matter which one dominates, there is no way to kill the other two.
There are two constrained parties, even if the family is the only one, it is not much bigger.
Kou Ji felt that in the court of the feudal dynasty, infighting had always been one of the main themes of the court, and it was almost impossible to avoid it.
Many feudal dynasties were ultimately defeated by internal fighting.
Kou Ji felt that since it was unavoidable, he should simply set up a stable situation of internal fighting, set up a good hill for them, and let them fight each other while being inseparable from each other, reducing the harm caused by their internal fighting.
Kou Ji spent two full years studying history books and finally came to a conclusion.
The civil and military checks and balances of the feudal dynasty have been inapplicable since the Song Dynasty.
Because since the Song Dynasty, the martial artist has been in a relatively disadvantaged position.
Therefore, there is no new force to join the competition, and the literati family dominates, it is only a matter of time.
Song, Ming, and Qing almost all proved that there was a problem with the literati family independence conference with practical actions.
So Kou Ji finally chose to add a force to it, forming a new way of checks and balances that conformed to the actual situation of the Song Dynasty.
After the three-three system and three-power separation system was implemented throughout the Song Dynasty, Kou Ji could not guarantee that the Song Dynasty would continue to flourish.
But Kou Ji can guarantee that Da Song will be stable for many years, and it will also be guaranteed that Da Song will not be like in history. When he is bullied, he will not even have the power to fight back.
As for the other series of systems that return power to the people, Kou Ji never thought about it.
The soil of Da Song is not suitable.
If Kou Ji is forced to implement it, the people will be the first to oppose Kou Ji.
Because the people don't have the sense of being a master in their minds, they don't think that they are born to be the masters of this land.
They only think that the emperor is the master of this land.
And he worked hard to get to the emperor's side, while helping the emperor manage this land, while using the emperor's power to benefit himself.
It is precisely because of this that the system of returning power to the people simply did not work in the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the three-three system and three-power separation system is the most suitable for the Song Dynasty.
The Da Song Bank was merged into the Ministry of Households, and the four departments under the Ministry of Households were changed to the third divisions.
Fan Zhongyan was old-fashioned and prudent, and he had known the means. After Kou Ji's point, he returned to the Ministry of Households and vigorously implemented the New Deal of the Ministry of Households.
The Humen Yamen in Bianjing City completed the rectification and reform in only half a month.
Then came the prefectures, states, and counties.
The local yamen did not plan to rectify and reform Hu Cao, and they even liked it a little.
Because after Hu Cao's rectification, the local taxation department has completely become a subsidiary of the local government, and the local government has a certain degree of supervision over other small banks except the Song Dynasty Bank.
Although it is only a small supervision power to supervise the interest paid by small local banks when issuing loans, it is enough to make local officials crazy about this.
Local officials actively cooperated with the restructuring of the Ministry of Households.
The Ministry of Households completed the restructuring of the local households in just four months.
The remaining more complicated official workshops, minerals, etc., need to be taken slowly.
After the restructuring of the Ministry of Households was completely completed, Zhao Zhen ordered the Ministry of War to be filled into the Privy Council and at the same time made a new division of the power of the Privy Council.
The Privy Council has more military divisions, imperial military divisions, and supervision divisions.
The Military Division was divided into the Military Register Department, the Du Branch, and the Song Dynasty Local Military Department.
The Infantry Division was divided into the Infantry Division, the Horse Division, and the Marine Division.
The Supervision Department is divided into the Meritorious Department, the Supervision Department, and the Recruitment Department.
Compared with the restructuring of the household department, the restructuring of the Privy Council is much faster.
The number of local soldiers and horses and imperial troops has not changed, nor been mobilized.
It just adjusted the positions of some of the officials and added some officials.
The Privy Council has always followed the practice of military orders.
Therefore, a series of military orders came out of the Privy Council. The soldiers and horses in all parts of the world, as well as the people of all levels of Yamen soldiers and Cao, only need to obey.
Therefore, the restructuring of the Privy Council only took two months.
After the general framework is set up, the remaining side branches are handed over to subordinate officials to handle.
As long as the overall framework is firmly established, the restructuring has been completed.
Due to the restructuring of the Privy Council, many officials have been added.
Therefore, there is almost no objection from the upper and lower ranks of the military.
On the contrary, some people in the court felt that it was inappropriate for the Ministry of War to integrate into the Privy Council. Some officials headed by Han Yang and Song You felt that after the Ministry of War was integrated into the Privy Council, they completely lost their influence on military power. This move was very harmful.
Therefore, he has repeatedly written to persuade Zhao Zhen.
But it has little effect.
After Kou Ji, his protégés, and the military officials closed their mouths, Han Yang and Song Yang had very limited influence, and they hardly caused any big waves in the court.
In today's court, 90% of the power is controlled by Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen.
No matter how loudly Han Yang and Song Yang yelled, it didn't work.
After Song Yang realized that he had become a minority in the court, he closed his mouth decisively and pretended to be sick in the house.
Han Yang yelled a lot, and even meant to scream with Kou Ji.
He didn't dare to embarrass Kou Ji, so he tossed Bao Zheng with beauty.
"How many days has Bao Zheng been here?"
Zhao Xu has completely grown into a big girl, and she stood in front of Kou Ji and questioned.
After Zhao Xu reminded him, Kou Ji remembered that Bao Zheng seemed to have not visited the house for two months. He smiled and asked Zhao Xu, "Why? Want Bao Zheng?"
Zhao Xu laughed, "Do you think it's possible?"
Kou Ji shook his head and smiled: "Dead duck has a hard mouth."
Zhao Xu stared at Kou Ji and said, "Do you think I miss him?"
Kou Ji smiled calmly: "I almost forgot him, but you still remember him, don't you miss him?"
Zhao Xu stared at Kou Ji fiercely without speaking.
Kou Ji smiled and said, "Why don't you two live together? Both bosses are not young..."
Zhao Xu yelled angrily, "Vision!"
After shouting, Zhao Xu left angrily.
Kou Ji looked at the back of Zhao Xu's departure and smiled indifferently.
After Kou Ji left, Kou Ji murmured, "It stands to reason that Bao Zheng will visit once a month. It has almost become a rule. Now that he has not visited for two months, it is indeed a bit abnormal."
"housekeeper?"
"Master, what command..."
"Go to Bao's Mansion and see if that kid is spending his time."
"The master was joking, but the steward Bao couldn't bear to eat a piece of meat. How could he be willing to spend time and drink."
"If you let you go, you go, where is so much nonsense?"
"The villain damn it, the villain will go now."
"..."
The housekeeper hurriedly left the bamboo courtyard, returned to the bamboo courtyard an hour later, went to Kou Ji's study, and reported to Kou Ji.
"Master, Bao Shilang's mansion is full of official documents, and now he is processing official documents in the mansion day and night."
Kou Ji frowned slightly, "It stands to reason that he is already a servant, so he shouldn't be so busy. You didn't ask, what are the official documents?"
The butler bent his waist and said, "Master, they are all the files of old cases more than ten or twenty years ago."
"A dozen or twenty years ago?"
"Yes, the villain asked. Han Yang thought that Bao Shilang likes to deal with old cases, so he handed over the files of old cases more than ten or twenty years ago to Bao Shilang for verification."