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Chapter 384 Public Welfare

Hangzhou's business has developed very rapidly in recent years. Although Wang Jinghui has not held any position in Hangzhou, any leading businessman in Hangzhou knows very well what kind of relationship does their governor Li Shen have with the prince-in-law Wang's son-in-law in the dynasty. It is precisely because Li Shen is an official here that he has brought them such a leapfrog development opportunity.

Unlike Chuzhou, which Wang Jinghui had previously appointed, Hangzhou has a good foundation for development. Hangzhou's ports had already formed a scale before Li Shen arrived here, which is incomparable to Chuzhou. If Chuzhou is superior to Hangzhou, it is Chuzhou at the midpoint of the Grand Canal, and Hangzhou is the starting station. Yizhou and Yangzhou cargoes can be directly entered into the canal through the Yangtze River waterway through Hangzhou and transported northward without passing through Hangzhou. However, such advantages are pale in comparison when Hangzhou completely realizes its potential.

Wang Jinghui was very dissatisfied with the inland canal transportation in the Song Dynasty in the past - this almost puts the fate of the entire country on the only few rivers, which is too dangerous. Marine transportation is not as limited as inland canal transportation. The Song Dynasty had very developed navigation technology, not to mention that the shipping routes from southern goods to northern are basically close to the shore, and there is no risk of freezing in winter. In this way, the potential of sea transportation is much stronger than that of canal transportation. Wang Jinghui's conscious guidance made

The already very fragile north-south transportation system of the Song Dynasty finally breathed a sigh of relief. If the Grand Canal is completely paralyzed, the court could have seen the censor Tang Ting who once called Wang Anshi in front of him and said nonsense. But Emperor Zhao Xu did not blame him. Therefore, the prime ministers in the Song Dynasty were greatly restrained and could not be helped. According to regulations, the censors could not be held responsible by those who had a relationship with the prime minister, and could not be nominated and recommended by the prime minister. Therefore, the relationship between the censors and the prime minister was extremely tense. At that time, people said that the prime minister and the censors were hostile camps and hated each other.

Wang Jinghui knew that the censors were separated from the censors before the Song Dynasty, but in this era, according to his observation, they were actually combined into one, mainly to monitor officials to see whether they were loyal to the emperor, and not to see whether they were loyal to their duties. Although this was the case in all dynasties, the Song Dynasty was particularly prominent. In this era, as the autocratic imperial power strengthened, the censors dared not persuade the emperor's faults, so there was actually no difference between the censors and the censors, and they both took impeachment of officials as their responsibility. This change led to the confluence of the censors later.

After Wang Jinghui understood the supervision system of the Song Dynasty, he couldn't help but exclaim to Song Taizu. It is hard to imagine that Zhao Kuangyin, who was born as a military officer, had such foresight. Of course, this does not rule out that Zhao Kuangyin was able to help others at that time, but being able to accept the suggestions of advisers is even more commendable for an emperor, especially an emperor who came from a military general who only trusted force.

The four powers of administration, military, finance and supervision of the central institutions in the Song Dynasty were clearly divided, and in short, the emperor. These centralized measures of the rulers of the Song Dynasty were becoming increasingly strict, even reaching the level of "the more detailed the more detailed the more dense the more, the more illegal they were. When they waved their hands and feet, there would be laws and regulations." Wang Jinghui even saw a record: Song Taizu once ordered a cage to be built in a backyard, but it was not completed for several days. Taizu angrily blamed his subordinates, and his ministers replied that this matter must go through many barriers such as the Shangshu Province, headquarters, temple, and bureau, and wait until they were handled step by step.

After the follow-up report, he received the emperor's criticism of the word "Yi", and then it could be made. After hearing this, Taizu of Song was furious and asked Prime Minister Zhao Pu: "When I was in the folk, I could buy a cage for dozens of dollars. Now I am the emperor, but I have not been able to do it for several days, why?" Zhao Pu replied: "This is a slogan, not for Your Majesty, but for Your Majesty's descendants, so that if the descendants of the descendants are not justified, they will create extravagant things, destroy money and goods, and send them to other places, they must have a censor's understanding. This slogan is deeply meaningful." After hearing this, Taizu turned angry and said: "This slogan is wonderful!"

Such a strict official system really made Wang Jinghui unable to start. At this time, he really admired the "Reform Emperor" Zhao Xu. The Yuanfeng restructuring that occurred in history was after Wang Anshi went to prime minister. This was completely driven by Zhao Xu alone, and all the old official positions that were not worthy of their name could be abolished. Although the Yuanfeng restructuring was not much more effective than now, and the basis for the restructuring was derived from the "Six Dictations of Tang", it was also considered an attempt to break through. Unfortunately, the ending was not perfect. Moreover, when the official system was reformed, some people suggested that the military agency Privy Council be included in the Ministry of War. Zhao Xu refuted: "The ancestors did not want the military power to be the ruling officials, so they set up special officials to control each other. How can they be abolished!" After the reform, the Privy Council still maintained an independent military system and continuously strengthened the army.

Unlike the current mainstream thinking of reforming the official system. Wang Jinghui did not care about those heavy and complex official systems. In fact, with his later years, the official system in later generations was much larger and more complex than that in the present, and those who were free to get high salaries were even more popular. After this experience, he did not want Wang Anshi to be afraid of redundant officials like Sima Guang. On the contrary, he believed that if he forcibly breaks the current situation and streamlines the administrative organization, it would cause grievances and people to get angry, and in turn caused many setbacks in the reform under the counterattack of the old forces.

The ultimate goal of the official system reform is to make the government orders smoother and more efficiently implemented, and the most important thing is to streamline the huge bureaucratic system of the Song Dynasty, but Wang Jinghui felt that the official system reform has more focus - anti-corruption is what we really need to do now. As for Wang Anshi and his friends, they were a little too eager to achieve success.

Precisely because of different expectations for the reform of the official system, the suggestions of the senior ruling leaders of the Song Dynasty for the reform of the official system were also divided into two factions. The difference is that this time Sima Guang and Wang Anshi came together, and their proposal was to streamline the organization; while Wang Jinghui proposed that anti-corruption was the most important task, and this goal should be achieved through the reform of the official system, expanding the local supervision part of the original official system to make its work more efficient, so as to curb the increasingly rampant corruption of officials.

The Funing Palace Conference was held for several consecutive days, and it was completely taken care of Wang Jinghui, because his identity could not be openly standing on the independent gate of the Chuigong Hall. In the past few days, Wang Jinghui has been tormenting Wang Jinghui. He never thought that one day Wang Anshi and Sima Guang would reach such a consensus. However, due to his appearance, the history of the Song Dynasty had long been beyond recognition. Wang Anshi and Sima Guang were friends themselves, but they were just strangers because of different political views. Wang Jinghui has been trying to coordinate the relationship between the two in order to reduce the loss of internal wear and tear on the country by the party struggle, and it was also because he was vaguely suppressing Wang Anshi, forcing him to slow down the speed of reform, especially after Wang Anshi's rectification, he was somewhat showing off his skills. This also made Sima Guang feel a little fond of the changes in the reform.

Although Wang Anshi and Sima Guang are on the same front, they are not without differences, but they are just similar goals. Sima Guang is not optimistic that Wang Jinghui wants to solve the corruption problem through official system reform, but he agrees with Wang Jinghui's suggestions on slowing down the cleaning of empty officials, which also prevents Wang Jinghui from losing on the first day of the Funing Palace Conference.

At the beginning, the Funing Palace Conference was almost one-sided, because Wang Jinghui first took out his official system reform and discussed it, which led to Sima Guang and Wang Anshi reaching a consensus on the general direction to suppress him. Zeng Gongliang and others also did not make suggestions for the sake of their own small faction. The real turning point was when Wang Anshi came out with his plan. Zeng Gongliang was not so polite - Wang Anshi's plan was somewhat similar to the Yuanfeng reform promoted by Zhao Xu in history. Streamlining the bureaucratic system was of course the most important purpose, but he took a relatively dark move, which touched the bottom line of Zeng Gongliang and others. After comparing the two plans of Wang Jinghui and Wang Anshi, anti-corruption certainly hurt them, but Wang Anshi's one-size-fits-all approach made Zeng Gongliang and Sima Guang look like they were facing a great enemy, so there has been no accurate result in the discussion on the official system reform in a few days.

Although Sima Guang had a premonition that after the court solved the urgent financial problems, the reform would definitely advance to a deeper official system. He did not expect that the reform of the official system would come so quickly. He was not prepared enough on this issue, but he still advocated the reform of the official system with a "slow progress" attitude. This clear attitude made him start to have a relatively large disagreement with Wang Anshi on the third day of the Funing Hall Conference. Although the two had met and discussed, it was a pity that Wang Jinghui was not with the grudge, and the two of them were destined to be unable to reach an agreement. At this time, the two actually missed the day when Wang Jinghui mediated. Unfortunately, at this time, Wang Jinghui had already begun to show his plan clearly and was destined not to participate in bridging the differences between them.

Although the Funing Palace Conference is just a small circle, it involves the future of the Song Dynasty, which will naturally change the fate of many people. Not everyone will be as light as Sima Guang and Wang Anshi. In fact, in order to achieve their own achievements, even Sima Guang and Wang Anshi themselves cannot be free and easy in their official appointments. Once they lose their existing official positions, no one will think of leading the direction of this huge empire. However, now they are like the top of the food chain. The reform of the official system is promoted by them and will not trap themselves. However, the officials below may not think so. They are not so selfless and noble, especially those in the area where they are under their own positions. This reform of the official system undoubtedly determines their future destiny to a large extent. Without thinking too much, you can think about what Wang Anshi’s reform strategy is like with your toes.

The hesitation of the Funing Palace Conference gradually began to spread, and the number of officials gathered in the Qin Tower and Chu Pavilions in Kaifeng, Biandu also began to gradually increase, and the topics were mostly related to the reform of the official system. It was strange that various official or private brothels in Biandu were the most popular places among officials in the Song Dynasty, because they could conduct various political transactions more easily here, and the bright lights and wine could make both sides closer. With such a tradition, the brothels in Biandu can be regarded as the political vane of the Song Dynasty. Whenever there was any movement, the first one to get lively were these brothels.

Regarding the rumors outside, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Emperor Zhao Xu and others knew that there were too many things involved in the reform of the official system. If there were any mistakes, the most hit was the authority of the court. Therefore, although they were anxious, it was useless. In the end, they simply let it go and focus their energy on how to convince their opponents to pass the official system reform plan as soon as possible.

"Okay, let's list the opinions in a unified way first, and then carefully negotiate and resolve the other controversial parts!" Wang Jinghui said to Wang Anshi with a smile.

Because the head of the Funing Palace meeting was something Wang Jinghui had never experienced. Now he has moved back to the Prince's Mansion in the city from the Jingyuan Garden in the suburbs. In the end, Wang Anshi couldn't stand it and thought that Wang Jinghui sent an invitation to Jiuweiju to have a meal, but unfortunately, he faced Wang Anshi. The money for this meal must have been paid by Wang Jinghui himself. It was naturally much more comfortable in his Jiuweiju. Moreover, both of them deliberately did not wear official uniforms, and they came to Jiuweiju in casual clothes. Compared with Wang Jinghui becoming more mature and free and easy, Wang Anshi still maintained his old appearance. His clothes were not decorated at first glance. Fortunately, it was dark casual clothes, otherwise it would be difficult to cover up the stains on the corners of the clothes.

In a relatively casual environment, Wang Anshi and Wang Jinghui had a very frank conversation. Although Wang Anshi claimed to be "skeptic husband". However, when facing the young man in front of him, his stubborn temper rarely showed the gentleness of an elder. Although there was still some argument between the two, it was too much better than Funing Palace, at least there was no such tense atmosphere.

"First of all, it is the Sansi. Mr. Jiefu and Mr. Junshi both thought that the Sansi did not need to exist. Students also agreed with this point. After all, the existence of the Sansi made the Six Divisions useless, and most of the power was under the control of the Sansi. This scope is too large. Moreover, the Sansi has the power of the Six Divisions, so where should the Six Divisions in the future official system reform go? Obviously, the Sansi must be revoked!" Wang Jinghui said.

After hearing this, Wang Anshi nodded and said, "The three departments are abolished, and the national financial accounting will be returned to the Ministry of Revenue. The Ministry of Revenue is in charge of national household registration, land, money and grain government orders, tribute taxes, and conscriptions. It is set up to be a member of the Minister of Revenue, one member of the Ministry of Revenue, one member of the Ministry of Revenue, one member of the Ministry of Revenue, one member of the Ministry of Revenue, one member of the Ministry of Revenue, one member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, two member of the Ministry of Revenue, and two member of the Ministry of Revenue, and other member of the Ministry of Revenue, and other member of the Ministry of Revenue, and other member of the warehouse storage, income and expenditure."

Wang Anshi knew the political system of the court well, and he was too much stronger than his old rival Sima Guang in this regard. This is because he learned enough lessons from the Qingli New Deal decades ago - what else can we talk about reforms without power? So when Wang Anshi ascended the throne of the throne, he quietly underestimated the then master Chen Shengzhi, turning the elderly and foolish Chen Shengzhi into his human-shaped seal. Besides, Wang Anshi is also a famous master in the world of "Laozi", and his understanding of "power" has surpassed others.

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I wonder if the functions of the Three Departments have replaced the Ministry of Revenue, causing the Ministry of Revenue to become an optional department. Even most of the functions of the Shangshu Province were replaced by it. It can be seen that during this official system reform, the first of the Three Departments was abolished department, so that the three provinces and six ministries can be rebuilt!" The transfer has completely changed the official system of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Considering some of the official system models in later generations, the official system of the Song Dynasty should have a profound impact on future generations.

It surprised Wang Jinghui very much. After all, the orthodox history of later generations has always classified the Song Dynasty as "scary Song", especially its official system, but the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties were almost affected by the Song Dynasty, especially in the official system. For example, the supervision of local officials was responsible for the Tongzong in the Song Dynasty. At the same time, the emperor often sent transshipment envoys, censors, and observers to monitor various places for supervision. These were all external censors. Transshipment envoys were originally managed by the financial place, but also served as supervisors. Later, Xuanfu envoys were established above the pacifiers, and two envoys were appointed, and they did not lead the state but were above the commanding officials, becoming the chief officials of the whole road. In the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the provincial administration announced the political department, and the pioneer of the system of the clerks in the Ming Dynasty.
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