1684: Great Institutional Reform (Part 2)
The dishes that Eunuch Le made Qin Feng very satisfied. It was not the usual exquisite dishes, but the big sea bowl that was used to eating in the army. After a few glasses of wine, Qin Feng looked at the kitten and said, "It's been more than ten years. The past is over. Kitten, you should get married. Even the monkey, the monkey, the skinny monkey, is now a father. Are you not satisfied yet? Xi'er has always been worried about this and wants to find a good one for you!"
The kitten raised his glass and toasted Qin Feng: "Thank you, Your Majesty and the Empress, I'll do it myself."
"But you haven't moved yet! Not only us, but the old guys are also very anxious. You are alone." Qin Feng filled his glass with his glass.
"I have found one. After finishing this period, I am going to take her to Anyang County to see Xiaohong and her son's tomb." The kitten said quietly.
"Really?" Qin Feng laughed: "In this way, we must have a good time. Le Gong, the wedding of Kitten will be handled by you. It must be lively. Kitten, let's call all the old brothers."
"No." The kitten shook his head and said, "It's not a big deal. At that time, the kitten will invite His Majesty to drink. It's not that he is a big wife, why are you so arrogant?"
Qin Feng frowned and said, "You are" thinking about it, shook his head and said, "Will other girls suffer this wronged?"
"So I rejected all the so-called wealthy families and powerful families who came to propose marriage." Xiaomao smiled and said, "I was looking for a doctor's girl from my Ministry of War. She was born as a farmer and didn't care about this. Besides, when I entered my family, although I was not a big wife in name, it was actually true. What's wrong with me?"
Qin Feng raised his eyebrows, a little dissatisfied.
"Don't worry, your majesty, that woman looks absolutely not bad, and her talent is more than enough to match me." Xiaomao smiled and said, "This time, I will transfer my brother-in-law to the Ministry of War. Please ask Your Majesty to let me follow my personal information and find a good place for him and to upgrade to another level. This is also my compensation for her."
"I don't care about this." Qin Feng thought for a while and sighed: "Since you insist on this, I have nothing to say. Even if you don't want to do it, the old guys in Beijing always have to go have a drink. Since it's already decided, I'll find a day to bring it to the palace, meet and have a meal together."
"Small families can't stand the world. When they enter the palace, they are afraid they won't even say anything." The kitten said with a smile.
"What a joke? That's Mrs. Ru, the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty. Let her go to the palace to live for a while and let the queen train well."
"Your Majesty, you can have a meal, let the queen train you, then forget it. The kitten is interested in her simple and simple manner. It doesn't matter whether she learns or not." The kitten shook his head and said.
Qin Feng raised his cup, "It's up to you!"
The Anyang Incident and the death of Miss Hong were extremely severely affected by the kitten. Until now, the kitten has not yet come out of the pain. This is also a thorn in Qin Feng's heart. Now that he is willing to get married, he has taken a big step forward, and the rest can only take it slowly.
Tang Zhong, the Minister of Justice, never expected that there would be a pie falling from the sky, hitting him right on the head, smashing him to the point of dizziness, almost unable to believe his ears, and looked straight at the emperor with his eyes until Eunuch Le called him a few times before he reacted.
After waking up, he was immediately ashamed and bowed to Qin Feng repeatedly for guilt.
The Ministry of Justice has always been a less-regarded yamen in the Ming Dynasty. It can be said to be a marginalized department, although its power is not small. Even the Ministry of Rites and Works has been making great progress over the years, suppressing the Ministry of Justice.
Tang Zhong was formerly the Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice in Maeyue, a typical technical bureaucrat. After the Ming Dynasty took power, he was directly appointed as the Minister of Justice and has been working until now. More than ten years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in the central organization of the Ming Dynasty, the important minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Su Kairong, and the Minister of Rites, Xiao Hua, were the only two remaining.
After the news of the major institutional reform came out, Tang Zhong believed that his Minister of Justice had already finished his work and that Old Man Xiao would not have any worries about his position, because in addition to this official position, he enjoyed a great reputation among the scholars. This alone was enough to ensure that his status would not be overturned. But he was different. These days, he had been thinking at home about how to write a memorial to retire and return home in a reasonable manner and retreat with a decent manner.
But things were always beyond his expectations. Today he was summoned to the palace. After a normal complaint between the emperor and his ministers, what the emperor said made him completely stunned.
Tang Zhong was indeed the most profound person in this empire for the daily operation of the Ministry of Justice and the control of the entire criminal law. Even though the Ming Dynasty has been constantly promulgating various new laws over the years, he was always the first to master it the most skillful one.
The emperor did not want to take him down, but threw a big pie to him. Tang Zhong confirmed that once the matter was formally reported to the world, the status of the Ministry of Justice would rise rapidly and no longer be its current embarrassing position.
Because of Your Majesty, he actually gave the Ministry of Justice the military power.
Although these troops are only local security forces.
But the security forces are also military!
"Tang Zhong, in the future, the local public security will still be subject to county magistrates or county magistrates, but they are no longer only under the jurisdiction of local governments. The Ministry of Justice also has jurisdiction over them. Every constable who is included in the book should be registered. It is recommended that your Ministry of Justice make a number, and each constable has a number that belongs to them. Local constables have the right to reconnaissance and arrest criminals, but the right to judge will belong to Dali Temple. Like you, the jurisdiction of Dali Temple will also reach the county level now." Qin Feng said slowly, and Tang Zhong raised his ears nervously, trying to imprint every word of Qin Feng firmly into his heart.
"Local security forces are used as a supplement to the constable, but now as far as I know, the combat effectiveness of local security forces is not optimistic. Even if the combat effectiveness of the security forces I need is not as good as that of the field forces, they cannot be much worse than them. Their equipment will be preferred in the future, but the number of people will be strictly limited. Sometimes they will complete some things that the army cannot come forward to complete. After you go down, you must have a complete plan. The more detailed the plan, the better, otherwise you will definitely not be able to pass it in the Political Affairs Hall."
"I understand." Tang Zhong nodded vigorously. At this time, he had already fully understood that the power of the Ministry of Justice after the great reform of the organization will be greatly expanded, not only a criminal law or a case review organization, but has truly become a violent organization in a country. The emperor wanted to gather all the detectives in the world into a large framework for centralized management. The addition of the security forces has greatly strengthened the power of the Ministry of Justice. This is not just for the need to maintain public order, but there are probably other considerations from the emperor. According to the emperor's intention, it is to make the security forces a short and conscientious force that can play a huge role when necessary.
Tang Zhong was still a little dizzy after coming out of the palace. He could imagine how happy his colleagues would be when he brought this news back to the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has been so full of sarcasm over the years, and now he can finally be proud.
Compared to Tang Zhong's joy in the Ministry of Justice, Fang Dazhi, the Minister of Personnel, could not be happy at all. Because when he sat in front of Qin Feng, what he heard was definitely not good news.
Because the power of the Ministry of Personnel was greatly reduced by the emperor.
First of all, the power of appointing the county magistrates below the county, which was directly delegated to each county by the emperor. In the future, each county can appoint county officials on its own, and only needs to report to the Ministry of Personnel for filing. In name, although the Ministry of Personnel still has the power to appoint county officials at the county level, Fang Dazhi was very clear that when it comes to county level officials, the appointment of each person could not be done by the Ministry of Personnel. The interest relations involving all aspects are always the result of the major forces' gambling. At best, the Ministry of Personnel is just a little heavier in speaking. The real power of the Ministry of Personnel is actually the appointment of these county-level officials. Because at this level, there are not many people who care about it, unless they are county-level governments with particularly important positions or extremely economically developed. But now, this power is gone.
The only thing that allows the Ministry of Personnel to maintain a certain authority in front of officials all over the world is the annual small review of officials and the major reviews every three years. This will be the most important condition for determining the political achievements of officials and promotion and dismissal.
When Wang Hou was appointed as the Minister of Personnel, how powerful was the Ministry of Personnel? When he came to his own hands, the Ministry of Personnel fell suddenly, which made Fang Dazhi very uneasy. In the past, the Minister of Personnel was regarded as the leader of the six ministries, but now, if you do this, you are afraid that the prestige will fall sharply.
Geng Jingming, the Ministry of Revenue, was not very happy either, because all the money-making industries under the Ministry of Revenue were deprived of all by Qin Feng and were stuffed into the soon-to-be-established Ministry of Commerce. In the future, the Ministry of Revenue was only left to manage the country's territory, land, household registration, taxes, salary, and finance, and Geng Jingming's favorite thing was to make money. He now had the idea of changing a position with Wang Yueyao. Because Wang Yueyao was the first Minister of Commerce in the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, he just thought about it. Banking and finance was also taken away by the emperor. Fortunately, the taxation area was still in the Ministry of Revenue. If you want to make more money in the future, you can only think of it on this. However, thinking about the tax system of the Ming Dynasty, Geng Jingming felt a little discouraged. It seemed that the emperor was insisting on doing it.
Chapter completed!