Long before leaving Beijing, Tang Yi found Gao Gong and had some talks. The new coup reform took place for five years, with remarkable achievements and many problems.

Now in the cabinet, Gao Gong is over 60 years old, and Zhao Zhenji is much older than him. In addition, Chen Yiqin is sick and weak and cannot bear heavy government affairs, so the cabinet will inevitably adjust.

In addition, as national policies changed, commercial tax was imposed, and overseas, the complexity of government affairs suddenly increased by more than ten times, and the six ministries and nine ministers were exhausted and difficult to deal with.

The next step in the new policy is to adjust the official system. Tang Yi set two main axes. First, the authority of the cabinet can only be enhanced, not weakened, the principle of unity between the cabinet and the elders remains unchanged, and the Grand Secretary must ensure that there are between five and nine, with the most chaotic and disorderly order, and the least dictatorial.

Although Gao Gong likes to take over power, he has worked hard for many years and knows the limits of his ability. In such a large court, he is definitely not able to bear the complicated internal and external affairs alone.

As for the issue of the Six Ministry, Tang Yi hoped to make a thorough adjustment, and it would be best to divide it into more than a dozen departments, each corresponding to a stall. Gao Gong also praised this idea, but he thought it was difficult to implement it all at once. After all, the Six Ministry had existed since the time of Duke of Zhou, and it lasted for two thousand years. It had long been used to it. The sudden abolition of the Six Ministry would inevitably cause a rebound for everyone, including His Majesty.

In fact, Tang Yi also knew that he was just throwing bricks and attracting jade. Seeing Gao Gong’s objection, he immediately put forward the idea of ​​merger of the six divisions of the north and south. The original framework remained unchanged and the official position remained unchanged, but only turned the empty position of Nanjing’s retirement into a actual position.

Gao Gong thought about it and agreed happily.

Of course, considering that there would be a strong rebound, Tang Yi accompanied Longqing to the southern tour, and he would settle the emperor and solve the candidates of the Southern Six Ministry. As for Gao Gong, he used his strength to suppress the counterattack in the capital. Then the two of them worked together to lay off the ground while abolishing and increasing the situation, and quickly chewed off the hard bone of the official system reform.

According to the plan, the six ministers of the Ministry of Justice became twelve, each of which was called the Left and Left and Left. The left was the highest and led the affairs of the Ministry. All ministers at the same level did not distinguish between left and right, but only took on specific government affairs.

Taking the Ministry of Revenue as an example, Zuo Shangshu is in charge of budget, household registration, land tax, and You Shangshu is full-time business tax. Each person has one assistant as his deputy, and the other two ministers are in charge of tariffs and industry and commerce.

The functions of the Ministry of Revenue have changed from a simple household registration and taxation to formulating fiscal budgets, planning the direction of industrial and commercial development, and actively expanding the overseas economy, from a static government office to an enterprising battle group.

The Ministry of War was probably the same, with one secretary and two ministers. The military supplies that originally belonged to the Ministry of Revenue were returned to the Ministry of War. The Left Secretary was responsible for formulating national defense strategies and mobilizing troops. The Right Secretary was responsible for logistics, recruiting soldiers, selecting military generals and other matters. In addition to assisting the Secretary of War, the other four ministers had to transfer the governor and governor to coordinate the affairs of the war zone when encountering war. In this way, the Ministry of War became a veritable general and minister, and its authority became extremely heavy.

In addition to adding a Shangshu, the Ministry of Personnel also obtained a crucial power, and the power to preside over the imperial examination fell on the Ministry of Personnel.

In fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was just born, and the Ministry of Personnel was presided over the examination, and later it fell to the Ministry of Etiquette. This time, Tang Yi reorganized and returned this power to the Ministry of Personnel. The corresponding Ministry of Personnel mastered the full set of authority from talent selection, official position recommendation, and assessment and evaluation.

Deprived of the power to preside over the imperial examination, what is left of the Ministry of Rites?

Tang Yi also gave the Ministry of Rites two extremely important authority. The first is to promote education across the country and set up schools widely. According to Tang Yi's idea, the Ming Dynasty's literacy rate should reach 30% within ten years.

It sounds not high, but it is actually quite scary. The literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty is less than 10%. In the southeast, except for Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other few prefectures, there are no more than 20%. I want to raise the country to 30% in one breath. What ambition!

Tang Yi planned to allocate 3.5 million yuan of school funds to the Ministry of Rites in the sixth year of Longqing, which would reach 10 million yuan within three years, exceeding the salary expenditure of the Ministry of Personnel.

In addition to running schools, there is another one, which is to communicate with foreign countries, export culture, preach the teachings of Confucius and Mencius to the vassal states, and absorb foreign students. To put it bluntly, it is the system output.

With these two powers, the Ministry of Rites was too lazy to preside over the exams. It had to run around the world, build schools everywhere, and go overseas to make trouble. Where could I have the skills?

Only the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Justice remained. These two yamen are relatively professional, but there are more and more major projects and the cities are becoming more and more prosperous. Originally in the countryside, many seniors of the disputes were solved. When they arrived in the city, the court had to come forward, and the corresponding affairs of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Justice increased.

Tang Yi took Longqing to inspect the situation in several counties in Suzhou. Without exception, the non-staff members in Suzhou were beyond imagination. Among the six-bedroom clerks, the largest household had twenty or thirty people, and there were a lot of service workers below. Taxes could not be collected unless this was the case.

If you want the horse to run, you have to give it grass.

If you want to benefit from commercial tax, you must have enough officials to carry out heavy tasks. Commercial taxes can be different from land taxes. Over the course of a year, land taxes will be twice in summer and autumn, which is very easy, but commercial taxes occur almost all the time, and if you are a little negligent, you will not be able to collect taxes.

Longqing asked about the situation in various places, and the situation was similar. He readily agreed with Tang Yi's suggestion, first merged the six ministries, and then increased the number of officials from top to bottom, and truly shouldered the responsibility...

"Oh, I really didn't expect that Your Majesty would be so kind!" Mao Kun sighed. This time he went to the southeast in advance and was ready to mobilize the forces of all parties. Long Qing dared not nod and launched a full-scale offensive. In any case, he had to make a final decision.

But I knew nothing was useless. Tang Yi took Long Qing around and told the situation, and the emperor accepted everything. And he gave more than he thought.

Even Longqing left imperial pens everywhere, and got them in the restaurant, and also in Fengzhou wine workshops.

The king of a country wrote an inscription on merchants, which was an unprecedented favor. The proposition that both rural and commercial enterprises were based on them has become more and more popular.

"I admit that I misunderstood Your Majesty. He is truly wise and foolish. If Your Majesty can live for another ten years and continue to take charge of the government, maybe we can achieve our expectations without bloodshed."

Mao Kun and others gathered under Tang Yi, and what they wanted was to limit the imperial power and break out of the vicious circle of rise, decline, rule and chaos.

"As long as this restructuring is successful, our goal will be achieved most of the time!" Tang Yi took a deep breath and said with relief: "Originally, the strength of the inner court was not as strong as that of the outer court. Now that the six divisions of the north and the south have been merged, the strength of the officials has been completely integrated. Even His Majesty will be nothing more than reversing the will of the entire civil servant system."

Seeing that everything he wanted was done, Tang Yi did not have much joy. "Mr. Lumen, I have used His Majesty's trust to get to this day step by step. I have long made his country scattered and powerful. I really don't know how to face Your Majesty!"

Mao Kun smiled and said, "Sir, Your Majesty is so kind and magnanimous that he is rare in ancient times. He is our luck in office for one day. You must try your best to protect us."

Tang Yi nodded, "I understand. When I finish handling the affairs in the south, I will immediately escort Your Majesty back to Beijing. I will not let go of the evil slave Feng Bao and the shrew who Concubine Li! Don't think that they secretly indulge Your Majesty in the dark to immerse His Majesty's mistress and harm His Majesty's bloodline! From now on, I will never allow them to hurt Your Majesty at all!"

Perhaps it really goes with that sentence, stupid people are blessed.

Longqing's weakness and kindness actually brought Tang Yi's long-lost touch. He couldn't bear to plot against the poor Emperor anymore.

In the following days, Tang Yi worked hard to deal with the abolition of the Southern Six Ministry. He arranged a special person to accompany Longqing to Songjiang, and then took the way to Hangzhou. He saw the West Lake with snowflakes, visited the quiet Lingyin Temple, and watched the melodious music and beautiful singing and dancing...

Even Longqing had to sigh that the nine-level deep palace, decorated with gold and jade, is far from the best place in the world. There are countless grand scenery in the world, and I wish I could spend my whole life and visit it all.

Good guy, Longqing actually thought, "The world is so big, I want to go and see it!"

Tang Yi was not so bold. Longqing had been in the southern tour for several months, and his expenses were seriously exceeding the standard. If he continued to struggle, he might have many impeachment memorials!

Tang Yi was very persuading and asked Longqing to agree. He returned to Yingtian at the last stop, worshipped his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, sent his achievements to Zhu Chongbaxian, and prepared to return to Beijing.

If you want to play, I will talk about it later.

Others said it, perhaps because they were perfunctory, but Tang Yi believed it and Longqing was one hundred times. He finally nodded. This time he did not take the land route, but took a boat from Hangzhou to north and prepared to go to Yingtian.

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The six ministries are not just a few officials, but also a large number of officials and so many yamen. Even Yingtian’s military and political affairs should be dealt with. Since ancient times, personnel mobilization has been the most difficult. It is said that redundant personnel are eliminated, and the more people are laid off, the more people are laid off.

Tang Yi merged the six divisions in the north and south, and the difficulty was still above layoffs. He was busy every day, constantly receiving and comforting each other, and rarely had a little free time.

After finally finding some rest time, I was about to sleep for a while, when Mao Kun suddenly changed his face and ran in.

"Sir, Your Majesty is heading north."

"What?" Tang Yi jumped up in shock, "Mr. Lumen, didn't Your Majesty say that he hadn't had enough fun a few days ago? Why didn't you even get Yingtian and go north directly?"

Mao Kun took out a letter and sent it to Tang Yi, "This is a secret report from our people. Your Majesty only said it for too long and the affairs are busy. He just went north and the people below dared not resist the order."

Tang Yi held the letter and sat down again, his face looked very ugly, and he said for a long time: "Mr. Lumen, did your Majesty notice my plan and return to Beijing immediately, wanting to overturn the new policy, or even question me?"

Mao Kun shook his head slightly, "Sir, if there is news that is unfavorable to you in the capital, Shi Yue and Ju Zhang will not send a message. I suspect that something happened in the palace."

"In the palace? Is there any evidence?" Tang Yi was stunned.
Chapter completed!