Chapter 316
Just after the year, Li Zi, the deputy envoy of Privy Councillor, passed away. He stopped court for several days and was awarded the title of Shangshu Youpushe, with the posthumous title of Xiancheng.
With Li Zi's death, the Privy Council made some minor changes. Zhang Shixun changed from Privy Council to the Privy Council, Wang Deyong, Sheng Du and Han Yi were the Tongzhi Privy Council. Immediately afterwards, Du Yan, the former Censor who was excluded from the capital by Lu Yijian two years ago, returned to the capital to serve as the Tongzhi Privy Council, ranking behind Wang Deyong and others.
The status of the prime minister is ranked first, the Privy Council is second, the Privy Council is second, the Privy Council is second, then the Political Affairs Office is second, and then the Privy Council is deputy envoy, and then it is the Tongzhi Privy Council is second, and the signing is second.
The Privy Councilor and the Privy Council were both the chief officials of the Privy Council. They had the same powers, but their status was high and low. They were usually used in turn before this. Although the personnel and official positions were not changed much in this change, the Privy Council's status was lower than that of the Secretariat.
Since the beginning of the new policy, the court has money in its hands and various political affairs have been progressing quite smoothly. In comparison, the army had too many problems last year, and this change reflects the dissatisfaction of the emperor and the court with the actions of the Privy Council some time ago.
At this time, the Song Dynasty was full of peace and prosperity. After so many years of founding the country, it has only been a real cost. From the central government to the local government, officials at all levels have a sense of being proud. The Political Affairs Hall finally began to get used to it and no longer worry about how to make money every day, but began to think about reducing taxes, and deleting and merged them one by one. The money-spending finance that Xu Ping has been talking about in the past two years has only been slowly accepted.
This is something that has never been done before. Since ancient times, the government has lived on imperial grain and national taxes. Only by collecting from the bottom to the top, how can there be any reason to send money to the bottom? But Xu Ping turned this dream into reality. Money supervision paper was printed and money was printed. All the yamen led by the Three Departments wanted to spend the printed money. Many officials thought about it and found it magical.
Crisis often plant seeds in prosperous times, and the more this time, the more we cannot relax. Unlike others, Xu Ping did not dare to relax, and he was determined to fix the good policies that had been proven now, institutionalize and form laws. After the Chinese New Year, he led the people of the Sansi to sort out the policies for the past two years, and went to the detailed decree office.
The nominal task of the edict is to organize edicts, delete and merge, and edit the sorted edicts into a book. In fact, this is the legislative body. In addition to the edicts compiled, it will also interpret these edicts. Together, it is the law. In other words, the original edict may be just a reason, and the real intention is in those interpretations.
The edicts for one prefecture and one county were presided over by the local chief. Because the three departments were involved, although the edicts for one department were compiled, the edicts for the prefects were still recommended by the prime minister. Chen Zhizhong and Han Yi proposed to the public. In fact, they only grasped the general direction. The specific work had to be handled by Xu Ping and the people of the three departments, and finally the two candidates were reviewed.
Starting from the Song Taizu, in order to prevent his descendants from ruining state affairs, he always paid attention to the construction of systems. Theoretically, the political affairs of the Song Dynasty required a system for each matter. Everything had a system. If there was no system, it would be used as an example. If there was no such example, the court would discuss it. In this case, it was extremely important to compile edicts. Once the system was established, political affairs norms would be formed.
Xu Ping himself also tried the new policy. After he succeeded, the system was established and it came to an end.
Last year, spring came very early this year. Before the first month of the year, the sun was warm when it shone on its body. Xu Ping came out of the imperial decree, stretched his waist, raised his head and sneezed, feeling particularly comfortable.
With Xu Ping, the archives sorting of the Sansi Yamen is better than other yamen, and it is not troublesome to sort out the imperial edicts. Moreover, Xu Ping often discusses with his subordinate officials in daily life. He has formed a common understanding within the Sansi Yamen, and there is no dispute over the interpretation of the imperial edicts. The entire imperial edicts compiled in an orderly and smooth manner. When Lu Yijian compiled the "Regulations on the Zhongshu", he proudly said that with this book, even a mediocre person can be the prime minister. Xu Ping hopes that this time the compilation of the imperial edicts of the Sansi Yamen will be completed, and he can also tell people like this. With these laws, even if a nerd is a snare, he can still make the world full of money.
He slowly walked back to his chief's hall, sat down after the case, and asked the public officials to serve tea. Xu Ping took a big sip in comfort, picked up the newspaper on the case to watch. After a few glances, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, looked at it for a while, and a sip of tea was sprayed out. This suddenly scared the public officials on the side, and hurriedly apologized and came up to clean up.
Putting down the tea, Xu Ping pointed to the newspaper and asked, "When did this be delivered? Why didn't you show it to me earlier?"
The public official said: "Prince Lord, when you arrived at the imperial decree, you had just arrived at the memorial hall to report the court. Because you did not get the order, it was a small mistake to give it to the provincial decree when you were not in a hurry. I will remember it in the future."
Xu Ping waved his hand and said, "Forget it, since it was just delivered, it's not your fault."
After saying that, Xu Ping held the newspaper in his hand, stood up, and turned around in the official hall. After thinking about it, after a long time, Xu Ping sighed: "I think I, the Three Departments, are in charge of the Privy Council, and I have many things to worry about. If there are no such messy things that make people unable to bear, who would be willing to take care of? Alas, I still have to take care of it once."
After saying that, after returning to the case, he picked up his pen and wrote the memorial. When he was about to hand it over to the public official, he took it back and thought for a while and said, "Forget it, I'd better go to the Da Nei. I'm afraid I'll make a bad thing if I don't report it in person this time."
After handling some urgent matters, it was already noon. Xu Ping left the Sansi Yamen, followed the imperial city and went outside the Chugongmen in Da Nei. After completing the procedures as usual, he realized that Zhao Zhen was listening to Jia Changchao's lectures, so he had to wait.
Like many scholars in this era, Jia Changchao was not a Jinshi. During the Tianxi period, Zhenzong went out of the city to pray for the valley. He presented chants beside the Tao. Because he wrote well and was in line with the wishes of Zhenzong, he was awarded the same Jinshi as the scholar. Jia Changchao was good at learning and was good at explaining. Later, he served as a storyteller in the Imperial College and was appreciated by Sun Shi. When Sun Shi retired, he recommended Jia Chang dynasty to replace him. He started as a storyteller in Chongzheng Palace since the first year of Jingyou, and specifically explained classics to Zhao Zhen.
By accompanying the emperor to study, Jia Changchao has been a direct scholar in Longtu Pavilion and a servant. No matter how many officials who do things to do their own life and death, they are not as good as him. Only Jia Changchao is the one who truly interprets this sentence.
After waiting for half an hour, the gate knew about Xu Ping and asked him to enter the hall and enter the opposite side of the room.
Only when the Prime Minister wants to meet the emperor, he doesn't have to queue up at the gate. Xu Ping is still far from it. Normally, with his official position today, it would be good to be able to enter the palace tomorrow. Zhao Zhen asked him to go in now, and he surpassed many people in the front line.
When he arrived at Chongzheng Hall, he performed the ceremony as usual, and Zhao Zhen ordered him to give him a seat.
Chapter completed!