dognovel Chapter 555 Old Deng? He knows nothing about governing a country!
Chapter 555 Old Deng? He knows nothing about governing a country!
"This one……"
"Let me think about it first."
Yang Shaofeng didn't want to hear Lao Deng complain anymore.
If I let Lao Deng keep going, I'll probably soon become an unfilial son-in-law.
The thought of the words "rebellious son-in-law" made Yang Shaofeng rub his forehead again.
I am your rebellious son-in-law who always causes you trouble.
So what kind of good thing is this old Deng?
You're not only the son-in-law of the Ma family, you're also the son-in-law of the Guo family.
Guo Zixing married his goddaughter to you, and you turned around and made his biological daughter Guo Huifei.
Pooh!
While inwardly complaining, Yang Shaofeng carefully suggested, "How about you take another stroll through the county government office in Ningyang County?"
Emperor Zhu immediately perked up and asked, "What good things are hidden in the county government office this time?"
Seeing the Zhu Emperor's eyes light up, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but sigh and say, "What can I possibly hide? What could I possibly hide?"
"Besides, it's not like you, sir, insisted that your son-in-law worry about the reform of the Ministry of Works."
"Please take a look at this, sir."
Yang Shaofeng winked at Liang Jin Xiaolongtuan and chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Just two jin of Xiaolongtuan, and His Highness treats his son-in-law like an animal."
Emperor Zhu blushed, but then said confidently, "Isn't this because Biao'er trusts you? For such an important matter as the reform of the Ministry of Works, he didn't ask Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen, but specifically asked you. Isn't that because you are his brother-in-law?"
"Besides, that little beast already plundered all the Dragon Gang from our inner treasury and given it to you, what more do you want?"
As he spoke, Emperor Zhu casually picked up a packet of small dragon dumplings, opened it, and then stuffed two dumplings into his pocket.
The key point is that while Emperor Zhu was putting the tea cakes in his pocket, he didn't forget to explain, "It just so happens that we're out of tea there, so I'll take two cakes from you first, and give them to you when the new tea arrives."
Looking at Emperor Zhu's smooth and fluid movements, and his nonchalant and shameless ramblings, Yang Shaofeng knew that this old man must have stolen chickens and cows in the past.
He might have even been a highway robber.
They are incredibly skilled at their job.
While mentally ranting, Yang Shaofeng led Emperor Zhu toward the workshop of the Ningyang County Government.
According to the Ming Dynasty's organizational structure, the government offices at the prefecture and county levels had six departments, corresponding to the six ministries in the imperial court.
According to normal logic, the six ministries correspond to the six offices, which should have been a vertically managed model.
In this way, the power of the county magistrate would be greatly reduced, while the six ministries of the imperial court could directly control the county-level government through their six offices.
The key is that the Ming Dynasty's methods are not based on the thinking of normal people.
The imperial court had six ministries, and the prefectures and counties had six offices. However, the provincial administration offices and prefectures, which were located between the imperial court and the prefectures and counties, did not have government offices corresponding to the six ministries and six offices. Instead, they had institutions such as the Experience Office and the Inspection Office, which sounded confusing.
Yang Shaofeng had ample reason to suspect that this inexplicable organizational structure was likely deliberately created by those civil servant groups.
After all, everyone knows that Emperor Zhu herded cattle, begged for food, was a monk, and stole cattle, but he never officially held an official position.
So, what does he know about governing a country?
In any case, the final result was that the Ming Dynasty's administrative system was a complete mess, with the structure of the imperial court and prefectures being similar, and the structure of the provincial administration offices and prefectures being similar.
While Lao Deng and Xiao Deng were still alive, such chaos could be ignored. Official documents and orders from the Secretariat and the Six Ministries could even bypass the provincial administration and prefecture-level offices and go directly to the grassroots prefectures and counties.
But what if both Old Harden and Young Harden are gone?
Orders from the imperial court could no longer be sent directly to the prefectures and counties; they had to go through the provincial administration commissioner and the prefecture.
The consequences of not being able to communicate directly with the central government were obvious: the central government's control over the local areas began to weaken.
Later on, the tax supervisors were driven back to the capital, and local officials even dared to secretly instigate people to resist taxes.
Then came the inscription on the tombstone of the five people.
The useful ancestral rules left by Lao Deng, such as punishing corruption by skinning the guilty and stuffing them with straw for every sixty taels of silver, prohibiting students from discussing politics and interfering in lawsuits, and allowing commoners to bind officials and bring them to the capital to file complaints, are all no longer mentioned by anyone.
Instead, ancestral rules such as the maritime ban, preferential treatment for scholars, and not punishing people for their words were brought up and talked about extensively.
The famous emperor Jiajing, who was known for his cultivation of immortality, even had a humorous story circulating about him: "I have cultivated my body to resemble that of a crane, and I am not afraid of palace maids strangling me; I came to ask about the Dao, but there is nothing more to say, and my son is also in league with the Japanese."
These events, one after another, cannot be described by the mere death of a person and the collapse of his regime.
Upon arriving at the workshop in Ningyang County, Yang Shaofeng, while inwardly complaining, said to Emperor Zhu, "This is the workshop in Ningyang County."
"Mechanical Engineering Class 1, Mechanical Engineering Class 2... Chemical Engineering Class 1, Chemical Engineering Class 2... Geology Class, Mineral Resources Class, Water Resources Class..."
"Because each department has a lot of work to do, the workshop in Ningyang County is more of a nominal position; the actual work is done by the individual departments."
"To say it's a bad rule is definitely wrong."
"It's just that the rules of the common people weren't broken, or even the rules of the Ming Dynasty were broken. It's just that the rules of certain officials and gentry were broken."
Emperor Zhu listened and nodded.
This modification is good.
By assigning specific tasks from the workshop to each class, any issues can be addressed directly by contacting the appropriate person.
If the Six Ministries were also modified in this way...
Looking at the clerks coming and going in the workshop, Emperor Zhu asked, "How many departments does your workshop have in total? How many people are there?"
Yang Shaofeng pondered for a moment and replied, "Fourteen classes, fourteen clerks, and sixty-four people actually doing the work."
"The other departments, except for the criminal department, are basically divided into different classes, just like the workshop, and each has clerks and servants to do their work."
"Even the gift room was divided according to different functions such as education and publishing."
At this point, Yang Shaofeng led Emperor Zhu to the office of the Second Mechanical Engineering Department, went inside, took out a file, and handed it to Emperor Zhu.
"This is the responsibility of the Mechanical Engineering Section 2, which is to collect all the information they can about the manufacture of light and small machinery."
"The Mechanical Engineering Department is responsible for larger machines such as water-powered grinders and water-powered planers."
This "one lesson, two lessons" approach was something Yang Shaofeng referenced from the methods used by the First and Second Ministries of Machine Building during the early days of the People's Republic of China.
Emperor Zhu glanced at the dossier, then snorted coldly and said, "You've completely altered the county government office. If we hadn't asked you about it today, would you still be hiding it?"
Yang Shaofeng was slightly taken aback, then loudly protested, "Father-in-law, you've wronged your son-in-law too much!"
"When did my son-in-law start hiding things?"
"Isn't this still in the experimental stage?"
"Besides, the reason why Ningyang County was able to become a separately planned county directly under the Central Secretariat was precisely to test these new things, right?"
Emperor Zhu snorted coldly again and said, "Then why don't you write a memorial? Or do you really not care about the Censorate's impeachment?"
Yang Shaofeng curled his lip, "The Censorate?"
"Ningyang County is a county with independent planning status under the Central Secretariat. If the Censorate has any objections, please go to the Left and Right Chancellors of the Central Secretariat for an explanation."