The talent of the scholar is the national soldier, and the person who wins the country is easy to win the world.

Those who have no virtue and talent to build a country are poisoners, and those who get poisoners can also win the world.

Ma Kuo beside Liu Xing is a national scholar, and Ma Kuozhicai has made Liu Xing feel that he is no longer just good at foreign affairs.

Since the promulgation of the new law, Ma Kuo has offered many good strategies to Liu Xing in many affairs such as officials, criminal punishments, households, and workers.

It was under Ma Kuo's many suggestions and advices, and the efforts of Zong Ze, Zhang Suo and others to help. It is only in a short period of more than a month that the entire King of Faith will control this great river and mountain to see prosperity again.

But these are not enough, Liu Xing wants the world to be more prosperous than this, so that the people of the Central Plains and the Han compatriots can live more prosperously, and everyone can live and work in peace and contentment.

Therefore, the new law will continue, and after the poison Shihui sacrificed his poisonous plan to deal with the Western Xia people, Liu Xing refocused his attention on Ma Kuo.

"Governor Ma, I have made good progress in promoting the new law, but I always feel that there are still many overheads in the administration of officials, and there are too many drawbacks to hide. So I thought of a new bureaucracy structure and wanted to hear your opinion. When Liu Xing first walked to the chair, he said an opening remark.

Then, after sitting on the chair, Liu Xing said what he had in mind about the new official governance structure.

Hebei East Road and Hebei West Road were merged into Hebei Province. Jingdong and Jingdong roads were merged into Shandong Province, and Jingxi and Jingxi roads were changed to Henan Province. Shaanxi and Long roads were formally merged to establish Shaanxi Province. The land of Bashu was divided into two, and two provinces of Xikang and Dongchuan were established. Hedong was renamed Shanxi Province, and all the areas around Bianjing were included in Jingzhao Prefecture to be managed......

When Meteor finished speaking, he set these new reform ideas in the structure in his heart. Ma Kuo frowned and paced while Liu Xing stopped talking for a short time and went to drink tea.

Broken steps took a few steps. Ma Kuoyi stopped. He said: "The merger of the government department will inevitably reduce the use of officials, and judging from the current law of high salaries and honest maintenance and cruel punishment of corruption, it can indeed reduce a lot of expenses on the administration of officials. However, in this way, it will inevitably lead to an excessive concentration of local power, and if a provincial-level official does not act, it will easily cause the people in the province to suffer! ”

Hearing that Ma Kuo raised this question, Liu Xing smiled indifferently and said: "I only changed the administrative structure, I didn't say that even the Metropolitan Procuratorate should be changed together!" As long as there is a history of the Imperial Palace. Whoever dares to occupy the pit and not, I will let whoever is in the cell. Whoever dares to abuse his power, I will let his head move. ”

Strictly govern officials, since the implementation of the new law, Liu Xing's feeling to the people of the world has always been like this.

For corrupt officials and corrupt officials, for those dog officials who occupy the pit and don't, Liu Xing once bluntly said to Zongze and Zhang Suo in the Tianshu Pavilion: "Catch one, kill one, catch a batch, kill a batch." Whoever dares to engage in corruption in the court I lead, form a party and run a private business to prey on the common people, I will let him never recover, and he will never be reborn."

Although it seems that Liu Xing is too tyrannical, even if Zong Ze, Zhang Suo and other cabinet ministers are in favor of this kind of harsh management of officials in their hearts, Ma Kuo is naturally very clear and very much in favor......

I know from the bottom of my heart that the structure of the imperial history remains unchanged, and corruption can indeed be prevented. Ma Kuo nodded slightly: "Since the Taifu will not change the imperial history structure of the Imperial Procuratorate, then the corruption mentioned by the lower officials should be avoided as much as possible." Dare to ask Taifu. The road is a province, how many grades are you going to make this provincial governor? ”

After answering the question, Liu Xing immediately said: "The chief official of the first province is the governor, and the rank is second. Under the governor, there are three divisions: political administration, punishment and patrol, all of which are in the same rank as the commander. The political envoy is in charge of the affairs of a province to undertake the promulgation of government decrees, manage subordinate officials, and control the financial endowment, and the criminal envoy is in charge of the impeachment of the criminal name of a province and the prisoners of the law, and the patrol envoy is in charge of the patrol and defense affairs of a province, regimental training and military preparation, and the recruitment of workers. ”

After finishing his sentence, he paused slightly, and without waiting for Ma Kuo to ask another question, Liu Xing continued: "The shops and industries jointly run by officials and businessmen in various provinces will all belong to the political envoys in the future. However, some important trades are still attributed to the household department. In terms of finance and taxation, it will also be changed due to structural innovation, and there will be two types of local taxes and court taxes. All the taxes on slaughter, real estate, vehicles and ships, animal husbandry, land, feasts, and land that were re-established in the future were to be included in the political envoys and used by the provinces to pay for their own expenses. ”

After a slight pause again, Liu Xing immediately said: "In terms of the DPRK tax, there are personal taxes, sales taxes, commercial taxes and border trade taxes for individuals. I am going to set up a special tax department in the cabinet that is directly responsible for the three auxiliary taxes and will no longer be managed by the household department, so as to avoid the situation in which the household department is in charge of the tax collection and the expenditure is also in charge of the expenditure, and the household department often withholds and delays the expenditure. ”

Hearing this, Ma Kuo frowned and looked at Liu Xing and asked again: "Then may I ask Taifu, if you are going to set up a new tax department to be in charge of border trade tax collection, will Lord Su Quan's salt and iron border trade department still be in charge of border tax collection?" ”

Not long after the establishment of the newly established Salt and Iron Border Trade Division, in accordance with Liu Xing's new law, a new tax system in the border trade with Dali and Xixia has begun to be implemented at the border gates.

Ma Kuo raised such a question, which once again played the role that a national soldier should have and reminded Liu Xing of the day.

But after he woke up, Liu Xing didn't think of a way by himself, but asked him with a light smile: "In your opinion, should I let the border tax bill be levied well, or is it better to merge with the tax department?" ”

Seeing Liu Xing ask him, Ma Kuo thought slightly, and quickly replied: "Since the salt and iron division collects the special tax on salt and iron and includes it in the national treasury, there is no need to separate the border tax from Lord Su Quan. Only those who are in charge of business will have a better idea of how much tax can be levied so that business can not affect business and enrich the country. ”

"Wait a minute." Before Ma Kuo's words fell, Hui Liu, who had been sitting aside and had been lazily playing with a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, suddenly opened his mouth.

After interrupting Ma Kuo's words, he looked at Liu Xingdao and said: "Since Taifu is afraid of corruption in the imperial court, isn't he afraid that the power of the Salt and Iron Division will be too large and too centralized in the future, and there will be dog officials and rats after becoming a brand new small household department?" The Metropolitan Procuratorate can't check the accounts every day, and those things still have to be done by people, and as long as people do it, it is difficult to really prevent the appearance of rats from the root. ”

It can be seen that Ma Kuo will always only think about how to make the new law more perfect, and rarely will treat others with the heart of a villain. On the contrary, Hui is a monster for a long time, and he has seen a lot of treacherous people and things, and he will think about things with suspicion and defensiveness everywhere.

With such a pair of strategists on the side, Liu Xing felt very cool. Because of such a righteous and evil two people helping themselves to plan, it can definitely be said that the good can be imagined, and the bad can also be predicted.

So when Hui asked the question, Liu Xing smiled at him with appreciation: "Then according to what you see, master, how to deal with it?" ”

"I think that how to collect border taxes and how to set taxes should be regulated by the Salt and Iron Division, but it is better to collect them from the Taxation Division."

Hui frowned, and said while thinking: "In this way, the rules and regulations do not collect taxes in person, and the rights are restricted by the tax department, which can play a checkpoint to prevent the appearance of rats, and can prevent the occurrence of laymen who do not know how to act internally, and the taxes set affect border trade." ”

After listening to the words for a while, Hui looked at Liu Xing with a sly smile and said: "Even if there is a hole where a rat dares to steal the treasury in the future, it is difficult for the two divisions to collude with the rats because of their overlapping duties. This is powerful, I believe Taifu, you should understand, right? ”

The functions of the two divisions are offset by each other, and Hui said very elegantly, in fact, Liu Xing understood that he was actually telling himself a way: let them clash with each other in order to prevent them from colluding together. Let the two divisions because of the distribution of power from the beginning, no one can look down on anyone, so that the maximum constraints and constraints can minimize the possibility of rats becoming nests.

As a person who holds great power in the world, many times he does not want officialdom to struggle in the court under his control. But more often than not, those in power hope that there should be some infighting in officialdom from time to time.

If the officialdom is all harmonious and factional, no one will restrain corruption and corruption. As long as there are alien factions to restrain and fight, they can be constrained and many people dare not stretch out their dirty hands if they want to.

Because he had to think that if his dirty hand was found by the people of the opposing faction, he might be reported and exposed by the people of the opposing faction at any time, and then he would be imprisoned and taken down by others.

In many cases, official fights are indeed the cause of civil strife in a court, and it will trap and kill many people who have entered the officialdom. But as long as the scale is well controlled, Liu Xing firmly believes that the official fighting method is the best weapon to prevent and eradicate corruption.

If he wants to prevent corruption at the root, Liu Xing knows that the only way to get big returns is to provoke infighting in the officialdom and pit officials at all levels......

Knowing the poisonous plan that Hui offered again, Liu Xing sneered and nodded: "Well, yes, this method is desirable and should be feasible for the master." Then this matter will be decided, and the salt and iron department will set the tax, and the tax department will collect the border tax. Other activities, such as personal tax, sales tax, and commercial tax, are taxed by the household department, so don't let the household department be too idle. ”

Now that Liu Xing has made a decision, Ma Kuo and Hui are no longer entangled in matters such as taxes.

When Liu Xing decided to do this, Ma Kuo immediately pulled the topic back: "Then dare to ask Taifu, if the new law of merging roads and provinces is implemented, there will inevitably be a large number of officials who have been reduced by the yamen and eliminated after the merger, how are you going to deal with it?" Among those people, after all, many of them will be the protégés and old friends of Zong Shuai and Zhang Taibao! ”

The purpose of establishing a province is to reduce the expenditure of officials, and at the same time improve the efficiency of officials and reduce the number of disposal links. Once the provinces are really merged, a large number of officials will inevitably be laid off and lose their posts.

Teachers and students, relatives, old friends, these factions and party problems that can never be eradicated in the officialdom for generations, once their interests are touched, they often push the person who infringes on their interests into the abyss of no return.

Wang Anshi's reform failed because he touched the interests of too many people and hurt the interests of too many people.

Liu Xing didn't want to fail, and he knew very well that Zong Ze, Zhang Suo, and even the cabinet ministers had actually taken the opportunity to secretly develop and establish their respective party members during the implementation of their new law. If it is not handled well, it is easy for them to join forces to prevent the continuation of the new law and push themselves into a situation like Wang Anshi. (To be continued......)