"I wonder what Your Majesty wants to say?" Yu Yunwen said strangely.

The rest of Hu Quan, Li Chuwen and others also looked at Zhao Chen in surprise, but they did not expect that Zhao Chen would mention the issue of "official system".

"We have prefects and magistrates in the Song Dynasty. In fact, it is not just that our Song Dynasty has such controls. There have been similar official positions in all dynasties! Managing local governments, prefects, magistrates, etc. is essential, but the power of prefects and magistrates is too great." Zhao Chen said.

"The power is too great? Your Majesty, the magistrate, and the magistrate all manage one prefecture and one county. Their rights are all within one prefecture and one county, so they are not very great, right?" Yu Yunwen said.

Although Yu Yunwen is a wise man of this era and has outstanding talents, his vision is also restricted by this era, and he cannot imagine many problems.

"The prefect, the magistrate manages all affairs of a prefecture and a county. They are in charge of tax collection. If there are bandits in the local area, they are in charge of it. If there is a dispute between the people in the local area, they are in charge of it. In a prefecture, no one can restrict them in a county!" Zhao Chen shook his head and said.

In ancient times, the magistrates had great power. For example, the magistrates had much more power than the current magistrates! The magistrate also served as the director of the Public Security Bureau, the director of the Finance Bureau, the president of the court, the procuratorate, and other positions. To add up all the county-level positions in a county and city today, it was the magistrates in ancient times. What kind of rights is this?

In Zhao Chen's opinion, this is extremely abnormal, but in Yu Yunwen, Hu Quan and others, this is an official system passed down by his ancestors and has been used since the Qin Dynasty. They never felt that there was any problem.

"Your Majesty, if you don't let the prefect and the county magistrate manage these affairs, who will let you manage them?" Yu Yunwen said.

"I think this is better. I will first cut off the trial of civil cases! From now on, the prefect and the magistrate will no longer hear the case!" Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.

"Ah? They won't come to try the case? Who will come to try it?" Yu Yunwen said.

"Now we are implementing military control, so that the soldiers of the Military Law Department of the Army can stay in various places! Even if the military control is over, they will still stay in the local area and be responsible for the trial of cases! Moreover, they not only try cases, but also monitor local officials, and even judge officials!" Zhao Chen said.

"This..." Yu Yunwen and others were stunned!

In ancient China, the inspectors were the censors, and the censors could hear the news! But the censors stayed in the court, how could they know the local affairs? As for the review officials, that was something that the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Dali Temple could do, and the Censorate could also participate in the specific trial! Now Zhao Chen wanted to establish such an institution, similar to a modern court, and hand over all the rights to judge cases to this institution, including the judges! In addition to trial, there is also the right to supervise.

"Every counties, states, and prefectures, the soldiers of the Military Law Department must stay to judge cases and supervise officials! Officials from all over the country are only responsible for managing local areas, building local areas, and collecting taxes. What do you think this is the case?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, why do you do this? In the past, the magistrate could do what the magistrate could do, but now it has been handed over to the Military Law Department?" Yu Yunwen said.

"The magistrate, the magistrate may not be good at hearing cases! And the soldiers of the Military Law Department do in the army to maintain military law, so they can naturally hear civilian cases! In fact, this is mainly for decentralization! The magistrate, the magistrate has too much power and no one can check and balance! Now that the military law department is in, they are naturally cautious and use their rights without using their hands." Zhao Chen said.

The biggest drawback of the ancient Chinese official system was that the power was too great! The emperor held administrative power, legislative power, judicial power, and local officials also held all rights. Absolute rights led to corruption, so Zhao Chen decided to decentralize power.

Now that separating judicial power from local officials is only the first step. In the future, he will make other reforms to the official system, so that local officials will no longer be unable to monopolize power and supervise each other. The country will naturally have much less corruption and officials dare not slackew.

"Your Majesty, is it really good to check and balance each other like this?" Yu Yunwen said.

"Is there any benefit? We can try it first! Yanyun, we just got the Central Plains, and it is still very broken. Even if we do something bad, we cannot be worse than the Jurchens! Let's try it here and implement a new official system here! If the result is good, we will promote it nationwide. If the result is not good, we will stop immediately. At most, it is Yanyun. The recovery of the Central Plains is a little slower, and there will be no more bad consequences!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, for more than a thousand years, the magistrates and prefects in various places have been like this. Why should we change?" Hu Quan said.

"The things in the past may not be good! It has been like this for more than a thousand years, and it is not to say that this is correct! When the sages Confucius and Mencius were alive, the world was still in the vassal system. At that time, the sages Confucius and Mencius did not think there was anything wrong. However, when Qin Shihuang was in the time of Emperor Qin Shihuang, the county system was implemented, and later generations knew that the county system was better than the vassal system! It can be seen that the sage's vision may not be able to see the disadvantages at that time! During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system was implemented, and no one thought there was anything wrong. However, after Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, they began to implement the imperial examination system, and later generations knew that the imperial examination system was better than the nine-rank Zhongzheng system! The imperial examination candidates were far better than those aristocratic families to choose people! Do you think so?" Zhao Chen said.

"This..." Yu Yunwen was stunned and nodded, and soon Hu Quan and others nodded.

"When I was in Jiangnan, I told people in Jiangnan that I would reform the official system so that my Song Dynasty can last forever for thousands of years! I would like to end the changes of dynasties over thousands of years, so that the people of the world will never suffer from the suffering of the rise and fall of the people! And to do such things, naturally, we cannot do everything according to what our predecessors have set, but we must be brave to try and innovate. Only in this way can we find out which is right and which is wrong, and we can implement the ambitions in my heart! You are all close people, Yu Yunwen, Hu Quan, you are all members of the Military Affairs Office, participating in major national military affairs. Every attempt I have mentioned, innovation is related to the future of the country. I hope you will not use the rules of our ancestors to advise me, but try with me, innovate, and strive to create a prosperous era that will last forever!" Zhao Chen said.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will do my best to assist Your Majesty!" Yu Yunwen, Hu Quan and others felt their blood boiling, and Yu Yunwen nodded.

"Expelling the Jurchens is just the first step to revive the Song Dynasty! Since its establishment, our Song Dynasty has had many problems for more than 160 years. We value culture over military affairs and weak people. These are all problems. We should change them all! We should change them completely from the official system and culture! I hope that in my lifetime, we can see the real Song Dynasty's rejuvenation!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, if the military control is over, the soldiers of the Military Law Department will stay in various places. Will they still be called the Military Law Department?" Yu Yunwen said.

"Of course, they can't do it anymore. They stayed in the local area and were no longer under the control of the army. How can they be called the Military Law Department? They manage local laws, I think they are called the Court!" Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.

Yu Yunwen, Hu Quan and others thought the title of "Court" was a bit strange, but they nodded and accepted this new national institution.

They discussed here for a long time, and Zhao Chen handed over the establishment of the "Court" to Yu Yunwen to deal with!

Yu Yunwen was originally an important official in the Military Affairs Office and the General Staff Headquarters. The military control matters were also under his responsibility and Qu Duanlai. It happened that the "Court" was established during the military control period, and then wait for officials from all over the country to arrive!

As for Yanyun, there are a large number of officials in the Central Plains. Zhao Chen has urgently mobilized 300 officials from Hanzhong, Sichuan and Sichuan, and in addition, more than 300 young people from Guan and Shaanxi will be mobilized. At that time, they will be appointed as officials from all over the country!

*******

The next morning, Zhao Chen personally saw Yue Fei, Dong Xian and others left.

They rode on horseback and moved forward together.

The snow was falling, and everyone's bodies turned white.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to send me off, let's leave!" Yue Fei said.

"I also need to come out and take a walk. I always stay in the palace and feel bored!" Zhao Chen said with a smile.

In this way, it was not until more than twenty miles away that Zhao Chen and the guards beside him stopped. Yue Fei, Dong Xian and others continued to ride their horses forward.

Yue Fei rode on the horse and felt grateful.

"Since ancient times, there has been few kings that are so good to my ministers! When we leave, Your Majesty actually saw him off in person!" Yue Fei said.

"Brother Yue, I don't know whether to say it or not." Dong Xian thought for a while and said.

"What are you saying? Just say it!" Yue Fei said.

"The birds are gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys are cooked! Your Majesty wants to use you now, so he is so kind to you! In the future, Brother Yue must be careful!" Dong Xian said.

"What nonsense!" Yue Fei scolded.

He was the most loyal and righteous in his life, and he couldn't hear others say what the king was wrong. He immediately showed a hint of anger on his face.

"Brother Yue, I'm doing this for your own good," Dong Xian strongly defended.

"Your Majesty is definitely not such a person! When he was in the palace, His Majesty was still the crown prince. Although His Majesty used people as a substitute and finally ran for his life, His Majesty could not bear to kill his substitute! Later, outside Kaifeng City, Wang De wanted to attract Jin soldiers to leave, but His Majesty was unwilling to let him take risks! His Majesty ignored himself for the safety of his ministers, so how could he harm us? How could His Majesty be comparable to a mean king like Goujian, King Yue?" Yue Fei said.

"Emperor Taizu once released his military power with a cup of wine. Even if His Majesty is generous and kind, after the Jurchens are destroyed in the future, His Majesty may not let you continue to control military power, Brother." Dong Xian said.

"If the Jurchens could be really annihilated, my Song Dynasty occupied a large area of ​​northern territory, even if I die, I would speak frankly, let alone give up the power of a small soldier?" Yue Fei said.

Yue Fei did not take Dong Xian's words in his heart, and Yue Fei thought in his heart, feeling that there was no need for Zhao Chen to do the same thing as Song Taizu, or like King Goujian of Yue.

The reason is very simple. The reason why Taizu of Song wanted to release military power with a glass of wine was mainly because he was afraid that the generals would rebel. The same was true for Goujian! In ancient times, especially in troubled times, most of the troops in the army were private soldiers, and the emperor had to be wary of it! However, Zhao Chen first established a propaganda department in Guanshan, and was responsible for publicity and education in the army at the beginning. It can be said that now the more than 800,000 troops in the Song Dynasty were all loyal to the emperor and the Song Dynasty. There would be no private soldiers who were only loyal to the generals! In this case, even if the generals wanted to oppose the emperor and the Song Dynasty, the soldiers would not agree! In addition, the mechanism of the General Staff Headquarters was different, and the mobilization, deployment, logistics supply, etc. of the army were under the control of the General Staff Headquarters, but the officials of the General Staff Headquarters themselves did not lead the troops, which made it difficult for the army to rebel! Under such a mechanism, Zhao Chen did not have to worry at all!

Yue Fei smiled indifferently and never thought about what Dong Xian said again.
Chapter completed!