1103 Wei Zheng Enters the Cabine (1/2)

Chapter 1103 – Wei Zheng Enters the Cabinet

To run the huge dynasty well, Ouyang Shuo had been doing a lot recently.

Apart from gathering the philosophers to discuss the Yanhuang ideology, he planned to try to unify all the ideologies in China. To make the different law domains and perfect the Great Xia law system, Ouyang Shuo was ready to increase supervision.

Great Xia's supervisory system was split into two dark and two in the light.

The two dark ones were the intel organizations. The one in charge of China region intel, the Shanhai Guards, and the other in charge of overseas, the Black Snake Guars. The two in the light were the Censorate and the Regulatory Department.

The dark systems, be it the Shanhai Guards or the Black Snake Guards, had finally taken root after years of support and no big changes needed to be made.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo was mainly going to adjust the systems in the light.

Currently, the Regulatory Department had changed from being solely under the Internal Affairs Court to being under both them and the Censorate to strengthen the regulation and monitoring of officials on all levels.

”But that was far from enough!”

As the main monitoring organization, the Censorate was in charge of all officials. But now, they only focused on the Imperial Court and left the other offices to the Regulatory Department.

Furthermore, the officials in the Imperial Court were the top historical talents whilst those in the offices included many corrupt ones.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to make the Censorate go down and fulfil an overall cover of all offices.

During the Tang Dynasty, they made the Censorate into the left and the right. The left monitored military and officials in the capital, while the local officials were handled by the right.

After which, the left also started to regulate the locals.

Every year, they would send officials to tour the counties in spring and autumn seasons.

Ouyang Shuo's idea was to follow that but improve on it.

After discussions with the Cabinet, the Censorate adjustment plan was quickly released and mainly included two areas.

First, the Censorate would send censors to the local offices.

The provincial offices would have one lead censor, the prefecture grade would have one intermediate one, the prefecture grade would have one regulatory censor, and the counties would have one censor.

The various censors could skip a level and report upward.

Secondly, form a Censorate regulatory system.

Great Xia would model this on the Tang Dynasty system to send officials down every spring and autumn.

With that, it would greatly increase their monitoring on the local offices.

Due to that, the Censorate would have a new round of expansion, from either the Imperial Court or local offices, they would take in a batch of officials to be appointed.

Ouyang Shuo had made it clear that those chosen to enter the Censorate had to be morally upright.

”Those that do well can be promoted!”

All of a sudden, the Censorate became the hottest organization in the dynasty, and all the officials felt that if they entered the Censorate, it would be like having a protective talisman. Moreover, it would be a good way of getting promoted.

One could only say that they were happy too early.