(2) Restrain fluky psychology, that is, limit the ways of being an official and being promoted through fluky psychology. At that time, senior officials recommended their children to be officials in Beijing every year. Twenty years later, a family of brothers and grandsons had 20 officials in Beijing. Entering the imperial court one after another in this way not only increased the state expenditure, but also these dude boys didn't do their business, only knew how to cover up each other and form a clique for personal gain. For the sake of national political clarity and reducing financial expenditure, we should limit the privileges of senior officials and prevent their children from holding important positions in restaurants.
(3) Fine tribute, that is, strict tribute system. In order to cultivate people with real talent and practical learning, we should first reform the contents of the imperial examination, change the original Jinshi branch from focusing only on poetry and fu to focusing on strategy, and change the Mingjing branch from only reciting Confucian classics to stating the meaning and truth of Confucian classics. In this way, students will have real talent and practical learning, and they will be able to seek truth according to their names.
(4) Selection of the Chief Executive. In view of the fact that incompetent officials at the state and county levels were nine times out of ten at that time, Fan Zhongyan suggested that the court send competent people to various places (above the first-level supervision and finance department in the Northern Song Dynasty) to check local political achievements, reward competent personnel and recall incompetent personnel; The selection of local officials should be carefully recommended and reviewed to prevent redundancy.
(5) All public areas. Public land is one of the fixed incomes of local officials in the Northern Song Dynasty, but its distribution is often uneven. Fan Zhongyan believes that the supply is uneven, how to ask officials to do their duty? He suggested that the court should balance their professional income; Those who are not assigned to professional fields will be assigned to them according to their grades, so that they can earn enough money to support themselves. Then, you can blame them for their honesty; People who break the law may also be punished or fired.
(6) Paying attention to agriculture and mulberry means attaching importance to agriculture and mulberry production. Fan Zhongyan suggested that the imperial court issue imperial edicts, requiring governments at all levels to talk with the people about the interests of poor farmland, build water conservancy projects and promote agricultural benefits, and formulate a long-term system of rewarding people and evaluating officials.
(7) Armament training means armament improvement. Fan Zhongyan suggested recruiting able-bodied men near Beijing to serve as security guards in Gyeonggi to help regular troops fight. These guards spend about three quarters of their time on farming and one quarter on training and fighting every year. The implementation of this system can save the cost of consumables. If this system in the capital is successful, it will be imitated everywhere.
(eight) to promote the letter of gratitude, that is, to widely implement the government's loyalty to the people. If the competent department delays or violates the execution of the Amnesty order, it should be dealt with severely according to law. In addition, special envoys should be sent to all walks of life to check whether various preferential policies should be implemented. In this way, the emperor's favor is everywhere.
(nine) heavy order, that is, to seriously and carefully issue court orders. Fan Zhongyan believes that decrees were originally intended to show trust in the people, but now they have been changed shortly after their promulgation. Therefore, the imperial court must discuss which regulations can be implemented for a long time, delete complex and redundant clauses, and stipulate them as emperor's orders and state decrees, and promulgate them. In this way, the court's orders will not be changed frequently.
Reduce the corvee by ten. Fan Zhongyan believes that the number of hukou has decreased, but the number of people who supply the government is heavier. Counties with a small number of registered permanent residence should be reduced to towns, and embassies of state armies and state hospitals should be merged into one hospital; The handyman sent by the official department can be assigned to some state soldiers to undertake, and those who should not undertake public office should be put back to the countryside. In this way, people will no longer worry about heavy troubles.