I want to be emperor

Chapter 383
Guo Quanshu also lamented what happened to Huang Chengxuan, an early friend, and felt that the result was not bad.

Guo Quanshu is very clear, whether it is himself or Huang Chengxuan, the reason why he can reach today's high position is not because of how outstanding his ability is, but more because of Conglong's early years.

Taking Guo Quanshu himself as an example, he was tied to a den of thieves, oh no, there were not many scholars in the entire Funiu Mountain since the time of the dragon...

At that time, among the people working in official affairs, there were not many people who could write appointment letters smoothly. After he joined Guo Quanshu as a serious scholar, he was naturally reused quickly and became an official official early on. Chief of Section, then became Director of Civil Affairs, and then Minister of Civil Affairs...

Regardless of how the title changes, but since the Funiu Mountain period, he has been the leader of the rural protection army at that time, and now the top official in the Great Chu Empire.

Afterwards, he entered the Senate as a matter of course and became the minister of affairs, the leading civil servant in the Great Chu Empire.

In the Great Chu Empire, Guo Quanshu, the Minister of Civil Affairs, Yuan Gaofeng from the Ministry of Industry, and Chen Xingkai from the Taxation Department are known as the three most important ministers in the Great Chu Empire.

In the current civil service system of the Great Chu Empire, the three of them belonged to the highest positions.

However, such Guo Quanshu is often worried that he will not be able to keep up with the pace. One day His Majesty will say to him: I heard that Aiqing is not in good health?Pay attention to rest and ensure your body!
This is not something that has never happened before. Over the past year or so, more than half of the senior officials of the Great Chu Empire have been rotated, and they are all people who belonged to the early superiors but whose abilities cannot keep up.

In the beginning, there were some people who were still in love with the inn after getting hints from His Majesty, but they were either arrested for corruption or dismissed because of other problems... In short, the end was not good.

Then some people learned to be smart. In the early winter of last year, after moving the capital to Jinling City, the former Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Zuo Shilang wrote a letter to beg for bones, saying that the minister was old and could no longer handle heavy affairs. The minister returned to his hometown for the elderly!
After Luo Zhixue persuaded him to stay, yes!
Then he was awarded the honorary title of prince and grand master, the title of viscount, the original noble was allowed to inherit three generations, and the inheritance was reduced. He was given a house in Jinling City and 5 taels of cash. I live in the city, and I happen to have a tea company with no one to help me...

After the resigned minister resigned, he did not return to his hometown. Instead, he turned around and accepted the invitation of the Imperial Production Department to serve as the general office of the Royal Tea Company. The large tea garden of the feudal king.

If this is the case, His Majesty does not miss old feelings. He will give you an official, an honorary title, and a title, and then bestow gold and silver on the house, and even arrange the way out for you.

Although the general office of the Royal Tea Company is not an official, it is also a position with a lot of income, and you can stay in Beijing, so the emperor will remember your kindness in the future.

In short, as long as you are willing to voluntarily hand over your power, Luo Zhixue will compensate you in other ways. Wealth and wealth are nothing to worry about. It is much better than being caught and accused of crimes and sent to prison!

After this person started, even if some people were reluctant in their hearts, after receiving Luo Zhixue's hint, they could only find various excuses to quit their jobs.

In this way, there were more than a dozen dramas in which the monarch and his ministers broke up harmoniously, and the emperor actively compensated for the alimony.

By the third year of Chengshun, and now in May of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the important high-level positions in the Great Chu Empire, mainly ministers of counselors and ministers of assistant councilors, mainly civil servants, have already rotated half of them.

Many high-ranking generals were frightened, thinking that the world had not yet been defeated, and they were going to play a trick of hiding their bows...Even Xu Zhixian tried Luo Zhixue's tone at that time...

At that time, whenever Luo Zhixue hinted at half a sentence, Xu Zhixian would beg for bones every minute...

Regarding this, Luo Zhixue was quite helpless...

Even if I want to hide all the birds, but the bird hasn't eaten yet, what kind of bow is hiding... Isn't this crazy.

He is now attacking some high-level officials, but that is only limited to the civil service system, to be more precise, it is the group of half-baked civil officials who have already ascended to high positions because of pure Conglong.

Many people can't even write official documents well, so it's not nonsense to be in front of such important positions as minister or minister!

But for generals, Luo Zhixue didn't have this idea.

The senior generals of the military do not exist in the civil service system who have long been in high positions purely relying on thieves, because these people have been suppressed by Luo Zhixue one or two years ago. Those with mediocre abilities were transferred to serve in the garrison, or they simply took up idle positions in the garrison headquarters of the provinces to wait for death...

At least a handful of people continued to occupy high positions, but these people were all recognized by Luo Zhixue.

At present, in the Chu Army, most of the senior generals are generals who rose up in the war like General Xu Zhixian, the Chief of Staff, and General Li Chengtong, the commander of the First Army.

These people dare not say that each of them is a famous general or something, but they are all generals who have passed the test of war and made military achievements.

Because you can't get promoted without military merit...

So Luo Zhixue has no idea of ​​purging the senior generals in the military system, well, at least not in a short time.

In order to appease these generals and save them from overthinking, Luo Zhixue directly took out a map that referred to foreign missionaries, and added a world map drawn from his own memory: "I have heard that the hinterland of the Central Plains The surrounding Koryo Peninsula, Fusang, Nanyang Peninsula and the islands, the northeastern part of Liaodong, the Mongolian grasslands, and the western regions are all ancient Chinese lands. As the descendants of the Chinese and the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, it is our duty to recover the lost land.”

"Further away, there are large areas of barbarians, such as India, Central Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Africa. I have heard that there are Chinese survivors living in the above-mentioned places and suffering from foreign bullying. Dear friends, we still have to continue to work together , strive to regain China's lost land as soon as possible, and rescue the Chinese compatriots who are living in a foreign race!"

When Xu Zhixian and the others heard this, they were a little uncomfortable with what the Chinese compatriots said about the loss of China.

How should I put it, if Luo Zhixue wants to say that the grasslands in the north, the peninsula in the south, and the Western Regions are our lost lands in China, there is no problem with that.

You can even call the area of ​​Central Asia and Europe as lost land. After all, the Mongolian Yuan army killed the Danube hundreds of years ago. In the Mongolian Yuan army at that time, there may be us Han people. Where we Han soldiers have been, Naturally it belongs to us Chinese people.

But, there are North and South America, and Africa... and India and the like have our Chinese survivors, and then we have to run to rescue them, to be honest, it's a bit nonsense.

But there is no need to say these words. At that time, His Majesty was opening borders on a map of the world. He was talking happily, and there was no need to make His Majesty unhappy.

And after learning about His Majesty's ambitions, everyone is relieved. They don't have any interest in losing land, whether they are survivors or survivors. It's just a reason. At that time, you say that alien races are too ugly to live in this world. It pollutes the environment, so it is okay to kill them all...

In short, they are soldiers, they can only fight, they can only fight, and they don't know anything else.

Since His Majesty has said that he hopes to listen to music and drink tea on the Danube in the future...they are courtiers, so they must try their best to fulfill His Majesty's wish.

And in their hearts, they also feel that Europe, America, and Africa are too nonsense, but after killing the Ming Dynasty and the Eastern Captives, they will take down the Koryo Peninsula, then take down the grasslands, regain the Hetao, and then move the Northwest Front to the west It shouldn't be a big problem to go to the Hamiwei line.

If the fight is successful, it may be possible to further advance the Northwest Front and directly control the entire Western Region.

If this can be achieved, then the territory of their Great Chu Empire will create a new history, directly surpassing the territory of previous dynasties.

Opening up the frontier and opening up the land, this can be famous through the ages!
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Well, no matter how they fight in the future, at least they can rest assured now that they don't have to worry that after the unification of China, Luo Zhixue will learn from Zhu Yuanzhang to kill generals.

There are still so many territories to fight outside, Luo Zhixue will still be able to use these generals in the future.

And useful people live longer than useless people!
I just don’t know if the military’s inability to take down these places will cause His Majesty’s displeasure in the future when it expands abroad!

But Xu Zhixian felt that even if he couldn't beat him at that time, he couldn't blame these courtiers for not working hard and not being capable, but his Majesty's problem.

Take a look at the places Luo Zhixue drew on the map where the Chinese survivors live. The Arctic Ocean is drawn to the north, the Pacific Ocean is drawn to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean is drawn to the west... It almost didn't circle the whole world...

Even if the power of the Chu army exploded and the national power was strong, but to attack and rescue the Chinese survivors in these places, and then occupy these places, it would take at least ten years.

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Since last summer, Luo Zhixue has continued to replace the senior officials of the department, which made many senior officials worry. That is to say, after February this year, after Huang Chengxuan was transferred to the governor of Jiangnan, Luo Zhixue gradually stopped. Frequent transfers of senior civil servants were made.

This made many people breathe a sigh of relief, but even so they still dare not relax.

Even Guo Quanshu, the Minister of Counseling, would not dare!

After the imperial council meeting, Guo Quanshu, who had been scolded by Luo Zhixue for his incompetence in the administration of officials, returned to his Office of Minister of the Ministry of Official Affairs, and continued to think deeply about the issue of official administration and taxation.

It is necessary to rectify the administration of officials, but in what direction should we rectify the administration of officials?
On this point, His Majesty has already directly given the answer, that is, to rectify from the perspective of taxation.

Soon, Guo Quanshu began to find his subordinates and asked them to investigate the words and deeds of some predetermined targets. Naturally, these words and deeds were not ordinary daily words, but political speeches.

But anyone who has criticized the tax system is a key object of investigation, and then finds out a few high enough grades, and formally writes to impeach the tax system, trying to subvert the empire's existing unified agricultural tax and commercial tax, return to separate tax collection, and start corvee labor , Restoring Dingyin, advocating non-payment of business tax or 51 tax one or even [-] hundred tax one, and calling for preferential tax treatment for gentry, the remnants of hypocrisy!

What to do after finding out?
Directly transferred from the original position, and then arranged to work in other places in name, in fact, it will be idle first, so as not to affect the normal work and operation of each yamen, and reduce the negative impact as much as possible.

Immediately afterwards, it was time for the Great Inspector's Office to play, and let their censors find all kinds of evidence, and if they found it, they would arrest people directly, kill those who deserved to be killed, and those who deserved to be imprisoned!
To rectify the administration of officials, to reverse the atmosphere, to prevent the remnants of hypocrisy from infiltrating and corrupting the officialdom of the Great Chu Empire, undermining the empire's tax policy, and shaking the foundation of the empire's rule, Guo Quanshu knew that it was useless to directly send an official document to the local government offices.

A few typical cases must be set up first, so that the local official affairs offices, official affairs offices, and the censors of the inspectors' offices can follow suit and know how to do it. The general direction is good for the rectification of officials.

It is necessary to kill a group of people to initially reverse the distorted officialdom atmosphere caused by accepting a large number of hypocritical officials and gentry students who have defected.

But Guo Quanshu estimates that it will take several years to completely reverse it.

(End of this chapter)