Da Ming Tai Shi

Chen Yunfu is a man of his word. Since he promised Chen Jinghe that the formation of the new cabinet will be entirely in charge of the latter, he will never intervene again.

He didn't have time to care.

The 30 expeditionary forces have arrived in Jinzhou, followed by the families of these expeditionary forces and the people who are willing to leave Zhongzhou and move to Jinzhou.

Voluntarily sign up to voluntarily leave.

This is a full more than 300 million people.

Logistical preparation, route selection, and supply along the way are all great tests.

Fortunately, due to the business with Pu Xiangdong in these years, Asia and Europe have built dozens of complete transit seaports, but it still takes more than 300 days to go from the Iberian Peninsula to Jinzhou. Such a long journey, [-] million people Obviously, it is impossible to send them all in one go.

One tenth of a trip, half of the ships are carrying people, and half of the ships are carrying supplies.

During this period, after two months of preparation, Chen Jinghe also set up the grass frame of the new cabinet.

The new cabinet will have an unprecedented 15 people, eight from the South and seven from the North.

As for why it is said to be a grass frame, because the final number and power structure of this cabinet have not yet been fully finalized.

Since the new cabinet will be the highest authority in the country, who will decide the conditions for joining the cabinet or directly how to join the cabinet?
Does the cabinet decide?
Wouldn't that be a copy of "Shiqing Shilu", I recommend your son to join the cabinet, and you recommend my son to join the cabinet.

If you do this, it's not as good as the emperor's family.

Chen Jinghe was the first one who didn't want to talk about it.

In order to fiddle with this new cabinet, he even gave up his qualification to inherit the throne of Chen Yunfu. How could he let the new cabinet engage in the nomination system.

What are the templates for China's official selection system?
The Shiqing Shilu system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, the father-son, son-son-grandson, the official positions of the Qing and the doctor are passed down from generation to generation. This is the characteristic of that generation. It is impossible to give common people a channel to become an official.

The Shiqing Shilu system is eliminated.

The military merit system of the Qin Dynasty was skipped directly.

Ju Xiaolian in the Han Dynasty and the nine-rank Zhongzheng system in the Wei and Jin Dynasties cannot be considered, because the dominant power in selecting officials lies with the local aristocratic families, that is, the gentry and landlord class mentioned above. This class is the most stable cornerstone of the country under the imperial power system. , is also the product of the most decadent system, the current Ming Dynasty cannot drive back even if it is reversed, because the wind of capitalism has been blowing for more than 20 years, and the traditional landlord class has long been infected into capitalists.

This system is also not suitable for the current Zhongzhou, so it will not be considered.

Imperial examination system?
The current national public examination is the imperial examination in a different shell, no problem, and it is very easy to use, but the imperial examination system seems to be inappropriate for cabinet selection.

"Isn't it a joke to pass the exam and enter the cabinet?"

At the temporary cabinet meeting of 15 people, a group of people talked a lot.

"How do the exam questions come out and who will be the examiners? There is no way to solve these problems, so this method will not work. This method must not be used to recruit new members of the cabinet."

After much deliberation, no system is suitable.

Chen Jinghe spread his hands together: "Since it doesn't work, the only thing left is the referral system."

The referendum system, that is, public elections, can be translated directly as democratic elections.

But this system is not unique to later generations, on the contrary, it is a system that existed in a particularly long time ago.

It started from Yao and Shun, and ended in the Battle of Gan Zhiye.

The historical documents of the Battle of Ganzhiye come from "Lushi Chunqiu".

The succinct explanation is that before the battle of Ganzhiye, the way the Xia nations on the land of Shenzhou elected their kings was public election.

The chiefs of all the tribes jointly elected a talented king, and the representatives included Yao, Shun and Yu.

But later, Yu passed the throne to his son Qi, which was the origin of Yu's passing on Qi's family to the world. This made a tribe named Youhu very unconvinced, and Qi led an army to crusade against Youhu.

The two armies fought in Ganzhiye for many years, and finally the Youhu clan was defeated. Since then, the family system replaced the referral system and lasted from the Xia Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for 3982 years.

The founding of the Republic of China, the birth of democracy, and the referral system once again became the foundation of national politics. This can be regarded as a reincarnation of history.

The core leader of the country is no longer appointed by the previous main leader, but is elected by the public. This is the referendum system.

Now that the new cabinet has denied the family system, it has become a historical necessity to re-select the system of referral.

"In the past, the participants in the referendum system were the chiefs of the tribes, and the chiefs of the tribes were elected by the tribesmen, which formed a very clear bottom-up referral system.

The tribes elect the chiefs, and the chiefs elect the king of the Xias.

Our cabinet exercises the power of the king. You, me and the fifteen of us together are equivalent to the king. Who will elect us?

Tribal chiefs, that is, the governors of the provinces.

So who will elect them.

The people, that is, the people! "

Chen Jinghe said with a wave of his hand, "Since you don't want to be in the world, then you can simply recommend them publicly. There are two choices in the back and forth. You can't sit on the fence when it comes to establishing a national system."

A group of people looked at each other, and they all saw the bitterness in each other's eyes.

"Could it be possible to let the people directly choose the chief envoy?"

"That's not true. If that's the case, the country should be in chaos."

Chen Jinghe shook his head and said: "In the past, tribesmen could directly choose chiefs, that's because a tribe has only a few hundred people, and there are more than a few thousand people.

And at that time, our ancestors were all concentrated in the area of ​​the Yellow River, with a total of only one hundred and eighty tribes, and it was easy to choose a king.

Now our country not only has a vast territory, but also has a population of hundreds of millions. With a complete administrative vertical structure of central-provincial-government-county-village, it is relatively cumbersome.

The referral system works from the bottom up, and we should also work from the bottom up.

The people can elect village-level chief officials and related officials to manage them. For example, there are [-] people in seven or eight villages in a township, and the people elect a township official and several village heads.

Since these officials are elected by the people, it means they can represent the people.

Then, two of these officials self-selected to become members of the county-level nomination system meeting, and formed the county-level nomination meeting with county nomination members elected from other villages.

In this way, the main officials of a county are selected by the county-level referral meeting.

There are [-] to [-] major officials, including county magistrates, county assistants, and departmental books.

Among these officials, three to five people are selected by themselves to become members of the prefectural-level referral system meeting, and the specific number is determined according to the population of a county.

A county with a large population can send out five people, and a county with a small population can send out four or three people.

Many counties form a prefectural-level referral meeting to elect magistrates.

So cycle up. "

Whether it is slavery or feudalism, they are all national systems under the family system, but their manifestations are different.

And the end of the family world now means that neither slavery nor feudalism can continue to exist.

Of course, no system is absolutely advanced and correct, good and bad are actually equally divided.

The public referral system was the first political system born in the land of China, and then it went to the world. Even without Chen Yunfu, the traveler, it would still go to the public referral system hundreds of years later.

As for when to reincarnate again, it may be thousands of years or longer. The system is changed according to the progress of the times, and it cannot be decided by one person.

When the general trend of the era is coming, the people of that era will make an inevitable choice.

But now, the general trend of the times has reached this moment, like a monstrous huge wave, smashing the family system that lasted thousands of years.

The interim cabinet argued for Chen Jinghe's proposal for more than ten days without reaching a final conclusion, and finally had to agree because of one sentence.

"If you don't agree, then you can continue to belong to the world. The cabinet members are appointed by the monarch. The country is still my father's country. We rebels are waiting to be guillotined."

Hey, aren't you a rogue?

But think about it, this is indeed the truth.

It is true that Chen Yunfu is sure to abdicate, but Chen Yunfu has not left Zhongzhou yet, and more importantly, Chen Yunfu has not handed over military power to the new cabinet yet!
Millions of elite Central Army, Frontier Army, and Navy are now under the absolute control of Chen Yunfu. If your new cabinet fails to come up with a charter for a long time, then continue to follow the old path.

Chen Yunfu has the final say on who gets into the cabinet, and the whole country is Chen Yunfu's loyal ministers and dutiful sons.

A hundred years from now, Chen Yunfu will still be succeeded by his son.

Don't argue with anyone, they are all retainers.

But now, as long as you are an official and can be recognized by the common people, you will at least have the opportunity to be the prime minister of the new cabinet once, and enjoy the feeling of a king, even if it is a weakened version of the king.

Thinking about it this way, it was a good decision.

"Then, let's do it!"

The interim cabinet approved the draft of "Establishment of Provincial-Prefecture-County-Village Referral Meetings" and attached it to the cabinet's New Year's report to the people of the country, which will be circulated to the whole country together with Chen Yunfu's edict of guilt and abdication .

When the new year is over, tens of thousands of villages scattered across the country will be the first to conduct public elections.

Then from bottom to top, until the birth of the national public recommendation conference.

And the new cabinet will also be born from then on.

But those have nothing to do with Chen Yunfu.

When the National Public Promotion Conference was officially established in Nanjing and the first election meeting was held, the last batch of immigrants had already set sail from Guangzhou Port, and they would transfer to India, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Iberian Peninsula and finally arrive in Jinzhou.

Chen Yunfu also boarded a ship at the mouth of the Yangtze River with his wives and children who were willing to go with him.

There is no mobilization of teachers and people, and no one even knows.

But before leaving, Chen Yunfu took Shao Ning to the Xiaoling Mausoleum, paid homage to Emperor Taizong Wen, and buried the official uniform and official hat that he had when he was a grand teacher into the side of Emperor Taizong's mausoleum. I carved a monument for myself.

"Duke Cheng of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Chen Yunfu!"

"Let's go."

Turning his head to take a look at Xiaoling at last, Chen Yunfu smiled, took Shao Ning's hand and left to board the boat.

the latter asked.

"Are we really leaving?"

"Well, left."

"It's been so hard for you to become king, so you're really willing to give up."

Chen Yunfu laughed, hugged Shao Ning's waist and said, "I've never been nostalgic, so why not give up? This place has never been my home."

Shao Ning was surprised, and then heard Chen Yunfu whispering in his ear.

"When I came to this world, I didn't take it seriously until I met you, because you are my home."

"What kind of dominance, I never thought that I would make so many great achievements. The only thing I want is to make life easier for you and the children. I have seen too many innocent people die tragically in Taizu's moody among.

I am afraid that one day I will accompany you like a tiger, and cause you to die with me. Therefore, I must rebel against Emperor Taizu, even though I respect him very much, even if I am sorry for my second brother. "

Chen Yunfu looked at the increasingly blurred coast, his gaze stayed in the direction of Xiaoling, and he suddenly smiled.

"But at least, the name of Daming has been preserved. This country will always be called Daming. I like this name. When descendants enter Xiaoling when they are archaeological hundreds of years later, they will always remember me."

"They will call me, Grand Master of Ming Dynasty."

(End of the book)