I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

If we talk about the combat effectiveness of Ning Haijun, it is the best in the world in Ming Dynasty, but Tianxiong Army can be ranked in the top three, on par with Guan Ning Army.

Guan Ning's army is not without combat effectiveness. The key is whether they are willing to fight. If Cheng Shijie throws Lu Xiangsheng and Tianxiong's army aside, it is estimated that Jiang Chao's small court will definitely wake up with laughter.

Even if you dream, you will wake up laughing. Lu Xiangsheng’s Tianxiong Army and Zu Dabi’s Liaoxi Army are also included in the Ning Haijun system. This is a necessary process for military reform. Even if it is through annexation, the Tianxiong Army must be absorbed. .

It happened that Cheng Shijie had not appointed the Governor of Anbei, so the Governor of Anbei was given to Lu Xiangsheng. If he did not agree, then let Lu Xiangsheng enter the general staff of Ning Haijun, and we could negotiate anyway.

The military reform is like this for the time being. The four governors of Si'an are responsible for the four sides. Each of the governors has three to four brigades, which is enough to easily deal with complex situations. Of course, the governors of Andong and Anbei have three brigades. Brigade, Anxi and Annan are the main directions for the future use of troops.

The framework for the reform of the military system has basically been set. Next, it is time to talk about the reform of the civil service system.

The reform of the civil service system is much more complicated than the reform of the military system.There is no way. This reform is directly related to the interests of tens of millions of scholars. Any changes will affect the fate of countless students. The slightest carelessness may lead to catastrophic consequences.

How did the Yuan Dynasty end?There are many reasons, the most important of which is that the status of scholars has been lowered and the status of scholars has been reduced to the ninth rank, which is almost the same as that of beggars and prostitutes.

In a country, the status of scholars is not too high, but it cannot be too low. If it emphasizes literature and suppresses military force, it will be like the Song and Ming Dynasties. If it emphasizes military force and neglects literature, it will be like the Han Empire.

The two Han Dynasties had a system of imperial examination and examination, and the biggest way out for the people of the world was to find a prince based on the three-foot green peak. Therefore, only the Han Dynasty perished by force.Cheng Shijie didn't have so many worries. He had the powerful Ning Haijun as his comrade. He could let go and carry out drastic reforms, which Emperor Chongzhen would never be able to do.

The advantage he has over Chongzhen is that he stands on the shoulders of historical giants and clearly sees the weaknesses of the Ming Dynasty's current system, while Emperor Chongzhen can only see the Forbidden City and knows there is a problem. , but don’t know where the problem lies.

Cheng Shijie also had selfish motives. He tied the highest power of the cabinet to the prime minister.The prime minister is elected by the most outstanding talents in the military and political circles. The emperor has no right to appoint, but the emperor has a veto power...

As for the future, Cheng Shijie will ask the emperor not to interfere in the election. No matter who is elected, the emperor must recognize it as long as the procedure is legal.Similarly, the emperor has no power to remove the prime minister. If the prime minister makes a major mistake, he can submit his resignation to the emperor. The emperor's arbitrary removal of the prime minister is against the constitution and will not be approved by the cabinet.

This article was unanimously agreed by many civil servants. The removal of the second assistant and the chief assistant freed the prime minister from a lot of constraints and could concentrate on doing what he wanted to do. However, most of the Ming Dynasty's first assistant spent most of his energy on guarding himself and others. It's not good to try to punish one's own people.

The fact that the emperor cannot appoint or remove the prime minister is even more wonderful. How many fucking chief ministers has Chongzhen changed over the years?The only bad thing is that this greatly limits the emperor's power and almost makes the emperor empty.

But for the Ming Dynasty, this was not a problem at all. It was normal for the emperor to be ignored. Now it is just a routine and legalization of this normal!

From the perspective of later generations, the ruling relations between relatives and eunuchs during the Eastern Han Dynasty were like that because Queen He gave birth to the prince Liu Bian, her father He Zhen was named Wuyang Marquis, while the eldest brother He Jin was the general, and the second brother He Miao was the charioteer. General, He Jin can use the position of general to record ministerial affairs and rule the world.

The prime minister does not care about the military. The highest military officer is the General Staff. The Ministry of War is renamed the Military Department. The Military Department is only responsible for weapons research and development, equipment, logistics, and training. The General Staff and the Military Department will be responsible for whether a civilian or a military attache serves as the Prime Minister in the future. No right to interfere.

The original authority of the Ministry of Personnel remained unchanged, but the Ministry of Industry was subdivided into the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Transportation, which were respectively responsible for agricultural production, industrial development, water conservancy projects, and construction of roads and bridges. The Military Staff Bureau was renamed. It is the Ministry of Military Industry and is placed under the Ministry of Military Affairs. It is responsible for the development and production of weapons and equipment and is directly responsible to the military. The cabinet has no right to intervene in military industry research and production, otherwise it is equivalent to interfering in the military.

The Ministry of Household Affairs is divided into the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Statistics, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of Finance, which are respectively responsible for the management of national land and resources, statistical population data and farmland data, tax collection, and fiscal revenue and expenditure management. The above four ministries are at the same level, and each is responsible for its own When it comes to departmental matters, which department has a problem, the cabinet directly goes to the boss of the department to settle the accounts. They also imagine that they would blame the Secretary of the Department of Revenue for everything like the previous one, and then let the Secretary of the Department of Revenue and Xi Ni go. That is impossible.

At the same time, the Ministry of Education will be established to be responsible for promoting national compulsory education and higher education. The Ministry of Education will also be at the same level as the above eight departments.

Then there are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice,

The Ming Court was established, which is also a political and legal system. The prime minister has no power over the military and judicial affairs, and must not interfere with the judiciary. The judicial independence of the Ming Dynasty must be maintained. The four headquarters of the military, general staff, cabinet and court work hand in hand. These departments plus the military The Ministry basically formed the framework of the empire.

Below the ministerial level, there are provincial-level units that adopt a joint committee system. The management committee is at the provincial level, the executive committee is at the prefectural level, and the working committee is at the (prefecture and county level).

The three-level committees are directly responsible to the cabinet, and vertically managed by state and county courts, prefecture-level intermediate courts, provincial high courts, and general courts.

This round of reforms has given each county a relatively independent administrative capacity. Even if the end of the world comes, each locality can rely on the original administrative system to respond quickly, thereby avoiding the previous situation where the emperor was destroyed. The whole empire is ruined.

Below the county level are the administrative agencies of towns and hundreds of households.

The Empire's New Deal stipulates that hundreds of households and their chiefs must be elected through elections, and the town mayor must be appointed by the county magistrate. The results of the hundreds of households' election must be recognized by the county magistrate, and the town mayor appointed by the county magistrate must be recognized by the working committee, otherwise it is illegal. .

This move directly broke the pattern of imperial power not going to the countryside.In the past, local clans basically had the final say at the township level. The most that the imperial power could control was at the county level. Those below the county level were completely independent kingdoms. It would not work if you still want to play this way now.

At the same time, the new policy also stipulates that one hundred households have the right to run for the town mayor, and the town mayor has the right to run for the working committee member, as long as his political performance is outstanding enough.After becoming a working committee member, the sky is high and the sea is vast.

This article is to appease the local clan forces, and they must be given a channel for advancement.The new policy also stipulates that working committee members whose ranks range from the eighth to the fifth rank (from the county magistrate to the prefecture level) are not allowed to hold office in their hometowns, and a recusal system is adopted. This also includes the executive committee (ranging from the fifth rank to the third rank) and the management committee ( From the third grade to the third grade), the cabinet ranges from the second to the first grade.

At the same time, Ning Haijun's military rank is not linked to local officials. No matter how high-level officials are, they have no right to interfere with officers and soldiers. The military and local governments are two completely different systems. If Ning Haijun's officers break the law, the Ning Haijun Military Law Department is responsible for handling it. Any Local officials and courts have no authority to interrogate military personnel.

However, if a soldier commits a crime in a local area, the local government has the power to arrest and temporarily detain a soldier, but they are not allowed to put him on trial. They are not allowed to treat soldiers harshly during detention, and they are not allowed to use lynching to extract confessions...

The New Deal stipulates that the income of three generations of immediate relatives of officials must be disclosed, and all officials are obliged to provide a reasonable explanation for the source of huge amounts of property, otherwise they will be deemed to have accepted bribes.

All officials are obliged to pay personal income tax, and the higher their income, the more they pay. The crime of tax evasion and underreporting will be increased.At the same time, it was also stipulated that any official above the prefecture level who accepted bribes exceeding five hundred silver dollars would be dismissed from office.Three generations of immediate family members who are also officials shall be dealt with together.

Crimes of bribery and dereliction of duty have been consistently found. Three generations of immediate family members are not allowed to join the military, politics, or take imperial examinations. All officials are subject to a lifelong appointment system. The roads, bridges, water conservancy projects, and construction projects built during their tenure will have problems within 40 years. , even if he has resigned, he will be captured and thrown overseas to open up wasteland!
The education level of the Ming Dynasty is relatively high in the world: there is Taiyuan College in the capital, which is equivalent to the highest university in the country, there are private schools run by clans in the local areas, there are health schools in the imperial guards, and the government in more developed areas will also set up official schools, although the illiterate people The rate is still very high, but it is an indisputable fact that more people in Ming Dynasty can read and write than the total population of a European country.

In addition, there are also a series of preferential treatments. Scholars do not have to kneel when they meet local officials, they do not have to pay taxes after being elected, and they are given money to care for their silver hair every year. The high treatment paid to scholars in the Ming Dynasty is really enviable.

But treating scholars so favorably did not produce many talents, but instead produced a lot of cheaters. It can only be said that there is something wrong with education itself.Of course, this does not mean that the imperial examination is not good. The Sui and Tang Dynasties also implemented the imperial examination system, recruiting talents in an eclectic way and creating a dreamy prosperous dynasty. The Song and Ming Dynasties also had the imperial examination, so why not make it worse?

The reason is that the things learned are different and the things tested are also different.The education in Sui Tang was an elite education. During the imperial examinations, astronomy, geography, mathematics, water conservancy, military affairs... everything was covered. They had been immersed in these fields for many years, and finally stood out, and all of them were in the court. The elite among the elite, so Datang's scientific and technological talents and scientific research achievements each accounted for 60.00% of the world at that time. This ratio was really exaggerated.

From the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, hundreds of schools of thought were deposed and Confucianism was the sole focus. However, the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties did not take Confucianism seriously. The schools of thought were still prosperous, but they were just covered in Confucianism.

The real dethronement of Confucianism by hundreds of schools of thought began in the Song Dynasty. The most direct example is the promotion of literature and the dethronement of military affairs.Starting from the Song Dynasty, scientific research and innovation capabilities became increasingly scarce. By the Ming Dynasty, they were not even able to write an almanac themselves and had to rely on the power of missionaries.

Cheng Shijie had a deep understanding of this. The imperial examination in the first year of reform included mathematics, reading, law, strategy, agriculture, geography, astronomy, chemistry, inquiry, and engineering. In fact, it does not mean that the examination content If there are so many, no one will pass the exam. In fact, this is not the case. There will still be many people in Ming Dynasty who can pass the exam, such as Chen Zilong, Mao Yuanyi, Sun Yuanhua, etc. They are all proficient in many complex subjects.

Cheng Shijie is asking Mohists, doctors, farmers, legalists, miscellaneous writers, and novelists to participate in the study of examination questions. You don't have to study, but you must take the exam.

In addition to the imperial examination, the most important thing is general compulsory education. For now, every town must have at least one primary school, and every county must have at least one middle school. Of course, this depends on the person and the place. Cheng Shijie has no mandatory requirements. How many middle schools are there in each county? After all, some counties don't have many people. A few schools is a waste of resources.

In Cheng Shijie's temporary plan, each town has ten hundred households, that is, one thousand households, and one middle school is definitely enough. There is no need to build a primary school for each hundred households, because now although there are hundreds of households in the town, the people It is relatively concentrated and does not have as many villages as in later generations.

Cheng Shijie established the town-level castle system in order to improve the self-defense ability of the people. Now if a village is established in Liaodong, without the enemy attacking, wild beasts may kill the village overnight.

You must know that in Liaodong right now, more than 600 incidents of wild beasts hurting people have occurred in just three months. All people live in town forts to protect their personal safety.

Fortunately, Cheng Shijie allowed the people to have a large number of weapons. Otherwise, the losses would have been great. But having weapons was not a good thing. After all, there would also be armed fights between clans, and it was not safe to be an official.

Just after Cheng Shijie completed the military reform, official system reform, guard office, and vassal reform, an official wrote: "Your Majesty, the people have a large number of weapons, and the trend of bravery and ruthlessness is increasing day by day. I think this trend must not be avoided Sir, civilian weapons should be confiscated to prevent changes."

Cheng Shijie has his own considerations about whether people should own weapons.

Zhou Ning said: "The people of the Ming Dynasty have been content in the countryside for too long. They have lost their wild nature and only have the instinct to dig into the fields. This is very bad! The two Jin Dynasties were content with the status quo. The scholar-bureaucrats indulged in feasting and traveling all day long. The result was the Wuhu Rebellion, which almost wiped out the Chinese people. In the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, they worshiped civility and deposed the military, and called the soldiers a bandit army. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the Khitans were still worried about the arrogant generals who had struggled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. They would be attacked and destroyed. After a few decades, the country of the Northern Song Dynasty spent 80% of the world's taxes to support [-] forbidden troops, and stood ready to prevent the Khitan from crossing the Yellow River! These are bloody lessons. Take history as a lesson, let the people have weapons, encourage them to practice martial arts, and focus on The martial arts of the Han and Tang dynasties are now present, and this is the ambition and courage that a monarch of a great country should have!"

Sun Zhiman spoke up and said: "Your Majesty, most of the people are ignorant, listen to one thing and believe the other, love petty profits, and are easily incited. If they are allowed to have weapons and some ambitious people incite them, countless people will immediately respond. Just like the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos! Some people believe that this trend cannot last long, and civilian weapons must be collected to nip it in the bud!"

The best way for the military to deal with obsolete weapons and equipment is to sell the weapons to civilians. Weapons are also consumables, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Zhang Yu said displeasedly: "Master Sun, the people rebelled when they had weapons? Every household in Liaodong has bows, crossbows and muskets, so why don't they rebel? Master Sun, you are a bit alarmist!"

"It's better to be alarmed than to be in chaos!"

A fierce quarrel broke out among the civil servants and military generals. Both sides were trying to reason with the facts, and the argument was red-faced and incompetent.Cheng Shijie remained silent and watched their quarrel with great interest.

Finally, the lawsuit came to Cheng Shijie, who said calmly: "Do you want to raise the people like sheep or like wolves?"

Sun Zhiwan was slightly startled: "What the king means is..."

Cheng Shijie said calmly: "In the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, we couldn't help but use weapons. Our Chinese people are fierce and fierce, fighting in all directions and looking at us from all directions. How can it be like today when slaves are marching south and the Red Emperor is thousands of miles away, with his bones exposed in the wild?" (End of this chapter)