The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 846
"Listen to you and you will be clear, but you will be blind if you believe in one side. You must see the essence through the appearance." Easier said than done.

How can one see through appearances without first-hand intelligence gathering?There is no intelligence to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence to ensure that people will not be deceived. How can one listen and understand?

All in all, in short, people are the most elusive. For the long-term stability of the powerful Ming Empire, power must be locked in the cage of the system. No official is allowed to be in the fish and meat village, and no powerful person is allowed to be lawless.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are the swords of the Son of Heaven hanging over the heads of civil officials and generals. With the long ringing of alarm bells, they can prevent some civil and military desires from being born into greed.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are only responsible to the emperor. They are the eyes and ears of the emperor. Their opponents are the bureaucrats and dignitaries of the enemy country and their own country. They do not manage civil lawsuits.

Huang Sheng also strived to turn Jinyiwei's office locations, Beizhen Fusi and Nanzhen Fusi, into places for ordinary people to confide their grievances and unfair treatment, and open up a green channel for the people to sue officials.

Although the new Ming Empire can’t talk about high salaries and honesty, the salaries it gives are more than five times the salaries of officials of the same rank in the original Ming Dynasty. Only by governing the officials well is the foundation of a well-governed country, and the country will be able to achieve great governance.

Huang Sheng has begun to select talents in an eclectic manner, and many of the former civil servants and military generals of the Ming Dynasty who have been persuaded to join have also been given corresponding positions.

The wealth and wealth of the new Ming Empire did not care about these salaries, as long as the land in these people's hands was redeemed and returned to the state.

To manage such a huge empire, the state apparatus must of course be terminated, and the original "Nanming" institution will of course be upgraded.

Of course, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Households of the Ming Empire is a memorable event. The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is Xu Guangqi.

The censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is Sun Chuanting, and the censor of the right capital is Li Zhongzheng.Sun Yuanhua became the left servant of the Ministry of Industry.

In addition to retaining the original six ministries of the Ming Dynasty, the new dynasty also added the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, the Ministry of Railways and National Highways, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Propaganda, the Ministry of State-owned Assets, and the Ministry of Securities Regulatory Affairs.

Most of the officials in these eight ministries came from the "Nanming" Qi family, and Hu Jianya, Wu Youxing, Fang Yizhi, Bian Zhiming, Li Ximing, Gu Shanhai, etc. have all been reused.

There is another move of the new dynasty that is surprising. There are a large number of women who have become officials of the fourth rank and above, and they actually have imperial concubines and official positions.This is not surprising, Gu Ling'er and Zhao Rui were originally directors and executives of the "Huaxia Big Bank", but now they belong to the Ministry of State-owned Assets, and they are ministers who do their part.

The healthy development of the capital market is inseparable from management and supervision. Bai Mudan and Lan Meiniang have managed the stock exchange for many years, and it is only natural that they become ministers and ministers of the Ministry of Securities Regulatory.

The propaganda work has always been carefully planned by Lan Caier, Rumeng, Xu Fojia, Liu Rushi, etc., and the results are obvious to all. Now that the Propaganda Department is set up, they deserve to be the first high-ranking officials.

So many women became high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the civil and military people of the original "Southern Ming" were happy to see their success, and everyone talked about it, which led to too many girls studying more seriously.

On the contrary, both civil and military officials of the original Ming Dynasty felt that the chicken Sichen's heart was not ancient, and that misfortune and fortune were unpredictable.

However, the female family members in their family were very excited when they learned that the new court really used women as officials. The concubines and daughters pestered the master one after another, asking to send them to study in the new school. .

The ethics of male superiority and female inferiority were in jeopardy. Alexander, a scholar-bureaucrat in the former Ming Dynasty, was inconvenient to openly oppose women as officials, because they found that several imperial concubines were also important officials in the court, and all the female relatives in their families flocked to him.

With the new dynasty and the new atmosphere, there are not many people who confer the title of duke and marquis, and it is not uncommon to see the title of king.

Huang Sheng doesn’t use the trick of being a king if he doesn’t have a different surname, because the title of the new Daming is nothing more than honor and rank salary, and even the honor is stingy and refuses to give to his subordinates who have worked hard. This emperor is definitely not a good emperor, and he is reluctant to pay more salary. The boss is certainly not a good boss.

In order to be a good emperor and the big boss of the Ming Empire, Huang Sheng was willing to pay high salaries to the management elites under him, and was willing to give them lofty honors.

Although the enthronement ceremony has not yet been held, the new Ming Dynasty that has been merged into one has already begun to operate.

In order to distinguish later, historians called the Ming Dynasty, which had gone through 17 emperors for a total of 270 years from the first year of Hongwu to the [-]th year of Chongzhen, as "Zhu Ming", and called the Ming Dynasty from the first year of Zhongxing "Huang Ming". bright".

A large number of civilian and military generals were re-appointed and dismissed, and the civil and military personnel released outside also rushed to the seat of the official office as quickly as possible. Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian had been completely infiltrated when Huang Sheng was the governor of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. Now the appointment of civil and military personnel with imperial power has encountered conflicts. The possibility of it is very small.

Yunnan and Guizhou are the key propaganda areas on the Long March of the "God of War" soldiers. Too many Yunnan and Guizhou children defected to "Nanming". Now that the two countries have merged to form the new Ming Empire, Huang Sheng's becoming emperor will definitely win the support and support of the people of Yunnan and Guizhou.

Huang Sheng sent officials to the southern provinces of the Ming Dynasty to settle down and bring back some soldiers who had served for more than five years to their hometowns.

There are quite a few soldiers of the "God of War" who were originally from the southwest. With them going to townships and villages to serve as village chiefs and pavilion chiefs, it will be much easier for the local officials of the new Ming Dynasty to establish a Baojia joint defense system to carry out land reform.

Within two or three years, the Baojia system will be effective. At this time, the local officials have established a stable foothold, and then they will gradually get twice the result with half the effort if they gradually plot the chieftains in various places.

The ultimate goal is to break the chieftain structure like a small kingdom. Is there any land in the world, and all Daming lands must adopt a legal principle.

Reforming the soil and returning to the stream treats the symptoms but not the root cause, but the local officials are not the chieftains but the magistrates and magistrates appointed by the imperial court. The local clan forces still rule the society.

The Ming Society led by Huang Sheng fundamentally broke the hidden danger that the southwestern chieftains obeyed the imperial court's management on the surface, but secretly formed their own system. The orders of the central government of the Ming Dynasty could be conveyed to Baojia.

Historically, the She'an Rebellion broke out in the Ming Dynasty, from the first year of Tianqi to the tenth year of Chongzhen, and lasted for 17 years. It affected Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi provinces, and killed and injured more than one million soldiers and civilians.

During this period, the large-scale battle of more than tens of thousands of people lasted for nine years, consumed too much food and salaries, destroyed many state capitals, and caused the Ming Dynasty's national power to take a turn for the worse. clear.

Why can the chieftain rebel?Because they have a population, a territory, their own private armed forces, and their own national characteristics.

(End of this chapter)