The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 497
"Lord Zhan, what do you mean by His Majesty's words? Does it mean that in the future, all officials will have to have two years of experience when they are transferred?"

"This makes the work of our official department not easy to carry out."

In the lobby of the Ministry of Officials, the servants on the left and right and Zhan Hui were chatting about the new rules set by His Majesty in the morning.

The rules are set, but the rules and regulations are their errands, and it is impossible to ask His Majesty about everything, they can only do it according to His Majesty's wishes.

Zhan Hui was not in a hurry to answer. After taking a sip from the teacup, he said slowly: "This matter seems to be the intention of His Majesty, but in the final analysis it is the intention of His Majesty the Grandson."

"His Majesty the Grandson has wanted to reform the Ming Dynasty's official system for a long time, but he proposed a method before, but under the circumstances at that time, His Majesty did not agree to all of them, but was undergoing partial changes."

"You have also seen the current effect. The idea of ​​my highness is to focus on the way of assessment."

The greatest power of the Ministry of Officials is the promotion, transfer, and assessment of officials.

However, the Ministry of Officials is also the department that Zhu Yuanzhang values ​​the most. Zhan Hui can always serve as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, so he is naturally a minister Zhu Yuanzhang can trust.

And Zhan Hui was indeed loyal, and did not show any signs of forming a party for personal gain.

He has his own set of ideas about guessing the holy will.

The left and right servants under his command suddenly became enlightened when they heard this.

Pu Xiang, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, asked: "My lord, do you think the assessment we will set in the future should be more stringent?"

Zhan Hui shook his head and said, "It's not a strict question. I think it's His Royal Highness's dissatisfaction with the imperial examinations and rejection of recommended officials."

"Although scholars who take the imperial examination know the Four Books and Five Classics, everyone knows that they only know the Four Books and Five Classics, and they rely on officials to do their work."

"Speaking of it, although I was awarded the title of a scholar in the first place, I actually learned the ability to be an official from my father."

"Don't forget, His Highness the Grandson is completely different from other people. In the early days, His Highness dealt with those small countries in the Western Regions, including my Ming officials, and what he did was still such smooth things as buying and selling."

"Although His Majesty raised troops from the bottom, fighting a war and buying and selling are two different things, so His Royal Highness is very aware of the shortcomings of officials."

Zhan Hui's words shocked the left and right servants deeply.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Shangshu had such an in-depth understanding of His Majesty the Grandson long before he knew it, and he really deserved to be able to become the most popular person in His Majesty's eyes.

The left and right ministers, who understood the holy will, also went back to summon the subordinate officials to start seriously arranging the matter of His Majesty's reform assessment.

At present, the ones who have been hit the hardest are naturally the Xinke Scholars.

This also means that in the future, no matter whether it is an imperial examination or an official who is recommended to become an official, it will no longer be said that he can directly be an alternate official.

According to the current situation, all alternate officials must start a classification.

This also means that in addition to the fact that the ministers at the top of the six departments may be transferred according to His Majesty's will, the officials at the bottom are likely to handle affairs in a relatively professional manner.

That is to say, after entering the Ministry of Industry, there is a high probability that he will stay in the Ministry of Industry in the future.

Once you enter the household department, you will be in the household department for a long time.

There will be fewer transfers across departments.

On the grassland, the weather in October is already extremely cold.

In the absence of food and grass, they can only choose to attack the territory of Ming Dynasty.

However, in the Liaodong border area, a large number of soldiers have long been hoarded, and it is not at all that they can invade casually.

At present, there is enough food in Daming. For example, the important cities at the border basically have food reserves for at least six months. The siege is meaningless at all.

After Xialiang, the surrounding people basically all moved into the city, which made the food and grass available to the grassland cavalry even scarcer.

Northern Yuan court.

The 33-year-old Elebek finally inherited the position of Beiyuan Great Khan.

Eleboke was born in Yuan Dadu, and like all the expelled Mongolian subjects, he was always thinking about returning to the Central Plains and claiming hegemony.

It's just that what is in front of him is how to deal with the affairs on the Liaodong Plain.

The current grassland has long been covered by ice and snow, and there is a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere.

In the big tent, the fat of the roasted lamb sizzled on the fire, and after being sprinkled with spices, it gave off a tempting smell. The eunuchs in costumes cut off the most delicious piece with a knife, and then put it on a porcelain plate to offer to everyone. sweat.

Eleboke picked up the silver chopsticks, picked up the sliced ​​meat and put it in his mouth.

Unlike most of the Mongols today, the Mongolian nobles today are almost all the old ministers of the Mongol Yuan. After all, when the remnants of the Ming Dynasty collapsed, the Northern Yuan was not a Sinicized generation, but it was considered a generation that grew up in the Central Plains.

Some habits and etiquette are naturally influenced by the Central Plains, and Mongolia's culture is weak, so it is natural to follow suit in many ways.

Grabbing meat with your hands is actually something that the middle and lower class Mongolians would do.

As early as before the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, a large number of Mongolian merchants transported rice noodles and tea between the Song and Jin Dynasties. At that time, the Mongolians in Monan had the habit of eating rice and using chopsticks.

Of course, these habits, just like Chinese, only exist among the upper class nobles.

Naturally, all the people in this Mongolian tent are nobles.

Even though he has been expelled from the Central Plains, he is still served by the eunuch, chewing slowly, with a bit of elegance in his movements.

After all, he was born in Dadu of Yuan Dynasty. In terms of royal etiquette, it is Eleboke's habit.

"Khan, the Liaodong grasslands are in chaos now. The servant thinks why not take advantage of this opportunity and recruit them all, so that our Beiyuan can have tens of thousands more cavalry."

"At that time, the thief will open the border gate, and it will not be easy to open."

Haohai Dayu respectfully prostrated himself on the ground and said.

He was born in Wala, and Elebuk likes him the most. He can always bring many novel ways of playing to the Khan on this boring grassland.

Seeing this, the surrounding Mongolian ministers looked very ugly.

One of them even stood up and scolded, "Haohai Dayu, you lowly slave, how dare you instigate the Great Khan, it's winter, and even our soldiers are starving, you have to recruit more people to come in!" .”

"Are you going to distribute all our food and let our people starve to death?"

Hearing the minister's reprimand, Eleboke looked a little unhappy.

Especially seeing Haohai Dayu's aggrieved appearance made Elebek even more angry.

In any case, Haohai Dayu is a Taiwei appointed by himself, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog. This is completely disrespectful to himself, a new big guy.

He didn't speak at the moment, but just winked at Haohai Dayu.

Haohai Dayu immediately got up and yelled at the minister: "Under the command of the great Khan, there are [-] cavalry. Which tribe on this grassland dare not follow the majesty of the Great Khan."

"As long as they live on the grasslands of our Great Yuan, they are all citizens of my Great Yuan. Why should we divide them up?"

"If you don't have enough food, then go grab it. Go grab the food of those Han people. It doesn't matter how many people die. Only the strongest warriors can survive the test of Changshengtian and become loyal warriors of the Great Khan."

As soon as these words came out, the other Mongolian noble ministers didn't know how to answer.

Haohai Dayu was able to be appreciated by Elbek Khan, so he was naturally very slick in his mouth, and the kung fu of mouth is precisely what the Mongols are not good at.

The Mongols are good at long whips and sharp arrows, not verbal kung fu.

Elbek Khan was very satisfied, and immediately appointed a general to lead [-] cavalry to surrender all the other tribes on the grassland, and then led these people to attack the border of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Bei Yuan lost to Daming.

However, after returning to the grassland, Beiyuan still has a large number of cavalry. After all, as far as the grassland is concerned, as long as he is a man, he can ride and horsemanship.

It is said that it is an iron cavalry, but in fact it has not reached the standard of cavalry in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.

It is even said that many bows and arrows are self-made.

Think of the Mongolian iron cavalry back then, but everyone has armor, and almost no one can resist wherever they pass.

The current strength of Beiyuan is still very strong, at least in field battles, it still belongs to the leading position in the world, even Da Ming has no way to completely eliminate Beiyuan.

Even Oara, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and the other two overlords on the grassland are very afraid of Bei Yuan and dare not invade easily.

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even though Beiyuan is in a bad situation, it is stronger than these tribes that have lived on the grassland for a long time in terms of armament.

Whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Ying, there is nothing they can do with Bei Yuan.

Because the real Mongolian army is all cavalry, which is too mobile, which makes it difficult to fight.

Even the Mongolian big tent has to be moved several times a year, and there is no fixed place at all.

Here in Beiyuan, the infantry is composed of slaves, and they don't care how much they die.

The [-] iron cavalry is directly under the army of Elbek Khan, and many of them are veterans of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, and their combat power is extremely powerful.

The military situation of the prairie invasion of Daming was sent to the capital in eight hundred miles in a matter of seven days.

Zhu Yuanzhang also had a headache holding these Mongolian cavalry.

"Grandpa, why should you worry? The fortified city over there is still there. It cannot be attacked by the grassland cavalry at all. What they do is just a loss of population for nothing."

Seeing that the old man was in a bad mood, Zhu Ying spoke comfortingly.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a bit of recollection: "When we took over the world, Meng Yuan was already dilapidated. During the eight Northern Expeditions, we were not fighting against the Mongols, but against those who raised troops to seek refuge in Meng Yuan in name."

"The court of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty has long been decayed. We didn't expect to fight all the way. Even when we hit the city of Nanjing, we didn't see the so-called Mongolian iron cavalry."

"We still remember that at that time, Prime Minister Tuotuo organized a million-strong army to fight Zhang Shicheng and besieged Zhang Shicheng. Zhang Shicheng was about to surrender. However, Emperor Yuan Shun was afraid that Tuotuo would become bigger and removed his military power. In this way, all the millions of troops will be scattered."

"Although Zhang Shicheng also took refuge in Meng Yuan in the end, he was still in charge."

"When we took the city of Nanjing, the main force of the Yuan army was actually a "righteous army" led by a man named "Chen Yexian". It's really ridiculous."

"And those Mongols are domineering over the heads of the righteous soldiers, so there is no fighting power at all."

"In the Jiangnan area at that time, it can be said that the rule of the Mongol Yuan had basically disintegrated, and it was entirely the Han people who were in charge of the country in the name of the Mongol Yuan court."

"On the way to attack Yuan Dadu later, those so-called Mongolian cavalry didn't mean to be tough with us at all. On the contrary, they stumbling each other and kept fighting among themselves."

"These old brothers who have followed us all the way have won countless victories. They are no longer what they used to be like ordinary people. Even if they are facing the regular army of Mongolia, how can they have the slightest fear."

"That's how it is. With the continuous Northern Expedition, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has been established today."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's face became serious, and he seriously explained to Dasun: "But Dasun, you must remember that the decline of the Mongolian cavalry was caused by their extravagant life in the Central Plains."

"The Mongols in the late Mongol and Yuan Dynasties were born on our Central Plains. Although these Mongols also practiced horsemanship, riding, and bow and arrow from an early age, they are not comparable to the grassland environment."

"They are pampered and pampered, and they are no longer the Mongolian cavalry who took over the Central Plains."

"However, they are Mongolians. They have returned to the grassland now, and they still rule the vast grassland equivalent to half of Ming Dynasty."

"It doesn't take too long, maybe in a few years or decades, these Mongols will once again become the iron cavalry of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties."

"So, don't let your guard down on the grassland at any time. The strength of the grassland cavalry is still very difficult for Ming to contend with."

Maybe because he felt that his expression was a bit serious, Zhu Yuanzhang said again; "Of course, don't be afraid of them. Our Ming Dynasty is not the former Song Dynasty now. Artillery and firecrackers are where the Mongolian cavalry would never dare to confront them head-on."

"It may be difficult to pursue on the grassland, but our city cannot be easily captured by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cavalry."

Listening to the old man's words, Zhu Ying nodded deeply.

Although there are matchlock guns for firecrackers, they are not yet equipped on a large scale.

The strength of the Mongolian cavalry lies in the large number of cavalry, and the uniform cavalry lineup.

Even Bei Yuan, who was defeated, could easily have a cavalry lineup of more than [-], and all of them were good at equestrian riding and archery.

But the Ming Dynasty has such a vast territory and such a large number of people, and now it is only worth [-] cavalry.

Naturally, it is impossible to say that all [-] cavalry will be invested at once, and at most [-] cavalry will be considered a lot.

Comparing cavalry with the Mongols can only be said to be based on their shortcomings and their strengths.

In Zhu Ying's thinking, it is still necessary to restrict or even seek the grassland through commercial activities.




(End of this chapter)