Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

In the name of Xiyuan Enlightenment, the authority of the eunuchs in the inner court was controlled, and the House of Internal Affairs was specially set up to take charge of court affairs. As Emperor Chongzhen expected, this matter aroused great repercussions between the government and the opposition.

For the civil servant groups in the past dynasties, as long as the eunuch group holds power and interferes in the government, as long as it is not completely blocked for a day, the society will not be truly stable.

Civil officials don't like power eunuchs to mess with politics.

The emperor should listen to them.

The emperor should restrain himself.

The ass decides the head.

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty have always been pursuing the idea of ​​'ruling the world with the scholar-bureaucrats'. Perhaps this is the reality, but at the political level, the emperor's son has never expressed his position like this.

The set of things pursued by the civil servants is precisely what the imperial power will never allow. As the emperor of one dynasty, who has the power of life and death in his body, who wants the imperial power to be taken away by the ministers?

No matter how stupid and incompetent a king is, he doesn't want to see that he wants to do anything, and the initiative is not in his hands, but he has to be interfered and criticized by his ministers in everything. If that is the case, who is the king?Who is the minister?

This is the bottom line of power.

Now Emperor Chongzhen has promulgated the central decree, clearly abolishing the external powers of eunuchs and eunuchs in the inner court, and replacing them with a special internal affairs office. This makes most foreign ministers happy, because they all see hope. thing, it won't happen again.

Even in the hearts of many courtiers, they are thinking that the loss of power by the eunuchs and eunuchs in the inner court means that it is unrealistic for the emperor to use trusted eunuchs to rob interests in the future.

But is this really the case?

Some people are happy about it, others are worried about it.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has its own system and has nothing to do with the officials of the outer court. This means that the outer court has a government office and has no right to interfere with the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The power of the inner court, headed by personnel power, financial power, and military power, is still firmly in the hands of the Son of Heaven. Is it another set of administrative staff?

Controversy ensued.

Emperor Chongzhen, who lived deep in Xiyuan, didn't care about the various turmoil caused by the outer court. After solving the inner court affairs, he turned his attention to the guard system of the imperial city and Miyagi.

Xiyuan, Diaoyutai.

"The real meaning of the establishment of the army is to fight." Emperor Chongzhen stood with his hands behind his back, looking around at the House of Internal Affairs and the officials of the Governor's Mansion of the Capital of Beijing and Wei, with cold eyes.

"As long as this truth is violated, the army will gradually become degenerate and corrupt, and then it will become unusable. In the series of wars that have appeared in the past, the country has experienced disastrous defeats, lost a large number of soldiers, and lost a large area of ​​territory. has been verified.

Jianlu rebelled.

Rogue rebellion.

Regarding the suppression of the above-mentioned rebellion, before the military aircraft department was specially established, the country spent a lot of money and dispatched a lot of elites, but it experienced disastrous defeats time and time again, losing a large area of ​​territory and weakening the national strength of Ming Dynasty.

Have you thought about it, what is the root cause?
It is not terrible to suffer disastrous defeats. What is terrible is knowing that there are problems, but turning a blind eye to them and not listening to them, allowing these problems and bad governance to continue to exist. "

Qian Sule, Li Changxiang, Zhang Kentang, Shen Tingyang, Huang Daozhou, He Tengjiao, and Liu Wenbing, Wei Shitai and other ministers of the capital governor's office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs heard what the emperor said, "Look at me, I will look at you." , I don't know what to say and how to answer.

From the perspective of the division of powers alone, the matter of suppressing and rebellion mentioned by the emperor is under the responsibility of the foreign court officials, and they have no right to interfere.

"The roots lie in military inheritance."

Emperor Chongzhen continued: "At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the system of guards was clearly defined, in order to better defend the territory, reduce unnecessary expenses, and ensure the inheritance of the army. The guards can be successful and lose.

With the inheritance of Ming Dynasty, some problems and maladministration have not been properly resolved in the past dynasties, which made more and more problems and accumulating more and more maladministration, which led to the degeneration and corruption of Daming's army.

At the beginning, I specially set up the Military Aircraft Department, in addition to wanting Guochao to put down the rebellion as soon as possible, I also wanted to completely reverse this chronic disease.

Judging from the facts and results, with the adjustment and innovation of the Gyeonggi garrison, the military garrison around the Gyeonggi area has undergone great changes.

Gradually and steadily abolishing the guards and promoting the implementation of the new military system are things that the country must do in the next period of time. "

The Diaoyutai area is extremely quiet.

Qian Sule, Li Changxiang, Zhang Kentang, Shen Tingyang, Huang Daozhou, He Tengjiao and other ministers, after listening to what the emperor said, they all had different emotions in their hearts.

If such a major matter involving the national economy and the people's livelihood is explained to them carefully and in detail, it means that in the next period of time, their Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Governor's Office of Jingwei will get involved in it.

"In order to better implement the implementation of the new military system, I plan to completely reform the direct personal guards under the jurisdiction of the Capital Governor's Mansion." Emperor Chongzhen shook his robe sleeves, looked around at the officials in front of him, and said loudly.

"In the future, there will no longer be the so-called direct personal guards in the Jingwei Dudufu. The "Daming Imperial Forest Army" will come out with a fixed number of 6.

The Imperial Forest Army of the Ming Dynasty will be reorganized with a new military system such as towns and battalions, and the Yiying Guards will be abolished, and they will be fully responsible for the Imperial City and Miyagi Suwei.

In the future, the Imperial Forest Army of the Ming Dynasty will conduct corresponding recruitment and supplementation for all armies under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. If there is a war that threatens the dynasty, the Imperial Forest Army will also participate in the battle!
All matters related to the allocation of food, firearms, artillery, ordnance, armor, etc., are all implemented and resolved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and are no longer under the responsibility of the Department of Foreign Affairs. "

As the trump card of the Son of Heaven, the Imperial Forest Army of the Ming Dynasty under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Mansion of the Capital of the Imperial Guard should become a real elite and be absolutely loyal to the Son of Heaven.

If we want to reverse the trend of "gentlemen are expensive and military is cheap", we must do it to the extreme, so that the bad atmosphere in the past can be rectified little by little through gradual adjustments and changes.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to use his own method to set up a model army first, so that everyone in the Ming Dynasty could see what a truly strong army looked like.

The Imperial Forest Army of the Ming Dynasty will become the elite of the elite of the Ming Dynasty in the future, but anyone who can enter this army, even the most ordinary soldiers, will be extraordinary once they are released.

As long as these two large-scale armies are firmly in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, the imperial forest army defending the imperial city and palace city, and the Jingying camp under the rule of Gyeonggi will gradually become brighter in the future. After the new reform of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen was not afraid that someone would dare to do something out of the ordinary!