Daming 1805

Chapter 202 The Ruling Group
Zhu Jingyuan looked at the pier for a while on the tower, and then returned to the palace to read the customs entry report.

Consider possible problems in various aspects, send a reminder to relevant personnel, and make a decision for those who ask for instructions.

The day passed quickly.

The next morning, Zhu Jingyuan opened his eyes, stretched himself and sat up.

The maid beside him immediately brought clothes and put them on Zhu Jingyuan's shoulders.

Zhu Jingyuan looked up, and found that the serving people had been replaced by Chunxiang and Qiuyue.

An Xiaona and Irene stood not far behind, watching this side cautiously and restrainedly, waiting for orders from this side.

Chunxiang was already an adult, and she was smart enough, and she followed Zhu Jingyuan since she was a child, and was brought by Liang Yunying, and she was appointed as a private secretary by Zhu Jingyuan yesterday.

The nanny who was originally in charge of Zhu Jingyuan's daily life naturally gave up this position.

An Xiaona and Irene were more careful when facing Chunxiang than they were with the original nuns.

After all, the original nanny can only be a nanny, and they still have a chance to be housemaids.

Chunxiang and Qiuyue are different, they can suppress them in all directions.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't think too much about it, he just asked them very casually while letting them get dressed:
"Have I read today's arrangement, this is the most important job of the secretary..."

Chunxiang immediately responded respectfully:
"Before 06:30 in the morning, have breakfast with the imperial concubine.

"At seven o'clock in the morning, go out of town for daily military training.

"At nine o'clock in the morning, I will be greeted by the clan in the main hall of the palace.

"At ten o'clock in the morning, we will receive visits from visiting and inaugural officials.

"At two o'clock in the afternoon, I started to see the ten little ladies brought by the imperial concubine."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly in satisfaction, put on his training clothes, washed up and went to eat with his mother.

Go out for training at seven o'clock, take a bath and change clothes again after returning, and go to the main hall of the palace at nine o'clock.

The size of the main hall of the old palace is limited, and there are a hundred clans standing in the middle of the main hall, which looks a little crowded.

When Zhu Jingyuan entered the door, he smiled and bowed his hands to everyone:
"Everyone, welcome to the Great Food Kingdom!"

The hundred clans hurriedly bowed together to salute:
"Meet the king."

Zhu Jingyuan cupped his hands again:
"It's all from my own family. You don't need to be too polite. Let's all sit down and talk."

After the two parties were seated, Zhu Jingyuan said with emotion:

"Now my Ming Dynasty has opened thousands of miles, and there is a shortage of manpower everywhere.

"The Great Food Country is remote and has nothing but oil.

"Whether it is immigrants or officials, they are not very willing to come here.

"So this king can only rely on your clan relatives."

A group of distant clans suddenly felt that the Dashi Prince was really humble and polite, and hurriedly handed over their hands to be courteous.

"Your Majesty's words are serious."

"I'll wait and do my best."

"It's all one family, you're welcome, Your Majesty."

Zhu Jingyuan asked the court for officials, educators, and engineers.

There was a shortage of these personnel everywhere, the imperial court gave some officials, and the clan mansion dispatched another hundred clans.

Zhu Ming's clan, regardless of gender, must receive compulsory education from elementary school to university, and of course it is free of charge.

So as long as they are not really born stupid, the adult clan should at least have the level of college students.

They have also received long-term basic military training, and they are proficient in riding horses, driving cars, shooting guns, and firing cannons.

In the current era when primary schools are not popular, they can all directly serve as mid-level and low-level officials and military officers.

With a little accumulated work experience, you can become a chief officer at all levels.

The 500 million Zhu Ming clan is the "ruling group" of the Ming Empire, and the direct leader is the Emperor of Ming.

The ruling group plus the peripheral new elite group is the entire ruling class of Ming Dynasty, the bourgeoisie.

With a total of 500 million members of the clan, plus the relatives who married the daughters of the clan, it is of course impossible for these tens of millions of people to be completely united.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and of course infighting and competition are everywhere.

But the vast majority of ordinary clans have money and status, and live a comfortable life.

Received complete compulsory education, understood that Daming belonged to his own family, and knew how his current life came about.

One is that they have acquired the ability through education and can easily take on high-paying jobs that others cannot afford.

The second is their clan status, which gives them huge advantages in many places.

The advantage of obtaining a complete and free education is also obtained as a clan.

So they all have the motivation and the ability to defend their current status, to defend their current comfortable life.

For things that may damage the foundation of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, most of the clans are instinctively insensitive.

If it's just a life of comfort, just status and security, they will soon become depraved.

Just like the ancient traditional ruling groups of the previous generations in China, the most typical ones are the Weisuo of the Ming Dynasty and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

The Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty was not conceived by Nurhachi out of thin air. It was a perfect version of Zhu Yuanzhang's Weisuo system and the Jiading system of the late Ming Dynasty.

The Eight Banners is a group of military aristocrats, a preliminarily perfected modern "ruling group".

Of course there are contradictions within the ruling group, but in the face of external threats, the interests are highly convergent.

With this ruling group, the royal family of the Qing Dynasty did not have to care too much about the feelings of scholar-bureaucrats and civil servants.

Civilian groups resisted the emperor's order, and the Qing emperor could kill anyone without hesitation.

There are always members of the ruling clique filling the vacancies.

Next to all the ministers and ministers, there is a man minister and man minister, who manages and supervises their work.

The Eight Banners can even be regarded as a "ruling party" to some extent.

Compared with the Weisuo, Jiading, and Eight Banners, the "ruling group" of the new Ming Dynasty created by the ancestor emperor Zhu Cihong has been optimized and upgraded to a higher level.

First of all, going back to Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention, building a ruling group based on the bloodline clan is more stable than the Eight Banners without bloodlines.

Promote industrialization, obtain an absolute monopoly position, nourish the ruling group with huge profits, and eliminate internal contradictions within the group.

The key is to add mandatory compulsory education, so that the ruling group can achieve an effect similar to "national awakening".

This greatly slows down the rate of corruption and degeneration of the entire group.

So that after more than 100 years, the Zhu Ming clan group still maintains a good vitality.

It is several times higher than the Eight Banners of the Jiaqing era than the Junker nobles of the Napoleon era.

The vast majority of ordinary clans now want to earn more money and obtain a higher actual status.

He has a very high enthusiasm for taking on various jobs.

Ordinary clans would have two incomes when they came to Zhu Jingyuan's side to help.

The wages directly paid for the corresponding positions will be exactly the same as those of ordinary people in the same position, which is fair on the surface.

But the clan also has a clan subsidy.

If you work in the Ming Dynasty, it will be issued by the Ming court; if you work in the vassal state, it will be issued by the vassal king.

According to the standard given by Zhu Jingyuan, each clan has a minimum of one hundred silver notes and a maximum of two hundred silver notes per month.

There is an upper limit and a lower limit, and the gap between the key upper and lower limits should not exceed twice, which is also the rule left by Emperor Shizu.

Let the income of the vast majority of ordinary clans remain at a higher level far beyond that of ordinary people.

At the same time, the income gap within the clan will not be particularly huge.

From Zhu Jingyuan's point of view, he, a senior traveler, is really "very thoughtful".

But this kind of ruling group cannot really last long.

In other words, it is impossible for any ruling group to really last for a long time.

The current Zhu Ming clan group can be regarded as the peak stage.

The number of groups is already large enough, and their control over the country has reached its peak.

The common people were unable to rebel, and officers at all levels were accompanied by clan supervisors who were responsible for the ideological education of soldiers.

The proportion of social resources occupied is still not particularly large, and the upward channels of ordinary people have not been completely blocked.

Most of the court officials and army officers are still from ordinary families.

Corruption is still not particularly serious, and remote and fringe clans can get ahead relatively easily.

The clan is still in a high-spirited state on the whole, accustomed to relying on ability rather than status to grab status and resources.

The abilities they acquired through education are also naturally convincing to ordinary people around them.

Driven by expansion and the Industrial Revolution, this peak state could be maintained for decades.

But once the technology developed to a bottleneck state, the overall construction of the Ming Dynasty reached a bottleneck, and the clan population reached a sufficiently significant node, various contradictions would begin to emerge.

The conflict between the near clan and the distant clan, the conflict between the clan and ordinary people, the conflict between the clan and the imperial court...

Maybe it's a problem that I need to face when I'm old.

Zhu Jingyuan was thinking about the future in his heart, chatting and laughing with a group of clan members for half an hour.

Then let Liu Zhixin come out and announce the arrangements for these clan relatives.

Most of them went to be grassroots officials close to the people, some went to be project construction directors, and some went to school teachers.

A small part is responsible for training the militia.

Most of them will leave Quicksand City, and they came here today to meet with Zhu Jingyuan and receive their job status arrangements.

After the arrangement was confirmed, the clansmen got up and left.

Zhu Jingyuan sat in his seat for a while, and at ten o'clock in the morning, a group of Ming officials entered the hall one by one.

"Qinhai Academy Mountain Head Wu Xuan, please refer to the King."

"Beimo Chief Envoy Lu Yinpu, see Your Majesty."

"The right chief of Dashi Wangfu and the prefect of Kezhou (Crete) cited it, see Your Majesty."

"Pan Shi'en is being judged on the right side of Dashi Palace, please refer to Your Majesty."

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Officials greeted each other by name one by one. Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly and asked them to sit down.

The head of the academy is the principal of the school. Most universities in the Ming Dynasty are still called academies, and the heads of public academies are also officials.

Neither Wu Xuan nor Lu Yinpu were officials of the Great Food Kingdom, but directly served as chief envoys and academy officials.

Wang Yinzhi is the son of Wang Nian and Sun Shangshu, and his current status is not only an official of the Great Food Kingdom, but also an official of the chief envoy.

In his capacity as the right chief of the palace, he will also be in charge of the affairs of the Great Food Kingdom in the Great Qinhai.

Pan Shien is a pure official of the Great Food Kingdom.

Among the officials of the vassal king's mansion before the Renwu Dynasty, there was originally a judge of the sixth rank and a judge of the seventh rank.

After the Renwu Dynasty, it was changed to the left and right judges, both of whom were the sixth-rank titles.

But like the long history of left and right, some small countries may only arrange one, regardless of left and right.

At the same time, the ranks of royal officials in overseas vassal states are automatically raised by two levels.

Changshi was originally a fifth rank, but in the vassal state it was a fourth rank, and the trial became a fifth rank.

The final arrangement of these officials sent by the imperial court was the same as that of the imperial clan.

Most of them will also split up to serve in various parts of the Great Food Country.

Only pure palace officials headed by Pan Shien will stay in Liusha City.

But their children will temporarily stay in Quicksand City to go to school or work.

Compared with the Daqin Sea, which is across the sea from the Thai and Western countries, the Persian Gulf is an area under Ming's complete control.

Still under the eyelids of Prince Dashi, they are also willing and hoping to keep their children.

(End of this chapter)