Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 327 After the Storm
"I'm not afraid of the separatist rule of feudal towns! I'm not afraid of the danger of having an army of self-respect! I'm afraid that all the people in the world will stab me in the back, and I'm afraid that all the people in the world will scold me for being stupid!!"

Qianqing Palace, inside Dongnuan Pavilion.

Zhu Youxiao sat on the throne, looking at Zhu Guozuo, Bi Ziyan, Wang Xiangqian, and Sun Chengzong with burning eyes, and said in a sonorous and powerful tone: "Let's all take a look, take a good look. In the past ten days or so, I have given you special gifts." I was ordered to go to various places in Northern Zhili to arrest the elite of the demons and monsters who were disrupting the roots of our country, and to submit so many secret reports to the capital that a Dongnuan Pavilion was almost full. It really opened my eyes."

Zhu Guozuo, Bi Ziyan, Wang Xiangqian, and Sun Chengzong, who wanted to give advice, looked at the secret reports piled up in Dongnuan Pavilion, with complicated expressions on their faces.

In the past ten days or so, there has been a lot of commotion not only in the capital, but also in many places in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Beizhili. This has never happened before in the Ming Dynasty. , this also shocked some ministers in the court, and many ministers were frightened.

If this trend continues, if there is a mutiny in the Northern Zhili territory and the tragedy of looting the area, where will the face and dignity of the imperial court be?

However, Zhu Youxiao ignored all the experiences of the foreign court. He stayed here in Xiyuan and did not summon ministers for more than ten days in a row. If anything happened, he would issue an edict to resolve it.

"Your Majesty, I have something to say."

In this situation, Bi Ziyan stepped forward, raised his hands and bowed: "Beizhili governs the prefectures and counties, and too many local officials have been arrested. We cannot continue like this. If we continue like this, , I am worried that the future order of Beizhili will not be stable for a long time."

In just over ten days, 317 officials in Beijing and 2376 local officials were arrested. In some places, everyone from parents to officials in the sixth floor were arrested, and the area was placed under so-called temporary military control. , news such as this gathered in the central court, and many civil servants called out!

How can a general who leads the army interfere in local government affairs? If this goes on for a long time, it will inevitably breed undesirable ambitions.

What's more, it's not just the officials who were arrested. In the places involved, many scholars, squires, and merchants were also arrested. The scale was even larger. If their family members were included, there were tens of thousands of them. .

The phenomenon that is most unacceptable to the civil servants in Beijing is the public trials and executions held in various places, and allowing a group of lower-level groups to participate in the trials. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?Isn’t this subverting the majesty of the law?

All kinds of disturbances and changes gathered in the central court, making many civil servants anxious, but even if they were giving advice, they did not dare to directly force them like before.

"Everyone who should be arrested has been arrested, and everyone who should be interrogated has been interrogated. The sky in Beizhili will not be chaotic, and the order in Beizhili will not be disrupted."

Zhu Youxiao said with a calm expression: "As for the batch of local officials who are vacant under the rule of Beizhili, I have asked the Ministry of Personnel to select a group of prefectural officials, and they will fill the vacancies when they are needed. As for the arrangement of county officials, I have ordered the Shaofu to select a group of talented people and let them take over the vacancies in each county as county magistrates and temporarily act as magistrates of county affairs.

And this year's Qiu Wei is about to be held, and next year there will be a joint examination and a palace examination. When the new science and technology selects a group of Jinshi, I will specially condemn a group of new science and technology scholars, and go to these counties to serve as magistrates. I don't believe it. The custom of official governance. Poor rectification! ! "

When he made it clear that he was planning to build a plank road openly and covertly to seize Chencang, and to clean up Beizhili, Zhu Youxiao made up his mind to adjust and improve the power structure at all levels in Beizhili.

There is only one opportunity, and if there is another chance, the civil servants in the outer dynasty are not fools. After experiencing this kind of thing, everyone will be wary in their hearts.Therefore, this planning and deployment must be fully implemented.

The arrangements for the aid ministries to clean up the local area have been implemented, and all the groups that should be arrested have been arrested. The remaining interrogations, inspections and many other matters only need to be carried out step by step, as long as the overt and covert supervision is done well.

Among the vacant local officials, part of the establishment must be used to let the talented people with extremely outstanding performance among the officials under the Shaofu's jurisdiction be promoted. This will not only strengthen the control of Beizhili, but also strengthen the control of Beizhili. Moreover, it can also motivate the whole family and make them do their jobs well.

The most important point is that Zhu Youxiao plans to trial the policy of adding new officials and dismissing hereditary officials in county-level governments, thereby breaking the monopoly of local privileges.

This is the most critical link. If it can be tried out in Beizhili, the structure of Ming officialdom will change in the future.

This reform of the official system will be promoted along with the governance and construction of Beizhili, thereby ensuring that Beizhili develops in a good direction.

The hereditary succession of positions, regardless of the size of the power, is a disguised inheritance of privileges, which must be abolished in the official world. Even if there is a secret operation behind the scenes, it must not be done openly. As for the secret operation, it is only It can be gradually solved over time.

After all, Zhu Youxiao doesn't understand the things in the officialdom. There are always policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. If you want to solve each problem concretely, you must have enough patience and determination. Don't think that there is a gap between the central government and the local government. , there would be no games and struggles.

"I have said everything that needs to be said, and I have expressed everything that needs to be expressed."

Looking at the ministers in front of him, Zhu Youxiao waved his hands and said: "If there is nothing else, please step down and do some work first. I still have a lot of government affairs to deal with."

In the past ten days or so, Zhu Youxiao had never been idle in Xiyuan. He was busy all day long and didn't rest until very late. The person who least wanted to cause chaos in Beizhili was Zhu Youxiao.

In the final analysis, the purpose of cleaning the house this time is to reduce the burden on Beizhili and to accumulate more wealth for the family, so as to better promote the development of intensive handicraft manufacturing and closely revolve around opening up sea trade to the outside world. Fortunately, in the end The uneasy stage is over.

Adjustments and deployments at the local level have come to an end at this period. What Zhu Youxiao needs to do next is adjustments involving the military level.

If we want Beizhili to truly develop, we must not only solve the problem of food supply, but also ensure the problem of security, both of which are indispensable.

The overall garrison and garrison system of Beizhili was too backward in Zhu Youxiao's eyes. It had been tolerated without rectification before because there were not enough troops and generals to deploy. But now that this worry is gone, then for Zhu Youxiao , according to his own will and decision, he will conduct a comprehensive rectification and improvement of the entire northern Zhili garrison to ensure the absolute stability of the Ming Dynasty capital and Gyeonggi!

(End of this chapter)