I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 126: Shooting yourself in the foot?
At this time, Huang Zicheng was only thinking about how to limit the power of generals, and he never realized that he had unknowingly fallen into Zhu Yunxi's calculations.

He was very proud of himself at this time.

"The Military Affairs Department acts as an agent of military affairs and is in charge of the army of the world. It has great authority and should not be favored."

"The lower officials think that unless they are new officials of Jian Ba, all ministers of military affairs will never have other grades and no salary, so they can be graded and paid according to the seventh grade."

"Other than that, the rest don't have a grade, nor do they receive additional salary."

The civil servants nodded.

Originally.

The salaries of military generals and nobles have always been much higher than those of civilian officials.

Some are even several times higher.

Of course, this is also the practice of all dynasties.

Even the Song Dynasty, which was famous for emphasizing literature over military, was the same.

At the beginning Song Taizu just agreed to give heavy rewards to the military generals, let them give up their military power, buy more good land and beautiful houses, buy more singers, and enjoy themselves.

Therefore, in terms of political status, military commanders are not as flattering as civilian officials.

A seventh-grade county magistrate can scold a fourth-grade general.

But in terms of salary, military generals are far higher than civil servants.

The same is true of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the method used in the Ming Dynasty was different.

The Ming Dynasty improved the treatment of military generals by giving them higher grades.

For example, the thousand households in the guard are the fifth rank, the hundred households are the sixth rank, and even the small flags that command ten soldiers are all from the seventh rank.

And the civil officials and county magistrates are only in the seventh rank.

Comparing with the army of later generations, the squad leader in the army is the seventh rank, and the county senior officials of the local government are also the seventh rank, and the two are considered to be the same rank.

But rank and authority are not equal.

The county magistrate can mobilize the resources of a county, and its actual energy, not to mention a small banner, is far inferior to the county magistrate, even a thousand households of the fifth rank.

There are even third-level commanders who control more than 5000 people. Except for internal guards like Jinyiwei who have special powers, many third-level commanders may not be as powerful as the actual power of the county magistrate.

After all, in the later guards, soldiers were largely indistinguishable from farmers.

The larger counties in the Ming Dynasty also had a population of 10,000+ or ​​even several 10, which was much larger than the number of Weisuo.

In this era, mastering more population means mobilizing more resources.

To put it bluntly, military generals and nobles are rich, and they are not like civil servants, who flaunt themselves as "clean and honest" and poor.

If the battle is won, the rewards given by the imperial court will be so rich that many civil servants' lifetime salaries can't match it.

At this moment, when I heard that there is no extra salary for entering the Military Affairs Department, the generals and nobles naturally don't care.

They still don't care about the little money.

Next, the civil servants stood up one by one and made suggestions to limit the power of the Military Affairs Department.

"I believe that all military affairs memorials and military affairs, no matter how big or small, should be reviewed by more than three military ministers and decided upon by consensus. If there is any dispute, please ask His Majesty for instructions. No one person can make the decision without authorization."

"The lower official believes that the Military Affairs Office should not be like the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, with a separate yamen and independent office. It is still the same as the temporary review of memorials in the Wenhua Hall before, and there will be a toilet in the palace and work in front of the emperor. If something happens, it can be done You can hear it immediately with His Majesty."

"The lower officials believe that, apart from the secret memorial system, the Military Affairs Office should be mainly responsible for the daily affairs of military memorials, and important memorials should be played with His Majesty."

"Your Majesty thinks that the main duty of the Military Affairs Office is to serve as His Majesty's advisor for consultation. Besides..."

"The lower officials think that the Minister of Military Affairs is not allowed to leave Beijing without an imperial decree..."

"The lower officials think that the Military Affairs Office should only draft opinions, not..."

……

The civil servants have formulated one rule after another for the Military Affairs Department, making its powers more limited.

In the end, it basically turned into a pure secretarial office, with almost no real power left.

Everyone worked together and came up with various methods that were much more thoughtful than what Zhu Yunzhen had thought of before.

After all, when a person thinks about this kind of thing, there will always be something unexpected and something he will miss.

But now the civil servants are racking their brains to limit the power of the Minister of Military Affairs, leaving no dead ends at all.

It was finally decided that the first step of the memorial would be to send it to the emperor or His Royal Highness, and then send it to the Military Affairs Office.

This completely cut off the possibility of the Minister of Military Affairs detaining any memorials.

Because they had no way of knowing whether the emperor had read the memorial before decentralization.

After putting forward the draft opinions, it was submitted to the emperor.

Classification processing, some daily memorials, the emperor didn't read them, or just picked some to read, and then sent them back and handed them over directly.

And the secrecy system that Zhu Yunxi wanted was settled down logically.

After all, confidentiality is a must in military affairs.

……

and so on, very complete
Zhu Yunxian was very satisfied.

Sure enough, the civil servants are still very good. After all, they are also talents selected by the country.

These ideas of limiting the power of the Military Affairs Department and allowing the Military Affairs Department to function as a secretary are very good.

He asked the eunuch to record it, and after sorting it out, he immediately read it in class.

Of course the civil servants had no objection, this was their idea in the first place.

General Xungui also accepted without any objection.

By now, the generals and nobles have also noticed that Zhu Yunxian allowed generals with high prestige and military power to enter the Military Affairs Office in order to seize their military power and "raise" them.

But this method is completely acceptable to the generals and nobles.

While handing over military power, you can still enjoy glory and wealth forever without being suppressed by civilian officials or arousing suspicion. What else would you not want to do?

Both parties were happy and reached an agreement smoothly.

Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and others were even more proud.

Unexpected!

Everything went so smoothly.

Almost effortlessly, he seized the military power of the general Xungui.

Although it didn't grab the hands of the civil servants, they were quite satisfied with the result.

After the eunuch finished reading, Zhu Yunzhen asked: "The matter of the Military Affairs Office has been settled like this. Do you think it is appropriate?"

"The regulations are detailed and the authority is clear. It can help His Majesty handle military affairs without having to worry about having exclusive power. I think it is very good."

"His Royal Highness Taisun is wise, martial, and intelligent, so he can come up with this good plan."

"There is neither the authority of a military attache to exercise power nor the laxity in military affairs. He does not understand the concerns of military affairs, and even the lower officials think it is excellent."

"Hahaha, none of our generals have any opinions, which is pretty good."

……

Civil servants and military generals expressed their opinions one after another, and they all agreed.

Zhu Yunxuan nodded.

"This matter was discussed by the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and everyone agreed. I have compiled it into a document, and it will be officially implemented after the emperor's grandfather is invited."

An agreement was reached, and the atmosphere in the hall became much more relaxed.

"The Military Affairs Office has been decided, the Counselor's Office..."

He paused and turned his eyes slightly.

"Gu's opinion, the method of the Military Affairs Department, is ready-made. Both civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty agree."

"Why don't you follow the regulations of the Military Affairs Office for the Advisory Office? What do you think?"

hula.

Outside the hall, a gust of wind blew in.

The blowing made the clothes of all the officials flutter.

In the main hall, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and other civil servants all had frightened expressions in their eyes.

I just searched my guts and thought out a way to limit the power of generals. Do you want to use it on yourself?

Is this a trap, or is it shooting oneself in the foot?
The civil servants stood there one by one, as if petrified.

(End of this chapter)