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Chapter 367 What a big game of chess 2

According to Hong Tao's plan, most of the Ming Dynasty's official system will eventually be replaced by a model that is more in line with the times and needs. But if we want to achieve this step, there is an almost unsolvable difficulty: how to train reserve cadres.

If you want to replace the existing bureaucracy, you definitely cannot use robots. So where will the next generation of officials come from? The imperial examination was obviously not successful. The imperial examination system and the bureaucracy in the Ming Dynasty were a whole. In other words, the imperial examination was a training camp for the bureaucracy. The two complemented each other.

Moving one will trigger a resolute counterattack from the other, and the intensity is basically equivalent to fighting to the death. In other words, if you want to abolish them, you have to abolish them together. If you want to retain them, you have to retain them together. There is no way to keep just one.

Then, can talents selected through the imperial examination and after short-term training be able to replace the existing bureaucrats? The answer is still no! Just look at the imperial examination textbooks and teachers and you will know why. It is difficult for people to spontaneously oppose their own class. This is human nature.

When a person's knowledge and teachers from elementary school come from the old bureaucratic system, it is easy for him to regard himself as a member of this system and to maintain this system. Anyone who opposes it is an alien and an enemy.

It cannot be said that it is impossible, very difficult, or very expensive to brainwash adults who have been exposed to it for ten or twenty years in a new knowledge system and moral system in half a year, a year, or three years. If the brainwashing fails, the country will be wiped out first.

Since it is impossible to replace the existing old bureaucracy step by step, can we adopt a one-size-fits-all approach and eliminate them all? The answer is yes, and it's simple.

It is nothing more than using the army to kill people, charging them with random accusations, and then inciting the people at the bottom to launch a movement to kill most of the people who know more than 200 words and can write articles. It is really not difficult, and it will not be very slow.

But in addition to causing chaos, this also has an almost irreparable shortcoming. How to rebuild the management system? If the old ones are killed, who will be the new ones? There are only people left who cannot read more than 200 words and cannot even write a letter. Simplicity is enough, but what about management ability?

The management system established by these people may not be as strong as before. It is easy to smash a set of things, but difficult to rebuild, and it requires great wisdom and a long time.

It can't be coaxed, deceived, or killed. Is there no solution? Who is Hong Papi? There is nothing in this world that he cannot do. A single move can affect the whole body, right? One size does not fit all, right? Success, he didn't use either of these methods, he simply started a new one and established a new system as a spare tire, that is, the navy.

Hong Tao's request to Yuan Keli is to implement a new set of military regulations in the navy. Generally speaking, it is eight words, and the detailed regulations have clear rewards and punishments. Try to make the regulations that were originally vague and deliberately left a back door as clear and concrete as possible.

One is one, and two is two. There is no area between one and two that needs to be manipulated by the boss. This allows officers and soldiers to do things without looking at their superiors' expressions or guessing their moods. They only need to memorize the regulations and know whether they should be rewarded or punished when they go out next.

To achieve this, it is not difficult to write detailed regulations that meet the needs of combat life, and it is not difficult to strictly implement them. What is difficult is to make every soldier understand, understand and understand them.

You have to remember that this was the beginning of the 17th century, and % or even % of the people in the country were illiterate. Those who could choose to be soldiers as a way out probably had even lower literacy rates. If you don’t even know the words, you can’t even talk about understanding them.

Therefore, various literacy classes, arithmetic classes, and geometry classes emerge in endlessly in the Navy. Some are hosted by the Navy, and some are organized by the Staff Department. They have only one purpose: to enable naval officers and soldiers to read and learn basic algebra and geometry as soon as possible. Otherwise, let alone promotion, even the most basic combat requirements will not be met. Doesn’t it sound reasonable? An army that uses sextants and navigation clocks to navigate, and uses muskets and artillery to shoot, naturally needs to learn more. Otherwise, it will not even be able to calculate charts and ballistics clearly, and it will be a dead end on the sea.

In fact, there is no need to do this at all. It is enough to train some officers to take command. Those who really need to calculate, write and draw are not sailors. Most people have learned it but they are of no use.

But Hong Tao's order to Yuan Keli was that he had to learn everything, and he also had to take an exam, and he could only be promoted if he passed it. Relatively advanced knowledge such as using a sextant, drawing, and calculating ballistics can only be mastered by special departments and personnel. Courses such as literacy, picture reading, and simple calculations must be passed by everyone.

There is only one purpose for doing this, which is to build the plank road openly and covertly. In the name of training naval officers and soldiers, grassroots cadres of the new bureaucracy were trained without any fanfare.

Being a soldier cannot last a lifetime. In peacetime, most officers and soldiers have to leave the army when they reach a certain age. There was no such thing as retirement in the Ming Dynasty, let alone relocation. These people will go back wherever they came from. If you happen to be in a battle and are unfortunately seriously injured and can no longer serve in the army, this will be the result.

But every officer and soldier in the navy counts. As long as he is not paralyzed or mentally ill, he cannot retire even if he loses two legs. He still has to stay in the logistics department of the navy and do the work he can. It doesn't matter whether you do well or not, the soldier's pay is only reduced by half.

This is also Hong Tao's death order to Yuan Keli. All naval rosters are registered with the Supervisor of Ceremonies. Whoever dies or joins newly must have the Supervisor of Ceremonies stamp his seal before payment can be issued.

Many original sailors, refugees, navy soldiers, including pirates, were willing to join the navy with extremely strict rules. In addition to the high salary, they were also attracted by this rule.

Who in the military can guarantee that he will not be seriously injured? If he is injured, he can still get half of his salary to support himself and his family, have a place to work, and be reminded every day that he is not a waste. What more can he ask for?

In fact, they don't know that these salaries and jobs are just an advance for selling their lives for the emperor. Maybe one day the emperor would give an order, and these elderly and disabled naval officers and soldiers would carry their luggage and rush to all parts of the country to work as pawnbrokers, county magistrates, magistrates, councilors, participate in politics, or even go to Beijing to become high officials.

Yes, they are Hong Tao's requiem for the old system. With these veterans who can write, read, calculate energy, and have strong discipline, it is equivalent to having grassroots cadres, and even middle-level cadres can replace them.

There are as many reserve cadres as there are officers and men in the navy. In a few years, it will not be a dream to provide 10,000 to 20,000 grassroots officials in a short period of time. At that time, whoever wants to use the existing bureaucracy to check and balance the emperor will be in big trouble. But there are definitely people who will do this, and there is still a huge pit waiting for them.

(End of this chapter)