Wanli 1592

Chapter 898
After the time entered the late November of the 26th year of Wanli, on the national battlefield, Shen Yiguan's imperial government army had completely fallen into decline, and could only be passively beaten, without the strength to fight back. It looked particularly weak.

The west is being swept, the south is being swept, the east is being stabbed, and the three sides are attacked, and they are crumbling.

Jiang Dahai led the army to attack Wuqing and Tongzhou based on Tianjin Wei. They encountered many defensive lines that Shen had always set up. The quality of their artillery is not very good, and they can explode, but there are many of them.

When the number is too large, Jiang Dahai is reluctant to let his subordinates charge. Anyway, just keep on the offensive. This is Xiao Ruxun's purpose, to make them tired of defending and dare not attack until Xiao Ruxun arrives.

Jiang Dahai can still do this kind of thing.

With the help of a few Hongyi cannons, it was easier. The cannons that hit so far and so powerfully were undoubtedly a nightmare for the soldiers defending the city.

Under such a strong attack, coupled with Shen's consistent order not to go out, Da Yun was unwilling to let his soldiers go out of the city to die.

And the situation has developed to the present, and Dayun himself is also muttering in his heart.

I ran all the way here just to die?
Dayun was very tangled.

Listening to the deafening gunfire, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before the sky changes.

The truth of winners and losers couldn't be more obvious.

When Shen Yiguan was strong, the whole world obeyed Emperor Taichang and Taichang's year name, and lost the Wanli year name, but now Shen Yiguan is already a dead bone in the tomb, and the Wanli year name has been reprinted in various places, and all official documents and private letters have been changed to In the 26th year of Wanli, the word Taichang seems to have become a political red line.

On the way Xiao Ruxun led the army to attack Liaocheng, he kept receiving letters or official documents from some accompanying officials. They did not send the memorials that needed to be sent to the court to the court, but sent them to Xiao Ruxun to ask Xiao Ruxun to make a decision, such as Repairing river courses, such as local people's conditions, such as disaster relief and so on.

Xiao Ruxun did not reject this obvious act of flattery, but accepted their flattery with great satisfaction.

Headed by the experienced Ye Mengxiong and Yuan Huang, he personally selected more than a dozen realistic officials who have made achievements in the local area, and together with a hundred young people who were carefully selected by him, they were born in Jiangnan, Jiangbei and other places to form a government affairs management team. team.

Yuan Huang and Ye Mengxiong are the leaders, those officials who have made achievements and have more realistic ideas are the assistants, and the hundred young people are the interns.

Naturally, those one hundred young people were the best group of people he found when training ideological instructors and land reform officials.

He was not willing to release this group of people to be ideological instructors and land reform officials, but stayed by his side to deal with military affairs with him, giving them a chance to exercise, and now that there was a bigger stage, Xiao Ruxun arranged them in Ye Mengxiong. He and Yuan Huang's subordinates learned to handle government affairs in various places.

It is not necessary to be a Jinshi to handle government affairs. These scholars and even students without the reputation of scholars have enough cultural foundation to learn how to govern the country.

Scholars selected by the imperial examinations actually took the same path as them. They also had to go through political observation before they were placed in the local government or appointed by the central department. No one was born to handle government affairs, and they all learned and applied little by little.

Following experienced veteran officials like Ye Mengxiong and Yuan Huang, they can learn a lot. Even though they are not qualified to be central decision-making officials, in Xiao Ruxun's view, being a county magistrate or a township or village official These people are still qualified, and they will be promoted step by step in the future, which will be quite impressive.

When the world is settled, in order to go to the countryside for imperial power, he will officially restore the township-level administrative districts, and restore the townships that have gradually become autonomous since the Tang and Song Dynasties into national administrative districts and administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of counties.

Moreover, the villages below the township level should also have special village officials as the most basic bureaucrats to obey the state's decrees.

Let talents start from the bottom of the bureaucracy step by step, let the history of being a county magistrate as soon as they graduate be gone forever, carry out a major reform of the imperial examination system, set up specialized schools in the local area to replace private schools and private academies, and the central government Select officials to manage and hold the right to education.

Next, Xiao Ruxun will reform the honorable title of teacher and make the teacher professional.

Let teachers become pure teachers, specializing in education, not administrative positions, and will not become administrative officials. Administrative officials are administrative officials, and teachers are educational positions. Separate the two, prevent the transformation of teachers into administrative officials, and cut off traditional sense Other social identities of teachers.

Examinations will also be conducted by specialized administrative officials, instead of the central government selecting senior officials to conduct the main examination, to cultivate political power for him, so that he can gain a firm foothold in the future. This system of enhancing the power of courtiers through the status of teachers and students and reducing imperial power in disguise must be abolished.

This is to tear up the nepotism-like relationship between teachers and students that has naturally formed in the officialdom from ancient times to the present, to prevent teachers and students from forming a natural official alliance when they are officials in the same dynasty, to further prevent the birth of cronies, and to make it more difficult for officials to combine and become more difficult. Hand in hand, there are fewer relationships other than colleagues.

Xu Jie——Zhang Ju's official typical teacher-student political alliance and political inheritance, Xiao Ruxun does not want to see it again.

The power of civil officials in the Ming Dynasty was too strong, and the traditional Chinese sense of respecting teachers and morals was too strong. In this era, teachers and students are very likely to become officials, and even must become officials. Doing so will also weaken the power of civil officials a means of.

At the same time, the establishment of military academies is also imperative. In order to maintain the strength of the military, so that the situation of emphasizing culture over military affairs will not happen again, the establishment of military academies is very necessary. Just like literati, soldiers are educated through schools. Management, carry out a revolutionary reform for the military, replace the hereditary system of blood, and change the status quo of the rapid decline of martial arts leading to the dominance of civilian power.

Through such a system, the power of selecting officials and military officers is held in the hands of the central government and even the emperor, and the emperor's control over the officials under him is strengthened. branch effect.

In this way, at least at the central level, imperial power will be strengthened, and once an orderly bureaucratic system is formed, it will be very simple to operate quickly.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty lost to Li Zicheng and the Qing Dynasty was not because the so-called imperial power was greatly enhanced. On the contrary, it was because the imperial power was not strong enough. The demise of all dynasties also had reasons for the decline of imperial power.

The Ming Dynasty has the potential to be extremely powerful and even push the opponents on all sides, and how to transform this potential into real national power that can be used is what Xiao Ruxun has to do. To be honest, if the Ming Dynasty has the Qin Dynasty With local control and mobilization power, fifty Nurhachi can push it flat.

To put it bluntly, there are too many local constraints, and there is no great potential, but it cannot be transformed into national power. The power is scattered and cannot be gathered in one place, and in the end it is in vain to benefit outsiders.

In this situation, Xiao Ruxun will never let it happen again.

(End of this chapter)