Qiming 1158

Chapter 856 The Ming Empire has entered a period of rapid restoration and reconstruction

One farm after another was destroyed, and household after household of landlords and gentry were destroyed.

Some of them were killed, some were captured, and then the traditional arts of the revival were launched to destroy their spiritual shackles that bound the peasants.

After the peasants have completed their awakening, what awaits them is going to prison, or being sent to the remote areas represented by Jishi Prefecture to build military towns and contribute to the future Ming army's crusades.

And their land will be nationalized and allocated to farmers to cultivate, which will really give farmers their land.

Farmers can settle down when they have land, and after the peasant class, which occupies the vast majority of the population, settles down, the social order also settles down.

The small-scale peasant economy has its backwardness and fragility, but the fast and stable nature is also one of the few advantages.

In this era, most people don’t have many ideas. It’s enough to have a full stomach, and nothing else matters.

What needs to be clear is that, after the destruction and messing of the Jin Empire, the current economic model of the Ming Empire is still dominated by the small-scale peasant economy, and the commodity economy is not the mainstream. nature.

Therefore, the Ming Empire was still a clearly agricultural country. The main source of productivity was agriculture, and the main source of taxes was also agriculture. Commerce was in the ascendant, and industry was still invisible.

The Ming Empire did not yet have the possibility to transcend the restrictions of the times. This road is very long and long.

But it is precisely because of this, because the family has a weak foundation and there are not too many pots and pans, so the Ming Empire can withstand Su Yonglin's tossing, and can also withstand his big moves.

Even if he replaces the officials in the city and wipes out the landlords in the countryside, as long as he has a bite to eat, the rest will not cause any turmoil, and everyone will not have any thoughts of turmoil.

By the time the news reaches the ears of thoughtful people, it will be long overdue.

This is probably the so-called duality of the times. No one can read, no one understands the world, and everyone's vision is on the surrounding one-third of an acre. The so-called life is sunrise and sunset. This is inherited from ancient times. lifestyle.

They naturally long for a stable life, refuse and fear change. When they initiate decisive action, they only long for everything to end quickly, so as not to affect their stable life.

That's it...

Sometimes, Su Yonglin also thinks so.

But at this moment, he doesn't have much time to think, he is hurrying to do a very important thing.

Select officials.

The places left by the old bureaucrats that have been cleaned out by the Great Purge need to be filled.

Some positions can be filled by the original deputy positions, and administrative work can be directly taken up, while others are not, and they need to be selected from scratch, and Su Yonglin needs to personally participate in the selection to appoint some important officials.

For example, the positions of Shangshu Province, such as the positions of major departments, after Kong Zheng and others are resolved, others have to do things. The officials in various departments who have not been cleaned up can't even care about panic, and immediately put in heavy work. at work.

Not to mention other things, the Yellow River will continue to be repaired, and many things will continue to flow into the central court in Zhongdu, which needs to be coordinated by various departments.

People who build roads, build cities, train troops, build weapons, and even some technological development, all come to the door, not to mention the ministers, the emperor Su Yonglin is also running forward and backward, and is directly responsible for certain things , in order to maintain the normal operation of the court.

Then make time for personnel work, personally participate in personnel meetings, conduct interviews with young people from the political and law school, select qualified and reliable candidates, quickly fill vacancies, and reduce the burden on other officials.

During this period of time, Su Yonglin was very busy, as if he had become an old scalper. He kept his head down and worked as hard as he could, for fear that the country's political situation would be damaged at the most vulnerable time due to his own mistakes, which would affect the overall situation.

Therefore, he did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

With his diligence, more and more officials from Fuxing members skipped the imperial examination and were directly assigned by the Ministry of Personnel to those vacant positions to hold important official positions.

They gradually took over various vacant positions in important court departments such as the Ministry of Shangshu, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Rites, occupying all these positions, and successfully completed the basic control of these powers.

With the passage of time, by the first ten days of July in the third year of Hongwu, the Fuxing members under the leadership of Su Yonglin had basically controlled the entire central court.

The remnants of the original Shandong, Yanyun, and foreign clan officials were either eliminated or pushed to the fringes, reduced to errands, and no longer had the energy to affect the political situation.

Not only in the central government, but also at the local level, Yanyun, Liaodong, Hebei, Shandong and other places also lost a lot of old bureaucrats because of this big purge. The forces of the old bureaucrats in these areas were brutally purged.

Henan Province has been hit long ago, and then Su Yonglin will attack Hedong Province, Datong Province and Guanzhong Province.

The vacant positions were filled by the revival members one after another, taking over the positions held by the old bureaucrats and holding full power.

But things are not so simple.

The personnel trained by the Renaissance Society's own system are not enough to fill such a large vacancy. It is normal for one person to do things with two or even three people.

However, this cannot be sustained for a long time, and the cultivation of talents takes time. Under such circumstances, Su Yonglin targeted the army who was deeply influenced by him.

He plans to select a group of soldiers with high consciousness and sufficient education from within the army to become local grass-roots officials, and to fill the vacancies in the local revival branch.

The Ming Army was originally the first existence influenced by Su Yonglin, and the first existence to receive literacy education. It can be regarded as one of the groups with the highest cultural level in the Ming Empire, and also one of the groups with the highest ideological awareness.

The Ming Empire has a large number of officials from the middle and senior Renaissance members who were born in the army. They had fought bloody fights with Su Yonglin earlier.

Although the soldiers in the army have no administrative experience, the grassroots village peasant association instructors and grassroots positions in the Renaissance Association branch do not require any administrative experience, but are good places to accumulate experience.

So it is still very suitable for them to do.

They are diligent, follow orders, have strong execution ability, and have absolute faith to do things. If they are not allowed to do these basic-level positions, who else can be allowed to do it?

This matter involves all aspects, and the Privy Council, which is in charge of military logistics and daily life, is not suitable for participation.

So Su Yonglin bypassed the Privy Council and directly ordered the various corps through the Ministry of Military Affairs under the framework of the Renaissance, and let the deputy director of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Xin Qiji, preside over the selection of suitable candidates from the groups of soldiers with a high level of education in the major corps. place.

Xin Qiji agrees with this decision very much. He knows that many soldiers in the Ming army have a high level of education, especially in the ideological field, which is quite advanced. It is very suitable for transforming the bureaucratic system of the Ming Empire, making this system more suitable for Su Yonglin's requirements.

So Xin Qiji took the heavy responsibility, starting from the Yanyun Corps to select suitable candidates, and plunged into the work.

The first half of Hongwu's three years was spent like this. In this short half year, too many things happened inside and outside the Ming Empire.

In addition to the follow-up affairs of repairing the Yellow River and excavating the grasslands in the north, there have also been three consecutive events of the invasion of Xixia, the anti-corruption of the Yellow River, and the big purge. It has not been calm for half a year, and it has been in the movement all the time, which can be called a big movement.

But with the big movement in the past six months, the Ming Empire got rid of the burden on its body and really began to make great strides forward.

It is only a matter of time before they are all wiped out.

Su Yonglin will stand on their corpses to light up the humanistic light of the Ming Kingdom and bring the Ming Kingdom into a new era.

So at this very moment, the Ming Empire entered a period of rapid restoration and reconstruction.

In such a special period of time, the Southern Song Dynasty was not completely ignorant of what was happening within the Ming Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)