Can you live forever

Chapter 213 Deliberation Efficiency, Daming Population

The meeting begins.

A man wearing a mask with the word "soldier" stood up. The mask showed that he was a member of the Ministry of War, and he was qualified to sit here, and the Ministry of War was nothing more than those few people.

This time, it was basically a clear card.

Anyway, Jiajing has completely distrusted Nanjing, so there is no need to cover up too much. There are 72 members of parliament here. Those who are not officials in the court are the key and the core of Nanjing.

For example, the descendants of Yang Shiqi, Tai and Yang.

Not only the Ming Dynasty, but the gentry since the Song Dynasty are the core of the gentry. They not only have made great contributions, but also have a deep influence in the local area. Although their descendants no longer serve as officials, there are countless scholars who are funded by them. official.

Although ten years ago, Yang Tinghe and Yang Zhao lost to Zhang Zhixiang.

But the Taihe Yang family is still one of the councilors. After all, Yang Shiqi made great achievements in the past. Yang Shiqi not only let Daming lose Annan, so that Jiangnan controlled the sea power, he also abolished the system of suing officials from Hongwu to Yongle.

According to historical records: "Traitors are forbidden to slander officials."

Since then, people have not been allowed to sue officials. First, they will be labeled traitors, and then classified as slander. This thing developed to the extreme in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and any people suing officials will be punished first.

Not only has he made great achievements, but Yang Shiqi died heroically in order not to be controlled by Zhu Qizhen and thus influence Nanjing.

How can Nanjing treat the descendants of the Yang family badly?
Therefore, Yang Zhao is here, one of the 72 members.

At the beginning, Jiajing said that Xia Yan should stand on his knees like Qin Hui, but in fact, there were descendants of the Qin family here, the Jiangning Qin family, which shows the long history of the Nanjing Parliament.

It is worth mentioning that the Qin family was also named after the Five Elements.

Although Qin Hui's only son, Qin Xi, is an adopted son and has no blood relationship, he has inherited the mantle, serving as an envoy to the Privy Council and a young teacher.His grandson, Qin Xun, went from official to Minister of Industry and Minister of Rites.The great-grandson Qin Ju completed his cleansing and died for the country. He and his second and third sons died in battle. He became a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty against the Jin Dynasty.

Qin Ju was posthumously named Marquis of Yilie, and the emperor personally gave him a plaque and built a temple for him.Its name is Yonglie Hall.

Yonglie Hall has been preserved until modern times, which shows the strength of the Qin clan.

The Song and Ming dynasties were in the same line, and the Yuan Dynasty was not affected at all. The Mongols could not govern such a large country, so they could only implement the tax system. The gentry actually developed greatly in the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty, he encountered such great resistance in the early days of the founding of the country, fighting to the death.

The foundation is here.

For example, the Jiangning Qin family, Taihe Yang family, etc. are the real cornerstones of the gentry class. Yang Tinghe, Fei Hong, and Xia Yan, according to later generations, are all CEOs.

This is true for the important officials of the six ministries including Nanjing.

And don't look at Fei Hong's defeat, but he "dedicated himself to the public". After that, the Fei family will naturally have preferential treatment. Now Fei Cai is entering the parliament and getting a seat on the council. As for whether the Fei family can hold on to the seat To become exclusive, it depends on the ability of the descendants of the Fei family.

Nanjing has a complete evaluation system.

Under the rules of the imperial examination game, how many direct descendants of your family have passed the Jinshi and Juren examinations, what kind of officials are they in the imperial court, how many of the students trained and funded by your family passed the examinations, and what kind of officials they became, how much land and assets does your family have? , which counts.

Only when the total score is high enough can you keep your own seat.

Naturally, Jiajing would not know about these low-level rules, but real talkers such as Qin Shi, Yang Zhao, and Fei Cai hid in the shadows and did not say a word.

Let the few pawns on the surface charge forward.

He recognized the person wearing a mask with the word "soldier" as soon as he spoke Jiajing. It was his right capital censor Wang Tingxiang.

Wang Tingxiang was Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing in the 11th and 12th years of Jiajing, and now the Minister of War in Nanjing, Wang Fu, is from Jiajing. It is a good thing that he did not appear here, which shows that Jiajing did not misunderstand the person.

The affairs of the Nanjing Ministry of War should usually be in charge of those servants.

I didn't expect Wang Tingxiang to return to Nanjing and still be in charge. The organization and discipline here are quite strong.

"Ding You Year, March 21st, the first item on the agenda."

"Because Zhang Zhixiang won the championship for the Wang family at the martial arts conference, the Xu family adjusted their strategy with the intention of annihilating the Wang family's sea power. The core of the war is in the Nanyang region. For this reason, Zhang Zhixiang must recommend Jiajing and send troops to Annan to intervene in the war."

"I have received the news that Jiajing ordered Qiu Luan to be the commander-in-chief and Zhu Wan to be the deputy commander-in-chief. The entire army has gone south to fight in Annan."

"For the Annan war, two proposals have been received so far."

"Proposal No. 8 is to cooperate with the Xu family's attack and arrange a large army to support Mo Dengyong. It is necessary to mobilize troops from Guangdong, Guangxi, and southern Yunnan to enter Annan and disguise them as Annan troops. It is estimated that 160 troops can be deployed from officials and privates. The preliminary estimate of the war budget Set at [-] million taels."

"Proposal No. 20 is to allow Qiu Luan to capture Annan, retain Mo Dengyong's forces, and rely on local guerrilla harassment, so that Qiu Luan's Southern Expedition Army cannot support the Nanyang War, and at the same time fall into the quagmire of war and continue to consume Jiajing's internal funds. This budget Estimated at [-] taels."

"If you have any new proposals, you can submit them. If there are no new proposals, you will enter the discussion stage."

"The current emergency level is Class C, and the discussion will last for two hours. Please start."

The Senate began to discuss Annan's matter. Jiajing sat there and listened carefully, but he didn't interrupt. He knew that some confidential things had been hidden. He mainly looked at the form and process of the other party's work.

He found the rules of the Senate very strict.

There is a format for how to speak, and the procedures are handled one by one without procrastination. The information exchange is very efficient. He even jumped off the table and came to the clerk at the side, watching the clerk write quickly and record the meeting process. very clear.

It is more detailed than the emperor's daily life notes.

Jiajing noticed the special meeting book at this time, so he flipped through the back of the book without affecting the clerk's records, and found that there was indeed a printed signature page.

"Tsk tsk, I have to sign every time I have a meeting."

He was quite envious. With this thing, talking can no longer be regarded as farting. In his court, many officials speak like farting. The degree of shamelessness makes people speechless.

And, it's almost all effective information exchange here.

When the capital went to the court, it was often noisy like a vegetable market for a long time. In fact, they didn’t want the emperor to do things. After the court meeting, the organization in charge became the cabinet, and the emperor could only discuss with the cabinet.

That's right.

It is for the supervisor of ceremonies to approve the red seal, but you plan to return the cabinet's vote, so what if he doesn't change it?This matter is vacant, and everyone is deadlocked?

When you discuss it at the court meeting later on, it's just another half-day of nonsense.

After Jiajing had read the clerk's records, he continued to wander around. There were many bookshelves around Fengtian Hall, all of which clearly showed the contents, and they were all kinds of data.

When he was about to go in to read a book, Zhang Zhixiang followed.

Jiajing understood. It seems that the masters prepared by Nanjing are behind these bookshelves.

He didn't go in either.

Randomly found a bookshelf outside, found a summary collection in the "Population" area to watch, and couldn't help but read aloud: "December of Bingshen year, the yellow book statistics are over, the total population of Ming Dynasty is 720 Fifty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty one."

(End of this chapter)