Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 719 The Foundation of Stability

Li Jing sighed and continued: "But it is not so easy to establish a noble school. If we want to train nobles, we must have the appearance of a noble school. There must be a few people with titles working in the school to be convincing.

But people with titles in Ming Dynasty are either relatives of the emperor or hereditary based on the merits of their ancestors. You know that I don't like these people very much, so naturally I won't let them work in the school.What can students learn from them?Learn how to idle around?How to find flowers and ask willows? "

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

With a smile, Li Jing continued: "In addition to these people, there are also those who have been entrusted by the emperor after I came to power, that is, Brother Bo Ying and Xu Ji, the descendant of Mr. Xu who succeeded Rong Guogong, and Wen Zhao. Brother and Chen Dahu, as well as Huang Taiji and Li Zong from North Korea.

Among these few people, brother Bo Ying is definitely not able to hold a post in the school due to his busy schedule. Xu Ji is more suitable. Unfortunately, although he has a title, his prestige is far behind.Brother Wenzhao and Chen Dahu needless to say, Brother Wenzhao is stronger, he has read a few books, and the two brothers Chen Dahu know less than a basket of words.As for Huang Taiji and Li Zong, there is no need to think about it. I can't let foreigners teach Han people to read and write, right? "

Shaking his head, Li Jing continued: "At this moment my father-in-law fell ill, and I just wanted to implement the retirement system, so I asked my wife to persuade him to retire. He was awarded the title.

My father-in-law was knighted, and I selected one more person. Although he is not in good health, he has been busy for most of his life. He must not be able to adapt to the sudden leisure. Let him be the sacrificial wine of the noble school. There was something to do, and it was not very tiring, so I persuaded my father-in-law to come out and do it.

It's just that although my father-in-law's prestige is sufficient, he is a businessman, but his knowledge is not enough, and it is difficult for him to serve as the school's sacrificial wine.

At this time, I thought of Hengchen. Although Hengchen has not reached the retirement age, his health has not been very good in the past two years.Under my persuasion, Hengchen agreed to retire, and then I asked the emperor to grant Hengchen a title.Hengchen has no problem in terms of reputation or knowledge, and there is no doubt about his appointment as the sacrificial wine of the noble school. "

Huang Daozhou heard the words and sighed: "So that's the case! Because Mr. Zhou has become an official, he has been suspected by many people!"

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "Have I received less suspicion in my life? But I can be suspicious of others, but I can't make you suspicious. Otherwise, how can everyone work together to rejuvenate and strengthen Daming?"

Gao Qi smiled and said: "We have been with the commander-in-chief for so many years, and we all know who the commander-in-chief is. Even Mr. Huang, after so many years, he must also know the commander-in-chief very well. How could we suspect the commander-in-chief?" ?”

Everyone nodded when they heard the words, and echoed in unison.

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

Turning his head to look at the equation, Li Jing shook his head and sighed: "No solution, now that you have entered the cabinet, the burden is even heavier. You always feel that you have a low background, so you work harder than anyone else in doing things. All these years, as long as you are You do all the things assigned to you by yourself. I remember you are only one year older than me, right? But you have much more gray hair than me, you should pay attention to rest!"

Hearing this, Fang Fang got up and cupped his hands and said: "The commander-in-chief puts the students in the midst of things, and repeatedly entrusts them with important tasks. The death of a student is not enough to repay the commander's kindness. But the students know that the commander-in-chief never asks for anything in return from the students, and the students don't have him." If there is no way, I can only do my best to do the tasks assigned by the commander in order to repay the commander in chief's kindness."

Li Jing nodded and sighed: "I know, I know everything you do! But you can no longer be like before. As a cabinet minister, you have to learn to hand things over to the people below. We are not too young anymore, we need to train more young people.

Have you seen Romance of the Three Kingdoms?The Kingdom of Shu was originally full of talents, including Zhuge Wuhou, but why was the Kingdom of Shu destroyed by the Kingdom of Wei first?I think the main reason is Zhuge Wuhou. "

Seeing the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, Li Jing sighed: "Do you think I'm talking nonsense, Zhuge Wuhou has dedicated himself to the Kingdom of Shu, how can Zhuge Wuhou be blamed for the destruction of the Kingdom of Shu?

Let me ask you, Zhuge Wuhou does everything by himself, so what do his subordinates do?Subordinates do nothing, how to grow?Therefore, Zhuge Wuhou did everything by himself, which actually suppressed the growth of talents in Shu.Therefore, after Zhuge Wuhou passed away, no one was able to succeed him, and no one could resist Wei Guo, and was eventually destroyed by Wei Guo. "

Everyone nodded silently.

Li Jing looked at the formula and continued: "I told you this to tell you that you do everything yourself, and you will suppress the growth of your subordinates. When you are old and can't do it, who will take over your shift? "

Fang Fang hurriedly said: "How dare the students compare with Zhuge Wuhou? Besides, there are so many talents in the Ming Dynasty, how can there be no successors?"

Li Jing shook his head: "There is no solution, the reason is the same. If you do everything by yourself, those talents will not have the opportunity to exercise. The things that the Ministry of Industry is responsible for need more practical exercise. If you can't get exercise, you are considered a talent. It will eventually become a mediocrity."

Gently patted Fang Fang's hand, Li Jing sighed: "No solution, we are not too young, some things should not be done by ourselves, give young people more opportunities, we just need to grasp the general direction."

"Yes! Commander." Fang said hurriedly.

Li Jing smiled and continued: "By the way, Zhao Shuangxi is pretty good, but I haven't seen him for some years."

Fang Fang hurriedly said: "It's very good. Shuangxi often tells me about the commander-in-chief, saying that if it wasn't for the commander-in-chief, their family would have starved to death. Shuangxi originally wanted to go to Beijing to visit the commander-in-chief during Chinese New Year last year, but Mr. Chuyang (Sun Yuanhua) wanted to test the newly developed artillery, so Shuangxi stayed in the military factory to preside over the matter.”

Li Jingjing nodded and sighed: "Double Happiness has been with me since the sixth year of Tianqi. These years, I have been working hard and never slack off in doing things. It is thanks to Shuangxi that Daming's military manufacturing has achieved what it is today. Next time you see Shuangxi , give him a message for me, just say that he has worked hard for him these years, and ask him to pay attention to rest.

In addition, you tell him what I just said, and then tell him that military technology is a major national event, remember not to be satisfied with the status quo, and must encourage everyone, especially young people, to innovate more. Only in this way, our Daming's weapons In order to always be ahead of other countries. "

"Don't worry, Marshal, I will definitely bring the message to you." Fang Fang hurriedly said.

Li Jingjing nodded, turned to look at Gao Qi and said, "Brother Gao, now let me talk about the Ministry of War."

Gao Qi heard the words and hurriedly sat upright.

Li Jing waved his hands and smiled, "We've been brothers for almost 20 years, why are you so serious?"

Gao Qi smiled, but his sitting posture remained unchanged.

Li Jing couldn't help but shook his head when he saw it, and then said: "Brother Gao, you know that I have been in control of the military power since I entered the main center.

Now that the country is stable, there is no need for me to hold on to military power anymore.The appointment of you as Minister of the Ministry of War this time is to prepare for decentralization. "

Gao Qi couldn't help being shocked when he heard this.

When Gao Qi received Li Jing's appointment as Minister of the Ministry of War that day, he vaguely guessed that Li Jing was planning to delegate power, but before Li Jing himself admitted it, how dare Gao Qi ask?

Now that Li Jing personally said the words of delegating power, Gao Qi dared to agree, and hurriedly got up and said: "Commander, under your command these years, the Ming army has been invincible and invincible. Now there are still many places in Daming that have not been recovered. , How can you delegate power at this time? My brother will never dare to accept this power."

Li Jing raised his hand and pressed it falsely: "Brother Gao, sit down and listen to me tell you slowly."

After Gao Qi sat down again, Li Jing smiled and said, "Brother Gao, do you still remember when we first met?"

Gao Qi sighed softly when he heard the words: "How can I forget? At that time, Big Brother Sun and I were all prisoners of Big Brother. Not only did Big Brother not kill us, but he gave us a sum of money. Hehe, it was from that day on. , Brother decided to spend the rest of his life with Big Brother."

Li Jing smiled and said: "I promised you to give you a thousand acres of fertile land, but unfortunately after nearly 20 years, this promise has not been fulfilled."

Gao Qi said with a smile: "Brother and Commander in these years, the Commander has rewarded the brother with more than ten thousand mu of fertile land? Not to mention the reward from the Commander, it is the reward from the wife to my mother-in-law every year, which is enough for the brother and his family to eat a whole meal." Year."

Li Jing smiled and waved his hands: "It's digressing, the more I talk, the farther I go."

Sighing lightly, Li Jing continued: "Back then, we only had a hundred or so brothers. We didn't grow up until we occupied Hongshanling. Later, the bandits started to make trouble, and we took the opportunity to occupy Pingyang Mansion. Then At that time, you all advised me to take the opportunity to overthrow Ming Dynasty and let me become the emperor. What did I say at the time? I said that I would never become emperor, and my wish was to calm down the foreign troubles of Ming Dynasty, and then do everything possible to make Ming Dynasty strong again stand up."

"Yes! Big brother said so back then, and he did the same thing. Now big brother has already achieved the goal he set at the beginning." Gao Qi sighed.

Li Jing shook his head: "What you see is only the surface. In fact, many goals have not been realized at all."

"How could it be? Daming's national power and military strength are far stronger than those of the previous dynasty. How can the elder brother have not achieved the goal set at the beginning?" Gao Qi wondered.

Li Jing smiled: "If you want to make Daming strong and maintain it, you must formulate a complete system, otherwise, the current prosperity is just a flash in the pan, and it won't be many years before it will repeat the same mistakes.

In fact, you should see that I have been working on developing a new system these years.

But if the army doesn't formulate a perfect system, then those other systems are nothing more than moonlight in the water, flowers in the mirror.

We all know that the power of the Ming army is now completely concentrated in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. If the Metropolitan Governor has the heart of disobedience, he can change the dynasty overnight.

Now I am the governor, and I can guarantee that I will never do anything that endangers Daming, but what about the next one?And what about the next term?I can't guarantee that the governor will always be loyal to Daming.

Therefore, in order to prevent such a thing from happening, I want to disperse the military power while in office, so that the governor cannot dominate the family and prevent mutiny from happening. "

(End of this chapter)