Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 470 Reform
In fact, the reform has never stopped.

For example, let Huangfeng Mansion measure the land of the entire South Zhili.

But after that, the Huangfeng Mansion still did not stay with Yang Chao, but let him start to handle the government affairs, and the government affairs of the whole world were handed over to him.

However, no major adjustments have been made. Whether it is collecting business taxes or clearing land, it can be said that it is just an adjustment. Reversing the unreasonable phenomenon is far from being a reform.

"Once we act, we must act swiftly and resolutely. We cannot afford to delay."

"My subordinates know."

The most important thing about reform is to create a capable and efficient government.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they only occupied the north, but they were able to pacify the area while fighting against Li Zicheng. This was something that the Ming Dynasty could not do before, precisely because they had a capable government with skilled personnel and no Redundant, and there is a vigor.

The government of the Ming Dynasty was full of corruption, and the various systems were complicated. It was like a rusty machine that couldn't turn at all. In addition, the officials who operated the machine were all pedantic, and they were not busy making money. Using power for personal gain with money is passive dereliction of duty.

Now Yang Chao is about to start dealing with political affairs.

At this time, the officials in Nanzhili and other places are basically old members of the Ming Dynasty. In order to stabilize the place as quickly as possible, Yang Chao did not move these people. In the beginning, in the Nanzhili area, officials above the prefect basically did not cooperate. Yang Chao, when Zhu Cihuan ascended the throne in Fujian, most of them went to Fujian to become officials. At that time, Yang Chao could only appoint a large number of officials.

Later, when Shandong, Zhejiang, and now Jiangxi were recovered, the so-called integrity of these civil servants was much lowered, and most of them stayed, and even actively flattered Yang Chao. After all, when the Manchus came, they all surrendered once. What integrity is there to speak of.

Therefore, the entire government under the rule is full of veterans. The officials have no moral character, neither have the courage to resist when foreign invasions occur, nor have the sense of mission to serve the people wholeheartedly. Corruption is still serious.

"There are still not enough scholars in our army. I can only give you 1000 people. It is impossible for these 1000 people to fit into every yamen, so a county sends two or three people, and each government office cannot exceed ten people. There is still a large number of people who need to be retained. Original officials. The only way to get rid of paralysis is corruption. Anyway, no matter whether you are greedy or not, there is no one who can do practical things. Instead of this, it is better to use clean and mediocre officials. Only when these talents grow up can they take on great responsibilities what."

"The subordinates know. There are three inspectors in each county. If the local magistrates are involved in corruption, they will be investigated immediately."

"No, don't use the name of the inspector. There will be a military training officer, a food supervisor, and a law enforcement officer. Take part of the power from the local county magistrate. From now on, the county magistrate will only be in charge of administration, and the judiciary will be exclusive. Our army Most of the Chinese scholars are also leading judges, which can be regarded as some experience. Let them set up courts to handle trials, and there must be no mistakes in the court sessions every day. The grain supervisor strictly checks the taxation of grain in summer and autumn, and strictly prohibits officials from doing anything. Merchants buy low and sell high, one or two We need to persist in the guaranteed minimum income of silver. As for the military trainers, let them recruit soldiers for training in places with abundant labor, firstly to deter the localities, and secondly, to continuously add new troops to the army in the future."

Huang Fengfu said: "The subordinates understand. They are obviously training soldiers, supervising food and judicature, and they are secretly responsible for monitoring officials."

Yang Chao shook his head: "It's not for them to supervise, but for them to learn how to handle government affairs first. Those officials are corrupt and don't work, but there are also institutional reasons. The first is that the salary is too low. As an official, you have to pay attention to it." To save face, during the Taizu period, some officials from other places even resigned and committed suicide without making troubles to return home. We cannot let such honest and non-corrupt people live. Not everyone is Hai Rui, so they can not eat meat all year round. At the same time of corruption, you have to increase your salaries and reduce the expenses of these officials. From then on, no officials are allowed to hire masters. You are going to be an official. Why do you hire a master? Everything is done by the master. What do you want?"

Huang Fengfu said again: "If you don't invite the master, the county masters will not know how to settle accounts and don't understand the law. I am afraid that the two masters of Qiangu and Xingming are indispensable."

Yang Chao snorted and said: "Being an official, being an official, what kind of official is this, and he doesn't understand the money and food account books, and he doesn't understand the criminal laws of the Ming Dynasty, but he grasps the local finance and is responsible for hearing the case. Can this be qualified? I might as well just recruit Qian Gu and Xing Mingshi are the county magistrates."

Huang Fengfu was startled and said: "Your Excellency intends to abolish the imperial examination?"

If Yang Chao directly recruits officials in the future, wouldn't the imperial examination system be abolished?

Yang Chao shook his head and said: "The imperial examination is still good. The bad thing is that the content of the imperial examination is not practical at all. The Four Books and the Five Classics are to teach scholars to be human, not to teach them to be officials. To be an official, you still have to be able to do something. In the future, the imperial examination There is no need for the Four Books and Five Classics, and the selection of scholars is divided into disciplines. The household division relies on the study of money and food account books, and the criminal division relies on the study of legal provisions and criminal names. With such questions, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials are like this."

Yang Chao has never thought that the imperial examination is a backward system. You must know that this system has been praised by the West, and it is more than one point better than the aristocratic politics that the West has always played. There are too many, and it is more fair. The British only started to learn in the [-]th century, but the Chinese called the British civil service system under cover of deceit.

Huang Fengfu secretly rejoiced. He finally figured out that Yang Chao still needs the imperial examination. As long as he takes the imperial examination, he can win the hearts of scholars. No matter what the examination is, as long as he passes this way, he can learn. Chao was worried about confrontation with the Jiangnan scholar class. Without the support of the scholar-bureaucrat class, he never had the appearance of establishing a foundation.

"My lord, shouldn't it be time to start a class to get a scholar?"

Huang Fengfu probed.

Yang Chao shook his head and said, "Don't worry. Where there is room for them, and none of them have any experience, it's better to use this group of officials now. But it can be tried in the army now, as long as they can read and write, they can do it." Examination. It is divided into three subjects first, which are used to select military trainers, food supervisors and law enforcement officers. It is estimated that the group of scholars will take advantage of it."

Huang Fengfu hurriedly said: "This subordinate will go to prepare now."

Yang Chao nodded: "Although this group of scholars is taking advantage, there is nothing we can do about it. The soldiers we literate ourselves have a poor foundation, and many of them are just learning to read and write. It is the officers like Wang Pu who let them read military books. It's a bit of a struggle, let alone other soldiers."

Huang Fengfu said: "Don't worry, my lord, these scholars are no longer the scholars of the past."

Yang Chao nodded: "That's true, I have been to several wars, and I have seen a scholar with blood."

Mentioning these scholars, Yang Chao also expressed emotion. At the beginning, this group of people was indeed more afraid than ordinary people. This has something to do with the culture they accept, and it also has something to do with the class they were born in. Everyone is either rich or expensive, and they don’t have to worry about food and drink. Guy, if you let them kill people with knives, it's no wonder you're not afraid.

Therefore, their performance in the first battle was much worse than that of ordinary peasant children, and a large number of them even ran away. Yang Chao treated them equally and killed them directly.

After a few times, the scholars got used to it, but their death rate was obviously higher than that of ordinary recruits. There are more than 1 scholars, and now there are less than 8000 left, which is [-]% higher than the [-]% death rate of Yang Chao's army last year. times.

But after several battles with Hauge, King Sanshun, and even the Northern Expedition, these scholars did not know what kind of mental journey they had gone through, and each of them had a big change in personality. At this time, they were no different from ordinary soldiers, talking loudly, cursing, and fighting in the army , all of which are indispensable, Yang Chao is not without emotion, they seem to have accepted another culture, ** culture!

In fact, Yang Chao himself has been infected by this kind of culture. When he was in the army, his catchphrases were "Lao Tzu" and "Your Mother", but when he went outside, he immediately became civilized and polite.

"Propaganda in the army first, let these scholars prepare well. The content of the scientific examination, the military trainer naturally examines the art of war, from Sun Tzu's art of war, Wei Liaozi, Sima's law, Ji Xiao's new book, military training records, etc., combined with examples, Finally, let the lieutenant generals review the papers. The food supervisors rely on abacus and keep accounts, and at the same time give them some examples to calculate. The law enforcement officers examine the Ming Law, and also give examples."

Yang Chao plans to divide the exam into two parts. One part is the post test, which is the fill-in-the-blank questions and multiple-choice questions for future generations.

"The subordinates will prepare."

Yang Chao nodded: "Don't be selfish. I will choose the questions you propose. If it is exposed in advance, even your own governor will never let you go lightly!"

Yang Chao was a little afraid of cheating. There was no problem with the imperial examination process. The names on the papers were all blurred, but he was most afraid of leaking the exam questions. This kind of thing happened once or twice in the Ming Dynasty. Tang Bohu was canceled because of this matter. exam eligibility.

"My subordinates dare not!"

Yang Chao still believed in the integrity of Huangfeng Mansion: "Remember, we have not accomplished our great cause, and the country is the most important thing!"

Yang Chao continued to use meritorious deeds to stimulate him. Yang Chao knew how important meritorious deeds were to a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. Almost no one could get rid of this kind of ambition to make meritorious deeds, and Huang Fengfu was a person with a very serious deeds of merit. Well, this kind of person's enthusiasm for work can reach the level of a workaholic, and if he doesn't use it well, he will also play various shady tricks.

Huang Feng's mansion immediately went to prepare, and after ten days, they sorted out a set of questions. At the same time, they had already let scholars in the army know that Yang Chao was going to hold an imperial examination and select talents in the army. This made these people crazy. As for the scientific examination The content is not the Four Books and Five Classics, they don't care about it for a long time, and start reading military books like crazy, looking at money and food accounts, learning abacus, reading the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and studying various cases from previous years.

It was already October, and Yang Chao planned to select this group of people years ago, and then distribute them to various county governments.

The third step of getting rid of the arthralgia has finally been taken. It will take Yang Chao a year to solve the government affairs problem.

(End of this chapter)