Zhu Cihong was forced to be helpless when he became the emperor, and he was forced to be the emperor, which was really pitiful. Although he was forced to take the position of the head of the feudal state, he still had his own insistence - his subordinates must agree to his conditions, otherwise Prince Zhu will not be the emperor!

He can't be the emperor, so the courtiers all shouted in unison: "The ministers are willing to listen to Your Majesty's orders!" ”

"Good!" Zhu Cihong nodded heavily, "Let's all get up...... Everyone go to the courtyard, I want to make an appointment with Zhuqing outside the Wenhua Hall for four chapters! ”

Three chapters of the covenant are not enough, one more chapter must be written!

Today is a big day for Zhu Cihong to be the emperor, of course the courtiers have to follow him! Whoever wants to find it unpleasant today, then this "official student" will be in darkness.

Therefore, the big guys, including Emperor Chongzhen, who had tears of excitement in his eyes, followed him to the courtyard outside the Wenhua Palace, while blowing the cold wind, while listening to Zhu Cihong, who had become the seventeenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, talk about his covenant.

Huang Xiaobao, the master of ceremonies, and Chen Shifang, the superintendent of the East Factory, took matters into their own hands and moved a chair for Zhu Cihong from the Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Cihong stood up, looking down at the ministers in the courtyard from above, and a feeling of being high up and looking down on all living beings suddenly welled up from the bottom of his heart.

Is this what it's like to be an emperor?

Zhu Cihong sighed, calmed down his excitement, and gradually twisted up a pair of thick eyebrows: "Listen, if there is chaos today, the Central Plains, the Southwest, the Northwest, and the Northeast are all occupied by the captives, and only the Southeast is still stable." This kind of world is no longer a peaceful and prosperous era, but a troubled era of the Warring States!

Therefore, I should govern my family and country with the law of the Warring States in troubled times, not the law of governing the world and the benevolent monarch. Qing and others are the ministers of the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, and they should shoulder the cause of pacifying the troubled times, and they must not slack off in the slightest, nor follow the law of the Taiping rule of the world. Therefore, from this day on, all the laws established at the time of the great rule of the world can be easier! Do you know? ”

This is the first covenant between Zhu Cihong and his ministers - use the rule of law in troubled times to rule in troubled times!

Zhu Cihong also read history books, and he found that the thinking of the two Nandu dynasties in history, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty, had not completely changed, and they had not shifted from the mode of governing the world to the mode of chaotic times. Its symbol is to adhere to the ancestral family law of Wen Yuwu to the greatest extent!

Getting the wrong script in troubled times is quite fatal!

"The ministers know everything!"

The ministers shouted in unison, Xu was unintentional. And a certain emperor has increased his knowledge again - it turns out that the world is already in trouble! I knew that I should have taken out the methods used by Emperor Taizu Gao in the troubled times and learned them......

Zhu Cihong continued to say in a solemn and solemn tone: "In this dynasty, the world has always been half of the officials, half of the vassals, and the officials and vassals jointly assisted the king. However, the officials have a system, but the feudalism cannot. Therefore, the semi-feudal system of the guard was corrupted and erosive, and my millions of heavenly soldiers in the Ming Dynasty also existed in name only. Therefore, it is difficult to rule the world, and the world is in chaos.

Therefore, to govern the country, we should first clearly define the law, and then authorize the upper authorities and be responsible for the lower levels, and we must not violate them! ”

The ministers shouted: "The ministers are in order! ”

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were three internal vassal systems, one was the Saiwang, the second was the guard, and the third was the Tusi.

But by the time Zhu Cihong was in power, the only thing that could still operate normally was the Tusi system. King Sai was abolished by Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di.

However, there are serious institutional defects in the system of the guards, and the guards implement the world's officials and soldiers, which is a typical feudal system, but the feudalism of the guards has the problem of insufficient authorization and no one can be responsible. The authority of the head of the guard is not large, and it is not enough to strictly rectify the department. At the same time, they do not have to be responsible for the corruption of the guards, they only serve as their hereditary officials, and they have been making money for generations.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong has decided to completely abolish the guards, and all the guards in the territory that the imperial court can effectively control, including the seven guards of Denglai, the eight guards of Fengyang, and the five guards of Runing, are all abolished. The land that has been granted to the guard post shall be registered as a professional land by the holder of an officer or soldier in active service, and shall be converted into private land until the completion of the officer's service or after the death or wounded retirement. The land that has not yet been granted will be held by the Military Field Division of the Ministry of War, which will be used to collect rent and pay salaries, or to reward meritorious new army officers and soldiers.

With the consolidation of Zhu Cihong's regime, the threshold for granting land will naturally become higher and higher, and the number of fields granted will become tighter and tighter - after all, Zhu Cihong is no longer short of soldiers, and after the land granted, the income of the military field division will be reduced accordingly.

Of course, it is not possible to give land - it is a painting cake that motivates soldiers to fight hard, without this benefit, who will follow and work hard?

Moreover, after completing the land consolidation in the southeast (Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang) and Huguang (Hunan, Hubei), most of the land under the jurisdiction of the Military Field Department can reach hundreds of millions of mu.

As long as the situation in the southeast tends to stabilize, the value of these hundreds of millions of mu of land should soon reach 2 billion taels! And the annual rent that can be received, according to five buckets of rice with a 20% discount (two discounts are the cost of rent collection), can theoretically reach 80 million stone white rice!

The military expenses and bonuses of the Northern Expedition have to be taken from this 100 million mu!

Zhu Cihong then lowered his tone a little: "The chaos in the world stems from the erosion of the guard, and also from the collapse of finances. The rot of the guard lies in the fact that there is no responsibility for the seal, and the financial collapse lies in the preferential treatment of scholars and doctors, and the clan is too much!

And after the world collapsed, the scholars and the clan suffered the most! There are countless people who have died in the broken family of the Beidi Doctor, and there are countless people who have died from the blade of the thief Kou Dongyu.

This kind of preferential treatment is really a life-saving strategy! Therefore, I should make an agreement with the princes, and pay taxes as one with agriculture, industry and commerce; The grace of the nobles, the fifth and beheaded; The royal family can also be an official! ”

This time, the officials and nobles present were a little unhappy. No one likes to pay taxes, and everyone wants their children and grandchildren to enjoy all the glory!

Zhu Cihong's eyes swept coldly from the ministers outside the Wenhua Palace, and then raised his voice and said loudly: "Flowing water is not rotten, the household hub is not mole, and it is also moving!" And those who move are forced by the times! If the kindness of the ancestors is too much, how can the children and grandchildren be willing to move? You and others have a wide range of wives and concubines, many sons and grandchildren, how much grace can you have to shelter them?

The only feasible thing is to let them be forced by the situation, and they must go to school, join the army, and run a business. Only in this way can the wealth last and the family prosper.

If you are still not at ease, then I can allow the hereditary succession of the Lord of the Conqueror, but one lord can only pass on one son, and the rest of the sons are not allowed to shadow the officials. In the future, they can enter the national eunuch and enter the martial arts hall, but they can't be officials! ”

Of course, Zhu Cihong's arrangement is not to block the way of the children of meritorious officials and the children of the clan - he is a feudal emperor, of course, he believes in his own people. But you have to have the ability to take over the cause of feudalism!

And the ability is mostly forced!

You can be an official without knowing anything, and you can be prosperous and rich, who will work hard to learn skills?

"Your Majesty's Hadith!"

After receiving the guarantee of the "hereditary recklessness of the Lord of the Victory", this "third covenant" has finally passed.

Zhu Cihong nodded, and said: "The fourth covenant is the method of reforming the imperial examination!" Taizu opened the department to select talents and talents for the country. Can it be passed on to modern times, the Manchu Dynasty Zhu Zi, and the imperial examinations, all of them are capable ministers and virtuous people? In my opinion, they are not as good as the so-called Eight Banner Chiefs of Dongyu! Otherwise, how could the battle of Liaodong be invincible? The Eight Banners of the East Capture are only tens of thousands of strong, if the illiterate people under the command of Emperor Taizu attack it, I am afraid that they will be wiped out for many years, how can they be strong today? It can be seen that the people of the imperial examination are not enough.

Since it is not enough, then the method of taking scholars must be greatly changed! We must emphasize practical learning and ignore morality, use capable officials and stay away from Confucianism, and do not let the people who take it ascend to the sky in one step. What do you think? ”

"The ministers are willing to listen to the order......"

Of course, there is progress in being an official in the exam, but it is not right to be a big official in the exam! The first officials of the Ming Dynasty Jinshi are generally seven grades, and those at the bottom of the ranking can get a county order, which is a bit too much to take the marquis of a hundred miles seriously.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong is ready to overhaul the imperial examination, cancel the Jinshi who ascend to the sky in one step, and only retain the two levels of lifting people and showing talents. Among them, the person can be "provincial test" or "ministry test", and if he wins, he will be qualified to be an official, but he has to start from the Jiupin Sesame Official.