It was clear to everyone that the general was intent on implementing the official selection system proposed by his son-in-law, Chi Fei, and the more astonishing system of supervising the officials of the Integrity Society.

The generals present are all Ning Zhiyuan's henchmen, and naturally only the handsome horse is the first. What's more, these two new policies have little to do with them, so no military general has an opinion.

And although some of those civil officials disagree with it in their hearts, first, there are few civil officials who are still in the northwest, and it is difficult to become a climate, and second, this is the meaning of the general, and they naturally dare not disagree with him in public.

Since there was no opposition from both the civil and military sides, these two new policies were successfully passed and implemented after the year.

Considering that there are too few scholars in the Northwest, in terms of the lower-level personnel of the Integrity Society at all levels, Ning Zhiyuan decided to select people from among veterans as much as possible.

These veterans are all old people who have been born and died with the Ning family for many years, and most of them have disabilities, and some of them are difficult to even do normal farming.

In order to accommodate these disabled veterans, the Ning family will generally arrange some light and simple work for them in the military cantonment area, which can be regarded as supporting them.

Now that we want to set up a clean and honest society under the direct jurisdiction of the Ning family, it is not a bad idea to place these disabled but loyal veterans into the clean and honest society.

In this way, firstly, the loyalty of the personnel is basically guaranteed, and secondly, the employment of these disabled veterans is solved by the way. This is also another suggestion made by Chi Fei to his father-in-law Ning Zhiyuan.

Of course, since most of the veterans are illiterate and cannot read official documents, most of them will only be assigned to do relatively simple chores. A small number of literate veterans will be placed in civilian positions.

In Chi Fei's view, the real role of these retired veterans is not to do chores in the society, but to be equivalent to the eyeliner arranged by the Ning family in the clean and honest society at all levels.

As long as there are these retired veterans who are loyal to the Ning family, they can greatly restrain the officials of the Integrity Society, so that they do not dare to make errands, and even collude with officials in other places.

This is also another hidden move to keep the integrity system highly independent.

As for the selection of officials at all levels, it can be composed of two parts, one is the military generals who have retired due to illness or injury, and the other is the current civilian officials.

In order to maintain the impartiality of the clean and honest society, it is not possible to select only the same type of people to be officials, otherwise it is easy to form a collusion relationship.

Therefore, the combination of this article and martial arts is also a good choice.

Chi Fei is not worried that the martial arts generals who have retired due to illness or injury will not be able to take on the duties of an official of the Integrity Society because of their lack of skills.

Although a military general is not as familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics as a civil official, he must have the ability to read military books, check official documents, and write battle reports, otherwise he will not be promoted at all.

A person who can become a high-ranking general can never be a reckless man who does not learn and has no skills.

People who have no brains and no strategy have long died on the battlefield, where is there a chance to move up.

Compared with these retired generals, the number of civil officials matched with them is too small, after all, most of the civil officials fled from the northwest before, and now there is really too little civilian officials.

Owing to the shortage of manpower, the current number of civil servants simply cannot meet the original needs of the four-tier system.

Therefore, Chi Fei can only retreat to the next best, and for the time being, it is only divided into the three-level system of the central, provincial, and government, and the county-level clean and honest society is omitted.

In fact, it should be said that there are only provincial and government clean and honest societies, because now there is only one person in the central clean and honest society who is in charge of the overall situation, and that person is the general Ning Zhiyuan himself.

It can be said that now Ning Zhiyuan is not only the leader of the military and government in the northwest, but also the general person in charge of the Central Integrity Society, and he has the three powers, and he is already a veritable emperor of the northwest and northeast.

For the time being, the system of clean and honest society will only be implemented in the northwest and will not be implemented in the northeast.

After all, this is a brand-new policy, and it must be tried for a period of time to see the effect, and you can't rush it.

Although Chi Fei is the designer of the entire supervision system of the integrity society, he cannot help much in terms of specific personnel arrangements.

After all, he didn't know much about the qualifications and abilities of the various officials and generals, and it was up to his father-in-law to decide.

After Chi Fei followed Ning Zhiyuan and other military generals to finish a round of work, the New Year was finally coming.

Seeing that the preparations for the new deal were almost ready, Ning Zhiyuan waved his hand and asked everyone to finish the year first.

At this time, the Ning Mansion was jubilantly making various preparations for the New Year.

Ah Zhi is the happiest one, except for the eldest sister Ning Yashan, almost all the family is here, and more importantly, her sweetheart is also by her side.

So she took Chi Fei around all day long, and went to the places she used to go to.

Seeing her so happy, Chi Fei couldn't help but be infected, and accompanied her everywhere in a very relaxed mood.

Sometimes when she is interested, she also catches fish and barbecues in the wild with her little wife, so that Ah Zhi doesn't want to go home.

Because she went back too late, this girl was also trained by her mother-in-law Yao, so she had to pull her head and ask Chi Fei for comfort.

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Just when everyone in the northwest was preparing for the New Year, the court in the capital was deserted and the atmosphere was depressing.

Because in the past month, Emperor Shuntian has issued several orders to reprimand several military generals for being weak and incompetent, causing the Hu people to burn, kill, and loot everywhere in the south, and do all kinds of evil.

And the military generals reprimanded by Emperor Shuntian were almost all of An Guogong's henchmen.

The meaning of it makes people think that this is the emperor knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.

On the surface, he scolded those military generals, but in fact, he scolded An Guogong himself.

Because everyone knows that it is precisely because of the practice of Anguo Gong to cede Yannan and Zhenyuan provinces that the Hu people are becoming more and more difficult to control in the southern inland areas.

Obviously, the rumors of the emperor's break with An Guogong are true, not acting.

For a time, everyone in the court was in danger, and they didn't dare to speak out casually, lest they be forced to stand in line.

Although Anguo Gong is in power, the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and he has an absolute advantage.

But after all, Emperor Shuntian is the blood of the Heavenly Family, the orthodoxy of the imperial court, and has a natural legal advantage.

One is an orthodox king, the other is a sharp minister, and now that the two sides are at loggerheads, no one knows what will happen in the future.

Therefore, no one is willing to take a stand at this time unless they are forced to do so.

In fact, for the Hu people who are constantly attacking cities and villages in the southern region, An Guogong and other leading nobles are not doing nothing and waiting.

More than a month ago, An Guogong finally transferred tens of thousands of elite soldiers guarding Jiangnan to Jiangkou Mansion in Pingnan, and together with the more than 300,000 soldiers from the local guard station who had been assembled before, they formed an army of more than 400,000 people.

At this time, the weather is getting colder and colder, and it is not suitable for long-range marches.

As a veteran who has led the army for many years, An Guogong naturally would not make such a low-level mistake.

He transferred this group of elite troops to the south just to tighten the defense of the southern provinces and prevent the Hu people from further encroaching on the counties in the south.

After more than a month of sneak attacks, the Hu people had already occupied three more prefectures at this time, which can be described as a lot of gains.

Not only that, from the southwest plateau, there are still countless Hu herdsmen who are dragging their families to Yannan and Zhenyuan, the inland areas actually occupied by the Hu people, and the pace of the Hu people's internal migration has not stopped.

On the first day of the New Year, a group of Hu envoys suddenly rode fast horses to the capital to ask for an audience with Emperor Shuntian, and very arrogantly said that they would present a letter of honor to the lord of Great Wei.

After reading the letter of state brought by the envoy of the Hu people, Emperor Shuntian's whole face turned iron-blue, and he had a terrible expression of wanting to directly pull out a knife and cut people.

It turned out that the Hu people declared in their letter of state that the Great Wei was willing to negotiate peace with the Great Wei in order to make peace between the two countries for a hundred years, but the premise was that the Great Wei would cede the southwest and the entire southern region to the Great Wei.

The matter soon spread, and the whole capital, whether it was a noble official or an ordinary person, was in an uproar.