Chapter 648: Transformation and Transformation
In June of the fourth year of Chenghua, Jingshi.
After sufficient preparations, Liu Juntao played Emperor Chenghua in the name of the first assistant of the cabinet and began to officially implement the reform.
Emperor Chenghua immediately approved it, and began the prelude to the Chenghua Reform.
In this change, Liu Juntao first aimed at the official position system of the imperial court, and only by changing the system of the imperial court can the subsequent changes be carried out smoothly.
The first change decree promulgated by Liu Juntao was the official body reform order!
In this order, Liu Juntao redefined the responsibilities of the six departments of the imperial court:
Ministry of War: In charge of the military affairs of the Ming Dynasty, in charge of the drills, equipment, mobilization, conquest and other matters of the national army, equivalent to the Ministry of Defense and the Military Commission of later generations, Xiang Qun, the Minister of the Military Department of the Shogunate, was nominated by Liu Juntao as the deputy secretary of the Ministry of War, and at the same time abolished the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and completely transferred the right of the Ming Army to the Ministry of War.
The military department is organized according to the military department of Liu Juntao's shogunate:
Set up a conscription department, the country's prefectures and counties of school-age men to make a grade register, and strict selection, these selected men will be in the prefectures and counties of the training camp on a regular basis, twice a year, each time a month, as the Ming Dynasty source of reserves, Ming provinces, prefectures and counties will successively establish training camps, under the direct jurisdiction of the conscription department, not subordinate to the locality. Cheng Wu Lei, the director of the Shogunate Conscription Division, remained as the Director of the Military Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War.
Liu Juntao handed over the Yushan Town Military Bureau, Dongpingzhou Ordnance Bureau, Xuzhou Military Bureau, and several military bureaus in Shanxi to the imperial court, and the Military Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs will continue to establish hundreds of military bureaus in various provinces across the country to ensure that there is a military bureau in every prefecture. All of these military bureaus will be directly under the management of the Armament Division, and will adopt the management form of merchants, and the Ministry of War will directly place orders for procurement every year, and will be responsible for their own profits and losses, so as to completely put an end to the occurrence of corruption and shoddy manufacturing; The Shogunate's Military Garrison Division, Zhang Baigui, was old and strong, and he remained as the Commander of the Military Division.
The establishment of the Department of Suppression and Pacification, the internal responsible for the Ming Army's military discipline inspection, any part of the Ming Army, the Department of Suppression and Pacification will send people to follow, supervise violations of military discipline, and register military merits, to prevent the occurrence of military merits. The shogunate's Zhenfu Division, Chengtian Yusheng, remained as the secretary of the military department.
A research and development department has been set up to be responsible for the research and development and testing of various new equipment and the improvement of existing armaments. Yang Liben, the director of the Shogunate's R&D Division, remained as the director of the R&D Department of the Ministry of War.
Household Department: In charge of the civil affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Juntao took out the financial power of the Ming Dynasty that was originally in charge of the household department from the household department, and turned the household department into a Qingshui Yamen who was only in charge of civil affairs.
Modeled after the Tuntian Division of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Shogunate, the Material Division was set up to take charge of the affairs of the Mintun in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, the storage and transportation of various materials, and the price of goods in the Ming Dynasty was stabilized. Shogunate Tuntian Division Cheng Zhang Rui retained materials Division Division.
The establishment of the household registration department, in charge of the Ming Dynasty household information, and re-compile the fish scale yellow book, after every ten years to re-examine, as the Ming Dynasty to collect taxes, levy and issue forced labor certificates. The Shogunate's Family Register Division, Xu Fa, remained as the Household Registration Division.
Criminal Department: Responsible for the arrest and public security of all parts of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Juntao took out the trial power of the original Criminal Department and turned the Criminal Department into a public security agency for later generations.
Liu Juntao set up under the Criminal Department:
The Department of Public Security, in charge of the maintenance of civil law and order in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, set up public security offices in various places, and established three levels at the county, government and provincial levels.
Case Division: Responsible for preserving all the interrogation, case handling materials and other elements of the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Zetian, the former Shogunate Case Division, remained as the Division;
Jianfeng Division: Responsible for commanding a special army and horses, specializing in dealing with bandits and heroes in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, the former shogunate Jianfeng Division Division Xu Zhaohui will remain as Si Cheng.
Ministry of Officials: Responsible for the selection, use, transfer, assessment and other things of officials at all levels of the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to the organization department of later generations. Liu Juntao nominated Lan Siqi, the head of the Central Department of the Shogunate, as the deputy secretary of the ministry.
Ministry of Rites: Responsible for the diplomatic affairs of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the undertaking of national ceremonies. Liu Juntao merged the original Taichang Temple, Honglu Temple, and Guanglu Temple into the Ministry of Rites to streamline personnel and save court expenses.
Ministry of Industry: In charge of the construction of Daming National Engineering, as well as the research and development and promotion of various new inventions, new technologies and new equipment. At the same time, Liu Juntao merged the general of the shogunate and the Ministry of Commerce into the Ministry of Industry, and retained the secretary of the department, Cheng Ma Lijun.
On the basis of the restructuring of the original six departments of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Juntao also added a lot of new institutions:
Increase the Ministry of Finance: Manage the banks reorganized by the ticket number in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and control the financial power of the imperial court of the original household department. Liu Juntao nominated Tang Yu, the former minister of commerce of the shogunate, as the first minister of finance of the Ming Dynasty.
Under the Department of Finance: docking the annual income and expenditure and reimbursement of the Ming Dynasty, the two capitals and 13 provinces, the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Hanhai Metropolitan Protectorate;
It has the Department of Industry and Commerce: responsible for the management of all workshops and commerce in Daming, as well as the production of various materials and the sale of patents, intervening in commercial affairs in Daming and collecting various administrative fees; The former shogunate secretary of commerce and commerce, Cheng Cui Ning, retained.
Under the central bank: responsible for the management of all private and government-run banks in the Ming Dynasty, and began to prepare for the transition of silver bills to paper money, and at the same time manage private lending; Xu Ping, the former secretary of the shogunate's financial department, was retained.
It has the Treasury Department under it: it has jurisdiction and reserves all kinds of strategic materials, and allocates and records them according to the actual needs of the imperial court; The former Shogunate Treasury Division Cheng He Xin retained.
It has a tax department: responsible for the formulation, collection, reduction and exemption of various taxes in Daming, and is responsible for the collection of commercial tax in Daming.
It has a customs department, which is responsible for the collection of foreign trade tariffs in the Ming Dynasty.
In the Ministry of Finance system designed by Liu Juntao, it also undertook a series of major measures, including the control of the Daming Bank, the new tax system, the implementation of the integrated taxation of the gentry and the original invoices, and the implementation of the land contract ownership system combined with the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, in order to reduce resistance, these new policies also recognized to a certain extent some of the interests of the existing big landlords, the big tycoons, and the gentry, and did not completely overturn and start over.
Increase the Ministry of Education: in charge of the new schools and military schools that are being built in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and organize the annual entrance examinations, graduation examinations, and triennial imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty to provide various talents for the Ming Dynasty; At the same time, the Ministry of Education will also set up a variety of skill examinations, which are recognized by the imperial court for various capable people.
Guo Changjing, the former director of the Ministry of Education of the Shogunate, remained as the secretary of the Ministry of Education.
Increase the Ministry of Supervision: Liu Juntao merged the former Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Yamen of the Six Departments into the Ministry of Supervision, which was responsible for supervising officials at all levels in the Ming Dynasty, and was responsible for submitting impeachment to the Fatang once illegal matters were discovered.
Increase the law hall: responsible for the judicial trial of the Ming Dynasty, and set up independent courts in the provinces, prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty, specializing in hearing all kinds of lawsuits, not subject to the management of the Ming Dynasty at all levels of the Yamen, the law hall and the courts directly belong to the Ming Emperor.
The former shogunate law hall secretary Cheng Yasuming retained.
Increase the medical department: responsible for the management of the medical centers being built in various parts of Daming, and responsible for the research and development and use of Daming medicine, and responsible for fighting the plague and other medical affairs in Daming. Liu Juntao also incorporated the Tai Hospital into the Ministry of Medical Care, and the former Shogunate Medical Department Si Cheng Cen Entropy was retained.
Increase the CIA: responsible for the collection, verification, summary and reporting of internal and external intelligence of the Ming Dynasty.
Under the establishment of the Fang Division, the Imperial Division, the Fan Bang Division, respectively, the civilian, government at all levels, foreign intelligence search, the former shogunate intelligence department of the Cheng Liu Shang, Liu Zhong, Liu Xia, Guo Yi respectively served as the secretary and deputy secretary.
At the same time, Liu Juntao merged all the Yamen of the Fusi of the Southern and Northern Towns into the Ministry of Central Intelligence, and Liu Zi'an, the former head of the Intelligence Department of the Shogunate, became the head of the Central Intelligence Department, and the former commander of the Northern Fusi served as the deputy minister.
The praise painting department was added, which provided advice to Liu Juntao and Emperor Chenghua on the internal and external situation of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Yuqing, the former head of the shogunate's praise and painting department, became the minister.
The Strategic Department is set up: responsible for the formulation of the overall military strategy of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the formulation of the military posture of all forces, and Zhao Ling, the former director of the Shogunate Strategy Division, is the secretary;
There is a staff department: responsible for the on-the-spot planning of the army's expedition, as well as providing various strategic references; And the Ming Dynasty out of ~ Taiwan to screen and improve the various policies, by the former shogunate staff secretary Zhao Bingyi as the secretary;
The Archives Department is responsible for collecting various strategic, historical, and intelligence materials, and archiving them for future reference, providing data support for the Strategic Department and the General Staff Department to make decisions.
In addition, Liu Juntao enriched the Copywriting Department, the Government Decree Department, and the Development Department of the former Shogunate Central Department into the cabinet, and all these three divisions were used as subordinate departments of the Cabinet, and the former Shogunate Central Department Ministers Yang Qifan, He Zhiming, and Chen Rui all remained in the cabinet.
As for the officials of the original six ministries, Liu Juntao organized a huge assessment, and evaluated these officials, all the officials who could get excellent exams were appointed to the ministries and departments as deputy directors, supervising the matter, and giving the matter and giving the matter, and the rest of the assessment passed all moved to Nanjing to take up posts, and the remaining unqualified ones were all eliminated!
At the same time, Liu Juntao mobilized generals and commanders to take charge of military reforms, and ordered the full implementation of firearms in the Ming Army, and began to imitate the model and establishment of the Tiance Army throughout the country to train the new army and navy of the Ming Dynasty.
For these decrees of Liu Juntao, Emperor Chenghua approved them all, and did his best to support them, so that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the subjects of the world were sideways.
For a while, the entire Ming Dynasty was like a huge bronze tripod filled with water, boiling in an instant under the continuous scorching fire.
The Tiance Army model, which has been implemented in Shandong and Shanxi for 20 years, has begun to be fully implemented in the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty!