Seeing that he had just said that he had too much kindness, Tianqi immediately said that he would take the lead in demotion, not to mention how depressed Mao Wenlong's heart was. wanted to change his words and say that he was just modest but couldn't say it, seeing Tianqi looking at him with a smile, Mao Wenlong had to say big things in his heart: "The emperor has an order, and the ministers naturally obey their orders, and it is also a blessing for the ministers to be able to share the emperor's worries." ”

When Tianqi heard this, he was overjoyed and said: "Many people say that General Mao is arrogant and rude, and today I learned that the rumors are not credible, I have been thinking about a question, and I haven't figured it out for a long time, I wonder if General Mao can help me solve my doubts?" ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Your Majesty, please speak, the ministers know everything." ”

Apocalypse said: "I have been thinking that this monarch and minister should trust each other from beginning to end, but why are there people in every dynasty who are imprisoned, demoted and killed? ”

Mao Wenlong thought for a while and said: "The Son of Heaven is all saintly, and the imprisonment and demotion of the courtiers is the tempering of the Son of Heaven to the subordinates, as for being killed, I am afraid that it is also the ignorance of the courtiers to blame." ”

Tianqi said: "General Mao said it very well, but I have a little opinion on this issue, the courtier was imprisoned and demoted, I am afraid that his ability is not worthy of his position, I have heard a story, that there is a courtier who has made too great meritorious service so that the king has no seal, so he gave this courtier a sword and let him serve the dead king, has Mao Zongbing heard this story?" ”

When Mao Wenlong heard that the sweat was about to come out, he thought for a while and said: "It seems to be the story of Wu Zixu, but there is no one who is arrogant and slack with the emperor in this dynasty now." ”

Seeing Mao Wenlong's sincere and frightened appearance, Tianqi knew that it was almost over, so he said directly: "Let's not talk too much, let's get down to business, the indiscriminate killing of heroes is not done by Ming Jun, in order to prevent such a thing from appearing in this dynasty, is General Mao willing to do me a favor?" ”

Mao Wenlong asked: "The emperor has an order, and the ministers will never refuse!" ”

Tianqi said softly: "Since this is the case, I will tell you that someone will give the court a book tomorrow, first, to reclassify civil and military officials, so as not to be a super-grade official everywhere, and it is difficult to distinguish what is the matter of adding officials and titles." The second is that civilian and military generals of the same grade are equal to each other, lest a small civil official dare to shake his prestige in front of the first-grade and second-grade military generals, so that the military ministers will lose face. Let's put it bluntly, this person is a transcript of my instructions, will General Mao know how to do it when the time comes? ”

Mao Wenlong thought for a while and said: "The ministers will be the first to agree, and ask the court to remove the title of governor of the first grade." ”

Tianqi praised: "Smart, I like to talk to smart people, but I won't lose you, and after Liaodong is pacified, I will be knighted and crowned as a wife and son, and the number of enemies destroyed in Nanguan this time will be cumulatively counted, but now you have to suffer a little grievance." ”

Mao Wenlong was overjoyed and said: "The minister is not wronged, the emperor is also doing this for the good of our military ministers, and the minister is not a foolish person." ”

Tianqi said: "I know that it is for your good, I am not a foolish person, I mean that everyone is sincere, and the small problems should be dealt with in a timely manner, so as not to make a big problem and you have to live and die, and it is not a smart move to accumulate trouble for yourself for a vain official position, and after two days of seconding the proposal, you will go back to Phi Island to obey orders, and when the relationship is straightened out, you will be bent on how to make more meritorious contributions." ”

No matter how big this official is, he can't manage it for a lifetime, and as soon as he retires, he will have nothing, but the title is different, and if he is lucky, he will be awarded a hereditary high-level military position, and his children and grandchildren will not have to worry about anything. After Mao Wenlong withdrew from the palace, he waited in Beijing, and waited until the next day when he saw the Yushi Hou Sui Shangsheng saying that he wanted to redefine the level of civil and military equality, Mao Wenlong immediately played to express his agreement, and also explained the importance of redefining the grade and civil and military equality from different angles, and then returned to Phi Island with the holy decree of the Apocalypse to commend him.

In fact, their monarch's double reed performance this time is not very clever, and a discerning person can see it at a glance, but who dares to say that it is not? Therefore, in mid-February, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Government Affairs Yuan, and the Military Affairs Yuan jointly conducted a joint performance to revise the grades of the main officials, and finally the Apocalypse agreed and issued an order for implementation.

The biggest change in this grade adjustment is the determination of the grades of the Associate Minister of the Government Council and the Minister of Military Aircraft of the Military Affairs Yuan. In the previous cabinet, the rank of the cabinet ministers was the fifth grade, and in order to improve their status, it was very troublesome and funny to add their official ranks, and this adjustment clearly stipulated that the assistant minister of the government affairs yuan and the minister of military aircraft of the military affairs yuan were both the second rank and no longer added the title, and the secretaries of the ministries, the governors of the provinces, and the imperial history of the metropolitan procuratorate were all the second grades, and the squires of the ministries, the deputy imperial history, and the governors of the provinces were all the third grades.

In the past, the governor, the governor, and the general army were not fixed officials, but were concurrently appointed by the central part of Beijing, and the local political envoys and envoys became the helpers of the governor-general. The commanders of the provinces have become people who manage the troops but do not train them, and they have turned the good soldiers into farmers who can only farm, and after the adjustment, each province has added a general soldier of the second grade, and under the general army are the third-grade generals, the fourth-grade guerrillas, the fifth-grade thousand-hundred-and-eighth-rank soldiers-and-soldiers-generals-have-generals-havers

In this way, it is easier to manage the mobile posts into fixed posts, and the highest official of a province is responsible for the overall responsibility of the governor, and the governor is in charge of civil affairs, the general army, and military affairs, and the official posts of political envoys, procurators, and commanders in various provinces have been abolished. In order to strengthen the central government's control over the localities, the Metropolitan Procuratorate also sent a special inspection of the six grades of the counties to inspect the imperial history of the prefecture all the year round.

At the end of February, half a month after the adjustment of the new positions and grades, seeing that no one in any place raised any objections, Tianqi decided to ask the Military Affairs Yuan to adjust the division of labor among military generals in various places. Since the rebellions of Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan in the south have not been completely quelled, and the guards in the interior have not been completely adjusted, those that can be adjusted will be adjusted, and those that cannot be adjusted will be left as they are for the time being, and this adjustment only revolves around Liaodong.

Knowing that the Military Affairs Institute has divided the area according to its own intentions, but the specific personnel arrangements have to be determined by themselves, the Apocalypse came to the Military Affairs Institute early in the morning to discuss with everyone. After everyone sat down, Tianqi saw that this time the people came very well, except for Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen stationed in Ningyuan Pass and Ningyuan City, and Mao Wenlong stationed in Phi Island, everyone else basically came.

Sun Chengzong first said: "In accordance with the emperor's will, another military control area will be established in Jizhen, and this new military control area includes the area between Miyun and Gubeikou and between Zunhua and Xifengkou, and the seat of governance is in Jizhou. Its main purpose is to train an army of cavalry and mountain infantry supplemented by cavalry facing the steppe, ready to defend and attack at any time. ”

Seeing that everyone was listening, Sun Chengzong continued: "In accordance with the emperor's will, the Bohai Naval Region with Tianjin as the governing place was established, and its army was mainly composed of maritime sailors and was in charge of canal and river defense. The original military control area of western Liaoning remained unchanged, with mountain infantry as the mainstay, supplemented by a small number of naval divisions and cavalry. The three places are respectively stationed in the overseers, governors, and general soldiers, and they are called here today to see where they will go voluntarily, and the Military Affairs Yuan will decide to appoint them after synthesizing everyone's opinions. ”

Half a year ago, Tianqi stipulated that the Administrative Council only needed to report afterwards to appoint all Korean and Chinese officials except the Associate Minister, and the Military Affairs Yuan must first approve the appointment of local generals. Because no matter how bad the civilian officials are, the destructive power is not great, and the destructive power of the military generals is quite amazing, and it is related to the fortunes of the country, so we have to be cautious.

Seeing that Sun Chengzong finished speaking, he said: "I mean that you will choose according to your own conditions and interests, but it does not mean that you will appoint you if you choose, I will select the most suitable person among those who are willing, first of all, the overseer positions in three places, this overseer belongs to the second quality of military affairs and coordinates local affairs related to military affairs, which of you recommends yourself first?" ”

Since it is a second grade and has a connection with local affairs, naturally only a few ministers of military aircraft are qualified to compete, and in the past, there may be people who try to promote themselves by competing for positions, but since the apocalypse has limited the relationship between age and grade, young and ambitious people have completely lost their hearts. Before linking the age and rank of officials, considering that military generals are different from civilian officials, civilian officials use wisdom and military generals to exert force, so pure military generals such as general soldiers, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrilla and other positions are not subject to age restrictions, but as long as the positions that are related to civilian positions, such as supervisors and governors, the age limit is relaxed by one level at most.

Whether this is good or bad is inconclusive, but at least it is a little less impetuous and a little more calm.