CHAPTER XV. The Privy Council System III

Yuan Shizhong listened to Zhang Xuan's grand blueprint, thought for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty's wish, that is, the minister's wish, is just where to start. ”

Zhang Xuan said categorically: "Military Academy." ”

"To do anything, we are winning souls, and we must first of all have the same training program for the whole army. Then train enough suitable officers, not to mention anything else, one county lieutenant in each county, one general in each prefecture, and more than 100 qualified officers. ”

"As long as the military has the same training system as these officers, it can better maintain its combat effectiveness."

Yuan Shizhong was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "Your Majesty, do you want all the generals in the generals to change?" ”

"How is that possible?" Zhang Xuan smiled: "However, there is still a normal metabolism." And the military academy is a continuous pool of talent for the army. ”

"The county lieutenants are just soldiers. And what comes out of the military academy is the officer. It is the heart of the army. ”

"Establish a Privy Council system." Zhang Xuan Zhengse said: "There is a long way to go, and it can't be completed for a while, first of all, the reform of enslavement has not been completed in various localities, so it can only be postponed." But the matter of the military academy cannot be delayed. Only enough people will be able to complete this reform. ”

"Don't all scholars claim to be protégés of the Son of Heaven?"

"The Privy Council established the Army Academy in Nanjing, and I will serve as the mountain chief, and the generals who come out of the Army Academy are the protégés of the Son of Heaven."

"I know that the rebuilding of the Privy Council can't wait and can't be delayed, but the Army Academy is a century-old plan of this dynasty, and it can't be delayed."

Yuan Shizhong said: "Yes, the minister understands. ”

Having said that, Zhang Xuan felt that Yuan Shizhong might not understand the weight of the military academy in Zhang Xuan's heart.

Zhang Xuan thought about competing with readers for the right to speak.

But then I realized that he couldn't do that. Unless he kills all the readers, after all, stuffing your mind into someone else's head is a very difficult thing to do.

Zhang Xuan didn't want to make much of a mess.

So I came up with a solution that was almost dark.

First of all, thank you for the literacy rate of this era. The low literacy rate indicates that a large part of the population is in a state of ignorance. I don't have much interest in the literati and doctors, and the Confucianists.

Zhang Xuan is going to add some knowledge learning links to the training of recruits. Moreover, a military academy system of promotions has been established. And it seems that in order to train officers, military schools can actually spread new ideas and new culture, not to mention anything else, just for artillery firing, a mathematics or physics class is included in the military school. And because of the march and war, you must learn astronomy and geography, and add a geography class. If you get it down, you can get infinitely closer to the textbooks of later generations.

And the base of the soldiers

If there are many generals, if you add up the generals at all levels, there will be hundreds of thousands of people, and if you add your family members, you will have to say that there will be millions of people, so many people. It's enough to make some fame. Many times, Zhang Xuan can only plant seeds, and as for waiting for flowers and fruits, it is a matter of many years.

Even sometimes planting seeds can be quite difficult.

"This matter is very important, and it will be kept secret in advance." Zhang Xuan said: "In the past seven or eight years, this thing will not be done well, but as long as it is done well, I will add a hereditary disregard in front of your prince." Not only that, even if it is one family and two kings, it may not be impossible. ”

Yuan Shizhong said secretly: "In seven or eight years, it is already quite good to be able to do these things well." ”

Almost out of thin air, Yuan Shizhong only had to think about it with his toes to know how difficult it was, but Yuan Shizhong had a long-lost excitement in the center.

I have to say that Yuan Shizhong is indeed not a material for war, at least he doesn't want to fight much in his heart.

What does he want to do? Naturally, it is what the reader's heart thinks, to Jun Yao Shun. And the task assigned to him by Zhang Xuan was very difficult, but as soon as he thought of establishing a system that would make the world peaceful, he was extremely excited in his heart, and he seemed to be sweating a little in the winter.

Yuan Shizhong solemnly assured Zhang Xuan and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, within eight years, the minister will definitely be able to do this." It's just that His Majesty's edict to exempt the world from forced labor came out earlier. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Brother, please rest assured, I will definitely take this matter to heart." ”

The abolition of all conscription is a prerequisite for the reform of the military system. However, the prerequisite for the abolition of all forced labor is the reform of taxation and servitude. This is also a big deal.

It's not yet the beginning, though.

If you want to start, you have to wait for the money reversal case to end.

At that time, all the powerful people in Jiangnan fell. In terms of administrative reform, even if there are ten local dares, they will not dare to confront the imperial court.

"Eight years." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "Eight years later, after the military reform is completed, it will be time for the Northern Expedition." ”

The battle of the great powers was never a battle or two, but a victory over the imperial court.

As long as the reform of the military system is completed. Zhang Xuan has a steady stream of follow-up soldiers. The premise of the reform of the military system is the reform of taxation and service.

To be honest, Zhang Xuan is not too clear about how to change the tax service.

On the reform of the military system, Zhang Xuan can have such a view because Zhang Xuan has been in the army for nearly ten years until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and his thoughts and thoughts have always been related to the army, so he has such a complete idea.

However, in the reform of taxation and servitude, Zhang Xuan and his old man never paid a tax and served once. How to change it, he has no score in his heart, so he can only listen to the opinions of civil officials

See. At most, Zhang Juzheng's whip method is the blue version, and it is enough to strictly settle the accounts and acres.

As long as it can be done well, Xia Jun's manpower and material resources will definitely be above Beijing.

When the time comes, no matter how the Qing army tosses. To no avail. Even if it can't be fought for a while, but if it is fought for ten or twenty years, it is a big deal to fight a hundred years war with the Han and the Xiongnu.

Zhang Xuan didn't believe it, and the Qing army could support it.

But the system that Zhang Xuan wants to build can be supported at least in terms of personnel.

This is the victory over the imperial court.

After discussing the general direction, Zhang Xuan immediately said the details of the rest of the aspects, such as the setting of military judges, such as the division of the Privy Council into divisions. Even Zhang Xuan talked about the Manufacturing Bureau.

Speaking of which, the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau is also an institution under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.

Zhang Xuan decided to rebuild the manufacturing bureau in Nanjing, and also set up a manufacturing bureau in Xijing. If you don't say it, it's okay, but when you talk about it in detail, it makes Yuan Shizhong feel big.

It should be because of the fact that everything is one by one, and the Privy Council managed by Wang Jincai is only a big cat, two cats, three or two, and he can't even build a shelf.

All this has to be done by Yuan Shizhong himself.

For a while, Yuan Shizhong felt that it was much more difficult than when he sent troops to fight.

That's it, what made Yuan Shizhong feel most difficult was that there was no silver. Silver is not important to say, but the common people still open the door for seven things, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, which is less silver, and the same is true for the yamen. Nothing can be moved without money.

The yamen of the Privy Council was located in the original Ming Dynasty's Five Military Governor's Palace. The place is enough, but after all, it is an old house, and there are always some unsatisfactory places.

Yuan Shizhong wanted to repair it without any silver, but Yuan Shizhong was angry and got a few hundred taels of silver from the Weiwang Mansion and repaired it.

This kind of thing of taking money from the family to subsidize the public family, with Yuan Shizhong's status, occasionally doing it once or twice, is nothing, but if you do too much, it will inevitably be suspected of bad rules.

As long as the money reversal case is closed and the accounts are put into the treasury, Zhang Zhen will allocate money to the Privy Council.

It will probably have to wait until after the New Year, that is, the first year of Zhaowu.

Without the silver, Yuan Shizhong couldn't do anything, and for a while he even desperately hoped that Qian Qianyi would die soon. He originally had the idea of retreating, but after listening to Zhang Xuan's grand blueprint, he was very excited for a while. I couldn't be idle, so I went to the palace as soon as I had time to discuss the details of this matter with Zhang Xuan.

During his discussion with Yuan Shizhong, Zhang Xuan discovered some details that he had not noticed. couldn't help but secretly say: "I think it's a little narrower in my thinking." So Zhang Xuan also brought Cao Zongyu, Li Dingguo, and other generals in to discuss.