The first to be played was several staff officers of the Military Staff Department represented by Chen Qiyu, who said in the joint petition that military generals should not only be given power to make greater temporary decisions to adapt to the rapidly changing war situation on the battlefield, but also that they should be effectively supervised by civilian officials to prevent those in charge of the army from slowly becoming warlords like Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao in the late Han Dynasty. As for the fact that age is linked to official positions, it is a new thing that has never been commented on for the time being, and the rights and wrongs will be verified by time, and if the officials cannot prove that this has hindered the implementation of the government, they should be unconditionally enforced.

The people in the Military Staff Department are all civilian officials but are in charge of military affairs, so what they say should be considered relatively fair, which sets a tone for civil-military relations. Following this tune, the generals of the Liaodong Department, represented by the new deputy general Zhang Jing'an, also jointly played the game, believing that it was correct for civilian officials to supervise military generals, but they should focus on help and cooperation. It is the duty of the generals to fight, but the various affairs in the army are very complicated, which makes the leaders of the troops annoying, and if the civil servants in charge of supervision are allowed to share these things, it is beneficial for everyone to perform their duties. The fact that age is linked to official positions has nothing to do with military generals, so they don't comment on it.

Hong Chengchou is a civil official, and he wanted to impulse in a small area to see if he could save himself from demotion, but he didn't expect that because of his recital, officials across the country knew that there was such a person, and the emperor sent his recital to the whole country for everyone to express their attitude, so he knew that this matter was a big deal. For a time, many friends, the same year, and fellow villagers persuaded him to revoke the recital, and if he touted the emperor's new policy, he might not be able to pass this hurdle.

But Hong Chengchou understands that it is impossible to completely deny his words now, so that he will not be a person inside and out, and then others will use his own words to clean him up, he knows that there are many people who are dissatisfied with him and those who appreciate him in private, so he decided to insist on giving up half and half. What he decided to give up was the link between age and official position, and a discerning person could see at a glance that he was speaking for himself rather than for the sake of the court, and once he gave up, he could also reflect his high demeanor and give himself extra points. So he said in the second recital that he had not thought it through, and agreed to the proposal of the Military Staff Office to use time to verify right and wrong.

However, he showed a strong insistence on the relationship between the civilian and the military, insisting that civilian officials must be in charge of military generals, or at least have the power to suppress military generals of the same rank. There are two reasons for him, one is that the military generals have soldiers in their hands, and if the civilian officials cannot suppress the military generals who have such unstable factors, it will be difficult to deal with them once they have destructive power, and they must be controlled at the source. Second, from the arrangement of the imperial court, he pointed out that the purpose of linking the age of civil officials to their official positions is to limit the ambitions of civil officials, and that military generals do not have the idea that their age is linked to their official positions, so their ambitions have room to expand at any time, and from this point of view, it is also necessary for civilian officials to manage military generals.

The Apocalypse did not ask the Holy Academy to take a stand, and a while ago he just asked Liu Zongzhou to find someone to carefully discuss a foolproof plan after he went back, but Liu Zongzhou and the others in the Holy Academy couldn't sit still. What is Holy College? It is a place where retired officials sum up their experiences together, a place where erudite Confucians sit and talk together, and Liu Zongzhou himself also yearns to become a great Confucian who can carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future. Confucianism talks about the rule of the hard-working, and these retired officials have also been practicing how to govern people for decades, and how to clarify the relationship between civil officials and military generals is to clarify who should govern whom at certain times.

In the sacred college, the people who wrote and talked about the people who thought they had two sons meant that they were very experienced in managing people, and all of them were experts in treating people. In a sense, it means that governance and rectification mean the same thing, so these experts in governing people can also be said to be experts in the whole person. Seeing that the big and small officials inside and outside the court were talking about what the imperial court should do, this made the people in the Holy Academy feel very ashamed, and the hairy boys who had just entered the hall were all making nonsense, which made the people in the Holy Academy, who regarded themselves as experts in the whole person, embarrassed?

In order to prove that the people in the Holy Academy are not vegetarians, Liu Zongzhou played on behalf of everyone, and since Hong Chengchou had given up the requirement to cancel the link between age and grade, Liu Zongzhou made a specific analysis and a variety of suggestions on the relationship between the civil and military in the recital.

First of all, he analyzed the character of military generals, who are rough and arrogant, and who are suitable for resisting the enemy by brutal means in the frontiers, and civilian officials who are weak and meticulous and suitable for managing internal affairs, including managing military generals, but it is not appropriate to let civilian officials unconditionally suppress military generals. For example, the fourth-rank civil officials can compete with the third-rank generals, and the third-rank generals below the third-rank can be ordered to manage.

Then Liu Zongzhou took historical events as an example and pointed out that the reason why a military general rebelled was either that there were no people around him who could suppress him, or that he was able to control grain, grass and weapons and equipment at will, or that he had stayed in one place for a long time and made the imperial army's army his private soldiers, or that there was no armed force around his garrison that could compete with him, all of which could make a general's ambition swell uncontrollably.

In view of these reasons, Liu Zongzhou suggested: first, it is necessary to send permanent supervisors in the army to closely supervise and lead generals; second, it is necessary to let civilian officials manage grain, grass, and weapons and equipment, and to pay them on time, according to the place, and according to the quantity; third, it is necessary to change generals on a regular basis, so that generals and soldiers cannot establish personal relations; and fourth, it is necessary to separate the garrison troops from the field troops, so that different generals can take charge and supervise each other.

In response to the question that the last general is not subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, Liu Zongzhou said that the generals should carry out the orders of their superiors, but they can also make their own decisions according to the specific situation, but if there is a discrepancy between the orders of the superiors, the orders issued by the generals and the supervisors must be signed by the generals and the supervisors at the same time to be effective.

At this time, the dispute between the civil and military relations was over, and it was already late March. Apocalypse carefully read every report from beginning to end, but in the end, he was not very satisfied, because he thought of a question, Nurhachi and the local Tusi are very capable of fighting, how do they deal with the relationship between strategists and generals?

At noon dinner that day, Tianqi first talked to the queen about choosing a concubine for King Xin a few days later, saying that several masters of King Xin were very competent, and Huang Zunsu and Qian Qianyi gave a lot of good suggestions on the construction and decoration of King Xin's Mansion in their spare time. After more than half a year of study, King Xin has learned a lot, and he is also very experienced in handling government affairs, and after King Xin became a parent, Wen Zhenmeng no longer gave lectures to King Xin and returned to the Imperial Court to serve as a full-time imperial historian, Huang Zunsu and Qian Qianyi stayed in King Xin's mansion to facilitate King Xin's consultation, and when the court had a suitable position, they could also recommend them to come out to do things.

As she spoke, there was a dripping spring rain in the sky, and the queen said: "Knowing that the emperor is eating here at noon, the concubine specially sent someone to tell Feng Xuanzhi and Wei Xuanzhi to let them come over after eating, and now that it is raining, I don't know if the people around them have brought rain gear, will they be drenched?" ”

Apocalypse asked, "What did you call them for?" It's enough for the two of us to watch the rain and talk about love, but there are too many people to speak. ”

The queen smiled: "What love words do you have when you are an old husband and wife?" The concubines called them because they remembered that the emperor had been concerned about the affairs of the court in the past month, and they didn't know what happened in the end, so let them say that the concubines could also have a little more knowledge. ”

Apocalypse said, "Have the two of them been together for a while?" ”

The queen said: "Yes, it's strange to say, Zhang Chunying and Liu Sanlang are people who grew up, Zhou Qing and Zhou Bi are two sisters, it makes sense for these two pairs to play together, how could Wei Xiaolan and Feng Siqin get together?" Besides, one of them has brains and the other knows martial arts, and they can't stand it. ”

Tianqi smiled and said: "I understand this, because they are all people with knots, Feng Siqin may still have resentment towards her family in her heart, Wei Xiaolan's parents have not been found, and her grandfather's family has also died because of the rebellion of the thieves, and the two of them playing together can be regarded as sympathy." ”

The queen asked in surprise: "Didn't you say that Wei Xiaolan's parents escaped?" Why haven't you found it yet? ”

Tianqi said: "A while ago, Yang Gongchun reported that Jinyiwei had gone to check, but it was difficult to find it after several years, I heard that her parents were in chaos with Qin Liangyu at first, and then it is not clear where they went, only when everything is stable." ”