In a blink of an eye, the New Year passed, that is, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the newly appointed five southwestern provinces left Beijing to quell the rebellion through a little Gaodi, accompanied by Huang Daozhou of the Military Staff Department of the Military Affairs Yuan and Wen Zhenmeng of the Military Administration Department. Apocalypse appointed Gao Di to value his obedience and honesty, and let Huang Daozhou and Wen Zhen Meng go also value the old Cheng and dignity of these two people, and wanted to let a few stable people work slowly. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. At the same time, the Supervision Yuan also sent a few notes, which were related to the acceptance of retired soldiers by the Great Iron Company, the promotion of improved varieties throughout the country, and the procurement of armaments by the Ministry of War, so that Tianqi once again realized that many things are not just casual words, others will take them seriously.

The next day, Apocalypse came to the Prison Yuan, and he was going to explain a few things to everyone, and it was better to tell a few people than to tell many people, at least it wouldn't take so much saliva and energy. When he entered the prison court, he felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, and after everyone sat down, he saw King Xin and several of them staring at him, and Tianqi asked, "King Xin, is there anything wrong?" Could it be that there is a place on my brother's face that has not been cleaned? ”

King Xin said: "Where is it, the younger brother just thinks that the imperial brother's thoughts are a little incomprehensible, according to what the imperial brother said to the people of the Military Affairs Yuan, to call all adult men to serve as soldiers, and all women to train intensively, how much silver will it cost?" And I heard that these people will enter the big iron company after retiring and training, does the royal brother have so much money to pay them? ”

Tianqi suddenly realized: "It turns out that you are because of this, but in fact, it is not like that, maybe they didn't make it clear to you." For the brother to tell them that all the men and women of school age should be retired from the army and trained to enter the big iron company, which means that they will no longer live their original life, because people who have undergone military training and vocational training will not be willing to live the original life, rather than let them go back to restless, it is better to restrain them and use their ability to do things, so that everyone has the benefit ♀ to be planted into the big iron company is not to say that they want to become the employees of the big iron company responsible for paying wages, the big iron company only plays a supervisory role mainly depends on the locality. ”

King Xin said, "Does the imperial brother mean that he will not be paid wages and let people work in vain?" I'm afraid there are no such obedient people in the world, right? Isn't this an indefinite conscription? ”

Tianqi looked at Liu Zongzhou and Xu Guangqi, and saw that both of them nodded slightly, knowing that they both had the same meaning as King Xin, and Gao Panlong did not have any expression next to him, but his eyes were also full of doubts.

Tianqi thought for a while and asked, "A while ago, you said that you would first improve the auxiliary government system in the central government, and then gradually promote it to the localities, what step have you achieved now?" ”

King Xin said: "We have added an auxiliary government to the Supervision Yuan, and the relationship between the ministers and the governors of the provinces has been transferred to the auxiliary government. The Bo Academy and the Holy Academy do not belong to the normal decision-making bodies of the imperial court, only Lord Liu and Lord Xu are responsible for the daily work here, but it is a little troublesome to implement them below. ”

Apocalypse asked, "What's the trouble?" ”

King Shin said: "According to the meaning of the emperor's brother, the governor is the person who assists the government in the central government, and when he arrives in the provinces, he is equivalent to the supervisor of the government, and the governor is equivalent to the administrative officer, and the supervisor of the government and the adjutant of the province enter the provincial supervision and administration court, so that the auxiliary administrative personnel of the higher level become the supervisory personnel of the lower level, and the first level is interlocking and convenient for command and control, but there are several difficulties in doing so. First, if the state governments do not have chief personnel to supervise government affairs, who should be absorbed into the provincial auxiliary political yuan? Second, there are no auxiliary political personnel in the provinces like the Holy College and the Bo College, and although the imperial court is training, it is difficult to quench the thirst of the near water; The third is that there are a lot of clerks needed, but there is no place to spend money. ”

The meaning of King Xin is that the auxiliary political organs of the central government are barely complete, because this is the apocalypse has long been prepared, and they can just pull them together into a bunch, and when they arrive in the provinces, they will encounter three difficulties, and the auxiliary political institutions of the state capitals and counties in the provinces are even more impossible to talk about. Tianqi couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he heard this, but he didn't show it and just asked lightly, "How are you going to solve these difficulties?" ”

Gao Panlong was in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and had a say in how to settle people, and he also saw that Tianqi was a little disappointed, so he replied: "Your Majesty, rest assured, although the provinces have encountered these difficulties, and the difficulties of these provinces are also the difficulties of the state capitals and counties, we have not been bound by these problems, and all the affairs of the establishment of auxiliary political institutions at all levels in various places are being carried out in an orderly manner. In the case that there are no full-time supervisors stationed in the state capitals and counties, and there are people who are also governors of several provinces, the result of the deliberations of the ministers is to send the second-rank imperial history, the fourth-rank signature imperial history, and the six-rank patrol in the imperial court to the provinces and prefectures and counties according to the imperial history. ”

When the apocalypse heard that they did not stop all the affairs because of the problem, but temporarily doubted that they would do everything they could, and also came up with a solution to the problem, which showed that the establishment of the Supervisory Yuan to deal with affairs in a comprehensive manner was done right. Tianqi said with joy in his heart: "I have already said that you have made up your own minds, why did you ask me again?" If you have an idea, let it go, as long as it's not too outrageous, but with a few of you checking it at the same time, you won't do anything too outrageous. After speaking, he looked at everyone with a smile.

Gao Panlong nodded and said: "The ministers have thanked the emperor for his trust, but in this way, the people in the capital will be free, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will become an empty shell, leaving only the original officials behind, so it is not easy to supervise various places in time, after all, the road that is difficult to walk now makes the horse run non-fast is still in the legend." ”

As soon as Tianqi heard that even Gao Panlong, who had always been old, came up with strange words, and knew that he had really encountered a problem, so he said: "Fixed supervision has the benefits of fixed supervision, and itinerant supervision has the benefits ∞of itinerant supervision. Now if you talk about who the provinces let represent the Holy College and the Bo College, it is not just a matter of loyalty, but of having the real ability to solve problems for others. ”

Gao Panlong said: "It turned out that it was to recruit people from all over the country to train, but I am afraid that it will not be needed for a long time, I heard that the emperor is about to rectify the army in various places, so the big iron company will soon accept retired soldiers." The emperor began to say that the big iron company only plays a regulatory role, mainly relying on the locality, which means that you can't wait any longer, at least the counties can't afford to wait, otherwise, if the retired soldiers come back, no one knows how to use it, then it will be troublesome. ”

Tianqi looked at Liu Zongzhou and Xu Guangqi and asked, "Who do you two know who can use it?" Let's call someone to help the emergency first. ”

Liu Zongzhou thought for a while and said: "The minister has an idea, a while ago, there were more than 100 editors and editors in the Hanlin Academy who underwent short-term training in the Bo Academy, and later let them go to the state capitals to train their sons, and later caused the dissatisfaction of the county officials, I don't know if the emperor remembers?" ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "You said that they are interested in going through the training of the Bo Academy and can also train others, which shows that they are competent, even if there is something they don't understand, they can ask Jingli for help." However, more than 100 people can't do anything, and there are hundreds of counties across the country. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Why did the emperor forget, they are teachers and have taught a lot of counties to raise children for students, teachers are in the state capitals, students are just in each county, if the students do not understand anything, it is convenient to ask for advice in time, and it is also temporarily for them to go to the emergency." As for going to various places to provide guidance on behalf of the Holy Academy, the minister thought that it was appropriate to send the alternate officials of the capital and the six departments to Shizhong, and it was also temporary, and they were also stationed in the state capitals to train students, and their experience and insight should be fine, and even if they had questions, they could ask the Holy Academy for advice. ”

Tianqi said: "Lord Liu's idea is good, don't you think it's easy to solve?" The last difficulty is the problem of silver, do you have any solutions? ”

It's easy to talk about people, because Daming is now lacking in everything, but the silver problem is a big problem, and this problem is to find a long-term source, which is troublesome, so everyone shook their heads and said there was no way.

King Shin said: "Whether it is a state capital or a county, it is definitely not possible to let one or two officials do things, and it is necessary to have some auxiliary staff. The problem is that last year's surplus was used to make ordnance, and this year's crops were still in the field, and it was impossible to collect the commercial tax in advance, which means that there is no silver to pay now. If you don't have money, you can't recruit people, no one can't do things, and you can't get money if you don't do things, which forms a strange circle. ”

Tianqi asked: "There are also clerks in this county, so they can't use it?" ”

King Xin said: "The younger brother originally thought the same way, but now it is said that most of those people are slippery people, and they must not hand over the matter of money to them, otherwise they will not be able to find out how little money is less." Besides, the quality of those people is not high, not to mention that there are not many of them, and they are already very busy collecting food, patrolling the streets, posting notices, and handling cases, and it may be difficult for them to run around again. ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "I know about this, didn't I start to believe that the king said that no one wants to work for nothing if you don't give out money?" We can let the nimble veterans do it, now there is no money, but now I don't want you to give money, and when the summer grain is put away, it is estimated that this first batch of rectified people will come down. At that time, people will also have money and things, and they will just take advantage of the errand. ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and King Xin asked: "The imperial brother began to say that the people in the Hanlin Academy and the Ducha Yuan are temporarily going down for emergencies, and they will return to Beijing when the people below come up, and the younger brother doesn't understand what it means that the people below come up?" ”