As soon as the recruitment notice of the Flying Tiger Army was posted, it immediately attracted tens of thousands of young people from Gyeonggi to sign up. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Flying Tiger Army has made a name for itself, and everyone in the world knows that the Flying Tiger Army is now the first elite division of the Ming Dynasty. What's more, the monthly salary of the Flying Tiger Army is nearly ten times that of the ordinary Ming Army. How can the young people of Gyeonggi not sign up enthusiastically?

Tang Shunzhi screened the soldiers in strict accordance with the principle of "three moves and seven no recruits" set by Chen Di at the beginning.

The matter of expanding the army and training the new army, Chen Di has entrusted it to Tang Shunzhi and Yu Dayou. Now he is worried about how to select a group of talented civil servants to help him.

Yan Song, the old fox, as long as it involves the expansion of the army, everything will be done. But when it came to Kaienke, or selecting outstanding officials to enrich the six departments, Yan Song's head shook like a rattle.

This is also human nature. If you Chen Di want to give someone a batch of official hats, you must first take off the official hats of a group of people. At present, the hundreds of officials in the capital who wear official hats are basically officials of the strict party, and if you want to take off the official hats of a group of people, it will affect the fundamental interests of the strict party.

Helpless, Chen Di could only retreat. Since Yan Song didn't let him move the official hat of the Yan Party, there are many henchmen of the Yan Party, there are always a few talents, right? Then select a group of talents in the strict party and cultivate them!

Chen Di found Yan Song.

Yan Song asked: "How is the expansion of the new army going?" Di'er, for the sake of your Flying Tiger Army's military salary, I even moved the emperor's inner transport warehouse! ”

Chen Di said: "Everything is going well. This time I was looking for my father-in-law, because I had an idea to talk to my father-in-law. ”

Yan Song said: "Oh? What's the idea? ”

Chen Di said: "How many of our 'own people' are there now? ”

Yan Song replied: "Our people, there are always hundreds of Beijing officials in Beijing now, and there are no less than two or three hundred foreign officials. ”

Chen Di said: "Father-in-law, why don't we select a group of talented people from hundreds of our own people and enrich the six?" ”

Yan Song said: "I didn't expect this as a father. ”

Chen Di said: "To be honest, father-in-law, our own people are good and bad! Those who are of average ability are just idle jobs. Those who are serious and talented must be entrusted with important tasks without exception. ”

Yan Song became interested: "Tell me, how to make an exception and entrust you with a heavy task?" ”

Chen Di said: "For example, those old states and counties from which people are born can only achieve positive seven grades in their lives. Among them, there are many talented people. Why can't they be made prefects or even feudal officials? ”

Yan Song said: "This seems to be against the official system of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Chen Di smiled and said: "Father-in-law, if it is said to be against the Ming official system, I, the governor of the capital, was only a county order of the seventh grade two years ago, is this considered a violation of the Ming official system?" The system should not become a shackle that restricts the promotion of talents! ”

Yan Song thought in his heart, since it is an exceptional promotion of talents selected from the strict party, then this can be regarded as a reflow of fertile water to outsiders! Let Chen Di do it!

Yan Song said to Chen Di: "Since this is the case, this matter will be handed over to you!" ”

Chen Di nodded: "Thank you father-in-law for your trust!" I have thought about the name, so in the name of the official examination, I will summon some foreign officials and Beijing officials to participate in the official examination! The question is written by the son himself! ”

The "some officials" mentioned by Chen Di naturally refer to officials of the strict party.

Yan Song nodded and said, "In this case, I will immediately compile a list of our own people." ”

Chen Di nodded and said, "That's very good." ”

Two days later, the Cabinet issued an order to transfer some Beijing officials and foreign officials to the Ministry of Officials for the general examination.

Chen Di personally served as the examiner of this big exam. This examination to select outstanding officials was jokingly called "Chen Xuan" by officialdom.

The questions for the big exam were personally written by Chen Di. The title of the first session was "On the Good and Bad of the Ming Fiscal System". The title of the second session is "On the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Ming Military System". The title of the third session is "How to Develop Daming Business".

The three questions are different from the eight-strand examination questions of the imperial examination, and each question is in the vernacular.

The examination was held for three days, and three or four hundred Yan Party officials handed in the papers, and Chen Di personally read the papers.

The answers given by the strict party officials were mixed. There are four or six pieces of nonsense, and there are also good words that are written word by word.

When Chen Di flipped through one of the exam papers, he said three "yes" in a row.

The respondent is Long Zixing, the prefect of Huaiqing, Henan. Speaking of which, Long Zixing is still Chen Di's old boss. When Chen Di was the commander of Qinyang County, he was under the rule of Huaiqing Mansion. The reason why Chen Di was promoted to the prefect was also thanks to the fact that the prefect of Long and Gao Wenze, the envoy of Henan, jointly promoted his excerpts.

This Long Zixing was originally going to stay in the Hanlin Academy as a Shujishi, but he offended Zhai Luan, the first assistant at that time, and was secretly demoted to Huaiqing Mansion to be the prefect of the disaster-stricken place. In two years, Chen Di went from the county order of Zhengqipin to the governor of the capital, but Long Zixing was still a prefect.

Long Zixing has been an official for several years, and gradually figured it out. For the way of officials, it is useless to have a clear and high! You have to have your back against a big tree to enjoy the shade. As a result, Long Zixing worshiped under the door of Gao Wenze, the envoy of Henan. Gao Wenze is a strict party, and his student Long Zixing naturally became a strict party.

Chen Di flipped through Long Zixing's examination papers: "If you talk about the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty's financial system, the first drawback is that the imperial family, officials, gentry, people, and talents should not pay for food!" The royal family, the eunuchs in the palace, officials at all levels, and the gentry with meritorious names annexed half of the world's granges.

They don't have to pay taxes, and the small people's land is less than half of the world, but they have to pay the world's taxes! This is a big disadvantage。。。。。。 If the royal family, officials, and gentry are on errands and pay grain as one, the burden on the people will be reduced and the treasury will be surplus。。。。。。 ”

Chen Di said secretly, this Long Zixing's opinion coincides with what Zhang Juzheng said at the beginning. In the future, Long Zixing can be used as Zhang Juzheng's deputy to reform the tax system of the Ming Dynasty. However, reforming the tax system will involve the interests of a large number of people, and at this time, he and Yan Song have just controlled the situation, and it is not appropriate to make too many enemies, so they can only postpone it.

Chen Di planned to promote Long Zixing to the right attendant of the household. He wrote down the words "Tobe Right Squire" on the exam paper, then put the exam paper away and continued to mark the paper.

Another exam paper caught Chen Di's attention: "The military system of the guard was originally created by Taizu, and it was originally created to imitate the military system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, the Ming Dynasty was founded for a hundred years, and most of the military households in the guard were based on farming and business, and the armament was slack。。。。。 It is necessary to abolish the army of the World Guard, concentrate the remaining army salaries, and create a new army. The new army is not engaged in agriculture and commerce, but specializes in military affairs。。。。。 ”

This exam paper can be thought of with Chen Di.

Chen Di glanced at the name of the respondent and was overjoyed!

"Nanjing Rite Department member Wailang, Tan Lun"!

Tan Lun! It turned out to be Tan Lun! That Tan Lun Tan Zili, who is known as the four famous generals of the Jiajing Dynasty along with Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, and Li Chengliang! If Chen Di is not mistaken, this Tan Lun was a member of the Yuwang Party in the late Jiajing Dynasty, and he was the opponent of Yan Song. Could it be that the butterfly effect brought about by his own crossing made him a strict party?

Chen Di immediately wrote the words "Director of the Ministry of War" at the frontispiece.

Let Tan Lun go to the military department and help Tang Shunzhi!