Chapter 117 National Reform
After the First World War in Nanjing, Li Hongfei's territory in charge of Suzhou soared from small Suzhou to Changzhou and Jiangyin in the north to Wenzhou and Pingyang in the south. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Now in the six provinces actually controlled by the Southern Ming Dynasty, Li Hongfei occupies two provinces, and they are the two provinces with the most developed handicraft industry.
However, such an honor has not been enjoyed for a few days, and Zhu Youzhen's edict has changed the situation of Nanming dramatically..........
In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, on the first day of September, the Southern Ming Dynasty officially promulgated the national reform decree.
1. Break the old political system, abolish the feudal domains and counties, gradually weaken the feudal separatist forces, establish centralized power, and realize national unification.
At the same time, the feudal status system was abolished, the equality of the whole people was implemented, and all the privileges of the scholar class were abolished.
2. Colonizing and developing industries, vigorously establishing government-run enterprises, using the power of state power, mobilizing state treasury funds, and setting up "model factories" to rapidly revitalize the national economy.
At the same time, the "policy of persuading industry" was implemented, and private investment in industry and mining was rewarded by issuing interest-free loans and subsidies to private individuals.
3. Enrich the country and strengthen the army, Chongzhen promulgated a decree, announcing the implementation of the compulsory military service system, abolishing the original military household system (similar to the craftsman household, one person joins the army, and the children and grandchildren must join the army), and establishes a standing army in the modern sense.
In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the armed forces, the policy of martial arts promotion has been abolished and a special military university has been set up, so that in addition to all military generals who must apply for military colleges, soldiers on active duty who have performed well can also pass the military academy examination and obtain promotion opportunities.
In terms of the establishment of the army, drawing on the establishment policy of the new army in Suzhou, the governor's office of the five armed forces was abolished, the Ministry of National Defense was reorganized, and the local garrisons (police, militia, etc.) and other military institutions were reorganized, and the supreme command of the Ministry of National Defense was directly subordinate to the emperor.
At the same time, the imperial court devoted itself to supporting the military industry, and all weapons and equipment began to be updated, completing the transition from the era of cold weapons to the era of all firearms.
4. Civilize and civilize, rectify the old educational institutions, abolish the "eight shares", and change the scientific examination to practical disciplines such as administration, commerce, arithmetic, and scientific and technological inventions.
At the same time, a compulsory education system is implemented throughout the country, and all children over the age of six and under the age of ten must be enrolled in school, and violators will be fined 10 taels of silver.
The eight-strand essay was originally a recommended format for writing an argumentative essay, and there is no good or bad essay in itself.
However, because the imperial examination regulations must adopt this format, it was opposed by many intellectuals, and Baguwen became the scapegoat for the shortcomings of the ancient imperial examination system.
At the same time, the title of the Bagu essay comes from the "Analects" and "Mencius", which is not innovative enough, and even has the phenomenon of cutting the original sentence and piecing together the topic, and even worse, the question is only punctuated at one time, all in order to make it difficult for most candidates.
Therefore, Zhu Youzhen only abolished the format of eight shares, and clearly stipulated the scope of examination questions that need to be involved in the future imperial examination, and integrated some popular subjects into the examination.
5. Increase the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology Research.
The former copied the model of the Ministry of Commerce in Suzhou, and the latter set up the Royal Academy of Science, which mainly researched and manufactured various advanced weapons and invented new scientific and technological products.
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There are a lot of reform decrees sprinkled over the whole country, but most of them are policies that have been implemented in Suzhou before, and the only increase is the compulsory education system for all.
Because Zhu Youzhen made a bold decision, that is, to abolish the privileges of the scholar class, as a result, people all over the world are afraid that they will feel uncomfortable.
Now that it is the war years, Zhu Youzhen has absolute control over the army, but he is not afraid of the scholar class to make small moves, and in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and trickery are useless.
What he was worried about was that in the future, when building and governing the country, these scholars and doctors would jump out and make stumbling blocks, so it was very necessary to popularize civilian education as soon as possible, enlighten the people's wisdom, and use them to fight against scholars.
"It's okay now, I became the chief soldier, and I changed it to a group army, I really don't feel comfortable with myself." Li Hongfei didn't have a good airway.
In the past, as a general soldier, he could not only manage the military, but also be in charge of local administration, but now it is good, the commander-in-chief of the First Group Army seems to be quite prestigious, but all local power has been withdrawn.
Li Hongfei regrets not being at the beginning now, why is he so much in arrears, and what kind of national defense army is he talking to Zhu Youzhen?
"Don't mind, my lord, this Wu Hao was single-handedly promoted by an adult, and now that he is the prefect of Suzhou, he will definitely vigorously cooperate with our army construction." Zhang Chao said.
Zhang Chao is delicate and knows what Li Hongfei thinks.
Once the army is at odds with the local government, it will be very difficult to develop and form combat effectiveness, especially in today's dynasties, where all kinds of contradictions often arise in order to compete for the right to speak.
"Send someone to tell Wu Hao that Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang, two professors, can't be let go no matter what, Baoshan's industrial system has tended to be perfect, and at this time, the development of Suzhou will stop for a long time if professional talents are transferred." Li Hongfei thought about it for a while, and then said.
He can't manage Suzhou anymore, so he can only give Wu Hao support in the back.
Now the provinces are implementing reforms, there is a shortage of scientific and technological talents, Nanjing by Shi Kefa personally on the battlefield, in order to build heavy industry, Shi Kefa has poached Xu Guangqi's student Chen Yujie, so that Suzhou Heavy Industry's latest heavy artillery research plan, temporarily stranded.
If we continue to poach people, Suzhou's advantages will no longer exist.
It's not that Li Hongfei is selfish, reform this kind of thing, if you know how to do it, you can change it for the better, and if you don't know how to do it, it can only get worse and worse, so Suzhou must maintain enough advantages and become a guiding light.
"This time, the imperial court gave us a share of 100,000 troops, and now there is still a gap of 75,000, so it is the right thing to hurry up and recruit new soldiers." Guo Sheng said.
He is like a pure soldier, who only cares about the army and is too lazy to take care of local construction.
In this battle of Nanjing, the Suzhou New Army killed or wounded more than 7,000 people in total, and there was a huge shortage of soldiers, so it was indeed necessary to replenish the new army as soon as possible.
"That's right, the imperial court's military spending has not come down yet, although there are establishments in various places, but they can't quickly recruit soldiers, Suzhou is developing rapidly this year, and the local finances are relatively rich, we can first draw the local financial conscription, and seize the front of the provinces to recruit high-quality soldiers." Li Hongfei agreed.
Those who are conscripted by the imperial court are all provinces where the local government has no money, and if the local government has surplus money, it can be reported and used directly, and it can be deducted from the tax at that time
There are advantages and disadvantages to this, the advantage is that it can save the imperial court to transport military salaries back and forth, and the manpower, material resources and time delayed, especially in the war years, time is life, and the sooner you complete the training of recruits, you can go to the battlefield one day earlier.
The disadvantage is that once habit becomes natural, the soldier only knows that the local government is raising the army, and does not know that the money is actually allocated by the imperial court.
This is very common in ancient times when transportation was inconvenient, and many generals took the imperial court salary, but kept private soldiers, such as the Zheng Jiajun before, who only recognized Zheng Zhilong, and did not know Zhu Youzhen.
It is not difficult to imagine that after the reform of the military system, road traffic construction will become the main direction of development in the future.