readx; 74_74481 In Kaifeng Mansion, nearly 100 talents and children signed up for this unprecedented official selection examination. Some of www.biquge.info have taken the initiative to serve as officials a few days ago, and some of them have only been referred to after hearing that there is a good fortune. In fact, Zhu Youzhen's original intention was to let more people participate in the selection; However, in order to be able to "cook raw rice and mature rice" as soon as possible, he had to make a compromise according to Fan Jingwen's suggestion and set the selection criteria for unadmitted officials to be above the level of children.

In this way, some officials with outstanding abilities but who have not read much have been blocked from the selection gate. For example, Li Er, the chief of the official who was elected two days ago, used to be an apprentice in the shop, of course, he could not be a child, but he was not only literate and hyphenated, but also proficient in the study of account books. It's a pity that I can't refer to it this time.

Fortunately, in addition to the unadmitted officials, Kaifeng Prefecture also selected 200 employees. Employees are equivalent to officials in the past, with the only difference being that they are included in the management of the officials.

There are no requirements for the selection of employees, only based on their ability to work. Like Li Er, it was easy to be hired as an employee under the household finance envoy, and the specific business finance envoy had to ask him for advice.

All the unsubordinated officials have subordinate employees, and the most subordinate are the envoys, and these employees are equivalent to the servants of the past. Of course, there are many references and few candidates, and the cheers of passing the selection are joyful, because from then on there is a job in the yamen and a stable income.

Don't look at the monthly salary of unemployed officials is only three stones, and the employees only have one stone, but Zhu Youzhen specially approved: The salaries of these officials are not discounted in accordance with the old rules of the government, and the silver is found according to the discount of three taels and one stone. Then the employee's monthly salary is three taels, and it is not a problem to support the family; The unadmitted officials reached nine taels, which was enough to save a little.

Those who were not selected sighed with regret, but Yan Ermei told the crowd that in the future, according to actual needs, the number of unemployed officials and employees may increase; In addition, if a newly elected official is incompetent, he will be replaced at any time. He asked everyone not to be discouraged and to behave well in the current disaster relief, so that there is still a chance to refer to it again.

In just one day, the work of the additional employees was completed. The change of status has reassured these unemployed officers and employees, and they have worked harder. Of course, Kaifeng Province is still in the post-war reconstruction stage, and many affairs cannot be carried out, and the most important thing at the moment is to provide relief and comfort to the refugees. The effects of this reform may not be felt until a few months away.

While Kaifeng Mansion was in full swing, Zhu Youzhen was not idle. He doesn't care about the specific civil affairs and lets Yan Erme do it, but he must personally handle the military affairs.

The first is the handling of captives. When the city was broken, the rebels fled in panic, and the Hong soldiers ran fast, but let the other guards be cannon fodder, and in the end, in addition to being killed in battle, thousands were captured. For this part of the prisoners, Zhu Youzhen did not plan to be like Luoyang, and directly reorganized into the Ming Army. Because they are different from the Luoyang officials and soldiers, Luoyang is Zhu Changxun's usurpation, and these officials and soldiers do not know that the real emperor Zhu Youzhen is not dead; And these soldiers have been fighting with the official army for seven or eight days, knowing that the emperor is personally on the expedition, but still resisting stubbornly, that is an out-and-out rebellion.

According to the "Da Ming Law", it is a capital crime for those who conspire against each other without asking the head. But Zhu Youzhen didn't want to execute all these rebels, because they were not the same as foreign invaders or thieves, it could be said that they were a group of people who had no soul and didn't know who they were fighting for. In the final analysis, after all, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and there are many military dependents, which involve a wide range of people, and Zhu Youzhen is really reluctant to kill.

But for the backbone elements in the rebels, that is, those former guards and generals, Zhu Youzhen will not show mercy to his subordinates. As soon as Kaifeng City was broken, he ordered Lu Xiangsheng to search for rebel officers throughout the city, focusing on Xu Dingguo, the commander of the capital of Henan.

Like many military generals, this Xu Dingguo was also born in a military household, and he inherited his father's official position, and became a thousand households at a young age. Because he is sleek and good at flattering, especially able to pat Wei Zhongxian's sycophants, he has been promoted to the commander of the Henan capital a few years ago, and is the highest military commander of the Henan Provincial Health Office.

A local military governor like Xu Dingguo can't catch up with a border warlord like Zu Dashou. Although Zu Dashou also ate empty salaries, at least he fought against the Tartars. Xu Dingguo is good, he eats happily, and when the thieves hit Henan, he first pretended to be deaf and dumb and pretended not to know. The imperial court was really in a hurry, so it began to find all kinds of excuses to prevaricate, such as the lack of pay for the officers and soldiers, the lack of armament, the need to guard the city, etc., anyway, they did not dare to fight. Like Zhang Xianzhong besieged Luoyang two years ago, Xu Dingguo sat on 20,000 guards in Kaifeng, but he shrank in the city and did not move, and in the end, it was Lu Xiangsheng of the Daimyo Mansion of Beizhili who came to relieve the siege.

Such an incompetent general, Zhu Youzhen had long wanted to remove him. However, after ascending the throne, major events were one after another, especially the abandonment of Liaodong, the southwest counterinsurgency, and the defense of the Beijing Division, and the vicious battles one after another, Zhu Youzhen could only devote his main energy to the border army and the Beijing camp. As for the officers and troops of the inland guard station, for the time being, they will still focus on stability, and they will be able to manage it well when they are freed up in the future.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yousong and Hong Chengchou suddenly rebelled, and this Xu Dingguo not only did not lead his troops to resist, but was bought by Zhu Yousong with a beautiful woman of Xianlu, and soon turned into a rebel army to assist Hong Chengchou in defending Kaifeng. He was the highest military commander of the Henan Guard, and his natural influence was extremely bad, which led many officers of the Guardhouse to rebel.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen hated Xu Dingguo so much that his teeth itched, and he had already issued an order to dismiss him from all official positions, confiscate all family property, and told Lu Xiangsheng that after breaking Kaifeng, Xu Dingguo must be caught, and he must see people alive and corpses when he dies. Who knew that Xu Dingguo was very cunning and fled with Hong Bing, Lu Xiangsheng naturally couldn't find it, and only arrested a group of middle and low-level military attaches such as garrisons, thousands of households, and hundreds of households.

After moving to Kaifeng, taking this opportunity, Zhu Youzhen issued an edict: First, from now on, all crimes committed by registered generals and soldiers will be tried by Jinyiwei, and after the trial, they will be directly convicted and submitted to the royal court for approval. Even if it is, there is no need to go through the criminal department, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate for trial. This is tantamount to giving Jinyiwei the function of a "military court".

Second, it was reaffirmed that the provincial governors were directly under the jurisdiction of the Governors of the Five Armies, in other words, they were directly under the control of the Ministry of War, and were no longer subject to the control of the governors of the provinces. This move further separated the local military administration from the civil administration, and the history of the three divisions of the feudal division, the division of the domain, and the division of the capital came to an end.

On this point, Zhu Youzhen is by no means ambiguous. He knows very well that "political power comes out of the barrel of a gun" and that military power must be completely in his own hands!

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