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Now Li Zicheng and Zhang Chu can be said to be a quasi-ally relationship, and it is very likely that they will meet each other in the future.

Recently, Zhang Chu's series of actions have beaten Houjin very hard, although Huang Taiji must have put this account on the head of Emperor Chongzhen, but the battle with Houjin is also inevitable.

If at the beginning, Zhang Chu could still lead his subordinates to live a prosperous life incognito, but now that the stall is so big, he has no way to retreat, and no matter how difficult it is, he has to go on.

"In order to cope with the difficulties in the future, we must first make ourselves stronger and consolidate the existing territory, and now the most lacking in various places is cadres and managers, and we still have to think about how to recruit officials in the government." Zhang Chu retracted his thoughts and decided to solve the most urgent matter in front of him first.

Regarding the matter of officials, the Ming Dynasty completely pinned its hopes on a small number of social elites who read the books of sages, that is, officials, but did not give them the opportunity to be promoted for a large number of low-level officials, so these people were destined to work at the bottom for a lifetime when they entered the yamen, and they spent more energy on how to embezzle, take bribes and extort the people. Moreover, since Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty officials have set a particularly low standard of income, and the officials have to invite their own staff members, which makes the officials who can't live their lives also desperately join the corrupt army, even if they are skinned and made specimens.

Zhang Chu and Zhu Jishi discussed for a long time and decided to make major changes to the organizational structure of the security army, this change involved all aspects of the security army, which can be said to be a major adventure, but Zhang Chu insisted that this risk was worth taking, otherwise Zhang Chu would still establish another feudal dynasty, without any advanced nature.

Zhang Chu and Zhu Jishi repeatedly discussed a basic plan for reform, and then recruited the elders of the security army and important officials for secret discussions, and the plan was finally decided.

According to the plan, the power of the security army will be divided into three parts: government affairs, justice and military, these three powers ultimately belong to Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu does not think that the current Ming Dynasty has a democratic foundation, Emperor Chongzhen is democratic, and finally even whether to escape from Beijing and discuss with the ministers, in the end can only hang on the southeast branch.

Zhu Jishi will be responsible for the establishment of the Government Affairs Yuan, and each department will select a special person to manage it. In fact, Ma Zizhou and Zhang Jun are in charge of the judicial sector, Ma Zizhou is responsible for the trial of cases by the courts, Zhang Jun is responsible for prosecuting cases, and is also in charge of functions similar to those of the Supervision Yuan, responsible for the investigation of official corruption. All the procuratorates and courts are organized into a separate system, and the use of human and financial rights comes from Zhang Chu, and Zhang Chu is in charge.

Militarily, of course, it must be unified under Zhang Chu's leadership, and even the police force in charge of local public security is also under Zhang Chu's unified leadership.

The above Zhang Chu is only to set up a general framework to prepare for future development, and the focus of this reform is on the identity of grassroots officials.

No matter what position a person is in, he has an upward heart, and even a brick mover has the dream of becoming a foreman and becoming a brick factory owner. If people devote their minds to improving their social status, they can reduce their greed for money, and if the improvement of their status can also bring him enough wealth, they can reduce their motivation to accumulate wealth through corruption and bribery.

What Zhang Chu wants to do this time is to give the officials who are not valued in the current Ming Dynasty government a channel to rise. To break the barrier between officials and officials, it is best to produce a few high-ranking officials who have risen from the low-level officials, so as to make the bureaucratic system more grounded and not only serve the upper nobility.

In order to achieve this goal, Zhang Chu and Zhu Jishi jointly formulated the "Measures for the Management of Security Army Officials", which will become the rule for the promotion and appointment of security military government officials, and no one except Zhang Chu can break this rule.

In the rules, Zhang Chu forcibly stipulated that the security army officials to be promoted in the future must have at least three months of work experience as petty officials. As long as the junior officials in the government pass the cultural examination, they are eligible to serve as officials at the next level, and if there is a vacancy in the officials at the higher level, they are selected from among the officials at the lower level. Most officials need to rise from the bottom. Of course, in the current special period, Zhang Chu left a back door for himself in the measures, and only Zhang Chu had the privilege to directly appoint officials.

Zhang Chu has raised the salaries of officials by a large margin this time, and forbade officials from hiring masters, and the government will appoint full-time secretaries for senior officials, and the appointment and transfer of secretaries will be arranged by the Government Affairs Yuan. In this way, the "Measures for the Administration of Security Force Officials", the "Measures for the Acceptance of Gifts by Security Force Officials", and the "Measures for the Provident Fund of the Security Army" have initially established the rules of officialdom of the Security Army.

Zhang Chu and Zhu Jishi, with the cooperation of other officials, were busy together for several days before they could preliminarily finalize the drafts of various regulations, which were a major matter related to the survival of the security forces, and they needed to be extremely careful, and they also had to solicit opinions on a wide range of issues before they could be officially promulgated.

"This official can be promoted from among the petty officials, and those who read must be very unhappy." Seeing that all kinds of regulations had been finalized, Zhu Jishi said to Zhang Chu that he was trying to avoid the suspicion of speaking for readers.

"That's for sure, the position of this official has changed from the exclusive possession of the scholar to the sharing of everyone, the scholar must be unhappy, but we have prepared more opportunities for the scholar to be an official in the method, the imperial examination has been changed from once a few years to once a year, but the content has added some practical things, if the mind is flexible enough to pass these exams is not a problem, every year to recruit a large number of talents into the ranks of officials, although everyone has to start from the bottom, this is much better than dying at home to study until the old. Scholars cannot be offended, if they are not given a way out, they will take refuge in the enemy, and they will write articles to scold us. Zhang Chu said with a wry smile.

"That's good, too. I hope that after a period of time, a group of officials who not only understand low-level affairs, but also have good knowledge and knowledge will emerge to manage our government affairs better. "Zhu Jishi himself is a scholar, and he is not good at what to say.

"I hope so, it is much more difficult to manage government affairs than to fight a war, and it is not easy to have a talented official." Zhang Chu said with emotion.

"I have a talented official on hand, and I want to recommend it to you to see if I can reuse it." Zhu Jishi suddenly thought that there was really someone under his command who was suitable for Zhang Chu's requirements, maybe this person might be in charge alone and be able to share Zhu Jishi's worries. (To be continued.) )