In fact, the reform has never stopped.

For example, let Huangfeng Mansion measure the entire land of Nanzhili.

But after that, Huang Fengfu still did not stay by Yang Chao's side, but let him start to deal with government affairs, and the government affairs of the whole world were handed over to him.

However, there has been no major adjustment, whether it is the collection of business taxes or the clearing of land, it can be said that it is only an adjustment, and the unreasonable phenomenon is reversed first, which is far from being a reform.

"Once we act, we have to be resolute, and we can't afford to delay."

"My subordinates know."

The most important thing about reform is to create a capable and efficient government.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it only occupied the north, but it was able to fight with Li Zicheng while pacifying the place, which the Ming Dynasty could not do before, precisely because they had a capable government, with refined personnel, no redundancy, and a vigorous spirit.

The government of the Ming Dynasty is corrupt, and the systems are complicated, like a rusty machine, which cannot be rotated at all, and the officials who operate this machine are all pedantic, either busy making money and using power for personal gain, or passive dereliction of duty and not doing their jobs.

Now Yang Chao is about to start dealing with political affairs.

At this time, the officials in Nanzhili and other places, basically are the old members of the Ming Dynasty, in order to stabilize the place as quickly as possible, Yang Chao did not move these people, at the beginning of the Nanzhili area, the officials above the prefect basically did not cooperate with Yang Chao, when Zhu Cihuan ascended the throne in Fujian, most of them ran to Fujian as officials, at that time Yang Chao could only appoint a large number of officials.

Later, when Shandong, Zhejiang, and now Jiangxi were recovered, the so-called integrity of these civil officials was much lowered, and most of them stayed, and even actively curry favor with Yang Chao, after all, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, they all surrendered once, and what integrity is there to speak of.

Therefore, the entire government under his rule is an old team, and the officials have no moral character, neither the courage to resist in the event of an invasion from other places. He also has no sense of mission for the people, and is only for money, so under Yang Chao's rule, corruption in all places is still serious.

"There are still not enough people in our army who are reading. I can only give you a thousand, and it is impossible for this thousand people to be stuffed into every yamen, so a county can send two or three people, and each province cannot send more than ten people. There is still a need to retain a large number of former officials. The only way to eradicate paralysis is to start with corruption, whether you are greedy or not. There is no one who does practical things. Rather than this, it is better to use honest mediocre officials first. When these talents grow up, they will be able to take on great responsibilities. ”

"The subordinates know. Each county has three inspectors, and the local magistrates who are corrupt and illegal will be investigated and dealt with immediately. ”

"No, without the name of the inspector, there is a training officer, a food supervisor, and a law enforcement officer. Take over part of the power in the hands of the local county magistrate, and the county will only be in charge of administration in the future. Judicial exclusivity. Most of the scholars in our army are also leading judges, and they can be regarded as having some experience, so let them set up a court to specialize in trial, and there must be no mistake in holding court every day. The grain supervisor strictly inspected the grain tax in the summer and autumn, strictly forbade the officials to put their hands on it, and the merchants bought low and sold high, and the guaranteed grain collection of one or two silver needed to be insisted on. As for the training officers, let them recruit soldiers for training in labor-rich places, so as to deter the localities. Second, in the future, it can add a steady stream of new force to the army. ”

Huang Fengfu said: "My subordinates understand. They were clearly responsible for training troops, supervising food, and administering justice, but secretly responsible for supervising hundreds of officials. ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "It's not for them to supervise, but for them to learn to handle government affairs first." Those officials are corrupt and do not do anything, but there are also institutional reasons. The first is that the income is too low. When you are an official, you have to pay attention to face, and during the Taizu period, there were even foreign officials who stepped down and committed suicide without entangled in returning home. We can't let this kind of honest and non-corrupt person not survive, not everyone is Hai Jui, and he can go all year round without eating meat. So while tackling corruption. You've got to raise your salary. It is also necessary to reduce the expenses of these officials, and from now on, all officials are not allowed to hire a master, you are going to be an official, and what do you ask a master to do, let the master do everything, what do you want you to do? ”

Huang Fengfu said again: "If you don't invite the master, the county masters won't be able to settle accounts and don't understand the law, and the two masters of Qian Gu and Xingming are indispensable." ”

Yang Chao snorted: "Being an official, being an official, what kind of official is this, and he can't read the money and grain account books, and he doesn't understand the Ming criminal law, but he grasps the local finance and is responsible for hearing the case, can this be qualified?" Lao Tzu might as well directly recruit Qian Gu and the criminal master as county commanders. ”

Huang Fengfu was shocked and said, "My lord plans to abolish the imperial examination? ”

If Yang Chaodu directly recruits officials in the future, the imperial examination system will not be invalid.

Yang Chao shook his head and said: "The imperial examination is still good, but the bad part is that the content of the scientific examination is not practical at all. The Four Books and the Five Classics are for teaching scholars to be human beings, not to teach them to be officials. To be an official, you still have to have the ability to do something, and in the future, the imperial examination will not need to be divided into four books and five classics, and the scholars will be selected by different disciplines. The household department relies on the arithmetic of money and grain account books, and the criminal department relies on the study of legal provisions and criminal names. ”

Yang Chao has never thought that the imperial examination is a backward system, you must know that this system has been praised by the West, compared to the aristocratic politics that the West has been playing is more than one point, this is the whole people's materials, the talent base is much larger than the aristocracy, and it is also more fair, the British only began to study in the nineteenth century, but the Chinese cover their ears and steal the bell to call the British imperial examination a civil service system, in fact, it is the same thing, but people do not test moral articles, but practical learning.

Huang Fengfu was secretly happy, he finally figured out that Yang Chao still wants the imperial examination, as long as the imperial examination, he can accept the hearts of scholars, no matter what the test is, as long as he passes this road, he will learn, he has always been worried about the confrontation between Yang Chao and the Jiangnan reading class, without the support of the scholar class, there has never been a foundation to build a career.

"Then my lord, isn't it time to start a class?"

Huang Fengfu said tentatively.

Yang Chao shook his head and said, "Don't be in a hurry first." Where there is a place for them, and none of them have any experience, it is better to use this group of officials now. However, it can be tried in the army now, and as long as you can read and write, you can take the test. It is divided into three sections, which are used to select training officers, food supervision officers, and law enforcement officers. It is estimated that it is still the group of shows that take advantage. ”

Huang Fengfu hurriedly said: "My subordinates will go and prepare." ”

Yang Chao nodded: "Although this group of talents take advantage, there is no way to do it, the foundation of those soldiers who are literate by ourselves is too poor, and many people are just learning to read and write now, even Wang Pu's group of officers, it is a little difficult for them to read military books, not to mention other soldiers." ”

Huang Fengfu said: "Don't worry, my lord, these talents are no longer the talents of the past." ”

Yang Chao nodded: "That's the same, I've been in several wars and seen bloody talents." ”

When it comes to these talents, Yang Chao also sighed, at the beginning, this group of people was indeed more afraid than ordinary people, which is related to the culture of acceptance, and also related to the class of origin.

Therefore, their performance in the first battle formation was much worse than that of ordinary peasant children, and there were even a large number of escapers.

After a few times, the Xiucai also adapted, but their death rate was obviously higher than that of ordinary recruits, more than 10,000 Xiucai, and now there are less than 8,000 left, which is twice as high as the death rate of Yang Chao's army last year.

But after a few battles with Haoge, King Sanshun and even the Northern Expedition, these Xiucai don't know what kind of mental journey they have experienced, a personality has changed greatly, at this time it is no different from ordinary soldiers, talking loudly in the army, scolding mothers, fighting, all of them are indispensable, so that Yang Chao sighed, they seem to have accepted another culture, the culture of ruffians!

In fact, Yang Chao himself was not infected by this culture, and when he stayed in the army, the mantra was 'Lao Tzu' and 'your mother' and the like, but when he went outside, he immediately became civilized and polite.

"Propaganda in the army first, so that these talents can prepare well. The content of the scientific examination, the training officer is naturally to test the art of war, from the Sun Tzu Art of War, Wei Zhenzi, Sima Law, the new book of discipline and effectiveness, the training documentary, etc., combined with examples, and finally let the lieutenant general read the paper. The grain overseers relied on the abacus and bookkeeping, and at the same time gave them some examples. The magistrate will take the Da Ming law, and also give examples. ”

Yang Chao plans to divide the exam into two parts, one part is to test the postes, that is, the fill-in-the-blank questions and multiple-choice questions of later generations, which test their knowledge, and the second test is an example, similar to the case questions of later generations, which tests the ability to learn and apply.

"The subordinates will go and prepare."

Yang Chao nodded: "You don't want to be favoritistic. If you come up with the question, I will choose it. If it is exposed in advance, even you, the governor, will not be spared! ”

Yang Chao is a little afraid of cheating, there is no problem with the process of the imperial examination, the names on the papers are all paste, but the most afraid is to leak the exam questions, this kind of thing in the Ming Dynasty is not once or twice, Tang Bohu was disqualified from the examination because of this matter.

"The subordinates don't dare!"

Yang Chao still believes in the integrity of Huang Fengfu: "Remember, our great cause has not been accomplished, and we must put the country first!" ”

Yang Chao continued to use his work to stimulate him, Yang Chao knew how important the heart of merit was to a great Ming literati, almost no one got rid of this kind of ambition to make meritorious contributions, and Huang Fengfu is a person with a very heavy heart of merit, if you use it well, this kind of person's enthusiasm for work can reach the level of a workaholic, and if you don't use it well, this kind of person will also play all kinds of unsightly things.

Huang Fengfu immediately went to prepare, and sorted out a complete set of topics after ten days, and at the same time let the people in the army know that Yang Chao wants to open the imperial examination and select talents in the army, which makes these people crazy, as for the content of the scientific examination is not the Four Books and Five Classics, they have long been uncarable, and began to read military books frantically, read money and grain accounts, study plans, read the laws of the Ming Dynasty and study various cases in previous years.

It's already October, and Yang Chao plans to select this group of people before the year and then assign them to various county governments.

The third step of eradicating paralysis has finally begun, and Yang Chao will take a year to solve the problem of government affairs. (To be continued.) )