Chapter 0029: Dengwen Drum
Zhu Youzhen saw the expressions of Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, and knew what they were worried about, no matter how big the eunuch was! You can't openly interfere in politics! This is clearly stipulated in the hands of Emperor Hongwu! If the eunuch interferes in politics, it will be peeled!
"Don't worry, I'm leaving you two alone to talk to you about what's next! I plan to let Wang Chengen grasp the original Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and the Dongchang has been reorganized and all of them have moved into the Inner Palace as my actual cabinet! In the future, we will slowly elevate the various departments! Increase absolute monarchy! Official documents from other provinces were sent to the palace and various ministries! The ministries should give a solution at the first time, but the specific will of the palace shall prevail! After the reorganization, all the personnel of the East Factory stayed in the palace and were not allowed to contact the outside world! Without my will, no member of the celebrant will leave the palace! In case palace secrets are leaked! As for Jinyiwei! Next, we will also reorganize, I want to form a Jinyiwei as the foundation, evolve into an institution that can strongly ensure the implementation of the various systems and decisions of the celebrant supervisor, and at the same time generate a system that can restrain Jinyiwei, forming a more hidden system, Jinyiwei is called the Statistics Department! It's called the Investigation Division! The Department of Ceremonial Supervision and Statistics, and the Investigation Department are all under the responsibility of Wang Chengen, of course, without my will, Wang Chengen will not be allowed to go out of Beijing! Zhu Youzhen crackled and said his next reform measures.
In fact, there are no new tricks in these measures, Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun guessed that the Statistics Department and the Survey Department should be the same as the original East Factory and West Factory, right? The Ming Dynasty also had an inner factory, and at most, the east factory was divided into three parts, and later it was restored to the state of an east factory.
Wang Chengen just wanted to speak, but Cao Huachun hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, this idea is good, but I'm afraid it will be too difficult to implement!" Neither the officials nor the cabinet will agree! I'm afraid that if these people contact each other slightly, the entire Ming officialdom will unite to resist the emperor's move, the emperor's purpose in doing this is too obvious, this is to set up hundreds of officials! There is also the emperor who does not let the eunuchs out of the capital, which is equivalent to breaking the system of supervising the army and the system of eunuchs monitoring the locality, which is not very possible, after all, the eunuchs are the most loyal to the emperor, even if the eunuchs have some corrupt deeds, it is always much smaller than the danger of the local government and the army losing control! β
Zhu Youzhen nodded, and glanced at Cao Huachun with appreciation, Cao Huachun does have some extraordinary talent, in all fairness, if Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen were not eunuchs, their strength as officials would definitely exceed the current cabinet ministers! "You're right! But I have made up my mind, eunuchs can't go out of Beijing, this is a national policy, eunuchs don't go out of Beijing, they can block the mouths of hundreds of officials! Block the mouths of the people of the world! Hundreds of officials criticize the emperor's main weapon, and they always find reasons from the eunuchs, and if the eunuchs don't leave Beijing, they have nothing to say! I believe that letting Jinyiwei monitor the world can also achieve the same effect, and it should no longer be called Jinyiwei, it should be called the Statistics Department! At the same time, increase the concealment of the Statistics Department, stop the system of Jinyiwei from generation to generation, if a person becomes Jinyiwei, he will be Jinyiwei for the rest of his life! Even his son and wife are not allowed to reveal their identity as Jinyiwei, increasing the mystery and particularity of Jinyiwei! Once something can be passed down from generation to generation, it is worthless! Only those who have the ability can enter the Jinyiwei, who can guarantee that the person who has the ability will also have the ability of his descendants? β
Wang Chengen nodded, "The emperor's idea is good, but he said to Cao Huachun, I'm afraid it is too difficult to establish, and it is idealized, the establishment of a system is still based on being able to implement, and there is no problem with many of the measures of the Ming Dynasty, and now the biggest problem is in poverty, out of the corruption of officials, during the period of Hong Wuye, although the country is also poor and weak, the rule of officials is very clean, which is why during the nearly three hundred years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, although the reign of Hong Wuye only accounted for one-tenth, But the proportion of Qing officials accounts for at least nine-tenths! In just 30 years, the whole country has quickly recovered its vitality, and the problem now is that the emperor, your first ascension to the great treasure, should still be based on the premise of stability. β
Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, "I discussed with you, that is, my plan for the next step, of course I know that it is impossible to do it in one step, you two don't think of me so naΓ―vely, my political experience is not what you speculate on the surface, maybe I am more experienced than you, my reform is step-by-step and planned!" Of course, I know people's nostalgia, and any change is very painful! You are usually a handy thing, once you move the nest, you are also very angry, looking at the things that are pleasing to the eye, I use an analogy, now the writing is written vertically, if I stipulate, in the future, I will write horizontally, it is estimated that it will also be opposed by the world! β
Cao Huachun arched his hand and said, "What the emperor said is that any change, even if it is only a small change, will be very difficult!" β
Zhu Youzhen said patiently, "Of course, there is resistance to change, but I still have to change, if I don't change, I will be weak, and if I change, I will be strong!" Take the reorganization of the East Factory as an example, why let these educated, politically savvy, and experienced eunuchs enter the celebrant eunuchs, is to change the relationship between the imperial power and the hundred officials from the root! In the past, it was all the ideas of hundreds of officials, I made decisions, and I was passive! Now I ask you to reorganize the East Factory to have a stronger ability than the other departments, their ideas, you can refute, you can overthrow, you can come up with better ideas than theirs! You have to gradually become a part of me, and the hundred officials can never become a part of me, they represent the landlord class, and although I also represent the landlord class, or the largest landlord class in the world, but as the saying goes, peers are enemies, I and the hundred officials are a relationship of mutual need and mutual checks and balances! In a feudal society, the stronger the imperial power, the more stable the country became! The more enlightened and talented the emperor, the richer and stronger the country becomes, and this is also the fastest and shortest way to get the country out of backwardness! This will be the central idea of our administration and the central goal we will strive for! This can't be decreed to the world, but we have to reach a consensus in the hearts of the three of us! What we have to do is revolve around grabbing power! β
Zhu Youzhen's new nouns are a bit much, but it doesn't affect him to say the main idea!
Of course, Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun can understand the emperor's meaning, and the two of them have long been accustomed to the emperor's cleverness, and the common answer they gave is that this emperor is talented! He is worthy of being the descendant of Taizu!
Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen both knew that the emperor didn't like to listen to Yao Shunyu soup or anything like that now, and no one in the entire court was patting in front of the emperor anymore, Cao Huachun arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, in your system, it should not be difficult for the master of ceremonies to elevate hundreds of officials, improve imperial power, and improve the efficiency of the entire court, but the difficulty is that hundreds of officials will not agree!" Moreover, whether Jinyiwei can be implemented is also a difficulty, if Jinyiwei's power is too great, what investigation department you said has the ability to restrain Jinyiwei, it is also a difficult point, and there are contradictions between all parties, who will lead it, it is also a difficult point, it is impossible for everything in the world to be decided by the emperor or the celebrant supervisor? Otherwise, even if the celebrant adds tens of thousands of people, I am afraid that he will not be able to deal with the affairs of the whole world, and the affairs of the whole world will not be able to wait for Da Nei to deal with it, and the farthest border of the Ming Dynasty will take about a year to Beijing! β
Zhu Youzhen said with a smile, "Of course, it is impossible for everything to be solved by Jingshi, and the world will be chaotic!" Now the Ming Dynasty is in turmoil, the chaos is not in Beijing, but in the locality, even if I kill all the officials in Beijing, it will not change the situation, and the officials of the entire place, thousands of states and counties, this is the main part of the Ming Dynasty political system! The central government, as I have just said, I feel that the reform of the local government, on the one hand, should start from the replacement of the old and the new, reform the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, and increase the examination subjects! Cultivating new types of talent! Cultivate more energetic and honest talents! On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the building of the legal system! Separate the servants of the yamen from the yamen! The servants are under the supervision of Jinyi Wei and belong to the Criminal Department! Let the yamen and the yamen form a cooperative relationship, form a new yamen, subordinate to the yamen, and not completely obey the yamen's orders! Jinyiwei is also the new Statistics Department, they do not have the right to judge while supervising the officials, and the right to make judgments must be handed over to the officials, and the officials must also be reorganized into the Inspection Department! The local yamen is only in charge of administration, finance, arresting people, and maintaining public order, and the government department is responsible for it! The judgment is in charge of the inspection department, and Jin Yiwei plays a supervisory role in it! The Inspection Department is responsible for adjudicating the case, and the final ruling is handed over to Jinyiwei for review, and if Jinyiwei, that is, the Statistics Department, thinks it is unfair or unclear, it can be remanded for retrial! If there is any injustice in the locality, the people can directly report the local situation to the inspection department, and once the inspection department verifies that there is a problem in the locality, it can arrest the local officials through the guΓ² government department! But this also has to be reviewed by Jinyiwei! If the inspection department thinks that Jinyiwei is unfair, it can appeal to the imperial court! The imperial court will then hand it over to the Investigation Department for final investigation and ruling! In this process, the Investigation Department has always existed, but it has never shown up, and the Investigation Department has no right to interfere in local affairs, and the Investigation Department is specifically responsible for secret investigations and secret tasks! The power is the greatest, but it must not be used lightly, and the use of power needs to be directly approved by the master of ceremonies before it can be adjudicated! You can't kill in vain! β
Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen couldn't help but glance at each other, the speed at which the emperor spoke was actually not fast, but the two of them were a little dizzy! Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have been ruling since you were in your mother's womb, and you must not have so many tricks, right? I'm confused! The two of them glanced at the dense notebook they had recorded, and they were both digesting the instructions that the emperor had just said!
Comrade Zhu Youzhen looked at the two old eunuchs proudly, in terms of ability, these two old eunuchs who are enough to be prime ministers in the future! Zhu Youzhen's set of ideas is taken from modern times, but it is also based on his understanding of ancient times! This system is indeed cumbersome, and it also requires a large number of high-quality officials, but it will increase the probability of a healthy system! In ancient times, if you wanted to benefit one party, you had to produce a clean official, a good official, and a cadre, and it was too difficult for such a person! There are millions of officials in the entire country, and a thousand officials who can come out of the standard are thankful, which is like a bunch of waves in the sea of officials!
The two old eunuchs are still quite capable, and after a short time, they sorted out the emperor's thoughts a rough idea, Cao Huachun arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, doing this is still an old problem, will it be too idealistic?" Is it good, the organization will be too inflated, and the efficiency will be even lower? Moreover, how could it be possible for the imperial examination every year to provide so many people for the imperial court? β
Zhu Youzhen nodded, "That's a good question!" This is the first step of the local reform I just mentioned, to reform the imperial examination system! This is the foundation of the country, to lower the threshold of being an official, in the past is to raise people to be officials, in the future, the three jumps of showmanship, lifting, and champions will be changed to the quadruple jump of primary school, junior high school, high school, and junior college! After graduating from primary school, you are eligible to be a county official! Junior high school students can serve as officials at the state level, and high school students can serve as officials at the provincial level. Lowering the bar doesn't mean lowering the bar! β
Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen are really a little dizzy at the moment, the emperor's words are really like thunder, fortunately it is the three of them, if it is put to the court to discuss, let the emperor's words be enough for the world to argue for three or five years!
Wang Chengen shook his head secretly, the emperor is too young, has lofty goals, and has a long-term vision, which is a good thing, but with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, if these things are done in the later period of Hong Wuye, the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, there is still a foundation, but it is most likely difficult to succeed, not to mention that now the country is worried about internal and external troubles, and even the capital was beaten a few days ago! Where are you going to accomplish your vague plans? He had to remind boldly, "Your Majesty, the top priority now is to think about it, how can we appease the refugees from all over the country who are in the midst of a famine, and the Jiannu who are raging in the suburbs of Beijing is the truth, these things will be discussed slowly in the future, right?" β
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was a little unhappy, but he didn't have a seizure, "I said it clearly, didn't I want to answer your questions?" I want you to know how this celebrant is going to prepare, how to reorganize, and I don't want to make my thoughts clear, so that you will have what kind of standards you will have when you do things in the future. Okay, in the future, the celebrant will hand it over to the two of you, Cao Huachun took out the first step of the instructions, and then Wang Chengen reviewed them, and finally I gave instructions, so that I can gradually reduce my workload, and also inform the officials of the world, and the future of official document writing will develop in simplified Chinese, and there must be a fixed format, time, people, events, processes, results, and handling opinions, all of which are explained clearly in the simplest words, and the official documents should be sent to Beijing at the same time! Improve the efficiency of the entire officialdom! Now I have appointed Cao Huachun as the eunuch of Bingbi and Wang Chengen as the eunuch of the palm seal of the celebrant eunuch! β
Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun received the order at the same time! Zhu Youzhen had to give some more orders, and the sound of Dengwen drums came from outside!
The faces of the three people changed at the same time! This Dengwen drum is a rule set by Emperor Taizu Hongwu, what I am afraid of is that the powerful ministers dominate the dynasty and block the saints! But there are no powerful ministers now! Is this going to slap the emperor in the face? Or is there any guy among the hundred officials who is impatient to live?