Chapter 470 - Establishment of a new system

This major restructuring can be said to have completely overthrown the Han system, and it can be said that this system is a system within the General's Mansion, and people with a discerning eye can see at a glance that this is a set of state-building systems.

Although this system overthrew the Han system, it also saw a lot of shadows of the Han system, such as the six parts, which merged many functions of Jiuqing in the Han system to achieve the role of streamlining government. And the governor of Shangshu Province is actually the prime minister in the Han system, and the provincial governor under the door is the imperial historian of the Han system, but the scope and privileges of the provincial governor under the door are not comparable to the Han system. Therefore, Zhang Xiu also set up the Ministry of Justice to restrict Menxia Province, if someone from Menxia Province commits a crime, the Ministry of Justice can cooperate with the Criminal Department to deal with Menxia Province, and the three parties will contain each other, and will not be overpowered by a certain ministry.

As for the Military Aircraft Department, it is relatively independent, and it doesn't have to care about anything, just lead the troops to fight, and basically Zhang Xiu has the final say. This method can only be adopted for the army, and there can be no internal containment of each other, nor can there be any emphasis on civilian affairs over military force, and civilian officials command military attachés; if this is done, there will only be one end, that is, repeated defeats. Therefore, Zhang Xiu's restrictions on the army are in terms of money and food.

Although this system is reasonable, there are still people who are outside this system, and that is Zhang Xiu. However, Zhang Xiu has also made many restrictions on herself, and she will not say much about them before. As for the big restrictions, Zhang Xiu felt that it was not the time to set up at this time, and the troubled times were not over at this time, so there could not be too many constraints, so this aspect was still put aside first, and the officials of Shangshu Province who had the ability to veto Zhang Xiu for the time being were only Zhong Du, and although the six departments belonged to Shangshu Province, they had no right to veto Zhang Xiu's policy was also based on this consideration.

Under the internal formulation of the General's Mansion, it was directly implemented to the localities, and the three departments plus the army were also dealt with in the localities, and the army had long been independent into corps, and there was basically no need to move. In terms of the three departments, it is the Prefecture Assassin History, the Taishou Mansion, and the County Government that deal with civil affairs, and the supervision departments of various localities are supervised, and the role of these supervision departments is the same as that of Taiwan officials in the internal system of the General Fat Cavalry, and they are in charge of the impeachment of officials. In the future, if the people have any grievances and want to sue the officials, the newly established local judicial department will be responsible for all of them, and after sentencing, they will be handed over to the local yamen for execution according to the verdict.

In addition to the big changes in the internal system and the small changes in the local system, Zhang Xiu also made some changes to the Chang'an Academy, first of all, after the imperial examination, students with good grades or special ability can choose not to be officials immediately, but to go to the inner courtyard of the Chang'an Academy for further study, which is not just like studying in the palace before the imperial examination. These students in the inner courtyard have the opportunity to be arranged to listen to and make notes on the side when Zhang Xiu and the civil and military affairs are deliberating, and if they have good plans, they can also put them forward immediately. It can be said that it is not only to cultivate these inner courtyard students, but also to dig young talents, of course, there are also people with extremely high ability who may take this opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step and become Zhang Xiu's close minister. Of course, it is not so easy to enter the inner courtyard, and it still has to go through a more rigorous screening.

In addition to the establishment of the inner court, Zhang Xiu did not abandon the Han Dynasty's inspection system, and the big officials under his rule can also recommend talents to Zhang Xiu, where the officials with high official positions can recommend talented but low-ranking officials, and all officials can recommend subordinate officials and talented people among the people, which can not only recommend their own, but also recommend others. Of course, after the recommendation, it must also be investigated, and if there is no talent, it must be sent back. Although the official who recommended him will not be punished, he will also lose face because the person who recommended him is beaten back, which is a warning to people everywhere not to make random recommendations.

The probation system has not been abandoned, and Zhang Xiu is also preparing to implement the probation to various schools and palaces. Let the school and the palace also recommend talented students, of course, if there is a rise of folk lectures such as Sima Hui in the future, they will also be treated together, which is called tribute. After all, the imperial examination is not held every year, and since the students have become talents, they do not need to stay in the school and the palace anymore, of course, they still have to participate in the assessment.

In doing so, it is also to encourage celebrities and hermits who are reluctant to run schools and teach good talents to be used by Zhang Xiu. In this way, Zhang Xiuzhiping's talent recruitment system can be regarded as relatively rich, the imperial examination, the inspection examination, and the tribute examination are parallel at the same time, and then there are the elites of the inner courtyard training elites, I believe that over time, Zhang Xiu can also say: "The world's talents, all into my Yi." ”

Zhang Xiu's restructuring is not limited to this, in view of the extremely serious redundant official problem in the middle and late stages of the previous dynasties, Zhang Xiu introduced the elimination system and quota system that prevailed in the society before the crossing. Statistics of political performance every year, if the performance is not up to standard, will be dismissed, of course, this standard Zhang Xiu will not stupidly use the "pig fart" that won in the society before the crossing There are multiple standards for statistical performance, and it also depends on the dissatisfaction of the people. In addition, the number of officials is fixed, unless the department is understaffed and the newly opened department will add manpower, generally only some officials will be eliminated before they will be added, or there are new people who join the officialdom to join in and compete together. In this way, social exhibitions can be added, officials will not be lazy, and those who have entered the officialdom after the imperial examination will also have officials to do, and they can also limit the appearance of redundant personnel, killing multiple birds with one stone.

In view of the fact that after the troubled times, the society will become more and more populous, Zhang Xiu will also introduce retirement and other systems in the future, but now in the troubled times, these will be introduced later.

In addition to these, there were also special occupations such as merchants and langs, and other special occupations such as chambers of commerce, which were composed of industry people, but were supervised by the Fat Cavalry General's Office, and were between the private and imperial courts, to manage these special professional groups. All of these are under the jurisdiction of the household department, so I will not list them in detail.

In order to show respect for academics, Zhang Xiu stipulated that he would go to the Chang'an School Palace at least once a year to listen to lectures, and perform disciple salutes to the Chang'an School Palace, regardless of whether the school palace wine was younger than him. This rule has been extended to Zhang Xiu's descendants, and it can be regarded as a country-building policy, to show that Zhang Xiu attaches great importance to both civil governance and martial arts, both of which are indispensable. Regarding the fact that businessmen want to take the imperial examination, Zhang Xiu resolutely suppressed it.

Zhang Xiu knew very well that merchant politics was not suitable for China, and Zhang Xiu now wanted to establish a circular model through the imperial examination system. The peasants became elites through study, and then took the imperial examination to become officials, and then served the people. In this way, it has become a circular model in which academics guide politics, and then politics guides society, and academics arise in society.

The core of this circular model is academic, which can also be said to be culture and knowledge. Zhang Xiu knew very well that in the future, whether China would continue to follow the path of an agricultural country, or the road of a commercial country, or an industrial country that would surely or did not know when

There is an advantage that no country in the world can match.

With thousands of years of uninterrupted inheritance and accumulation, there is no culture in the world that can compare with this cultural heritage. Zhang Xiu often thinks that China is culturally backward before the crossing, and this assertion seems to Zhang Xiu to be ridiculously stupid. I didn't figure out all the good things left by my ancestors and inherited them well, so I blindly thought that my culture was backward. Other people's culture is advanced, this is the common problem of some mainstream social elites before Zhang Xiu's crossing.

With the imperial examination system as the main system for recruiting talents, coupled with the parallel system of inspection and tribute, the palace of learning, the academy, the inner courtyard, and the open collection of books are cultivated. In addition, Zhang Xiu's respect for academics has made the social style of literature flourish, and with an effective anti-corrosion mechanism, a multi-pronged approach can maintain this virtuous circle of using academics to guide politics, and politics to guide society, and small academics in society.

The establishment of the new three provinces and six ministries, coupled with the mechanism of leading the society to move forward in a good direction derived from the foundation of talent selection of the imperial examination system, is what Zhang Xiu wants to do the most since he crossed over, and it is also the most difficult thing to do. Now, after more than ten years of hard work, and then through the opportunity of the prestige established in the battle of defeating the Hu people, this mechanism has finally been established.

Zhang Xiu's ** restructuring is mainly the people under him, and the people are not too affected. And Zhang Xiu did not let everyone change quickly, but asked everyone to familiarize themselves with their new positions and problems with other departments before the autumn harvest, and there was half a year as a buffer, plus the tone set by Zhang Xiu before, the elites of these times quickly adapted to it.

Zhang Xiu's series of restructuring and adjustment did not cause much turmoil, after all, Zhang Xiu changed the internal system of the General's Mansion, and for Zhang Xiu, who had already opened the mansion, building a set of internal systems by himself did not violate the Han law in principle. If the power of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty was still there, Zhang Xiu would naturally die miserably if he did this, but now that the princes of various places are standing together, Xiao Zhang Xiu is the most powerful, and no prince dares to offend Zhang Xiu at this time. Of course, there are also people who are not interested in talking to Zhang Xiu in front of Liu Xie, the son of heaven, and Liu Xie can only smile helplessly.

Zhang Xiu's internal restructuring and adjustment were carried out, and Cao Cao had already gone to Hebei in late spring. Yuan Zhen and Yuan Shang were not in harmony, Yuan Shao got Yuan Xi's support and was stronger than Yuan Zhen, Yuan Zhen attacked Yuan Shang, and the husband was defeated and returned, retreating to the plain. Yuan Shang saw it, and personally led the army to pursue and besiege the plain.

Guo Tu saw that it was critical, so he offered a plan to Yuan Tan, let him surrender to Cao Cao, and wait for Cao Cao to attack Yuan Shang from behind, and after Cao Cao broke Yuan Shang, the army had no food, so he naturally wanted to retreat to Chongzhou, and Yuan Zhen followed his plan. Although Yuan Zhu and Guo Tu have Xiaozhi, how can they be Cao Cao's opponents, plus the people of the Yuan family did not expect that since Yuan Shao's death and after the fall of the annexed states last year, they have seen the general trend clearly, and the Yuan family has no ability to hold the three states of Yi, Qing, and You, and these three states will only be taken by Zhang Xiu or Cao Cao.

Now that Cao Cao came first, Hebei confidants divorced because of the fight between Yuan Shang and Yuan Zhen, and Hebei celebrities secretly descended to Cao Cao and exposed Yuan Zhen's plot in front of Cao Cao. Cao Cao only laughed after knowing it, and from Xin's plan, the army only did not enter the Tun Li, and then wantonly gathered the hearts of the people in Hebei, and when the grain was ripe in July, the army attacked Handan in one fell swoop. And because Handcheng has a trial handle, it is difficult to fall, Cao Cao from Xu Yu, break the water to flood Handcheng, so Handcheng was broken, and the trial and matching troops were defeated and knelt north and committed suicide. It's a pity that there are a lot of loyal and good ministers of the Yuan family and they don't use them, so they incur such an end.

Cao Cao broke Yizhou, Yuan Shang hurriedly went to Youzhou to vote for Yuan Xi, Cao Cao's army waved to the east, first took Qingzhou, and broke Yuan Zhen. By the end of the year, only Youzhou was left in the four states of the Yuan family, Cao Cao took the wings and Qing Erzhou, and Zhang Xiu took the state. The Yuan family was defeated, and Cao Cao collected Hebei celebrities, and after the defeat of the Yuan family by Yan Liang and Wen scandals captured in the first battle of Guandu, they were silent for a long time, and under the persuasion of Zhang Lin and Gao Lan, Cao Cao surrendered. In addition, Cao Cao captured the son of Fu Tou, and after Fu Lu surrendered to Cao, he persuaded his father to surrender to Cao together. Cao Cao collected the two states of Yiqing and chased Zhang Xiu with power, so that the two heroes in the north of the Han Dynasty stood side by side.

Cao Cao has movements, how can Zhang Xiu be slow. As Zhang Xiu and his subordinates expected, the western Xianbei, the central Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu were defeated, and the Eastern Xianbei and the Northern Xiongnu immediately fell into the ground. Due to the death of Shan Yudu in the western Xianbei and the central Xianbei, the two were in chaos, and the eastern Xianbei immediately took action against the central Xianbei, and its means were mainly annexation. The Northern Xiongnu returned to the east, slaughtering Xianbei in the west, and from the spring, the entire grassland fell into a bloody color.

The bloody rain on the grassland intensified a lot after the autumn, and Guy was Zhang Xiu's shot. Zhang Xiu personally led Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Ma, Pang De, 50,000 Lei Yun cavalry, 30,000 flying feather archers, and 40,000 Qiang Hu cavalry, a total of 120,000 people directly to the Hetao.

The Southern Xiongnu who fled back to Hetao last year could not resist at all, and Yu Fuluo was ready to surrender to Zhang Xiu, but how did he know that Zhang Xiu would directly kill the Xiongnu envoy and not surrender. After internal discussions, at the suggestion of Liu Xuan, the Southern Xiongnu began to flee north, leaving the Hetao area, which had raised them for more than a hundred years.

Zhang Xiu led the army to attack, and the Southern Xiongnu fled in panic, and even his slaves were too late to take away, and the scorpion tribe was all captured by Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu's army occupied the Hetao before winter, and then according to Jia Xu's plan before, selected 30,000 people from all the troublemakers, and after poisoning, each of them sent a war horse and a short knife to send them to the prairie. The other Jie's old and young people stayed under Zhang Xiu's hands, and a month after the 30,000 Ma clan left, Zhang Xiu secretly ordered all the old and young people of the Jie clan to be cut off, and no one was left. Zhang Xiu's army only hit the edge of the Yellow River and did not advance northward, if the Great Wall was taken down, then it would be necessary to add a lot of defensive soldiers, with Zhang Xiu's current grain and grass can not increase the army too much, so the outer Great Wall north of the Yellow River was not immediately taken down.

When winter came, Zhang Xiu did not return to Chang'an immediately, but because the powerful eastern Xianbei annexed many people in the central Xianbei, and the strength increased, in order to prevent the eastern Xianbei from going south, Zhang Xiu's army stayed in the Hetao area to prevent the eastern Xianbei.

However, this Eastern Xianbei Shan Kirby can indeed be a capable person, and now when he is strong, he actually sends an envoy to Zhang Xiu to claim his subject. Zhang Xiu's subordinates naturally saw Kirbyneng's plan, and sent someone to send this table to Xuchang, waiting for Liu Xieluo, the son of heaven. Zhang Xiu urgently discussed the matter with his subordinates.