Bai Gui, the secretary of the ministry, said: "Your Highness, there are a lot of newly established departments in the past two years, and many reserve talents in the Hanlin Academy and Guozijian have been used, but it has also brought the trouble of redundant officials, which is actually a lot of expenses for the country." ”

Zhu Jianji nodded slightly, "Gu knows, so the focus of the next work is to streamline the personnel, not only the government and the yamen to slim down, but also the local guards of the five military governors' mansions, the 26 guards of the pro-army army, and the regimental battalions must be abolished and redundant, this is a big deal, and the interests involved are too great, so Gu hopes that the people of Jiuqing can fully support it." ”

The people who came to the Qianqing Hall were all the most confidant courtiers, and they nodded one after another, "The ministers will share their worries for His Highness!" ”

Zhu Jianji hummed, thought about it, and decided to give everyone a preventive shot in advance, "Regarding personnel streamlining, there is actually another operation, which divides state officials into two, divided into public officials and non-staff personnel. ”

In short, it is a civil servant and a career editor.

Bai Gui was keenly aware of the question, "Which departments are public officials, and which departments are supernumerary?" ”

Zhu Jianji thought for a while, "The local government yamen should all be public officials who deal with political affairs, while the local government schools and so on are classified as non-staff personnel, and the seven departments of Gyeonggi and the temple supervisors are also public officials, but the Daming Bank under the Ministry of Households, the Academy of Engineering under the Ministry of Industry, and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences under the Ministry of Household can be classified as non-staff personnel, but in terms of treatment, there will not be much difference with public officials." ”

Bai Gui was confused, "There is no difference in treatment?" ”

So what's the point of this division.

Zhu Jianji said with a smile: "Treatment is not the goal, this operation is mainly to clarify the system, establish a clear and clear governance system, and subdivide the responsibilities and powers of the seven subordinates, so as to implement and improve policies more accurately according to the national situation." ”

The most important point is that this supernumerary staff can be used to open up the wisdom of the whole people.

Reading is required for the exam.

However, this step cannot be achieved at present, because the country's economy has not developed to this extent, and if you want the whole people to open their minds, you must first achieve food and clothing for the whole people, otherwise everything is empty talk.

If you can't eat enough, how can the people have the money to study?

At the end of the day, the economy is not enough.

The economy has not reached a certain level, and education reform and health care reform are all on paper.

What can be done now is military, political, agricultural, and industrial reform.

Baekyu didn't squeak anymore.

He felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that this was a bit of a lofty mansion.

Yu Qian coughed, "Your Highness, I'm afraid this measure will have to wait a few more years before it is implemented, it is a top priority, it is indeed necessary to streamline personnel, and in addition, with the rise of the young army, military reform is also necessary." ”

Zhu Jianji said: "Well, about military reform, Yu Shaobao, Lone thinks so, with the development of the Dongfeng series of firearms, the Ming Dynasty is bound to enter an era of firearms for the whole army, and the development of firearms will change the situation of the war, no longer the era of winning by manpower, of course, for the sake of national interests, the Ming Dynasty must at least maintain a regular army of 500,000, this 500,000, excluding the garrison, that is to say, the 100,000 people in the regimental battalion, and the more than 100,000 people in the 26th guard of the pro-army, must be equipped with firearms, and at the same time, the northern border army and the southern border army, Even coastal guard posts, a large part of these troops, must be restructured, the cantonment troops must be dismantled, and the rest will be converted into standing troops. ”

Everyone gasped when they heard this.

That's too big!

There are 100,000 people in the regimental camp and more than 100,000 people in the 26 guards, which is nearly 300,000 troops, all of which are equipped with Dongfeng firearms.

Some of the local commanders' troops were reduced and some were converted into regular forces.

Do you also need to be equipped with Dongfeng firearms?

Again, this is a huge astronomical amount.

Combined, the strength of the local capital division is nearly a million!

Even if you keep half of it, it will have to be 500,000.

500,000 firearms are equipped with military spending......

Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.

And don't forget, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still vigorously developing the naval division and establishing a naval department, in order to ensure maritime trade, does it also need two or three hundred thousand naval forces?

All are equipped with firearms......

I can't get so much money even if I sell Daming!

This is simply not possible.

Zhu Jianji also knew that there was still a long way to go to realize the full firearms of the Ming Dynasty's military forces, not to mention anything else, just the Dongfeng rifles needed by these hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Donggong Military Research Institute could not do it.

Not to mention the sheer volume of bullets!

Even if this goal can be achieved by means of casting and hand-grinding and assembly, the labor cost required will make the profit extremely low, so in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to achieve the results of industrial reform.

In the worst case, among the milling machines, drilling machines, grinding machines, boring machines, planers, and punching machines in the lathe team, at least four milling machines, drilling machines, grinding machines, and punching machines must be made.

Only in this way can firearms production keep up with the iteration of firearms.

Otherwise everything is empty talk.

Moreover, after two major wars, the sequelae of the young army's forcible promotion of Dongfeng rifles have been revealed: the damage rate of the young army's Dongfeng rifles is too high, just this time to fight Taiwan, 10,000 Dongfeng rifles of 10,000 recruits have been scrapped as much as 30%!

The same goes for Dongfeng mortars.

As for the Dongfeng machine gun, it is a big problem, and this expedition to Taiwan did not use the Dongfeng machine gun at all.

Therefore, there is still a long way to go in the research and development of firearms.

After all, it's a whole set of industries.

You can make a surprise attack, but in the end, you have to return to the level of the whole industry.

Fortunately, there are a few more years of peace at the moment.

Zhu Jianji was a little tired, and said: "Let's do this first, after you go back, think carefully, how to promote the progress of my Daming industry, how to relieve the pressure on my Daming treasury, how to improve people's livelihood, how to deal with the colder and colder weather, and even think about how to deal with the food, medical care, education, and employment problems brought about by the upcoming population surge." ”

After a pause, "The Ming Dynasty still has a long way to go, and the Ming Dynasty is not only the southern expansion of the north and the rejection of the desert north, but also the Ming Dynasty that I want to build, is a sail in the universe, the Ming treasure banknotes circulate in all countries, hundreds of millions of Li people are enlightened, the sound of reading is all over the north and south of the river, and there are more moats, and the cities in the territory have the glory of never sleeping!" ”

Zhu Jianji said that his blood was boiling, in fact, as long as the steam engine and power generation system were developed, the Ming Dynasty had every chance to enter the modern industrial society one or two hundred years ahead of the West.

The results at a glance...... Yu Qian and others, even including Zhu Qiyu, all looked at each other.

They don't understand what His Highness said.

For example, hundreds of millions of Li people are educated and enlightened, which is not what the feudal imperial power should do.

The people are all studying, how can your Zhu family rule them?