The 12 guards of the Beijing camp, plus the newly established all-firearms battalion of the Shenji Battalion, the two pro-military guards of Longban and Yulin, and the six rates of the prince's East Palace, a total of 16 formed military guards.

There are 1,000 households, 100 households, general flags, small flags, and a small flag with 11 people.

Each of the 12 guards has 11,000 people, a total of 132,000 people, plus Shenji, Yulin and other military guards, a total of more than 198,000 people.

Among these military guards, the Dragon Guard is the most special, from the central to the local, there is a very complete set of establishment system.

Not to mention anything else, if the veterans who are loyal to the dynasty in the Dragon Guard can be scattered to the place, then for the emperor, wouldn't the vast countryside and village community have a lot of ears and eyes?

What the squire can do, the dragon guards can do, and what the squires can't, the dragon guards can also do.

That's the Dragon Guard, not only is he a kung fu player, but most of them are literate and hyphenation people.

When the time comes, the transmission of the palace newspaper will be strengthened, and the emperor's decree and the imperial decree will be transmitted to the countryside, and these elders from the dragon guards will go from village to village to preach and explain.

This blocked the opportunity for corrupt officials and lawless squires to misinterpret the decree of the Holy Decree from the root, not to mention the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, even if they wanted to bewitch the people to resist the new policy of the imperial court, it would depend on the new wave of elders to let them out of the county.

It is estimated that at that point, under the leadership of the commander of the Dragon Guard, who was loyal to the emperor and the imperial court, the people in the countryside would block the gate of the county government with hoes in their hands, and hang all the corrupt officials on the city gate building.

Jia Cong explained in detail, especially admonishing the emperor to refine the decentralization system of the prefecture and county yamen and strengthen the management at the township level.

"Sage, Your Majesty, the imperial court's rule over the local area is too poor, and the power of the county government is too centralized, although it can reduce the financial expenditure of the national dynasty, but at the same time, it also makes the county officials become the heaven of the people of a county."

Whether the sky overhead is sunny or stormy depends entirely on the character of the officials appointed by the imperial court.

If they meet good officials, the people can live an easy life for a few years.

If you encounter corrupt officials and cool officials, it is really a matter of not being able to do it every day, and it is not good for the earth.

Therefore, local power must not be concentrated in the hands of one person, and must be restrained. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen management and construction at the township and town level and even at the village level.

Of course, based on the analysis of the actual situation in Daxia today, it can be regarded as a success if it can be managed at the township level.

After Jia Cong finished talking about the idea of the village elder and the mayor, he briefly said a few words about the idea of the village level, which greatly shocked the heart of the two saints.

If it is really possible to directly set up a village head at the village level by the imperial court, and appoint a village chief at the township level, as Jia Cong said, and every edict and decree will be preached and interpreted by the village chief and the village head, the squire will no longer be able to fool the people into confronting the court.

"Good boy, there is such a good way not to say it earlier!"

The two saints glanced at each other, and looked at Jia Cong's gaze, both relieved and a little dissatisfied.

This bastard boy is too lazy to know how to bring up such a good idea sooner without forcing it.

The emperor raised his hand and slapped him on the head again, and scolded with a hateful smile: "If it weren't for Wen'an's girl who encountered this, I guess you would still be hiding." What do you say you're afraid of? Afraid that there is no way to seal the great merit and the high shock of the master? ”

"Huh? No, where do you want to go, Your Majesty......?"

Jia Cong covered his head and hid behind the old man of the sage, and said aggrievedly: "It's really not...... I've thought about this before, but it's not going to be a good time. Think about it, let's not talk about the Dragon Guards, let's just say how many people in the Beijing camp will be truly loyal to you......"

Belch~

The emperor's face darkened, this kid is not a person, he will expose people if he has nothing to do.

The old man was happy to watch the excitement, and Jia Cong hid behind the old man, watching the green tendons on the back of the emperor's hands light up.

He hurriedly continued to explain: "Your Majesty, to be honest, it is an open secret that the imperial power does not go to the countryside, if it weren't for Sister Lin suddenly breaking this layer of almost transparent paper, I think it would be better to wait another year or two, and then it would be better for the imperial court to directly appoint the officials of the township and village communities." If the problem of talent shortage is not solved, it is still not possible to achieve perfection by relying only on the retired forbidden army. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it carefully. ”

When it came to business, the emperor also let go of the plan to knock Jia Cong's brain melon, and motioned for him to talk about it in detail.

This kid is muddy, but he has always been targeted, and he never does things that he is not sure of.

Sure enough, Jia Cong made another suggestion.

On the basis of continuing to improve the system of selecting officials for the imperial examination, the open recruitment examination for public officials (officials) in Daxia was fully implemented, referred to as the Daxia public examination.

To put it simply, it is to gradually abolish the existing selection mechanism for local officials, and the imperial court will formulate new policies and regulations, and according to the needs of the localities, openly recruit non-qualified officials at the government, county, and township levels, so as to break the control of local officials and gentry over the grassroots.

Moreover, these officials and township elders will no longer be allocated by the county government, but will be directly issued by the imperial court, which can be regarded as putting an end to the county officials' domination over the officials.

Based on his superficial understanding of the public examination in his previous life, Jia Cong tried his best to comprehensively explain the advantages of the public examination for the imperial court to control the grassroots, which opened the eyes of the two saints.

It turns out that politics can still be played like this?

Of course, the consumption of energy and financial resources in this also gave the emperor a big headache.

"I finally understand why your kid didn't mention it before, just the income of these officials will be astronomical every year, and your father-in-law will definitely come to cry with me."

If it had been placed three or five years ago, this plan would have been better and better, but the imperial court could not afford the huge expenses at all, and no matter how good the plan was, it would have to be aborted.

But now the emperor can be said to be inhumane, and he will no longer be limited by silver to his dream of being an emperor for the ages.

"Xia Shouzhong, go to pass on the cabinet assistants, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households......"

"The emperor, the little master has just issued an order, and he has edicted several scholars in the cabinet, as well as the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, the Imperial History of the Left and Right Metropolitan Inspectorates, the Dali Siqing and the Shuntian Mansion Yin into the palace to discuss matters."

Well?

"What is it difficult for Hong'er to solve?"

Without waiting for Xia Shouzhong to explain, Jia Cong hurriedly stepped forward and explained: "I know about this, it's Sister Lin's impeachment note. Of course, there is also the "Administrative Measures for the Open Recruitment Examination of Public Officials (Officials) in Daxia" drafted by me and Sister Lin. ”

Hearing Jia Cong's answer, the emperor first nodded, and then asked suspiciously: "Impeachment?" Who is Wen An going to impeach? ”

Not~

Jia Cong was a little embarrassed, scratched his head, sighed and said: "The case in Shunyi County is not about a squire. There are by no means a small number of such cases in the local area, and all the princes of the court are clear. But for the princes of the imperial court, the squires were the cornerstone of helping them maintain the rule of the dynasty, so they always turned a blind eye to the misdeeds of some squires......"

"Getting to the point!"

The emperor's face darkened again, because Jia Cong exposed his shortcomings again.

This kid is talking about the princes of the court, but in fact, he is secretly pointing at him.

Yes, the emperor himself knows what the countryside is like, and he may have thought about changing it, but he has never had a good way but to get by.

Seeing the emperor's black face again, Jia Cong was eager to try, and immediately hid behind the old man, and said in a voice: "Sister Lin originally just wanted to impeach those squires and Shunyi County and Shuntian Mansion, I said that if I made a big deal about it, Sister Lin added a few names to the back......"

……

The prince looked at the impeachment recital in his hand and rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.

The long list of impeachments made him feel terrified when he looked at it. Especially in the first place, isn't it his Lao Tzu, the current emperor's majesty.

The crime is quite reasonable, in order to occupy a few acres of thin fields, Lai Jiu sank the widow into the pond for adultery. Because Lai's daughter looked down on the butcher's daughter, she was able to force Sun Qi to hang herself.

Shunyi County is still at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but such a ridiculous and tragic thing happened, of course, the Son of Heaven has the crime of lax governance.

Since the Son of Heaven is guilty, then officials at all levels of the cabinet, the Yamen, including the Shuntian Mansion and Shunyi County, naturally cannot escape the responsibility.

For example, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials have the responsibility of selecting talents and appointing officials for the country, and in the face of the problem of the gentry controlling the locality, they cannot put forward suitable suggestions for improvement for a long time, which is a manifestation of incompetence.

The law of the dynasty is not equal to the clan law and township covenant, and it is the responsibility of the criminal department to let the squire kill innocent women by lynching.

Daiyu is almost a yamen, and she counts all her crimes.

Jia Cong, on the other hand, marked the solutions he could think of at the end of each one.

Look, it's not that my sister Lin has nothing to do, you say that no one has solved these problems for thousands of years, and there is a reason for them.

But if you look at it now, won't we find a reasonable solution?

To put it bluntly, these problems are not the cause of no way, but the cause of interests.

The interests of the squires are inseparable from the officials of the DPRK and China, and many of the squires who control the localities are relatives and friends of the officials of the DPRK and China.

The people from the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple have been scolded and gone back to deal with the case, and Liu Hong only left a few scholars in the cabinet.

"Elder Zhou Ge, this palace thinks that these suggestions made by Princess Wen'an can be ......"

Shoufu University scholar Zhou Jiong opened his mouth, but only sighed.

The difficulty is too great, if this strategy is implemented, the number of people offended will definitely be twice as many as the acres of Qingzhang Tianmu.

Not to mention anything else, just for him Zhou Jiong himself, there are more than ten relatives in his hometown who serve in the prefecture and county because of him, and at worst he is also a Jiupin sesame official of the inspection department.

Not to mention that the local squire served as the lieutenant chief, or let the children go to the yamen to serve as clerks, this is simply an unwritten rule for thousands of years.

Otherwise, when the imperial court collects the imperial grain and national tax, how can it be so easy? When the county commander gives an order, the people in the countryside will obediently carry grain, rice and silver to pay taxes?

Several scholars were silent, and the main hall of the East Palace fell into an eerie silence.

Liu Hong had already understood the meaning of silence, and he was a little angry and unwilling in his heart.

"Isn't that hard?"

This question obviously expressed the anger of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and Zhou Jiong knew that he had to answer this question even if he didn't answer it.

In the end, he could only reply as tactfully as possible: "Your Highness, it's not a question of whether it's difficult or not, it's a question of whether it's worth it." Has Your Highness ever wondered who were the people standing behind the squire? To put it mildly, the Son of Heaven rules with a bow, and the officials represent the herdsmen of the heavens, and the stability of the world is inseparable from the literati. ”

Liu Hong's eyes shrank, and he naturally understood the meaning of Zhou Jiong's words.

Behind the squires are the literati, who have fought since ancient times, and the literati have ruled the world. Without the support of the literati, the imperial court could not rely on the sword-wielding martial arts to govern the country.

The truth is this, but Liu Hong is unwilling.

"Didn't Zhou Ge always look at the solution of the remarks on the back of the excerpt? Isn't that possible? ”

Not to mention the implementation of the "Measures for the Administration of the Open Recruitment Examination of Public Officials (Officials) in Daxia", but only to say that the retired forbidden army is allowed to serve as the chief in the countryside, which can greatly break the situation in which the gentry control the locality.

Isn't this one okay?

Zhou Jiong sighed again and explained to Liu Hong: "These methods are indeed good methods, but has Your Highness ever thought about what kind of situation the imperial court will face as long as this policy is made public." The situation that the imperial court has finally stabilized will be broken immediately, and the county officials and the village governors will have their interests threatened, and no one knows what will happen, and resistance to law and rebellion may occur. ”

"Then kill! I don't believe that the people will follow them in rebellion! ”

"Father's ......"

The emperor led Jia Cong into the main hall of the East Palace with great strides, and said coldly in all directions: "The country is now strong and the people are rich, and the people have enough food, as long as they have food, they will not follow the squires to rebel!" At that time, it will just be chaotic for a while, and the long pain is better than the short pain, taking advantage of the opportunity to reform the official system, we will solve this problem that has plagued the kings of the previous dynasties once and for all. ”

Jia Cong, who was standing next to the emperor, kept nodding his brains, now the two saints are the most powerful kings, if they don't solve it at this time, the kings of the future generations will have no courage and opportunity to solve it.

You must know that after the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties of the Ming Dynasty in the previous life, the monarchy gradually declined, and when it came to Wanli, it was difficult for Zhang Juzheng to have a long-term confrontation with huge vested interests.

As soon as Zhang Juzheng died, Emperor Wanli could not maintain the continuation of the reform at all. The new law to prolong the life of the Ming Dynasty was quickly extinguished by vested interests, and the Wanli Emperor was powerless to resist and could only hide in the deep palace until he died.

This is the case with the Ming Dynasty, and the same is true with the Great Xia, no one can guarantee that the kings of later generations will have the courage and determination of the current emperor.

Of course, the most important thing is that behind the current emperor there is a group of military generals who are extremely loyal to him.

The handle of the knife is much easier to use than the barrel of the pen! As long as the heads are slaughtered, I don't believe that there will be anyone who will oppose the policies of the imperial court.

The most representative is Jia Cong, who is constantly nodding his brain behind him, and this kid's nod represents the support of the Wuxun group for the emperor.

An idea suddenly popped up in Zhou Jiong's heart, the advice of the Lin family girl is probably the idea of this kid Jia Cong!

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That's all for tonight, continue tomorrow, good night!

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