If the combat effectiveness of the Ning Navy is the first in the world in Daming, the Tianxiong Army can be ranked in the top three, on par with the Guanning Army.

The Guan Ning Army is not without combat effectiveness, the key is whether they are willing to fight or not, if Cheng Shijie throws Lu Xiangsheng and the Tianxiong Army aside, it is estimated that the small court of the Jiang Dynasty will definitely wake up with laughter.

I will wake up with a smile in my dreams, and include Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Zu Dabi's Liaoxi Army into the system of the Ning Navy, which is a process that must be done in military reform, even if it is by annexation, it is necessary to absorb the Tianxiong Army.

It just so happened that Cheng Shijie did not appoint the Metropolitan Governor of Anbei, and this Metropolitan Governor of Anbei gave it to Lu Xiangsheng, if he did not agree, then let Lu Xiangsheng enter the General Staff of the Ning Navy, and it could be discussed no matter what.

For the time being, the military reform is like this, with the four Metropolitan Governors in charge of the four sides, and each Metropolitan Governor's Office has three to four brigades under its jurisdiction, which is enough to easily deal with the complex situation, of course, like the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Mansion have three brigades, and Anxi and Annam are the main directions for the future use of troops.

The framework for military reform has basically been decided, and now it is time to talk about the reform of the civilian bureaucracy.

The reform of the civilian bureaucracy is much more complex than the reform of the military system. There is no way, this reform is directly related to the interests of tens of millions of readers, and any change or change will affect the fate of countless students, and the slightest carelessness may lead to disastrous consequences.

How did the Yuan Dynasty end? There are many reasons, the most important of which is to reduce the status of scholars, and beat them into old nine, almost the same as the status of beggars and prostitutes.

In a country, the status of scholars is not too high, but it cannot be too low, emphasizing literature and suppressing military force, it will be like the Song and Ming dynasties, and emphasizing military and light literature will be like the Han Empire.

The two Han Dynasty are the inspection system, and the biggest way out for the people in the world is to look for the marquis with the three-foot green peak, so only the Han Dynasty will die strongly. Cheng Shijie doesn't have so many concerns, he has the powerful Ning Navy as the confidence, he can let go of his hands and feet and carry out drastic reforms, but Emperor Chongzhen will definitely not be able to do it.

What he has more advantage than Chongzhen is that he stands on the shoulders of historical giants and sees the weaknesses of the current system of the Ming Dynasty clearly, while Emperor Chongzhen can only see the Forbidden City, knowing that there is a problem, but he doesn't know where the problem is.

Cheng Shijie is also selfish, and his highest power in the cabinet is tied to the prime minister. The prime minister is elected by the most outstanding talents in both the military and political circles, and the emperor has no right to appoint him, but the emperor has the right of veto......

As for the future, Cheng Shijie will let the emperor not interfere in the election, no matter who is elected, as long as the procedure is legal, the emperor must recognize it. Similarly, the emperor does not have the right to remove the prime minister, if the prime minister is at great fault, he can submit his resignation to the emperor, and the emperor will dismiss the prime minister at will is against the constitution, and the cabinet will not pass it.

This article has been unanimously agreed by many civil officials, and the removal of the second assistant and the cardinal assistant has made the prime minister have a lot less constraints and can concentrate on doing what he wants to do, while most of the energy of the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty is used to prevent himself and rectify his own people, which is very bad.

The emperor's prohibition of appointing and dismissing the prime minister is even more wonderful, how many fucking chiefs and assistants has Chongzhen changed over the years? The only bad thing is that this greatly limits the power of the emperor, and almost puts the emperor in the air.

But for the Ming Dynasty, this is not a matter at all, it is the norm for the emperor to be set aside, and now it is just a procedural and legalization of this normalcy!

In the eyes of later generations, the relatives and eunuchs in the Eastern Han Dynasty were in power, just like Queen He because she gave birth to the prince Liu Wei, her father He Zhen was named the Marquis of Wuyang, and the eldest brother He Jin was the general, and the second brother He Miao was the general of the chariot cavalry.

The military department is only responsible for weapons research and development, equipment, logistics, and training, and the general staff and the military department have no right to interfere, whether they are civilian officials serving as prime ministers or military attachés serving as prime ministers.

The original authority of the Ministry of Officials has not changed, but the Ministry of Industry has been subdivided, divided into the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Communications, which are respectively responsible for agricultural production, industrial development, water conservancy projects, and the construction of roads and bridges.

The Ministry of Household is divided into the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Statistics, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of Finance, which are respectively responsible for the management of national land and resources, statistical population data and land and acre data, taxation and financial revenue and expenditure management.

At the same time, the Ministry of Education will be set up to be responsible for the implementation of compulsory and higher education nationwide, and the Ministry of Education will also be on the same level as the above eight departments.

Then there's the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice.

The establishment of the Ming court, which is also the political and legal system, the prime minister has no power over the military and the judiciary, and must not interfere with the judiciary, to maintain the judicial independence of the Ming Dynasty, the military department, the general staff, the cabinet and the court, the four headquarters go hand in hand, these departments, plus the military department, basically constitute the framework of the empire.

Below the ministerial level, it is a provincial-level unit, with a joint member system, with the management committee at the provincial level, the executive committee at the provincial level, and the working committee at the prefecture and county level.

The three-tier committees are directly accountable to the Cabinet, and the state and county courts, the provincial intermediate courts, the provincial high courts, and the general courts are vertically managed.

This round of reform has given each county a relatively independent administrative force, and even if the end of the world comes, all localities can rely on the original administrative system to respond quickly, so as to avoid the previous fucked up pattern of once the emperor is defeated and the entire empire is finished.

Below the county level are the administrative bodies of towns and 100 households.

The new imperial policy stipulates that the mayor of the hundred households and the chief must be elected by the election, the mayor of the town must be appointed by the county official, the results of the election of the hundred households must be recognized by the county official, and the mayor appointed by the county official must be recognized by the working committee, otherwise it is illegal.

This move directly broke the pattern of the imperial power not going to the countryside. In the past, the township level was basically the final say of the local clans, and what the imperial power could manage, at most, was the county level, and the counties below the county level were completely independent kingdoms, and now it won't work if you want to play this set.

At the same time, the new policy also stipulates that 100 households have the right to run for the mayor of the town, and the mayor has the right to run for the members of the working committee, as long as his political performance is good enough. And after becoming a working committee, it is basically a high sky.

This one is the heart of the local clan forces, and it is necessary to give people a channel to rise.

The new policy also stipulates that the level of members of the working committee ranges from eight to five grades (from the county to the prefecture level) and is not allowed to serve in their own nationality, and a recusal system is adopted, which also includes the executive committee members (ranging from the fifth rank to the third grade), the management committee (from the third rank to the third grade), and the cabinet is ranging from the second to the first grade.

At the same time, the rank of the Ning Navy is not linked to local officials, no matter how high-ranking the officials, they have no right to interrogate officers and officers, the army and the localities are two completely different systems, and the military and local governments are responsible for dealing with the violations of the law by the officers and men of the Ning Navy, and the local government and courts have no right to interrogate soldiers.

However, if a soldier commits a crime in a locality, the locality has the right to arrest and temporarily detain him, but he is not allowed to try him, and he is not allowed to treat the soldier harshly during his detention, let alone lynch to extract confessions......

The new policy stipulates that the income of three generations of immediate family members of officials must be made public, and all officials are obliged to give a reasonable explanation of the source of the huge amount of wealth, otherwise it will be regarded as accepting bribes.

All officials are obliged to pay personal income tax, and the higher the income, the more they will pay, and the crime of tax evasion and concealment will be added to the level. At the same time, it is also stipulated that officials at or above the prefect level who accept bribes of more than 500 silver dollars will be dismissed from their posts. Three generations of immediate family members, and those who are officials at the same time, shall be disposed of together.

It has always been verified that the crime of accepting bribes and dereliction of duty has always been verified, and the three generations of immediate family members are not allowed to join the army, politics, and imperial examinations, and all officials are subject to a lifelong appointment system, and the roads, bridges, water conservancy projects, and construction projects built during their tenure of office will be arrested and thrown overseas to open up wasteland once there is a problem within 40 years, even if they have resigned!

The education level of the Ming Dynasty is relatively high in the world: Beijing Normal University has Tai College, which is equivalent to the highest university in the country, there are private schools run by clans in the local area, and all health schools are guarded by the government, and the government in the more developed areas will also set up official schools, although the illiteracy rate is still very high, but it is an indisputable fact that the people who can read and write in the Ming Dynasty are higher than the total population of a European country.

In addition, there is a series of preferential treatment, Xiucai sees that the magistrate does not have to kneel, does not have to pay taxes after the lift, and there is money to care for the silver hair every year, and the high treatment of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty is really enviable.

But treating scholars so favorably, there are not many talents, but a bunch of cheats, which can only be said to be a problem with education itself. Of course, it's not that the imperial examination is not good, the Sui and Tang dynasties also implemented the imperial examination system, recruiting talents without sticking to one pattern, and creating a fantastic prosperous dynasty, and the Song and Ming dynasties are also imperial examinations, why not get worse and worse?

The reason is that the things you learn are different, and the things you test are also different. The education of Sui Tang belonged to elite education, and during the imperial examination, astronomy, geography, mathematics, water conservancy, and military ...... All-encompassing, immersed in these fields for many years, and finally standing out, all of them are the elite of the elite, so at that time, Datang's scientific and technological talents and scientific research achievements accounted for 60% of the world's total, this proportion is really exaggerated.

Since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the hundred schools of thought have been deposed to respect Confucianism, but the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties did not take Confucianism very seriously, and the hundred schools of thought are still thriving, but they are just wearing a Confucian skin.

The real deposition of Confucianism began in the Song Dynasty, and the most direct example is Chongwen and Wu. Since the Song Dynasty, the ability to innovate in scientific research has become more and more scarce, and in the Ming Dynasty, it is not even able to compile an almanac by itself, so it must rely on the power of missionaries.

Cheng Shijie has a deep understanding of this, in the first year of the Dingxin imperial examination, including mathematics, reading, law, strategy, agriculture, geography, astronomy, chemistry, Gewu, engineering and engineering, in fact, it is not that the exam content is so much, no one will be admitted, in fact, it is not the case, there will still be many people in the Ming Dynasty who can be admitted, such as Chen Zilong, Mao Yuanyi, Sun Yuanhua, etc., they are very proficient.

Cheng Shijie is asking the Mo family, doctors, farmers, legalists, miscellaneous families, and also families to participate in the examination question discussion, you can not study, but the exam must be taken.

In addition to the imperial examination, the most important thing is general compulsory education, for the time being, each town must have at least one primary school, each county must have at least one middle school, of course, this is suitable for people and places, Cheng Shijie does not have a mandatory requirement for how many middle schools in each county, after all, some counties do not have a few, a few schools are a waste of resources.

In Cheng Shijie's temporary planning, each town has jurisdiction over ten hundred households, that is, one thousand households, and one middle school, which must be enough, and there is no need to build a primary school for each hundred households, because although there are now 100 households in the town, the people are relatively concentrated, not as many villages as in later generations.

Cheng Shijie engaged in the town-level castle system, or to improve the people's self-defense ability, now if a village is set up in Liaodong without the enemy attacking, the beast may make the village die overnight.

You must know that in Liaodong at present, there have been more than 600 incidents of wild beasts hurting people in just three months, and all the people live in the town fort, also to protect their personal safety.

Fortunately, it was Cheng Shijie who let the people have a large number of weapons, otherwise, the losses would be great, but it is not a good thing to have weapons, after all, there will be fights between clans, and it is not safe to be an official.

Just after Cheng Shijie dealt with the military reform, the official reform, the reform of the guard station, and the vassal king, an official wrote: "Your Majesty, the people have a large number of weapons, and the wind of fighting bravely and ruthlessly is becoming more and more popular. ”

As for whether the people own weapons or not, Cheng Shijie has his own considerations.

Zhou Ning said: "The people of the Ming Dynasty have been content with the countryside for too long, they have lost their wildness, and they only have the instinct to dig into the field, which is very bad!" The two Jin Dynasty were content with the status quo, and the scholars indulged in drinking and feasting all day long, touring the mountains and rivers, and as a result, the Wuhu Rebellion was provoked, and the Chinese people were almost wiped out; In the early days of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Khitan was worried that the arrogance that struggled out of the corpse mountain and blood sea of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms would fight over and destroy their country, and a few decades later, it became the Northern Song Dynasty to pay seventy percent of the world's taxes to support 800,000 forbidden troops, and wait for the Khitan to prevent the Khitan from crossing the Yellow River! These are all lessons of blood, take history as a mirror, let the people have weapons, encourage them to practice martial arts, and reproduce the martial style of the Han and Tang Dynasties, this is the mind and courage that a great monarch should have! ”

Sun Zhilan said loudly: "Your Majesty, most of the people are ignorant, biased to listen and believe, good for small profits, and it is very easy to incite, if they are allowed to have weapons, some careerists will be slightly incited, and there will be countless people who will immediately respond, just like the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos at that time!" A certain believes that this wind cannot last, and it is necessary to confiscate civilian weapons and prevent problems before they happen! ”

The best way for the military to sell weapons and equipment that have been eliminated is to sell weapons to the civilian sector, and weapons are also consumables, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Zhang Yu said unhappily: "Lord Sun, the people rebelled when they had weapons? The people of Liaodong have bows and crossbows and muskets in every house, why don't they rebel? Lord Sun, you are a little alarmist! ”

"It's better to be alarmist than to be in chaos in the world!"

A fierce quarrel broke out between the military generals of Wenchen, and both sides were reasoning with the facts, and they were red-faced and inextricable. Cheng Shijie was silent, he should have watched them arguing from the side, watching with relish.

In the end, the lawsuit came to Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Do you want to raise the people like sheep or like wolves?" ”

Sun Zhilan was slightly stunned: "The king means ......"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Qin, Han, Sui and Tang can't help swords, my Chinese people are fierce, fighting in all directions, looking down on all directions, why is it today, Jiannu is going south, the Red Emperor is thousands of miles, and the bones are exposed?" (End of chapter)