After some discussion, Su Yonglin made a summary.
All in all, from now on, the propaganda target of the Ming Dynasty propaganda mouth will be the entire nine-member group's highest decision-making team, not Su Yonglin alone. Everything that everyone does must be publicized, and everyone's name, resume and achievements must also be publicized. .
It is necessary to let people know in a subtle way who is leading them forward, what they have done, what achievements they have, and what kind of person they are.
The propaganda outlet must concentrate resources, with Su Yonglin as the leader, to publicize the work content and achievements of the nine-member decision-making group, and no longer try to save trouble as before.
In this way, within a few years, Ming Dynasty will no longer have only Su Yonglin as its leader. From now on, emergencies like this will not easily occur, and his political reforms will also be consolidated.
In response, Lin Jingchun, who had returned to Zhongdu and joined the nine-member group, took the lead in raising his hands in agreement. Everyone unanimously approved the proposal and immediately implemented it to prepare for reforms.
The meeting lasted from noon to late at night. During this period, everyone went through the world's major events and all the things that Su Yonglin was concerned about. Then they sorted out the content of the next things to be done, and determined the key points of the work for the next period of time.
First, Xin Qiji emphasized the adjustment of the militia command system.
He suggested issuing an order to let the entire militia system know that without instructions from the Central Military Department, the local command system was not allowed to mobilize even one person from the militia to execute combat orders.
That is to simply and thoroughly implement the principle that the local command system only has leadership power but no command power, transfer all command power to the central government, complete the centralization of strong branches and weak branches, and directly take back some of the powers that Su Yonglin left to the local governments in the past.
Events in Shandong greatly aroused Xin Qiji's emotions. Even though he was a native of Shandong, it could not reduce his dislike of Shandong officialdom.
Taking back the power left to local governments was proposed by some cadres when the militia system was first established, but was rejected by Su Yonglin.
Because Su Yonglin believes that local governments need a certain degree of flexibility and cannot wait for instructions from the central government. Without a means of efficiently transmitting information, too much centralization will do more harm than good.
It was around the third year of Hongwu's reign, and the world was not yet peaceful and the local areas were not stable. Su Yonglin believed that it was necessary to retain the flexibility of the county-level militia and give the militia managers a certain degree of autonomy, so that they could at least have autonomy in exterminating bandits and bandits. right.
If even this kind of thing requires the central government to give instructions or mobilize regular troops, the cost is too high and cannot be afforded by the Ming Dynasty.
However, Xin Qiji comprehensively analyzed the situation in the world and believed that the world today is different from the world in the three years of Hongwu.
Today, the situation in the world has stabilized. There is no longer a place for bandits and robbers to survive in local areas. There are no forces among the people that threaten the stability of the country. On the contrary, the ruling class itself that holds power is the biggest security risk.
Therefore, Xin Qiji believed that it was necessary to use some institutional designs to limit the power of the ruling class itself. In a certain sense, he adopted the system of the Song Dynasty, strictly controlled armed organizations, and separated the power of command from the power of command.
Without instructions from the Military Department of Zhongdu, the militia departments in the collective farms and counties cannot mobilize even a single soldier. Otherwise, they will be regarded as rebellion and will be dealt with seriously and will not be tolerated.
In this way, we can truly eliminate the possibility of what happened in Shandong this time, otherwise it may happen again at any time.
To be honest, Su Yonglin was conflicted when Xin Qiji made this suggestion.
Because he was reluctant to issue such an order, he felt it made sense to retain some local autonomy, especially over militia command.
For example, what happened this time, if such a thing did not happen to him, but after his death, or if this thing was true, as the rumors said, then the militiamen would take action to resist Zhongdu. It is absolutely justified for Ming Dynasty.
If the fruits of the revolution are really usurped by careerists, such as Yuan Shikai and his like, who want to usurp power and restore the monarchy, or go against the trend of history to realize their personal ambitions, then it is natural for the local government to launch a second revolution against him.
Not only is it a matter of course, it can combat conspiracy and careerists, but it can also protect the democratic republic that Ming Dynasty finally achieved and safeguard the fruits of the revolution.
But if this independent power is restricted and cut off, then if something happens in Zhongdu that Su Yonglin doesn't want to see happen in the future, how should the people of the world counterattack?
Talkative?
It's just that the current situation really makes Su Yonglin feel like a dumb man eating coptis.
Conspiracy and careerists used this power incorrectly, so that this power was regarded as an extremely evil power that needed to be banned by those who were trying to safeguard the achievements of the revolution.
They feel that this power threatens the stability of Ming Dynasty and harms the interests of the country and the people, so it must be banned.
But they never realized that doing so might not be a good thing. Maybe when this power really needs to be used in the future, they would find that they have lost the possibility of using this power.
And then watched helplessly as Yuan Shikai and his like usurped power?
Su Yonglin didn't want to agree with Xin Qiji's suggestion, but after Xin Qiji made the suggestion, eight people in the nine-person group raised their hands to express support.
Like Xin Qiji, they hated this kind of thing very much, and they could not allow it to happen even once again.
This kind of thing may seem to them now to be a conspiracy that absolutely harms Su Yonglin and the revolution, but at the same time, it also harms their interests.
Because those local guys opposed the nine-member decision-making group, Su Yonglin's reforms, and also opposed them becoming leaders.
This was a slap in the face. If Su Yonglin hadn't acted quickly and swiftly, the matter of the nine-member team would have been really hard to talk about.
Now Su Yonglin can pat his chest and say that they are opposed. Most of the reasons are for Su Yonglin and the revolution, but what about the future?
Su Yonglin was not sure about this.
Even if the popular representative system is established, it should have certain guarantees. Institutional guarantees are necessary, and the guarantee of force is also indispensable.
The militia system is the best guarantee for the people's representative system in Su Yonglin's eyes.
With this layer of protection, it is somewhat of a deterrent to the Zhongdu court. If this deterrent is gone, it is hard to say what will happen after Su Yonglin dies in the future.
But the key problem is that now, Su Yonglin is equal to Zhongdu, and Su Yonglin is Zhongdu. People only want to think about Su Yonglin and do not want to consider other issues. In their view, other issues are the next priority.
Faced with the strong support of eight people, Su Yong hesitated.
After a while, Su Yonglin made a move that was very incredible to the other eight people.
"I'm thinking that although we need to reflect on this matter, we should not overreact too much because of this matter. Otherwise, it may cause unexpected problems. I don't agree with You'an's proposal. "
The other eight people looked at each other in confusion, and Xin Qiji was even more incomprehensible.
"Chairman, isn't this problem not big enough? Isn't it enough for us to react like this? Excessive? Is this called excessive? Do you know how frightened we were after you left? Ming Dynasty cannot live without you, and these thieves directly Targeted at you!
If Du Fei hadn't repented in time, you probably wouldn't have been able to react so quickly, right? If he can't react, Zhang Ming, that dog thief, will definitely be able to summon the Yizhou militia to cause rebellion. By then, a war will be inevitable. How big of an impact will it have on the Ming Dynasty? "
