Zhu Jingyuan determined the most important candidates for the Nine Ministers, and also determined the candidates for several key ministers.
There will be no large-scale approval and adjustment for the subsequent resignations of officials of the third rank or above who have just turned sixty or are still under sixty.
Zhu Jingyuan is also an ordinary person. He has clear impressions in his mind. In addition, the officials he thinks are very good are not enough to cover the entire court.
More importantly, it was impossible for him to replace all third-grade and above officials at once.
Then the court would be in chaos.
Moreover, after the Renwu Dynasty, most of the officials in the central government offices of the Ming Dynasty had no obvious political leanings.
There may be various party groups among the bureaucracy formed by regions or interests.
But there were no factions formed around the other princes.
After he became the emperor, most of the ordinary ministers would naturally be loyal to him.
Normal bureaucrats do not feel any psychological pressure when they are loyal to the legitimate emperor.
You must also give them the opportunity to show your sincerity of loyalty.
That is to see whether they do their best to complete the special tasks assigned by the new emperor.
If you really encounter a small number of individuals who are pushy and obstructive, and who are obedient and submissive, just fire them and replace them in the name of dereliction of duty.
Zhu Jingyuan put down the notebooks of civil servants and began to deal with the memorials of the military attache system.
However, after picking up the first memorial, Zhu Jingyuan did not open it immediately to read the contents.
Instead, I held it and started to consider a seemingly simple but not simple problem.
Should we change the names of the Military Aircraft Department and the Military Aircraft Minister?
Change it to the General Staff, or the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the Military Commission.
In Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the name of the Military Aircraft Department came from the Qing Dynasty, and was originally set up by the workaholic Yongzheng.
The Military Aircraft Department of the Qing Dynasty was indeed used to handle emergency military affairs at first, but later gradually evolved into the actual cabinet.
In the Qing Dynasty, the title of Grand Bachelor became an honorary title, and the Minister of Military and Aircraft was the actual cabinet member.
The duty of the military minister is to handle important government affairs in accordance with the emperor's will.
The Military Aircraft Department was the de facto highest authority in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.
This institution carried out the emperor's personal will.
The indoctrination in school history classes, the publicity of various films and TV dramas from later generations, and his current status as the royal family of the Ming Dynasty made Zhu Jingyuan not have much favorable impression of the name Military Aircraft Department.
Zhu Jingyuan thought about changing this name more than once.
Zhu Jingyuan is not prepared to adjust the agency's responsibilities, and its positioning of responsibilities is still relatively reasonable.
Emperor Sejo established the Military Aircraft Department, which was actually an organization between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Military Commission.
The highest military power of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the emperor. The Military Aircraft Department was responsible for formulating overall combat strategies and planning the development direction of the army and military industry in accordance with the emperor's military intentions and goals.
In addition to daily work, there are also collecting and sorting military-related information, summarizing actual combat information and experience, reviewing documents and reports submitted by the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office, etc.
The officials and people of the Ming Dynasty in this world do not know the affairs of the Qing Dynasty in another world.
In their view, the place responsible for planning and discussing important military aircraft matters is called the Military Aircraft Department, and the ministers who handle specific affairs in the Military Aircraft Department are called Military Aircraft Ministers. These are very appropriate names.
Before he ascended the throne, Zhu Jingyuan felt that there was no need to discuss changes with his father just for a name.
Dad will definitely think that the name of the Military Aircraft Department is very suitable, and he will definitely be very confused as to why he specifically applied for a name change.
If there is reform and the name is changed at the same time, it can still be justified.
But if he did not change his function but simply changed his name, Zhu Jingyuan felt that he had no way to explain it at that time.
Therefore, there has been no mention of changing the name.
Now that he is the emperor, if he wants to change his name, it will only take one sentence.
If someone insists on asking why, you can just reply "I like it" directly.
Moreover, Zhu Jingyuan wanted to change the name of many things, including even the entire military rank and position system of the military attaché system.
Zhu Jingyuan wanted to add generals, captains, captains, and lieutenants to the military rank system of middle and lower ranks, and return to the traditional Ming Dynasty system of grades, military positions, and honors.
China's original bureaucratic system in ancient times included two systems: civilian officials and military attachés. The distinction between "nobles", "officials", "ranks" and "honours" was already mature in the Tang Dynasty.
"The title is used to determine one's superiority and inferiority, and the official position is used to divide the duties. The rank is used to describe labor, and the honor is used to describe merit."
In the Ming Dynasty, the titles were Duke, Marquis and Uncle. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were sons and sons, but they were not used later. They were used again after the Renwu Dynasty.
The positions are commander-in-chief, staff-general, guerrilla, garrison, and commander-in-chief, which are equivalent to actual positions and directly correspond to the specifications of the troops under management.
The ranks are governor, commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, thousand households, and hundreds of households, which can be regarded as some form of military rank.
The honors are Zhuguo, Hujun, Qingqiwei, Qiduwei, Xiaoqiwei, Feiqiwei, Yunqiwei and Wuqiwei, which are equivalent to medals.
Titles, official positions, official ranks, and honors are all clearly distinguished from each other. This management plan is very mature.
Officials work according to their official positions, receive salaries according to their official ranks, and receive rewards according to their titles.
However, this system is also a bit too complicated and strict, and there will be great differences between the status and treatment of different systems.
A high official position does not necessarily mean a high official rank, and a high official rank does not necessarily mean a high official position.
To give an inappropriate example, there may be a situation where the "Major General Commander" meets the "Colonel Division Commander".
When two people meet like this, who do you respect?
Even if the system stipulates that officials should be respected based on rank or official position, various disputes and troubles will arise in actual use.
Therefore, in the following three generations of Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, this system was optimized and adjusted to be more practical.
Gradually, the tradition of separation of "jobs" and "ranks" was established, with official positions as the main focus and official ranks as the supplement.
Salaries and benefits are mainly determined by official position, but the official rank system continues to exist as a differential aid for the same official position.
If a person's official position is promoted, the official rank will be directly promoted to the corresponding level in the near future.
If a person's official position never rises, the official rank will also stop at a certain stage, stuck at an upper limit and cannot be promoted any further.
For example, if an officer is promoted to division commander, his military rank will correspond to senior colonel in the next assessment.
An officer's position is regimental commander, and his highest military rank can only be promoted to colonel.
In this way, there will be no situation where the regimental commander has a higher military rank than the division commander.
If a person has done a good job in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry and has served for two terms, and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry is not under the retirement age, it is impossible to directly promote the Minister to Minister.
However, you can add one level to the rank of minister, so that the third-rank minister of the Ministry of Industry can enjoy the treatment of the second rank. When he is promoted next time, he will start from the second rank instead of the third rank.
This system design was still operating as a matter of course until Zhu Jingyuan's past life.
Unfortunately, due to the impact of foreign culture, it has been distorted and even regressed.
In that chaotic era when people with lofty ideals were looking for ways to save the country, all forces gave up their own local evolution either to clarify their determination to break away from the past, to learn more thoroughly from the Western system, or to avoid being infected by the old system. Out of the job hierarchy system.
The nine-level and eighteen-level ranks could have been regarded as the final version of the military rank and official rank system evolved locally in China.
It is the simplest and most convenient for ordinary people to understand.
Children all know that the first rank is bigger than the second rank, and the first rank is bigger than the second rank. Even uneducated soldiers can understand it directly.
It is also less prone to confusion and misunderstanding.
The numbers of the first and second grades are used to indicate the military rank, which cannot be confused with the actual official positions of the governor and the commander-in-chief.
Level 9 and 18 also have enough capacity.
By adding the four levels of generals, captains, lieutenants, upper, middle and lower levels, we can make up a total of sixteen levels. In fact, there are usually only eleven levels.
In the nine-level and eighteen-level system, even if the first level is taken out as an additional title, there will still be a complete sixteenth level left.
However, when the new army was established in the late Qing Dynasty, the old bureaucracy of the Qing Dynasty had completely decayed.
At that time, in order to avoid being affected by the original system and personnel, the person in charge took this opportunity to start a new business.
Due to the strength of the European and Western countries, all institutional reforms starting in the late Qing Dynasty naturally relied on Western-style military ranks and bureaucratic systems.
Because the Japanese learned from the Westerners earlier, and official positions are usually in Chinese characters.
Therefore, many systems and names are based on Japanese translations.
However, if we put aside the industrial level and simply look at the perfection of the bureaucracy itself, the Western-style military rank system is at best the level of the early Ming Dynasty, and may not be as good as it was.
The arrangement of the generals and lieutenants with enlarged heights at the top, middle and bottom looks very simple and regular, but in fact it is a perfect finished product after local adjustments.
The original meaning of military ranks in various countries in Europe and the West is actually similar to commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, division commander, brigade commander, regiment commander, deputy commander, battalion commander, captain, and deputy captain.
It is the same system as the governor, commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, thousand households, and hundreds of households.
Not to mention how the captains and vice-captains in these military ranks can be easily distinguished from the actual captains and vice-captains.
Just talking about a Captain, in the naval system, it refers to the captain of the battleship, and the corresponding translated military rank is colonel.
In the army, Captain becomes captain, company commander, centurion, and the corresponding translation rank is captain.
However, the Taixi people also worked out a similar plan to China. When an American naval admiral serves as a captain, he will directly become a captain, regardless of his actual military rank.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan once envisioned changing the military rank back to ninth grade and eighteenth grade while retaining the existing military attache position.
At the same time, the traditional honorary and casual official system will be restored, and a set of medals will be produced correspondingly.
But do I really need to do this?
If you just say "I like it", you can rename something that has been around for a long time.
It is necessary to change the name that has formed a solid tradition and has no problems.
This is definitely not a good thing for the emperor's remnant, right?
The last Ming emperor who changed his name everywhere was Jiajing.
He still made the changes purposefully, in order to stabilize and enhance his authority, and at the same time ensure the obedience of the officials in the court.
Let’s see if the officials will obey me on this matter.
Zhu Jingyuan does not need to be tested now, and there will definitely not be any officials who would hold their necks and refuse his order to change his name.
However, if you really do it, officials and people may not say it openly or openly, but they will definitely complain in their hearts and privately.
Moreover, the military rank system of generals, captains and lieutenants is now running quite well.
After all, it has been tested by both worlds.
Although it seems not as intuitive as the ninth and eighteenth grades, this system comes with a certain sense of honor. Once you reach the rank of major general, you can be called a general.
In fact, the ninth level and eighteenth level cannot be used up...
Looking back and thinking about it, when Emperor Shizu established this system, his purpose should also be to distinguish it from the old military positions.
Establish a new system and rules that are completely controlled by yourself, and then gradually break up other systems and incorporate them.
Since he wanted to distinguish himself from the original system, the generals, commanders, and captains system that he was familiar with in his previous life was the best reference.
He probably didn't think carefully when using the name of the Military Aircraft Department.
In the traditional context of China, the word military aircraft is indeed suitable for the military organization he established.
Moreover, the title of military minister sounds more important than staff officer. Staff officer should make ancient people think of staff.
Emperor Shizu's decision-making should be oriented towards practicality.
In the eyes of later generations, he did turn the tide at that time and successfully recreated the Ming Dynasty.
But when he first started to build his own power, it must have been very chaotic and bumpy.
Combining theory with practice and selecting while taking action, the current system was finally built.
If you think about it completely calmly, there is really no need for you to go through a lot of trouble to change your name just to feel comfortable.
For the bureaucracy, simply changing the name is an official matter with no practical significance.
An earlier emperor who particularly liked to change his name was called "Wang Mang".
Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a long time.
I feel that if it is a new organization established by myself, I can give it a special name according to my own preferences.
It was built from scratch anyway.
Just like when I was choosing an era name, I directly avoided Datong and specifically chose the Grand Duke.
There is no need to modify the original organization name.
The name Military Aircraft Department is not particularly unlucky.
Moreover, Emperor Shizu's use of the Military Aircraft Department was more in line with his original intention than the Military Aircraft Department in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.
At the same time, the staff officers of the lower-level troops of the Ming Dynasty were indeed called staff officers directly.
The Military Aircraft Department is a joint meeting of the top staff officers, and it has the meaning that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
At the same time, the military ministers of the Ming Dynasty were actually divided into two categories.
One type is those who actually work, aged forty to sixty years old, with military ranks ranging from major general to marshal.
Responsible for designing quasi-company and strategic plans, turning the plans into formal documents, and also responsible for daily affairs such as budget verification.
The other type is consultants, who are retired senior military officers. They are only responsible for providing strategic ideas.
It is to let the retired generals and marshals who still want to participate in strategic planning use their remaining energy.
The status of these veteran generals is transcendent, and their status has once again elevated the status of the military aircraft department.
It also allowed the Military Aircraft Department to function as a training and exchange meeting for top generals.
If the new emperor changes the Military Aircraft Department into the General Staff Headquarters, civil and military officials may have the misunderstanding that the new emperor will lower the status of the Military Aircraft Department, or even lower the status of military attachés and the army.
As the world has been at peace for more than ten years, the military is most worried about this trend.
It just so happened that the civil service system always had a tendency in this regard, and Zhu Jingyuan was still the prince who got huge credit for the peace talks.
Zhu Jingyuan's reputation among the people is not considered to be full of martial virtue, and he may even be considered too benevolent by radicals.
After Zhu Jingyuan thought about it carefully, he felt that he should not bother with names that have no practical meaning for the time being.
Even if we really have to struggle in the future, it will only be after the official position adjustment is completed.
So after Zhu Jingyuan thought a lot in his mind, he finally put this matter behind him for the time being and began to deal with the resignation letters of senior military attachés step by step.
First, arrange for several staff officers from the big food countries to work in the aircraft department.
Then bring in a few senior officers from other regions who have dealt with it to make suggestions.
Qiu Lianggong, the naval admiral who was responsible for cooperating with the acceptance of the Chesapeake Peninsula, had the rank of admiral.
Lu Junde, the army general who was once responsible for cooperating with the takeover of Changdao, had the rank of general.
Zhu Zhaoxie, the military governor who was once in charge of the Xintianfu Atomic Energy Project, had the rank of general.
Zhu Guangjun, the army governor who was responsible for handling the Quebec incident, had the rank of lieutenant general.
Then adjust the core layer of the Chinese military governor's office responsible for homeland defense.
"Zhu Jianxun, the naval commander of the Chinese Army Dudu Mansion, was promoted to the rank of marshal and was promoted to the governor general of the Chinese Army Dudu Mansion."
"Yang Yuchun, the Army Commander of the Rear Army Governor's Mansion, was promoted to Marshal and transferred to the rank of Grand Commander and Army Commander of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion."
Zhu Jianxun was a naval governor who was born in Prince Xiang's palace. He once led the first dual-carrier formation in actual combat exercises.
At that time, he also specially went to Xintianfu and was inspected by the then Supreme Emperor Zhu Zhongliang and Prince of Dashi Zhu Jingyuan.
Accompanied Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan to visit the then new aircraft carrier and carrier-based aircraft and gave explanations.
Zhu Jingyuan was impressed by him, and he happened to have enough qualifications and age to be directly promoted to marshal and serve as the governor-general of the Chinese Army Dudu Mansion responsible for local defense.
Yang Yuchun is fifty-nine years old this year. He is also a celebrity in the original history. He also served in the Dashi area of the Youjun Dudu Mansion.
When the Ottomans withdrew from Beimozhou, it was Yang Yuchun who directed the Ming Dynasty's annihilation campaign against the local Barbary pirate forces.
Yang Yuchun's troops had a habit at the time of not accepting surrenders as soon as they officially launched an attack.
The key is that they don't like to accept foreign captives yet, and the cities they capture are basically empty cities.
Therefore, Yang Yuchun's reputation overseas cannot be said to be bad, it can only be said to be very bad.
Especially in some areas of Beimozhou, it can be regarded as a demon full of evil and can make children stop crying.
His promotion was not affected, and now Zhu Jingyuan made him the governor.
He is also the most distinguished Grand Governor of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion.
According to the current military system of the Ming Dynasty, in a peaceful state, the governor-general army of the five major governors' offices has actual duties, but the five major governors have a false position.
The Governor-General's Army has independent and clear candidates who are in charge of the political affairs of the entire Governor's Mansion.
The Commander-in-Chief is usually concurrently held by the Commander-in-Chief of the main local military services. Except for cross-service exercises, the actual jurisdiction is limited to the same service.
But the Grand Governor is indeed the most distinguished position in the military system.
The Ming Dynasty did not have a general governor who was in charge of the entire military service, nor was there a general governor who was in charge of all the governor's offices.
Only the emperor is the Commander-in-Chief of the Three Armies and the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies.
The Military Aircraft Department's responsibilities cover the three armies and the five military governors' offices, but it can only provide plans and suggestions, which can only be handed over to the five military governors' offices for implementation after approval by the emperor.
The highest position a normal officer can obtain is the Grand Governor of a single Governor's House.
Obtaining this appointment means being recognized by the current emperor and possessing the guaranteed rank of marshal.
Before the reform of the civil service system and the establishment of Dayu and Jiuqing, the rank of marshal in the military attache system was also an honorary title.
Usually when a general retires, the emperor will grant him additional titles.
After the establishment of Dayu and Jiuqing, in order to correspondingly enhance the status of generals, marshal also became the actual military rank.
The chief governors and governor-general of the five major governors' mansions and Xintian Mansion were originally given the rank of general, but now they are all given the rank of marshal by default.
At the same time, once the Ming Dynasty fell into a foreign war and a battle broke out with foreign enemies within the jurisdiction of the Dudu's Mansion, the Grand Governor could obtain temporary command authority of the three armed forces within the jurisdiction of the Dudu's Mansion after receiving temporary authorization from the Governor-General's Army.
After the emperor receives the news, he will give formal command authorization, or appoint another commander to take over the command.
In other words, the Grand Governor is responsible for emergency response to unexpected battles.
Zhu Jingyuan knew that Yang Yuchun could really fight, and he was a lucky general in history.
I have fought all my life without getting hurt once, and I don’t have any scars on my body.
The experience of this life is usually legendary, and so far I have not been injured.
Perhaps cleaning up the Barbary pirates, instead of being considered a sin, can be considered a merit.
Under the metropolitan governorship, the five metropolitan governorships have three service governors: the army, navy, and air force.
The military commander was originally a lieutenant general by default, but now he can be a lieutenant general or a general, depending on his seniority and age.
Zhu Jingyuan asked the current Navy Commander of the Chinese Military Governor's Office to retire, and promoted Chen Huacheng, the current Navy Deputy Commander, to the Navy Commander-in-Chief.
Then Guan Tianpei, the naval commander of the Dashi Kingdom, was transferred back and became the deputy naval commander of the Chinese Military Governor's Office.
Chen Huacheng had outstanding military exploits when he was young, and was promoted to the rank of colonel when he was just thirty years old.
In Yinzhou, he cooperated with Zhu Jingyuan's plan to take over the American defense line and stopped Napoleon's bicycle blitz.
Although he is only forty-four years old this year, he has accumulated fourteen years based on age on the basis of colonel. Under normal circumstances, he should be promoted to lieutenant general.
Zhu Jingyuan has always been very generous to generals who have been proven for two generations.
This time, he will be promoted directly to the rank of general. By the time he is over fifty, he should be able to become a marshal. After retirement, he will be granted the title of earl.
Guan Tianpei is younger, only thirty-nine years old this year.
He also accumulated basic meritorious service during the World War, and was already a major at the age of twenty-four.
After fifteen years of accumulation based on age, one is eligible for promotion to major general.
The key is that Guan Tianpei was also Zhu Jingyuan's first full-time military attache leader.
Later, according to Zhu Jingyuan's plan, a naval fleet was built from scratch in the Dashi Country.
Zhu Jingyuan now directly gave him the rank of lieutenant general, and asked him to take the navy of the Dashi Kingdom and merge it into the Chinese Army Commander's Mansion and become the deputy commander of the navy.
Finally, the contemporary Duke of Guizhou, Mu Yongfu, was transferred back from overseas to serve as the Air Force Commander of the Chinese Army Commandery Mansion, and his military rank was promoted to general.
Mu Yongfu was originally from the army and was responsible for taking over the Chesapeake Peninsula. He could also be regarded as having worked under Zhu Jingyuan.
His status and qualifications are fully sufficient to serve as a military commander in the Governor's Mansion.
Zhu Jingyuan's adjustments to the top brass of the Chinese Army's Governor's Office have come to this point, and most of the other officers are still doing what they are supposed to do.
Then he approved the retirement application of the governor-general of Xintianfu Imperial Village, allowing Zhu Xueqian, the governor-general who was once responsible for organizing a comprehensive campaign against Boliva's forces, to take over, and his military rank was also raised to marshal.
Chen Shaohong, who had left some impressions in the past, was promoted to a military rank and mentioned as lieutenant general.
Among the official positions in other overseas governor's offices, if senior generals are transferred to the positions left by the Chinese Army's governor's office, the governor's office will nominate candidates according to the process. After review by the corresponding military ministries, they will be submitted to the emperor for approval before appointment.
All other officers of the Governor's Office who have not been adjusted will remain in their original status for the time being.
At the bottom of the military memorials are the memorials of Dongxi Chang and Jinyiwei.
Both Dongxichang and Jinyiwei belong to the military attache system in a broad sense.
The governor of Dongchang is named Qian Xing. He is not yet at retirement age and has no fault in the past, so he continues to serve.
However, the Governor of Xichang was already sixty-four years old, so Zhu Jingyuan approved his retirement.
Then Lu Liang, who had been on a business trip to Yinzhou, was appointed as the new governor.
It was time for the commander of the Jinyi Guards to retire, so Zhu Jingyuan asked the commander of the Yingtian Prefecture Jinyi Guards to take over, and then promoted Han Tiezhu, who had served as the guard captain in Meng County, Dashi Country, to major general to be the commander of the Yingtian Prefecture Jinyi Guards.
The officers of Zhu Jingyuan's own personal guard were still the soldiers of Guan Tianpei who initially followed Zhu Jingyuan.
Ordinary soldiers were selected from the children of immigrants from the Great Food Country, the children of the Ming Dynasty Airlines, and the children of the Great Food Clothing Company.
The treatment of workers and managers in Zhu Jingyuan's own industry has always been among the best in the world.
The whole family of these people worked in Zhu Jingyuan's industry.
It is safest to use the children of these families as your personal guards.
Now hand over the imperial guards of Yingtian Mansion to Han Tiezhu, and hand over the local garrison to Yang Yuchun and Zhu Jianxun.
Zhu Jingyuan had more reliable control over the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty.
(End of chapter)
