"Chen Huitong!"
"Zhou Cang!"
"Shao Yuzhong!"
"I'm here!"
After the three ministers were slightly stunned, they immediately left work, their bodies trembling slightly.
"Are you three guilty?"
"My, my lord... I know the crime!"
This scene immediately stunned the officials. I don't know what mistake these three people made, which led the emperor to personally question the crime.
The eyes of several censors were full of thoughts.
The three ministers made mistakes. As supervisors, they did not know about it. They simply failed in their duties.
"Looking at the expressions of the three of you, I don't know what mistake you made."
"It's okay for other civil servants to object, but among the three of you, one of them is the doctor in charge of the civil service examination,
One person is a doctor in the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, in charge of selecting, promoting, and replacing military generals.
One of them is the censor of Youqiandu, responsible for supervising all officials and admirals. Don't you know the harm Mengyin military attachés do to the army?
Forget it if you don’t support it, but I have cited so many cases to refute it. Do you understand what I say? "
"I understand!"
"Now that you understand, then go to the North Korean Capital Division to assist Mao Wenlong in establishing the North Korean Capital Division, and return to Beijing to serve after passing the assessment for three years!"
"I obey the order!"
The three people's mouths were full of bitterness. There was no comparison between local officials and Beijing officials. After so many years of working together, they were sent out again, or to places like North Korea that had just been incorporated into the Ming Dynasty.
But I'm glad that the emperor didn't go into details, otherwise it wouldn't be as simple as allotment.
"Anyone who has just spoken out against the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel will be fined three months' salary to serve as a warning to others!"
The ministers were so focused that they did not dare to speak anymore.
"The system of Mengyin is here first, let's continue to talk about stopping the increase of hereditary generals!"
"In my opinion, hereditary inheritance of generals is indeed inappropriate!"
After Chongzhen finished speaking, he looked at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Shangshu Fang Guiwei: "Fang Aiqing, what is the system for selecting officials in the Ming Dynasty?"
"Your Majesty, Ming Dynasty officials adopted a system of avoidance, including avoidance of place of origin, avoidance of relatives, avoidance of teachers and students, avoidance of examination sites, etc.!
The most important of these is the place of origin set by Taizu for the southerners to avoid Guanbei and the northerners to Guannan. Officials from Beiping, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Sichuan will serve as Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Zhili...
In the early days, this system was strictly implemented, but in the fifth year of Daolongqing, Gao Gong, the chief minister of the cabinet, considered the inconvenience of transportation and other factors, and proposed to the court that except for Zhengyin officials (prefects and county magistrates), other subordinate officials could use local people.
From then on, subordinate officials could return to their hometown to serve.
Relative avoidance is..."
Having said this, Fang Guiwei was stunned, and then suddenly realized.
Since it is hereditary, that means that wherever I hold office, my son will hold office in the future.
For example, Nurhachi, whose father is Aixinjueluo Takshi, was the commander of Wang Gao's army in Jianzhou right guard. In the second year of Wanli, he made great achievements and was promoted to the commander of Jianzhou left guard.
After Takeshi was killed, Nurhachi took over the post of commander of Jianzhou Left Guard.
Even if the first-generation commander comes from Taiyuan and serves as the commander of Suzhou Guards after serving a meritorious service, two generations later, Suzhou will no longer be his hometown. Doesn't this violate the system of birthplace?
I am the commander, and my son is likely to serve in the guard station. Doesn't this violate the system of avoidance of relatives?
If his son takes another local official as his teacher, will this violate the teacher-student avoidance system again?
Wait, does the hereditary system of military commanders conflict with the avoidance system of officials?
The ministers also understood now, their eyes filled with embarrassment.
If the hereditary system is changed, it will fulfill the emperor's wish.
If it does not change, then the avoidance system must be changed.
But once the avoidance system is changed, the problem will become bigger. Corruption, patronage, collusion between gentry, etc. will increase accordingly. This is something the court does not want to see.
Looking at the faces of the ministers, Chongzhen sneered in his heart.
It is hard to say whether such a huge loophole was deliberately invisible to the ministers, whether it was really not discovered, or whether it was the acquiescence of the imperial power.
But he prefers the 'tacit understanding' reached by the ministers and the imperial power, or the compromise and exchange of the imperial power.
But no matter which one it is, for the healthy and long-term development of the Ming Dynasty, this pathological mechanism must be improved.
Even if it cannot be completely abolished this time, it must be broken or strict restrictions must be imposed.
After thinking about this, Chongzhen looked at Li Banghua: "Li Aiqing, since I came to the throne, you have been responsible for rectifying the military affairs. Please tell me, my dear friends, about the general issues in rectifying the military affairs in the past three years!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Li Banghua left work and glanced at everyone with a calm expression, but his eyes were full of killing intent: "My lords, as of now, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang have completed the rectification of health centers ,
A total of 243 guard stations and Qianhu stations were reorganized, more than 6,000 generals above Xiaoqi and above, more than 9,000 sergeants were executed, and more than 3,000 generals above Xiaoqi and on temporary duty were expelled.
Four thousand of these nine thousand generals are hereditary generals who are not familiar with military affairs. Not to mention that they have been trained to command troops and do not even understand the most basic camp drills.
If not for Your Majesty's mercy, I would have killed them directly. "
Listening to Li Banghua's statement, the faces of the officials suddenly became solemn.
All civil servants observe their noses with their eyes, and their minds with their noses, just like an old monk in meditation.
With the lessons learned just now, if they dare to attack the generals now, the emperor can kill them.
They also completely understood that the emperor was following the general trend of the great victory in reform, which was to give the soldiers at the bottom and the common people a chance to move forward.
If they dare to stop them, if the news spreads, the people will kill them alive.
In the past, they could use the power of ministers to bargain with the imperial power, but the imperial power had to make concessions in order to ensure the stability of the world.
But now that the emperor controls absolute force and the people have absolute support, they can only be honest and obedient and drink some soup, otherwise it will be considered good if they can go home and retire.
Most of the generals on the other side had anger rising in their eyes.
In the city of Beijing, the generals who can go to court are basically the military attaches from the Tengxiang Four Guards, the Forbidden Army, the Beijing Camp, and the Military Governor's Office.
These military attachés were basically promoted by the emperor after he ascended the throne and were thoroughly cleaned. They were absolutely loyal to the emperor.
Even if the twenty-six guards were messing around in the past, it was not as outrageous as Li Banghua said.
"I admit that there are advantages to hereditary military generals. After all, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to be well versed in the art of war, have excellent martial arts skills, have excellent psychological quality, and have long-standing combat experience on the battlefield.
In the case of hereditary inheritance, the inheritance from father to son and from son to grandson is definitely better than that of ordinary people.
But there are also great disadvantages. "
There seemed to be memories in Chongzhen's eyes. Under the curious eyes of the ministers, he asked lightly: "Qi Jiguang is not a stranger to you, right?"
