To put it simply, Luo Zhixue is currently managing people, not things. Now he rarely manages a certain thing personally.
If you really let him take care of things directly, he would be overwhelmed by the vast amount of complicated affairs in such a huge empire.
But it is easier to manage people. You only need to firmly control the general direction in your own hands. If the direction is wrong, then someone else can correct the direction.
At the same time, some major events are often discussed in the staff meeting, and Luo Zhixue will not participate in person. Instead, he will wait for these ministers to argue and then choose a result that is in his own interests to set the tone. If the ministers discuss more than one He was not satisfied with the result, so he sent it back and let the ministers discuss it...
If you are still not satisfied...then let's discuss it with someone else...
In the end, we were able to draw a conclusion that satisfied Luo Zhixue.
This is also the reason why Luo Zhixue seems to have direct jurisdiction over so many institutions but not similar ones... In fact, it is impossible for him to directly manage so many things. On a daily basis, he is more in charge of people and important ministers.
As an emperor, the most important thing is to employ people.
If people use it correctly, then things will be right; if people use it wrongly, then things will naturally go wrong.
This is Luo Zhixue's current way of ruling by employing people to implement his various policies, instead of doing all the big things himself as before...
However, this way of managing people and ignoring things can easily make Luo Zhixue break away from the grassroots level, and all he gets is fabricated feedback from his ministers.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue also needs other sources of information, such as the secret system.
A certain amount of deterrence is also needed to make other officials vigilant and even fearful, such as the Internal Affairs Investigation Section of the Hanlin Academy.
Using both kindness and power, he manages people generously and delegates power, while at the same time sending countless spies to collect the movements of subordinate officials to prevent any negative incidents.
What matters is a balance.
Through two or three years of hard work, Luo Zhixue initially built a stable structure for the coexistence of multiple factions in the Chu Empire. Through work division, he adjusted the duties and powers of the ministers under his command and co-organizers at any time to balance the factions.
In today's Great Chu Empire, there are different institutions, and different ministers have their own ideas, and then they are softened to work together. The only thing they have in common is that they revolve around Luo Zhixue, the actual representative of imperial power.
Once they leave Luo Zhixue, they will all be rootless duckweeds.
This is the importance of a balanced multi-faction political structure, each of which is indispensable, and if any party wants to grow stronger, it will also cause confrontation among other factions.
As for Luo Zhixue, he always sits firmly on the high platform, pulling in whoever is weaker and suppressing whoever is stronger, always maintaining a multi-party balance.
The service participation system is also a concrete manifestation of this balanced system!
The same is why Luo Zhixue included Xu Zhixian and Wei Kaifu among the military generals as ministers of staff.
This is also to maintain the balance of the power structure.
The military must have its own voice in the Senate, the empire's top political platform, and safeguard its rights and interests.
However, it is only limited to maintaining the military's own interests. Luo Zhixue, on the other hand, is still promoting the separation of military and political affairs.
The local governors no longer have the power to command troops. The civil servants in Gyeonggi, even Guo Quanshu, have no power to dictate military operations. In turn, the military cannot dictate local government affairs.
Therefore, in most of the imperial council meetings, Luo Zhixue usually did not announce the two military ministers.
Xu Zhixian, the Chief of Staff, and Wei Kaifu, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, naturally understand why, so they rarely attend staff meetings on weekdays. Even if they do, as long as the matters discussed do not involve the military, they will not speak. They act purely as tools, but when it comes to voting, they often abstain from voting, leaving the five civil service ministers to compete for themselves.
But when it comes to the interests of the military, they will stand up without hesitation and spray as much as they should...
For example, at the end of last year, when Chengshun's fiscal budget for the third year was discussed at the Imperial Council, the two military elders started talking wildly about the military budget and quarreled with Guo Quanshu and several other civilian officials. .
At that time, Guo Quanshu and other civil servants felt that the 25 million allocated for military expenditures in the third year of Chengshun was just about enough. These 25 million were much more than the 15 million allocated in the second year of Chengshun. Ten million.
And this is just regular military spending!
When the war actually breaks out, all kinds of enemy assets will definitely be confiscated on a large scale, and part of these one-time income will then be used to subsidize the military.
Just like in the second year of Chengshun, the rated regular military expenditure was only fifteen million taels. However, in the Battle of Chunan and the Battle of Eastward, the Great Chu Empire obtained tens of millions of one-time confiscation income, plus The cost of the eastward campaign was too much, and the original additional military expenditures could not sustain it.
In addition, the Navy has also initiated large-scale shipbuilding and fleet expansion, which also requires a lot of military spending.
Therefore, several batches of additional war expenses were successively allocated to the military, totaling approximately 10 million taels.
In other words, in the two years of Chengshun, the actual military expenditure received by the military was as high as 25 million taels.
This does not include the large amount of materials captured by the military that were directly used in the war, including guns, swords and armor, rations and even mules and horses captured from the enemy.
These trophies were replenished to the frontline troops on the spot according to the rules and were not included in the financial statistics.
Therefore, the total military expenditures and supplies received by the military last year exceeded 25 million taels.
When formulating Chengshun's three-year military expenditure, Guo Quanshu and other civil servants believed that the rated military expenditure of 25 million taels was already a lot. If the one-time income share from subsequent confiscations was added, the military would be You can also get a lot of money.
However, the military believes that the reason why it was able to obtain tens of millions of additional war expenses last year was because it fought in Jiangnan last year.
Jiangnan is a very rich place, so there is a lot of money gained from plagiarism. Only in this case can we get an additional 10 million war expenses.
But where are you playing this year?
They are all remote places. Guangdong and Guangxi are not only mountains, but also mountains. How much money can be made by infiltrating? Playing in Guangdong and Guangxi is definitely a loss-making business.
Fujian and Zhejiang? It was also a poor place. Only the prefectures in northern Zhejiang barely had some oil and water, and the remaining southern Zhejiang and Fujian were places with many mountains and little land. Not to mention oil and water, this army would lose money if they fought with iron nails. .
According to the military's statement, after this calculation, they will not get much profit at all from attacking Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang. On the contrary, the cost will be greater due to the complex local terrain, difficulty in supply, and difficulty in combat.
This time in and out, the military will lose money to grandma's house...
What about Jiangbei... The military does not shy away from the fact that Yangzhou and Huai'an are rich places, but the military generals insist that those places are the fortresses where the Ming army has been operating for a long time, especially Yangzhou. It's really hard to fight.
There is a high probability that it will be taken down this year.
Besides, there are only two cities. Even if they are all confiscated, how much money can be made?
Therefore, the military generals once again insisted that there was a high probability that there would be no large amount of confiscated gains in the Jiangbei Campaign.
This additional war expenditure is not expected to be large, so the regular rated military expenditure will have to be increased. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the army, navy and Guards will have to fight hungry...
After hearing these words, Guo Quanshu and the other civil servants' faces turned dark.
It is said that all the civil servants in the Ming Dynasty are shameless. How come when it comes to our Chu Empire, all the shameless people become military generals.
In the end, the two sides discussed and discussed, and the civil servants represented by Guo Quanshu said, don't you want to increase conventional military expenditures? Yes, I will increase it by five million for you in one fell swoop.
but……
The share earned from any subsequent copying will be lost.
However, the military is still not satisfied and insists that the regular military expenditure is 30 million, which will be divided into 50 and 50 in the future...
Although the military was still not satisfied with this, Yuan Gaofeng got angry at that time and shouted directly at the pillars in the main hall: "You are the only one who wants money for the war. Don't the rest of the country have to live?"
"No more relief? No more water conservancy? No more imperial examinations? No more agriculture? No more Dangtu Industrial Zone?"
"You spend all the money to fight and let the people in the rear starve to death. Are you satisfied?"
"I put my words here. If you continue to threaten, people's livelihood cannot be improved without money. I, Yuan, am ashamed of His Majesty and the people of the world. I might as well die here. I want to see what happens to the world when the time comes. How do people view you!"
After Yuan Gaofeng finished speaking, Xu Zhixian sneered directly: "If you have the ability, just hit me. If you can't hit me to death, I can help you. Don't learn nothing and just pretend to show off those Donglin Party members who only talk but don't practice!"
After Yuan Gaofeng heard this, he screamed angrily and rushed out in excitement. It seemed that he really wanted to hit a pillar...
But...
This is purely pretentious!
As soon as he stood up and took two steps, he was stopped by two powerful imperial guards behind him...
Seeing this scene, Luo Zhixue frowned!
Yuan Gaofeng's acting is a bit fake. There are so many big pillars in the hall. You have to choose the big pillar closest to the door...
There are two imperial guards standing on this big pillar!
In the end, there was a lot of quarreling, and in the end the two sides reached an agreement during the dispute, with a rated military expenditure of 28 million, and only 20% of the proceeds from subsequent confiscations.
After the allocation ratio of administrative funds and military funds was finalized, the subsequent allocation of funds to various ministries was also spent in noisy situations.
The Army, Navy and Guards were at loggerheads.
Other departments such as the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are also noisy!
The noisy Mr. Luo Zhi is getting a big headache!
