In the next six months, it was just a matter of officialdom. It could be said that being an official was not enough. In the officialdom, the imperial censor's office expanded its power. The imperial censor headed by Guo Daxian violently suppressed corrupt officials. This time Guo Daxian was not a county. The beginning of a state. But it was aimed at the entire Daqian officialdom. Many people were caught off guard by this change. Guo Daxian arrested thousands of people, and then the most evil of these people were beheaded by Guo Daxian in public, and the lighter ones were executed. Exiled to the newly discovered Ryukyu Island, they will become the first batch of people to build Ryukyu Island.
Many of these people were old members of Daqian, and many came to Guo Daxian to plead for mercy, but Guo Daxian remained unmoved.
There are also the so-called private censors who treat them like the paparazzi of later gossip tabloids, watching every move of the officials in the Daqian officialdom. If the Daqian officials make the slightest mistake, they may report it, and then they will immediately attract Guo Daxian to investigate, even if Nothing happened, but it also frightened many officials. Many officials felt that the current officialdom was full of traps.
The Daqian Mirror took advantage of this trend and not only became the largest-selling newspaper in Jixian County, but also became the number one newspaper in Daqian. It had huge sales in counties and counties in Daqian and was even exported to the Han Dynasty. Even Liu Bei If you want to read Daqian Mirror to understand the internal trends of Daqian, it can be said that under the accumulation of these factors, the Luoyang paper made by Daqian Mirror became expensive for a while.
Others saw that the Der Spiegel could also influence the official circles of big officials. Many people found that they could use the newspaper as a stage for them to participate in politics and even take revenge on the big officials who had prevented them from serving as officials. Being a nobleman is also a joy.
The most important thing they discovered was that Xu Wei not only did not restrict them from engaging in official corruption, but was even happy to see such a thing happen. In other words, for them, not only was there no risk, but they could also participate in politics.
This is not much different from the monthly list back then. We are familiar with this routine!
Moreover, only Xu Shao and a few great scholars were qualified to nominate nobles and officials in the monthly list back then. But now they can supervise the officialdom as long as they run a newspaper. What is the difference between this and the time when they influenced the officialdom through officials? Now that Xu Wei is still there, nothing can be seen, but after Xu Wei passes away, they may not be able to influence the officialdom of Daqian through newspapers, and finally let them re-enter the officialdom of Daqian.
Driven by these many factors, newspapers discussing current affairs sprung up in Daqian territory like mushrooms after a rain.
The editors-in-chief of many newspapers call their reporters censors of ordinary people, claiming to be asking for orders from the people and eliminating harm for the country. In short, they have various high-level titles attached to them.
In less than half a year, there were thousands more reporters who dared to make decisions for the people, and these reporters did catch many of their corrupt elements.
Under the influence of these internal and external factors, Daqian officials found the past six months to be particularly difficult!
In particular, many middle- and high-level officials in large cadres originally thought that the world was about to be unified, and it was their turn to enjoy the world.
But now, with the expansion of the imperial censor's palace and the appearance of reporters, these two slaps hit many officials of the officialdom with stars in their eyes, making them dare not relax and start working for the common people of the officialdom again.
In this way, after the autumn harvest in September, the annual Four People's Assembly started again.
Under the auspices of Xiangkai, everyone knows that the main content of this year's meeting is to appraise and award Da Gan, a hero who has been fighting for more than ten years.
Everyone highly recognizes this proposal, because many of these congressmen have joined the army and contributed to the great cadres. Most of them are even old subordinates of Wang Lei, Niu Gui and others, so they are naturally Standing on the side of the senior officials.
It's just that they didn't expect that they would become one of the meritorious officials, which made everyone feel flattered. Wasn't this kind of thing done by him in power?
At this time, Old Man Wang said: "When we evaluate merit and awards, we can't just assess the merits of the generals. The people and soldiers of Daqian also went through life and death and sacrificed their lives, so that we are sitting here to evaluate everyone's merits. , we cannot forget these ordinary heroes. So I think grassroots soldiers should also be appraised for their merits!"
Old Man Wang's words caused everyone to talk about it, but most people also thought it was reasonable. They were just ordinary heroes. If they really followed what Old Man Wang said, they could have become the founding heroes. Why should they do something that is good for them? Refuse, and they have indeed experienced life and death for Daqian. It can be said that one-tenth of the MPs here are disabled. In that case, they have paid blood on the battlefield and barely survived, but their physical disabilities have It was unavoidable and had no choice but to retreat.
Only Xiangkai said worriedly: "If we really evaluate it like this, I'm afraid there won't be too many meritorious officials?"
Although Xiangkai knew that this was Xu Wei's suggestion, he still felt that Xu Wei's idea was too unfeasible.
The number of founding heroes during the Han Emperor Liu Bang's period was only a few hundred, and the number of heroes during Liu Xiu's period was almost the same. Based on Old Man Wang's statement, it is possible to have thousands or even tens of thousands of heroes.
But the tens of thousands of founding heroes, this is not a joke. If tens of thousands of people are really rewarded generously, no court can support it. But if they can't reward the heroes generously, then wouldn't it be a joke for them to judge their merits and awards! In this era, everyone is not Play with fiction and talk directly about actual benefits.
But Old Man Wang said nonchalantly: "Everyone divides it according to the size of the credit. All aspects must be taken into account. Everyone can do what they can. No one will think that the great cadres were defeated by dozens or hundreds of meritorious officials." Bar!"
After hearing this, many congressmen nodded in agreement. Their millions of cadres conquered the world. How could they conquer the world with only dozens of generals and lieutenants?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, some people still asked: "Then how to evaluate? If there are dozens of people, everyone will look at the results and merits, and there will be an order. But if there are a few There are tens of thousands of people, so it’s hard to judge.”
Old Man Wang smiled and said: "This is not simple. As long as ordinary generals fight bravely and kill many enemies, we can be rated as combat heroes. We don't necessarily have to give too much money and land, but we must give others honor. Let them come to Jixian to receive interviews and awards from the ruling party and us, and at the same time help these heroes solve their daily worries in life. I think these fighting heroes will be satisfied.
Everyone nodded unanimously, thinking that this method was okay. Although the cost was not high, it could make these fighting heroes feel that they were valued.
"We should take action now. The number of officers and officers is small, and they don't care about a few days' delay. However, the evaluation of merit at the grassroots level can be faster. It happened that last year we defeated the Han Dynasty and captured two states and counties of the Han Dynasty. There are a large number of fighting heroes, and most of these heroes have now retired. It is just now to assess their merits, and we can also arrange their post-retirement work according to the size of their merits!"
"And after this experience, we will be more experienced in judging these heroes in the future!"
Daqian's army has always been recruited during wartime and mainly engaged in farming during peacetime. After all, even Daqian's finances cannot afford to support an 800,000 standing army.
Therefore, every time most of the army is disbanded as soon as the war ends, and only some elite backbones are retained in the large army.
Retiring soldiers involves arranging work in large-scale cadres. In the past, this kind of thing was basically arranged according to position. People with higher positions naturally had better arrangements for their work, and those with lower positions naturally had worse arrangements. At one point, soldiers were even given money to go home and farm.
After all, no matter how developed Daqian's industry is, it is still in the handicraft stage, and the population it can accommodate is still limited. Not to mention that Xu Wei has recruited 800,000 people this time, and the number of people who have retired is almost the same.
With the scale of Daqian's handicraft industry at this time, it was simply impossible to arrange for these 800,000 people. It was also a helpless move to let these soldiers return to the countryside again.
Although there are two more states in the Daqian this time, it connects the Central Plains into one area, and without Cao Cao as an enemy, the number of troops needed will naturally be greatly reduced, like Jizhou. Now it has completely become a Daqian. In the hinterland, the original standing army of 50,000 was now reduced to only 10,000, and Yanzhou suffered the same fate.
Therefore, after the Battle of the Central Plains, the number of large-scale troops decreased this time. The number of standing troops remained at about 300,000, and the cavalry was greatly reduced. It fell below double digits for the first time, with only around 50,000 people. Arranged on the front line of the western desert.
It is indeed too wasteful to let such organized and distant soldiers go home to farm again. In the industrial age, not only machines are important, but organized and disciplined soldiers are equally important.
After finally cultivating these soldiers into discipline, it would be extremely wasteful for Daqian to send them to the countryside and become undisciplined farmers again. Therefore, Xu Wei has been trying his best to find ways to organize these retired soldiers as much as possible. But as far as the current situation is concerned, the best future is to form a state-owned farm to feed these retired soldiers.
After Old Man Wang's proposal, many councilors wrote to Xu Wei, saying that the merits of the grassroots soldiers should be assessed first, and the imperial court was required to be in the army now. Qualified meritorious officials should be screened out and come to Jixian County to receive rewards.
Xu Wei naturally agreed, and he ordered Niu Gui to first assess the soldiers' merits according to the parliament.
In the next month, Xu Wei's orders were issued level by level. The credit of the grassroots soldiers was the easiest to determine. How many people were killed and how many enemies were captured. These have already been designated by the generals to monitor the army. After statistics, everyone only needs to use this list to remove mid-level and senior generals whose positions exceed those of Army Sima and other generals, and then rank them according to their merits. Finally, 5,000 combat heroes will be selected. They will represent the 800,000 soldiers in the army and receive awards from the court.
So a month later, this group of fighting heroes came to Jixian. Even though the Battle of the Central Plains had ended for more than half a year, less than half of this group of people were still injured, but their condition was much better, so they You can come to Jixian to receive rewards.
The award meeting was naturally open to the public, and Xu Wei followed the process he saw on modern TV.
First, he presided over the meeting and led the senior officials of the Daqian Army to reward and encourage these heroes. Then, the representatives of the heroes wore red and colorful colors and paraded through the streets on high horses. This is also an old tradition of the Daqian Army. Those who work in the fields parade astride the horses. , accept the welcome and support of the people of Jixian County.
These warriors sacrificed their lives to make Daqian as strong as it is now. With the stable life of the people of Daqian now, the people must know that their stable life is due to the hard work of these soldiers, and they must respect these soldiers.
With the honor given to them by the people, soldiers will naturally not be separated from the people. This is what Xu Wei wants to see. After all, the country he comes from, the combat effectiveness of soldiers has always attracted world attention, and he himself has joined this country. An army.
Xu Wei believed that as long as the Daqian Army inherited the three-point spirit of that army, it would be enough to make them invincible in the world.
And being able to see the shadow of that army in this world can be regarded as a little thought of Xu Wei! So he has always formed the Daqian Army according to the standards of that army.
After the lively celebration ceremony, the celebration banquet began. It can even be said that this is the protagonist. The newly joined tribesmen have only heard of such a grand banquet, but have never seen it. Now they can join this party. They also felt a sense of honor for the banquet.
And this was handled by Old Man Wang himself. Among the entire Daqian army, he had the richest experience in handling large banquets with more than 10,000 people.
He even felt a little nostalgic. As the strength of the Daqian army became stronger and stronger, the tribesmen became richer, and the old tribesmen were scattered in various places in the land of Daqian, with hundreds of thousands of people like those back then. The scene of celebrating together is no longer visible.
Xu Wei, along with the entire Daqian army's top brass, sat down to eat with these fighting heroes. At the same time, Xu Wei also kept asking about the deeds of these fighting heroes.
This was also the most glorious moment for these soldiers. They told Xu Wei enthusiastically about their heroic moments, how many enemies they defeated, how many enemies they captured, how many cities they conquered, and how much they paid.
Every soldier who talks about these heroic deeds is very happy and talks endlessly.
Xu Wei praised: "These heroic deeds of yours should not only be told to me, but also to the entire Daqian tribe, and even to our descendants, so that they know how important our country was founded. It is not easy, and the happy life we have now has cost a lot. Your deeds must be passed down to future generations so that they can remember them firmly."
The soldier was surprised after hearing the hypocritical words: "Am I famous now?"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Yes, I want you to be famous and your name to go down in history, and you are worthy of doing so."