"Mr. Zhan, what do you mean by your Majesty's words? Do all official transfers in the future require two years of experience?"
"This makes it difficult for our bureaucracy to carry out its work."
In the lobby of the Ministry of Personnel, the left and right ministers and Zhan Hui were chatting about the new rules set by His Majesty in the morning.
The rules have been set, but the execution of the regulations is their job. It is impossible to ask His Majesty about everything. They can only try to figure out His Majesty's wishes.
Zhan Hui did not answer in a hurry. After taking a sip from the tea cup, he said slowly: "This matter seems to be His Majesty's intention, but in the final analysis, it is His Majesty's intention."
"His Royal Highness Taisun has wanted to reform the Ming Dynasty's official system for a long time. He had proposed a method before. However, under the circumstances at that time, His Majesty did not fully agree, but carried out partial changes."
"You have also seen the results now. Your Highness's idea is to focus on the assessment method."
The greatest power of the Ministry of Personnel is the promotion, transfer, and assessment of officials.
However, the Ministry of Personnel is also the department that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches most importance to. Zhan Hui can always serve as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, so he is naturally a minister that Zhu Yuanzhang can trust.
And Zhan Hui is indeed loyal and has not shown any signs of forming cliques for personal gain.
He also has his own set of ideas about speculating on the Holy Will.
The assistant ministers under his command suddenly became enlightened when they heard this.
Pu Xiang, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, asked: "Sir, do you think the assessment we will set in the future should be more stringent?"
Zhan Hui shook his head and said, "It's not a strict problem. I think it's His Highness Taisun's dissatisfaction with the imperial examination selection and the rejection of recommended officials."
"Although the scholars who passed the imperial examination knew the Four Books and Five Classics, everyone knows that they only knew the Four Books and Five Classics. When doing things, they all relied on the officials."
"Really speaking, although I obtained the title of scholar, I actually learned the skills of being an official from my father."
"Don't forget, His Highness Taisun is completely different from other people. In his early days, His Highness had dealt with those small countries in the Western Regions, including officials of the Ming Dynasty, and he was still doing smooth things like buying and selling."
"Although His Majesty also raises troops from the bottom, fighting and doing business are two different things, so Your Highness Taisun is very aware of the shortcomings of officials."
Zhan Hui's words shocked the left and right ministers deeply.
Unexpectedly, Shangshu Zhan would have such an in-depth understanding of His Majesty Taisun inadvertently, and he is worthy of becoming a popular person in front of His Majesty.
After understanding the holy will, the left and right ministers also went back to summon their subordinate officials to start seriously arranging His Majesty's reform and assessment.
At present, those who have suffered the greatest impact are naturally the new academicians.
This also means that in the future, no matter whether it is the imperial examination or the officials recommended to become officials, they will no longer be directly candidates for officials.
According to the current situation, all candidate officials currently have to start a classification.
This means that except for the ministers and ministers at the top of the six departments, who may be transferred according to His Majesty's decree, the officials below are likely to handle matters in a relatively professional manner.
That is to say, if you enter the Ministry of Industry, you will most likely stay there from now on.
Once you join the Household Department, you will be in the Household Department for a long time.
Transfers across departments will be reduced.
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On the grassland, the weather in October is already extremely cold.
When there was a shortage of food and grass, they could only choose to attack the Ming Dynasty's territory.
However, in the Liaodong border area, a large number of soldiers have been accumulated for a long time, and it is not easy to invade casually.
At present, the Ming Dynasty has sufficient food. For example, the important cities at the border basically have six months or more of food reserves. There is no point in siege.
After Xia Liang, basically all the surrounding people moved into the city, which made the food and grass available to the prairie cavalry even scarcer.
The Northern Yuan Dynasty.
Elbek, who is thirty-three years old this year, finally inherited the position of Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
Elbek was born in Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty. Like all the driven Mongolian subjects, he always thought about returning to the Central Plains to become king and hegemon.
But what lies ahead of him now is how to deal with matters on the Liaodong Plain.
The current grassland has long been covered by ice and snow, and there is a vast expanse of white everywhere.
In the big tent, the fat of the roasted lamb was dripping on the fire and sizzling, and the spices were scattered, giving off an alluring smell. The eunuch in costume used a knife to cut off the most delicious piece, and then put it on a porcelain plate and presented it to the king.
sweat.
Elbek picked up the silver tassel, picked up the sliced meat and put it into his mouth.
Unlike most Mongolians today, today's Mongolian nobles are almost all former ministers of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. After all, when the Northern Yuan Dynasty was destroyed by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention Hanization, it can be regarded as a generation that grew up in the Central Plains.
Some habits and etiquette were naturally influenced by the Central Plains, and Mongolia's culture was weak, so it was natural for them to imitate them in many aspects.
Catching meat with your hands is actually something that middle- and lower-class Mongolians generally do.
As early as before the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, there were a large number of Mongolian merchants transporting rice, flour and tea between the Song and Jin Dynasties. At that time, the Mongolians in Monan had already had the habit of eating rice and using tachyon.
Of course, these habits, just like Chinese, only exist among the upper class nobility.
The people in this Mongolian tent today are naturally all nobles.
Even though he has been expelled from the Central Plains, he is still served by eunuchs, chewing slowly, and his movements seem to be somewhat elegant.
After all, he was born in Zeng Yuan Dynasty, and it was Elbek's custom when it came to royal etiquette.
"Great Khan, the grasslands of Liaodong are in chaos now. I think you might as well take this opportunity to bring them all in, so that we in Beiyuan can have tens of thousands more cavalry."
"When the thieves clear the border, it won't be easy to open it."
Haohai Dayu kneeled on the ground respectfully and said.
He was from Oara, and he was the favorite of Elbek. He was always able to bring many novel ways of playing to the Khan in this boring grassland.
When the surrounding Mongolian ministers saw this, their faces turned ugly.
One of them stood up and yelled: "Haohai Dayu, you cheap slave, how dare you instigate the Khan. It's winter now, even though our soldiers are starving, you have to recruit more people."
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"Are you going to take away all our food and let our people starve to death?"
Hearing the minister's reprimand, Elbek looked a little unhappy.
Especially seeing Haohai Dayu's aggrieved look made Elbek furious.
No matter what, Haohai Tatsuyu is his own professed Taiwei, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog. This is completely disrespectful to him, a newly promoted man.
He didn't say anything at the moment, but just winked at Haohai Tatsuyu.
Haohai Dayu immediately stood up and scolded the minister: "Under the command of the great Khan, there are one hundred thousand cavalry. Which tribe on this grassland dares not to obey the majesty of the Great Khan."
"As long as they live on our grassland in Dayuan, they are all my people in Dayuan. There is no need to distinguish between you and me."
"If you don't have enough food, go and rob the Han people's food. It doesn't matter no matter how many people die. Only the strongest warriors can survive the test of the Changshengtian and become the loyal warriors of the Great Khan."
As soon as these words came out, the other Mongolian noble ministers did not know how to answer.
Haohai Dayu was able to be appreciated by Elbek Khan, so he was naturally very good at talking, and the skill of talking was exactly what the Mongols were least good at.
What the Mongols are good at is long whips and sharp arrows, not words.
Elbek Khan was very satisfied, and immediately appointed a general to lead 30,000 cavalry to surrender all other tribes on the grassland, and then led these people to attack the Ming Dynasty's border.
Although Beiyuan lost to Ming Dynasty.
But after returning to the grassland, Beiyuan still had a large number of cavalry. After all, for the grassland, as long as a man is a man, he can ride and equestrian.
Although they are said to be iron cavalry, they actually cannot meet the standards of cavalry during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
It is even said that many bows and arrows are homemade.
Think about the original Mongolian cavalry, but everyone was wearing armor, and almost no one could resist them wherever they passed.
The current strength of Bei Yuan is still very strong, at least in the field field, it is still in the leading position in the world. Even the Ming Dynasty cannot completely eliminate Bei Yuan.
Even Oara and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the other two overlords on the grassland, were very afraid of Beiyuan and did not dare to invade easily.
As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even though Beiyuan's current situation is very poor, its military equipment is still more powerful than these tribes that have lived on the grasslands for a long time.
Neither Zhu Yuanzhang nor Zhu Ying could do anything against Bei Yuan.
Because the real Mongolian army is composed entirely of cavalry and is too mobile, making it difficult to fight.
Even the Mongolian tent is moved several times every year and does not have a fixed place at all.
Here in Beiyuan, the infantry are composed of slaves, and they don't care about how many people die.
One hundred thousand cavalry are the army directly under Elbek Khan. Many of them are veterans of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, and their combat power is extremely strong.
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The military situation of the grassland invasion of the Ming Dynasty was rushed to the capital over 800 miles in just seven days.
Zhu Yuanzhang also had a headache with these Mongolian cavalry.
"Grandpa, why should you worry? The fortified city over there is still there and cannot be attacked by the prairie cavalry. What they did is just a waste of population."
Seeing that the old man was in a bad mood, Zhu Ying began to comfort him.
Zhu Yuanzhang said with some memories: "When we conquered the world, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was already in ruins. During the eight Northern Expeditions, we were not fighting against the Mongols, but against those who raised troops and nominally surrendered to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty."
"The Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty's court has long been decayed. We didn't expect to fight all the way. Even when we reached the gates of Nanjing, we never saw the so-called Mongolian cavalry."
"We still remember that time. Later, Prime Minister Tuotuo organized a million-strong army to fight Zhang Shicheng and surrounded Zhang Shicheng. Zhang Shicheng was about to surrender. However, Emperor Yuan Shun was afraid that Tuotuo would become bigger and removed his military power.
As a result, these millions of troops will be dispersed at once."
"Although Zhang Shicheng defected to Meng Yuan in the end, he still made the decision himself."
"When we captured the city of Nanjing, the main force of the Yuan army was actually "rebels" led by a man named "Chen Yexian". It was really ridiculous."
"And those Mongols are just arrogant and arrogant at the head of the rebels, so they have no fighting power at all."
"At that time, in the Jiangnan area, the rule of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty could be said to have basically collapsed, and it was entirely the Han people who were in charge in the name of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty."
"On the way to attack Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty, those so-called Mongolian cavalry had no intention of being tough with us. Instead, they stumbled upon each other and had constant internal strife."
"These old brothers who have followed us all the way have won countless battles. They are no longer the common people they used to be. Even if they face the Mongolian regular army, they will not be the least bit afraid."
"It was like this, through the continuous Northern Expedition, that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was established today."
At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression began to become serious, and he explained to Dasun seriously: "But Dasun, you must remember that the decline of the Mongolian cavalry was caused by their extravagant life in the Central Plains."
"These Mongolians in the late Mongol and Yuan Dynasties were born in our Central Plains. Although these Mongolians have practiced equestrianism, riding skills, and bow and arrow since they were young, they cannot compare with the environment like the grassland."
"They are so pampered and pampered that they are no longer the Mongolian cavalry who first took over the Central Plains."
"However, they are Mongols. They have now returned to the grasslands and still rule a vast grassland equivalent to half the Ming Dynasty."
"It won't take too long. Maybe in a few years or decades, these Mongolians will once again become the cavalry of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties."
"So, don't let your guard down on the grassland at any time. The power of the grassland cavalry is still very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to compete with."
Perhaps because he felt that his expression was a little serious, Zhu Yuanzhang said again: "Of course, don't be afraid of them. Our Ming Dynasty is not the former Song Dynasty. Artillery and blunderbuss are where the Mongolian cavalry will never dare to have a head-on confrontation."
"It may be difficult to pursue on the grassland, but our city cannot be easily captured by just bringing in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cavalry."
After listening to the old man's words, Zhu Ying nodded deeply.
Although the muskets have matchlocks, they are not equipped on a large scale yet.
The strength of the Mongolian cavalry lies in the large number of cavalry and the uniform cavalry lineup.
Even the defeated Bei Yuan could easily have a cavalry lineup of more than 100,000, and all of them were good at equestrian riding and archery.
However, the Ming Dynasty had such a vast territory and so many people that it could only hold 40,000 cavalry now.
Of course, it is impossible to say that all 40,000 cavalrymen will be put in at once. At most, 20,000 cavalrymen will be considered a lot.
Comparing the cavalry with the Mongols, it can only be said that the other's shortcomings are used to achieve the other's strong points.
In Zhu Ying's mind, it is still necessary to restrict or even gain access to grassland through commercial activities.