An exception is the former Ming crown prince Zhu Cihong. Wu Shigong will give him 30,000 taels of housing allowance, and after Fengyang is recovered, his family will be placed in the Zhu family's hometown to worship the Ming emperor and guard the tombs of his ancestors. Moreover, Zhu Cihong's title will only be
It will be deferred once, and when it reaches the rank of Marquis, it will no longer be deferred and the title will always be retained.
Before the founding of the Great Ping Dynasty, many people, even some former Ming officials, secretly reported to Wu Shigong: They must physically eliminate all the remnants of the previous dynasty to prevent anyone from using them as a call to raise troops to rebel and threaten the rule of the new dynasty.
But in the end, Wu Shigong still chose this relatively "mild" method of disposal.
It seems that Wu Shigong has some benevolence towards women, but Wu Shigong also has his own ideas. After all, the number of ambitious royal family members in the former Ming Dynasty is small, and many people are content to enjoy themselves and have no courage to raise their heads to rebel again.
Moreover, the current general principle of governing the country in the Daping Dynasty is - stability. If the former Ming royal family is killed in a river of blood, it will always cause a certain degree of panic. Even some former Ming royal families who want to submit will have to resist to the end. In this way, in fact,
This caused the Great Ping Dynasty to become unstable, and at the very least it would cost a lot of military and financial resources.
Another point is that the Runing Army rose so fast that it almost accepted all the officials of the former Ming Dynasty. And among these people, it is impossible to tell who has different intentions. If there are those royal families of the former Ming Dynasty as an attraction, some
People with different intentions can raise troops to rebel together. The Ping Dynasty can gather together and annihilate them, which will get twice the result with half the effort.
In the final analysis, even if the former Ming royal family really rebelled repeatedly, Wu Shigong could wait until the Nanming, Manchu, Dashun and Daxi were eliminated before a final solution! Of course, if these former Ming royal families were honest, Wu Shigong would not want to
Using those ruthless methods.
Third, the "Amnesty Order" also included the Manchu and Mongolian tribes. In fact, this was a foreshadowing for Wu Shigong to use his fictitious "Golden Family" identity to rule the Mongolian tribes outside the Pass and the Jurchens in Liaodong.
The basis of public opinion. Of course, this must never be made public to the Han people in the world.
Next is the "Recruitment Order":
The core content of the "Recruitment Order" can also be summarized in one sentence: as long as before the establishment of the Great Ping Dynasty, all scholars with academic titles and above can serve as officials in the Great Ping Dynasty as long as they apply.
It can be said that once this decree is promulgated, it will shake the whole world. It will wipe out all the scholars in the world and make all the scholars in the world return to their hearts.
Of course, there are two technical issues that need to be solved here: one is whether there are so many official positions? After all, there are hundreds of thousands of scholars and scholars in the world; the other is whether the country's financial expenditure can afford it? Because the salaries of so many official positions are
, will be a huge number.
Regarding the issue of official positions, many new yamen would have been established during the Daping Dynasty. In addition, the most basic local government agencies would be decentralized from the county level to the township level, which would create hundreds of thousands more new official positions. Moreover, during the Daping Dynasty,
The imperial court will also establish state-run schools and medical centers in every township and county, and many scholars will work in these schools and medical centers after receiving professional training.
As for financial issues, the Daping Dynasty will encourage the development of industry and commerce. Unlike the previous Ming Dynasty, everyone in the Daping Dynasty, including the royal family, will pay taxes, and the amount of industrial and commercial taxes will also be increased to one-tenth.
And not all scholars are willing to serve as officials. After all, some people are old and infirm, or have "motivated minds". And as time goes by, those redundant officials will naturally be eliminated. The Great Ping Dynasty will also
Return to normal number of officials.
However, there are four important changes in the "Recruitment Order":
1. The imperial examination system. In the next ten years, the imperial examination system that originally used eight-legged essays will be gradually reformed, and will eventually adopt graded examinations and age restrictions.
The Great Ping Dynasty will gradually implement education for all. As long as boys of school age will enter the first-level school for three years, they will take exams and select some outstanding ones to enter the second-level school. And so on.
Go to the most advanced five-level school. This is actually a replica of modern elementary school, upper elementary school, junior high school, high school and university. Through such layers of examinations, outstanding talents are finally selected to serve as court officials.
Of course, the details will not be described in detail. The Daping Dynasty’s approach was not only to select talents, but also to achieve literacy for all people. However, this also depends on the fiscal revenue of the court, and it must be done step by step. Wu Shigong estimates that if
If we can reach a prototype within twenty years, we will be very satisfied.
2. The content of the imperial examination. Among the contents of the new imperial examination, at the beginning, the "Four Books and Five Classics" still occupied a dominant position, and it was claimed that Confucian education was still carried out. However, Wu Shigong still stuffed a lot of personal information into it.
The new imperial examination will be divided into five subjects: literature, moral character, arithmetic, natural science and physical education. Of course, literature and moral character come from the "Four Books and Five Classics", and at most some educational contents such as loyalty to the king, patriotism, collectivism and so on are added. Arithmetic
The original imperial examination did not pay much attention to physical education and physical education, but these two subjects are still among the six Confucian arts, so it makes sense to add this content. As for nature, it is nothing more than a collection of geometry, physics and chemistry. In order to strengthen
It is understandable for students to have some knowledge about their ability to work after graduation, so it has not been opposed by many people.
In particular, we should point out physical training. Wu Shigong did not simply ask students to take physical education classes. He integrated military training into physical training subjects. In fact, it was a kind of national military training to prepare for the national military mobilization in the event of a general mobilization.
Prepare.
It is worth mentioning that all civil and military officials unanimously agreed with Wu Shigong's approach to strengthening education. At most, they had some complaints about the setting of certain subjects.
Third, the establishment of official positions. Because there were more township-level institutions in the Daping Dynasty, the classification of officials will increase. All new officials will also start from the grassroots level, and only those who are particularly outstanding will serve in the court and local areas. In order to avoid the original
Like the imperial examinations, once you are named on the gold medal list, you will be admitted to the Hanlin Academy. You will be arrogant, not down to earth, and ignorant of the actual situation among the people.
Moreover, the Great Ping Dynasty will also break the dividing line between officials and civil servants. Some heads of civil servants will become the lowest officials, and outstanding civil servants can also be promoted to officials. In fact, this is also a prototype of the modern civil service system.
4. Qualifications for serving as officials. In addition to being selected through exams among graduates of fifth-level schools, retired over-age military attachés were also eligible to serve as officials during the Great Ping Dynasty. This was also a way to improve the status of military personnel. Of course, there were great craftsmen among the craftsmen.
Those with the title can also serve as officials, but at most they can only be technical officials.