Chapter 1243 The real school-why only recruit nobles
Yun finished introducing the courses he was going to set up temporarily and waited for Chen Ji to ask questions. Summit 23S.
Updated fastest. Chen Ji did ask a question, but the question was beyond Yun's expectation. "Your Majesty, aren't there any courses on war?"
"In the future, when they are older, we will set up courses on war. But Chen Qing, why did you ask this question?" Yun asked.
"Your Majesty, I see that the students recruited by Your Majesty in setting up this school are all noble children, and I think that Your Majesty wants to train commanders who are good at fighting from an early age. Since you want to train commanders who are good at fighting from an early age, even if they are still young,
We need to set up courses on war." Chen Ji replied.
"Chen Ji, your guess is not what I meant. I don't just want to train commanders who are good at fighting, but I want to train ministers who can assist me." Yun then repeated what he said to Yun and others last night.
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"In this case, Your Majesty, why do you only recruit the children of nobles and nobles, but not the children of civil servants and civilian children?" Chen Ji asked.
Yun suddenly recalled what happened last night. After Yun Yun, Yun Zhi, Yun, Wen and others left, and Min'er took her brother to bed, Xiyao also asked him the same question: "Husband, since you want to train assistants
Your Majesty, why don't you recruit the children of civil servants to school? Why don't you, husband, rule the world with the nobles instead of ruling the world with the nobles like in the Song Dynasty? Husband, although my father was also rewarded by the imperial court and granted a worldly position, but
I think that in all dynasties there have been rebellions by military generals, and I have never heard of rebellions by civilian officials, so would it be more appropriate to rule the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats?"
Moreover, Xiyao asked another question at that time: "Why does your husband want my concubine, sister, and sisters Yun Yun and Yun Zhi to listen to such matters related to government affairs?"
Yun thought about what happened last night, glanced at Chen Ji again, stood up from the chair, and walked to the window. Chen Ji's question was both easy to answer and difficult to answer. The answer was good because Yun had a clear purpose;
It was hard to answer because he couldn't tell Chen Jizhi for this reason.
All emperors in Chinese history, especially those who wanted to achieve great things, probably thought about how to make their dynasty's rule more lasting, and Yun was no exception. The results of the emperors' thinking in the past dynasties were similar: to retain power as much as possible
In your own hands, even if you have to decentralize power, you should disperse it as much as possible.
Starting from the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, all emperors basically did this. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first established the Inner Dynasty as his own adviser, and the status of ministers and other positions that were originally in charge of documents was improved; at the same time, he abolished the post of prime minister and replaced it with three ministers. Later,
The general was also established to divide the military power of the Taiwei. The power of the Eastern Han Dynasty's fashion book was further expanded, dividing or replacing the power of the Jiuqing, making power more dispersed.
From the Wei to the Sui Dynasties, due to long-term wars and the rise of the gentry, the emperors were unable to carry out large-scale reforms, so the official system did not change much. The two generations of emperors, Sui Wen and Sui Yang, tried to reform, but were overthrown before they could achieve results.
The Tang Dynasty was an era of drastic changes. In terms of selecting officials, the imperial examination system was consolidated and the three provinces and six ministries were implemented in the central government. However, they did not establish Zhongshu Ling and Shangshu Ling, but replaced them with left and right servants, further weakening the power of ministers.
In the Song Dynasty, a dazzling array of official positions were established to divide the power of the prime minister.
The weakening of the power of the prime minister finally reached its peak in the early Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the position of prime minister and directly administered six ministries. This was equivalent to serving as prime minister himself, that is, as the head of state and the head of government.
Yun Zai thought a long time ago that the ideas of these emperors were all right, and believed that if future emperors had Zhu Yuanzhang's work drive, the Ming Dynasty would be able to sustain the Ming Dynasty until the population truly exceeded the carrying capacity of the land, and the only way to reduce the population was through large-scale wars.
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But through so many years of traveling around, and his own summary of the past dynasties, and combined with what he had learned in his previous life, Yun discovered that there was a huge problem with their approach: that was in the process of weakening the power of everyone except the emperor.
, the emperor gradually became truly alone, without allies, and had to deal with all officials with one person.
No matter what, even a model worker like Zhu Yuanzhang had limited energy and could not take into account everything. Various problems would still arise as time went by, and the emperor did not have enough energy to deal with all the problems one by one.
Even if all problems are solved, as the problems accumulate and eventually explode, the country will still perish.
Therefore, Yun believes that as an emperor, he cannot become a true loner. He must also find allies.
The emperor of the Song Dynasty was vaguely aware of this problem, so he also looked for allies and designated them as scholar-bureaucrats. On the one hand, the Song Dynasty weakened the power of each official position, and on the other hand, it set up various systems to favor scholar-bureaucrats.
The power is not limited by a specific official, but the scholar-bureaucrats as a whole can greatly limit the emperor's power. If the central court's chief seal officials jointly oppose a certain system of the emperor, they can almost 100% reject the emperor's will.
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But this also caused a very serious problem, that is, the Song Dynasty was not good at fighting. Some people cited figures and said that the Song Dynasty had the highest victory rate in foreign wars. This is of course not false, but the Song Dynasty rarely took the initiative to attack and defended at home.
The enemy's attack, and other unified dynasties have many records of large-scale active attacks, so it is difficult to generalize about the winning rate.
More importantly, the scholar-official class had its own interests, which were not completely consistent with the emperor's. They gradually introduced many policies that were beneficial to the scholar-official class, squeezing the emperor upward and the people downward. The people of the Song Dynasty lived a very hard life, big and small.
There were constant uprisings/rebellions. No other dynasty had as many uprisings/rebellions as the Song Dynasty when the country was prosperous and rich.
But co-ruling the world with military generals is not possible. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, all the clan nobles were slaughtered. It was almost like co-ruling the world with military generals, but it led to the Anshi Rebellion and the disaster of vassal towns that lasted for more than two hundred years and was not really solved until the Song Dynasty.
Yun searched and searched in the history books and the memories of his previous life, and finally found the alliance he thought was the most suitable: the nobles, or nobles. Of course, the current nobles did not fully meet his wishes and needed to be modernized.
.At the same time, absorb the class that is about to rise and establish a new ruling class.
The most important thing to see whether a class or class is suitable as an alliance is to see whether it has the same interests. The aristocratic class inherits the family property through blood from generation to generation. This is consistent with the emperor himself and has the same interests. In fact, throughout the dynasties, the aristocracy has the same interests.
When facing peasant uprisings or foreign regimes, nobles persisted in resisting until the end.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the civil servants surrendered after hearing the news before the order to shave their heads was issued, but the nobles only surrendered as a last resort; the Mu family who was enfeoffed to the south even insisted on refusing the Qing Dynasty's persuasion to surrender, and still persisted in resisting after the loss of Kunming.
Even after Emperor Yongli was killed and the Ming Dynasty was officially destroyed, he still persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
This is of course not because they are inherently more moral than civil servants, but because their interests are highly consistent with those of Ming Dynasty.
Second only to interests, it depends on whether this class or class can play a role in assisting the emperor. Ruling the world with scholar-bureaucrats or ruling the world with generals is more biased, and it is easy to lead to the situation of emphasizing culture over military or emphasizing military force over culture.
The aristocracy does not have this problem. The nobility itself is not divided into civil and military affairs. Only traditional Chinese military merit can be awarded a title. However, it is difficult for civil servants to take credit for the title, so most of the knights are military generals, as if the nobles are military generals.
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But this tradition will be broken. Yun established the General Political Department and dispatched civilian military attachés in the army. When it comes to rewards for merit, these civilian military attaches will also be rewarded. The commander will be granted the title of Marquis, and the civilian positions such as the commander-in-chief of logistics and military doctors will be given.
The military attache can be given the title of earl. In this way, the shortcomings of the nobles will be made up for.
Some people may cite examples of aristocrats in history who were ignorant and incompetent. Yun believes that this is because they have neither power nor responsibility, and there is little use in studying hard. Being enthusiastic about government affairs will only lead to bad things. Just to pass the time
You can only play. Give them power and responsibility. Of course there will still be people who are uneducated and incompetent, but there will also be people who can do their jobs.
However, what really made Yun determined to rule the world together with the nobles, second only to having common interests, was the example of foreign countries. They were the first to enter capitalism and plunder the world, and they are still in the international trade system by virtue of their first-mover advantage.
The dominant country in the world was the United Kingdom. And those who ruled the country after the bourgeois revolution in the United Kingdom were the monarchs, aristocrats, and emerging big capitalists. Since there are foreign gems at the forefront, it is natural to learn valuable experience.
Of course, Yun did not have to imitate foreign countries in everything. The system of enfeoffment would only be implemented in the newly opened border areas and would not be implemented in the traditional Han Dynasty. What he said about co-ruling the world with the nobles was that central power, especially decision-making,
Give some of the power to the nobles, instead of giving each person a piece of land to play on their own.
Naturally, there are risks in sharing power with nobles. Nobles may not just be willing to be nobles but not emperors. There are also examples in foreign countries of great nobles seizing the throne from the monarch through various methods.
Therefore, Yun will not give up the current civil service system, especially the imperial examination system. The officials selected by the imperial examination system are naturally in opposition to the nobility. The nobility may be able to recruit one or two, but it is absolutely impossible to recruit them all, so that it can act as a check and balance.
The role of the imperial examination system is to prevent them from seeking to usurp the throne. Moreover, the imperial examination system also shoulders the important task of maintaining class mobility in the country. No matter how many disadvantages there are, these two points cannot be completely abandoned.