Upon hearing his words, the civil servants below were surprised.
Later, the first assistant He Fengsheng said: "Your Majesty, I wonder how to solve the chieftain issue?"
Before the Ming Dynasty, there was no precedent for a chieftain to return to his native land before he rebelled and died. Therefore, for a while, they could not get around this detour.
After He Fengsheng asked, officials such as Zuo Maodi, Ni Yuanlu and others all stared at Emperor Chongzhen curiously, waiting for him to speak.
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at them and said with a firm tone: "In our Ming Dynasty, the chieftain system will be abolished and replaced by the prefectural and county system. The original chieftains will have corresponding official positions according to the size of the area under their jurisdiction. They will be officials in different places, or
Give him a title and let him choose a place to live in the Central Plains."
"This..." He Fengsheng took a breath after hearing this.
To put it nicely, it means that the emperor has great courage; but to put it harshly, isn't it a bit too ambitious?
The problem of chieftains was like this even during the reign of Emperors Taizu and Chengzu. Your world has just improved, and if such a big one comes, won't it push all the chieftains to rebel?
Thinking like this, He Fengsheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this matter must be done, but should we consider it in the long term? The world has just seen the hope of peace. If we treat the chieftains like this, I am afraid that all the southwestern chieftains will rebel, and then the world will be in chaos again.
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"Yes!" Ni Yuanlu, the Minister of Household Affairs, quickly stepped out of the queue and echoed, "Your Majesty, you will force the chieftain to rebel!"
When everyone else saw him, they were also waiting to go out.
However, Emperor Chongzhen did not wait for them to speak one by one. He just asked in a deep voice: "If we don't change the soil and return to the current situation, won't the chieftains become rebels? Not to mention, starting from the first year of Tianqi, have the southwestern chieftains settled down?"
"..." Upon hearing this, the ministers in the Wenhua Palace were speechless.
In the first year of Tianqi, the southwestern chieftains began to rebel on a large scale, which directly dragged down the military and political affairs in the southwestern part of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years. This is obvious to all.
After Emperor Chongzhen said this, Zuo Maodi, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, went out and said: "Your Majesty, why don't you wait for the world to be peaceful and recuperate for a period of time before you implement this... strategy of reforming the land and returning to the countryside?"
After hearing this, the others nodded slightly. Some even wanted to go out and persuaded the emperor.
But at this moment, he heard Emperor Chongzhen ask Zuo Maodi: "Now that the armies are elites who have fought in a hundred battles, do we have to wait until they are old and let a group of soldiers who have never fought in a war go to fight again?"
"..." When Zuo Mao heard it for the first time, he opened his mouth and was speechless.
At this time, the ministers in the Wenhua Hall had heard that the policy of reforming the native land and returning to exile announced by Emperor Chongzhen must be resolutely implemented.
However, such a plan to go to war and such a strong style does not seem like the emperor's own!
Thinking of this, Wang Chengen suddenly realized, and he quickly went out and said: "Long live the Lord has already discussed the countermeasures, and the slaves and maids can just follow the order!"
Hearing this, He Fengsheng and others immediately came to their senses.
This was the first time that the current emperor mentioned to them the matter of reforming his native land and returning home. However, Wang Chengen, the emperor's most confidant eunuch, said that the emperor had already discussed this strategy. Who was he discussing with? Who has any comparison?
Who are they more qualified to negotiate with the emperor?
Thinking of this, a word naturally jumped into their minds: Emperor Taizu!
It’s really impossible not to think so!
Emperor Taizu's apparition was something they witnessed with their own eyes. Even if several months had passed, it was still fresh in their memories!
And now the emperor's attitude towards this matter is exactly the same as that of the legendary Emperor Taizu!
Isn’t this answer obvious?
After understanding this, He Fengsheng and others bowed in unison and said: "I will receive the order!"
Who dares to violate Emperor Taizu’s wishes?
Emperor Chongzhen saw that a consensus had been reached and they were all listening to him obediently. He lowered his head and looked at the draft on the imperial desk. Then he raised his head and said to his ministers: "The matter of reforming soil and returning to local affairs requires six chapters.
Only by working together with the local government can we get this matter done. You all must work hard and work together to do this well. Now, I am announcing the key points of the policy to reform the locals and return them to their hometowns!"
Sure enough, it has already been discussed!
The ministers thought in their minds and listened with their ears pricked up.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen laid out several points summarized from the conversation between him and Liu Weichao one by one, and told them to all his ministers.
In fact, if you want to do something well, it is not just a matter of force, but requires the cooperation of soldiers, officials, workers, etiquette, punishment and household departments.
How to treat toasts differently and what level of treatment is more reasonable to give them requires comprehensive opinions from all aspects.
The chieftain's place needs to be governed, and the court must send officials there, and it can't just be the chief official. Because the chieftain's side needs to rebuild all the local government structures, which is another very important matter.
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Doing these things requires money and food support, right? And as the emperor said, to open free schools to educate local people, people also need money and food?
This is not just a matter for a chieftain's territory, but the entire southwestern Ming Dynasty must do this.
Basically, it can be foreseen that the focus of government affairs in the next few years will probably be the reform of the Ming Dynasty's southwest.
Of course, this still needs to be successful militarily. If there is a military failure or a stalemate, it will take longer.
This imperial meeting has been going on for a long time.
Emperor Chongzhen put forward a general policy framework, and then senior Ming officials refined the policy and made it concrete.
Emperor Chongzhen will listen to see if he is satisfied with their detailed plans, and if not, he will put forward his own opinions.
For example, when it came to selecting the southwestern chieftains to appoint officials to the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen directly named a large number of censors and asked them to practice, and said that if they performed well, they would be reused in the future.
However, these people in the palace immediately pointed out that the imperial censors named by the emperor were the ones who had submitted the memorial to impeach Sun Chuanting.
To put it nicely, the emperor's intention should be to let them personally experience the difficulty of the Yunnan-Guizhou region, so as to understand the difficulty of Sun Chuanting;
As for the ugly part, the emperor was dissatisfied with them and was retaliating against them.
However, if they were to stop it, they wouldn't be able to speak out.
The emperor has said that they should be given training. If they perform well, they will be reused. We cannot block their promotion path!
The current emperor, when it comes to reuse, really knows how to reuse him, and there are many examples of him being promoted beyond his level.
With the emperor's current temper, if he doesn't want to go, he will probably become an official. It just so happens that the issue of preferential treatment for officials and gentry is still strictly investigated. If he doesn't have the status of being an official, how far will his life go?
It’s hard to say!
Based on this, most of the civil servants in the Wenhua Hall couldn't help but secretly warn that the emperor today is not easy to offend!
You are so careful, even if you take revenge, you will be speechless!
As for fooling the emperor again, let alone that!
If factory guards are so rampant, the consequences of being fooled will definitely be very serious.
Therefore, they followed the wishes of Emperor Chongzhen and decided on the national policy of reforming the country and returning it to the people.
After discussion, it was determined that the Ming Dynasty originally only had three titles of Duke, Marquis and Earl, and would be restored to the five titles of Duke, Earl, Boy and Son of the previous dynasty;
The treatment given to the surrendered chieftain is divided into three options: civil, military and title. The surrendered chieftain can choose the corresponding civil and military official position according to his own ability, or if he does not want to be an official, he can be granted the title of viscount or baron according to the size of his territory.
After that, chieftains were treated the same as ordinary civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty. Those who were rewarded for their merits could go to the Duke; those who were punished were punished with death.
At the request of Emperor Chongzhen, officials who were about to be assigned to chieftain territory were also required to attend the Daming Official Academy for one month of further training;
As for the content of further training, it depends on their understanding of the imperial court's policy on the chieftain's territory. If they fail the assessment, they can delay the training time for one month; if they fail again, they will be demoted or even dismissed from office;
The officials in the Wenhua Palace were not surprised by this method.
This is because Emperor Chongzhen has actually been doing this since the opening of the Daming Official Academy. When vacancies for local officials appeared in various places, those candidates were allowed to go to the Daming Official Academy for further studies. They would be appointed by the Ministry of Personnel according to the order of assessment results.
In the same way, if there are officials who want to be transferred, whether they are promoted or demoted, they will be required to go to the Daming Official Academy to study the requirements of the official position they are about to hold. They can only be transferred after passing the assessment. Among them, if the demoted officials do not pass the assessment, they may
Will be transferred to a lower level position.
Nowadays, Emperor Chongzhen requested to go to the chieftain territory to serve as the first official appointed by the imperial court, and requested to study at the Ming Dynasty Official Academy. This was a matter of course, and no one had any objections!
As for the establishment of free schools in the chieftain's territory, the professors or teachings and instructions in the schools were appointed by the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty to teach science and take into account Confucianism.
The reason is very simple. Confucianism is the foundation and science is a new science. Except for the talents at the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences, there are not many others who have the ability to teach.
As for the specific lessons, courses, systems, etc., they already existed in the Ming Dynasty, and they can be modified slightly.
In fact, after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty, he attached great importance to education. The official education of the Ming Dynasty was divided into two types: central official school and local official school. The teaching content included four subjects: etiquette, archery, calligraphy, and mathematics, as well as books on classics, history, etiquette, etc.
If the students are familiar with and proficient in reading, they must learn archery in the archery garden at the end of the year. They must study 500 words every day and must be proficient in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" in mathematics.
Local government schools also have a strict examination system. Monthly examinations are held once a month by instructors, annual examinations, and scientific examinations are presided over by the academic officer who is in charge of the educational administration of a province.
The combination of science and Confucianism is achieved with slight modifications based on the foundation established at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty;
After all these discussions were finished, He Fengsheng and others finally breathed a sigh of relief. But at this moment, he found that Emperor Chongzhen's expression was a bit strange, and he immediately knew that there might be something arbitrary that Qiankun wanted to announce!