In the Jinluan Hall, the eyes of the officials who had not been convinced by Emperor Chongzhen, or who were still a little unwilling, suddenly lit up when they heard this.
The emperor wants to add a first-level yamen, but if there are no officials to send, wouldn't it be a waste of worry? We can't say that scholars can also be officials, right?
If this is the case, the reputation of a scholar is determined by the local government, and the court does not even need to send people there. There is a lot of room in the middle!
However, before they could start daydreaming about this sweet dream, they heard Emperor Chongzhen say to Zuo Maodi: "This is not difficult, I have already considered it. The yamen at the township level should go to more places, so
Only in this way can we prevent the occurrence of civil tragedies. Therefore, I decided to select the officials of the township-level yamen from veterans!"
"What? Select among veterans?"
"Wufong governs the country? What do they know?"
"This is absolutely impossible. How can it be governed by such rough and mean people?"
"..."
Suddenly, most of the people in the Jinluan Palace jumped out and began to argue, opposing the emperor's decision.
Although the generals were shocked, they looked at each other and said nothing.
Since the Song Dynasty, warriors had at most military power, but absolutely no power of local governance. In other words, military and political power were all in the hands of literati.
Emperor Chongzhen's sudden announcement that even officials much smaller than a county magistrate should be governed by martial arts men still shocked these civil servants.
At this time, seeing the chaos in the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Chongzhen did not speak, but just looked at them.
The censor who maintained order didn't know why. After a while, he waved his whip and shouted at the same time: "Quiet, quiet..."
After a while, the Jinluan Hall became quiet.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at the main force of opposition below, which was the group of civil servants, and shouted coldly: "For township-level officials, the eighth rank is the highest. Those of you who are Jinshi candidates, are you willing to start from the eighth or ninth rank?"
The eighth and ninth grades are county magistrates, officials such as Dianshi, and belong to the township-level yamen. If it is lower than the county, the highest theoretical level is the ninth grade. Han Chuang studied hard, starting from such a low starting point, basically if it is possible, there is no
People will be willing.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen's question immediately stunned the people in the Jinluan Palace.
Emperor Chongzhen did not wait for their answer, and then continued: "Officials at the township level must inspect local areas and relieve people's livelihood problems. They can't just sit in the yamen and do things, right? They all have to go to the local areas for me to actually inspect? And then sit down
Are you going down to the village in a sedan chair and beating gongs and drums? What if there are mountain villages with inconvenient transportation? Can these township-level officials, with scholars like you now, bear the burden?"
"..." The Wenhua Hall continued to be quiet, no one dared to speak.
The establishment of the township level was established to solve the local patriarchal clan rules. Of course, it is impossible to just sit in the yamen and let the current officials go to the mountains and countryside. It seems to be a bit difficult. However, those warriors are indeed fine.
, how physical they are.
In the Jinluan Hall, Emperor Chongzhen's voice continued to ring: "Also, the veterans of the Ming Dynasty are not illiterate people! There are supervisors in the army to teach them how to read and write, and to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. They can handle some basic things more than enough.
.If there is something that they cannot handle, just report it to the county level!"
Since the formation of the new army in the 15th year of Chongzhen, all levels of the army have set up Jinyi guards and supervisors. One of their functions is to teach the lieutenants of the army to read. After serving in the army for at least three years, you must know the most basic characters.
This is absolutely different from the previous army.
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the ministers below and continued: "Also, now there is a compulsory military service system. All Ming people who have reached the age must join the army. Therefore, among these veterans, there are more than just illiterate ones. Add to that
Various places in the world have been vigorously promoting public schools. In the future, all the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will be educated. Maybe they will be called martial artists?"
When he said this, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly raised his voice a little and said loudly: "As for local affairs, the ministers in the palace may know better than the veterans. If anyone is not convinced, I can immediately pass the order and summon
Several veterans are competing with the ministers to see who knows more about local trivial matters? Who is less likely to be fooled by local bullies?"
"..." After hearing this, many civil servants immediately retreated secretly and returned to their original queue.
If you are called out by the emperor, you really have to compete with those veterans. It will be fine if you win, but if you lose, you will lose your face.
Not to mention, most of those veterans are from local people. How can they not be familiar with local trivial matters? In comparison, the possibility of winning is really slim!
Of course, if we compare the teachings of sages and the Four Books and Five Classics, we are sure to win!
Just as they were thinking about it, they heard Emperor Chongzhen asking: "Is there anyone willing to compete? I see how all the ministers are mute?"
These civil servants are all used to it. If they don't work hard, they will make the same old mistakes again!
The officials in the Jinluan Palace were questioned like this by Emperor Chongzhen. Finally, they were all too thin-skinned and couldn't stand it. It seemed that they would not be able to compare with those warriors if this continued, so they came out and said: "Your Majesty, you are better than those in that place."
How can we say anything fair about trivial matters? What I have read is the way of the sages!"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sneered and said: "Then I want to know, how can we manage politics in the way of sages and sages? Does the local government no longer need masters and officials to do things?"
Those who have been officials for many years and have political experience are better off, but those who have just become officials must hire senior staff and staff. This is also the reason why local officials often become corrupt. Because with their own salaries, they cannot hire staff at all.
From now on, Zhu Yuanzhang did not include this money into the local official's salary at all. It is impossible that the local official has to pay money in order to become an official, right?
If we do not invite staff, local officials will definitely be ignored by the petty officials in the local area and can only be regarded as clay Bodhisattvas.
Emperor Chongzhen didn't know about such local matters before, but after Liu Weichao taught him about the local officials, he already understood it.
At this time, he recounted the cases that Liu Weichao told him in one breath directly in the Jinluan Palace, and asked his ministers if they had discovered anything about this, if they had any countermeasures, and how to prevent it?
All the ministers below were overwhelmed by this series of questions, but there were indeed many things that they heard for the first time.
For a while, Ming officials were shocked, if not anything else, by Emperor Chongzhen's deep understanding of officialdom.
This time in the discussion at the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Chongzhen firmly took the initiative and would no longer be led by the officials like before. Just because he now knew enough about the situation in the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor
The natural suppression of this status, as well as the influence of later generations' thoughts, allowed him to act as he wished when he had the advantage of his position, making it difficult for his subordinates to keep up with their ideas and unable to consider the shortcomings mentioned by Emperor Chongzhen in a short period of time and address them.
After all, the experiences of later generations actually evolved slowly in practice.
Seeing that no one among the ministers came out to object, Emperor Chongzhen looked at Zuo Maodi and said: "Regarding the establishment of township-level yamen, the Ministry of Personnel has come up with a specific charter and we will discuss it later!"
The general situation is that he has already said that the official department has to do specific things. Anyway, if he is not satisfied, he can just send it back and revise it again.
After Zuo Maodi heard this, he looked at his colleagues in the palace, especially Sun Chuanting, the chief minister, and found that no one spoke, so he immediately stepped forward to receive the order.
He didn't know that Sun Chuanting's prestige mainly came from the military. Moreover, he began to lead troops in the early years of Chongzhen, and eventually became the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty with this. It was a good place for veterans to go without particularly harming the interests of civilian officials.
Yes, why should he object?
It is true that civil servants are a group, but everyone has their own specific interests. Unless the interests of all civil servants are greatly violated, otherwise they will weigh their own gains and losses before doing anything!
This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen set the grade of township-level officials to be very low, and their functional requirements were more tiring. Moreover, they were only added to counties with large populations.
Because this is actually useless to the civil servants, at least for now, this is how these civil servants know each other. With the emperor’s strength, no one dares to take big risks to oppose it!
For military generals, this matter has almost nothing to do with them. It is impossible for them to become officials at the township level similar to petty officials, but no matter what, this matter is a good thing for them.
They can all be sure that when this news gets out, the morale of the army will definitely rise!
Officials at the township level are considered useless to civilian officials, but to veterans who are ordinary people, they are absolutely delicious.
However, there are only a limited number of officials at the township level, and there are countless military veterans who retire every year. If you want to get such an official position, you must select the best.
What kind of merit-based admissions method? Of course, those who have performed well in the military will be the ones!
It is completely conceivable that because of this incident, the combat effectiveness of the armies of the Ming Dynasty will definitely rise to a higher level.
Therefore, after Ming soldiers retired, they could not only work as officials in vassal states, but also as security guards for overseas mining companies, and as township-level officials at home.
It is certain that there will definitely be more people in the Ming Dynasty who want to join the army. If we say that the compulsory military service system in the past may have required local people to arrest people, maybe in the future, they may queue up and let the government select the qualifications for being a soldier.
They might all be robbed!
What a good thing!
In the Jinluan Hall, many officials thought that today's imperial meeting would end like this, but who knew that Emperor Chongzhen spoke again.