Even Liu Zongzhou couldn't say anything. After all, the emperor had even thought of the orphans of martyrs and made arrangements.
Martial Arts Hall, Naval Academy, Army Academy, and even Artillery Academy, Cavalry Academy, etc. are all places where officers and professional and technical arms are trained. They actually recruit active soldiers, that is, they select outstanding soldiers from various towns and send them to further education.
Students in various colleges are not recruiting additional soldiers, and there is no increase in troop quotas and military pay, and everyone has no objection.
The Martial Arts Hall mainly trains mid- to high-level officers, while the various colleges mainly train professional technical arms without conflict with each other.
The imperial court will also continue to set up martial arts examinations and martial arts examinations, which test martial arts as well as military strategy. Military strategy is placed above military martial arts. The martial arts examination is equivalent to a supplement to the military attache selection system, mainly used to discover missing talents.
Colleges at all levels, imperial camps, outer towns, villages, regiment training personnel, and even good family members can register for the examination. Like the liberal arts examination, it is also held every three years. There are Wu Tongsheng, Wu Xiucai, Wu Juren, and Wu Jin.
There are many scholars, including the number one scholar in martial arts, etc.
By passing different examinations, one can be admitted to different academies or enter different military towns. When one reaches the level of Jinshi, he can also enter the martial arts hall for training, and then he can be awarded a military position.
Generally speaking, Wu Jinshi were first trained in academies, and then were appointed as bodyguards, and then released as officers, starting from deputy positions.
It is not easy to take the martial arts examination. After all, one needs to be proficient in both civil and military skills, especially the ability of military tactics and strategy, which must be on top of one's personal riding and shooting skills. It even requires taking the Four Books, Five Classics and the Martial Classics.
Horse riding, archery, bow-drawing, sword-dancing, and boulder-lifting.
This whole set of examination content is actually only suitable for officers. Ordinary civilians are not very literate, and riding and shooting is more difficult.
Therefore, the martial arts examination established by Zhu Yihai is actually mainly a supplement to the selection of active military attachés. If you are really capable, but have no chance to show it because you have no military exploits or the like, then you can take the martial arts examination and show your ability, not only
Riding and shooting, strength, and also show your military skills and strategies. As long as you can prove that you have reached a certain level, the difficulty of the martial arts examinations at each level is different, and you will be selected based on this.
Upon reaching different levels, you can be awarded corresponding officials, promoted, and even given the opportunity to enter martial arts halls or professional schools for training.
Promotion is not just about meritorious service in battles. After all, there are times when there are no battles to fight, or assistance from behind, etc. This cannot be proven.
So this is also a supplement.
The requirements are also high, both civil and military, so it is difficult for ordinary soldiers, officers, or powerful sons of noble families, or ordinary people to pass.
Those who can pass the martial arts exam must have at least the ability to be a battalion officer, and those who can become a martial arts scholar must have at least the ability to lead thousands of troops.
If you can't be both civil and military, you can only work hard in the army to kill the enemy and prove yourself with your actual ability to lead troops in order to get a promotion, but you can't take this path.
Of course, if they are general disciples, they will definitely have an advantage in taking the martial arts examination.
The Ming Dynasty evacuated the military guards and abolished the hereditary system of military officers. Therefore, the resumption of examinations may not be a compensation benefit for military generals.
Why did Zhu Yihai suddenly establish four new guards and reopen the imperial examination? In fact, it was just to stabilize the imperial power.
The essence of power is actually to sit in rows and divide the fruits.
The distribution of interests is the essence of power.
Whoever controls this distribution power has real power.
How it is distributed reflects power.
Sometimes you even have to compromise, give in, exchange benefits, etc., which are just details.
The emperor holds the power to allocate resources and interests, so he is naturally superior. However, if the distribution is not done well and the interests are uneven, troubles may easily occur. Therefore, the most important thing for those in power is to weigh and distribute the interests well.
Even if it is never possible to satisfy everyone, at least a priority value must be obtained.
You should try your best to win over the majority of people in the group training, otherwise your position will be unstable.
The founding emperors of China's past dynasties were actually the people who understood this best, but many of the kings who lost their country did not understand this. They thought that power came from the title of emperor, but in fact it did not at all.
Even the last emperors did not even have the real right to distribute, so the imperial edict could not leave the palace.
Even if the emperor does anything, he must first form an alliance of interests and win over the vast majority of people to his side. Otherwise, he will become a loner and end up being either kidnapped or abandoned and betrayed.
The feudal dynasty was a family and a world.
But it does not belong to the emperor alone.
As powerful as the Sui Empire, it fell into the hands of Yang Guang, who was determined to have his own way. It was also because of the decisions he made, no matter whether they were right or wrong, but he had completely betrayed his core support class in the first place.
Without the underlying support, everything is just a castle in the air.
Therefore, Yang Guang finally died in the hands of the Guanlong Group, and even died in the hands of the imperial guard Xiaoguo Army he recruited and formed.
Since Zhu Yihai raised his army, he has always positioned himself to rebuild the Ming Dynasty rather than reviving the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he continued to reform the old system, but it was not reform like Wang Mang, but exchange.
Every time a power is taken away, he will first exchange it for an equivalent power, and even give more than what he took away.
Just like Zhu Yihai used the current turmoil and famine in the world as an excuse to ask the people to ensure the planting area of grain, and even demanded unified purchase and marketing. But behind this policy red line is Zhu Yihai's increase in the price of unified grain purchase, setting reasonable prices according to market demand, rather than
Simply set a price.
Even if he minted coins and issued exchange certificates, he would issue them strictly on a one-to-one basis. He would never dare to print Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes without any reserves like Zhu Yuanzhang.
The imperial court implemented unified purchasing and marketing of grain, but it did not lower the purchase price of grain for the people because of its monopoly power, nor did it arbitrarily raise the selling price of grain. It worked hard to maintain a balance, not only to ensure the restoration of grain production, but also to ensure the cultivation of grain.
The income for the people cannot make the people unable to afford food.
After the Tatar New Year in Beijing, grain is sold for ten taels of silver per stone, and the black market price is even higher.
Now after the summer harvest in Jiangnan, the price of grain has basically dropped to about one tael or one stone, and this price has even reached the early Chongzhen period.
We should try our best to supply the limited and precious food to the military and civilians, prevent others from taking the opportunity to drive up food prices, and ensure a more stable and reasonable price. This consumes a lot of energy, even laborious but unprofitable, but Zhu Yihai insisted.
Because he knew that in such a time of war and turmoil, food was no longer a simple food. It represented stability and people's hearts. He controlled the purchase and sale of food and prevented the landlords and powerful people from taking advantage of it to sell food for profit.
But it also gave them the opportunity to relax their legal rights to operate salt, tea, wine, mines, etc., and provided them with restrictions on food, and gave them compensation in other areas.
If the officers are not allowed to live on empty pay, they must be compensated with food and rations for their own soldiers.
To prevent them from deducting military pay, they have to increase their salaries and even give them an extra amount of ministerial silver.
There are some things that even the emperor cannot really get everyone below to abide by saying no corruption or expropriation. Just like a county magistrate, whose salary is only dozens of taels of silver a year, and a scribe, who is only paid a salary of one yuan a month.
Is it possible that they are not greedy for two days of work and money?
In the end, it was just put on the people again.
Just like when the Chongzhen Dynasty levied three additional taxes, they said it was only two cents of silver per acre of land, which was not much at all. But they forgot that under the system before the Ming Dynasty, the court paid one or two cents of silver for every tax levied.
How much will it cost those officials behind the scenes to levy taxes privately?
As long as the soldiers dare to fight and have military discipline, but they can't even provide enough food for the soldiers, isn't this a hooliganism?
Zhu Yihai took back the power to raise fire consumption, clearly limited the amount of fire consumption, returned these to the public, and then directly distributed them to officials at all levels in the name of Yanglian Yin and Minister Yin.
A governor is given twenty thousand taels, and a county magistrate is given a thousand taels.
Some people think it is too much, dozens of times the salary.
But they have forgotten that in fact, even a county magistrate can earn thousands of taels a year just from those bad regulations, which is not corruption and embezzlement.
Therefore, it is very necessary to turn gray income into legal income and formally rectify it. Otherwise, if you turn a blind eye, everything will be hollowed out.
If it is formalized, at least everything will be put under the sun, and there will be laws and evidence to follow. If someone messes up, it will be easy to investigate and deal with it.
And with this official subsidy, the county magistrates can feel comfortable and live a good life without having to think of ways to engage in those things. Naturally, everyone will not think about corruption. There are definitely still corrupt officials, but not
become a common problem.
Zhu Yihai never deceives himself or others, that's no fun.
The Ming Dynasty was rotten at its core, but it was not entirely due to the system.
The feudal dynasties in ancient China, any dynasty, will basically be in ruins by about three hundred years. In fact, this is not a problem of the system, nor is it a problem of destiny.
It is a problem of productivity limitations. After two to three hundred years of development, the population of a unified dynasty will inevitably multiply to a limit. And after so many years, the dynasty's system will inevitably be full of problems.
So in the end, there are problems such as mergers and acquisitions by powerful powers, political corruption, official corruption and so on.
If the Tang Dynasty did not support Zhu, he would also collapse.
The Song Dynasty did not have separate feudal vassal towns and could not withstand its demise.
The Manchus and Qing Dynasties entered the customs, but the fate of the country remained the same for more than 200 years.
The essence is that productivity has reached its limit.
Therefore, after a great chaos, or for more than ten years, or for decades, the world was in turmoil, the population dropped sharply, the old dynasty fell, and the new dynasty was born. The old royal families, honorable ministers, relatives, and even the powerful nobles fell one after another.
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A new group of military aristocrats and local tycoons also emerged.
Power is shuffled and resources are reallocated.
As a result, the fatal problems in the last years of each dynasty, such as land annexation, political corruption, farmers losing their land, famine, etc., all disappeared.
Many dynasties perished due to peasant uprisings, foreign invasions, etc., but in fact those were just symptoms and triggers, and the seeds of the true demise of the dynasty had been planted long ago.
The land output in the world can no longer support so many people. Especially after the means of production are concentrated and monopolized in the hands of a few nobles and powerful men, problems such as wealth inequality and social injustice are exacerbated. The contradictions become more acute, so in the end
This old dynasty will be overthrown and reshuffled through famine, hunger, alien invasion, or peasant uprising.
How many people were there in the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period?
The official number is in the tens of millions, but later generations speculated that the population should be more than 100 million.
This number had reached a peak limit at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so any famine or war would cause turmoil and eventually death.
Zhu Yihai has studied Marx and also likes to choose Mao Mao.
Look beyond the surface.
The Ming Dynasty could only be rebuilt, not revived.
You have to start over from scratch.
The original old system is useless no matter how we try to save it.
He just borrowed the banner of the Ming Dynasty to unite people and fight against the Manchu Tatars, but to truly stabilize and prosper, he had to come up with a completely new framework.
Zhu Yihai's structure is much better than Manta's.
During the Nurhaci era, Houjin was nothing more than a group of robbing barbarians who liked to burn, kill and loot.
During the Huang Taiji era, some Han civilian officials and generals were recruited and surrendered, and they began to play with the system, but they only learned the outdated things of the Ming Dynasty.
It's just that at that time, they were relatively simple, had strong cohesion, and didn't have that much fuss, so the business went smoothly.
By the time they entered the customs, the Tatars who had merged with the Mongols and Chinese had actually been poisoned.
It's even poisonous.
Historically, their success was not due to how strong they were, but to the fact that in the Ming Dynasty, if there were no Tatars, Li Zicheng would have replaced them. Even if Li Zicheng failed, Zhang Xianzhong would have replaced them.
It is even possible that those Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats could support another royal family, the Zhu family vassal king, and establish another Ming Dynasty.
But none of these people transcended the limitations of the times.
For example, the systems established after the Tatars entered the country were not developed at all and were very backward.
Faced with Zhu Yihai's strong counterattack, they only knew one way to increase taxes. When the financial crisis became more and more critical, they began to rob openly.
Regarding the fields and manors owned by Qi Xunchen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, they were initially said to be given preferential treatment and reserved, but now they are all directly confiscated, and they even find reasons to massacre them.
For large businessmen such as salt merchants, the mode of killing pigs and harvesting leeks has also been launched.
Facing the rebels who resisted everywhere, they had no other good solution except massacring cities and killing people to express their incompetent anger.
According to a secret report sent from Beijing.
The Tatars have now begun to discuss some emergency rescue measures. One is to increase the looting of the Han people. If they can no longer collect money and food through additional levies, they will just rob them.
The second is to reduce the food and wages of the Eight Banners.
Allocate more land to them, seize the Han people and make them slaves, then cancel the food and salary of the Eight Banners, and even let them prepare their own weapons and use money to buy equipment.
If you die in battle, you will no longer receive any pension, or you will be owed it first.
For the Green Camp soldiers, it was also proposed that they should all be assigned to the Eight Banners as subordinates and given certain status, property rights, etc. However, in this way, there would be no need to provide food, salary, and pensions.
Since the original system can no longer be maintained, we can only find another way.
No matter whether it is civilization or barbarism, as long as it can change the predicament, they don't care.
The Ming Dynasty is increasing military pay and improving benefits, but the Tatars are beginning to reduce pay or even owe pay.
