Life Winner Training Guide

Although the political institutions of the Huang Kingdom are excellent enough, no matter how excellent the system is, it is useless if it is not implemented by the right people.

Wenzong's policy of governing the country with power checks and balances for many years has produced very troublesome sequelae.

One is the 'unclear' situation of the responsibilities of the civil service group.In order to check and balance, although the six ministries were in charge of all affairs, the five temples had the power to divide the six ministries. If there were overlapping rights, there would naturally be struggles. Although You Hongyin adjusted personnel in many ways, he still treated the symptoms but not the root cause. The situation is reflected in many institutions, even local governments cannot avoid it.

The second is that the army of the military attache group is redundant.In fact, there are supervisory agencies on the civilian side, but on the military side, the high-ranking generals are in charge, and there are no full-fledged official positions in the army, and all affairs systems come from the generals' own staff.Although the military officers don't like the distrust from the imperial court, they hate the supervising troops sent by the emperor, but in You Hongyin's view, such things as rights must be restricted in order to last long, otherwise, they are just letting them go Destruction also brings chaos at the same time.

In addition to the various problems of civil and military officials, the long-term peace of the world has also seen the serious phenomenon of "land annexation".

This is unavoidable. Any powerful empire has been born for a long time, and there will always be this kind of problem, that is, once wealthy landlords become richer, buy the land in the hands of ordinary people, expand their own capital, and lose land. Ordinary people are becoming more and more unable to live. If you add heavy corvee taxes and meet an unreliable local official, then the people who have no living conditions will become refugees. There may be civil unrest.

This kind of situation, when it is not serious enough to rule, the general court will not take care of it, and it is unexpected to take care of it, but they don't know that it is this kind of land annexation that is a sign of the country's subjugation, and whenever it is very serious and has affected the stability of the empire. When things get serious, when you try to stop the resistance through reforms and restructuring, you will often fail or spend a lot of energy, or even hurt your vitality.

Although the land annexation of the Huang Kingdom is serious, it has not reached the point of subjugation. The Huang country has a strong foundation and few foreign enemies, so it can still afford to wait.That's why You Hongyin also understands that if he wants to carry out reforms that affect the interests of all the gentry, it's better to take a break, and it's safer to further improve the government, adjust the system, and optimize officials.

You Hongyin put forward a proposal to standardize the duties and powers of officials at the Great Court Meeting.In the past, although there were terms of reference for each official, they were never recorded in a book. They were only a description of a dozen words, which was too general and unofficial.However, Xindi requires that all positions be delineated from top to bottom, with specific descriptions of duties, and preparation of supplementary and temporary response plans.

For example, starting from the cabinet, before the cabinet had its own specialties, so it was customary to deal with small matters separately, and discuss major matters, and the discussion was almost handed over to the emperor for approval, and finally discussed at the Great Court Meeting, and the emperor made the final decision. resolution.But now, the responsibilities of the elders are completely clarified. Two people form a team, and each of the three teams is responsible for some of the affairs they are good at.If there is any unresolved small matter, you can invite the person in charge of the matter to join the cabinet for consultation and discussion, and solve it together.Major matters are still dealt with together, presented to the emperor, and all officials are discussed at the court meeting.

In addition, You Hongyin requested that one responsibility should have three lines of decision-making, execution and review, but there should be no duplication of responsibilities, such as the Ministry of Rites being responsible for ceremonies and reception of foreign guests, while Honglu Temple and Taichang Temples need to separate responsibilities and make clear regulations.

At the same time, the job responsibilities remain unchanged. If there is any increase or decrease according to actual changes, it can be reported to the Ministry of Officials. The responsibilities of this post are also the basis for the year-end performance evaluation of the Ministry of Officials. For more practical positions, it is necessary to describe them in detail as much as possible. Due to the excessive number of positions and work content, a high-ranking minister can relax the job description conditions, so as not to be too strict and unable to adapt to the situation.

If an official is interested in a certain position or the position is not suitable and needs to be transferred, etc., the directly subordinate leader can apply to the Ministry of Officials. The Ministry of Officials of low ranks discusses and decides with the cabinet, and only needs to submit to the emperor for approval. High ranks need the Ministry of Officials and the Cabinet Preliminary judgment, after the court will discuss together.

All officials are confused.

Yes, it is entangled. This set of so-called official job descriptions does divide the scope of work and power in hand, which may endanger the power of one's position, but it is not certain whether one's power will become larger or smaller.At the same time, they also know that the scope is clearly defined, so there will be no more quarrels and snatches like in the past, but there will be new inconveniences if there is an extra step of supervision.But the emperor released the six ministries and the cabinet and even said that the hundred officials could not give up the right. Originally, this right was firmly in the hands of the emperor!

That is the power to appoint officials.

This kind of mixed good and bad, the feeling of a knife in the sugar, made all the officials not know what to do.Gradually, after thinking clearly about the benefits behind this plan, I realized that the emperor only wanted to make the system of court officials more detailed and standardized. After all, these officials who had studied for many years agreed.

And this matter is naturally carried out by the Ministry of officials.From top to bottom, sorting out slowly, suddenly, the atmosphere of the entire officialdom is clear, the three lines of decision-making, execution and inspection are clearly defined, and the operation speed of the entire imperial court is unknowingly how many times faster than before!

After three years of this, the empress finally gave birth to the first prince, and both the officials and the two empress dowagers seemed to gradually understand that the emperor is a person who is more diligent and unwilling to waste a lot of time in the harem, so they slowly Don't urge the emperor to let him go, and he will have an heir to the throne. The harmony between the emperor and empress is the blessing of the country.Empress Xie, on the other hand, was jealous of many backyard women, and even began to have rumors that the queen was a dominatrix.

Xiao Yinzi mentioned this kind of thing once in front of You Hongyin, but he didn't care, the queen can handle it by herself, he is not free.

"Yes, you sneak out of the palace to eat delicious food and wine all over the streets when you have time, and you even call it looking for talents lost among the people, and you want to be a bole." Xiao Yinzi couldn't help but complain.

This guy dared to run out of the palace relying on his own master, and the guards brought a few. Occasionally, he would take the two queen mothers and queens out to escape the summer heat, hunt and so on during New Years and festivals. He was quite restless.

"Nagging again, Xiao Yinzi, if you continue like this, you will be ten years older than me, be careful of your hair graying earlier." You Hongyin still kept the old habits in front of Xiao Yinzi, and never put on airs.

Xiao Yinzi glanced at his body that had not been exercising for a long time, and snorted disdainfully.

You Hongyin followed his gaze, looked at his arms with no muscles, and said indignantly: "Being an emperor is so busy, I don't have time to exercise."

Little Yinzi didn't want to continue this meaningless topic, so he asked, "When will you mobilize the army?"

You Hongyin was a little surprised, and said, "Okay, you've been with me for so many years, little Yinzi, you've become smarter and smarter. Now the civil servants have sorted things out in a smooth manner, and those who lack ability and are greedy Basically everything has been wiped out, and it is indeed time to mobilize the army."

"Are you planning to disarm?" Little Yinzi thought for a while and said.

"That's right," You Hongyin said: "There are too many Jingwei and local troops, and most of the local troops are militias that are half farmers and half soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is really not good."

"However, although disarmament saves military expenditure, it will be a great loss if there is a war in the future." Xiao Yinzi said: "Besides, disarmament will inevitably involve the interests of the high-ranking generals. Whether they agree or not is another matter. Maybe there will be a mutiny or something, that's enough."

You Hongyin said: "Of course I have thought about what you said, but in recent years, you have also seen that many policies have been implemented, and the treasury tax revenue has become more and more abundant, especially the commercial tax has begun to gradually increase. Don't panic, I don't just want to disarm, I also want to completely change the military system."

Recruiting militiamen is naturally not as good as raising professional soldiers. Although it is more expensive to raise professional soldiers, they are professional.

However, the matter of changing the military system is naturally not something that the emperor can change as he pleases, there is still a negotiation process, and You Hongyin's imperial decree recalled several senior generals who guarded the border and were in charge of the local army, and asked them to come back and talk with them while reporting their duties. The cabinet and the Ministry of War jointly discussed the matter.

You Hongyin can only give a general framework of the military system. The flesh and blood within this framework needs to be filled by people who are more familiar with military affairs and deal with military affairs all the time. Opinions from all sides are needed to find loopholes, and finally formulate All aspects are suitable for the system of the current Huang** team.

Generally speaking, the new military system is still the three systems of Beijing Guard, Local Army and Frontier Army, but the biggest point is the emergence of military assessment and military division.

This division of the military is not simply divided according to different weapons, but according to different responsibilities and combat methods.These are designed by You Hongyin with reference to the modern military system, which is more scientific and pays more attention to coordination.

The assessment represents the professionalism of the army, eliminating unqualified and lazy soldiers, reducing the number of troops, and improving the combat effectiveness and mental outlook of the entire army.In order to appease the soldiers in the army, You Hongyin also improved the reward system to avoid the practice of failing to recruit soldiers.At the same time, combined with various situations, a strict number of people was given to avoid situations such as starvation.The salaries of the generals will also be greatly increased to prevent the generals from squeezing the soldiers too much and not restricting the gray income of the army, such as taking part of the spoils of the bandits.

This military restructuring is more difficult than changing the civil service system of boiling frogs in warm water, because the civil service system in Huangguo is actually relatively good, while the military system is much worse, so it is naturally troublesome to change.

And You Hongyin's performance after ascension to the throne has given him a lot of points. At the same time, many of the military officers are really loyal to him. No matter how difficult this army restructuring is, it will continue.

However, it took nearly six or seven years to complete the restructuring from top to bottom. The Jingwei and the local army, which were originally redundant and had no fighting spirit, had also regained their splendor.The border guards also benefited from the defense-changing policy and had a chance to recuperate.

At this time, You Hongyin finally started to carry out the land reform. This reform, which was completely untouchable until the government and military power had not been fully sorted out, finally kicked off.