Chapter 208: Confucianism Not Confucianism

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More than a year after taking control of the north, Wang Yan issued political orders.

Recruiting troops, farming, building water conservancy projects, building bridges and paving roads, building factories, schools and other basic matters to resume production and construction. He gathered a large number of craftsmen and sent them to various research and development groups under him to learn and participate. Famous doctors and doctors were summoned to participate in the improvement of secret medicines and the entire large-scale health and medical construction. The police found the old master who was hopeless in the imperial examination and forced him to be sent to Liaodong for intensive training to prepare for the future...

In general, Wang Yan did not make any big moves.

The only big ones were the gentry and landlords who swept through the entire north, bringing down a large number of middle and lower-level officials and a small number of upper-level civil servants. The hard labor team grew a little more, and the land was allocated to ordinary farmers.

There are no big changes overseas. Basically, they are either farming or mining, and then use the paper coupons issued by Wang Yan to buy the goods that Wang Yan sold in the past. Warships sailing on the ocean, as long as they do not belong to one's own people, are routinely robbed.

Only the Mughal Empire was not very peaceful. Of course, it's not so much a fight as a one-sided massacre. After all, it is no exaggeration to say that Wang Yan's military strength is the best in the world. He cannot be compared to those little trash, and he is not worthy of being an opponent.

They have occupied part of the Linhai area and captured many local people to farm under the guidance of the old farmers who came with the ship. At the same time, he is purposefully contacting its internal forces and deciding to help the family rise to power...

As for the hometown outside the customs, as the first to start the industrial revolution, its development is definitely needless to mention. And the most important thing is that among the women in Liaodong, there is no one with a big belly. They either have just given birth or have not shown their pregnancy, so they will not stop.

We can't blame Wang Yan for treating women as production tools. After all, this is the most natural division of labor between men and women. Moreover, with such a large land, such a small number of people, and Wang Yan's good policies, they themselves would not let it go...

In terms of the overall structure, Wang Yan slightly changed his thirteenth level and used it on the structure of the entire country. The difference is that the current official position names that Wang Yan referred to were combined with the responsibilities of some later positions to give civil and military officials one name. Basically, they still use the original names.

As for the original system of three provinces and six ministries, Wang Yan abolished the three provinces and the Ministry of War, and clarified the responsibilities of the remaining five ministries with clear branches. He also separated the finance department from the Ministry of Household Affairs and established a separate department, plus the security department established by Wang Yan. The rank of the department is the same as that of the six departments. The original Ministry of War was merged into the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, which was the same yamen where he became the "Left Governor". This was the highest military organization. Such a large framework became six departments, one department and one government.

Although ancient civil servants paid great attention to general knowledge and learned everything, and there were many outstanding and brilliant people, after all, only a few were able to mount a horse and fight. The commander of the army cannot rely purely on ideas and see which civil servant can beat him. That is no different than playing house with a baby. In the future, Wang Yanhui will set up a military academy under the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion to specialize in training military officers.

The most important point is that although Wang Yan does not prohibit military families from joining politics, nor does he prohibit civilian families from joining the army, there are clear regulations, and the highest position is determined based on the energy of his own family members in the court. As long as the person with the highest official position in the family does not step down, he will work until death. No matter how great his contribution is, he will only be in that position and will never be able to move up in this life. Besides, its position is not enough. How much power does it have if it has functions?

Anyway, the summary is, whoever dares to extend their hands to each other will be killed.

The original cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty was retained by Wang Yan, and it was basically the same as before except that he no longer had to vote with the eunuchs. It's just that the leading eldest brothers of the six ministries have all joined the cabinet, and it is no longer the original way that one cabinet minister can command several ministries. The main function of the cabinet is to discuss how to do things and help share Wang Yan's work, not to let them study how to expand the power of their subordinates.

Of course, at this stage, except for the three or two civil servants who followed him from Liaodong and are qualified for big posts, the other cabinet ministers are all the same people from before. The overall power of civil servant governance is not in the hands of Wang Yan. .

Wang Yan doesn't care about these rights. He doesn't even care about how corrupt these people are, how they fight for power, and how they form gangs to suppress him. As long as his decrees can be effectively communicated to the localities and implemented, and as long as the results can meet his expectations, then he will not care. Anyway, with the soldiers in his hands, it would be easy to control this group of people.

In the same way, after Wang Yan killed a group of civil servants who had fooled him, these people also found Wang Yan's bottom line. Although the administrative efficiency is not very fast, some policies can indeed be implemented, although most of them are implemented in local governments...

However, Wang Yan controls all kinds of industrial construction very strictly and has a complete set of inspection methods. There is absolutely no room for shoddy projects. It's okay to be greedy for money, but no matter how greedy you are, you must do a good job with quality and quantity. If you can't do it well, you'll just jerk off, have your house ransacked, seize people, and relegate them to hard labor...

Wang Yan has abolished the special group of eunuchs. After the recent turmoil, not many of the previous eunuchs are left in the Forbidden City, only a few thousand. The older Wang Yan let him retire and take care of his old age directly, while the younger ones worked first and were among the last batch. Originally, the responsibilities of the eunuchs were all handed over to a group of maids. Since it was not convenient to use men, they were all used to be women.

In fact, he doesn't care about this stuff. None of the women in the harem would put a hat on them. If he doesn't have any self-confidence, what else can he do?

Wang Yan also changed the administrative divisions for a while. He did not touch the big provinces, but just kept them as they were and abolished some that were responsible for everything. Shaanxi split out a Gansu according to the later map. The prefectures, towns, townships, and villages were clarified with reference to later generations. Shuntian Prefecture was still under the direct control of the central government, and Northern Direct Regulation was abolished. Except for Shuntian Prefecture, which was newly designated by Wang Yan, other areas belonged to various provinces.

The most critical army, Wang Yan, also underwent restructuring. There are four legions in total, the Qinglong Guard, the Xuanwu Guard, the White Tiger Guard, and the Suzaku Guard.

The Green Dragon Guard, the White Tiger Guard, and the Vermilion Bird Guard are all marine troops. There is nothing special about them. Only the Green Dragon Guard is similar to the original Beijing Camp and has a slightly special status. The Xuanwu Guards are the Navy and the Marine Corps, which are divided into Xuanwu Land Guards and Xuanwu Sea Guards.

Under the four guards, there are ten armies, each with a strength of 100,000, named in order from the beginning of the large army. The highest military officer is the legion commander who leads a hundred thousand soldiers. No one can lead a large legion of millions of soldiers and horses, and no one can do it.

Of course, his total number of soldiers is less than 500,000 now, and it will take several years to reach 4 million soldiers.

Jinyiwei, this is what Wang Yanchuan's movie is about, and he himself thinks the name is quite nice. So he kept the name Jin Yiwei and made some changes in his authority. Generally speaking, it is still personal guards, honor guards, etc., except that they no longer care about intelligence and assassination matters, there is basically no big difference.

The police powers of the Security Department are basically a combination of the police and the armed police in later generations. Especially now, the police are basically excellent soldiers who have retired from the army, and their combat effectiveness is not necessarily higher than that of the regular troops under his command. When the police qualifications are gradually relaxed in the future, they will no longer be filled by retired soldiers, and then we can create a separate force.

And at this stage, in some major cities, there are not only police, but also military. When there are more people under his command in the future, more and more troops will be stationed. Taking turns to go out to fight, and taking turns to come back to garrison to rest, it is treated as a holiday for the soldiers...

Time soon came to the second year. Since there was no new emperor, the Central Plains still used the previous era name. That is, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Yan took action.

It is not difficult to build a society, so the societies in most parts of the north are the first to be built. What troubles Wang Yan is not the number of societies, the number of students, nor the material problems of compulsory education, but the number of intellectuals. There are too few old masters, and it is simply impossible to educate all school-age children in the north. It was far from what Wang Yan imagined.

But no matter how you say it, it is education and the foundation of orthodoxy. As a year passed, the old masters who had been taken to Liaodong for training returned, and the dispute began.

In fact, the civil service group has been gearing up for a long time. However, because Wang Yan had been assigned many tasks and heavy responsibilities before, and Wang Yan was rich and had sufficient supplies, these people were busy making money and becoming more powerful. In addition, Wang Yan was Zheng Zheng at that time. The land inventory and land reform were carried out with great brutality, and these people were also afraid.

It has been delayed until now. The club has been built, all the boys and girls nearby have been counted, and lectures and education are about to begin, so we have to start taking action. If you don't move, it will be too late. No one is a fool. They all understand the importance of education. This is their foundation. Without this, they will not be able to survive for long.

Who are the children in Wang Yan's school? She is a girl. When can she come out to study? They want to learn the three obediences and the four virtues, and the female precepts of this and that, what about now? Look at those women in Liaodong who don't care about their families and work full-time. The most important thing is that they make a lot of money? Is this true?

Let’s take a look at what is taught in the academy? Literacy, mathematics, studying objects, and most egregiously, fighting and fighting? Should it be the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Han and Tang Dynasties? Scholars carry swords and sabers? Is that true? The most important thing is that in these courses, apart from some sages' literature, science and inspirational articles in literacy courses, is there a study of saints?

So at the court meeting on the first day of April, a group of civil servants very patiently told Wang Yanliang how to govern the world and what to rely on to govern this and that.

Including the Shandong Kong family, they also wrote a small letter to express their thoughts...

Then Wang Yan issued an order to directly send 20,000 soldiers to attack Shandong for the ten major crimes of land embezzlement, tax embezzlement, tax evasion, private mobilization and punishment, indiscriminate killing of innocents, etc.

Shandong was left untouched during the land clearing. It is no exaggeration to say that the Kong family in Shandong is the emperor of the country. As for Qufu, where its hometown is, it is a country within a country. Basically, the local officials are named Kong. Not to mention domestic slaves and private soldiers. After all, without strong force to suppress it, they would not have been able to rule there for thousands of years.

If he doesn't send troops to suppress it, there will be another peasant uprising. These people are very good at it. In fact, even the group of peasants who are currently fighting fiercely in the south can't guarantee that these people are not involved in it.

I heard that Wang Yan said that he would send people to raid the Confucius family and depose Yan Shenggong. This would completely undermine their civil servants. Duke Yan was promoted as a mascot by a group of civil servants, and it was good to put it there. As for whether he was the direct descendant of Saint Kong, it didn't matter. They said it was.

Therefore, several middle-level civil servants wanted to meet Wang Yan and die in the main hall. This was the first step of temptation. Wang Yan readily agreed and helped them, and then sent people to ransack their homes.

When a civil servant leader came out to stand, Wang Yan had his bodyguards knock him to death against a pillar in the hall, and then ransacked his house. As usual, the women were assigned to Liaodong officials and all the men were demoted to hard labor.

This harsh method indeed suppressed the opposition in the court, but Wang Yan could not stop the storm brewing behind the scenes. The enemy is dark and we are clear, we can only kill at the first sight.

In the next more than a year, civil servants encouraged scholars, businessmen, and the remnants of the gentry to cause trouble, deceive the common people, and deceive lower-level civil servants into rebelling. In addition, a group of people in the south encouraged the peasant army to go north. What Wang Yan mainly did It's a job of killing people and ransacking homes.

Scholars rebelled, but it took ten years to succeed. It does affect the development of production and construction, but this is a stubborn disease, and it is reasonable and necessary to sacrifice some development time.

Of course, Confucianism has been tied to China for thousands of years. Wang Yan certainly cannot destroy it, and there is no need to destroy Confucianism. To be honest, the thoughts of Saint Kong are indeed shining through the ages, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with self-cultivation and self-denial. It's just that now it's been made big by a group of intellectuals with ulterior motives. They all talk about the words of saints, benevolent, righteous and moral, and have nothing to do with others.

Wang Yan's main purpose this time is to destroy Confucianism. Confucianism can be allowed to exist, but Confucianism must be destroyed. In this way, to a certain extent, he can be regarded as a cultural movement. As time goes by, a hundred flowers will eventually bloom.

This turmoil can be said to have been initiated by Wang Yan on his own initiative. This is a century-old plan. Rather than letting people slowly dig up the roots later, it would be better for him to kill a wave first.

In particular, this wave also involved many businessmen who were tired of work, and Wang Yan happened to collect business taxes. He had thought about accepting it before, but the opposition from the civil service group was louder. They couldn't compete with the people for profits and increase taxes. At that time, Wang Yan had to rely on this group of people to do the most basic work of restoring production and construction, and he has been holding it back until now.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Wang Yan doesn't need those people to work now. After all, he needs educated people to carry out his decree. It's just that some work has been completed now, so it doesn't matter if there are fewer civil servants.

Moreover, Wang Yan exercised great restraint and tried not to touch a large number of petty officials at the middle and lower levels. Instead, he specifically targeted senior officials and then promoted lower-level officials to higher positions. Besides, there are so many people who want to be officials. Even if they know that Wang Yan is exploring the roots of Confucianism, they will be willing to wave the flag and shout. How can you get to the top without waving the flag? If you don’t shout, how can you honor your ancestors and get ahead?

There are also many grass-roots officials who have worked at the grass-roots level for so many years and are familiar with local affairs. However, due to their status, they will not be able to reach a position or become an official in this life. Now that Wang Yan has opened the channel, what will they choose? Although many petty officials are not good people, Wang Yan wants someone who can do things and can execute his orders. Whether they are good or not is not within his scope of consideration.

It will have to wait until later, when his little kids are talented and there are people under his command, then Wang Yan will make a big liquidation. It won't be long, and another one of 5, 7 or 8 years will be enough.

But then another problem will arise, that is, the first batch of young children who will become talents are all from Liaodong... When the children from other areas grow up and work, people from Liaodong will definitely hug each other for warmth. Creating a Liaodong Party or Liaodong Gang to suppress people from other places would be another mess...

But if we really get to that point, it will have to be ten or twenty years later. At that time, someone like him, Wang, will still be there. Who would dare to stab him?

Over the past year or so, Wang Yanzhen has been able to fight off the turmoil with his fists. A method like his is not easy for ordinary people to use. Although it is simple to say, it is to kill the leader as a deterrent, win over the bottom, and divide the middle, but if it is really implemented in a concrete way, if you don't have soldiers, if you have soldiers, the army's ideological education will fail, so don't mess around.

Although it has a certain impact on people's livelihood, the problem is not too big. After all, although I have not fully recovered in the past year or so, I have gained a certain amount of vitality. Moreover, in this crisis, except for civilians who have no brains to be deceived, they are basically businessmen, landowners and officials. The lower class people have some influence, but not much. After all, Wang Yan was killing and destroying people while constantly promoting lower-level officials to higher positions, so there wasn't much of a problem.

Therefore, the original bridge construction, road construction, water conservancy construction, etc. were not delayed too much. Even because Wang Yan arrested many people and sent them to do hard labor, the overall construction speed could be improved.

As for farmers delaying farming, Wang Yan is not worried. After all, those who participate are only a minority, and most civilians still want to live their lives. The Central Plains has been in chaos for more than ten years. It has finally settled down. It has also clearly stipulated that it will be tax-free for three years, and then one tax will be taxed for ten years. If you don't seize the time to have children and cultivate the land, what are you waiting for? As for the harm that a bunch of civil servants are clamoring for, they feel that there is no greater harm than starvation.

And really speaking, even if most of the northern areas within the pass have no food, the problem is not too big. Because such a long time was enough for Wang Yan to conquer a large piece of land in the Mughal Empire and enslave local civilians to farm.

The geographical advantage of three crops a year, coupled with the improved seeds cultivated by the scientific research farmers sent by Wang Yan, even if the production methods are primitive and the overall yield of the land is not high, it is still a very scary figure. The cargo ships sailing back and forth on the sea never stopped at all, and were sent to the port of Tianjin Wei one by one.

Moreover, Wang Yan has always had a thunderous approach and a Bodhisattva heart.

Wang Yan also had great respect for the people in the Mughal Empire who were enslaved and treated as cattle and horses. As long as they are honest and obedient, they will be treated the same as the Nanyang Five in Champa and other places, and they will all be paid, which is the paper coupon of someone like him. In addition to being supplied to China, the things produced on his site are basically shipped there...

Now, in addition to the areas occupied by Wang Yan, there are many places in the Mughal Empire that recognize his paper coupons...

Wang Yan's goal is not that big. According to the later maps, it is enough for the entire Eurasian continent to recognize his paper coupons...

Of course, he will definitely not call Europe or Asia anything now. When he unifies China in the future, those things will all be named according to his mood...

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