8mi Chapter 868: The Huge Number Of Civil Servants And Generals In Ming Dynasty, And The Stable And Prom
Chapter 868: The Huge Number Of Civil Servants And Generals In Ming Dynasty, And The Stable And Prom
After officially canonizing the emperor's grandson and the princes of the princes, Zhu Yuanzhang almost completely became the hands-off shopkeeper of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang would personally attend the daily court meetings after February 2, the 22nd year of Hongwu.
But most of the time, Zhu Yuanzhang just sat on the throne and listened without saying a word. All state affairs in the Ming Dynasty were handled by the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Fan.
Zhu Di and other princes discussed and decided.
Even if Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes had made any decisions that were inappropriate, he would not refute them at the court meeting.
Instead, they waited until the court was over and then communicated in the closed meeting between Lao Zhu and his son.
The purpose is also very simple. The first is to cultivate the majesty of Prince Zhu Biao and let Prince Zhu Biao know in advance how to become a real emperor of the Ming Dynasty who will never do anything in Shili City!
The second is to let Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other vassal princes understand and become familiar with how a huge empire of a country with a territory of 10 million to 12 million square kilometers operates from top to bottom.
In addition, the vassal princes and princes had served as county magistrates for three years and prefectural magistrates for four years, and they had accumulated detailed experience in running an empire from bottom to top.
As well as the military experience accumulated in attacking overseas island countries from the previous eastern expedition against Japan.
All these added up, it will be easier for Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other vassal princes to establish kingdoms in other overseas continents in the future.
In the entire twenty-two years of Hongwu, apart from various daily affairs to maintain the normal and stable operation of the country, there were actually only two major things that Ming Dynasty had to do.
The first major event will be next year, in the early spring of the 23rd year of Hongwu, the official enthronement ceremony of Prince Zhu Biao.
This enthronement ceremony will definitely be grander, more solemn and grand than the previous ceremonies for the canonization of the emperor's grandson and princes.
In addition, next year is also the time when local officials from provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties from all over the world will come to Beijing to report on their work, and participate in the observation and discussion of the Ming Dynasty's new five-year plan, which is the "Ming Dynasty's Third Five-Year Medium and Long-term Development Plan".
Therefore, next year's enthronement ceremony for Prince Zhu Biao will not only be attended by a large number of civil and military officials and noble marquises from the capital, but also a number of local officials.
After successively annexing the former Goryeo and Japanese countries, the number of local administrative regions in Taiming has expanded to 15 provinces, 120 prefectures, and 480 prefectures.
One thousand four hundred and forty magistrates.
The total number of local administrative officials who need to report to Beijing next year is about 4,000!
After all, there are fifteen provinces, one hundred and twenty prefects, four hundred and eighty prefectures, and one thousand, four hundred and forty county magistrates.
The number of their respective top leaders alone, that is, the chief envoys, local prefects, local prefects, and local magistrates and county officials totaled 2,055.
Among the two thousand and fifty-five officials, except for the 1,440 officials of the eighth and ninth grades under the magistrates, there is no need, or in other words, they are not qualified to go to Beijing to report on their duties. Only one magistrate of the seventh grade can enter. In addition to reporting on work in Beijing.
The remaining 480 magistrates from the fifth grade will go to Beijing to report their duties together with a magistrate from the sixth grade and a magistrate from the seventh grade.
One hundred and twenty prefects of the fourth grade will also bring a magistrate of the same fifth grade, a magistrate of the sixth grade, and a magistrate of the seventh grade, a total of three subordinate officials, to the capital to report on their duties.
Fifteen chief envoys (provinces) from the second rank will also be accompanied by two from the third rank to the left and right to participate in politics, two from the fourth rank to the left and right to serve as counselors, one from the sixth rank and one from the seventh rank. A total of six subordinate officials went to Beijing to report on their duties.
These principal and subordinate officials of prefectures, magistrates, and envoys, plus 1,440 county magistrates, make 3,465 local officials.
And this is only the number of customized local civil servants.
In addition, there are a small number of other local civil servants who are not customized but still exist at the seventh rank and above [these ten groups of officials add up to four to five hundred.
At this point, the total number of civil servants of the seventh rank and above in all places is approximately 4,000!
If all civil officials of the rank 7 and above in various places in the Ming Dynasty participated in the coronation ceremony of the crown prince Zhu Biao, then should the military generals of the rank 7 and above in various places in the Ming Dynasty also participate in the coronation ceremony of the crown prince Zhu Biao?
You should know that the number of military generals of the rank 7 and above in various local guards in the Ming Dynasty, if all are added up, is far more than the number of local civil officials.
The local military system currently implemented in the Ming Dynasty is the reformed guard and guard system.
A guard has one commander of the rank 3, one commander of the rank 3, one commander of the rank 4, and ten commanders of the rank 6.
And under a guard, there are five thousand households.
Among them, there is one regular thousand households of the rank 5 and one deputy thousand households of the rank 5.
And under a thousand households, there are ten hundred households.
Among them, there is one hundred households of the rank 6 and one commander of the rank 6.
In other words, a guard has 34 military commanders of the seventh rank and above every day!
Now the total number of the army and navy of the Ming Dynasty is about 2.5 million. Excluding the 1.2 million soldiers that Zhu Chong, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes will take away, the Ming Dynasty still has 1.3 million army and navy soldiers.
Among these 1.3 million army and navy soldiers, there are about 1 million army soldiers.
And there are almost 200 local guards for these 1 million army soldiers.
If these 200 local guards are multiplied by 34, then there are about 6,800 local army commanders of the seventh rank and above.
Although the organization of the 300,000 navy soldiers is different from that of the army, there are about 20 local navy commanders of the seventh rank and above.
All the local army and navy commanders and officials of the seventh rank and above add up to about 8,800 people.
If we add some other scattered and irregular military commanders whose official titles are all of the seventh rank and above, then all these local military commanders of the seventh rank and above should add up to about 9,000 people!
Nine thousand local military commanders, plus 4,000 local civil officials, then there are a total of 13,000 local officials of the seventh rank and above.
The capital has a total of 27 court institutions, among which the most famous are: the Five Military Commandery, the six ministries of personnel, household, ritual, military, punishment, and engineering, the Supervisory Office, the Dali Temple, the Tongzhengshisi, the Six Departments of the Imperial Censorate, and the Jinyiwei.
The less famous court institutions are: the Five City Soldiers Sima, the Taichang Temple, the Guanglu Temple, the Taipu Temple, the Honglu Temple, the 24 Yamen, the Zongrenfu, the Zhanshifu, the Imperial Hospital, the Shanglin Garden, the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial College, the Qintianjian, the Shangbaosi, and the Airentong.
In addition, the professors and lecturers that were originally lacking in Wanmin Agricultural College, Wanmin Medical College, Wanmin Academy of Sciences, Wanmin Public Opinion College, and Wanmin Business College have been gradually supplemented over the years.
The civil and military officials, noble marquises, and professors and lecturers of these 27 court institutions, all officials with official titles of rank 7 and above, number about 1,000.
The total number of officials of rank 7 and above in the entire capital and local areas of the Ming Dynasty is about 14,000!
If all of these officials of rank 7 and above were to attend the succession ceremony of Crown Prince Zhu Biao, it would be too grand and grand.
And to put it bluntly, let alone one Fengtian Hall, even if there were two more Fengtian Halls, they would not be able to accommodate 14,000 people.
Therefore, the opinions of the civil officials of the six ministries and nine ministers were to allow local civil officials to report to the capital and participate in the succession ceremony of Crown Prince Zhu Biao.
The other military officers of the rank of 7th rank and above were also responsible for guarding the local areas, so they did not have to go to Beijing to attend the succession ceremony of the crown prince Zhu Biao.
In this way, the number of civil and military officials, nobles and marquises in the entire capital, plus the civil officials who came to Beijing to report on their work, was about 5,000, and it was relatively simple to arrange.
In response, a group of military officers of dukes, nobles and marquises expressed strong opposition.
The reason for opposition was that the responsibility of guarding the local areas could be arranged in advance and entrusted to the deputy.
In this way, even if the local areas were attacked by surprise, the local soldiers could not capture or repel the enemy, but at least they could hold on.
Second, the soldiers of Ming Dynasty are loyal to the emperor of Ming Dynasty!
Now that Prince Zhu Biao is about to succeed to the throne, how can a group of local military generals not come to swear allegiance to the new emperor Zhu Biao of the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, local military commanders must go to Beijing together with local civil servants to attend the succession ceremony of Prince Zhu Biao.
These two reasons may not have convinced many civil servants, but they certainly convinced Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.
At least Zhu Biao, who had studied Yan Changqing's "Dragon Slaying Technique", knew very well that the foundation of the emperor's power lay in the control of military power.
The emperor without real military power was nothing more than a puppet.
And having a group of local military generals participate in his succession ceremony will help him further control the military power of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Biao naturally agreed and was willing to let a group of local military generals come to Beijing to participate in his succession ceremony.
Zhu Yuanzhang's idea was very simple. How could he be stingy about his grand succession ceremony? How grand and grand it was? "Then make it as grand and grand as possible!"
What he wants is to be number one in history!
Only in this way can he be worthy of Zhu Biao, the most outstanding and outstanding eldest son in history!
Therefore, it was rare for Zhu Yuanzhang to take the initiative to make a decision at the court meeting in the 22nd year of Hongwu, and decided that a group of local military generals of the seventh rank and above would also come to Beijing to participate in the succession ceremony of Prince Zhu Biao.
Facing Zhu Yuanzhang who had already made a decision, the civil servants naturally could not object. They could only rack their brains on how to arrange the emperor's succession ceremony with as many as 14,000 people next year.
Except for this one big thing.
Another major event is that in the winter of the 23rd year of Hongwu next year, King Zhu Fang of Jin and King Zhu Shu of Qi each went to North America and Oceania to establish feudal states. They were enough to meet the daily necessities of food, clothing, housing and transportation for two million people for a year. supplies.
Among them, the aspect of "~, food" is not bad. After all, with high-yielding land, sweet potatoes, and corn, it is not difficult to save enough food for two million people for a year.
The aspect of "clothing" is not difficult. On the one hand, Ming Dynasty has allowed the private sector to expand cotton planting since last summer's harvest, and on the other hand, it has further increased the amount of wool purchased from the northern Xinjiang grasslands.
Since the Ming Dynasty increased the amount of wool purchased, many grassland tribes were unable to provide wool in the amount required by the Ming Dynasty.
According to the previous agreement between the Ming Dynasty and the grassland tribes, if this happens, either the Ming Dynasty will cut off trading with them [and instead find other prairie tribes that have the ability to provide more wool for trade.
Either they use their own tribe or the women of other prairie tribes whom they kidnapped to offset the population.
As for these two requirements, some grassland tribes are unwilling to accept them.
But it may be that Ming has been trading peacefully with them for two years, which makes these grassland tribes a little confused. They dare to threaten Da Ming. If they don't trade with them normally as before, they will show off to Ming!
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the answers given by those grassland tribes,
He couldn't help but laugh angrily.
He himself felt that Zhu Leng, Zhu Feng, Zhu Di and other vassal princes still had little military experience, and he was worried that he could not find anyone to improve the military level of the vassal princes.
As a result, some restless grassland tribes jumped out and expressed that they wanted to show Daming some color.
Zhu Yuanzhang should have ordered Zhu Di, Zhu Feng, Zhu Di and other vassal princes to each lead 10,000 soldiers to attack the grassland tribes to see what those restless grassland tribes wanted to do to the Ming Dynasty.
Look at the color, what color it is.
Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other vassal princes, who had plowed the restless small and medium-sized grassland tribes, came back and told Zhu Yuanzhang that those restless grassland tribes wanted the big people to
The color of Mingqiaokan is red.
Well, it’s blood red, so pretty. I’ll go see it next time I get a chance!
After Daming showed off his big, strong and hard muscles on the northern Xinjiang grassland, other grassland tribes who originally had some small thoughts immediately did not dare to have other thoughts.
Either further expand the number of sheep raised by their own grassland tribes in order to increase wool output and meet more wool needs of the Ming Dynasty.
Either go to conquer and annex other small and medium-sized grassland tribes, and use the captive women of other grassland tribes to make up for the lack of wool to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the goal of providing clothing for two million people for a year is gradually being achieved.
As for "living", Zhu Yuanzhang initially planned to ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to prepare steel bars, concrete and cement.
After all, after King Zhu Shu and King Zhu Shu of Qi went to North America and Oceania, they would definitely have no steel bars, concrete or cement to use.
So it is better to prepare some steel bars, concrete and cement in advance for Jin Wang Zhu Fan and Qi Wang Zhu Shu to take them there, so that they can start building a building on the spot as soon as they arrive on their respective continents.
Tall, strong walls are used for living.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's idea was finally dismissed by a group of civil and military officials and Yan Changqing.
Because they want to use steel bars, concrete and cement to build a tall and strong city wall, all the naval fleets are loaded with steel bars, concrete and cement and pulled over.
Not necessarily enough.
Instead of using precious and scarce shipping space to hold steel bars, concrete and cement, it would be better to fill it with other useful things.
Finally, after discussions among civil and military officials, and at the suggestion of King Zhao Yan Changqing, it was decided to make hundreds of thousands of tents for King Zhu Ke of Jin and King Zhu Su of Qi to take with them.
In this case, as soon as the millions of soldiers and civilians disembarked from the ship and spread the tents in place, they would have a temporary place to live.
After that, students who understand the people and the academy will be sent to find the corresponding iron ore and limestone mines.
After finding it, we can build a steel smelting department and a concrete and cement production plant on the spot. Then we can build the necessary cities and people's houses.
As for the aspect of "travel" [the ten civil and military officials do not know if there are any livestock that can be used to travel in North America and Oceania where Lord of Dao Zhu Fan and King Zhu Lou of Qi are going.
Therefore, in order to prevent North America and Oceania from running out of livestock, Ming Dynasty also prepared the best breeding horses, breeding donkeys, breeding cattle, breeding sheep and other livestock, so that Jin Wang Zhu Fang and Qi
Wang Zhubo also took him there.
However, they don't know whether these horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys and other livestock can eventually reach North America and Oceania alive.
After all, these livestock have to drift and sail on the sea for several months. No one knows whether these livestock can survive for such a long time on a sea ship.
In addition to these livestock, there are also various fruit tree seeds, vegetable seeds, medicinal seeds, etc. Many civil and military officials are also discussing whether to bring them over.
After all, no one knows whether there are fruit trees, medicinal materials, and raw materials in North America and Oceania that are now available in the Ming Dynasty. If not, Jin Wang Zhu Fan and Qi Wang Zhu Su did not bring them with them.
If you go over there, it will be troublesome.
When they thought about this problem, Wang Zhubing and Qi Wang Zhufu also wanted to move all the existing things of the Ming Dynasty onto the ship and take them over.
However, the space that sea ships can carry is limited, so it is impossible to really pack up all the things of Ming Dynasty and take them there.
Therefore, what things must be brought, what things should be brought as much as possible, and what things should be considered if there is still room, have become the scriptures of many civil and military officials.
There are often noisy things at court meetings.
Amid such a "quarrel", the matter of King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Shu of Qi going to sea next winter is also progressing steadily and steadily. .