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Chapter 967 Abolition of the Military Household System (Third Update)

"After the reform of the guard system, only the camp and sentry system is left. In this way, the existence of military households is meaningless." Emperor Chongzhen said this in a firm tone, "Therefore, I have decided to abolish the military household system. All All military households will be converted to civilian status."

This means that the military household system that has been implemented for nearly three hundred years in the Ming Dynasty is coming to an end. Although military households are much better off than those with lowly status, their social status is still much lower than that of civilian households.

If civilian households intermarry with military households, their children will inevitably be affected, because military households are passed down from generation to generation and have various restrictions. For example, only one male member of a military household is allowed to serve as a living member, while there is no restriction for civilian households. A military household with more than five male members is allowed to serve as an official, and a civilian household with more than two male members can serve as an official. If a civilian household is guilty, it is often punished by being exiled from the army; a military household is often punished by being exiled. It is not allowed to transfer a son or nephew to someone else to get out of the military, etc.

In the Ming Dynasty, military households were constantly fleeing because they were very miserable. When a soldier goes out on an expedition, his whole family, even his entire army or even his entire army will be affected. If a family has two or three children, and they serve two or three military services, it is even more heavy duty. Even during the Hongwu Dynasty of Taizu, the phenomenon of military households fleeing began to appear and became increasingly serious. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was even more serious. For a long time, the imperial court sent people to replenish the deserted troops on many occasions, and even set up a Qing military censor to handle matters such as the escape of military households and the replenishment of the army.

"Your Majesty, is this move a bit excessive?" Shen Yongmao, Minister of War, couldn't help but remind him.

The household registration system is the most basic thing. Once there is a change, many things must be adjusted accordingly. It can be said that it is something that affects the whole body. Therefore, Shen Yongmaocai ignored the holy will and specially reminded him.

But Emperor Chongzhen's attitude was very clear. He immediately shook his head and said: "That's not extreme at all! I said, since the Weisuo Army no longer exists, why does the military household established for the Weisuo Army exist? That's it. deal!"

According to what he meant, he actually wanted to abolish all the household registrations of high and low in the Ming Dynasty. But this is too appalling. Even if he is the emperor, it is difficult to implement it if he proposes it rashly. Therefore, he planned to do it one by one, first taking advantage of this reform of the military system of the guard station to abolish the military household registration. When there is another opportunity next time, I will cancel my craftsmanship and so on. Even if we don't do this, we should at least allow for easy conditions for conversion between household registrations. Rather than becoming a certain household registration, you will belong to a certain household registration for life, and even future generations will belong to a certain household registration. This is extremely unreasonable for a soul who has traveled through time in later generations.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Cao Huachun was the first to echo this time, ahead of Wen Tiren, "With this decree, military households all over the world will definitely be grateful to the emperor for his magnanimous grace!"

Wen Tiren also agreed, neither too slowly nor too quickly, but did not show any intention of competing with Cao Huachun for first place.

If what happened today happened in the past, many ministers would definitely stand up to oppose it. With the urinary temperament of these civil servants, they would be able to find a lot of reasons. For example, this is Taizu's rule, and you are going against Taizu. , is it unfilial, or does it mean that Taizu was wrong? Anyway, the emperor is not as powerful as the emperor, but you can put high hats on the emperor's head one by one to see if you can withstand the pressure.

But at the moment, it goes without saying that the Supervisor of Ceremonies, on the cabinet side, the chief minister was specially promoted by Emperor Chongzhen, while the other cabinet ministers were all recommended by Wen Tiren. It can be said that the entire cabinet is composed of Wen Tiren, and there is no internal friction. Wen Tiren is also a close confidant of the emperor. In addition, in the past two years, Emperor Chongzhen's prestige has gradually strengthened. Therefore, Wen Tiren and Cao Huachun took the lead in promoting Wenhua. For other ministers in the palace, it was not a big conflict of interest, so Emperor Chongzhen's will was finally implemented.

Therefore, under the premise that the general framework was established, Emperor Chongzhen let go of the remaining details. The chief minister of the cabinet and the eunuch of the ceremonial department took the lead in further refinement, and came up with a specific and feasible plan before submitting it. Royal view.

Finally, Emperor Chongzhen said to everyone in the Metropolitan Procuratorate: "The six-month period for submitting to the violation of regulations is coming soon. The first major thing that the Metropolitan Procuratorate has to do is to strictly supervise the local authorities to investigate and deal with this matter, especially in Jiangnan. Over there, I have to keep an even closer eye."

Having said this, he paused and said with a hint of threat: "Although the manpower of the factory guards is tight, I will still let them pay attention to this matter. But I hope that the first major event after the reform of the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be It’s best to do it yourself, I don’t want to hear too much from the factory guard!”

"I obey the order!" Upon hearing this, Zuodu Yushi and others immediately bowed to accept the order!

It is said that the first thing a new official does after taking office is to do it well no matter what. Otherwise, if you are impeached and then change your mind, it will be a big joke. Therefore, these senior executives of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have made up their minds. Even if it is too late to complete the restructuring, they must allocate resources to do this and strictly supervise the implementation of the local government.

This time, the discussion in the Wenhua Hall took quite a long time. When Emperor Chongzhen came out, he saw the sunset and the day passed. After returning to the harem, the first thing Emperor Chongzhen did was to go to the chat group to see how Hai Lanzhu was doing.

As expected, there was a message on Hai Lanzhu's side, saying that she had already run past Cilu Wei. Although she seemed to have gotten rid of the Jianlu pursuers, for the sake of insurance, she did not want the 700 cavalry to have an accident, so she continued to run north. .

After Emperor Chongzhen replied with a few words of warning, he went to read the private message sent by Wang Liu, but he reported that the Horqin tribe had reached the upper reaches of the Xiaoling River, not far from Jinzhou.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen gave another instruction in this regard.

At this time, the setting sun was about to set, and the afterglow dyed the grassland red, making the grassland look particularly beautiful.

However, there is a word called timidity when approaching the countryside. Seeing that the Horqin people were about to enter the territory of the Ming Kingdom, their excitement subsided a lot and was replaced by a sense of uneasiness. Although they think it should be a good result, it is inevitable to feel uneasy before the result is unknown. Even Bu He, whose eyes were twitching, felt a little worried in his heart, so he ordered to camp on the spot and wait until dawn tomorrow before setting off.

At this point, the Ming army had already appeared, and the negotiation and communication process was quite satisfactory, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with it. But before seeing the final result, I still have worries.

Early the next morning, when the Horqins all got up, they discovered that many of them had dark circles under their eyes. It was obvious that many of them had suffered from insomnia last night.

Will Mingguo treat it as promised, or will it change its mind?

While thinking about this doubt, Bu He found that before they were ready to hit the road, they saw many horses running towards them in the distance.

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