After taking a sip of tea, Du Zhongxiao said: "The chaos in the world is nothing more than two sides, one is civil governance, and the other is martial arts. The most martial arts of all dynasties is no more than the time of the two Han Dynasty. Within the four seas, all the ministers and concubines, even if the Han is about to die, they are still afraid of the four people. The best of the Bunzhi—"

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao shook his head with a wry smile: "Reading through the history books, I'm afraid that there is only the legendary rule of the Three Dynasties." However, legends are legends after all, and they don't know whether they are true or true. ”

Wang Gongchen said: "The rule of three generations, the history books pass it on, and the saints praise it, naturally there will be no fake." We and other descendants, as long as we devote ourselves to the country and the people, why worry about not being able to reproduce the prosperity of three generations. ”

Du Zhongxiao laughed when he heard it: "Although I was born as a Jinshi, I am a civil official, and when it comes to civil governance, I am actually lackluster——"

Wang Gongchen said: "The festival is handsome and modest. In Yongcheng, it is the county of Zhi, and the performance is the first. Later, the state, the Volcano Army, and Jingxi Road were officials, and all of them had good governance left in the local area. If the marshal says that he has no achievements as officials, how many officials in the world have achievements. ”

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and nodded: "Nehan said so, think about it carefully, it seems to be okay?" ”

Wang Gongchen smiled: "It's just okay." However, the military exploits of the marshal are too great, and he feels that his previous achievements are not worthy of military exploits. ”

Du Zhong said: "Don't talk about this, let's talk about martial arts." The affairs of the Han Dynasty were thousands of years ago, and it was out of place to say that all the concubines in the four seas were inappropriate. Now it should be said that at the very least, the homeland is restored, and the four Yi are afraid of submission, which can barely be regarded as the martial arts of the Great Song Dynasty. To build martial arts, it is necessary to have an invincible army. Just now I said what kind of nature this army should be, and if we understand the nature of the army, we will determine the foundation of the army. In such an army, it is not good to be lazy among the people, and even more so for sinners, and the soldiers will inevitably be good children. The forbidden army must follow this principle in the conduct of training and selection of soldiers. Otherwise, the forbidden army cannot be reborn. ”

Wang Gongchen nodded and did not speak. Once the nature of the army has been determined, the source of troops has also been determined, and it is necessary to carry out a major reform.

Du Zhongxiao said: "After these fundamentals are finished, let's talk about a little detail." Starting from the battalion and the army, the formation of the army I led was actually based on the civilian system. The ministers of the DPRK and China should be able to see it. ”

Wang Gongchen said: "Most of them can see it, so from Captain Han down, the courtiers have no objections." ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded. The organizational structure and personnel appointment of the Hequlu Army actually refer to the current civilian system. It is precisely because of this characteristic that Han Qi had no objection when he was on Hequ Road. The imperial court trained the forbidden army according to the model of the river meander, and the civil officials gave their full support.

Du Zhongxiao said: "The characteristic of the civil service system is that the power lies in the officials, and the matter lies in the officials, which is about the same. Of course, the distinction between court officials and officials is not so clear, especially low-level officials, who are often mixed with officials. There are officials who do the work of officials, and there are officials who do the work of officials. What is Officer? Of course, it is up to the imperial court to decide. But there are at least three of them, and those who meet them are officials. ”

Wang Gongchen listened curiously: "Dare to ask the marshal, I don't know which three can be considered an official?" ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Actually, it was all decided by the imperial court, but it didn't say three things explicitly." The first article of the identity of an official is that an official is a liuguan and must have a term of office. Unless requested by the people and approved by God, it cannot be extended, and it must be adjusted when it expires. ”

Wang Gongchen nodded and said, "Yes, this is indeed the case now. The officials who were able to ask for an extension were all capable ministers. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Article 2, all officials must follow the recusal law. In the locality, oneself, family members, in-laws, and all kinds of old ones are not allowed to buy property. If you are an official, whether you are not in your state, or you are 300 miles away from your hometown, 800 miles away, or you are not an official in your hometown, according to what the imperial court has set, you can't be an official in your hometown anyway. If you are an official in the capital, you must not have relatives and friends in the yamen, and the same is true for your boss and subordinates. ”

Wang Gongchen nodded. This is also what is being implemented now, and not only that, but also the prime minister and Taiwan should be avoided. became the prime minister, and no one who had a relationship could be admonished by Taiwan, and he had to resign. If you conceal it and fail to report it, you will be punished. Wang Dan, the prime minister of the previous dynasty, had many in-laws, and when Wang Su was the imperial history, he was demoted to office because the new prime minister took office and concealed his in-laws.

"Article 3: Officials have the right to recommend lower-level officials, but not to promote, appoint, or dismiss them. The power of personnel is in the Court of Judges, in the ministers of the two provinces, and in the Holy Lord. If this is not the case, it is inevitable that the party will form and eventually become a big disaster. ”

This is also the system that is being implemented, but it is not as clear as Du Zhongxiao said. Officials are promoted to be dismissed from ministries, courts, and special purposes, and officials are impeached for demotion and impeachment, and they fail to pass performance appraisals, and they are ineffective in administering affairs. In other words, officials do not have the power to promote officials, nor do they have the power to suppress the promotion of officials, but they have the power to supervise. It is the officials who can promote, appoint, and dismiss officials, and this is the organizational principle that the power lies with the officials and the matter rests with the officials. These are all systems implemented in this era, but Du Zhongxiao learned from them clearly and put them forward as principles.

Seeing that Wang Gongchen had no objections, Du Zhongxiao said again: "The generals in the army also learn from these systems of officials. However, in the end, the army is different from the localities, there are fewer officials and more officials. In the local area, officials do a lot of things, and officials are used in the military to do it. This is also the reason why the proportion of officers in the Hequ Road Army is much greater than that of the forbidden army. But if you are an official, you must meet the above three principles. When an official is promoted, he must be transferred to one of them, and he cannot be promoted in his own department, and he must be avoided at both the upper and lower levels. It's just that the unit of the evasion is determined by the imperial court. The other officers have a tenure system, and have the right to recommend and supervise but not the right to personnel, and they are all the same as officials. Of course, in time of war, some powers can be granted temporarily. ”

Wang Gongchen nodded: "I understand what the festival commander means." In the future, it will no longer be a soldier, but a court owner. ”

"Exactly. The commander and the general officer, respectively, have already been talked about earlier. The army is at war, and the commander has a higher status, which is naturally the proper meaning. That is, in the army, the commander has his own system, and unless it is special, the general officer of other systems cannot be the commander. The commander, in turn, can be a general officer. In other words, the higher the requirements of the commander, there is also a higher status. ”

Wang Gongchen listened and said, "I see. In the Hequ Road Army, other officials, including the supervising army, have always been forbidden to take command of the army. Even if the prison army can change generals on the spot, it can only replace the commander at the next level, which is the reason. The ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee complained about this, believing that the officials were one level higher, and in wartime, they might obey the orders of commanders with official positions lower than their own, and they would be in chaos. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Because of the old class law in the army, there will be chaos up and down." In the Hequ Road Army, the class law is not practiced, and it is necessary to specialize, of course. The commander has his own system, and if the general officer commands it, the system will be chaotic. ”

These are actually the organizing principles of the civil service system at this time, and Du Zhongxiao only made a professional classification. The major categories of officers are divided into commanders and general officers, and commanders have their own system, and there are separate channels for training and promotion. Correspondingly, a large number of non-commanding powers were assigned to the general officer system. These two systems correspond to the Privy Council and the Sanya of the imperial court. The Privy Council is centered on the commander system, and the Sanya is centered on the general officer system. That is, the handsome, from the handsome all the way, to all levels.

Such an organizational principle has little to do with combat effectiveness, but for stability. It was convenient for the imperial court to control the army, and it also made the commander's authority less disturbed. The organizational principle remains unchanged, and it is possible to maintain combat effectiveness for a long time, at least a relatively low lower limit of combat effectiveness. If stimulated, even if the combat effectiveness decreases for a while, it can be quickly recovered.

Historically, an army with strong combat effectiveness did not necessarily have the nature of a righteous army, nor did it necessarily have any political principles, let alone organizational principles. For all sorts of reasons, it's not surprising that robbers can sweep the world as well.

The Mongols who destroyed the Great Song Dynasty, the iron cavalry spanned tens of thousands of miles, the gods blocked and killed the gods, the Buddha blocked and destroyed the Buddha, and the prosperity of martial arts was rare in ancient and modern China and abroad. When foreigners run rampant in the world, they are also not civilized divisions, or even places where filth and dirt are hidden, as long as the enemy can't defeat them.

However, without political principles and cultural roots, after a thousand years, the Mongols are left with only the ability to sing and dance. Keeping a small domain is just a gift from two big countries that don't want to get too close. The British Empire, which was once known as the sun never sets, and several other small European countries that were rampant, but for hundreds of years, all the swallowed ones were spit out, and even their own homeland could not be integrated.

Why? It's the people. They oppressed the people, and the people abandoned them.