After the time entered the late November of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, on the battlefield of the whole country, Shen's court government army had completely fallen into decline, and could only be beaten passively, without the strength to fight back.

The west is being swept away, the south is being swept away, the east is being stabbed, and the enemy is being attacked on three sides, crumbling.

Jiang Dahai led the army to attack in the direction of Wuqing and Tongzhou based on Tianjin Wei, and encountered a lot of defense lines that Shen had always set up, they defended very hard, did not retreat, and also got a large number of artillery and Zhennan Army to shoot, although their artillery quality is not very good, and it will blow up, but there are many of them.

As soon as there were many of them, Jiang Dahai was reluctant to let his subordinates charge, anyway, it was okay to keep the offensive, this was Xiao Ruxun's purpose, so that they were tired of defending and did not dare to attack, until Xiao Ruxun arrived.

This kind of thing can still be done by Jiang Dahai.

With the help of a few Hongyi cannons, it would be easier in this way, and a cannon that could hit so far and so powerful would undoubtedly be a nightmare for those soldiers defending the city.

Under such a strong attack, coupled with Shen's consistent order to stick to the city, Dayun was reluctant to let his soldiers go out of the city to die.

And the situation has developed to the present, and Dayun himself is muttering in his heart.

I came all the way to send him to death?

Dayun was entangled.

Listening to the deafening sound of cannonballs, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before the sky changes.

The truth of success and defeat could not be more obvious.

When Shen has always been strong, the world has obeyed the Taichang Emperor and Taichang's year name, and the Wanli year name has been lost, and now Shen has always been a dry bone in the tomb, and the Wanli era name has been re-typed in various places, and all official documents and private letters have been changed to Wanli 26 years, and the word Taichang seems to have become a political red line.

On the way to Liaocheng with Xiao Ruxun's army, he kept receiving letters or official documents from some accompanying officials, and they did not send the memorals that needed to be sent to the imperial court, but transferred them to Xiao Ruxun's hands to ask Xiao Ruxun to make decisions, such as repairing the river, such as local people's feelings, such as disaster relief and so on.

Xiao Ruxun did not reject this obvious flattering behavior, but accepted their flattery with great satisfaction.

Led by the experienced Ye Mengxiong and Yuan Huang, he personally selected more than a dozen realist officials who had made achievements in the local area, and then matched with a hundred young people who were born in Jiangnan and Jiangbei that he carefully selected to form a government affairs processing team.

Yuan Huang and Ye Mengxiong are the leaders, those realist officials who have made achievements and are more realistic are the assistants, and the 100 young people are interns.

Naturally, those 100 young people were the best he found in training ideological instructors and land reform officials.

He was not willing to let this group of people out to be ideological instructors and land reform officials, but stayed by his side to deal with military affairs with him and give them the opportunity to exercise, and now that he has a bigger stage, Xiao Ruxun arranged them under Ye Mengxiong and Yuan Huang to learn to deal with local government affairs.

It is not necessary to be a scholar to deal with government affairs, and these talents, even those who do not have the fame of talents, have a sufficient cultural foundation and can learn to govern the country.

In fact, the scholars selected by the imperial examination follow the same path as them, and they must go through the observation of government before they can be appointed to the local government or central departments, and no one is born to handle government affairs, and they are all studied and applied little by little.

Following behind experienced old officials such as Ye Mengxiong and Yuan Huang, they can learn a lot, even if they are not qualified to become central decision-making officials, but in Xiao Ruxun's view, being a county magistrate or a township or village official, these people are still qualified, and when they are promoted step by step in the future, it is still considerable.

When the world is calm, in order for the imperial power to go to the countryside, he will also formally restore the township-level administrative districts, and restore the townships that have gradually become autonomous since the Tang and Song dynasties to national administrative regions and administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of counties.

In addition, villages below the township level should also set up special village officials as the most basic bureaucrats, obey the decrees of the state, and in short, let the tentacles of the central government extend to every corner and every household of the empire, and completely control the locality.

Let the talented people start from the lowest level of bureaucracy step by step, so that the history of being able to become a county official as soon as they graduate is gone forever, carry out a major reform of the imperial examination system, set up specialized schools in local areas to replace private schools and private academies, and the central government selects officials to manage them, so as to grasp the right to education in their hands.

Next, Xiao Ruxun will also transform the honorable title of teacher and professionalize the teacher.

Allowing the teacher to become a mere teacher, specializing in education, rather than an administrative position, will not become an administrative official, an administrative official is an administrative official, and a teacher is an educational position, and the separation of the two prevents the transformation of the teacher into an administrative official, and cuts off the other social identities of the teacher in the traditional sense.

The examination will also be conducted by a special administrative official, rather than a senior official selected by the central government, so that he can develop political power and establish himself in the future, and this system of reducing imperial power by increasing the power of courtiers through the status of teachers and students must be abolished.

In this way, the purpose is to tear up the nepotistic network of teachers and students that has naturally formed in the officialdom from ancient times to the present, to prevent teachers and students from forming a natural official alliance with the same dynasty as officials, to further prevent the birth of friends, and to make it more difficult for officials to unite, to work together, and to have fewer relationships outside colleagues.

Xu Jie-Zhang Ju's formal typical teacher-student political alliance and political inheritance, Xiao Ruxun doesn't want to see it anymore.

The power of civil officials in the Ming Dynasty was too strong, and the traditional Chinese consciousness of respecting teachers was too strong, and in this era, teachers and students are very likely to become officials, or even become officials, so this is also a means to weaken the power of civil officials.

At the same time, the establishment of military academies is also imperative, in order to maintain the strength of the military, so that the situation of emphasizing civilians over military force will not happen again, the establishment of military academies is very necessary, like the literati, through the school to educate and manage soldiers, to carry out a revolutionary change for soldiers, to replace the system of hereditary bloodline, to change the rapid decline of military services led to the dominance of civilian power.

Through such a system, the power to select officials and military officers is in the hands of the central government and even the emperor, and the emperor's control over his subordinate officials is strengthened, and this opportunity to give favors is in the hands of the emperor alone, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening the cadres and weakening the branches.

In this way, at least at the central level, imperial power will be strengthened, and once an orderly bureaucracy is formed, it will be very simple to run quickly.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty lost to Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not because the so-called imperial power was greatly enhanced, on the contrary, because the imperial power was not strong enough, and the demise of all dynasties also had the reason for the decline of imperial power.

The Ming Dynasty has the potential to be extremely powerful and even push the opponents on the four sides, and how to transform this potential into a national power that can be used is what Xiao Ruxun wants to do, to be honest, if the Ming Dynasty has the same local control and mobilization power as the Qin Dynasty, fifty Nurhachi can be flattened.

To put it bluntly, there are too many local constraints, and there is strong potential, but it cannot be transformed into national strength, and the strength is scattered, and it cannot be gathered in one place, and in the end, outsiders are cheapened in vain.

In this case, Xiao Ruxun will never let it happen again.