In addition to increasing the number of administrative institutions at the provincial level, Zhao Ziliang also made some adjustments to the official system, such as abolishing the vacant positions and replacing them with titles, and increasing the importance and status of titles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAfter that, those who had a knighthood had a much higher status in society than those who did not have a title, and there were many benefits, even in officialdom. No matter how high the official position is, if there is no title, you have to greet the person with the title first.

However, in order to prevent the proliferation of titles, Zhao Ziliang instructed to strictly control the canonization of titles, and generally not to canonize titles without great merit, only marquis and above titles can be inherited and automatically demoted one level per generation.

After reading the plan sent by Li Kui, Li Xian, Yan Zhenqing, Li Mi, Du Fu and others on turning the vacant position into a knighthood, Zhao Ziliang said to everyone: "It's a good job, just follow this plan!" In addition, the imperial court should establish a concept of attaching importance to the title among the people, and at the same time set up a yamen dedicated to the management of the title! ”

"In addition, in order to increase the vitality of officialdom, improve the administrative efficiency of the imperial court and local government yamen, and give young people more opportunities, the imperial court should begin to implement the Zhishi retirement system, and officials and military generals must automatically retire when they reach the specified age······ In the future, officials below the fifth rank will automatically retire at the age of fifty-five, and the imperial court will issue him the same level of loose official positions, and receive a monthly retirement salary until he dies; When the military generals below the fifth rank reach the age of fifty-five, they will automatically unload their armor and return to the field; The imperial court also promulgated the official position of military officer of the same rank to him, and he received a monthly retirement salary."

"The fifth rank and above, the second rank and below, the official must automatically retire when he reaches the age of sixty, and the age of the military general must also retire when he reaches the age of sixty!"

"For the second rank and above, officials must automatically retire when they reach the age of sixty-five, and the same is true for military generals."

After listening to what Zhao Ziliang said about the Zhishi retirement system, the ministers all looked at each other, and Li Mi groaned and stood up and arched his hand: "King, if this Zhishi retirement system is implemented, I am afraid that there are many people in the imperial court and the local government yamen who have exceeded this age limit, and once it is implemented, there will be a large number of officials who will retire, and such a large-scale clean-up of officialdom is only afraid that it will easily cause turmoil!" Moreover, there are many students who participate in the scientific examination, and they have not been admitted until they are fifty or sixty years old, and I am afraid that they have already exceeded the retirement age of officials below the fifth grade before they have been admitted! ”

Du Fu said: "I think I understand the king's intentions, I don't agree with Lord Li's opinion." We all know that people are old, many ideas are outdated, thinking is not as agile as young people, and they are more exclusive to new things, and the old people like to keep the old, the old is not bad, the one who should not keep it is not kept, and the one who should not keep it is kept, which hinders the progress of the times. And many people sit in one position for more than ten or twenty years, occupy the pit and don't, young people have no chance, another purpose of this system is to let the old people make way for the young people. ”

Li Kuo stood up and arched his hand: "King, let a large number of young people enter the officialdom can certainly make the officialdom full of vitality, but young people are easy to be impulsive in doing things, and impulsiveness is easy to do bad things.

Li Xian said: "I don't agree with this statement, I think although young people are easy to be impulsive, but they also have momentum, dare to fight, people are timid and afraid of things when they are old, and like to maintain the status quo, but we all know that nothing can be maintained The status quo, if you don't advance, you will retreat!" We can't stop young people from doing things just because they're prone to making mistakes, who hasn't been young? Youth is a time to make mistakes, only when they make mistakes will they learn from it, and only by letting them do things early can they avoid making mistakes when they do things when they are older! ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Yan Zhenqing and asked, "Lord Yan, what do you think?" ”

Yan Zhenqing had to stand up and say: "The king, the minister thinks this is a good thing, the state and government can't always rely on a group of old guys, just ask how many people can live to the age of sixty without illness and disaster, and how many people can live to the age of sixty-five?" When you reach the age of age, you will automatically retire, how good is it to make grandchildren and raise your grandchildren at home? Young people are the future of this world, and aren't all we doing for the sake of future generations? ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Lord Yan's words are very close to my heart, and the retired officials of Zhishi are not nothing, they still have the salary of Zhishi's retirement, and they can also make suggestions to the government and the imperial court, so this matter is decided!" Lord Yan, you are responsible for taking the lead in this matter, and a few people in your cabinet will draw up a detailed statement and present it to this king on a later date! ”

"Yes, King!"

"Anything else?"

Hearing Zhao Ziliang's question, Li Yu stood up and arched his hand: "King, I just received the news from Hebei, due to the attack from the north and south of the imperial court, the officials and generals of Chengde were panicked, and Li Baocheng's temper became worse and worse, and he somehow killed more than 20 generals in a row a few days ago. On the 27th at the end of last month, his generals Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong jointly conspired to kill Li Baochen and his entire family, and led his troops to surrender to the imperial army! On the first day of the first month of this month, Zang Dashuai led the army into Chengde and received Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong's soldiers and horses, as well as all the territory of Chengde! In other words, Hebei and Henan have all been returned to the rule of the imperial court! ”

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang slapped the table and stood up happily.

As a result, there was only one Ziqing Jiedu left, but according to the report sent by Li Sheng, it had reached the line of Jeju and Yizhou, and Li Na led his troops to withdraw to Qizhou (that is, Jinan), and Gao Yanzhao, the general under Li Na, surrendered and killed the thief general Wang Hui! The day of pacifying Li Na is not far away! ”

When the courtiers heard these two good news, they celebrated one after another.

Everyone was happy for a while, and Li Kuo stood up and said to Zhao Ziliang: "King, why bother that Henan has been pacified now, should Zhang Shouyu be allowed to go south to join Zang Xiyan?" At the same time, he ordered Zhu Jun and Zhu Tao's brothers to come to Chang'an to meet him? ”

Li Xian stood up against it: "No! King Qijuan, you can order Zhu Zhu and Zhu Tao brothers to come to Chang'an for pilgrimage, but do not let Zhang Shouyu lead the army south to join Zang Xiyan, now all parts of Hebei have just been recovered, it is the bandits are rampant, the chaos is everywhere, and the army is still needed to guard, and it is not appropriate to let the Mobei army go south for the time being, the old minister suggested that Zhang Shouyu temporarily lead the army to guard Hebei, on the one hand, the imperial court sent the general to reorganize the soldiers and horses of the feudal towns in the original Hebei and Henan places, and on the other hand, sent a large army to Hebei, Henan, Huaixi, and Huainan to be stationed and take over the defense according to the division of the military region! ”

With Li Sheng's army of more than 100,000 horses approaching Qizhou, all parts of Shandong saw that the general trend had gone, and the imperial court had recovered Shandong, Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and immediately ordered: "Transfer Luo Yuanguang to be the general of Zuo Xiaowei, transfer Liu Qia to be the general of the Shence Army and lead the Shence Army out of Youzhou, transfer Wei Boyu to lead the Zhenguo Army out of Zhenyingzhou, and appoint Zhang Shouyu as the general of the Youzhou garrison to control the Shence Army and the Zhenguo Army!" Changed the Mobei Army to the Zhaoyi Army, appointed Gao Rulei as the general of the Zhaoyi Army, stationed in Xiangzhou, changed the Yunzhong Army to the Xuanwu Army, appointed Zhang Xiancheng as the general of the Xuanwu Army, stationed in Bianzhou, and transferred Xue Qianxun to the East Jie Du to make Xue Qianxun the general of the Bianzhou garrison, and controlled the Zhaoyi Army and the Xuanwu Army. Change the Dengzhou Army to the Wuyi Army, appoint Li Baozhen as the general of the Wuyi Army, stationed in Xuzhou, change the Huaixi Army to the Xuanyi Army, appoint Shang Kegu as the general of the Xuanyi Army, garrison Yangzhou, appoint Gao Xiuyan as the general of the Yangzhou garrison, and control the Wuyi Army and the Xuanyi Army! The Zhenwu Army was transferred to garrison Mobei City, the Hedong Army was changed to the Zhenbei Army, and Han Youhuan was the general of the Zhenbei Army, stationed in Yunzhong······ Li Baoyu has been raising horses for a year, it's time for him to return to Beijing, and issue an edict to let him return to Beijing to see him! ”

Inevitably, all parts of the country looked down on the wind, and the cities ripped off Li Na's banner and replaced it with the banner of the imperial court, not accepting Li Na's orders, and at the same time sealing the official seal and waiting for the imperial court to send someone to take over, Li Na was furious, but he was helpless, and he couldn't advance or retreat.

On April 18, the fourth year of the reign of Li Sheng, Li Sheng's army of 120,000 horsemen besieged the city of Qizhou, and Li Na stood on the city and begged to surrender, hoping to be pardoned, but Li Sheng sternly refused, unless Li Na surrendered the city unconditionally. The unconditional surrender made Li Na suspicious, fearing that he would be beheaded by the imperial court, and the rebel generals, officials, and soldiers in Qizhou City were panicking.

On April 21, Li Na was mad and killed all his family, and then committed suicide, and the officials and generals in Qizhou City opened the door and surrendered after discussion, and Li Sheng's army entered the city to receive the rebels, take over the defense and government affairs, and sent people to quickly return to Chang'an to report.

On April 27, the news reached Chang'an, and the Manchu Dynasty celebrated with civil and military affairs, and Zhao Ziliang ordered no curfew for three days and three nights. In view of the fact that although Qizhou has been pacified, the social order is still very chaotic, Zhao Ziliang ordered Li Sheng's army to be temporarily stationed in Qizhou, leaving only the left leading army guard and the right Xiaowei stationed, and the other armies were transferred back, and at the same time appointed Chen Xuanli as the general of the Qizhou garrison to control the left leading army and the right Xiaowei.

In the following months, Zhao Ziliang began to successively remove or transfer officials on the territory of the original feudal towns. By July, the officialdom of Hebei, Henan, Youzhou, Yingzhou, Qingzhou, and other places had been purged on a large scale, and the old bureaucratic forces had been eradicated, and a large number of young officials had entered.