"Wen Lan, you mean to regain power, right?" Sun Jingting said: "This topic is not the first time, why are you talking about it again?"

"Because I have made a decision." Zhang Han said: "In the future, the prime minister must not only have prestige, but also have special knowledge. At least he knows how to choose smart people with qualified think tanks, not second-generation ancestors and idiots. How to stop picking idiots? I can choose my son and grandson? If I pass the Jinshi, if I don't enter the Hanlin or the cabinet, it seems to be a stupid rule, but it is the best rule in the Ming Dynasty. Why? Because exams are more difficult, some idiots may be the third-level first-class candidates for the national fortune, and it is difficult to enter the second-level ranking, let alone first-class candidates. Those who can pass the first-class candidates must be the first-class candidates. Then they will be in the Hanlin to study the ministry of the six ministries, and then push them into the cabinet. This is a complete process. This method prevents the emperor from doing anything wrong. For example, the Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty must be the first-class candidates.

I like Jiang Bin. In the Tang Dynasty, he could have been appointed as the border general of Jiang Bin as the prime minister. It was possible for military general to serve as the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty. This brought great uncertainty to the candidates for the government and prime ministers. Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty abolished prime minister, there were complete rules. I am not saying that this set of Hanlin's rules for entering the cabinet was so good, but it can only be said that broken rules are better than no rules. In the future, our prime ministers must also have a set of selection rules, such as soldiers are not allowed to be prime ministers, such as passing the highest level civil service examination, such as having more than ten years of experience in ministry affairs, and if each item is not qualified, it is absolutely impossible to enter the highest decision-making level if it is not allowed to enter the cabinet. My descendants have also had standards for selection and appointment. If there are such standards, how stupid can the prime ministers be selected?"

"Wenlan, you think so far-reachingly." Sun Jingting stood up and bowed: "I know how different we are now. At most, I think about three years later, and what you think about will be the things and layouts in thirty or fifty years later."

"I also made the design based on the situation three or five years later." Zhang Han laughed and said, "Brother Xiaozheng is too rewarding. In fact, if there is no realistic basis, for example, if I told you about these three years ago, you will definitely leave."

“That’s true.”

Sun Jingting smiled and said, "So what does it have to do with today's affairs? Is there any specific connection between the matters of division and the major government, the power of prime minister and the power of the monarch mentioned by Wen Lan?"

"Of course there is." Zhang Han was excited and smiled: "It's so big of a relationship."

Zhang Han said: "The center is a big government, because each department needs quite professional and refined management, just like the situation in a large business bank. When the accounts are settled at the end of the year, dozens of accountants plan to settle the settlement, and a penny must be calculated clearly. The Ming Dynasty court could not do this because the government of the court was large and transformed. The central government is in a perseverance, and the local area is hopeless to be fine. If it was the pre-Qin tribe, this is actually good, but when is it now? The Ming Dynasty's people said that there were more than 100 million people, and the situation of more than a dozen provinces is different.

There are differences. Jiangnan is rich and the northwest is poor, but the land tax standards are the same. Why? Because the Ministry of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty had neither the will nor the ability nor the power to change the land tax standards in various places. The standard was set during the Taizu period. More than two hundred years have passed, it has remained unchanged. Why? The laziness of the bureaucratic system and the lack of ability, even Zhang Jiangling's reforms back then were nothing more than knocking on and patching up loopholes, and asking him to overthrow his ancestors' examples to carry out overall reforms.

It is also unscrupulous. The central government is like this. Does the local government have power? Of course not. All the taxes were collected by the central government. The local government only had a small amount of taxes and levies to maintain. During the Hongwu period, the war had just stopped, and the population was only tens of millions. The local government was destroyed and all industries were withered. Therefore, everything was calm. He also considered that local officials would fish in the countryside, so he did not give them too much power. Local power was a change from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, and another change after the Tang Dynasty. In the past, the central government and local officials had their own benefits.

The prime minister of Han was ten thousand stones, the nine ministers in the center were two thousand stones, and the local prefect was also two thousand stones. The prefect could be directly appointed as the nine ministers, and the nine ministers were only the prefect. The prefect could recruit subordinate officials, appoint and remove subordinates, manage subordinates, and even the army and taxes. The prefect of Han was so powerful that the prefects of the Ming Dynasty could not compare with the prefects of the current Ming Dynasty. It was precisely because the local tyrants were too powerful, and the prefects in various places could even be independent at the end of the Han Dynasty. By the Wei and Jin Dynasties, local tyrants and other gentry were like princes, then China would have returned to the feudal system."

Sun Jingting heard Zhang Han talk about the distinction between centralization and feudalism. The scholars and officials all understood that Emperor Taizu Gao also wanted to be feudal when the founding of the Ming Dynasty. He also wanted to be feudal, and he enfeoffed the kings along the nine sides. The princes were extremely respectful and noble, and could control local military power and be responsible for border defense. Unfortunately, this power was too great. Even if the military power was incomplete, and if the power was not intact, it was still enough to make the later emperors feel a great threat. Jianwen's reduction of the vassal was a failure, but the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty who went on to cut off the power of the local kings until they imprisoned the prince and were unable to leave the palace for nothing. They only felt a little relieved when they left the city to sweep the tombs.

At least Zhang Han believes that this kind of complete centralization occurred during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"What a big article." Sun Jingting said to Zhang Han in shock: "How did you think of it?"

“I’m just good at finding the truth from the surface of things.”

This time, Zhang Han did not say that he was intuition or was entrusted with a dream, and he laughed without any sense of modesty.

In fact, he deserves to be proud. Although Zhang Han was inspired by Meng Sen in the theory of centralization and decentralization, he was in the Ming Dynasty and could see the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty more clearly.

There is no other reason, the political system is imbalanced, and the central and local system designs have serious flaws.

The entire dynasty was not working in the middle, and it was just relying on the strong men given by God to save the tide. After reaching Wanli, it was difficult to return. Now, even if Zhang Juzheng was resurrected, it would not be able to solve the big problem.

Fortunately, the entire East Asia was rotting at this time. If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's internal and external troubles that had reached an irreversible level, the Mongols had no ambition, and the Jurchens had 30,000 soldiers. If the Ming Dynasty had a rotten to the core and their luck was too bad, they might have survived the Little Ice Age and waited to deal with Western colonists with an open and enterprising attitude. Entering the age of firearms, they might have become a larger Turkey in the East, or the Eastern version of Russia. In short, it would be a stronger empire. The great powers would recognize China's status as a strong country. Japan would not have any chance. China would not have so many painful lessons and experiences before entering modernization.

Zhang Han felt that his appearance was an opportunity. He could do better and had to do this well.

"I'm vaguely catching up with your ideas now." Sun Jingting said with great pride: "The management majors of the central government should be managed, such as the Three Sessions of the Song Dynasty, which can manage finances well, and the Privy Council can manage the army well. The Prime Minister will take responsibility, which is much better than the Ming Dynasty cabinet and is notorious."

"The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty may not be true." Zhang Han said sharply: "The capable cabinet master has been criticized for taking power, but he cannot justify it because he has to take power to do things. The cabinet master who does not take power is useless. He is counting on everything. You can count on the 15th year of Wanli. It was not true that Shenzong was bullshit. He grew up in the deep palace and could be better than Zhang Jiangling by reading a few books? My ancestor Feng Pangong and Shen Shixing didn't know? Of course they knew, but the cabinet system was not smooth. For their reputation and safety, they would rather do less and take responsibility. So my ancestor was a politician, very clever, but that's not the case. Zhang Jiangling was a politician. If I wanted to find someone to admire him, I wouldn't choose Feng Pangong."

Sun Jingting laughed silently and shook his head and said, "Wen Lan, you are obsessed with it. Why do you think of your ancestors like this?"

"Maybe I was forced to retreat because of me." Zhang Han thought for a moment, and it was indeed related to this matter. Emperor Aoki pushed Zhang Siwei to a very high level, and Zhang Han was forced to retreat to advance. At least during this period of time during Aoki's reign, the Hutchison disappeared.

It’s not that Zhang Han is afraid of anything, but the development of Hutchison has become like a very high-profile wave, and it is indeed time to take advantage of this period of time to polish your internal strength.

The situation and timing are good, but Zhang Han is not very comfortable. No matter what, being forced by others will never make people feel good, even if it is with his own ancestors.

"All right, don't mention this." Sun Jingting's eyes lit up, and then said: "The professional center, the big government, corresponds to a more flexible and autonomous place. If the center is weak, the local area has power and autonomy will generate centrifugal force, and the corresponding inappropriate relationship will be divided like the end of the Han Dynasty. But if the management is proper, the center is strong and professional, the appropriate decentralization of the local authority will only be the mutual promotion of the two, which is beneficial to the center and the local area. So after the division of counties, do you want each county to have considerable autonomy?"

"Yes, I have this plan." Zhang Han said: "The division plan is to divide our existing territory into forty-two counties. The former Khan and Jinong Taiji were the county dukes and county marquis, county marquis, county marquis, and county marquis were respectively divided into Ming ranks. They were quite noble and the Mongols should be able to understand. They were just empty positions. After a long time, the original herder Dingkou would be directly controlled by us. This is the general trend, and they could understand it, so they wanted to make trouble. But what is the general trend? The general trend means that you can only accept crushing. Under the general trend, personal efforts will appear pale and ridiculous, and heroes will be controlled by the current situation, let alone a group of people like them?"

Zhang Han's words were quite cold. In fact, when he met the Mongolians, he was a little hesitant. He did not want to kill people, but could do things a little ugly, but he gave up later.

Temporary pleasure may bring deeper concerns, and there is no need to do so.

"The King of Shunyi can be the prince, the three Khans are also the county lords, the Bahua and Baihong Dataiji are the county lords, the Aoba and Ming Antaiji of Korqin are the county lords, but Tuhan is the county lords." Zhang Han thought for a moment and ordered: "Elin Chen and Huo Luochi are also the county lords. Yinding and Baiyin are the county lords."

"The rest of Taiji are county magistrates?"

"right."

"Let's do this." Zhang Han said: "I know Shuolei has been trying to calm everyone's spirit this time and has done a lot of things. After a while, you can find an excuse to reward him with some items and announce that he will be granted as the prince alone. Let people know that if you serve He Ji and serve me, there will definitely be a reward."
Chapter completed!