Xiang Nan also knows that the whip method is difficult to implement.
At the time when Yongzheng implemented the policy of "dividing men into acres" and "the gentry all paid for themselves and served as errands", the soldiers of the Eight Banners were still elite, and no one in the world dared to rebel.
Even so, those officials and gentry dared not to implement it.
What's more, Xiang Nan is a restoration king and has made huge mistakes in the past. Now it is naturally more difficult to implement the New Deal, so there are many obstacles.
At the beginning, Xiang Nan instructed the Minister of Hubu to propose this method and let the ministers discuss it, but he received a lot of opposition.
Many ministers directly declined, hoping that Xiang Nan would abide by the ancestral system and not implement any new policies.
Of course, there are people who like and dislike everything.
Even if it is a pile of dung, it may be dirty, rancid and disgusting to others, but to farmers it is the treasure of a fertile field.
Therefore, there are still many ministers who support it.
Hsiang Nan has been in power for more than half a year, and he is not just a figure sitting on the throne.
Over the past six months, although he has not actually established a military aircraft office, he has actually recruited a group of ministers loyal to him and placed them in key positions one after another.
The most important thing is that the current cabinet has been gradually replaced by him.
So he still has a certain amount of power in his hands now.
At that moment, he withstood the pressure and announced a trial implementation in Zhili and Qilu.
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During the trial period of the Yitiao whip method, Enke's examination of scholars was also being held.
In the palace examination after the joint examination, Xiang Nan personally proposed the topic, "On the Reform of Taxation", allowing students to participate in discussing state affairs, so as to select those who support his tax reform.
Those who can pass the provincial examination and the general examination cannot be said to be mediocre students who cheated to pass the examination, but most of them are those who have real talent and learning. After all, even if there is fraud in taking courses, it is only a small number of people, and it is impossible for everyone to commit fraud.
The new policy of whip law has been the hottest topic in the DPRK in the past two months. It's impossible for students like them not to have heard of it, so Xiang Nan now needs to see their opinions, whether they support or oppose it, or whether they have a better idea.
To recruit like-minded people who are willing to support his innovation.
Therefore, Xiang Nan not only set the examination questions himself, but also personally reviewed the articles after the palace examination, and appointed the number one scholar, the second best scholar, the third best scholar, etc., and ranked those who supported his innovation and had true knowledge and insights at the forefront.
In fact, there were many students who supported his innovation. After all, anyone who was not blind could see that the emperor intended to promote innovation. Therefore, it is not difficult for these students to deliberately echo Xiang Nan's new policies and support them during the palace examination.
To figure out what is best for you is in itself the way for an official to establish himself.
But Xiang Nan was not deceived so much.
He can certainly tell who is a sincere supporter of the New Deal and who is just pretentious and submissive; who is truly talented and knowledgeable, and who is a deceitful person who is ambitious and low-handed... Of course he can tell.
Therefore, the students he found were those who sincerely supported the New Deal and were truly capable people.
After Enke became a scholar, Xiang Nan continued to promote a whip method. As expected, the implementation of the New Deal faced heavy pressure.
Officials, gentry and even common people in Zhili and Qilu complained bitterly about the shortcomings of the one-whip method, hoping that the emperor could withdraw his life.
Be mentally prepared for this matter.
No policy will be perfect when it is first implemented, and will inevitably produce various drawbacks. Appropriate modifications are possible, but you must not give up eating due to choking.
Otherwise, no matter how good the policy is, it will be nothing more than a piece of paper if it cannot be implemented.
Therefore, Xiang Nan listened to the opinions of officials and gentry in both places and modified some shortcomings in the one-whip method; at the same time, he continued to vigorously promote the trial implementation of the one-whip method.
For those officials who did not have specific reasons and just did their duty in a perfunctory manner, not only did they issue multiple orders to reprimand, but they even removed and demoted them.
Xiang Nan has just obtained soldiers through Enke and found a group of people he can rely on, but there happens to be no place to place them. Now, by demoting these mediocre, degraded and corrupt officials, we can just send the newly elected capable officials there.
No matter how failed Xiang Nan was, no matter how downcast he was, he was now the emperor and the common ruler of the world.
Just like Zhao Gou, when crossing the south, no matter how anxious he was like a bereaved dog and busy like a fish slipping through the net, once he ascended the throne and became emperor, he still had great power.
Even the generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong were killed whenever they wanted, and demoted to nine demotions if they wanted.
In history, on the day of the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, an order was issued to arrest Yu Qian, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Wang Wen, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. They were executed for treason, and their homes were confiscated and their clans were exterminated.
Even the civil and military officials recommended by Yu Qian and Wang Wen were dismissed. It can be seen that once you sit on the throne and become emperor, you will have considerable power.
Therefore, when Xiang Nan vigorously implemented a whip method, the officials could not stop him even if they wanted to. The whipping method was eventually tried out in Qilu and Zhili provinces.
Xiang Nan also spent a lot of energy on this matter. He not only sent multiple supervision teams to supervise and guide, but also allowed local officials to report secretly.
Previously, when Ming Dynasty officials submitted memorials to the emperor, they had to first hand them over to the Secretary of General Affairs, who then handed them over to the Clerk's Office, who then handed them over to the Clerk of Liturgy, who then handed them over to the Emperor. After the emperor previewed it, it was handed over to the cabinet for drafting and the director of etiquette for approval, and then to the Sixth Section Langfang for copying and registration.
It can be said that there are so many links, any one of which may cause the memorial to be leaked. Just like when Yang Yuxuan wrote a letter of remonstrance to Emperor Jingtai, Emperor Jingtai probably didn't even read it, but was intercepted by Cao Shaoqin in the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
In this way, if subordinates interfere with their superiors, minor officials interfere with powerful ministers, and courtiers interfere with cronies, etc., it is possible that the memorial will leak secrets, and the person who submitted the memorial will have been punished before the emperor sees the memorial.
So in the Qing Dynasty, the secret memorial system was proposed in response to the Ming Dynasty's memorial system that was easy to leak secrets.
The secrets were kept in special leather boxes. Each leather box had two keys, one for the official and one for the emperor. Beyond that, no one can open it.
Moreover, the secret report did not pass through the post station. Officials sent their close associates and family members to send it to the capital, and went directly to the imperial court without passing through anyone's hands in the middle.
In this way, the problem of leakage of secrets is avoided.
Since there is no need to worry about leaking secrets, subordinates can talk to their superiors, junior officials can talk to senior officials, courtiers can talk to cronies, etc. Naturally, they no longer have to worry about it and can speak freely.
The secret secret system further made the government more black-box and added a sense of mystery to the imperial power; it allowed officials to supervise and inform each other, which was helpful to the construction of a clean government; the secret secrets did not need to go through other hands and went directly to the emperor, and the emperor read and approved them, which improved the efficiency of the government. Administrative efficiency; widening the voice, and allowing the emperor to understand more about people's sentiments... In short, there are many benefits.
Therefore, after the introduction of the secret folding system, the official circles of Qilu and Zhili were shaken. The ministers were wary of each other and walked on thin ice for fear of being reported by their subordinates and colleagues.
For this reason, they can only become more honest, lest they be found out in the wrong, and take a turn for the worse.