As an emperor, Liu Jun will also take time to listen to the lectures of the scholars when dealing with government affairs and military operations. The content of the lectures is selected by Liu Jun himself, including classics and history. Classics are Confucian classics, and history is the official history of all dynasties. As for the compilation of poems and lyrics of hundreds of works such as sub-collections, Liu Jun also learned these, but he reads them selectively.

Reading history can be wise, but for Liu Jun, reading the history of ancient dynasties can better understand history. Mei Zhihuan once told Liu Jun that reading history is not just about understanding the rise and fall of dynasties, but about learning more. For example, reading history can learn power and study, and you can achieve great things in the world.

Learning history is also learning the art of emperors, schooling the art of governing the country, and learning to understand loyalty and treacherous and distinguish right from wrong. Although historical figures are not just loyal or treacherous in the eyes of ordinary people, they must be loyal and treacherous, if you read history books carefully, you will have your own understanding. One of the great gains from Liu Jun’s reading history is that he realizes that there is no absolute difference between good and bad in people.

For example, in the past, when he watched the Romance of the Gods, the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he mistakenly regarded Romance - Wu - as history, and believed that King Wen of Zhou in the Cong Shen was really a good person, and King Zhou of Shang was a big villain. When he watched the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he would scold Yang Guang as a tyrant, debauchery, and praise Li Shimin as a wise king of all ages. When he saw the Three Kingdoms, he felt that Emperor Liu was very kind and righteous, and Cao Cao was traitor.

But later he read books such as Huainanzi and Mencius, and found that Zhou Zhou of Shang was not as perverted as those written in the Romance of the Romance, and only knew about wine, meat forests, copper pillars and baking. Reading the Records of the Grand Historian, he found that King Wen of Zhou was not as sacred as described in the Romance of the Romance of the Romance of the Republic of China. Reading Zuo Zhuan and Shangshu made him find out that King Wen of Zhou and King Zhou of Shang was actually a good person and a bad person.

Chinese people like to use moral standards to measure historical figures and then create loyalty, treacherous, good and evil, but the real history is not the case.

Just like Liu Jun listened to the lectures of those historians and scholars, he now has a new understanding of Yang Guang, Li Shimin, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others.

Of course, reading history can also learn the power of emperors and power, understand the general trend of the world, and discover the essence of many affairs.

After the separatist rule of the five vassal states, Zhao and Song unified the Central Plains and established the country, they were extremely cautious about separatist rule of the vassal states, and the military officials were extremely prejudiced, so they were all overly guarded. It was also from the beginning of the Song Dynasty that the political model of using literature to control the military was started.

The army in the Song Dynasty was not weak, and even the Song Dynasty was a very unique military recruitment system in the past dynasties. The expenditure on the army was the highest among all dynasties. But with such a large military expenditure and such a huge million-dollar standing army, why can't even recover the eighteen states of Youyun? Why are there still Northern Liao, Western Xia and Southern Dali standing together with the Song Dynasty?

If you read history books deeply, you will have a clear conclusion, which has a great relationship with the system of using literature to control martial arts in the Song Dynasty. Just because one uses literature to control martial arts, the Song Dynasty had only one million standing troops, and the huge annual military expenditure to support the army, but this army still struggled to play its due role. It was even considered by later generations that the Northern Song army was too weak for a long time.

Liu Jun has his own opinions when reading history, and has read historical books about the Song Dynasty. Liu Jun believes that the Northern Song army is not weak, the Northern Song army is huge, with excellent equipment, good training and generous treatment, but why did the Northern Song army fail to destroy the Liao Kingdom in the north and beat the West Xia and the South to defeat Dali?

It was just because of the use of literature to control the military, and the Song Dynasty had a huge standing army, but many times during wars, the generals were controlled by civil officials. Many of these civil officials who did not understand military affairs at all.

Some people say that the Song army is weak. That is because the soldiers do not recognize generals and generals, and the military orders to separate the military and political systems, and the power to command and dispatch military forces does not belong to each other. But Liu Jun felt that the Song Dynasty did right in this regard, which effectively prevented the harm of military officials' power and separatist rule.

However, what Zhao Song did not have too much precautions was that they had too much precautions, separated the military orders and the military powers, and did not belong to each other. They had not stopped at the right time. Finally, they also created stupid things such as using literature to control the military, launching battle formation maps during wars, sending civilian commanders, eunuchs and supervising the military.

The general's command of the army, the power of the dispatching of troops is separated, and the soldiers do not recognize the generals, and the generals do not recognize the soldiers are not the most terrible. After all, the defense zone rotation, the officers are transferred, and no matter how many times they change, he still leads the soldiers. However, the Censor Wen is an outsider, especially the civil servant Song, who has a status far higher than that of the military officer. When fighting, it is better to meet an excellent civil servant. If you meet an ordinary civil servant, and do not listen to the generals' suggestions and command blindly, it is really a good soldier and no matter how good the equipment is, it is not possible.

Song, it was sheep who led a group of lions to fight.

After the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty expelled the Tartars and restored China.

Zhu Ming had the opportunity to change this mistake, but Zhu Yuanzhang, who was a peasant, formulated many national policies in the royal family's feudal system. The royal family had actual feudal vassals and military escorts, as well as the Ming army's garrison system.

In terms of the army, Zhu Ming even completely followed the Song system and took the use of literature to control martial arts to the extreme. Especially after the early Ming Dynasty, this trend became more and more powerful. The status of military men became lower and lower. Soldiers became slaves of officers, and military officers were regarded as lowly by civil officials. Even if they were seventh-rank magistrates, they would not take the commander of the third and fourth rank, and the generals and others seriously.

The court used troops to fight, and commanded the generals, and sent eunuchs to supervise the army, civil servants and governors, and generals.

Even a fifth-rank military preparation can sometimes command and mobilize a general. The civil servants must make the decision on marching and formation, attacking and retreating.

After the Ming Dynasty, Yiwen Censors were more powerful than during the Song Dynasty, and the army after the Ming Dynasty was even worse than that of the Song Dynasty.

When Liu Jun established the country, he also wanted to eliminate these disadvantages, and his military and political separation were separated and he was incompatible with each other.

It was only because at the beginning of the founding of the country that wars continued and the court could not control the situation in various places in time that it was possible to establish a military region and send a governor to lead the affairs of the party.

For a long time, the governors of various military regions of the Han Dynasty and the governors of various provinces have assumed the important responsibility of taking the lead alone. Under the leadership of these banished officials, all regions have developed well, both military and economic.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Jun later appointed the governor and governor of the Ming Dynasty as a formal official position.

But now, Liu Jun hesitated.

The urgent report sent back from Guangnan made Liu Jun completely unable to sleep last night.

The blind command of Guangnan Governor Liu Jian led to the defeat of Xianghe of the Sixth Fleet, which lost 27 large and small ships, including five frigates, and killed more than 2,300 naval soldiers. If it weren't for his old subordinate Zhao Kang, who later commanded the landing team to fight against the Jianzhou army, defeating the proud Ruan Army, and even seized the opportunity and seized Hue in one fell swoop. The situation in Guangnan would have been even more ugly.

But even so, the battle of Guangnan exposed many problems, which made Liu Jun unable to sleep.

Originally, the Governor and the Governor were in charge of the military and political affairs of the same party, but they were only the general leader, and the specific affairs were still subject to specific persons. For example, in terms of civil affairs, there were governors, judicial inspectors, and military admirals and generals.

Especially in wars, the admiral and the general should be responsible for making decisions. Finally, the governor or governor is responsible for checking and coordinating the cooperation of various troops, as well as the supply of food and grass.

However, in the battle of Guangnan, the governor Liu Jian completely regarded himself as the commander. He even ignored the professional opinions of the generals and launched an attack on his own, carelessly allowing the fleet to break into the Xianghe River, which eventually suffered a heavy blow.

In this incident, although the original military commander was mainly concerned that Liu Jian was the emperor's younger brother, Liu Jian, the governor, commanded the military and political power of a province, was indeed an important reason why Liu Jian could directly seize the command of the army.

If Liu Jian had not lost a big battle this time, who would think that Liu Jian was wrong in commanding the army? I'm afraid I won't.

Governors from all over the country are commanding the army. Governor Zheng Zhilong, Governor Annan Fu Shan, Governor Nanyang Liu Yunsheng, Governor Nanyang Liu Yunsheng, etc., especially those governors in the border areas. The border is not stable yet, and these governors almost all preside over the military and political power of one side.

Now is the beginning of the founding of the country. The governors from all over the country can be said to be the ministers whom Liu Jun trusted the most and are very capable. They are in charge of the country and lead the military and political affairs, and there is no problem.

But just like Liu Jian's thing now, it did not mean that there would not be any future. It is impossible for every governor to have excellent military qualities, just like in the late Ming Dynasty, although there were civil officials like Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Chen Qiyu, who were good at military affairs, but there were also civil officials who were as capable as Yang Sichang, and some were completely military idiots.

Liu Jian's incident sounded a wake-up call for Liu Jun.

His military and political separation was not complete, and the two positions of governor and governor were the biggest failure.

This time, Liu Jian was disappointed in Guangnan. The last time the outer city development case in the capital was just a small problem. Liu Jun took the opportunity to let him go out for exercise, which can be regarded as a killing chicken to warn the monkey and reiterated the court's attitude on certain matters.

But this time, Liu Jian's actions disappointed him too much. Liu Jian was not suitable to serve as a chief official in the border area, and he was not suitable to be the general manager of the military and political affairs of a province.

Liu Jian must be replaced.

But now Liu Jun is still considering the necessary problems of the entire governor and governor. Last night, Liu Jun repeatedly thought about whether the governor would continue to be established. After considering the good and bad aspects of the establishment, he now plans to correct the problem he left behind.

Both the governor and the governor must be cancelled.

The military and political system must be completely separated, and there will be no such thing as using civil servants to control military personnel. Military men cannot interfere in politics, but civil servants cannot control military officers. Therefore, the army is an independent system and a vertical management system.

The system of governors was abolished and the military region system was also abolished.

In the future, under the central government, there were four levels of provincial, county and township levels. The central cabinet directly managed more than 30 local provinces. The province no longer had a governor, but established four teams. The governor's office was in charge of civil affairs, the chief official was the governor's envoy, and the deputy governor was the deputy governor. He was no longer the left-hand governor's envoy, but established the chief deputy governor to clarify the relationship between the chief and the deputy.

In addition, the Censorate Department continued to be in charge of judicial affairs in a province, and the left and right censors were changed to the chief and deputy censors.

A new provincial military region was established, and each province had a command commander's commander. The chief of the provincial commander was the commander's commander, responsible for managing local garrison troops, militias and reserves in a province.

The field troops stationed in the province are not commanded by the commander of the commander of the capital, but are directly under the commander of the five major war zones in the middle, front, back, left and right. Each of the five war zones has a war zone commander and a chief of staff, as well as a war zone commander and a war zone staff headquarters and a war zone staff department, which are specifically responsible for commanding the field troops under each war zone.

The Fifth War Zone is affiliated to the Privy Council, the Fifth War Zone Command is located in the capital, and the Fifth War Zone General Staff is located in the Wudu.

Field troops, garrison troops and capital garrison troops, the military regime is in the Ministry of War, and the military orders are in the Privy Council. The command is in charge of the general staff and the dispatch is in the headquarters.

All troops' equipment, food and salary are subject to the Ministry of War, but the military budget must be reviewed and approved by the parliament.

When there is no war, the troops are stationed in the defense camp, and are led by the Ministry of War, the Privy Council, the General Staff, the Commander of each branch of the Service, the Chief of Staff, the Commander of each branch of the Service, the Commander of the Fifth War Zone, the General Staff of the Fifth War Zone, the General of the Provincial Command, and the General of the Field Army, and are responsible for part of them.

If there is a war, the emperor will select generals as commanders at the military conference and be given the title of general XX and X to command troops. After the war, the general returned to Beijing to take down his post and unloaded his post, and the troops returned to the defense garrison. In this regard, just like in the early Sui and Tang Dynasties, senior generals and other generals of the guards were usually in the capital and did not directly command troops. The soldiers were trained by local military governments. When encountering war, soldiers were drawn from each guards to form an expedition army, and then generals were selected from the court to command troops. After the battle, the troops returned to the palace, and the generals were separated.

Such a change has not been too great in the military, but no civil servants will interfere. The commander appointed by the emperor must be active military generals, and civil servants will not be allowed to command troops. In the future, there will be no governors, governors, patrols, etc. to interfere in military command. Even the chief minister of the cabinet has no right to interfere in military affairs.

The army was divided into two major systems: the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, and then the emperor led and commanded the army through the Military Affairs Office meeting.

After the military region was abolished, each province will act independently, one unit per province, the three teams of the Administrative Department, the Censorate Department and the Provincial Command and Command Department, will also set up new Houses of Senate and Representatives in each province. According to the current three-horse model of the central government, the separation of powers will be implemented and the checks and balances will be implemented. The provincial military region will be independent, commanding local garrison troops, militias and reserves in the province, and responsible for recruitment and retiring and resettlement.

The field army towns are led by the general, and they are directly under the command of the Five War Zones.

The military expenditure of all troops is submitted to the House of Representatives after being approved by the Ministry of War and the Council of the Council, and the Senate will be approved by the Senate. The appointment and removal of low-level officers is in the hands of the provincial commander and the general of the military town. The promotion and appointment of intermediate officers is in the hands of the Ministry of War. The appointment and removal of senior officers is directly subject to the emperor.

The three senior officials of the Governor, Admiral and Governor will be completely cancelled.

In the future, the imperial court would implement more real-life management rather than block management.

The Provincial Administrative Department is under the leadership of the Cabinet, the Provincial Censorate Department is under the leadership of the Censorate, and the Provincial House of Representatives is under the leadership of the Congress of the court, the Provincial Commander and the Provincial Commander and the Ministry of War, and the Privy Council is under the dual leadership.

There is no longer a governor at the provincial level. The governor is like the top leaders of each department. The three departments and one court are relatively independent and do not subordinate to each other.

In this way, the management of the imperial court may be more difficult in the future, but it will be more balanced.

Liu Jun did not hope that the governor would command the army again in the future, but he would be defeated by attacking the weak by attacking the weak. The complex ruling relationship of the army could also avoid the occurrence of military men holding troops or separatist rebellion.

Since there is a problem with a system, change it.

Now, there is only the last question left before Liu Jun. How should he deal with Liu Jian?

After the revocation of the Governor-General and the Governor, Liu Jian will naturally not be the Governor of Guangnan. If Liu Jun thought about some personal relationship, it would be a solution to take the opportunity to recall Liu Jian back to Beijing at this time.

But Liu Jun knew clearly that this time Liu Jian was not only defeated in Guangnan, but also angered many soldiers. If he did not punish him or even punish him lightly, it might be difficult for the soldiers in Guangnan to be satisfied.

After pondering for a long time, Liu Jun finally found a place for Liu Jian.

Dahan Nanyang Company, the former Dahan East India Company, can now be regarded as the leading large commercial group in Dahan, especially in import, export, trade and shipping, which is unmatched.

After the war in Nanyang came to an end, Dahan Nanyang Company made the most profits. Recently, the former president resigned due to illness. The company needed someone who was both credible and capable to preside over it.

Liu Jian is his own brother. He did show excellent management skills when he was in charge of Shuntian Mansion, especially his keenness in business.

Now Liu Jian is no longer suitable to hold an important position in the court. At this time, transferring him to the private company of Nanyang Company as president is a good choice.

Being the president of a private company is equivalent to revoking Liu Jian’s official position. The punishment is not bad, and it can be considered an explanation to the soldiers of Guangnan and the government and the people.

Arranged Liu Jian into Nanyang Company as the president is also an explanation to the young third brother. After all, it is still a family, and Liu Jun cannot arrest him and shoot him because of his defeat. On the other hand, Liu Jian's defeat was only improper command. As a governor, he took over the command power, at most he was a little authoritarian, but he did not seize power illegally.

I hope Liu Jian can understand his hard work, Liu Jun shook his head.

"Come here, call the Prime Ministers to participate in politics and join the palace to attend the Prime Minister's meeting!" Liu Jun called the eunuch and said.

Liu Jun has basically had reform strategies. Now he just needs to formally notify all the Prime Ministers to participate in politics and announce it directly.

If Liu Jun hadn't been the founding emperor, now at the beginning of the founding of the country, Liu Jun would have a very comprehensive grasp of the court. Liu Jun would have to launch such a big reform at once, I'm afraid that the ministers would shout and make trouble.

This is not only the abolition of the three positions of governor, governor and admiral, but also the abolition of thirteen major military regions, as well as the four levels of provincial prefectures, counties and townships. They must follow the central three-horse system to separate the three powers, and the provincial prefectures, counties and townships must all be proposed.

Even the prefect and the magistrate are facing reforms. In the future, the prefect, the magistrate, and the town mayor can only manage civil affairs. The judicial and legislation must be established separately. This is a major operation for the current local bureaucracy system.

There is still a long way to go to whether such a comprehensive change can be completed smoothly, and whether it can adapt and survive after the change.

But no matter how difficult the road ahead is, what Liu Jun has decided will overcome all difficulties and continue to do. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!