I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Governor Yamen, Wu Changqing received a secret report from Wang Dayong.

Wu Changqing didn't care much about Wang Dayong and Liu Hansan fighting against Fang Guoan without authorization, and their eastward attack to occupy Huzhou.

Now he is eager to create more conflicts with the imperial court to quarrel, and it is best if the conflicts become irreconcilable, and then he can have a reason to send troops to the south and occupy all the territory of King Lu.

If King Lu's territory is not under control, he is always a little concerned about the northern expedition.

After all, Hangzhou is too close to Suzhou and Songjiang. If King Lu sneaks behind him, he will be attacked by the enemy.

Although, he will not fail completely because of being attacked once, but the fall of Suzhou and Songjiang will definitely hurt his bones.

There is his big rear, the most important economic zone, and there are a lot of technological secrets.

Once the enemy got those things, it would be a lot of trouble for him.

And he can't put too many troops in the Wusong area, there are too many places to be stationed. And the pressure of raising the army is great, and he cannot expand the army without limit.

"Act by chance."

Wu Changqing gave a brief instruction and let Wang Dayong and the others realize it by themselves.

He can't speak too bluntly and leave people with something to say.

Although it is not a big deal even if someone gets caught, Wu Changqing still tries his best to keep a good reputation.

After giving a simple instruction, Wu Changqing put the matter aside.

Now he has a lot of things to deal with every day, and it is only a small matter for him to have a bad relationship with Fang Guoan.

He is now studying how to reform the official system and improve administrative efficiency.

The official system of the Ming Dynasty was a six-department cabinet system, the cabinet was the decision-making body, and the specific affairs were six ministries.

The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of personnel, and is responsible for the assessment, appointment and removal of officials, and is the department with the greatest power.

The emperor's day-to-day management is full of opportunities. It is difficult to personally appoint officials below the third rank, and it is difficult for the emperor to understand the officials below the third rank. Therefore, the appointment of these official positions is determined by the Ministry of Personnel.

Those who want to be promoted to official positions naturally have to please the officials.

Even for officials of the third rank and above, when the emperor appoints, he needs to take the advice of the officials to a certain extent.

This department holds the future of most officials, and its power can be imagined.

It is very normal for a third-grade worker of the Ministry of Industry to please a fifth-grade official.

The second most powerful is the Ministry of Household, they are in charge of household registration, civil affairs, land resources, finance and taxation and other things, and they are in charge of a lot.

But now Wu Changqing's subordinates have the power of taxation in the Ministry of Accounts to be stripped out by Wu Changqing, and a separate taxation department has been established.

These days, if you have money, you have soldiers, and if you have soldiers, you have power, so the power to collect taxes is very important. Wu Changqing arranged for his uncle Wu Youdao to take charge of it personally.

Giving this position to Gu Yanwu, he was not at ease. If Gu Yanwu had his heart on the court and made a false account and sent the tax collected to Zhu Yihai, he would vomit blood.

Because Wu Changqing couldn't do everything personally, there are still many ways for those in charge of tax collection to make false accounts.

The Ministry of War is in charge of the military, which seems to be very important. But in fact, this military department is only in charge of logistics, as well as recruiting and training. The main army is in the hands of Wu Changqing, and the Ministry of War has no power to command.

Therefore, it is far less important than the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Household.

The Ministry of Rites is responsible for indoctrination, education, and ritual sacrifice, and is also a relatively important department.

The Ministry of Justice has the power to arrest, report, judge, and legislate, which seems to be very powerful. But in actual operation, most of these powers will be divided by other departments and the cabinet.

Therefore, the power of the Ministry of Punishment is actually relatively small, only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Industry. The Ministry of Industry was the worst. It was only a technical department and had a very weak presence in the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in Wu Changqing's jurisdiction, the Ministry of Industry is very powerful, because the Ministry of Industry is responsible for the manufacture of those advanced weapons and holds a lot of military secrets.

The six-part system has been used for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is a fairly mature and complete system. But from the perspective of Wu Changqing's later generations, this system is already a bit backward.

For example, there is no special department to manage the business that is very important in his eyes. This is very unreasonable and will breed many problems.

It is quite unreliable to rely solely on private chambers of commerce organizations. The chamber of commerce only considers the interests of businessmen, how could it possibly take into account the imperial court.

Not only is there no Ministry of Commerce, but there is not even a Ministry of Agriculture.

It seems that in history books, words such as emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce can often be seen, but in fact, the government in this era paid very little attention to agriculture.

The biggest thing is to build a little water conservancy project.

Few people even bothered to come up with something more advanced like a pear rake, let alone sifting good varieties.

Agriculture in this era is actually very inefficient. Coupled with the annexation of land, countless people have become tenants.

At least, Wu Changqing didn't see any trace of "re-agriculture".

In short, the current administrative system, in Wu Changqing's opinion, is very backward, has many drawbacks, and needs reform in many places.

Of course, this kind of reform cannot be pushed all over again at one time, as the impact will be too great. Being too radical is self-defeating. In history, many reforms were stillborn because they were too radical.

Wu Changqing is going to use the method of boiling frogs in warm water, a little bit

to change.

The first is to separate the power of tax collection from the Ministry of Households, and the second is to make the Ministry of Punishment independent, and not allow other departments to interfere with it, which can reduce a lot of matters between officials and officials.

Many officials have committed crimes. Just as the Ministry of Justice is about to convict, the department to which the official belongs will use its power to intervene, making it difficult for the Ministry of Justice to do its work.

In the new plan formulated by Wu Changqing, the Ministry of Punishment is independent, and other departments are not allowed to intervene in the work of the Ministry of Punishment. At the same time, the appointment and removal of officials in the Ministry of Punishment is determined internally by them, and the Ministry of Personnel does not allow interference.

In this way, it can be avoided that the Ministry of Officials relies on its influence to place some of its own people in the Ministry of Punishment.

However, in this way, the Ministry of Punishment will become its own system, and the power will be too great, and it is easy to be lawless. Therefore, Wu Changqing divided the punishment department into three and divided it into three divisions. Legislative Division, Judicial Division, Law Enforcement Division.

If the powers of arrest, trial, and legislation are not divided, then only the Ministry of Justice can know the truth of a case, which is obviously impossible.

Wu Changqing didn't know much about the separation of powers, but he also knew that the referee should be separated from the athletes, and the sports and athletes could not be the referees at the same time, so that others would not have to play.

Managing a regime is a very complicated thing, and now Wu Changqing has a deep understanding of it.

He is already relatively lazy, and leaves a lot of things to the officials below to deal with, but he is still full of things to do every day.

He could already understand why Zhu Yuanzhang, the workaholic devil, had to work more than ten hours a day.

Wu Changqing doesn't have the tendency to be abused. Except for the power of the army and tax collection, he has firmly controlled all other powers.

Anyway, as long as these two powers are in their hands, other people can't be demons and can't turn the sky.