If you are Chongzhen, how can you turn the tide?

If I were Emperor Chongzhen, I really don't think I can start with this mess of names. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the political discipline was corrupt, corrupt officials were rampant, and the climate of the Little Ice Age also affected the national grain production, and the internal environment was really poor. Externally, there are powerful enemies around, and the division of tigers and wolves in the late Jin Dynasty often invades, causing great damage to the country.

Of course, as an emperor, these problems have to be solved. If I were Emperor Chongzhen, the first thing I should do is to train the new army and master the military, which will have an impact on the national situation. Otherwise, it is difficult for an isolated emperor to let go of his hands and feet to rectify an empire. The focus of training the new army is to break away from the old bureaucratic system, build the best equipment and build a guard army of about 50 thousand people. All officers and men must be selected from within the system, and external officers can only serve as instructors. For a feudal country, it is relatively easy to build an army of about 50 thousand people and bear the cost. We can also recruit young able-bodied men from local troops, take care of the emotions of aristocratic families, and allow young people from aristocratic families to join the army, but the proportion must not be too high, and they should be treated equally in training. The troops are stationed near the imperial city, so I can often inspect and give training plans from the perspective of modern military. The deployment of ancient cold weapons still depends on traditional generals, but modern people still have a great advantage in basic training and discipline training, and then reward them to stimulate the enthusiasm of the army to kill the enemy.

The second step is to change the management mode of the palace and reduce personnel. Direct reduction may cause opposition from some interest groups. Palace eunuchs can be organized into troops, which is equivalent to transforming service personnel into soldiers, and can change the defects of eunuch army supervision system. These physically disabled people are prone to quirks themselves, and they can become more radical and become excellent soldiers through the induction of emperor status. These people can be promised a normal knighthood, which will be a great temptation for those who have no pursuit of life. As for a large number of ladies-in-waiting, they can be married. Similarly, people who have made great achievements in the border guards can be betrothed to him, which can greatly improve the fighting will of the border guards.

The third point is immigration. The people in the north, especially in Liaodong and western Liaoning, were often plundered by the late Jin Dynasty and became the resources for the enemy's development. Simply developing the southern region and emigrating from war-torn areas can not only weaken the enemy, but also promote the economic development of the southern region. In this process, we can adopt some plans to stimulate wealthy businessmen to develop wild land to attract refugees, from the state's efforts to take care of these refugees to the businessmen and nobles to deal with them. This can save a lot of money, and in the process of development, it can stimulate the enthusiasm of big noble, which has mastered social resources.

With these preliminary preparations, the society is more stable, and the next step is to strengthen border defense and rectify official management. This is easier to do. In the Ming Dynasty, the party struggle was very serious, the literati were proud of the imperial aides, and the military discipline of the border guards was corrupt. It is better to concentrate the moths in these countries and recruit civil servants to the border guards on a large scale, especially the Lindong Party. You can use this to supervise the army. But there are many ways to make these people never come back. The civil service system and the military attache system will inevitably lead to chaos and conflict in border areas, which will have a great impact on border defense. Therefore, it is necessary to mobilize new troops to deploy in border areas and establish a second military defense line, while the original military system will be divided. This process will inevitably sacrifice many people, but for the development of a country, giving up love can only be very painful. Restart the system of low-level professional titles and improve the status of military commanders. The standard to measure the promotion of the title is not how much lost land is recovered, but to slay or capture the enemy generals alive, which is a bit like Ran Min ordering the killing of Hu. By rewarding titles, you can fully support military commanders materially. After a lot of fighting, the number of border guards will inevitably be consumed. At this time, the constantly replenished new army will establish a new leadership system and gradually replace the original frontier military command system.

For the domestic insurgents, the recruitment method is adopted to screen out the outstanding ones and send them to the frontier. Most of these insurgents choose to rebel because they can't live any longer. We can give them some material support and kill the enemy in the frontier, which can not only relieve the domestic pressure, but also relieve the external pressure. Direct conscription in poverty-stricken areas prone to civil strife, allowing leading figures to organize their own training and unify to the frontier to make meritorious deeds.

For the transformation of bureaucracy, the new bureaucracy was mainly established by immigrants, while the old bureaucracy was attacked by spies. This process should not be rushed. It is necessary to seize the weakness of the coastal bureaucratic families in going to sea for trade, seize several typical cases and suppress them in order to obtain a lot of wealth and support national construction. After being suppressed to a certain extent, the maritime ban can be opened through the rebound of the civil service system, which can promote economic and trade exchanges at home and abroad and accumulate wealth for the country. When encountering political resistance, we can eliminate political resistance through large-scale anti-corruption, seize the corruption of civil servants, make the article bigger, and occupy the commanding heights of national justice. These people will not be killed, but sent to the frontier. Their wealth is unified to the state, and they use the surplus profits to attract other civil servants to fatten up and then kill them.

The growth of the new army led to the military power being in the hands of the emperor and the implementation of government decrees. In such troubled times, it is difficult to change the development of a country without violent means, and it is also difficult to finally solve the country's problems through simultaneous efforts inside and outside the war.