After the Battle of Mobei, the entire Great Heaven fell into calm again, except for the Xiao cavalry army and the hussar army rotated once, replaced, and monitored and drove Huang Taiji westward, there was no major battle.

Daming, under the troika of the government, the Cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, is advancing steadily.

The national road construction plan is still ongoing, this plan that lasted for almost two years, is almost the largest project in the entire Ming Dynasty, compared to the navy's port plan, the school plan of the Ministry of Education, and the school plan is much larger, and countless people are involved in it, and the impact is very huge.

The cost of road construction has also greatly exceeded expectations, under the influence of the participating local governments and the game of people from all over the country, the original plan has been expanded, and countless roads have been added. In this case, the cost is naturally extremely high, and the 30 million taels of silver that were auctioned off in the early stage have all been invested, which is almost consumed, and in the later stage, the cabinet squeezed out another 5 million after disposing of the salaries and benefits of civil servants.

The inner government, under the instruction of Zhu Youxiao, invested 5 million, of course, these money was not given in vain, but was counted together with the money borrowed by the previous cabinet and used as an investment, and the way to recover it was the road maintenance fees collected at various checkpoints and road intersections.

The Cabinet uses this right as a guarantee and repayment to repay debts previously borrowed.

On the military front, the city defense corps in various localities has been steadily built, and barracks, grain depots, transportation hubs, and information transmission centers have been largely completed and erected. In the second half of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, all the urban defense troops of various provinces, prefectures, and counties were recruited.

With the completion of the conscription of the city defense army in the middle pillar, the three-level combat readiness system of the entire metropolitan governor's office has been roughly completed, with 200,000 field troops and 100,000 navys with the strongest combat power, and these 300,000 troops are responsible for foreign and mobile operations, expanding the territory, and defending the country are their tasks.

The city defense army acts as an internal security force, responsible for maintaining law and order in the country, suppressing bandits, assisting the police, and ensuring the safety of the local government. At the same time, it also acts as a reserve force for the entire country, and when needed, it can also broadcast the front line and support the frontline war.

The entire city defense army, 50,000 people in each province, of course, according to the different situations and complexity of each place, there are different increases and decreases, for example, Sichuan Province, there are 70,000 people, and Mongolia Province, there are no less than 100,000 city defense troops, and all of them are cavalry.

As for the province of Liaodong, it was divided into three by Zhu Youxiao according to the map of later generations, and each province set up a city defense army and governor, and Xiong Tingbi was promoted to the governor of the entire three northeastern provinces, responsible for the local military and political construction, and was a high authority, the first person to be a feudal official.

Under the city defense army, like the teachers, they have refined the militia training in each village, and what they brought out was the militia all over the Ming Dynasty.

The militia is only dispatched to supplement the troops, or when the local city defense force is insufficient, when the disaster is rescued, or when the large-scale rebels are exterminated, and the enemy agents are searched and arrested, and they are generally just to maintain daily training.

However, in the conscription document issued by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, it was stipulated that in the future, the recruitment of the city defense army could only be carried out from the militia, and the replenishment of the field army could only be selected from the city defense army in various places. In such a company, when a recruit is added to the field army, he is likely to have received more than a decade of military or paramilitary training.

Its military quality is extremely high, and there is no need for separate training in discipline and combat skills, but only needs to strictly control ideology and politics, and such a strict military hierarchy not only guarantees the strength of the most powerful field army, but also ensures its loyalty.

After the various systems have been built, the entire Ming Dynasty has entered a period of steady development, and in the four years of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao was not idle, but took Zhang Yan and his daughter to play a private visit to the microserver.

The few of them spent almost half of their time outside, starting from Jingshi, walking along various roads all the way to the south, observing the people's situation while punishing the local bullies. And every time he stayed, he was selected by Jinyiwei.

On the one hand, they manipulated the market and exploited the peasants, and on the other hand, they colluded with the government, evaded taxes, and dug into the corners of the empire.

It just so happened that he took the opportunity of his own private visit and put an end to all these local gangs. The emperor personally went down the field, not only as a referee, but also as an athlete, such a scoundrel play, no one can finish him.

For a while, as long as the news of the emperor's disappearance in the palace was released, everyone in the local life was in danger, and countless bullies disappeared and all went into hiding.

In the days that followed, Zhu Youxiao often went out of Beijing from time to time to go to the localities, and this habit lasted until his death, and this behavior was like a sword of Damocles, hanging above the heads of every official, making them tremble and not dare to act recklessly.

Otherwise, one day the emperor appears on the ground to find bad luck, and the gods can't save it.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, in Zhu Youxiao's tour of the mountains and waters, four years of the Apocalypse had passed, and the fifth year of the Apocalypse would soon come.

This year, but it is not a trivial year, the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple have to be replaced, which is really turbulent and agitated.

The countless conspiracies and tricks of the previous year all played a role at this moment, and every day, anonymous reports appeared in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and all the reports were facts, and under the effectiveness of these black materials, countless bigwigs fell, and countless officials climbed up.

It wasn't until Liu Ruoyu took the holy decree and read out the members of the new government team that this round of open guns and secret seizures was calmed down.

As expected, Xu Guangqi deservedly became the second first assistant of the Ming Empire, of course, if it is actually speaking, it is okay to say that he is the first. In later generations, the general public also thought so, except for some more serious historiography conferences.

As for the other cabinets, there are five who have not changed, and the real increase is only three people, and it is no surprise that Xiong Tingbi has entered the cabinet. There is no suspense when he enters the cabinet, and if he does not enter the cabinet, this is forcing him to rebel.

The remaining two, one is Cui Mingji, who is named after the emperor's loyal dog, he has worked hard for a year or two to promote the progress of land reform, which is really hard work, and he didn't say it when he entered the cabinet.

And the last one left, quite unexpectedly, was an unknown person - Song Xiance. His ascension to power was completely the emperor's willful will.

The specific role of it, no one at the time saw it clearly, until later generations gradually decrypted it, so that the world could see what Song Xiance did.

Solve the problem of the clan, and take advantage of this turmoil and the unrest of the clan to gather a large number of rebels, secretly provide all kinds of tools for rebellion, push all the scum over, and then carry out a complete purge.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, a huge rebellion broke out from Sichuan, and the remnants of Confucius, Fanwang, Tusi, and gentry all united to set off a rebellion of hundreds of thousands of people, and the entire rebellion spread to the five southwestern provinces, however, this seemingly spectacular uprising lasted less than half a year before it was quelled.

Subsequently, countless people were implicated, their homes were convicted, and a large number of people were immigrated to Northeast China, Gansu, Mongolia, Qinghai, etc.

Of course, these are later words, and no one thought of them when Song Xiance came to power.

After the unexpected Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, the entire Ming Dynasty began to fall into the sea of various festivals, the Grand Theater held the first theatrical performance competition, various types of artists performed on stage, and selected various awards, the Grand Theater Award became the highest award in the Ming Dynasty, with far-reaching influence.

Later, the first Daming International Games were held in the gymnasium, and in addition to a team formed by each province, there were also various subject countries that were subject to overseas such as the Shimazu family on the island of Kyushu, Annam, Quang Nam, and so on.

The participation of these countries made the Games worthy of its name, and then, like the cabinet change and the National Literary and Art Competition, the International Games were held every five years, and with the increasing influence of the Ming Empire on the whole earth, this event became an international event, replacing the status of the Olympic Games in later generations.

The Olympic Games, on the other hand, have become regional events similar to the Paralympic Games, which are only popular in Europe.

After the games, it soon came the time for Zhu Yuanzhang to ascend the throne, which was the national day of the Ming Empire to celebrate the birth of the empire.

On the National Day, in addition to the various provincial gifts similar to floats, there was also the largest and most formal military parade since Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne.

The venue of the event was in Damingmen Square, the most elite troops in the field army, the most elite troops in the cavalry, the Yulin officer corps, the elite troops of the navy, the marines, the city defense army, the militia, etc., countless people who were not low were reviewed, and the strict army really showed off the strength of the Ming Dynasty, so that foreign countries surrendered, so that Westerners did not dare to despise.

And on the National Day, Zhu Youxiao learned another good news, that is, Zhang Yan was pregnant again, and according to the experience of many old doctors, this baby should be a baby boy. In this way, the heir problem that Zhu Youxiao was worried about was finally solved.

If he can make his eldest son the heir without any risk in this way, he will not engage in any tricks of seizing the heir, and the internal strife of the heir will undoubtedly cause the greatest harm to the empire.

Zhu Youxiao is sure that even if the heir is a mediocre person, with the system he has built, he can sit firmly on the throne without any obstacles and be a good king.

The entire five years of the Apocalypse, in this way, with the whole country jubilating and the emperor rejoicing, passed rapidly and came to the next year.