In the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Zhu Cihong was looking at the letter sent by Princess Kunxing.

The letter said: "Brother Huang, how to answer this question, can you tell me quietly?" I stayed under the apple tree for a few days and didn't come up with it, so I asked San'er's teacher, Fang Yizhi, and he told me that there is a force in the earth that attracts all things, and I don't know if it's true or not......"

Zhu Cihong smiled, this imperial sister has a very smart brain, and she likes to listen to herself talk about science and other issues since she was a child, and now she can explore problems so persistently, it is very good, she did not waste her teachings in vain.

Zhu Cihong wrote a reply letter, and said to Wu Zhong: "Go to the Royal Academy of Sciences to copy a set of scientific documents and send them to the princess, as well as the Rubik's Cube that the palace has recently ordered craftsmen to build, and also send a few sets over." ”

Zhu Cihong stretched his waist and sighed in his heart, there was a prince scientist in the Ming royal family before, will there be a princess scientist in the future? I'm looking forward to it!

The vassal king of the Ming Dynasty has always been a moth-like character in people's minds, but in the past two hundred years, there have been several scientific talents.

First of all, the fifth son of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang Zhu Yuanzhang [sù], is also the first generation of Zhou kings, like poetry and medicine, in terms of poetry, Zhu Hu's achievements are average, but in medicine, Zhu Hu's achievements are amazing, and Li Shizhen's epoch-making masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica" in later generations has a lot of content from Zhu Hu's research results.

If Zhu Hu's other works are more about sorting out the achievements of his predecessors, then "Saving the Famine Materia Medica" has opened up a new field, describing a total of 414 kinds of plants, nearly two-thirds of which have not been recorded in the previous Materia Medica.

There is also a prince, named Zhu Zaiyu, is the ninth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the son of King Zheng's line, after the death of his father, Zhu Zaiyu should have inherited the throne as the son, but he gave up the country seven times, resigned and returned to the country, and devoted himself to writing.

Zhu Zaiyu's most outstanding contribution is the creation of the "New Law Secret Rate", that is, the 12 equal laws, which are now the most commonly used in the music industry in the world, and the West regards it as the "standard legal system".

Zhu Zaiyu is known as the "originator of piano theory", and Chinese and foreign scholars revere him as "the sage of the Oriental Renaissance".

It is ironic that these two princes of the Ming Dynasty are unknown in China, but they are recognized as world-class scientists in the West.

Zhu Cihong took a short rest, and a brocade guard quietly came and carefully reported the affairs in the hall of the official department.

Zhu Cihong couldn't help frowning when he listened to what Jin Yiwei said, the style of civil officials who put their qualifications and asked for care of the group has been around for hundreds of years, and it is through this way that the imperial examination forces arrange order and form a civil official group with powerful power.

Zhu Cihong profoundly realized that if he wanted to completely change this situation, it was far from enough to reform the six arts of the gentleman in the imperial examination, and it was necessary to fundamentally solve this problem.

"Education reform is imminent, and it needs to be spent!"

Zhu Cihong sighed, continued to bury his head in the copywriting, and made the final adjustment to the positions of Jiangnan officials.

It was confirmed that Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, was in charge of the fields, household registration, and salaries in several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Cihong took out the tax authority from the household department to set up a separate tax department, which was in charge of all the tax revenues of the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, including the grain collection and storage of Juntun and Mintun, and all taxes could only be collected by the Ministry of Taxation, and Cheng Guoxiang was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation.

In the past, in addition to the household department can collect taxes, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War have the right to collect taxes, nominally called "bamboo and wood extraction", to the local tax collection departments are even more unimaginable, even the military generals can find a way to collect taxes, this stubble of taxes, ordinary people who can bear it?

Yang Tinglin served as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, who was responsible for the triennial examination of officials in the provinces south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Cihong changed the Jingcha to a triennial inspection, and implemented the method of examination and the elimination system at the end to evaluate the effectiveness of work and improve the efficiency of officials.

The secretary of the Criminal Department was served by Gu Wei of the former Military Justice Department, and was responsible for the criminal names of the Nanjing Divisions, Gonghou Bofu, Tianwu Army and other armies.

In addition to the original Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji, and Yang Yufan, Zhu Cihong added Cao Bianjiao, Gao Bang, and Li Shaoyou to form a check and balance.

The Ministry of Rites is still held by Zhu Jizheng, in charge of the politics of etiquette, religion, nationality and diplomacy, and Yang Shicong, the former young Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion, is the left waiter of the Sanpin Rite Department.

Zhu Jiqi is an upright official, writes straightforwardly, and has an excellent reputation in history, and this position belongs to him.

The candidate for the Ministry of Industry has not moved, or Xiong Mingyu, Zhu Cihong ordered him to build more than 10,000 schools in several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, which must be completed before the beginning of spring next year.

Zhu Cihong took a piece of the school out of the Ministry of Rites and set up a Ministry of Education, with Li Yan as Shangshu and Mao Xiang and Huang Zongxi as the assistants.

Mao Xiang and Huang Zongxi have both gone ashore, Mao Xiang is flexible in acquaintance, and talented, Huang Zongxi's educational ideas are relatively advanced, and they are both members of the Fushe.

Zhu Cihong appointed the two of them to win over the young backbone of the Restoration Society in disguise, so that they would not make trouble and give full play to their respective talents, also in order to divide the Restoration Society.

Zhu Cihong screened the scholars recruited by Juxian Building and moved them to the Hanlin Academy to serve as cabinet advisers; The Huangming Military Academy was moved to Nanjing, and it was still under the Military Aircraft Department.

Li Banghua served as the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was in charge of the legal and discipline supervision of officials, and cooperated with the Beijing inspection and examination of the Ministry of Officials, and all other functions were withdrawn.

The positions of Nanjing garrison and town guard eunuch have not changed, and continue to be held by Wei Guogong and Han Zanzhou, because the Nanjing Military Department has become the Military Machinery Department, the two of them have long been hollowed out, in addition to being able to command the Nanjing Beijing Battalion, the garrisons in various parts of the Jiangnan have nothing to do with them.

Zhu Cihong appointed Qiu Zhizhong as the eunuch of Fengyang Town, and all the rights of the eunuch were withdrawn, and he was only responsible for the military factory and iron factory in Jiangbei.

Due to the death of Shi Kefa's father-in-law, he went home to guard the system, and the post of governor of Caoyun was taken over by Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing.

The original military cantonment department was in charge of Zhao Jinglin, who was responsible for training the tuntian soldiers in various places, and the people of the military cantonment department could not enter the military aircraft department, which was a rule set by Zhu Cihong, so as to avoid the overlap between the right to train troops and the right to transfer troops.

The logistics department was supervised by the eunuch Lu Jiude, who as an old man in the Yongwei battalion, had fought with the army many times, and knew the art of war and strategy, so it was not a big problem to be in charge of logistics.

In all the departments involved in the military, there is no civilian official in charge, all of them are in charge of the military generals, and Zhu Cihong does not plan to install civilian personnel in the military aircraft department in the future, preparing to divide the civil and military forces.

In foreign wars, the emperor and the cabinet decided whether to fight or not, and after assigning the combat mission, as for how to fight, it was a matter that the generals and staff officers of the Military Aircraft Department needed to discuss, and the ministers were not allowed to intervene.

Governing the country with civility, Anbang with martial arts, specializing in the arts, the civil and military classes only need to be responsible for the emperor, so as to avoid repeating the tragedy of Qi Jiguang, and a generation of celebrities will be dragged down by the party struggle of civil officials.

Zhu Cihong would rather be a hundred years later, the Ming Dynasty's military generals will sit big and take the road of foreign expansion, rather than blindly defend the civil officials and not want to forge ahead.

Of course, these are all afterwords, he didn't die for a day, and the people below couldn't make any big waves, and it will take time to verify how to balance the civil and military forces in the future, and slowly improve.

At present, there are nearly 200,000 tuntian soldiers in Nanzhili and Huguang provinces, and these tuntian soldiers have been training in different fields since two or three years ago, and now they have a scale, and the firearms armament rate has reached 50 percent.

After careful consideration, Zhu Cihong divided the 100,000 Tianwu Army and the 200,000 Tuntian Army into seven major armies, namely the Tianwu Army, the Longwu Army, the Shenwu Army, the Jingwu Army, the Dingwu Army, the Anwu Army, and the Tianxiong Army.

Tianwu Army: Zhu Cihong's descendant troops, all of which are experienced in a hundred battles, equipped with the most sophisticated weapons, are now the most elite troops in the Ming Dynasty and even in the whole of East Asia, and there is no one, led by Sun Yingyuan, stationed in Nanzhili.

Longwu Army: A mobile force composed entirely of cavalry, the 30,000 cavalry of the Right Tianwu Army formed an independent army, and fought many bloody battles with the Eight Banners Army, proving their toughness to everyone with blood, led by Cao Bianjiao.

Shenwu Army: Formed by the Tianwu Army's heavy artillery brigade independently, it is the crystallization of the top technology of the Ming Dynasty, with thousands of Hongyi cannons, the country's heavy weapon.

Jingwu Army: 50,000 men and horses, composed of Huang Degong's men and horses trained in Huguang, transferred to Zhejiang, to suppress the landlords and gentry who resisted the New Deal.

Dingwu Army: 50,000 men and horses, commanded by Zhou Yuji, taking Huang Degong's class, stationed in Huguang.

Anwu Army: 50,000 men, 20,000 Anwu Army under the command of Yang Yufan was expanded and transferred to Jiangxi.

Tianxiong Army: 50,000 men and horses, expanded by the rest of Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, and the current commander Lu Xiangkun was transferred to Liangguang.

In terms of recruitment, drills, and military orders, the seven armies were all reorganized in accordance with the military system model of the Tianwu Army.

In mid-October, the reorganization of the Seventh Army was completed, and Zhu Cihong formally issued a decree to the provinces south of the Yangtze River: abolishing the poll tax, abolishing the privilege of tax exemption for officials and landlords, comprehensively checking the hidden fields in all provinces, and implementing a new policy of apportioning the land to the mu and paying grain to the officials and gentry in one.

The poll tax is also called Ding Yin, that is, the number of people in the family is taxed, rather than the amount of tax collected according to how much land you have in your family, which leads to the hardship of the people with little land, no land, and no income, but the gentry and landlords are very nourishing.

The tax is evenly apportioned into the field tax, and the unified land tax is levied, and the tax is no longer levied on people, and the local provinces, states and counties find out how much land is per mu and share the tax according to the per mu.

The privileges of tax exemption for officials and landlords must be abolished before the land is apportioned, otherwise it will still be impossible to collect money from large households.

At the same time, Zhu Cihong loosened his control over the household registration, so that peasants and craftsmen could move freely and sell their labor;

To put it bluntly, Zhu Cihong just robbed Yongzheng's business, although these policies are not the best and have many drawbacks, but they are the most appropriate to use at this time, and history has proved this.

After the decree was issued, Zhu Cihong strictly ordered all the people of all departments to kill and kill as long as they openly resisted the new policy and opposed the spread of land into the mu! After killing, raid the house!