After such coercion and temptation from Ning Yu, Fu Erdan's mind was already dizzy, he subconsciously felt that what Ning Yu said made sense, but he was a little unwilling in his heart.

"What Your Majesty said is certainly reasonable, but my Eight Banners are also more than a million people, if I don't even refuse to give me Eight Banners in places outside the border, where can I go with Eight Banners? Your Majesty's words, is it not to kill them all? ”

A smile appeared on Ning Yu's face, "I have already said that if you want to kill them all, you will not have a chance to meet me today...... The reason why I am still willing to come to see you is because there is still a piece of land outside of China where you can go. ”

Fu Erdan didn't even have any anger in his heart, and he couldn't help but be curious: "Please ask Your Majesty, where is this place?" ”

"America."

"Where is America? I've never heard of a place like this in the Qing Dynasty. Fu Erdan was a little suspicious, he felt that Ning Yu was fooling him, and he deliberately made up a place name.

"A country of heaven that has not yet been completely occupied by people, not within the scope of China, on the other side of the sea. If you wait for the Eight Banners to go to the Americas, as long as you can gain a foothold, it will also be a credit to my Huaxia, and I will be able to give you a way to live at that time. ”

Ning Yu patiently explained, but speaking of the current Americas is not particularly peaceful, at least since the Mayflower, Britain has colonized the North American continent for hundreds of years, this heritage is not something that anyone can leverage, and there are at least more than one million people in the Eight Banners, which can also be regarded as a bargaining chip.

Fu Erdan was silent, he didn't know if what Ning Yu said was true or false, and he didn't know where the so-called land of America was, but he had lost his judgment of the current situation, and everything he had been thinking about had completely changed - even Emperor Kangxi was gone, and now he could only rely on the more than one million Eight Banner Nations.

"But it's still early, I haven't hit the north yet, and I'm telling you this today to give you a hope, so that you can continue to live."

Ning Yu casually drew a cake, in fact, he didn't insist on talking to Fu Erdan, mainly because he really didn't have too many chips in his hand at the moment, this Fu Erdan was still an official with high prestige after all, and he might be able to use it in the future.

After Ning Yu left, Fu Erdan slapped himself and scolded: "How can the words of the traitor be credulous? But after the fight, he inexplicably thought of the Americas in his heart, could it be that he really wanted to go there in the future?

For Ning Yu, this is also an idle chess game he laid out, which may not be useful, but at a critical time, it may not be a reasonable countermeasure. Although the Americas are still unexplored, Western countries have been colonizing the Americas for decades.

As for the Eight Banners after they really gain a firm foothold in the Americas, Ning Yu will naturally not let them develop, but will find a way to dilute the Eight Banners with more Han people, so as to completely assimilate the Eight Banners in turn, and then the Americas will naturally have a share of Ning Chu's interests in it.

Of course, the current Daqing has not been completely broken, at least it has to be re-beaten into Houjin, and if you want to become the dog of Da Chu, you have to use both grace and power. Therefore, before this, Fu Erdan's idle chess has not yet reached the time to be fully used, so for Ning Yu, it is just a small episode.

Ning Yu's visit to Daye this time was naturally not for Fu Erdan, but for the first time after ascending the throne to inspect the entire Huguang, which is of great significance, not to return to his hometown, but to consolidate the basic plate and unify people's hearts for future reforms.

For the entire Ning Chu, although the capital is currently built in Nanjing, the real basic plate is still in Huguang, and it is precisely because of the strong support of the Huguang soldiers that Ning Yu dares to rush to carry out this series of reforms, without worrying about the opposition turning the table, because he has mastered the real absolute force.

This time he came to Huguang with a political purpose, so Ning Yu did not make a big show, but traveled lightly, under the escort of the Praetorian Guard, with the second assistant Cui Wancai, the left capital of the Imperial Court Li Fu, and a large number of large and small officials, along the Yangtze River rushed to Huguang.

"See Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! ”

A large number of local officials, under the leadership of Ning Wanjun, the political envoy of Hubei Zuobu, paid homage to Ningyu, most of whom were officials of the Hubei political envoy department.

The seven southern provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Nanzhili have carried out an all-round structural reconstruction, and the original nearly 600 counties have been reduced to 394 counties, and all the relevant officials have been arranged.

This time, the rearrangement of the grass-roots division structure was also completed under the emphasis of Ning Yu, of course, not to reduce the number of grass-roots officials, in fact, after the adjustment, Ning Chu was many times higher than the Qing court in terms of official density, so after the reform, not only did not decrease, but increased many officials, which even caused a certain amount of criticism, which was considered redundant.

The reason is very simple, in the original Qing court in a county, in fact, there were not many real officials, like the Zhengpai Zhixian needless to say, in addition, there will be a county Cheng, a master book and a history of one or two people, the responsibility of these people is also responsible for helping the county to deal with government affairs, and it is also regarded as a formal official in the court department, like the county Cheng is the official of the eighth grade, the main book is the official of the ninth grade, and the official history is not in the stream.

Like the county order, the county order, the main book, and the canonical history are usually appointed officials, that is, often in addition to the above four, there will be some minor officials such as post officials, instructors, teachings, and cangda, which are generally one person. And these people are basically the number of officials that a county can have, usually no more than ten.

Of course, it is naturally impossible for such a few people to manage a large county with more than 100,000 people, and there are still a large number of officials and people to drive, such as clerks, government officials, fast arresters and jailers, etc., usually there are dozens or even hundreds of people in a county to help the county magistrate manage.

Like the book office alone, there are usually dozens of people in a county, and like the configuration of the six departments, it is also divided into six rooms: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. However, these people are anonymous in the imperial court, and there is no record in the imperial court, of course, there is no salary only the so-called allowance, and these people usually rely on work to collect benefits, and the secretary office is usually hereditary, and cannot participate in scientific examinations, so this group is almost fixed, and outsiders cannot interfere.

The formation of this system has led to a terrible phenomenon, that is, the imperial power is almost not under the county, and the things in the entire county are basically monopolized by the local clans, and all the clerks are almost all local gentry families, even the Ning family before the rebellion is also like this in Xiaogan County.

The existence of these people, even the county magistrate of the genuine brand will be restrained, because their words are much more effective than the words of the county magistrate, and without the cooperation of the local gentry, this official will be difficult to continue. Ning Yu relied on the clan to start his family, so he naturally knew what kind of situation the clan gentry was in the local area, so he was very jealous in his heart.

For Ning Yu, the most intolerable thing is to be hollowed out by the grassroots, so he plans to intervene from the foundation, directly change the structure of the county, expand the ranks of officials at the county level, and include the original so-called officials into the management scope of the organization department, and set up relevant vertical management departments, such as the Finance Bureau, the Police Bureau, the Urban Management Bureau, etc., in order to strengthen the management ability of the grassroots government.

Ning Yu's idea is to enrich the civilian power at the grassroots level, plus the veterans at the grassroots level, so as to achieve a more efficient and honest governance effect, and bring the local area into his own control, but the problem is again, like this plan, although Ning Chu planned to less than 400 counties, but the number of officials has increased by more than three times compared with before, and the silver spent by the imperial court on these officials has also skyrocketed a lot.

In Ning Yu's heart, controlling the grassroots is not only conducive to the rule of the country, but also can increase the opening up of fiscal revenue, and collect some money that cannot be seen and collected into the treasury, plus the seven southern provinces are relatively wealthy provinces, so when the imperial court bears this expense, it can still hold on, and the pressure is not as great as imagined.

For Ning Yu, the other aspect of enriching the local area is to strengthen the supervision function of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, sink the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the county level, and set up the County Metropolitan Procuratorate to be responsible for relevant supervision work, especially in order to ensure the responsibilities of the County Metropolitan Procuratorate, they will not be responsible for the county order at the same level, but directly report to the Prefecture Metropolitan Procuratorate to achieve vertical management.

Of course, this set of organizational structure is not implemented immediately after it is determined, after all, there is still a large shortage of relevant officials, and only after the implementation of the New Deal education can sufficient officials be provided at that time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Daye is the foundation of my Ningchu, and the iron ore produced here every year can be turned into a plough and sickle in the hands of farmers, and can be turned into muskets and long knives in the hands of soldiers, so with Daye, Ningchu has a future."

Ning Yu looked at the officials in front of him and said, "Where is the Daye County Order?" ”

"Chen Daye County Ling and Wen Jun have seen Your Majesty!"

A young official squeezed through the crowd, his head bowed slightly, and he spoke calmly and forcefully, but the excitement on his face was overflowing.

In the current Ningchu official system, the current county order has been raised a lot in grade, and it is a six-grade official position, but in terms of actual power, it is much smaller than in the past, such as the power to judge cases is completely assigned to the Dali Temple system, and the supervision power is completely deprived by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that only the administrative power is left.

As the key place of the Fu Han Army, Daye County has a higher grade than ordinary counties, so Daye County Ling and Wenjun are the official of the fifth grade in the imperial court, and they can be regarded as young and promising at this age.

Ning Yu looked at the young man in front of him and nodded slightly, "He Wenjun, you were personally selected by me from among many students, I hope you will not live up to my expectations, Daye County is in your hands, and it must be more prosperous." ”

He Wenjun knelt on the ground, "The minister will never live up to His Majesty's high expectations, and he will do his best and die." ”

Ning Yu didn't stay in Daye County for too long, he left Daye a day later, went to Hanyang, and personally went to inspect the Hanyang Gun Factory and Hanyang Iron Factory.

After a year and a half of construction, the original production capacity has been fully realized, and the research and development of new weapons is also in a high-speed development, it is no exaggeration to say that today's Hanyang Gun Factory can be called the world's largest arsenal, and its production capacity and research and development capacity are second to none.

As for the construction speed of the Hanyang Iron Works, although it is not as fast as the arsenal, it is also developing steadily and coordinatedly, and there is no problem with the production of 70 million catties of iron, and at the end of the year, as long as the relevant raw materials and manpower can be guaranteed, it is just around the corner to break through to 100 million catties, although Ning Yu is still unclear about the position that Hanyang Iron Works occupies in the world, but it is enough for him to be happy to have such achievements.

During the inspection along the way, what Ning Yu saw was not only the development of related industrial capabilities, but also attached great importance to people's livelihood, after all, now that peace has been restored to the country, if the people's lives have not been improved, it is completely impossible to say, for Ning Yu, this point is even more important.

Fortunately, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ning Chu adopted a series of policies to benefit the people, including measures such as abolishing fire and silver consumption, and apportioning land into acres, all of which were able to objectively reduce the burden on the people, plus the tax was greatly reduced, so the people's life was indeed improving.

What Ning Yu is most worried about today is whether the policies from the central government will change after the hands of the local government, and whether the comprehensive quality of local officials will have an impact on the lives of the people. These points may seem unimportant, but in fact they have a very big impact.

Hubei Zuobu political envoy Ning Wanjun, as a distant member of the Ning family, does not completely rely on the relationship to the top, he does have relevant talents, and more importantly, he also has a heart of love for the people, for Ning Yu's worries, he is also well aware of it, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, now the people are very grateful, after the policy is down, there are people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate who have come to inspect, and no one dares to do anything at this time." ”

Ning Yu nodded approvingly, "Wan Jun, it's not easy for us to start, and it's even more difficult to build the country of Dachu, it depends on the people's hearts and the people, if we treat the people badly, the people will use practical actions to express their dissatisfaction, so the affairs of the government must be done in front." ”