Chapter 47 The Governor of the Ming Dynasty

When the four people entered Shanxi, the case in Shanxi was easy to find out.

The affairs of officialdom have never been deceived and never hidden. A lot of it is an open secret.

Zhu Qizhen urgently mobilized 800,000 stone of grain from Beijing and transported it to Shanxi, which can be regarded as controlling the disaster.

And the situation is just as Yang Pu expected, all the official warehouses in Shanxi are empty, as for where the grain goes, it is impossible to find out, anyway, in recent years, Hebei has consumed a lot of grain, and the price of grain in the entire north is nearly 300 wen and 1 stone, which is nearly 50 wen and nearly 50 wen in the early years of orthodoxy.

And Shanxi is a relatively wealthy place in the north.

This is also the foundation laid in the Yuan Dynasty, speaking of Shanxi has a little less precipitation than Hebei, but in the foundation of farmland water conservancy, it is much better than Hebei.

Although the grain output is not comparable to that in the south, it is not bad in the north.

With such a difference in grain prices, these officials resold grain, and then sold new grain to replenish the warehouse, and between one entry and one exit, tens of thousands of taels of silver arrived.

It's just that I never thought that there would be a time for disaster relief.

No matter how much silver you have in your hand, you can't buy food.

It can only be said that these bureaucrats seem to be more shrewd than anyone else, but they always use their ingenuity to do stupid things.

Cao Xi, the political envoy of Shanxi, and even more than a dozen officials on the Shanxi side, and hundreds of officials involved in it, most of them were imprisoned by Jinyiwei.

Although Zhu Qizhen also agreed, he wanted the three law divisions to interrogate before the result.

But Zhu Qizhen's imprisonment of him in the edict is a very obvious hint, and the court bigwigs understand the fate of these people.

Yang Pu also bowed to Zhu Qizhen because of this incident.

Zhu Qizhen watched Yang Pu kneel on the ground and plead guilty, and suddenly had an indescribable sense of happiness in his heart, no matter what it was.

When Yang Pu served as the first assistant, the honeymoon period between the two sides soon ended.

Zhu Qizhen has always wanted to suppress Yang Pu. But in terms of specific government affairs, it is very difficult to overpower Yang Pu.

Look at Yang Pu like this today.

Zhu Qizhen was naturally happy.

But happy is happy, Zhu Qizhen is very sensible.

He also knew that this was not something to be happy about.

And on top of the aftermath of this incident, Zhu Qizhen also recognized one point, that is, he is actually inseparable from the assistance of the cabinet.

If Yang Pu was not there, the imperial court would not have been able to do it, and in a very short period of time, hundreds of thousands of stone grains were transported from the capital to Shanxi, saving a large number of people from starving to death, or provoking other things, such as the rebellion of the people.

Zhu Qizhen sighed, helped Yang Pu up, and said, "Sir, I don't blame you, it's just that I feel uneasy." ”

Yang Pu said: "This is the sinful of the minister. The minister thought about it, the place is remote, and the situation in the capital is bad, and the old minister can still know a thing or two, but the provinces are not known to the old minister. ”

"The minister thinks that this time it should be headed by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and one person from each province should be selected to inspect one province and impeach the lawbreakers."

Zhu Qizhen listened and said, "It seems to be the history of the assassination of the Han Dynasty?" ”

The history of the Han Dynasty was to go out as a supervisor first, and then to increase the power of the formation, and then to become the chief official of the local government.

"No, it's the Governor of Ming." Yang Pu said. Yang Pu said as he folded his hands and offered him.

Zhu Qizhen saw it, and suddenly understood in his heart. Yang Pu is implementing in disguise, and Zhu Qizhen wants local reform.

Zhu Qizhen hopes to strengthen the local area, that is, he hopes that when he fights with the tile spur in the future, even if the rear is stable, the local government can be allowed to deal with it independently, and there is no need to labor the Beijing Division.

Now Yang Pu took the initiative to cater to Zhu Qizhen's ideas, and Zhu Qizhen naturally had nothing to allow.

Zhu Qizhen said: "What Mr. means is really the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country. ”

It was relatively common for the Ming governor to be set up during the orthodox years.

However, there is still no detailed division, saying that one province has one division, and there is no control of the three divisions, and the power in charge of military and political affairs is mainly set up for the sake of things, and when things are done.

Qincha's temperament is very strong.

And Yang Pu's meaning is very simple, that is, to come to a special governor's dispatch. If there was a governor in each locality, he was transferred to the capital division and a new governor was appointed, and the new governor had the power to supervise and was ordered to examine the local officials.

Then the power was increased little by little, and finally it was completed, and the governor as the local chief official, inherited the imperial court, and controlled the transformation of the three divisions.

And some provinces have always been relatively peaceful. Among these provinces, there were no governors before, and governors were sent at this time.

As for some provinces, there were several governors because of their special affairs. Just like Nanzhili, there are Jiangnan governors, Fengyang governors and so on.

Yang Pu has made a combing.

Determine the principle of one governor for each province.

Perhaps within a year or two, the process of localizing the governor will be completed.

After Zhu Qizhen read it, he pondered in his heart for a while, and said: "Sir's charter is very good, but there is one point that I feel needs to be discussed. If there should be no governor, how many should be set up? What does the gentleman think to do? ”

Yang Pu heard the sound of the strings and knew the meaning of elegance.

Zhu Qizhen had already expressed his dissatisfaction with the north and south of Zhili, and now the north has become Zhili Province. And as the south of the jurisdiction of Nanjing. Zhu Qizhen naturally didn't like it.

However, if you want to smash all the plans out of the political reform, it is destined to be a grasp of the eyebrows and mustaches, and you can't do anything if you want to do too much.

Yang Pu understands this well. The reason why he promoted the governor was of course to have the meaning of Zhu Qizhen

, I also feel that the local situation is bad, and it has reached a place where it is not possible to clean up.

Therefore, if the governors go down, it will definitely cause a bloody storm in the locality, and there will naturally be a backlash.

So Yang Pu integrated his plan with Zhu Qizhen's ideas, so that no matter how much opposition there was in the local area, he would have Zhu Qizhen's resolute support.

There is Shousuke, who is firmly supported by the emperor, and no one is afraid.

But Yang Pu didn't want to go further on this and complete his plan to split Nanjing for Zhu Qizhen.

The first is the opposition of the southern scholars.

Nanjing, because of its special place, is far away from many southern scholars. Splitting up Nanzhili and weakening Nanjing's power would affect their interests.

Now the dominant position in the Ming court is precisely the southern scholars, nothing else is fire, the top three in the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, will not go out of the south of Zhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, these provinces.

Even if there is specialization, at least one of them is from these provinces.

Yang Pu didn't want to make extraneous branches. But if you don't have extraneous branches. can prevaricate Zhu Qizhen again. Yang Pu thought for a moment and said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, Nanzhili is too big, I'm afraid it won't work to set up a governor, and it's not good to set up more, the minister thinks that Jiangnan and Jiangbei should be set up." Things have to be done step by step, and two governors should be set up before the next step can be made. ”

Zhu Qizhen himself could read Yang Pu's hints.

First of all, two governors were determined in Nanzhili, and the two governors were allowed to govern each prefecture in Nanjing, so that in the future, two provinces could be divided on the basis of the jurisdiction of the two governors.

That is, the two provinces of Jiangnan and Jiangbei. For Yang Pu, this is an offensive and a retreat.

Zhu Qizhen also thinks it's good, how can he not know, if you want to hurry, you can't reach it. Some things are in a hurry, and the more you skip the level, the easier it is to make mistakes. However, Zhu Qizhen was not satisfied with this plan.

I'm sorry, I'm used to seeing Anhui and Jiangsu, but now it's suddenly Jiangnan and Jiangbei, how to satisfy him. Zhu Qizhen said: "Jiangnan and Jiangbei are not good, in my sense, it is better for the governor of Anhui and the governor of Jiangsu." ”

When Yang Pu heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "Your Majesty is wise." ”

We think that the ordinary name, in fact, has a different flavor in Yang Pu's interpretation.

What is Ann? It's Anqing, what is the emblem? It's Huizhou. What is Jiang? It's Zhenjiang, what is Su? It's Jiangsu.

This is an ancient rule for naming administrative districts, and if you don't believe it, the administrative districts of North Korea are all named according to this principle. The Yuan Dynasty used it a lot.

Yang Pu naturally understands it as soon as he hears it, and the division of administrative regions is also very clear in Yang Pu's eyes.

The reason for this is that Nanjing must be listed separately. Jiangsu is in the east of Nanjing, and Anhui is in the west of Nanjing, so it is the principle of dividing Nanjing as the central axis and separating the east and west.

In this way, the general outline of the two provinces will come out, and it will not be too late to discuss the detailed ownership of a certain prefecture and county.