In the Forbidden City, the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen was on the throne, and a middle-aged man in a five-grade official uniform stood under him.

From this day on, a new round of Daming's policy of changing the land and returning to the river will be implemented.

"Zheng Aiqing, don't be careless, the population I gave you is not a good people, the homeless people, the ruffians, and the punished people should be the main force, manage them well, and don't cause trouble."

Zhu Youzhen promoted the policy of changing the land and returning to the river at this time, firstly, to take advantage of the great loss of Tusi's strength after the Lu'an Rebellion in Guizhou to facilitate suppression, and secondly, to take advantage of the annual drought in the north to facilitate immigration.

Although Guizhou is mostly mountainous, there are few droughts, and Guizhou is not without plains, and the vast valleys, basins, and gently sloping hilly areas can always be reclaimed.

Zhu Youzhen, who came from later generations, had no doubt that the Han people had a thirst for land, and as long as there was an open space to sow seeds, the farming genes that had been passed down for thousands of years would prompt them to cultivate it into fertile land.

However, compared with Guizhou, Zhu Youzhen prefers the large plains and fertile black soil in eastern Liaodong, but now it is occupied by a group of fishing and hunting peoples, which is really a bit tyrannical.

'In this Xiaoice period with abnormal climate, if you want to starve to death less, you have to recapture the fertile black land in the north as soon as possible. ’

Zhu Youzhen pulled back his thoughts and said to Zheng Ruxin again.

"The drought in the north has been going on for many years, and the people are hungry, and the imperial court intends to cooperate with the policy of restoring the land to Guizhou, which is a top priority, and the secretary must be careful."

Zheng Ruxin only understood the fundamental purpose of the Son of Heaven at this time to implement the policy of changing the land and returning to the stream.

The fundamental meaning of the Son of Heaven was to transfer the displaced people to Guizhou for reclamation, so as to relieve the pressure of the displaced people in the north and take the opportunity to develop Guizhou.

Thinking of this, Zheng Ruxin not only has to re-examine this young son of heaven, the world often says that today's son has the legacy of Taizu becoming an ancestor, and what he said is not false.

Zheng Ruxin bowed and shouted again.

"Your Majesty's vision, the ministers can't reach it, and the ministers should follow Your Majesty's will and do their best."

Zhu Youzhen heard this, nodded, and then said.

"Recently, Aiqing will rest in the capital for a few days, and when the rest is over, you and the cabinet will come up with a charter, and the necessary money, food, population, and soldiers must be ready."

Zheng Ruxin bowed and withdrew, looked up at the sky above his head again, knowing that he was no longer the obscure little prefect of Ganzhou, and if this matter could be done, he would go down in history.

Three days later, the Zhengdan holiday ended, and the hundred officials went to the office, Zheng Ruxin was also ready to go to the cabinet to plan the matter of changing the land and returning to the stream, but just as he was about to set off from the post house in the south of the city, a team of angels came in to announce the decree.

It didn't take long for Zheng Ruxin, the prefect of Ganzhou (Zheng Wupin), to become the new Metropolitan Inspectorate's right and thrifty capital Yushi (Zheng Sipin), and the official was promoted to two levels, and the magistrate became a Beijing official.

After waiting for a while, Zheng Ruxin's green robe changed into a scarlet robe, and he followed the eunuch into the palace to thank him.

Outside the Qianqing Palace, the small yellow door outside the door reported that the Son of Heaven was discussing with the elders, but the eunuch did not wait, but went straight into the palace to pray, presumably because he had received the previous explanation from the Son of Heaven.

Soon, the eunuch came out and led Zheng Ruxin into the palace.

Entering the Qianqing Palace, the six elders of the cabinet are all there, compared to these elders, Zheng Ruxin's new scarlet robe is not abrupt, but the elders' chests are embroidered with cranes or brocade chickens, and only he is embroidered with Yunyan.

After Zheng Ruxin thanked him, Zhu Youzhen bluntly said that the cabinet and the right frugal capital Yushi would come up with a charter for changing the land and returning to the river as soon as possible.

Of course, the charter is mainly for Zheng Ruxin to take, but the money, food, population, soldiers, and officials involved need to be negotiated with the cabinet.

Zhu Youzhen recruited Zheng Ruxin to the palace this time, mainly to introduce newcomers to these high-ranking and powerful pavilion elders, so as to attract their attention, lest Zheng Ruxin, a fourth-grade official, have no room to speak in front of the pavilion elders.

With Zhu Youzhen's support in the back, when the time comes, Zheng Ruxin will be able to bargain with the elders in terms of money, food, population, soldiers, and officials.

The elders naturally knew what the Son of Heaven meant, so after today's routine imperial meeting, they asked Zheng Ruxin to go with them.

For this small minister who was once inspected in a remote place in the heart of the emperor, the cabinet members have their own thoughts, but there is a common point of view, if this kid does the thing of changing the land and returning to the stream, there will be a position of Shangshu, and over time, it may not be impossible to enter the cabinet.

Of course, the fact that the cabinet elders have this idea shows that Zhu Youzhen's move today is successful, and at least the cabinet elders will respect Zheng Ruxin's opinions more on the matter of changing the land and returning to the stream.

In the rest of the following month, Zheng Ruxin ran between the cabinet and the yamen of various ministries, but he rarely set foot in his own official yamen.

After some hard work, it was not until the end of February that the strategy of changing the land and returning to the stream was officially released.

Zhu Youzhen led the cabinet ministers to study and revise it for more than half a month before finally deciding on the plan.

Within one year, all the existing Tusi in Guizhou will be retained, but they must be moved to live in the city of Guizhou.

During this period, the new army left one behind, and assisted in the relocation of Tusi with the Shizhu Qin Liangyu Department.

With the new army and the white pole soldiers, Zhu Youzhen hopes that the more Tusi leaders who disobey the order, the better, and if they are killed, they will no longer have to be raised in vain.

Within a year, the Ministry of Officials, together with the Guizhou Governor Yamen, was responsible for the selection and dispatch of officials from the imperial court, while the Military Department was to work with the Guizhou Governor Yamen to set up Tuntian Guards in various parts of Guizhou, and the soldiers needed in the early stage needed to be recruited from Sichuan and Chongqing.

After these three matters were decided, the imperial court would send the Han people from the Central Plains into Guizhou as soon as possible, with a scale of at least 50,000 people per year.

The household department is responsible for the travel expenses and settlement expenses of the immigrants, and the Ministry of Industry is responsible for providing weapons, cattle, farm tools, and improved seeds.

In order to better coordinate and promote the transformation of the land and return to the stream, the proposal of the Son of Heaven proposed that the imperial court innovatively set up a leading institution for the reform of the land and the return of the stream.

The Son of Heaven personally took command as the chief minister, Shi Fenglai and Han Yi served as deputy ministers, and the relevant government offices such as the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War were members.

Moreover, this newly established government office is not an empty shell organization, and officials have been transferred from the government departments such as the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War, and they are specially responsible for the affairs of changing the land and returning it to the stream.

Of course, this government office is temporary, and the identities of these officials are still in the original yamen, but because of this matter, they are gathered together to work together.

Of course, this novel setting of the government office also caused a slight ripple in the court, and because the chief was the son of heaven, many officials from various ministries sharpened their heads and wanted to come to this government office.

As a result, because of this temporary institution, all the ministries in the capital were surging undercurrents, and there were a bunch of more requests on the desks of the various ministries.