Zhou Yingqiu was stunned, looked up at Zhu Xu, and immediately recalled silently and seriously.

Although Liaodong has a prime minister, there is no governor, and the area under its command is very vast, and the main responsibility at present is to reclaim wasteland, accept immigrants, establish a new order in the absence of conditions, and conduct experiments first.

The prime minister is a kind of official position similar to 'inspection', which is half a rank higher than Shangshu, not permanent, and now Sun Chuanting is in charge, and it has been several years.

Zhou Yingqiu didn't quite understand why Zhu Xu changed the topic, but there must be a deep meaning, he recalled for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, the reclamation of Liaodong is not one of them, there are still few people in the wilderness, and more reclamation needs to be done, and the disaster victims in Ghana have a long way to go......

Zhu Xu picked up the teacup on the side, took a sip of tea, and then seemed to forget what he had just said, and said directly: "Well, I have read your playbook, and I will urge the cabinet to deal with it as soon as possible, you go." ”

Zhou Yingqiu looked at Zhu Xu, a little confused, but still raised his hand and said, "The minister retreats." ”

Zhu Xu didn't raise his head, and continued to flip through the notebook in his hand.

Zhou Yingqiu withdrew from the imperial study, and on the way out of the palace, he lowered his head slightly, frowned, and kept thinking about the conversation in the imperial study.

The emperor will not be untargeted, and there must be a deep meaning in such a sentence inexplicably, but he can't guess this deep meaning.

In recent years, Liaodong still needs a large amount of money and grain investment, and has spent a lot of effort in rehousing the victims and clearing the wasteland, and it is not yet self-sufficient, especially after digestion, and this year it will start large-scale resettlement.

"What does the emperor want to say?" Standing in front of the palace gate, Zhou Yingqiu was still very puzzled.

Zhu Xu's return to Beijing, as well as walking around outside, was like a mountain suddenly pressing down, and the originally boiling and churning capital suddenly quieted down.

Some of the small movements that were supposed to be had were stopped, as if they had been suspended, and countless pairs of eyes looked in the direction of the palace!

No matter how they look at the court situation and see the emperor, they can't deny one thing, that is, Jing Zheng's control over the court situation far exceeds that of Tianqi and Wanli, and even surpasses the previous generations of emperors, chasing Taizu Taizong!

Zhu Xu's life was relatively comfortable, criticizing the book, teasing and teasing the children, and going to Cining Palace for dinner, which was unprecedented and comfortable.

Because of having a child and being accompanied by Li Jieyu, Empress Dowager Zhang has fewer scruples, and everyone likes this feeling very much.

Only in the matter of choosing a concubine, Empress Dowager Zhang has always hoped to admit a few more into the palace, but Zhu Xu insisted on accepting only one and directly established the queen to ensure the stability of the harem.

Empress Dowager Zhang insisted even more this time, because Zhu Xu currently has only three women, two of whom are still of different races, and they are all pregnant, which is still very dangerous, and she hopes that Zhu Xu will have more heirs, so as not to repeat some old things.

Zhu Xu had some small conflicts with Empress Dowager Zhang for this, and in the end, the old lady made a decision and married one a year, which was not too late.

The inner court is solved, and the outer court cabinet moves more quickly.

The cabinet announced that it would be "acquired" by Huitong Commercial Firm, incorporated into the imperial court, and established the "International Trade Temple" to manage these commercial houses and chambers of commerce, and others such as customs and horse farms were also included in the cabinet, which will directly belong to the cabinet, and will also be with the household department, the royal money bank dredged up various relations, so that the administrative institutions of the Ming Dynasty were further complete and unimpeded, which greatly increased the full strength of the cabinet.

The cabinet moved very quickly, and Wei Liangqing and others were also quite cooperative, because of the seven people in the International Trade Temple, their 'imperial party' occupied five, and at the same time, they had nothing to lose, and they also had official bodies, and when they went out in the future, they could tell everyone in a dignified manner that they were Ming officials, not cheap businessmen!

Zhu Xu has been overlooking all this, and has almost unimpeded the approval of the reported transcripts about these.

Bi Ziyan, Sun Chengzong and others hope that the situation in the DPRK will be stable, sort out government affairs, and steadily and orderly promote the 'New Deal' plan, Zhu Xu is optimistic about its success, and it is important that at the same time, it cannot affect his plan.

For example, they took over Huitong Commercial Bank this time, Zhu Xu was very happy, the cabinet seemed to control these, increased the financial power of the cabinet, the political power, and could effectively 'deal with' Zhu Xu's chaos, but I never saw the back layer, the cabinet took over Huitong Commercial Bank, hinting at one thing to the people of the world, that is, businessmen are no longer 'cheap', and the imperial court is encouraging the development of commerce and trade!

This was in line with Zhu Xu's purpose of elevating the status of a businessman, and was in line with his intention to develop a commodity economy.

In the imperial study, Zhu Xu looked at Bi Ziyan and Sun Chengzong's joint recital, which said that "the country is not big in the field, the matter is not in the people, the field is the root of the people, the people are based on the country, the government is strict, and the people are strict".

Zhu Xu couldn't see that Bi Ziyan and others still intended to control the scale of commerce and tie people to the land.

However, he still waved his pen and wrote down the word 'quasi'.

The Ming Dynasty can't even do it now, what is needed is to scrape the bones to cure the poison, the cabinet is also right to do this, as for wanting to control the development of commerce, it may still work if the sea trade cannot be carried out, Zhu Xu has decided to completely open the sea ban next year, and the cabinet's careful thinking is doomed to be in vain!

Zhu Xu then picked up the cabinet's notebook on the 'International Trade Temple', which talked about some ideas for the 'International Trade Temple', especially the matching of officials, official products, power and position, and so on.

Zhu Xu looked at it slowly, and shook his head secretly, the cabinet is still quite conservative, and even fifty percent of what he hoped for has not been achieved, but it is indeed difficult for them to expect a group of old scholars to have a strategic vision for business.

Thrown aside, Zhu Xu said, "Inform the cabinet, the six grades are too low, the International Trade Temple Siqing is set up from the third grade, to set up a supervision agency, an accounting agency, a planning agency, to formulate development goals, to estimate profits, to evaluate development, how much profits are handed over to the treasury, how much to leave their own development, etc., all have to hand over a detailed statement to me to see, tell Bi Ziyan, if the cabinet does not do well, I will reconsider the ownership of Huitong Commercial Bank......"

Liu Shimin listened quietly, and waited for Zhu Xu to finish before he said, "Yes." ”

"If you want to eat my things, it's so simple......" Zhu Xu looked at Liu Shimin's back and laughed in his heart.

As soon as Liu Shimin left, an internal supervisor came over with a pile of playbooks and said, "Your Majesty, these are the playbooks of officials from all over the country on 'supplementing cabinet auxiliary ministers', and the brief slaves and maids have already been written." ”

Zhu Xu took Tiao Chen, and his expression moved slightly after sweeping his eyes.

Not only did the Beijing officials participate in the recommendation of the 'Cabinet Auxiliary Ministers', but the officials outside Beijing also gradually reacted, and one after another the music books flew into the celebrant supervisor, and there were already more than 30 copies.

Zhu Xu pushed it aside, saw that there was another one at hand, and said, "What is this?" ”

The inner supervisor lowered his head and said, "It's Jiang. Su Senator Wei Yuanshan's recital, please ask the emperor to appoint the crown prince. ”

Zhu Xu raised his eyebrows, his expression was quite surprised, he hadn't even set up a queen yet, he didn't have a son-in-law, what kind of prince did he appoint?

He stretched out his hand to take this Wei Yuanshan's notebook, flipped through it, and opened it, not grandstanding, the language was quite plain, and vaguely pointed out that the crown prince had 'the danger of the country', hoping to establish an heir as soon as possible and stabilize the people's hearts.

Zhu Xu tapped the table with his right hand, and the crisp sound of horses' hooves sounded.

The current Ming Dynasty is indeed a situation where people's hearts are floating and everyone is irritable, and they need to be appeased.

It's just that now 'technically' doesn't work, how can you make a prince in a daze without a concubine? What if the queen gives birth to her eldest son in the future? It is right to worry about the 'national dispute', but the method is wrong.

Zhu Xu put down the notebook, thought for a while, and said, "Send the decree to the Zongren Mansion, and order King Lu to step up the explanation of 'inheritance', and after it is written, don't give it to me, and go directly to the cabinet." ”

The Ming Dynasty has its own rules for succession to the throne, that is, 'there is a grandson, no grandson is long, and the brother is the last brother', in this order, the 'succession law' is not to overturn these, but to explain, expand, and make it clear, so as to avoid all the national risks, and also put an end to the embarrassing situation of several kings competing in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

"Yes." The inner supervisor said yes and slowly retreated.

"By the way, Wu Boyan came to see me." Zhu Xu said again.

Wu Boyan is the director of the newspaper department of the court, subordinate to the cabinet, and manages all the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty, including the cabinet, the six departments, and the local and provincial newspapers, and in the future, there will be the prefecture and county level.

"Yes." The inner supervisor responded and hurried out.