In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has indeed laid down a lot of places, and the thirteen provinces have become more than thirty provinces, and the territory has more than doubled.

These places do not mean that you will be done with them, you must also arrange people to govern, and governance cannot be managed in a year or two, and there will always be problems in the middle.

If the world is peaceful and there is no war in the Ming Dynasty, it doesn't matter, just take your time.

However, now the world is far from peaceful, the Ming Dynasty is still facing many challenges, the battle for hegemony at sea has just begun, and the competition for colonies is also in the ascendant.

It seems that the governance of this world also needs to take a lot of effort to think about it, Zhu Cijiong silently reminded himself in his heart.

Of course, now is not the time to think about this, this is a meeting to discuss the supply of supplies on the front line.

The problem of grain mobilization must be solved immediately, otherwise, if the allocation is not in place, there will really be a serious incident.

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while and asked, "Zhong Ruo, who is more familiar with the local area between your left waiter Ma Mingshi and your right waiter Wu Fu?" ”

When Cheng Guoxiang heard this, he roughly introduced: "Ma Mingshi and Wu Fu both served as local magistrates, and then they also entered the pilgrimage to supervise the imperial history. Wu Fu once patrolled Henan and Shaanxi, and served as the governor of Shanxi, and then transferred to the household department Langzhong, and finally served as the right attendant of the household department. Judging from the experience and performance of the two, Weichen believes that Wu Fu is more familiar with the place, and Ma Mingshi is more familiar with the affairs of the imperial court. “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he nodded and said: "Okay, let Wu Fu take the position of the right attendant of the household department to supervise the grain collection of the fifteen provinces in South Asia, and the officials of all the provinces in South Asia will be restrained by him and fully cooperate with him." “

The governors of the fifteen provinces seem to be a bit big and scary, but in fact they are not as powerful as the original governors of the three provinces or the governors of the five provinces, because this time Wu Fu is only responsible for the collection of grain and grass, and most of the original governors are governors of the military and political affairs of the provinces.

However, just by virtue of this sentence, it is scary enough that the officials of all provinces in South Asia are subject to their control power, Cheng Guoxiang hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Thank you for the emperor's grace, with Wu Fu supervising in South Asia, there should be no problem with this matter of military grain collection and transfer." “

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while and continued: "In this way, I will let Zheng Zhilong supervise the collection of grain and grass in the three provinces of Nanyang, and let him fully cooperate with the grain and grass transshipment in Nanyang and South Asia, and if the railway capacity is not enough, let him send the South China Sea Fleet to transfer it from the sea." “

Cheng Guoxiang was overjoyed when he heard this, so that his words were even more foolproof, and he arched his hand again: "Thank you for the emperor's grace." “

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and said loudly: "Cao Huachun, the purpose." “

Cao Huachun, who was outside the door, heard this, walked in quickly, skillfully took out the blank holy decree, prepared the pen and ink in three clicks and two clicks, and then stood on the desk with the pen and waited.

Zhu Cijiong then said aloud: "The right attendant of the Ministry of Household Closure is the governor of the fifteen provinces of South Asia, responsible for the collection of grain and grass taxes in the fifteen provinces of South Asia. “

After Cao Huachun finished writing the holy decree, Zhu Cijiong issued another decree: "Telegraph to Zheng Zhilong, the governor of Nanyang, and ask him to supervise the collection of grain and grass taxes in the three provinces of Nanyang, and transfer the collected grain and grass to the capital as soon as possible. “

Cao Huachun said yes and respectfully withdrew.

Zhu Cijiong said to Bi Maokang again: "Meng Hou, is there enough reserves of gunpowder, shells, bullets, grenades, and mines?" “

Bi Maokang hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Back to the emperor, if it is only for the army, the reserves are still very sufficient, after all, the navy is the big consumer of these, and now the sea is relatively calm, so the reserves of gunpowder, shells, bullets, grenades, and mines in the Ministry of Industry are very sufficient." “

Zhu Cijiong nodded with satisfaction: "Well, very good, prepare more gunpowder and cannonballs, according to the report from the Jinyi Wei secret agent, there are many fortresses on the Siberian Plain, and the consumption of gunpowder and cannonballs during the siege must be very large." “

Bi Maokang hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Weichen understands. “

Zhu Cijiong said to Sun Yuanhua again: "Chuyang, how are the other baggage preparations, are there any difficulties in transporting grain, grass and baggage to the front line?" “

Sun Yuanhua thought for a while, and arched his hand: "Back to the emperor, other baggage is well stocked, but it may be a bit of a problem to transfer this grain, grass and baggage to the front line in the past few months, because the Ministry of Industry can dispatch only more than 100 trains, and one train can carry up to 10,000 stone of grain, and it takes at least a month to go back and forth from the capital to Siberia, so that other materials cannot be transferred in time." However, as long as the Western Regions Railway is completed, the time for transshipment from the Western Regions will be reduced by almost half, and it can be transferred twice a month, and almost all the grain, grass and baggage can be transferred. “

This is also a problem, the Western Regions Railway is afraid that it is difficult to connect with the Siberian Railway in a short time, because the terrain between the Western Regions Wasteland and the Siberian Plateau is too complicated, and it is only feasible to connect the Siberian Plain.

Zhu Cijiong frowned, and asked Bi Maokang again: "Meng Hou, can't you send more trains?" “

Bi Maokang said embarrassedly: "Back to the emperor, this is almost the limit, the freight of private merchants has been seriously affected, Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce has found Weichen many times, and if it continues like this, I am afraid it will affect the development of Daming commerce." “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he sighed: "This is also a helpless thing, national affairs are important, and the war with Tsarist Russia is directly related to the future world pattern, so I have to go all out, if it really doesn't work, let's compress the private freight first, I will explain to him first." “

Hearing this, Bi Maokang nodded and said, "In this case, maybe we can make up another fifty trains, which should be enough." “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he looked directly at Sun Yuanhua.

Sun Yuanhua hurriedly nodded and said, "Barely it should be enough." “

At this time, Xu Erjue, who seemed to have nothing to do on the side, coughed and said carefully: "The emperor forgives the sin, in fact, the villain can also think of some way here, and it shouldn't be a problem to get together dozens of trains." “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Oh, what can you do." “

Xu Erjue said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, that's the case, in fact, there are no less than 100 special trains in charge of the Royal Xinglong Commerce, mainly for the transfer of materials by branch in various places, if Sun Shangshu can cooperate, let the Tunwei act as soon as possible, collect enough goods in Siberia, and fill up all the 15 trains that come back, then the impact of 50 trains to help the Ministry of War transfer materials on the business of the Royal Xinglong Business should not be too great." “

Zhu Cijiong knows that the major royal firms control a certain number of special trains, because the business of the royal firms is basically all over the Ming Dynasty, and without special trains to transport, the goods can't be turned around at all, but they didn't expect that they controlled so many special trains, and just one royal Xinglong firm controlled more than a hundred vehicles!