Zhu Hongsan looked at Hou Sui at the same time Hou Sui was also looking at Zhu Hongsan, there are many legends about this rogue emperor in the folk, what greedy for money, lustful, ruthless and unjust, etc., but Hou Sui saw Zhu Hongsan today and immediately found that this emperor is not simple, not like other literati say, except for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling.

In fact, there is no need to think about it at all, the emperors of ancient China may be mediocre and wise, but as long as they can sit firmly, none of them are fools. Because in that kind of political dye vat, even the kind of emperor Zhengde can also be trained to become a qualified emperor. Not to mention that Zhu Hongsan, a petty bureaucrat in the system in his previous life, has become a qualified politician after more than 20 years of immersion in this life.

"Mr. Hou, the journey from Henan is tiring, but the road is still easy?"

Hou Sui bowed down and replied: "Thank you for Your Majesty's concern, Guide is still close to Yangzhou, plus there are brocade guards to escort you, and you will be safe and sound along the way!" ”

"Good! Mr. Hou, I asked Mr. Hou to come to Yangzhou here, just to ask Mr. if he is willing to recover? ”

Hou Sui heard the emperor say this, and secretly scolded in his heart: Isn't this nonsense? Why don't you want to recover the old man and spend so much energy?

Thinking so in his heart but not saying that, Hou Sui hurriedly replied: "The world has been in turmoil for a long time, and the emperors of the former Ming Dynasty are not the masters of Zhongxing. But now it's different, God bless the Ming Dynasty, there is Your Majesty, the British Lord, and Your Majesty's merits are comparable to the Guangwu of the Han Dynasty! Therefore, when the grass people learned of His Majesty's summons, they immediately rushed to the ground, and they were willing to sacrifice this body for His Majesty! ”

Zhu Hongsan likes to talk to this kind of old bureaucrat who knows the current affairs the most, because these old guys have seen enough of the ups and downs of officialdom, and they have no moral bottom line, as long as they can continue to be officials, they can say anything. Now Zhu Hongsan heard Hou Sui pat himself like this, and said happily: "Okay! I am also a cheerful person, so I don't talk nonsense, I am ready to appoint Mr. Hou as the governor of Beizhili, and also take charge of Shandong, how about it? Is Mr. Hou willing? ”

Hou Sui and Donglin's friends had many correspondence, and he knew that the official system of the new dynasty was somewhat different from that of the previous dynasty, and the governor became a permanent official position, and was in charge of the military and people's livelihood of several provinces.

Hou Sui hurriedly bowed down and thanked him: "The minister is willing to do his best for His Majesty!" ”

Zhu Hongsan was very disgusted with what his subordinates said and did his best, Zhu Hongsan himself used to be a petty bureaucrat, he knew too well what these subordinates thought, and shouted slogans one by one, but few people really did things.

"Hou Aiqing, I don't need you to do your best, and I don't need you to die for yourself, I just hope that you can benefit the people after you take office! The north has been in chaos for more than 20 years, large areas of wasteland are uncultivated, and local bandits are abundant, so you have a heavy task as a governor! ”

"Please rest assured that Your Majesty has two requirements, the first is to ask Your Majesty to give your Majesty the right to act cheaply, and second, please ask Your Majesty to guarantee the food supply in the north!"

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, China has had a complete judicial management system, which is not inferior to Europe and the United States before the Industrial Revolution. The ancient Chinese death penalty review system was established in the Northern Wei Dynasty, stereotyped in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and perfected in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Ancient Chinese emperors often adopted the two major models of the death penalty review system and the death penalty repeat system at the same time to firmly control the decision-making power in death penalty cases in their own hands. The death penalty review system is that those cases in which the death penalty is to be imposed must be submitted to the emperor for approval before the final sentence is finalized; The death penalty repetition system means that in cases where the death penalty has been sentenced, the emperor must be re-examined for approval before the execution is carried out, and the execution can only be carried out after the death penalty repetition approval order is issued.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the death penalty was divided into two forms: the immediate execution (immediate execution) and the autumn post-execution (autumn execution). In cases of a particularly serious nature of the death penalty, such as conspiracy, rebellion, conspiracy, homicide, or robbery, a decision must be made, while the general death penalty will be decided after the autumn. Both types of death sentences were subject to the approval of the central judiciary and the emperor. For death penalty cases, the Ming Dynasty established a court trial system to review them. The court trial is the edict issued in the second year of Tianshun, and it began to be implemented in three years, and since then "it is always a law", "after the frost falls every year", and "the successive dynasties have complied with it", so the history says that "the court trial began in the third year of Tianshun", and it has become a mandatory annual system for the legal execution of heavy prisoners in Beijing.

The power to review the death penalty in the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the emperor, that is, regardless of the edict of Xingbu and Jinyiwei, there is no right to kill people casually in the law, but this is the law, and there are still loopholes in its implementation.

Zhu Hongsan was a little hesitant when he heard Hou Sui say this, in the past, in order to give the local governor the right, every time he appointed the governor, he had the right to act cheaply, that is, officials below the fourth rank could be cut first and then played, but now that most of China has been liberated, it is a bit too much to give the governor this right, after all, all the power of life and death in the country must be in the hands of the emperor alone.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Hou Sui, and finally decided to give him this right, after all, the north has been in turmoil for so long, and it is impossible to quickly restore social order without repeating the canon.

"Good! I can promise you the right to dispose of it cheaply, but only against bandits, civilians and officials, we still have to go through the normal judicial process! Zhu Hongsan did not completely let go of power, but only gave Hou Sui half of the rights.

As for the second grain is easy to solve, the south has a large number of grain-producing areas, and there are also areas like Luzon and Annam, plus potatoes and corn have been cultivated in a large area in Guangdong. Although this kind of thing is not suitable for the eating habits of Chinese, but when you don't eat it, you can lick two bites of shit, is it not satisfying to eat this kind of thing?

Hou Sui's conditions were satisfied, and the old guy happily went down to prepare to take office, and then Zhu Hongsan had to meet with the army generals.

Zhu Hongsan brought only four divisions, and all the other troops had already assembled here in Yangzhou a few months earlier. Of course, fighting a war is not a matter of numbers, and the water network here in Yangzhou is dense, and it is not something that more than 200,000 troops can carry out. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan decided to divide the troops into three routes, the cavalry was led by Li Yuanyin to go to Xuzhou, and the main force of the musketeers of the five divisions was led by Zhao Guodong to capture Huai'an, the last important town of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Nanzhili, along the canal. Two other divisions, led by Zhao Guoliang, boarded ships and went north to Korea, landed at Jiuliancheng at the mouth of the Yalu River, and raided Shenyang, the hometown of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After resting in Yangzhou for three days, Zhu Hongsan immediately set out with his troops. Outside the north gate of Yangzhou, Zhu Hongsan asked Li Chengen to read out the holy decree, appointing Li Yuanyin, the prince of Jianning County, as the hussar general, and leading all 50,000 cavalry to Fengyang.

Of the 50,000 cavalry, there were more than 80,000 horses, and the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder. Zhu Shengduo, the imperial grandson sitting next to Zhu Hongsan, shouted excitedly: "The cavalry is so majestic!" ”

Zhu Hongsan touched Zhu Shengduo's head and said, "Child, the cavalry looks majestic, but the era of cavalry has passed, and now is the era of iron and fire!" ”

Zhu Shengduo didn't understand such profound words, so he turned his head and asked, "Grandpa Huang, does Iron and Fire mean muskets and artillery?" ”

"Yes, the son can be taught! After a while, follow the imperial grandfather to see the power of artillery! ”

Zhao Guoliang was appointed deputy marshal of the march, took two divisions to board again in Yangzhou, turned back to the Yangtze River, and took a warship to Korea. And this time the coach is Zhao Guodong, this guy finally surpassed Qian Yong to become the coach this time, and he looked proud.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Qian Yong beside him and asked, "How is it?" Do you want to go too? ”

Don't want to go is grandchildren! Qian Yong thought in his heart. But Qian Yong knew that it was impossible for him to lead the troops again, because he was already the first person in the army, and he didn't know how to die when he made meritorious service.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Your Majesty's safety is the top priority, so the minister is willing to be by Your Majesty's side!"

Seeing that Qian Yong was aware of current affairs, Zhu Hongsan nodded: "Qian Yong, I am protecting you, after occupying Beijing, you will be the governor of the Chinese army!" Take charge of the defense of the capital! ”

Qian Yong's current position is the Governor of the Left Governor of the Chinese Army, and the Metropolitan Governor is Zhu Hongyi, the King of Wuchang County, but Zhu Hongyi, who is the third descendant of Zhu Hong, did not follow in this Northern Expedition, and now he is handing over Zhu Hongyi's position as the Metropolitan Governor to Qian Yong, which also means that Zhu Hongyi was completely thrown out of the power core by Zhu Hongsan.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang followed the Yuan Dynasty metropolitan governor system, but the power of the metropolitan governor's office was too great, and at the same time of abolishing the prime minister system, in order to prevent the excessive concentration of military power, the metropolitan governor's office was also abolished, and it was changed to the central, left, right, front, and rear five military governors' offices, which managed the Beijing division and various guards respectively.

However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was completely reduced to a pension institution, and its first political power was lost, the second was the oppression of the eunuchs and the army, and the power of the third military department continued to expand. In this way, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces was transformed from a central organ of "the general internal and external military affairs" into an organ that simply carried out orders under the Ministry of War, and its real power was completely weakened.

According to the application of later generations, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is probably equivalent to the great war zone of the country, and from the map of the Ming Dynasty, with the national capital as the center, there are four directions, so you might as well understand the Governor's Office of the Five Armies as the army that manages the capital of the country and the nearby army and the army of the four sides of national defense, so the division is exactly five. The front army is equivalent to the south of the defense, then the rear army is equivalent to the north. The left army is equivalent to the eastern part of the defense, then the right army is equivalent to the west.

And Zhu Hongsan is about to occupy the whole country, so he must also consider the future national military power planning. As a traverser, Zhu Hongsan naturally learned the same way, and directly applied the system of the later large military regions to the five military governors, that is, the Central Military Governor's Office was responsible for the Central Plains provinces, the former Military Governor's Office was responsible for the northern Mongolian provinces and Liaodong, the Later Army Governor's Office was responsible for Tibet, Yunnan-Guizhou, Burma, and the Indian subcontinent, the Left Army Governor's Office was responsible for the northwest provinces and the Western Regions, and the Right Army Governor's Office was responsible for the Liangguang and Nanyang countries.

Qian Yong thought that he was sending him as the governor of the Chinese army to support the elderly, but Qian Yong didn't know that it was completely the emperor who wanted to reuse him.