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Only two months later, Tashhai, the left-wing commander of Lin Dan Khan, led his troops to surrender to Mangui. In the past two months, Tashhai repeatedly asked Lin Dan Khan for food support, but Lin Dan Khan is now unable to protect himself, and there is still food to rescue Tashhai, in order to survive, he had to surrender to Mangui. At this point, Mangui completely occupied the entire Ordos region without a single soldier.

On the sixth day of the first month of June, the Yellow River broke at Mengjin, and countless military and civilian merchants were killed and wounded. The people were displaced and reduced to exiles. Zhu Youxiao knew that in history, the Yellow River had broken many times during the Chongzhen period, and controlling the Yellow River was something that Zhu Youxiao had to do immediately.

"Since Pan Ji tamed Pan Shangshu to govern the Yellow River, the Yellow River has not had a major disaster, but people have died in politics, just a few decades of the situation, the Yellow River will break again, I am ready to set up a river governor Yamen, specifically responsible for the management of the rivers in the empire, I hope to cure the Yellow River floods." Zhu Youxiao said. There is a difference between the Ming Dynasty governor river and the Qing dynasty river governor.

"Your Majesty, according to Pan Shangshu's 'harnessing water and attacking sand' to control the Yellow River is indeed an effective method, but Your Majesty wants to cure the flooding of the Yellow River, but it is a huge project, last year's Northern Expedition and military reform made the treasury still in deficit this year, according to this year's budget, the minister expects that the treasury will take at least three to five years to fill the deficit." Zhang Yandeng, the new secretary of the Ministry of Industry, said.

"All in all, the treasury has no money, and the control of the Yellow River must be delayed." Zhu Youxiao said coldly.

"Your Majesty, the minister believes that the governance of the Yellow River can be carried out in sections, and there will be small achievements in three or five years, and great achievements within ten years." Guo Yunhou bowed and said.

"But money is still needed, and it is not a 10 or 20 year process to control the Yellow River, but a long-term process, and afforestation in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River to prevent soil erosion is also crucial." Zhu Youxiao said.

"If you want to plant trees on a large scale in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, it will involve more money, and the state treasury will not be able to afford it for the time being." Zhang Yandeng continued.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it is necessary to carry out tax reform and increase the revenue of the state treasury." Zhou Yingqiu suggested.

"Your Majesty, the tax reform is not suitable for implementation at this time, the military reform has just ended, and it will take another year or two to integrate the military reform. Han Yi objected first.

"The minister also thinks that now is not the time for tax reform, the military reform has made the people's hearts fluctuate, and last year's Caogong troubles can explain the problem, and it will take three to five times to make the people's hearts stable, and at this time, the tax reform will inevitably make the situation chaotic." Sun Chengzong objected.

"I believe that the House of Lords has not fulfilled its due responsibilities since its establishment, and I have decided that in the future, the members of the Cabinet will be nominated by me, and the House of Lords will decide on seven cabinet candidates, and in three years, the first cabinet election will be held in the House of Lords, and once in the next five years, the members of the Cabinet can be re-elected once, and if there is a need to change the cabinet members in case of temporary circumstances, they will still be nominated by me and voted by the House of Lords." Zhu Youxiao said suddenly.

"Why did Your Majesty suddenly make this decision?" Sun Chengzong asked in surprise. Of course, the people present were not only Sun Chengzong, but all the people were very surprised, Zhu Youxiao's decision was absolutely subversive, making it difficult for everyone to accept it for a while.

"If you listen to it, you will be clear, and if you believe it, you will be dark, I think that the selection of cabinet members cannot be decided by me alone, nor by the court officials themselves, but by the noble house that stays out of the matter. Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the affairs of the cabinet should be like this!" Zhou Yingqiu agreed.

"I have given the cabinet and the House of Lords three years to adjust to this new policy, which will be implemented in March of the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the post of governor of the river will be held by Zhang Yandeng, the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, who is responsible for the governance of the Yellow River." Zhu Youxiao said.

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Regarding Zhu Youxiao's decision on the cabinet, the government and the opposition also discussed a lot. After the court meeting, Sun Chengzong specially invited Han Yi and Guo Yunhou to discuss today's matter.

"I thought His Majesty was going to implement a new policy, and the cabinet has always been opposed, so His Majesty came up with the next policy." Han Yi felt that Zhu Youxiao's policy was aimed at him.

"But the members of the cabinet have always been appointed by His Majesty, and now they are nominated by His Majesty and voted by the House of Lords, and Your Majesty's move is actually decentralized." Guo Yunhou said.

"Your Majesty's move is really incomprehensible, so I called the two of you to come together to discuss this matter, I originally thought that the House of Lords was just a vacant post set up by His Majesty when he implemented the new policy, in order to alleviate resistance, but I didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, the House of Lords has real power." Sun Chengzong said.

"There are pros and cons to this move, but for now, the disadvantages outweigh the pros, Your Majesty wants to take this opportunity to adjust the cabinet and replace a group of Zhou Yingqiu and others, and I am afraid that the righteous people of the court will not have a bright future." Han Yi said.

"When today's son is the master of Zhongxing, even if it is Zhou Yingqiu and others, as long as people make the best use of their talents and make the best use of things, the empire will still rule the world." Sun Chengzong said.

"Your Majesty's move is for a hundred years, and the establishment of the House of Lords is actually a division of power, and after a hundred years, if the Son of Heaven is mediocre, the establishment of the House of Lords has a chance to avoid the situation of traitors taking power." Guo Yunhou said.

"Your Majesty's move may indeed limit the imperial power, but if Your Majesty is such a strong Son of Heaven, even if there is a House of Lords, it will not be able to check and balance, and the existence and abolition of the House of Lords are all in Your Majesty's thoughts." Han Yi said.

"Since Your Majesty wants to delegate power to the House of Nobles, then we can take this opportunity to improve the system of the House of Lords and make the House of Lords play a real role, after all, there are still three years to go." Sun Chengzong proposed.

"What Sun Ge Lao said is very true, I heard that Westerners also have a similar system, we can learn from it, and Sun Yuanhua has returned to China, and he will arrive in Beijing soon, he must know more about going to the West than we do, and then I will discuss with him and understand, and strive to formulate a perfect system of the House of Nobles within three years." Han Yi said.

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In the past, Zhu Youxiao required that the seats of the House of Nobles must be in the House of Nobles in Beijing from February to April every year, but in fact, most of the seats will be shirked every year, and if it weren't for the fact that there was no Yu Luna, these people would not even want to hold any seats.

But now it's different, after hearing the news that the House of Lords will be responsible for voting for cabinet members in the future, these seats have all gone to Beijing, for fear that Zhu Youxiao will lose his seat position.

(End of chapter)