Chapter 181: The Cabinet of Seven

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"Then when will the remaining nine articles be promulgated in the world?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"This should be considered as appropriate, three years at the earliest, five years at the slower, and gradually implemented, if it is too hasty, the new policy will only backfire." Lin Yaoyu replied.

"What do you mean?" Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Guangwei about the three people.

"Your Majesty, the minister also agrees with what Elder Lin Ge said." Wang Shaohui said.

"The minister thinks that he can learn from His Majesty's previous methods, gradually implement them in different provinces, and if they are effective, they can be implemented throughout the country." Wei Guangwei suggested.

"The minister thinks that it is impossible, and some of the ten articles of the new policy involve the whole body, and cannot be implemented separately from province by province, and if they are implemented separately, it will be counterproductive." Wang Shaohui objected.

It is true that there are some provisions in the new policy that cannot be implemented on a provincial basis, such as the abolition of the eight-strand document for the imperial examination, the establishment of new departments in the central government, and so on.

"Well, I will follow the words of the ministers. The other articles will be discussed later. Zhu Youxiao said coldly.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The ministers shouted.

"Decree, the Inspectorate set up all levels of imperial history in the state capital and county, Jinyiwei dispatched manpower to assist, set up a patrol law should be arrested, under the jurisdiction of the Inspectorate, specializing in corruption and bribery, supervise the implementation of the new policy, if neglected, according to the "Ming Law" severely punished." Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"No."

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Although the meeting only decided to implement the first of the ten articles of the New Deal, it was also a one-day meeting. Article 1 alone involves a lot of things to deal with, and a one-day meeting only sets a framework for Article 1.

Zhu Youxiao planned to set up five money bureaus in Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Xi'an. In terms of the Imperial Bank, Zhu Youxiao now wants to set up the Imperial Bank in all the state capitals and counties of the empire, which involves more things, and the amount of personnel, money, etc. is extremely large, so Zhu Youxiao asked the household department to also send people to assist in the construction of the Imperial Bank.

In the Imperial Bank, thirty percent of the equity now belongs to the imperial court, which can be said to be deliberately arranged by Zhu Youxiao. The Imperial Bank will one day control the economic lifeline of the entire empire in the future, although now for the royal family, although it is now a family and a country, it is good to be controlled by the royal family now, after all, Zhu Youxiao's vision is farther than many people in this era, but no one knows what will happen in a hundred years, or two hundred years from now. Zhu Youxiao's arrangement was that in the future the equity of the Imperial Bank would be half of the royal family and half of the imperial court. This also made Zhu Youxiao decide to install the people from the household department into the Imperial Bank now.

"Everything in the empire will depend on you in the future!" After Qiao Yunsheng walked out of the palace, he clenched his fists and said to Han Yi and the others.

"Hegao, are you really going to say goodbye to your hometown?" Han Yi said in surprise.

"Yes! It's time to go, I think about it, and I'll go back to teaching after I resign. Qiao Yunsheng said with a smile.

"I'm also going back to Guanzhong Academy, Your Majesty's new policy will be implemented in the entire empire sooner or later, and we should prepare as soon as possible." Feng Congwu said.

"Indeed, Your Majesty wants to expand the cabinet to seven people in the new policy, and after I resign, Your Majesty will definitely take the opportunity to expand the cabinet to seven people, and even if Your Majesty intends to decide political affairs in the cabinet, Your Majesty will be able to fully control the cabinet." Qiao Yunsheng said.

"Elder Han Ge, you still need to worry about the affairs of the court in the future." Feng Congwu said.

"I understand." Han Yi said softly.

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The next day, Qiao Yunsheng and Feng Congwu both played a request to tell the old man to return to his hometown, and Zhu Youxiao did not keep too much, but only added Qiao Yunsheng to Shaobao, and Feng Congwu was a scholar to allow the two to return to their hometown.

Zhu Youxiao really took the opportunity to expand the cabinet to seven people this time, and the first one he promoted was Huang Kezhang. Huang Kezhang is now the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he can be said to be completely neutral, in history, he was at odds with the Donglin Party, and he was not at odds with the Eunuch Party.

The second person promoted by Zhu Youxiao was Gao Panlong. He is now the right attendant of the Criminal Department. Gao Panlong is the leader of the Donglin Party, and enjoys a very high prestige among the people, Zhu Youxiao once deliberately suppressed Gao Panlong, and now the reason why he is brought up again, after all, the Donglin Party is still very powerful in the government and the opposition, and Zhu Youxiao still has a lot of places to rely on the Donglin Party, Zhu Youxiao can not learn to kill the eunuch party, and he can only take measures to gradually weaken the power of the Donglin Party. On the issue of dealing with the Donglin Party, Zhu Youxiao was a handful.

The last person promoted by Zhu Youxiao was Li Qiyuan, who is now the head of the household department. Li Qiyuan has always maintained a position of peace, integrity, and neutrality in the party struggle.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao's seven-member cabinet was finally preliminarily established, Han Yi was the first assistant, he and Gao Panlong both belonged to the Donglin Party, Wei Guangwei and Wang Shaohui belonged to the old eunuch party, and Lin Yaoyu, Huang Kezhang, and Li Qiyuan all belonged to non-party personages.

And Guo Yunhou succeeded Li Qiyuan as the head of the household department, and this person was highly evaluated by later generations in the post of head of the household department, and he was also a person without party affiliation. And the replacement of Huang Kezhang is Dong Kewei, the current waiter of the Ministry of Works, who is also one of the eunuchs.

Zhu Youxiao's move was to vigorously support the former eunuch party and non-party factions to confront the Donglin Party and weaken the influence of the Donglin Party on the government and government, so as to gradually achieve his political goals.

Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to promote Zhou Yingqiu, but considering Zhou Yingqiu's reputation, it seemed that promoting him had a bad impact and was temporarily shelved. Zhu Youxiao asked Zhou Yingqiu to continue to serve as the secretary of the ministry. Zhou Yingqiu is the head of Wei Zhongxian's "Ten Dogs" in history, obedient and easy to use, which is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao wants to promote him.

And Han Yi wanted to nominate Qian Qianyi into the cabinet, but was rejected by Zhu Youxiao. For this traitor Qian Qianyi, Zhu Youxiao did not dismiss the official, but arranged for the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Youxiao was waiting for Qian Qianyi to make a mistake and was ready to teach him a lesson, which could be regarded as a favor for Liu Ru.

At the time of the great changes in the imperial court, Sun Chuanting's army of 30,000 had already taken Mengyang. Since Sun Chuanting captured Meng Lun, Meng Yang Tusi has completely lost his fighting spirit, and when Sun Chuanting's army approached Meng Yang, Meng Yang Tusi immediately surrendered. After recovering Mengyang, Sun Chuanting took advantage of the situation all the way to Dagong City before stopping the pace of attack.

Compared with Sun Chuanting's quick battle, Ma Shilong adopted the strategy of advancing layer by layer, and at this time, Ma Shilong had already taken down Meng Nai and approached Meng Mi. It's just that before Ma Shilong attacked Meng Mi, Meng Mi's Tusi surrendered first.

After Meng Mi Tusi surrendered, Ma Shilong simply gave up the strategy of advancing layer by layer, and immediately sent troops to Baojing. Mengmi used to be one of the largest jade producing areas in the Ming Dynasty, and Baojing was the largest jade producing area among them.

Ma Shilong met in Baojing the first real battle after entering Meng Mi. The Burmese army held the city and did not surrender. Ma Shilong used a cannon to bombard for half a day, and the entire earth city of Baojing was bombarded into scum.

(End of chapter)