Chapter 455: The Urgency of Immigration and Administrative Reform

The process of Huang Taiji's execution was tragic, the scene was bloody, and the time was long. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although he was determined to grit his teeth and persevere, until he died, the sensitive nervous system still magnified the pain infinitely because of a series of operations such as cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, and cutting with the small knife, so that Huang Taiji couldn't help but howl in the end.

The executioner is undoubtedly the best anatomist in the Ming Dynasty today, Rao is Huang Taiji in front of him struggled, how he bared his teeth, how he cried loudly, he was also unfazed, and the knife in his hand was flying.

The official of the criminal department who was in charge of the beheading had already lowered his head, and the reason why he lowered his head was not because of a slight humanitarian guilt for such a cruel punishment to Huang Taiji, but just instinctively couldn't stand this kind of picture of flesh and blood flying, and even choked a few times, and some officials couldn't help but gag directly.

The people watching the execution felt the same way, some couldn't help but be stunned, and some shook their heads, but they didn't feel sorry for it.

Of course, there is no real reason why the people rushed to buy and eat its flesh, as the literati said in the history books, and even in ancient times, it did not reach the level of cannibalism to vent their anger. 、

A few days later, Huang Taiji's heart was officially inserted into the knife and ended his life of sin.

However, no one knows whether Huang Taiji was blind when he died, because after his heart stopped beating, the executioner had already made him lose both eyes in order to make up the number of knives.

"Qiqi, Your Majesty, Huang Taiji has been ambushed today, a full four thousand knives, crying lingering for three days without decision, and the people in Beijing are all applauding for this."

Su Maozhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, came to Zhu Youxiao at this time, and reported to Zhu Youxiao the result of the punishment of Huang Taiji Ling Chi, Zhu Youxiao only nodded after hearing it, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this Xiaoxiong, who would have brought more trauma to Daming in the next few years, finally left this world ahead of schedule.

There will no longer be the Qing Dynasty in this world, and he will no longer be anxious about the historical fate of the Manchu Qing Dynasty replacing the Ming Dynasty.

From now on, the history of the Ming Dynasty will open a new chapter, and the Ming Dynasty will no longer have the worry of extinction, nor will it be threatened by the northern careerists while carrying out drastic reforms in the country.

Da Ming will use more of his wealth and strength to compete for a broader space, to compete with other powerful countries in the world for the interests of the world, and no longer just for self-preservation.

Daming's expansion has just begun.

The great changes in China have just begun, and Zhu Youxiao wants to use the next days to let Daming take his solid steps in the Age of Discovery.

Zhu Youxiao felt that he needed to take an opportunity to convene the six ministries and nine secretaries, local governors, school officials, and heads of royal capital to hold an unprecedented conference, that is, to make a plan for the next development of various fields in the Ming Dynasty and draw a blueprint.

After Zhu Youxiao became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, especially after the complete eradication of the Donglin Party, this way of assembly and discussion was further expanded.

Basically, at the end of each year, the last court will become the summary meeting of the Ming Dynasty, and the officials with real power in various departments and the officials with the responsibility of supervision have been accustomed to have a comprehensive understanding of the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty at this court meeting, of course, Zhu Youxiao also has an overall understanding of the Ming Dynasty in this court, and for the officials in charge of the performance, it is also a test of their ability to summarize and whether there is a phenomenon of neglect of government and dereliction of duty.

Although the current Ming Dynasty is still Zhu Youxiao's cadre program, Zhu Youxiao does not want to be responsible for everything by himself, so he will be tired to death, and it is impossible to do everything.

Coordinating opinions through assembly and discussion, and finally making a decision by oneself, this is a good political system inherent in the Ming Dynasty, and it is naturally necessary for Zhu Youxiao to carry him forward.

"Now that Huang Taiji has been subdued, and other important members of Jiannu have also been killed, the next most important thing is to solve two things, one is to carry out the land reform and immigration policy in the recovered northern Liaobei region, so that this area can keep up with the pace of Mo Nan as soon as possible, and the construction of the Yajian Mansion and the Social Science Palace must also start immediately, and there is no need to set up another Chengxuan Political Envoy for the time being, so that the newly recovered territory will be attributed to the Liaodong Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, and Wang Zaijin will also serve as the Liaodong Zuobu Political Envoy, In addition, the court recommended a right-hand political envoy and a scholar to assist; The other is to sweep away the remnants of the forces, especially the remnants of Dolgon, and continue to pursue and suppress the Aobai Department of the Praetorian Guard, in short, to see people alive and dead to see corpses! ”

After listening to the report of Su Maozhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to several ministers of Xinuan Pavilion.

Because Zhu Youxiao now completely controls the military power and financial power, the imperial power has completely suppressed the power of the civil officials, so the way to control the civilian group through a few close ministers of the Xinuan Pavilion is meaningless, so today's Xinuan Pavilion is almost useless, and almost all the cabinet ministers have entered the Xinuan Pavilion at this time.

However, there is still an advantage to discussing matters in the Xinuan Pavilion, that is, it can be more efficient, because in the Qianqing Palace, you can also give orders to the cabinet at any time.

It's just that Xinuan Pavilion is not as narrow as Wenhua Palace, and it is inevitably crowded for the ministers, but after all, it can be one step closer to the Son of Heaven, so the ministers can still bear it.

Regarding Zhu Youxiao's instructions, Li Mingrui got up and responded, "Yes!" ”

Since Qian Qianyi was imprisoned, he has now become the first person in the cabinet, but his official position is still that of the Zhongji Temple, and he has not been promoted to the scholar of the Jianji Palace, that is, the first assistant of the cabinet.

Zhu Youxiao didn't really dislike this powerful minister who was raised by himself, but he didn't want this Li Mingrui to be too proud, or make the emerging forces behind him too eager to get political rights and interests from his hands, so Zhu Youxiao had to strike a balance.

Li Mingrui naturally knows what His Majesty Zhu Youxiao is thinking, so he is not in a hurry to force Zhu Youxiao to make himself the first assistant of the cabinet.

In the politics of the court, Zhu Youxiao is not worried about how serious the party struggle will be or how much threat it will pose to his imperial power, because now the old class contradictions in China have been alleviated, the new class contradictions have just sprouted, and the gap between the rich and the poor in the whole society has not yet shown signs of widening, from the scholars to the common people at the bottom, they are all pursuing the maximization of wealth, and they are all seeking how to compete more for their own interests, and they have not yet noticed the cruelty of social injustice and exploitation.

In short, whether it is Zhu Youxiao as the emperor or as an official or a common man, the most consistent theme of the entire Ming Dynasty is the development and development of wealth.

Under the rapid operation of the state apparatus, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in the scientific research system composed of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Ordnance Department, and the annual expenditure is almost twice the income of the treasury seven years ago, and several new products can appear or many new theoretical knowledge can be born every month.

The Royal Industries Company has further expanded its business variety, with branches officially taking root in Java in the South Seas, and the trade chain expanding to Europa, Ottoman and Rakshasa countries.

Not only the Royal Industrial Company, the Royal Weaving Bureau also began to expand his textile empire, and because of the introduction of steam-powered machinery, clothing has completely changed from relying on housewives to relying on tailors to make ready-to-wear with machines, more and more people of the Ming Dynasty began to get used to buying ready-to-wear rather than looking for someone to make clothes, and even with the emergence of the profession of tailor, there is a distinction between high and low technology, and there is a brand.

Huangzhuang was also officially renamed the Royal Farm Group, and began to use machines to loosen the soil and plough the fields in the plains, which greatly improved the efficiency of farming.

This can undoubtedly be more convenient and efficient to reclaim more wasteland, especially after a large number of sparsely populated plains such as Liaobei and Monan and Outer Northeast Asia were included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the agricultural reclamation technology brought by the steam industrial revolution enabled the Ming Dynasty to obtain a large amount of arable land in a short period of time.

After all, if there is no advanced agricultural reclamation technology, it will only take several years to reclaim wasteland and achieve cultivation and production just by immigrating to these vast Great Northern Wilderness.

Now, through a part of the mechanical power instead of manpower, the agricultural production efficiency has been greatly improved, so that the difficulty of immigration has also been greatly reduced, after all, as soon as you get out of the customs, you can get a few acres of land, as if overnight from a poor peasant to a solid small landlord, there is no one who is unwilling to immigrate outside the customs.

Unlike after the Manchu Dynasty ruled China, in order to protect the foundation of their ancestors, they strictly forbade the people inside the Guannei to enrich the Guanwai, and now Zhu Youxiao set up an immigration group from the very beginning, led by a cabinet scholar, a household servant, a ministry, and the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as well as officials at all levels under the Metropolitan Procuratorate, to be responsible for recruiting people from the 13 inland provinces to enrich the affairs of the Guan, and even instructed local officials at all levels to come up with incentives to encourage the people to move outside the Guan.

Zhu Youxiao's purpose is to be able to enrich the Guanwai in the shortest possible time, especially the Outer Northeast Asian region, and the Ming Dynasty will not only occupy and restrain these places in the future, but also make this area completely become a part of the Han cultural circle.

It is not only the name of the Han people, but also for the Tujia, Miao, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities in the Yunnan-Guizhou area who are inferior to the Han people in terms of cultural knowledge and backward production methods, Zhu Youxiao also encouraged them to leave the village and move to Guanwai, and allowed them to retain their customs after moving to Guanwai.

With the size of the Ming Dynasty, it is certainly impossible to guarantee that there is only one Han nationality in the whole world, multi-ethnicity is an inevitable phenomenon, and these ethnic minorities will not necessarily become a big disaster, after all, there are many people who have also made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty, such as Qin Liangyu, but also have to take precautions, the best way to prevent it is naturally to make these various ethnic groups form a mixed situation, so that some of these ethnic minorities immigrate outside the border, together with other Han immigrants, is to achieve this political goal.

Although the Ming Dynasty officially allowed it to retain its own customs, if it was an assimilation phenomenon caused by exchange and integration, there was nothing to do.

With the rapid development of scientific and technological productivity brought about by steam power, not only the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau and the Royal Agricultural Reclamation Group have also grown in scale, but many new enterprises have also emerged, such as the first department store that sold all kinds of new goods such as soap, soap, etc., and the first postal company that specialized in express delivery services for ordinary people have also appeared.

Zhu Youxiao did not prevent the spontaneous emergence of this business method among the people, and even encouraged some smart and far-sighted people to become rich overnight, and sometimes Zhu Youxiao would also instruct the official newspapers and periodicals to publicize the wealth stories of such business legends, so as to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for wealth creation and innovation.

Of course, all this behind the scenes is inseparable from the Royal Bank, in fact, now many of the Royal Bank's business has been transferred to the newly established Royal Agricultural, Transportation, Industrial and Commercial Bank, but the real Ming economy behind the scenes is still the Royal Bank, he as the central bank of the Ming Dynasty, one hand grasps the coinage of silver dollars, and the other hand grasps the vast majority of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, such as the income and treasury taxes of several major royal capitals, so that he can control the economy of the Ming Dynasty at any time, of course, he is also the most important card for Zhu Youxiao to control the Ming Dynasty and even control the Praetorian Guard.

With the development of productive forces and the change of production methods, which led to more and more economic prosperity and the continuous emergence of various new industries and new investment methods, the administrative system of the Ming court began to be unable to support.

In the past, the Ming court was only established by Zhu Yuanzhang and then acted as a centralized government to maintain the stability of the small peasant economy, his more function was to support the conditions of the small peasant economy and to occupy more means of production for the Zhu family and even other rulers, its service is relatively small, but now the imperial court needs to provide social public services and macro-control more and more places, which makes the current administrative system of the Ming Dynasty has gradually been unable to support the development of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao is also thinking about whether to reform the administrative system, especially whether the six ministries should be further expanded, for example, whether the current household department should be directly divided into the Ministry of Finance, Civil Affairs, Commerce, Auditing, Land and Resources, etc., because now the household department really covers too many functions, Zhu Youxiao has appointed no less than six household ministers, the overlap of official positions is too high, and the power of a household department is already too great, because he controls almost all the economic veins of the Ming Dynasty, and it is equivalent to a deputy general manager in modern times.

Not only the Ministry of Households, but even the Ministry of Rites is now a mixture of several major departments in later generations, such as education, diplomacy, and culture.

In the past, when the small-scale peasant economy was the mainstay, the entire country's administrative system could not function because the main mode of production in society was only agriculture, and other industries were not very developed.

But now, in terms of education alone, because Zhu Youxiao's request to popularize every Ming child to go to school for five years in the next five years can make it impossible for the Ministry of Rites to fulfill, because a Ministry of Rites has to be busy with the imperial examination and the review of various new newspapers and periodicals.