With the strong support of Sun Chuanting, Gao Hongtu, Shi Kefa and others, various reforms have been carried out smoothly.

The power of the cabinet was once again expanded, the imperial power was greatly weakened, and the constitutional monarchy began to take shape. The little emperor Zhu Cijiong almost became the symbol of the Ming Empire, and he only had the power to intervene in court affairs, and lost most of the decision-making power.

Because of Cao Yue and Zhu Yujiao's words and deeds over the years, Zhu Cijiong knew that this trend was inevitable, and he had no way to fight it, so he could only accept it.

Sun Chuanting resigned due to age and physical reasons, and was replaced by Gao Hongtu. Following Cao Yue for a few years, Gao Hongtu's worldview has completely changed, he fully understands Cao Yue's mind and vision, and while admiring Cao Yue very much, he is also more conscientious in his work. Today's Gao Hongtu has almost forgotten that he belonged to Cao Yue because he had a handle in the hands of the other party, and now he is willing to do all this, seek benefits for the country, do things for the people, and contribute his talents to the progress of the times.

When Gao Hongtu was in the country, he was taking care of taxes and expenditures in an orderly manner, coupled with the change of habits in recent years, the increase in fame, and he was Cao Yue's "fan" and a hardcore supporter of reform, and it was justified to be promoted to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet.

Ma Shiying and Qian Qianyi were dismissed from their substantive positions because they were not outstanding in knowledge, and he was also old, and they were only appointed to positions with high status but no real power. Shi Kefa, Gu Yanwu, and Zuo Maodi were given the position of secondary assistants, and they, together with Gao Hongtu, were in charge of the political affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

The six ministries are still retained and belong to the cabinet, but many departments and bureaus have been added under each ministry, which is Cao Yue's new necessary departments according to the situation in later generations.

The adjustment of the functions and powers of the Ministry of War is completely similar to that of the Ministry of Defense in later generations, and Zheng Zhilong served as the secretary.

The Ministry of Household Affairs was concurrently served by Gu Yanwu, and the young Zhang Cangshui presided over the affairs of the Ministry of Household as the left servant of the Ministry of Households, and his functions and powers were expanded, and the functions and powers of the Ministry of Finance, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, the People's Bank of China and other ministries and commissions in later generations were all vested in the Ministry of Households. Correspondingly, these departments and bureaus were set up under the Ministry of Households, and the directors of the departments and bureaus were all officials who were personally selected by Cao Yue, had foresight, and had a sense of advanced reform.

The Ministry of Rites set the functions and powers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Education in later generations, and Qu Shiyun served as the secretary.

The functions and powers of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Ministry of Communications in later generations were concentrated. It is also the most complex ministry among the six ministries, with all officials combined surpassing the other six, and the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences is also its next important ministry. In Cao Yue's heart, this ministry represents the level of development of science and technology in the Ming Dynasty, and the position of Shangshu is also extremely important. In the end, this important position fell to Song Yingxing, the most prestigious scientist in the Ming Dynasty.

Those capable people who originally served in the Academy of Sciences also held positions in some important departments, and some Westerners also served in the Ministry of Industry. Cao Yue hopes that with his full support, Daming's scientific and technological level can be improved as soon as possible and officially enter the industrial age.

The powers of the public, procuratorate, and law naturally belong to the Criminal Department, and Qu Shiyun's disciple Zhang Tongchang holds this important position.

The functions of the ministry are not much different from the original, but the status of Shangshu has declined, and the position of Shangshu is held by the famous minister He Tengjiao.

On the military side, Cao Yue set up a military council. In charge of military affairs throughout the country. He served as the director of the Military Commission, Cao Bianjiao, Huang Degong, and Li Dingguo served as deputies, and the Joint Staff Department was under his jurisdiction, with Cao Jie serving as chief of the General Staff and Liu Wenxiu, Liu Liangzuo, and Hongniangzi serving as deputies; Ministry of Political Work, Gao Jie as director; The logistics support department was originally served by Cao Yue's general, Cao Neng; The equipment technology department is in charge of Fang Yizhi; The chief officers of the training department and the mobilization department were also personally selected by Cao Yue, one was Cao Qian, the general, and the other was Li Guo, the former "Dashun" general who surrendered.

In addition, the Ming Royal Military Academy is also under the control of the Military Committee, Cao Yue personally served as the president of the Royal Military Academy, and the little emperor Zhu Cijiong served as the honorary president. Military Council stipulates. Senior generals must go to the military academy for further study, and only after completing their studies can they lead the army in the army, and all middle and senior officers must also go to the academy to study and complete all their coursework. After passing the assessment, they can lead the troops and be promoted. In the future, when more military academies are established, junior officers must also have military academy study experience before they can serve in the army.

Throughout the country, a total of fifteen Guards corps were formed. Forty-five Guards Divisions, with a total of 900,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, the size of the naval division was also expanded, and the three fleets had a total of 300,000 men. The governor of the navy was Cao Ming, and Zheng Sen, also known as Zheng Chenggong, served as his deputy.

In addition to this more than 1 million regular army, there are also a large number of local soldiers, similar to the establishment of the armed police and public security in later generations, who are responsible for local public security.

Fifteen Guards Corps, after the fighting outside the Guanguan stops, will be stationed in the Ming Dynasty, Sanjing and 12 provinces. The commanders of the guards were also personally selected by Cao Yue. In order to control the world, Cao Yue must take military power into his hands.

As for how to distribute military power in the future, he didn't think about it for the time being. But there is one thing he does not deny, that is, after him, no one can control all the military power like him, and he must be restrained, otherwise the world will definitely change color.

There are many political and military systems that can be referred to in later generations, and Cao Yue believes that when the time comes, he will definitely be able to formulate a suitable system.

In terms of people's livelihood, the imperial court formulated policies to greatly reduce the burden of the people and vigorously encourage the development of various industries, industry and commerce. The germination of national capitalism is what Cao Yue hopes to see the most. Only when national industry develops can it bring about the development of the productive forces of the entire society.

A series of reform measures were approved by cabinet officials after discussion and implementation under Cao Yue's instructions or reminders.

Soon, the world of the Ming Dynasty underwent earth-shaking changes.

In the second year of Yong'an, the Royal Academy of Sciences developed the first steam engine of the Ming Dynasty, and at the end of the following year, it was successfully equipped on warships, and since then the fleet of the Ming Navy Division has a steam engine-driven warship. The Admiralty was also established, and the Naval Battleship Development Bureau began to design ironclad ships.

In the same year, the first small steam locomotive was developed, and the construction of the railway was officially put on the agenda.

The military industry has also made great progress, and new muskets and artillery and high-explosive ******** have been successfully developed.

The performance of the new ******** is not known how many energy levels higher than the explosive power of the earliest black gunpowder. With the advent of this explosive, the improved production of guns and artillery also occurred naturally. The new rifles all use breech loading, the chamber can be filled with six bullets, and after each shot, you only need to pull the bolt to shoot again, whether it is shooting distance or accuracy, convenience, is not the original rifle can be compared.

The change in muskets is even greater than that of firearms. New howitzers and cannons have also been successfully developed and trial production has begun.

With the emergence of these new guns, Cao Yue believed that no army in the world could defeat the Ming Dynasty.

In the fourth year of Yong'an, Cao Yue prepared to implement a plan for foreign expansion. The first targets were Korea and Japan, two countries that he hated the most and wanted to conquer the most. Originally, Cao Yue was ready to let Cao Bianjiao order the army to go on the expedition, but after returning to the dynasty, Cao Bianjiao unfortunately contracted the disease. He eventually died. Cao Yue lost a close relative, and eliminated one of the greatest threats to power, and he was finally able to truly achieve complete control of the army.

In the end, Cao Yue ordered Huang Degong and Zheng Sen to cooperate by land and water to attack Korea and Japan.

North Korea has always been a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, but later fell to Jiannu, after Jiannu was destroyed, North Korea threw back into the arms of the Ming Dynasty, but because the country suffered, there was no financial tribute. Because of the surrender of North Korea, the Ming court sent troops to fight against the Ming Dynasty after its return. In the end, under the pressure of the Ming Dynasty. The king of Joseon announced that he would go to Beijing to be a prince in addition to the domestic annexation.

Subsequently, the imperial court announced the establishment of a Korean province, stationed troops, and appointed officials to govern it.

At this time, North Korea had a population of less than one million, a large number of men died in the war, and the remaining men were less than 200,000, and the population ratio was seriously unbalanced. With only such a small number of men, North Korea is no longer capable of starting a war with any opponent, so it can only choose to surrender.

With the stabilization of the situation in North Korea. Many impoverished Han Chinese, at the instigation of the imperial court, flocked to Korea to acquire land. Occupy North Korean women. Because there are too few men, it is difficult for North Korean women to find someone to marry. This situation also appeared in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, where too many men died in the war. But in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, there are still many people who are poor and can't afford to marry wives, and after arriving in North Korea, they can have many wives and concubines even if they don't have money. The only reason is that they are Han Chinese, and the status of the Han people is in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which is much higher than that of other races.

Huang Degong and Zheng Sen used Korea as a springboard to land on Japanese soil, and after several fierce battles, they inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, and finally captured their capital, Kyoto. At this time, the Japanese army, in terms of weaponry and the quality of soldiers, was completely incomparable with the Ming Guards.

Every battle was a one-sided massacre, and Huang Degong and Zheng Sen did not encounter much strong resistance before killing the Japanese army. The smooth operation of the war made the navy officers and men really red, and they were eager to rush to the shore with guns and sweep the little devils for a while.

The Ming Expeditionary Force conquered Japan in only five months, countless Japanese men were killed and captured, women were plundered, and the undead Japanese were transported out of Japan as war trophies and became cheap labor in the Ming Dynasty.

After the war, Japan's population fell by four-fifths, and many parts of the country became barren.

And the imperial court offered very generous conditions to encourage the people to emigrate. Hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese eventually left their hometowns and embarked on a journey to a foreign land to earn a living. But they soon discovered that they were not going to a foreign land, but to a magical place where the Han Chinese ruled everything, and where they enjoyed better living conditions than the local ones.

After the complete conquest of Japan, the Ming court issued another edict to set up Dongyi Province in addition to Japan, and included this island in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After conquering Korea and Japan and turning these two countries into new provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Yue was not satisfied, and was ready to use troops against the Russian Maozi bordering the Mongol tribes to occupy the land of Siberia. However, Cao Yue only sent a small number of troops to defend the northern frontier, and then ordered these troops to drive the Mongols and other tribes to fight against the Omaozi.

Cao Yue had already decided to take Bumu Butai as his concubine and give Zhezhe the honorable position, and the attachment of these two women and their honorable status directly appeased Horqin, the most powerful Mongolian tribe, and even other Mongolian tribes did not dare to resist. In the end, they obediently acted as the vanguard of the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Europe, and under the drive of the Ming Guards, they plundered and killed everywhere.

The land of South Asia, Annam (Vietnam), Siam (Thailand), Burma, Mughal (India) and other Southeast Asian countries were all targets that Cao Yue wanted to conquer. Vietnam was originally the Jiaozhi of the Ming Dynasty, but later it was out of control, and Cao Yue wanted to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Although it is said that the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty has just subsided, and the wounds of the war need to be slowly recovered, Cao Yue does not think that the war cannot be fought at this time. Fighting a war is not necessarily an act of wasting wealth, and in many cases wealth can be accumulated quickly. It turns out that this is how the British Empire in history became strong. Cao Yue also believes in this, war can make you rich, as long as you don't like Huaxia in later generations, you will be swollen and fat everywhere. But don't ask for the benefits you deserve.

And Cao Yue is not afraid that there is no way to control these newly occupied places, as long as the train is made and the railway is paved, no matter how far the distance is, it is not an obstacle. As a result, Cao Yue was half a year after the end of the conquest of Japan. While the north's action to challenge Omaozi continued, it issued a war ****** to conquer Annam.

This battle was commanded by two generals, Li Dingguo and Li Guo, who were greatly admired by Cao Yue, and the two of them would lead three guards and nine guards divisions of 180,000 people, as well as all the men and horses of the South China Sea Fleet, to conquer Annam. After conquering Annam, conquer the entire South Asian subcontinent.

Cao Yue was a fanatical Han nationalist, and as a soldier, he was also a war maniac, always believing that a soldier would spend his whole life on the battlefield, and that the state would support the army for war. In order to expand the territory. Therefore, he decided that the Ming Dynasty would not stop conquering the outside world during his lifetime, and strive to conquer the whole world, so that the Han people would become the most noble people on the earth, and the yellow race would rule the world.

In order to avoid a demographic crisis, avoid the decrease in males due to too frequent wars, and in order to give tens of millions of women more than men a home, under the instruction of Cao Yue, the first "Marriage Law" of the Ming Dynasty was born. The Marriage Act stipulates that an adult civilian man may marry a wife. Accept a concubine, and encourage more children, more children and more children, the court will give rewards.

In order to improve the quality of the population. Universalization of education is also an important measure in the new reform. The vigorous development of ocean trade, the huge amount of tea, porcelain, silk and other items of production, brought a huge amount of silver to the Ming Dynasty, and the rolling wealth also allowed Cao Yue to do a lot of things without worries, and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty also developed rapidly.

And the rapid accumulation of wealth. The substantial increase in national strength also gave Cao Yue the confidence to use troops everywhere.

In Cao Yue's study, there is a globe he personally made, and against this globe, Cao Yue has formulated a plan to conquer the world that is currently a top secret. He hoped to see the fruits of his conquest in his lifetime, at least if the Ming would be able to control all of Asia.

Sun Chuanting also died of illness at the end of the third year of Yong'an, and before he died, Cao Yue whispered to him about his identity as a traverser. This made Sun Chuanting extremely shocked, and finally passed away in shock and disbelief and surprise.

The imperial court gave Sun Chuanting a high-standard posthumous gift and a generous burial.

Although the war has not stopped outside the Ming Dynasty, Cao Yue at this time no longer needs to personally lead the army to fight, he only needs to instill the combat concept of the hot weapon era to the senior generals. Of course, he is still busy, but he has also learned to enjoy life and enjoy beautiful women.

The eldest princess, Zhu Yujiao, finally under the persuasion of Cao Yue, devoted her energy to the preparation of the Cao family's financial empire. Zhu Yujiao has given birth to two sons and a daughter for Cao Yue, but she has given birth many times, she is still beautiful, her body is not out of shape, and she is becoming more and more attractive. She also knows how to grasp Cao Yue's psychology very well, gives Cao Yue the greatest freedom, and also has a tolerant attitude towards other women coming to Cao Yue's side.

She also knows that she can't have Cao Yue alone, if she doesn't want Cao Yue to dislike her, she must let herself perform very advantageously, and make Cao Yue feel inseparable from her. Therefore, while she worked hard to maintain her beauty and good figure, she also took over the burden of taking charge of the Cao family industry from her mother-in-law according to Cao Yue's instructions, and began to appear on the stage of Daming as a strong woman.

Other women, Liu Ruyi, who added a beautiful little beauty to Cao Yue, now serves in the Joint Staff Department as Cao Yue's confidential secretary. Her unique strategy has also been reflected in these years, and she has become an indispensable senior staff member by Cao Yue's side.

Chen Yuanyuan also added a daughter to Cao Yue, and she entered the military like Liu Ruyi, and was responsible for the development of the military culture of the entire Ming Dynasty. With Cao Yue's nourishment, life is full and busy, and Chen Yuanyuan, who is becoming more and more mature, is becoming more and more charming, and every time Cao Yue sees her, he can't help but fight with her for a few rounds.

Dong Xiaowan also continued to give full play to her talents and continued to be in charge of the propaganda department of Daming. She was luckier than Liu Ru and Chen Yuanyuan, and after being favored by Cao Yue, she added a son to the Cao family. The fact that the son is more expensive than the mother is common at all times, because of the son, Dong Xiaowan's status in the Cao family is second only to Zhu Yujiao and the Red Lady.

The red lady, who holds an important position in the army, finally supported Cao Yue to conceive an heir, but she has a big belly. I'm still busy with my own business every day. She and Liu Ru are known by many as the two most powerful assistants around Cao Yue, one literary and one martial, "Shuangshu in the army".

Several other women in Qin Huai Bayan took the initiative to give them their arms. have become Cao Yue's women. It's just that in the end, not everyone is famous, unless they can add a son and a half daughter to Cao Yue. None of them are vase-like existences, they are all Cao Yue's right-hand men in work and life, Li Xiangjun and Gu Hengbo help Zhu Yujiao do things, Kou Baimen, Bian Yujing and Chen Yuanyuan together. Zheng Ruying and Dong Xiaowan took the class. These women are extremely intelligent and very talented. Women can hold up half the sky, many times what they do is more reliable than men, and more importantly, they are all Cao Yue's women, and Cao Yue is very relieved to do things for them.

The two Korean princesses eventually became Cao Yue's trophies, and many people tried to send beauties to Cao Yue's side, and every beauty hoped to be Cao Yue's woman. It's just Cao Yue, who is in the flowers every day. has turned a blind eye to beauty, his energy is limited, there are so many beauties around him, he is temporarily satisfied, if there is no woman he likes very much, he will not consider adding women around him.

In the seventh year of Yong'an, the first steam locomotive was finally developed, and the construction of railways from Beijing to Nanjing, Beijing to Xi'an, and Xi'an to Nanjing also began. The steam engine has been maturely used on ships, and among the three fleets of the Ming Guards, there are already several steam-driven ironclad ships. There were more wooden warships powered by steam.

The Ming Navy can already start to run rampant in the world's oceans.

At the end of the fifth year of Yong'an, Annam was conquered by the Ming Guard, and King Annam was also taken prisoner. He was sent to Beijing to retire.

Subsequently, the Ming court announced that in addition to Annan, Jiaozhi Province would be re-established.

After recovering Cochin, Li Dingguo and Li Guo continued to lead the army to conquer more places.

During the conquest of Annam. The terrifying combat effectiveness and super powerful weapons of the Ming army made the Annan army have no power to fight back. This news was also quickly spread, and the more it spread, the more mysterious it became, and finally the Ming army almost became a heavenly soldier. Siam and Burma surrendered without a fight, voluntarily excluding the country, and after occupying these two countries without any sense of accomplishment, Li Dingguo and Li Guo went to conquer the Mughal in a murderous manner.

In the secret order to Li Dingguo and Li Guo, Cao Yue asked them to teach the Asan a good lesson and use several massacres to deter them. Li Dingguo and Li Guo, two war maniacs, naturally and faithfully carried out Cao Yue's orders.

As a result, blood began to permeate the Indian continent, and Ah San's predecessors paid off the blood debt owed to the Chinese for their juniors.

Plundering and colonial occupation, supporting agents to establish puppet regimes, this is a common trick used by Westerners to conquer the East, Cao Yue also applied this approach, but he did more excessively, after plundering and establishing puppet regimes, began to immigrate on a large scale, preparing to replace the local indigenous peoples with the numerical superiority of the Han Chinese, just like the Europeans conquered the American continent.

Of course, Cao Yue will not ignore Europe and the United States, but he has no ability to go on expeditions for the time being, so he can only find ways to plunder wealth from these places. When Zheng He went to the West, the Ming fleet could reach Africa and even beyond, and after the development of scientific and technological productivity, shipbuilding and navigation technology were more advanced, and it was not a problem for the Ming ocean-going fleet to reach Europe and the Americas.

Under the threat of force and the lure of interests, and with the help of Western merchants, the wealth of the world continued to pour into the Ming Dynasty, and by the time of Yong'an eight years, the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty had reached one billion taels of silver, and it continued to grow rapidly.

"We have money in our pockets, we have an army in our hands, and the army has guns, we must conquer the whole world, and the time must be advanced, I must see it when I am alive!" These are the words that Cao Yue shouted in front of many people after he was drunk.

These words directly scared everyone stupid, but after being shocked, the fanaticism of conquering the world in their hearts was also ignited.

The world is the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will dominate the whole world, no one can doubt this!

And when this point of view was rapidly spread, it had been expanded to 30 Guards of the Ming Dynasty, and it was in the midst of a campaign everywhere, and every day there was good news to Beijing, to Cao Yue's hands, and then to the people of the world!

"An incomparably powerful Ming Empire has stood proudly in the world......"

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