"The emperor has a decree to announce that the Counselor of the Military Aircraft and the Governor of Zhili, the Marquis of Huai'an, Li Shuchu, will come to the palace to meet him!"

Qianqing the door, the chamberlain smiled at Li Shuchu, who was waiting to be seen, "Lord Governor, please come with the little one." ”

After the New Year, Li Shuchu, the former governor of the Central Plains, also officially assumed the post of governor of Zhili, and according to the new system, the governor of Zhili also served as the governor of Hebei at the same time, and added the rank of counselor. The governor of Zhili is known as the first governor of the Han Dynasty, although the two provinces of Hebei and Shanxi under his jurisdiction do not govern the Shuntian Jing Division, but the entire Beijing Division is in the Zhili Military Region Gongwei, and has real power.

The Governor's Mansion of Zhili was located in Baoding, but Li Shuchu spent more time in Beijing.

The emperor summoned Li Shuchu in the south study room inside the Qianqing Gate.

Li Shuchu reported his name at the entrance of the palace, and saw Wang Kun, the chief of ceremonies, lifting the curtain and saying, "Li Shuchu is here!" ”

"I called you here today to put some burden on you."

Liu Jun sat on the soft couch, watched Li Shuchu salute, and asked the chamberlain to give him a seat to pour tea, "In the past, when the imperial court first recovered the land outside the Guan, in order to strengthen its control, it set up more provincial capitals and set up a lot of road divisions. However, to this day, the situation outside the customs has been controlled by the imperial court, although the two years of vigorous immigration outside the customs, but the customs outside the vast and sparsely populated, often a few provinces are not as good as the Central Plains one or two provinces, so the provinces outside the customs are inevitably too many provincial capitals, and some people are floating in the disadvantages. ”

"In the past two days, I have also discussed with the cabinet scholars, and they all believe that the border provinces can be appropriately merged and eliminated. The original provinces of Yanbei, Monan, Xing'an, Liaoning, Jilin, Haixi, Heilongjiang, Jiangdong, Xipol, Beihai, Dongchen, Beiting, Jinshan, Suiyuan, Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai outside the northern customs must now be adjusted. ”

After the merger of eastern and western Liaoning into Liaoning, Liu Jun and the cabinet are ready to make further adjustments, and after the adjustment, Liaoning Province will be expanded, and the Liaohe River basin south of the Songhua River will be divided into Liaoning Province, and the east of the Songhua River, to the south of the downstream after the confluence of the Songhua River and the Heilongjiang River until the sea, the original Jilin and Haixi will be merged into Jilin. To the north of the Songhua River, as well as the north of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, to the north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, to the west of the Great Xing'an Mountains, the original Heilongjiang and Dongjiang provinces, as well as parts of Jilin Province and part of Xing'an Province, are Heilongjiang Province.

Most of Hung Yen Province and Butterworth Province, as well as the vast province of Sipor, and the province of Sipor.

Chechnya, Beiting, Jinshan provinces. It was merged into Mobei Province. Monan, Yanbei and Suiyuan were merged into Monan Province.

Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu provinces are combined into Gansu Province.

After this round of adjustment, these provinces will be very large, but the population is still far less than that of the Central Plains provinces. Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Xipol, Mobei, Monan, Gansu, from the northeast to the northwest, the seven provinces are the new northern Xinjiang.

After the adjustment, including the four provinces of Korea and Japan, there are 33 provinces in Dahan, which belong to the 13 military regions.

The three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang will all be subordinate to the Guanwai Military Region, while Xipol and Mobei will be subordinate to the Saibei Military Region.

New Monan Province. Liu Jun intended to be subsumed into the Zhili Military Region, from the Yanshan Mountains to the Yinshan Mountains and all the way to the Hetao Plain, the traditional Great Wall defense line of the Central Plains Dynasty. All belong to the Governor of Zhili.

This is also from the overall geographical situation division, the governor of Zhili has the three mountain ranges of Yanshan, Yinshan, and Taihang Mountain, and has the entire Great Wall defense line, so he has a complete strategic defense geographical situation. It can better play the important task of guarding the Jingshi.

The new Gansu Province still belongs to the Shaanxi-Gansu Military Region.

Liu Jun sipped his tea, "The new Monan Province will include most of the original Monan Mongolian tribes. From the Yellow River Hetao Plain at the foot of Yinshan Mountain to the Xilamulun River under the Great Xing'an Mountains, connecting the desert in the north and Yanshan in the south, such a large area will be merged into a province of Monan in the future, all of which are subordinate to the Zhili Military Region, do you have the confidence to take over this burden? ”

Li Shuchu hurriedly said, "Back to the emperor, it is an honor for the minister to take on this important task, there is no difficulty to go up, and there are difficulties to go too." No matter what, we must live up to Your Majesty's trust and manage Monan Province well. ”

"With your attitude, I am very relieved, Mo Nan is now the most important source of livestock and dairy meat supply in the imperial court, and the wool, skins, and herbs produced by Mo Nan are also very important. It is very important to do a good job in economic development, but there are a large number of Mongol feudal vassals in Monan, so while invigorating the economic development, we must not ignore the comfort and control of the Mongols. It is necessary to strengthen the Sinicization education in Monan. ”

Li Shuchu nodded again and again.

"Your Majesty will remember your majesty's teachings."

"Get up and speak." Liu Jun smiled and pointed to the chair next to him, "You have gone through several governors of Fujian and Zhejiang, Sanjiang, and the Central Plains, and you have performed very well in each term, and you are capable and willing to do practical things." In particular, your performance as governor of the Central Plains is remarkable, Henan has become the largest grain producing area of the imperial court, and Shandong's industrial and commercial development is also very rapid. This time, Monan was assigned to Zhili, and you used dim sum to strive to boost the economy of Hebei, Shanxi, and Monan provinces. The economy is up, everyone is rich, and the society is naturally stable. ”

"Now the whole country is thriving, but let's not be blinded by these scenes. Although the income of the imperial court exceeded 2 billion yuan last year, it must also be noted that there are still many people in a state where food and clothing have not been solved. A large number of people do not even have enough to eat, not to mention that many people's houses are just straw huts and mud houses, which are dilapidated houses. They can't afford to eat two full meals a day, let alone provide for their children to study, and when they are sick, they ask the doctor to buy medicine and see a doctor. For the imperial court, it is a good thing that there are more and more rich people today, but this is not worthy of our pride, we should pay more attention to how many poor people in the world are still there, how many people do not have enough to eat, how many people do not have warm clothes, how many people do not have a piece of tile, how many people are still sick and have no money for treatment, how many children cannot afford to go to school at all, and how many daughters-in-law cannot afford to marry a daughter-in-law."

"You are the governor of Zhili, the first governor of the world, the official of the feudal party, and the ruling party. I hope that when you engage in economic development, you will not only look at how much certain numbers have risen and how much your financial income has increased, but also look at how many poor people you still have. I don't want you to play any word games on me, what average numbers to use, a millionaire, with ninety-nine beggars, on average, a hundred people are ten thousand yuan, but in fact a huge rich, with ninety-nine beggars. Such a situation is unhealthy and deformed for the imperial court, and such a gap between the rich and the poor will cause social turmoil and unrest. ”

Liu Jun is already preparing to make the number of poor people under the jurisdiction of officials an important indicator of official performance, and even this indicator will rank ahead of the economic growth of officials under their jurisdiction.

At present, Dahan has transitioned from a traditional agricultural society to a commodity economy and society. The increase in economic aggregate is rapid, but the gap between the rich and the poor is also rapidly widening, the rich are worth tens of millions, and the poor have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing.

Next, Liu Jun focused on a few points, mainly how to treat the Mongols. For the Mongols, the strategy of the imperial court should still be to focus on encompassing and promoting Sinicization education. Especially in the commercial development of Monan, we can mainly cooperate. Han merchants paid money, and the Mongols sent people, and the two sides cooperated. In this way, they will benefit each other, and do not eat alone, otherwise it will be difficult to stir up the resentment of the Mongol princes.

After a long time, the next generation of Mongols, or the next generation at the latest, will be no different from the Han Chinese.

Li Shuchu also talked about some plans to develop the economy, such as Shanxi is positioned as the mining and smelting of coal and steel, and Hebei is positioned as cotton processing and industrial and commercial manufacturing, after all, Beijing and Tianjin, the two top cities. As well as Lushun, Dalian, Dengzhou, Qingdao, Taiyuan, Zhangjiakou and other big cities, all of which have large populations and developed commerce, there is a great demand for goods.

"I believe in your abilities. Now that you have found a good position, let's do it, and if there is anything you need support, just report it. Whether it is necessary to attract investment or investment. Whoever the court can help will help. After speaking, Liu Jun said again, "I'll tell you good news." Li Zhen is pregnant, it is rare for you to enter the palace, go over to see her in a while, talk to her, have a meal and then leave the palace. ”

Li Shuchu thanked him and withdrew.

Liu Jun continued to look at the two excerpts, now that the cabinet is in charge of administration, Liu Jun is much more relaxed. After the cabinet handles government affairs, it will send a backup to the celebrant and supervisor. The celebrant now has no power to approve red, but he is still the emperor's assistant, and the celebrant and the commander even still holds the title of prime minister.

The Celebrant will carefully review the backup sent by the cabinet, and then make a memorandum and present it to the Emperor for the Emperor's viewing.

The affairs of the cabinet, in the end, come to the emperor, and a matter is often only one or two sentences. Only very important things, or some controversial things, will be noted.

The disposal of the cabinet is not completely in line with Liu Jun's intentions, but as long as it is not a matter of principle, Liu Jun will generally not veto it, and the emperor must also know how to delegate power.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor Taishang sent someone to report that the two Hou Ye and Mrs. Hou, as well as the eldest princess and the concubine, have entered the palace, please move to the Imperial Palace to participate in the family banquet."

"Well, go to the Imperial Palace."

In the Imperial Palace, the Emperor Taishang and a group of children were sitting together chatting, and the three sons and five daughters except for the emperor's son did not arrive, and the rest of them came. The Emperor Taishang is actually not very old, in his early fifties, and he was still back then. However, with such an outstanding emperor's son, Liu Xiu, the emperor, was ignored for his age.

Fortunately, Liu Xiu is not the kind of person who has a strong desire for power, and in the early years, Liu Xiu only had one wife and one concubine. After entering the palace and becoming the emperor, Liu Xiu didn't care about other things, but took four more concubines for himself.

The four concubines were all young, and two of them were pregnant.

The emperor has no opinion on this matter, the emperor who does not interfere in state affairs is already very good, and it is not a big deal to accept a few women to have a few children.

The imperial sister-in-law, Mei, sat next to her mother-in-law and talked, but she was a little absent-minded. Mei has always felt that her husband was incapable, and he couldn't study back then, and neither could he do anything else. Lucky to have a good brother, he actually took the world from scratch, and the entire Liu family was also regarded as a chicken and a dog ascending to heaven, and the useless Liu Zhao actually became a Hou Ye.

If there were no comparisons between the two brothers Liu Jun and Liu Jian, Liu Zhao, the marquis, would already be very good. But as long as Mei compares Liu Zhao's other two brothers, he feels that his husband is inferior everywhere. Not to mention that Liu Jun was a self-made man in his twenties and sat on the dragon chair in the world, and Liu Jian, he was in high school in his teens, and he was a Jinshi in the middle of the people, and now he is already the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, a virtuous king who has won the praise of the government and the opposition.

In addition to the vacant title of marquis, the husband only held the nominal position of a Zongzheng Siqing, saying that he was managing the clan, but in fact, there were few people in the clan, and the real affairs were not in the husband's turn.

Her husband has no ability to go further in his career, and Mei Qing has also given up on that heart. Later, when she found out that the emperor and Liu Jian, the Marquis of Wuchang, were still running a huge industry of their own, Mei couldn't sit still.

Although the emperor usually gives Liu Zhao a lot of rewards, but in addition to this reward, Liu Zhao has no other benefits, and the salary is not high. The new dynasty also forbade sacrifices, let alone stealing.

Mei finally felt that even if she didn't think about herself, she had to think about her son, she had to give birth to two more sons in the past few years, and she already had three sons.

Mei is a very shrewd woman, she found her mother's brothers to come forward, and also built a company with the trend. With the special identity of the owner behind the scenes is the royal brother, Mei's company chose to do architectural development and engineering. Not long ago, in the development project of Jingshi East Outer City, Mei's took the path of his brother-in-law Shuntianfu Yin Liu Jian, used Liu Jian's slip to greet the person in charge of the project, operated behind the scenes, and easily got several projects.

Mei's entire company is actually a leather bag company, with no funds and no engineering team. After getting the project, Mei got a low-interest loan from the bank through Liu Jian's help, and then acquired several small construction companies with money, and recruited several small engineering teams, so they officially started to be listed.

But as soon as the construction company started, it got into trouble. The project they won was a small village on the original site, and those people were not satisfied with the company's compensation for the demolition. As a result, Mei's brother, a very unscrupulous guy, relied on himself to be considered a royal relative, and directly came to a forced demolition, but among the people who were forcibly relocated were veterans, who refused to show weakness, and the two sides argued and then started, and finally became a group fight.

The veteran's father had his head broken in the group beating, and the young man, in a fit of rage, stabbed seven or eight of them, three of whom were seriously wounded.

This matter has become so big all of a sudden that I can't suppress it.

After Mei found out, he also thought about going private, giving a compensation to the soldier, and then the people on his company's side gave him more money.

But with the death of three people, this is no ordinary case.

In the end, the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division took the people away, and even the Jinyi Guard and Dali Temple followed closely to intervene. Things are getting bigger and bigger, and Mei doesn't know how to end.

Today's family banquet is actually Mei's begging the Emperor and the Empress Dowager for help, the matter is too big, Liu Jian can't help his sister-in-law anymore, and Liu Zhao is even more useless. Mei could only ask the Empress Dowager and the Empress Taishang for help to see if she could say a few words for her in front of the emperor and solve this matter. (To be continued.) )