It's another year of Spring Festival, the wind and snow in Beizhili have also stopped, and as soon as the biting cold wind stops, people can clearly feel the changes in the solar terms when they walk outside.

The palace feasted as usual.

However, this year, Zhu Youxiao invited the ministers to a banquet in the Wenhua Palace, and hundreds of civil and military officials were listed in the hall, and they took their seats after saluting Zhu Youxiao.

The black oppression of a group of ministers represents the superstructure of the power of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel in his heart, no wonder many people lose themselves when they sit on this throne.

Fortunately, as a traverser, his mind is still relatively clear.

The banquet etiquette is very simple, after all, it has been less than three years since the death of Shenzong and Guangzong, so Zhu Youxiao has no etiquette in the palace on weekdays.

Many of the officials present have been absorbed into the Han Emperor Party. The Donglin Party has been scattered, and although it has been cohesive, it has been unable to compete with the Han Emperor Party. However, in the small court of Nanjing, at this time, it was still the Donglin Party that covered the sky. Between the north and the south, the distinction is becoming more and more clear.

Before the Spring Festival, there was already a 'spoils sharing conference' as usual, and everyone sat in line to share the fruits. The officials of the Han Emperor Party all got more lucrative salaries, and they were naturally smiling at this time.

The shopkeepers of the royal capital also got their share of the money at the end of the year. There are also those red-topped imperial businessmen, who also settled the accounts at the end of the year, and then sent a gift to Zhu Youxiao.

The profit of the second year of the apocalypse is definitely smiling.

Basically, none of the joint venture businessmen of the royal consortium have lost their business, after all, the businessmen who can be absorbed have a few brushes themselves, plus the policy tilt. and the sharing of consortium resources and channels. These businessmen are all making a lot of money.

A new interest group has taken shape. At the heart of this interest group is the emperor.

Those high-ranking officers of the Central Army also received a dividend from the royal consortium at the end of the year, and the root of this interest group lies in the military.

Zhu Youxiao obviously had the idea of creating a military interest group, which would generate a strong impetus for foreign expansion.

"Your Majesty, the Ryukyu envoy has come to visit and agreed that the Ming Dynasty will establish a military port in the Ryukyus and take over the management of the surrounding merchant ships." Gu Bingqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, reported at the banquet, "Has Your Majesty received you?" ”

"Biography." Zhu Youxiao smiled. The Ryukyu Kingdom knew that the country was small and weak, and it was still relatively obedient.

"Yes."

"Deliver the Ryukyu envoy to the temple for an audience."

Soon the Ryukyu envoy entered the temple, bowed to Zhu Youxiao, and presented the national documents of the upper and lower kingdoms. Zhu Youxiao immediately asked people to give the Ryukyu envoy a seat.

After the banquet, Zhu Youxiao gave another generous gift for the Ryukyu envoy to bring back to the Ryukyu king. Since the Ryukyu Kingdom agreed to set up a military port in its territory, it was natural to reward it well.

But for the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was obvious that the Ming Dynasty would set up a military port within its borders. After all, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to annex the Ryukyus, and if the Ming sailors are stationed in the Ryukyus, the Ryukyu Kingdom will obviously be much safer.

After all, Ryukyu is a small country with little defense capability. It's basically a group of fishermen and farmers. Once something is invaded, you can only go to the boss to come forward. Now the boss has stationed his troops in the Ryukyus. The king of the Ryukyus was naturally happy and readily agreed to the request of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that I have received another reward, I am even more overjoyed.

Immediately after the exchange of courtesies, the Royal Navy sent 1,000 marines to the Ryukyus to get out of the military port.

The Royal Navy developed rapidly after receiving a large amount of funding. The strength of the Marine Corps has been increased to 30,000 and training is being intensified.

The Royal Fleet currently has six gunboats, as well as nearly fifty large warships of about 3,000 materials, and hundreds of other warships.

After a year, Zhu Youxiao immediately promulgated several tasks for the Royal Navy, the first is the escort mission, the Royal Consortium will increase the development of Taiwan, and the transportation between Taiwan and the mainland is all by sea.

The second is that after the establishment of the Ryukyu Military Port, the Royal Fleet intercepted merchant ships bound for Japanese trade in the Ryukyus, whether Chinese or Dutch.

The third is to explore Hokkaido in northern Japan and investigate the local indigenous people.

At this time, Hokkaido was not called Hokkaido, because Japan did not have an administration and administration in Hokkaido, so it was called 'Ezo land'.

Zhu Youxiao now has more and more ships in his hands, and he has begun to have the ability to emigrate, so he is naturally eyeing Hokkaido, an island larger than Taiwan.

Hokkaido has an area of 83,000 square kilometers, while Taiwan has 36,000 square kilometers. Of course, Hokkaido's products are obviously inferior to Taiwan's, mainly because of dimensions.

60% of Hokkaido is mountainous, and there are many coastal plains, which are ideal for grazing. It is not difficult to develop 50 to 60 million acres of fine pasture, and at the same time, there are a large number of timber resources, and the forest coverage rate on the island is very high. Although it is the Xiaoice River period and the temperature is relatively cold, it can still be developed and produced.

In addition, Sakhalin Island is located in the north, and it is possible to migrate to Sakhalin Island one after another.

Immigrants to Taiwan can build Taiwan into a rice and sugarcane production area, and immigrants to Hokkaido can turn Hokkaido into a production area of livestock products and timber, so that the Ming Dynasty can obtain a large number of raw material production areas.

In addition to exploring Hokkaido, the Royal Fleet also had to select a port in Hokkaido as an entry point for immigrants, build forts on it, and then gradually increase the number of immigrants.

The three-year immigration plan of the Apocalypse basically revolves around Taiwan and Hokkaido. The number of temporary immigrants may not be large, but they can accumulate experience, and in the future, the more ships there are, the faster the migration will be.

At the beginning of the spring of the third year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao was busy again and carried out a series of in-depth reforms in Beizhili.

First of all, the Ministry of Public Security was established, with a police station under it, and the "Regulations on the Administration of Public Security in Beizhili" was promulgated. At the same time, a police academy was established to recruit students from outside the country and train regular police officers.

At the same time, temporary workers used by the government for law and order management were recruited and dismissed. This kind of thing is not unique to China in later generations. It was very common in the Ming Dynasty. After all, there is a shortage of manpower to catch fast. It is also normal to need auxiliary police officers.

For the 'auxiliary police' in each prefecture and county, the outstanding ones will be selected and assigned to the system, and those who are not qualified will be dismissed. At the same time, we will improve the remuneration and increase the scale of the police force.

After some rectification, they were busy launching a comprehensive crackdown campaign in Beizhili. All the notorious ruffians were arrested and sent to the labor camp.

The law and order in Beizhili was suddenly cleared, especially after those underworld forces were defeated, the common people all applauded.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also personally grasped the administration of Beizhili. Various evaluation systems were continuously improved, and at the same time, the "Beizhili Civil Servant Law" was promulgated, which incorporated the documents in the government into the system and became civil servants of the imperial court. In addition, under the leadership of Zhu Youxiao, various administrative regulations were successively promulgated, redundant personnel were abolished, and public funds were prohibited from eating, drinking, entertaining, and using officials and horses for private purposes.

In just a few months, more than 300 officials and public servants at all levels have been dismissed from their posts and investigated in the officialdom of Beizhili, and the anti-corruption efforts have become the most severe in the country, and the evaluation is also the strictest. For a time, the officialdom of Beizhili was noisy. But administrative efficiency and integrity have risen to unprecedented levels.

Many officials are also not corrupt. But he was lazy and didn't do things in his position, and he was also removed a lot. Zhu Youxiao's trick is to tell those officials that since the officials are ministers, they are just workers, and we Zhu Dong are not easy to fool. The corpse is vegetarian, and those who are lazy and don't work all go home.

Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry, worked very hard in the rectification of the officialdom of Beizhili, and worked very hard to show himself in front of the emperor, so Zhu Youxiao rewarded him with a big mansion in the imperial city.

In addition to rectification, the most important thing is the change in the evaluation of officialdom. On the basis of the original evaluation standards, various comprehensive evaluations have been added.

The construction of infrastructure such as water conservancy and roads, as well as health and epidemic prevention, economic development, public security, etc., have all been added to the evaluation.

After the reform, the tax system was also separated from the local administration, and the Central Taxation Bureau collected various taxes. In ordinary times, the administrative expenses were allocated by the imperial court. Funds for infrastructure construction were also allocated by the imperial court. The allocation of funds adopts a policy of open supervision, and all local scholars who are talented and above can not only supervise the administration of the government, but also have the right to check the accounts of the government.

In general, the reform in this evaluation has begun to favor the economic monster, and the economy has gone up, and the people's livelihood will naturally be better. Those officials who know how to develop people's livelihood will be promoted.

These reforms have become the main theme of the Beizhili officialdom in the three years of the Apocalypse, and it is not possible to complete it in a few months, Zhu Youxiao personally took the lead, coupled with the strong support of the officials of the Han Emperor Party, so that the reform was implemented relatively smoothly. And those second-class jinshi of the Renxu Kejia have also been added to the local officials in large numbers and become the players in this big wave.

Those who can stand out will be a big player in the future.

Just when Zhu Youxiao was carrying out large-scale reforms in Beizhili, the war in Guizhou also entered a stage of rapid counterinsurgency.

After An Bangyan attacked Guiyang, Guiyang City was held behind closed doors, and a group of 100,000 troops of local officials were actually very bad at attacking the city, so they could only take the stupidest method - siege!

Qin Liangyu received the order and immediately raised 30,000 troops to aid Guiyang. When I arrived in Guiyang, Guiyang had been besieged for more than a month.

The 30,000 white-pole soldiers rested for a while, and then launched an attack on the 100,000 Tusi soldiers.

The Tusi soldiers, with their large numbers, did not retreat. The two sides collided like a torrent, and the well-equipped white pole soldiers were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, and soon killed the Tusi soldiers to the point of blood.

These 30,000 white pole soldiers are also Tusi troops. It's just that Shizhu Tusi is a Han Chinese, but the soldiers are an ethnic minority and fight bravely. Coupled with the equipment allocated by the Royal Military Factory, it is almost armed to the teeth, and it is Zhu Youxiao's trump card unit to stabilize the situation in the southwest.

On the other hand, the 100,000 Tusi soldiers led by An Bangyan were unevenly equipped, and the command system was also chaotic. After all, it is an alliance of many local officials, and it is not an army directly under An Bangyan. Moreover, many of the ethnic minorities who made trouble this time were just villagers in the mountains in the past.

The equipment, command, and training of both sides were not at the same level, and the 100,000 Tusi soldiers were quickly slaughtered by the white pole soldiers.

On the fifth day of the second month of the third year of the Apocalypse, after the white pole soldiers defeated the rebels of An Bangyan, they relieved the siege of Guiyang. The white pole soldiers took advantage of the victory to pursue, captured more than 20,000 Tusi soldiers, and captured nearly 30,000 Tusi soldiers. (To be continued......)