Since March of the thirtieth year of Chongzhen, before the new cabinet has been confirmed, the new imperial court institutions of the Ming Dynasty have begun to be fully reorganized.

The Ministry of Industry was subdivided into the Imperial Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Communications.

The Ministry of Household Affairs is subdivided into the Imperial Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the Imperial Economic Reform Commission.

The Imperial Economic Reform Committee is a body specially proposed by Zhu Youzhen, and its purpose is naturally to facilitate the empire's intervention in the market economy.

After all, even in the 21st century, the role of the government in the crisis of the market economy cannot be abolished.

Naturally, the head of the committee also has the same rank as Shangshu.

The Ministry of Officials is subdivided into the Ministry of Organization of the Empire and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, with the former being responsible for the promotion and dismissal of officials.

The latter is responsible for coordinating the manpower of the empire and arranging the welfare benefits and obligations of citizens of all levels of the empire.

The Ministry of Rites is subdivided into the Imperial Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry of Military Affairs is subdivided into the Ministry of National Defense and the Police Headquarters, with the former being responsible for national defense training, national defense education, and the overall planning of national defense forces.

The latter is responsible for the administration of local law and order and the detection of criminal cases.

In this way, the number of departments of the interior under the Imperial Cabinet increased from five to twelve.

At the same time, a number of divisions had to be added within each department, and Zhu Youzhen stipulated that in addition to only one Shangshu, the number of squires continued to be unlimited.

However, the cabinet ministers will no longer concurrently serve as secretaries of various ministries, but will be in charge of several ministers in one cabinet.

Of course, there are also times when the Cabinet Scholars are in charge of only one ministry, and the specific division is decided by the Cabinet Chief.

The central court increased the number of departments, increased the number of officials, and increased administrative costs and administrative strength.

Naturally, the number of localities should also increase accordingly, from prefectures and counties to prefectures and then to provinces, and even the division of labor between the main hall officials and the adjutant officials has also changed somewhat.

Overall, the number of imperial bureaucrats and officials increased dramatically.

This is very different from the reforms in many countries.

After all, the Ming Dynasty was originally an empire with low-cost administration, compared with the previous dynasty, the number of officials was too small, and the increased administrative costs are much less than the previous increase in the cost of raising the gentry, which is undoubtedly conducive to the centralization of power, and more imperial officials are used to replace the local gentry to manage the place.

The Generalissimo's Office does not need to reform its organs, because it is a military command organ established by Zhu Youzhen with reference to the modern military system.

"Although from the perspective of political strategy, the main goal of the Ming Dynasty is still to completely eradicate the remnants of the Jianyu, but now the remnants of the Jianyu are far away in the Western Regions, and there are still many political forces between the Western Regions and the Ming Dynasty, and there is even no lack of powerful political forces.

"Therefore, Weichen thinks that the empire should still implement the general strategy of encroaching step by step, immigrating and building cities and roads, and the strategic direction is still the north first and then the south, the imperial army is undoubtedly more mature than the imperial navy, whether it is in terms of tactical command, weapons and equipment, and the quality of individual soldiers, expanding the land territory first is undoubtedly the most economically profitable expansion!"

Li Yan, chief of staff of the Generalissimo Mansion of the Ming Empire, said this to Zhu Youzhen and other senior generals of the Generalissimo Mansion at the military meeting.

But at this time, Liu Kongzhao, the chief of the Admiralty of the Generalissimo of the Ming Empire, expressed a different opinion:

"Why is it still north and then south, the north has no economic significance except for political significance, it is either a grassland or a desert, not to mention the harsh climate, it is difficult to develop, and the sea frontier is full of plastering, at most it is hotter, and there are even several strong enemies that threaten my Ming Dynasty, the Zheng Group and the imperial court have always been inseparable, the red hair fan and the Franc machine and the recent rise of Britain are expanding everywhere, we are one step later, the imperial navy will not be able to go out of the Ming Dynasty!"

"But it's a fact that the Imperial Navy is not mature enough compared to the Imperial Army," Li Yan retorted.

"I said a few words, we don't give the Imperial Navy a chance, can the Imperial Navy mature, wandering around the four seas of the Ming Dynasty as a transport team all day long, and it is about to become a merchant fleet, how can it be mature if you don't pull it out to fight, stay in the academy all day long, and you will almost go to the Jingshi University Hall to be half a professor after studying physical chemistry, but what's the use of this!"

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he walked to the north of the big sand table, took out a two-meter-long stick and pointed to the northeast area:

"Now the Ming Dynasty has established two governors in the north and northeast, the territory of these two governors has covered hundreds of millions of acres of territory, and now five years have passed, and all the planned construction of the city and the resettlement of basic residents have not been completed;

Therefore, in the next three years, Daming still needs to consolidate the entire Northeast and Monan, especially the Northeast.

Although North Korea is a vassal country of our Ming Dynasty, it cannot be taken lightly, and the Xianping Mansion that originally belonged to my China is still in the hands of North Korea, and even if the Ming Dynasty wants to consolidate the interests of the northern end of the mainland, North Korea and the Japanese State must be eradicated!

Especially for the Wa Kingdom, the revenge of the Sejong period has not yet been avenged, so my strategic decision is to consolidate the interests of the northern tip of the mainland first, and the Imperial Army will strengthen the military deployment along the Yalu River, and then prepare for the strategy of Hampyeongfu occupied by Korea!

The Imperial Army cooperated with the Imperial Navy to attack the Japanese and the Imperial Navy, and the core strategic goal was to expand the military interests in Korea and completely eliminate the Japanese state!

My request is that how the Japanese treated the people of the Ming Dynasty in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, how the imperial army should treat the Japanese people, and how to allow others to snore on the side of the couch, this strategy must be completed within five years!

Five years later, the Daming ironclad steamer should have been put into production, and when the time comes, the overseas islands occupied by the Western Ocean, I will take it back one by one! ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen determined the strategic goal, the officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion hurriedly replied: "The ministers obey the order!" ”

Just when Zhu Youzhen and the officials of the Generalissimo's Office had determined the current military strategy of the empire, Huang Zongxi, the newly formed secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet, hurriedly found Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Majesty, the Korean State sent Li Xuan, the Grand Prince of Linping, to pay tribute to our dynasty, and now the Korean mission has arrived in Nanjing, and it is estimated that it will arrive in the capital in a month."

"This is the first time I have come to pay tribute since Chongzhen 17 years ago, he is indeed very active in North Korea, I just mentioned him, how do you plan to arrange it", Ma Shiying is the first assistant of the cabinet, and the foreign tribute belongs to internal affairs, Zhu Youzhen naturally asked Ma Shiying first.

"Tribute has always been a common practice for small countries to make pilgrimages to large countries, they must come with a large amount of tribute, according to the past practice, we can pay back several times the value of the tribute, generally speaking, the richer the country, the more prosperous the courtesy, in order to calculate the reward of the great country, Weichen intends to prepare the silver reward of the Ministry of Finance, and Huang Zongxi, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, went to Nanjing to be responsible for receiving him into Beijing."

Ma Shiying's words made Zhu Youzhen stunned: "Ridiculous! It is already a gift to him that I can let him come to pay tribute, and what is the reason for putting a gift that is several times the tribute!

This rule has to be changed, since what he gave is a tribute, it is a gift to me, and all the officials and eunuchs will collect it, so there is no need to give silver!

Remembering that the DPRK has made a lot of contributions in this Northern Expedition, he will be contacted by you, the head of the cabinet, but instead of receiving him, let the right attendant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who stayed in Nanjing send him to Beijing, and if he is willing to give some tangible benefits to the Ming Dynasty, I can give him the honorary title of "strategic cooperative partnership" of the DPRK at that time. ”

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