Nanjing Imperial Palace Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youzhen woke up from his sleep and pushed away Yuan Guifei, who was as smooth as jade.

At this time, the moon and stars outside the palace are still scarce.

But the bells of the fifth watch have echoed in various places inside and outside the palace walls.

Zhu Youzhen had to sit up, from the moment he became the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he was destined to no longer be able to sleep lazy.

Although there were no telephones or even telegraphs in this era, the news transmitted to Beijing was still sent to the Qianqing Palace like snowflakes.

As long as Zhu Youzhen delayed for an hour, he could only continue to stay up late at night to finish handling various political affairs.

Chen Yuanyuan walked in from the outside in a dress, changing clothes and shoes for Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes and let Chen Yuanyuan's jade hand do something on him, and it wasn't until the other palace ladies came in with cold water that he got up and picked up the cold water and woke up.

The full breasts of Chen Yuanyuan and the palace ladies made Zhu Youzhen a little distracted after sobering up.

But the rapid sound of the bell made him have to restrain the impulse in his heart, and got up and came to the outer pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, sat on the bookcase paved with yellow silk, and prepared to continue to write the new policy program and plan that he was going to implement next, and waited for the eunuch on duty to report the important recitals and official documents that needed him, the emperor's imperial review.

The attendant in the Qianqing Palace brought the ice cubes, the summer in Nanjing is very hot, even if it is the Xiaoice River period, it is still as hot as a steamer, if there is no ice, even in the early morning, it will make people unbearable to bake like a stove.

Zhu Youzhen now has a deep understanding of why Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor, insisted on moving the capital, and there may be this reason.

snatching the pu fan from Chen Yuanyuan's hand, Zhu Youzhen untied his yellow robe, leaned half-on the chair in disheveled clothes, and looked at the tilted vegetable field outside the hall that had gradually been shone by the sun while fanning.

Nanjing Palace City is a palace created by filling the lake, so from the time of completion, the foundation has sunk, and there is a phenomenon of water soaking out.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the year, simply opened up a vegetable field outside the palace, although the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing for a hundred years, but there are still people here all the year round to tidy up, so now you can still see the vegetables that are sunburned and lowered their heads.

From the vegetable field outside the hall to the moss at the foot of the door inside the hall, as well as the mottled beams and pillars with paint off, Zhu Youzhen had to admit that although Han Shoujing had repaired the imperial palace in Nanjing, it was still much more dilapidated than the imperial palace in Beijing.

But now Zhu Youzhen naturally can't spend the country's financial resources on improving his living environment, and he can only wait for the future when the country is rich and the people are strong, and then start building large-scale construction.

The eunuch on duty today is Shi Kefa, and at this time, he has already appeared outside the gate of the Qianqing Palace with a pile of songs: "The slave maid asks the emperor for peace." ”

Shi Kefa is now a minister, which is equivalent to Zhu Youzhen's house slave, so the title of Zhu Youzhen has been changed to the title of the house slave to the master, calling himself a slave and a maid, and calling Zhu Youzhen the emperor.

This is different from the original history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty after replacing the Central Plains minions all over the court, in the Ming Dynasty, only eunuchs and Jinyi Wei and other retainers are like this.

"Come in, have the ministers of the cabinet been to Nanjing?"

Zhu Youzhen is now also accustomed to the way Shi Kefa calls himself a slave, and when he saw him come in, he asked him directly about his business, and he didn't ridicule him.

These days, as Qian Qianyi's rebellion case came to an end, Zhu Youzhen began to implement the new policy in Nanjing.

In the past few days, he has personally begun to draft the content of the new policy, and is waiting for the seven cabinet ministers to gather in Nanjing, and then he will finalize the content of the new policy with the cabinet.

The political system of the Ming Dynasty is the most perfect political system of imperial power after the development and accumulation of the monarchy dynasties, except for the financial system and the guard military system are out of date and need to be reformed, there is basically no need for major changes in other aspects, especially the official system, Zhu Youzhen has no intention of carrying out major reforms.

Even though he is actually a time-traveler now, as the emperor, the ruler of this empire, he still decided to let Daming continue to follow the path of monarchical dictatorship, at least during his reign as emperor.

After all, he had a lot of advanced ideas and a social mode of production that was hardly tolerated by the small-scale peasant economy of today's society that needed to be forcibly implanted in this ancient world, where men were still farmers and women weaving.

This meant that he had to have supreme imperial power in this world before he could enforce his reforms.

The fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty is that its internal decay has reached a very serious level, and it is irreversible unless major surgery is performed.

Therefore, even if Zhu Youzhen knew that he might become Wang Mang after implementing the new policy after moving south, he had to make a radical change to Daming.

No doctor can have 100 percent certainty of the success of the treatment of the patients he wants to treat, and if he wants to treat the country with great medicine, Zhu Youzhen will not be able to guarantee that he will be able to save the Ming Dynasty if he wants to treat the terminally ill Ming now.

But as long as there is one percent hope, one cannot give up.

Since the monarchy continues to be followed, and the monarchical dictatorship system of the Ming Dynasty has been very perfect, Zhu Youzhen also feels that there is no need to change the official offices of the six cabinet departments.

He decided to continue to play a pivotal role between imperial policy and the implementation of specific administrative functions as the cabinet.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system, the central role played by the prime minister will not disappear, although the cabinet does not have the name of the prime minister, but there is a prime minister, Zhu Youzhen cannot make himself a model worker like Zhu Yuanzhang, he has to rely on the cabinet to implement and convey his political will.

And he, the emperor, only needs to control who is in the cabinet.

"Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, has arrived in Moling, Wu Xian has now arrived in Jiangling, Ma Shiying has been escorted and confiscated from the Houfu's family property is arriving in Zhenjiang, Lu Zhenfei has arrived in Nanjing, and Li Banghua has now proposed Liu Liangzuo's head and escorted the confiscated Gongfu family property to Zhongshan, and it is expected that they will all enter the Hajj to see His Majesty in three days."

Shi Kefa is very suitable for the affairs of the celebrant supervisor, has a good memory, and speaks clearly and logically.

Zhu You was very satisfied after hearing this, so he ordered: "Well, three days later, I will order all the members of the cabinet to come to Wenhua Hall to discuss the reform of the new Ming Dynasty, and send a message to the master of ceremonies and the officials of the Hanlin Academy, the ministry and the court officials, as well as the governor of the Jinyi Weidong Factory and the officials of various departments to listen to the government together, and the prince will also come to listen to the government, as well as the king of Yue and the king of Ning." ”

Shi Kefa couldn't help but be stunned, he knew that His Majesty's special preparation for summoning the cabinet ministers this time must be to carry out a big reform, and it was naturally right to let the crown prince listen to the government and be familiar with His Majesty's national policy, but he didn't expect His Majesty to let the two princes, King Yue and King Ning, also listen to the government.

"Could it be that Your Majesty intends to re-screen the candidates for the crown prince, but it is the ancestral system to establish a successor, how can you change it without authorization, but I am just an eunuch now, and I am afraid that it will be inappropriate if I discuss national politics in vain."

Thinking of this, Shi Kefa couldn't help but sigh.