Four years later.

The Ming Dynasty has entered Chongzhen for 30 years.

Ma Shiying, the first assistant to the Cabinet, has presided over the affairs of the Cabinet for five years.

The first batch of students from the Beijing Normal School has graduated for two years, and the new education of Daming has been implemented for five years.

At the same time, Daming has just completed the first population census and economic census.

One day in March of this year.

Zhu Youzhen called for a big rise and ordered the cabinet and the generalissimo's office to report on the results of the five-year period.

Today, the number of celebrants has increased to nine.

All of them were the elites cultivated by the Inner Academy, and they all appeared side by side in the Imperial Court at this time.

The first to stand up was Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet.

In just five years, Ma Shiying was already full of white hair, with his back bent, appeared in front of Zhu Youzhen, bowed deeply.

With the changing atmosphere of the empire.

In the field of thought, various ideas on human rights have emerged one after another, and the imperial gifts have also changed.

Zhu Youzhen also kept pace with the times, and the ministers no longer performed with great courtesy.

"Your Majesty, since the twenty-fifth year of Chongzhen, during the period when Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the minister's cabinet, presided over the internal affairs:

In the 29th year of Chongzhen, the total annual output of staple grain in the Ming Dynasty was 8,643,920,000 stones, of which rice accounted for 61.24 million stones, wheat accounted for 14,560,000 stones, and the output of non-staple grains was 137,620,000 stones, of which sweet potatoes accounted for 40 percent, potatoes accounted for 40 percent, and corn accounted for 2 percent, which was double and three percent more than Chongzhen in 24 years;

For the first time, the treasury revenue exceeded 1 trillion silver dollars, and the gold reserves exceeded 100 million taels;

The population of first-class citizens has reached 311,426, of which 50 percent are males, 40 percent are females, and the number of second-class citizens exceeds 30 million, and adult males account for 60 percent and 4 percent.

The output of steel has tripled compared with Chongzhen's 24 years, and the output of saltpeter, sulfuric acid, and caustic soda has also increased fourfold;

The company exceeded 20,000 and the number of factories and workshops reached 60,000. The country's main official roads have increased by 20,000 li.

Due to the substantial increase in grain production, especially after the popularization of non-staple grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, Daming and other citizens have achieved the goal of feeding everyone after the development of the textile industry to get rid of the cold and the salt tax reform and get rid of the salt shortage!

Within the four seas, thousands of Li Shu, there is no worry about hunger and cold, the night does not close the house, the road is not left behind, there are no beggars in the city, there is no hunger in the village, the emperor has reached the highest prosperity in history, congratulations to the emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

A group of ministers hurriedly answered, and they all smiled, all of them happy that Da Ming was so rich now.

After all, the changes in the Ming Dynasty now, they also feel it personally, it is just a number in the court, but in life it is an undisguised smile.

"Aiqing is hard, it's time for the Generalissimo's Mansion", Zhu Youzhen himself is also very happy, with Daming's current national strength is already a super strong existence in the world, but for Daming, this is just the recovery and enhancement of his own strong national strength, and his growth has just begun.

Next, Li Yan, the privy deputy envoy and chief of the general staff of the Generalissimo's Office, stood up: "Since the twenty-fifth year of Chongzhen, the Generalissimo's Office has completed the reorganization and training of Li Dingguo's department, Gao Yigong's department, Gao Jie's department, Zhou Zebu, etc., and completed the formation of the sixth, seventh, ninth, and tenth armies of the Ming Guards;

At the same time, the reorganization of the field army and the garrison army was completed, and the joint military department completed the reform of the guard post system and the armed garrison system, and now the strength of the Ming Guards has exceeded 1.8 million, the reserve army is 1.03 million, the garrison army is 1.26 million, and the garrison army is 800,640,000, totaling about 5 million total strength;

The main battle weapon Chongzhen 27 rifled bolt rifle production has been fully installed in the troops, Chongzhen 29 cavalry bolt rifle has also completed the main cavalry of the Guards, Chongzhen 26 rifled flat fire guns per corps have exceeded 20, 26 cannons per corps have exceeded 15, and Chongzhen 27 howitzers have exceeded 10 per corps; In terms of the navy, the number of first-class sail warships of the three fleets in the North Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea exceeded 30 ......"

Like Ma Shiying, Li Yan's report on the military strength of the Ming Dynasty also took more than an hour, but none of the Zhu Youzhen and the ministers present felt tired, and no one was not excited and excited by the strength of the Ming military force.

"Okay, very good, Daming can have such a strong national and military strength, I am very relieved, but this does not mean that we can stop moving forward, after the people's lives improve, the requirements for the quality of life will definitely increase;

Recently, according to the Dongchang Economic Survey Bureau, the price of meat has risen rapidly, ordinary pork has been seven times higher than five years ago, not only the price of meat, but also the demand for medical resources, the demand for housing resources has increased, a large number of thousand-year-old villages have become deserted, the population of cities and towns has increased sharply, the crime rate has also increased, and the phenomenon of unfair educational resources still exists. ”

"As for foreign affairs, the Generalissimo's Office still cannot be taken lightly, how to properly handle the maritime armed forces of the Zheng group, as well as the development of overseas forces and the pursuit and suppression of the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as well as the transformation of land and return to the southwest, Monan, northeast and other places must continue to be intensified."

Zhu Youzhen called Li Yan to the front as he spoke: "Four years ago, because of the injury of Xia Wanchun, the governor of the Northeast, and the misjudgment of the Northeast authorities, Shunzhi and other remnants of Jianyu became bigger in the Western Regions, and I don't want this to happen again. ”

"Wechen understands!" Li Yan said that he retreated into the crowd.

A summary court meeting about the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen to the twenty-ninth year of Chongzhen was held for seven days before it ended.

In the past seven days, not only will the cabinet make a report to the Generalissimo's Office, but Zhu Youzhen will also separately organize the first assistant of the Cabinet and a certain cabinet department to hold special discussions on government affairs, and the Generalissimo's Office will naturally make a specific strategic plan for the mainland policy in the north and the maritime policy in the south.

Zhu Youzhen first reformed the organizational structure of the Ming Cabinet, which was actually mainly the organizational structure of the four departments of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Rites.

With the emergence of various new political things and the advancement of the industrial revolution, the ministries of the Ming Dynasty are no longer simply a functional department responsible for one aspect, for example, the Ministry of Industry actually covers the government affairs of transportation, industrial construction, agriculture and water conservancy construction.

However, the Ming Dynasty began to implement low-cost government operations from Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, minimizing the number of government officials and realizing local autonomy.

Nowadays, the population and land area of the Ming Dynasty have expanded a lot, coupled with the nature of the country has been transformed into an agricultural country into an industrial country, not to mention that the gentry and clan power have been greatly reduced, and a large number of public services and local security maintenance originally undertaken by the gentry now need to be undertaken by the imperial court, so the number of central and local officials needs to be greatly increased, first of all, the five cabinets.