The emperor took a group of officials and worked in the fields outside Yingtian City for half a day.

The harvest is very rewarding.

After removing the dust and impurities, he actually picked up more than ten catties of rice.

The people felt that this was picked up by His Majesty the Emperor, so it was naturally a possession of the dragon's energy, and they must not enter their own barn.

The two sides excused themselves several times.

In the end, the prefect of Tianfu, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor, begged for his own pocket, and bought back the ten catties of rice for ten taels of silver.

The people felt that they had made a lot of money, and hoped that the emperor would bring the prefect who was willing to pay for his pocket to come over every day to pick up the rice scattered in the field.

The emperor also felt that he had made a fortune.

The people are still so simple, which makes him feel that his ruling ideas in the past 30 years are not wrong.

The emperor returned with a full load.

I didn't notice that the Ying Tianzhi Mansion, who followed him and spent more than half a month of food money in exchange for only ten catties of shelled rice, was still thinking about how to share it with his wife after returning home.

How did he, the prefect of Yingtian, use ten taels of silver to successfully exchange more than ten catties of heavy shelled rice.

In front of all the people gathered at the entrance of the village, the emperor solemnly promised that the life of the Ming Dynasty would be better and better, and that the rice jars of every household would be more and more full, and then he drove back to the palace in the eager applause of the people.

Away from Ying Tiancheng.

A whining steam could be heard in the distance.

People who have lived in Yingtian City for a long time are already accustomed to such voices.

Either the ore pulled by train from Taiping Province outside the city, or the steamships that experimented more and more frequently on the river.

And on the bell mountain in the northeast corner of the city, in the dense jungle, there is also a dull sound of steam from time to time.

The Ministry of Industry is very different now.

The steam engine has been used in as many places as possible.

Even the construction of the Filial Piety Mausoleum and the Meritorious Mausoleum on Zhongshan Mountain also existed in the use of steam engines.

People are smart.

Social construction can be carried out in a simpler and labor-saving way, and no one will stupidly stick to the original outdated production and construction methods that have not kept up with the times.

"I always feel like I'm in a dream now."

On the way back, the towering city wall of Yingtian City was already in front of everyone's eyes, and Zhu Yuanzhang said with emotion.

Zou Xueyu, the prefect of Yingtian, who lost ten taels of silver in vain today, slowly raised his head and looked at the city wall in the distance, where steam engines were set up in several places to lift the new artillery under the city wall to the city wall.

He also nodded and said, "I hope that such a dream can be done forever." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked sideways and glanced lightly at this young official who had been in the position of the prefect of Yingtian for a year.

In a year's time, there are not many things that the Yamen of the Ying Tianzhi Mansion has done, but they can be seen everywhere.

The completion of Shangyuanmen wharf and warehousing and distribution center.

Shangyuanmen is connected to a new waterway of Xuanwu Lake.

Concentrated workshops all over the city.

The new systems in the city.

It is imperceptibly changing the way of life and the original way of survival of the people in Beijing all the time.

"And Yingtian and the eighteen prefectures in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, set up the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, and when you are busy with the things at hand during this period of time, you will go to the Governor's Yamen."

The emperor's voice will always come out when you are unexpected.

Zou Xueyu opened his mouth, a little surprised.

The accompanying officials also jumped in their hearts.

As everyone knows.

At the beginning of the country, for so many years, the Ming Dynasty had more than a dozen provinces, but the Beijing Division and the surrounding prefectures and counties have never had a centralized higher-level administrative yamen.

A long time ago, it was proposed that Gyeongshiyeongcheonfu and the surrounding prefectures be divided into Gyeonggi-do.

Such a saying existed in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

But it was not adopted by the emperor at that time.

There are Zhejiang Road, Jiangxi Road, Huguang Road, Henan Road, and Shandong Road around Jingshi, but in the middle of these five roads, a hole has been formed, and the local government can only pass things directly to the imperial court.

After it was not adopted by the emperor at the beginning, no one in the court said anything more.

In fact, the reason is very simple.

The administrative system around Jingshi is too complicated.

The most striking is the number of those who have stayed behind.

Just the territory of the left-behind division of the central capital has far exceeded the sum of Yingtianfu, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, and Yangzhou.

Then, on the territory of Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

There are also two Huaidu Salt Transfer Envoys, Huining Military Preparation Yamen, Susong Military Preparation Yamen and other administrative yamen independent of the local government yamen.

Zhili Governor Yamen.

As you can know from the name, this is an official yamen whose rank far exceeds that of the entire Jiangnan and Jiangbei regions.

And.

The officials who followed the emperor silently glanced at Zou Xueyu, who seemed to be about to become the first minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Governor General.

Zou Xueyu's power, with the establishment of the Zhili Governor's Yamen, will become an upstart figure above the court who does not belong to the six Shangshu.

Oh.

The family was originally an upstart in the court.

In the future, whether it is the Zhongdu Left-behind Division, or the Lianghuai Salt Transfer Envoy Yamen, or the Huining Military Preparation Yamen and the Susong Military Preparation Yamen, they will all be subject to the control and jurisdiction of the Zhili Governor's Yamen.

This is a feudal official standing under the nose of the imperial court.

The Yamen of the Governor of Zhili will be the official yamen with the largest population and the most money and grain in the entire Ming Dynasty.

And what about the rank of the Minister of the Governor-General?

In the hearts of everyone, such questions could not help but arise.

The prefect of Ying Tianfu is already half a level higher than the local prefect.

So will this governor of Zhili be higher than the local political envoys?

As a result, another question arose in the minds of the officials present.

Will the establishment of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili be the same as that of the local Taoist Division, with the distribution of the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, the Yamen of the Inspectorate Division, and the Yamen of the Command Division.

Or is it a Naoli Governor Yamen, who has full authority to manage the entire Zhili region.

"The minister is terrified."

Zou Xueyu stopped, raised his arms, clenched his hands into fists, and bent over, his face was extremely heavy.

I can't help but be afraid.

Just one Ying Tianfu, there are so many people above who can intervene from time to time.

How do you say that?

Zou Xueyu frowned slightly, and couldn't remember it for a while.

But if he was given another choice, he would rather be a prefect who didn't know where he was, rather than be an errand boy in Yingtianfu.

Zhili Governor's Yamen?

Thinking of the local government yamen that he would have to face in the future, which he probably couldn't remember completely, as well as the affairs of the yamen that would probably involve the entire imperial court, Zou Xueyu was a big head.

Zhu Yuanzhang just smiled faintly.

"Jin Fengtiandian University Scholar, Zhili Governor Minister Zheng Erpin, and the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Palace, leading the Jinyi Guards to command the envoys, and rewarding python clothes. He is in charge of the government, the people, the military, and taxes, and he is directly in charge of the cabinet, and walks in the palace. ”

In front of everyone, the emperor said his arrangements for the ministers of the governor of Zhili, and also gave Zou Xueyu a big reassurance.

Zou Xueyu's eyes flickered a few times, and his breathing gradually became short.

Among the officials present, except for the young master Yuan Sutai, who has always been the collapse of Mount Tai and does not change his face, everyone has a strange face.

If you do a good job in the future, you will directly add a sentence to the cabinet, and you will directly enter the cabinet from the position of the governor of Zhili, and become the cabinet minister of the Ming Dynasty.

The official title of Zheng Erpin is equivalent to that of the six Shangshu, so it can also be coordinated unimpeded between the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili and the six divisions of the court.

It is also normal to have a history of the left capital of the Imperial Palace.

At present, many local political envoys or envoys are also on the errand of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is to facilitate the control of the locality.

On the contrary, it was Zou Xueyu, the first minister of the governor of Zhili, who commanded the envoy of the Jinyi Guard, which surprised everyone.

This is probably to let Zou Xueyu hold the sword of the Son of Heaven.

Once he was appointed as the governor of Zhili, there were officials in the local government yamen who did not follow the orders of the governor's yamen. Zou Xueyu can probably hold the official card of the imperial history of Zuodu in one hand and the embroidered spring knife in the other, and cut off the other party's head.

It's just that it didn't surprise anyone present too much.

After all, Zhili is different from other places, there are countless government yamen, and it is the country's fiscal and tax focus.

Without Zou Xueyu holding a knife in his hand, it would be difficult to get things done.

And the most surprising thing for everyone is.

The emperor's final choice was really to let the governor of Zhili, Yamen, have full authority to manage the Zhili region.

All military and political affairs will come from the yamen of the governor of Zhili.

This grace and authority......

After several times, there are few people in the court.

The Yamen of the Governor of the River? That can only be the one who is in charge of supervising the repair of the Yellow River.

Now as a scholar of Wu Yingdian, Tu Tiexuan, the person who is in charge of the affairs of the Northern Expedition of the Nine Sides?

When the Northern Expedition is over, he will no longer have the power to command hundreds of thousands of troops.

However, Zou Xueyu, who is about to become the governor of Zhili, is different.

On the territory of the 18th Prefecture of Zhili, all things are in charge of Zou Xueyu alone.

But anyone with a brain, as long as he thinks of that monstrous authority, he only feels a dizziness in front of him.

Boom.

Zou Xueyu's legs fell heavily on the ground.

He was not moved to tears, nor was he afraid of the power in his hands.

At this moment, Zou Xueyu only has a face full of perseverance and solemnity.

"The Lord's Order is grateful."

A casual exit from the palace gives a monstrous authority.

Zhu Yuanzhang just waved his hand lightly: "You are doing very well in Yingtianfu, I see that it is new every day." I hope that in the future, the Zhili Road can also be renewed day by day, so that I can always feel that this is a prosperous dream. ”

"Minister, don't die!"

Zou Xueyu made a loud noise.

Zhu Yuanzhang still only smiled faintly: "Later, Ren Hengtai and Xie Jin will talk to you." I don't know what the governor of Zhili Yamen will do next, I just need to see the result. But the Cabinet needs to know what you're going to do, and that's the power of the Cabinet, and you should know that. ”

The Cabinet now has more and more things to do, and a higher level of decision-making.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang, as the emperor, naturally had a wariness of the cabinet.

He didn't want to personally summarize the prime minister system that had been inherited for thousands of years in the Central Plains and revive it in his own hands.

But for now, it's optimistic.

The cabinet is indeed conducive to the more efficient work of the imperial court.

And.

The old man really didn't dare to pin his hopes on all future generations.

As long as the limits and balance of the cabinet are maintained, it is okay for future generations to keep it a little longer.

The cultivation of the imperial heir is a big problem.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just established a new political unit in the political system of the Ming Dynasty, quickly spread his thinking to another matter.

Zou Xueyu also started a new thinking.

In this year of implementation, the effect of Ying Tianfu's model has been obvious and remarkable.

So, can the current model of Ying Tianfu be spread to the Zhili Dao that is about to be established?

There doesn't seem to be much that can be changed in the Central Capital Left-behind Division.

Huai'an's coal resources, on the other hand, can be further developed to supply the entire production of Zhili, as well as the use of old workshops and new ones to be built.

The salt works in the Huaiyang area need to strengthen supervision, and the process of salt washing does not know whether it can be improved.

Although the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River now produce a lot of grain, it is more obvious that these prefectures and counties are paying more and more attention to handicraft workshops and merchants.

Daming's shipping to the south has become more and more developed, and more and more merchants from Europa have come to Daming.

Yingtian City was their last stop.

So whether the first line of Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, and Zhenjiang Mansion can expand those private workshops, and whether they can find more production points to increase the income of the local people and increase the taxes of the imperial court.

There are also military garrisons and local guard posts.

The things that urgently need to be sorted out are like blank pieces of paper, hovering in Zou Xueyu's mind, and he urgently needs to fill these blank papers as soon as possible.

A group of people, each with their own hearts, inadvertently entered Yingtian City.

The liveliness of Jingshi instantly filled people's ears and broke into everyone's sight.

"Great victory!"

"Great victory!"

"Great victory!"

"I will march north to the army, pacify the grasslands, and collect all the territory of the desert."

"The Mongol Tatar royal court was completely annihilated, and the remnants of the tribal herdsmen in the steppe all surrendered to my army to the north."

"The Northern Expedition West Route Army went west out of the Warat Division, and the Warat Department fled when they heard the news, and now they don't know where to go."

"The Liaodong Prefecture declared that the Northeast Nuergan region was the place where the Ming Dynasty should have since ancient times, and would ask the imperial court to change the Liaodong Prefecture to Liaodong Province, and the Northeast Nuergan Prefecture would send liuguan to migrate millions of subjects to fill the Northeast."

"The construction of Daqingcheng is in full swing, and the herdsmen who have gone south have changed their surnames."

Originally, it was the most lively city in this world, but in an instant, it seemed to be pushed into a shot of adrenaline, and it burst out with more powerful vitality.

I don't know who set off the firecrackers first.

In an instant, firecrackers rang out throughout Yingtian City.

More than half of the old year has passed, and the new year is still a few months away.

Ying Tiancheng seemed to have started the festival.

The grasslands are harvested in the Ming Dynasty.

Such a great victory is far more exciting than the conquest of Yingzhou by the Eastern Expeditionary Army and the expansion of the territory by the Southern Expeditionary Army.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to look at the Hongwu Gate, which was gradually crowded in front of him.

The emperor smiled slightly, and looked sideways at the officials behind him who were driving out of the city today.

"It seems that today is a good day."

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