Yingtianfu, Nanjing.

Since the north was promoted to the southern official and the southern was promoted to the northern official, the changes in the Ming officialdom are obvious.

The number of officials shielding each other has been greatly reduced.

Moreover, before the imperial examination was held, many of those officials who came out of the recommendation system were demoted to southwest Gansu and fought for the country.

Jinyiwei and the imperial history of the inspectorate in various places patrolled at any time with the adjutant, and the official of the palm seal was corrupt and bent the law, so he was immediately dismissed and exiled to the southwest as a liuguan, and was replaced by the northern imperial examination jinshi.

Not only that, at the suggestion of Zhu Xiongying, Daming also creatively used Wu Juzi to serve as a local county magistrate and magistrate.

Who said that a warrior can't get ink.

Local officials, come to Taixue for training, after graduation, take the examination to enter the establishment, can also be assigned to the loose official, excellent directly promoted to the official.

A normal upward channel is too important for officials.

If the ruler wants to achieve the word "Qingming", it is actually very simple, that is, supervision must be in place. With the Taixue, government school, and county schools all over the country began to recruit students, and many students with a certain degree of science and engineering literacy, simplified words, and understanding of the geography of the Ming Dynasty were cultivated.

Zhu Xiongying also consciously let Taixue students also have to practice martial arts, martial arts also have to practice arithmetic, and the gap between literature and martial arts must be slowly smoothed out.

This group of people is the basic plate he has laid for himself.

According to Zhu Xiongying's assumption, in another three years, the second five-year plan will be completed, and the Ming Dynasty will begin to engage in professional full-time soldiers, and train a professional army that is completely out of production, does not master the means of production, does not touch the land and does business, and concentrates on fighting.

With professional soldiers who are completely out of production, the gentry will be able to pay their salaries in one piece, and the poll tax will be abolished, and we will have greater certainty.

Without him, power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

Zhu Biao, the current benevolent emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is in the Fengtian Palace, reviewing the folds.

Unlike in the past, today's Son of Heaven has delegated a lot of governance policies and strategies to the cabinet to deal with, the advantage of this is that the more you delegate power, the more energetic the cabinet ministers will be, at least they will not lose power, humiliate the country and betray the country, in the previous life, in that time and space, several first assistants of the Jiajing Dynasty were.

infighting, but state affairs have not been delayed at all.

What's more, the supervision is also very good.

Several cabinet ministers each bear a responsibility, and they are responsible for the emperor, and the cabinet ministers are not fixed, and they are replaced in two or three years, and the old cabinet ministers are delegated to local officials to pay attention to education and the economy, so as to prevent the cabinet ministers from forming a group of friends.

At the same time, there are old and young ministers.

For example, several Taixue students who have experienced in the southwest, the more famous, Xia Yuanji, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu, these four people are in Chengdu, Guizhou, Yunnan, leading the local people to develop agriculture, open mines, plant grain crops, build water conservancy, build schools, do a very good job, especially for the construction of the ancient tea horse road in the southwest region to make a great help.

They actively co-opted the local Tusi heads, such as Mrs. Xiangxiang and the female prefect Shibu, and built thousands of miles of plank roads in Yunnan-Guichuan, which directly derived the original ancient tea horse road nine passes and eighteen shops, directly derived from one hundred passes and ninety-nine shops, and the business road in the southwest region can go from Chongqing Mansion to the border between Daming and Myanmar and to Annam.

This has greatly promoted the unity of the local ethnic groups and the unification of the country.

Trade, transport grain in peacetime, and transport troops in wartime.

Therefore, all four of them were elected to Wenyuan Pavilion and served as confidential secretaries in the cabinet.

The so-called "confidential secretary" is also a new position created by Zhu Xiongying, which has no rank and is very low, but it is the pen to help the cabinet ministers and the emperor draft edicts, and the emperor will often ask them about various policies.

At this time, Zhu Biao was talking to Xia Yuanji.

After the abdication of His Majesty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, an edict, Li Shanchang and other old ministers retired, Zhu Biao retained a few times, and he took advantage of the situation and canceled the post of prime minister, and he also intended to dilute the influence of the cabinet.

Decentralization is a very important thing.

These ministers were able to implement policies, and their main authority came from the trust of Zhu Biao, the Son of Heaven.

Today's Zhu Biao is no longer the prince who was a little fat and had a broad complexion five years ago, his figure has become more burly and strong, his face is resolute in his regular clothes, his eyebrows are solemn, and he is more dignified between his expectations.

Compared with others before, at this time, he is more like a son of heaven who holds life and death in his hands.

"An eagle letter came from Beijing, Liaodong Naha couldn't bear it, he had already led his troops and horses, went directly to Liaoyang, surrendered to Liaoyang to command Ma Yun, and now he lives in Ma Yun's mansion, Ma Yun sent a fold to ask how to deal with this matter."

Zhu Biao took a glass of wolfberry water and took a sip gently.

He looked at Xia Yuanji and asked, "Does the cabinet have a countermeasure?" ”

Xia Yuanji hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now my country has 70 million yuan of silver and national bonds in the treasury, if Liaodong is recovered, the industrial and mining and land in Liaodong are mortgaged, and the treasury bonds are issued, and the silver can be obtained to say 50 million yuan, so that the construction silver money of Liaodong and Beiyuan is all enough." ”

"Don't talk about collecting Liaodong, Monan, and now there are more silver dollars, I can attack the Western Regions in the Ming Dynasty, but the governance that is beaten down will cost another 30 million silver dollars."

Zhu Biao waved his hand: "No, the Northwest Timurid Khanate is the country of ten thousand times, the country of ten thousand times against the country of ten thousand times, it is a competition of national strength, not a time and a place can be successful, we want to fight, just fight a proxy war, and wait for Yun Wei to become the emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, I Ming funded the Northern Yuan to unify Monan, and then went west to attack and compete with Timur, which is the best policy." ”

"Xiongying said, this is called a proxy war......

"The money and grain that subsidizes the north and south yuan of the desert can also consume the domestic demand of our Ming Dynasty and stimulate the economy."

"Kill two birds with one stone......"

To fight a war, it is money, grain and logistics.

It's not that Daming can't take Liaodong, and it can be fought as early as five years ago.

But at that time, the Ming Dynasty did not have so much food and military spending, and it was a lot of money to fight and govern.

It's different now.

With the maturity of several forks of national bonds, the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan have completely tasted the sweetness, you know, the national bonds are sure to make money and do not lose money, although the interest rate is not high, but it is better than a stable word.

Moreover, Daming also opened up private financial business.

There's no way around it.

If it is the Daming Royal Bank, the government participates in housing loans, usury, and debt collection, which will lead to the people's resentment against the Daming Royal Bank, and if the bank makes a slight mistake, it will affect the reputation of the Daming Royal Bank.

Private working capital banks still need to exist.

Some dirty work is tiring, and it is inconvenient for government banks to do it, so they need the participation of private capital.

Nowadays, there are more than a dozen large ticket numbers in the country, and they are all allowed to work in the place where the Daming Royal Bank works, that is, the post stations in Daming, and the silver in stock must be paid to the Daming Royal Bank as collateral.

The Daming Royal Bank has turned into the function of issuing currency, issuing treasury bonds, and supervising various private capital banks.

The noble princes everywhere were ordered to deposit their family assets in the Ming Royal Bank, and they were not allowed to participate in the formation of private capital.

This is a book written by Zhu Xiongying, summed up an experience, according to Zhu Xiongying's writing, what "Eight Banners" in the book is like this, professional full-time regular soldiers, Zhu Biao actually feels that this is similar to the "Eight Pillars Country" created by Yu Wentai, but the Eight Pillars National Soldiers are in chaos behind the country, so for these full-time professional soldiers, the property confiscation policy must also be implemented.

Not only is it issued by the Royal Bank, but the deposit must also be deposited in the Royal Bank, and once it is found hidden, it will be beheaded directly, and the whole family will be confiscated.

The whistleblower won half of the property.

As soon as this article came out, many military marquis complained that they did not choose.

Fortunately, most of the old military marquis Xungui have retired with His Majesty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, such as Li Shanchang, such as Feng Sheng, etc......

Xia Yuanji saw that Zhu Biao, the son of heaven, did not speak, and said: "In this way, the strategy of attacking the north and defending the south in the Ming Dynasty can be implemented, and the economy of Annam has now been completely controlled by my Ming Dynasty, and 70% of its domestic rice has been purchased by my Ming Dynasty, and the iron ore has also been bought by Fujian merchants. ”

Zhu Biao nodded.

"What did the Luzon pirate Chen Zuyi say?"

When Xia Yuanji heard this, he showed a hint of embarrassment.

The maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty is now very developed and has returned to the peak of the Yuan Dynasty.

Many people have an illusion that the sea trade of the Southern Song Dynasty is stronger than that of the Yuan Dynasty, in fact, the Yuan Dynasty attaches great importance to the sea trade, repeatedly banned the sea, and then the official organization of the fleet to go to sea, because the Semu people are many officials in the Great Yuan, and enjoy various privileges, so many foreigners come to Quanzhou and Guangzhou, the sea trade at that time was very prosperous, which is also the Yuan Dynasty Wang Dayuan was able to go to sea with the ship and discover Australia.

The government's sea ban is because the sea ban is too profitable.

But Dayuan was forbidden, and the Semu and Han maritime merchants still had to make money and how to make money, and the local officials were corrupt, and they could buy peace by sending money.

"Jinghai Marquis Wu Zhong, Navigation Marquis Zhang He, and Nanxiong Marquis Zhao Yong, all because of corruption and bending the law, were demoted, or retired, now I want to conquer Annan, suffering from no generals, to conquer Annan, we must first determine the Luzon pirate Chen Zuyi, but the navy ......"

Natsuhara didn't finish his words.

Most of the current princes and nobles of the Ming Dynasty have retired with the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Or "retreat inside", give them decency, be rich, and not be in charge of the army.

If you want to kill, you have to leave it to the crown prince Zhu Xiongying to come to power, and then kill the chickens and monkeys......

His Majesty the Emperor Taishang took Li Shanchang, Feng Sheng and other old ministers to Beijing, and left Zhu Biao, the Emperor Ren, with the young and strong Fu Youde, Chang Mao, Chang Sheng, and a cadre of young ministers, these people are more energetic and energetic, and Li Wenzhong, who is not in good health, has also been given enough rest, Zhu Biao boldly used Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, who was demoted to Liangguang because of his crimes, to take charge of the Western trade, and most of the business of the Ming Royal Bank.

And Zhu Biao is also very good at admonishing, for ministers who commit crimes, they are often exempted from responsibility for minor crimes, and they have great faults, but they are just demoted to Guangxi and Yunnan as liuguan, or confiscate illegal gains, and then retreat.

After all, even Li Cunyi, the "God of Wealth", did not kill the Son of Tomorrow, and asked him to guard the vault of the Ming Royal Bank in Nanjing, which is called "taking a break".

After the improvement of the official system of the Ming Dynasty, it has burst out with amazing explosive power, and the state organs have developed rapidly.

But......

There are too many things about Xungui corrupting the law, take Wu Zhong, Marquis of Jinghai, and Zhang He, Marquis of Navigation, for example, the two of them made too much money because they managed Ducao and supervised shipping, and they occupied the business of civil officials, so they were always sued.

Emperor Ren didn't behead them, it was already for their sake.

Moreover, the head of the old army is a problem for the ages, and it cannot be changed overnight.

But the north defends the south and attacks, and passes through the South Seas, you have to have a general who can sit in the South Seas and lead the troops to fight, and it is trusted by the Heavenly Family, so Xia Yuanji does not dare to recommend, now, the big pirate Chen Zuyi who is in the South Seas, is the Yuan Dynasty sea merchant, and now there are thousands of ships on the sea, dominating one side, like a hegemon in the South China Sea, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty go out of the South Seas, and they have to pay tolls for him, even the official merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty are not exempt from vulgarity, because in the South Seas, the Ming Dynasty does not have so many warships, and he can't beat him Chen Zuyi.

Zhu Biao, the Son of Heaven, flickered his eyes, squinted and pondered for a moment, then opened his eyes and said, "How is Zhu Di, the king of Yan?" ”

"The Emperor Taishang is sitting in Beijing, and Beijing does not need generals for the time being."

"My fourth brother is a natural general's seed, with him as the generalissimo of the governor, the head of Nanyang affairs, you immediately draw up a will, send to Beijing, and call my fourth brother."

"Since the day when Zhu Di, the king of Yan, arrived in Nanjing, I have been in the Ming Dynasty, defending the north and attacking the south!"