Chapter 870: The Prince is Awesome!
Since then, the new territories of the Ming Dynasty include the entire island of the Indochina Peninsula, the Sumatra Archipelago, the Bay of Bengal region, and North Korea.
Northeast and Mobei are not counted as new.
Because that's since ancient times.
It has 30 envoys and 33 capital divisions, with a total population of more than 500 million, a total army of more than 5 million, and the grain and grass reserves in the treasury are converted into more than 200 million taels of silver, and the reserves of gold and silver are also more than 100 million taels.
Its strength is huge, and it is the giant of this era.
Moreover, in the new territory, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty built official roads and mined mines at any cost, and the construction of official roads mainly requisitioned local people and distributed a little money and grain, and the cost was very small.
In addition, Zhu Jianji, the Emperor of Guang'an, because of the land reform and the exchange of interests of some landlord groups, so the Ministry of Industry directly surveyed many mines, and sold the mining rights for decades to the commercial houses established by the landlord groups in the Ming Dynasty, which were operated by them.
The Ministry of Industry only needs to increase the scale of ore smelting.
After all, the lifeblood industries of steel mills must still be controlled by the imperial court.
Because the land was reformed and returned to the ordinary people of the country, a large number of landlord groups had to find new industrial income, and their long-term accumulated gold and silver wealth also needed to find a way out, so in the 20 years of Guang'an, the number of commercial banks in the country skyrocketed, and countless commercial houses entered the Indochina Peninsula, Sumatra Islands, the Korean Peninsula and the Bay of Bengal region, purchased mining rights from the imperial court, and even cooperated with the Ministry of Industry to build official roads, or through the cooperation of local political envoys. Contracting a large amount of land in the local area for the centralized production of agriculture - since you can't be a big landlord in the country, then go to these places to become a big landlord.
His Majesty Emperor Guang'an pretended not to see this.
It's a kind of concession.
Anyway, it is impossible for these places to be occupied forever, and this kind of governance is also needed in order to maintain the superiority of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not possible to get the same benevolent treatment as the local government until these places are completely assimilated by the culture.
As a result, after the land reform, to a certain extent, it promoted the development of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty, and countless capitals looked for a way out and began to go abroad, with the cooperation of the military power of the Ming Dynasty, to plunder and exploit the economy, resources and manpower of foreign countries and overseas, and through this plunder and exploitation, it was converted into a steady stream of wealth sent back to China.
This has also given birth to a large number of cost-effective jobs in China, allowing more people to get jobs, improving the quality of life of the people, and gradually accumulating a little wealth in the hands of the people.
Of course, after all, it is a feudal society.
The poor are still the majority.
Emperor Guang'an is not a king who can be deceived below, knowing the current situation of the people, in response to this situation, promulgated a lot of benevolent policies, and continued to let the Ministry of Industry increase investment, broaden the country's official cobweb system, so that more poor people can eat the dividends of the new era of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the country has money, and the landlord group has added many new territories, or went to other foreign states to buy a large amount of grain through trade, Guang'an 20 years, the imperial court announced to the world, exempt the Ming native tax for three years.
After that, we will continue to reduce taxes according to the actual situation of the domestic economy.
This is the real drive to prosperity for all.
According to the will of Emperor Guang'an, the four experimental fields of the Ming Dynasty have already brought agricultural production to a certain height, although hybrid rice has not yet been made, but whether it is bud rice, wheat or rice, the yield per mu has reached a new height.
Now, even if the people of the Ming Dynasty only farm, under the condition that the state has reduced taxes, their annual grain harvest can also ensure the food and clothing of the family, and they can also sell some grain into treasure money and deposit it in the two major banks.
And the imperial court also has a source of income: Yang Jin started from the Bay of Bengal region, all the way through the Western Regions back to China, the Bay of Bengal region established the Chengxuan political envoy and the capital, but the Western Regions countries are indeed a little far away, the Ming Dynasty did not establish the capital and the Chengxuan political envoy, just let it be called a tributary, and this tribute has a lot of rhetoric.
The annual tribute of gold and silver is a huge amount of wealth.
And because of the Ming Dynasty
Claiming to be vassals, the landlord groups of the Ming Dynasty also sent people to the countries of the Western Regions to establish trading houses and plunder the wealth of these countries through trade.
And the biggest way to plunder wealth is, of course, the two major banks.
The two major institutions of Daming Royal Bank and Daming Bank have long sent people to set up branches, and issued treasure banknotes in the local area, and exchanged local gold and silver back to Daming with treasure banknotes.
Forced by the threat of force from the Ming Dynasty, the local government did not dare not cooperate.
Since then, the actual control area of the Ming Dynasty has almost included most of the Asian region, and the huge economic and military strength, as well as the level of industry and agriculture, are far ahead of the world.
The Ming Dynasty has surpassed the former Yuan Dynasty.
Then at the beginning of the spring of the twenty-first year of Guang'an, the crown prince Zhu Youzhen, who had only started the auxiliary government for a long time, was a little unbearable, and there were too many people's livelihood and political affairs, even if he only needed to criticize Zhu from the cabinet, he couldn't be busy alone.
Soon, Zhu Youzhen did not communicate with Wenhuadian, and directly ordered the cabinet to be restructured.
The Cabinet still has a chief assistant.
However, the official rank was promoted to the third grade.
The cabinet auxiliary ministers are still seven people, and the official rank has been promoted from the third rank, but the cabinet is subdivided into seven departments, corresponding to seven departments: engineering, soldiers, agriculture, households, rites, criminals, and officials.
Under each department, 32 new assistants and directors are added to be responsible for the discussion, communication, decision-making and adjudication of the affairs of the department.
Decisions on prefectural affairs can be made within the Cabinet Division.
State and county affairs can be decided by cabinet assistants.
The affairs of the state capital can be decided by the cabinet assistants.
These decisions need to be fully announced by all cabinet ministries, and more than seventy percent of the people need to agree before they can be implemented at the local level.
The affairs of the political envoy must be sent to the Qianqing Palace for the prince to decide.
At the same time, the cabinet added a new feudal town department: responsible for the handling of people's livelihood and political affairs in the new territory of the Ming Dynasty, which still follows the precedent, and the higher the level, the need to report at all levels.
Since then, a complete cabinet system has been formed.
In fact, it is also a think tank.
When Zhu Youzhen's restructuring was successfully implemented, the government and the opposition were all excited: because everyone knows that the current Ming Dynasty's cultural and martial arts have basically been done by His Majesty Emperor Guang'an, and the cultural and cultural affairs left to the prince are basically nothing, and there can still be some martial arts, such as Luzon and the Principality of Rus.
But I can't say for sure.
After all, His Majesty Emperor Guang'an is only forty-five years old, and His Majesty Emperor Guang'an will definitely go on an expedition to Japan in his lifetime.
Therefore, the crown prince Zhu Youzhen is likely to be only a king.
But now that the cabinet has been restructured, everyone has seen the strength and vision of His Royal Highness the Prince, and with such a successful cabinet reform under such a sound national system, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is likely to have more civil rule in the future.
This is Daming's luck!
And Zhu Youzhen's restructuring of the cabinet also shocked Zhu Jianji.
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