Zhu Jianyan looked at the documents sent by the cabinet. The above plans are basically directly designated by themselves, and the cabinet has a good understanding of its intentions.

So after reading it, Zhu Jianyan nodded lightly and expressed satisfaction with the work of the cabinet. Then he shook his head again.

His own plan was put in front of him under the surname of the normative document, and Zhu Jianyan once again realized that this reform could not be truly complete.

Due to various reasons and special considerations, he could not give all the affairs of the imperial court to Jiuqing.

The things that are not suitable for Jiuqing, plus the things outside the court and the inner court, the things that I have to manage directly are still quite complicated.

As the emperor himself, it is obviously impossible to directly manage the entire world through only a dozen people.

Zhu Jianyan picked up the pen on his desk and carefully reviewed the distribution of Jiuqing's rights and responsibilities on the document again. Looking for possible possibilities is not an unreasonable design, this document is not a final public document, but a first draft handed over to Zhu Jianyan for review, and it will take at least two or three changes before it can be finalized.

On the whole, Uncle Zong's affairs seem to be very much, and they are basically the work of the Ministry of Rites. handed over the Hanlin Academy and the Zhan Mansion to Tsukasa Jae, and it still looks very complicated.

The candidate for Zongbo, Zhu Jianyan subconsciously thought of Huang Yue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites left by the Taiping Dynasty.

Today, I am about to turn 60 years old, and I can retire directly at any time. can let him continue to be a Zongbo and use Jiuqing's official position to stay in office, and it is impossible for Huang Yue not to accept it.

Then let Shen Fu, who was born in Honglu Temple, take over...... However, Shen Fu is not yet fifty years old this year, and even if he is the next to become Zongbo, he is only in his early fifties.

Is this reasonable...... Tsukasa doesn't have many departments and things to manage, but it is a very important and complex position.

No matter how the size of the court is adjusted, as long as its responsibilities remain unchanged, its status will always be very special and transcendent.

Because the department under its jurisdiction is very intuitive, the candidate for Tsukasa is also very obvious, and the natural choice is the current official department Shangshu Wang Tingzhen.

However, Wang Tingzhen is only 53 years old today, and there are more than one or two officials who are more qualified than him to be Jiuqing.

Moreover, Tsukasa Jae is in charge of the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Officials is also involved in the practical training of the prince's governance. According to the previous practice, the next successor selected by the emperor would serve one or two terms of official secretary before ascending the throne.

After that, he was his heir, and he wanted to continue to serve as the secretary of the ministry and work under the hands of Tsukasa.

Or do you just change it to Tsukasa? Then the young master was in charge of the Qin Tianjian and the Taifu Temple, although it seemed that they were only two departments, but the management of things was equally complex, meteorology, astronomy, calendar, timing, resources, environment, transportation, ...... It seems that the two divisions could be split again.

Zhu Jianyan looked at it himself, thought about it in his heart, and asked the suggestions of the bachelors next to him from time to time.

Jiuqing's responsibilities are the biggest thing, and he can't be in a hurry to finalize it. Moreover, it is not necessary to implement it immediately after it is finalized, and it is difficult to implement it immediately and simultaneously.

If all the central government offices start large-scale institutional adjustments, the central court of the Ming Dynasty, which is already very inefficient, may directly enter a state of near-paralysis.

Therefore, it is necessary to start the pilot from several departments, one or two in charge of Jiuqing, and then take turns to gradually complete the merger.

This process can be completed within a year, even if it is fast. However, the distribution of responsibilities of Jiuqing was decided by discussion within the emperor and the cabinet.

Zhu Jianyan, as the emperor, still has to find some work for the foreign dynasty. Therefore, two days later, after the routine report and discussion, Zhu Jianyan directly issued a holy decree: to the effect that taking into account the daily use habits of the court officials and ordinary people, the follow-up will

The name of "other places" was officially changed

"Province". In all the official documents, recitals, and newspapers of the imperial court, as well as the official newspapers and broadcasts of the imperial court, a certain province can be directly used to refer to such and such places, and to refer to the three divisions of such and such places.

This decree can be regarded as a great joy, and it is truly a decision that conforms to the will of the people. The people originally said that there were two capitals and thirteen provinces, but it turned out that it has always been the same in official documents and official newspapers

"So-and-so place" is a very awkward statement. Officials also need to pay attention to this kind of place not to write wrongly.

Now that the official name has finally been changed, there is no need to pay special attention to it in the future. Therefore, when this decree came down, all the officials bowed down together with a sigh of relief and agreed.

In fact

The awkward term "other places" was still often used in official documents after the Qing Dynasty. However, it is not for the political envoys and provinces, but for the governors of Zhili, which is not a province, and in the ranks of governors in charge of other places.

The official title of the Governor of Zhili is:

"The governor is directly subordinate to the governor and other places to supervise military affairs, food and food, manage rivers and governors". Then Zhu Jianyan continued to throw out the things that needed to be discussed on the spot: "In addition to the three divisions being renamed provinces, I am going to set up independent provinces in the north and south.

"Naturally, there is nothing to say about Beizhili, which can directly correspond to Henan Province, and use the name of Hebei Province in the Tang Dynasty to name Hebei Province.

"After the establishment of the province in Nanzhili, how should this name be determined, and what suggestions do you have for Aiqing?" Officials of the early dynasty did not necessarily have the opportunity to attend internal meetings presided over by the emperor.

Although only Shangshu-level officials are basically qualified to go to the early dynasty, there are still dozens or hundreds of people on the scene.

Most of the bureaucrats in the outer court did not know about the large-scale reform plan planned by Zhu Jianyan and his son. Under the premise that there is no large-scale reform, the establishment of provinces directly under the north and south is a big news.

The situation of the north and south directly under the Ming Dynasty is very special, they are not two provinces, but a group

"Directly under the Central Government". The provinces of the Northern Zhili are under the direct management of the Central Administration of the Beijing Division, and the provinces of the Southern Zhili are under the direct management of the nominal Nanjing Central Administration.

Although they did not have the status of a modern municipality equivalent to a province, they were still higher than ordinary provinces.

In the classical era before the Renwu Dynasty, while the Central Government Administration managed all provinces across the country, it was not too complicated to add more than a dozen prefectures in the north and south.

After the Renwu Dynasty, there were more and more things in the central yamen, and the directly subordinate prefectures in the north and south gradually became a burden.

At the end of the Taiping Dynasty, after the reform of withdrawing feudal domains and establishing provinces began, the direct subordination of the north and south became even heavier, and more than one official mentioned the idea of establishing provinces either explicitly or implicitly.

For example, a fixed governor or governor will be appointed to directly manage most of the administrative affairs of the north and the south directly under the local government, and will no longer be directly handed over to the ministries of the central government office.

But the emperor has not responded, but he didn't expect that now he will directly set up a province in one step.

Wang Tingzhen, the secretary of the ministry, had already prepared, and when he heard the emperor's words stop, he immediately followed the emperor's question and said: "The minister thinks that you can refer to the province of Nanzhili, and you can also refer to the naming of the Tang Dynasty, and directly use Huainan Province." Then Lu Yinpu immediately stood up and said-for-tat: "The minister thinks it's inappropriate, the Huainan Province in the Tang Dynasty is south of the Huai River and north of the Great River."

"And the essence of my Ming Dynasty's Nanzhili, Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang and other places, are all south of the river.

"Therefore, Weichen is foolish, and since the establishment of a province in Nanzhi, it is more appropriate to call Jiangnan Province." Wang Tingzhen was not to be outdone, and immediately pushed back here: "The essence of Nanzhili is south of the Yangtze River? Fengyang is north of the Yangtze River! "The name of the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty was Jiangnan Province, probably because by the time of the Qing Dynasty, Fengyang was no longer in the north of the Yangtze River.

But this argument is actually directing the discussion. Instead of discussing the issue of the province itself, we will directly take the establishment of a province as the premise of the discussion, and discuss the naming of Nanzhili Province, which is actually not very important.

However, this kind of guidance is actually unnecessary, the establishment of provinces directly under the north and south is in line with the trend, and Zhu Jianyan is also arbitrary, and the courtiers below will not deliberately find fault with the modern emperor.

Zhu Jianyan waved his hand to stop the meaningless bickering of the two people, and looked at Huang Yue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who was about to be sixty years old: "Doesn't Huang Qing express his opinion on this kind of thing?" When Huang Yue heard the point, he immediately stood up and bowed down: "The old minister thinks that Jiangnan and Huainan have a certain amount of truth, but they are also inappropriate.

"The minister's idea is that it is better to compromise between the two and call it Jianghuai Province, or Jianghe Province.

"The Huai River and the Yellow River can actually be regarded as one river." At present, the Yellow River is still in a state of seizing the Huai into the sea.

In its original history, the Yellow River was diverted again in 1855 and gradually entered the channel of the Yellow River into the sea.

In this world, because the Ming Dynasty has completed industrialization, the overall management and engineering construction capabilities are many times stronger than the feudal dynasty era.

The ongoing management of the Yellow River and Huai River basins has brought the existing channels of the two rivers under control.

If nothing else, it is no longer possible for the Yellow River to follow its historical trajectory and change its course to the north in a few decades.

So now the Yellow River and the Huai River can be regarded as one river. So after Huang Yue compromised, he gave two candidates, Jianghuai and Jianghe.

Zhu Jianyan listened to Huang Yue's statement of harmony with mud, and said with a smile: "Everyone really likes to compromise, so let's call it Jianghuai Province."

"It has been the Huai River basin since ancient times, and although the Yellow River is big, it is an outsider.

"The Hebei Provincial Government Office is directly stationed in Beijing, and the Jianghuai Provincial Government Office is also direct." The matter was settled, and no official came out to question whether Jianghuai Province was too big and strong, and whether it should be split into two provinces and other topics.

Now that the imperial court can no longer control it, the current mainstream opinion is to merge the political envoys and reduce the number of lower-level institutions.

Jianghuai Province is a little more difficult to manage, and it is easier to manage than to split it into two. Because it is difficult to manage, the three divisions of the yamen are directly placed in Yingtianfu and Shuntianfu, and they are placed under the eyelids.

Now Yingtianfu still has the status of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the economic center of the Ming Dynasty in fact.

The issue of the establishment of provinces directly under the north and the south was basically determined, and Zhu Jianyan officially threw out the reform of the region in this direction: "In order to solve the problem of too many provinces and too much management pressure, I am going to do a pilot project in the Nanyang region.

"The two places of Nanyang and Tiannan will be merged and set up as a new large-scale administrative level, and the name will be tentatively Dayu.

"The framework structure of the government office of the large domain can be established with reference to the former three divisions and the imperial history system.

"Since the establishment of the Great Domain, the various ministries of the imperial court no longer directly connect with the three divisions and yamen of the Nanyang and Tiannan provinces, but with the officials in charge of the unified Nanyang Domain.

"If this plan is feasible, it will be gradually promoted throughout the Ming Dynasty, and all overseas provinces will be integrated into about nine large domains.

At the same time, the local provinces were adjusted, and a part of them were selected to be directly governed by the Central Administration, which was equivalent to the former direct subordination between the north and the south.

"This is not something that can be done overnight, and everyone can start to conceive and discuss it now, and actively make suggestions." The matter of the Great Domain was thrown out, but there was no discussion on the spot.

Today is to give the officials a preventive shot first, and give the officials who have not yet received the news time to think.

At least tomorrow morning, formal discussions will begin. In the following months, Zhu Jianyan, with the assistance of the cabinet scholars, gradually determined the adjustment plan of the Central Government Office and the plan for the establishment of Jiuqing.

At the same time, with the cooperation of officials from other countries, they began to promote the adjustment and reform of local administrative divisions. Since the establishment of provinces in the north and south has been named, other provinces have also begun to officially change their names.

The titles of the official documents, such as the local government, the political envoy department, and the three divisions, are replaced with the name of the province. Discussions and determinations were then made to determine the extent of the provinces directly under the imperial court, as well as minor adjustments to the divisions of the existing provinces.

This is a simple and complex question. The most traditional two capitals and thirteen provinces, Hebei and Huaihai, are Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian and other places must be directly governed by the imperial court, and no one has any doubt about this.

However, different people have different ideas about the adjustment of the zoning between provinces, and whether other provinces are directly under the central government.

Whether Fujian Province wants to merge the Haidong Political Envoy Division, which has only been established for a few years, that is, Dongning Island and the Ryukyu Islands.

Does Guangxi Province want to merge the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division? Or even to continue to merge the Lancang and Chenlabu political envoys?

After the Renwu Dynasty, it was established, and was the Liaodong Political Envoy Department incorporated into Shandong Province? In the era of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, Liaodong only commanded the envoys, who were responsible for managing the local garrison.

The civil affairs of Liaodong have long been managed by the Department of Political Envoys of Shandong Chengxuan, so it is no problem to say that Liaodong belongs to Shandong.

Since then, to the east of Liaodong, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and the coast of the Whale Sea, the Kuwu Island and its surrounding Kuwu Island, and the more northern Tongjiang Heishui political envoy, should they be listed as directly under the central government?

Will the six political envoys of Korea and Japan in the further east be merged, and will the political envoys of Burma and Siam in the south continue to be merged, and will they also be directly under the central government?

Will the Mobei, Western Xinjiang, and Snowy Regions in the northwest be directly under the central government? There are more provinces directly under the central government, which means that the central government of the imperial court has more subordinate institutions to directly face.

The lack of provinces directly under the central government may lead to the weakening of the core power of the Ming Dynasty. What should be done on such a question?