Zhu Di took the lead in attacking Nan Zhili, the old nest of the gentry group that he had long been blind.

"(South) Zhili from the Huai River in the north, to the Yellow Mountain in the south, to Poyang Lake in the west, and to the mouth of the Yangtze River in the east, I think that the differences in the economy, population, culture and customs in various places are huge, and they are forcibly pinched together, and the management is too much and too wide, which is not conducive to the governance of the imperial court."

Zhu Di's purpose in wanting to dismantle Zhili is not only to divide two experimental fields for changing the law, but also to dismantle Zhili, the base camp of the gentry class in the south of the Yangtze River, to form a group identity in the future, and to prevent problems before they happen.

Without the unified administrative division of "Zhili", only the essence of the Yangtze River Delta will be retained, and after the most marginal prefectures return to their respective administrative divisions, it is possible to rely on the identity of "Zhili" in the future, which will naturally be broken in advance.

The operation is not complicated, just need to return some of the most marginal prefecture-level administrative units that his father Zhu Yuanzhang forcibly put together to the various political envoys, and then reintegrate a condensed version of Nanzhili according to the region.

"Your Majesty, if you want to be subordinate, you must separate Jiang and Huai." Jian Yi, who had been opposed just now, agreed at this time.

"Jian Shangshu is right."

Huang Fu also said: "Since the Chu and Han dynasties fought for hegemony, Xuzhou has fought more than dozens of large-scale battles in successive dynasties, and it is in this battlefield that has determined the rise and fall of many generations of dynasties, so there is a saying that the Central Plains has been won since ancient times. This place has always been not under the control of Jiangnan, and it should not be forcibly mixed with Jiangnan. ”

Regarding this issue, the scholars, who were still resisting the emperor just now, reached an agreement.

The wonder of the temple lies in this, two groups of people who have just quarreled on some issues will work together for a win-win situation on the next issue because of the same interests.

Separating Jiang and Huai is by no means just in line with Zhu Di's wishes.

In fact, this is also a matter that the ministers of the early Ming Dynasty have been fighting with Zhu Yuanzhang for a long time, but they have been pressed by Zhu Yuanzhang to prevent them from separating.

Can Huaibei and Jiangnan be the same thing?

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's twisted melon is cool, using the big basket of "Zhili" to stuff all the places around Nanjing into it, but the places that are forcibly stuffed into it are centrifugal and detached, and it is really not sweet.

Do you think it's just that Zhu Di doesn't want Huang Huai and Jiang Nan to stay together? Jiangnan, where there are many rich people and prosperous culture and education, does not want to play with the barren land of Huanghuai.

The arranged nursery rhyme "Say Fengyang, Dao Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place, since Emperor Zhu came out, there have been nine years of famine in ten years", there is no irony that Zhili took the taxes collected from Jiangnan and Huanghuai and supplied them to Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaixi hometown to maintain decency, but the huge Fengyang Mansion is becoming more and more impoverished?

When Emperor Jianwen was in power, the gentry class in Jiangnan also reflected this problem, and Emperor Jianwen intended to deal with it, but Zhu Di was a little fast with a big knife physically visiting relatives, so he didn't have time to do it.

"The first line of Huanghuai is very different from the people in Jiangnan, and it should indeed be separated." Dao Yan has the same attitude here.

In Zhu Di and Daoyan's planning, in addition to the Yangtze River Delta, other buffer zones around Nanjing based on defensive considerations must still be retained.

But there is no need to put the buffer zone of Zhili directly into Huaibei!

Before the Ming Dynasty, the Huanghuai River Basin had always belonged to different administrative divisions with Jiangnan, and it was rarely merged together, which was because the difference was too great.

Therefore, whether it is out of public or selfish intentions, the scholars are right, if they want to streamline (southern) Zhili, the first step is to strip the area of the Huanghuai River Basin.

Huang Huai was unwilling to stay in Zhili, and Zhili forcibly pulled Huang Huai only out of security considerations, for the so-called "guarding the river must guard Huai".

"True Ming God of War" Zhu Di scoffed at this.

A group of local chickens and dogs, Huai can't hold it, Jiang can't hold it, and they tie their hands and feet in vain.

As for the military division of Huanghuai, Zhu Di has already made a plan with Daoyan.

At the same time, untying the shackles of Huanghuai in administrative divisions is not only conducive to the integration and development of Huanghuai itself, but also greatly reduces the administrative burden for Zhili.

Zhu Di opened his mouth and said: "I intend to set up a separate Huanghuai Bu political envoy in Xuzhou, Fengyang Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, Luzhou Mansion, that is, the Huaihe River Basin, and the lower reaches of the Yellow River (at this time, the Yellow River seized Huai into the sea), and took Fengyang Mansion as the governing office. ”

After a pause, Zhu Difu said again.

"At the same time, the Central Capital stayed in the Division and was upgraded to the Huanghuai Command Division, which was solely responsible for the defense of the Huanghuai region."

Zhu Di's intention, of course, was to weaken and dismember the main force of the Hongwu Founding Elite Group, that is, the traditional influence area of the Huaixi Group, to insert his own people into it and completely control Jiangbei.

In addition to this, there is also the reason to really change this poor military division.

Militarily, from a hostile point of view, Zhu Di believes that the Battle of Jingyan has proved that it is simply disastrous to let Zhili directly control the defense of the two Huai.

Originally, the basic military dispatch that the local guard post and the metropolitan command and envoy could easily do required repeated reports to the direct subordinates before they could be approved, and by the time the approval was issued, it was often too late.

A trivial matter mentioned before, Zheng Ci impeached the generals who stayed behind in Fengyang Fuzhong, and used the wooden wood of the Buddhist temple built by Zhu Yuanzhang to build a ship to resist the Yan army crossing the river on the Huai River, which is such an example.

A glimpse of the leopard in the tube.

And if you look at the records of the Jianwen court, this kind of bad administration leads to military defeats.

And this kind of problem does not need to be mentioned by Zhu Di at all, the scholars who have served in the Jianwen Imperial Court know it well.

Therefore, no one has any objection to the administrative and military separation of the area of the Huanghuai River valley from the Zhili.

Arrange the most important Huanghuai River basin in the north, and the rest is easy to say.

Zhu Di continued: "The westernmost part of Zhili, the Anqing Mansion north of the Yangtze River is assigned to Huguang; The Chizhou Mansion and Huizhou Mansion south of the Yangtze River were assigned to Jiangxi. ”

This is the proper meaning of the question, since the reduction of the South Zhili, then the westernmost places that were originally transferred out should be transferred back.

In addition, there is obviously no need to carve out other areas of Nanzhili, and only some piecemeal repairs and integrations are needed

"Luzhou Mansion divided two counties, Chao County and Lujiang County, and merged them with Hezhou and Chuzhou to form Chuzhou Mansion, and Gongwei Jiangbei together with Yangzhou Mansion in the east."

"Other than that, what other opinions do you have?"

Zhu Di finalized the three most important parts, namely the independence of Huanghuai, which was transferred back to the three prefectures in the west and merged with the Chuzhou prefecture.

Then he began to symbolically consult the scholars.

However, in Zhu Di's eyes, other places that are not very important, for the scholars, there are quite a lot of entanglements of interests.

"Ningguofu (Xuancheng) and Guangdezhou, merged together into Ningguofu?"

"You can also merge the Taiping Mansion into it."

"It's not appropriate, Wuhu and Dangtu are both important places to defend Nanjing, and they can't be combined with Ningguofu."

"Zhenjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, do they need to be merged?"

"You don't need it, don't be confused."

After some discussion, the streamlined Nanzhili was finally determined.

Jiangbei: Chuzhou Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion

Lower reaches of the Yangtze River: Taipingfu, Ningguofu, Yingtianfu (Nanjing)

Yangtze River estuary: Zhenjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion

The huge Nanzhili was finally reduced from fourteen prefecture-level administrative units to nine prefectures, which seemed to be the Yangtze River Delta region in Jiang Xinghuo's previous life.

The division of the Southern Zhili has been decided, and when it comes to the topic of how to divide the Northern Zhili, the Shangshu obviously has no right to speak.

After all, the north is Zhu Di's territory, and the emperor can divide it however he wants.

Zhu Di also did not have the intention of discussing the division of Nanzhili with the scholars just now, and directly announced it arbitrarily.

"Shuntianfu (Beijing), Yongping Mansion (Tangshan Qinhuangdao area), Baoding Mansion."

Zhu Di's tone was resolute and unquestionable: "These three prefectures are the places that support the national disaster of Zhenjing and make the greatest contributions, and they should become the core areas of Beizhili, focusing on the enrichment of immigrants from Shanxi." ”

"In addition, the Xuanfu in Shanxi, as a frontier defense center along the Great Wall to defend Beijing, must be zoned to Beizhilili."

"Zhending Mansion, a place where soldiers are victorious; Hejian Prefecture (Cangzhou District, Tianjin), the key point of water and land transportation, these two prefectures, also to the North Zhilili. ”

"Further south, Shunde Mansion (Xingtai), Guangping Mansion (Handan), and Daimyo Mansion (Wei County) should also be the same."

"Therefore, I am determined to make Shuntianfu (Beijing), Yongping Mansion, Baoding Mansion, Xuanfu Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Shunde Mansion, Guangping Mansion, and Daimyo Mansion, a total of nine mansions, constitute Beizhili."

In fact, this is also the history of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, Zhu Di divided the North Zhili, and this part of the history has not been deviated by Jiang Xinghuo.

Only Nan Zhili has a deviation that is different from Jiang Xinghuo's previous life.

If Jiang Xinghuo is here, he will definitely sigh, good guy, isn't this Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta?

None of the scholars expressed any objections.

There are nine prefectures in the north and nine prefectures in the south, which are still equal on paper.

Although at this time, whether it is the economy, population, food production, culture and education, North Zhili is far behind by South Zhili.

"Your Majesty."

Huang Fu, who suggested using the marginal area as an experimental field, finally couldn't hold back, he persuaded.

"Is it too risky to use the core area of the Ming Dynasty, such as the North and South Zhili, as a test field for changing the law?"

Huang Shangshu, who is old and serious, obviously does not understand the truth of "the bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish".

Zhu Di laughed when he heard this.

"Huang Shangshu, do you think that's all there is to it?"

Huang Fu was stunned for a while, could it be that in addition to the north and south of Zhili, the emperor also wanted to open a third experimental field?

However, then, Huang Fu knew that what the emperor announced next was even more explosive than opening the third test field.

"I plan to let the eldest and second go to the north and south to preside over the implementation of the reform law respectively."

(End of chapter)