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Chapter 153 One stone stirs up a thousand waves!

Penck's playbook.

On the second day, at the Great Court Meeting, it became the focus of discussion among the ministers.

On the front foot, regarding the matter of the Northern Expedition next year, just passed the decision of the Great Dynasty, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Military Department all took action to make logistical arrangements for the Northern Expedition that will start next year.

On the back foot, here Penke handed over another memorial on the governance and establishment of the state.

Many officials, after seeing Jianzhou's fertile fields for thousands of miles, rich in products, and tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land waiting to be reclaimed, wrote to Emperor Hongwu to suggest that the Northern Expedition to Hetao could be postponed and Jianzhou should be developed first.

Anyway, they are all in the north, and they are all very close to Beiman. Jianzhou has already been taken.

Why bother, what about the Northern Expedition to Hetao?
If we run Jianzhou first, we can also produce the food nearby to supply the frontier army!
However, as soon as this suggestion was put forward, it was sprayed back by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

The Five Armies Commander's Mansion in Hong Wunian was not a muddled department after the mid-Ming Dynasty, but a department with real power!
There are a bunch of noble generals in the Dudu's Mansion, all of whom fought with the northern barbarians and climbed up step by step by virtue of their military exploits.

Although they are now engaged in civil work in the center, it does not mean that their warrior spirit is gone.

All of them are army ruffians!
Pointing at the civil servant who suggested to suspend the Northern Expedition in the court hall, he sprayed his nose.

Stop the Northern Expedition?

You are a treacherous official hiding among my Ming officials!
If you don't take the Hetao, how can you go through Monan?
If you can't manage Monan, why plot Mobei?
How could it be possible to eliminate Beiman, the great enemy of the Ming Dynasty, without plotting against Mobei!

Although Jianzhou is good, the food it produces can supply Yanyun and Daning, but it can't supply Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi!

Hetao is the hope of Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi!
Why did the Qin Dynasty, which was in Guanzhong, think Hetao was the new Guanzhong?
Isn't it because the Hetao is close to Guanzhong!

Dare to stop me, Da Ming Hu Ben, from taking the Hetao, because I don't want Da Ming to defeat the great enemy of Beiman!

You also said that you are not a traitor!

Putting on a big hat, those civil officials who proposed to suspend the Northern Expedition did not dare to push them any further.

In addition, Emperor Hongwu himself tends to fight next year!

Not only to take the Hetao, but also to test the actual combat power of the new Ming equipment against the northern barbarians.

At the same time, a group of outstanding young generals who emerged in the war were promoted to reserve future military generals for the grandson.

This is not something that can be achieved after attaining Jianzhou.

The Northern Expedition should be fought or must be fought!

No delay!

The center quickly made a decision.

The plan for next year's Northern Expedition remains unchanged.

However, the establishment of the province of Liaodong has to be arranged.

Jianzhou established a separate capital department, which was nominally under the management of Liaodong Chief Envoy.

But in fact, Tudusi directly contacts the center for everything, and the center is directly under the jurisdiction of the center.

The emergence of a new province is a big move for Ming Dynasty, which now only has thirteen provinces plus Zhili.

From the top to bottom of the three divisions, there are at least hundreds of gaps in officials!
How many counties to divide in Liaodong and how to arrange them is also a big deal!

The whole household department was busy for two months before finally drawing up an official form and submitting to the officials of the Chief Commissioner, the Inspection Commissioner, and the Commanding Commissioner, how to deploy the officials of the county government below. Show it to Emperor Hongwu.

Of course, the head and subordinate officials of the third department cannot be determined by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

According to rank, the chief officer of the third division and the servant of the household department are of the same rank. Everyone is from the second rank, and only the emperor can be promoted and appointed.

In the end, Emperor Hongwu promoted a group of officials from Du Yushi and Yu Shiping of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to serve in Liaodong.

There are not many other things in Ming Dynasty, but there is no shortage of officials!
Especially the top officials!
On the Central Metropolitan Procuratorate's side, there is no quota for the censors of the second, third and fourth ranks.

Therefore, some local officials who have achieved merit but have no pits for promotion are all stuffed into the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

It can be regarded as a reserve of senior officials who are given grades first, and then transferred out to take up real positions after waiting for a suitable official position.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate has a bunch of censors of the left and right capitals, the censors of the left and right deputy capitals, and the censors of the left and right capitals waiting for the carrot pit!

A group of second-, third-, and fourth-rank officials have no room for promotion!
Now that there is an additional Liaodong Province, it is a good thing!
From the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Emperor Hongwu easily dispatched a group of high-ranking officials to fill the chief officials and subordinate officials for the Liaodong Chief Political Commissioner and the Procuratorate Commissioner.

After receiving the order.

Headed by the chief envoy of Cong Erpin, more than 200 officials set off from Yingtianfu by train and went to Liaodong, thousands of miles away, to take office.

The new Liaodong Cheng announced the Political and Envoy Division, which has jurisdiction over 36 counties in eleven prefectures and three states!
Most of the military guards and forts in the entire Liaodong capital were changed to counties and counties, military management was abolished, and officials sent by the imperial court managed civil affairs.

Dingliao front, back, left, right, and middle five guards, and Ningyuan Guard, Guangning Guard, Fuzhou Guard, Jinzhou Guard, Sanwan Guard, and Tieling Guard are reserved!

Plus the two Liao Wangwei of Liao Wang.

The entire Liaodong capital will retain a standing army of more than 7 but less than [-]!

These troops will be responsible for the security of Liaodong.

After all, although Liaodong is now protected by Jianzhou and Daning, one south and one north, Liaodong still borders North Korea, and a small part of the area has penetrated into the buffer zone between the Northern Man and Ming Dynasty, and will also face savages.

The [-] standing army can only be said to be just enough to defend Liaodong.

But in order to make Liaodong return to the embrace of Ming Dynasty more firmly.

The imperial court will build a new Jinzhou Port in Jinzhou, which is only one strait away from Shandong, for the people between Shandong and Liaodong to travel back and forth.

The approximate location is near Lushunkou in later generations.

Boarding from here, it only takes three hours to arrive in Penglai, Shandong, which is very convenient!

This Jinzhou Port will become the new base of the Liaodong Fleet, and will make up 36 transport ships with a cost of 4000 materials!
The thousand materials made in the Ming Dynasty have a displacement of about 330 tons.

A giant ship of [-] materials has a displacement of more than [-] tons and a load of [-] tons!

Whether it is transporting people or goods, it is very convenient!
This is much more convenient than building a railway from Shanhaiguan to Liaodong.

In addition to the transport ships, the Liaodong Fleet also has nearly a hundred large and small warships. Among them, the main battleship is a super battleship with more than [-] materials, three decks, and [-] artillery pieces!

The only pity is that they are all made of wood.

Daming's current output of ironclad ships is still not enough. After all, it has to make way for railways and locomotives. Now there are only twelve ironclad ships of [-] materials in service, and they are all incorporated into the Zhili fleet.

Ying Tianfu is close to the sea, and it also needs to defend the sea area, so it must be close to the capital fleet first.

Twelve ironclad warships are all stationed in Taicang Port, Suzhou, to guard against the sea!

But even the Liaodong fleet only has wooden warships.

But Daming's wooden warships have also reached their peak.

Looking at the world, there is no single enemy, which is enough.

With the protection of the Liaodong Fleet, the people of Ming Dynasty can naturally cross the sea from Penglai to Liaodong, and the two places are closely connected.

If there is a war in Liaodong, the Liaodong Fleet can also quickly transport imperial reinforcements from Shandong to Liaodong to fight!
All kinds of arrangements have ensured the safety of the Ming people living on the land of Liaodong!

Almost at the same time as the officials who were sent to Liao boarded the ship from Penglai, the main prefectures and counties of the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty learned through telegrams that the Liaodong Chief Envoy had been established and that they were vigorously recruiting immigrants.

Notices were posted outside the government offices of the prefectures and counties.

Every household that registers for immigration can be allocated [-] acres of land in Liaodong!
Moreover, the land is completely free. You only need to pay half the tax in the first three years, and [-]% in the next seven years. After that, the land is completely yours!

Two hundred acres!

In this era when ten mu is enough to support a family and thirty mu is enough to be rich, only landlords can have two hundred mu!
Such a big temptation immediately aroused the interest of the poor!
Especially the poor tenant class in Zhili!

It is a stone that stirs up a thousand waves!

(End of this chapter)