Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 1037 Ming Dynasty Politics (8)

The situation at the core of the Ming Dynasty was affected by Qian Qianyi's failed suicide attempt, and there were considerable changes and disturbances. However, under this situation, there was no movement in Xiyuan from beginning to end.

This also made many people speculate.

But under this situation, an important matter concerning the northwest was quietly accomplished.

The imperial edict promoted Sun Chuanting to be the governor-general of the three borders, and he left Beijing for the northwest in an urgent journey of 800 miles. This important link in solving the long-standing military and political problems in the northwest had finally come to an end.

It rains a lot in April.

Xiyuan was a little cooler under the rain.

Chengguang Hall.

"I will pay my respects to Your Majesty!"

In the hall, sounds echoed.

"Your Majesty, please excuse me."

Zhu Youxiao, wearing the emperor's robes and with the emperor's sword on his waist, sat on the throne. He glanced at the ministers gathered in the hall through the swaying crown beads in front of his eyes, and stretched out his hand and said.

"Everyone, please take a seat."

"We thank God for His grace!"

Looking at the ministers bowing in front of him, Zhu Youxiao showed a faint smile on his face.

Today is an extremely important day for the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the ministers gathered in the palace were young people, but they had one characteristic: their skin was dark and rough, which was caused by traveling around all year round.

"I am hosting this banquet today not for any other reason than that you are willing to hide your identities, leave your hometowns, travel to various places, and accomplish a great cause for our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Youxiao picked up the wine glass, glanced at the ministers in the hall, and said in a sonorous tone: "Since I ascended the throne, I have attached great importance to one thing, that is, maps. This is related to all aspects of our dynasty, including politics, military, economy, and culture. The territory of the Ming Dynasty is too vast, so the central government, in the capital, wants to know various local conditions, especially emergencies, and the demand for maps is extremely high."

"The Imperial Ming Surveying and Mapping Bureau was officially established last year. The outside world doesn't know much about it, but I have already made it clear how important it is to our dynasty when it was first established, so I won't go into details today."

"After today, you will leave the capital and go to different places. You will be divided into groups according to different needs such as administration, military, rivers, canals, shipping, and sea areas. You will explore and map all kinds of maps of the Ming Dynasty, maps of provinces, prefectures, counties, etc. This separation may be three years, five years, or even longer."

"It's useless to say more about this pain and this tiredness."

"I will say one thing today. Whichever group completes the various maps I mentioned, I will definitely not treat those who have made contributions to the court and the people unfairly!!"

After hearing this, all the ministers gathered in the hall showed excited expressions.

After waiting for so long, they are finally going to do what they have been looking forward to for a long time.

The ministers gathered in the hall are the heads of various departments under the Huangming Surveying and Mapping Bureau. Today they gathered in Chengguang Hall to represent the entire Huangming Surveying and Mapping Bureau.

Although in the past, the Ming Dynasty had various maps, especially Zhu Youxiao allocated special silver to ask Xu Xiake and others to be responsible for drawing various maps.

But as time goes by, continuous research and breakthroughs in this field have made the map rules more detailed, so large-scale mapping targeting the national nature and needs of different fields must be put on the agenda.

For Zhu Youxiao, surveying and mapping maps involving administration, military affairs, sea areas and other aspects are extremely important.

He needed these accurate maps to promote the reforms and new policies he had defined. Just like the administrative and military maps, these were not based on existing divisions, but on field exploration and mapping based on the new divisions conceived by Zhu Youxiao.

Just like the Huguang Provincial Administration Commission, in the new administrative map of the Ming Dynasty, it will be divided into two provincial administration commissions, Hubei and Hunan. This will also abolish the jurisdictions of the two governors-general of Yunyang and Pianyuan, as well as the Huguang Xingdusi. The territories involved in the two governors-general and the Xingdusi division will be partly under the jurisdiction of Hubei and Hunan provinces, and partly under the jurisdiction of other provinces.

Once all these are done one by one, the jurisdiction of each province under the Ming Dynasty will be clear and specific, which will cooperate with the comprehensive implementation of the local governor system.

Not to mention military maps.

That is more detailed.

It is precisely for this reason that the group assigned to the administrative, military exploration and mapping divisions are not only the most capable, but have also been repeatedly screened and examined, in order to ensure that with the huge investment of funds, the administrative and military maps drawn must be foolproof.

This is the foundation of the country.

There must not be any mistakes!

To this end, Zhu Youxiao made a lot of arrangements.

For Zhu Youxiao, the reform of the Ming Dynasty must be comprehensive and multi-faceted. It is impossible to change part of it and keep part of it. This would be incomplete.

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Military and political reforms at the central level must be advanced.

The same is true for military and political reforms at the local level.

If we want to ensure that this overall level can play a corresponding role, the foundation must be solid. If we can't even do this, wouldn't it be a blind change? A random change?
"Your Majesty, Prince Xin has dispatched personnel to the Integrity Bureau."

Under such circumstances, Liu Chao lowered his head, rushed to the emperor, and reported the situation truthfully. "After this incident came out, it caused a great impact on the central government officials."

"understood."

Zhu Youxiao said without changing his expression.

But I felt approval in my heart.

The reason why Cui Chengxiu and others have been kept until now is for the final settlement. After this matter is done, there will no longer be any shortcomings or omissions when it comes to supervision.

Because Zhu Youjian did this, Zhu Youxiao began to wonder how long this deep-level purge, with the Qian Qianyi case as its source, would last and what evildoers would be uncovered.

But now is not the time to think about these things.

"Be quiet!"

Under Zhu Youxiao's gaze, Liu Ruoyu, who was standing in the hall, spoke loudly, which made all the ministers who were originally discussing with each other look at him in unison.

"Your Majesty is mindful of the difficulties faced by the various departments of the Imperial Ming Surveying and Mapping Bureau in traveling to various places."

Under the gaze of Daodao, Liu Ruoyu said in a loud voice: "During the exploration, there may be some accidents that may delay this great cause related to the country's destiny. Therefore, I specially grant you a waist badge. Anyone holding this waist badge can go to the nearest Huahui Bank to withdraw emergency money. If you encounter any difficult problems, you can go to the nearest Jinyiwei to coordinate..."

After hearing what Liu Ruoyu said, all the ministers in the hall became excited. Although they belonged to the Huangming Surveying and Mapping Bureau, in the actual exploration process, they might encounter various problems, which would delay the important things they were thinking about. With this badge, it could help them solve all their worries.

Zhu Youxiao, sitting on the throne, looked at the excited crowd with a faint smile on his face. For him, this was all he could do. As long as this matter could be facilitated, even if it cost some extra money, it would not matter to him at all!!

(End of this chapter)