My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 30 The emperor shared the worries of his ministers

On September [-]th, Sun Chengzong was ordered to leave Beijing and go to Liaodong to take office.

Zhu Youxiao was a little worried and decided to send it off in person.

As the carriage was on its way to the north of the city, Zhu Youxiao suddenly asked Wei Zhongxian.

"Have you finished the drawings I want?"

"I'm ready to go back to you, Your Majesty."

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian quickly took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and spread it in front of Zhu Youxiao.

"According to the emperor's instructions, I took several craftsmen to read the records of Taizu and made a plan for Nanhaizi."

Taking the overall plan from his hand, after looking at it for a while, Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction.

Nanhaizi is big enough. The surrounding city walls alone are 120 miles long, which is enough for Zhu Youxiao to mess around inside.

The entire design is planned with the Wudian Palace as the main body and the four military camps at the four corners of Nanhaizi as the apex.

With the Wudian Palace as the center, leaving space for a small imperial city, two smaller palaces, Wencheng and Wude, were built on the periphery using Wenyuan Pavilion as a template (postponed).

In front of the two main halls, six yamen were built in separate areas.

All in all, in one sentence, a huge amount of money was spent to build a special small city next to the capital, which was used to provide offices for the six bureaus and nine temples directly under the imperial court, and to pull the six bureaus and nine ministers from the capital.

In the four directions of southeast, northwest, and eight areas, eight squares were built and placed separately to provide official residences for four categories of people: civil servants, military generals, nobles, and vassal kings.

In the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang once formulated the provisions of the world and made clear provisions on the residence of imperial officials.

Xungui Group, the Duke's house, has seven or five rooms in the front hall, seven rooms in the middle hall, and seven rooms in the back hall.

Civil and military officers are divided according to grade.

For first- and second-grade officials, there are five rooms and nine shelves in the hall;
Officials of the third to fifth grades have five rooms and seven shelves in the back hall;
Officials of the sixth to ninth grades have three halls and seven shelves.

But to be honest, this regulation has been neglected for 200 years. Now, let alone officials, even the wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen do not abide by it, and each one lives better than the other.

Of course such good regulations cannot be neglected.

As the saying goes, history can serve as a guide to predict the ups and downs.

I, Zhu Youxiao, the new master of Ming Dynasty, want to learn from Comrade Stalin, the great and loving father of Mao Xiong.

What is he going to do?

Build an inner city and house all the Beijing officials, including the six ministries and nine ministers in Beijing.

As for the source of creativity, naturally it comes from the various family homes created by my loving father.

It's just that the person guarding the door for my loving father is the KGB. When it comes to the Ming Dynasty, the gatekeeper Jin Yiwei said that we should do our duty.

This group of unfaithful and unfilial ministers always want to turn the palace into a pigsty and throw the emperor into it to raise pigs. How long has Zhu Youxiao been out since then? There are always people who want to let the emperor go back to the pigsty in the Forbidden City.

We just scrapped a dozen of them yesterday, and this morning we received a lot of nonsense memorials.

In fact, a few came to inquire whether the emperor was really in Nanhaizi.

Now, Zhu Youxiao wants to do the opposite and build a collective family home to put all these people in it for easier supervision.

Of course, the main purpose of doing this is to prevent courtiers from collaborating. Now the officials are too free. They spend all day having fun and are full of cliques and selfish interests.

How can we build the Ming Dynasty with these insects?

Is it alright if you don’t rush home after get off work to create villains and contribute to the population of Ming Dynasty?
After the official residence is built, let Dongchang arrange eunuchs and servants to serve, Jinyiwei will lead the team, Tiqi will recruit volunteers, check in and out, and check the comings and goings.

Among other things, Beijing officials must do it first. As for local officials, they must also be used, but it must be done in a multi-pronged manner.

Drain the water in the fish pond of Daming Jingguan and fish out the fish one by one to see which fish is getting impatient.

The four corners of the inner city are reserved for the army. The barrels of guns are placed directly next to your pillow. Zhu Youxiao wants to see if that impatient person dares to form a clique for personal gain under his nose. "How did you design this official residence in Bafang?"

"Your Majesty, please listen to your explanation."

It was already known that Zhu Youxiao planned to move all the capital officials to Nanhaizi. As the newly appointed governor of Dongchang, he had a very thorough understanding of Dongchang's responsibilities and business.

"The slaves and the craftsmen have discussed that the construction of this official residence is mainly based on safety considerations. We plan to divert the water from the Hui River and dig a ditch three feet wide and three feet deep around the eight square walls to prevent Some young people tried to dig tunnels to steal and harm courtiers."

"And here, here and here."

Wei Zhongxian said, pointing at several points on the map and explaining.

"My slave plans to set up a watchtower on the wall of the square, which can look over the whole square. However, the walls of each house are built very high, and they are shaded by trees, so the watchtower cannot peek into the house."

"On the walls of the square, glass sheets are added to prevent people from climbing over the walls. After all, this is just for people to patrol, and there is a risk of missing something."

Wei Zhongxian, who was specially told by Zhu Youxiao about the purpose of this official residence, obviously knew Zhu Youxiao's intention, and the entire design was in line with Zhu Youxiao's thoughts.

There are many small designs in the houses in each workshop, such as the trench water channel around the wall of this workshop, which is said to prevent Xiaoxiao from digging tunnels and harming courtiers, but who are they actually preventing?
Is there any need to ask this question?

At this time, Wei Zhongxian was not the [-]-year-old man who was later praised by his subordinates. His power was so terrifying that he had five tigers, five tigers, ten dogs, ten children, forty grandchildren, etc. under his command.

At this time, he was just an eunuch who had just been named by Zhu Youxiao.

The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty and the civil servants of the outer court were naturally unable to urinate in the same pot. Even if they were combined for a short time, they were mostly used.

Wang An in history was so helpful to the Donglin Party in the palace transfer case. In May of the first year of Tianqi, Wang An was thrown to Nanhaizi to raise elk. When Wei Zhongxian asked Liu Chao to kill Wang An, Donglin None of the party members farted.

The same goes for Wei Zhongxian, who licked him more. When Chongzhen was liquidating, except for those who couldn't escape because their hands were stained with blood, everyone jumped off the ship faster than the last.

Besides, the title of "Nine Thousand Years Old" might mean that those people are praising Wei Zhongxian.

You know, there is a kind of big fat chicken raised among the people, called Jiu Jin Huang, also known as Jiu Qian Sui.

"very good."

Zhu Youxiao listened to Wei Zhongxian explaining the workshop design to him, and nodded with satisfaction, affirming Wei's work ability.

"It's not enough to just control this. There are other things that need to be taken care of."

Patting his hands on his thighs, Zhu Youxiao added to Wei Zhongxian.

"I have learned a lot in the past few days. There are too many eunuchs and maids in the palace, so I will separate some of them and let them work as errands in the homes of these courtiers. They should be rotated on time. Don't let some people stay in the same house for too long. This group of people will be managed by Dongchang. The discipline must be strict and the courtiers and their families must not be insulted. You must be careful about this."

"In addition, the courtiers' food, clothing, housing and transportation are also provided with money from the internal funds. They must ensure that they are full and well-fed. For this matter, I went to Guanglu Temple and hired some cooks. It can be regarded as making the best use of the people. .”

"The servant understands."

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Wei Zhongxian nodded thoughtfully and said.

"I think the ministers will burst into tears knowing that the emperor cares about them so much."

"Oh, that's wrong."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao smiled and waved.

"Since the ministers are loyal to the country, it is my duty to resolve these external matters for them."

"..."

Listening to the emperor and Wei Zhongxian's arrangements for the ministers, Liu Shimin, who was waiting aside, had a black line on his forehead.

Good guy, are you so grateful?

Isn’t this the mother who is crying and doesn’t even know her?
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