Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 567 Daming is ready to start again

As soon as Zhu Youjian's words fell, all the civil and military officials in the hall were quite shocked.

"The re-election of the chief minister of the cabinet will begin in March next year."

Ma Shiying and Ruan Dayue glanced at each other, each silently recited these words in their hearts.

Neither Gao Hongtu nor Hua Yuncheng expected that His Majesty would propose to re-elect the chief minister of the cabinet in March next year when Beijing had just recovered.

Hua Yuncheng originally wanted to suggest that His Majesty revoke the power of the cabinet to control the Ministry of Officials and the officials of the six departments, so as to avoid the exclusive power of the cabinet. The reason is that this is not an ancestral system. The cabinet was divided into courts, but now it is a cabinet subsidiary.

But when he heard that His Majesty was going to re-elect the chief minister of the cabinet, Hua Yuncheng couldn't say anything more.

As Minister of the Ministry of War, Ruan Dayue originally wanted to suggest that the Grand Marshal's Mansion be abolished, and that the Five Armies Commander's Mansion be re-established.

After all, this was the previous system of the Ming Dynasty. It stands to reason that the country has been reunified, and the wartime mechanism should have come to an end.

But what Ruan Dayue didn't expect was that his Majesty didn't intend to revoke the Grand Marshal's Mansion, but instead assigned the local military power to the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

Gao Hongtu was quite happy at first, and let the cabinet continue to take charge of the administration. Naturally, he, the chief assistant of the cabinet, would still be a veritable prime minister.

But what he didn't expect was that His Majesty directly came to re-elect the chief minister of the cabinet in March next year, which meant that if he could not be re-elected in May next year, he would leave the position of chief minister of the cabinet.

But Gao Hongtu actually wanted to continue to shine for Daming. After all, Daming had just realized the reunification of the mountains and rivers, and it was time for him to show his grand plans. He didn't want to retreat so quickly.

It can be said that Zhu Youjian's current decree made the entire civil servant group feel very uncomfortable. They thought that they could return the imperial power to the civil servants after the recovery of the northern capital, but he did not expect that His Majesty would return to the civil servants before they asked for the restoration of the ancestral system. Just use the Taizu's dream as the reason to set the rules of death.

Now, not only has the military power of their civilian officials been cut off, but a leader has also been arranged for their civilian officials.

Civilian groups don't like being controlled by the cabinet, because that is not free, and they can only follow the orders of the cabinet in the future, and the emperor can directly control them if he controls the cabinet.

Not only that, the distinction between civil servants and military officials has been blurred. In the Generalissimo's Mansion, military officials are in charge of civilian officials, and in the cabinet, civilian officials are in charge of military officials.

But now that Zhu Youjian had just recovered the northern capital, when the imperial authority was at its highest, the civil servants could only accept it no matter how unhappy they were.

And the military officers are naturally happy, they don't have to be controlled by the civil servants of the Ministry of War now, and they don't have to nod and bow when they meet the civil servants of the cabinet and the Ministry of War.

"At present, foreign officials do not distinguish between civil and military affairs, only military and government. After the appointment of local and central military and government officials, the cabinet immediately starts to restore the political and economic order in the north, takes over the local power from the Grand Marshal's Office, and the Grand Marshal's Office immediately sets out to establish the next year's military affairs. At the same time, the provincial inspectors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate must inspect the localities to strictly investigate corruption. The war has just ended and the world is peaceful, and some people will inevitably slack off! The same is true for the Grand Marshal’s Mansion, and the General Military Law Department must not relax in the slightest.”

This ended Zhu Youjian's first great dynasty after regaining the capital.

In this great dynasty, he did not intend to let the officials and himself immediately celebrate the recovery of the Northern Capital, and he did not even award the merits of the officials first, but first arranged for these imperial officials what to do next.

Naturally, the officials could only follow Zhu Youjian's will, and did not dare to slack off because of the victory of the Northern Expedition, and began to re-establish the Ming Dynasty's ruling system in the north.

However, basically most of the officials in the northern states and counties are directly appointed officials from the political and engineering departments of the former Grand Marshal's Guards.

Zhu Youjian approved Gao Hongtu's proposal to let all the Guards officers who temporarily served as officials in the northern prefectures and counties abandon the army and take up politics, which also speeded up the restoration of the Ming Dynasty's ruling system in the north.

In a very short period of time, a large number of prefectures and counties in the northern region were able to quickly establish organizational structures and quickly restore political and economic order.

The Grand Marshal's Mansion also directly promoted retired or transferred Guards officers to the commanders of the provinces and made them officers of the local garrison.

Soon, Ming Dynasty had a complete military, political and bureaucratic ruling system in the northern provinces.

By the 24th year of Chongzhen, the Ming Empire had returned to the scale of the Wanli period, and the entire Guanzhong world was under the management of the empire.

Jianlu had all disappeared, the gentry class in the north was almost completely eradicated, the common people began to live and work in peace and contentment, and many officials were performing their duties for the first time and had the aggressiveness to do something big.

The steam industry in the south began to flourish. With the successful application of steam engines in the textile industry to achieve a substantial increase in economic benefits, the iron and steel industry and the mining industry also used steam engines one after another. Even the Daming Institute of Engineering has developed hundreds of inventions based on the principle of steam engines. subject invention.

Zhu Youjian sometimes thinks that it seems that there is nothing wrong with being a carefree and foolish king now.

The Ming Empire is no longer in any crisis, and the emperor himself will no longer have the possibility of becoming the king of subjugation.

Especially when he saw a group of beauties in front of him, it was easier for him to have the idea that "the king will never go to court early".

Human nature is lazy, so it is easy to fall after success.

Zhu Youjian is also like this now. He really wants to take a break, and even wants to only enjoy the power of being an emperor without taking on the responsibility of being an emperor.

But Zhu Youjian didn't want to just muddle along in the next emperor's career, he felt that he had to continue to find something to do for himself, at least not let Da Ming be swallowed up by forces outside the customs again, nor let Da Ming just appear The dawn of the Industrial Revolution suddenly went out by accident.

At this time, Lu Jiude, the supervisor of ceremonies, came over, but when he heard the laughter of the concubines, he stood still in fright, only stuck out half of his head, and dared not go over.

"Come out", Zhu Youjian caught a sliver of falling snowflakes, watched the hexagonal ice crystals melt into his warm palm, and smiled slightly: "No one knows what kind of situation they will be in the next moment, But if it falls in a warm place, it will be just like this gorgeous snowflake, no matter how exquisite and clear it is, it will inevitably perish, and it will be born in sorrow and die in peace."

Lu Jiude didn't expect his Majesty to notice him, so he quickly raised his foot and walked over, standing to the northwest of Zhu Youjian: "Your Majesty, the generals are all here."

　There are only two updates today, so it’s a day off. Reasons for asking for leave: 1. I have a cold and heatstroke 2. I worked overtime too late today, so I didn’t write much. Water, mainly because I really can't hold back the plot, I want to go over the outline carefully, and resume normal updates tomorrow.

　　
　
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