Chapter 456: The Urgency of Immigration and Administrative Reform
The process of Huang Taiji being executed was tragic, the scene was bloody, and the time was long.
Although he was determined to keep gritting his teeth until he died, the sensitive nervous system still amplified the pain infinitely because of the series of operations such as cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, and picking, which made Huang Taiji unable to help but howl.
The executioner is undoubtedly the best anatomist in the Ming Dynasty today. Even though Huang Taiji in front of him struggles, grin and screams loudly, he is still calm and the knife in his hand runs like flying.
The official of the Ministry of Justice who was incarcerated and was lowered his head. The reason why he lowered his head was not because of his cruel punishment for Huang Taiji, but because he could not stand the scene of flesh and blood flying. He even choked up a few times, and some officials could no longer help but vomit.
The people who watched the punishment also felt the same way. Some couldn't help but be amazed, while others shook their heads, but they didn't feel sorry for this.
Of course, there is no real way for the people to buy meat as literati said in history books. Even in ancient times, it was not at the level of eating human flesh to vent their anger.
A few days later, Huang Taiji's heart was officially stabbed and ended his sinful life.
However, no one knew that Huang Taiji would be in peace when he died, because his heart stopped beating, and in order to make up for the number of swords, the executioner had already made him lose his eyes.
"Reported, Your Majesty, Huang Taiji was killed in the Xu hour today, with a total of 4,000 swords. The crying sounded lingering for three days without deciding. All the people in the capital applauded for this."
Su Maozhen, the Minister of Justice, came to Zhu Youxiao at this time and reported to Zhu Youxiao the result of the punishment of Huang Taiji and Lingchi. After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao just nodded, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this hero, who would have brought more trauma to the Ming Dynasty in the next few years, finally left the world early.
There will no longer be the Qing Dynasty in this world, and I will no longer be nervous about the historical fate of the Qing Dynasty, which will replace the Ming Dynasty.
From now on, the history of the Ming Dynasty will open a new chapter. The Ming Dynasty will no longer have any concerns about the country's destruction, nor will it worry about the threat of the northern ambitions while carrying out drastic reforms in the country.
The Ming Dynasty will use his more wealth and strength to compete for a broader space to compete for world interests with other powerful countries in the world, rather than just protecting itself.
The Ming Dynasty's expansion path has just begun.
The great changes in China have just begun. Zhu Youxiao will use the days to let the Ming Dynasty take his solid steps in the Age of Discovery.
Zhu Youxiao felt that it was necessary to take an opportunity to convene an unprecedented meeting with the six ministers and nine ministers, governors and governors from various places, and heads of the Royal Capital, that is, to plan for the development of various fields in the Ming Dynasty and draw a blueprint.
The Ming Dynasty had a political parliamentary method of court discussion and court promotion. After Zhu Youxiao became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, especially after completely eradicating the Donglin Party, he further expanded the way of gathering and discussion.
Basically, every last dynasty at the end of the year will become a summary meeting of the Ming Dynasty. The officials of real power from various departments and the censors who are responsible for supervision have become accustomed to fully understanding the overall national situation of the Ming Dynasty at this dynasty meeting. Of course, Zhu Youxiao also had a holistic understanding of the Ming Dynasty at this dynasty meeting. For the officials responsible for reporting, it also tests their ability to summarize and whether there is any phenomenon of negligence and negligence in their duties.
Although Zhu Youxiao is still arbitrary in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao did not think about everything in detail and was responsible for himself. In that way, he would be exhausted and would not be able to cover everything.
Coordinate opinions through gatherings and discussions and finally make decisions. This is a good political system that the Ming Dynasty already has, so Zhu Youxiao naturally needs to carry forward him.
"Now that Huang Taiji has been sentenced and other important members of Jiannu have been killed, the most important thing next is to solve two things. One is to carry out land reform and immigration policies for the regained Liaobei region, so that this area can keep up with the pace of the southern desert as soon as possible. The construction of the Yajianfu and the Shexue Academy must also start immediately. There is no need to establish another Chengxuan Zhengzheng Department, so that the newly recovered territory will be attributed to the Liaodong Chengxuan Zhengzheng Department, with the king serving as the left governor of Liaodong in Jin, and the other court will promote a right governor and the school official to assist; the other is to clear the remnants of the remnants of Dorgon, and the Oboi tribe of the Imperial Guard continued to pursue and suppress. In short, you must see people dead and see corpses!"
After listening to the report of Su Maozhen, Minister of Justice, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to several ministers in the Xihun Pavilion.
Since Zhu Youxiao now completely controls military and financial power, the imperial power completely suppresses the power of civil servants, so the way several close ministers of the Xihun Pavilion control the civil servant group is meaningless. Therefore, the Xihun Pavilion is almost useless now, and almost all the cabinet ministers entered the Xihun Pavilion at this time.
However, there is still an advantage in discussing matters in the Xihunting Pavilion, which is that it can be more efficient, because in the Ganqing Palace, the decree can be issued to the cabinet at any time.
However, the Western Warehouse Pavilion is not as narrow as the Wenhua Pavilion, and it is a bit crowded for the cabinet ministers, but after all, it can be closer to the emperor, so the cabinet ministers can still tolerate it.
In response to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, Li Mingrui stood up and replied, "Yes!"
Since Qian Qianyi was sent to the imperial prison, he has now become the number one person in the cabinet. However, his official position is still the Grand Secretary of Zhongji Palace, and he has not been promoted to Grand Secretary of Jianji Palace, or the Chief Auxiliary of the cabinet.
Zhu Youxiao didn't really hate this powerful minister who was promoted by Yu You, but he didn't want Li Mingrui to be too proud, or the emerging forces behind him were too eager to share political rights from him, so Zhu Youxiao had to balance it.
Li Mingrui naturally knew what His Majesty Zhu Youxiao was thinking, so he was not in a hurry to force Zhu Youxiao to become the chief minister of the cabinet. After being an official for many years, he has begun to become smooth, and it can also be said to be much more mature in politics. He knows what is hasteness and fails to achieve.
In the politics of the court, Zhu Youxiao is not worried about how serious the party-finished disputes will occur or how much threats it posed to his imperial power, because the old class contradictions in the country have been alleviated, and the new class contradictions have just begun. The gap between the rich and the poor in the whole society has not yet expanded. From scholars and officials to the bottom people, they are all pursuing the maximization of wealth, seeking how to compete for their own interests more, and have not yet noticed the cruelty of social injustice and exploitation.
In short, whether it was Zhu Youxiao, as an emperor, as an official or a commoner, the most consistent theme of the entire Ming Dynasty is to develop and explore wealth.
The entire Ming Dynasty has completely entered the fast lane. With the rapid operation of the state machinery, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in the scientific research system composed of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Sciences, and the Ordnance Department. The annual expenditure is almost twice the treasury income seven years ago. However, several new products can appear every month or many new theoretical knowledge can be born.
The business types of Royal Industries are also further expanding, and the branch has also officially taken root in the South China Sea Java country, and its trade chain has expanded to Europa, Ottoman and Rakshasa.
Not only Royal Industrial Company, the Royal Weaving Bureau also began to expand its textile empire. Moreover, due to the introduction of steam-powered machinery, garment making has completely changed from relying on housewives to relying on tailors to use machines to make ready-made garments. More and more people in the Ming Dynasty began to get used to buying ready-made garments instead of finding someone to make garments themselves. Even with the emergence of the profession of tailoring, there was a difference in technology, and there was a brand statement.
Huangzhuang was also officially renamed the Royal Agricultural Reclamation Group and began to use machines to loosen soil and plow fields in the plains, greatly improving the efficiency of farming.
This undoubtedly makes it more convenient and efficient to reclaim more wastelands. Especially after a large number of sparsely populated plains such as northern Liao, southern desert, and outside Northeast Asia were included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The agricultural reclamation technology brought by the steam industrial revolution allowed the Ming Dynasty to obtain a large amount of cultivated land in a short period of time.
After all, if you do not have advanced agricultural reclamation technology, it would be a matter of waiting for several years to rely on immigration to these vast northern wilderness to reclaim wasteland and achieve farming and production.
Now, by replacing manpower with part of mechanical power, the agricultural production efficiency has been greatly improved, and thus the difficulty of immigration has been greatly reduced. After all, you can obtain several acres of land at the empty space as soon as you leave the customs, and it seems that from a poor peasant to become a wealthy little landlord overnight, so no one is unwilling to immigrate outside the customs.
Unlike the Qing Dynasty who strictly prohibited the people inside the pass to enrich the outside world in order to protect their ancestors' foundation after the Qing Dynasty ruled China, Zhu Youjiao has now established an immigration team composed of an immigration team composed of a cabinet grandson, a minister of the Ministry of Revenue, a minister of the Ministry of Personnel, an assistant censor of the Censorate, and officials at all levels of his subordinates. It is specifically responsible for recruiting people from the thirteen provinces in the mainland to enrich the affairs of the matters within the pass, and even instructed local officials at all levels to come up with reward measures to encourage the people to move outside the pass.
Zhu Youxiao was to enrich the outside world, especially in Northeast Asia, in the shortest time. The Ming Dynasty would not only occupy and detain these places in the future, but also make this area completely part of the Han cultural circle.
It is not just the name of immigrating to the Han people. Zhu Youxiao also encouraged them to leave their villages and move outside the pass, and allowed them to retain customs after moving outside the pass after moving outside the pass.
With the greatness of the Ming Dynasty, it is certainly impossible to guarantee that there is only one Han ethnic group in the world. Multiple ethnic groups are inevitable, and these ethnic minorities may not necessarily become a major disaster. After all, many people have made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty, such as Qin Liangyu, but they have to take precautions. The best way to prevent them is naturally to make these various ethnic groups live in a mixed situation, so that some ethnic minorities immigrate outside the pass, together with other Han immigrants, they are going to achieve this political goal.
Although the Ming Dynasty officials allowed it to retain its own customs, there was nothing we could do if it was assimilation caused by communication and integration.
With the rapid development of technological productivity brought by steam power, not only has the scale of old-fashioned companies such as Royal Industries, Royal Weaving Bureau and Royal Agricultural Reclamation Group continued to grow, but many emerging companies have also emerged, such as the first department store selling various emerging goods such as soaps and soaps, and the first postal company specializing in express delivery services for ordinary people have also appeared one after another.
These are all products that were produced after the diversification of goods and trade exchanges were too frequent, and the imperial capital of the court had no time to take care of it. Zhu Youxiao did not stop the spontaneous appearance of this kind of business method among the people. He even encouraged some smart and visionary people to get rich overnight. Sometimes Zhu Youxiao would instruct official newspapers to promote the wealth stories of such business legends in order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm to create wealth and innovate.
Of course, behind all this, the driving force behind the Royal Bank. In fact, many of the businesses of the Royal Bank have been transferred to the newly established Royal Agriculture, Transportation, Industrial and Commercial Bank, but the real behind the Ming economy is the Royal Bank. As the central bank of the Ming Dynasty, he grasped the power of silver dollars in coin minting on the other hand, such as the income of several major royal capitals and treasury taxes, allowing him to control the economy of the Ming Dynasty at any time. Of course, he is also the most important card for Zhu Youxiao to control the Ming Dynasty and even the Imperial Guards.
With the development of productivity and the changes in production modes, the economy has become more and more prosperous and the continuous emergence of various emerging industries and new investment methods, the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty's court also began to show irresponsible phenomena.
In the past, the Ming Dynasty was just a centralized regime established by Zhu Yuanzhang and then served as a centralized regime that maintained the stability of the small peasant economy. Its function was more in terms of conditions and support for the small peasant economy and occupied more means of production for the Zhu family and even other rulers. Its serviceability was relatively small, but now there were more and more places where the imperial court needed to provide social public services and macro-control, which made the current administrative system of the Ming Dynasty gradually unable to support the development of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao was also wondering whether he wanted to reform the administrative system, especially whether the six ministries should be further expanded. For example, whether the current ministries of the Ministry of Revenue should be directly divided into finance, civil affairs, commerce, audit, land and resources, etc., because the Ministry of Revenue really covers too many functions. Zhu Youxiao appointed no less than six ministers of the Ministry of Revenue, and the overlapping official positions are too high. A minister of the Ministry of Revenue is already too great because he almost controlled all the economic corpses of the Ming Dynasty. In modern times, it is equivalent to a deputy general manager.
Not only the Ministry of Revenue, but even the Ministry of Rites is now a mixture of education, diplomacy, culture and other major sectors in later generations.
In fact, in the past era when small peasant economy was the main body, since the only main mode of production in society was agriculture, and other industries were not very developed, the entire country's administrative system could operate.
Chapter completed!