Chapter 178 Cabinet

In the middle of the second year of Tianyuan, there was continuous rain in the whole south. In addition, the terrain in Fujian and Guangxi were complex and there were many passes. Although the Dazhong army gathered a lot of troops, in such a climate, for the Dazhong army, which was good at fighting with hot weapons, the rainy season caused great trouble for the Dazhong army. .

In addition, due to the limitation of the terrain, it also caused difficulties in the logistical support of the large and medium-sized army, so the whole war situation in the south temporarily fell into a state of stalemate after the initial large and medium-sized army achieved certain results.

However, this is not very urgent for Xiao Tianjian, because he is also very clear that the matter of solving the Zheng family and Yongli's small court can not be solved overnight. The southern war has a certain speciality. Although it may not be a protracted war, if you want to solve the whole It is not easy for the southern provinces to calm down.

What's more, the main purpose of using troops in Fujian this time is not to completely eliminate the power of the Zheng family in Fujian. The main purpose is to put pressure on the Zheng family. Therefore, after Shi Ran and Liu Yao took down Funing Prefecture and then controlled the whole Jianning Mansion, the war in Fujian was temporarily suspended.

Moreover, due to the great wind and waves at sea during this period, the navy's operations were immediately suspended. However, the military operations in the past few months still put a lot of pressure on the Zheng family group and dealt a great blow to them.

Many Zheng troops were forced to surrender to the Dazhong army. Even the navy has also recruited and surrendered a group of pirates who originally belonged to the Zheng family, obtained hundreds of various ships, and recruited 2,000 to 3,000 members of the Zheng family and a small number of pirates. The overall situation is very favorable to the Dazhong army.

If it hadn't been for too much rain during this period, which had seriously affected military operations, it would not be very difficult to take down Fuzhou Prefecture with the strength of Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben.

As for the Yongli court, which was located in the area of Guangdong and Guangxi, during this period, under the attack of Luo Rucai's troops, life was also quite difficult. At the insente of his ministers, Emperor Yongli was afraid that the Dazhong army would attack from Shaozhou ** to the city of Guangzhou, so he hurriedly fled to Nanning, Guangxi to take refuge.

But the seemingly simple incident caused a huge earthquake in Guangdong. Originally, Guangdong officers and soldiers planned to do a career with Yongli. Even after the defeat of Shaozhou, they did not give up, but wanted to share the Dazhong Army in the area of Guangzhou Prefecture.

But when the officers and soldiers were ready to fight with the Dazhong army, Emperor Yongli abandoned Guangzhou with a group of officials and fled to Nanning, Guangxi. This was a great blow to the Ming soldiers in Guangdong.

Yongli's move is undoubtedly equivalent to giving up the whole of Guangdong, so after learning that Emperor Yongli had fled to Nanning, the morale of the Guangdong defenders fell sharply, and those officials and people who originally wanted to be loyal to Daming understood that Daming was no longer enough to rely on them, so after Yongli fled Guangzhou. The Yongli Dynasty is a great loss of the hearts of the people throughout Guangdong.

Although the Dazhong army stopped continuing to attack Guangzhou after controlling Nanxiong and Shaozhou for various reasons, many Ming soldiers in Guangdong began to take the initiative to contact the Dazhong army. After the conditions were negotiated, they surrendered to the Dazhong Dynasty.

Yongli's move not only lost the hearts of the Cantonese people, but also a great psychological blow to the Zheng family. Originally, the Zheng family could still rely on Guangdong and be the enemy of the Dazhong Dynasty, but Yongli suddenly gave up the Guangzhou government and fled to Nanning, making them suddenly empty. Open.

Once the Dazhong army entered Guangdong and captured the Guangzhou Mansion, it would be almost a disaster for the Zheng family, which made his Zheng family suddenly fall into a state of being attacked by the enemy. Therefore, Yongli's escape from Guangzhou Mansion not only affected the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Guangdong, but also seriously affected the Zheng Group in Fujian. Survive.

So after June, the Zheng family began to contact the Great China and North Korea more frequently to discuss about their investment in the Great China and North Korea.

This time, Xiao Tianjian simply sent a eloquent and eloquent official named Zhang Tiancheng directly under the official department of the court. He used to be an old official of the Ming Dynasty. He once served as an official in Henan. Later, he surrendered to Xing Tianjun relatively early. Because of his good ability, he served as the servant of the Ministry of Officials.

This time, the Zheng family asked for peace talks. Qian Qianyi, who was sent in the early stage, was obviously not enough, so Xiao Tianjian sent Zhang Tiancheng as a negotiation envoy to Quanzhou, Fujian Province in July as the plenipotentiary of the Great China and North Korea to conduct the final negotiations with Zheng Zhilong.

Although with the smooth development of the war in the south, the situation in the mainland has gradually calmed down, and all places have shown a thriving scene, Xiao Tianjian, the emperor, is very busy. Because there are hundreds of wastes waiting to be happy, there are as many reports from all over the country. At this time, Xiao Tianjian realized that It is not easy for an emperor. If you want to be a good emperor and a wise king, you must get up early and read all kinds of medals, and also pay attention to the government affairs and military affairs in various places. Xiao Tianjian does not dare to be careless. He is very busy, but even so, he still can't deal with all kinds of government affairs.

Even his habit of getting up every morning to practice martial arts began to be deserted because of his excessive busyness at this time. Fortunately, he doesn't have many wives, otherwise it won't take long, and I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on.

And it is not these things that upset Xiao Tianjian the most. His major is machinery. At the beginning of the founding of the country, he wanted to vigorously develop the industry of the Great China Dynasty. However, after becoming the emperor, he found that he had little time to do his major and wanted to take some time to design some machine tools. As the basis for the development of industrialization, he can't take out time at all, and he doesn't even have time to accompany his wife and children.

This made Xiao Tianjian feel very unsatisfactory, so after thinking about it for a while, he decided to temporarily follow the method of setting up a cabinet scholar in the Ming Dynasty to let some ministers help him deal with government affairs. He was not the emperor to monopolize power and make himself tired like a donkey. He still had a lot of things to do all day long. If all of them are buried in these messy chapters, it is not his intention.

In addition, he also needs to pay attention to the military situation in various places. The army also needs to be constantly adjusted at this time. The original towns and armies are not used to it after the Dazhong Dynasty has controlled more and more territory.

The area under the jurisdiction of each town army is really too large. In addition to the commander-in-chief's military power, he also has some scruples. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian has the intention to separate several towns and armies, like several major military regions in later generations, to be responsible for the military in various places.

However, because the government affairs were too busy, Xiao Tianjian was unable to spare enough time to do such things, so after thinking about it again and again, he decided to set up a cabinet and set up a cabinet minister as a means to help him.

The cabinet scholar system of the Ming Dynasty actually has certain advantages. To be honest, there are few emperors in the Ming Dynasty who are diligent. Except for the original Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and later Chongzhen, the other emperors basically don't care too much about political affairs. They are good at eating, drinking and playing, and Emperor Wanli is even more In the past 30 years, he almost ignored the government at all, but because the cabinet scholars supported the facade of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor did not care but the government affairs went on as usual, and the Ming Dynasty did not fall because the emperor ignored the government.

So to some extent, this system still has certain benefits. At least it can let the emperor pull himself out and do some other things. What's more, he has come up with the system of cabinet ministers, which does not mean that he ignores the government. He will still keep an eye on important things, and it will not be abolished in the early morning. It's more physical. The matter can be completely handled by the cabinet minister, so that he can get out.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian transferred Lu Xiangsheng from Beijing to Nanjing in July. Although the matter of the capital of Dazhong Dynasty and Beijing has been determined, Xiao Tianjian also set aside a two-year buffer period. At present, the political center of Dazhong Dynasty is still in Nanjing, and the north after Jiannushan Customs was defeated and returned to the customs, plus Luo Li Li Dingguo and other generals are stationed in the north. In a short period of time, neither Jiannu nor Mongols dare to break the border easily. Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng has almost dealt with the affairs of Shuntian Mansion in this year. It is also a waste to keep him in Beijing, so Xiao Tianjian simply transferred Lu Xiangsheng back to Nanjing.

After discussing with the ministers, Xiao Tianjian formed a cabinet in the Dazhong Dynasty and established a cabinet minister system. Lu Xiang was promoted to serve as the first prime minister. As for the ministers of the ministers, all of them entered the cabinet as associate ministers. In addition, Xiao Tianjian also made Sun Chuanting also enter the cabinet as an associate minister. Help Lu Xiangsheng do things.

The administrative ability of these ministers is quite strong. In addition, with Xiao Tianjian at the helm and Lu Xiangsheng, a very public-minded person, to preside over the cabinet, Xiao Tianjian has nothing to worry about.

So in August, the cabinet began to operate, and all kinds of tedious government affairs began to be transferred to the cabinet for handling. Generally, after the cabinet ministers discuss, they can approve and implement them in the name of the cabinet. Some major events, especially military affairs, are submitted after being agreed in the cabinet. It was handed over to Xiao Tianjian to make the final judgment. In this way, a large number of administrative affairs were transferred to the cabinet, which greatly reduced Xiao Tianjian's burden and liberated him from heavy government affairs.

This made Xiao Tianjian take a deep breath. The court officials basically did not raise any objections to the formation of cabinet ministers this time. After all, there were also cabinet scholars before the Ming Dynasty to help the emperor preside over government affairs. Now it is not surprising that Xiao Tianjian implements the cabinet system, and Emperor Xiao is willing to Part of the power is decentralized to these important ministers to deal with, which is also something they are happy to see. Although they are all ministers of the Great China Dynasty, they don't want all the power to be controlled by Xiao Tianjian all the time. Now Xiao Tianjian has taken the initiative to ask the cabinet ministers to deal with some government affairs. For him Naturally, it's good news. If anyone objects, it's really dizzy.

Lu Xiangsheng is very grateful to Xiao Tianjian for his trust. He knows the weight of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. To put it bluntly, he is now more than 10,000 people under one person. The Prime Minister is basically a prime minister, but unlike the prime minister, the cabinet office When working on government affairs, the Prime Minister should also listen to the opinions of the assistant ministers. Sometimes it needs to be discussed together before making a decision. Moreover, the Prime Minister does not have the power to appoint and remove the members of the cabinet, which avoids the Prime Minister being arbitrary.

As for the associate minister, the power is also greater than that of the previous ministers. The associate minister can deal with some things by himself, and he is in charge of each other, which is both cooperative and constrained. Naturally, the associate minister is also very happy about this practice.

However, the most important thing is that many government affairs can be dealt with through cabinet ministers. In this way, Xiao Tianjian, the emperor, was liberated from the government affairs heap, so that Xiao Tianjian could finally take a breath.

But Xiao Tianjian did not relax. After handing over the tedious government affairs to the cabinet, he plunged into another matter.

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