The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty originally had no specific office address. The so-called cabinet was the middle layer below Chongzhen and above the six ministries.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, they were just a group of secretaries with low official positions. They usually worked in Wuying Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, Six Ministries, etc., and were able to get first-hand the emperor's approval and report to various places.
As the cabinet academicians gradually became able to concurrently serve as officials in the six ministries, and as they became closer to the emperor, their power naturally began to concentrate, creating a situation where the cabinet was equal to the prime minister.
In the past, there were only three or four cabinet members. However, as Chongzhen continued to replenish departments, the number of cabinet ministers gradually increased. The number of cabinet ministers increased from four or five to more than ten now.
Moreover, the number of matters they had to deal with increased, and six ministries became eleven, and each department needed to have its own subordinates to communicate with each other. Therefore, it became necessary to fix the office address of the cabinet headquarters similar to that of later government buildings.
After obtaining the emperor's permission, a construction team with several construction experiences led the organization of manpower, and Wang Chengen personally supervised the construction of various materials. The construction of the cabinet was carried out very quickly. It was put into use a month ago and has been playing a role.
Compared with modern buildings, the cabinet still has attic pavilions, small bridges and flowing water. With high-tech means, the greening in the middle is very good. It is a rare and elegant place in the entire capital.
It's just that the material of the building has changed from the previous stone base and wooden frame to new steel materials, and the walls are still built by carpenters mobilized in the city. The windows are made of transparent glass, making the various offices inside appear bright.
The entire courtyard is not set up according to the top of the hill, but according to functions, such as the general meeting hall, canteen area, classification office, secretary building, etc. Originally, one Shangshu was the largest in a building, but now it only looks at the corresponding official positions.
In the central conference hall, as the news of Chongzhen's arrival came in, all the ministers quickly fell silent. After Chen Ye took the first seat at the bottom, Gao Yushun handed over documents one by one.
At this time, Chongzhen came in solemnly from outside the door, followed by guards standing on both sides. The ministers quickly stood up and bowed to Chongzhen.
"See Your Majesty!"
"Okay, all my dear friends, no courtesy, please take a seat."
Chongzhen also bowed in return. After everyone sat down, he sat down last to show respect.
"My dear friends, after nearly three months of hard work, the soldiers of the Yanzhou Precursor Regiment have developed the first landing airport and sufficient material territory in Yanzhou.
Zu Dashou gathered more than 10,000 remnants of the ancestors in Yanzhou and is currently repairing the port. At the same time, the construction of Tianjin Port in the Ming Dynasty has also been completed.
This means that the Ming Dynasty can take the next step in developing Yanzhou. I have already sent electricity to Sun Aiqing, asking him to finish the affairs of the Song Dynasty as soon as possible and be ready to come back at any time and lead the army.
Dear friends, in addition to the initial stationing of the Royal Army in Yanzhou, at least one million civilized people need to be relocated in order for the remnants of Yanzhou's ancestors to be fully integrated into the Ming Dynasty.
This massive lack of personnel will inevitably lead to a decrease in the number of people in the mainland next year, affecting next year's spring plowing. The land in the north of the Ming Dynasty began to be distributed to the people at the beginning of the year, so not many people were willing to go to the distant Yanzhou.
How can we ensure the winter harvest without affecting spring plowing, and yet organize enough people? This requires the cooperation of the cabinet and a lot of work to deal with the aftermath.
Therefore, the cabinet has a very heavy task."
Listening to Chongzhen's words, the expressions of the ministers gradually became serious. They had almost forgotten that it had been almost three months since the original Jinzhou Commander-in-Chief, Zu Dashou, went to America to open up wasteland.
At that time, after Chongzhen had finished dealing with the clan, the Royal Army's wasteland reclamation camp was ready to set off. Originally, this matter deserved the attention of the entire Ming Dynasty, but immediately afterwards, Chongzhen regained Dongfan.
How high is the enthusiasm for Chongzhen's personal expedition? The work of strengthening the advance battalion is cumbersome. Although Chen Ye personally transported it by helicopter, the enthusiasm is still not high, and with the radio command, there is nothing else to report.
Then the Goryeo War broke out, and the land of the Japanese country was sold. The people of the Ming Dynasty were not interested in Yanzhou, but the Japanese country was different. The Japanese country has been heard of since ancient times.
In addition, if you go to the Japanese country, you can directly become a landlord. The enthusiasm of the people is once again mobilized, and swarms of swarms flock to the front to buy land in the Japanese country.
Later, in the Ming Dynasty, the prince went on patrol again, and again for winter disaster relief. In the end, even the advance camp in Yanzhou, with only less than a thousand people, was completely forgotten in the newspapers.
The popularity of the Japanese land made people forget that the Ming Dynasty had a nominal Yanzhou, and that Yanzhou even had a plain twice the size of the Ming Dynasty Plain.
Of course, after the heat discovered in Yanzhou passed, Yanzhou was indeed no longer lively. After all, newspapers did not increase publicity, and Chongzhen continued to promote the false sovereignty of Japan, so Yanzhou naturally became indifferent.
At this time, the ministers began to express embarrassment after hearing Chongzhen's request. For them, organizing millions of people was not a difficult task. After all, in the history of large projects, which one did not organize hundreds of thousands of people?
But it is too difficult to organize millions of people to relocate. This is completely different from organizing millions of people to start construction. Such relocation may even cause the destruction of one village after another.
After Li Daiwen, the Minister of Household Affairs and the Minister of Industry, looked at each other, Li Daiwen stood up.
"Your Majesty, it is nothing to mobilize people to go to Yanzhou. Yanzhou has tens of millions of hectares of land, and it is reasonable to need millions of people.
It’s just that I feel that this one-year period may be a bit hasty, as the money owed to you by the Ministry of Revenue has already been taxed for almost a year.”
"Yes, Your Majesty, the land sold by the Japanese country during the last Goryeo War has not yet been transported to the people, and the people have already disputed it.
If we conscript another million people now, I may cause trouble within the Ming Dynasty."
"Yes, Your Majesty, to organize millions of people, we need at least thousands of officials, as well as countless doctors and craftsmen.
Yanzhou is an uncivilized place, and there are no mature officials to take over. Now that they are gone, Ming Dynasty still needs to promote them.
How about your Majesty setting up a cycle? It will last for ten years and increase year by year."
A group of ministers could not have imagined that in the past, when there were more people and less land, there would be more refugees, and there would be chaos if there was no food to eat. But now that the population is small, it is still causing them worries.
Organizing millions of people seems simple, but nowadays, construction in various parts of the Ming Dynasty requires people, and construction is linked to political performance. More importantly, how much money will the Ministry of Households get from organizing so many people?
Li Daowen felt a headache just thinking about how the state treasury already owed several million taels to the royal merchants. After the establishment of the Commercial Department, it only integrated the early noble industries around the capital.
The remaining traditional businesses have not yet begun to formally pay taxes. In other words, the Ministry of Household Affairs cannot afford the migration of more than one million people. Therefore, Li Daiwen turned to Chongzhen, who had gone from being the first in charge to becoming the richest man.
Facing the look in Li Daiwen's eyes, Chongzhen was a little speechless. Now his penis was dripping with fat, but he couldn't just use his penis. He couldn't let the Ministry of Revenue keep sucking him, right? He was still raising the Royal Army.
Still sitting.
"I understand, since the Ministry of Revenue is in difficulty, and the national treasury is indeed under great pressure now, and the Treasury Yinlong is empty, we can take our time. When Japan's Yinshan is put into operation, the pressure on the Ministry of Revenue will be much less.
You also know that after several years of natural disasters, some of the land in the Ming Dynasty is now not suitable for farming. The land shortage in the Ming Dynasty is so severe now.
So I was eager to find a new foothold for the Ming Dynasty. The world is so big, there are places that can be cultivated and there are no people. How many places do you think there are?
Looking around the Ming Dynasty, do you have a Japanese country? Do you have a Goryeo country? There are already people in these places, and there are so many people that you can't even stand.
Just now you said that the Japanese country is also waiting to arrange for the people to come over. Yes, I sold most of the land in the Japanese country to the people of the Ming Dynasty to move the people there. It is because of the land problem and because there are too many people in the Ming Dynasty.
But the Japanese country originally had tens of millions of people, and they were barely able to eat enough from their own farming. Now that I have sold all the land owned by their landlords and shogunate, what do you think we will do with the food of those people?"
"Um? Your Majesty, you mean to move the Japanese people to Yanzhou???
This is impossible! The little Japanese bandits will die when they die, how can they get involved in the territory of the Ming Dynasty? It is still such a good land."
"Hey! Mr. Liu, please don't talk nonsense. Such good fields in Yanzhou were newly discovered by the Imperial Preceptor and Your Majesty.
Wouldn't it be a pity to relocate the Japanese people? There is no reason why Yiling should take advantage. I think your Majesty's intention is to let the Japanese people do the work."
"Your Majesty, you are not serious, are you???"
Seeing that Chongzhen had no objection, a group of ministers suddenly became entangled again. Indeed, the land of the American Great Plains was infinitely charming to the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The data compiled by Yanzhou's previous newspapers were so good that even if officials from the Ming Dynasty disdained being on duty in the past, they were still unwilling to give them to others.
Even if such good land was abandoned, they were not willing to let the Japanese take it away. The Ming Dynasty did not have the tradition of preferring to give away land to friendly countries rather than giving it to domestic slaves. Moreover, the Japanese country was not even a powerful "friendly country".
However, the role of memory transmission gradually emerged. After several veterans had just finished their refutation, the brains of Song Yingxing, Li Ruolian, Wang Chengen and others gradually recalled some issues of national integration.
"My colleagues, the land of Japan is narrow. If the Ming Dynasty wants to intervene, it is inevitable to move the people there.
Otherwise, the Japanese people would have no sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, no respect and love for His Majesty, and no one would teach them the correct thoughts of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. It would always be an enclave, and there would definitely be problems in the future.
But in this way, the land of Japan is barren and it will inevitably be unable to bear the increasing number of Ming people and farmers of Japan. The only way to solve the problem is to reduce the number of farmers of Japan?
But His Majesty has a kind heart. Although the Japanese country has tried to conspire to split the Ming Dynasty several times, the people of the Japanese country are innocent, and it is already tragic for them to bear the mistakes made by their shogunate. How can Your Majesty bear the loss of innocent people?"
"Oh!!! I understand, so, Your Majesty, have you already considered where the Japanese will go during the high-level war?
No wonder! No wonder that as soon as the Royal Army arrived in Goryeo, they launched a campaign to destroy the Japanese state, and even pursued the Japanese state on the grounds of the past in Fujian. It was completely different from the Wanli period."
"Hiss! If that's the case, I understand. No wonder His Majesty keeps arranging for people to buy land from the Japanese country. I also said that the people of the Japanese country can no longer survive. Where will the land come from?"
"During my training as an officer, I once heard a sentence that still left a deep impression on me. You may wish to listen to it. I think you will understand why His Majesty has made such arrangements.
This sentence goes like this, if you want to destroy a country, you must first destroy their history; if you want to destroy an ethnic group, you must first destroy their culture.
The Ming Dynasty wants to compete for more land, so a country with a false emperor and wolfish ambitions is destined to not exist!"
As soon as Li Ruolian's words came out, Li Daiwen, Ni Yuanlu and other representatives of traditional civil servants all changed their expressions. Their pupils looked at Li Ruolian and then at Chongzhen.
Looking at the sunshine coming in from the window, this kind of statement about planning to destroy a country in broad daylight was a bit too over the top for this group of officials in the Ming Dynasty who had been at peace for a long time.
Fan Fucui had a complicated look on his face as he listened to Li Ruolian's words, because the report from Fujian today would obviously conflict with the development of Yanzhou and even Japan.
Especially when Chongzhen was planning to tour the South, such a slap in the face suddenly appeared. If the world knew about it, and Chongzhen did not send troops to make decisions for the people, then the overseas voyages that newspapers started to build momentum these days would become a joke.
Chongzhen looked at him and nodded. He already knew about this matter, so he organized the ministers to gather together today. His purpose was to let this matter out by the way.
The traditional multi-line flowering and multi-line war would be a disaster for an agricultural country. It is not simply that the army is not enough, but that the logistics cannot support it at all.
As powerful as the Yuan Empire, which penetrated the Eurasian continent, it also relied on war to support war. It implemented the Sanguang policy and raised its army on the spot, regardless of the life and death of the soldiers and civilians at the original site. This situation was strikingly similar to both the Yuan and later Japanese countries, so their occupation was destined to last for a long time.
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The types of colonies are different. Cultivating local forces is not a problem for the current Ming Dynasty. For the current Ming Dynasty, the only difference in the resistance ability of various countries is to control the number of officials at the grassroots level.
Even if the Ming Dynasty really can't send out troops for the time being, it can still be done by sending someone to warn him. What's more, there are so many pirates in the Zheng family navy who have nothing to do now?
"This afternoon, Fujian Governor Xiao Yifu also sent a report to the cabinet via satellite phone, while Fan Aiqing was on duty at that time.
Fan Aiqing immediately sent me a letter after reading it. I just glanced at it and felt angry. Do you know why?"
A group of ministers shook their heads and looked at Fan Fucui unconsciously. You old man, you don't want to share the information you have?
"Speaking of this, everyone should still remember that as early as May, I had ordered General Zheng to blockade the coast of the Ming Dynasty and prohibit trade in preparation for a national war.
At the end of the National War, I had already arranged the battle to regain Dongfan. From this, I learned that the Japanese invaded Goryeo. At this point, the Fulangji people in Luzon and the Japanese people in Dongfan were completely separated.
Got in touch.”
Chongzhen's past reminders made several new ministers begin to sort out the situation. No wonder the Royal Army's operations have always been so smooth, and Chongzhen has always been prepared emotionally.
But, what does this have to do with anger?
By the way, have you almost forgotten the arrangements for America?