In the middle of June of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng was still pretending to be alive, and Li Guo had already captured Wuxian County and began to attack Kuimen and Qutang Pass. Gao Yigong and Luo Hu had already broken into Kuizhou from the other direction, occupied Taiping County, and advanced to the banks of the Tongchuan River. And Zhang Xianzhong, the old man of the Great Western Kingdom, went north after plundering Chengdu, preparing to take the Yangping Pass-Dasan Pass to realize his dream of Guanlong.

Located at the junction of the Yangtze River and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Great Wuhan Mansion, which controls the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, is now in a state of rejuvenating and gradually recovering.

The decree on the establishment of the Wuhan Prefecture in Jiangdu was jointly promulgated by the Cabinet Office and the Generalissimo's Office in Nanjing a few days ago on the 10th day of the first month of June, and was announced to the world.

The reason why Zhu Cihong's decree was jointly issued by the Cabinet Office and the Generalissimo's Office is because the current Ming Dynasty government has returned to the model of the prime minister and the king in the early years of Hongwu, and it is more mature. The name of the province was not restored, but the name of the Cabinet Office was used.

Because the first cabinet chief assistant Wei Zaode concurrently served as the secretary of the ministry, in order to facilitate management, the cabinet office and the ministry were merged into one, and the future cabinet chief assistant will also serve as the secretary of the ministry. In addition to the Ministry of Officials, there are also three divisions under the Cabinet Office: the Zuo Tong Political Division, the Money Industry Division, and the Regulations Division.

Among them, the Zuo Tong Political Department is responsible for the transmission of edicts, recitals and texts, and all the edicts, recitals and texts in the Ming civil affairs system are all transmitted by the Zuo Tong Political Division.

In addition, there is also a Right Communicator under the Generalissimo's Office, which is in charge of the transmission of orders, military newspapers and documents within the military system.

The Ministry of War, which is one of the six ministries, is now under the dual jurisdiction of the Generalissimo's Office and the Cabinet Office, so the edicts, proclamations, and documents related to the Ministry of War are also transmitted by the Right Minister.

The Money Industry Department is a yamen similar to the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Central Bank, which is responsible for overseeing the banking industry and the minting of coins. Among them, the coin minting is divided into two types: official minting and official supervision and commercial minting, and the former is minted by the minting factory operated by the Money Industry Division. The latter was authorized to be minted by the Maritime Bank and the Yanshang Bank, but only silver dollars were allowed, and copper coins could not be minted privately.

The Department of Regulations is a body that organizes the country's economy, changes old laws and formulates new ones. Similar to the Song Dynasty's establishment of the Three Divisions and Regulations Division. However, the Department of Ordinances does not have the power to issue decrees on its own, and all civil affairs decrees must be issued in the form of decrees and joint signatures of the Cabinet Office. Decrees related to military affairs are issued in the form of a decree to increase the joint signature of the Marshal's Office, or a decree to the Cabinet and the Generalissimo's Office, depending on the situation (whether it involves civil affairs).

For example, the decree on the establishment of Wuhan Prefecture, the capital of Jiang, and the revocation of the status of the capital of Fengyang Prefecture at the same time, was jointly signed and issued by the two governments because it involved military and civil affairs.

From the middle of June of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, the two capitals of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty (or the three capitals of the south, the middle and the north) officially became the two capitals of the east and west.

Although in the eyes of many people with lofty ideals who are determined to recover, Prince Zhu's practice of changing the two capitals in the north and south into the two capitals in the east and west is very much to favor the southeast. However, the Huguang officials and gentry who were summoned to Wuhan Mansion by Prince Zhu clearly felt a kind of imminent pressure from Tianwei.

From now on, the Ming court is not two or three thousand miles away, but directly on the heads of the Huguang gentry officials.

I'm afraid the days of the big guys are gone......

And after this decree was officially issued, Prince Zhu boarded the official ship heading east. Because Wuhan is already the capital of Jiang, he will return here soon.

In mid-June, the heavy rain in Wuchang Mansion in the middle of summer for several days not only washed away the heat, but also made the people in the new capital of the Ming Dynasty feel the rare shade in summer.

In the doorway of Wenchang Gate in the southwest of Wuchang City, there are several carriages, and a team of soldiers will take shelter from the torrential rain. The soldiers and generals guarding the carriage stretched their necks, anxiously waiting for the sudden rainstorm to pass, so as to continue to walk this last journey, and escort the two eldest masters who had just finished sending off the prince of Fujun to the mansion in Wuhan Mansion, the western capital of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that this rainstorm is like weaving, when will it rest?

And at this time, on one of the particularly wide carriages, the two old men who had changed into wide and thin Taoist robes were talking about it, and they were not in a hurry at all.

"Our Fujun prince, I'm afraid that we are fighting the idea of ruling the gentry with thieves, right? This uproar in Nanjing gave him a step. ”

The person who spoke was the leader of Hunan Province, He Tengjiao of the feudal side. In his opinion, even if Zhu Cihong does not have the strength to enter Sichuan in a big way, he should take the mountainous territory of Yiling Prefecture, Guizhou, Yidu County, Changyang County, Badong County and Xingshan County in the west of Jingzhou Prefecture.

How can tens of thousands of land-dividing thieves with debts and interest free entrenched there? What does this mean?

"Hunan is different from Hubei, Hubei has always been stable, as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, it entered China, and many places in Hunan are still barbaric in this dynasty, I'm afraid it is not easy to govern!"

The one who replied was Gu Yinxi, who is now promoted to an official and is a political envoy of Hubei.

"The prince must have a way, the prince is a wise lord, and he knows that he must adapt measures to local conditions, and he will not do a one-size-fits-all approach in Huguang."

He Tengjiao said with emotion.

"Alas...... No matter how measures are adapted to local conditions, we must always compete with the people for profit. How much total land tax did Huguang have in the past? Just over 2 million stones, how many will there be in the future? It's polite to add up to 10 million stones! In addition, what should I do if Hubei was once by Li Zichengjun? It should have been returned to the original owner, but ......"

Du Yinxi is obviously not a supporter of Prince Zhu - he is a capable person, but he is also the successor of Donglin, the Jiangnan gentry and the Jinling Xunmen!

His teacher Ma Shiqi is a protégé of Ye Maocai, one of the Eight Gentlemen of Donglin, and belongs to the same party as Zhou Yanru. When he was attacked by Li Zicheng in Beijing, he happened to be a candidate in Beijing (when he returned to Beijing, he happened to meet Zhou Yanru's bad luck, so he did not get the official award), and later ran away with Zhu Cihong, and now he is sent to Guangdong as a prefect, which can be used, but it is not a prince's party.

And the ancestor of Plug Yinxi is a hero who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world together, and the hereditary commander makes the future. However, in his grandfather's generation, because of the dispute over family property (in fact, the fight is for military land), he moved from Jinling to Yixing. But it is still a gentry, with the study of Plug Yinxi, the family road has gradually prospered, and now it is also a big landlord in Wuxi (Plug Yinxi later moved to Wuxi), and there are many relatives and friends in the family, all of whom are gentry in southern Jiangsu. There is no doubt that they are all victims of Zhu Tzuhong's New Deal!

Where is the butt of Plug Yinxi, but that's a question.

Although He Tengjiao, who was called "pig teammate" by later generations, was also close to Donglin, he was from Guizhou after all, and he was not from a famous family, so there was no conflict of interest between him and Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong's hands are not that long, and the new policy he is now implementing can be implemented in Southeast China and Huguang, even if it is very successful. Yungui's side is really beyond the reach of the whip...... If you can't manage it, you can't afford it!

In the years of Zhang Juzheng's auxiliary administration in the Wanli Dynasty, the total land tax in Guizhou Province was only 50,807 stones. Yunnan is a little better, it is 142,690 stones. These two numbers not only show how poor the two provinces are, but also show the actual control ability of the Ming court in the two provinces. And the land tax of less than 200,000 stone in the two provinces, even if it can be collected, is not enough to maintain the cost of the rule of the Ming court.

In other words, the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan and Guizhou was "loss", and there must have been a lot of losses. Considering the actual situation in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, it is impossible to turn around losses in the short term. If it is now a peaceful and prosperous era, Prince Zhu may throw money at Yungui, strengthen his rule, and forcibly accelerate the social progress of Yungui.

But now, how can Zhu Cihong have the strength to toss Yungui? I am very satisfied if I can maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty safely.

Therefore, He Tengjiao and Ma Shiying, the two big bureaucrats and landlords of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Prince Zhu have no conflict of interest, not only there is no conflict, but there is also a lot of room for cooperation - after all, the more stable the Ming court, the more secure their rule in Yunnan and Guizhou will be.

Seeing that Du Yinxi fell into silence, He Tengjiao spoke again: "How can you say that you will accept the land that has gone out?" If you really want to do this, how can the tens of thousands of new troops here in Huguang be enough? If there is a need to increase the number of troops, who will pay for the food? The scholars and doctors in Hubei have been eaten and wiped clean by Li Zicheng, and if they can't pay the money, should they let the scholars in the southeast pay this money? ”

Du Yinxi shook his head: "That's what you said...... A piece of money, a piece of grain, rare and easy to consume, there are bottomless pits everywhere, think about it, and feel embarrassed for this prince of Fujun! ”