In the middle of the second year of Tianyuan, the entire south continued to rain continuously, coupled with the complex terrain in the area of Fujian and Guangzhou, and there were many passes, although the large Chinese army gathered a lot of troops, but in such a climate, for the large Chinese army that was good at using hot weapons to fight, the rainy season created great trouble for the large Chinese army.

In addition, due to the limitations of the terrain, it also caused difficulties in the logistical support of the large and medium army, so the war situation in the entire south temporarily fell into a state of stalemate after the large and medium army achieved certain results at the beginning.

However, this is not very anxious for Xiao Tianjian, because he also knows very well that solving the matter of the Zheng family and the Yongli small court can not be solved overnight, and the southern war has certain particularities, although it may not be a protracted war, but it is not easy to calm down the entire southern provinces in a few months.

What's more, the main purpose of using troops in Fujian this time was not to completely eliminate the Zheng family's power in Fujian, but to put pressure on the Zheng family, so after Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben conquered Funing Prefecture and then controlled the entire Jianning Mansion, the war in Fujian was suspended.

Moreover, because of the strong wind and waves at sea during this time, the navy's actions were immediately suspended, but the military operations in the past few months still caused a lot of pressure on the Zheng family group and dealt them a great blow.

Many Zheng troops were forced to defect and surrender to the Dazhong Army, and even the navy also recruited a group of pirates who were originally subordinate to the Zheng family, obtained hundreds of ships of various types, and surrendered two or three thousand Zheng family's troops and small groups of pirates, and the overall situation was very favorable to the Dazhong Army.

If it weren't for the fact that there was too much rain during this time, which seriously affected the military operation, with the strength of Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben, it would not be very difficult to defeat Fuzhou Mansion.

As for the Yongli Imperial Court entrenched in the Liangguang area, during this period of time under the attack of Luo Rucai's troops, life was also quite difficult, Yongli Emperor was instigated by his ministers, for fear that the Great Chinese Army would drive straight from the governor of Shaozhou to the city of Guangzhou, so he fled to Nanning, Guangxi for refuge.

But this seemingly simple matter, but in Guangdong caused a huge earthquake, originally Guangdong officers and soldiers also planned to follow Yongli to do a career, even after the defeat of Shaozhou, but did not give up, but geared up to in the Guangzhou Prefecture and the Dazhong Army to share a superiority.

But when the officers and soldiers were preparing to fight to the death with the Dazhong Army, Emperor Yongli took a group of officials to abandon Guangzhou Mansion and fled to Nanning, Guangxi, which was a very big blow to the Ming generals in Guangdong.

Yongli's move is undoubtedly tantamount to giving up the whole of Guangdong, so after learning that Emperor Yongli fled to Nanning, the morale of the Guangdong defenders fell sharply, and those officials and people who originally wanted to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty understood at this time that the Ming Dynasty was no longer enough for them to rely on, so after Yongli fled from Guangzhou, the Yongli Dynasty was a great loss of popular support in the whole Guangdong.

Although the Dazhong Army stopped continuing its offensive towards Guangzhou Prefecture after controlling Nanxiong and Shaozhou for various reasons, many of the Ming generals in Guangdong still began to take the initiative to contact the Dazhong Army, and surrendered to the Dazhong Army after negotiating the conditions.

Yongli's move not only lost the hearts of the Cantonese people, but also for the Zheng family, the psychological blow was also very big, the Zheng family could still rely on Guangdong, and the Great Middle and North Korea as enemies, but Yongli suddenly abandoned Guangzhou Mansion and fled to Nanning, so that their backs were suddenly wide open.

Once the Dazhong Army entered Guangdong and captured Guangzhou Mansion, it was almost a catastrophe for his Zheng family, which made his Zheng family suddenly fall into a state of being attacked by the enemy, so Yongli's escape from Guangzhou Mansion not only affected the morale of the military and civilians in Guangdong, but also seriously affected the survival of the Zheng group in Fujian.

So after June, the Zheng family began to contact Dazhong and North Korea more frequently to discuss their defection to Dazhong and North Korea.

This time, Xiao Tianjian simply selected an official who could speak well under the Ministry of Officials in the Central Committee, named Zhang Tiancheng, who was also an old official of the Ming Dynasty and served as an official in Henan.

This time, the Zheng family asked for peace talks, but Qian Qianyi, who was sent in the early stage, was obviously not enough, so Xiao Tianjian sent this Zhang Tiancheng to Quanzhou, Fujian Province as the negotiating envoy of the Great Middle and Korean Empire in July, and conducted final negotiations with Zheng Zhilong as the plenipotentiary of the Great Chinese Dynasty.

Although with the smooth development of the war in the south, the situation in the interior has gradually calmed down, and there is a thriving scene in various places, but Xiao Tianjian, the emperor, is very busy, because there are many reports from all over the country, at this time Xiao Tianjian realized that it is not easy to be an emperor, if you want to be a good emperor and be a Ming monarch, you must get up early and be greedy to review all kinds of chapters, and also pay attention to the government affairs and military affairs in various places. But even so, it still can't handle all kinds of government affairs.

Even his habit of getting up every morning to practice martial arts began to be deserted at this time because of excessive busyness, fortunately he didn't have many wives, otherwise it wouldn't be long before he could hold on.

And what makes Xiao Tianjian most unhappy is not these things, his major is mechanical, he wanted to vigorously develop the industry of the Great Middle and Middle Dynasties at the beginning of the founding of the country, but after becoming the emperor, he found that he had almost no time to engage in his profession, and he wanted to take some time to design some machine tools as the basis for the development of industrialization, but he couldn't take out the time at all, and he didn't even have time to accompany his wife and children.

This made Xiao Tianjian feel very unsatisfactory, so after pondering for a while, he decided to temporarily follow the Ming Dynasty's method of setting up cabinet scholars, so that some ministers could help him deal with government affairs, he was not the emperor for the sole purpose of monopolizing power, tired himself like a donkey, he still had a lot of things to do, if all day was buried in these messy recitals, it was not his original intention.

In addition, he also has to pay attention to the military situation in various places, and the army also needs to be constantly adjusted at this time.

The area under the jurisdiction of each town army is too big now, in addition to the commander's military power, there are also some scruples, so Xiao Tianjian has the intention to divide a few town armies, like several major military regions in later generations, to be responsible for the military in various places.

However, because he was too busy with government affairs, Xiao Tianjian could not spare enough time to do such things, so after thinking twice, he decided to set up a cabinet and set up cabinet ministers as a means to help him.

The cabinet scholar system of the Ming Dynasty actually has certain merits, to be honest, there are few emperors of the Ming Dynasty who are diligent in government at all, except for the original Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and later Chongzhen, the rest of the emperors are basically not too concerned about political affairs, eating, drinking and having fun are very good, the Wanli Emperor is the boycott of nearly 30 years, almost not paying attention to the government at all, but it is precisely because the cabinet scholars support the façade of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor does not care about things but the government affairs are carried out as usual, and there is no reason for the emperor to ignore the government and lead to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

So to a certain extent, this system still has certain benefits, at least the emperor can take a break and do something else, not to mention that he came up with this cabinet minister's system, it doesn't mean that he will ignore the government, he will still keep an eye on important things, and the early dynasty will not be abolished, and more physical affairs can be handed over to the cabinet ministers to deal with, so that he can get out.

So Xiao Tianjian transferred Lu Xiangsheng back to Nanjing from Beijing in July, although the matter of the capital of Beijing has been determined, but Xiao Tianjian also set aside a two-year buffer period, the current political center of the Great Middle and North Korea is still in Nanjing, and the north in the Jiannu Mountain Customs defeat and retreat outside the customs, plus Luo Li, Li Dingguo and other generals stationed in the north, in a short period of time, whether it is Jiannu or the Mongols do not dare to easily offend the border, and Lu Xiangsheng in this year, will also be Shuntianfu affairs almost done, It was also a waste to keep him in Beijing, so Xiao Tianjian simply transferred Lu Xiangsheng back to Nanjing.

After consulting with the ministers, Xiao Tianjian formed a cabinet in the Great Middle Dynasty and established a cabinet minister system, Lu Xiangsheng served as the first prime minister of the cabinet, and as for the books of the ministries, they all entered the cabinet as an assistant minister, and Xiao Tianjian also made Sun Chuanting also enter the cabinet, as an assistant minister, to help Lu Xiangsheng do things.

The administrative ability of these ministers is quite strong, plus Xiao Tianjian is at the helm, and Lu Xiangsheng, a very public-minded person, is in charge of the cabinet, Xiao Tianjian has nothing to worry about.

So in August, the cabinet began to operate, all kinds of cumbersome government affairs began to be transferred to the cabinet for processing, general matters after the cabinet ministers discussed, can be approved in the name of the cabinet to carry out, some major matters, especially military affairs, after the cabinet agreed, submitted to Xiao Tianjian to make the final decision, so that a large number of administrative affairs will be transferred to the cabinet for processing, greatly reducing Xiao Tianjian's burden, he will be liberated from the heavy government affairs.

This made Xiao Tianjian breathe a big sigh of relief, for the formation of cabinet ministers this time, the ministers of the court basically did not raise any objections, after all, before the Ming Dynasty, there were also cabinet scholars to help the emperor preside over government affairs, and now Xiao Tianjian implements the cabinet system, which is not surprising, and Emperor Xiao is willing to delegate part of the power to the hands of these important ministers to deal with it, which is also something they are happy to see, although they are all ministers of the Great and Middle Dynasty, But I don't want all the power to be controlled by Xiao Tianjian all the time, and now Xiao Tianjian has taken the initiative to let the cabinet ministers handle some government affairs, which is naturally good news for them, and if anyone raises objections, it will be really dizzy.

Lu Xiangsheng is very grateful to Xiao Tianjian for this trust in him, he is very clear about the weight of the prime minister of the cabinet, to put it bluntly, he is now above 10,000 people under one person, and the prime minister of the cabinet is basically the prime minister, but unlike the prime minister, when the cabinet deals with government affairs, the prime minister also has to listen to the opinions of the associate ministers, and sometimes it needs to be discussed together before deciding, and for the members of the cabinet, the prime minister does not have the power to appoint and dismiss, so as to avoid the prime minister acting arbitrarily.

As for the Associate Minister, his power has also increased compared with that of the previous ministries, and the Associate Minister can handle some matters on his own, and he is in charge of his own work, and he has both cooperation and restraint with each other.

But the most important thing is that many government affairs can be handled through cabinet ministers, which liberates Xiao Tianjian, the emperor, from the government affairs pile, so that Xiao Tianjian can finally take a breath.

But Xiao Tianjian did not relax there, and after handing over the cumbersome government affairs to the cabinet, he plunged into another matter.

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