When Chongzhen finished his talks with Huang Liji and Guo Yunhou and convened cabinet members for today's regular meeting, Qian Qianyi, who had always kept a low profile after entering the cabinet, inserted an informal agenda item before the agenda of the meeting today.

“… According to the above examples, the current Ministry of Industry is not only bloated and complex, but also very inefficient. Compared with other ministries, the number of officials and civil servants in the Ministry of Industry is now at least three times larger. In order to improve administrative efficiency, the minister thought that the current Ministry of Industry should be divided into three..."

At the other end of the conference table, Wu Chunfu looked coldly at Qian Qianyi, who was talking eloquently. He didn't understand why this Donglin leader, who had always been cautious, had suddenly become emboldened recently. First, he braved the emperor's displeasure to openly form a new Donglin Party, and then proposed to split his own Ministry of Industry at a cabinet meeting.

Wu Chunfu did not think that Qian Qianyi's absurd opinion could shake the status of the Ministry of Industry, although Chongzhen had changed a lot of the official system since he ascended the throne, but the six ministries were only fine-tuned internally. Besides, there are basically no members of the cabinet who have good relations with the Donglin Party, and he is only bringing humiliation on himself when he raises such topics.

Zhang Ruitu, who used to be the first to express his opinions, just sat quietly today and did not make a sound, he showed goodwill to the Donglin party two days ago, hoping to gain the favor of the increasingly prosperous Donglin party. However, the seemingly aggressive Donglin Party officials did not achieve any results at the court meeting, but almost became an anti-party.

What's even more ridiculous is that after the defeat of these Donglin party members at the court meeting, they didn't think about how to deal with the aftermath, but began to split. With Qian Qianyi's formation of the new Donglin Party, the Donglin Party, which had little organizational strength, soon split into small groups and attacked each other.

Zhang Ruitu realized that the Donglin Party members, who were originally monolithic in his eyes, were actually just a mess of loose sand. The Donglin Party forces, which had not been suppressed before and after the Seven Gentlemen's Case before and after the Apocalypse Era, have now begun to disintegrate from within.

Qian Qianyi's concept of forming the New Donglin Party is: to correct the behavior of party members within the party, and not to attack dissidents with the door; Outside the party, we should not distinguish between good and evil state affairs, but should look at and solve problems in a realistic manner. In addition, the New Donglin Party also claimed that the purpose of the party was to curb land annexation, crack down on local tyrants, and protect industry and commerce.

Although Qian Qianyi is a little weak in terms of personality, his name as the leader of Donglin did not fall from the sky, and his identity as a leader in the literary world also added a lot of luster to him.

When he put forward the slogan and established this new Donglin Party, he immediately pulled away many Donglin Party members and young scholars who were close to the Donglin Party. However, this behavior also angered many Donglin Party members, and since the establishment of the Donglin Party, a tacit group, there are not a few gentry and bureaucrats who have voluntarily left or have been expelled from the group by public opinion.

But it is the first time that everyone has seen the existence of a new Donglin Party like Qian Qianyi, who took away the name of the Donglin Party and formed a new Donglin Party. For the group of Donglin Party members, wearing this hat not only won the reputation of Shilin, but also held a sense of unity and mutual support.

If Qian Qianyi is allowed to remove the golden sign of the Donglin Party, then what are the remaining people? Is it the dross among the Donglin Party members who have been eliminated? As a result, the Donglin Party, who was still in contact with Qian Shisheng and others, and was ready to support Qian Shisheng and others, suddenly split into several groups.

There are those who are in favor of Qian Qianyi's formation of the party, there are those who oppose it, there are those who want to be impartial and want to do peace, and there are also those who want to emulate.

The performance of the Donglin Party in the past few days made Zhang Ruitu understand that he seemed to be betting on the wrong treasure, and he also faintly felt that Huang Liji was alienated from him. So at today's meeting, his performance is a little different from the past.

However, on the contrary, Shi Fenglai, who has always liked to wait and see in meetings, stood up to support Qian Qianyi's proposition, and he also believed that the current affairs of the Ministry of Industry are too busy and the manpower is too large.

The Ministry of Industry now needs to go through more than 10 processes to do a thing, which is twice as many as other departments, and many of its officials do not know anything about this matter at all, but only sign according to the rules. The Ministry of International Trade and Postal Affairs, which he was in charge of supervising, had many disputes with the Ministry of Industry over transportation construction and house numbers.

Wu Chunfu suddenly glanced at Shi Fenglai with some dissatisfaction, he knew that Shi Fenglai was red-eyed, compared to the Ministry of Industry, which has nearly 1,000 officials, the Ministry of Trade and Postal Affairs has only dozens of people, and it is also one of the few ministers in the cabinet with the least power.

“… There are also reasons and needs for the surge in personnel in the Ministry of Engineering. Whether it is to build water conservancy, or to supervise the industrial and mining industries, it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry to manage transportation construction. And these projects have always been the content of the Ministry of Industry, and now they have to be separated, there is no precedent for this..."Wu Chunfu had to defend his own department.

But soon, Guo Yunhou dealt him another blow, he believed that the Ministry of Industry had a large number of personnel, collected fees in the name of supervising industrial and mining projects, and wantonly carried private goods in the transportation of raw materials used in the construction of imperial tombs, water conservancy, and transportation construction.

Not only did it lose a lot of tax revenue, but it also made it difficult for the ministry to supervise the expenditure of the Ministry of Industry. He believes that the Ministry of Industry should be split into three departments, so that the scale of other departments can be commensurate with the scale of other departments, and second, it will also facilitate the supervision of funds by household departments.

Wu Chunfu suddenly found that at today's meeting, the Ministry of Industry had obviously become the target of public criticism. Whether it is Guo Yunhou or Huang Liji, they have lost the tacit understanding of the same enemy with him in the court a few days ago and to deal with the Donglin Party together.

Wu Chunfu, who was difficult to support alone, finally did not maintain the status quo of the Ministry of Industry, and under Huang Liji's final word, the Ministry of Industry was divided into three departments: the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Transportation and Construction, and the Ministry of Water Resources.

In this way, the industrial city development plan, the four major water system treatment projects, and the railway and shipping development plan that originally started next year by the Ministry of Industry have become three independent parts.

The success of the split of the ministry has relieved most members of the cabinet. If the Ministry of Industry continues to expand, I am afraid that the imperial court will become a vassal of the Ministry of Industry. Neither Huang Liji nor Guo Yunhou, nor even the officials of the ministries who have been isolated from the cabinet, do not want to see a ministry that has lost control.

With this intense problem solved, the content of the subsequent meeting was relatively peaceful. Most of them are a summary of the work of various ministries in the past year, obviously in this season when the end of the year is approaching, everyone is not willing to toss like Chongzhen, and they all want to end the first year of Chongzhen peacefully.

However, when the meeting was about to end, Huang Liji hesitated a little, but still spoke: "Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi, and the governor of Yansui Cai, wrote together, saying that all the thieves in Shaanxi have accepted the conditions of recruitment, and now there are more than 100,000 people who have surrendered to the official army, including 59,000 elite people. It was placed in three places: Hancheng, Heyang, and Tongzhou.

In addition, there were 129 thieves and 1,544 leaders, and 1,714 thieves who were identified by the people as tyrannical thieves.

The two governors, Yang and Cai, suggested that these thieves be treated leniently in order to appease the hearts of the thieves. In addition, the leaders were arranged to live in the provincial capital of Xi'an, so that they could be monitored nearby, so that they would not rebel against the court again.

As for the other thieves who surrendered and the people who had been held hostage, they were repatriated according to their place of origin, and placed under the care of the magistrate and arranged for the resumption of production..."

Regarding the news that Huang Liji said, several other ministers were relieved. The surrender of these thieves indicates that the civil uprising in Shaanxi has finally stopped, and as long as the wind and rain are smooth next year, then Shaanxi will be stable again.

As for the leniency of the thieves, they did not take it very seriously, and the execution of more than 1,700 people was obviously beyond their means. No matter how heinous these people were, considering the impact on the Zhao'an bandits, they felt that it was okay to let them go.

As for letting these thieves and rebels return to their hometowns according to their origins, they should also be. If they don't go back to their hometowns to farm, the imperial court will go there to find such a large piece of land to settle them.

Seeing that several ministers nodded one after another, Zhu Youzhen obviously disagreed, and he replied without hesitation: "The accusations of these 1,714 thieves are all based on real evidence, otherwise no one will be able to testify against them."

Since the imperial court has chosen a public trial, then a public judgment should be conducted. Didn't the Master say, "How can you repay virtue?" Repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay virtue with virtue. What's more, there are frequent disasters in the world now, and civil unrest in various places can be regarded as one after another.

If these bandits are not severely punished, I am afraid that they will become the backbone of civil unrest in various places in the future. And the bandits everywhere saw their end and lost their awe of the imperial court, and they would only cause chaos everywhere, increasing the cost of quelling the chaos in the imperial court.

I thought that I should reply to Yang He as soon as possible, and ask him to immediately and publicly execute the convicted thieves in order to deter the lawbreakers. As for the leaders, leaders and bandit backbones who surrendered, let them return to their hometowns to farm, will they really return to their hometowns to farm?

Scattering them and sending them back to their hometowns will only keep them out of the sight of the imperial court, and if anyone is dissatisfied with the government and can't say that they will return to their hometowns, it will be when they recruit troops and rebel again.

In my opinion, these thieves leaders, as well as the more capable leaders, have all been summoned to the capital. They will be trained in the patrol police school for three to six months, and then they will be sent to the Jiangnan area to form patrol police. As long as they are out of their wings, no matter how good these people are, they will not be able to fly.

As for the ordinary bandits and rebels... They were divided into 5 agricultural reclamation corps and placed in the area from Yulin Pass to Fengzhen to reclaim the wasteland. Under the threat of the Mongols, they will naturally develop a sense of loyalty to my Ming Dynasty..."