Chen Yue returned to Beijing and was promoted to the president, but he, the president, did not have an office location. It stands to reason that the position of the president is the same as that of the first assistant of the cabinet, but Chen Yue is not willing to work in the cabinet.

Although the imperial court promised to build a large presidential palace in the west of Hongwumen, it would take some time, and before the grand presidential palace was built, Chen Yue could only work in his own Qi palace.

The palace of the prince of Qi is the original Wei State Mansion, after more than 200 years of operation of the Wei State Duke Xu family, the mountain stone pavilion forest, it can be said that one step at a time, in fact, it is a beautiful garden, it can be used as a residence, and it is not suitable to be the highest institution of the imperial court such as the presidential palace at all. But I can't help it, let's accommodate it for the time being.

After leaving the palace and returning to the palace of the king of Qi, Wu Wan'er, Kou Baimen and others have been waiting for a long time, and after a farewell for many years, they naturally can't say love and words after meeting, so I won't repeat it here.

On the third day of Chen Yue's return to Beijing, Chongzhen held a grand court meeting, and high-ranking officials above the fourth grade in the capital participated in the court meeting.

In the court, Chen Yue, the president, was officially sworn in and took over the president's seal from Chongzhen.

Chongzhen decreed that the cabinet should be abolished, and all future political affairs would be handled by the Great Presidential Palace. Chen Yue served as the president, and Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei, and Qian Qianyi served as vice presidents.

According to the prior consultation, Chongzhen also announced that the Government Affairs Yuan, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office would be set up under the Great Presidential Palace, which would be in charge of government affairs, supervision, and military affairs.

The original six ministries were temporarily managed by the Government Council, and Lu Zhenfei served as the head of the Government Council. Jinyiwei and Yushitai were under the management of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, grasping the pickets of the people, admonishing and impeaching, supervising officials, etc., and Shi Kefa served as the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Metropolitan Governor's Office manages the country's soldiers and horses, and the appointment, promotion, rewards and punishments of military generals, the transfer of soldiers and horses, the dispatch of troops to suppress bandits, and the production of armaments, etc., are equivalent to merging some of the responsibilities of the military department into it. President Chen Yue concurrently served as the governor, and Yang Zhengping and Chang Yanling served as the governors.

The Government Affairs Yuan, the head of the Supervision Yuan, and the Metropolitan Governor are at the same level, and are called the three phases, Shi Kefa is an upright person, but he is a little worse in terms of power change, so he serves as the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, holding the power of national supervision, and his position is also extremely important. As for the Metropolitan Governor, he is in charge of the national military power, and this position can only be held by Chen Yue himself.

The presidency was a newly created position, which naturally involved changes in the bureaucratic system, which were meant to be, and this change did not have much impact on the courtiers. And one of the biggest changes is to incorporate Jinyiwei into the Imperial Procuratorate, and since then Jinyiwei belongs to the imperial court and is no longer the emperor's private eagle dog, which is what the ministers like to see.

Then Chongzhen ordered the cancellation of the daily court, and the officials did not have to enter the palace early in the morning.

Each yamen performs its own duties, and when encountering major events, it can be written to the presidential palace, and the president will convene relevant people to discuss and solve it.

This order was tantamount to taking power away from the emperor, and it was equivalent to the emperor giving up most of it, but from the time the great presidency was established, everyone knew that this was the right thing to do.

The reason why Chen Yue insisted on this was that he felt that the Great Dynasty Meeting was meaningless, every time the Great Dynasty was a never-ending quarrel, and there was no need for any matter, no matter what the officials of the Yamen were involved in. Specialized people are responsible for special things, and everyone only needs to perform their duties, so that things will be easier. The big reason why Daming fell into this situation is that there are too many fights and endless party disputes, and Chen Yue decided to stop it from the source.

After Chen Yue officially became president, he was not in a hurry to carry out reforms, because the first thing he had to solve was the problem of rebellion in various places.

Now the Ming Dynasty is far from reaching a state of peace, the thieves were driven to Xining and Gansu prefectures, the thieves rebelled in Sichuan, and along the coast of Fujian, Zheng Sen occupied the islands of Nanao, Xiamen, Kinmen and other islands, brazenly played the banner of Fengtian Jingjing, and the spearhead was directly aimed at Chen Yue himself.

Until all this is resolved, there is no environment for change to take place, and it is not appropriate to rush it.

Chen Yue, in his capacity as the president, ordered the appointment of General Yu Feng Pingxi to be responsible for quelling the rebellion of the thieves in Shaanxi. Among the three rebels, Shaanxi's thieves were the easiest to solve, because Yu Feng had a strong army of 100,000, with Chen Yue's Northern Expeditionary Army as the backbone.

Chen Yue ordered that Li Yi be appointed as the general of the thieves, and he was fully responsible for exterminating the remnants of the western thieves in Sichuan. Chen Yue allocated 10,000 to Li Yi as the backbone, and then transferred 50,000 Jiangxi soldiers, 50,000 Huguang soldiers, plus several Ming troops in Sichuan and the Western Thieves, the total strength was close to 200,000, and there should be no problem in exterminating the Western Thieves.

At the same time, Chen Yue ordered Wang Yin to be the southeast superintendent, and led the southeast soldiers and horses to be responsible for exterminating Zheng Sen's rebels. Wang Yin has the most elite sailors in the Ming Dynasty, including more than 20 Xiyi plywood Galen ships and more than 100 three-masted Fu ships, which are extremely powerful.

However, water warfare is not as good as land warfare, the sea is too wide, and it is really difficult to destroy Zheng Sen, who also has a large number of ships and naval forces.

In order to cooperate with Wang Yin to exterminate Zheng Sen's rebels, Chen Yue ordered that Jin Shenghuan, the general of Jiangxi, be the general of Pingnan, and lead 50,000 Jiangxi soldiers into Fujian to put pressure on Zheng Sen from land. As long as Jin Shenghuan can hold the coastal cities and not be attacked by Zheng Sen, Zheng Sen will inevitably become weaker and weaker without land assistance, and it is only a matter of time before Zheng Sen is eliminated.

To deal with the rebels of the three bandits, the imperial court used more than 400,000 troops, so many troops, the amount of money and food needed to be consumed is astronomical, and the reason why the thieves and thieves in the past could not be exterminated was the problem of money. In the past, it was the local army that fought against the rebels, and the local government was responsible for supplying food and money. Now that the imperial court has requisitioned so many guest soldiers, most of the money and grain will naturally have to be solved by the imperial court.

In the past, the imperial court would not have been able to take such a large-scale action with its financial resources. But now it's different, because Chen Yue is rich!

With the fall of the Zheng family, most of the wealth that Zheng Zhilong had accumulated for more than ten years fell into the hands of Chen Yue, and this money alone amounted to tens of millions of taels. The massive wealth seized by the rebels in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangdong was even more huge, and most of this wealth was controlled by Chen Yue with the defeat of the rebels.

Why is it clear that the rebels are under his control, but Chen Yue has to make a show to send troops to destroy the rebels, in addition to making a show to the court and the world, the bigger reason is to control the wealth in the hands of the rebels. Although most of the wealth of the seized gentry was ordered to be handed over by Qian Fenglin, the money was touching, and most of the money was hidden by the rebel soldiers. However, among the more than 100,000 rebels, the real henchmen were only a few thousand Dongfan troops and more than 20,000 Jiangxi soldiers, and the others were Zhejiang soldiers and newly joined Jiangsu and Zhejiang people.

The money that fell into the hands of these rebels had to be regained by forceful means. That's why Chen Yue put down the rebellion.

Therefore, the amount of money in Chen Yue's hands now is huge, which is enough to cover the income of the state treasury for decades, and there is naturally no problem in supplying hundreds of thousands of troops to suppress bandits. With sufficient money and food, Chen Yue believed that the extermination of the rebel thieves was just around the corner.