Chapter 644: The First Day of Becoming an Emperor

At present, although the Jianyu have suffered defeats one after another, they still occupy a large area of land north of the Yangtze River and outside the Saiwai, and their strength is still strong.

In particular, these provinces in Jiangbei were "windfalls" for Jianlu from outside the Guan. If they find themselves in an unfavorable situation, they will not hesitate to squeeze out the last trace of manpower and material resources in these places. Even if it was all scorched, they would not feel distressed at all - it was a big deal to return to their hometown in Liaodong, and they would have come to the Central Plains to carry out a raid.

According to Beizhen's recent intelligence, Dolgon is indeed looting all the forces that can be mobilized in Jiangbei, preparing to fight back desperately against Daming.

Zhu Linmiao knows very well that this must not be taken lightly! In Chinese history, the victory rate of the expedition from north to south was extremely high, but the northern expedition in the southern region only had one victory by Zhu Yuanzhang to drive Yuan Jianming, which also has a deep objective law.

For example, it is very easy to obtain war horses in the north; The terrain in the north is flat, which is conducive to the transfer of troops and the transportation of grain; The northerners are taller than the southerners, and the folk customs are more strong, and so on. Even northerners easily adapt to the warm climate of the south, while southerners are less resistant to the cold, resulting in a decrease in combat effectiveness due to wind and snow, and serious non-combat attrition.

Therefore, after the Ming army recovered the land in the Yangtze River valley and began to march north to the Yellow River Valley, the difficulties it faced would be several times greater than before.

Therefore, Zhu Linmi's most important work at the moment is to consolidate the foundation of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, eliminate all kinds of accumulated shortcomings, promote the New Deal and industrialization, and make the Ming Dynasty comprehensively crush the Manchu Qing in various fields such as military strength, science and technology, economy, and logistics. Then the Northern Expedition with absolute superiority was completed.

After all, the war was fought in the land of the Ming Dynasty, and once it fell into a stalemate, a large number of casualties and displaced people were Han Chinese.

In addition, as a man of later generations, he had a vision for much more than just recovering his homeland. If we only focus on this one-third of an acre of land near East Asia, more than 200 years later, the Western powers will come with huge ships and cannons, leaving a deep disaster for the Chinese nation. He has already secretly made up his mind to leave future generations a prosperous era that is majestic at the end of the world! And the first step is to eliminate the disadvantages and improve the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Linmiao walked into the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, first took a general look at all places, and really carved beams and paintings, golden tiles and jade walls, all kinds of utensils are the most precious and refined, and even the placement is extremely exquisite. Although the Dongnuan Pavilion has not been completely repaired, the living conditions are much better than those of the Ying Tianfu Ya, and the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven!

He was planning all aspects of the Ming Dynasty in his heart as he walked, although he was also in power before, but it was inevitable that he would be constrained by the courtiers, and now that the imperial power is in his hands, many things that could not or were not easy to implement before can be started and implemented.

The first thing to do is to reform the rule of officials. The Ming officials were bloated, redundant, inefficient, and corrupt for centuries, and he immediately had to rectify them.

Moreover, while reforming the rule of officials, a large number of talents can be inserted into the imperial court, changing the situation that the Ming Dynasty has always been in charge of "liberal arts students". In addition, courtiers from the imperial examination and those from noble backgrounds could also form mutual checks, which was of great benefit to the consolidation of his rule.

The second most important thing after the reform of the administration of officials is the tax reform. The absurd tax system is also a cancer in Daming's body - the poorer people pay more taxes, and the rich don't pay taxes! If this continues, not only will the country's finances wither day by day, but it will also cause the people at the bottom to rebel when they have no means of livelihood.

These two items are followed by agricultural reform, land reform, household registration reform, industrial and commercial reform, economic and financial reform, and many other matters, all of which are urgent tasks that have a great impact on national strength.

Fortunately, Zhu Linmiao has already designed the content of the innovation in the "Development Outline", and at this time, he only needs to consider how to implement it step by step.

Before he could finish the details of the implementation of the reform of the bureaucracy, the courtiers drowned him with a mountain of congratulatory watches.

He looked through the first few copies and found that the contents were all roughly the same, which was nothing more than a tribute to him touting the incidental expressions of loyalty, so he simply handed over the hundreds of congratulatory letters in the back to Feng Kang to deal with.

Zhu Linmiao had just freed his hand here, and before a moment had passed, another supervisor came to say that the banquet had been prepared.

On the day the new emperor ascended the throne, he wanted to hold a feast, so he invited his ministers, which was also one of the ceremonies that could not be run. He had no choice but to put down his work and took Ma Wensheng and other eunuchs and palace maids to Qianqing Palace.

After this banquet, he went to the Taiji Hall of the West Palace to greet his mother, the new Queen Mother, and then there was a simple ceremony to hand over the seal.

By the time everything on the throne was done, it was already getting a little dark. When Zhu Linmiao returned to the Heart Nourishing Palace, he saw that there was a recital sent by the cabinet on the table.

He said in his heart that this work efficiency was quite high, so he stepped forward to open it and look, but almost a mouthful of old blood spurted out - it was actually a request to build a mausoleum for him!

Habit! It's a bad habit. Zhu Linmiao knew that this was something that the emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to, but where did he have the time to be busy with this right now? And this matter costs the people and money, and he still wonders whether to make do with which emperor of the previous dynasty.

He threw the piece aside, first wrote a secret order for Luo Mingshou to send, and then instructed Ma Wensheng to serve a cup of strong tea and began to write down the details of future reforms.

It wasn't until he was ugly that he remembered that there were important arrangements for tomorrow, so he moved his tired joints and went to sleep in the West Warm Pavilion.

The next day, Zhu Linmiao first received a resignation from Huang Daozhou, saying that he was too old to be overwhelmed with the heavy court affairs, and asked to resign and return to Fujing for retirement.

Huang Daozhou can see that yesterday's ceremony, the head of the cabinet and the secretary of the ministry, was put aside, and Yang Tinglin read out the personnel changes in the DPRK and China, which is the meaning of the Son of Heaven to reuse Yang Tinglin. Wouldn't it be too uninteresting if he still didn't move?

In fact, Zhu Linmiao still has a good impression of this loyal minister, and Huang Daozhou still has a lot of funding when he was training in Longnan. But Huang Ge Lao is also an out-and-out corrupt Confucian, with conservative concepts and relatively limited ability, so it is difficult for him to continue to lead the cabinet, which can hardly be a boost to his own reform, and even hinders in many places. For example, a while ago, the Min Party boycotted the relocation of the capital, and Huang Daozhou was tolerant and accommodating to them because he was from Fujing, which was the bad problem of the old-style Ming ministers.

Although Yang Tinglin is also an old-style official, he is relatively receptive to new things, and he has shown him the "Development Outline" before, and he generally agrees.

At the same time, Zhu Linmiao fought with this person in Jiangxi, and he contributed to serving as an auxiliary king and ascending the throne, which can be regarded as his own descendant. After all, there is still a lot of power among the old-style officials in the DPRK and China, and it is necessary to use Yang Tinglin's popularity and political means to restrain these people.

So he specially praised Yang Tinglin, which was to show his attitude to the court - the Yang Pavilion Department was the core of the cabinet in the future. It's just that I didn't expect Huang Daozhou to be so upright, and immediately resigned.