Cai Maode has followed his parents to hold Buddhist vows since he was a child, and because he is as hard as an ascetic, he looks thin and weak.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the thin official in front of him, and suddenly felt a little unhappy in his heart, after all, going to sea and immigrating in this era are a risky thing, and if the physical fitness is not good, then it is easy to be eliminated by the natural environment.

The first time he saw Tsai Maode, Zhu Youzhen had already dispelled the idea of letting him go to Taiwan. Several cabinet ministers successively compared Cai Maode, and on the question of governing the local area or immigrating to Tuntian, Cai Maode answered it fluently, which made several cabinet ministers nod their heads in approval.

Only Chongzhen has been silent for a long time, and finally under the signal of several ministers, he had to reluctantly ask a question, "This Taiwan island was occupied by sea bandits and natives on the island in the past, and I have always been ignorant of the king's law. Now that I, the Ming Dynasty, want to return Taiwan to Xinjiang, how do you think the natives and bandits on the island should be dealt with? ”

Although Tsai Maode knew that the emperor and the cabinet had summoned him to inquire about the development and governance of Taiwan, it was possible that he wanted to arrange for him to go to Taiwan as an official.

The Ming Dynasty is separated by thousands of miles from north to south, and thousands of miles from east to west.

For local posts, the officials of the Ming Dynasty also summed up the vacancies of local officials at the upper, middle and lower levels.

These high-class officials are naturally prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River, the middle ones are the Central Plains and Lianghu areas that are not on the border, and the inferior ones are Jiubian and Yunnan-Guichuan and other places.

For example, although Hainan Island has been developed since the Song Dynasty and has a much better geographical environment than Yunnan-Guizhou and the Jiubian region, it is regarded as an overseas barbarian land that is inferior to Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan because it is separated from the mainland by a strait.

The result of everyone's unwillingness to go to Hainan Island to take up posts is that once they become officials on Hainan Island, it will be difficult for them to be transferred back to the mainland. Because of the lack of replacement manpower, I can only keep working.

Now that the island of Taiwan is farther away from the mainland, if it is transferred to Taiwan, it will be even more difficult to leave again. Moreover, the degree of development in Taiwan is far less than that of Hainan, and everything has to be developed from scratch by itself, which is undoubtedly a difficult job considering those virgin forests that have not been developed for thousands of years.

However, Cai Maode, who knew all this, always behaved very calmly, with an attitude of answering questions, and did not show the slightest fear.

After listening to Chongzhen's question, he thought for a moment and said, "The minister thinks that the attitude towards the natives on the island and the bandits on the island should be different.

The islanders have never known about the imperial court, and should be given preferential treatment, and follow the example of Yungui to set up local officials to manage, and then open academies on the island for education, so that they become the people of the Ming Dynasty, since the islanders have become the people of the Ming Dynasty, then Taiwan has naturally become the land of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the bandits on the island, the ministers thought: The thieves are all caused by the poor people, and the bandits should be quelled, so that the poor people have food to eat.

Taiwan is isolated overseas, and most of the bandits on the island come from the poor people along China's coast. If the poor people along China's coast have something to eat, how can they risk going to sea to become pirates?

The minister thought that if we wanted to quell the bandits on the island, it was necessary to first rectify the administration of officials in various coastal areas, and only when the officials were clean and clean would the people along the coast have food to eat, and the number of poor people along the coast would be reduced.

If the number of poor people decreases, the number of people who go to the sea to become bandits will decrease, and the number of people who join the bandits will decrease, and Taiwan's bandit gangs will naturally become unstable.

It is to love the people and inspect the officials first, and the inspectors Mo Xianchen will inspect themselves, and they are willing to lead their own subordinates, so that the people will not be thieves. And the ministers have no visible merit, and they are unwilling to kill the people, in the name of themselves..."

After letting Tsai Maode step down, Huang Liji asked Chongzhen with great expectations about his views on appointing Tsai Maode as the governor of Taiwan.

Zhu Youzhen did not directly say what he thought of Cai Maode, but said: "In the past few days, I have been checking the resumes of provincial governors, local prefects, and counties.

The newly appointed governor of Yansui, Yue Hesheng, is good at literary affairs, and once built Zhongtian Academy and Settown Academy in the local area, and is proficient in education. Isn't it a salt car to let this person serve as the governor of the frontier?

Yansui is a border town and a barren land, and what is needed there is a talent who can pacify the people and the army, not a talent who talks about the wind and snow.

I thought that it was the right to promote school education in Nanzhili and the provinces south of the Yangtze River, rather than putting him as the governor of the border town. ”

Xu Guangqi and Zhang Ruitu are familiar with this Yue Hesheng, and they know that this old friend is not in good health, and now if he goes to the bitter cold land in the northwest, I am afraid that his life will be even more difficult.

Although the Nanjing Ministry of Rites has no power, the prosperous Jinling City is just in line with this old friend's appetite, compared to the wind and sand in the northwest, the wind and moon on the Qinhuai River can make this talented man think like a surge.

Xu Guangqi and Zhang Ruitu agreed with Chongzhen's proposal to transfer Yue Hesheng to Nanjing, and Huang Liji and others naturally had no objections.

However, everyone knows that Chongzhen's transfer of Yue Hesheng is definitely not untargeted, and sure enough, Chongzhen then suggested that Cai Maode take over the position of governor of Yansui.

Huang Liji and others are naturally inconvenient to object, a talent they have just praised was proposed by Chongzhen to be reused.

And after Tsai Maode became the governor of Yansui, Zhou Kangeng naturally became the prefect of Taiwan.

After solving the problem of appointing officials to the Taiwan prefect, Zhu Youzhen finally relaxed a little, and he immediately mentioned the matter of the preferential treatment of military dependents and martyrs' families that he had asked the cabinet to discuss before.

Regarding this point, Huang Liji nodded lightly at Zhang Ruitu, and Zhang Ruitu said to the emperor: "Regarding the decree proposed by His Majesty, the cabinet thinks that no one is allowed to sell military dependents and martyrs into slaves.

Before the promulgation of the decree, military and martyr families who had been sold into slavery automatically acquired the status of good citizens immediately, and no one could threaten them to continue to be slaves with their deeds.

Your Majesty, there seems to be something wrong with this. This military household sold his wife and children to compensate for the army's rations, not since His Majesty ascended the throne.

I have a million military households in the Ming Dynasty, and there are tens of thousands of people who sell their wives and daughters, and Your Majesty released them with a word, so isn't the main family that bought them going to vent their grievances on Your Majesty?

Moreover, most of the masters who kept a large number of slaves were local gentry. Even if His Majesty issued this decree, the local government might not dare to enforce the law against these local gentry. ”

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and interjected: "If it can't be implemented now, it doesn't mean that it can't be implemented in the future." If the local gentry don't even pay attention to the law of the country, do they still need me to accommodate them again? As for the issue of the military households having to compensate the military commissariat because of the receipt, I will negotiate with the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. ”

Looking at Zhu Youzhen's uncompromising appearance, Huang Liji shook his head lightly at Zhang Ruitu, and Zhang Ruitu immediately continued.

"Your Majesty demanded that in the event of a conflict between the sergeant and the local people, the local officials have no right to interfere and must be handed over to the military court of the army to deal with it, and the cabinet also felt that there was a problem.

First, there is no military court in the army at present, and second, the magistrate is the parent official of the people, and if the sergeant and the common people are in conflict now, but they cannot be interrogated, will it not weaken the majesty of the imperial court.

Third, how should the magistrate deal with the relationship between the local government and the army in the future? And will the sergeant have the courage to poison the local people? ”

Zhu Youzhen immediately interrupted Zhang Ruitu's words and said: "First of all, the army and the people are one, every sergeant comes from the people's homes, and they will also restore the identity of the people after they retire, the two are one and the same.

Therefore, any official or other person who deliberately provokes confrontation between the army and the people must be severely punished. The army needed taxes from the common people to receive food and weapons. And the people need the protection of the army in order to live and work in peace and contentment, and engage in production.

Ladies and gentlemen, after the fall of the land of Liaodong, those Liao people were wantonly enslaved and slashed by Jiannu, is this more merciful than me to let them pay taxes?

There is no quiet time in this world, and it is someone who carries the weight for you. Those magistrates only think about the people under their rule, and they naturally lose sight of the overall situation.

But if gentlemen also regard the army as an enemy, then the Ming Dynasty is really dangerous.

I just want to ask you, gentlemen, if all the Ming troops surrender to our enemies today, what do you want to use to resist these soldiers? And the princes of the people, and their wives and daughters? ”

Chongzhen's words made the faces of several cabinet ministers a little unnatural, and after breaking away from the mode of the court meeting, Chongzhen seemed to be more outspoken in the face of several people in the cabinet.

Even Zhu Youzhen himself felt that he seemed to be able to understand why later generations of officials liked to hold small meetings behind closed doors.

Shi Fenglai's cheeks twitched, and he couldn't help but whisper: "I, the king of Daming, have always been loyal to Daming Sheji, so there will be no such thing as what His Majesty said." ”

When Shi Feng said this, he himself could trust a few points, and it was also bottomless. After all, since Nurhachi raised his army, from Li Yongfang to Sun Degong, what about the general who is not the Ming Dynasty?

It is precisely because of the shameless behavior of these warriors that the civilian officials have a general distrust of the warriors.

Zhu Youzhen just glanced at Shi Fenglai, and then replied: "To treat a group of soldiers loyal to the Daming Jiangshan Sheji as enemies to guard, is it the style of the Holy Monarch and the Virtuous Minister?" I don't think so. ”

The five cabinet ministers sitting in the cabinet at this time are not Donglin Party members who are good at talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they can all understand the meaning of Chongzhen's words.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen said so much, it was nothing more than a sentence to elevate the status of martial artists. If it was the Chengping era, Huang Liji and other ministers would naturally pretend not to understand. But in this season of internal and external difficulties, the position of Huang Liji and other cabinet ministers is not so firm, after all, they now need to take responsibility for the politics of the Ming Dynasty.