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"If I let you go to Nanjing to supervise the country, can you ensure the tax problem?" Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhu Cihong with heavy eyes, with unprecedented attention in his eyes.

Zhu Cihong suddenly fought with a spirit.

Nanking!

What's there?

Nanjing Liubu!

The first capital after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, this is also the capital that Nanming can establish in a very short time.

In the nineteenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered that "the six political departments should be moved to the north", and officially took Beiping (Zhu Di succeeded to the throne and changed Beiping to Beijing in the first year of Yongle) as the capital. After Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, due to improper position and various historical problems, he still retained the status of Nanjing as the capital and retained a set of central institutions.

Nanjing, like Beijing, has six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Department, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, the Hanlin Yuan, and the Guozijian Procuratorate, and the rank of officials is also the same as that in Beijing. Beijing is located in Shuntianfu, and Nanjing is located in Yingtianfu, collectively known as Erjingfu.

Although the power of the Nanjing Sixth Department is far less than that of the Beijing Sixth Department, the Nanjing Sixth Department also has certain powers. The main reason is that the Nanzhili region where Nanjing is located has jurisdiction over 15 prefectures and three Zhili prefectures, and in later generations, the two provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai, but there are no three divisions, namely, the political department, the judicial department, and the command department, and the functions and powers performed by the original three divisions are in charge of the six departments in Nanjing, among which the power of the Nanjing Household Department and the Nanjing Military Department is the heaviest.

This also means that once Zhu Cihong goes to Nanjing, he will immediately be able to resurrect a complete administrative team other than the cabinet.

For example, the household department of Nanjing was responsible for collecting taxes and grain from Nanzhili and the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang (these four places accounted for almost half of the Ming Empire). At the same time, he was also responsible for Cao Yun and the national salt introduction survey (from the beginning to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Nanjing Household Department has been responsible for this affairs. Among them, there are only 2 years when the Nanjing household department is not responsible for this matter: in the third year of Zhengde, Liu Jin changed the law. The Central Household Department was responsible for "Nanjing's introduction plates, all ordered to be destroyed", but in the fifth year of Zhengde, after Liu Jin was punished, the Household Department asked for "brushing the salt and quoting, and it is still under the Nanjing Household Department", which was approved. Since then, it has remained unchanged) and the collection and management of the National Yellow Book (preserved in Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing). As a result, Nanjing's household servant often served as the prime minister's grain reserve.

The Nanjing Military Department was responsible for the garrison of the Nanjing area, and the 49 guards in the Nanjing area were all under the command of Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department. The secretary of the Nanjing Military Department generally hangs the title of "Counselor Maintenance". Together with the eunuchs of the town guard and the lord of the Nanjing garrison, he jointly managed all the affairs of Nanjing.

The Nanjing Officials Department is responsible for the six-year Beijing inspection and examination of officials in the Nanjing area, and the Beijing Officials Department must not interfere.

The Nanjing Criminal Department is responsible for the criminal names of the Nanjing Divisions, the Gonghou Uncle's Mansion, and the Jingwei Office, and in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin once ordered him to be appointed because Wu Hong, the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department, judged the case according to law and did not conform to his wishes. It can be seen that the Nanjing Criminal Department also has judicial power.

The responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing are similar to those of the Ministry of Industry in Beijing, except that the area of jurisdiction is limited to Nanjing and the surrounding provinces. In addition, the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing was also responsible for part of the southern tax revenue (nominally called "bamboo and wood extraction", and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War in the Ming Dynasty had the right to collect taxes, not exclusively to the Ministry of Households). In addition, the copper plate of the Nanjing household department should be cast by the Nanjing Ministry of Industry.

In addition to the fact that the Nanjing Ministry of Rites does not have much authority, Nanjing can be said to be a natural center of power.

Equally. Let the crown prince supervise Nanjing, this is not an unprecedented. When Ming Chengzu Zhu Di went on the Northern Expedition, the crown prince Zhu Gaochi supervised the country and stabilized the rear.

Not to mention......

Soon, Zhu Youzhen handed Zhu Cihong a copy: "It's not to go to Nanjing to supervise the country. I gave it to you. Whatever you want, you can do it yourself. But! Unless you can prove that Ying Tianfu can be governed well in your hands, otherwise. When you are out of Yingtianfu, don't stretch out your hand. The division of powers between the north and the south has been clear. Many misunderstandings are gone. Only then can the subordinates work hard and not just think about the will. Here's a military writ, and you read the memoirs. Then decide whether to sign or not. ”

"Signed. I will give you the position of the crown prince and the country, and I will give you the authority of Tianfu and the opportunity to rule half of the country at any time. If you don't sign it, the land of Henan and Shandong is still under your control, and the previous authority will not be changed. ”

"But before you sign, give me a careful look and read it word by word. This world is on your shoulders, can you afford it! Power, very tempting. But many times it is a glass of bitter wine, and those who have tasted it know what it tastes like, and they know that they can withstand this drunkenness and stay sober, rather than making mistakes and making big mistakes in a thought. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen didn't say much, but left here and said, "If you think about it, you will leave the military warrant." I'll take care of the rest. ”

For a while, only Zhu Cihong was left alone in the entire hall looking at the arranged movements. Thinking that he had just gone to the pavilion and now returned to the main hall, Zhu Cihong took a light breath and flipped through it carefully.

At this time, Zhu Cihong finally remembered the successive war reports in the south.

The first thing that makes Zhu Cihong remember deeply is his old opponent Li Zicheng. After the fiasco of the First Battle of Kaifeng, Li Zicheng naturally did not carry out a crucial battle in Runing, as in history, to complete the transformation from a rogue-gu to a local government. Li Zicheng, in turn, was driven all the way from Henan to Huguang by Sun Chuanting, who was eager to prove himself with a victory.

It's just that Li Zicheng is a generation of heroes in history after all, and after Henan annexed Yuan Shizhong and Luo Rucai's family, Huguang was still stronger than Zuo Liangyu.

More importantly, in Huguang, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the imperial court, played an extremely serious negative role as Zhu Cihong said.

Zuo Liangyu, who fled to Huguang, saw that he was out of Zhu Cihong's shadow, and suddenly sprouted in a solid state, and he was strong in Huguang and collected the bandits. Gather the rebels and expand their strength desperately. The quality of such a source of soldiers is self-evident.

Moreover, the imperial court gave Zuo Liangyu only 25,000 troops, and the expanded Zuo Liangyu army of 100,000 could not be maintained by the imperial court's money and food. In this way, Zuo Liangyu naturally had to loot the people and loot them.

For a time, the entire Xiangyang people's hearts were corrupted and cleaned by Zuo Liangyu. When Zuo Liangyu planned to build a warship in Xiangyang and escaped, the Xiangyang gentry organized the people to burn all these warships with a fire.

For this reason, Zuo Liangyu, who was furious, robbed the merchant ships again and smuggled away his own family funds, so that he dared to fight against Li Zicheng.

It's just that the people's hearts are so lost, and the military strength is scattered, how can Zuo Liangyu have the ability to defend Xiangyang?

With the help of the people, Li Zicheng bypassed Zuo Liangyu's fortification and crossed the Han River from the mouth of the White Horse Cave, allowing Li Zicheng to successfully capture Xiangyang, recover the decline and regain his prestige. (To be continued.) )