In the imperial study, the Cabinet Ministers of the Nine Auxiliaries stood behind Xiao Ming and looked at Xiao Ming, who was dividing administrative areas on the map of the empire.

After the Tibetan envoys handed over their credentials and left, they were called by Xiao Ming to the imperial study to officially start preparing for the new administrative region.

In fact, before the Battle of Tubo began, they were already formulating the corresponding administrative regions, and now after Xiao Ming's final decision, they have finally finalized it.

"Why did the emperor classify the Tibetan envoys as autonomous regions this time, aren't you worried about the rebellion of Tubo in the future?" Fiji was suspicious when he received the Tibetan envoy, but now he finally can't help but say it.

Finger tapped on the Tubo Plateau, Xiao Ming said: "Autonomy is just to appease the Tubo people, it is easy to make the Tubo submit, but it is very difficult to manage them, so compared to sending the officials of the empire, it is better for the imperial court to directly select officials from the Tubo to be responsible for management, and then let these officials come to the Qingzhou Government College to study regularly, so that the Tubo people are slowly assimilated under the subtle way." ”

Clearing his throat, he continued: "Moreover, the military power of Tibet has been lifted, and with the imperial army stationed, they can't make any waves. ”

Fiji and the others nodded when they heard this, and Pang Yukun said: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, there are some things that can't be rushed, and now that Tubo has been incorporated into the empire, you can't drug it too violently and let it repeat." ”

After briefly mentioning the matter of Tubo's governance, Xiao Ming turned around and said, "All the administrative regions are on it, you take a closer look." ”

According to his ideas, the administrative divisions of the current empire are somewhat similar to those of the modern Ming Dynasty, but they are not the same.

Roughly speaking, he divided the empire into two provinces directly under the province and eighteen provinces directly under the province, which were the southern province and the northern province of the province, which included the modern Beijing, Tianjin, most of Hebei Province and a small part of Henan Province and Shandong Province.

The Southern Zhixing Province included the boundaries of the two provinces and one city of present-day Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai, which were directly under the jurisdiction of the Jingshi.

In addition, other provinces include Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Ryukyu, Goryeo, Kanto, Kansai and the newly annexed province of Tibet.

As for Australia, which had just been conquered, he was not in a hurry to be included in the list of imperial provinces for the time being, because now the empire's sphere of influence was expanding, and it was not too late to compile it when the dust settled.

Looking at the division of provinces on the map, the ministers took the booklet and wrote them down one by one.

Sitting on a chair and drinking tea leisurely, Xiao Ming continued: "Each province has a provincial capital, Shangzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xiazhou, and you can discuss the specifics yourself, and I will not participate." ”

This time, Xiao Ming did not plan to change the state to a city, and had already used the division of Shangzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xiazhou of the Great Chongqing State, of which Shangzhou was equivalent to the provincial capital, Zhongzhou was equivalent to a prefecture-level city, and Xiazhou was equivalent to an ordinary city.

The top chief executive of each state is still called the history of the assassination, the difference is that after the refinement of government affairs, in addition to the history of the main assassination, each state also has six sub-assassins, which manage different aspects of a state, similar to the small six departments.

The administrative management of the province is somewhat similar to that of the prefecture, with the highest official being the Inspector and six deputy Inspectors in charge of different government affairs.

In addition to government affairs, both provinces and prefectures and counties have set up supervision courts, and the state supervision courts are directly under the provincial supervision yuan, and so on.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

At the same time, the nine auxiliary ministers said that this time the government reform is not grand, and the government affairs of the empire will take on a new look after the reform.

However, they also understand that after this reform, the future government affairs of the empire will be more systematic and formalized, after all, with the development of the empire, government affairs will become more and more complex with the increase of industries, and the era of doing everything alone in the past is gone.

After all, limited to their own knowledge, many of them are ignorant of some things, and this also means that more and more students graduating from the academy will enter the government system.

After explaining the matter of government reform, Xiao Ming suddenly felt relieved, the military reform and the political reform have been pressing on him two mountains.

After all, the empire is developing too fast, and in order to adapt to this change, he has constantly adjusted his government affairs and army in recent years, and this kind of reform is very troublesome.

However, unlike the previous military and political reforms, he will be done once and for all after this reform, after all, these two are endlessly close to the contemporary.

Even if the empire grows rapidly in the future, all that is needed is fine-tuning, and major changes are not needed.

Therefore, since then, he can concentrate on the outside world, and government affairs can be operated according to the mechanism he promulgated.

After the ministers had finished copying the map and left, he and Qian Dafu began to study the map again, when he pointed to the island group on the south side of Australia, "This place is called New Guinea, and there is a huge copper mine on it. ”

Qian Dafu's eyes smiled into a line, as a person with great influence on the Department of Minerals, Qian Dafu is very sensitive to minerals, and every time he hears about a new mineral area, he is very happy.

"In that case, let the Minerals Division find out." Qian Dafu is quite impatient, after all, the empire is now very short of copper, with the development of the machinery industry, all walks of life have a great demand for copper.

Half a month later, Lei Ming, who was stationed in Australia, received an order from Xiao Ming, which asked him to send a team to escort the members of the Mineral Division who came with him to the island of New Guinea, according to their understanding, there are many local aborigines on this island.

At the same time, this order was accompanied by a request for him to attack the British colonies in Indonesia.

Although most of Indonesia belongs to the Netherlands, it has been seized by the British because of the hegemony of the British in recent years.

"Hehe, the order has finally come, and now there is work to do." Shi Yanjun was in a good mood, and the battle report sent by Lei Ming last time had already been replied.

In terms of meritorious deeds, the generals and soldiers who made meritorious contributions this time all received a share of the corresponding estate property in Wales.

Now he and Lei Ming are in their own manor, which used to belong to an English nobleman, and after the nobleman fled, it was left unattended.

So he paid another thousand dragon coins to buy a hundred Welsh slaves, and let these slaves take care of the estate for themselves.

Lei Ming also likes this independent continent on the ocean a little now, so after Shi Yan's military merit points plus dragon coins purchased the manor, he spent a sum of money to buy a ranch, as a native of Youzhou, he has always hoped to have his own ranch.

Now that he had finally gotten his wish, he thought that he would be able to come here to ride horses and herd sheep and live a leisurely life when he was on vacation, but he was afraid that he still had a lot of battles to fight before then.