I'm really not the carpenter emperor

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On this day, Zhu Youxiao paced back and forth in the Anding Hall of the Xinggong Palace, his palms were covered with fine sweat.

It was the first time Wang Chaofu saw him so nervous, and he didn't know what to say, so he was anxious.

"Chaofu, is the news from Liaoyang accurate?"

Hearing this, Wang Chaofu heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said:

"To be sure, it was Xiong Tingbi's own handwriting. He claimed that he was guilty of entering the army without authorization. Now the old slave has retreated ten miles. It seems that the call to action has played a role. God bless Daming..."

"There is nothing wrong with the Northland, so I can come back and deal with this gang of scourges."

Zhu Youxiao exhaled lightly, his eyes gradually became firm, and said:

"You don't need to talk to the inner eunuchs anymore. What I want you to do next is more important. Send me a secret order to tell Fu Yingxing from Dongchang to come to Nanjing as soon as possible."

"Tell him that you don't need to come here to report after you come here, just go and watch Wuxi Academy and the Xuankun Party for me, and see if they all meet with some famous people."

"At present, Dongchang has no branch offices in Nanjing. Let him go and investigate quietly. There are rich and powerful people in those places. If you can find definite evidence, I will reward you a lot!"

Chao Fu was startled, and hurriedly obeyed the order.

It seems that His Majesty is also playing a trick, and he is ruthless against Wuxi Academy and the Xuankun Party in the open, just to lure the snake out of the hole, and then capture the enemy with one move.

Wang Chaofu also knew that this was an urgent matter, and that Fu Yingxing needed to come to Beijing immediately, so he hurried out to make arrangements after responding.

He walked away, Wang Chengen came in behind and said:

"Your Majesty, several ministers of military aircraft in the military aircraft room, several elders of the cabinet, Qi Jin and Chen Ce from the Yongwei Battalion, Xu Wenjue, the son of the Duke of Wei, and Zhang Shize, the son of the Duke of England, have all come to see you."

Not without accident, Zhu Youxiao took a sip of the tribute tea on the table and asked:

"Do you know what they are for?"

Wang Chengen said: "Maybe it is for the division of Jinling Province and the former Nanzhili area, and the distribution of officials from the three divisions?"

Zhu Youxiao's eyes moved, and he thought that the one who should come is still here. This time, we must use a two-pronged approach to completely disperse Nanzhili, arrange for his own people, and at least take at least a large family of thorn-headed chaebols to sacrifice to the flag. .

Jiangnan can't take over all of it. Once he comes down, Nanzhili will be in his hands.

"Call them in."

Zhu Youxiao put down his tea, finished speaking, and began to close his eyes to rest.

After a while, there was a sound of light footsteps coming in from outside the hall, the civil servants and relatives below each looked at each other, Fu Baishan shouted:

"Your Majesty, long live, long live——!"

Zhu Youxiao gradually opened his eyes, glanced coldly at the crowd below, and said with a froze face, "What are you looking for?"

There was silence for a while, but Wang Zaijin, who just rushed to Nanjing yesterday, stood up and played:

"Your Majesty, we are here to divide the regions of Nanzhili, as well as the appointment and dismissal of officials from the third department of Jinling Province. Since we want to divide the provinces, we have to draw the boundaries in advance, appoint honest officials to the prefectures and counties, and settle down. .”

Zhu Youxiao laughed and said, "I see, let's all talk about it."

Appointment and removal of officials, promotion and transfer have always been the most complicated and difficult matters to deal with, especially this new provincial land, which is closely related to the interests of many families.

This kind of thing can't be delayed. A regulation should be made in advance to appease people's hearts as soon as possible, and officials should be sent to the local government to maintain law and order.

The emperors of all dynasties knew the disadvantages of Nanzhili. The reason why they did not abolish it was that they did not want to go beyond the ancestral system, and the second was that they did not want to touch the interests of the chaebols and become enemies of most officials.

Before coming, everyone had already discussed who would be the leader.

During this southern tour, the two most powerful eunuch officials in the cabinet, Gu Bingqian, who was older, stayed in Beijing, and Wei Guangwei, who joined the cabinet only two years after Tianqi, became a close minister.

Naturally, Wei Guangwei knew that this was a pleasant thing to say, but among those present, he was the only one who was the most suitable to say this.

He bravely stood up and spoke out the proposals for the division of provinces that had been drawn up by everyone.

"Your Majesty, Southern Zhili has a very large area. Only Jinling Province is established. I am afraid that it will be difficult to effectively manage it. I suggest adding Chuzhou to the four prefectures of Fengyang, Xuzhou, Huai'an, and Yangzhou to establish Jiangbei Province."

"Huaibei Haizhou is far away from Jinling, and it belongs to Huaiyan culturally, so it can be merged into Shandong Chief Secretary. As for Weizhou Prefecture, its location is prominent, and it can be divided into two, and merged into the jurisdiction of Jiangxi and Zhejiang Chief Secretary."

"The rest of the land has been re-divided into Jinling Province. This is the detailed division of Jinling Province. Your Majesty, please read it."

Said, Wei Guangwei slightly bowed his body, Wang Chengen entrusted him with a memorial and went to the imperial court.

Zhu Youxiao picked up the memorial and carefully compared it with the form and the map.

At this time, Wei Guangwei said again:

"Fengyang Prefecture, the central capital, can keep the emperor's mausoleum guards, and Jinling province will abolish the Xiaoling guards, and add the Xiaoling mausoleum guards."

"For former Xiaoling guards who want to return to their original places, the court will pay 20 taels of travel expenses in addition to repaying the previous years' salary. Those who want to continue fighting for the court will be assigned to other guards after the repayment of salary."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao suddenly said:

"The rest of Xiaoling Guard's soldiers and horses should be sent to Xijiangkou and incorporated into Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army."

Wei Guangwei didn't know why His Majesty the Emperor took such good care of this newcomer who just finished the palace examination last year, but the golden words had been spoken, so he had no choice but to agree.

Chapter 323 The Jiangnan Camp

The reason why one more province is divided and some places are assigned to Jiangxi and Zhejiang is because more officials can be appointed.

With one more province, there will be a whole set of three-division system, and the various state capitals below will also be re-divided.

This can please most officials. After all, you can't always be an enemy of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. Killing is just an auxiliary means, and the main thing is to balance the interests of all parties.

Zhu Youxiao could also guess their thoughts, and he agreed in his heart, without showing any dissatisfaction. He turned his head to look at the others, and asked unintentionally:

"What about you, are you all thinking this way?"

The Duke of England and the Duke of Wei are the leaders of the nobles in the north and the south. The reason why Zhang Shize and Xu Wenjue came here on behalf of their father is actually for the reorganization of the guard later.

Whether they agree or not determines whether the reform of the guard can be carried out smoothly.

In terms of the division of provinces and the appointment and removal of officials, the interests of the nobles have little to do with them, and neither of them has much say.

The two looked at each other, but it was Xu Wenjue who stood up first, and said cautiously:

"Returning to Your Majesty, regarding this matter, I feel that the court should handle it with caution. After all, Nanzhili occupies a vast area, and improper handling will cause serious consequences."

Seeing that this guy had already spoken, Zhang Shize couldn't stay indifferent, he said:

"Your Majesty, I think so too."

Zhu Youxiao was happy in his heart. These two seemed to have learned the essence from their parents. Saying this opinion is the same as not saying it.

Zhang Shize is more simple and rude, and I am the same directly.

"Wang Zaijin, what do you think?"

Zhu Youxiao looked sideways, and didn't intend to ask any useful words from these relatives. Although he agreed with this opinion, he still needed to know what other people thought.

When the emperor, remember to be proud.

Wang Zaijin was noncommittal, and felt that such a division method was feasible.

In the end, Zhu made a decision by the school and issued an imperial decree today to re-divide the southern integration of Zhili into Jinling Province and Jiangbei Province, and the guards in various places will not change for the time being.

The Jinling and Jiangbei chiefs were set up to govern all places, and their officials were appointed from the five provinces of the Central Plains and Shuntian Prefecture.

As for the [-] selected officials for the big test, except for a few very special ones such as the former Nanjing Bu Shangshu Wang Yongguang, most of the rest were transferred from the south to the north.

Either go to Yunnan, Guizhou and other places in the southwest to accept orders in a crisis, or go to Shandong, Shanxi and other provinces where a large number of officials were killed in an earthquake in the Central Plains not long ago to fill in the vacancies.

It has been more than a year since the first batch of scholars went to the Southwest to give lectures.

Due to special reasons, Zhu Youxiao notified the Ministry of Officials and asked to select some outstanding talents from among them to fill the vacancies in Jinling Province and Jiangbei Province as officials in advance.

There are also cadres from all over the country, who are recommended or self-recommended by the local government, and who agree to the request after inspection by the cabinet and the military computer room, can submit to the imperial court for ruling.

If Zhu Youxiao thinks it is okay, these "officials" can go to Nanzhili to be "officials", which also gives hope to the local officials who could not become regulars.

This recommendation is also intentional. You must know that behind every recommended person, there must be a party, big or small.

What Zhu Youxiao did this time was to win over these local forces for his own use.

In short, ninety-nine percent of the officials in the newly established Jiangbei and Jinling provinces were able to become officials because of the benefits of Zhu Youxiao's policies of the emperor.

As soon as the policy came out, the previous wave of opposition to reform was almost reversed. Under the intentional or unintentional publicity, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty praised the emperor Zhu Youxiao's holy Ming Xiongduan.

The Supervising Department came to arrest the dismissed old Nanjing officials from the Wuxi Academy faction headed by Zou Weilian from Jiangxi, Xia Jiayu from Songjiang, and Jiang Yunyi from Jiaxing.

Tian Ergeng sternly counted three people in the street for the serious crime of demagoguery and intentional rebellion. He was sentenced on March 27, the third year of Tianqi, after the city.

The disciples and children of the three, who were close to the old nobles, were all pardoned leniently because of the benevolence of the emperor, and served the country.

Soon, it was spontaneously formed by the old Nanjing officials, and it became so powerful that the Wuxi Academy faction, which was in charge of the government, spontaneously disbanded under successive attacks.

Those "officials" who have been dismissed have become synonymous with waste. No matter in their hometown or in the officialdom, all of them can't hold their heads up, and they go home and stay behind closed doors.

As for the Tang Bin Yin Xuankun Party, which is still powerful in the DPRK and China, it is now in a slump, and its influence is greatly reduced.

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After the reform in Nanzhili, the political machines of the two provinces were in operation again, the interests behind the officials were reshuffled, and the people lived in peace as neighbors.

The affluent Jiangnan area will soon provide the Ming Dynasty with a huge income of real gold and silver.

Of course, there are some people who are not used to such a booming weather.

It's not that they don't want to revive the Ming Dynasty, it's not that they don't want Jiangnan to be "prosperous", they grit their teeth and hate that their own interests have been divided up by others.

Seeing the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and watching others counting money until their hands cramp, the original conservative forces in Nanjing became more and more gnash their teeth.

With the disbandment of the Wuxi Academy School, the old Nanjing officials disappeared, and the chaebol forces behind them gradually surfaced.

Although these people have lost their official spokespersons, they are still the most powerful in the local area. Regardless of their financial resources or power, they are enough to shake the rule of the imperial court.

There are also ministers of the Xuankun Party founded by Tang Binyin. The current situation is becoming difficult for them.

Many officials who had been severely punished for reform were fearful, and the interest groups behind them were more powerful than the chaebols in Nanjing.

These people are also worried, fearing that the emperor and the royalists will take the opportunity to attack.

Half a month after Jinling Province and Jiangbei Province replaced Nanzhili, a proposal was placed in front of Zhu Youxiao by Wei Guogong Xu Hongji.

The head of the honorary family in Nanjing suggested setting up a Jiangnan camp in Nanjing.

The Jiangnan Camp was actually a standing army that Zhu Youxiao wanted to set up and stationed in the suburbs of Nanjing in order to stabilize the situation in the south of the Yangtze River.

The northern brave guard battalion, as well as the Jiangnan battalion to be established this time, are all direct descendants of Zhu Youxiao.

They are not only the field army responsible for the security of the south, but also the "special forces" mobilized directly by the emperor alone, not under the Ministry of War.

This time the Jiangnan camp, Zhu Youxiao planned to divide it into three battalions.

One of the battalions specially selected those honorable children who had firmly supported him in the Funinghou rebellion to fill in the army and train them in person.

That's right, most of them are not officers, but soldiers. This is an army mainly composed of noble children.

The nobles of this battalion must also be loyal to the royal family. After they have made meritorious service in the Jiangnan camp, they can be incorporated into various guards to lead the army.

Apart from using the Yongwei Battalion and Shuntian Martial Arts Academy to fill the armies of various places with his direct line officers, Zhu Youxiao also needs to cultivate the lineage's honorable forces.

There are three battalions in the Jiangnan Daying Camp. Each battalion has 5000 soldiers each, with a total strength of about 5. After careful consideration by Zhu Youxiao, their base was chosen in Jiangning Town, [-] miles southwest of Nanjing. .

Huang Degong followed Zhu Youxiao for many years, and this time he was finally promoted by virtue of his military exploits, and was appointed as the chief soldier of the Jiangnan Daying Camp.

Zhou Yuji was transferred to Datong Town, where he served as the commander of Weiyuan Guard, a general of Datong Northwest Road, guarding the border, and personally leading an army.

As for Liu Yuanbin, Zhu Youxiao promoted him from the commander of the cavalry of the Yongwei Battalion to the commander-in-chief of the [-] Battalion of the Beijing Battalion, responsible for rectifying the Beijing Battalion.

The admiral of the Jiangnan Daying Xungui Camp is currently undecided, but Zhu Youxiao does not intend to let Xu Wenjue, who is currently the most popular in history, take the position.

With this layer in my heart, I am always worried.

For Wei Guogong Xu Hongji's place, he had to beat him hard and give their old Xu family some benefits so that he could shut up.

Chapter 324 secret decree?

Originally, almost everyone had no doubts about Xu Wenjue's role as the governor of the Jiangnan Camp, but now, the emperor's opinion is very vague, and things are developing in an unclear direction.

If the opinions are vague, it means that Xu Wenjue has no intention of being the governor.

Xu Hongji couldn't sleep all night, not knowing what he did wrong, which made the emperor feel suspicious again, and his son Xu Wenjue felt wronged even more.

Zhang Shize of the capital is much naive than himself, but why can he be reused, even taking the southern tour with him, when he can't even be the governor of the Jiangnan camp?

Unlike Zhang Shize, Xu Wenjue inherited at least half of his father's palace.