Qiming 1158

Chapter 900 Zhang Zhongyan expressed concern

As soon as the public opinion consultation room opened, the number of things to do in the Ming court skyrocketed.

Whether it is a big event or a small thing, I thought it was a small thing, but it was soon discovered that it was a big event.

While the officials couldn't bear it, Su Yonglin couldn't bear the huge workload.

So he had to formally set up an office team to assist him in handling the work to help him summarize the types of government affairs and prioritize them to improve his work efficiency.

So far, Su Yonglin can understand why Zhu Di set up a cabinet like this to lighten his workload.

It is indeed a very real need.

Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the prime minister and realized the sole rule of imperial power, so of course Zhu Di, as the successor, would not choose to return the power he had obtained to the prime minister, but he was very tired and did not have the strong energy and work ability of Zhu Yuanzhang, so he could only find another way.

And the Cabinet is the "road".

Now on Su Yonglin's side, the country still has a prime minister——

Zhao Zuoliang, as the head of Shangshu Province, is the prime minister in name.

It's just that Su Yonglin's prestige is too high, and Zhao Zuoliang is his relative, so the two do not separate each other, all power belongs to Su Yonglin, and Zhao Zuoliang is Su Yonglin's "split".

Su Yonglin has a series of reform plans in the future. There are currently no conditions for implementation, but there are still many things to do, so he also decided to set up an advisory cabinet to assist him in handling government affairs.

Originally, there was a secretariat in the General Affairs Bureau to bear such accusations. As time passed, the secretariat disappeared, and the cabinet came into being.

A group of young, capable and energetic newcomers were personally selected by Su Yonglin and incorporated into the cabinet to become his private secretary.

With the cabinet, Su Yonglin's efficiency in handling government affairs has been greatly improved, and he also has a special agency responsible for running errands, so he can still handle the sudden increase in government affairs.

If he can bear it, the imperial court can bear it, and if the imperial court can bear it, the Ming Kingdom can bear it.

In fact, the political reform of the Ming Dynasty has already begun at this time, whether it is the category of the imperial court or the category of the Renaissance.

It's just because Su Yonglin has completely overthrown the Confucian scholars in the Central Plains after launching a major purge campaign in several provinces, so this political reform appears to be smooth and unobstructed.

At least in the provinces where the purges and revolutions have been completed.

However, the reactionary forces in the Central Plains were not limited to Confucian scholars.

The Guanzhong area, an area where the reaction force of the entire Ming Dynasty is only slightly weaker than that of Shandong, is the target of Su Yonglin's next major purge and revolutionary action.

At the beginning, in order to conquer Guanzhong as soon as possible and control the military gateway of Guanzhong, Su Yonglin accepted a considerable number of old bureaucrats of the Jin State, and even some surrendered Jin State generals were also accepted by Su Yonglin, and they were allowed to keep the army.

After the establishment of the country, as time passed, Su Yonglin gradually wooed them with high-ranking officials and great wealth, and then used the reorganization and reorganization of the army as an excuse to let them give up the army.

No emperor can accept an army under their personal command, which Su Yonglin thinks this group of people can understand.

Su Yonglin gave them two choices, one is Zhao Kuangyin's model, and the other is Liu Bang's model.

Led by Zhang Zhongyan, the old officers of the Jin Kingdom would of course follow the trend of the times and choose the Zhao Kuangyin model instead of the life-threatening Liu Bang model.

They accepted high-ranking officials from the Ming court and gave up command of the army in exchange for political tolerance.

Su Yonglin gave them tolerance, took away their troops, and added some strong men to the Su Haisheng Corps stationed in Guanzhong, enhancing the strength of the Qilu Corps.

The old officials of the Jin Dynasty, headed by Zhang Zhongyan, have since lived a luxurious retirement life, and their descendants have entered the local government to work as a promise made by the Ming court to them.

Looking at the country, the proportion of old bureaucrats in Guanzhong is also the highest, even higher than in Shandong.

This of course also has some historical problems. For example, many officials of the Jin Kingdom fled to the Guanzhong area after escaping from the Kanto region. The Guanzhong area is their last fortress, and they attach great importance to it.

This also led to the fact that after the war, there were many relics of the old forces here.

At that time, Su Yonglin adopted a policy of tolerance for stability, which inevitably brought more problems.

Su Yonglin endured this situation for a while.

However, since the fourth operation group of the Skynet Army monitoring Guanzhong was fully rolled out in Guanzhong, there has been no shortage of black materials in the Guanzhong area.

In the first half of the second year of Hongwu, it was fine. From the second half of the year, the number of black materials began to increase. In the first half of the third year of Hongwu, there were more black materials.

It's just that Su Yonglin's energy was concentrated on the Yellow River project at that time, and he didn't pay much attention to it. When the Yellow River project came to an end, Su Yonglin realized that the problem in Guanzhong was not small at all.

Due to the lack of manpower, the construction of the Renaissance Society and the judicial construction in Guanzhong area lags far behind other regions. Except for some big cities such as Xi'an and Xianyang, where there are branches of the Renaissance Society and judicial bureaus, the administration of many other places is still maintained. status three years ago.

The existence of the Ming Empire here is mainly a military presence to ensure the military security of the Guanzhong area, while the political presence is not very obvious, at least not so obvious in the Guandong area.

Even the current Xixia is politically closer to the Central Capital court than Guanzhong.

There is also news that Xixia still protects a certain scale of commercial trade and political exchanges with the Southern Song Dynasty after being occupied in Guanzhong. Whether this has anything to do with some local officials in Guanzhong is also something worth considering.

Su Yonglin is very clear about this situation.

So after freeing up his hands, at the end of September and the beginning of October in the third year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin studied the security report of the Fourth Action Group of the Skynet Army on the Guanzhong area, and felt that it was indeed time to start attacking the Guanzhong area.

Some things never feel too late to do, only tomorrow will feel too late.

As for the issue of lack of officials, Su Yonglin still has to write to Xin Qiji, asking him, who is presiding over the transfer of qualified soldiers in the army to go to the local area, to break his liver for a while, lose a few more hairs, and select a group of excellent grass-roots officials for the Guanzhong area. Pull up the base layer.

The superstructure needs a solid grassroots foundation. Su Yonglin always cares about the safety of the grassroots.

If the grassroots level is safe and stable, there will be no problems at the top level. If only the high level is stable, the grassroots will not know what the chaos will look like.

Never underestimate the ability of bureaucrats to whitewash peace.

But no matter what, this is also at the point where the arrow has no choice but to shoot, and Su Yonglin estimates that even if he doesn't do it himself, the Guanzhong area would have been frightened to death.

In fact, this is also the case. Su Yonglin carried out anti-corruption campaigns in Shandong and Henan, and even spread the news that their protective umbrella was swept away in Guanzhong by the central government. Guanzhong officials were indeed horrified and scared to death.

Because the Guanzhong area was finally conquered by the Ming Empire, it was a typical underachiever, so no one could enter the real power core at all. Zhang Zhongyan, represented by Zhang Zhongyan, was given the false post of Taiwei. With a false name, it was the Ming Dynasty. Senior officials, even if the local people in Guanzhong have been dealt with.

But now Guanzhong people see that the bureaucrats in Shandong and Henan have died, even the central court has been killed, and the thousand-year-old Shandong tumbler Kong has been promoted by Su Yonglin, thinking that if his own affairs are discovered, the whole family will not go to the underworld to meet. Yama?
A bunch of people are scared!
How frightened?
Because Zhang Zhongyan is one of the old officials of the Jin Dynasty with the highest status in the Ming court, he is also invited to attend a banquet in Zhongdu every New Year's Day and have a cordial conversation with the emperor, so many people who have ghosts in their hearts write letters or visit Zhang Zhongyan in person .

After the establishment of the Ming Empire, Zhang Zhongyan was given a residence in Chang'an by Su Yonglin, so he also lived in Chang'an. His son Zhang Fu went to the military and served as the prefect of Ningzhou, which was an explanation for him.

Living in the prosperous Chang'an City is better for Zhang Zhongyan than living in the underdeveloped town of Rongzhou.

Not to mention that Zhenrongzhou has been stationed by the Ming army from the very beginning, and living in his hometown will give him a feeling of being closely monitored by the Ming army, and he will feel that there is no freedom, not as free as living in Chang'an City.

Because of this, Zhang Zhongyan's news is still well-informed, and Su Yonglin's series of actions in Guandong, he is one of the first people in the Guanzhong area to know.

For this matter, Zhang Zhongyan expressed concern.

(End of this chapter)