Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 482 Imperial meeting, grain dispute

The first year of Zhaowu, November [-]th.

Aunt Zhu convened a joint meeting of the Military Affairs Council and the Cabinet in the Hall of Martial Arts, mainly to discuss a series of matters in the northern provinces.

Participants, in addition to military affairs ministers (supervisors, assistant ministers), cabinet ministers (cabinet ministers, ministers, ministers), and the newly appointed governors of the five northern provinces.

After Fang Kongzhang entered the Hall of Martial Arts, he was not too surprised to see several rows of tables and chairs in the hall.

Although it was the first time for him to participate in the new emperor's imperial meeting, he had been reminded of some new imperial etiquette by the officials of the Ministry of Rites before, such as how to sit when attending the imperial meeting, what things need to be paid attention to during the meeting, and so on.

At this time, with a glance, he saw on the table on the right in the last row, a folding card with the words "Shandong Governor Fang Kongxuan" written on it. Not only was there a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on it, but even a cup of tea.

He walked over, did not sit down, but stood and greeted several people standing behind other tables and chairs.

Looking at the nameplates, these tables are all governors.

Sitting on his left is Yue Qijie, Governor of Henan, and Yang Wencong, Governor of Shanxi, in front of him. In addition, there are Governor Zhang Kuang of Northern Zhili, Wei Yinwen, Governor of Jiangbei, Lu Daqi, Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and Du Yinxi, Governor of Shanxi and Northern Zhili.

As for the cabinet ministers and ministers of military affairs in the front, they were too far away, so Fang Kongxuan didn't go to say hello.

"His Majesty is here!"

Following a long shout from the eunuch Si Li, Zhu Wei, who was dressed in the special costume of the empress of the Ming Dynasty, walked from the apse into the main hall of the Wuying Hall and sat on the dragon chair.

All the ministers walked from their seats to the center of the hall, bowed and bowed together and said: "See Your Majesty!"

"All the gentlemen are flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

When everyone returned to their seats, the eunuch at the ceremony shouted "sit down", and Fang Kongzhang waited to sit down, but they all sat upright.

"Today's meeting mainly discusses matters such as suppressing bandits, reassuring the people, and governance in the five northern provinces." Aimee Zhu clicked on the topic of the meeting as soon as she opened her mouth.

For Aimee Zhu, after the end of the Northern Expedition, she still occupied most of her time and experienced the affairs of the five northern provinces and the reform affairs of Southern Zhili.

As for the reform of the rural examination, which has caused scholars all over the world to discuss, it is just a matter of convenience.

It is also a "trivial matter" to use wisdom from one's side and establish the Daming Academy of Natural Sciences.

While this meeting is said to be about the five northern provinces, it actually also involved Sichuan, Nanzhili, and Huguang.

One of the most important things was that in early October, after Zhu Yuxi held a meeting with the cabinet to discuss, the two provinces of Nanzhili and Huguang were officially divided into four provinces.

Among them, Huguang was divided into two provinces, Hubei and Hunan, according to the experience of later generations and provincial boundaries. The governor of Hubei was Zhou Daqi, and the governor of Hunan was Yan Qiheng.

These two people were regarded as Du Yinxi's right-hand men in governing Huguang before. One is good at logistics scheduling and people's livelihood management, and the other is good at criminal names and peace of the people.

Southern Zhili is divided into a Jiangbei province, mainly under the jurisdiction: Fengyang Mansion, Luzhou Mansion, Anqing Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, Xuzhou, Chuzhou, and the provincial capital is Hefei.

Therefore, today's Southern Zhili actually has jurisdiction over: Yingtian Mansion, Taiping Mansion, Ningguo Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, Zhenjiang Mansion, Chizhou Mansion, Huizhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, Guangde State, and Yangzhou Mansion and Hezhou Mansion in Jiangbei .

Yangzhou and Hezhou in the north of the Yangtze River were not divided out because the administrative division cannot be completely based on geographical division, especially in ancient times when transportation was inconvenient—mainly to avoid the formation of local separatist forces and to facilitate The central government governs the localities.

At the same time, the south and north Zhili, as the places directly under the central government, were chosen in the most affluent places in the country in order to strengthen the weak branches and facilitate the central government to collect and allocate resources such as money and food.

What's more, if you look at it on the map, the area of ​​Jiangbei Province is not smaller than that of Nanzhili after the division, but it's just that the land is vast and sparsely populated.It will develop well in the future, the population will become denser, and the conditions in all aspects will not be worse than other provinces.

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Right after the meeting started, Fang Kongxuan looked at the huge video projection on the screen from time to time, and was shocked.

The video projection shows the scene of Chengyun Palace in Chengdu, Sichuan, not only the military ministers Li Yan, Qin Liangyu, and Ma Ke, but also the newly appointed Shaanxi-Gansu governor Chen Junchong, and Sichuan governor Liu Zhibo.

At this time, it was Chen Junchong who was speaking to the camera.

"I think that after the war in the five northern provinces, the first thing to do is to suppress the bandits - if the local bandits are not suppressed, so that the people can settle down and produce with peace of mind, there will be no way to talk about the security of the people.

However, today's bandits and bandits everywhere, except for the defeated Qing soldiers in the past, the rest should focus on recruiting.

Nowadays, the population of the five northern provinces is extremely scarce. Except for those who died in natural disasters and wars, many of them were reduced to bandits and wild people.

Only by recruiting these bandits and wild people and re-registering them as Qimin, can the population of the five northern provinces be restored as soon as possible. "

After hearing these words, no matter whether it was the Hall of Martial Arts or the Hall of Chengyun, they all nodded slightly.

Although there is nothing new about Chen Junchong's words, they are very correct and practical, and there is nothing to argue about.

However, then Chen Junchong made another suggestion that most people didn't think of or even knew about.

"Your Majesty, I think that in order to speed up the restoration of the reputation of the five northern provinces, high-yield grains such as super wheat, sweet potatoes, and corn should be given priority to the five northern provinces."

All the ministers were stunned at first, and when some of them who knew about the high-yield grain seeds reacted, they immediately started discussing.

The cabinet minister and Minister of the Ministry of Households, Zhang Youyu, was the first to speak out: "Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with giving priority to the five northern provinces, such as super wheat, but other grains that are also suitable for cultivation in the south should be given priority. Supply the southern provinces.

We all know that people's livelihoods in the five provinces are poor, household registration is not one in ten, and grain is given priority to the north. How can it be fully promoted?The harvest is bound to be slow and small.

Now our Ming Dynasty is still seriously short of food. Only by giving priority to the supply to the southern provinces and fully promoting it in the south can we increase the grain production of our Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, and there will be no more food shortages! "

When these words came out, many cabinet ministers from the south immediately agreed.

Chen Junchong frowned slightly when he heard this, and said, "Your Majesty, it is precisely because of the lack of population in the five northern provinces that it is necessary to use high-yielding grains to attract the people and speed up the restoration of people's livelihood.

Otherwise, it may take many years for the people's livelihood in the five northern provinces to recover. Wouldn't it be necessary to transport food from the south all the year round? "

Zhang Youyu said: "Didn't the north need the money and food from the south?"

As we all know, in the past, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Beizhili all needed to transport grain and grass from the south, because these northern provinces were border areas and were mainly used for military tasks.

Daming even used salt to mobilize merchants to transport grain to the frontier.

So although what Zhang Youyu said was not pleasant, it was the truth.

In fact, Chen Junchong is also from the south, but he has now been appointed as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and in his position, he must speak for the north.

So he said: "In the past, the mass production in the north could not be self-sufficient. Firstly, it was because the border troubles in the north could not be subsided, and the people could hardly produce with peace of mind; secondly, it was because there were no high-yield grains like today.

But now, these two things can be resolved. Of course, the imperial court should give priority to helping the five northern provinces resume production, so that the north can solve the food shortage as soon as possible and get rid of the excessive dependence on the south for money and food. "

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)