Daming: Dad, you are really not good at governing the country

Zhu Yuanzhang sat upright on the dragon throne, his majestic face was like a cold mountain, intimidating.

Zhu Yuanzhang slowly adjusted his dragon robe, his movements steady and powerful.

It seemed as if the atmosphere of the entire court became more majestic and solemn with his action, just like a judge in the future who was about to pronounce a major verdict.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were sharp as torches, and he slowly said, "I also know that the horse policy proposed by Minister Liang is indeed difficult to implement.

However, the matter of the war horses is now urgent and cannot be delayed!"

His voice was steady and firm, revealing unquestionable dominance, and echoed in the empty Fengtian Hall.

Liang Yesian hurriedly took a step forward and knelt down with a plop.

His movements were so smooth and his expression was so respectful, as if he was a believer meeting the Buddha.

He responded loudly: "Your Majesty, I know that the matter of war horses is of great importance. Although it is difficult, I will do my best."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly, and then said: "We have made up our minds, we can first select a few suitable places to try to set up breeding sites.

As for the matter of cultivating talents, we need to send someone to prepare for it and see what the results are.

As for the new situation at the Yansui Town Horse Farm, I will order Minister Tang to lead a team of elite soldiers to the horse farm immediately to cooperate with the Crown Prince to thoroughly investigate the matter.

My dear Lord Tang has always been calm and steady in his work and has great martial arts skills. I can trust him.

I believe that Lord Tang will live up to the court's trust!
We must find out who is behind this, get to the bottom of it, and make them give an explanation to the Ming Dynasty!"

Liang Yexian kowtowed again and responded loudly: "I will obey your order and cooperate closely with Lord Tang, even if it means going through fire and water.

I will do my best to help Your Majesty and will never slack off. Your Majesty, just wait and see."

After receiving the order, everyone withdrew and started to deal with related matters.

Zhu Yuanzhang watched the backs of everyone leaving, but his heart was still lingering with many worries about Ma Zheng's affairs.

He frowned slightly and thought to himself, "There are many horse breeding institutions in our Ming Dynasty, and they are supposed to perform their respective duties and jointly promote the development of horse politics.

But now it seems that there is a hidden danger of multiple policies being implemented.”

He turned to look at the eunuch chief Wu Cheng, and ordered, "Go, bring us the relevant files of the Imperial Horse Administration, Imperial Household Department, Imperial Horse Department, and Tea and Horse Department."

In less than half a cup of tea, the files were placed in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang flipped through the files of the Imperial Horse Administration, shook his head and sighed as he read them, "The Imperial Horse Administration is in charge of the royal horses, and is responsible for preparing for the royal family's travels, but most of the horses they produce are not used on the battlefield.

This was originally a move to safeguard the dignity of the royal family and the convenience of travel, but over time the Imperial Stables focused on royal affairs and gradually became disconnected from military-related horse-breeding matters.

The way and standards of horse breeding are very different from what is needed on the battlefield.

In addition, it is difficult to exchange information and collaborate with other horse breeding institutions.

What should we do if this continues? "

Then he opened the files of the Imperial Household Department and his expression became more serious.

"The Imperial Household Department was in charge of the horse administration in Southern Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Lianghuai, and Jiangnan regions, so its jurisdiction was quite large.

It stands to reason that with such a broad scope of responsibilities, he should be able to make great achievements in horse politics.

However, in its actual operation, Taipu Temple often needs to take into account the interests and needs of different places due to its vast territory and complex situations in various places.

This makes it difficult to unify the standards for the horse policy measures it formulates, and their implementation is also uneven.

Sometimes, in order to cater to the demands of certain local forces, some originally reasonable horse breeding plans had to be compromised, making the overall horse policy progress slow and lacking in coherence. "Looking at the files of the Yuanma Temple again, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but slammed the table and said angrily.

“This Yuanma Temple is in charge of the horse affairs in the four regions of Beiping, Liaodong, Gansu, and Shaanxi. It should have cooperated with the Imperial Household Department to jointly provide sufficient and excellent war horses for the Ming cavalry.

But the reality is that the two often have disagreements on key aspects such as horse deployment and breeding due to the interests of their respective jurisdictions.

For example, when it comes to the distribution of high-quality stallions, both sides hope to get more of them to their own areas so as to strengthen the local horse population.

This led to the neglect of overall planning from the perspective of the entire Ming Dynasty's military strategy, which often resulted in neither side being able to achieve the best horse breeding results, and also caused a waste of resources and internal friction. "

Finally, he picked up the files of the Tea and Horse Bureau and sighed helplessly: "We set up a Tea and Horse Bureau in the northwest region to manage the tea-horse trade system and allow the surrounding ethnic minorities to exchange horses for Ming tea.

This was originally a good way to supplement the source of war horses, but during its operation, the Tea and Horse Bureau often lacked communication with other horse breeding institutions.

Sometimes the horses exchanged by the Tea and Horse Agency had to be left idle or found other places because they did not meet the breeding standards of other institutions or were difficult to integrate into the existing breeding system.

When other horse breeding institutions were in urgent need of war horses, they were unable to obtain them in time through the tea-horse trade due to poor information flow.

As a result, this system, which was originally intended to help the development of horse politics, has failed to play its due role.”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed secretly: "These horse breeding institutions are like chess pieces scattered everywhere. They should cooperate with each other and play a powerful role in the big chess game of horse politics.

But now, due to the fact that each department has its own policy and multiple sources of power, the development of Malaysia's politics has fallen into many difficulties.

This is just like soldiers on the battlefield. If they fight on their own and do not obey unified command, it will be difficult to win even if they are individually brave. "

He knew very well that if he wanted to put the Ming Dynasty's horse policy on the right track, he had to solve the problem of multiple policies being issued by different departments.

It is only possible if all institutions can think and work in a unified direction.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but recall Zhu Gang's previous suggestion to set up a Horse Administration Office to manage all war horse affairs across the country.

However, since the salary reform of Ming officials, Zhu Yuanzhang has been determined to pursue a policy of "streamlining the administration".

If a Horse Administration Department is established, the treasury expenditure will inevitably increase every year, which is inconsistent with his current established policies.

For a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was in a dilemma and his brows couldn't help but frown.

Although Zhu Gang had already left the Fengtian Hall with everyone else at this time, his mind had not shifted away from the things happening in the hall.

Especially the incident at the horse farm reminded Zhu Gang of the previous siege of Prince Jin's Mansion by the evil cult forces, and his worries grew even more.

It was a night several months ago, and the Prince Jin's Mansion was quiet and peaceful as usual.

The guards in the mansion also performed their duties, patrolling and on guard.

But no one expected that a group of cult members dressed in black and masked would suddenly appear like ghosts.

They are swift and ruthless.

As soon as he got up, he ran towards the stables of the palace, as if he was well prepared.

Zhu Gang was handling military and political affairs in his study at the time. After hearing the noise, he immediately rushed to check it out with the Hidden Dragon Guards.

I saw those members of the Demon Cult fighting with the guards of the palace while trying to set fire to the stable.

Seeing this, Zhu Gang shouted loudly: "Guards, listen up, we must protect the stables and never let them succeed!"

(End of this chapter)