When Wang Yue returned to Kaifeng, the memorials of the warlords in the northwest who jointly requested the restoration of the prime minister system had been delivered to Zhao Huan. Of course, the latter would not have any other choice. Then, after careful consideration, the Emperor finally decided to restore the prime minister system.

At the same time, the King of Zhongshan was appointed as the prime minister.

Prime Minister Wang was also responsible for reorganizing the imperial system.

In fact, the court system must also be changed, after all, the court was also very embarrassed at this time.

Although Wang Yue was not in the capital during this period, those officials still have certain power, the local governments left behind by Wang Yue had the final say in the implementation of the Public Field Law. The latter has the right to mobilize the troops stationed, and is absolutely supported by the militia. Although he is not a court official, or a person left by Wang Yue, he is similar to his personal assistant.

But local officials have to listen to them.

And the imperial court actually couldn't do anything during this period.

After Wang Yue returned to the capital, they became even more decorations, but this decoration occupied a lot of fiscal expenditure.

It must be reformed.

As for Wang Yue...

Of course, I refused modestly!

But His Majesty the Emperor gave the order again sensibly.

Then Wang Yue refused again.

Then His Majesty the Emperor came to the door personally and went to the Zhongshan Palace to persuade him, and the representatives of the Four People's Congress also came to persuade him.

In the end, the King of Zhongshan finally accepted it.

As for the King of Wei, it was also reluctant to accept it, but it was still too exaggerated to use Hebei as the fief of King Wei. Therefore, under the insistence of the King of Wei, the Daming Prefecture was only used as the fief of Daming Prefecture. The revocation of Daming Prefecture was originally a temporary establishment when Emperor Zhenzong personally led the expedition. Later, due to the threat of the Liao Kingdom, it had to be maintained as the core fortress of Hebei. But now it is no longer necessary. The Song Dynasty no longer has the threat from the north, and the meaning of this Beijing no longer exists. Therefore, Beijing was abolished and the Beijing Palace was the Wei Palace, but officials from Hebei East and West Second Road and Jingdong East Road were selected by the Wei Palace.

Similar to King Pingxi.

Anyway, Hebei Second Road and Jingdong East Road have long been his territory, and even local officials have replaced him with his people during the last sweep of Hebei.

Now it is just to clarify the status quo.

In short, the Song Dynasty entered the era of Prime Minister Wang like this.

Then the court reform was followed, with all three provinces abolishing them, and the prime minister directly under the jurisdiction of each department. However, the original six department increased significantly, and the powers were divided. The Dali Temple was in charge of trial, and the Censorate came out to change it to the Censorate, and it was still in charge of supervision and investigation. It must be understood that this system itself is fine. The problem is that the news caused the censors not to be responsible.

They can make up stories to deceive political enemies.

It was a customary practice for the censors of the Ming Dynasty to hire people to spread rumors and then impeach a political enemy based on the rumors, and used this as a means of fame. Then they became a group of mad dogs who only knew how to bark and bite people but did not need to be responsible afterwards.

But this is not that the Censorate has no value, but in fact, the Censorate is essential.

Not only the Censorate, but also the Censor's Inspection System is also necessary. The Eight Prefectures Inspection System will never go out of date. In short, the Censor's Supervision and Inspection Commission will supervise and investigate, Dali Temple's trial, and the Ministry of Justice is in charge of criminal prisons, and the system of the three judicial departments is clear.

The three yamen and the Privy Council were all abolished, and then the Grand Governor's Office was established.

Of course, the Grand Governor is Wang Yue.

The Grand Governor's Office has various departments, including general staff, logistics department, etc. Anyway, they are all Wang Yue's absolute confidants.

It's just a little more troublesome place.

But this can be left unchanged and the old system will continue to be adopted.

After all, most of the public land laws in the south have not been completed, as well as the special circumstances in Shaanxi and Hedong, and the special features of the King of Wei. These can be solved slowly in the future. Now we will solve the problem of the court first. The local governments have to wait until the public land laws are completed.

There is also the imperial examination.

This must also be solved.

You should know that since Wang Yue was in power, the Song Dynasty had not held the imperial examinations. In recent years, Wang Yue promoted the new people added to the court and local governments, and these people definitely did not include the south. In order to appease the young people in the south, an imperial examination was inevitable. The new imperial examinations are definitely divided into subjects, including the six subjects of culture, agriculture, engineering, soldiers, medicine and business, and the selection of juren from all over the country is also divided into subjects. As long as those who know literacy can participate, they do not have many requirements for literary talent, and they can be smooth in literature and science.

But the expertise must be strong enough.

This reform did not cause much trouble, after all, scholars in the Song Dynasty still had a wide range of knowledge.

Especially those who are very clear that they do not have enough literary talent and are difficult to pass the exam according to the past system, but the new system is very promising. They actually support this reform.

Even if you pass the Jinshi, you can only be a secondary official, or even a Jinshi in the military department can only go to the army to do some civilian positions.

but.

After all, I have an official position.

Just as Wang Yue carried out his reforms drastically, his expeditionary fleet arrived at Sanfoqi and successfully persuaded Sanfoqi to rent the Dragon Ya Gate to the Ming Dynasty.

As for how to persuade, there is no need to worry about it.

Just rent it anyway.

In fact, this fleet can be said to be powerful in the South China Ocean. After all, the indigenous people in the South China Ocean have never seen firearms at all, let alone hundreds of artillery shooting scenes. They are afraid of their sacred weapons wherever they go, and even regard them as magical weapons. In this case, the Three Buddhas are not qualified to resist, and they just disagree. Even if this fleet lives under the Longya Gate, they are not able to drive them away, and the surrounding countries will join the banner of the Ming Dynasty without hesitation to attack them.

But there was a pirate attack...

"pirate?"

Prime Minister Wang said with interest.

"It is actually the pirates, but they should be instructed by the Dashi merchants. They have all the countries along the way, and rely on faith to form alliances. Our arrival scares them. After all, those who follow us in the past must be our merchants. The trade they owned in the past cannot be kept, but they dare not go against us openly, so they will not be able to trade in our ports, so they can only hire pirates.

Fortunately, these pirates were all mobs. They gathered hundreds of small boats to attack our patrol warships, but were killed and injured by artillery shotguns, and finally fled in a hurry.

But these pirates are very troublesome.

The Three Buddhas should have secretly colluded with them.

The two sides of the Strait of Malacca are full of ports, and after they get ashore, there are swamps. As long as they go in, we can't chase them anymore. The swamps are full of poisonous snakes and beasts, and those who are not familiar with them are dead ends. My subordinates suspect that they just want to use this method to block our merchant ships from passing. As long as our merchant ships cannot pass, the Dashi merchants can continue to control this route with the Sanfoqi people.

At present, we are using warships to escort merchant ships through the straits.

After leaving the strait, it will be safe. The small boats of pirates from the sea are useless and cannot be used to flood our merchant ships. The large number of pirate ships cannot defeat our merchant fleet even if they have a small number."

The Nanyang Xuanwei envoy sent by Wang Yue was actually one of his students, Yang An said.

He had just returned from Nanyang, and the tribute envoys from various countries returned together. The deterrence of this fleet's journey south made all countries remember their obligations as vassals.

Chameng, Boni, Shanma Ling, Sanfoqi, and Zhenla all sent tribute envoys.

"Then we can only increase our troops."

Wang Yue said.

This is bound to happen.

Now we are fighting for control of the Strait of Malacca, but neither the San Foqi nor the Dashi merchants dared to openly attack the Ming Navy, so they would be done.

It’s not that they are afraid of being destroyed by the Ming Navy, but that the Song Dynasty will ban them from trading.

Stopping this kind of trade would at most suffer some losses for the Song Dynasty. Even if there is no overseas trade, it would be no big deal. For the Song Dynasty, overseas trade was just a supplement, not to mention the land trade on the Silk Road, and even the Yunnan route to bypass Malacca. However, at that time, it was a complete disaster for the San Foqi and these great food merchants.

So you can only play pirates.

Since they are playing pirates, we should continue to increase our troops.

"But if the increase in troops is spent too much money, our purpose is to control the trade line. However, if the profits that the trade line can bring are lower than the cost of the garrison, it will be more than worth the loss."

Yang An reminded him.

"I didn't say that I would increase the army."

Wang Yue said with a smile.

"There is a picture here. If you take it out, you will say you have inspected it, and then you will promote it through those newspapers."

Then he handed a map to Yang An and said.

The latter quickly opened it and looked at the things marked on it in shock, such as gold mines, tin mines, copper mines, oils and even gems that have become more and more famous in recent years. In short, they are all the most golden lights in front of them, and are densely filled with this map...

"Master, we have to give them something to see after all."

He took a deep breath and said.

He already understood that Wang Yue's purpose was to use these things to arouse the madness of private investors, and then, like those development groups that developed and sought, formed an armed development group for the benefit of going to Nanyang. As for the things marked on it, it is likely to be written casually. But these investors are not stupid. If they want to invest, they must first have a real one and one that they can see, so that they will believe the rest, and then, driven by interests, join the business of developing Nanyang.

And it must be huge profits.

Such development will cause death. Although the fleet has medical and health care, soldiers still continue to suffer from illness and die from combat at Longyamen.

It is difficult to make investors tempted without huge profits, but as long as they are moved, it will be easy to do. They will swarm like a shark smelling blood. As long as tens of thousands of immigrants surge in Southeast Asia, these immigrants will build strongholds and eventually set up a safe route throughout the strait.

It is indeed a money-consuming garrison.

But armed immigration development is to make money.

"Uh, do you think I'm a lie? I can guarantee that these things are real. The location of my drawings may not be accurate, and many of them are actually not worth developing at present, but I can guarantee that they are all real. But what you are right. If you want them to run to the South China Sea, you need a real thing after all. Then, this kind of good thing will help you. Go here, set sail from Longyamen and sail north along the coast for 600 miles. There should be an estuary with several islands outside."

Wang Yue pointed to the map and said.

"It's true, it's still a big river, but it's sparsely populated."

Yang An said in a rough location.

"Then go to the upper reaches of this river, which is about fifty miles away. Then clear the trees on both sides of the river, dig the ground and search downwards. You will find endless tin, which is probably impossible to dig for hundreds of years."

Wang Yue said.

In fact, there is no need to go to Kuala Lumpur.

The Klang River is full of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Hibiscus to the south, Malacca to the north, and Pili to the north, all of which are simi pits.
To be continued...