Royal Palace.

As the imperial physician left the Ganqing Palace, Fang Shiyu stood by Zhu Yuanzhang with a serious expression. At this time, it was time to look at his status.

In the entire Ganqing Palace, except for Zhu Yuanzhang and Fang Shiyu, only a few eunuchs and palace maids who served were left.

Isn’t it a dream for others to see Zhu Yuanzhang at this critical moment?

"Ahem, ahem!"

Zhu Yuanzhang coughed twice and slowly opened his eyes. For some reason, Zhu Yuanzhang reached out and turned around in front of his eyes, and then laughed and said, "Brother Fang, Boy Fang!"

"Old Zhu? You are so awake, you're almost taking the medicine!"

Fang Shiyu hurriedly stepped forward and helped Zhu Yuanzhang get up, and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang with the half-cold medicine soup.

He took the porcelain bowl directly from Fang Shiyu's hand and drank it all in one go. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It feels pretty good."

"Have your eye disease cured?" Fang Shiyu was shocked. He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes turning, like a dragon and a snake, and said with a wry smile in his heart.

Nodded slightly, Zhu Yuanzhang said, "How long have I been in a coma?

"Half-day."

"Don't waste time here, it's just that the sun is still there. I'm going out to bask in the sun, and you'll deal with all the political affairs when you go back."

Zhu Yuanzhang drove Fang Shiyu out of the Ganqing Palace after a few words.

Eastern Palace.

Fang Shiyu stood in the study. At this time, Zhao Mian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, came to the study and said to Fang Shiyu: "Your Highness, will the court meeting be held today?"

"Of course, when is it now?"

Fang Shiyu took a look in confusion. Of course, the court meeting could not really stop. It was not the dispute meeting at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The court meeting at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty still had extremely high efficiency.

"The officials of each department have arrived, just wait for Your Highness to preside over the presidency!" Zhao Mian bowed and said that hesitated for a moment.

Fang Shiyu said: "Okay, you go back first. I can't wear a regular outfit. Change your clothes and go now!"

Because Fang Shiyu was wearing very plain clothes when welcoming Mu Ying today, she could not appear at the court meeting.

Although Fang Shiyu was not the emperor, the burden of governing the country was the same as the emperor. Fang Shiyu's regulations were no different from those of the emperor. When seeing what foreign ministers wanted to wear, what generals should wear when discussing military situations, what civil officials should wear when discussing the policy of governing the country, and how to demonstrate the mighty and mightyness of the Ming Dynasty.

If these rules are together, Fang Shiyu will have to change her clothes more than ten times this day.

Zhao Mian bowed and said, "I'm going to leave!"

After a while, with the help of the palace maid, Fang Shiyu changed into a red dragon robe and came to the Eastern Palace Zhan Shi Mansion, bowed and said, "Everyone, sit first!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Everyone hurriedly bowed and sat down.

Fang Shiyu stepped forward, sat in the head, looked at the ministers and teachers in front of him, and spoke first: "Is there anything that the Six Divisions need to be discussed?"

Yan Zhen, the Minister of Works, stood up and said, "Your Highness, Xindu Construction and recruitment of merchants have been completed. A total of 700 households have been recruited. The Ministry of Works has provided construction drawings and sent more than 300 people to Peking for on-site surveys, preparing to start construction of Tai'an Prefecture!"

"The total bidding price for seven hundred households and one thousand engineering projects is 98 million taels, and the imperial court gives 4.4 million taels every year."

"Because it is to bring funds to the site, according to the project deadline, the purchase, labor, money and grain should be paid in the first three years by the merchant. At the end of the 29th year of Hongwu and the beginning of the 30th year of Hongwu, the first project payment was allocated!"

"There will be allocated every year for ten years. The court cuts off 58 million yuan of project funds, and will be paid in one lump sum after passing the acceptance!"

Yan Zhenzhi's voice was loud, and the entire Zhan Shi Mansion could hear it clearly.

Fang Shiyu nodded slightly and said, "Since the 30th year of Hongwu, the imperial court paid 4.4 million taels every year. In this case, there would be no financial pressure before Hongwu forty years. All the pressure was in the 41st year of Hongwu, and with all projects being accepted in one lump sum!"

Fang Shiyu thought in his mind that in the 41st year of Hongwu, he would have to pay 54 million taels of project funds for Tai'an Prefecture in one go, which would be a great test for the court's finances.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang was not dead after all, Zhu Biao did not ascend the throne, and the year name was not changed, so the chronology of the year naturally had to be calculated according to the unlimited Hongwu.

After looking at Zhao Mian, Fang Shiyu said, "Is there any difficulties in the Ministry of Revenue? Although the imperial court's acceptance is extremely strict, it cannot be refused payment by failing."

"Even if everything is not qualified, the court must prepare to pass all the qualifications and pay them all."

Fang Shiyu agreed to the businessman that as long as he passed the qualification, there would be no dirty things. Since he agreed, he naturally could not break his promise.

What's more, the merchant has a greater use in his hands. A Tai'an Mansion will leave nothing left to the merchant's bones. Isn't that killing the chicken to get eggs?

When Zhao Mian got up, Yan Zhen sat back.

"According to the fiscal budget, in the 26th year of Hongwu, three new crops were sown in Liaodong, northwest and south of the Yangtze River. If the yield per mu could reach ten to twenty stones, the tax revenue of the imperial court would increase greatly."

"In the 25th year of Hongwu, a total of more than 70 million mu of land were divided into total. The weather was considered good in various places, and there were no natural disasters except the Yellow River area."

"If this continues, in the 26th year of Hongwu, the surplus tax materials should be able to be around 10 million taels. With the abolition of the garrison, the new army will be recruited."

"The military military farmland returned by various places will also increase. According to the count, the land of the imperial village should reach 80 million and 30 million acres of farmland."

"The court's military expenditure is increasing every year. If there is a natural disaster, I'm afraid the court will become more difficult again."

Zhao Mian said it pertinently, and the Ming Dynasty still had many disadvantages, such as the ruthless killing of merchants, the plunder of the gentry class, and the local gentry class.

"Is it a reduction in military expenditure again? Don't say anything about this. I can't make the decision and I can't show you the memorial of reducing military expenditure to His Majesty."

Fang Shiyu pushed him cleanly. After all, he did not extend his hand to military power. The military expenditure and military pay were all handled by Lao Zhu. I wanted to modify it? Of course, Lao Zhu decided.

Fang Shiyu didn't want to reduce military expenditures. He should train troops vigorously now. When Lao Zhu Toubintian is in power, the military and political power will be in hand, and the court has almost recovered. It is time to show the sharpness of the Ming Dynasty to the people of the world.

Zhao Mian sighed. He was a powerful pusher who had been committed to reducing military expenditures. In fact, the streaming soldiers were all higher than the ninth-rank parent officials.

A small banner has a salary of more than three times that of an eighth-rank official, and the general banner can be comparable to the salary of a third-rank official. The total salary of the deputy chief even exceeds that of the second-rank official at the time.

In the eyes of civil officials, why can a group of stinky hills receive such a high salary?

It has to be said that although Zhu Yuanzhang's military reform was implemented step by step, it did not hurt his basic foundation, and even the quality and strength of the army had increased rapidly.

Most of the lower-level generals and officials are promoted to those who are strict with themselves, abide by military laws, have no faults, and are smart.

As the gradual popularity of new firearms, the Ming Dynasty's several frictions with the Tatars in the southern desert grasslands were all chasing the Tatar cavalry in the wild with extremely small casualties.

As the individual combat capabilities of soldiers improve, they also increase as the waters rise. The general flag, deputy general, and general are all under the official system, and are promoted from a certain place and placed in other troops for training.

After a few years of experience, those who can get promoted and raise their salary will continue to be investigated. Those who cannot get promoted and raise their salary will have bad records, and those who have bad records will be abolished from military status and regarded as deserters, and will be given major punishments. They will also restrict their descendants from getting fame and fortune in the exam.

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely sensitive to the army and naturally did not leak any water.

Fang Shiyu glanced at everyone and said, "For the military affairs, please postpone the subordinate. Mr. Li, who sent the imperial edicts to Xi'an, Taiyuan and Beiping, what did you say when you come back?"

Of course, the military affairs cannot be moved, and the status of soldiers must be improved to give them higher glory. After all, there is a folk song in China: A good man does not serve in the army, and a good man does not make nails. The best way to reverse this thinking is to make the treatment and opportunities of soldiers become more and higher.

As soon as Fang Shiyu finished speaking, Li Yuanming stood up and said, "Your Highness, King Qin, King Yan of Jin, have all received the imperial edict and moved their families."

"But the King of Qin seemed a little dissatisfied, but he did not refuse His Majesty's will. However, the King of Yan came here very readily."

"Zhu Laosi didn't say that, why haven't that boy Gao Chi come home yet?" Fang Shiyu hesitated. Zhu Gaochi gave him a letter and asked him to send someone to the Yan Prince's Mansion.

He reported his parents safety, but who would have thought that when Fang Shiyu got to the landing, Zhu Biao fell ill. After a lot of busyness, he forgot the letter in the end, and he could not even find it now, and he didn't remember it.

Li's original name shook his head and said, "Your Highness King Yan has not mentioned any words, but his team to go south is a bit strange!"

"Uh? What's strange about it?" Fang Shiyu asked in confusion.

Shaking his head slightly, Li Yuanming said: "There is also a monk wearing a black cassock in the southward migration team of King Yan. However, when His Majesty asked the monks to go to the vassal palace to engage in it, the empress did not interrogate too much!"

With his eyes fixed, Fang Shiyu sneered and said secretly: "Zhu Laosi, you are still not honest."

He nodded slightly and said to Li Yuanming: "Please sit down, everyone else, what else should I say? I will talk about this at this court meeting?"

The Minister of Personnel Zhan Hui stood up and said, "Your Highness, there is one more important thing, the need to be solved quickly!"

"I need to solve the problem when I am waiting for the battle? What's the matter?" Fang Shiyu hesitated.

"Because of the fact that the land acres entered the village, the local gentry and the gentry's power were greatly hit, and the local power was vacuumed, and a county government manages nearly a hundred villages."

"But the village is not in the city, and it is very difficult to manage. It's just that His Majesty has not decided how to delegate power. The local power has been hanging in vain for three years."

"National officials can still hold back now, but over time, there will inevitably be changes, and invisibly, it has increased the workload of county officials by dozens of times."

"The court's policies require county officials to go to each village to explain, which is a waste of political resources and time."

Zhan Hui said to the point.

The vacuum of power in rural areas has indeed been going on for a while. Fang Shiyu’s memorials criticized by the New Year were mostly murders in the village.

No one cares, no one governs, no one goes to do things, so there will naturally be more murder cases.

According to the Ming Dynasty law, no matter what crime the criminal is, as long as the death penalty is involved in beheading, the imperial court must retrial and the emperor must be criticized before the death penalty can be executed.

Even if a local official is a governor, he is a provincial parent, and he has no right to approve the death penalty for county officials.

"This is indeed a big problem and needs to be solved urgently. Is there any solution for the Ministry of Personnel?" Fang Shiyu frowned. He had studied it a long time ago.

The best way is to elections, but there will inevitably be rural bullies. The emperor is far away. Fang Shiyu can ensure fair elections near the capital and even within a radius of four or five hundred miles of the capital.

How can we ensure that elections across the country are fair?

The method of the Ministry of Personnel is very simple. The system of official positions is the same as county officials. The system of official positions is arranged uniformly, and the court appointed the village parents.

"Support the imperial court's rule in the local area, promote the imperial court's policies and develop local tasks!"

Zhan Hui had no novel solution. The official system was indeed a good solution, which could greatly solve the problem of local officials' solidification.

After Zhu Yuanzhang read "How to Cultivate Elite Soldiers", the Jinyiwei had more experience and experience in arresting corruption and other things. When the term of office of a transit official expired, he had to undergo inquiry on the Jinyiwei.
To be continued...