Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chen Bangyan actually read this map when he got it in the newspaper.

The map covers all the areas of the Ming Dynasty when its territory was the largest, as well as some surrounding countries, but uses color and text to distinguish the areas that are no longer under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The Daming control area is dark red.

Parts of northern Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beizhili, Shandong, Liaodong, and the former Nuer Gandusi were all dyed dark blue, and a clear and shameful "Puppet Qing Occupation" was written, which was also marked on Beijing "Pseudo-clearing and stealing data".

Among them, the central grasslands and the northern part of Nuergan were dyed light blue, with the words "Khalka Mongolia" and "Sauron" marked, and brackets marked "controlled by the puppet Qing".

In the large area of ​​the western grassland, it is marked in dark green, marking "Oirat Mongolian Tribal Alliance (Zungar Tribe is the leader)".

In the southeast part of Oirat bordering Ming Dynasty and the Puppet Qing Dynasty, there are "Seven Parts of the Original Kansai" and the names of some guards in Shaanxi and Gansu, indicating that Oirat has already eroded a lot of territory in the west of Ming Dynasty!
Below Oirat is the Yarkand Khanate, dyed white, and marked "vassal state" in brackets.

In the south of Yarkand is the "Heshuote Khanate (formerly Uszangdusi)" dyed dark purple.In other words, Daming Uzang is now occupied by new forces.

Then on the border of Yunnan, some prefectures and counties were dyed light red, indicating that "the chieftain is completely autonomous and is not under the control of the imperial court for the time being."

Going further to the south, it is "Vietnam (formerly Chief Secretary of Jiaozhi)" dyed gray, and parts of Myanmar (formerly Chieftain of Ming Dynasty).

Finally, there are some vassal states of the Ming Dynasty that are more peripheral, such as Korea, Japan, Ryukyu and some countries in Southeast Asia.

In short, judging from this map, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has shrunk by more than half compared to its heyday, and it has changed from a Great Ming to a "Xiao Ming"...

Chen Bangyan did not lament the changes in the territory of the Ming Dynasty anymore. His eyes mainly fell on the three provinces of Jiangbei, Henan and Shaanxi in the area under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of the content on the military page, he vaguely understood the imperial court's strategic deployment, and his expression couldn't help becoming more excited...

In the Forbidden City, the Cabinet, the Military Affairs Council, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Court of Justice, all officials from the seventh rank and above were issued a copy of the "Da Ming Pao" (ten days).

Among them, the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was designated by Aunt Zhu in the Wenhua Palace.

Of course, the Wenhua Palace is a building complex equal to the Wuying Palace. , Honglu four temples.

Speaking of which, among the original five temples of Daming, not only Dali Temple was removed because of the appearance of the Court of Justice, but the remaining four temples are also seriously short of staff, and everyone can see that Zhu Wei has no intention of making up for the lack of staff—at least not in a hurry.

Now the Metropolitan Procuratorate has more officials than before, so the yamen occupies the main hall and front hall of Wenhua Hall.

The value rooms of the left and right censors are all in the main hall, and they are actually one room.

The clerks who were waiting to do things put a copy of the ten-day issue of the Ming Pao on the desks of Jiang Yueguang and Gao Hongtu, and the two looked through it critically.

They only found out about Aimee Zhu's awarding Liu Rushi's promotion to the Propaganda Department yesterday.

This is because yesterday an eunuch went to various departments to hand down Zhu Yu's oral order, requiring officials above the seventh rank in Beijing to read the content of the three major pages of politics, military affairs, and culture in the ten-day periodical of "Da Ming Pao".

Otherwise, the two of them don't know when they will know about it.

Although according to the rules of the imperial court today, the procuratorate basically has no control over what orders the emperor gives, but after all, the two of them have experienced several emperors' veterans, and they are used to the way the Ming Dynasty operated before, so it is difficult to change their mentality for a while.

Therefore, the two of them were quite upset when Aimee Zhu granted Liu Rushi an official position and asked him to run the "Daming Daily".

That being the case, reading "Da Ming Pao" is naturally not pleasing to the eye.

No, Gao Hongtu shook his head and sighed as soon as he touched the newspaper, "Oh, it's just another mansion newspaper. I don't know how much money wasted to use such good paper and produce such exquisite printing."

Jiang Riguang on the other side also had the same thought. Hearing the words, he chuckled and added, "Maybe I asked the emperor to help a lot, and I don't know how much immortal veins and magic power the emperor has used."

Obviously, Jiang and Gao still regard the later generations as the fairyland, and Hao Guangming as the immortal.

If he was a person of later generations, he might suspect that he had come to the mythical version of Daming after hearing the conversation between the two.

Immediately, Gao Hongtu stared at the national flag of Ming Dynasty on the cover and said: "This newspaper prints the national flag and has changed so many, it must be approved by His Majesty, right? If that Liu Ru did it privately, I will definitely buy her a copy."

"It must have been ordered by His Majesty." Jiang Riguang said, opening the newspaper to read.

He had already known about the political "news" on the first two pages, and after reading it, he said: "The new policy can be implemented so well in Yingtian Mansion, and we all owe it to the procuratorate, but there is no mention of it. It seems that, That Liu Tiju didn't take my Metropolitan Procuratorate seriously."

"Whether or not this newspaper narrates our achievements is a trivial matter." Gao Hongtu took a sip of tea, and continued: "I see that His Majesty's confidence in the New Deal is more and more abundant in the words of this newspaper, but he doesn't know that the manpower and material resources of the imperial court are so mere. It is easy to do everything in one place.

But if the New Deal is extended to the entire Nanzhili and Chongqing provinces in another month, I am afraid it will not be so easy, and many problems will probably arise. "

Jiang Yueguang smiled and said: "That may not be a bad thing - at the time of introduction, we can just persuade His Majesty to cancel some of the new policies and focus on the old system."

Gao Hongtu also showed a little smile when he heard this.

The two of them quickly finished reading a page of military content.

Although they were dissatisfied with Aimee Zhu's drastic reform of the court system and the implementation of the New Deal, the two admired Aimee Zhu's achievements in military affairs very much, and they could even say they admired them.

Seeing the newspaper showing the court's determination to conquer Shaanxi, both of them felt that Captain Huai was old.

"It seems that you and I should be able to see the imperial court return to the capital in our lifetime." Gao Hongtu smiled while stroking his almost white beard.

Jiang Yueguang said: "It would be best to see the Qing captives wiped out, and there will be no Liao troubles."

Feeling better, the two then looked at the cultural content on the next page, and found that it was another vernacular article.

In this regard, the two have long been unable to complain—in fact, after Aimee Zhu succeeded to the throne, they strictly required that the documents and memorials submitted by various departments should not be nonsense, and should be concise and straightforward, and encourage writing memorials in vernacular.

Therefore, these two old ministers are now somewhat immune to vernacular articles.

As for the vernacular article on the cultural page, Jiang and Gao only looked at it, and they both showed surprise.

The title of the article is "What is Daming?"

The signature is "Emperor Guangming".

As senior officials of the Ming Dynasty, the two knew who the title of "Emperor Guangming" was. Out of awe of the immortals, the two immediately changed their minds and read this article carefully.