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Chapter 353 The Ruan family comes to envoy
In the spring of next year, new subjects will almost be re-opened.

Ming Dynasty also officially restored the tradition of one subject every three years.

Zhu Yijiong doesn't have much resistance to this, and he adapts to the material selection model of any era.

Even in later generations, there is no need to take the exam... Ahem, I won't say much.

The Ministry of Rites still adopts the unified roll method.

The Great Ming Dynasty has not yet been unified, and the combined actual population of Henan, Shandong, and Beizhili and Beijing may be just enough for one province.

So for the time being, there is no need to study in advance and divide the papers into North and South lists.

Zhu Yijiong thought for a moment and said: "This will be the case next year, but the North and South rankings will be restored in the next subject!"

Lin Jingyu, the Minister of Rites, was startled, thinking that the emperor was imitating the early Ming Dynasty, and then he raised his hands and said, "I obey the decree!"

Of course, Zhu Yijiong did not want to imitate Lao Zhu, nor did he imitate later generations who divided the papers into provinces. He simply used this method to encourage the excess population in the south to immigrate to the north.

Especially for those immigrants from the gentry class, it is more direct to take the scientific examination and become an official than any immigration policy.

As for whether it would be too unfair to the southern scholars, they already enjoy better educational resources.And compared to the grand strategy of the entire country, they can only tolerate it for the time being.

In addition to the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple Law Department reported that as the new year is approaching, crime rates in various provinces have increased significantly. Most of them are deception and abduction, while vicious cases such as robbery and murder have decreased.

This is normal. As the New Year is approaching, all kinds of monsters and monsters appear.

However, the decrease in vicious cases proves that Ming Dynasty’s New Deal reforms were not ineffective.

Zhu Yijiong said: "As this year's quarantine is approaching, the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple must still perform their duties and do not slack off!"

"I will obey your orders!"

Liu Shao, the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Nong Guangyuan, the censor of the left capital of the Ducha Yuan (there is also a censor of the right capital, and the censor of the two capitals is the Du Cha Yuan), and Zhu Yu, the minister of Dali Temple, immediately responded in unison.

These three agencies were the three judicial divisions in ancient times. Except for the investigation of some major cases involving factions, they were basically in the same spirit.

Zhu Yijiong added: "We also need to speed up the revision of "Da Ming Code". Please bring out the sample issue for me to review as soon as possible."

Naturally, the criminal laws of the Ming Dynasty still used the "Da Ming Code", and if the criminal law provisions in the "Da Ming Code" were strictly implemented, there would be no big problem compared with later generations, and they could also adapt to this era.

It's just that some details may involve harsh criminal laws and various unreasonableness. This is Lao Zhu's limitation.

This time Assistant Liang Wenxuan was responsible for revising the "Da Ming Code". He quickly came out of the class and said, "I obey the decree!"

The chief officials of each ministry reported in turn, and even the Ordnance Bureau also gave a few symbolic reports.

In addition to the current production of armored guns and artillery, the assembly lines and military workshops set up in various provinces, and the next recruitment plan, the corresponding armored guns and artillery have also begun to enter mass production.

It will never delay the recruitment progress of the Privy Council.

The Privy Council is about to start a new round of recruitment. The number of regular troops in the Ming Dynasty's new army has reached ten armies and 30 troops.

But compared to the entire world, this number of soldiers was still not enough, so after the Privy Council submitted the budget application, they formulated the next round of recruitment plans.

It was initially decided to recruit three armies, plus [-] dragoons.

At the Nanjing Horse Farm, the Marwar horses purchased from India have gradually matured and can now be used to train dragoons.

This is why Chen Ji complained that the financial expenditure for the reserve force was too high, because the Privy Council would soon raise another [-] troops, including [-] dragoons.

Even if they are selected from the reserve force, the money and food spent is not a small amount.

Chen Ji suddenly went out again and said, "I would like to ask Your Majesty, next spring, will you select beautiful girls from all provinces again to fill the harem?"

But she came to persuade the emperor to choose a concubine. After all, the emperor had not chosen a concubine for more than a year.

The Ministry of Revenue is the department responsible for selecting concubines for the emperor, so naturally it has to come out from time to time to mention it, even if it is useless.Because this is a duty, if you don't mention it, you are not fulfilling your duty.Zhu Yijiong said: "This matter can be discussed later, but is there still a memorial?"

The emperor's choice of concubine was of political significance rather than practical, but today the general trend has been decided, there is no need for him to have a concubine every few years in order to win over the local gentry and wealthy families.

Otherwise, the emperor's concubine would be too worthless.

As for the heir, the queen gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor, and the new concubine Yao was diagnosed with pregnancy last month and has been visiting the other concubines frequently in the past few months.

There is absolutely nothing to worry about.

Chen Ji cupped his hands and said, "I have nothing to do!"

After the reports from all ministries and departments are completed, the regular meeting of the DPRK is over.

At this time, Wang Li suddenly came out of the class and stood up and said: "I would like to invite your majesty. Now that Beizhili has been restored, should we discuss moving the capital?"

After hearing this, Zhu Yijiong thought seriously for a while, shook his head and said: "North Zhili has been newly restored, but the northern region is dilapidated and has a lot of waste waiting to be revitalized. Moreover, the national treasury is empty. Moving the capital at this moment is really a waste of people and money, so let's discuss it later!"

It is indeed not suitable to move the capital now. Although Beijing has already taken possession of it, not to mention that Yongping Prefecture has never been occupied. Most of the entire Yongping population has fled, and even the prefect is missing. It is completely anarchic.

At this time, when the capital was moved, heavy troops had to be deployed in Beijing, just like the Northern Song Dynasty in the past.

Moreover, the entire Northland was too severely damaged by the war. The land was vast and sparsely populated, and the people's livelihood was in decline. It would take time to recover.

Moving the capital does not mean moving the city there, the emperor just needs to live there.

The population must be relocated to build the urban economy and form a unique capital city economic circle to maintain the normal operation of the capital.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu wanted to move the capital from Nanjing, but at that time the population loss in the north was so severe that Lao Zhu created a North-South List to specifically take care of candidates from the north.

Later, Lao Zhu spent 30 years continuing to immigrate to the north. It was Zhu Di's turn to finally move the capital to Beijing.

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Today's Annan is divided into two dynasties: the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Southern Dynasty is the Quang Nam Kingdom of the Nguyen family (also called Nguyen Phuc family), and the Northern Dynasty is the Hou Le Dynasty, a puppet regime supported by the Zheng family.

The current reigning king of the Later Li Dynasty is Li Weichu, also known as Li Weizhen, and the actual ruler of Zheng is King An Zhengfan.

After the death of Lord Zheng, the temple name was Xizu, and was mistakenly written as Xizu by later generations.

Zheng and Nguyen fought seven times between 1627 and 1672, but they were unable to win over each other and finally reached a settlement.

The two sides demarcated Jiang (Zhengjiang) as the boundary, and Zheng and Ruan each took charge of one side. It was said in history that "it was the north-south annihilation of troops."

In the later Li Dynasty, that is, the Zheng family obtained the legal power of King Annan by establishing the Li Emperor and paying tribute to the Manchu vassal.

This resulted in the Ruan family being always ranked [-]% lower than the Zheng family in terms of righteousness.

Twenty years ago, Nguyen Phuc Wei sent an envoy to Guangdong to request for canonization by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but was rejected by the Manchu Qing Dynasty on the grounds that Guangnan Kingdom was the territory of Annan.

Now, Ruan's ship docked in Guangzhou again.

This time, Ruan Phuc Wei can be said to have shown sincerity, but the person who came to envoy was his eldest son, Ruan Phuc Thu, the great prince of Zhangqi, who was also the next lord of Quang Nam.

He also has the title of Taoist Yunquan, just like his father, who is called Taoist Tianzong, the Lord of the Country, and then there is Taoist Tzu Chi... Starting from Ruan Fuwei, and for the next three generations, they are all fighting Zhenla.

Nguyen Phuc Thuy received Gia Dinh and Ha Tien, his son Nguyen Phuc Thuy got Vinh Long and My Di, and his grandson Nguyen Phuc Quoc got seven Chenla provinces including Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Kampot and Kampong Som.

It's just that Nguyen Phuc Kuo was a tyrant. Although he completely defeated Chenla and turned Chenla into a de facto vassal state of Quang Nam Kingdom, he was greedy for pleasure and expropriated excessively, which eventually triggered the future Tay Son Army uprising.

The Ruan family and the Zheng family, who had been fighting for hundreds of years, were killed in one pot.

When the governor of Guangdong received the news of the Ruan family's envoy, he naturally did not dare to neglect it and hurriedly reported to Nanjing. At the same time, he made arrangements for the Ruan family's envoy to go to Nanjing for pilgrimage.

(End of this chapter)