Iron Dynasty

In the imperial study room, the Minister of Cabinet Jiufu stood behind Xiao Ming and looked at Xiao Ming who divided the administrative regions on the map of the empire.

After the Tubo envoys handed in their credentials and left, they were called by Xiao Ming to the Yushufang to formally prepare for the new administrative area.

In fact, they were already formulating the corresponding administrative regions before the Battle of Tubo began. Now, after Xiao Ming's final decision, they have finally finalized it.

"This time the Tubo envoy came, why did the emperor designate it as an autonomous region? Don't you worry about the Tubo rebellion in the future?" Fiji was suspicious when meeting with the Tubo envoy, and now finally couldn't help but say it.

Pointing his finger on the Tubo plateau, Xiao Ming said: "Autonomy is only to appease the Tubo people. It is easy for Tubo to submit, but it is difficult to manage them. Therefore, rather than sending empire officials, it is better to select officials directly from Tubo for management. , And then let these officials come to the Qingzhou Institute of Political Affairs to study regularly, and slowly assimilate the Tubo people under such subtle influence."

After clearing his throat, he continued: "Moreover, Tubo's military power has been lifted. With imperial troops stationed, they can't make any waves."

Fiji and others nodded when they heard the words, and Pang Yukun said: "Governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food. There are some things that can't be rushed. Now the Tubo industry has been incorporated into the empire. Don't overdo it and let it repeat."

Briefly mentioning the administration of Tubo, Xiao Ming turned around and said, "All the administrative areas are on it. Take a closer look."

According to his ideas, the administrative division of the empire is somewhat similar to that of the contemporary Ming Dynasty, but not the same.

Roughly speaking, he divided the empire into two directly-affiliated provinces and eighteen ordinary provinces. The two directly-affiliated provinces are the southern and northern provinces. The northern provinces include contemporary Beijing, Tianjin, and most of Hebei. And Henan Province, a small part of Shandong Province.

The southern provinces include contemporary Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shanghai. These two provinces are directly under the jurisdiction of the capital.

In addition, other provincial units include Shaanxi Province, Shanxi Province, Shandong Province, Henan Province, Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, Huguang Province, Sichuan Province, Guangdong Province, Fujian Province, Guangxi Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, Ryukyu Province, Korea Province, Kanto Province, Kansai Province and the newly attached Tubo Province.

As for Australia, which was just captured, he hasn't been in a hurry to be included in the empire provinces list, because now the empire's sphere of influence is expanding, and it will not be too late to compile it until the dust settles.

Looking at the division of provinces on the map, the ministers took the booklets and wrote them down.

Sitting in a chair and drinking tea leisurely, Xiao Ming continued: "Each province has one provincial capital, Shangzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xiazhou. You can discuss the details yourself, and I will not participate."

This time Xiao Ming did not plan to change the state into a city. The divisions of Shangzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xiazhou in the country have been followed. Shangzhou is equivalent to the provincial capital, Zhongzhou is equivalent to a prefecture-level city, and Xiazhou is equivalent to ordinary city.

The chief executive of each state is still called the governor. The difference is that after detailed government affairs, in addition to the official governor, each state has six deputy governors. These six deputy governors manage different aspects of a state, similar to Small six.

The administration of government affairs in the provinces is similar to that of the state. The highest official is the inspector, and there are six deputy inspectors in charge of different government affairs.

In addition to government affairs, both provinces and prefectures and counties have supervisory offices, and state supervisory offices are directly under provincial supervisory offices, and so on.

"Yes, the emperor."

The Nine Ministers also said that the political reforms this time are not unambiguous, and the empire's political affairs will be completely new after the reforms.

However, they also understand that after this reform, the empire’s government affairs will be more systematic and regular in the future. After all, with the development of the empire, government affairs will become more complicated with the increase of industries. In the past, the era when the governor did everything alone was one. Gone forever.

After all, it is limited to one's own knowledge, and many provincial governors are ignorant of some things, and this also means that more and more students graduating from college will enter the government system.

After explaining the affairs of the government affairs reform, Xiao Ming suddenly felt relieved. The military reform and the political reform had been weighing down on him.

After all, the empire is developing too fast. In order to adapt to this change, he has continuously adjusted the government and the army over the past few years. Such reforms are very troublesome.

But different from the previous military and political reforms, he will do it once and for all after this reform. After all, these two are inexhaustibly close to contemporary.

Even if the empire develops rapidly in the future, only fine-tuning is needed, and major changes are not needed.

Therefore, since then, he can concentrate on external affairs, and government affairs can operate according to the mechanism he promulgated.

After the ministers finished copying the map and left, he and Qian Dafu began to study the map again. At this time, he pointed his finger at the island group on the southern side of Australia. "This place is called New Guinea, and there is a huge copper on it. mine."

Qian Dafu’s eyes formed a line of laughter. As a person with a huge influence on the Minerals Department, Qian Dafu is very sensitive to minerals. He is very happy every time he hears about a new mineral area.

"If this is the case, let the Minerals Department look for it." Qian Dafu can't wait. After all, the empire is short of copper now. With the development of the machinery industry, all walks of life have a great demand for copper.

Half a month later, Lei Ming stationed in Australia received an order from Xiao Ming. This order made him send a small team to **** the members of the Minerals Department to the island of New Guinea. According to their understanding, there are some on this island. Many local indigenous people.

At the same time, along with this order, he was required to attack the British colony in Indonesia.

Although most of Indonesia belongs to the Netherlands ~www.ltnovel.com~, it has been taken over by the British over the years.

"Hey, the order has finally come, and now I have work to do." Shi Yanjun was in a good mood, and the battle report sent by Thunder had already been answered.

In terms of rewards for meritorious deeds, the generals and soldiers who made the contribution this time all got the corresponding estate in Wales.

Now he and Lei Ming are in their own manor. This manor used to belong to an English nobleman. After the nobleman escaped, there was no one to take care of it.

So he bought a hundred Welsh slaves with a thousand dragon coins, and let these slaves manage the manor for himself.

Lei Ming also likes this independent continent on the ocean a bit now, so after Shi Yanjun used his merits and dragon coins to purchase the manor, he spent a sum of money to buy the ranch. As a native of Youzhou, he always wanted to have his own ranch.

Now he finally got his wish. He thinks that when he is on vacation, he will be able to go here on horseback and herding sheep and live a leisurely life, but he probably still has a lot of battles to fight before that.