But this does not affect Zhu Youxiao's continued use of eunuchs who know everything.
Lu Jiude, the founder of the Guards, was appointed by him as the new governor of Northeast China, with military and political power over the five chief secretaries of Beishan, Andong, Liaodong, Chahar, and Horqin.
Why should the jurisdiction of the Northeastern Governor be so large?
Because except for Liaodong, which is highly developed, these places are all barbaric lands that have not been developed and constructed on a large scale.
Although the jurisdiction is so large, the population under its jurisdiction is not as large as that of a governor of Henan.
However, this does not mean that places like the Northeast are unimportant.
For Zhu Youxiao, these places will be very important at least in the future, so he will not abandon them, and has even been sparing no effort to Chineseize the original inhabitants of these places and establish an actual governance system.
The reason why he asked Lu Jiude to become the governor of an external dynasty was because Lu Jiude was an eunuch and had no heirs or relatives. Let him be the king of the Northeast and he would not become a separatist regime.
Now Zhu Youxiao has carried out new reforms in the entire Ming Dynasty's administrative system.
In the previous Ming Dynasty, governors and governors were not completely fixed as the highest local official positions, but were temporary officials sent to the local areas by the central government.
When Zhu Yuanzhang set up local administrative powers, he only paid attention to the decentralization of power. He divided a province into three power agencies: the Chief Department, the Inspectorate Department, and the Metropolitan Command Department, which were respectively responsible for the three powers of civil affairs, judicial prisons, supervision, and military.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not notice that once major events such as civil unrest and natural disasters occurred in a local area, without a senior official to coordinate all affairs, many affairs would not be handled properly, and there would even be mutual blame-shifting, which would delay the quelling of civil unrest and disasters.
Therefore, the later central court had to dispatch governors, governors, admirals, and finally managers and supervisors to coordinate the military and political affairs of one or several provinces.
Gradually, because of the constant civil unrest and disasters in some places, such as Jiangxi, southern Jiangxi, and Jiangxi, where bandits continue, and there are constant foreign invasions in border towns, some governors and governors have gradually changed from temporarily dispatched to permanent ones, and even to permanent ones. Now there is a trend that the governor is the auxiliary and the governor is the main one.
Zhu Youxiao also followed this trend and formally issued an order to clarify the powers of governor, governor and admiral, abolished the temporary dispatched positions of manager, governor and prime minister, and divided the country into two capitals and twenty-three provinces, that is, in the original On the basis of the thirteen chief secretaries of the two capitals, ten were added, and the chief secretaries were renamed provinces.
The governor coordinated daily civil affairs, judicial prisons, supervision and other matters. The patrol camp was similar to the public security of later generations, so it was also under the jurisdiction of the governor.
The governor-general, as the military and political head of a local province or several provinces, is responsible for decision-making.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao also asked the local provinces that had not built governor's yamen to immediately apply for funding to build governor's yamen.
It was against this background that Lu Jiude became the governor of Northeast China.
The current emperor Zhu Youxiao basically directly holds the governor and governor accountable for what happens in a place, using internal wired telegrams to communicate, and the administrative efficiency is not slow.
Of course, these governors and governors did not dare to deceive their superiors and subordinates, because the emperor's spies were always everywhere and could be quickly known to the emperor through wired telegrams.
Many times, even before the governor and governor knew about some things that happened in the local area, the emperor already knew about it and even sent a telegram to ask the governor, but the governor was still confused.
The central administrative system had already been changed by Zhu Youxiao into the Cabinet and the Privy Council of the Metropolitan Governor's Office.
The cabinet has been regarded as the highest administrative organ of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao has transferred all powers of internal affairs to the chief minister of the cabinet. As long as it is an administrative order, Zhu Youxiao basically approves all administrative orders, so that the chief minister of the cabinet still has the power of the prime minister even though he does not have the title of prime minister.
It's just that the cabinet is no longer responsible for military aircraft.
Military aircraft matters are the responsibility of the Privy Council.
The two do not belong to each other.
The chief minister of the cabinet and the privy envoy will also serve as the assistant minister of the political affairs hall, and they often discuss matters with the emperor in the political affairs hall.
The Zhengshitang is actually the highest authority in the empire, but it has no status and cannot issue various orders. The final formation of all military and political orders is agreed upon in the Zhengshitang.
For today's Ming Dynasty officials, being able to enter the political hall is the most glorious thing.
When Zhu Youxiao wants to make trouble, he will summon the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall for discussion. But usually, these ministers of the Political Affairs Hall are only responsible for their own affairs.
Therefore, the Ming Empire at this time was nominally an autocratic monarchy, but it also had some elements of a senatorial system.
When the emperor is diligent, it is an absolute monarchy.
When the emperor is lazy, the elders negotiate.
It's just that these elders who can influence the emperor's opinions are not hereditary like in the West. In theory, a commoner's son can enter the official career through the imperial examination and eventually become an imperial decision-maker.
Zhu Youxiao is no longer as diligent as he was when he first took the throne. Firstly, he does not want to be too tired and affect his health. Secondly, his reduced sense of crisis makes him an emperor who is also more inert.
Therefore, the current Ming Dynasty is still in power and inevitably tends to consult with elders, making the autocratic Ming Empire appear less autocratic.
But Zhu Youxiao still controls the development direction of the Ming Empire and is the future helmsman of the empire.
Because Zhu Youxiao still has his own ambitions.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao has not completely indulged in pleasure.
One of Zhu Youxiao's ambitions is to unify the world.
Even if we cannot completely unify politically, we must first unify militarily, and finally unify civilization, so as to at least achieve the goal of having the whole world speak Chinese.
In this case, at least in the future, when Chinese people communicate and learn advanced scientific and theoretical knowledge of all mankind, they will not have to learn a foreign language first, which will reduce the difficulty for the Han people to follow the world trend, and even lead the development of the world.
"We don't have to wait for Tsarist Russia to come and officially start a conflict with us. We have to strike first. For these lowly foreigners, there is no need to pay attention to courtesy first and then attack. We plan to issue an edict to the world and establish regulations for the maintenance of the basic world order. It is an act of war without the permission of the Ming Dynasty. Treat it as a crime against the basic order of the world, and declare the Tsar of the Rakshasa Kingdom and his subjects guilty!"
"Then, a decree was sent to Lu Jiude, instructing him to order Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of the Beishan Mountains, to organize a military plan to attack Yakutsk built by Tsarist Russia on the grounds that China has the obligation to maintain the basic order of the world, rescue the original inhabitants, and avoid war conflicts. ! Detain all Rakshasa people who illegally invaded Yakutsk into concentration camps to await trial and execution! And let Lu Jiude lead the Beishan governor to organize people to build concentration camps for foreign prisoners who have committed crimes against the basic order of the world!"
In order to achieve his ambition to unify the world, Zhu Youxiao proposed the concept of "Regulations on the Basic Continuous Maintenance of the World" in the political hall when responding to Tsarist Russia's eastward invasion.
It seems that they want to establish a global order as they understand it, become the defender of the world's basic order, and act as the world's policeman.
Regulations for maintaining the basic world order?
The auxiliary ministers in the political hall were particularly unfamiliar with this concept at first.
But after thinking about it carefully, the auxiliary ministers were quite shocked. They did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor was so ambitious. He was not willing to be the emperor of the Ming Empire, but also wanted to be the overlord of the entire world! Global overlord!
Moreover, this global hegemon does not want all nations to come to Korea on the surface, but really wants to control the world with his own ideas!
It is not just about deciding the fate of several vassal states based on its own values, but it is about forcibly promoting its own values to the world, and then truly realizing the goal of taking everything from the world.
At this time, the question before them is, should they dissuade His Majesty from having such a big ambition and just be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty?
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