As soon as the Public Situation Consultation Room opened, the number of things Ming Ting had to do skyrocketed.
Whether big things or small things, things that were thought to be small things but soon turned out to be big things, piled up as high as a mountain and soon exceeded the total capacity of the imperial court.
While the officials couldn't bear it, Su Yonglin also couldn't bear the huge workload.
So he had to formally set up an office team for himself to assist in processing work, to help him summarize the types of government affairs and prioritize them to improve his efficiency.
Now that things have happened, Su Yonglin finally understands why Zhu Di set up a cabinet to reduce his work burden.
It is indeed a very realistic need.
Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the prime minister and realized the sole dominance of imperial power. Therefore, as the successor, Zhu Di would certainly not choose to return the power he had obtained to the prime minister. However, he was very tired. Without Zhu Yuanzhang's strong energy and work ability, he could only find another way.
The cabinet is this "road".
Now on Su Yonglin's side, the country still has a prime minister——
As the head of the Shangshu Province, Zhao Zuoliang is the nominal prime minister.
It's just that Su Yonglin's prestige is too high, and Zhao Zuoliang is his relative, so the two are irrespective of each other. All power belongs to Su Yonglin, and Zhao Zuoliang is Su Yonglin's "doppelgänger."
Su Yonglin has a series of reform plans in the future. There are currently no conditions for implementation, but there are still many things that need to be done, so he also decided to set up an advisory cabinet to assist him in handling government affairs.
During the General Affairs Bureau period, there was a secretariat responsible for such accusations. Times changed, the secretariat disappeared, and the cabinet came into being.
A group of young, capable and energetic newcomers were personally selected by Su Yonglin and incorporated into the cabinet to become his personal secretaries.
With the cabinet, Su Yonglin's efficiency in handling government affairs has been greatly improved, and there is also a dedicated agency to take care of errands, so he can still handle the sudden increase in government affairs.
If he can bear it, the court can bear it, and if the court can bear it, the Ming Dynasty can bear it.
The political reform of the Ming Dynasty had actually begun at this time, whether it was the imperial court or the Renaissance Society.
Just because Su Yonglin had completely defeated the Confucian scholars in the Central Plains after launching a purge campaign in several provinces, this political reform seemed to be smooth and without obstacles.
At least it was smooth sailing in the provinces where the purges and revolutionary actions had been completed.
However, Confucian scholars were not the only reactionary forces in the Central Plains.
The Guanzhong area, an area where the reactionary force of the entire Ming Dynasty was only slightly weaker than that of Shandong, was Su Yonglin's next target for launching a great purge and revolutionary action.
In order to conquer Guanzhong as soon as possible and control the military portal in Guanzhong, Su Yonglin accepted a considerable number of old Jin officials. Even some surrendered Jin generals were accepted by Su Yonglin and allowed them to keep their troops.
After the founding of the country, as time went by, Su Yonglin gradually used high-ranking officials and generous salaries to win them over, and then used army reorganization and military reorganization as an excuse to get them to abandon the army.
No emperor could accept that they had an army under personal command. Su Yonglin felt that this group of people could understand this.
Su Yonglin gave them two modes to choose from, one was Zhao Kuangyin mode and the other was Liu Bang mode.
Led by Zhang Zhongyan, the old officers of the Jin Kingdom would certainly follow the trend of the times and choose the Zhao Kuangyin model instead of the life-threatening Liu Bang model. That was simply a bad idea.
They accepted high-ranking officials in the Ming court and gave up command of the army in exchange for political tolerance.
Su Yonglin gave them tolerance, took away their troops, and replenished the Su Haisheng Corps stationed in Guanzhong with some strong men, thus enhancing the strength of the Qilu Corps.
The old officials of the Jin Kingdom, headed by Zhang Zhongyan, have since lived a luxurious retirement life, and their descendants have entered local government offices as a promise to them by the Ming court.
Looking at the whole country, the proportion of old bureaucrats in Guanzhong is also the highest, even higher than that in Shandong.
Of course, this also has some historical issues. For example, many Jin officials fled to the Guanzhong area after escaping from Guandong. The Guanzhong area was their last stronghold, and they attached great importance to it.
This also led to the fact that after the war, there were many remnants of the old forces here.
At that time, Su Yonglin adopted a policy of tolerance for the sake of stability, which inevitably caused more problems.
Su Yonglin tolerated this situation for a while.
However, since the fourth operation team of the Skynet Army, which monitors Guanzhong, has been fully deployed in Guanzhong, there has been no shortage of black materials in the Guanzhong area.
The first half of the second year of Hongwu was fine, but starting from the second half of the year, the amount of black material began to increase. By the first half of the third year of Hongwu, there was even more black material.
It was just that Su Yonglin's energy was focused on the Yellow River Project at that time and he didn't pay much attention to it. When the Yellow River Project came to an end, Su Yonglin discovered that the problems in Guanzhong were not small at all.
Due to the lack of manpower, the construction of the Fuxing Society and judicial construction in the Guanzhong area lags far behind other regions. Except for the establishment of Fuxing Society branches and judicial bureaus in some big cities such as Xi'an and Xianyang, the administration in many other places is still maintained. status three years ago.
The Ming Empire's presence here is mainly a military presence to ensure the military security of the Guanzhong region, while its political presence is not very obvious, at least not so obvious in the Guandong region.
Even now Xixia is politically closer to the Zhongdu court than Guanzhong.
There is also news that after Xixia was occupied in Guanzhong, it still protected a certain scale of commercial trade and political exchanges with the Southern Song Dynasty. Whether this had anything to do with some local officials in Guanzhong is also something worth considering.
Su Yonglin was very aware of this situation.
So after freeing up his hands, at the end of September and beginning of October in the third year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin studied the security report of the Fourth Operation Group of the Skynet Army on the Guanzhong area, and felt that it was indeed time to start attacking the Guanzhong area.
Some things never feel late when you do them, but it will feel late if you do them tomorrow.
As for the problem of lack of officials, Su Yonglin still has to write to Xin Qiji, asking him, who is presiding over the transfer of qualified soldiers from the army to local areas, to stay busy for a while, lose a few more hairs, and select a group of outstanding grassroots officials for the Guanzhong area to check first. The base layer in the middle is pulled up.
The superstructure needs a solid base foundation, and Su Yonglin always pays more attention to the safety of the base level.
If the grassroots level is safe and stable, there will be no problems at the top level. As long as the top level is stable, the grassroots level will not know what kind of chaos it will be.
Never underestimate the ability of bureaucrats to whitewash peace.
But no matter what, this was a situation where the arrow had to be fired, and Su Yonglin estimated that even if he didn't take action, the people in Guanzhong would already be scared to death.
In fact, this is also true. The news that Su Yonglin launched an anti-corruption campaign in Shandong and Henan, and even wiped out their protective umbrella in the central government, spread to Guanzhong. The officialdom in Guanzhong was indeed horrified and scared to death.
Because the Guanzhong area was finally conquered by the Ming Empire, it was a typical underachiever, so no one could enter the real core of power. Zhang Zhongyan, as the representative, was given the false position of Taiwei. With a false name, he was the Ming Dynasty Senior officials can even deal with the locals in Guanzhong.
And now the people of Guanzhong are watching the bureaucrats in Shandong and Henan being killed. Even the central court has been killed. The thousand-year-old Shandong roly-poly Kong family has been exalted by Su Yonglin. They think that if their affairs are discovered, the whole family will have to go to the underworld to see him. Yama?
A group of people were scared!
How could someone be so frightened?
Because Zhang Zhongyan had the highest status in the Ming court among the old officials of the Jin Dynasty, he would be invited to attend a banquet in Zhongdu every New Year's Day and talk cordially with the emperor. Therefore, many people with ulterior motives wrote letters or visited Zhang Zhongyan in person. .
After the establishment of the Ming Empire, Zhang Zhongyan was given a residence in Chang'an by Su Yonglin, so he also lived in Chang'an. His son Zhang Fu went to the military to serve as the magistrate of Ningzhou, which gave him an explanation.
Living in the bustling city of Chang'an is better for Zhang Zhongyan than living in the underdeveloped hometown of Zhenrongzhou.
Not to mention that Zhenrong Prefecture has been stationed by the Ming Army from the beginning. Living in his hometown will give him the feeling of being closely monitored by the Ming Army, and he will feel that he has no freedom. It is not as free as living in Chang'an City.
Therefore, Zhang Zhongyan was fairly well informed. He was one of the first people to know about Su Yonglin's series of actions in Guanzhong.
Regarding this matter, Zhang Zhongyan expressed concern.
