In the main hall, Wang Jing flipped through memorials from various places.
Daxia originally had four major provinces in Jiangbei, among which Jiangdu Province and Huaibei Province were the fundamental lifeblood of the dynasty.
Huaixi Province and Huainan Province, under the governance of Shen Yue, Fan Yun, Yang Hong and others, are also slowly moving closer to the two major provinces of Jiangdu and Huaibei.
Wang Jingnanzheng mobilized a large number of soldiers, and also dispatched many guardsmen and horses to escort grain and grass.
But other than these, the government did not use the reason of the war to tax the people, cultivated fields, used criminals and prisoners as hard labor, and assisted the road construction team of the Ministry of Works to continuously build roads.
With smooth roads, merchants can transport grain, grass and commodities from other places to undeveloped areas through the roads, allowing these prefectures and counties to have a supply of materials and grain and develop very rapidly.
The pace of development in various places did not slow down because of the war.
"The province of Huaixi, with Suzhou as its administrative seat, can reach as far as Woyang, north to Xuzhou, and south to Wuhe...The province of Huainan, with Shouchun as its administrative seat..."
However, if Shouchun is used as the administrative center, it would be too big to include Hefei and Chaoxian in Huainan Province.
Wang Jing felt that it was necessary to establish another province with Hefei as the center.
In this case, the new province can expand all the way to the west, directly to Tianzhu Mountain, to the south to the Yangtze River, and to the southwest close to Poyang Lake.
The area is not small either.
At this stage, the Great Xia Dynasty has just been established. What Wang Jing has to do is to stabilize the four parties, sort out the internal affairs, and digest the newly captured territory. He cannot blindly expand and start wars.
If you rely on a large number of soldiers and generals to conquer everywhere regardless of survival, Li Zicheng in history is a lesson learned from the past.
As soon as Li Zicheng established Dashun, he led his elite soldiers and horses eastward to fight Wu Sangui. As a result, when he was about to defeat Wu Sangui, he was blocked by the Houjin Eight Banners, and the dynasty's hegemony suddenly disappeared.
Li Zicheng only served as emperor for forty days before he fled and was beaten to death by a civilian.
Its rise and fall are also sudden.
If Li Zicheng knew how to stabilize his foundation and consolidate his basic base first, he would not have lost so quickly.
Wang Jing also just founded the country and has some similarities with Li Zicheng. However, unlike the other party, Wang Jing had a well-established central government office and many famous ministers and generals in history to assist him.
Even if Wang Jingpiao died, there would still be people to advise him and ensure that the Great Xia Dynasty would not overturn.
Of course, Wang Jing was not arrogant. He now knew very well that if he wanted to sort out the internal affairs, he must first improve the center of the Great Xia Dynasty and the system of major provinces and counties.
First, divide the territories under the rule into provinces, prefectures and counties, and then suppress them with troops and horses, and dispatch officials. Only in this way can the newly acquired land be digested quickly.
After the establishment of the government system was completed, Daxia was qualified to appease the people and handle internal affairs.
"Somebody come!"
Wang Jing shouted.
Wang An, the chief eunuch, immediately walked in with his waist hunched over, "Your Majesty!"
"Go and call the Grand Bachelor of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Privy Councilor to come and discuss the matter!"
Wang Jing said casually.
The eunuch chief immediately took the order.
After a while, Shen Yi, Wang Guangyang, and Su Wei, the bachelors of the Ministry of Political Affairs, and the privy envoys Bu Zhi and Gao Xi came together.
Among the three central provinces, except for the censors who supervise the provinces, the number of bachelors and privy envoys is not yet full.
Wang Jing has always been very cautious about the official positions in the Great Xia Dynasty. For example, the middle and low-level official positions can be obtained as long as they make meritorious service. However, the middle and high-level officials, especially the important ministers who are at the center of the three provinces, have their own pitfalls.
If some people are promoted too quickly, it will be difficult for those famous ministers who have just defected, such as Zhang Juzheng and Xie Xuan, to become bachelors.
Therefore, Wang Jing would rather suppress some ministers who had sufficient merit but weaker abilities and compensate them with titles rather than promote them rashly.
"I will pay my respects to Your Majesty!"
Shen Yi, Bu Zhi, Gao Xi and others bowed down.
Wang Jing waved his hand and asked everyone to stand up. Then he asked the eunuch chief to come in and open the current map of the Daxia Dynasty. On the map, the Daxia Dynasty was in the center.
To the south is Ming Dynasty, to the north is Xuzhou, and on the east and west sides of Xuzhou are Gao Huan and Cao Cao...
The map of Xuzhou's north has only a simple outline.
The territory of the Daxia Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty in the south is much clearer, with more cities and mountains and rivers.
"At present, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Hefei and other places have been merged into Daxia, but there are still many chaos in various places, which are in urgent need of governance. I intend to establish provinces again, integrate households into the people, and improve the system of prefectures, counties and rural areas... I don’t know, dear friends. Any comments?"
Wang Jing pointed to the southeast and west of Map Mountain and said.
Chen Yi said: "Your Majesty clearly sees thousands of miles, and our dynasty should indeed establish another province to govern all the people. However, Hefei and Zhenjiang are adjacent to the Ming army. In addition to sorting out the internal affairs, they also need to station a large army to prepare for any eventuality! "
Everyone in the hall are top smart people, and they all know the importance of Hefei and Zhenjiang.
At this time, Fu Youde was stationed in Zhenjiang, soldiers and horses stationed in Hefei and other places were He Ruobi, Yang Kan, Zhang Hao and others. The remnants of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Xie Xuan's hands were stationed in Liuhe and were being reorganized by the Xia army.
"Well, let's talk about the province first!"
Wang Jing nodded slightly and focused on establishing provinces.
Everyone was similar to what he had just thought. Hefei, Chaoxian and other places just discussed it for a few words, and they all agreed that Hefei could be the seat of governance and the Lujiang Province should be established here.
As for the territory south of the river, which originally belonged to Liu Song, Southern Qi and Soochow, everyone's opinions are divided.
Among them, Chen Yi's opinion is to directly divide the territories of the three powers into three major provinces.
However, Gao Xi objected face to face.
"In my opinion, it would be better to temporarily establish two major provinces in Jiangnan. If the provinces are divided according to the original territories of the three powers, it will be easy for the remnants of the three powers to resurrect..."
"Moreover, if our army wants to go south in the future, Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely join forces with Zhao Yu and form an alliance to deal with our army. Therefore, our court can set up two major provinces, among which Zhenjiang Province, with Danyang as its seat, will fully deal with the Ming army!"
"Jiangdong Province will use Suzhou as its seat of governance to deal with the Song army!"
"In addition to Hefei and Zhenjiang, Suzhou also has to garrison troops to guard against the sudden northward movement of the Southern Song Dynasty..."
Gao Xi said in a deep voice.
As soon as he said this, Wang Jing's expression changed slightly. All he had thought about before was how to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang, and he had subconscious contempt for Song Jun. He felt that Song Jun was a soft persimmon.
But the Southern Song Dynasty could persist for decades under the fierce attack of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty at its peak, so it was impossible for the Southern Song Dynasty to be a soft persimmon. If the Song army is underestimated in the future, the Xia Dynasty may suffer a loss.
"Zhaoxuan reminds me that I have ignored Song Jun!"
Wang Jing thought for a moment and immediately gave in and issued an edict.
With Murong Shaozong as the general manager of the Jiangdong march and Shi Wansui as the deputy general manager of the march, he selected 150,000 soldiers and immediately went to Suzhou to take charge.
Zhou Fang, Zhou Chu, Niu Gao, who had just defected to Daxia, as well as the original Soochow generals Zhou Tai, Ding Feng and others were also incorporated into the army and obeyed the orders of Murong Shaozong and Shi Wansui.
In addition to the 50,000 soldiers and horses originally guarding Suzhou and some of the guardsmen selected from the hundreds of thousands of Soochow troops, there were almost 400,000 soldiers and horses under the command of the Jiangdong Marching General Manager.
Such a large army was enough to prevent Han Shizhong, who occupied Jiaxing, from making any rash moves.
After successively absorbing the defeated troops and prisoners of the three major forces in the south of the Yangtze River and Chen Baxian's command, the number of soldiers, guards, and county soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty reached millions.
Not counting Daxia's original troops and horses, the number of surrendered troops and captured troops alone was close to 1.55 million.
Of course, many of them were young men who were captured.
After these strong men were released and returned home, there were still 1.1 million people.
The Privy Council and the Ministry of War have been busy these days for these soldiers and horses. According to the plan, one-third of these soldiers and horses are selected to be elite veterans and incorporated into the fighting force.
The other third will be incorporated into the garrison soldiers.
The remaining troops were assigned to part of the engineering battalion of the Ministry of Industry and part to various prefectures and counties, and they were almost digested.
Get this done.
The number of soldiers of the Daxia Dynasty can reach 1.8 million to 2 million.
War soldiers are soldiers and horses that can be taken out to fight in the field at any time. They are the elite of Daxia. When going out for an expedition, with one hundred thousand soldiers as the core and two to three hundred thousand guards troops temporarily mobilized, a very strong combat effectiveness can be formed.
This is the case for the Jiangdong Marching General Administration Office. With 200,000 soldiers as the core and the Dongwu soldiers and horses as wings, a huge army was formed.
After making arrangements for the Southern Song Dynasty.
By the way, Wang Jing gave Fu Youde and He Ruobi the titles of Chief Marshal of Zhenjiang March and Chief Marshal of Lujiang March respectively.
The general manager is in charge of military affairs. Of course, the main thing is to manage the military. You can intervene in civil affairs, but you can't interfere casually.
From now on, the general manager of the army in the Great Xia Dynasty would be an important official responsible for important aspects. His status exceeds that of the six ministers and is on par with the chief officials of the three provinces.
"The troops, horses, equipment, food and grass required by the three general administrations need to be recruited and replenished as soon as possible. The Privy Council, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Household Affairs must handle this matter immediately!"
"Let's put aside the matter of reorganizing and demobilizing the defeated troops for now..."
Wang Jing said.
Step forward and accept the order.
After being prepared for external threats, Wang Jing added: "As for the establishment of provinces, just follow Zhaoxuan's words and establish two major provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, namely Zhenjiang Province and Jiangdong Province! In Hefei, Establish Lujiang Province!"
"Assign Chu Yuan as the Chief Envoy of Jiangdong Province, and officials from various prefectures and counties. The Ministry of Government Affairs and the Ministry of Personnel will immediately select and supplement them!"
"Assign Gu Yong as the Chief Envoy of Zhenjiang Province..."
"Assign Yan Xiang as the Chief Envoy of Lujiang Province..."
Wang Jing thought for a while, and after establishing three new provinces, he immediately selected three chief envoys to take charge of the civil affairs of the three places. As for the inspection envoys and command envoys, they had a large army on their side and were of secondary importance.
Let the Supervisory and Privy Council recommend a few candidates each, and then Wang Jing can choose one to appoint.
Chu Yuan was originally the prime minister of the Southern Qi Dynasty and defected to Xiao Daocheng. During Wang Jing's southern expedition, he assisted Xiao Daocheng in resisting Liu Yu and sent a large amount of food, grass and medicine to the Huai army at that time, which was a great contribution.
So after he surrendered, Wang Jing was ready to promote him.
With his talents as prime minister and his ninth-level strength, he is more than enough to serve as the chief envoy of Jiangdong Province. There will be no lack of ability.
And Gu Yong had the same reason as Chu Yuan.
He followed Sun Quan in surrendering, helped Wang Jing persuade the generals from all over Soochow, and stabilized the aristocratic families, which was equally meritorious.
Only the chief envoy of Lujiang, Yan Xiang, was slightly weaker.
Maximize your potential, which is the eighth level. However, he followed Wang Jing earlier and has been the prefect for a long time. He has always worked hard and achieved good results. It's time for promotion.
Another reason is that Yan Xiang is relatively low-key, and He Ruobi, the general manager of Lujiang March, has a bad personality. If he sends a strong chief envoy, it is easy for the two sides to be at odds.
At the moment one is hard and one is soft, it just matches.
In addition to the three newly established provinces, Wang Jing also made some adjustments to the chief officials of other provinces and the six central departments.
For example, Xie Hui entered the Privy Council Province and served as the head of the Counselor Department directly under the Privy Council Province.
Li Shanchang was promoted from Huaibei Chief Envoy to Minister of Household Affairs. Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Ke joined the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of Punishment respectively as doctors. After achieving political achievements, he will go down to the local government to serve as a chief official.
"Gene Era"
Hu Weiyong was promoted from Huaixi Chief Envoy to Minister of Punishment. Qiao Xuan was the chief envoy of Jiangdu Province.
Han Xizai was the censor of Zuodu, and Shen Yue and Fan Yun were the chief envoys of Huaixi and Huainan respectively...
Those who originally served as chief envoys became central ministers as long as their political performance was outstanding.
And those capable ministers who were originally prefects and local officials were promoted to senior provincial officials...
These adjustments to official positions are all necessary.
Wang Jing should have made adjustments long ago, but it is not too late to promote officials.
At this time, both the central and local civil and military affairs had undergone considerable changes. It will take some time to stabilize.
Just wait for the stable time to pass.
The central government and local prefectures and counties will soon be able to develop rapidly.
The matters being discussed today were relatively important, and official positions had also changed significantly, so it took Shen Yi, Bu Zhi, Gao Xi and others some time to digest their emotional turmoil.
"Your Majesty, I wonder how Xie An, Zhang Juzheng, Lu Xun, Wei Rui and others should be arranged?"
Shen Yi asked.
Wang Jing pondered for a moment. It was really difficult to arrange these people. Let them serve as county magistrates and prefects in local areas. They were overqualified and underqualified, so they could only be placed in the central office.
But if they are allowed to serve as central ministers, they have no merit or political achievements.
"Following the previous example, the Imperial College was newly established under the Ministry of Rites, with Xie An temporarily serving as the Imperial College's liberator, and Zhang Juzheng as the head of the Imperial Secretariat..."
Wang Jing thought for a moment and said.
The Imperial College is similar to the Imperial College in history. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Imperial College graduates could directly participate in the imperial examinations. In addition to recruiting the Imperial College students from various places, it was also a shelter for the descendants of officials’ children.
After the establishment of Daxia, it was necessary to establish the Imperial College to house Meng Yin's children.
With Xie An's ability and reputation, he served as the Imperial College's official wine minister, which is a noble position, which can fully reflect Wang Jing's respect for him.
Zhang Juzheng is a well-known man of action.
What he needs is not an idle position, but a position where he can actually do something.
However, he had just arrived and did not have an overall understanding of the situation in Daxia, so Wang Jing asked him to take over Gao Xi's original position.
By the time he took up the position of head of the Secret Document Supervisor, he had a good understanding of Daxia. You can then become a central minister.
The head of the Secret Document Supervisory Committee and an important official in the Central Committee...
In two simple steps, you can become the top level in Daxia.
The only person who can enjoy this treatment is Gao Xi, and now there is Zhang Juzheng...
