Iron Dynasty

In the imperial study, the minister of Jiufu of the cabinet stood behind Xiao Ming and looked at Xiao Ming who divided the administrative areas on the map of the empire.

After the Tibetan envoys submitted their credentials and left, they were called by Xiao Ming to the imperial study to officially start preparing for the new administrative area.

In fact, they were already formulating the corresponding administrative regions before the Tubo War began, and now it has been finalized after Xiao Ming's final decision.

Why did the emperor designate it as an autonomous region when the envoys from Tubo came here this time? Don't you worry about the rebellion of Tubo in the future?

Pointing his finger on the Tubo Plateau, Xiao Ming said: Autonomy is nothing but to appease the Tubo people. It is easy to make the Tubo surrender, but it is very difficult to manage them. Therefore, rather than dispatching officials from the empire, it is better for the imperial court to directly select officials from Tubo to be responsible for management. , and then let these officials come to Qingzhou Government Affairs College to study regularly, so that they gradually assimilate the Tubo people.

After clearing his throat, he continued: And the military power of Tubo has been lifted, and there are imperial troops stationed there, so 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 a small fish. There are some things that can't be rushed. Now that Tubo has been incorporated into the empire, you can't overdo it and let it repeat.

After briefly mentioning the governance of Tubo, Xiao Ming turned around and said, All the administrative regions are on it, you should take a closer look.

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

Roughly speaking, he divided the empire into two direct provinces and eighteen general provinces. The two direct provinces were Nanzhixing Province and North Zhixing Province, respectively. Northern Zhixing Province included contemporary Beijing, Tianjin, and most of Hebei Province. And Henan Province, a small part of Shandong Province.

The south-directed province includes the contemporary Jiangsu Province, Anhui, and Shanghai, two provinces and one city. 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 annexed Tubo Province.

As for Australia, which has just been conquered, he has not yet urgently compiled it into the roster of the empire's provinces, because the sphere of influence of the empire is currently expanding, and it will not be too late to compile it when the dust settles.

Looking at the provincial divisions on the map, the ministers took the booklets and wrote them down one by one.

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

This time, Xiao Ming is not going to change the state to a city. The division of Shangzhou, Zhongzhou and Xiazhou in the Great Yu Country has been used. Shangzhou is equivalent to the provincial capital, Zhongzhou is equivalent to a prefecture-level city, and Xiazhou is equivalent to an ordinary city. city.

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

The administrative management of the province is somewhat similar to that of the state. The highest official is the inspector, and there are six deputy inspectors under it, who are in charge of different government affairs.

In addition to government affairs, both provinces and prefectures and counties have set up oversight courts, and state oversight courts are directly subordinate to provincial oversight courts, and so on.

Yes, Your Majesty.

At the same time, the nine ministers said that the government affairs change this time is nothing short of grand. After the reform, the government affairs of the empire will take on a new look.

However, they also understand that after this reform, the future government affairs of the empire will be more systematic and regularized. After all, with the development of the empire, government affairs will become more and more complicated with the increase of industries. In the past, the prefect did everything alone. Not going to return.

After all, limited to their own knowledge, many governors are ignorant of some things, and this also means that more and more students who graduate from the academy will enter the government system.

After explaining the matter of the government reform, Xiao Ming suddenly relaxed. The military reform and the political reform have been pressing on him.

After all, the empire is developing too fast. In order to adapt to this change, he has continuously adjusted government affairs and the army in recent years. This kind of reform is very troublesome.

But unlike previous military and political reforms, he will do it once and for all after this reform. After all, these two are already close to contemporary times.

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

Therefore, from now on, he can concentrate on the outside world, and government affairs can be operated 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 south side of Australia, This place is called New Guinea, and on it there is a huge copper mine.

Qian Dafu's eyes made a line of laughter. As a person with great influence on the Minerals Department, Qian Dafu was very sensitive to minerals, and every time he heard about a new mining area, he was very happy.

In that case, let the Minerals Department look for it. Qian Dafu couldn't wait. After all, the empire was very short of copper. With the development of the machinery industry, there was a huge demand for copper in all walks of life.

Half a month later, Lei Ming, who was stationed in Australia, received an order from Xiao Ming. This order asked him to send a team to escort the accompanying members of the Minerals Division to New Guinea Island. According to their understanding, there are some people on this island. Many local natives.

At the same time, with this order came a call for him to attack the British colonies in Indonesia.

Although most of Indonesia belongs to the Netherlands, it was captured by the British over the years, and a piece of it was captured by the British.

Hey, the order has finally come, and now there is work to do again. Shi Yanjun was in a good mood, and the battle report sent by Lei Ming last time had already been replied.

In terms of reward for meritorious deeds, the generals and soldiers who have made contributions this time have been allocated the corresponding estates 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, no one took care of it.

So he spent another thousand dragon coins to buy a hundred Welsh slaves and let these slaves take care of the manor for themselves.

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

Now that he finally got his wish, he thought that when he was on vacation in the future, he would be able to ride horses and herd sheep here and live a leisurely life, but before that, he probably still had a lot of battles to fight.