My Daming New Empire

Tang Sai'er's power is now less than 8000 young and strong, but there are more than [-] old, weak, women and children.And He Zhongjun's appetite is too big, they have worked so hard now, and most of them have fallen into their pockets.

Tang Sai'er thought about Zhu Zhanji's original promise, and took the opportunity of returning to deliver a batch of muskets, and wanted to ask His Royal Highness Taisun again, is the original promise still valid?

He had promised at the beginning that even if the imperial court sent troops there, they would only get [-]% of the harvest, plus [-]% of the tax, they would still be able to pay [-]% of the income.

At first I thought this share was high, but now I know I was wrong.There are so many of them, and now they can't even reach [-]% of their income, so they can only barely get by, which is to say that they look a little better in face.

In the palace, sitting in front of Zhu Zhanji was Chen Cheng, who had been to the Western Regions for more than three years. After he successfully completed the task assigned to him by Zhu Zhanji, he returned to his life.

(Originally, I wanted to add updates in the past few days, but I was notified that I would be on a business trip for two days. In the past few days, I can only try to guarantee one update per day.)

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Chen Cheng, who was born before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, is also 56 years old this year. He was a tribute scholar for 27 years, top three in the palace examination, and was born as a Jinshi.

But because he has been on missions all year round, his body is much stronger than the average person. At the age of 56, he looks stronger than many people in their 40s.

In the three years in the Northwest, Zheng Heng was in the light, he was in the dark, Zheng Heng was on the top, and he was on the bottom.However, his achievements are not inferior to Zheng Heng's at all, and his contribution is even greater than Zheng Heng's in linking up and attracting all aspects.

Before his mission, he took charge of Xiamaqiao Farm for Zhu Zhanji. In a few years, he managed the Daming Royal Hospital to a great extent, and all major research institutes were able to operate and develop normally.

Even if there is no credit, there is hard work.This trip to the countries of the Western Regions to win all ethnic groups to join Ming Dynasty is a combination of hard work and credit.

So when he comes back this time, Zhu Zhanji will reuse him.

Zhu Zhanji also thought of the location for him, that is, the General Secretary of the General Administration.

The Department of General Administration was established only in the Ming Dynasty to handle internal and external chapters and seal complaints from subjects.

In the Song Dynasty, there was Tongjin Yintai Division (later changed to Chengjin Division), commonly known as "Yintai".

This department is a bit like a complex of the Intelligence Bureau and the Letters and Calls Office, but because the Ming Dynasty has Jinyiwei, there is the Judicial Procuratorate under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and there are the major cleanup departments of the Ministry of Punishment.Zhu Zhanji also established the counseling department of the internal prison, so the power of this yamen is not that great.

However, the rank of Tongzhengshi is quite high, it is the third grade, and it is one of the nine ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Cheng was originally a doctor of the Ministry of Industry of the fifth rank, but when he was on an envoy to the Western Regions, Zhu Zhanji named him the Cheng of the fourth rank of Yingtianfu.After three years of hard work in the Northwest, being promoted to a third-rank Tongzheng envoy is not considered a transition.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's arrangement, Chen Cheng immediately kowtowed and thanked him, but Zhu Zhanji could still tell from the expression on his seat that he was a little disappointed.

Chen Cheng is a person who can't stay idle and likes to do things, and the post of Tong Zhengshi is a noble one.Although the level has gone up, it is equivalent to being suspended and idle.

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Now the functions of the various ministries of the imperial court are chaotic. After Gu Gu ascends the throne in September, the functions of the various ministries of the imperial court will be gradually integrated. In the future, the Secretary of General Administration will take charge of the supervision channels of the world situation from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It is one of the three major intelligence agencies that form the imperial court. Therefore, Aiqing, don’t look at the Secretary of General Affairs through the eyes of the past.”

Chen Cheng glanced at Zhu Zhanji with some doubts. He knew very well that Jinyiwei was an intelligence agency for the royal family to supervise all officials, and the Department of Counseling and Information was run by the grandson and was mainly responsible for monitoring people's livelihood.

Therefore, Jin Yiwei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate disobeyed each other, because the functions of the two were the same, and they often fought hard.

The Advisory Services Department seldom gets involved. They are more like an intelligence network parasitic on the internal surveillance business system, focusing on understanding people's livelihood and people's conditions.

On the outer court side, the General Secretary is in charge of intelligence in name and controls the appeal channels, but the General Secretary has no power in his hands.

The Ministry of Punishment has its own Department of Cleaning Up Officials, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate also has the power to supervise all officials, and it also intersects with the Ministry of Punishment to control the punishment and procuratorial divisions in various places. What about the Secretary?

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "In Gu's plan, the Secretary of General Affairs will occupy a major position in the future court. In addition to various information in the Ming Dynasty, the Secretary of General Administration will also establish comprehensive information channels around the world , In other words, in the future, the General Secretary will mainly focus on the outside of Daming."

At this moment, Chen Cheng understood. He pondered for a while and said, "The barbarians have no shame and are self-motivated. Only the temptation can make them obedient. If you want to establish such a perfect channel, you need a lot of gold and silver."

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Gold and silver are not a problem, even if it costs 50 or 100 million a year, it will not shorten your funds, as long as you can manage this matter."

Intelligence work is a matter of spending money. If you want to build a Ming Dynasty Central Intelligence Agency, you can't be stingy.

As for the funds, Zhu Zhanji has already thought about it. Part of it will be allocated by the imperial court, and the other part will be filled with surplus from overseas trade.

And Chen Cheng was originally an expert in this field. Hearing what Zhu Zhanji said, he understood that this envoy is definitely much more powerful than the previous envoy.

His heart, which had been a little depressed, was now boiling again.This is his specialty. In the 29th year of Hongwu, he made his first mission to the Western Regions in the Uighur (now the northwest of the Qaidam Basin)

In the past 28 years, Zhu Zhanji has only been at sea for three years, and he has stayed in the capital safely.During those 25 years, he has been traveling all over the world.

In later generations, Chen Cheng was unknown, but in the Ming Dynasty, he was a diplomatic envoy with the same reputation as Zheng He.

Asking him to form the Ming Dynasty version of the Central Intelligence Agency is definitely a man of his talents.

Around the restructuring of the Secretary of General Administration, the two talked about it in detail, and Chen Cheng seemed to have just remembered, and said to Zhu Zhanji: "Your Highness, when you come back this time, Mrs. Lin returned to the capital with me. Your Highness agreed to supply They have [-] muskets, and the couple don’t trust others, so they can only come back to escort them by themselves.”

Zhu Zhanji froze for a moment before realizing that Mrs. Lin was referring to Tang Sai'er.He asked with great interest: "How is the development of Tanglin City now?"

Chen Cheng stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Since the Timur Kingdom was destroyed, all ethnic groups in the Western Regions are now naturally responsible. Those Slavic white-skinned pigs who don't know the heights of the heavens and the earth are still dissatisfied with our Heavenly Kingdom. However, Ulugh Beg Retreating to the west, starting from Batu Sarai, like sweeping holes in the courtyard, cleaned up all the tribes of the White Horde Khanate, and now they are too busy to take care of themselves.

The development of Tanglin City had a chance to breathe. Over the past year, the development has been quite smooth, and a peace agreement has been reached with the surrounding tribes.With my backing, Daming, all the tribes dare not target Tang Lincheng.

However, as His Highness predicted, Gao Yang'er and Hao Yunzhong have separated to work alone after receiving the minister's consent.They expanded northward and established strongholds in the northeast and due north not far from Tanglin City, forming a triangular defense network. "

Zhu Zhanji already knew from this information that Hao Yunzhong occupied the territory of Qiumen City not far northeast of Yekaterinburg in later generations, while Gao Yanger occupied the territory of Serov in later generations.

They both found gold mines there, and then they separated and took possession of it.

After occupying it, Gao Yang'er named Serov as Gaoming City, and Hao Yunzhong named the future Qiuming as Yunzhong City.

However, because they have not yet gained a firm foothold there, they have not yet declared to the court. Zhu Zhanji learned this information through his own channels.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "Is the material supply channel established over there?"

Chen Cheng shook his head and said, "I'm ashamed... I just managed to build an information channel."

Zhu Zhanji knew very well that it was not only thousands of miles away from Daming, but also four to five thousand miles away from the Hezhong area.If you want to establish a material supply channel there, you have to wait for the business to develop first.

He asked again: "Is there any new information from Ulugh Beg?"

"He's busy fighting the Grand Duke of Lithuania right now, and there's no momentum to come back."

Uluh Beg led 20 tribesmen who abandoned Samarkand and fled westward. Although they were defeated in front of Ming Dynasty and were not opponents, they were invincible against all tribes in the West.

The capital of the Golden Horde is Batu Sarai, a city that has been abandoned in later generations, about south of Volgograd in Russia.

Now the power of the Mongols there has declined, and those in power have become the Slavs, who are also the ancestors of the Ukrainians and Russians.

Ulugh Beg couldn't beat Ming, but it was easy to deal with them, and the various ministries of the White Horde Khanate did not dare to show their heads.

Today, Ulugh Beg occupies a large area of ​​​​the later Don River Basin, including Crimea, a large area of ​​​​the Krasnodar Krai, which is a large area of ​​​​the northern shore of the Black Sea.

Today's Russia is still a small place, and even Ukraine is no more than the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.Ulugh Beg fled between Ukraine and Russia in later generations, and the first thing he faced was not the Russians, but the Lithuanians.

Ulugh Beg was frantically fled after being chased by Zhang Xin, and now he has planted his heels somewhere.Zhu Zhanji knew where they were staying, so he gave up killing them all.

Keeping them hostile to the Slavs is far better than eliminating them.

The forces in Ulugh Beg are dominated by Persians, Arabs, and Mongols. They have a natural hostile relationship with the Slavs. If they are allowed to develop there, they can well contain the Slavs from expanding eastward.