My Daming New Empire

Li Liang said dissatisfiedly: "I don't understand this old slave, but I also know that whether it is legal power, political power, military power, or imperial power, it is all controlled by people. How can your majesty ensure that these parties will not be in cahoots in the future and directly affect the imperial power?" ? Now that His Majesty is so talented and powerful, he will naturally not worry about it, but what if the master is weak and his ministers are strong in the future?"

This sentence reached Zhu Zhanji's heart, which is what he has been worried about.

Nowadays there are no parties, imperial power is like parties.

The imperial court has now been divided into three by Zhu Zhanji, the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Jinyiwei, Dali Temple, and procuratorates in various places. These are all supervisory and law enforcement agencies.

The Ministry of War, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Navy, and the local guards were all assigned to the Ministry of National Defense by him.The highest authority of the Ministry of National Defense is the General Staff, and the emperor personally serves as the chief of the General Staff.

The Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry split into the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Resources, and Zhu Zhanji established a Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These six departments formed a new six departments.

Originally, these departments did not have jurisdiction over each other, but in the 30th year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji set up a position of prime minister above the six departments, which completely broke the balance.

The prime minister is a first-class minister. In order to balance, Zhu Zhanji established a formal parliament. The members of the parliament are composed of retired ministers and advanced people from all over the country, and are responsible for legislation.The speaker was also promoted to first-rank minister.

This is not over, because the level of law enforcement agencies cannot be lower than that of the speaker and prime minister, otherwise it will be difficult to enforce the law.

So he set up a court of law in the law enforcement department, and set up a secretary-general. The level of the secretary-general is also first-class, but he cannot directly govern the agencies below, but is only responsible for coordination.

Because the law enforcement powers of the Ministry of Punishment, Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Jinyiwei cannot be controlled by one person.

In addition, Zhu Zhanji established a house of internal affairs, which is responsible for managing the wealth of the world for the royal family, replacing the previous eunuchs.

Not only did they help the royal family manage the world's commerce, but they also gradually took over the Royal Commercial Bank and the Advisory Department. This private wealth and eyes and ears belonging to the royal family must not be lost at any time.

Although the minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is only a second-rank official, he is independent from the imperial court and is not under the control of anyone except the royal family.

The new six ministries have administrative power and seem to have the most power, but they are also subject to dual supervision by the Ministry of Justice and the Parliament.

In this, to be honest, the authority of the prime minister is actually lower than that of the speaker.

The parliament holds a general meeting every half a month, and there are small meetings almost every day. The original six departments were assigned to the parliament, giving them the right to veto any decisions made by the six departments.

Basically, the current Congress assumes the responsibilities of the US Senate and House of Representatives in later generations.

Among them, only the Ministry of Defense is detached and only subject to the jurisdiction of the royal family.

Even the salaries of soldiers across the country have been transferred from the development bank originally belonging to the Ministry of Households to the commercial bank directly managed by the royal family, in order to prevent civil servants from having the opportunity to curb generals.

The redistribution of power, the establishment of three new first-rank ministers, and the reduction of eunuchs are tantamount to weakening the imperial power.So this is also unacceptable to Li Liang.

But in fact, there are very few trivial matters that bother Zhu Zhanji nowadays. Those procedural matters, including some trivial matters, are all handled within each department.

Zhu Zhanji requested that at the two major court meetings every month, the archives of affairs to be handled by various departments should be handed in for verification.

At present, it seems that there is a balance everywhere and mutual containment.But Li Liang's worry is not unreasonable, that is, the extension of all rights is through people. When the master is weak and the minister is strong, it is inevitable that people will not change their minds.

But this point, Zhu Zhanji has no choice. What he can do is to establish stable rules, and then strengthen the education of the royal family, and strengthen the connection between the royal family and military power.

Hearing Li Liang's heartfelt words, Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "At least there won't be a foolish king, which would ruin the continuation of my great cause."

Li Liang sighed and stopped persuading.Depending on where you sit, the issues you consider are naturally different.

He is a servant, and he has considered the interests of the royal family all his life.But Zhu Zhanji is different. He not only has to consider the interests of the royal family, but also the long-term continuation of the country.

Now, the descendants of the Zhu family are in power almost all over the world, just like the descendants of Genghis Khan 200 years ago.

Those Mongolian Yuan people were good at war and neglected governance. In less than 100 years, their power was greatly damaged. In less than 200 years, the once huge empire disappeared in smoke.

Of course, there is no rival that can compete with Daming, but in terms of governance, unilateral strong suppression has never been sustainable.

At any time, mastering the balance is the most important thing, especially for Ming after him.

What's more, the current Daming is not resting easy.Because of the great strides of civilization, although Zhu Zhanji tried his best to contain it, some technologies were unknowingly learned by others.

In the 23rd year of orthodoxy, old coaches Zheng Neng and Tang Saier occupied the Ukraine area of ​​later generations and expelled Ulugh Beg to European territory.

However, it was discovered there that they had refined molten iron by improving the high-temperature air chamber.

The most important thing about muskets is the steelmaking technology. As for the processing technology, because Daming has developed for 30 years, the processing technology of waterwheels and steam engines has matured.

Those people can easily polish the barrel by improving the processing procedure.Since then, the technology has expanded rapidly.

The West is now flooded with firearms, and the firepower of Ming soldiers no longer has an absolute advantage.

In the 29th year of Orthodoxy, a coalition of Western countries attacked Ukraine.Zheng Neng wanted to occupy the Ukrainian granary with all his heart, but he died heroically in the end.

Afterwards, the Ming soldiers had no choice but to retreat to the east coast of the Caspian Sea.

And Tang Saier's local army also lost a large piece of land on the west bank of the Volga, and now they are guarding the east bank of the Volga River and confronting each other.

Although the opponent has a large number of people and many muskets, but there is not enough gunpowder and no explosives, the attack is weak, and the two sides are now evenly divided.

Contrary to the phenomenon of the technology tree, Zhu Zhanji has long been prepared. If Daming's technology is to be popularized, it is inevitable for the other party to learn from it.

So he personally went to the extreme west, the purpose is to cheer up his own immigrants, and then see if the situation can continue to climb the technology tree and suppress the other side.

Daming's internal and external troubles are not obvious, but there are already signs.If he dies suddenly, Daming is destined to be in chaos for a while.

Now that you understand it, you have to plan ahead.

Chapter 2 Administration

The sky is not bright yet, but the frosty rime forms a crystal clear world.

The sea of ​​clouds like a waterfall flows slowly, forming dreamy fault clouds under your feet.

The eastern sky was golden, a sign that the sun was about to rise.

Zhu Zhanji stood leaning on a railing, looking at the eastern sky, not caring about the howling cold wind at all.

Zhu Jianshen took his child Zhu Youtang and stood behind Zhu Zhanji a few steps away, not daring to disturb his grandfather's pleasure.

Zhu Youtang, who was only five years old this year, did not start school until after the next year. Zhu Jianshen deliberately took him and accompanied his grandfather to Mount Huangshan.

Zhu Youzhang was still very young, and was chilled by the cold wind on the top of the mountain. He couldn't help shouting: "Great-grandfather, it's cold..."

Zhu Zhanji turned his head, a kind smile appeared on his majestic face. "Severe cold and hot summer, four seasons cycle, sunrise and sunset, clouds, mist, wind and snow, this is the world we live in. Being an emperor can't be superior, but also go deep into the people and know the sufferings of the people. Dang'er, come to the great-grandfather."

The little guy took a few steps forward, didn't dare to look down at the railing, pulled Zhu Zhanji's lapel and said, "Grandson doesn't understand."

Zhu Zhanji took a look at Zhu Jianshen, and then said: "Know what you know, what you don't know, don't know. If you don't understand, you can ask your father more."

Zhu Jianshen understood very well that these words were not addressed to the ignorant Zhu Youtang, but to him.

He bowed and said: "The grandson is taught."

Zhu Youtang jumped up, pulled Zhu Zhanji's lapel and said, "Great-grandfather, the sun has come out."