Su He was in Qianqing Palace, looking through the battle reports sent by the Northeast Governor's Office.
He drank a cup of tea and said happily: "Su Hu played well, played well."
The battle in Liaodong basically destroyed the foundation of slavery.
Dorgon and Yue Tuo ran away with tens of thousands of Eight Banners disciples.
But they don't have a stable territory, nor a large number of slaves.
Without a solid base, the Northeast Governor's Office will continue to send troops to attack them.
Dorgon and Yue Tuo are already lost dogs, and sooner or later they will be wiped out by the Dahua army.
Recovering the city of Shenyang also solved the inner problems of northern Dahua.
Su Hu also followed his instructions and dealt with Jiannu accordingly.
What Jiannu has done now is too numerous to describe.
In order to maintain the stability of their rule, these foreign ethnic groups with a small population intimidated the larger Han people.
The methods they used were very cruel and they would massacre the city at every turn.
After the Jiannu occupied Liaodong, the Han population was less than 50% of its heyday.
This is when slaves were established in other places and captured a large number of slaves.
Suhe not only wanted to destroy the power of Jiannu.
He also wants the culture and race of the Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou to completely disappear.
Officials from the cabinet and the governor's office arrived at the Qianqing Palace one after another to attend the imperial meeting.
They discuss what they have agreed upon before.
Du Yuan, the Minister of Civil Affairs, first said: "Your Majesty, in addition to Hanzhong, Sichuan, Guangdong and other places.
We conquered these places early and have relatively complete administrative systems.
After officials in these places take office, there are old people to lead the new people, so they can quickly get into work.
Other places don't have such good conditions.
Nowadays, many official positions are newly created, and it is the first time for officials to come into contact with these positions.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate's assessment of officials is extremely strict.
They don't quite understand what work they need to do?
I think the Imperial Academy does not teach people.
To teach officials to do practical things, this system should be extended to all provinces and governments.
Let scholars and civil servants have a place to train before starting work.
Another point is that officials cannot hire their own masters.
The secretaries assigned by the government are incompatible with these people.
The cooperation between them is not good, which delays the work.
Some secretaries even deliberately refused to cooperate with their superiors because of their qualifications.
I suggest that officials be reinstated and have the power to choose their own masters."
Su He listened to the words of Du Yuan, the official minister, who was promoted from the grassroots level.
He has a very clear understanding of some things in officialdom.
Su He thought for a while and said: "It is a good suggestion for the Imperial College to decentralize this matter.
It just so happens that the current system of the Imperial College is somewhat rigid.
Jiang Fangding was preparing to be released as an official in the Imperial College.
This period was just right for the restructuring of the Imperial College.
The Imperial College was reorganized into a university, and the Imperial College was renamed Dahua Royal Administrative College.
Each province has its own administrative college.
Serving officials or reserve officials must go to the Administrative College for further studies before promotion.
Administration is the way to be an official. The subject in our imperial examination that examines the way to be an official was renamed the administrative subject.
Let readers enhance their understanding of administration.
There are still some of last year's Enko scholars who have not graduated from the Imperial College.
People like them are obsessed with studying. The questions in this year's imperial examination and administrative subjects must be more practical.
Get rid of some nerds, they are a complete waste of Jinshi quota."
While Su He was speaking, Song Kangnian, the Minister of Rites, took out a small notebook and recorded it carefully.
He did not expect that His Majesty would talk about the imperial examination.
After Su He finished speaking, he looked at Wang Zhongce and said, "Wang Aiqing, what do you think about Master?"
When Wang Zhongce heard His Majesty's inquiry, he immediately gave his own suggestions.
"Your Majesty, Master, in this matter, the main thing is to cooperate with Shangguan.
Two people must have a certain degree of tacit understanding in order to do something well.
But in the past, officials hired their own masters, which easily led to officials being lazy in their administration. Masters were also a key group of people who accepted corruption and bribery.
The master's main purpose is to serve officials and does not care about the interests of the court at all.
I think that the position of secretary should be changed to master, so that officials in this position can understand their status clearly.
However, the position of master is still provided by the imperial court.
Salaries were distributed by the imperial court, and their promotions were arranged by the Ministry of Personnel.
His assessment results are related to the officials he serves, but his promotion cannot be manipulated by the officials he serves.
The master must also accept the supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Officials and masters can choose both ways."
Many systems of the Dahua Dynasty were thought up by Su He based on the systems of later generations.
Some systems work very well and their capabilities far exceed Su He's expectations.
For example, the State Administration of Taxation is the only yamen responsible for taxation.
All tax-related responsibilities are integrated together, and the accurate person in charge can be found, and supervision is also very convenient.
There are some systems that are stumbling into operation.
Before, the scale was too small and no problems could be seen.
Once they are deployed across the country, they will not adapt to the times and various problems will arise.
Once problems are discovered, adjustments will be made promptly.
Su He ordered: "We will improve according to Wang Aiqing's method, and the cabinet will supervise the implementation. The Ministry of Personnel will be specifically responsible for this matter."
Qian Fuwen, Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, then spoke: "Your Majesty, the financial approval for the second half of the year.
I saw that an approval submitted by the Academy of Sciences will cost a lot of silver coins.
To build a railway from Beijing to Tongzhou, one kilometer of railway cost 30,000 taels of silver coins.
The cost of building this road is too high. What kind of road requires such a high cost?"
As soon as Qian Fuwen said these words, everyone became energetic.
With their simple knowledge, they could immediately figure out that the Academy of Sciences was falsely reporting the price of road construction and preparing to embezzle the road construction funds.
The Royal Academy of Sciences of Dahua has always been directly managed by the emperor, and no one can interfere.
They all looked at Tian Jiapeng, the president of the Academy of Sciences.
Tian Jiapeng is very shrewd, but his methods are too crude. The Academy of Sciences actually used such despicable methods for corruption.
Everyone is curious about how His Majesty will handle this matter.
Su He said in a calm tone: "This is an experimental railway, and the price to build it is very high.
Later, rails and sleepers were mass-produced, and railway construction technology also advanced.
The cost of railway construction will inevitably come down. I predict that it will be reduced to 20,000 taels of silver coins per kilometer by then.
I think the price is very appropriate. Once you see the railways and trains, you won’t think that the construction cost is too high.”
When the officials of Qianqing Palace heard Emperor Su's statement, many of them didn't believe it.
Can a road with such a high construction cost really be useful?
Su He handed the battle report that Su Hu had just sent over to everyone for viewing.
Everyone in the military did not react much. They just thought that Su Hu had made another great contribution.
Civil officials focused their attention on the punishment of slaves.
Nearly 10,000 people were castrated at one time, including more than 1,000 children.
This is where there are only so many people from the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe left in Shenyang City.
Looking at Su Hu's actions, he would castrate them without hesitation, even if they were hundreds of thousands of people.
Li Zhisheng said somewhat unbearably: "Your Majesty, the palace no longer recruits eunuchs on a large scale.
The Duke of Wei, Su Hu, was so cruel that he castrated nearly ten thousand people at one time, even children.
He created nearly 10,000 eunuchs for the country.
Originally, these people were physically strong and could create great value whether they were building bridges, paving roads or mining minerals.
After castration, they will no longer be able to withstand heavy physical work.
If Wei Guogong does this, it will also make the fleeing Eight Banners soldiers determined to fight us to the death.
It will inevitably increase the casualties of frontline soldiers."
Su He waved his hand and said: "This is not the punishment that Duke Wei made on his own initiative. This is the punishment I ordered Duke Wei to carry out.
Those who established slaves committed their own sins and cannot be forgiven.
Compared with the crimes they committed, this punishment is not severe at all."
Su He directly blocked the mouths of these civil servants.
He did not discuss the punishment at the imperial meeting, but directly ordered Su Hu to carry out the relevant punishment.
It was the "good-hearted" performance of these civil servants that made him feel uncomfortable. Their tolerance for evildoing by foreigners was too high.
In order to ease the atmosphere in the Qianqing Palace, Wang Zhongce said: "Your Majesty, after the main force of establishing slaves was destroyed, there is no large-scale power in the north.
We should set up provinces in the north and govern the northern provinces.
Previous dynasties and generations had only extensive rule.
The cabinet believes that the northern regions should be integrated into the mainland and officials should be sent to rule these places."
Suhe has long had plans to establish northern provinces.
The establishment of provinces in the northern region also tells everyone that these areas belong to Dahua itself and will not be enfeoffed.
He pointed forward, and the Qilin Guard soldiers immediately moved down the large map.
"I have also thought about the geographical division of the northern provinces before.
Most of the north is now covered with deep mountains and old forests, and Liaodong Province is the province with the largest population.
After simple statistics, the current population of Liaodong Province is not as large as the population of Beijing.
From now on, the northern provinces will be designated as frontier areas, which will also be used as resettlement places for immigrants who have returned to their native land and exiled criminals.
I have initially divided the territories of the northern provinces, please see if they are suitable."
Wang Zhongce looked at the northern provinces divided by the Su River.
His first impression was that the northern provinces were really huge.
The entire area near the Heilongjiang River Basin is divided into Heilongjiang Province.
Heilongjiang Province stretches from the desert to the west, the Whale Sea to the east, and Sakhalin Island to the north. It is the largest province in terms of area.
The area north of Liaohe River and south of Heilongjiang Province is divided into Jilin Province.
The area of Liaodong Province has also expanded, including the Chahar tribe and other eastern Monan Mongolian areas to the west.
The combined area of the three northeastern provinces is almost comparable to the current territory of Dahua.
To the east of Hetao Province and to the west of Liaodong Province, the traditional area of Monan Mongolia was named Monan Province.
The vast area north of Monan Mongolia, south of Beihai, east of Wuliang Sea, and west of Heilongjiang is named Mobei Province.
Beihai, the largest lake in the north, the land of Suwu sheep herding, and the surrounding large area, were named Beihai Province.
Now, except for Monan Province and Liaodong Province, it is under the control of the Dahua Dynasty.
Other places conveyed their submission through Lin Dan Khan, rule in name only.
Wang Zhongce looked at these huge provinces and made suggestions: "Your Majesty, the area of these northern provinces is too large.
Heilongjiang is a province larger than the five provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian combined.
For such a huge area, it would take four or five months to run from one side to the other, which is not conducive to management.
For the convenience of management, we have divided Huguang and North and South Zhili."
Su He looked at these huge northern provinces, he sighed and said: "The northern provinces belong to the border areas, and I also want to divide the northern provinces like the Central Plains.
However, Liaodong Province, which currently has the largest Han population, has a population of only a few hundred thousand.
There are not even 10,000 Han people in the huge Heilongjiang Province.
There is no population, the provinces are too small, and there is no need to provide so many official positions.
The number of Jinshi admitted by the national imperial examination is fixed every year, so it is unnecessary for these provinces to occupy more Jinshi quotas."
As soon as Su He said these words, all civil servants remembered that in the imperial examinations of the Great China Dynasty, Jinshi had a guaranteed quota.
If the north is divided into too many provinces, it will seize the quota of other provinces.
Cabinet Minister Li Zhisheng agreed: "The land is vast and sparsely populated. It is more appropriate for the northern provinces to divide such a large area."
They finished discussing the geographical scope of the northern provinces.
The cabinet also recommended the governors of each province and left it to His Majesty the Emperor to choose.
Currently, the only areas actually controlled by the northern provinces are Liaodong Province and Monan Province.
Other provinces will wait until military control ends before dispatching governors.
Qu Xiangyang, the governor of Shaanxi, was transferred to the governor of Liaodong, and Jiang Fangding, the governor of the Imperial Academy, took over as the governor of Shaanxi.
Zhang Guanghan, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was appointed governor of Monan Province.
After discussing the arrangements for the governors of each province.
Prime Minister Wang Zhongcehui reported: "Your Majesty, the above list of the Usi Tibetan tribes is enclosed. Do we agree?"
Su He asked directly: "The above table of the Wusizang tribes is attached. They want to maintain the original system unchanged."
Wang Zhongce nodded and said: "Yes, the Wusi Zang tribes want to continue to maintain the system of violence in the Wusi Zang area.
The local temple, as a feudal lord, continued to rule over the serfs.
Our cabinet unanimously disagrees and does not recommend that the imperial court agree to the request of the Usi Tibetan tribes."
Su He slapped the table and said angrily: "This is absolutely impossible. We have to pay such a heavy price in the southwest region to reform the country and return it to the people.
There were hundreds of rebellions just suppressed by chieftains.
What would the chieftains from other places think about giving special treatment to monks in the Usizang area?
We have just established the northern provinces, and the Mongols also want to gain more rights. Will we agree?
The Dahua Dynasty will resolutely implement the reform of the land and return it to the local people, and there will be no discounts."
Su He turned to look at Li Fengming and asked: "Tao Guifan of the Second Army of the Southwest Governor's Office, how is the training of the plateau army under his command?"
When Li Fengming heard Su He's question, he immediately replied: "Tao Guifan has led the army to the Duogan area for training.
It is precisely because our army has entered the Wusi Zangduogan area that these people will come into contact with us.
In the Duogan area, the work of land reform and restoration has been completed.
The army recruited local people to form a serviceable force that could adapt to the dangerous environment of the plateau area."
Su He had been paying attention to Tao Guifan's army, and he asked Li Fengming to speak out, that is, to tell these civilian officials.
The army is the greatest guarantee. As long as you have a strong army, you don't have to worry about local forces.
After Wang Zhongce heard Li Fengming's introduction, his worries were relieved.
"Your Majesty, we are going to carry out the reform and restoration of the land in the Usizang area.
We should pay attention to the religion here. Buddhism has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and is not suitable for major changes."
Su He said with a smile: "As for the Usi-Zang area, we must complete the work of reforming the land and separating the state and religion.
Local temples can only be used as religious places, and they cannot continue to rule the local people.
The reincarnation of living Buddhas in Usizang and Mongolia must be decided by me."
Su He determined the Dahua Dynasty's ideas on the governance of the Usi-Tibet area.
He asked the cabinet to improve relevant systems.
At the same time, Tao Guifan was ordered to formally march into the core area of Wusizang.
These monks did not understand the current situation clearly, so they used the army to make them understand.