Zhu Yicheng's face was extremely gloomy. Zhu Yicheng has always attached great importance to the administration of officials. After restoring the country, he adopted a series of policies, whether it is to increase the salary of officials, set up integrity banks, strengthen supervision of supervision departments, strictly control local taxation, set up banking systems, etc., the purpose of these methods is ultimately to avoid corruption and increase national income.

However, Zhu Yicheng did not expect that only six years later, there was corruption in the Ming Dynasty. Although Zhang Ran only said that it was not known whether the news he received was true or not, in Zhu Yicheng's view, there must be groundless reasons.

For a long time, the Ming Dynasty did not set up the Southern Zhili Province like the previous Ming Dynasty. At that time, Jiangbei was not restored, and in addition, it was another reason to control the place. Historically, the territory of Nan Zhili was quite large, almost including Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai, and some areas in Zhejiang. Such a large territory, directly merged into a province, can certainly improve Nanjing's political status, but in fact, there are not many benefits in administrative jurisdiction.

History is moving forward. In ancient times, China was a pattern of small countries and few people, and people never interacting with each other. However, with the progress of history, the increase in population and the development of towns, a new pattern will inevitably be formed. With the formation of this pattern, the division of administrative regions has become more and more detailed. In addition, Zhu Yicheng revived the Ming Dynasty and vigorously supported industry and commerce. Today, the bourgeoisie of the Ming Dynasty has begun to rise. With the circulation and prosperity of commerce, the administrative regions of the large pattern are no longer used. Now, Zhu Yicheng simply did not set up a large province, and it was not even like the Qing Dynasty's practice of setting up Jiangnan Province in history, and directly divided the provinces and ruled.

The current division of administrative provinces is basically the same as that of later generations. In history, the provincial areas of later generations were also formed in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, including the names of these provinces.

The entire Southern China, the Ming Dynasty has the strongest control in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Anhui, although it is because these provinces were originally the provinces that the Ming Dynasty regained, and these provinces have always been relatively wealthy. In addition, the capital is now in Nanjing, so the control over local areas is relatively strict.

The provinces of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi have not been recovered for a long time, and the court is still assisting in the restoration of production. Moreover, these three provinces have always been provinces with developed water transportation and mainly agriculture. The officials sent to them were also carefully selected by Zhu Yicheng for the court.

As for Jiangbei, I won’t talk about it for the time being. Jiangbei has only been recovering for more than a month. Due to the war and the special circumstances of Fengyang, the court is still supporting it. It will take at least one or two years to restore its former prosperity. However, Fujian is different. It is said that the Ming Dynasty took Fujian for a long time. When the Ming Dynasty moved south from Zhejiang, the first attack was Fujian. When the Guangdong strategy was carried out, most of Fujian had already belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

After pacifying southern China, Zhu Yi became Daxing Industry and Commerce and Maritime Trade, and opened Maritime Trade Departments in various places. The most famous of them are naturally Shanghai, Ningbo, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. The second largest number of them are Fuzhou, Xiamen and Tianjin.

Compared with Tianjin, Fuzhou and Xiamen were originally important places to go to sea. Fuzhou was the provincial capital of Fujian, and Xiamen was the former garrison of the Qing army. As for Quanzhou, this port city that started from the Song Dynasty has no longer had its former glory and gradually fell into the former.

Fujian has always been a poor area. Except for coastal cities, most of them are mountainous. Compared with Zhejiang, Fujian has less farmland and the lives of the people are poorer. In history, there are many cases of girls drowning in Fujian. The key is that the people do this because they cannot afford to raise their children. In addition, the previous policy of sea bans has led to Fujian becoming more poor. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Qing court restricted Fujian from going overseas due to Taiwan, and even issued an internal migration order, which made the people in the coastal areas even more miserable.

This is also the main reason why Fujian has been in trouble and even frequent pirates and bandits. Looking at the Ming Dynasty, including during the Qing Dynasty, there were many people who went out to sea to fight for their lives, and there were often people who could not survive in the mountains and forests who could not survive to resist the government.

These are all precedents. Whether it is the famous Zheng Zhilong that year or the later Zheng Chenggong, they are both from Fujian. Even in recent years, Zhu Yigui, who is fighting in Jiangbei, is also from Fujian. So in other words, Fujian is a place where poor mountains and rivers come from unruly people.

With the success of the Rest of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yicheng opened trade in Fujian, and his main purpose was to reverse the poverty and backwardness of Fujian. With the development in recent years, Fujian has indeed made a lot of profits. Now, the Maritime Manufacturing Corporation in Fuzhou and Xiamen is becoming more and more prosperous with the rise of maritime trade. Because trade has promoted handicrafts and local commerce, it has also benefited the people of Fujian a lot.

Zhu Yicheng is quite proud of this. Sometimes when he read memorials from Fujian, he felt even more complacent when he saw the numbers. But who would have thought that today's random question actually led to such a result, which almost made him slapped hard on the face, which made Zhu Yicheng feel angry.

"Collaborators and businessmen colluded to embezzle the land...hahahaha!"

Listening to Zhu Yicheng's anxious smile, Zhang Ran was so scared that her face was pale, and she couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"It seems that all the officials in Fujian are talented!" Zhu Yicheng sneered: "My Jinyiwei is also doing a good job, and the censors and supervisors are very polite when impeaching the court. They look like they are just a slut, but they just can't see what's under their noses. Good! That's great!"

"Wei Chen's death sentence... death sentence..."

Zhang Ran became more and more scared and kowtowed and claimed guilty.

Holding a sense of anger in his heart, Zhu Yicheng looked at Zhang Ran who was kneeling in front of him, wishing he could pick up Yu Ruyi on the table and smashed him in the head. However, he finally suppressed himself. Although Zhang Ran had a mistake, the fault was not due to him. At least the Jinyiwei found something and reported it. In addition, Zhang Ran had done a lot of things over the years, and it was not fair to attribute Fujian's fault to him.

"Investigate it for me! Investigate it hard!" Zhu Yicheng slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "You can check this matter yourself. If you can't find out the truth, you don't have to do it as a commander."

Zhang Ran agreed repeatedly, gritting his teeth and ensuring that the truth would be revealed. If the result could not be found, he would remove his head without Zhu Yicheng's words.

After driving Zhang Ran away, Zhu Yicheng's anger was still not calm. He walked back and forth in the hall angrily, and for a moment he even wanted to summon people to call all the ministers of the Military Affairs Office to scold them. But in the end, reason calmed down Zhu Yicheng. There was no final result in this matter yet. Although Zhang Ran had to investigate, the court had to investigate even more. It was not convenient to make a big fuss without finding conclusive evidence.
Chapter completed!