Zhou Yingqiu was stunned, looked up at Zhu Xu, and then recalled it seriously.

Although there are prime ministers in Liaodong, there is no governor. The area under its command is and its vastness. The main responsibilities are to reclaim wasteland, accept immigrants, establish a new order in the absence of circumstances, and conduct experiments first.

The Prime Minister is a kind of official position similar to "inspection", which is half a rank higher than the Shangshu, not a permanent establishment. Now Sun Chuanting is in charge, and has been in charge for several years.

Zhou Yingqiu didn't quite understand why Zhu Xu changed the topic, but it must have a deep meaning. He recalled for a while and said: "Emperor, there are not enough land reclamation in Liaodong, and there are still many wastelands and few people. More reclamation is needed. Ghana's disaster victims have a long way to go..."

Zhu Xu picked up the teacup next to him, took a sip of tea, and then said directly: "Well, I have read all your memorials and will urge the cabinet to deal with it as soon as possible. You go."

Zhou Yingqiu looked at Zhu Xu and was a little confused. He raised his hand and said, "I will leave."

Zhu Xu didn't even raise his head and continued to flip the memorial in his hand.

Zhou Yingqiu withdrew from the Imperial Study room. On the way out of the palace, he lowered his head slightly and frowned, and kept thinking about the conversation in the Imperial Study room.

The emperor would not be aimless. He said something inexplicably, and it must have a profound meaning, but he could not guess the profound meaning.

Liaodong still needs a large amount of money and grain investment in recent years, and has spent a lot of effort on resettlement of disaster victims and land reclamation. It is currently unable to be self-sufficient, especially after digestion, and large-scale immigration will begin this year.

"What did the emperor want to say?" Zhou Yingqiu was still puzzled when standing in front of the palace gate.

Zhu Xu's return to Beijing and walking around outside was like a mountain suddenly pressing down. The capital, which was originally a hot topic, suddenly became quiet.

Some of the small movements that were supposed to have stopped as if they were suspended, and countless pairs of eyes looked in the direction of the palace!

No matter how they view the court, they cannot deny it when they see the emperor, that is, Jing Zheng's control over the court is far beyond Tianqi and Wanli, and even surpassed the previous generations of emperors, chasing Taizu and Taizong!

Zhu Xu lived a relatively comfortable life, and he wrote memorials, teased the children, and went to Cining Palace for dinner, which was unprecedentedly comfortable.

Because of the child and Li Jieyu accompanying him, Empress Dowager Zhang has less concerns, and everyone likes this feeling very much.

Only when it comes to choosing a concubine, Empress Dowager Zhang always hoped to have a few more people into the palace, but Zhu Xu insisted on only one, and directly establishing the queen to ensure the stability of the harem.

Empress Dowager Zhang insisted more this time because Zhu Xu currently only has three women, two of them are alien women, and they are pregnant, which is still very dangerous. She hopes that Zhu Xu will have more offspring to avoid repeating some old things.

Zhu Xu had some small conflicts with Empress Dowager Zhang for this, and in the end, the old concubine made a decision to marry one a year, which was not too late.

After the inner court resolved, the outer court cabinet took action even faster.

The cabinet announced that it would "acquire" Huitong Trading Bank and others, merge them into the court, establish the "Guomao Temple" to specialize in managing these trading banks and chambers of commerce. Others such as customs and horse farms were also included in the cabinet. These will belong directly to the cabinet. In conjunction with the Ministry of Revenue, the royal bank unblocked various relationships, making the administrative agencies of the Ming Dynasty further complete and smooth, greatly increasing the full strength of the cabinet.

The cabinet was very quick, and Wei Liangqing and others cooperated quite well, because the seven people in Guomao Temple, their "Imperial Party" occupied five of them. While they lost nothing, they also had an official position. When they went out in the future, they could tell everyone upright that they were officials of the Ming Dynasty, not lowly merchants!

Zhu Xu kept looking down on all this, and he almost unimpededly approved the memorials reported about these.

Bi Ziyan, Sun Chengzong and others hope that the dynasty will be stable, sort out government affairs, and steadily and orderly advance the "New Deal" plan. Zhu Xu is optimistic, and the important thing is that at the same time, it cannot affect his plan.

For example, when they took over Huitong Trading Company this time, Zhu Xu was very happy. The cabinet seemed to have controlled these things and increased the cabinet's financial power. The regime could effectively "cope" Zhu Xu's mess, but he never saw the back floor. The cabinet took over Huitong Trading Company and hinted to the people of the world that one thing was that merchants were no longer "subtle", and the court was encouraging the development of commerce!

This is in line with Zhu Xu's purpose of improving the status of a businessman and is consistent with his intention to develop a commodity economy.

In the imperial study room, Zhu Xu looked at Bi Ziyan and Sun Chengzong's joint memorial, which said, "The country is greater than the field, the affairs are greater than the people, the fields are rooted in the people, the people are based on the country, strictly enforce the government, and strictly serve the people." In short, it is just a matter of saying that now, I have swallowed Huitong Trading Company and the top ten granaries, and the cabinet has the confidence to vigorously respond to the disaster, so as to promote the deepening of the local "new policy".

Zhu Xu couldn't tell anything, Bi Ziyan and others were still intentionally controlling the scale of business and tied everyone to the land.

However, he still wrote the word "correct" with a stroke of his pen.

The Ming Dynasty could not even consolidate the capital and cultivate the Yuan Dynasty. What needed was to scrape the bone to cure the poison. The cabinet was right to do so. As for the desire to control the development of business, it might still work if the maritime trade cannot be carried out. Zhu Xu has decided to completely open the maritime ban next year. These little thoughts of the cabinet are destined to be futile!

Zhu Xu then picked up the cabinet's memorial on "Guomao Temple", which talked about some ideas about "Guomao Temple", especially official matching, official qualities, power and duties.

Zhu Xu looked slowly and shook his head secretly. The cabinet was still quite conservative, and he didn't even achieve the 50% he hoped, but it was really embarrassing to expect a group of old scholars to have a strategic vision for business.

Throwing aside, Zhu Xu said, "I notify the cabinet that the sixth rank is too low. The Ministry of the Guomao Temple is set as the third rank. It is necessary to set up a supervisory agency, accounting agency, planning agency, and setting development goals, estimate profits, evaluate development, and hand over the profits to the treasury, and leave their own development, etc., all of them must submit a detailed document to me to show it, tell Bi Ziyan that if the cabinet is not done well, I will reconsider the ownership of Huitong Trading Bank..."

Liu Shimin listened quietly, and waited for Zhu Xu to finish speaking, and then said, "Yes."

‘It’s not that simple to eat my stuff…’ Zhu Xu looked at Liu Shimin’s back and laughed in her heart.

As soon as Liu Shimin left, an intern supervisor came over with a bunch of memorials and said, "Your Majesty, these are memorials from officials from all over the country about 'adding to the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet'. The brief is written by the slaves."

Zhu Xu took Tiao Chen, glanced and looked slightly moved.

Not only did the Beijing officials participate in the recommendation of the "Cabinet Auxiliary", officials outside the Beijing gradually reacted and all the memorials flew into the Silijian, and there were more than 30 books.

Zhu Xu pushed it aside and saw another one at hand, saying, "What is this?"

The inner supervisor lowered his head and said, "It's Jiang Su Senator Wei Yuanshan's memorial, please ask the emperor to establish the crown prince."

Zhu Xu raised his eyebrows and looked quite surprised. He had not even established a queen and had no legitimate son, so what kind of prince was he appointed?

He reached out to take Wei Yuanshan's memorial and read it out. It was not a sensationalism, but the language was quite plain, and he pointed out that the crown prince had the "risk of the foundation of the country" and hoped to become an heir as soon as possible and calm people's hearts.

Zhu Xu tapped the table with his right hand, and the crisp sound of horse hooves sounded.

The current clear-cut situation is that people's hearts are floating and everyone is irritable, and they need to calm people's hearts. With the prince and the crown prince here, it can indeed prevent many people from thinking about it and save a lot of trouble.

But now it doesn't work 'technically' now, how can we establish a prince in a confused manner without a legitimate son? What should we do if the queen gives birth to the eldest son in the future? It is correct to worry about the "country dispute over the foundation of the country", but the method is wrong.

Zhu Xu put down the memorial, thought for a while, and said, "Transfer the order to the clan mansion, and ordered the King of Lu to step up the explanation of 'inheritance'. After writing it, don't give it to me, and just write it to the cabinet."

The Ming Dynasty had its own rule of inheriting the throne, that is, "there is a legitimate, no legitimate, and the elder brother will be the elder." Taking this as the order, the "sequence law" does not overturn these, but explains, expands and clarifies them to avoid all risks of the country's foundation, and also eliminates the embarrassing situation of fighting against several kings during the Southern Ming Dynasty.

"Abide by the order." The internal supervisor agreed and slowly retreated.

"By the way, I'm telling Wu Boyan to see me." Zhu Xu said again.

Wu Boyan is the head of the Chronicle Newspaper Department, and is affiliated with the cabinet and manages all newspapers in the Ming Dynasty, including the cabinet, six ministries, and local provincial newspapers. In the future, there will be prefecture-county-level newspapers.

"Yes." The internal supervisor responded and hurried out.
Chapter completed!