Chapter 662
Just after the New Year, the city of Suzhou still maintains a festive atmosphere.
The residence of the Wu Yue King, the guards and servants were all wearing new clothes, and lanterns were hung in the corridors and yards, presenting a new atmosphere.
In the early morning, before dawn, Zhao Ming was still sleeping, and was awakened by the princess, "Your Highness, you will call you to discuss matters early this morning. You will meet His Highness's envoy of the King of Lu at noon, and you will go to the East Suburb Workshop in the afternoon~~~"
Zhao Ming sat up from the bed and listened to the princess's words. As the lord of a vassal, he could be said to be busy every day and had no time to be idle.
At this time, after the princess dressed herself, she waved to the outside world and called softly, "Come in!"
Outside the bedroom, a large group of palace maids walked in with trays. On the tray were Zhao Ming's prince's dragon robe, winged crown, jade belt, black leather boots, as well as breakfast and various toiletries.
There was a fierce battle last night. In the early morning, Zhao Ming was a little tired. The palace maid helped him up, and then helped him put on the prince's clothes and wash Zhao Ming. During the whole process, Zhao Ming just opened his hands and raised his feet. It can be said that he was wearing clothes and opening his mouth for food.
At the moment of the year, just before dawn, Zhao Ming, escorted by dozens of guards, went to the original Governor's Office of the East China Sea.
Although Zhao Ming is extremely brave, his current status is different from the past. His personal safety does not only affect himself, but also affects the fate of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Wu Yue Kingdom.
Therefore, Zhao Ming is now very cautious and has guards everywhere he goes. Since the rebellion, Zhao Ming has indeed suffered assassination from various forces, but all ended in failure.
At this time, Zhao Ming stopped in front of the Governor's Office, and the officials of the three departments who came to participate in the discussion and the shogunate staff had already arrived.
It can be said that in addition to those who are fighting outside or having defensive tasks, it turns out that all the high-level civil and military officials in Donghai Town have come, with a total of more than 40 people!
Everyone who arrived earlier was sitting in the meeting hall in groups of three or three whispering, talking about the establishment of the vassal state. At this time, a guard shouted: "Your Highness is here!"
For a moment, the hall suddenly became quiet, and Zhao Ming, surrounded by the sword guards, quickly walked into the hall.
"Welcome to your Highness!" Everyone immediately stood up and welcomed Zhao Ming into the room.
Now Wu Yuefan is in an independent state, but he is the main person in nominal respect for Zhu Youjian. The actual situation is that everyone knows very well that Zhao Ming is their lord!
Zhao Ming smiled and waved his hand to ask everyone to sit down. After everyone sat down, he smiled and said, "Since everyone has arrived, let's start!"
After the palace maids gave the refreshment, they immediately withdrew, and the guards at the door closed the door and asked everyone to discuss behind closed doors.
The hall calmed down, and Zhao Ming continued: "Today, everyone was summoned to discuss matters, mainly because Gu was named King of Wu Yue by the court. Gu Wang was preparing to establish a vassal state to rule the prefectures and counties that are now controlled by the vassal states."
In the early Ming Dynasty, there were many real vassal states in the Ming Dynasty. They had their own troops and appointed a majority of officials to control local taxes, military power and administrative power, just like an independent kingdom.
Later, the Ming Dynasty carried out the reduction of the vassal states, and the power of the vassal states was severely weakened after the Jingnan Campaign and had already died in name only.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty's control over the court and local governments was not as good as before, and its authority was weakened, and the separatist forces in various places immediately arose and form independent kingdoms.
Now, Sun Kewang of Xichuan nominally surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, he was an independent kingdom. Not only did the army not accept command, but the laws and taxes were also different, and he even opened his own imperial examinations to obtain scholars.
Now, what Zhao Ming is going to do is to build Jiangsu and Zhejiang into an independent vassal state that nominally surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, just like Sun Kewang.
Zhao Ming glanced at everyone and said to Qian Qianyi: "Mr. Muzhai, tell me!"
Before the meeting, Zhao Ming had informed his confidants in advance and asked them to come up with a plan to build a vassal.
Qian Qianyi then stood up, bowed to everyone, and then said, "Everyone, now the vassal government controls a large territory. After the shogunate consultation, it decided to abolish the Governor's Office of the East China Sea, the Three Divisions of the East China Sea, as well as the Zhejiang Governor and the Three Divisions, set up roads in the local area, set up a government and the Six Chiefs in the Central Committee to rule Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
Now Zhao Ming controls Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are many overseas territories. In order to avoid separatism and form a powerful force to compete with the vassal states, the shogunate decided to divide Zhejiang and Jiangdong, and turn it from two provinces to several channels. Otherwise, the strength of Zhejiang and one province would account for half of the vassal states. How could the vassal states suppress and command the provincial states?
Therefore, re-dividing the existing territory into administrative areas will help strengthen the control of the vassal states over the local areas.
Zhao Ming nodded and said, "Continue! Tell me more clearly!"
Qian Qianyi said: "After preliminary discussion, the shogunate believed that the current controlled areas could be divided into one Beijing, five roads and three governors' districts. One Beijing is Wangjing, which governs Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Yanzhou. The five roads are Jiangdong, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, North Zhejiang, Huzhou, Jiaxing, Songjiang, East Zhejiang, Ningbo, Taizhou, and Zhoushan. The western Zhejiang, Hengzhou, Jinhua, South Zhejiang, Wenzhou and Chuzhou. The three governors' districts are Taiwan Governors' districts, Luzon Governors' districts and Xinmingzhou Governors' districts."
Zhao Ming asked: "Do you have any opinions on this?"
Everyone nodded. After establishing a vassal state, it was impossible for a province to account for half of the vassal state, so everyone had no objection to the redivision of administrative regions.
Zhao Ming then signaled, Qian Qianyi continued: "In the central government, the shogunate was renamed the Ang government, with six Caos, the Constitutional Court and the Censorate. The Ang government has one person in charge of the political affairs, six people in the Senate, and six people in the Senate, and the Six Caos and the Censorate. The functions of the Ang government, six Caos, the Constitutional Court and the Censorate, can be compared with the Cabinet, six ministries, Dali Temple, and the Censorate."
The Ming Dynasty had been undermining the vassal states for more than two hundred years, and the vassal states remained in name only. Zhao Ming wanted to establish an independent vassal state, so he could only learn from the existing vassal states. He drew on some names and structures of North Korea.
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This arrangement has not changed much from before. It was just that the name was called, and everyone named immediately went out to pay tribute, "Thank you for your cultivation!"
Chapter completed!