Chen Yue returned to Beijing and was promoted to president, but he, the president, did not have an office location.
Although the imperial court promised to build the Presidential Palace west of Hongwu Gate, it would still take some time.
Before the Presidential Palace was built, Chen Yue could only work in his own Prince Qi Palace.
Prince Qi’s Mansion is the original Mansion of Duke of Wei.
It has been managed by the Xu family of the Duke of Wei for more than 200 years.
It can be said that every step of the mountain, stone pavilions and forest has a beautiful scenery.
In fact, it is a beautiful garden.
It can be used as a residence, but it is not suitable for being a president at all.
The government is the highest institution of the imperial court.
But there is no other way, let’s just accommodate it for the time being.
After leaving the palace and returning to Prince Qi's Mansion, Wu Waner, Kou Baimen and others were already waiting for her.
After years of separation, there were naturally unspeakable feelings of love and words after meeting, so I won't go into details here.
On the third day after Chen Yue returned to Beijing, Chongzhen held a court meeting, and all senior officials of the fourth rank and above in the capital attended the court meeting.
In the court hall, Chen Yue, the president, was formally sworn in and took over the presidential seal from Chongzhen.
Chongzhen decreed that the cabinet should be abolished, and all future political affairs would be handled by the presidential palace.
Chen Yue served as president, and Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei, and Qian Qianyi served as vice presidents.
According to prior discussions, Chongzhen also announced that the Government Affairs Council, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office would be established under the Presidential Palace to be responsible for government affairs, supervision, and military affairs.
The original six ministries were temporarily under the management of the Government Affairs Council, with Lu Zhenfei as the head of the Government Affairs Council.
The Jinyiwei and Yushitai were under the management of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and were responsible for monitoring public sentiment, advising on impeachment, supervising officials, etc.
Shi Kefa served as the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The Metropolitan Governor's Office manages the country's military forces, general appointments, promotions, rewards and punishments, troop mobilization, sending troops to suppress bandits, armament production, etc., which is equivalent to incorporating some of the responsibilities of the Ministry of War.
President Chen Yue concurrently served as the chief governor, and Yang Zhengping and Chang Yanling served as the left and right governors.
The Government Affairs Council, the Supervisory Yuan, and the Metropolitan Governor were all on the same level, and were known as the three prime ministers.
Shi Kefa was an upright man, but was a little inferior in contingency, so he was appointed as the Supervisor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
He held the power of national supervision, and his position was extremely important.
As for the Grand Governor, who holds the country's military power, this position can only be held by Chen Yue himself.
The president is a newly created position, which naturally involves changes in the official system.
These are all expected, and this change will not have much impact on the courtiers.
The biggest change was the inclusion of the Jin Yiwei into the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
From then on, the Jin Yiwei belonged to the imperial establishment and were no longer the emperor's personal eagle dogs.
This was something the ministers loved to see.
Then Chongzhen issued an order to cancel the daily court meeting, and officials did not need to enter the palace early every morning for court meetings.
Each yamen performs its own duties.
When encountering major issues, they can submit a letter to the Presidential Palace, and the President will convene relevant people to discuss and resolve the matter.
If the President cannot solve the problem, the matter will be reported to the Emperor, and the decision will be made by the Emperor.
This order is equivalent to taking power away from the emperor, which is equivalent to the emperor giving up most of his power.
However, from the time when the position of the president was established, everyone knew that this was what it should be.
The reason why Chen Yue insists on this is that he feels that the great court meeting is meaningless.
Every great court meeting is an endless quarrel.
It is simply unnecessary for officials from any yamen to participate in the clamor about one thing.
Special people are responsible for specialized tasks, and everyone only needs to perform their duties, which will make things easier.
The main reason why Ming Dynasty was in its current situation was that there were too many wranglings and endless party disputes.
Chen Yue decided to stop it from the source.
After Chen Yue officially took office as president, he was not in a hurry to carry out reforms because the first thing he had to do was solve the problem of rebellions in various places.
Now the Ming Dynasty is far from reaching a state of peace.
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The Shun thieves have been driven to Xining and Gansu, while the Western thieves have rebelled in Sichuan.
Along the coast of Fujian, Zheng Sen has occupied islands such as South Australia, Xiamen, and Kinmen, brazenly raising the banner of Fengtian Jingnan.
The spearhead was pointed directly at Chen Yue himself.
Until all of this is resolved, there is simply no environment for change and it should not be rushed.
As the president, Chen Yue ordered the appointment of General Yu Fengpingxi to be responsible for quelling the Shun rebel rebellion in Shaanxi.
Among the three rebel armies, the Shun rebels in Shaanxi are the easiest to deal with, because Yu Feng has a hundred thousand strong troops in his hands, with the Northern Expeditionary Army of Chen Yue's direct lineage as the backbone.
Chen Yue ordered Li Yi to be appointed as the general of the Pingtai general, who was fully responsible for wiping out the remnants of the Western bandits in Sichuan.
Chen Yue allocated 10,000 Li Yi's direct descendants as the backbone, and then transferred 50,000 soldiers from Jiangxi and 50,000 soldiers from Huguang.
Together with several Ming troops who were fighting against the Western bandits in Sichuan, the total force was close to 200,000, and the Western bandits were wiped out.
When there is no problem.
Chen Yue also ordered Wang Yin to be the Southeast Superintendent, commanding the Southeast troops and horses to be responsible for annihilating Zheng Sen's rebels.
Wang Yin controlled the most elite navy of the Ming Dynasty, including more than 20 Western plywood Galen ships and more than 100 three-masted Fu ships.
They were extremely powerful.
However, water warfare is no better than land warfare.
The sea is too wide, and it is difficult to destroy Zheng Sen, who also has a large number of ships and naval forces.
In order to cooperate with Wang Yin in exterminating Zheng Sen's rebels, Chen Yue ordered that Jiangxi General Jin Shenghuan be the Pingnan General and lead 50,000 Jiangxi soldiers into Fujian to put pressure on Zheng Sen from land.
As long as Jin Shenghuan can defend the coastal cities from being attacked by Zheng Sen, Zheng Sen will inevitably become weaker and weaker without land support, and it is only a matter of time before Zheng Sen is wiped out.
To deal with the three-party bandits and rebels, the imperial court deployed more than 400,000 troops.
Such a large number of troops required an astronomical amount of money and food.
In the past, the biggest factor that prevented the Western bandits from being exterminated was the money problem.
In the past, those who fought the rebels were local armies, and local governments were responsible for supplying money and food.
Now that the imperial court has recruited so many guest soldiers to fight, most of the money and food will naturally have to be settled by the imperial court.
In the past, the imperial court would not have been able to carry out such a large-scale operation with its financial resources.
But it's different now, because Chen Yue is richer.
After the destruction of the Zheng family, most of the wealth that Zheng Zhilong had accumulated for more than ten years fell into the hands of Chen Yue.
This amount of money alone amounted to tens of millions.
The vast amount of wealth seized by the rebels from the gentry in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangdong was even greater.
Most of this wealth was controlled by Chen Yue with the defeat of the rebels.
Why did Chen Yue insist on putting on a show and sending out troops to exterminate the rebels even though the rebels were clearly under his control?
Apart from putting on a show for the court and the world to see, the bigger reason was because of the wealth in the hands of the rebels.
Although most of the wealth seized by the gentry was ordered to be turned over by Qian Fenglin, the money moved people's hearts, but most of the money was secretly hidden by the rebel soldiers.
However, the real confidants among the more than 100,000 rebels are only a few thousand Dongfan troops and more than 20,000 Jiangxi soldiers.
The others are surrendered troops from Zhejiang and newly joined people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
The money that fell into the hands of these rebels had to be regained through forceful means.
That's why Chen Yue took action to quell the rebellion.
Therefore, the amount of money Chen Yue now has in his hands is so huge that it is enough to equal the income of the national treasury for decades.
There is no problem in supplying hundreds of thousands of troops to suppress bandits.
With enough money and food, Chen Yue believed that the eradication of the rebels and bandits was just around the corner
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