Although the ceremony was said to be hasty, it was actually prepared for more than a month, and the reaction after the accession to the throne continued into the middle of the following year, during which time the administrative reforms led by Yang Yingqi continued. This reform was not carried out in a uniform manner, but according to the actual situation of each region, there were priorities and priorities - the Liao River valley, which had a deep foundation of Han rule, and the eastern part of Qilu, where the Han court had a deep foundation, did not make major moves, and the Hedong Road was an institutional adjustment, while Hebei and Shaanxi carried out gradual reforms. In response to this large-scale political revolution, there was a considerable movement of officials under the New Han regime for nearly a year from the end of 1682 to the middle of the following year.

On the one hand, this kind of flow flowed from the four directions to the center, and the old central teams of Tianjin and Liaoyang entered Tanggu one after another in the past few months, occupying nearly 40 percent of the seats in various departments of the new central government. However, with the great expansion of the scope of rule, the number of officials required for the new center has also increased greatly compared with before, so a large number of middle-level cadres have been promoted in Shandong, while in Hedong and Shaanxi, it is mainly high-ranking officials such as Guo Hao and Ma Kuo who have entered the center one after another to become political leaders.

On the other hand, due to the large number of vacancies in the local areas, it is necessary for the central government to delegate young scholars, or transfer and promote young scholars from neighboring areas. In particular, the newly recovered Hebei East and West Road has become an excellent way for the new Jin scholars and Liuqiu and Shandong officials to seek promotion, and the conditions in this area in the near future are very hard, and there are many things to do, but because of the waste to be rebuilt, it is easy to make political achievements, and the proximity to the future seat of the central government, the political achievements are also easy to be known by the above, so those who are enthusiastic about their careers are willing to take office in this place.

It is precisely because of this background that Hebei's east-west roads, such as the coastal coastal coastal areas of Binhai and Cangzhou, as well as the hinterland of Dafu Hejian and Jizhou, have all rapidly stabilized with the efforts of a number of middle-aged and young officials.

At this time, the northern and southern borders of the Han Empire had basically been stabilized, Zong Han was confined to the clouds, and Zong Bi was never able to cross the Yellow River. There were still occasional frictions along the border with Yunzhong, Henan, Western Xia, and the Southern Song Dynasty, but for the first time since Jingkang, the vast hinterland stretching from the Liaohe River valley on the Bohai Sea to the upper reaches of Weishui, was achieved. More than half a year was enough for the Han court to sweep away a large number of bandit forces, and enough for the peasants to settle down and enjoy the agricultural harvest after the first war.

Before the autumn harvest of 1683, northern China was already showing a thriving scene.

The rich families in the countryside were relieved to see that the law and order had improved, and the successes of the Han army on the border made them believe that the hinterland of the Han Empire would not fight, and I don't know how many years, the rich families had never been at ease as they are today, and what they heard and witnessed over the years made them find that the Han army did not have the bad deeds of harassing the people like the Song army or the Jin army, on the contrary, they felt the protection of the Han army, and turned this feeling into support for the Han court's military operations and administrative reforms.

And the poor people also felt more at ease after looking at the grain stored in the rice jar and the crops in the fields. In areas that settled earlier, farmers had already harvested a season of sweet potatoes and corn, but there were also some areas that gradually calmed down after the beginning of spring, and the poor families in these areas had to rely on the relief distributed by the governments at all levels of the Han Dynasty, and the amount of relief was enough for them to eat the autumn harvest, and according to the latest propaganda of the Han Dynasty, the taxes after the autumn harvest would be set very low - or even completely exempt, which made the poor families have hope for their livelihood in the coming year.

The administrative reform and pacification policies implemented by the Han court within the country, especially in the prefectures and counties of Hebei's East and West Road, cost a lot of financial resources, and the war stocks in southern Liaoning and Tanggu were constantly moved out, and only Yang Yingqi and Chen Zhenghui knew how much was moved out and how much was left. For the stability and reconstruction of Hebei, the Han court even sacrificed the opportunity to take advantage of the victory in the spring to march into the clouds.

At first, Yang Yingqi thought that it would take at least three years for this kind of effort to be rewarded, but he was wrong. It is true that it takes a long time for the peasants to rebuild their homes and be able to repay the country in the form of taxes, but in China, once the peasants settle down, it means that the whole region is settled. However, the indirect effect of the country's stability is far greater than Yang Yingqi's imagination.

The first is that law and order has begun to enter a virtuous circle. The more the Han court cracked down on the bandits everywhere, the smoother it became, because the stability of the countryside had cut off the source of new robbers to the greatest extent. The largest and most stubborn bandits were uprooted in the first round of purges, a small number of them were corrected on the spot, and most of them were exiled abroad. The remaining thieves, large and small, have lost the social basis on which they depend, as the overall social chaos has ended; And because the new government has given them another way to live, they have lost the relevance of their existence. An incident occurred in Jizhou that was later made into an opera: an eighty-year-old woman, after the Han court announced a two-year exemption from agricultural taxes in the county and an amnesty decree for thieves to return to their families to farm, ran to the mountains to take her son, one of the most famous robber leaders in the local mountains, back to his hometown to farm. In fact, I don't know how many similar things have happened on the East and West Road in Hebei.

At the same time, the gentry also relied on the new government to regain the role of rebuilding the township, and with the efforts of Han Fang, Chen Xian and their subordinates, the new political order and the old rural order were playing a complementary role. The government team led by Yang Yingqi was very flexible in handling the rural affairs under his rule, and they did not very forcefully transfer the model of the Liaohe River valley, but let the townships protect themselves and govern themselves on the premise of ensuring several major principles. At this time, the rural areas of Hebei were no longer as good as those in the south of the Yangtze River in terms of talent and economy, but the township sage system was still largely preserved, and it turned into stability after the chaos, and the people's hearts were easily settled. After all, Han people are Han people, and if possible, rebuilding their homes is definitely the first thing they want to do after the catastrophe.

By June 1683, the roads of the main prefectures and counties of Hebei's east-west roads had calmed down, and during these months, hundreds of thousands of non-elite troops were organized and transformed into armed police forces, distributed on the main commercial roads from Jinmen to Chang'an, maintaining the smooth flow of several major roads. These safe roads have been praised by all the merchants of the East China Sea and have also stimulated the commercial vitality of the cities along the way. The capital of merchants in the East China Sea is entering the inland, and new businesses are being created in the inland. Chen Zhenghui, who was in charge of the household and commerce departments, submitted a report to Yang Yingqi, and the data in the report was more optimistic than Yang Yingqi had expected: Yang Yingqi had hoped that the profits from these trade routes would be enough to sustain the livelihood of the hundreds of thousands of armed police officers in three years, but Chen Zhenghui told him that by the end of the year, the government's direct income from the trade routes would be enough to achieve this goal.

Not only that, but the economic effect of these trade routes, which ran through thousands of miles of land in the Han Empire, was at least ten times greater than the embodiment of taxation! As a result, private commerce has been revitalized, and private financial resources have been restored, and even the livelihood of the people of the whole of North China has benefited the people's livelihood – isn't this more important than the government's temporary increase in tax revenue? Of course, as long as the tax system is sound enough, the wealth of the people will sooner or later be reflected in the tax, for example, as the economic hub of Tanggu, which connects the East China Sea and the inland, has benefited from the stability of this trade route and has prospered unprecedentedly in the past six months, and the part of Tanggu's commercial tax revenue in the first half of the year compared with the same period last year is enough to offset the total amount of agricultural tax reduction and exemption of the entire Hebei East Road.

"Everything went better than expected!" At this moment, Yang Yingqi is in a very comfortable mood, he is dreaming of a better future, a future that he has a part in creating: the world is rich together, and everyone is happy.

This great tailwind after the founding of the Han Empire benefited not only from the internal people's mental governance, but also from the fact that several external forces—Zong Han, Zong Bi, and Zhao Gou—needed to recuperate, and also because the situation in Mobei had not yet been urgent.

However, there is always an end to the tailwind—at least when it stops, because people's hearts will be quiet and moving, and because the enemies of the Han court are not prepared to live in peace with the Han court forever.

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