In the winter of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the demolition of the Jin Kingdom by the Ming Dynasty came to a successful conclusion with the sound of "Wansheng" at the triumphal ceremony.

In this battle, the Ming army dispatched a total of more than 60,000 troops, divided into four routes, from Tieshan, Ningjin, Jizhen and other places.

It lasted half a month, and the cities of Jinguo Tieshan, Yizhou, Kuandian, Liaoyang, Guangning and Horqin Mongol Iktang Glikpo were conquered and destroyed.

During the battle, the Ming army killed and wounded more than 10,000 Manchurian and Mongolian people, suffered more than 5,000 casualties of its own, and rescued more than 50,000 Han Chinese.

After this battle, the Ming army swept away the situation of defeat and retreat since the Battle of Sarhu, which effectively deterred the wolf ambitions of the Jurchens and strengthened the confidence of the Ming army and people in fighting against the Tartars.

In addition, after successfully helping Huduntu relieve the siege of Baicheng, the operation of the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces to sweep Horqin also sounded the alarm for the Mongolian departments riding on the grassland and laid a solid foundation for Zhu Youzhen's follow-up strategy against Jin.

More importantly, through the success of this combat operation in the Manchurian and Mongolian regions, Zhu Youzhen established absolute authority above the imperial court, which laid the foundation for a series of reforms to be carried out in the future.

Three days later, outside the Xuanwu Gate in the capital, Azig was executed by Ling Chi, and the rest of the captured generals of the Jin State were also beheaded, beheaded and other punishments.

And Li Yongfang, as the No. 1 spy leader of the Jin Kingdom, still has a lot of information needed by the Jinyiwei Intelligence Department in his mouth, so he is no longer in the ranks of this execution.

Of course, after entering the Jinyiwei Intelligence Office, his fate was not much better.

In addition, Shuotuo was not executed this time, in order to successfully lure the Jurchen nobles who were greedy for life and afraid of death in the future, so under Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, Shuotuo was set up as a benchmark.

Although this battle was fruitful, it was different from the Manchu and Mongolian military operations against the Ming Dynasty for the purpose of plundering.

From an economic point of view, the Ming army's operation was a complete loss-making transaction.

As a result, at the imperial meeting in the Qianqing Palace, Bi Ziyan frowned and reported this year's financial plan to Zhu Youzhen, the cabinet and the secretaries of various ministries.

The fiscal policy of the Ming Dynasty was formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, which lasted more than 200 years, and went through several reforms in the middle, but generally speaking, the framework of the central and local lines has not changed.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, social and economic activities were underdeveloped, and taxes were mainly paid in kind.

In order to reduce the loss in the process of collection, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that in addition to the taxes required by the central government, the taxes collected and paid in various localities should be directly transported to the places where they are needed in accordance with the principle of proximity.

To sum it up, in one sentence: except for the central, the rest are local.

Of course, although the central government does not want in-kind taxes, the central government still has to inquire into and intervene in the collection and distribution of taxes in various localities.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because the central government used money in few places and the local government used money in many aspects, a large amount of taxes flowed directly and quickly to the corresponding localities without going through the central government.

To be fair, this fiscal policy has played a positive role in improving the efficiency of fiscal and tax use and reducing fiscal and tax losses.

However, as the central government of the Ming Dynasty spread more and more, natural disasters and military disasters became more and more frequent, coupled with the decay of the officials.

As a result, this fiscal system, in which a small amount of taxes was circulated at the central level and a large amount of taxes was transferred to the local government, was soon on the verge of collapse.

The use of troops and disaster relief, the main big spenders in the late Ming Dynasty, often failed because the central government had no money.

Moreover, in the original history, the Ming Dynasty did fall because of the disadvantage of using troops and disaster relief.

However, in the localities, due to the lack of direct supervision by the central government, a large amount of tax revenue is not only withheld by the local government, but also less than 30% of the actual taxes are actually used.

So this strange fiscal policy caused a very strange phenomenon to the Ming Dynasty.

The central government has no money, and the local government has no money, and it seems that the taxes are not heavy, but the people are still forced to rebel.

And the Ming Dynasty in the original history also became the only dynasty in the twenty-four histories that was destroyed by the peasant uprising.

Bi Ziyan said a lot of long-winded things, from the drought in northern Shaanxi to the peach blossom flood of the Huai River, from the spring sacrifice to the embankment of the Yellow River, from the nine sides of the army to the southeast Haikou.

It was close to an hour, and there was no point in what he said, and Zhu Youzhen was a little drowsy.

Seeing that it was almost time to eat, Zhu Youzhen had no intention of preparing lunch for these ministers.

Since learning that the imperial dining room in the palace updates the dishes all day long, the important ministers often drag the things that can be talked about in half an hour to the meal.

But today, Bi Ziyan went around in a fog, but the purpose was not to mess up.

Bi Ziyan made a long speech today, one of which was that he wanted to extort money from Zhu Youzhen, and this time he spent nearly 1 million taels of silver on the Manchurian and Mongolian soldiers, military salaries, rewards, and pensions, which was a heavy blow to the household department.

The second is to persuade Zhu Youzhen not to make a big move in the future.

'You can stand it, but Tobe can't stand it.' ’

And this is not what Bi Ziyan means alone, this is the unanimous voice of several important ministers of the court, such as Li Guopu, Xue Fengxiang, Liu Zongzhou, and Guo Yunhou.

In addition, exhortation is only an introduction, and the fundamental purpose of the ministers is to take the opportunity to talk about Zhu Youzhen's personal conquest, and focus on cracking down on Zhu Youzhen's move to elevate the status of a martial artist.

Since that triumphal ceremony, after Zhu Youzhen delivered that enthusiastic speech, the nobles and generals based on the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies quickly colluded and acted frequently, and the door of the British Duke Zhang Weixian's house was about to be broken down.

After the Tumubao Incident, the severely suppressed Wuren Xungui group seems to have the intention of restoration.

As a result, the entire civilian-bureaucratic clique was highly vigilant against this, and they all said that they could not bear it, and Zhu Youzhen had recently received a basket of just the impeachment of the martial artists.

Listening to Bi Ziyan's ignorance, and then looking at the solemn expressions on the faces of the ministers, combined with the recent bullets, Zhu Youzhen guessed in his heart.

There are big problems with the fiscal policy of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen has indeed considered the issue of fiscal reform, but it is not now.

Of course, Bi Ziyan seems to have talked about a lot of financial problems, and his purpose is not to attract Zhu Youzhen's attention and then carry out reforms.

If it is really necessary to reform the finances, it must be a small group of three or five people who will first ventilate and come up with a similar charter, and then listen to the opinions of the ministers.

Such a rash reform plan has already been criticized before the eighty percent meeting has begun.

As for the civil and military disputes, Zhu Youzhen naturally will not provide these civil officials with an introduction.

"Lao Bi, if you have something to say, don't talk about those who are far and near, and those who don't, do you say that the household department has no money again."

So, Zhu Youzhen stiffly interrupted Bi Ziyan's foreshadowing and bluntly changed the topic.

Bi Ziyan looked confused when he heard this, and said in his heart: 'Shouldn't I say this? Your Majesty, why don't you play your cards according to the routine? ’

Bi Ziyan was especially surprised, and Zhu Youzhen said again.

"Tell me, how much silver?"

Bi Ziyan made Zhu Youzhen a little stunned, and opened his mouth and said: "Back to Your Majesty, one million taels of silver." ”

"Well, I know, the old rule, one million taels of silver, ten years, an IOU, and send it to the household department in the afternoon."

Facing the expressions of the ministers looking at each other, Zhu Youzhen then spit out two more words.

"Adjournment!"

Leaving a group of ministers who were surprised in vain, Zhu Youzhen waved his sleeves away.

Watching Zhu Youzhen leave in a dashing manner, Li Guopu chased after Huang Liji and asked.

"Yuanfu, am we just watching the martial artists rise again, the change of the civil fort and the failure of the martial arts were only a hundred years ago, should we be the sinners of the Ming Dynasty?"

In fact, regarding the civil and military disputes, Zhu Youzhen was angry with Huang Liji in advance.

'Now is the time for the nine sides to employ people, if anyone dares to provoke a civil and military dispute, then wait to see it. ’

Regarding Zhu Youzhen's meaning, Huang Liji also discussed with Han Yi, Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu, Sun Chengzong, etc.

Han Yi and Sun Chengzong are both people who know the general situation, so they naturally know Zhu Youzhen's intentions.

And Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu are not people who are willing to sacrifice their political future for the sake of civil justice, and they are both silent about this.

But for Li Guopu, Huang Liji looked helpless, no matter how many times he talked about it.

Li Guopu said with a righteous face that the tragedy of the Yingzong and Wuzong dynasties must not be allowed to be staged again.

So Li Guopu hit it off with a few old stubborns of the Liubu Jiuqing, and there was the previous scene.

Looking at Li Guopu's seemingly decent but actually ignorant old face, Huang Liji flicked his sleeves and took the lead out of the Qianqing Palace.

Later, Han Yi, Sun Chengzong, Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu, Yuan Keli, Xu Guangqi and others also went with Huang Liji.

Only the diehards led by Li Guopu were left in the main hall and sighed to themselves.