"The emperor's immortal merits."

"Your Majesty, you have recovered the lost land."

"Your Majesty..."

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty put aside the matter of party strife and knelt on the ground one by one and shouted.

Chongzhen was woken up by their shouts.

Come back to your senses.

"What about the paperwork? Quick, bring it to me. ”

The official who reported the victory, unfolded the good news and continued.

"Bu lost rabbit, for my Ming Dynasty canonized the fourth generation of Shunyi king, although defeated by the tiger squatting rabbit defeated outside the plug, however, there is still merit to our dynasty, the last general Shanxi general Wang Zezhi, dare to implore the emperor to treat Bu Lost Rabbit well, in order to show my great grace."

"Exactly." Chongzhen agreed without thinking about it.

Because he only wants to see the Na Cheng document now, and nothing else matters.

"What about the paperwork I asked you?" After agreeing, he asked a little impatiently.

"In the hands of the Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit."

"Quick, please." Chongzhen straightened his appearance and sat on the dragon chair, and the ministers got up and stood one by one waiting for Bu Lost Rabbit to come in.

After Bu Lostu came in, he presented the document and respectfully praised Chongzhen a few words.

Chongzhen symbolically greeted him, sealed a mansion for him outside the capital, and ordered someone to take him down.

Before Bu Shitu could say anything about requesting the return of Guihua City, he was taken down in a daze.

As soon as he left, Chongzhen couldn't wait to pick up the documents and read them.

"Fathers and fathers, have you seen it? Did you see that? I've regained the City of Naturalization! Hahaha..."

"The emperor is mighty!"

"The emperor is mighty!"

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty also knelt down excitedly one by one.

The reconquest of the lost territory brought about a huge turning point in the court that was in a partisan strife situation.

The old and important ministers of Donglin, Han Yi returned to the dynasty, and the general soldier of Shanxi Wang Zezhi recovered the naturalized city, and the expectations of the government and the opposition for Emperor Chongzhen reached an unprecedented height.

Even they put aside the matter of partisanship for the time being.

They elected Li Biao, Qian Longxi, and Liu Hongxun to the cabinet, and Chongzhen Yun.

These three people formed a cabinet headed by Han Yi, and they were indeed loyal and wise, and cooperated with Emperor Chongzhen's sharp intention to govern and promote the good and eliminate the disadvantages.

The ministers of the DPRK and China all wanted to get a little light from the reconquest of the lost territory and be able to leave their names in the history books, so they all put down the matter of attacking and seriously got down to business.

They cooperated with the cabinet in vigorously rectifying military and government affairs, appointing clean streams, curbing evil parties, redressing unjust prisons, and stabilizing the people's livelihood.

The dangerous situation of internal and external loyalty in the Ming Dynasty gradually stabilized.

The first year of Chongzhen, November 20.

The situation in the DPRK and China was stable, and Chongzhen also became calm, and only then did Wang Chengen dare to hand over the excerpt of Wang Zezhi's performance.

Among them, there are not only excerpts played by Wang Ze, but also some things that Wang Chengen ordered Jinyiwei to investigate.

"Your Majesty, the 800-mile secret report of Wang Zezhi, the chief soldier of Shanxi, said that the local powerful squires of Datong Mansion betrayed the country, and privately raised thousands of soldiers to rebel and cause chaos, and were beheaded by Wang Zezhi."

"What? A rebellion by the local gentry? How is this possible, I gave them ten guts, and these people did not dare to rebel. ”

Chongzhen was shocked, not that he didn't believe that these people would rebel, but that he didn't want to believe that these people would rebel.

The first thing he did when he ascended the throne was to directly abolish the industrial and commercial tax, which won the support of the Manchu courtiers and landlords and gentry.

During the Apocalypse Dynasty, industrial and commercial taxes and sea taxes were established, so the central government of the Ming Dynasty was still very rich, and the silver taels of Taicang's income alone reached a record 12 million taels.

The treasury has money, and naturally everything is easy to say.

The victims of the disaster can be relieved in time, and although the life of the peasants is very hard, they can barely make do with it, and the people's hearts are still stable.

The soldiers who fought on the front line could get military salaries, and they were naturally willing to fight desperately for the Ming Dynasty against the Houjin regime, which was eyeing the Houjin regime, and in general they were also preferred in the military aspect of war.

The industrial and commercial tax was mainly levied on the wealthy businessmen, landlords and gentry class represented by the Donglin Party, and Chongzhen abolished the industrial and commercial tax, and the rich businessmen and gentry all smiled crookedly.

As a result, the landlords, squires, wealthy merchants, and Chinese courtiers who controlled most of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty rejoiced, and all expressed their loyalty to Chongzhen.

It is with the support of these people that Chongzhen was able to so smoothly eliminate Wei Zhongxian's party and take control of the government.

Although Emperor Chongzhen is a diligent emperor, he is also a thin-skinned and face-loving emperor, and now the king cut down the landlords and squires of Datong Mansion without saying a word, which is a slap in the face.

This is something he cannot tolerate. 187

Wang Zezhi, the chief soldier of Shanxi, said that they not only resold grain, iron and firearms to the Tatars, but also sent information to the Later Jin Emperor Taiji.

Not only that, but there are also many ministers in the DPRK and China who have colluded with these squires and sold the confidential information of the DPRK and China.

And, the Acting King..."

"Presumptuous! Outrageous!

Whether these people are traitors to the enemy or not, whether they should be killed or not, is up to me, how can Wang Zezhi kill them if he says so.

Besides, I didn't order him to investigate the matter. ”

Chongzhen was furious and pushed the fold on his desk to the ground.

"What's wrong with the acting king?"

"Wang Zezhi said that he smuggled grain and grass to the Tatars on behalf of the king and occupied the military fields, and the evidence is conclusive."

Chongzhen was silent for a moment.

"Do you think the king will rebel?"

"The minister doesn't dare to speak up."

The acting king is a member of the clan, not something that Wang Chengen can evaluate as a eunuch, so Wang Chengen dare not say it.

"Your Majesty, the minister guessed that Wang Zezhi's move was to seize food and pay to enrich the defense of the border army."

Wang Chengen pondered his rhetoric for a moment and changed the topic.

"How much did he get?" Chongzhen thought about it for a while, too, Wang Zezhi has not asked him for a tael of silver so far, there is indeed this possibility.

As far as the minister knows, Wang Zezhi spent three days copying the property of seventy-eight village gentry.

According to Jin Yiwei's inference, the two silver copied were more than three million taels, and the rice and grain copied were more than three million stones. ”

"So many? How much was turned in? ”

Chongzhen was shocked, the silver in the hands of the squires in the land of Yifu was almost catching up with the annual tax of the Ming Dynasty.

This is still when Wang Zezhi smuggled the silver to Fangshan Camp, and Jinyiwei estimated it through clues.

If Wang Zezhi was a little careless, the true amount of the silver he confiscated would be found out by Jinyiwei.

"Wang Zezhi said that he had in his hand the letters of the ministers of the DPRK and the central government who collaborated with the enemy, and sent them to the central government for fear of losing them halfway, so he asked the central government to send someone to pick it up, and by the way, escorted the confiscated silver back to Beijing."

"Did he do anything else besides that?"

"The emperor and Wang Zezhi won two battles, capturing tens of thousands of Tartars and more than 10,000 war horses."

"Okay, this time the king is fat."

"Your Majesty, the tiger squatting and the rabbit are ravaging the Datong border pass, burning, killing and looting are all evil, even if the king does not get rid of him, the court should also get rid of him as soon as possible.

Wang Zezhi's recovery of the naturalized city is a meritorious service for the state. ”

Wang Chengen knew that Chongzhen had drilled the horns again, so he quickly changed the topic.

"Hmph, I was planning to discuss a reward for him, and now that he has poked out such a basket, the courtiers will not give up, and I have to put aside the reward for him.

Wang Chengen listened to the order. ”

"The minister is here."

"I ordered you to go to Datong to pass the decree, and the king of Shanxi's chief soldiers, exterminated the squires and rebelled, and served the country loyally, and I was very relieved.

Wang Zezhi's confiscated income does not need to be handed over, and all the rewards will be returned and used as military salaries at the border gates.

I hope that he will perceive the will of heaven, serve the country loyally, speed up the rearmament of the war, and quickly recover the Hetao, so as to live up to my high hopes.

Wang Zezhi seized the letter of the minister of the DPRK and the central government who collaborated with the enemy, and sent it to Beijing immediately on the day of receiving the decree without delay. ”

"Obey." Wang Chengen received the order and bowed and retreated.

"Come back, how is the investigation of the fake transmission of the holy decree in Datong Mansion?"

"The minister is incompetent, all the clues will be broken as soon as they come out of Datong Mansion, and they will never be able to find out the slightest.

It's like... It's like a divine soldier descending from heaven. ”

"Divine soldiers descending from heaven?" Chongzhen muttered for a moment.

The rulers of ancient times thought that they were the sons of heaven and called themselves the sons of heaven, and Chongzhen was no exception, and he suddenly felt that this was God's favor for him.

Chongzhen was distracted for a moment, and the look in his eyes became more and more eager.

"When I go to Datong to see the acting king, Wang Zezhi's army doesn't need to send a supervising army."

Chongzhen felt that Datong Mansion had the favor of God, so he didn't need to send a prison guard to supervise it, and God would help him keep an eye on it.

"Obey."