Because of the previous fraud case, Chongzhen was afraid that there would be talents like Qin Yiming who would be suppressed by the Donglin Party, and the diligent Zhu Youzhen personally reviewed the answers of all the test personnel.

"It's still Qin Aiqing's unique insights! This Qin Yiming is the real loyal minister, think what I think, and be anxious to say that I am anxious, such a person can share my worries! "Chongzhen is very optimistic about Qin Yiming's method of increasing taxes in the imperial court, if all the people who have land in the Ming Dynasty pay taxes, then will he still be so poor, and are he still afraid of the Manchu Tartars and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others? Of course not, if you have money, you can train soldiers, and if you have soldiers, you won't be afraid of anything, he thinks that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can't fight, since he has no money, and the court is too poor.

"Tomorrow, let the eighteen people I selected take turns to come to the Forbidden City platform, and I will personally inspect them one by one!" Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen.

"Your Majesty, this martial arts is different from Wenju, there is no such process as the palace test, the emperor only needs to select the top three that he agrees with." Wang Chengen reminded that according to the previous practice, the so-called palace test does not actually exist, after the palace test, it is also the first interview by the general political envoy to select the top three, and then Chongzhen checks the title, respectively, awarded the champion, the list eye, the name of Tanhua, and then awarded the official position, after all, these people are martial artists, it is impossible for them to dance knives and guns in front of the emperor.

Chongzhen shook his head and said resolutely: "No, I want to see them one by one, I want them to be loyal to me, only by being loyal to me, can I dare to give them real power, so that they can better protect the Ming dynasty for me, and they must not be controlled by the ministers of the DPRK and China, especially this Qin Yiming, is a talent, I have to take a good look at it, and entrust it with important tasks in the future." "Chongzhen just wants to skip the political envoys, he has to do it himself, he doesn't trust those ministers who are vegetarian!

On the second day, Chongzhen also temporarily thought of an exam question, let these people play on the spot, and verbally talk about how to deal with thieves and threats outside the border, which has greatly reduced the difficulty, after all, it is easier to say than to write, for these big bosses.

"Your Majesty, the grass people have two hundred catties of stones, and they can wield sixty catties of big knives, as long as the emperor gives the grass people a horse, the grass people will definitely kill those thieves without leaving a piece of armor, and those rabble are vulnerable!"

"Well, that's good, but what about the Tartars outside the gates?"

"Tartar? Hmph, the Tartars are not three-headed and six-armed, and the grass people still cut and kill them so that they cry and call their mothers. ”

Chongzhen saw that this big man was so confident, so he asked: "Some time ago, Ao Bai set up a ring at the Jingshi Inn, have you ever gone up to compete?" ”

"No, the Mongols are too fierce, and the grass people know that they are not opponents, so they did not go up to offer ugliness."

Chongzhen immediately lost interest, saying that it was difficult to retreat if it sounded good, and it was afraid to move forward if it was not good.

"Next!" Looking at this man with well-developed limbs and a simple mind, Chongzhen was dizzy for a while, and waved his hand with his eyes closed.

"Your Majesty, the grass people think that the Tartars are not terrible, as long as we strengthen the Great Wall, repair the Dagukou and Xifengkou areas, so that the Tartars cannot go south, so that the Tartars will not be troubled......"

"Oh, do you still know Dagukou, Xifengkou?" Chongzhen asked.

"That's nature, the emperor, the grass people are also very concerned about the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty are harmed by the Tartars of this dog's day, and the sick people are harming the country, I can't wait to cramp and peel them, three knives and six holes, his grandmother's."

"Ahem, this Xusheng, in front of the emperor, pay attention to your words and deeds, otherwise it will be a great crime of disrespect, do you know?" What kind of dog is this martial artist, his grandmother's foul language, Wang Chengen really can't listen to it.

After Wang Chengen's reminder, the candidate knew that he was not allowed to say anything in front of the emperor when he scolded and scolded on weekdays, and immediately knelt on his knees and begged for mercy in fright.

"The emperor forgives the sins, the emperor forgives the sins."

"It doesn't matter. What is the response to the thief Aiqing? ”

"Kill, kill them all, there is not enough food to eat, and if there are fewer people, it will naturally be enough to eat."

“......”

Chongzhen shook his head, feeling that what he saw was not a person, but a ball of anger, not that this method would not work, but those were his people, and he killed all the people, is he still the emperor? Besides, the Confucian classics he cultivated since he was a child didn't let him do this, but he was determined to be a Ming Emperor of the Middle Dynasty.

"Next."

"Meets you!"

Comber is the top of Donglin's arrangement, and Chongzhen wants to see this person's insight.

"Your Majesty, I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, I am proficient in all eighteen kinds of martial arts, I am familiar with military books, and the thieves are not terrible, they are just a rabble organized by a group of peasants, and they are defeated in one blow, and the really terrible thing is the Tartars outside the gate, these people are my Ming henchmen!" Comber spoke eloquently.

Chongzhen nodded, he agreed with Comber's opinion, at this time he was not afraid of thieves, especially now that the situation of bandits in the Ming Dynasty is very good, several large bandit forces have been eliminated, King Gao Yingxiang has been killed, and Li Zicheng, the general of Liao, has also suffered heavy losses under the attack of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, and the situation in Shaanxi has changed greatly, but recently this Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong have become arrogant again, and they are making trouble in the Jianghuai area, which makes him also worried.

"Then what do you think we should do to deal with the enemy outside the gates?" Chongzhen asked.

Seeing Chongzhen's inquiry, Kang Bo was overjoyed in his heart, and said: "With the shallow view of the grass people, my Ming officers and soldiers cannot fight head-on with the Manchus outside the Guan, we should defend the city in order to plan for the future!" ”

Comber's idea is Yuan Chonghuan's "turtle shrinkage" tactics, which are actually a good way to guide military operations against the Tartars, but unfortunately, Chongzhen is not very happy.

Wang Chengen had been following Chongzhen for a long time, and understood his inner thoughts, so he spoke: "I have the advantage of firearms, why can't I defeat the Tartars?" ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, the grass people did not fight with the Tartars, but only hearsay, saying that the Jurchens were not satisfied with 10,000 and could not fight, which is enough to explain the problem, first of all, we lost in momentum, and secondly, the cavalry of the Tartars was indeed too powerful. ”

Chongzhen was angry, although Comber was telling the truth, which was why he was now thinking about peace.

"Next!" Wang Chengen shouted in a long voice.

"How many other students are there?" Chongzhen asked.

Wang Chengen bowed his head and replied: "Your Majesty, there is the last one, Qin Yiming, the hereditary thousand households of the original Hindu Guardian Si, was added by the emperor himself. ”

The tired Chongzhen came to interest at this time, the seventeen people in front, he spent less time, because there was nothing new, he was too lazy to listen, there were some people who were rude, he was not to blame, after all, they were all martial artists, this Kang Bo was a little knowledgeable, but he was not very happy.

A person walked in the Baohe Palace, tall and burly, with extraordinary momentum, and between the eyebrows, there was a heroic and righteous spirit!

"Weichen, the commander of the Hindu Sidu is Qin Yiming, meet my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!" Qin Yiming knelt down and bowed, the sound was like a bell, resounding throughout the hall, Qin Yiming's aura made the tired Chongzhen feel energetic all of a sudden, and he felt that this person was born a general, better than Xiong Tingbi back then.

Chongzhen looked at Qin Yiming who was kneeling on the ground below, it was this Qin Yiming who stirred up the entire Beijing Division, making the city full of wind and rain, he rectified the guard, defeated Zhang Xianzhong, subdued Liu Guoneng, and offended the ministers of the entire court, the world is a doctor, such a person is also the best in Daming!

"Flat!"

Wang Chengen continued: "Qin Yanshi, the emperor has every opportunity, today he specially came to the palace to test, I am fortunate to let you people have a glimpse of the face of the Son of Heaven, now I have thieves in the Ming Dynasty, and there are Tartar disasters outside, this thief is inexhaustible, and this external trouble is even more persecutive, Qin Yanshi thinks that I Daming should deal with it?" ”

Qin Yiming arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen is originally an officer and soldier, and he is a sword in the hands of the emperor, where is the emperor's heart, Weichen's sword will go, and Weichen's duty is to maintain the imperial power and protect the Ming Dynasty." ”

Chongzhen was very happy in his heart, what Qin Yiming said was very much in line with Chongzhen's heart.

"Very well, so tell me, how to do it?"

"Clear the tun and recharge the salary, rectify the guards, the soldiers are strong and the thieves are naturally weak, and the soldiers are weak and the thieves are naturally strong! Taizu founded the country, raising a million soldiers without spending a penny on the people, since my dynasty, the guard has been corrupted, the guard has become unusable, but has become a burden to the court, has become a bottomless black hole to suck up the finance and taxes, the court also has to recruit troops to use, whether it is to use soldiers or to recruit thieves, more land and a lot of money are needed, when the court is short of finances, it is difficult to continue, so it must be used extraordinary means. ”

"What is an extraordinary measure? Go to the regular system for immediate treatment? Chongzhen asked, this is exactly Qin Yiming's suggestion in the answer.

Qin Yiming replied: "Yes, the system of the guard is corrupt, and the loss of military households is serious, if you want to clean up the guard and rectify the guard, there will inevitably be huge resistance, so extraordinary measures are needed to suppress it!"

Moreover, our internal and external difficulties and frequent use of troops will inevitably lead to an empty treasury and financial difficulties, so we must vigorously increase the fiscal and tax revenues of the imperial court. ”

"This is what you said about spreading the land into the mu, and the scholars collectively pay the grain?" Chongzhen asked.

Qin Yiming replied resolutely: "The whole world is not the emperor's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!" As long as the person who occupies the acres of land, no matter who it is, he has the responsibility of serving the monarch and protecting the Ming! Therefore, as long as there are acres of land, they should naturally pay taxes to the emperor and the imperial court, otherwise they are disloyal, unrighteous and unfilial, and they should be killed! ”

"Good! What a world is not the emperor's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister! Chongzhen couldn't help but applaud, Qin Yiming's words were quite in line with Chongzhen's intentions, although Qin Yiming also had a strong killing intent, but Chongzhen felt that this was a heroic righteousness, not a ball of anger.

Wang Chengen next to him also nodded, he felt the same way as Chongzhen, and also felt that what Qin Yiming said made sense, but he knew that this matter might not be implemented, so let the scholar pay the tax? No way.

"The Jianzhou Jurchen jumped off the beam, it has been more than ten years, the territory has fallen, the people of Liao have been devastated, Qing Wanli has come, loyal and brave is commendable, but there is a strategy for leveling Liao? Chongzhen asked.