At the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen, due to the difficulty of the imperial court, the field class was increased from nine cents to one cent and two cents, and more than 6.67 million taels of silver were distributed.

In addition to the exemption of soldiers and famines, more than 5,220,000 taels of silver were levied, plus customs duties, salt taxes and miscellaneous items, a total of 7,488,298 taels of silver were levied, and the expenses of the first line of Shanhaiguan and Liaodong required more than 4 million taels of silver every year.

It can be seen that the Liao salary accounted for more than half of the entire Ming Dynasty's financial revenue, and the full amount of people given to the father and son of General Pingliao would account for half of the Liao salary.

If the general army of Shanhaiguan is from the "Red Banner Army" again, after a year and a half, won't half of the imperial court's financial revenue be given to the "Red Banner Army"?

In recent years, it has been well known that the "Red Banner Army" can fight wars and will not fall behind against Shangjiannu.

But Da Ming can't bet all his fate on this army!

Of course, Chongzhen has to weigh it, and he always has to find ways to check and balance!

At the end of February, Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian, who quickly returned to Beijing, were summoned by the Son of Heaven on the same day.

When Chongzhen summoned Fang and Li, only the confidants and eunuchs Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun were left to serve, and the three confidant ministers plus Li Ruolian, a retainer, made the emperor speak very easily.

After carefully inquiring about the situation of the battle in Denglai, he learned that Huang Han, who did not send troops to participate in the war, supported Jingying and Jinyiwei with a lot of food, so that more than 10,000 men and horses did not go hungry.

The emperor already knew Huang Han's ability to make money and grain, and he was full of joy when he learned that he took the initiative to share the worries of the court.

Chongzhen also asked about Yang Dalang's situation, Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian have fought with the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" many times, and they are indeed more familiar with Hanzi, and they both appreciate this powerful and infinitely powerful man with outstanding combat skills, and he has something to say in front of the Son of Heaven.

Originally, Hanzi was a fierce general-type real person, basically there was no evil deeds, and then Fang and Li helped to hold it, Chongzhen, who had some impressions of Hanzi, had a certain understanding of Hanzi.

The emperor suddenly had an idea, why didn't he summon Yang Dalang to Beijing to meet him?

He personally communicated with this fierce general, gave him grace, encouraged him to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and made it clear that he did not need to be restrained by other commanders after serving as a commander-in-chief.

It should not be difficult to replace the former prison army and re-appoint reliable ministers to Shanhaiguan, so as to firmly control Yang Dalang, a real person, in the hands of the imperial court.

At this time, Chongzhen was full of self-confidence, but in fact, being overconfident was self-serving.

Chongzhen thought that the imperial court gave money and food to support the soldiers, and he gave Yang Dalang great favors, and it should be reasonable to get the loyalty of this general.

The emperor told Wang Chengen to send a decree to Yang Dalang to enter Beijing to meet him on the same day.

Next, Chongzhen told Cao Huachun to take Fang and Li to the city that never sleeps in the past few days, and asked the three of them to join forces to arrange for Jinyiwei and Dongchang to step up their inspections on the street outside Chongwenmen, and he was going to go to see the place that was rumored to be miraculous.

Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen knew it in their hearts, because the emperor had asked many times about the situation of the city that never sleeped, and each time they heard the clouds and mountains covered in fog.

It was in the outer city of Jingshi, and they had long wanted to persuade the emperor to pay a private visit to find out, lest the emperor always ask this and that, many things really cannot be described clearly in a few words.

Since it is a private visit of Weifu, of course, it is necessary to hide the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, this is not difficult, as long as the emperor of the early dynasty is dispersed, he can not see any officials for the reason that he is uncomfortable today, and go to the outer city in the afternoon.

It's just that the city that never sleeps has long become the best place to go in the capital, and there are many civil and military generals who are at ease every day, and the possibility of the emperor being recognized is too great, so it is better to choose the evening.

At this time, the outer city of Daming Jingshi was not dirty and messy in history, and it was really clean.

Under the fine education of Jinyiwei, people who used to litter and even mess with the toilet are basically invisible.

Since the sanitation management fee was charged on a per capita basis, Jinyiwei had the money to hire people to transport garbage out of the city to landfills and sell fertilizer to farmers.

Don't look at the sanitation fee is only ten cents per person a month, everyone collects firewood and the flame is high, the permanent population of the capital, including the floating population, exceeds one million, Jinyiwei can get close to 10,000 taels of silver a month, and there is a surplus for hiring 5,000 people to clean.

This spring, the capital has already enjoyed the benefits of sanitation, with a significant reduction in the number of people suffering from epidemics and a much better complexion on the faces of the people, of course, thanks to the thousands of jobs that the city that never sleeps.

Thanks to the popularity of the city that never sleeps, the new shops on the pedestrian street are booming and gradually taking shape.

A strict management system has been adopted here, the supply of goods can be expensive, but can not be shoddy, the development goal of the Sleepless City Pedestrian Street is to build a boutique concentration in the Ming Dynasty and even the whole world.

On the east side of the pedestrian street is a large playground, which is now a place for all children in the capital, with merry-go-rounds, seesaws, swings, slides, hanging swings, toy huts and mazes, roller coasters built by taking advantage of the drop, and so on.

In order to encourage children to practice martial arts, there are also amusement activities such as guessing riddles and archery to win prizes.

The purpose of building this place is to educate and entertain, and not to let the children of the Ming Dynasty be abused into nerds.

Therefore, the ticket price and the unit price of various facilities are relatively low, who knows that since the opening of the popularity, not only children love to come here to play, but also the sons and ladies of the rich and noble families are also tired of it, and they have actually earned a lot of silver.

The fame is so great that even the concubines of the Forbidden City have heard of it, and Zhu Huijiao, the four-year-old princess of Kunxing, pesters them every time she sees Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu, asking carefully about the toys in the playground.

Chu Chu spoke more casually, and she told Zhu Huijiao that when the spring flowers bloomed, she would definitely find an opportunity to take her to the playground to have fun all day.

Of course, the four-year-old child likes to play, she has kept Chu Chu's promise in her heart, and now whenever she sees her coming to the Forbidden City, she will ask when she will take her out of the palace to the playground in the outer city.

Zheng Xiu'e found that Chu Chu's casual words made Princess Kunxing worry about it for a few months, which was a little funny, so she specially discussed with Queen Zhou to wait for the weather to warm up and take Princess Kunxing to the Huang family's mansion in the city that never sleeps for a few days.

Chongzhen's heirs are not prosperous, and now he only has two sons and a daughter, Zheng Xiu'e has no intention of taking the prince and the prince out of the palace to play.

In fact, the women in the Forbidden City want to go to the playground to see, but it is not easy for them to get out of the palace, Chongzhen is quite strict with his son, relatively speaking, he is much more tolerant of Kunxing, and it is harmless to be taken out of the palace by Zheng Xiu'e to play for a few days.

Empress Zhou agreed to Zheng Xiu'e in front of Kunxing, and she was happy with the four-year-old princess, and the five-year-old crown prince Zhu Cihong was of course bitter.

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