As for commerce, the status of businessmen in China is not high in history, even if they have money, the development of commerce is subject to various constraints, the economic development of the Ming Dynasty can not even catch up with the two Song Dynasty, so Xiao Tianjian believes that it is necessary to promote the status of businessmen, pay attention to the development of industry and commerce, after all, the development of industry and agriculture is inseparable from commerce, in the future, many people can actually get rid of the constraints of land, enter the industry and commerce, and provide strong tax finance for the country in the future, and try to reduce the burden on farmers.

For this point, the ministers reacted very much, feeling that Xiao Tianjian did this, too much to give those businessmen a long face, according to the division of 369 and so on, they are all Shinong industry and commerce, and the social status of businessmen is the lowest, especially in Daming, businessmen are rich but have no status, and now they are specially established to establish a commercial bureau, is it too much to promote them?

Moreover, the ministers also saw that Xiao Tianjian's father-in-law was a big businessman, and thought that Xiao Tianjian was promoting a businessman so much in order to please his father-in-law, so they immediately put forward their opinions and expressed their dissupport for this matter.

Xiao Tianjian lowered his face and said to the ministers: "Do you think that I, Xiao, am only doing this for my father-in-law?" To know whether a country is rich or not, the key is not to see how much food you produce, but ultimately to look at the circulation of commerce, the things you use, look down, which one has not passed through the hands of merchants? Without them, would it be difficult for every family to go back to farming and weaving in the future?

I want to set up a commercial bureau, not to promote businessmen, but to encourage business, and in the future, to collect taxes from commerce and industry, so as to reduce the burden on the peasants, and one day, if the development of industry and commerce is sufficient to support the state finances, then I will abolish the taxes of the peasants of the world, so that the peasants of the world can live a good life!

In the future, our Chinese goods will be sold to all regions of the world, including those barbarians overseas, and we will use the things produced in China, so that we Han people can earn the world's money, and the taxes that can be collected at that time are so high that I am afraid that you can not imagine! If there is no businessman to do this, is it possible to learn from the Ming Dynasty and put all the heavy taxes and levies on the ordinary peasant people? In that case, sooner or later, there will be such a big mess in our country! When will we be able to stand on top of the world's nations?

You don't understand what I'm doing, I don't blame you, but you have to know that this matter is for the benefit of the country and the people, of course, those who do business are not allowed to engage in politics, and those who engage in politics are not allowed to do business. This point will not change in the future, the province and the current officials, secretly doing business, making a lot of money, but not paying taxes to the state, as long as the Supervision Yuan finds that there are officials secretly doing business, then let me get out of the way, go to business, in short, those who are officials are not allowed to do business, and those who do business are not allowed to be officials, even my sons and daughters will still follow this rule in the future! This is the case, business is encouraged, but it is better to manage them than to let them go! ”

When the ministers heard this, they got it! This can only be done in this way, think about it, it is better to manage business than to let them do whatever they want, and the state can also collect a large amount of taxes, so why not?

As for the Ministry of War, Xiao Tianjian's opinion is very clear, the military does not interfere in politics, the civil does not lead the army, the Ministry of War is responsible for the management and transfer of soldiers and horses in the world, mainly responsible for foreign wars, not allowed to interfere in government affairs, of course, the civilian system cannot interfere with the army, soldiers are soldiers, it is better to be simple, they obey the highest controller of the country, that is, Xiao Tianjian, at least now!

Of course, in order to prevent the generals from sitting big and the tail from falling out, Xiao Tianjian has actually been arranging this kind of thing for a long time, the troops of the Xingtian Army can only receive grain from the logistics department, and the special situation of the war can only rely on seizures and the like to meet the needs, and it is not allowed to levy food and pay in the garrison in peacetime, and the food and salary of the logistics department must be taken from the household department, and the selection and transfer of officers is not something that the generals can call the shots, and ordinary people want to cultivate an army loyal to their private individuals in the Xingtian Army system, which is basically an impossible thing, so the military department is handed over to the soldiers to be responsible for management, and is not afraid of any chaos, which was finally supported by the ministers, and it is impossible to say that these departments do not leave one for the current generals.

In terms of the Ministry of Rites, Xiao Tianjian believes that it can be compressed as much as possible, and will be mainly responsible for foreign affairs in the future, to put it bluntly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the future, on the one hand, it will be responsible for exchanges with foreign countries, and on the other hand, it will be responsible for collecting foreign intelligence.

Xiao Tianjian's meaning is very clear, that is, although the country is now going to be established, but after all these years of turmoil and natural and man-made disasters, the country is already full of holes, and the pomp and circumstance can be avoided, and in the future, the money saved will be used for civil affairs as much as possible, and more practical things will be done for the people.

So the Ministry of Rites became the smallest of the six, and at the same time the least important, and the ministers finally agreed.

In the end, only the Ministry of Officials remained, as for the Ministry of Officials, Xiao Tianjian did not put forward too many opinions, but it was proposed that the selection of officials in the future may not necessarily be carried out through scientific examinations, it is inevitable that officials must have culture, but only read the four books and five classics will do eight strands of literature, it is absolutely not possible, learn to apply, use people to have some specialization, let those who know how to manage things, much stronger than those who do not know how to do it, this aspect is the standard for selecting officials in the future, and it is necessary to set up and implement a stricter official assessment system, which can be up and down. Qualified officials can comfortably serve as officials, but if they fail to pass the assessment of unqualified mediocre talents, they will be directly relegated to go home to farm, and the province will bring disaster to the country and the people.

It took a lot of time to discuss these complicated matters, and Xiao Tianjian and a group of prepared ministers were tired and dizzy, and Xiao Tianjian had to temporarily entrust Li Xin to be responsible for military affairs, so that he temporarily transferred troops and horses in the name of the General Staff, and after taking Zhenjiang Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, and Suzhou Mansion, he began to use troops against Zhejiang in the south, and at the same time transferred Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu's soldiers and horses back to Huguang to sit in the town, and focus on the Jingzhou area to prepare for the next step into Sichuan.

The main reason why Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu returned to Huguang and prepared for sending troops to Sichuan was that after Xiao Tianjian launched an attack on Nanzhili recently, news also came from Shaanxi, saying that Li Zicheng, who is now entrenched in Hanzhong, has also developed very quickly recently, and his command has gathered nearly 100,000 horses again. The sides can no longer transfer troops, and only Zuo Guangxian, Li Guoqi, and Gao Jie are left in his hands in order to keep Xi'an, and he has concentrated all the officers and troops that can be used at hand in the area of Xi'an, and it is obvious that he wants to fight to the death with Li Zicheng in Xi'an.

In this way, it is cheaper to be active in northern Shaanxi Wang Chengping, Wang Chengping during this period of time with the support of Yan Chongxi, quickly controlled the Yulinwei area, and advanced the troops to the periphery of Yan'an Mansion, encroaching on a large area of northern Shaanxi, even Li Zicheng's hometown Mizhi County, also fell under the control of Wang Chengping, Wang Chengping's strength in northern Shaanxi is also developing rapidly, and his command recruited nearly 30,000 horses, of which there are nearly 10,000 elite cavalry alone, and the next step is only to capture Yan'an Mansion, Continue to march towards Qingyang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion, so it is now impossible for Li Zicheng to control the whole of Shaanxi.

In this way, although Li Zicheng has the intention to take Xi'an Mansion, but he also has to consider the threat to him in the future of the behemoth of the Xingtian Army, but recently there is news from the inside of the intelligence department, saying that Li Zicheng is likely to make two preparations to attack Xi'an, on the one hand, he gathered troops to attack Xi'an, on the other hand, he gathered materials in Hanzhong, and once he could not capture Xi'an, he led his troops to attack Sichuan, and took Sichuan as the basis for his future entrenchment.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian can't sit idly by, once Sichuan is allowed to Li Zicheng to occupy it, then when he and Li Zicheng have a showdown in the future, it will undoubtedly be a very troublesome thing, Sichuan is mostly a mountain, once Li Zicheng has a firm foothold here, it will not be easy to pull him out again in the future, so Xiao Tianjian After learning the news, he took advantage of the current situation of the battle of Nanzhili, so he transferred Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu's department out and returned to Huguang to prepare for entering Sichuan. Compared with Li Zicheng's entry into Sichuan from Hanzhong, if Xingtianjun's side went up the river from Jingzhou, it would obviously be more convenient to enter Sichuan, Xiao Tianjian planned to enter Sichuan before Li Zicheng entered Sichuan, at least it could not be said that the whole of Sichuan would be ceded to Li Zicheng.

After Li Xin received the order, he mobilized his troops and horses, first transferred Shi Ran to Yangzhou Mansion to sit in the town, and left some of the newly formed troops under his command, so that he could train these new troops while preventing the officers and troops from going south from Huai'an Mansion, and the rest of the main force part of the men and horses were handed over to Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu to return to Huguang, and the other part was led by Luo Li and Liu Yaoben to march from Suzhou Mansion to Hangzhou Mansion and began to launch an offensive against Zhejiang.

Xiao Tianjian didn't have to worry too much about the next war, in the Battle of Nanjing, the officers and troops suffered heavy losses, and the blows to the local officials and the officials and troops were very large, there were not many officers and troops in Zhejiang, and the Zhejiang soldiers were in Wanli Qi's army, there were no famous generals and soldiers at all, Zhejiang, which had been peaceful for a long time, faced with Luo Li and Liu Yaoben, the two sharp blades in the hands of Xiao Tianjian, it can be said that there was no power to fight back at all, don't look at Han and Guangmei led the remnants to Hangzhou, but with Han and Guangmei's pus-filled ability, If you want to hold Hangzhou, it's a joke at all.