Ding~咣~Ding~咣~

The sound of beating was accompanied by the swaying of sweat on the ground, reflecting the scorching June sun, and the heavy and slender steel bars were shiny in the sun, dragged off the heavy lathe by the workers shouting trumpets, and then pounded firmly on the ground. The war has just passed a month, but it seems that a long time has passed, and it is estimated that no one can imagine that these people who are standing on the construction site, desperately rotating the sledgehammer against the two railroad tracks, are the Dashun army that once dominated the world and was full of blood.

Or Chongzhen's governance has a problem, Chongzhen's seventeen years, what the imperial court did was either desperately increase taxes and levy taxes, or use the money to increase taxes to fight and fight every day, and as a result, the common people are living more and more hard day by day, and there are more and more anti-thieves.

Mao Jue's means are not much smarter, after the battle of Shanhaiguan, Liao Town has captured more than 400,000 families of the Dashun army, except for the night of the war because of anger and cut a lot, the rest were basically treated well, and then even the establishment was not disrupted, directly transferred to the railway army on the spot, to build this railway from Shanhaiguan Wailei Town as the starting point, to Xuzhou end of the railway, a month salary of 800 Wen, food and clothing.

Moreover, the king of Liao also promised that after the construction of this Xu Lei railway, each household surrendered to the army in the area of Jizhou, Gyeonggi Hebei, and could get a hundred acres of land.

At the beginning, he followed Li Zicheng to work hard as cannon fodder, wasn't it just to be able to eat, clothe, and have a piece of land to spend a peaceful birthday? Although I still don't believe in the imperial court, but every day there are canned buds, there are new clothes on the body, and money is paid on a monthly basis, and these hundreds of thousands of soldiers are still in the mentality of trying it out, and they are swaying crystal beads of sweat for the empire.

What was once the source of the Empire's woes has been easily transformed into the power of the Empire.

And this silver is not Mao Juehua's, on the third day of entering the Beijing Division, he issued a decree that Chongzhen has wanted to release countless times, but he did not dare to issue it, from today onwards, regardless of the gentry and nobles, clan officials, there is no privileged class, and the officials and gentry pay taxes as one!

If this order is issued by Emperor Chongzhen, it will indeed be difficult, because the main body of power that the Ming Empire under his rule relies on is the civil bureaucracy and the big landlords.

But Mao Jue is different, the core force of his rule comes from the military households and merchants in Liaodong, in Liaodong, the civil and military attaches are all one tax, and there is only one kind of tax exemption, that is, for the families of martyrs who died in the war in Liaodong, this tax exemption also has a time limit, only 20 years, the issuance of this decree has no impact on them at all, on the contrary, after the tax increase, the bleeding of these parasite imbecile colleagues in the customs they have always looked down on is very happy.

As soon as this order was issued in the DPRK and the Central Committee, it did cause a fierce backlash from those former Ming bureaucrats at the first time, and those who opposed it, persuaded it, and even insulted it, but with military power in hand, all opposition parties were bulls, ghosts, snakes, gods, and paper tigers! Mao Jue is not as easy to bully as Chongzhen!

The folds related to the opposition to the integrated taxation were directly taken to the collective kitchen of the central government office as fuel for the fire, and the tasks assigned by the various ministries were doubled. Then spend more time writing reports, writing plans, and calculating account books for Lao Tzu, and you won't be tired!

And this order is not over, with the official gentry to pay taxes as a whole, and then the Qingzhang land that the local gentry talked about discolored, the investigation team composed of graduates of the Liaodong Academy, with the cooperation of the training garrison, spread like a spider web in Hebei and Shandong, which is basically controlled by Liaozhen, and took the Daming Tianmu booklet copied by the Beijing division to check the number of land from county to county, which was completely pinched on the lifeblood of the landlords and bureaucrats everywhere.

And they can't help it, Mao Jue still has about 20,000 cavalry in his hands near the Beijing Division, the boundary of the two provinces, the cavalry will arrive in a few days, and now is the sensitive period for the change of dynasty, whoever dares to oppose it is a rebellion, killing your head and landing on the whole family howl It is not negotiable, anyway, Liu Xingqi, a bandit, has also done it back then, and he has also done the work of raiding his family in the Japanese country, which is simply a familiar road.

Of course, Mao Jue is not without a way to live, how much land you have in your name is how much land, even if it was hidden before and was found out, Liaodong still admits to losing your land, and officially makes a register for you, unlike the hidden land found out by Zhang Juzheng in the Wanli period, many of which were divided by him and his henchmen, as long as you can pay taxes according to law.

There is another situation where the landlord relied on natural disasters to annex a large amount of land, and even the entire county was his family's field, but obviously such a vast land, the family could not cultivate it, which led to a large area of abandonment, and this part of the abandoned land was bought by the empire for money, and then commercial farms were built on the spot like a Liaodong grange, and the empire hired farmers to cultivate the fields.

This also made Mao Jue have a lot more land to allocate in his hands, and the prisoners of the Dashun Army were still worried and suspicious, but they didn't know that the land that Mao Jue promised them had been cut out, just waiting to be issued according to the roster!

Mao Jue's tossing also made the two provinces close to the Beijing Division change significantly, the Beijing Division's Hubu Yamen, a group of eunuch families from the former Ming Dynasty lined up in the Hubu Yamen to receive boxes and boxes of silver, and on the other hand, they crossed their hands and greeted each other with their faces like bitter gourds, caring about each other with the same sentence.

How much was cut in your house?

But on the other hand, on weekdays, there are flowers everywhere, and the displaced people who have fled from other places are poor and dilapidated, and the outer city of Beijing has come to a big change, and the messy streets are empty, except for some lazy people who are depraved by nature and wait for death, as long as there are hands and feet willing to contribute, even if the old man is picked away, some landlord families who come late can't even hire people, so they can only hurry to the outside of the city and hire people in other places.

Under the land policy, abandonment is equivalent to compensation! Either the excess land is seized by the empire, or a share of the tax is paid. The policy stimulates the enthusiasm of production! The landlords who were worried about the instability of the times had to take out their family funds and try to hire people to cultivate some early-maturing crops, when Mao Jue entered Beijing before June, Hebei and Shandong were still full of desolate and messy scenes, and in July, it was already corn seedlings and sweet potato seedlings pumping fresh and tender greenery everywhere.

In fact, how much grain is played this year, Mao Jue really doesn't care too much, he now has the granary of the Great Northern Wilderness, as well as the trade routes to overseas, with the strength of Liaozhen, even if the northern particles in the Guannai have not been harvested this year, it is more than enough to feed the almost 30 million people, the more important significance of this move is that through the redistribution of social resources, the Ming society, which was already lifeless like a jar of stagnant water, has regained its vitality again, the landlords and gentry have resumed production, and the poor have jobs, so the society can settle down!

However, everything also has a price, and after tossing around in Beijing, Mao Jue actually succeeded in making the official-based Da Ming, and the first time he became an official, it was not so attractive.

After returning to the township, relying on the tax exemption of the fields of the hidden villagers, they can also make a fortune quickly.

Not only the Qingshui Yamen, but even the previous oil and water yamen are now like this, such as the household department, which allocated one million taels of silver for the construction of the railway, and a squire and a few of his subordinates just carried 50,000 taels of floating silver into their pockets according to the custom, and the officials of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Liao Town, the inspector Yamen, invited them to come into the organization to drink tea, and 50,000 taels of silver were transported to repair the railway, not to mention, these civil officials were also fined 1,000 taels by one person, and all of them were dismissed from public office.

In less than a month in July, there were six officials who died suddenly in their own accounts, more than 100 officials who were taken away by the inspectors, and all kinds of people who used to make money, and the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, who were used to being lazy and greedy, suddenly found that the official position at hand had actually become a chore

In just such a July, more than 700 civil officials from the Ming Dynasty have resigned and gone into hiding, plus those who were arrested for corruption, Mao Jue actually lacked officials under his hands!

This can be regarded as a way for the former Ming officials who were taxed to take revenge on Liaozhen, but they really gave Mao Jue a little headache.

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Central Government Office.

In Mao Jue's impression, the Forbidden City is a cultural relic, and when he visited the Forbidden City in later generations, he heard a lot of ghost stories, and he didn't have to panic if he wanted to live here, so Dongjiang also made a big oolong, and occupied the celebrant in the sixteen prisons of the inner court, and used the place where the big eunuchs worked as Mao Jue's office.

On the other side, several officials and subordinates were knocked down, and the modern square house in the Bauhaus style was under construction, and Mao Jue had a table in the empty hall, which made him feel very awkward, but the new office area was not built, and it could only be awkward.

Fortunately, he was not the only one who was awkward, the six Shangshu, and Fan Wenju, who was the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty today, moved a large circle of chairs together and sat opposite him.

"There is a shortage of officials in the department, the principal, the clerk, a total of sixty-one people!"

"There is also a shortage of these positions in the household department."

"And my criminal department! Fifty-five shortages!"

"Go to the side, it doesn't matter if you are in the Criminal Department, now that we are building two railways, our Ministry of Engineering is in urgent need of people!"

Several guys quarreled together, and Mao Jue was so big that he was full of helplessness, and he fell on Hong Chengchou, who was there with the old god, and asked sadly.

"It's understandable that they are short of people in the five departments, your military department is all old Liaodong, what is Lord Hong doing here?"

"Back to the regent, the lower official is here to ask for soldiers, in August and September, the troops will return to Liaodong to harvest, and there will be more than 100,000 troops left on the front line, which is too thin, these two months, the lower official thinks that when the Beijing camp is rebuilt, it is better to stick to the pass!"

"Of course King Liao, we don't have to worry about the soldiers, but the next officer needs an officer!"

Hong Chengchou said that there was nothing wrong with this, but with his treacherous smile, he didn't look like a loyal minister and a good person, looking at his appearance of rubbing his hands, Sun Chuanting and Song Xiance scolded in a low voice for the old traitor.

Now the first part of the civil official system in Liaodong is the staff officer in the army, and there are thousands of Liaodong children who have graduated from Acheng College and have been sent to the front line, and more than half of them are under Hong Chengchou, the Minister of National Defense.

Good guy, this old guy built an army with a sentence, and overturned everyone's wishful thinking, and now the great cause of the King of Liao has not yet been achieved, and Liaozhen is still a belligerent collective, at this time you draw Ding from the Ministry of War? That's simply a face-to-face with most of the old Liaodong!

A slap stretched out to Mao Jue, and Mao Jue, who stretched out, was also in a hurry in Northeast dialect, knocking on the table, he was yelling in annoyance.

"It's also a human thing! There are people there too! Can Lao Tzu give birth to people? This three-hundred-year-old apprenticeship class of Dongjiang Academy, this king can order early graduation, how to distribute your own points!"

"Give it all to the Ministry of Works!"

This has to wait for Mao Jue's voice to fall, Sun Chuanting, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was already anxious and jumped out with red eyes, just like he was going to be desperate, he was angry and shouted.

"This year the east will garrison the northwest! There will be troops to the south of the Yangtze River next spring, which one does not need a railway? It's only half a year! In order to ensure the great cause of Liaodong, we must first come to our Ministry of Industry!"

However, he said this, and several other people didn't buy it at all, and he was also an old abacus of the Dongjiang patriarch, and Su Changmei Su was fat man rolled his eyes.

"Save it! Lord Sun! There are a lot of people in your Ministry of Engineering! Without our household abacus, what do you do to build roads without money? ”

Speaking of which, the fat man muttered indignantly and hated that iron could not be made of steel.

"No wonder Chongzhen fell so miserably, this household is really a fucking rat nest, good guy, let Lu Zhong get dozens of rats for me in a month! One million taels of project money let them privately divide more than 300,000 taels, and if there are no decent people, our household department will fall apart! ”

"Lord Hong, the officers you need to build the army are not staff officers, and we have a lot of officers in Liaozhen, otherwise, we will seconded a hundred or so people from you to respond to the emergency first, everyone is serving the great cause of the King of Liao!"

This idea came back to the military department, seeing that Fan Wenju and the six wolves were looking at him with red eyes, and Mao Jue shrank back without a leader, looking like you were discussing it yourself, Hong Chengchou's face couldn't help twitching.

However, this old guy can mix in the Ming and Qing dynasties in history, and he does have two brushes, he suddenly got up, hugged his fists and bowed heavily to Mao Jue.

"His Royal Highness the Regent, everyone, in fact, you don't need to focus on the two colleges in Liaozhen at all, we are now in Beijing, bravely take on the world! Naturally, we also want to take the best talents from all over the world, and now that we need to win the hearts of the people, the regent, you can open a term of Enko! ”

"Each department has its own exam questions! What kind of talents do the ministries need, aren't they all coming? ”

"Enko!"

Not only Mao Jue, but also the ministers of the Ministry also had their eyes lit up, and finally fell on Song Xiance of the Ministry of Etiquette.

But this product is also a laizi, seeing that the opportunity is approaching, he immediately cried and spread his hands.

"You need people to run Enco! I'm short of people in my department!"

"You're just robbing !! while it's hot"

(End of chapter)