Of course, as Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, who has the experience of later generations and knows the future direction of history, he will try his best to bring the land under his feet and the nation living on this land on the road of rejuvenation and rise, and will not let her repeat the mistakes of history. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now that the rebellion of Tu Augly in western Zhejiang has been successfully pacified, the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang have been basically calm in the next ten years, except for some floods and droughts from time to time.

And the rebellion of the Baitou Army that occurred in Dongyang, Zhejiang in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen is still very far away, and according to the current situation, when it really comes to that time, I am afraid that there will be no more rebellion of the Baitou Army.

The reason for the rebellion of the Baitou Army was because after the collapse of the imperial court in the last years of Chongzhen, in addition to the Liao salary, the repeated increase in the salary and training salary, resulting in excessive tax pressure on the people of Zhejiang.

Therefore, the rebellion of the Baitou Army in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, led by Xu Du, a member of Dongyang, Zhejiang, should not appear.

Even after fourteen or fifteen years, there was really another rebellion of the Baitou Army in Dongyang, Zhejiang and other places, and now the Chongzhen Emperor is confident that he will suppress it.

If after more than ten years of development, he can't eliminate all the threats around him one by one, then he can simply buy a piece of tofu and kill his head.

At the beginning of April, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the Forbidden City of Beijing, on the one hand, urged the ministers of the court and the central government to perform their duties, stepped up the promotion of spring ploughing in the land of Gyeonggi, the recruitment of troops after spring ploughing, and the registration and training of the third phase of the lecture martial arts, and on the other hand, he was also eagerly looking forward to the arrival of Xu Hongzu.

Xu Hongzu, that is, Xu Xiake, since receiving the imperial court's will to appoint him as the secretary of the Ministry of War, returned to his hometown Jiangyin from the post of assistant teacher of Nanjing Guozijian, arranged the affairs of the family to his wife and eldest son, and then hurriedly went north to Beijing with a few loyal servants.

Along the way, Xu Hongzu and his entourage traveled by boat.

Although today's Grand Canal has become very smooth and easy to travel after more than a year of unremitting recruitment and dredging by Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, but the waterway, after all, is still not as fast as riding a horse and taking a post road.

Therefore, Xu Hongzu and his entourage crossed the river almost front and rear with the people and horses who delivered the military newspaper from western Zhejiang, but they were far behind by the stagecoach that delivered the military newspaper.

It wasn't until Emperor Chongzhen's decree was transmitted to the southern capital and Zhejiang through the north-south post road that Xu Hongzu and his entourage had just arrived in Tongzhou on the south-to-north boats on the canal.

After the dredging of the Grand Canal, it soon assumed the function of north-south transportation and commercial transportation, whether it was day or night, it was a busy scene.

At the beginning of the apocalypse, he once went north along the canal, carefully inspected the famous mountains and scenic spots in Lianghuai, Shandong, and Beizhili, and of course also had an understanding of the people on both sides of the canal, and left a lot of records.

But now that I am walking the same waterway, my feelings are very different.

Not only the Huai'an section of the Grand Canal north of the river that used to be silted up from time to time, now can also be unimpeded, and the whole river is deeper and wider, along both sides of the river, not far away are also planted with rows of poplars, willows, in March and April, become a pleasing scenery on both sides of the canal.

Hire a small boat and stay overnight on the Grand Canal, there is quite the intoxicating feeling of "where to wake up tonight, the wind and the waning moon on the willow bank".

In particular, the two banks of the canal, which were originally wasteland meadows, were also dug ditches and canals and built water conservancy projects in various parts of Huainan about a month earlier than in the north, so that both sides of the canal have become fertile fields that are not afraid of floods and droughts.

The wasteland near both sides of the canal was unclear before, and it was uncertain whether it belonged to the prefecture and county along the coast or to the yamen of the governor of Caoyun, so a lot of land was wasted.

After Yuan Keli took office as the governor of Caoyun, because of Emperor Chongzhen's clear will to rectify Cao affairs and recruit people to reclaim, he first recruited a group of young and strong villagers from his hometown Suiyangwei, and Suizhou, Shangqiu, and other places in Guide Prefecture, where he was located, and successfully established the 3,000 governors directly under the jurisdiction of the governor of Caoyun.

Yuan Keli had no party or faction in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and belonged to one of the figures that Emperor Chongzhen could reuse with confidence.

Of course, because he was the same year as Gao Panlong, he once wrote to speak for the leader of the Donglin Party, but in the final analysis, Yuan Keli, who was born in the hereditary family of Suiyang Wei, and the Donglin elements who were born in Jiangnan Shilin and were landlords and wealthy businessmen, are still fundamentally different in terms of political opinions.

On the issue of opposing the eunuch party's seizure of power, they are fellow travelers, but in terms of applying it to the world and governing the country and the people, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party cannot be compared with Yuan Keli, who has always paid attention to reality and practiced by himself.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen has fully delegated power and trust to Yuan Keli, his already full military and political strategy finally has a place to vigorously display it.

Originally, the four patrol imperial histories that were set up to restrict the power of the governor of Caoyun were all gone because of the eunuch case.

After Yuan Keli became the governor of Caoyun, Emperor Chongzhen did not arrange to patrol the imperial history of Caoyun in order to let him go and rectify Caoyun affairs.

In fact, there are still a lot of merits in the system design of the Ming Dynasty, such as the setting of various provinces and various supervision of the imperial history in the Imperial Procuratorate, in addition to the provincial imperial history in charge of the provincial officials and pickets, there are also the imperial history of the patrol salt, the imperial history of the patrol, the imperial history of the city, the imperial history of the patrol, the imperial history of the patrol, the imperial history of the border and so on.

Let's take Caoyun as an example, in addition to the setting of the Caoyun Governor, the Ming generation also set up a full-time patrol of Caoyun in Huai'an, Jining, Tianjin, and Tongzhou, on the one hand, to cooperate with the Caoyun Governor to manage Caoyun affairs, and on the other hand, to supervise and picket all Caoyun officials, including the Caoyun Governor.

This kind of decentralization and checks and balances of power is very necessary under normal circumstances, after all, Caoyun is too important for the Ming Dynasty to move the capital to Beijing, and the actual power of the governor of Caoyun is very large, without a certain mutual restraint, the emperor and the court will not be at ease.

But now is not an ordinary period when everything can be carried out step by step, the current internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty are typical extraordinary times, for this, Yuan Keli, who has been up and down for decades, has long been aware, and Emperor Chongzhen, who came from later generations, of course, is also aware.

Li Biao, the prefect of the Imperial Palace, put forward a proposal to reset the four inspectors of the imperial history, but was rejected by Emperor Chongzhen.

Just as Lu Shanji rectified the salt affairs, in order to rectify the important Caoyun affairs, in addition to the emperor to give full trust to Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, there is also a rule that he cannot deliberately set up any obstacles.

Therefore, after Yuan Keli took office, the four inspectors of the imperial history were all abolished.

Not only that, but on the issue of Yuan Keli's rebuilding of the Caoyun Governor and Cao Ying, Emperor Chongzhen also fully supported it, in addition to personally arranging for Wang Gongluo to go to help organize and lead the Cao Ying, Yuan Keli also approved the release of all the candidates proposed by Yuan Keli, such as Yan Zhengzhong and Yuan Jin.

These two people, who had been promoted and appointed by Yuan Keli when he was governor Denglai, were also transferred from Denglai to Caoyun Governor Yamen at this time, Yan Zhengzhong was responsible for the rebuilding of the three thousand governors, and Yuan Jin was originally responsible for the selection and training of Caoying people together with Wang Gongluo, who was arranged by the emperor.

In addition, Yuan Biao, who was born in Yuan Keli's cronies, Yuan Bincheng, Yuan Keli's eldest grandson, and Xu Dingguo, who was promoted by Yuan Keli, have also been appointed to some key positions.

However, where Yuan Keli proposed to appoint, Emperor Chongzhen agreed, so in a short period of time, Yuan Keli established absolute authority in the affairs of Cao Yun, in addition to the new practice of supervising the standard and the reorganization of Cao Ying, the Grand Canal, which has often been silted up due to drought and flood disasters and neglect of maintenance, has also been unprecedentedly desilted and treated.

At the same time, the Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, presided over by Yuan Keli, also cleaned up and rectified the banknotes on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The so-called banknote customs on the canal are the tax customs established by the imperial court to collect canal tolls.

The imperial court managed the shipping of the Grand Canal, was responsible for the maintenance and maintenance, and set up customs to collect toll fees, which should also be shared.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, many things were like this, although the original intention was good, but later it became bad, and even became contrary to the original intention.

Because the canal shipping flourished, and the card fee was a million profits, so with the passage of time and the corruption of the officials, in addition to the household banknotes set up by the original imperial court, the local government yamen on both sides of the canal, and even the bureaucrats and gentry, all wanted to obtain benefits from the canal.

Therefore, there are more and more checkpoints on the canal, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it has even become another terminal disease that restricts the transportation and trade of goods between the north and the south on the canal in addition to the silting up of the canal.

And this time, Yuan Keli carried out a drastic reform and rectification.

In addition to the seven major banknote customs of the household department at the beginning of the Xuande period, namely the Chongwenmen tax customs in Beijing, the Hexi customs in Tianjin, the Linqing tax customs in Shandong, the Huai'an tax customs, the Yangzhou tax customs, the Hushu customs in Suzhou, and the Beixin customs in Hangzhou, the so-called tax customs set up by other prefectures and counties along the river without the approval and filing of the household department and in a private manner were all abolished.

Soon after he arrived in Huai'an, some people in the local government began to write letters to impeach him for being impatient, acting in a tacky manner, being rigid and arbitrary, appointing private individuals, and being unsympathetic to the people.

However, for the current Emperor Chongzhen, he fully understands the virtue of most local officials in the late Ming Dynasty, and most of these people belong to the goods that do not do anything and eat nothing, unless it touches their own interests, otherwise the sky falls, and they will not care.

However, now Emperor Chongzhen arranged for Yuan Keli to be the governor of Caoyun, the purpose of which is to properly rectify the state capital and county officials on both sides of the canal.