Spring Festival.

Firecrackers, couplets, new clothes.

Family reunion, happiness.

But in the whole of Shanxi, there are few such scenes.

Tang Xidong can let everyone eat, but it can't solve all the necessities of the Spring Festival.

More than one million victims from Henan spent the first Spring Festival in a foreign land.

Everything is wasted, just waiting for Baixing.

Tang Xidong couldn't forget the warmth of the people in the warm house, and he couldn't forget the hunger of the people in the first table of the Spring Festival.

As a descendant, if you don't want to take responsibility, you can do nothing, don't say something high-sounding, because no one will force you.

But if you want to do it, you don't have to say anything, just do it.

The Lantern Festival has just passed.

After a short break.

Tang Xidong started construction again.

It was the promulgation of the Binh Duong Decree.

The political reform of household registration is in the first place.

Recruit the new army.

Agribusiness is encouraged.

Daxing traffic and water conservancy.

Divide the fields according to the population, and guide the greenhouse planting at the same time.

The state capitals are engaged in the development of industries, the mining of raw materials and primary processing.

At the same time, an investigation team was set up to go deep into every household to understand the needs of the people.

Expand the intelligence sector.

According to the model of Binh Duong, schools, transportation, finance, industry and commerce, industry, and taxation will be implemented in various places.

After owning the territory of Shanxi Province.

Tang Xidong began to pass through the caravan and constantly release information to the outside world.

Welcoming people from the West and scholars who have received Western education to come to Shanxi will be reused.

At the same time, caravans are encouraged to come to do business, and for foreign caravans, the safety of roads in Shanxi and tax incentives are guaranteed.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty did not collect commercial taxes.

Because most of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were from the Donglin Party, one party controlled the government and the opposition, and the southern merchant class continued to stuff silver, plus many people had a foundation of interests in Jiangnan, so naturally their interests were the same.

Commercial taxes were not collected, and Emperor Chongzhen could not move the southern landlord class colluded with officials and businessmen even if he had no money.

But Tang Xi Dong collects, Tang Xi East not only collects, at present, the most important tax basically comes from the commercial tax, and even their own caravans have to pay the commercial tax, not to mention the foreign ones.

As a result, many foreign businesses have consciously given up the Shanxi market.

There are also many Jin businessmen who go out to other provinces directly, and they don't even do business in their hometowns.

Merchants seek profits, such a thing is inevitable.

But Tang Xidong believes that not all businessmen in the world have the same vision.

It seems unreasonable not to put such a big market in Shanxi.

On the one hand, foreign commercial banks are encouraged to give tax incentives, and on the other hand, the loss of coal is tightened.

Tang Xidong believes that it will not be long before someone will come to do business in an era when the climate is getting colder and colder.

All he needed was to wait.

At present, all commercial goods under his command are circulated internally and externally by caravans formed by the government.

Scholars from the West included foreigners from Europe at this time.

It is an imperative action in Tangxi East.

Most of these Western missionaries came at this time with the intention of spreading Catholicism and Christianity.

Tang Xidong used the gimmick of being willing to help them with their missionary work to attract these people.

Helping to proselytize is false, and learning from them is true the scientific knowledge that the West has moved towards a system at this time.

If you want to change the status quo of the Ming Dynasty and change the people's minds, this step cannot be bypassed.

Otherwise, even if you can get back a hundred years of stability, you will still fall into a situation of being beaten in the end.

After the short Spring Festival, everything is busy.

Each one has to work hard for his new life.

Tang Xidong needs to work for the livelihood of millions of people.

It is often only when eating and resting at night that I have time to spend with my wife and children.

This is the most contradictory point in his heart.

In fact, from the beginning, maybe I just wanted to let the cottage people live a good life, no longer hungry and full, not afraid of cold in winter, not afraid of summer sun.

But step by step, push and come.

Indeed, there is a lot of power in his hands, and he is in charge of the life and death of millions of people.

But how many times has he asked himself if all this is what he wants?

No, not really.

But he couldn't stop.

The aircraft carrier under its feet must always move forward, otherwise it will be a whirlpool, and even his wife and son will not be able to keep it.

So, he had to move forward.

After the start of the year.

150,000 new troops were recruited for training in Binh Duong.

After all, there are as many as forty soldiers and horses in his hands.

It accounts for one-tenth of the total population of Shanxi.

This ratio is relatively out of balance, because it is equivalent to one young man being drafted into the army for every ten people, and the remaining nine people, leaving behind the elderly, women, and children, are only between two and four young and strong.

With an army of 450,000, there is no longer a small number of people who spend grain and grass every day.

Although it is true that the territory under his command has expanded, it needs to increase the military power accordingly.

But there is no need for 450,000 people to be distributed throughout Shanxi.

The reason why so many people were recruited was actually to gather first, and then select refined and courageous soldiers from among them.

All the armed forces in various localities, both old and new, undergo intensive training and then pass the selection.

Left behind an army of 300,000.

The rest were all disarmed and returned to the field for work assignment.

At this time, there are still many places that need labor.

In addition to self-cultivation, industry and commerce and grassroots management also require a large amount of labor.

In this way, many of the originally idle labor force will be solved, and everyone will be given employment and living ability.

In the new place where the victims were resettled, the hukou reform was completed and each was useful.

The relief decree was officially lifted.

In the days to come, we need to rely on our hands to seek benefits.

Time passed, and the spring of Chongzhen's sixth year arrived.

Reclamation projects are in full swing in various places.

Gradually, foreign caravans tried to enter the territory of Shanxi.

Compared with the profits, the commercial tax is actually not much, so the caravans that taste the sweetness are gradually coming in.

Shanxi's economy has recovered to a certain extent.

Under the policy of encouraging farmers and merchants in Tang Xidong, according to the model of Binh Duong, large-scale shopping malls and workshops began to sprout in various places, through policy support and the investment of wealthy squires.

The selection time set by the new army is gradually approaching.

The whole army began to seize the last time to train hard.

After the development of mineral resources in various places, Tang Xidong expanded the scale of the factory in Luoliang Mountain, and also expanded the weapons workshop in Pingyang City.

In the spring of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the northern rivers thawed.

The flood waters receded.

It was not until the flood waters receded that the Ming Dynasty requisitioned troops and supplies to provide disaster relief.

Emperor Chongzhen even sent the imperial history of the court to Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong to personally provide relief, and assigned eunuchs in the palace to supervise the town.

At this point, after the fall of the eunuchs, the eunuchs were rampant again.

The Donglin Party played several times, but was rejected by Emperor Chongzhen.

Because of the eunuch's supervision, the emperor began a court dispute with the minister of Donglin.

Meanwhile.

The flood receded, and the deaths and injuries of people in Shaanxi and Henan were counted.

Millions of people were killed and injured in the two places, the largest number of them in Henan, and millions of people returned to their hometowns but were homeless and had no land to cultivate.

The relief grain money was mobilized by Emperor Chongzhen everywhere, and when it arrived in Henan, it was exploited all the way and deducted by officials in various disaster areas, and it was almost enough for a bowl of rice porridge in the hands of the people.

After several months of catastrophe, more than 100,000 people died of starvation and freezing.

How can you not be hated by the people.

It was at a time when the people of Henan were full of grievances.

The Shaanxi rebels, who had been silent for a long time, finally began their journey of rebellion again.

In March, Tang Xidong, who was in Binh Duong, received information.

Liaozhou and Lu'an rebelled out of Shanxi and invaded the territory of Zhili.

The flood tide of war once again swept up the Ming Dynasty.