Killing Wei Zhongxian and his eunuchs, of course, will come at a price.

One of the biggest costs was that the annual income of the imperial court, including Liaoyu, began to plummet.

Originally, in history, at the end of the first year of Chongzhen, after killing the eunuchs, the income of the imperial court fell from 5.5 million taels of silver in the Tianqi Dynasty to 3.9 million taels (historical facts).

The imperial court's regular income outside of the Liao salary also dropped from 4.25 million taels during the Apocalypse to less than 3 million taels, with a cumulative annual decrease of more than 2.85 million taels (historical facts).

In the original history, the young Emperor Chongzhen, in the face of this difficult situation, did not make up for the loss by confiscating the eunuch family's property, but on the contrary, accepted the advice of the ministers and embarked on the road of increasing the levy of the chickens and eggs.

Different from the practice of Emperor Chongzhen in history, the current Emperor Chongzhen knows very well that without Wei Zhongxian and a group of eunuchs under him, the collection of Liao salary is destined to be affected.

Therefore, after overthrowing Wei Zhongxian and his eunuchs, Emperor Chongzhen quickly recovered a large amount of lost Liao salary and routine from the process of confiscating all the eunuchs' family property.

However, the loss is only 2.85 million taels, and just a nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian's mansion is worth a few lost incomes.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also relied on the huge wealth confiscated from the hands of Changlu, Shandong, and Lianghuai salt merchants, and successively in the first year of Chongzhen and the second year of Chongzhen, successively exempted several provinces in the north that were plagued by disasters, such as Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong, as well as the common practices and additions of some state capitals in Beizhili.

Of course, after the removal of the regular practice and additional payment (i.e., Liao salary) under the jurisdiction of these political envoys in the north, the regular annual income and Liao salary of the imperial court in the second year of Chongzhen suddenly decreased a lot, and the two together were less than five million taels per year.

In particular, Liao's salary fell from 5.5 million taels at the peak of the first year of the Apocalypse to 2.7 million taels at once.

If it weren't for Emperor Chongzhen, who copied the eunuch party and copied the salt merchants, copied the salt merchants and copied the Xungui, and then copied the Xungui and then opened a bank and copied the Jin merchants, and found a way to fill this hole from here, then the finances of the Ming Dynasty would probably collapse in advance in the second year of Chongzhen.

However, although Emperor Chongzhen changed the law to reduce the salaries of several northern provinces, he did not completely suspend the collection of salaries.

In any case, the Liao salary, which has been levied for many years, can be regarded as an important income of the imperial court, and before Liaodong is completely pacified, there is no need to slap a swollen face and become fat, and stop the Liao salary that has finally formed an inertia and has been recognized.

Although the levy has actually been suspended for three years for the salaries of the northern regions such as Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili, the levy has not been suspended for three years.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen is doing this now is because these northern provinces are so poor that even the salary of nine centimeters of silver per mu of land is a heavy burden for the peasants in the northern provinces.

If you include the exploitation of officials at all levels in prefectures and counties below the political envoys, the nine-cent Liao salary set by the imperial court will be increased to the heads of those who really pay the Liao salary, I don't know how much it will increase.

In the poor north, one carelessness is the result of the government forcing the people to rebel and the world is in chaos.

Of course, in order to take care of the sentiments of the officials from Jiangnan in the DPRK, especially the mood of the Donglin Party, the Liao salary in the northern provinces was not nominally suspended.

It's just that because these places are either drought, locust plague, or military plague, Emperor Chongzhen's imperial grace has all been relieved.

As in history, these Liao salaries, which were mainly levied from the south of the Yangtze River, were not intercepted by Emperor Chongzhen and used for the cause of Pingliao.

The 3.9 million taels in the first year of Chongzhen and the 2.7 million taels in the second year of Chongzhen were all converted into Chongzhen silver yuan containing 80% silver, a total of 8.25 million Chongzhen silver yuan, which was used as military expenses for Pingliao.

The lion's share, that is, 60 percent of the salary, was naturally used for the military expenditure of Liaodong Town, 20 percent of it was used for the military expenditure of Denglai Town, and the remaining 20 percent was used for the military expenditure of Dongjiang Town.

The part of the military expenses given to Liaodong Town, which was used as Liao's salary, totaling 4.95 million Chongzhen silver yuan, was invested by Liaodong Governor Lu Shanji in the past two years or so to recruit people to reclaim and renovate the city in western Liaoning.

Five million Chongzhen silver yuan, as well as countless labor, added five cities, namely Yingzhou City (three towers), Tashan City, Xingshan Fort, Songshan City, and Zhenhai City on Juehua Island.

These things not only cost a lot of money, but they are also not as effective as advancing a hundred miles to the north or east, and of course they will be impeached by the officials of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China.

But Emperor Chongzhen himself felt that the silver was not in vain.

If there were no for these huge projects to build fortresses in the western Liaoning corridor, the old, weak, sick, disabled, redundant soldiers and redundant soldiers who had been laid off in Liaodong Town would have to be idle, and when they were idle, the imperial court would have to pay the army money and food.

Even if the salaries of the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who have been laid off are halved, it is still a large expense, and apart from maintaining stability, it will not bring other benefits.

And with these non-stop projects, these people have something to do.

In history, Emperor Chongzhen also listened to the advice of the ministers of the court to approve the salary and cut the redundant soldiers because the salary of the Jiubian army could not be sustained, but no one took care of the laid off soldiers, and they were just dismissed.

As a result, these people left the ranks of the official army and turned around to become bandits.

This is a lesson that cannot but be learned.

In addition, with these projects, a large number of cement factories, lime kilns, and cement brick factories built by the families of the emperors and nobles of Gyeonggi followed suit, and there was a huge sales outlet.

There are also a lot of opportunities for the displaced people who have been recruited from the Guannai to go north to open up wasteland and farm land for reclamation.

With things to do and money to earn, there will naturally be more and more unemployed homeless people who go north from Shanhaiguan to work.

This account cannot be counted.

In particular, after Lu Shanji did this, now the strategy of recovering Liao set by Emperor Chongzhen to defend the west and attack the east is another stroke of the eight characters, and it is also the most important one.

There is a premise for the strategy of defending the west and attacking the east, that is, the western Liaoning corridor must first be able to be defended, and the Ningjin defense line must be foolproof.

Although in the original history, it was not until the day when Hong Chengchou led the army to annihilate the entire army in Songshan that the Ningjin defense line was truly broken through by the Jin State after being captured, but now this Chongzhen Emperor does not dare to take this life-and-death issue lightly.

Therefore, although many people in the court were dissatisfied with Lu Shanji's actions, with the acquiescence of the emperor and the support of Sun Chengzong, the minister of military aircraft, his strategy of building a high wall and accumulating grain in the western Liaoning corridor was proudly continued for more than two years.

On today's Ningjin defense line, in addition to Yizhou City, which has become an indestructible strategic pillar of Liaodong Town, Juehua Island, the hub of Liaohai, has also become the Zhenhai Divine Needle of the entire Liaodong Town because of the construction of Zhenhai City.

With the huge reserves of grain, grass and ammunition in Zhenhai City of Juehua Island, the soldiers and horses on the front and back, the middle and left roads of Liaodong Town, and a large number of immigrants in the Guannei who accompanied the army to reclaim, there is no longer any need to worry about the cavalry going south around the city or sending troops to besiege the city, cutting off their grain routes and back roads.

Of course, it is precisely because of the Liaodong Governor Lu Shanji and his generals who have been doing obscure things for more than two years, so no one has been knighted.

When the news that Zhao Shujiao, Zu Dashou, and Cao Wenzhao, who were colleagues back then, were named uncles because of their meritorious service in resisting Jianyu spread to Liaodong, the Liaodong marshal Mangui, who was far above these people, was very angry in his heart.

At that time, Man Gui was anxious and anxious to lead the Liaodong army to King Gyeonggi Qin, but Lu Shanji took out the emperor's secret decree to resolutely stop it.

Emperor Chongzhen's idea at that time was to prepare to stick to the first and second towns of the Guards Army, whose strength was not yet known, to stick to the line of Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass, and give Huang Taiji an unforgettable lesson.

If Man Gui led the Liaodong army back to Gyeonggi for reinforcements, Huang Taiji probably would not have attacked Juyong Pass.

Therefore, when many people in the towns on the nine sides made contributions in this war against Jianyu, he, the chief military officer of Liaodong Town, who was in charge of Pingliao, and the commander of the soldiers and horses of the five roads in Liaodong Town, actually did not make an inch of merit when he should have made meritorious contributions, which made his heart very angry.

What he didn't know was that in history, because of his discord with Yuan Chonghuan, the supervisor at the time, he was transferred to Xuanda one step earlier, and he took the army to King Qin.

At the same time, because Emperor Chongzhen trusted him very much, he also asked him to prime minister King Qin's army and the Jianyu army led by Huang Taiji to fight against the city, and he died in this battle.

In this life, Emperor Chongzhen asked him to stay in Liaodong, but he didn't want him to get involved and avoid him from repeating the fate of history.

However, apart from Emperor Chongzhen himself, there is certainly no second person in this world who knows about these things.