"My lord, I'm already in the city."

In a daze, Ma Shiying fell asleep again in the sedan chair.

After all, he is an old person, and no matter how comfortable the sedan chair is, it can't be compared with the bed, so I feel that my back and legs hurt, and it is very uncomfortable.

In addition, in the early hours of the morning, the weather was just white, and the people's spirits had not yet recovered, and they felt colder than the night, so after he was woken up, he was very unhappy, because he shouted to the Chinese army that woke him up: "What is the important matter, you want to wake me up?" ”

"Yes, yes, damn it!"

The guerrilla of the Chinese army is Ma Shiying's distant cousin, leading these more than 300 Guizhou soldiers, and has never bought anyone's accounts, even if Huang Degong and others saw him, they still held hands and talked with a smile, and did not put the score of the chief soldier at all.

However, at this time, he was reprimanded by his uncle with cold eyes, and immediately sweat on his back, and he hurriedly asked for the guilt first, and then replied: "The mark is to ask the adults to show it, now do you go back to the mansion to rest first, or go to the imperial city to go to the court?" ”

"Well, I'll think about it." Ma Shiying thought for a while, and then said, "Of course, I went to the court." ”

As soon as he, the prime minister and minister of military aircraft, received the appointment, he immediately took his own soldiers, staff, and cronies, and rushed all the way from Fengyang overnight!

Even so, I heard that the Military Affairs Department had been in the court for a few days, and the edicts sent by the court had been sent to all parts of the country at a speed of 600 miles, 600 miles, and 400 miles.

The Military Affairs Department has begun to accept the will and deal with the major affairs of the militaristic state!

The top priority, which is now a major event that is going all out, is, of course, nothing more than the word soldier's salary!

There has been news that the crown prince should respond to the emperor's inquiry in eight words: open source and reduce expenditure, elite soldiers and strong generals.

When she heard it, Ma Shiying just smiled.

After all, he is a young man, these eight words are true, but what specific methods are there to speak of? Open source, the Tianfu in the Jiangnan area has not only been levied several times, but Ma Shiying knows that in addition to the Zhengfu, all kinds of tricks emerge in endlessly, if it weren't for Zhang Guowei's encouragement of agriculture and water conservancy in Jiangnan in the past ten years, so many people in Jiangnan have begun to practice agriculture again, and the grain output is not low, I am afraid that the Jiangnan area will also rebel!

Although overseas trade has maintained a fairly high level, it will take several years to recover from the turmoil at sea, and it will take several years to recover from the turmoil at sea. Not to mention, the red-haired ghost replaced the Japanese Kou, and the looting was no worse than the Japanese Kou.

As for the Zheng family in Fujian, entrenched in Penghu and Taiwan, it is already a big tree with deep roots and is difficult to control.

Now that the imperial court doesn't even have a sailor, even if you know that the Zheng family is lawless, what can you do? Now as long as there are ships going to sea, which boat will not give the Zheng family points?

If the oil and water are big, and the Zheng family directly robs it clean, what can you do?

In the past few years, the Zheng family has become fat, I heard that Zheng Zhilong's net worth has exceeded 10 million, and he has raised a large fleet in Anping, and there are tens of thousands of private soldiers!

Thinking about it, the richest sea trade can't be moved, and the whole court knows it, but it is just hiding from the emperor alone. Poor Wanli and Apocalypse years, the royal family can still have a lot of income in the sea trade, Chongzhen has ascended the throne to the present, I am afraid that the silver is really not as good as one percent in the Longwan years!

The tariffs on the banknotes are also fattening the private sector, and the state has limited revenue.

Tian Fu will never add again!

As for those who owned a large amount of land, as well as weaving mills and silk factories, and at the same time owned sea vessels, all of them were gentry and big men who could call the wind and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and they formed an alliance with each other in the same year and marriage, which was really a hundred echoes. Ma Shiying still doesn't understand anything in his heart, he wants to raise taxes on these people, unless he uses soldiers to suppress him, and if he doesn't kill his own head, it is impossible to take out the money from these people smoothly.

Don't say that the court doesn't have this determination, even if there is, where will the soldiers come from, and which general will be used to suppress it?

Can you win the hearts of the people by suppressing the people under your rule like this? Can you not make a big mess in the world?

It will never be possible to use force, so Ma Shiying thought about it, the word "open source" is really nonsense, and he can't think of a way to come out at all!

It is true that the southeastern provinces, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces are not counted on at all in the Ming Dynasty's finances, not only do they not pay taxes, but the imperial court has to compensate a little more or less every year, otherwise, the southwest Tusi will make trouble, and the money spent will not be so little.

In fact, Yunnan is a very rich place, with salt and copper, and the land and water conservancy are not as good as those in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is more than 100 times stronger than Guizhou. The Great Western Army passed through Yunnan for several years, and raised a strong army to come out, and then the soldiers were within reach, Liangguang, Hunan, and the famous king, the fundamental place was in Yunnan!

But people at that time could not see, and did not have the courage, first went to Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, and then Hunan and Hubei, one was suffering from military disasters, and the other was also harmed by Zhang Xianzhong.

Fortunately, I can hand over some of my true colors, and I don't think about anything else.

Fujian and Zhejiang, Fujian is already Zheng Zhilong's private territory, the water can't be splashed, plus the sand is near the sea, the harvest is limited, it is a poor province, the entire southeast finance, in fact, is relying on the south Zhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, combined, the true color of several million, seven million, all the calculation, that's all, no more!

Ma Shiying has been in the territory for a long time, and he has always had the ambition to become the center, in his opinion, to be able to maintain the current situation is already burning high incense, and he still thinks about it, he has to make an accident.

"Open source" is not available, and the only way to think of it is to reduce expenditure.

The small court of Hongguang in history did not have the idea of throttling, and the feudal towns asked for money, but Hongguang himself had no idea, and he shrank in the palace by himself, and only cared about taking money to build the Nanjing palace, saying that he was the lord of mediocrity, and he did not wronged him. Shi Kefa himself desperately bought a few strong feudal domains, gave silver and grain when he wanted, and also helped the feudal clans cry poor, but in less than a year, the financial limit was limited to bankruptcy, and when the Qing army was about to go south, Nanjing's household department was empty, and the account of the household department was calculated, and the silver deposit was more than 1,000 taels!

Now that the palace is not repaired, only a very small amount of silver is used to repair the outer court, which is already the precursor of throttling, and what will be a throttling method at the bottom, which is very concerned by Ma Shiying.

As for the training, I heard that the six-rate soldiers changed by the inner son led by the prince are not bad, but after an almost child's playful adventure, the annexed Liu Zeqing's department seems to be a little bit of a meal...... What kind of fine method is this soldier, and what kind of strong method is the general, I don't know what kind of idea that young master has in his belly?

As an ambitious politician, Ma Shiying knows in his heart that he can sit in the position of prime minister of the Military Affairs Department, and he is afraid that the crown prince will be the most important, and why the prince appreciates and favors him, and even trusts him as usual regardless of the fault of leading the crowd to support King Fu, in Ma Shiying's heart, is also an insoluble puzzle.

There is a vague idea that the crown prince will use him to appease the feudal domains and local forces that once supported King Fu. After all, when the whereabouts of the emperor and the crown prince were unknown, it was the consensus of most people to support King Fu.

If you deal with this matter poorly, or show a little mind, I am afraid that it will be very unpopular!

But these are indifferent things, Ma Shiying is very confident in his wrist, might, and ability!

In his opinion, no matter what the prince is, anyway, take this opportunity to seize power first!

………… The sedan chair hit all the way to the outside of the Hongwu Gate, and entered this gate, which is the scope of the imperial city. According to the system, civil and military officials must dismount and fall into the sedan chair, and no one dares to violate it.

Although the imperial power is in decline now, and even the royal family itself takes the initiative to invite people's hearts, but the rules of the ancestral system for nearly 300 years, as long as the ministers do not rebel, they will never dare to violate them.

Coming out of the comfortable sedan chair, the apocalyptic star in the sky was still very bright, the moonlight became very dim, and the eastern sky was not yet a little bright, and after walking in the middle of the night, it turned dark when the sky was about to dawn.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Industry is repairing the yamen on both sides of the Thousand Steps Corridor, and there are already many craftsmen who have gotten up, as well as the petty officials who should be in charge, are also yawning and stretching their waists, and the servants are holding lanterns, leading the way around to illuminate the way, and under the lanterns is the figure of getting up early and busy.

"Nanjing's meteorology is really different from before!"

Sighing and sighing, it is still all the way forward, when it arrives outside the Chengtian Gate, the sky is a little bright, and the crowd is sparse and scattered a lot, only under the huge lanterns on the first row of Miyagi, you can see the rows of armor soldiers standing like nails.

Just by looking at this, you can find that the entire Miyagi is very heavily guarded, which is very different from the past.

Ma Shiying's Chinese guerrillas were still as usual, and when they saw that the palace gate had been opened, they asked to escort Ma Shiying in.

"Stop, what are you doing!"

When he was about to reach Zuoshun Gate, in the distance, there was a line of soldiers coming up, led by the generals wearing iron armor, and the spurs walking on the ground to draw a long spark...... Looking at Ma Shiying's Chinese army, the general shouted in a low voice: "What kind of place is this, who are you, how dare you trespass on the palace ban?" ”

"Who trespassed?" The Chinese guerrillas knew that they were powerful, and they were startled, but their mouths were not soft, and they replied: "It's okay to take a big hat to press people, our family is the governor of Fengyang, and he was ordered to return to Beijing to serve as the prime minister and minister of military affairs...... You're in charge! ”

"If it's not the Minister of Guards and my direct superior, no one can control me." After listening to the identity of the Chinese army, the other party's tone also softened, and after thinking about it, he said: "Is there a defense?" According to the system, if the minister wants to enter the palace, he must first look at the customs defense, hand the sign and ask to see, and the palace can enter only after the palace has approved. However, the Minister of War is the same as Changchuan who enters the palace every day, and he can directly inspect the palace...... After checking his identity, Master Ma was able to enter. ”

After saying such a long list, Ma Shiying didn't wait for the stunned Chinese army to say anything, waved his hand, and ordered: "Show him my customs seal letter." ”

After that, he frowned and said nothing. When he was on the road, he had imagined various situations after entering Nanjing, and when he entered the city, it was also smooth to open the city gate, so that he did not feel too profound changes. It was only in front of this palace gate that I felt a subtle and profound change. It seems that this Minister of War can not only do it, but also an identity that can control the overall situation!

(To be continued)