Emperor Chongzhen's mood during this time has been really good.

The northern captives that had lasted for decades in the north were completely crippled. The army of a hundred battles accumulated over the years was all buried in just one battle. Now he can only hide in the tall walls of Shenyang City, and he can't survive all day long. Just wait for the Ming strong army to arrive, and solve them all!

For many years, he has repeatedly escaped from the hands of countless officials and soldiers, and has continued to grow. In the end, he even entered the Beijing Division, and the Li Rebellion Department, who almost forced Emperor Chongzhen to be martyred, was also hit hard. The area around Xuanda was recovered, and hundreds of thousands of rebels were exterminated by the way! Now we are waiting for the beginning of spring to exterminate all these rebels who have been evil for many years!

Although now the imperial court can only control the area of Beizhili and Jingshi, plus the newly recovered Xuanda line. But the most important tax revenue of the imperial court is even better than it was many years ago! Local control has also been greatly strengthened.

Some of the means and measures of the High Immortals have brought great changes to this empire that is close to decay and death. The establishment of the Royal Bank and the circulation of new types of money greatly improved the chaotic financial situation. The redistribution of the fields, the large-scale industrialization of the land, and the new state monopoly of important materials such as salt and iron allowed the imperial court to increase its tax revenue on a large scale.

Salt is a really, really important thing. You can go without sugar for a long time, but you can't go without salt. In the past, selling salt was a real profiteering. There are countless people who have reached out in the salt industry. The sale of illicit salt has never been really stopped. Even if the imperial court has always imposed heavy penalties on those who sell illicit salt, it has not changed in the slightest. No way, the profit is just too big.

But Gao Yang changed all that. After restoring the Changlu Salt Field and other salt-producing areas, it was transformed with advanced equipment and production technology brought by modern time and space. In modern times, the Changlu salt field, which produces the largest amount of salt, began to burst production capacity.

The production of the modern time-space Changlu salt field accounts for a quarter of the sea salt production of the world's factories! Even if there is only half of the production capacity here, compared to the population during the Chongzhen period, it is enough for everyone to eat extremely cheap sea salt.

Gao Yang did the same. I want to disrupt the illicit salt trafficking industry. Killing the head can't be done, because there are huge interests driving it. After killing a batch, naturally the next wave of people will rush forward to continue this business. The only way is to destroy their living space. That's the price and the quality!

Price aspect. Because all dynasties have treated the salt tax as an extremely important tax revenue. As a result, the price of salt is extremely high. Sometimes, in some places, the price of salt is even more expensive than meat! But you can't live without salt! This gives private salt room to make a profit.

In response to this, Gaoyang began large-scale salt production in the Changlu Salt Farm. The price of salt, which was under the control of the entire imperial court, was quickly reduced to a shocking price of cabbage. Of course, cabbage in this era is not cheap. But more than ever. The price of salt is really low now, very low. It is even much lower than the price of illicit salt. After all, the cost of production is almost zero. The sea water, how much or how much. As for the labor, it would be nice to give each person a few bags of salt.

And then there's quality.

In previous years, the salt sold by the government was mixed with sediment and other debris on a large scale, and the salt was black and yellow. It's disgusting to eat. Private salt is slightly better, but the good ones are also limited. After all, the more adulterated, the more you earn. Black-hearted merchants don't care if you eat salt or dirt.

However, this time, all the products produced with modern space-time equipment and technology are the highest grade snow salt! Fine salt as pure as snow! Not to mention the feeling of eating it in your mouth, just selling it can completely defeat the private salt!

The price has been reduced though. However, the huge demand caused the income of the imperial court to increase on a large scale. Salt alone made the imperial court make a lot of money.

The same thing happens with iron and other objects. The huge factories outside the castle that were spewing smoke that polluted the environment completely changed the production structure of the entire society.

In the past, the craftsmen no longer had any ability to compete in the face of large-scale industrialization. In the face of the horrors of mechanized production, these traditional artisans had no other way but to go bankrupt.

There is no need for years of words and deeds from the master, and years of personal practice to rely on experience to judge molten iron and forging. A group of ordinary farmers who have just put down their hoes can produce a large amount of materials a thousand times as long as they learn to understand advanced thermometers and various dashboards!

What is special about industrialization is the great abundance of quantity and the large-scale improvement of quality. If the quantity and quality go up, and then sacrifice part of the profit to reduce the price, then it can be very easy to break the traditional handicraft workshop.

The bankrupt artisans had to pack up their baggage and go to work as workers in the factories that were being built up to make ends meet. This also alleviates the factory's desperate thirst for workers.

Industrialization was about driving a large number of peasants tied up to the land into the factories to work!

The great abundance of goods represented the exuberance of trade. Gao Yang kept increasing the salaries of the court personnel at all levels, the army, and the workers. Do whatever it takes to send money to everyone.

When people have money, they can buy all kinds of materials for consumption. When money is circulated, there is also a transaction tax. These taxes are more than enough to cover the fees charged to the various checkpoints that have been forcibly cancelled by Gao Yang. As time goes on and the size of the transaction increases, this tax will far exceed the money received for setting up the level!

Of course. All this is also thanks to Gao Yang's unsparing efforts to build roads on a large scale. With communication, all this will be possible.

Emperor Chongzhen was also shocked by the huge income. In the past few months alone, the tax revenue in Beizhili has greatly exceeded the income of the entire Ming Empire in previous years! It's scary.

And that's not even counting the huge profits that will come from overseas trade in the future! Why was England in modern time and space able to become a powerful empire in a mere hundreds of years as a small island nation? It's because they have a huge overseas trade that is giving blood to the whole country!

When the dragon flag of the Ming Empire is planted in all corners of the world and becomes a great empire on which the sun never sets. That huge overseas trade will not even be less than the income of the vast empire itself!

If you have more income, you have to talk about the spending side.

First of all, it was the largest expenditure of the imperial court in previous years, and it was like a bottomless pit that dragged the entire Ming Empire into the abyss, and the Liao salary was forcibly and completely ended by Gao Yang.

No matter how many people have shared a lot of profits in this, how many people are desperately trying to prevent the end of Liaojiao. It's a pity that when facing Gao Yang, who is completely incomprehensible, these forces are all so pale and powerless.

Gao Yang went on a killing spree in the capital some time ago, and most of the people who had stretched out their hands in the Liao Salary disappeared from people's sight. No matter what their identity is, it's all the same for Gao Yang. Moths and pus. Just get rid of it. It was also a large-scale purge operation, which almost washed the entire imperial court from top to bottom. The interest groups of the past have all been cleaned up. All networks were breached. The Ming Empire was freed from the most powerful confinement. A qualitative leap began.

It's not just the big fish. With the acquiescence of Emperor Chongzhen, the purging team composed of biochemical warriors led the brocade guards who had been washed several times to clean the entire Beizhili. It is almost impossible for a court official to escape his crimes in front of biochemical warriors who use advanced reconnaissance equipment.

One of the most serious inside the county. From the county magistrate to the official servant, they were all arrested and thrown into the prison of the capital division. Because there are so many people arrested, the prison is overcrowded. All of them were summarily convicted and sent to work in various mines and construction sites to atone for their crimes.

They are also paid according to their wages, and what they do is what they do. But to make up for the share of greedy ink, there is also a double fine! After doing it cleaner for a while, there is hope that I will go home.

But those who are ruthless are called three feet high or something. Not to mention this life, even if you work as a coolie until the next life, don't want to go home again. Mines and construction sites are their final destination in this life.

As for the vacant places for these people, there is no need to worry about it at all. There are not many other things in the Ming Dynasty, and there are too many turbans who read. Those who want to be officials are even more in the sea. There are people who are squeezing their heads to fill the gaps.

As for these new arrivals. After greatly increasing their salary, almost ten times more than usual, they were raised. If they still want to follow the path of their predecessors, they are looking for death. There was once a county that changed three chiefs in less than a month! As I said, there are more people who want to be officials, and they will be appointed after they are arrested. Whoever dares to reach out will grab it.

Plus it's approaching the end of the year. People everywhere have money and a large amount of supplies, and this year is called a joyful one. How could Emperor Chongzhen not be happy?! He's been waking up laughing almost every morning lately!

After a period of massive change. The Ming Empire, which was originally gloomy and seemed to be able to breathe at any time, was reborn like a phoenix bathing in fire!

And all of this was brought to Emperor Chongzhen by the high immortal with a mysterious origin!

Thinking of Gao Yang, Emperor Chongzhen's gaze began to become complicated. He was unwilling to admit that Gao Yang was an immortal. However, everything Gao Yang has done, the powerful and terrifying power that people can't deal with at all, clearly shows that there is no other explanation than that he is an immortal.

As an emperor who wanted to make a difference, Zhu Youzhen was naturally dissatisfied with Gao Yang's behavior of covering the sky with one hand in the Ming Dynasty. However, he could see that Gao Yang cared about his feelings at all. In other words, Gao Yang doesn't care who the emperor is! If you don't obey, it doesn't matter if you change it.

"That's it, since it's an immortal, it must be impossible to look down on all this in the mortal world. After the high immortal leaves, all this is still mine! In desperation, Emperor Chongzhen could only comfort himself like this. (To be continued)