Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, is a pitiful and pathetic figure. He had no talent of his own, and he was timid and cowardly. Emperor Chongzhen was also forced to be in a hurry, and he casually arrested someone and made him the secretary of the military department. But the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen can be casual, but he Zhang Jinyan can't be a courtier!

took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate and surrendered, so many pairs of eyes were watching at that time. He has nothing to say if he wants to shirk! In addition, he Zhang Jinyan is neither a royal nor a national relative, and there is no power behind him. The identity is still so sensitive, he is the secretary of the Ming Dynasty! Naturally, he became an unlucky ghost with a high status.

The kind of tiger-backed guards that Gao Yang had originally expected pounced on the prisoners and dragged them out, and the prisoners waved their hands and feet, cried and wiped their noses, and cried and shouted bitterly while struggling: "Your Majesty! Weichen is wronged! Wronged!! "None of the scenes of how to drip appeared.

The faces of those who were singled out were like ashes, and they wept and mourned, and they did not say a word. When the guards came up, they didn't pounce on the ground and pressed them to the ground, but just stood and watched. The prisoners knelt down to salute the emperor and withdrew after removing their hats. And he didn't go directly to the noon gate to be beheaded, but just went to stay in the prison and waited for the hall. For high-level officials, even if it is an emperor, it is not that you can kill it if you say it. At the very least, the necessary procedures still have to be walked through.

After a slight breath of stuffiness in his chest, Emperor Chongzhen turned his gaze to Gao Yang, who was standing on the side.

For this strangely dressed person standing next to the dragon chair, the officials have long been curious. I've been speculating about who this person is. It's just that the timing is not right at this moment, and no one dares to ask more.

The frost on Emperor Chongzhen's face thawed, and he said with a smile, "This Mr. Gao is an overseas master, and he came to help me this time and forced Li Chuang to retreat the traitor." A lot of credit. ”

"Hiss~~~" The officials in the hall all gasped. No one knew how Li Chuang retreated under a good situation, and there were all kinds of speculations. Now there is finally an answer. I just don't know how this overseas master did it? What kind of means did you use to drive away such a powerful Li Yi?

After Li Zicheng and the others escaped, they were very taboo about the things they encountered immortals. All the sergeants who knew about it were gag-off. All those who dare to talk will be killed! This is also very understandable, if you let the homeless people who follow them know that they are actually being chased by the gods. The team was about to disperse.

And Emperor Chongzhen didn't mean to make a big deal of it. What is an immortal? The gods are flying above the nine heavens and are offered in the hearts of people. It was a beautiful yearning and ideal. If people know that the gods have come to the world, the conflict between the divine power and the imperial power will immediately escalate! Are the immortals who came to the earth still immortals?

Gao Yang had no intention of taking this opportunity to do anything out of the ordinary. After Emperor Chongzhen proposed to conceal his identity, Gao Yang immediately agreed. Gao Yang, who was thinking about what Zhu Youzhen thought in his heart, was very clear, he just didn't have that interest. Gao Yang wants to help not him, Zhu Youzhen, but the entire Chinese nation.

In this way, Gao Yang's identity was concealed by all parties, including himself. In the mouth of Emperor Chongzhen, he became an overseas master.

"This time forced Li to retreat. Mr. Gao has made a lot of contributions. Moreover, Mr. Gao is a master of the world, who knows 500 years before and 500 years later, and looks up to astronomy and geography. It is a great virtue that is not born in the world. The widow asked Mr. Gao to come out of the mountain for me to be the national teacher of the Ming Dynasty and assist the widow in the Ming Dynasty! Zhu Youzhen's words can be described as loud.

How to arrange Gao Yang's identity before was also a difficult thing. Don't mention anything about being an official, and it's impossible for Gao Yang to help others. As for knighthood or anything, it's not appropriate. Zhu Youzhen thinks that it is impossible for Gao Yang to look at these worldly things. In the end, I thought about it for a long time before I came up with something completely honorable like a national teacher.

Gao Yang really doesn't care about all this, it's just a name, he doesn't want this.

Emperor Chongzhen's heart was actually very entangled. Gao Yang's powerful presence is a huge threat to anyone. Not to mention the emperor who is rich from all over the world. The terrifying ability to kill people without a shadow while talking and laughing is not acceptable to normal people. But he needed to rely on Gao Yang's help at the moment, and he didn't dare to offend Gao Yang. Although all emperors claimed to be the Son of Heaven, they were also one of the immortals. But it is clear that no one can confirm this.

After a few thoughts. Emperor Chongzhen still decided to seriously confront Gao Yang first. After all, he was here to help himself. If you have any bad intentions, you can't hide from it at all!

Gao Yang nodded calmly, and looked around the hall. The corners of his mouth were hooked, and he didn't say anything more.

"All the officials return to their original positions and do their own things. Li Wei fled westward, and the Ministry of War drafted a charter to out, how to exterminate Li Wei. Before, the widow issued an edict to the king of soldiers and horses in the world, and how many people came to the Communist Party? The Criminal Department sent someone to ......, "Emperor Chongzhen's words below, Gao Yang didn't listen to them. I took out my headphones and put them on, and stood quietly listening to soft music.

At this moment, the interior of the Ming Dynasty has completely festered, and no matter how the operation is performed, it is impossible to return to the sky. At this time in the Ming Dynasty, whether it was a civil official or a military general, almost all of them were greedy for money and afraid of death. There are very few people who can really use it. Even if it's a hero like Shi Kefa, who has left a name in history. In fact, the combat ability of leading troops is not very good, and he is mainly admirable in temperament.

Want to save the country. The only way to do that is to break everything and start all over again. Throw all the junk in the garbage and burn it and start anew.

In addition to the rebellion to break it all. Another way to do this is to retrofit. Start with the inside and renovate it little by little. And in order to do all this, the first premise is that there must be an army capable of fighting! In the chaotic times, this is a must-have! You can't have Gao Yang pretending to be a fairy every time you encounter a crisis, right?

A strong army is a must, but it cannot be handed over to these generals of the Ming Dynasty to command. Not to mention the various drawbacks, Gao Yang can't accept the combat method of retreating when encountering the enemy. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the armies in the Ming Dynasty had degenerated into the nature of local warlords. The imperial court had lost its prestige and control over the territory after repeated defeats.

The new army must be in its own hands. As for Zhu Youzhen, he is not the material for war. Gao Yang, who was suspicious of anything, was not worried at all, it was a big deal that everyone broke up and picked up a puppet again, and he didn't do this kind of thing.

Just when Gao Yang was in deep thought with his headphones, an argument began in the court again. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers did not do things very well, but they quarreled and yelled, and attacked each other. To put it simply, each of them is a good mouthful, and the mouth is very good.

The thing that brought Gao Yang's thoughts back at this moment was that there was no money.

Don't look at Li Zicheng's army and don't have much time to enter the city, but they are all professional bandits, and they have turned the entire Beijing division upside down. Many families are in dire need of help.

The people live on food. If the people can't eat, they will make trouble, and the court will have a headache. If you want to settle the victims, you have to give them food. At this time, where is there any surplus food in the imperial court? The only way is to go to the merchant and buy it. Buying food involves another problem, that is, it costs money.

The whole country is poor and scum, and the rats in the treasury have already fled with tears in their eyes. If you have money, you won't have to force the ministers to donate. At this time, the ministers all habitually kicked the problem back to Emperor Chongzhen. Anyway, His Majesty the Emperor is notoriously capable.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has both money and food. It's just that all this money and food is in the hands of civil officials and nobles.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Maritime Silk Road prevailed, and a large number of precious metals flowed into the territory. Every year, there is a surplus in foreign trade. However, the emperor and the imperial court could not get this money. They were all taken away by many ministers and merchants.

Those sea merchants, such as Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong, are the pirates who control the sea and land. Colluded with the ministers of the imperial court, controlled the sea routes, and earned a lot of profits, but never paid taxes.

The biggest worry of the Ming Dynasty was that scholars did not have to pay taxes. Not only do they not pay taxes, but they also help others to be exempt from taxes. This one is simply the life of the whole country.

During the Wanli and Apocalypse years, the emperor and the scholar group fought with each other for money. The state could not collect taxes, so the emperor sent eunuchs to take care of various key tax payers. For example, the mine supervisor in charge of minerals, the ship supervisor in charge of shipping, the salt supervisor in charge of salt roads, and the iron supervisor in charge of tea, etc., etc.

It cannot be denied that there are indeed unsuccessful moths among these eunuchs who take this good opportunity to fill their pockets and serve the evil country. But they did receive valuable taxes for the state, filling the treasury and the emperor's private money. Where did the three major expeditions in the Wanli period cost so much money? Didn't the eunuchs collect it?

The state and the emperor received the money, and the group of scholars naturally had less income. Originally, these turbans controlled all kinds of income such as salt, iron, tea, shipping, etc., and one or two brains were very fat. But after being robbed by the emperor and the country, it naturally became popular. Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents. The eunuchs in charge of the various places have all become scapegoats, and all kinds of denunciations, slanders, and splashing dirty water are endless. It's almost all depicted as the reincarnation of the 10th generation of wicked people who do all kinds of evil, and everywhere they go is the snow of June, and the grievances are continuous!

Under the powerful propaganda offensive, all the eunuchs were portrayed as extremely vicious ghosts who could stop children from crying at night. Word of mouth, coupled with the artistic processing of scholars, the eunuchs are completely stinky.

When the eunuchs collected taxes, the craftsmen who did the work also had to pay taxes. Where can they take care of any national affairs? It's your own little day that counts! The craftsmen soon mingled with the scholars, desperately trying to catch the eunuchs who collected the taxes.

In the end, they did succeed, but at the cost of nearly three hundred years of dark history of an entire nation! (To be continued)