Three days later, Huang Taiji woke up again, and one blow after another made Huang Taiji's fat body dry and flattened, and he no longer had the richness he used to have.

At the same time, the complexion on that face was extremely ugly, just like a terminally ill old man, Yue Tuo knelt in front of Huang Taiji with a crying voice, "Your Majesty, what should we do?" What are we going to do? ”

"I'm dying," Huang Taiji said weakly...... and then coughed violently like a leaky bellows, until his mouth was full of blood.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have to hold on! You're going to hold on! If you leave, what will we do in the Manchu Dynasty! Yue Tuo said in despair.

"There is no Qing Dynasty, there will be no more." Huang Taiji said abruptly, "I'm leaving too, Yue Tuo, you come here." ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers are here." Yue Tuo knelt and moved forward, Huang Taiji said to Yue Tuo deeply: "Yue Tuo, my Qing Dynasty has reached a desperate situation at this moment, but the Qing Dynasty is gone, but we Manchu people can still go to Mongolia, even if Mongolia can't stay, we can still go to Mobei, Mobei can't stay, we can still go further west, cough cough...... Ahem......"

Huang Taiji coughed violently, and then suddenly said in a very excited voice: "You have to remember, you can't surrender to the Ming people no matter what, if we surrender to them, we won't end well." After I leave, you take people to sneak into the mountains, and then come out when the Ming army is not so strict, and then take my body to Changbai Mountain, and bury it at the foot of Changbai Mountain, and then take Duoduo and his people away! Go far, wait for us to ...... With strength, ...... again Call back again, got it? ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Yue Tuo's whole person was already frightened, and he kept shaking Huang Taiji's body.

"You remember...... Remembered...... Is it? Huang Taiji asked with all his strength weak.

"Your Majesty, Yue Tuo remembers, Yue Tuo remembers, Your Majesty, you can't go!" Yue Tuo shouted, but Huang Taiji fell straight down like a falling wind...... "Your Majesty...... Ahhh............h Huang Taiji died, so he was angry to death, and the news of Huang Taiji's death spread quickly among the Qing army as if he had grown wings.

Yue Tuo couldn't hide this news at all, because he couldn't command Huang Taiji's positive yellow flag and inlaid yellow flag, and those solid mountains really didn't see Huang Taiji, and they would inevitably be anxious with him.

But those solid mountains really knew about it, how could they hide it? There will always be people who leak their mouths, at this moment, even if the news is said to be a rumor, it will have to be clarified by Huang Taiji's appearance, but Huang Taiji is dead, and he really has braids.

As soon as Huang Taiji died, Yue Tuo quickly disposed of Huang Taiji's body in Pyongyang in accordance with Huang Taiji's instructions that day, and then falsely passed on the last order to let the Zhenghuang Banner and the Yellow Flag be burned everywhere.

And he took the five hundred people carefully selected from the red flag and began to plan the concealment. Yue Tuo first ordered Pyongyang to rob all the grain, and then recruited tens of thousands of Korean people, and then fled to the mountainous areas of eastern Korea with the grain.

Yue Tuo hid grain all the way in the mountains, and within a month, he hid thirty or forty places in the mountainous areas of eastern Korea.

After hiding the grain, Yue Tuo directly killed the Korean people one by one, and then took 500 people to hide in the mountains.

…… During this month, the Koreans in south-central Korea were struck by the destruction of surnames, and the Qing army went berserk with murder, robbery, and arson everywhere as if they were going berserk. Every Qing soldier is crazy indulgent evil **.

Wherever the Qing army passed, they were razed to the ground.

Upon learning of the news, the Liaodong Operational Staff Headquarters urgently revised the battle plan and ordered the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Liaodong Army Cavalry and the 2nd Battalion of the Shandong Army to break away from the infantry and concentrate superior forces to annihilate the Korean Qing Army.

At the same time, the Liaodong Operational Staff Headquarters also mobilized 8,000 cavalry from the new battalion and the first cavalry battalion of the Shandong Army stationed on the defense line of the Sancha River and Taizi River into Korea.

The leaderless Qing army became very scattered, and the General Staff threw 24,000 cavalry into the Korean battlefield, forming an absolute superiority of forces.

North Korea's 3,000-mile rivers and mountains tremble under the rolling iron hooves. Groups of Ming cavalry wearing black plate armor roared through the official roads of North Korea, and carried out strict slaughter on the Qing soldiers.

The fierce battles of the cavalry unfolded every day, but the Qing army was about to collapse every time, and it was simply unable to resist the collective charge of the Ming army, and was killed to the point of abandoning its armor and fleeing in embarrassment.

After figuring out the details of the Qing army, the main combat tasks were generally handed over to the 8,000 recruits to complete. The 8,000 recruits who went to the battlefield were well tempered and grew up rapidly in such battles. It won't be long before they become the backbone.

In the face of the fierce offensive of the Ming army, the pride of the Qing army was thrown into the dung pit, one by one became depressed, in the living space continued to compress to the south, and the victory over the Ming army was hopeless, many Qing soldiers embarked on the tragic road of surrender.

The Qing soldiers who surrendered to Cheng fulfilled the promises of the Ming army, and the letters of appointment were issued, and the silver was also issued, and then they followed the cavalry battalions to fight.

At the same time, the Liaodong Operational Staff Department has continuously reduced the reward for surrender over time. This move made the recalcitrant Qing army realize the urgency of time, and they disarmed and surrendered.

The whole battle lasted for nearly a month and a half, and the Qing army in Korea was wiped out for the vast majority, and only a small group of Qing troops were sporadically active, but they no longer threatened the transportation lines.

…… In mid-April, the situation in Liaodong was relatively stable, and Duoduo had been preparing for war since the withdrawal of Zilharang and Yuetuo, and at the same time sent envoys to Beijing to ask for peace talks.

Chongzhen gave Zhao Yan a holy decree and agreed to the commercial tax reform, and Zhao Yan also handed over the hydraulic mule machine and the hydraulic loom as promised, but the knitting machine was not handed over, and the hydraulic mule machine and the hydraulic loom are both the primary kind, and the efficiency is nearly half lower than that used by various textile mills in Shandong at present.

If there is a price war, Zhao Yan can completely afford it.

At the same time, Zhao Yan also sent 300 instructors who were proficient in military training, as well as 300 craftsmen from the Ordnance Bureau.

Chongzhen wants to deal with him, Zhao Yan is really not afraid of him at all, with Daming's [***] extreme army logistics system, the imperial court can't train such soldiers and horses in his hands at all.

Besides, what can you do if you practice it? and heaped them to death with all the silver.

However, the combination of firearms and new training methods and the cooperation between the arms can indeed improve the military strength of the Ming Dynasty a lot.

The improvement of military strength can make the country more stable, and it is also conducive to Zhao Yan's commercial activities.

Not long after, something made Zhao Yan very stunned.

That is, Chongzhen removed the Hubu Shangshu Wang Guoguang, and then summoned Chen Zhongsheng, the prefect of Dengzhou, into the court.

Chen Zhongsheng has a deep friendship with Zhao Yan, and often comes to Zhao Yan to ask for advice on how to govern the country and secure the people.

Chen Zhongsheng and Zhao Yan often debated on how to reform the maladministration and convenience, and Chen Zhongsheng often came up with some reform strategies that were different from Zhao Yan's ideas, but it was usually Zhao Yan who had the upper hand.

After nearly two years of continuous interaction, Chen Zhongsheng has been able to meet all the conditions required by a reformer.

Chongzhen and Chen Zhongsheng called each other and asked about the bad government.

Chen Zhongsheng identified five major fiscal malpractices.

First, there are serious land annexations and too many tax-exempt classes; second, there are many tax evaders and tax evaders, and the number of acres of land is seriously concealed; and third, water conservancy is in disrepair for a long time, and the people are unable to stabilize production. Fourth, the bureaucrats [***], the corpses of the officials are vegetarian, the tax collection is not rigorous, not active, and the taxes collected are mostly embezzled. Fifth, the people have serious food losses, and the profits are taken by businessmen. Sixth, the levy of commercial taxes is too low, which exacerbates the gap between the rich and the poor. Seventh, there is a serious deduction of military needs, and the officers and soldiers in various places have never received full military salaries.

Chongzhen asked the solution again.

Chen Zhongsheng and Zhao Yan have debated these issues, and they have a way to deal with them, and they all talked to Chongzhen one by one.

First, the number of acres of land exempted by officials and people of merit at all levels is limited, and the commercial tax is not exempted, and then the number of acres is lowered year by year.

The second maladministration is to carefully select honest officials, re-measure the acres of land in various places, strictly investigate those who evade taxes if the amount of acres exceeds 300, and strictly prohibit all white deeds.

Thirdly, the imperial court first focused on repairing water conservancy in the main grain-producing areas to ensure grain production, and restored the control of the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Yellow River, Officials, relatives of the emperor, squires, and businessmen are encouraged to contribute money to repair water conservancy, and those who have produced a certain amount of money and grain can be given some honorary commendations and some false positions.

Fourth, the administration of maladministration is to first investigate and deal with officials who are in arrears of taxes, and renegotiate the tax quotas in various localities, and to declare the types and amounts of taxes, to abolish all miscellaneous taxes, and to allow the people to go to Beijing to file a complaint if they have more than they collect, and to set up a special acceptance yamen to promote officials who pay more taxes without arbitrarily collecting taxes and extorting them, so that they can be compared with those of the previous officials.

The fifth maladministration is to change the people's payment of silver to pay grain, and change the distribution of silver to grain, and the grain collected is stored in the local treasury, and the imperial court directly sends people to manage the treasury, deducting the local officials, the emperor's relatives and relatives, and the rest of the grain is kept in the treasury, and some is sold to local grain merchants by the household department.

The part left in the government treasury depends on the local war situation, and if the officers and troops gather, the full amount can be left in the local government treasury in case of war.

In areas such as Jingshi, which had a huge expenditure on money, it was distributed in silver, eliminating the need for the government to transport grain, and at the same time vigorously developing agricultural production in the surrounding areas.

Sixth, commercial taxation will be adjusted at any time according to the status of various industries.

Seventh, another channel for the payment of military salaries was established, so that military generals could enter Beijing and the emperor himself would pay military salaries.

After listening to Chen Zhongsheng's reform method, Chongzhen was overjoyed to see Chen Zhongsheng's way of governing the country. However, he did not fully agree with Chen's reform method.

For example, the first article is to abolish the tax-free privileges of the civil official group, and Chongzhen naturally fully supports it, and he himself does not trust the civilian official group. But for the tax exemption of the emperor's relatives, Chongzhen did not approve.

Chongzhen is a person who is very loyal to the clan, there are many clans in the Ming Dynasty, the royal family is the largest clan, he has been lonely since he was a child, and those royal relatives are the only places where he can feel some family affection.

Chongzhen's dream is to revitalize the Ming Dynasty and revitalize the prestige of the royal family.

Although some did not agree with the reform plan, Chongzhen still appointed Chen Zhongsheng as the secretary of the household department.

The head of the household department is the minister in charge of the country's land, taxes, household registration, military quarters, salaries, food and salary, and financial revenue and expenditure.

Chen Zhongsheng can be said to go straight to the clouds.

(To be continued)