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Zhongdu fell, although the dragon vein was not damaged, it was still like a slap in the face to Zhu Youjian, hot!

On the 21st day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youzhen issued an order to "send an edict to China and foreign countries to brush up the national shame and kill thieves with all their hearts." On the one hand, the Shaanxi troops under the command of Hong Chengchou were transferred out of the customs and suppressed with the officials and troops of the Central Plains provinces.

At the same time, Zhao Yan was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Denglai, built a town in Huang County, and transferred Zhao Yan to Henan to assist in suppressing thieves. Yang Yipeng, the governor of Fengyang, approached Zhao Yan, brought his general military seal and previous documents, and asked him about the number of soldiers and horses in his hand.

This time, the appointment documents came surprisingly fast, because Zhu Youzhen was eager to suppress thieves, and the officials below had to increase their administrative efficiency N times.

Zhao Yan reported the soldiers and horses truthfully, and the total number of soldiers who entered Henan this time was 6,000. Lu Xiangsheng reported 8,000 soldiers, and Hong Chengchou reported 30,000 soldiers......

After some intensive fund-raising, Zhu Youzhen gathered 80,000 officers and soldiers from the border and belly, and at the end of February, he distributed more than 1 million taels of gold from Beijing, the province, and the province as military salaries, and set a time limit to wipe out all the thieves within six months.

Zhao Yan was promoted from Denglai guerrilla to Denglai commander-in-chief, which can be said to be a three-level promotion, directly skipping the general and deputy commander-in-chief, and also rewarded 10,000 taels of silver.

This is indeed a rich reward for the financially poor Ming Court, but in terms of the number of thieves, this bit of silver is still less.

This time, Zhao Yan beheaded 6,000 thieves, and Fengyang Patrol reported directly after checking the imperial history.

The first merit system of the Ming Dynasty is to cut a level can be promoted, if you are not willing to be promoted, reward silver. Zhengde rewarded 50 taels of silver, and Jiajing beheaded a widow who did not want to rise to 150 taels of silver.

If he had a choice, Zhao Yan would rather ask for all the silver. In the Chongzhen period, the amount of silver given to those who did not want to be promoted was reduced to 30 taels, and there were 180,000 taels of 6,000 heads!

Knowing that the imperial court couldn't take out so much silver, Zhao Yan didn't look for trouble without knowing each other, and the soldiers who went out this time, including the soldiers of the baggage battalion, were all promoted to one level, and they all hung up a general position.

In fact, the reward of the first merit system, in addition to promotion, if you want to get silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply a fool's dream, and the money does not leave the government! It is estimated that there is not much left after the layers of exploitation.

Because Zhu Youzhen was transferring troops, Zhao Yan had to postpone his return to Germany and began to arrange the Tuntian affairs in Yingzhou.

As a superior person, not everything has to be done by Zhao Yan himself, all he has to do is to create gears one by one and let these gears run according to the mode he set.

He arranged the work of Tuntian in Yingzhou this time, but it was just to make this round more detailed.

Jiang Rong is old after all, and his eldest son Jiang Cheng is also very familiar with the construction of the city wall, and he also specially studied the essentials of the fortress thoroughly, and it is most suitable to transfer him to Yingzhou to preside over the construction of the fort.

At the same time, it is estimated that it will take a month or two for the commercial bank to buy buffaloes from the vicinity of Nanjing, which is not too late for sweet potato planting.

At the same time, the staff members of the tun chiefs and regimental training personnel transferred from Shandong began to train their own administrative personnel long ago in order to complete the tuntian plan last year.

Although the tun commander and the regimental trainer each transferred hundreds of people, they were basically enough.

Most of the staff members responsible for training are selected from the army, and disabled veterans are given priority.

The staff members such as the head of the tun and the head of the collection belong to the ranks of 'civil officials', who are in charge of civil affairs, money and food, and have corrupt power in their hands.

The rapid expansion of this group in the last year, coupled with the continuous expansion of the territory, will inevitably cause some problems.

In order to put an end to corruption, Zhao Yan established a supervision system in Yingzhou, set up a supervision department in Yingzhou, and appointed Zhao Quan as the minister of supervision. It also stipulates that anyone who embezzles will be beheaded directly.

As an old servant of the Zhao family, Zhao Quan's loyalty is beyond doubt. And Zhao Quan has no children under his knees, his heart is tied to Zhao Yan, and it is almost impossible to do anything that harms Zhao Yan's interests.

However, officials also talk about righteousness, and it is easy to be co-opted and assimilated, even if Zhao Quan can be loyal to his ministers, it is difficult to protect the following executives, so it is not enough to rely on the Ministry of Supervision, which of those countries where corruption is rampant in later generations does not have a supervision department?

The best way to fight corruption is to rely on the people. Reporting, petitioning, etc. To this end, Zhao Yan set up a series of systems.

A large part of his anti-corruption methods are still borrowed from Zhu Yuanzhang's methods.

Zhu Yuanzhang's pollution control effect is still good, although the methods are cruel, but at least the officials in the early and middle Ming Dynasty are relatively clean.

However, Zhao Yan didn't do those tortures, just beheaded them all. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang created an example of suing the emperor, and the local people could even tie up corrupt officials and send them to the capital.

Zhu Yuanzhang also used the power of the people to fight corruption, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not determine this system, and the incident of the people kidnapping officials did not happen after Zhu Yuanzhang's death.

In order to mobilize the masses of the people and put an end to the corruption of those civil servants, Zhao Yan asked Zhang Buyun to set up a propaganda department after returning to Shandong, which specially explained to the people in the tundi the scale of taxation and various supervision awareness.

At present, Zhao Yan's stall is still quite small, if there is corruption [***] now, what if the stall is big in the future?

Either cheap enough to buy, or forcibly occupied, Zhao Yan encircled more than 1.5 million mu of land in Yingzhou, during which some landlords also resisted, but Zhao Yan was quickly suppressed by force.

In this Fengyang Mansion, Zhao Yan is absolutely unscrupulous. The governor of Fengyang, the prefect, the governor of the imperial history, and the eunuchs guarding the tomb are all his people, and no matter how big the demon moth is, it can be covered.

Because they put the blame on Zhu Guoxiang, they are currently safe and sound, but I don't know if Zhu Youzhen will be held accountable in the future, but it seems that they are fine.

As soon as the staff transferred from Shandong arrived, the work of registering household registration, allocating acres of land, building houses, building forts, distributing farming tools, ploughing cattle, and rations was carried out one by one, and the matter of tuntian was immediately carried out in an orderly manner.

These staff have undergone special training in Shandong and have also participated in the resettlement of displaced people, and a set of procedures has been formed.

On the sixth day of the second lunar month, Zhao Yan took the soldiers and horses to embark on the journey again, heading towards Guide Mansion.

However, as soon as he arrived in Mizhou, he heard the report of the horse visit, and Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng's troops quietly went west, with great intention of returning to Shaanxi.

Directly let Zhao Yan, who entered the Guide Mansion, pounce, and only met those old and weak who were abandoned by thieves along the way.

The bandit army is undoubtedly very cruel, and the leaders of the bandits will not abandon you explicitly, but for the old and weak who are slow to march, the way to abandon them is to hurry.

Thieves who can't keep up with the speed will only be abandoned, and no one cares about them anymore, which is a process of survival of the fittest.

The thieves are very well informed about Shaanxi, after all, Shaanxi is the place they are most familiar with, and the rebellion in the past seven or eight years has made these thieves have relatively rich experience.

Whether it is the familiarity of the terrain or the arrangement of reconnaissance. The most striking feature of the progress is that the thieves have learned how to tear down the walls of the cities they have conquered.

There were countless high cities in the Ming Dynasty, which was also the main factor restricting their plunder, and many times they could only look at the wall and sigh. As long as the walls are torn down, the next time you can easily capture and plunder.

As soon as the officers and troops under Hong Chengchou came out of Shaanxi, they were immediately detected by Gao Yingxiang and other troops. The thieves, who are good at wandering and fighting, took advantage of the emptiness of Shaanxi, and secretly touched back to Shaanxi.

The main force of the thieves had already left the Guide Mansion, and Zhao Yan entered the Guide Mansion and pounced, and in a depressed position, he directly drove a group of young thieves towards Handan.

This group of young thieves fled from Fengyang to Guide Mansion, and when they saw Zhao Yan's troops, they were so frightened that they were surrounded by the cavalry battalion and directly crossed the Yellow River and fled north for their lives.

Zhao Yan led the soldiers and horses to chase after him unhurriedly, always keeping the thieves in the right direction.

If you want to enter Handan, you must at least have an excuse, a reason, and it is undoubtedly the best reason to enter and suppress the thieves, if you rashly enter Handan, I am afraid it will cause a violent reaction.

The thieves ran away for three days, and finally realized that something was wrong. That Zhao Killing Star cut off the heads of the thirteen leaders in Fengyang, and thousands of thieves backbone.

They knew Zhao Killxing's strength best, how could they be so unhurried and drive them north like ducks.

It's greasy!

The leader of the thieves was so anxious that he wanted to sneak away with the backbone, but Lin Yi's cavalry battalion wrapped them up, leaving only a passage to the north, and they had no chance to run if they wanted to!

On the fourth day, the leader of the thieves directly sent someone to Zhao Yan's barracks to spread the word, and as soon as they met, he said to Zhao Yan: "Official, my eldest brother asked me to pass the word, if you want to kill or kill, just give me a good time!" ”

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The third update!

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