The dawn of the Jingshi had just woken up, and a burst of crisp screams broke the silence.

"Outside the number, outside the number, Your Majesty drove the expedition outside the pass, fought in the Luanhe River, and annihilated 50,000 Qing troops. In World War II, the Chaohe River annihilated 150,000 Qing troops. ”

"Extra, extra, the Imperial Times special extraneous today, the latest news, Your Majesty drove the expedition in person, and broke the Qing army. The 200,000 invading Qing army was annihilated, the Qing Yu Prince Duoduo and the Ying Prince Azig brothers were given the head, the Qing Western Expedition Marshal and the Auxiliary Zheng Su Prince Haoge shaved his hair and surrendered, and the first warrior of Qingzhou, Batu Lu Aobai, personally killed Duoduo and Azig to surrender! ”

"Outside, outside, the Mongolian Karaqin left and right banners surrendered to the Han Empire, and after the emperor set up Yanbei Province in Saibei, he set up Monan Province."

All the newspapers in Beijing received a notice of the imperial court's press and publication arrangements last night, and they received several shocking pieces of news. At first, they couldn't believe it, but soon they rushed to the yamen to ask for verification, and it was quickly confirmed.

His Majesty the Emperor, who had not shown up for many days, had already taken a personal expedition outside the Guan, and yesterday the soldiers and horses of the military towns on the front line of the Great Wall were mobilized, and it was indeed a battle.

But the result of the war was still shocking, and the emperor drove the expedition in person and annihilated 200,000 Qing troops. God, I can't believe it. When I came to my senses, the newspapers went crazy, and this had to be shocking news.

Each company began to edit overnight, but it was too late to publish newspapers and periodicals, and each family went directly out of the number.

So early in the morning, the streets and alleys of Jingshi were full of newsboys running around, shouting shocking news over and over again.

Ni Yuanlu, the imperial historian of the left capital, and Li Banghua, the head of the household, walked together on the stone road of the imperial city and went to the prime minister's office to attend a meeting.

"I haven't seen His Majesty attend the meeting of the Prime Minister's Office for several days, not even the privy envoy Fu Shan and the secretary of the military department, Zhang Guowei, and even the governor of Zhili, Liu Yunsheng, has not attended. I thought it was a little strange, Yuan Shoufu also said that His Majesty was patrolling in Baoding, and Fu Zhangliu and several other adults accompanied the holy driver, and I really believed it. ”

Ni Yuanlu shook his head and sighed.

"Who would have thought that. The dignified son of heaven, the prime minister is hundreds of millions, but he secretly ran to the royal car to conquer in person, regardless of his daughter's body. It's hard to believe, it's hard to believe. Li Banghua also said.

"What's even more unbelievable is that the emperor drove the expedition in person and hid it from everyone. What's even more shocking is that in just a few days, he fought such a big victory, destroying more than 100,000 Qing troops in one battle. ”

Although the newspaper claimed to be the annihilation of 200,000 Qing troops.

However, Ni Yuanlu and Li Banghua are members of the Prime Minister's Office. I quickly heard about the specific process of this battle. The real number of enemies destroyed was 150,000, and more than 30,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 were captured in the two major battles.

And the casualties of the Han army were less than three thousand.

In fact, except for the first battle of ambushing Haoge, which was ambushed by the emperor himself with 50,000 Han troops, the remaining major battles were simply the Qing army's own civil wars.

"A big battle that mobilized hundreds of thousands of people, and in the end, my Han army only suffered 3,000 casualties, can you believe it?" Ni Yuanlu is still the imperial history of the left capital, one of the Great Nine Qings. However, the official position is still the same, but now there are a lot of constraints on the head. Being an official is not as easy as it used to be. Now there are many less partisans and factions in the court, there is a wise saint, and the officials below are like donkeys with their hedges, and they dare not mess around.

"Our Emperor. It's always unexpected. ”

"It's a bit of a risk, but I have to say that it's really exciting and exciting. Since the previous dynasty became an ancestor. There has not been such an exciting victory in more than 200 years. After this battle, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely weakened. He has risen like this, and in the future, the Han will no longer be afraid of being captured outside the border. ”

"Don't be afraid, have you forgotten that the emperor has already established Yanbei Province and Monan Province? Even Liaoxi Province has nearly doubled its boundaries to the north. Not to mention that Monan Province directly reaches Huangshui, let's just say that the two provinces of Yanbei and Liaoxi today, Qilaotu Mountain and Nuruer Tiger Mountain are boundaries, which makes Gyeonggi no longer rely on only one Yanshan Mountain defense, and the situation is Da'an. ”

"I heard that the emperor is going to marry the Mongols and marry the daughter of the lord of the two banners of Karaqin as a concubine."

Li Banghua smiled, "I don't think it's anything, anyway, as long as we don't marry our princess and kiss the grassland, marry the Mongolian princess, this is in or out, and it won't damage my Chinese prestige." ”

"Hehe, that's it, I heard that Mongolian women are all sassy Tartars, but it's hard for Your Majesty." Ni Yuanlu also said with a smile.

"For the sake of northern Xinjiang, it's nothing to marry two Mongolian women."

After the two laughed for a while, Ni Yuanlu asked, "Do you know when Your Majesty will return to Beijing?" ”

"Yuan Shoufu said that he would lead the army back to Beijing tomorrow, and Shoufu said that he wanted the entire Beijing division to take action and hold a grand triumphal ceremony to welcome His Majesty."

"This is as it should be, and no matter how grand the ceremony is, Your Majesty will deserve it." Ni Yuanlu said, he was originally worried that this emperor was full of martial arts and would take advantage of the victory to attack and fight until Liaodong. Fortunately, although the emperor is young, he is still sensible.

"Our emperor is really quite rare, and he can still have such a sober mind at this time."

"Irrational, can you ascend to the throne?"

Li Banghua didn't want to continue to talk about this kind of sensitive topic, they did oppose Liu Jun's usurpation of the throne at the beginning, but now looking back, it seems that Liu Jun is better for the whole world to be the emperor. It is precisely for them to comfort themselves with such reasons now, so that they can continue to stay in the DPRK and be officials with peace of mind.

"Your Majesty has set up a new military region in Yanbei and Monan provinces, with Zhang Guodong as the commander-in-chief, but I don't know who is the governor and governor?"

According to the current Han official system, there is generally a governor in two or three provinces, and the governor concurrently serves as the governor of one province, and the governor of another province is also the governor, and each military region has a governor and chief military officer.

In general, the civilian officials were still the highest magistrates, and now the governors, governors, and commanders and commanders were all permanent officials, no longer in the form of dispatches.

If the governor of the Ming Dynasty adds the title of Shangshu, it is from the second rank, if it is added to the title of Shilang, it is the third rank, which is quite a high position, and the six Shangshu in the court are also only the second grade.

Even if the grade of the Cabinet Scholar has been improved now, it is no longer the fifth grade in the past, but it is only mentioned that it is from the first grade.

A local governor, only one level below the six Shangshu.

Even if it's the new tenth governor of the empire, even if it's a place outside the Cypriots. According to the new system of the Han Empire, if you want to enter the cabinet and assist the government, you must have several hard qualifications, one of which is to have the qualifications to serve as the prefect, governor and governor in the local government, and at the same time, you must have the qualifications of serving as the secretary of the six ministries in the court to be eligible to be elected to the cabinet.

This seems to be somewhat similar to the past when non-Hanlin did not enter the cabinet, but it is obviously more difficult to enter the cabinet in this dynasty. The promotion of cabinet scholars to the rank of first-class also indicates that the authority of today's cabinet members is higher.

But there are only more than 20 provinces in the world, and there are only nine governors. Now that a governor has been added, it is still in short supply. As long as you can be a governor, even if it is a governor, it is an extremely important qualification.

Even if you can't be the governor, isn't there a vacancy for the position of the governor of Monan?

"I don't know, it is estimated that His Majesty has believed in him, and it is not peaceful now, so he must be an official who knows the soldiers."

"I guess it may be Fu Zonglong who will be the governor, he has enough qualifications. and know the soldiers. ”

Ni Yuanlu added, "And Master Fu once partnered with the emperor in Liaodong, and the two worked well together." ”

"I guess that's it."

"Do you know what Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou will do with them?"

"I have heard that Your Majesty has kept his promise and allowed them to be disarmed and returned home. Forgive somebody's past misdeeds. ”

"It's cheaper for these two traitors, and they are repeatedly untrustworthy. If you change someone, you will never let them go so easily. ”

"Our emperor is still very merciful sometimes, but this time they can be regarded as making some contributions. The emperor not only let them go. All the officers and men of the Liao army, His Majesty said that he was not to blame for the past. Not only that, but His Majesty has decided to disband all the Liao troops. Not only did they pay them severance pay, but also made up for their previous arrears, and let them be placed in various places, which could not be more proper, the real benevolent king. ”

"It doesn't matter if they are dismissed, these Liao soldiers have the most money and fight wars, but they are the most capricious, and it is a disaster to keep them."

The two put the topic aside and talked about something else.

"Have you finished your debriefing report, but it's almost time to turn it in."

"It's written, but I don't know if it's full of dissatisfaction."

Ni Yuanlu sighed, this debriefing report is really embarrassing to him, self-evaluation, comments on superiors and subordinates, as well as property declarations, etc., he has been an official for so many years, and he has never experienced these things.

"Have you sorted out the matter of the department's clean-up deficit?"

"After cleaning up, I have a deficit of more than 100,000 silver dollars in the past five years, anyway, all kinds of accounts are not in the account, and my subordinates and I also admit it, each claim part of it, and pay out of my own pocket to make up for it." Ni Yuan Road.

"How much did you pay?"

"Fifty thousand." Ni Yuanlu replied, those deficits are not because he is corrupt, anyway, it was like this in the past before the Ming Dynasty, the yamen is like a big funnel with water leaking, as soon as the money comes in, most of it will always be missed in the end, and he can't even find out where the leakage is. Now that he is being investigated, he can only pay out of his own pocket.

Li Banghua used to be in some idle yamen, and he was not affected by the matter of cleaning up the deficit, and finally took out more than 3,000 silver dollars to fill it.

"Hey, this official has to be posted upside down, it can be regarded as a great spectacle of this dynasty, the former Yuan ancients, it is estimated that there will be no one to come." Li Banghua said with a smile.

"yes." Ni Yuanlu also felt a little funny. However, it is not only the yamen that has cleaned up the deficit, and now the imperial court has to investigate the tax arrears of the past five years.

This included the taxation of land owned by officials, and according to the new regulations of the imperial court, officials were held accountable for five years of unpaid taxes on their own properties.

This means that the emperor really wants to implement the system of the official gentry paying food and working errands, and all the officials and gentry will no longer enjoy preferential and exempt privileges. Not only will they not be able to enjoy this privilege in the future, but they will also have to be recovered even if they were five years ago.

According to the emperor's words, in the past, the noble officials and gentry ignored the imperial decrees and did not pay taxes in violation of the law, and this behavior needed to be corrected.

"You have a lot of land, right? This time, after five years of making up together, I got some blood. Li Banghua said.

"There are more than 20,000 acres of land at home, and according to the current imperial court regulations, the tax of one bucket of grain per mu per year will be 10,000 stone of grain in five years."

Ni Yuanlu smiled bitterly, "It is exactly 10,000 stone grains, and according to two silver dollars for one stone of grain, you need to pay 20,000 silver dollars." ”

The normal land tax is not so high, about 30 taxes. However, the tax is not only the land tax, but also the errand service, the local Ding Yin dispatch and so on. In short, the sum up, as well as all kinds of fire consumption, etc., will eventually be levied at the ratio of ten taxes per mu. In the end, it was set at one bucket per mu, which was far from reaching the national average yield of one stone and five per mu of fields.

Ni Yuanlu's family is also a big landowner, with more than 20,000 acres of land at home, and he has to pay 20,000 silver dollars in taxes for five years.

This supplementary payment is not small, but if you look at it rationally, it is not excessive. Just like the official government to clean up the deficit, although on the surface the official has to pay for it out of his own pocket, he is actually an official. Even if you are incorruptible, generally all kinds of income will not be less together, and most of them can still make up for it.

And let the officials and gentry pay five years of land tax, even if it is made up by one-tenth of the share, compared with the preferential exemption and less tax paid in the next previous year, it will not hurt the muscles and bones to pay for five years.

After all, the people who have to make up the payment are the nobles and gentry of the previous dynasty, and the ordinary people do not need to make up the payment, so they will not be affected. In the previous dynasty, they could enjoy preferential treatment. Which one is not a wealthy family that is not rich or unofficial?

Ni Yuanlu's shortfall in the yamen and the arrears in his family's fields added up to 70,000 silver dollars. A lot of money, but compared to his many years as an official, all kinds of income in office. There is also the income from the family's fields, and the bleeding is bleeding, but it can't hurt the tendons or move the bones.

Normally, he would not be willing to come up with such a large sum of money.

Everyone wants to put money in their pockets. Who wants to dig it out? But the laws of the new dynasty stipulate that there is no way to disobey. If you don't take the initiative to make up the deficit and make up the arrears, then there will be officials from the court to recover it. At that time, he will have to go to prison and make up for his debts.

Li Banghua's hometown is from Jiangxi, which is one of the top three provinces in the Ming Dynasty in terms of population, with few land and many people, so there are many businessmen, immigrants and Jinshiju people in Jiangxi. Li Banghua's family does not have much land, and there is not much to pay back.

"Fortunately, Your Majesty has doubled the salaries of all officials, otherwise, this official will not know how to be in the future."

"Double, it's not much."

The second product of the left capital of the imperial history, the moon is only sixty-one Shi Lu rice. And a seven-grade county, the moon is only seven stones and five buckets.

"If you talk about the treatment of officials in previous dynasties, only the Song Dynasty is the best." Li Banghua sighed.

The Great Song Dynasty is a first-class official who receives 150 stone of rice per month, and there are 120,000 wen in money, plus 20 horses, 1 Luo horse, and 50 taels of cotton every year. From the nine grades of official Yuelu rice five stones, eight thousand dollars, plus twelve taels of cotton per year.

In contrast, Da Ming Zheng has a mouthful of 87 stone of Yuelu rice, and the ninth rank official Yuelu is also 5 stones, but there is no money.

Moreover, the officials of the Song Dynasty also received salary in addition to the salary and Lu, and in the Song Dynasty, the money was only similar to the basic salary, and the Lu was rice. The salary is equivalent to the salary of the post, and he also enjoys free housing, free accommodation, and free attendants, and the imperial court also provides free servants to each official. The lowest officer was given one servant, and the prime minister was given a hundred.

In addition, officials can also enjoy a variety of welfare subsidies, such as tea and wine money, kitchen materials, charcoal money, horse food money, and so on.

There are tea, wine, kitchen materials, artemisia, charcoal, salt, etc., horses and millet feeding, and rice, flour and sheep's mouth. Those who are officials outside the country have no public money, and they are below the rank of envoy and envoy, 20,000 to 7,000, and all are fourth; The knots are from 10,000 to 3,000, and all are fourth. Observe below the defense regiment, think it is worse. In addition to the public money, there is also the system of vocational fields, two capitals and forty acres of large feudal mansions; Thirty-five hectares of sub-feudal towns; Below the defense regiment, each is worse according to the grade. Those who elect people and envoys have no job to land will have no tea and soup money.

In contrast, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were surprisingly low, and the benefits were very small. Officials can only rely on corruption to collect bribes. On the surface, the state spends less, but in reality, it loses more.

The corruption of the Ming Dynasty was also extremely serious in all dynasties.

"I feel that the imperial court is in a bit of a hurry in this regard, such as cleaning up the deficit, chasing the arrears, etc., now it is a new dynasty, even if the new system is decided, it should start from the new dynasty, but it must be recovered from the first five years, so I am afraid that it will cause many people to resent."

"When the new dynasty was first established, it was also a waste to be rebuilt, and Your Majesty is an idea, and you have to use money everywhere."

"Your Majesty, aren't you afraid that the gentry, landlords, and scholars of the world will rise up against it?"

Ni Yuanlu shook his head, "What Your Majesty wants to do, there are a few people who can stop it." Besides, do you think Your Majesty will care about the opposition of those people? Don't forget, when today's son is not the son of heaven in the previous dynasty, when Longqing wanted to open customs, how many people objected, Chongzhen wanted to increase taxes, how many people blocked it? But now it's the son of Longhan, even the Manchu Qing Dynasty let him beat him for a long time, do you think he will be afraid of these official gentry and landlords and scholars? ”

"It always feels like something is going to happen." Li Banghua said, he himself is one of these people, if he didn't stand in the court, see more clearly, and know the emperor better, I'm afraid he would have to stand up and oppose it.

"If those people cooperate, it's okay, if some people really want to do something, I'm afraid that when they hit their heads, they will break their heads." Ni Yuanlu shook his head and said.

"It's always been like this, a change of dynasty is always a son of heaven and a courtier. The world has changed its master, and this is naturally a group of new people replacing old people. If you can follow the trend of the times, you may be able to maintain your wealth and property, but if you can't see the situation clearly, you can only be blown away by the rain and wind in the end. ”

Ni Yuanlu whispered to Li Banghua, "I recently heard a rumor that the Mu family in Yunnan is about to support the clan and raise troops to restore. ”

"Yunnan Mu family?" Li Banghua was not half excited when he heard the news, "The Ming Dynasty has become a thing of the past, and now that the new dynasty is established, the Han Dynasty is also thriving, thriving everywhere, and it is very popular." If the Yunnan Mu family goes against the trend, I'm afraid that there will be no good end. ”

Ni Yuanlu sighed and said no more. (To be continued.) )

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