In the past ten years of the Ming Kingdom, the former ministers of the former Chu and Shu countries in the officialdom have almost retired, some of them have reached the retirement standard because of their age, some are due to the Qing official movement, and some are due to poor political performance.

Most of the Ming officials were students from the two universities of Jinling and Tanzhou.

Baili Wuji has always believed that when this official first enters the career, he can generally maintain integrity and diligence, but as long as he rises step by step, he will slowly become corrupt.

There are many reasons for this, some are corrupt because they want to be promoted, some are dragged into the water because they have been in one position for a long time, and some are corrupt because of the formation of a party by region or blood relatives, and so on.

This is also a stubborn disease that has not been cured by all dynasties.

There is no way to solve this problem, but Baili Wuji has limited the term of officials for middle-level and lower-level officials, and each local official is rotated every four years, and he will be forced to retire at the age of fifty.

At the same time, Baili Wuji stipulates that if a local official is corrupt, one of the punishments for him is that the amount of his embezzlement will be confiscated from his family property, and if it is not enough, it will be confiscated from the three generations of his close relatives, and if the three generations of close relatives take the initiative to report it, they can be pardoned.

Although this regulation is not close to people, it is very effective, so that as long as an official is greedy for ink, it is most likely that the person who reported it is his close relatives.

Human nature is like this, sometimes, money can always win over family affection.

In fact, Baili Wuji himself is also greedy.

It's not. He also occupied the treasures that were confiscated when he destroyed the original Chu, Shu, Southern Tang, Southern Han and other countries.

For this reason, Baili Wuji endured the accusations of the subjects of the Ming State.

Finally one day. Baili Wuji couldn't stand it anymore and donated all the treasures displayed in the museum to the Ming State Treasury.

So, in the unanimous praise of the subjects of the Ming Kingdom, Baili Wuji finally unloaded this burden.

Since then, it can be said responsibly that except for the palace moon provided by the treasury, the emperor Baili Wuji no longer has any economic interests related to the treasury.

This actually makes Baili Wuji feel relaxed. He felt that he didn't owe anything to the people of Ming from now on.

But what the people of the Ming Kingdom don't know is how far the money has reached in the small inner treasury of a hundred miles.

One of the largest sources of revenue. It is still a drunken immortal building all over the states and counties of the Ming Kingdom.

The profit of drunken immortal wine is already high, and now after Baili Wuji ascends the throne, the price of drunken immortal wine is naturally rising.

And the emperor's signboard is even more sought-after.

It's hard not to make money.

It's good to be on it. The next will be terrible.

The subjects of the Ming State regarded greed for ink as a traitor. But he followed the example and started business, and for more than ten years, the Ming Kingdom no longer had the previous concept of treating merchants as slaves.

It is also the root cause of the Ming officials from business to politics in the future.

This is what Baili Wuji did not expect at this time.

On the second day of the second month of February, everything is good.

After preparation, after Chai Rong's order, the Zhou State began to send troops to defeat the Dingyan army.

Chai Rong ordered Zhangwu Jie Du to make Guo Jin go north to attack Youzhou. Bao Dajie made Wang Rao, and Shuo Fang Jiedu made Feng Jiye as a supplement.

Xuanhui envoy Xiang Xun, Ma Jun Du Commander Fan Aineng, Infantry Army Commander He Hui, Huazhou Jiedu Envoy Bai Chongzan, Zhengzhou Defense Envoy Shi Yanchao, former Yaozhou Regiment Training Envoy Fu Yanneng, etc., led the troops to Xizhou. After the assembly is completed, the north will attack Suizhou as the first echelon.

Wang Yanchao led the troops to Xizhou, and Han Tong, the envoy of the Shaanfu Jiedu, was the second echelon.

Mobilizing such a powerful army, Chai Rong is determined to win the five states.

At the same time, Chai Rong ordered the Tianxiong Army Jiedu to make Fu Yanqing lead the troops from Cizhou Guzhen to Jinzhou to station, and ordered the Shanzhou Jiedu to make Guo Chong lead the troops to Zezhou to station, so as to deal with the Ming State from Taiyuan Mansion to the south.

After careful deliberation by Wang Pu and other ministers of civil and military affairs, Chai Rong felt that everything was ready.

On 15 March, Chai Rong officially ordered a crusade against the five prefectures of Dingnan.

In the Central Plains, even around Kaifeng, there are perennial wars, and bandits and bandits are everywhere, including hunger, fleeing, desertion, murder and other reasons.

Although Chai Rong was a generation of masters, he made a small mistake before the war, he always believed that the bandits who fell into the grass were strong in combat and brave in battle, so he issued an edict that all thieves who were willing to serve the court and serve in the army could be exempted from the crimes they had committed before.

As a result, bandits and bandits surrendered one after another, and for a while, the bandits who were wanted by the government in the morning became a forbidden army in the afternoon, and those who killed people and overcame goods were even more arrogant.

The people were afraid of their revenge, and they were miserable.

Although these bandits are not afraid of death, they have never received formal military training, if it is one-on-one, even if it is one-on-two, it may have a good chance of victory, but if it is a large army, how can these bandits know what formation, cooperation, but it is just a mess of scattered sand.

March 18th.

The first echelon was assembled in Xizhou and prepared to go north, but at this time, Li Yiyin sent Li Yiyin, a powerful general, to reinforce Suizhou with 30,000 cavalry, and had already arrived in Suizhou.

When Chai Rong heard about it, he was in a hurry, and after convening the ministers to discuss, Chai Rong decided to recruit in person.

The next day, Chai Rong took Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En to lead 30,000 forbidden troops to Xizhou to personally command.

March 23.

Chai Rong and his entourage arrived in Xizhou, and at this time a good news and a bad news were placed in front of him.

The good news is that Guo Jin, Guo Jin, Wang Rao, and Feng Jiye, who made Zhangwu Jiedu, make Wang Rao, and Shuofang Jiedu make Feng Jiye attack Youzhou from Yanzhou, and after three days of bloody battles, they have captured Youzhou City and are resting in the city.

When the bad news happened, Li Yiyu, the general of the Dingyan Army, led 30,000 troops into Suizhou City, converged with 30,000 defenders, and the next day, went south to attack the first echelon of Zhou, as a result, the Zhou army was defeated and returned, losing nearly half of the personnel, about 20,000 people.

Chai Rong was furious when he heard this, and studied the reasons for the defeat in detail.

It turned out that when the first echelon was against the Dingyan army, the cavalry of the Dingyan army took the lead in launching a charge, Fan Ai could retreat from the wind, He Hui led the infantry in the rear array, was collided by the running cavalry, and immediately collapsed, the two generals fled south, the cavalry was chaotic, trampling on each other, the infantry abandoned the armor and surrendered, and then affected the middle army, at this time, the forward of the Dingyan army took advantage of the situation to assault, and in less than half an hour, the first echelon of 42,000 troops was lost nearly half.

This main general fled in battle, even if there were many soldiers, it was also a rout, and finally Xuanhui made Xiang Xun experienced in the battlefield, and the command post led the middle army to kill hundreds of fleeing soldiers in battle, so as to stabilize the position, otherwise the losses would be greater, and even the whole army collapsed.

Such a fiasco made Chai Rong unbearable, and immediately issued an order to command Fan Aineng, the guard and horse army, and the guard infantry to command He Hui and others, together with more than 70 generals and colonels, to be killed.

Such iron-blooded means shocked the whole army. (To be continued......)