Not only that, the soldiers in the army are all hot-blooded idealists, and the inherent concept of class does not have a deep influence on them.

It was naturally much easier for Zhu Youzhen to influence the younger faction of the gentry class such as Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi than it was to influence the old bureaucrats in Nanjing.

The more Zhu Youzhen thought about it, the more he thought about it, he didn't even know when he was covered by a pair of jade hands, he only heard a burst of laughter like a silver bell echoing in his ears.

"Your Majesty, why is it that you are alone here, and you haven't even heard the slave family say hello to you", it was Yuan Guifei who spoke, although she has been married into the deep palace for many years, but she is still slim, her appearance and complexion have not lost the slightest youth, and now she is alone with Zhu Youzhen, and she still has a girlish heart, and she took the initiative to cover Zhu Youzhen's eyes.

Zhu Youzhen naturally didn't get angry, but took the snow-skinned and moon-looking Yuan Guifei into his arms, and his thoughts couldn't help but go back to the first night he traveled to the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that Yuan Guifei was the first person he saw after crossing over, and it was the first woman he had intimate contact, and because Yuan Guifei was simple-hearted and simple-minded, he did not regard himself as an evil person, so that he could have enough time to familiarize himself with the environment he was in when he came to Daming for the first time.

"In the future, in front of the queen, you can't be so rude, lest you be admonished again, remember", Zhu Youzhen scratched her Qiong nose, pushed away Yuan Guifei, and walked towards Yikun Palace.

Yuan Guifei grabbed Zhu Youzhen's arm and followed Zhu Youzhen on the way to Yikun Palace.

This is Yuan Guifei's bedroom, Zhu Youzhen actually just wanted to wander around the harem casually, thinking about the future, but he didn't expect to go to Yikun Palace.

And since I met Yuan Guifei by chance, I remembered the past again, and Yuan Guifei's body was fragrant, and Zhu Youzhen remembered the prince's matter, so I remembered the matter of Guangyu's heirs.

Yuan Guifei's body is soft and elastic, and it is most comfortable to do pleasant things with her in this kind of afternoon.

And when Zhu Youzhen put on his shirt and walked to the window to watch the summer rain wet the plantain like flowing water, he saw Han Shoujing, the eunuch on duty, walking over.

Zhu Youzhen gestured to Chen Yuanyuan outside the palace: "Let him wait for me in the pavilion below." ”

"Don't get up after a little more sleep, I'll come by myself", Zhu Youzhen pressed Yuan Guifei's jade shoulder, came to Chen Yuanyuan, stretched out his arms, and Chen Yuanyuan was busy changing Zhu Youzhen's clothes: "Isn't Your Majesty going to come by yourself?" ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, didn't say anything, and only after a quarter of an hour did he take the umbrella and follow the small steps in the backyard of Yikun Palace to the pavilion: "But what about Huguang?" ”

"Everything can't escape His Majesty's eyes, it is indeed from Huguang, the secret performance of Huguang Governor Du Yinxi and Huguang Governor Li Yan has arrived", Han Shoujing said and handed over the two boxes wrapped in yellow silk.

Zhu Youzhen took the key from Chen Yuanyuan's hand and unlocked it, only then did he take out the secret music, and sat in the pavilion to read the cool news brought by the evening rain.

Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that Du Yinxi and Li Yan actually praised each other in the secret performance, and blamed their own shortcomings, which made Zhu Youzhen laugh happily, and suddenly felt that the summer rainy night in Nanjing Palace City was also extraordinarily beautiful, quite the charm of the south of the Yangtze River, giving people a sense of tranquility and peace. With such a minister dedicated to the public, his own country will undoubtedly be more solid.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, it is rare for Plug Yinxi to be able to do things impartially, after all, people like Li Yan are not ashamed of scholars, and it is difficult to see Li Yan and thieves such as the Exterminator Army, but now Plug Yinxi not only obeys his orders and does things impartially but also praises them, it can be said that no matter what Plug Yinxi's talent is, this mind is enough to serve as a Zaifu (Daming does not have Zaifu, here is just a literary reference).

And Li Yan did not complain because of the large losses of the exterminating army, only said that Plug Yinxi is a rare official, and hopes that Plug Yinxi will continue to be in charge of the military and government of Huguang.

Zhu Youzhen felt that he insisted on appeasing and destroying the captives regardless of the criticism of the imperial court, and even used this to collect Li Yan's heart, which was one of the most correct things he did after moving south.

"Han Shoujing, tell me, as soon as this war is over, how should the meritorious officials who participated in this war inside and outside the court be rewarded, especially this Li Yan and Du Yinxi", Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but ask Han Shoujing, and handed the secret music to Han Shoujing.

Han Shoujing is in charge of the economy, and rarely asks about the government, and now when he heard His Majesty ask, he had to smile: "Thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, Your Majesty can use it however he wants, but this governor has always had to change it often, after all, the flowing water is not rotten, the hub is not beetle, the slave is humble and the maid is humble in his opinion, and the emperor still asks for one or two." ”

"That's right", Zhu Youzhen really didn't have the idea of letting Li Yan be in charge of the exterminating army for a long time, although he wanted to be humble for the sake of the overall situation, but he was still a little uneasy to let a person he was not completely familiar with in charge of tens of thousands of horses, and he felt that Li Yanzhicai should not only stay in Huguang as a governor.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen has the intention of transferring Li Yan to the capital to be in charge of the affairs of the military department, this person has more experience in actual combat, and his strategizing is better than Ma Shiying, and he is not from the two rankings of Jinshi, which can just make the officials above the court have one more official who understands the needs of the common people at the bottom.

Zhu Youzhen made up his mind and felt that after the governors of the provinces entered Beijing, he should leave Li Yan in the capital.

However, the focus is now on taxes.

The next day, Zhu Youzhen personally went to the newly established Daming School of Administration, where the grassroots officers of the Second Army of the Guards received education on the ideology of the new tax administration.

After the strong contrast between the former peasant officers and the former scholars and doctors, coupled with Zhu Youzhen's personal use of historical evidence and detailed analysis and explanation, and after allowing the soldiers below to exchange fierce words, the officers of the Second Army of the Guards unanimously expressed their willingness to swear to the death to protect the successful completion of the first new tax collection of the imperial court.

The ideological work of the grassroots officers of the Guards is quite easy to do, after all, they are all idealists, and they are all low-level scholars, and they are still quite convinced of the idea of agriculture-oriented, and they do not have much business concept, and they think that His Majesty's increase in commercial and foreign trade taxes is indeed a move for the benefit of the people.

However, Zhu Youzhen did not know whether the ideological work of the governors and commanders of the various theaters, the big bureaucrats and relatives in the government and the opposition, and the clan vassal kings was good or not.

What is really difficult in the future is to collect taxes from these big bureaucrats and clan kings, but they are all big heads.

When it comes to the vassal kings of the clan, Zhu Youzhen finds that he seems to have not had time to solve the problem of the financial pressure brought by these imperial clans to the Ming Dynasty, and the financial burden caused by these people is no less than that of those children of the Eight Banners who ate hardcore crops in the late Manchu Dynasty.

The next Zhu Youzhen will gradually transform the Ming Dynasty from a small peasant economy as the main body, from the literati gentry as the ruling body, and the traditional empire of Confucianism as the ruling ideology into an emerging empire that is industrialized, capitalized, centralized, and rationalized from the grassroots to the top level of imperial rule.

(End of chapter)