In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the carnival of the Ming army's victory over the Qing army made the joy of the Han people as early as the Huaiyang battlefield, so the battle of Huguang was at most equivalent to the icing on the cake, and it was not enough to cause too much shock for the entire Guards.

Liu Fangliang, the chief officer of the Third Army of the Guards, can be said to be the lucky general of the Ming Empire in this era.

Since he joined the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and became the chief officer of one of the three main forces of the Ming Guards system, he has not had any experience of defeat at the hands of the Tartars, so it is not a great deal for him to severely damage Azig.

This may be due to the different expectations caused by different times.

Before the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, repelling the Tartars or killing a dozen or so Tartars could be regarded as a great victory.

But now, in Liu Fangliang's eyes, he failed to capture the British Prince Azig alive, and let Azig be cut by a thousand knives at the Taiping Gate of Nanjing City like Duoduo, which made him feel very regretful to Liu Fangliang.

Therefore, when Zhu Youzhen issued an order to order the governors of the provinces and the chief officers of the Guards to go to Beijing to discuss matters, Liu Fangliang's mood was distressed, and he did not know how to explain to Zhu Youzhen that he had not captured Azig alive.

Naturally, there was an important reason why Zhu Youzhen summoned the governors and commanders of various provinces to Beijing.

At present, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he trained the guards to achieve the Huaiyang victory and the Huguang victory, completely annihilated and severely damaged the main force of the Qing army in Duoduo and Azig, and even captured four Qing court princes, killed a Qing court prince, and countless Manchurian military nobles with titles below such as Belle Beizi, and Zhu Youzhen's prestige can now be said to be on a higher level.

In the past, the gentry were more afraid of Zhu Youzhen.

After Qian Qianyi and Zhang Shenyan and others, no one was not afraid of Zhu Youzhen's iron-fisted methods.

But now the gentry are more obedient to Zhu Youzhen, and since His Majesty returned to take charge of the army, he has really reproduced the legacy of Taizu, ploughed the court and swept the caves, and defeated the Manchurian iron cavalry with new soldiers composed of scholars and farmers.

Although in the eyes of later generations, it is very reasonable for the children of the family to form grass-roots officers, with hard-working and simple low-level people as soldiers, and the combat effectiveness formed can defeat the serf army that integrates the military and the people, Qi Jiguang has taken this as a forerunner back then.

However, in the eyes of the world, under the influence of the idea that Manchuria was not more than 10,000 and more than 10,000 invincible, the victory of Zhu Youzhen's guards today surprised not only Dolgon and others in the Qing court, but also the scholars and doctors of the Ming court.

They never thought that His Majesty would have such an effect after taking charge of the military power, and after moving south, they quickly ambushed the three towns of Jiangbei, and even destroyed Zuo Liangyu, not to mention, and now they can still thwart the courage of Jiannu, compared to the previous effect of civilian officials in charge of the army, the scholars and doctors felt ashamed for the first time, and they also began to believe that His Majesty may really have the fate of Taizu in his dream, otherwise there would not be such a big change.

As a king, if you want to uphold the dynasty alone and make the officials act according to your will, it is naturally not possible to convince the officials, and if you want to be respected by others, you can only be strong enough.

In the past, the emperor who grew up in the deep palace relied on the words of hundreds of officials, and even the right and wrong of doing things also needed to be determined by hundreds of officials, so it was naturally difficult to have the ability to control civil and military officials.

At present, Zhu Youzhen has meritorious service to the country, hundreds of thousands of troops, and the awe of most of the bureaucrats and gentry, so he is naturally not afraid that he will be constrained by hundreds of officials in the future, and there will be party strife again, and then there will be strategies that are not conducive to the country.

Unless he is willing to fall and lose.

Zhu Youzhen, who was standing under the red wall, looked at the sunset on the horizon and couldn't help but smile on his face.

He has entered the prime of life at this time, and although the king of Zhongxing is not talking about it for the time being, he will barely be the king of a dead country anymore.

And then, he naturally wants to take advantage of his young age to do some great things, so that this empire can really rise in his own hands, so that the current Ming Dynasty can recreate the grand occasion of Yongle Renxuan, and even reproduce the prestige of the Tang Dynasty in the past, so that the glory of China will shine on the Eurasian continent in the seventeenth century.

As for the beautiful people, fine wine and even beautiful scenery, since he is already an emperor, these are naturally at his fingertips.

Maybe people are like this, the more difficult it is to get, the more you want, the easier it is to get, but the desire is not very strong, Zhu Youzhen is not interested in singing every night, of course, he does not lack the joy of bed every night, but this is not what he cares about the most and what excites him the most.

The ancients had a saying, ascending will fall heavy, the moon is full and the water is overflowing, people are easy to get carried away when they are most proud, the more you need not to take yourself too seriously, the more you don't forget to consider the position of others.

The same is true of Zhu Youzhen today, although he is now highly prestigious, he is still walking on thin ice for the next reforms that will touch the interests of a certain group and a certain stratum, carefully making plans, even the worst, and only after ensuring that everything is foolproof and that he has enough certainty before he dares to put it into practice.

This is the case, for example, of the commercial and foreign trade taxes and personal income taxes, which are now about to be formally collected.

Zhu Youzhen knew that even if he forcibly ordered the government at all levels to collect taxes according to the information counted in advance last year, he would be able to succeed, and even if there was resistance, he would be able to suppress it, but he still had to do everything he could to ensure that he had enough strength in his hands.

Therefore, he had to summon the governors of the various theaters and the chief officers of the Guards to Beijing, so that these important military and political officials in various places who held real power could first make up their minds before they dared to collect taxes in all aspects.

Not only must these military and political dignitaries make up their minds first, but Zhu Youzhen must first let the officers at all levels of the Second Army of the Guards, who are in charge of defending Gyeonggi and whose duties are equivalent to the forbidden army, have to understand their own intentions for His Majesty and the imperial court to do this, after all, Nanjing City and even Yingtianfu are the most critical points of this tax collection.

The city of Nanjing in July can be said to be extremely hot, and the heavy rain and high temperature make this still prosperous city still as hot as the March sun.

But it was also at this warm moment that the imperial court's Northern Expedition and the promotion of agriculture officially raised the curtain of taxation in the commercial and foreign trade fields.

The first step was at the end of June, when the Second Guards Army assembled all the officers above the general level in Nanjing.

Ma Shiying, secretary of the Ministry of War and chief of staff, read out His Majesty's edict calling on the officers and men of the Gyeonggi Field to support the levy, explaining why the tax on the business income of the scholars and doctors should be levied, and why the tax on the wealthy merchants and magnates should be increased.

Officers from peasant armies were asked to tell about the hardships of peasant life in the past when Liaoxiang was expropriated due to the war in Liaodong, and officers from border armies were asked to take the initiative to tell about the scenes when they had to mutiny due to lack of pay for fighting for the imperial court, and officers from various gentry were asked to tell about the elegance and luxury of being literati in the past, so that the officers themselves could realize the truth of this.

Zhu Youzhen understood that the imposition of commercial tax, foreign trade tariff, and personal income tax was necessary to obtain the support of the army, and to prevent the officers within the army from understanding the difference between himself, the emperor's taxation, and competing with the people for profit, Zhu Youzhen would also find it difficult for Zhu Youzhen to compete with the officials, gentry, and wealthy businessmen in the entire city of Nanjing.

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