Three days after entering Beijing, the former Ming ministers began to persuade them to advance, and today they reached **.

Zhang Jinyan of the former Ming Army, Chongzhen asked the minister about the southern tour, he opposed it most fiercely, and tried his best to advocate that the emperor stick to Beijing and fight to the death with the Shun army; When the Shun army soldiers came to the city, Emperor Chongzhen asked about the military situation, he didn't know about it, and when he was blamed by the Ming Emperor, he defended himself: The detective horse needs military salary, and the military department has no money, so a scout can't be sent; During the siege, the city was opened and surrendered. With these many achievements, Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of Defense of the Ming Dynasty, successfully jumped to Dashun and led one of several persuasion teams.

In the world where Huangshi came, Zhang Jinyan surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after the defeat of the Shun army, gradually separated from the Qing court, began to write articles attacking the Qing court, and was convicted of being confiscated into Ningguta, and in the last days of his life, he wrote articles such as "Ningguta Landscape Records", and was exiled at that time and became one of the three heroes of Ningguta.

Li Jiantai, a scholar who commanded the Praetorian Guards to surrender to Liu Fangliang, was appointed by Emperor Chongzhen as a supervisor, hoping that he would use his own wealth to help break through. But Li Jiantai did not pull out a dime, and after leaving Beijing, he specialized in raiding the local people. At this time, Li Jiantai successfully continued to be an official in the Dashun court, and he went to the table to obey the king, saying that the Ming army heard the wind and surrendered to the heavens, and strongly advocated that the king of Shun should ascend the throne immediately.

In the world where Huangshi came, Li Jiantai surrendered to the Qing army after the defeat, and soon resigned and returned to his hometown in Quwo, and later scattered all his family wealth to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and committed suicide after the defeat.

In addition to high-ranking officials, many famous talents also surrendered to the Dashun regime, such as Zhang Jiayu, a well-known Guangdong genius in Beijing, Li Zicheng personally persuaded him to surrender when he knew his reputation, and Zhang Jiayu swore loyalty to Li Zicheng and Dashun in the palace. After leaving Queen Shun, some friends wondered why Zhang Jiayu descended so quickly, Zhang Jiayu explained: If he didn't surrender, I was afraid that Li Zicheng would send someone to his hometown in Guangdong to kill his parents, loyalty and filial piety could not be both, for the safety of his parents, he had to give up his loyalty to the Ming court.

In the world of Huangshi, Zhang Jiayu fled back to his hometown in the south after the defeat, scattered all his family wealth to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water when he was seriously injured in defeat.

Zhou Zhong, a celebrity in Donglin, had just worshiped Niu Jinxing as a teacher at this time, and when he met people in Beijing, he said: "Teacher Niu loves me" and "Teacher Niu knows everything." ", and made a persuasion table to say that Li Zicheng "has more martial arts than Yao Shun, and is more shameless than Tang Wu", and Chongzhen is: "The only husband gives the head, and the four seas return to the heart." ”

In the world of Huangshi, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, thousands of Beijing officials surrendered, Zhou Zhong did not surrender, and escaped from Beijing in makeup to Nanjing, and urged the Hongguang court not to have illusions about the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and tried his best to advocate all-out resistance to the Qing, because of the surrender of Shun was killed by Ma Shiying.

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In the midst of the noise of these surrender ministers, Wei Dezao, who had just been pardoned for capital crimes, had just collected his things and was about to leave Beijing with his family, and Xu Ping planned to give him a ride in person.

"My lord, is this necessary?" Xu Ping's left and right now know that Xu Ping has no interest in Wei Dezao's daughter, and they don't understand why he wants to deal with right and wrong, because of the words that Wei Dezao shouted at the Jinluan Palace, some people have already said that Xu Ping's intercession is greedy for beauty.

"It's necessary." Now that Dashun is in chaos, there is a lot of chaos, and Xu Ping is worried that celebrities like Wei Dezao will be targeted by someone, so he can't leave safely.

Because Chongzhen, Empress Zhou, and Wang Chengen were not very easy to find out in the dark, Li Ziyuan planned to collect a group of surrendered Ming ministers to prove that the Ming Dynasty was a traitor to cover the dynasty, but because Xu Ping was firmly opposed to this, he gave up.

"The orange is orange in Huainan and orange in Huaibei." Xu Ping thinks that if Dashun can make good use of these ministers, it will prove the legitimacy of Dashun, and Xu Ping still thinks that Chongzhen has the greatest responsibility on the issue of the death of the country.

With the guards to safely take the former Ming Shoufu out of the heavily guarded Beijing city gate, Xu Ping sent Wei Zaode all the way to the suburbs: "Lord Wei, I don't want to send it far, let's leave it at that." ”

Wei Zaode, who finally escaped with his life, has never understood why Li Zicheng said that he would not use him, and Xu Ping did not make it clear to him that this was because King Shun still planned to use Wei Zaode as a model of traitor, and used it to promote the justice of Dashun when necessary.

"I started studying at the age of ten and devoted myself to 20 years," Wei Zaode, who relied on the champion in his early thirties, has excellent intelligence and talent, and now his energy and intelligence are still at his peak, thinking that those who are far inferior to themselves can still stay in Dashun as officials, and he can only return to his hometown, Wei Zaode suddenly cried bitterly: "I read so well, they are much worse than me, I am not the only one who is disloyal to the Ming Dynasty, everyone is the same, why does King Shun use them without me?" I'm really unwilling. ”

Xu Ping no longer cares about Wei Zaode, who is holding on to the tree and crying bitterly, he has seen this kind of thing a lot these days.

A few days ago, Niu Jinxing personally presided over the examination of the Ming Dynasty, and planned to select 100 people as the first batch of Dashun officials to be assigned to the local area, but as a result, there were more than 2,000 Ming officials who came to take the exam, and Niu Jinxing, who had only prepared 500 seats, had to order the door of the examination room to be closed two hours before the examination.

Chongzhen's military department to Shi Min, known for Xiaochang's military affairs, is a rare official in the Chongzhen Dynasty who is good at calculating armament consumption, that day he was too confident so he waited until the moment before the original examination time to rush to the examination room, seeing that the door was closed after Shi Min was so anxious that he ignored the etiquette, slammed the door with a stone outside the examination room, and shouted: "I am Shi Min of the military department, King Shun doesn't want to win the world?" Why abandon the strong man? ”

Fortunately, Niu Jinxing had heard of Shi Min's talent from many people, so he specially ordered him to be let in and put him in a very high position to investigate.

After discovering that Shi Min was indeed proficient in government affairs, Niu Jinxing immediately announced that he would be retained by Dashun, and after Shi Min came out, he sighed for Niu Jinxing's insight: "With the assistance of the Taishi, the world will be unified." ”

Although Liu Tingzhi is talented and knowledgeable in government affairs, he is already close to the age of sixtieth, and Niu Jinxing said with some regret after the review: "The old man must be white." ”

Liu Tingjian was afraid that he would not be able to continue to be an official in Dashun, so he hurriedly swore to Niu Jinxing: "If the Taishi uses me, his beard will naturally turn black, and he will not be old." ”

Hearing this, Niu Jinxing felt that Liu Tingzhi could really be called old and strong, so he also included him in the demoted officials adopted by Dashun.

Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin both believe that the family wealth of the gentry and eunuchs is "not greedy, but it will be stripped off, and it will be stolen." So Liu Zongmin advocated that everything should be copied, of course Niu Jinxing disagreed, but he couldn't deal with Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin alone, fortunately, Xu Ping and Sun Kewang also supported him on this issue. Although Xu Ping and Sun Kewang admitted that Liu Zongmin was basically right, they were both worried that the recovery of stolen goods would lead to the separation of the gentry from Dashun, and Sun Kewang was more supportive of Niu Jinxing's proposition, that is, to change the previous exemption from taxation to reduction and exemption, restore taxes to the people to supply the Dashun court, and at the same time grant amnesty to the world, and not be responsible for the crimes that occurred in the former Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng did not agree with such a treatment, but Xu Ping reminded him that Huangshi was still in the south, and it was far from worrying about it. Under the threat of Huangshi, Li Zicheng reluctantly agreed to stop the unrestricted recovery of stolen goods, and Xu Ping proposed a compromise plan, which was to continue to implement the three-year exemption policy, completely confiscate the imperial estate, the imperial property, and the property of the Ming court to subsidize the Dashun treasury, and at the same time carry out a limited recovery of stolen goods, that is, to check the account books and recover the money embezzled by the former Ming officials during their tenure.

At the same time, Xu Ping, on behalf of the forces of Gu Yanwu's faction, recommended to Li Zicheng the new policy implemented in Kaifeng Prefecture, that is, the paid government services, the most typical is to collect litigation fees for lawsuits, and the government tries to rely on administrative services in exchange for a part of the income. However, Niu Jinxing resolutely objected to this, thinking that this was to operate the imperial court as a business, and he roughly calculated it, thinking that the implementation of limited recovery of stolen goods and the confiscation of the production capacity of the former Ming Emperor allowed Dashun to last for a while, and even survived the three-year exemption period, so he did not agree with Xu Ping's more radical political reforms.

In addition, there was the issue of the Southern Expedition, where the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing refused to surrender and prepared to support a new monarch. In this regard, Dashun is bound to carry out military conquest in order to unify as soon as possible, and once the military pressure on national unification is reduced, Niu Jinxing can consider disarmament to further reduce Dashun's financial pressure.

After sending Wei Zaode away, Xu Ping quickly returned to Beijing, and soon Li Zicheng had to convene his ministers to discuss the issue of the southern expedition. On the way to the Forbidden City, Xu Ping was suddenly stopped by a large group of officials, and the first person said to Xu Ping: "General, if the Lord wants to march south, he will order the general to lead the troops, and we are willing to accompany the general." ”

It was quite rude for these officials to block Xu Ping's horse team on their own, but Xu Ping's guards refused to disperse even when they reprimanded them.

Xu Ping waved his hand and asked the guards not to continue to drive these officials, like Wei Zaode, these are all scholars, and they have no other strengths in their lives except for studying and being officials, if they are not allowed to be officials, they will cut off their livelihoods, let them go back to farming, not to say whether they will be, I am afraid it will be more uncomfortable than killing them.

Letting go of Wei Zaode and lightly pursuing the responsibility of Chongzhen's old officials is that Xu Ping hopes to let the scholars and officials in the south see Dashun's tolerance, and Xu Ping hopes that they can completely feel at ease about their own lives after seeing that Li Zicheng is not even chasing after Chongzhen's first assistant and the elder of the pavilion. And although Xu Ping and Niu Jinxing had considerable differences on the issue of tax collection, they were both in agreement on the issue of making the best use of the surrendered officials, and even if they did not entrust them with important tasks, they must ensure that most of the surrendered officials would not go to the street to ask for food. Now the Ming courtiers of the world are preoccupied with watching how Dashun disposes of these demoted officials in Beijing, and Xu Ping does not want to mishandle them so as to provoke resistance from the south**.

The people who blocked Xu Ping's way were those who had not yet found a place in Niu Jinxing, although it was obviously a crooked way to take refuge in the martial arts and help the Taishi do things, but the so-called "people don't choose the road, ghosts don't choose the mountain." It's better to have a job than to be unemployed.

After Xu Ping's inquiry, the person at the head was named Xiang Yu, and his name was slightly different from the pronunciation of the world-shattering Chu Overlord. On behalf of his colleagues, the official said that they knew that they had no experience in the military, so they did not dare to ask Xu Ping to entrust them with any important tasks. But you can't learn, these people are all scholars who can be named on the gold list, and in this era, they can be admitted to a show and are the smart people around their hometown. If the imperial examination was an IQ assessment of that era, the IQ level shown by these people was higher than that of Dashun's Taishi Niu Jinxing, Xiang Yu and they assured Xu Ping that they would not be able to learn, no matter what hardships they had in training and leading the army, they would never dare to complain, and they would definitely study hard by Xu Ping's side, just like the previous hard study, and do their best for Dashun's imperial hegemony.

Xu Ping comforted these people with kind words, and asked them to follow one of his guards to his house to record his name: "If the lord really sends this general to the south, he will naturally invite the monarchs to accompany him." ”

After accepting the resumes submitted by these job seekers, Xu Ping continued to rush to the Jinluan Hall with the guards.

"My lord, what's the use of these scholars?" One of the guards asked.

"Anyway, there will be no shortage of food and clothing in the army, and they will not be starved, maybe there are a few people who have the ability to find talents for the king." Xu Ping replied casually that when he went south in the future, he might need to persuade the place to surrender, and these literati were also good lobbyists and role models.

After signing up at Xu Ping's Great General's Mansion, Xiang Yu laughed happily, looking complacent, and a few people who came with him were not as optimistic as him, and still felt that the future of following the martial artists was bleak. Some people even flinched, and they didn't want to leave their names but continued to wait for Niu Jinxing's follow-up talent recruitment meeting.

Although some other partners also left their names, he felt that it was difficult to pass Niu Jinxing's assessment to enter the Dashun Central Committee, and they were a little puzzled when they saw Xiang Yu so excited, and it seemed that Xiang Yu was even happier today than he had previously failed to be selected for the first batch of civil servants in Dashun.

"The name of the husband is not complete, and he should be famous for the world, such as Guan Zhong and Wei Zhengke." Xiang Yu said loudly.

"I know that military affairs are not easy, but all the gentlemen and subordinates are scholars, but they are the best talents selected from thousands of miles," after receiving a burst of admiration, Xiang Yu continued: "As long as we show the tenacity of the tenacity of the ten-year cold window, I don't believe that this art of war will be unattainable!" Ladies and gentlemen, we will definitely be able to study war well and make immortal contributions to Dashun. ”

In private, Xiang Yu also said to a few close partners that in the future, Dashun will dominate the world sooner or later, and when the time comes, the soldiers will not be prosperous, and the good generals will be useless.

However, even if Dashun's attention shifted from military affairs to internal affairs, as long as the army was still there, someone needed to manage it, and at that time, they civilian officials with military experience still thought that they would still have a future: "Now that thousands of Beijing officials are going to squeeze the Taishi's single-plank bridge, let's find another way." ”

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