Chapter 66: Da Ming, Silver Empire!

At this moment, in the court, including the six Shangshu, they all expressed their attitudes that Lu Fan had no problem with the handling of the East Road rebellion.

The imperial envoys who had impeached Lu Fan for various crimes had already returned to the queue at this moment, bowing their heads and saying nothing.

We step on the horse is a routine spray, anyway, what the envoy does is to spray people and brush the sense of existence.

As for His Majesty will punish Lu Fan? Even we don't believe it, you second fool Wang Yan, why are you really serious?

Recall Lu Fan back to Jingshi?

Which little lady's belly did you throw your brain on last night to say such demented words?

"Your Majesty, Lu Fan's quelling of the rebellion this time is clean and neat, not only is there no fault, but he has merit! If he is not rewarded for his merits, but instead he decrees to condemn his crimes, won't it chill the hearts of the soldiers who quelled the rebellion?"

Li Guo, the first assistant to the cabinet, finally spoke.

Speaking of which, Datong Town, as an important border town, allocates countless amounts of money and grain every year, and they, the court officials, have profited from it.

Moreover, on the Yanghe East Road, because of its proximity to the Mongolian steppe, it was a necessary place for Jin merchants to smuggle, and it was very profitable, and the local military attachés did not give any less to the ministers of the DPRK and China every year.

If the military attache forces on the East Road can still support it, they, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee, may still speak out to support it, but you Yang and the military attaches on the East Road have all been served by Lu Fan, so you can't expect them to recruit back the group of killing stars of Jinyiwei for a group of mortal people, right?

Dead friends don't die in the poor way, anyway, there is no oil and water to fish on Yanghe East Road, just fix Lu Fan's killing star there, as long as you don't return to Beijing, wouldn't everyone be happy?

As for whether the civil officials on the East Road will be embarrassed by this, and whether the local people will be persecuted by the Jinyi Guard, these ...... Who cares?

As long as we don't come to the capital to persecute us, we can talk about anything.

The first and second ministers of the cabinet all spoke, which naturally attracted the courtiers to seconded the proposal one after another, and soon, the entire court unified their opinions.

Chongzhen was very pleased.

Since he ascended the throne, even in dealing with the issue of eunuchs, there have been constant debates in the court, and various opinions have emerged one after another.

He was happy in his heart, although the officials of the court usually had different thoughts, they still had a very good position in dealing with major issues of right and wrong such as rebellion, and they were also very consistent with his thoughts, which was a good sign.

If the court is like this in the future, the monarchs and ministers work together, the Ming Dynasty, how can it not be prosperous?

"Since all the ministers have the same opinion, next, let's discuss the issue of rewarding Lu Fan and the generals under his command, as well as how to deal with the responsibility of Li An and others for the crime of treason, let's come up with a charter!"

.......

Jingshi's reward for Lu Fan has not yet been issued, and the East Road side continues to develop in an orderly manner after quelling the turmoil.

East Road General Mansion, Lu Fan Dama Golden Knife, listened to the report of Zhao Shanhe, the chief officer of the Civil Affairs Department.

"My lord, since the spring ploughing, the number of wasteland in the nine cities of my East Road is extremely considerable, with a total of more than 566,300 acres. ”

"According to the previous order of the adults, all the wasteland reclaimed by the people of the original East Road will be owned by the people, and it will be exempt from tax for two years! The displaced people who then enter the East Road will be divided into three grades according to their performance at the time of land reclamation: the best performers will receive 30 acres of land per household, second, each household will receive 20 acres, and the third will be 10 acres per household!"

In addition, after all the military attaches in various parts of the East Road were confiscated, nearly 500,000 acres of fertile land were vacated, most of which were hidden and unreported, and taxes had never been paid. ”

"According to the orders of the adults, these fields are returned to the General's Mansion, and the Department of Civil Affairs has been gathering people to cultivate them before the rainy season in recent months.

"Good!"

Lu Fan nodded with satisfaction, the first step in the development of farming was successfully completed.

There is food in your hands, you don't panic in your heart, you have food and grass in your hands, and you have the confidence to recruit troops and buy horses!

Receiving praise from adults, Zhao Shanhe grinned.

He is different from Sun Fan, Li Ying, Shen Lian and other Qianhu who are strong in kung fu and good at fighting, and his skills are much weaker, but fortunately, he has a good brain and is good at dealing with trivial and complicated things, otherwise the position of the chief officer of the Civil Affairs Department will not fall on his head.

"Your Excellency!"

Wang Dingan, the chief secretary of the financial secretary, also hurriedly stepped forward to report on the recent work.

"The aftermath of the war has been completed, and a total of 320,000 taels of silver have been spent, including 32 houses to be repaired and ....... of consolation money has been allocated."

"Also, the entire military attache system in the Nine Cities on the East Road is almost completely empty this time, they have fallen, and our General's Mansion is completely full! Although all kinds of property have not yet been counted, even if the two million taels of property transported to the Beijing Division are excluded, our General's Mansion will at least enter more than 10 million taels of silver this time!"

"Oh, so many?"

With so many gains, Lu Fan was also a little surprised, these local snakes, their ability to collect money is really not ordinary.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was said that the country was poor and weak, and the people had no money in their hands, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty during this period had more than half of the world's silver reserves.

It's just a pity that the astronomical amount of silver was not in the hands of the central court, but was occupied by local military attachés, gentry, merchants, mining owners, new handicraft owners and other classes.

What really fell into the hands of the people and the central court was nothing more than a fraction.

Not to mention anything else, just the land of Beijing, after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he started the oil extraction mode, and in a very short period of time, he squeezed 70 million taels of silver from the officials and gentry in the capital.

These are just cash, not to mention those fields, shops and other real estate, if they all add up, the amount of property is simply incalculable!

This is just a place in the capital, so you can imagine what a terrifying wealth the Ming Dynasty is buried under that seemingly weak foundation!

It's just that this wealth is covered by the appearance of the people's hardship, and Chongzhen is even more blinded by the deception of the civilian clique, and it is not clear at all what kind of potential he is in charge of the Ming Empire.

Of course, if he wants to dig out that huge wealth, the premise of all this is that he has the courage, the military power in his hands, and the elite army that can be mobilized, and he dares to kill and make enemies of the interests of the entire empire.

But it's a pity that Chongzhen, who has long been fooled by the so-called sage book and brainwashed by the Donglin Party, wants the monarch and the minister to work together and prosper the Ming Dynasty.

Let him be the enemy of the entire Ming interest class?

Let's not say whether he dares or not, just the sage concept he has accepted since he was a child does not allow him to do so!