Hong Chengchou was defeated in Songshan, Cao Bianjiao was lucky to kill a bloody road, only the Liaodong military preparation road Zhang Dou's department was wiped out when he blocked the white flag of Zhuo Luo's department, and Zhang Dou was buried in the fire.

After learning that Songshan City was broken, the remnants of the Ming army in Jinzhou, Xingshan, Tashan and other cities no longer had the courage to resist, and they went out of the city to convey their sincerity to the Qing army.

Dolgon did not refuse, and all the more than 20,000 Ming troops who surrendered were incorporated into the banners of the Han army, which were under the command of traitors such as Zu Dashou, Zu Dale, Xia Chengde and Gang Atai, so that the entire western Liaoning corridor except for Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan all fell into the hands of the Qing army.

Cao Bianjiao almost died and survived, and found out the news of the Shandong Army's victory in southern Liaoning and the recovery of Shenyang, and also broke off the desperate thoughts of Dongyu, he was unwilling to defect to Li Dingguo in southern Liaoning, but went straight to Shenyang with the head of the pseudo-Qing forehead Dorji, thinking of borrowing troops for revenge.

Dolgon was busy digesting the results of the battle and negotiating with Wu Sangui about the company's troops, and Haoge and Zierharang planned to send divisions to southern Liaoning and Shenyang.

After the Jingshi determined the strategy of first taking Liaodong Wu Sangui, the war machine of the Jingbei Army also began to operate rapidly.

According to Li Xingzhi's military order, the new first town stationed in Dezhou and the new six towns stationed in Puyang began to move towards the Beijing division in turn.

Qian Tianxi, the new governor of Shandong, also urgently raised 200,000 stone military rations, 100,000 catties of medicine, 15,000 sets of cotton armor, 15,000 sets of chest plate armor, 80 Hongyi cannons, more than 260 major general cannons, 400 800 catties of artillery, 500 600 catties of small cannons, 800 tiger squat cannons, more than 6,000 medium arquebuses, more than 2,000 heavy arquebuses, and countless other knives, guns, swords, and halberds.

Taking advantage of the gap between preparing for the collection of Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, Li Xingzhi convened the first cabinet meeting since the accession of Yongli Tianzi in the name of Zuo Cheng of Zhongshu Province, and briefly communicated with him on the current situation, people's livelihood, taxation, and official corruption.

"Prime Minister, the so-called wood first rots and then worms, I have been a country for 300 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, since the civil fort, the scholar class has become bigger, the gentry do not pay taxes, the vassal king does not pay taxes, so that the taxes of the court have decreased sharply, to the Apocalypse Dynasty, the income of the court has been less than four million taels, since the Chongzhen Dynasty, the dynasty even used soldiers, plus three salaries, the people have long been unable to bear it, so the world's displaced people have survived, which has bred Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong such careerists, want to destroy the Liukou, must stop the three salaries, but the court does not get rid of the evils, Even if Li Zicheng is eliminated, there will still be Zhang Zicheng and Sun Zicheng. ”

The Prime Minister's Office, Shi Xu Yixian, as the adviser of Li Xingzhi's shogunate, was also summoned to Zhongshu Province to participate in the cabinet meeting.

"The world has suffered for a long time! What Mr. Xu said is deeply rooted in the heart of the true appearance, but the country is now in domestic and foreign difficulties, thieves are born, and the three salaries are abolished, just with today's taxes, I am afraid that even the officials' salaries can not be gathered, and where will the money and grain come from to suppress the thieves and slaves? When the first emperor was in power, he also knew the harm of the three salaries, but because he suffered from slaves, he had to drink to quench his thirst. ”

Although Wu Ganzhong, the new secretary of the household department, was dissatisfied with Li Xingzhi's current monopoly on power, he had been in the household department for a long time, and he was still clear about the income and expenditure of the imperial court.

"What Wu Butang said is very true, the dynasty has been in financial difficulties for a long time, so a military matter, it has to increase the salary, but this time the marshal entered Beijing, from Zhu Chunchen, Zhou Kui and others The mansion confiscated nearly five million taels of silver, that is, my Ming Dynasty's money and grain went into private hands."

"Prime Minister, Wanli period, Zhang Jiangling has carried out a series of reforms in response to the disadvantages of the times, one of which is to increase the national fiscal revenue, Zhang Jiangling first is to check the acres of land, re-measure the book, and then according to the division of land taxes, greatly increased the imperial court revenue, it is because of Zhang Jiangling's reform, Emperor Shenzong has money and grain to carry out the famous three major levies."

Liu Lishun is Xue Guoguan's protégé, and his actions as officials are basically the same as Xue Guoguan's, Xue Guoguan intends to collect taxes from nobles and gentry, and Liu Lishun naturally started to emulate Zhang Juzheng's reform.

"Prime Minister, the so-called illness is in the gut, and the soup is within the reach of ironing; In the skin, the needle stone is also within reach; In the stomach and intestines, the fire is within reach; In the bone marrow, the fate of the division belongs, helpless. If you want to reform the tax system, you must first reform the rule of officials, eliminate a group of moths who do not act, dare not do, and only know corruption and corruption. ”

Although Li Banghua, a scholar of the Mandarin Palace, was also quite dissatisfied with Li Xingzhi's rule, he was also a loyal minister for the country and the people, and he did not want the Ming Dynasty to be ruined in the hands of greedy clans, bureaucrats, and gentry.

Li Youcai, the secretary of the ministry, frowned and said, "What does Elder Li Ge mean by Kaienke?" Injecting a batch of fresh blood into the imperial court, isn't this a change of soup and not a change of medicine? There are a few people who can participate in the imperial examination who are not from Qing noble families, and they are officials, not to protect their own interests, after all, the gentry do not pay grain in our dynasty has already formed a custom. ”

"Kaienke, Kaienke...... As for the implementation of tax reform, the Prime Minister will instruct Jinyiwei to supervise the local implementation, and those who can go up and those who can't go down, and those who are corrupt will be directly dealt with by the Department of Suppression. ”

Li Xingzhi tapped on the case, and Li Youcai mentioned Enke, which reminded him that now the Jingbei Army Group is not facing the broken Leiden, but the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, in order to stabilize people's hearts, it is imperative for Enke to take soldiers.

Later, as soon as the Jiashen changed in the later generations, as soon as Dongfu entered the customs, he held a imperial examination in the third year of the Shunzhi of the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty, which quickly settled the hearts of the Chinese people in the north, and a large number of readers who were unwilling to be slaves of the country found that the pseudo-Qing regime was not only not a foreign dynasty that did not attach importance to the Confucian Holy Religion, but gave them the opportunity to become officials like the Ming Dynasty.

The lessons of Li Zicheng and the later generations of Hong Xiuquan told Li Xingzhi that this would never be able to deal with the gentry group by strong means, and pulling a group and fighting a group was the last word.

"Of course, Kai Enke is not a random opening, the so-called new dynasty and new atmosphere, this time Enke, the imperial court not only examines the eight strands of literature, but also the three techniques of archery, royalty, and arithmetic, and we also have to test, and this dynasty will not appoint pedantic people who only understand it."

Li Xingzhi spoke again, the six arts of the gentleman were the main courses taught to students by the Holy Ancestor back then, and if these items were added to the imperial examination, who would dare to question the scholars in the world?

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