In any case, it was impossible for Hong Chengchou to endure the impact of this new type of musket artillery.

He even disregarded his own scholarly system, rushed directly to Zhu Youxiao, and said to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, if you are not at peace today, you still need more strong troops to serve you and horses. ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at the Hong Chengchou in front of him, although he knew that this Hong Chengchou, there was a high probability that there was no way to take refuge in Jiannu like in history.

Because as long as he is there, it is impossible for Jiannu to enter the customs, and he received the battle report, and Wu Sangui, who put Jiannu in Shanhaiguan in history, has also been blown into scum under the golden gun of his Emperor Apocalypse.

But in Zhu Youxiao's heart, he showed that he didn't like Hong Chengchou, and he had no way to ignore it.

Maybe this Hong Chengchou is indeed a little talented, but Zhu Youxiao will never include him in his guards.

Zhu Youxiao's idea is very simple, once unfaithful, you don't use it for the rest of your life.

Zhu Youxiao always believed that Hong Chengchou might defect to our Qing Dynasty in history, so he might also be bought by others, or maybe he would be bought by the Donglin Party, maybe by King Fu, or by the gentry in the southeast, or by the sea merchants.

The Guards are an army that Zhu Youxiao relies on to stand up, and he can't allow such a situation to happen, so the generals of the Guards. He doesn't have to choose the best, but he must choose the most faithful.

"Aiqing's intentions, I naturally understand, over the years Aiqing has also made a lot of contributions to me, you as the Shaanxi political envoy to supervise the grain to participate in politics, over the years, the Shaanxi political envoy's grain and grass have also arrived relatively smoothly, these I am very satisfied."

"But Aiqing has a sentence that is wrong, that is, you don't have to join the Guards to be able to do your best for me and die."

"In my mind, as long as Aiqing has a heart that is loyal to the Ming Dynasty and loyal to me, no matter where he is, as long as he can make contributions to me, then for me, Aiqing is a first-class good minister."

Hong Chengchou is naturally not a fool, he understands that many of the words that Zhu Youxiao is saying now are just to comfort him.

In His Majesty's mind, I am afraid that no matter how good other armies are, they cannot compare to the importance of His Majesty's guard.

But he knew that what Zhu Youxiao said was high-sounding, and he had no way to refute it.

He could only use a hoarse voice to plead with Zhu Youxiao again, saying, "Your Majesty, what you said is right, it is Weichen who is a little obsessed. ”

"It's just that now the banditry of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Department is getting more and more serious, and more and more rebels have appeared, and if this continues, it will definitely not be beneficial to the stability of the imperial court."

"Therefore, the minister wants to ask His Majesty to allocate a few thousand rifles of this new type, so that the minister can bring them back to the west and build a powerful army, so that the bandits in the west can be completely pacified."

Zhu Youxiao still refused to agree, still shook his head and said: "I think that the bandits in the west are only on the surface, and his inner is because the drought in the west is getting more and more serious, and the people can't harvest their food, and at the same time, the land annexation is also very serious, and solving these problems is the way to get rid of the roots." ”

"As for the rebel armies in the west, you just need to protect the territory and the people, and you must not let the bandits in the west become bigger."

"If you don't have enough weapons, you can go to the Ministry of Industry to get it, and I will give the Ministry of Industry a note, so that the people of the Ministry of Industry will absolutely cooperate with you."

Hong Chengchou didn't know what to say, Zhu Youxiao was really unwilling to hand over the most elite muskets and artillery to him, and asked him to go to the Ministry of Industry to get weapons and armor.

Now the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty and even ordinary people, who do not know the things produced by the Ministry of Industry, that is, dogs do not use those things, and they cannot be said to be good weapons at all.

The weapons that are really produced by the first class have to rely on the weapons produced by His Majesty's arsenal, whether it is a war knife or a musket or artillery, they are all made of first-class steel, which is better than the Ministry of Industry.

Hong Chengchou was completely desperate, he had already understood what Zhu Youxiao meant, and after seeing if Zhu Youxiao could not give him any muskets and artillery in a wave, he had no choice.

Although he was extremely disappointed in his heart, he could only say: "Thank you for Your Majesty's kindness, Weichen will definitely live up to Your Majesty's expectations, and will definitely give my Ming Dynasty one big victory after another."

Zhu Youxiao looked very satisfied with his face, and said with a smile to Huang Liji, the first assistant of the first cabinet next to him: "Since Hong has such an idea, then I have to reward him for this ambition, if my army and generals have such courage and ambition as Hong to participate in politics, then why should I worry about the injustice of the world?" ”

"However, Hong Shenzheng has such ambitions, so it should be rewarded anyway, and the order will go down, and the war horses I brought back from the north last time will pick two hundred for Hong Shenzheng, and then select a good royal horse for this Hong Shenzheng to send over."

After speaking, Zhu Youxiao turned his head to look at Hong Chengchou again, and said: "The affairs in the west still have to use my strategy, everything is based on stability, and you can't bully the people too much. ”

When he said this, he thought about it again and continued: "In order to let the people of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Department live a peaceful life and completely quell the bandits of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Division, I think that in recent years, the taxes of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Department have been exempted. ”

Zhu Youxiao really thought this way in his heart, the climatic conditions of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Department in the past two years have been very bad, many times this drought comes, locust plague comes, locust plague comes, and there are other disasters, and the people who farm the fields cannot harvest much grain all year round.

If the imperial court forcibly collects taxes from Shaanxi's political envoys, it will be difficult to collect them, and it is more likely to force more people to rebel.

Instead of this, Zhu Youxiao felt that it was better to directly exempt the Shaanxi Political Envoy from taxes for the past two years, so that the people could recuperate in peace for two years.

It's just that as soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, Hong Chengchou's face became even more ugly.

In his opinion, His Majesty's gift to the people of Shaanxi is simply Zhu Youxiao's punishment of the officials of the entire Shaanxi Political Envoy.

Is it true that the taxes of the imperial court are only handed over to the imperial court?

So how could they not take advantage of the political envoys and officials in Shaanxi Province and use all kinds of big buckets for small buckets and small buckets for big buckets to make profits from the loss and transfer of back and forth?

Ten percent of the tax revenue, three or four percent can go to the hands of the imperial court, which can be regarded as a great favor for the officials and masters of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Department.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.