More than ten days later, Wu Sangui and others came to Nanjing, and Gao Yiming asked them to rest for a few days, and then entered the palace at the last court meeting this year, and everyone received their orders.

Three days later, there is the big court meeting, after this court meeting will be New Year's Day, according to the custom, the court will have a ten-day holiday, Gao Yiming does not plan to change, according to the routine to give hundreds of officials a holiday.

After Gao Yiming was worshiped by hundreds of officials, he said: "In the past year, the mountains and rivers have been broken, thanks to the efforts of everyone to turn the tide, which depends even more on good generals, Qin Liangyu, Shi Kefa, Wu Sangui, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Zhang Zhenyuan, Li Dingguo."

"The minister is here!"

"Over the past year, several Aiqing have worked hard for the country day and night, I am very grateful, in order to reward you for your love, I decided to enter the old general of Qin as the marquis, seal the loyal marquis, and order the history books to be listed separately and included in the biography! Shi Kefa was a scholar of Jianji Temple, Gao Jie, Wu Sangui were generals of Zhenguo, and Huang Degong, Zhang Zhenyuan, and Li Dingguo were generals of Dingguo. ”

Everyone is divided into seals because of their merits, and they are all happy, among which Qin Liangyu's reward is the most grand, and his name goes down in history, Gao Yiming This is also to set an example for future generations, and clearly tell the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, as long as you are loyal to the country, I will not hesitate to reward.

Other generals such as Tengjiao, Zhang Huangyan, Zheng Chenggong, Jin Menghuan and so on have been promoted, so that the team of generals under Gao Yiming has it, and the next step is to train it well and gradually increase.

After the reward, Gao Yiming asked Gao Jie and others to lead the Ming army and the Qing army.

Gao Jie said first: "In addition to the 80,000 Qinglongwei under the emperor's command, many of the rest are former peasant army foot soldiers, and only seventy percent of the armor weapons are now available, and the horses are less than 40,000." Gao Jie said that this is the actual situation, the peasant army did not have many standard weapons before, and many of them were looted in the arsenal of the Ming army.

Wu Sangui's men and horses are all imperial court soldiers, better equipped, and the weapons and armor are basically enough for a set of people, but the horses are less than 70,000, Li Dingguo's command is basically the same as Wu Sangui, and Huang Degong and Zhang Zhenyuan's subordinates have fewer horses, all of which are less than 30,000. This is what Gao Yiming got by robbing a number of vassal kings.

After listening to them, Gao Yiming said to Shi Kefa: "Next year, the task of the military department will be added, which is to find a way to buy more war horses, and the other is to choose a military horse farm in the sweet and cool land of Shanxi, and we will also cultivate a batch by ourselves." The reason for this arrangement is that the endurance of the southern horses is far inferior to that of the northern horses, and it is okay to transport grain, but it is reluctant to be a war horse.

Shi Kefa received the order, and then he announced and interpreted the regulations on the protection of soldiers and the pension insurance regulations approved by Gao Yiming, the six collegiate councilors, and the most happy to hear this is Gao Jie and others, they lead the troops to fight all the year round, and they know the pain of the soldiers, this guarantee can be said to completely solve their worries, and it is very helpful to improve the combat effectiveness.

The most unhappy are those civil officials, they also want this treatment, but they were directly vetoed by Gao Yiming, and even if they want to give it, they have to wait for the national streamlining of institutions to finish.

Now there are more than 100,000 civil officials, which is more than 15,000 people in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, which is either a star and a half, or more than three times higher than the more than 30,000 officials in the Song Dynasty. It must be reduced! Gao Yiming's quota for Shi Kefa is 30,000, which will be completed in two to three years, from top to bottom, and will start after the year.

Then the household department reported this year's tax situation and the procurement and distribution of disaster relief materials, the overall situation is relatively stable, but the tax is a little pitiful, only less than five million taels, but the sale of salt has seven or eight million taels, Wang Chengen's cabinet and the national tax revenue is about the same, but the cabinet is just starting, the prospect of the cabinet is good, as long as Wang Chengen does not do, there is no big problem.

Then the other ministries reported their respective situations, and it was past noon, and Gao Yiming announced the dispersal of the dynasty.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Gao Yiming did not take a holiday for the New Year like an official, but came to the second arsenal, today is the day when the new arsenal was established, and it is also the day of the steam engine test.

The reason why the steam engine test site was chosen as the new arsenal is because the site here is large enough, and in Gao Yiming's words, it is to warm the stove for the new arsenal.

Seeing the big guy in front of him, Gao Yiming was still very shocked, it was simply a tractor that had been magnified three or four times, the reason why it was so big was that the steam engine was large, plus at least two people should sit on a tractor, one to control the direction, one to add coal to the steam engine, and to observe the ploughing effect.

In any case, the craftsman can build the tractor according to his rough drawings and working principles, Gao Yiming is still very satisfied, the volume is large, the horsepower is of course enough, and twelve inclined plows are hung directly behind.

Gao Yiming asked Wang Chengen worriedly: "Can this machine drive so many plows?" As I said, the depth of the plough must be eighteen centimeters. ”

"Please rest assured."

It is said that the tractor has been started under the operation of the craftsman, and it actually makes a sound like a steam engine train in later generations, this tractor actually has an astonishing six wheels, although the moving tractor is slow, it is also much faster than the ox and horse, and the horsepower that bursts out is even more amazing, and the twelve ploughs pull up effortlessly.

"Emperor, in fact, this tractor can pull a maximum of sixteen ploughs, but the experimental site is not enough, so there are a few less."

Gao Yiming nodded and said that he knew that in fact, although the steam engine was gradually eliminated in later generations, compared with the diesel engine, gasoline engine, and electric motor, the horsepower of the steam engine was the largest.

"Such a big guy, I just looked, the controller linkage is so thin, there won't be any problems, right?" Although there was also synthetic steel in this era, it was in the hands of old craftsmen who made weapons, and it was used in machines, and I don't know if they would like it.

Wang Chengen said confidently: "Please rest assured, the connecting rods are refined by the most experienced old craftsmen after adding five or six kinds of ores, which are very durable, and some craftsmen have proposed that the tractor can not only plow the ground, but also pull grain according to a bucket, and they have already considered what kind of bucket they will make."

This makes people speechless, the innovation ability of the ancients is also very powerful, knowing that drawing inferences from one case to the other to maximize the value of the steam engine, since they are already researching, Gao Yiming is not ready to intervene, creative thinking is more valuable than creating a specific thing, so creative thinking should be vigorously cultivated.

Gao Yiming predicted that with this tractor, one or two people planting one or two thousand acres of land should not be a problem, due to the approaching Spring Festival, the tractor was successfully tested, and the second arsenal was listed, Gao Yiming was very happy, and generously rewarded all the craftsmen, and also rewarded Wang Chengen with five thousand taels of silver.

In fact, the steam engine has long been studied, and under the guidance of Gao Yiming, the Second Arsenal has been trained into three semi-mechanized assembly lines, and the steam engine has been used in the forging process.