Doge's Palace, Council Hall.

After Liu Yan entered the Governor's Palace, he hung a plaque in the main hall of the front yard, with the three big characters "Council Hall" written on it, as the seat of the Governor's Palace.

At this time, the council hall was overcrowded, and the ministers of the shogunate, Qian Qiao, the guerrilla general of the new army's artillery battalion, Tan Mingdao, the commander of King De's guard, and a group of civil and military officials led by Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, were all present and waiting for Liu Yan to speak.

The rest of the battalions of the New Army were not stationed in the city of Jinan, so several generals did not have time to rush back.

Liu Yan looked at everyone and said: "You already know that from today onwards, the various departments of the Shogunate of the Governor's Mansion will fully take over the military and political affairs of Shandong, and Yan Futai and Staff Officer Li and Staff Officer Hu will be responsible for coordinating to complete the handover of the various prefectures, provinces, counties and departments of the shogunate as soon as possible for a period of one month. ”

"In addition, while the shogunate ministries are taking over military and political affairs, they have begun to implement new policies, and the specific strategy has been issued by the governor, do you still have any questions?"

Li Jiwen and Hu Zongming immediately received the order, and Governor Yan Jizu also said with a smile: "The implementation of the new policy by the governor is a major event for the benefit of the country and the people, and we should fully support it." ”

The ministers of the shogunate naturally have nothing to say, after all, the implementation of the new policy, since Liu Yan was promoted to the former Qianhu of Xiahezhai Thousand Households, has been doing it, in recent years, with Liu Yan's step by step promotion, the new policies have also been continuously promoted within the scope of Qinglai Town, and the shogunate ministries have a complete set of perfect processes, which can be deployed step by step.

At this time, with Yan Jizu's statement, all the officials in Jinan Mansion and the governor's yamen echoed it. However, Liu Yan could also see that although everyone said that they would go all out

supported the new policy, but the eyes of everyone betrayed them, and Liu Yan could see that many people were dissatisfied.

For example, Jinan Tongzhi Gao Yingming is like this, while loudly saying that he wants to cooperate with the shogunate to hand over the dossier, but there is a trace of anger in his eyes, and his hands are inadvertently clenched into fists, and he is not convinced at first glance.

However, Liu Yan did not pay much attention to it, an official in a position like Gao Yingming, even if he made trouble, could not run out of the sorghum field, at this time Liu Yan was ready to start a comprehensive rectification of Shandong's soldiers and horses after the promotion of the new deal was on the right track.

In addition to the new army, the Shandong garrison is the guards in various places, but except for the guards in Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion who have been reorganized and have a certain combat capacity, the guards in the rest of the provinces are basically tofu soldiers and cannot be put on the stage.

Therefore, Liu Yan intended to carry out rectification, imitate the military system of the new army, and dismantle and reorganize the existing guards in various parts of Shandong, and integrate them into a garrison army.

In Liu Yan's expectation, the equipment, salary, and training intensity of the garrison army were weaker than those of the battalions of the new army, and they could be regarded as reserve soldiers of the new army, but their combat strength would definitely be stronger than that of the ordinary Ming army.

The garrison, like the battalions of the new army, were all full-time professional soldiers, and military households in various localities were successively converted into civilian households, and the cultivated land in the military cantonments was no longer recovered, and the families of the soldiers in the garrison cultivated it themselves, and from the third year onwards, taxes were levied as normally as civilian households.

In this way, we will not only be able to expand the source of tax revenues and avoid all kinds of drawbacks of the military household system, but will also be able to obtain a professional army with guaranteed combat effectiveness.

The disadvantage is that the military expenditure of the Governor's Palace will increase sharply, and Liu Yan, after careful consideration, believes that with the current income of the Shogunate

, as well as the amount of existing money and grain stocks, can be afforded.

Liu Yan's step can be regarded as a foreshadowing in advance, paving the way for further large-scale changes in the military system and conscription system in the future.

At this time, Liu Yan saw that no one objected, so he said to Yan Jizu: "Yan Futai, are the official offices of the shogunate departments ready?" ”

"Hehe, it's all ready, just on both sides of the Governor's Palace, Benfu has bought the courtyards of the houses on both sides, and reorganized them, and today the ministers can lead the troops to station."

"Good!"

Liu Yan said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then today's meeting is over, and you should immediately enter your respective official offices and start doing things." ”

"Yes!"

The meeting dispersed, Wang Weizhen, Li Jiwen, Zhang Lei and other officials of the shogunate came out of the hall with a spring breeze on their faces, and everyone followed Liu Yan to rise and rise, although everyone does not have any rank now, but now everyone doesn't care about these, as long as they follow Liu Yan, even if they are white, high-ranking officials like the prefect of Jinan must regard themselves as subordinates, this is the strength!

In stark contrast to everyone, Gao Yingming, the Tongzhi of Jinan Mansion, and other officials had gloomy faces, leaving the Governor's Mansion in twos and threes, still whispering how much they were going to lose, and some people were worried that Liu Yan would settle accounts after the autumn and so on.

Gao Yingming was irritable, and he also encroached on a lot of military farmland, at least more than 3,000 acres, and dozens of military households worked in the industry under his name all the year round.

"Hehe, Lord Gao?"

Zhao Caiming, the prefect of Jinan, smiled when he saw Gao Yingming, who was leaving quickly

shouted, Gao Yingming just clenched his fists and signaled, and then got into the sedan chair and left without saying a word.

"This tall man, hasn't he seen the situation clearly?"

Zhao Caiming also encroached on the cultivated land of Juntun, but the amount was very small, only about 200 acres, and this time he also made up his mind that for the sake of his own future, he would just hand it over.

"Alas! When things change, don't worry about others. ”

Zhao Caiming felt in the same joint, and felt in a good mood, and walked directly to the Shogunate's Ministry of Agriculture on the side of the Governor's Palace, and happened to see Zhang Lei, who was about to go in and tidy up.

"Hehe, Minister Zhang, do you have time?"

"It turned out to be Lord Zhao, what advice do you have?"

Zhao Caiming saw that there were many people in the courtyard of the official office of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the officials and people of the Ministry of Agriculture were coming in and out, so he pulled Zhang Lei aside, and then put a few land deeds on the ground: "Hehe, this official is in a daze, and he has made some ......, hehe." ”

Zhang Lei naturally understood, but looked at the title deed and said: "Lord Zhao doesn't need to say it, the governor has an order first, as long as Lord Zhao takes the initiative to return the cultivated land and pay the tax arrears, he will not be held accountable." However, in the future, Lord Zhao must think twice about doing things. ”

"Understand, understand, it won't be like this in the future."

Zhao Caiming said with a smile: "When Minister Zhang said this, I can be regarded as down-to-earth. I'm going to go to the Ministry of Finance and Commerce to make up the tax arrears. ”

Half a month later, the shogunate ministries began to implement new policies in Jinan, Dongchang and other places, to recover tax arrears, to verify the military cantonment farmland, and to screen the tens of thousands of captured thieves and soldiers.

As for the great sins

The leaders and soldiers of the extremely thieves, Liu Yan ordered all of them to be beheaded outside the city of Jinan Mansion, and hundreds of bloody heads were placed in Beijing, and the people who passed by all applauded when they saw it. When those civil and military generals and gentry from all over the country heard about it, they were afraid of Liu Yan's methods, and most of them rushed to explain the problem.

The battalions of the new army were also deployed to various parts of Shandong, and the original deployment in the four prefectures of Qinglai Town remained unchanged, Dongchang Mansion was garrisoned by the right battalion, and the personal guard battalion, the middle battalion, the artillery battalion, and the cavalry battalion were all stationed in Jinan Fucheng.

As the new army completely controlled the whole territory of Shandong, the shogunate ministries collected more and more taxes in arrears and recovered more and more arable land for the military camps, and the progress of the implementation of the new policy became smoother and smoother.

Of course, there are also some corrupt officials and gentry who are lucky, or who rely on the people in their own court, who are unwilling to pay the taxes owed or return the encroached farmland. These people always think that Liu Yan does not dare to kill them for the sake of their own future, after all, these people have backers in the court.

But they never imagined that less than a month after the implementation of the new policy, Liu Yan got a list, which basically included all the "diehards".

The officers and men of the New Army in various localities went out in a big way, and within 10 days, more than 140 officials from all over Shandong were arrested, and then they raided their homes and people, arresting a total of 3,962 prisoners and their families, and copying out property equivalent to 1.92 million silver coins! In addition, there are more than 360,000 acres of cultivated land and 350,000 stones in stock!

With such a huge gain, even Liu Yan has an impulse, that is, to "fight local tyrants"!

At this time, Liu Yan

Only then did he realize Li Zicheng's "happiness", no wonder Li Zicheng could maintain an army of millions by virtue of coercion and plunder, and those gentry and officials were indeed rich.

Liu Yan ordered all the confiscated money and grain to be put into the warehouse, which could just be used as the expenditure for the rectification of Shandong soldiers and horses, and it could be regarded as the last contribution made by those corrupt officials and inferior gentry to the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of April, Liu Yan ordered more than 140 corrupt officials and unscrupulous gentry to be escorted to the south gate of Jinan Prefecture, and more than 140 people were beheaded in front of officials and people in the city. There is another Beijing temple outside the city of Jinan.

As for the thousands of family members, the elderly and children were sent to the new schools in various states and counties to do volunteer work, and the rest of the strong women and men were all sent to the workshops of the Ministry of Commerce to do hard labor.

After this operation, Liu Yan's name as "butcher" was completely opened, Liu Yan laughed after hearing it, if killing people can be in China, killing people can prevent the eternal tragedy like the Jiashen National Disaster, Liu Yan doesn't mind becoming a murderer!

At this time, many officials and military officers in various prefectures and counties were frightened, and even if they paid the arrears of taxes and returned the cultivated land, they were worried that Liu Yan would settle accounts after the autumn, so they abandoned their officials and fled one after another, and went to seek refuge with relatives and friends elsewhere, so many vacant official positions appeared in various parts of Shandong.

Liu Yan directly ordered the transfer of reliable civil officials from all ministries of the shogunate, as well as from all parts of the Yanzhou and Laizhou prefectures, to fill the civil vacancies in the prefectures and counties. At the same time, suitable candidates were selected from among the disabled officers and men of the New Army after the New Army after the previous wars to fill the vacant military posts in various guard posts.

Liu Yan ordered Li Jiwen to write a chapter and report it to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials for approval as soon as possible

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After hearing the news, Governor Yan Jizu also sighed, he had expected that Liu Yan would use various means to install henchmen and adjust the civil and military generals in various parts of Shandong, but he never imagined that it would be such a situation.

"Those people really can't support the wall in the mud, and they took the initiative to give Liu Yan a place, and it is estimated that Liu Yan must be very happy now."

Yan Jizu thought that his governor would also be an ornament in the future, Liu Yan is shogunate is completely a small court, collecting taxes, making money, managing civil affairs, and coordinating the army, almost turning Shandong into Liu Yan's own world, but it still retains a layer of court skin on the bright side.

Thinking of this, Yan Jizu only felt shuddering, where will he go in the future?

"Perhaps, following Liu Yan is also a choice, just like Li Jiwen and Hu Zongming?"

Yan Jizu thought that he was hopeless for promotion in the imperial court, could he stop here in his life? Thinking of this, Yan Jizu gritted his teeth and made a choice.