Beiyang new warlord

Really extremely reluctant, this little guy dawdled for a long time before he got closer, and said with a perfunctory bow.

"Xingjian pays homage to father!"

At this time, it seemed that I had to give a meeting gift, but I really didn't prepare anything, this time it was Mao Jue's turn to be embarrassed.

Give him a gun?The meaning is good for a son to inherit his father's business, but handing a pistol to a five or six-year-old doll always feels a little unreliable, saber?Even more unreliable!

The old face was contorted for a while, and Mao Jue suddenly slapped his head, as if when he was a child, his father's action of giving pocket money made him feel the most handsome and admired. When he stretched out his hand, he untied the heavy money bag hanging from his waist He got down and put his hand into Xiao Xingjian's hand.

"Flying like a dragon and walking like a tiger, let's make a living with determination! As expected of my Mao Jue's child! Here! This is for you, you can buy whatever you want! Father is busy with his official duties, and he will come to accompany you again!"

I felt that the action I gave Yinzi was really cool, with a smile all over my face, and after patting my eldest son's little head, he got on the horse triumphantly, but fortunately he was walking in a hurry, so he didn't notice that the kid opened his mouth behind him. After the bag, he immediately flattened his mouth and threw the money bag on the ground in disdain!

Not to mention that this kid has never been out of the Duke's mansion since he was a child, but the last time he was hit on the head with bribes because of Mao Jue's claim to the king, it was enough for this kid to have a psychological shadow on the shiny silver.

Today is an extremely important day for both Dongjiang and the surrender of the former Ming Dynasty. It is related to whether the Liaodong faction and the northern scholar-bureaucrats can continue to cooperate harmoniously. Next, the long line of officials waited in front of the palace gate early with torches, just like the early dynasty in the Chongzhen period.

Mao Jue was obviously not as diligent as Chongzhen. When he came, he was half an hour later than the normal early morning. If Chongzhen were in power, there would probably be civil servants who were tongue-tied and chattered about criticizing him. But now the new master He didn't understand his emotions at all, and the faces of the so-called Qingliu civil servants all blushed, and they didn't dare to let go of any of them.

After all, he was not yet an emperor, and Mao Jue did not rashly go to the Qianqing Palace to hold the morning court. The address of the court was set in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Central Government Office. A golden chair was placed here, followed by several mighty soldiers. Holding a gun like a guard of honor, Mao Jue was escorted into the house, sitting on a chair, and the civil and military officials in front of him kowtowed and bowed down without any scruples.

"The ministers are waiting to meet Liao King Qiantui Qiantui!"

"All ministers are in peace, proclaim the last edict of the late emperor!"

Sitting on a chair, Mao Jue, who had rested all night, tilted his head in high spirits, and was also covered with an ill-fitting first-rank official crane purple robe. Song Xiance also had red eye circles, and recited in high spirits stand up.

"Following the fate of the heavens, the emperor of Daxing said: Jue, king of the Liao Dynasty in the north of Saibei, is loyal, brave and virtuous, benevolent and righteous! He is the pillar of our dynasty! The dry city of the country! The dry scull of the Ming Dynasty! I am very comforted, and I specially bestow the thirteenth daughter of the emperor, Changping. As a son-in-law, the crown prince is young, Jin Liao King Jue is the regent, assists the crown prince, and has an overview of the court situation, if anyone refuses to listen to him, they are all rebels, and their crimes should be punished, this is my honor!"

This imperial decree is definitely fart. With Chongzhen's suspicious virtues, it is impossible to kill him and let a foreigner regent, but at this time, Mao Jue has the absolute right to speak, even if Chongzhen jumped out of the grave and yelled that it was not him No one believed what he said, and the ministers who knew it well naturally did not dare to sing the opposite tune. The ministers once again knelt down three times and replied neatly.

"I would like to abide by the will of Emperor Daxing!"

Even if you seek to usurp the throne, there must be a sequence. For example, Li Yuan, the former great ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, after capturing Chang'an, he obeyed Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty as the Supreme Emperor, and appointed Yang Guang's grandson Yang You as Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty. In the name of Sui, he went to attack other Lufan kings, until the situation in the world became clear, and then let Yang You abdicate and became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty himself.

Mao Jue was also planning to follow Li Yuan's path, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that the officials obeyed.

Next, it was time for the appointment of officials, which the courtiers were extremely concerned about. Thanks to Dongjiang's high efficiency, he sorted out the information of the Jinyiwei officials all night. Song Xiance and his party knew clearly who they were. After nodding, he took out a thick edict from the regent king again, and read it aloud.

"The capital has fallen, the country is in crisis, and the imperial court is in urgent need of employing people. Under the order of the regent, Shen Guangzuo, the former Liaodong minister, is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Hong Chengchou, the former governor of Liaodong, is the Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs. He served Song Xiance as Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and former Liaodong minister Su Changmei as Minister of the Ministry of Households"

The long officials resigned to their fate, although they all added a code word, but the big guys knew it well, this was basically settled, and some officials who were named and promoted couldn't help being ecstatic, and they were not named Among them, a total of five or six hundred Liaodong officials under Mao Jue were officially placed in the court, and most of them held high positions. With the former Liaodong officials as the team, Mao Jue's regent system, It took shape for the first time in Jingshi City!

Chapter 598. Don't be idle!

In fact, there were not many officials in the Ming Dynasty. According to estimates, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the national population was about 5000 million, but the total number of officials was only 8000, which is equivalent to one person managing seven to eight thousand people. This is one of the reasons why the imperial court's finances were exhausted by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Mao Jueting did not clear too many officials. There are about 1000 officials in Beijing. Except for the old scumbags or those with too deep background in Donglin who can talk nonsense, there are about [-] reserved positions. In addition, more than [-] officials, large and small, were stuffed into the Dongjiang River, and the number of officials has actually increased compared to before.

It can be regarded as saving their position. A large group of officials went down to court and returned home happily. However, when they came to work at the Central Government Office in the afternoon, they realized that things were not that simple!

First, a lot of hard-faced bosses appeared in their yamen, and then, with a bang, the hill-like ledgers and statements were poured on the table with Dongjiang sacks while their eyes were dull, and then those hard-faced bosses used Announced coldly in the tone of a domineering president of later generations.

"The king of Liao ordered that these account books must be made within seven days!"

After saying this sentence, the face was gloomy, and these Liao town officials were particularly domineering. The president leaned out of the desk, knocked on the table and snorted coldly.

"If the deadline cannot be met, all will be returned!"

The scholar-bureaucrats in Ming Dynasty paid attention to leisure and elegance in the officialdom. Some county magistrates even took office for three years and spent all their time reciting poems and composing money. , there are not a few people waiting for money in the corpses of Beijing officials. The large pile of ledgers in front of them almost caught up with their one-year work in the past. Looking at the gloomy Dongjiang chief officials, a large group of them were stunned. .

"Master Shangshu, isn't this too much!"

Unable to help himself, a certain civil servant who had just been promoted to be a servant couldn't help but stammer and argue.

In this life, I never thought that I, a dwarf who was abandoned by the imperial examination, would be able to sit in the position of Minister of Rites. However, when I got to this position, I just realized that it seems to be nothing. There is no difference, the only difference is that those regular civil servants who had their eyes turned to the sky in the past had to bow their heads in front of him and obey.

Dazed for a while, and then looking at the forty-something handsome servant with a smiling face, Song Xiance couldn't help but stiffen his face, tapping the documents and books on the desktop with his fingers, he hummed coldly.

"This is only three days' work in Liao Town. The King of Liao gave you seven days. If you can't finish it, what use are you to the King of Liao?"

Now it's a time of chaos, what will happen to a useless person, the Minister of Rites couldn't help shivering, bent down and hugged the documents on the table in his arms, and got off in a hurry .

It wasn't that Mao Jue wanted to torment them on purpose, but the whole imperial court had really become a mess, and it was time to waste everything. Take the officials as an example, Li Zicheng's army marched eastward, and step by step made Daming in the local area. Mao Jue wanted to rule, but at the same time he had to constantly resend magistrates to the localities to bring back the local rule. The official quota is selected and transferred.

This involves the Ministry of Rites again. Mao Jue doesn't want the mud bodhisattva county magistrate hanging high on the wall in the old days. He doesn't care if the stereotyped articles are good or not, but he must be proficient in money and grain, know how to collect taxes, and how to measure land , In case of a lawsuit, you have to understand it. Even if you don’t understand the law and the world is smooth, the selection of talents has always been a matter for the Ministry of Rites. The model was copied in Guozijian.

Then there are the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War!The first thing Mao Jue did when he took office was to build roads. Wherever the railway in Liaodong goes, the cannons can point there. Although Li Zicheng was defeated, he had a precedent of thieves from the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years. Mao Jue didn't want to be like Chongzhen. , fought guerrillas with him for more than ten years, and Jiangnan, during the period when the capital fell, there were still many bureaucrats fleeing south. It is expected that, just like in history, in the past few months, Zhu Yousong, the chubby king of fortune, may have been in The Sixth Ministry of Nanjing proclaimed himself emperor, even if there was an accident, Lu Wang Zhu Changrun was there as a backup.

Even if the IQ of these uncles and nephews is added, they are not as heavy as Adelaine's high-heeled shoes, but after all, it is tens of millions of Jiangnan with a population of nearly 20 million, and those aristocratic families who have ruled for many years are not easy to provoke. After more than [-] years, when I come to my place, I guess this war still has to be fought.

Then a main railway line that pulls out from Shanhaiguan, goes straight to the Yangtze River vertically, and spreads horizontally from Shanxi to Shaanxi and Gansu is indispensable.

Now there is no shortage of silver, thanks to Li Zicheng, not counting Mao Jue’s own huge property, in the treasury, Datong City has a total of more than 7000 million taels of silver, which can be used to adjust the population, distribute silver, and purchase steel. The Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry will make plans.

There is also the Ministry of Criminal Affairs. The previous "Law of the Ming Dynasty" will definitely not work under Mao Jue's rule. It must be modeled on the trade law and reclamation law implemented by Dongjiang, and it must be combined with the characteristics of Daming itself. Although the Ministry of Criminal Justice is not imminent, it is still busy.

In fact, the most important thing should belong to the Ministry of War.

Up to now, the Liaodong Corps is still the foundation of Mao Jue's survival, but this is also the yamen with the least number of members of the original Daming team. Those stinky fish and rotten shrimps in the former military department, such as Zhang Jinyan, either died or fled. These small shrimps were also basically transferred to other departments by Mao Jue. The new military department almost moved all the members of the original Liao Town Command Headquarters, and even did not have a servant or anything under it, and directly commanded the commanders of each regiment. , the original taste, but also the original rest assured.

As for the military, it takes too much preparation to transport the heavy-equipped Liaodong Army to the Northwest or to the south, transporting coal and grain from Hegang, Acheng, to Shanhaiguan, and transporting logistics materials from Shanhaiguan to Lianghuai or Xi'an. , are definitely two concepts. It is rare for Mao Jue to adopt a conservative table here. More than 20 heavy troops are still deployed in the capital just in case, and they are only mixed with infantry and cavalry to form small-scale light troops to expand outward. Among them, the Chinese Meng Tieshan Corps 3 people entered Shaanxi from Yulin to receive Guanzhong. Liu Chong led Dongjiang cavalry and various cavalry brigades to form a dragoon force of about 5 people, and followed Li Zicheng to beat him, trying to beat him to the south of the Yangtze River, causing trouble It's also a headache for the group of people in the Donglin Party Fushe, so as to save myself from bothering myself.

A lot of opportunities were thrown away by Mao Jue at the same time, and the whole capital was tossed up and down, but the imperial court resumed normal operation, which led to the recovery of the people. I watched all the officials and masters no longer pretending to be beggars and hiding in Tibet, busy like a grandson of an office worker, rushing to the central government office early in the morning with a big cake in his mouth before dawn, unconsciously The big guy finally let go of his heart, he should go out to work, go out to work, and what to do.

However, amidst the busyness, there is someone who has been forgotten to the back of his mind.

Prince!

Too many tasks have been issued, and the officials are busy completing the tasks to keep their black hats. The northern army of the Ming Dynasty has been wiped out! Now the capital does not even have a patrol soldier who guards the gate under the command of the old Zhu's family. The eunuchs and nobles became the biggest losers in this power distribution. Mao Jue didn't need the sixteen eunuchs in the inner court to check and balance the outer dynasty. The huge eunuch class lost its effect. When the capital was breached, they did Niaoshousan, relying most on the imperial power and wanting to speak out for the prince, but they had no right to speak. As for Xungui, the family was basically bankrupt. How to win a new meritorious service under Mao Jue's hands became their imminent need The problem that needs to be solved, who would dare to touch Mao Jue's reverse scale at this juncture?

Unknowingly, in the core of this empire, the Zhu family's rule has gradually been forgotten!

Chapter 599. All in One

Ding~boom~ding~boom~

There was a sound of knocking, accompanied by sweat crystals splashing on the ground, reflecting the scorching sun in June, the heavy and slender steel bars were scorched brightly, and the workers chanted and dragged them off the heavy lathe, and then finished them again. It beat firmly on the ground.The war has only just passed a few months, but it seems like a long time has passed. I guess no one would have guessed that these people standing on the construction site and desperately turning the sledgehammer against the two rails were the Dashun soldiers who once ruled the world and had blood in their hands. .

Or something went wrong in Chongzhen's governance. During the 17 years of Chongzhen, what the imperial court did was either desperately increase taxes and collect taxes, or use the money from tax increases to fight wars and wars every day. more and more.

Mao Jue's methods were not very clever. After the Shanhaiguan War, Liaozhen captured more than 40 family members of the Dashun Army. Except for the anger that killed a lot on the night of the war, the rest were basically treated kindly. The establishment was not disrupted, and he was directly transferred to the railway force on the spot to build this railway from Wailei Town, Shanhaiguan, to Xuzhou.

Moreover, the King of Liao also promised that after the construction of the Xulei Railway, every household of the descendants in Jizhou, Hebei Province, Gyeonggi Province will be allocated [-] acres of land.

Wasn't it just to be able to eat and have a piece of land to live a peaceful life by following Li Zicheng as cannon fodder?Although I still don't quite believe in the imperial court, but I have canned corn every day, new clothes on my body, and real money on a monthly basis. These hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers are still in the mentality of giving it a try, sweating crystal clear beads for the empire.