The Ming Dynasty had never been able to defeat guerrillas in field battles. In the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Yunwen's hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty regular troops were stunned by his uncle Zhu Di's tens of thousands of King Yan's army for four years.Then there was the civil fort mutiny that was almost nailed to the pillar of shame in Ming history. Ming Yingzong led a large army to conquer Oirat in person. As a result, Oirat captured the emperor. All 66 ministers died in battle. It can be called a great shame in the history of the Ming Dynasty. !

After the Mutiny of Tumubao in the Ming Dynasty, the army lost its vigor and dared not send troops easily.Today's Liaodong is also facing this situation.The defense line of the Ming army was too long, and a border city was established to guard the fortress, but what they faced was the guerrilla attack from time to time in the late Jin Dynasty. But it gets worse every year!

Looking back at the feat of Zhu Di, the founder of Ming Dynasty who "guarded the gate of the country" by the emperor, moved the capital to Beijing, and fought five battles in Mobei...Bi Xiasi felt a little uncomfortable with this emotion. After all, the next sentence "the king died in Sheji" meant that he hanged coal The deeds of the mountain!

He took a long breath, and said word by word, "Third, secretly get rid of Liaodong General Wu Xiang and his second son Wu Sangui."

Yuan Chonghuan immediately raised his head to look at him, and Bi Xia didn't avoid his eyes at all, his eyes were like a torch.

After a long time, Yuan Chonghuan lowered his head, his voice was firm, "I obey!"

Watching Yuan Chonghuan leave, Bi Xia let out a long breath. When Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, he had already raised his braids. Speaking of which, the two of them had no serious enmity. The Qing soldiers found a way out, but Bi Xia just couldn't understand this person, so he simply strangled the seedling to death.

Standing by the side, Yi Zhi had finished drafting the new tax policy. Bi Xia watched the complicated tax system, swallowed silently, and took out another booklet, which was densely painted in red. Signed name.

"Is this really the trick?" Bi Xia swallowed.

Yi Zhi hooked her lips, "Cut the mess quickly."

Holding the two big books in his hand, Bi Xia gritted his teeth and summoned the inner prisoner, and sent him to the Department of General Affairs.

However, within half a day, these two booklets caused an uproar among the courtiers!

In the cabinet, a group of ministers had a fierce quarrel around the two booklets.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? The salary of most of the royal families other than the five royal families has been cut?"

"Taxes are collected from the clan, industry and commerce... Is there a tax deduction for the salary of the clan? Merchants also collect taxes when they do business? This is simply a big joke!"

"The children of the clan are just enjoying the blessings of their ancestors, so why not deduct taxes!"

"Businessmen charge [-]% tax, isn't it a bit higher..."

"I will appoint imperial envoys to give lectures on taxation across the country!"

The last sentence completely stunned everyone. This is a matter of directly confronting those rich and powerful clan children, who would be happy!There are also those businessmen, although they all look down on them, but they are really rich!

The Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs made a rough calculation. According to His Majesty’s tax reform law, the national treasury will be completely filled within a year, but the reform has never been said to be changed day and night. It must be convened to discuss with all the officials. It makes sense to have a charter!

At this time, a cold voice came out from the corner, "Your Majesty has ordered me to take fifty thousand soldiers to tour the country with imperial envoys, and urge clans and merchants to pay taxes according to the system."

Everyone followed the voice and saw that the person who spoke was the new Minister of War, Mr. Su. They also remembered that this was the new emperor's favorite, so they were silent for a while.

Su Daji's face was pale, "Your Majesty promised this subject that if you succeed in this matter, you will be rewarded with a title."

Everyone's eyes lit up in an instant, and someone immediately turned the booklet to the last page, which bluntly stated that if the imperial envoy is successful, he will be awarded a first-class title, and he will be granted the position of chief assistant!

How difficult it is for a literati to seal a marquis!There was even a promise of the position of chief assistant with one person under ten thousand, and everyone in the cabinet couldn't help but ignited their fighting spirit in their hearts. They carefully flipped through the two rosters and found that their majesty had told them in detail how to appease them. The clan and merchants even asked them to bring high-yield foreign grains to the people everywhere, and even gave them the imperial sword that could kill the faint officials!

There is food and soldiers, such a big gift package has been dropped, and they can only be decent as imperial envoys!

The new emperor is really interesting!Quite good at life!They had already drafted [-] self-recommended memorials in their hearts, and within half a day, dozens of memorials flooded to Bi Xia's desk.

Bi Xia's move was ruthless, cutting the salaries of clans without troops by more than half, while those with private soldiers had Su Daji take good care of them before cutting more than half.As for the armies in various places, Su Daji was also asked to check the list one by one to prevent the existence of empty pay, and at the same time arrange for the retirement of soldiers over 40 years old in batches.On the other hand, Su Daji had to monitor that the imperial envoy did not do anything bad in private. It was a life of a coolie eating grass and spitting milk. Fortunately, the imperial envoy this time was a man with good eyesight.

However, the effect of this move was very immediate. Su Daji's travels were very concealed, and when he arrived at a place, he used military force to forcibly reduce the salary of the local enfeoffing clan.As for the title of imperial envoy, which officials had been fighting for a long time, it finally fell on the head of an old censor in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

This person is used to reading people's eyes, and he knows very well that he is just playing for a name, and Su Daji will do it as soon as he shouts. In order to popularize the new tax system, he even posted the vernacular version of the new tax system The streets and alleys are full, and a literate soldier stands in one place, reading aloud to the pedestrians passing by.

The scope of the promotion of the new tax system has also penetrated into the vast rural areas. In recent years, the drought has caused a lot of trouble, but they can barely make a living. The tragedy of the displaced people in the late Chongzhen period has not yet appeared.Su Daji and his party were like ambassadors of love, sending countless sweet potato seedlings to the rural areas, and by the way preached about Emperor Chongzhen's care for the people, but within a few months, Bi Xia's reputation was given to the public. peak.

It was the end of another morning, and Bi Xia firmly pressed the corner of his mouth to prevent himself from laughing too loudly, but as soon as he returned to the study, he immediately hugged Yi Zhi, laughing so hard that he couldn't take care of himself, "Hahahaha Yizhi Did you hear that, they praised me for being wise, powerful, tall and mighty! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Yi Zhi, who is distracted and feels Su Daji's exhaustion every day: ...

He patted Bi Xia's head, looked at the blue and black eyes of the other party and said nothing.The mess of the Ming Dynasty was too great, and Bi Xia, who had the memory of the previous life, could never let go of this life. The desire to save this dynasty was too strong, and Yi Zhi couldn't say anything.Every time Su Daji's letter was delivered, Bi Xia would get it immediately, in order to get feedback from the people as soon as possible. Fortunately, this dynasty did not disappoint him.

"The civil turmoil has been stabilized for the time being." Bi Xia's eyes were full of bloodshot eyes due to lack of sleep, but his spirit was extremely excited.He held Yi Zhi's hand tightly, "The next is the courtiers. In the past few months, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have joined many of Wei Zhongxian's party members, and there are many people who fish in troubled waters..."

These impeachments are piled up to the height of half a person, and almost half of Wei Zhongxian's manpower has been cut here.

However, in just a few months, Bi Xia's wrist became more and more rigid. Yi Zhi felt that from his body, he saw the memories accumulated for thousands of years being revived one by one and integrated into his wrist.

Yi Zhi couldn't tell if this situation was good or not, but the uneasiness in his heart became more and more obvious.

When Wei Zhongxian entered the palace again, he was quite haggard.In the past few months, he lost a lot of manpower, but Chongzhen rewarded him more and more.This kept him in a state of anxiety, and even the courtiers couldn't figure out how the emperor wanted to deal with Wei Zhongxian.

"Chen Wei Zhongxian kowtows to His Majesty!" His knees almost fell to the ground vigorously at the same time.

Bi Xia looked at Wei Zhongxian, who had aged a lot in a short period of time, with no trace on his face, "Ai Qing, do you know the reason why I called you here today?"

"...I dare not presume the emperor's will."

"Don't dare?" Bi Xia pursed his lips, "Officials from all over the country built hundreds of shrines for you, and the folks only know that you are nine thousand years old, but you don't know the Lord Long Live, you dare not?"

Wei Zhongxian's heart sank heavily, feeling like "it's finally here".He prostrated himself on the ground and made a big salute, his voice full of fear, "I deserve death for my crimes!"

Kill him with one knife!I don't want to be tortured like this by the emperor anymore, this is simply the kind of Ling Chi execution and demanded 650 knives!

Bi Xia walked up to Wei Zhongxian slowly, with a very calm tone, "I have cut off many of your wings recently, and you must be very dissatisfied with me in your heart, but I know very well that these people are just your party members on the surface, and they are secretly in love with you." I don't dare to guess how huge Qiantose's kingdom is."

"I... I am loyal to His Majesty!" Wei Zhongxian immediately kowtowed to show his loyalty.

"I really hope to gain your loyalty." Bi Xiayi grabbed Wei Zhongxian's face and made him look up at himself, "But as far as I know, you are only loyal to yourself!"

Today's Wei Zhongxian, most of the powerful party members in the court have been wiped out, and the rest are almost the eunuchs in Dongchang. They are all eunuchs with vicious methods but really efficient work. What Bi Xia values ​​​​is this group of people. intelligence capabilities.

"I'll give you two choices today." Bi Xia's eyes fixed on Wei Zhongxian, "One, live and die with your friends; two, be used by me."

Wei Zhongxian hardly thought about it, "I am willing to serve Your Majesty, even if I am so heartbroken!"

"I hope you will remember today's words." Bi Xia lifted Wei Zhongxian up with one hand, raised his chin at him, and then pointed at Yi Zhi, "From now on, you will take the East Factory with you and directly report to Yi Zhi, the new commander of Jin Yiwei. .”

Yi Zhi, who was standing by the side without saying a word, showed a friendly smile towards Wei Zhongxian, but Wei Zhongxian couldn't force a smile on his face.

Jinyiwei!

The author has something to say: Wei Zhongxian: The boss actually let our family's nemesis Jin Yiwei take care of me!What is tolerable is unbearable!Come on, dude...

Bi Xia: Come here, send 300 taels of silver to Mr. Wei!

Wei Zhongxian: ... I seem to be able to buy it for 300 taels!Too much!

Yi Zhi sharpened the kitchen knife silently: Three hundred and one taels, how about it?

Wei Zhongxian: ... Um, actually 300 taels is enough [Tears streaming down the face

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