Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 502 Affecting Official Career

There is another reason why the emperor wanted to move the capital to Beijing so eagerly. I have to reveal that the Forbidden City is really tormented.

It is bare, except that the house is the house, the flowers and plants are the same, and the biggest embellishment is just those beautiful maids and concubines.

As for the stunning beauty that is difficult for ordinary people, the emperor has become accustomed to it, and he is bored everywhere he sees it.

Although the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty was huge compared to the Song Dynasty, it was only one-sixth of that in the Tang and Han Dynasties.

The number of people in the palace is even greater, which shows that the building is crowded.

It's no wonder that the Manchus liked to build gardens. The cold Forbidden City is disgusting, and the palace with many regulations is even more annoying.

Once they moved to Beijing, it was inevitable to build gardens to recuperate.

This time, Chen Dong was just standing in front of the emperor to see if there was a good place to build a garden.

As a left-behind in Beijing, Jiang Riguang not only took on the heavy task of rebuilding Beijing, but also the responsibility of rebuilding the entire North Zhili.

What is Zhili refers to the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the central court, as is the case with Beizhili today.

Since the two dynasties of Tianqi and Chongzhen, Northern Zhili has not been able to live in peace. Plague and military disasters prevailed, and it was the enclosure movement of the Qing Dynasty that directly destroyed its economy.

The staking of land flooded to the entire North Zhili.

Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and demoted to slavery, and nearly [-]% of the land in Beizhili was closed by the Eight Banners.

Counting the population, taxation, land and other matters, people are so busy that they don't even touch the ground. How could they still have time to meet Chen Dong.

Beijing does not only include the city of Beijing, but also the whole of Beizhili.

"The people in Northern Zhili are only [-]% of what they used to be in previous years. Half of the acres are abandoned, and the land is full of barren fields and weeds. The most important thing now is to build ditches and level the land so that the refugees can settle down and contribute taxes!"

Jiang Yueguang fell into helplessness. He needed a lot of money, cattle, farm tools, etc. to supply the whole of Beizhili, but the court repeatedly asked him to concentrate on the city of Beijing.

According to the intention of the imperial court, Beizhili is too big after all. If it is taken into account, there will be no three to five years of effort, and years of investment, otherwise it will not be well adjusted.

However, the city of Beijing is just a corner of the land, and the people are scattered. With only a little money, it can change its appearance in a short period of time and become a suitable capital.

As the capital of the country, it is normal to get priority.

"Hmph, it's really short-sighted. If Bei Zhili regains its strength, it won't have to rely on the south. By then, it will save the court more than a million taels."

It's a pity that his arms can't hold back his legs, so he can only complete the transformation of Beijing City first.

Anyone with a far-sighted vision can naturally see that the direction of the imperial court's future military use will only be in the northeast and Shanhaiguan area.

It is normal to pile up [-] soldiers in the future, and if the population of the capital is only used for food in the south, the loss will be too great.

Instead of doing this, it is better to directly consume the food in Beizhili.

If North Zhili supplies one stone, the south can save three or four stones in transportation. This kind of account can be calculated by anyone.

Of course, in order to move the capital to Beijing, the imperial court couldn't take care of Beizhili.

However, Jiang Yueguang was unwilling to give up, and still wanted to better govern Beizhili.

After all, from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, and then to Xuanda, Beizhili, such a huge place, he really couldn't do what he wanted.

In fact, after learning that Southern Zhili was divided into three, Jiang Yueguang also wrote to the court, requesting that Northern Zhili be split into three.

One is the most important Shuntian Mansion, which has long been planned and is directly subordinate to the center of the imperial court; while Hebei Province has become independent and established a heartland province.

The last one is the Xuanda area, which is the gateway to the northwest of Beijing and faces the grasslands. Naturally, we should also pay attention to it and list it separately.

On the premise that the supply of money and food remains unchanged, dividing Beizhili into three, allowing suitable people to carry out fine governance and share his pressure, can also achieve the same effect.

However, after several days of discussion on the proposal of the Nanjing court to divide the province, it finally shelved it.

For one thing, the establishment of provinces has been too frequent recently, and there are not enough officials in the court, so this matter still has to be delayed.

Secondly, Beijing is about to become the capital of the country, and the status of Zhili in the north is best directly under the central government, but it is easy to threaten the central government by ordering the establishment of a province.

For Li Yingren, these few days have been really tormenting.

Relying on his title, he sent people to investigate everywhere, just thinking about finding out the background of that stunning beauty, even if he was a dignitary, he would dare to challenge him.

It's strange to say that after three to five days of hard work, there was no progress.

"What do you guys eat? Don't you know how to ask Ying Tianfu directly?"

Li Yingren has a bad temper and is extremely dissatisfied with his subordinates.

Pity him, the handsome general of Liaoning, the man of Jinzhou, who can't even figure out a woman, it's really shameful.

"Boss, this Nanjing is no better than our Liaodong, you can ask if you can't catch your tongue, and the yamen really doesn't have any information, even if we bribe you..."

The soldiers were very wronged.

Regarding this, Li Yingren regretted it a bit: If Gao Yigong and Li Dingguo were still there, they would definitely be able to help me find out.

Unfortunately, there is no if in this world.

Feeling irritable, Li Yingren has lost interest in official banquets in the past few days.

On this day, he was returning from the palace in a carriage, and he was still thinking about how to launch an offensive against Liaodong as soon as possible along the way.

With the decline of the Qing Dynasty, he, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, has a lot to do, and it is no longer a dream to build a separate province in Liaodong.

Thinking that he would discover the glory of the Li family, he was quite excited.

Suddenly, the carriage stopped.

Just when he was in a daze, several men in black broke into the carriage, drew out their waist knives and pointed them at his throat.

Although he couldn't see their faces clearly, Li Yingren felt that these people exuded a murderous aura, and they really killed people.

"who are you?"

In the capital, Li Yingren was exceptionally calm.

"Us?" The masked man in black chuckled and said, "To be honest, you forced us to come out, Mr. Li."

"You know me?" Li Yingren was startled, shouting in his heart that it's not good, he came prepared.

"So what if we know each other?" The masked man said coldly, "We are here this time just to warn you, don't make distracting thoughts in your mind."

"If your lower body dictates what you think, then I'm pretty sure yours won't have a lower body."

"Whose family do you belong to?" Li Yingren said with a straight chest without fear.

"It doesn't matter who's it is, but Mr. Li has to understand that there are some people you can't mess with, especially women."

After finishing speaking, the men in black left, and the car instantly calmed down.

Li Yingren was sweating coldly, panting heavily: "The capital really is really deep."

Confusedly offended someone because of a woman, Li Yingren was very irritable, damn it, this will affect his official career!

(End of this chapter)