Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 341 The Nine Years of the Seemingly Calm Apocalypse

In the days that followed, Daming seemed to be very calm.

Outside the customs, Monan and Liaodong are still dividing land and pastures, building yamen and Chidao. If they want to fully establish a ruling system and start collecting animal husbandry taxes, they will have to wait at least ten years after the apocalypse.

Due to the impact of the climate of the small ice river, Northeast Asia has become even colder. According to Jin Yiwei's report, a brigade of the Imperial Guards marching into Northeast Asia and Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang soldiers did not go very well, but fortunately, they are all tests of the natural environment. They can only overcome it by themselves, and the court can't help them.

After being tricked by Zhu Youxiao once, Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe also felt a little resentful against Daming, and began to flirt with Jiannu in Liaodong, but the envoy he sent to Jiannu was successfully intercepted by Jinyiwei in Liaodong.

Zhu Youxiao simply took advantage of this to publish the letter brought by the envoy in the Daming Daily, so that it would be widely distributed throughout the world, and at the same time ordered Ouyang Zheng, the censor of Shanxi Province, to go to the Chahar Department to interrogate Lin Danhan.

Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe is depressed because of the dishonesty of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty, and he is not in the mood to see Ouyang Zheng, a mere patrol censor.

But what Lin Danhan didn't expect was that at the same time that he knew that Ouyang Zheng, a patrol censor of the Ming Dynasty, was coming to his Chahar department, the third army of the Imperial Guard suddenly came to Helin and marched into Chahar. The trend of the Ministry.

At the same time, Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chuanting, and Zhou Yuji also sent troops from Datong to Xuanhua, and they seemed to want to fight.

Every day, you can hear the news that the rangers report that these Ming troops are fighting near the border with the Chahar Ministry, and it seems that they are about to attack on a large scale. Lin Danhan is also frightened. Military exercises, and the purpose is military threats.

But he was indeed threatened. Although Lin Danhan had the ambition to unify Mongolia, he knew how much he was, and he didn't dare to defeat the morale of the Ming army right now.

Lin Danhan had no choice but to meet Ouyang Zheng, the censor of the patrol, and was eager to ask what Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty wanted to do.

But what Lin Danhan didn't expect was that when he saw Ouyang Zheng, he saw the majesty of the upper kingdom, and also felt the pain of Huang Taiji seeing Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa.

Ouyang Zheng was short in stature, with acne scars on his face, but he stood proudly in front of Lin Danhan, pointed at Lin Danhan and shouted: "By His Majesty's will, ask King Shunping: Hello Lin Danhan, I will make you King Shunping!" , because you still have one heart with me, but now your ass is on the side of Jianu, what do you want to do! The envoy you sent to Jianu has been rectified by me, so this matter has never happened, and if you dare to do it again in the future If you act rashly, don't blame me for being rude!"

After Ouyang Zheng scolded, he turned around and left.

Lin Danhan was stunned for a long time, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, but at this time Ouyang Zheng had gone far away, he wished to chase him back to death, but he didn't dare. He could only bear the insult of being scolded by a little censor of Ming Dynasty.

Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe had to be honest, and Huang Taiji of Jiannu was also dormant for the time being.

The Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area were too late to go to Daming to fight the autumn wind because of Lin Danhan's gradual encroachment. Even in order to prevent Lin Danhan from unifying Mongolia, Zhu Youxiao secretly ordered Sun Chengzong, the trilateral leader, to sell some weapons, food, tea, salt, and iron mines at low prices. supplies to these tribes.

As for Guanzhong, there is still no news of Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, and there is no sign of Zhang Xianzhong. A riot happened once, but it turned into a riot launched by some stubborn gentry. Some of them followed Huo Weihua's engineering team of the Ministry of Industry to run all over the country.

The Shanxi merchants in Shanxi did not decline because of the eight major Shanxi merchants. On the contrary, countless new Shanxi merchants sprung up like mushrooms, but they were all secretly appointed by Zhu Youxiao. If you want to do business outside the customs, you must pay customs fees (tariffs in disguise), and even collect salt and iron, so the imperial court does not have to worry that these Shanxi merchants will once again become transporters for forces outside the customs.

What's more, Zhu Youxiao also set up a customs inspection department in Jiubianbian Town, and appointed a customs inspection censor to be responsible for collecting customs fees and additional taxes on various sensitive commodities (salt and iron, etc.), The imperial court supervised and cracked down on smuggling.

The Liangjing Road has been built to the territory of Henan, and the demand for migrant workers has further increased. Although the number of landless refugees has been greatly reduced, a new social phenomenon has also appeared-the labor shortage.

Ma Shiying’s tax revenue in Fengyang once again climbed to a new high, and there was even Fengyang Business Daily, which specifically reported on the business conditions of Fengyang and the entire Ming Dynasty, and also ranked the wealth of various businessmen in Ming Dynasty.

This can be regarded as the Forbes of Ming Dynasty, but what is surprising is that among the richest businessmen in the world, apart from three are Shanxi merchants, two are Huizhou merchants, one is Fujian merchants, and five are Fengyang merchants.

The integration of government and gentry in Shandong has come to an end, but in fact there are not many officials and gentry paying for food, because Yuan Keli promoted government and gentry paying for food. With the support of Zhu Youxiao, half of the gentry in Shandong were punished or sent to the outside of the Great Wall and the west.

Under the coercive action of Zhu Youxiao, there were countless talents in the southwest of Ming Dynasty. According to the report of the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Huguang and other places, there are almost more new schools than new fields.

The functions of the six ministries began to gradually expand. The previous one, one minister, and two ministers could no longer satisfy the operation of the state machinery, but it was also found that there were not enough officials, especially the available officials.

Many scholars or officials only care about others, and have no other use except to increase the literacy rate. Zhu Youxiao wondered whether it is necessary to use the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Sciences, various technical training institutions, the Imperial College, and the Hanlin Academy. Establish a modern university.

Its purpose is to cultivate talents who can be used, and talents who can satisfy all aspects.

In the nine years of peaceful Apocalypse, everything is going on smoothly, but there are also places of unrest. Pirates in Guangdong, Guangxi and the coasts of Fujian seem to be more rampant than before. More and more Western fleets gather near Macau, and even Zhejiang Pirates also appeared along the coast.

Although Zhu Youxiao's Ming court is a superpower, it has no way to dominate its own maritime rights and interests, and it is not even comparable to a small island country in Europe.

It has to be said that a country that could have colonized the world has suddenly become a landlocked country due to various reasons. This has to be said to be a tragedy.

And what Zhu Youxiao has to do is to tear a hole in the seemingly peaceful coastline. No matter how deep the chain of interests is, if he is not restrained by himself, he must break it!
So in this year, Zhu Youxiao's energy was also spent on targeting the sea. Jin Yiwei began to shift the focus of his work from north to south. The Academy of Engineering also began to focus on the development of naval warfare weapons and equipment.

(End of this chapter)