The capital at dawn had just woken up, and the silence was broken by bursts of crisp screams.??Look?

"Your Majesty, your Majesty personally fought outside the pass, fought in the Luanhe River, and wiped out 50,000 Qing troops. In the Chaohe River, and wiped out 150,000 Qing troops."

"No., outside, outside, today's special outside, the latest news, Your Majesty personally led the expedition and defeated the Qing army. The 200,000 invaded the Qing army was wiped out. The Qing Yu Prince Duoduo, the Prince of Ying, the brothers of Ajige, the marshal of the Qing Western Expedition, the auxiliary political prince Haoge, the surrender, the number one warrior in Qingzhou, Batulu Oboi, personally killed Duoduo, and Ajige surrendered!"

"The left and right banners of Mongol Kalaqin surrendered to the Han Empire. After the emperor established Yanbei Province in the north of the subway, he established a southern desert province."

The newspapers in the capital received notices from the press and publication deployment of the imperial court last night, and received several news that they could not add. At first they couldn't believe it, but soon they rushed to the various yamen to verify it, and it was soon confirmed.

His Majesty the Emperor, who has not shown up for many days, turned out that he had already led the army to fight outside the pass. Yesterday, the army and horses on the front line of the Great Wall were mobilized, and it was indeed a war.

But the result of the war still shocked everyone. The emperor personally led the army to fight and actually wiped out 200,000 Qing troops. Oh my God, I couldn't believe it. After coming to my senses, all newspapers went crazy, and this was a shocking news.

Each company started editing overnight, and before there was time to publish newspapers, each company directly issued an out-of-the-box.

So early in the morning, the streets and alleys of the capital were filled with newspaper boys running around, shouting shocking news over and over again.

Zuodu Censor Ni Yuanlu and Ministry of Revenue Shang Li Banghua walked on the stone road in the imperial city together and went to the Prime Minister's Office to attend the meeting.

"I haven't seen His Majesty attend the meeting of the Prime Minister for several days. Even Privy Councilor Fu Shan and the Minister of War Zhang Guowei did not see anyone, and even the Governor of Zhili Liu Yunsheng did not attend. I felt a little strange. Yuan Fu also said that His Majesty was inspecting Baoding, and Fu Zhang Liu and several other adults accompanied the sage. I really believed it."

Ni Yuanlu shook his head and sighed.

"Who could have thought that the emperor, the prime minister, had hundreds of millions of dollars, and he secretly ran to the imperial guards' personal expedition regardless of his daughter. It is really hard to believe, it is hard to believe." Li Banghua also said.

"What is even more difficult to believe is that the emperor personally led the army and hid everyone. What's even more shocking is that he actually won such a big victory in just a few days, destroying more than 100,000 Qing troops in one battle."

Although the newspaper claimed to be annihilated 200,000 Qing troops.

However, as members of the Prime Minister's Office, Ni Yuanlu and Li Banghua quickly learned about the specific process of the battle. The actual number of enemies annihilated was 150,000. In the two wars, more than 30,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 were captured.

The Han army suffered less than 3,000 casualties.

In fact, except for the first ambush of Haoge, the emperor personally commanded the ambush of 50,000 Han troops, the remaining battles were simply the civil wars of the Qing army themselves.

"A war that mobilized hundreds of thousands of people, in the end, my Han official army only suffered 3,000 casualties. Can you believe it?" Ni Yuanlu is still the Censor of the Left Capital and one of the Nine Ministers. However, his official position is still there, but now there are many constraints on his head. Being an official is not as relaxed as before. Now there are fewer party struggles in the court, and there is a wise priest. The officials below are all like donkeys and dare not do anything randomly.

"We, the emperor, are always unexpected."

"Although I took a little risk, I have to say that the result is really exciting and satisfying. Since Chengzu of the previous dynasty, there has been no such exciting victory in more than two hundred years. After this battle, the Qing Dynasty completely weakened and the other person had increased. In the future, the great man will no longer be afraid of the captives outside the pass."

"It's not just not to be afraid. You forgot that the emperor has established Yanbei Province and Monan Province? Even Liaoxi Province has expanded nearly twice the boundary northward. Not to mention that Monan Province directly reaches Huangshui, just say that the two provinces in Yanbei and western Liaoning are now boundary, Qilaotu Mountain and Nuruerhu Mountain. This makes the capital capital not only rely on one Yanshan defense, but also the situation is safe."

"I heard that the emperor would marry the Mongolians and marry the daughter of the two lords of Kalaqin as his concubine."

Li Banghua smiled, "I don't think this is anything. Anyway, as long as we don't marry our princess down and marry the grassland, marry the Mongolian princess. This is going in or out, it won't damage my Chinese dignity."

"Hehe, that's right, I heard that Mongolian women are all slutty, so it's hard for Your Majesty." Ni Yuanlu also smiled.

"It's nothing to marry two Mongolian women for the sake of the northern border."

After the two of them laughed for a while, Ni Yuanlu asked, "Do you know when Your Majesty will be in Beijing?"

"Yuan Fu said he would lead his army back to Beijing tomorrow. Fu said that the entire capital would take action and hold a grand triumphal ceremony. Welcome Your Majesty."

"This is what it should be. No matter how grand the ceremony is, His Majesty is worthy of it." Ni Yuanludao, he was worried that the emperor would take advantage of the victory to attack and fight to Liaodong. Fortunately, although the emperor was young, he was still rational.

"It's really rare for our emperor to have such a clear and rational mind at this time."

"Can you ascend the throne irrational?"

Li Banghua didn't want to continue talking about this sensitive topic. They did object to Liu Jun's usurpation of the throne at the beginning, but now looking at it, Liu Jun's emperor seems to be better for the whole world. They are now comforting themselves with such reasons so that they can continue to stay in the court and become officials with peace of mind.

"Your Majesty has set up a new Seshang Military Region in the northern Yan and southern Mo provinces, and Zhang Guodong is the general general of the admiral, but I don't know who is the governor and governor?"

According to the current Han official system, one governor was generally established in two to three provinces. The governor also served as the governor of one province, and the governor of another province was also the governor of the governor, and each military region had one admiral and general officer.

In general, civil servants are still the highest local officials, and now the Governor-General and the Governor-General have become permanent officials, no longer the sentencing nature of the past.

If the governor of the Ming Dynasty was given the title of Shang, then it was from the second rank. If the title of Shangshu was given the title of Shangshu, it was the third rank. That was quite high and powerful, and the six ministers in the court were all the second rank.

Even if the current level of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet has been improved, it is no longer the fifth grade of the past, but it is only mentioned as the first grade.

A local governor is only one level lower than the six ministries.

Even if it was the tenth governor newly established by the empire, even if it was a place outside the border, it was still a senior official in the second rank. According to the current new system of the Han Empire, if you want to join the cabinet to assist in government, you must have several hard qualifications. One is to have the qualifications of the three positions of prefect, governor and governor. At the same time, you must have the qualifications of serving in six ministries in the court to be qualified to be selected into the cabinet.

This seems to be somewhat similar to the past when the Hanlins were not in the cabinet, but it is obvious that it is even more difficult for this dynasty to enter the cabinet. The promotion of the cabinet Grand Secretary to the first rank also shows that the current cabinet members have higher authority.

But there are only more than twenty provinces in the world, and there are only nine governors. Now there is a position of governor. It is still very scarce. As long as you can become governor, even the governor in the suburbs is an extremely important qualification.

Even if you can't become the governor, won't there be a vacant position for Mo Nan Governor?

"I don't know this, probably because his Majesty believed in this, and the fact that the barriers are not peaceful now is definitely an official who knows the army."

"I guess it may be that Fu Zonglong will be the governor. He has sufficient qualifications and is aware of military service."

Ni Yuanlu added, "And Lord Fu has also partnered with the emperor in Liaodong. The two of them have worked well."

"That's probably what it is."

"Do you know what will happen to Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou?"

"I heard that His Majesty kept his promise and allowed the two to return home without any blame."

"It's because these two traitors are untrustworthy. If someone else wouldn't let them go so easily."

"Our emperor is sometimes very kind, but this time they have made some contributions. The emperor not only let them go, but His Majesty said that he would not blame him for the past. Not only that, His Majesty has decided to dismiss all the Liao army, not only to send them severance expenses, but also to make up for the previous owed wages, and also to let various places place their resettlement work. It is the true benevolent king."

"It's good to be dismissed. These Liao soldiers are the best at using money, but they are the most capricious, and keeping them is also a disaster."

The two put aside this topic and talked about another thing.

"Have you written your performance report? But it's almost time to submit the limited date."

"I wrote it, but I just don't know if it's all satisfied."

Ni Yuanlu sighed. This report of work was really embarrassing to him. He had self-reported comments, comments on his superiors and subordinates, and property declarations. He had never experienced these things for so many years as an official.

"Did you sort out the matter of department clearing the deficit?"

"I have cleaned up. In the past five years, I have owed more than 100,000 silver dollars. Anyway, I just can't match the account. My subordinates and I have accepted it, and each claimed the part and paid out of my own pocket to fill it." Ni Yuanlu Road.

"How much did you pay?"

"Fifty thousand yuan." Ni Yuanludao, those deficiencies were not corruption. Anyway, this was the case in the past and the Ming Dynasty. The yamen was like a leaking funnel. Once the money came in, most of the money would be leaked, and he couldn't even find any leaks. Now he was pursuing it, so he could only pay out his own pocket.

Li Banghua used to be in some idle yamen, and he was not affected by the matters of cleaning up the deficiencies. In the end, he paid about 3,000 silver dollars by himself to make up for it.

"Hey, this is a big wonder of this dynasty as an official. The former Yuan people were probably no one to come." Li Banghua said with a smile.

"Yes." Ni Yuanlu also found it a little funny. However, it was not only the yamen who cleared the shortcomings, but now the court has to pursue the tax arrears for the past five years.

This includes taxes on land owned by officials. According to the new regulations of the court, officials should be held accountable for the five years of unpaid taxes.

This means that the emperor really wants to implement the system of paying food and serving as a member of officials and gentry, and all the honorary officials and gentry no longer enjoy the privilege of exemption and exemption. Not only will they not be able to enjoy this privilege in the future, but even those who were five years ago will be recovered.

According to the emperor's words, in the past, nobles and gentry ignored court laws and did not pay taxes without illegal activities, and this behavior needed to be corrected.

"Your family has a lot of land, right? I've paid it together for the past five years, and I'll get some blood." Li Banghua said.

"There are more than 20,000 acres of land at home. According to the current court's tax on levying a dou of grain per acre every year, it will be 10,000 s of grain in five years."

Ni Yuanlu smiled bitterly, "It's exactly 10,000 stones of grain. If you pay two silver dollars for one stone, you need to pay 20,000 silver dollars."

The normal land tax is not so high, about 30 taxes per mu. However, the tax is not just about land taxes, but also requires labor service, local silver distribution, etc., in short, as well as various fire consumption. In the end, it is necessary to reimburse the taxes per mu. The final decision is one bucket per mu, which is far from reaching the national average yield of one stone per mu.

Ni Yuanlu's family is also a big landlord. The family has more than 20,000 acres of land and has been paid 20,000 silver dollars in taxes in five years.

This compensation is not small. But if you look at it rationally, it is not too much. Just like the government office clears the deficit, although officials have to pay for it themselves on the surface, in fact, even if the officials are honest, they will generally not be less expensive. Most of them can still make up for it.

If officials and gentry pay the land tax for five years, even if it is paid at a tenth share, it will not hurt the burden of paying the tax for the next five years compared with the tax paid for the next five years.

After all, the reimbursement of the royal family members of the previous dynasty were all the nobles and gentry of the royal family. Ordinary ordinary people did not need to reimbursement, and they would not be affected. And who could enjoy preferential treatment in the previous dynasty, who was not a wealthy family with either an official or a rich family?

Ni Yuanlu's yamen's deficit and the compensation for the family's land arrears totaled 70,000 silver dollars. It was a huge sum of money. However, compared with his many years of official career, the various incomes he had in office and the income from the family's land, bleeding is bleeding, but he cannot hurt the tendons or bones.

Normally, he is unwilling to come out with such a large sum of money.

Anyone is willing to put money into his pocket, but who is willing to pay it out? But the law of the new dynasty stipulates that it is impossible to disobey. If you do not take the initiative to make up for the deficits and pay the debt, then there will be officials from the court who will come to recover it, and you will have to be imprisoned and confiscate your house to make up for the debt.

Li Banghua's hometown is from Jiangxi. The place in Jiangxi is the top three provinces with population in the Ming Dynasty. It has few land and many people, so there are many merchants in Jiangxi. There are many immigrants and many Jinshi Juren. Li Banghua's family has not much land, so there are not many people who need to pay more.

"Fortunately, Your Majesty doubled the salary for all officials, otherwise, he would not know how to become an official in the future."

"Double, not much."

The second-rank Zuodu Censor, whose monthly salary is only 61 stone of rice. A seventh-rank magistrate has only 7 stones and 5 dou of rice.

"If you talk about the treatment of officials in previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty is the best." Li Banghua sighed.

The first-rank official of the Song Dynasty received a monthly salary of 150 shi, and his salary was 120,000 shi, plus a annual salary of 20 shi, a total of 100,000 shi, and a total of 50 shi. The ninth-rank official of the monthly salary of 5 shi, and a salary of 8,000 shi, plus a annual salary of 12 shi.

In contrast, the Ming Dynasty had a mouthful of 87 shi of monthly salary, and the ninth-rank official had five shi of monthly salary, but there was no salary.

In addition to salary and salary, officials of the Song Dynasty also received jobs. In the Song Dynasty, the salary was only similar to basic salary, and the salary was rice. The jobs were equivalent to job salary, and they also enjoyed free housing, free accommodation, and free escorts. The court also equipped each official with free servants. The lowest official was rated to one servant, and the prime minister could rated to one hundred people.

In addition, officials can also enjoy a wide range of welfare subsidies, such as tea and wine money, kitchen ingredients money, firewood and charcoal money, horse ingredients money, etc.

There are gifts for tea, wine, kitchen ingredients, firewood, artemisia, charcoal, salt, etc., horses, straw, millet, rice, flour, and sheep mouth. Those who are outside have other public money, from the Jieduan and the Minister, 20,000 to 7,000 to 7,000 to 4,000 to 3,000 to 4,000 to 3,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 3,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,000 to 5,0

In contrast, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were astonishingly low, and the benefits were very small. Officials could only rely on corruption to receive bribes. On the surface, the state spent less, but in fact, the losses were more.

The administration of the Ming Dynasty was also extremely serious in all dynasties.
To be continued...