On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Longhan, the first imperial examination of the Holy Han Empire finally began.

The tribute court in the capital had already been heavily guarded, and the nearby streets and alleys had been closed, so vehicles had to detour. After careful inspection, the candidates and examiners entered the tribute court, and then the soldiers of the five cities' military personnel closed the tribute court.

Starting from today, this exam will take three consecutive exams, each exam for three days. You can rest for half a day after each exam. You can leave the number shed in this half day, but you cannot leave the exam room.

Especially for every three days during the exam, I could only stay in a small room for three consecutive days, and even food, drink, defecation and urination can only be solved.

For every Juren who refers to it, these nine days are the most critical moments of a battle.

Fortunately, the court attached great importance to this exam and had been preparing for the exam for half a year before the exam. The Gongyuan was newly renovated, and the number room for each candidate was much larger than the past. Each number room was a small room with three closed sides and one open side. Not only did it have tables and chairs, but there was also a small kang bed behind it.

This kang bed is connected in rows, with dedicated people burning charcoal and fireworks outside, making the kang bed warm all day during the exam. In this way, the number room in the examination will be warmer during the exam, and there will be no need to suffer a lot when resting at night, so you can rest well.

Even the food was prepared by the court within these nine days, and then the soldiers were sent to the candidates. Everyone had a full meal and had no need to eat dry food.

In short, the court attached great importance to this test and tried its best to make the hardware facilities.

Especially this exam is not only conducted in one examination room, but in three examination rooms at the same time. The three examination rooms are divided into three examination rooms in the north and south. The 6,000 national examination candidates were examined in the three examination rooms according to their regions. After the exam, the examination papers were also divided into three examination rooms according to their exams, and the final admission of 200 Jinshi was admitted.

Those scholars in Beijing who were not qualified to obtain reference can only look at the candidates with envy and feel sad and happy.

As the end of the year approaches, Liu Jun is getting busier and hesitant.

Especially the three departments and departments of the Finance and Taxation Departments and one department, it is even more important. It is necessary to review the taxes and expenses for the year that is about to pass, and also review the use of the original central and local fiscal and tax budgets, and even review the next year's financial expenditure budget as soon as possible.

Various audit meetings, financial meetings, tax meetings, etc. are constantly being stopped.

At the end of the meeting, Liu Jun basically had to make the final decision. There was no way, it was related to the national fiscal and taxation matters. Whether it was the budget table for the next year, the allocation of the budget, and the budget usage last year, he had to check it in the end.

This year's fiscal revenue is as high as one billion, and expenditures are also extremely high.

However, according to the report of the Taxation Department, there will be no such income next year. This year, the majority of the tax is deed tax, but starting next year, this predatory income will basically be lost. Starting from next year, although the deed tax is retained, it is the real deed tax. Only when the deed is made can tax be collected according to the transaction amount on the deed.

According to estimates, next year's deed tax revenue may be less than one percent of the levied this year.

After this huge income is gone, tax revenue will definitely drop significantly next year. Although commercial taxes and tariffs will continue to increase, the growth part is far less than the reduced deed tax.

Fortunately, during the quelling rebellion in the southwest and the northern expedition this year, an additional war money was made. After deducting the war expenses, the court made huge profits from the war this year, especially the southwestern provinces, which suddenly wiped out the chieftain tribes of several provinces. Almost all the wealth, land, etc. accumulated over generations fell into the hands of the court.

Moreover, those large amounts of mountain and forest minerals have also become resources of the court.

The budget for next year is still not low, mainly the expansion of the army. The navy's shipbuilding plan, the expansion of the army's organization, and the comprehensive equipment of artillery and firearms will require a lot of military expenditure. Especially next year, there may be several wars to fight. In the northeast's battle to recover Liaodong, the northwest may also have to compete with the desert-girl Mongols in Qinghai-Tibet.

At the same time, the southwest region may also have to go to war with the Burmese next year to regain Liuwei area and even open the southwest sea outlet to the south.

The Privy Council's military plan is much more than that. The navy even proposed to intervene in the Southeast War next year. They proposed a huge plan to take advantage of the weak opportunity of Portugal to send troops to seize Malacca to expand its strength in the Southeast Asian region and gain a strategic location in order to compete with Spain and the Netherlands in Southeast Asian countries.

Malacca is located in the distant South Ocean, and its opponents are European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands. Therefore, this battle is no less than taking millet from fire, and it is not easy. Liu Jun has not yet decided whether to fight this battle, but the navy has another plan, and they plan to use troops against Japan next year.

Japan has now begun to ban the export of gold and silver to merchants of the Han Dynasty, which has caused a crisis in the imperial court's gold and silver needs, and has even begun to affect the Han Dynasty's economy. The Han Dynasty's silver dollar and silver dollar currency monetary systems have begun to be impacted.

The navy was very aware of sharing the worries of the country. They proposed a plan to send troops to Japan, prepared to assemble a fleet, teach the Japanese a lesson, and force them to release the silver and copper exports again. Some young naval officers even shouted that since the Japanese banned silver and copper exports and violated the peace agreement signed with the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty simply sent troops to occupy the large silver and copper mines in Japan, and then captured the young Japanese invaders and mined and produced them by themselves.

The Army also proposed their plans in a tit-for-tat way.

The army is also very ambitious, and the navy wants to intervene in Southeast Asia and deal with Japan. The army is preparing to completely destroy the Jurchens next year, and then conquer Moxi Mongolia, and then kill Myanmar in the southwest region. If you still have the energy, you can go to Vietnam.

Seeing the Navy and Army being persuasive, Liu Jun just shook his head.

The strength of the court cannot support so many battles at the same time. In these battles, it is already a limit to be able to fight two battles at the same time.

However, he also knew that this was also the amount of tricks on both sides, in order to compete for the allocation of military budgets. First, make the plan bigger and the budget higher, in the end, they had to bargain with the court. They asked for prices everywhere, and finally the court returned the money. No one thought that there would be a full-scale war and fight on multiple fronts. In short, they would be satisfied if they could get the support of the emperor and the court to one or two military plans.

In terms of military plans, most plans can be cut off and most budgets can be reduced.

But some expenses cannot be saved, nor can they be saved.

First, the immigration costs. This year, the imperial court has built many territory and established many provincial governments. The imperial court has invested a lot of financial and manpower this year and is working on this large immigration plan. As soon as the spring next year, it will immigrate everywhere.

Within next year, the court's plan is to immigrate to all parts of the southeast, west and northeast at the same time. More than 10 million will be immigrated a year. This is a difficult task. Even if the court has proposed a counterpart immigration plan, one sends one to one and connects the two provinces, one is responsible for the migration and the other is responsible for resettlement. But this will still be an extremely difficult task.

The second expense that cannot be saved is education. The Beijing University, which is specially designed to train officials, the normal schools that will be opened in various provincial capitals, as well as some junior college and technical schools, all require a lot of money. In addition, the township primary schools, county middle schools, etc. that are to be opened in various places are also a large expenditure. In particular, the imperial court is preparing to implement three-year compulsory education, and each township must set up primary schools, which may require tens of thousands of primary schools, schools, teachers, textbooks and other expenses at once, not small numbers.

However, the expenditure is required. Liu Jun is very clear about the importance of immigration and education to the court.

The salary expenses of officials will be a large sum of money next year. Now the imperial court has opened local governments to the township level, and governments at all levels have increased a large number of officials and increased their salary. The salary expenses of the imperial court have increased ten times a hundred times.

Finally, Liu Jun looked around and could only reduce his military budget.

Every time the budget is insufficient, Liu Jun can only turn around and cut his sword from the military budget.

Although you can make money when fighting, you have to spend first.

Liu Jun has put aside the military plan for the Northern Expedition of Jurchens next year. He modified this plan. First, let the Mongols conquer the Jurchens in Liaodong, and then the Han official army took over the captured Liaoshen. As for Harwen, Yuanhui and other places farther away, they should be slowed down first.

"Your Majesty, Admiral Feng, the Jinyiwei, asked for his meeting." The close servant reported.

Liu Jun came to his senses from a bunch of memorials, without raising his head, "Xuan."

Feng Sheng entered the hall with excitement, "Your Majesty. I just received the good news. The Jinyiwei found the thief in Xikang, and captured the thief Li Zicheng and the backbone of the thief Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and others five days ago. After this, all the remnants of the thief fell into the law gate."

Upon hearing this news, Liu Jun couldn't help but put down the note in his hand and raised his head. His eyes showed a look of surprise, "Has Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin been captured?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, not only Li Zicheng, but also the remnants of the rebel army were captured in one go, and we were all caught. Now the Jinyiwei is taking them to the capital, and the local garrisons in Xikang Sichuan have sent heavy troops to escort them. At most, they can be taken to the capital in half a month."

"good!"

Liu Jun slapped his thigh and shouted good words.

Although Li Zicheng was killed by Qin Liangyu and fled in panic after the war half a year ago, and then became a powerful force. However, as a great enemy who had rebelled for more than ten years, Li Zicheng still had a very famous reputation.

If he doesn't die for a day, Liu Jun will be worried for a day.

It is very meaningful that such an old bandit was captured and taken to the capital to Mingzhengdian for punishment.

In the early years, Hong Chengchou Sun Chuanting captured the old King of Chuang alive, and later Liu Jun captured Zhang Xianzhong and then destroyed the Fifth Camp of the Gleath.

Not long ago, the Jinyiwei caught Cao Cao and Luo Rucai who fled around like a stray dog.

Now even Li Zicheng has finally been captured. As a result, the old bandits who were rampant in the world during the Ming Dynasty were also wiped out one by one.

With their destruction, an old era finally ended.

Just when Liu Jun was happy about Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's capture, the Privy Council suddenly reported an emergency news.

The Japanese Satsuma family suddenly launched a large-scale attack on the Ryukyu Kingdom a few days ago. They occupied Ryukyu, killed the Ryukyu royal family, and annexed Ryukyu.

"It's outrageous!"

Liu Jun slapped the imperial case with a palm. When the Han Dynasty was established, the King of Ryukyu sent envoys to the capital, took the initiative to pay tribute, and requested the Emperor of Han to enthrone the enthronement.

Liu Jun enthroned him as King of Ryukyu and granted him a golden seal.

Therefore, the Ryukyu Kingdom, like Korea, was a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. However, now the Japanese invaded Ryukyu and killed the Ryukyu king and royal family.

As early as the Wanli period more than 30 years ago, Tokugawa Ieyasu sent samurai from the Satsuma vassal to attack Ryukyu, put down the Ryukyu king, and sent people to supervise the Ryukyu national affairs.

When Liu Jun sent troops to Japan, the Tokyo Treaty signed with Japan later clearly stipulated that Ryukyu was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and asked Japan to withdraw troops from Ryukyu and release the Ryukyu king.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese are becoming more and more bold now. They dare to openly send troops to occupy Ryukyu and kill the Ryukyu royal family.
Chapter completed!