Chapter 341 The seemingly peaceful ninth year of the Apocalypse
In the following days, the Ming Dynasty seemed to be very calm.
The southern desert and Liaodong outside the pass are still dividing land and pastures, and the construction of yamen and chidao. If you want to fully establish a ruling system and start levying animal husbandry tax, you have to wait at least until the tenth year of the Apocalypse.
Due to the influence of the small glacier climate, Northeast Asia is even colder. According to the Jinyiwei, a brigade of the Imperial Guards entering Northeast Asia and Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang soldiers were not very smooth, but fortunately they were all tests of the natural environment, and they could only overcome them themselves, and the court could not help them.
After being fooled by Zhu Youxiao once, Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe was also a little resentful of the Ming Dynasty and began to get along with Jiannu from Liaodong, but the envoy he sent to Jiannu was successfully intercepted by the Jinyiwei from Liaodong.
Zhu Youxiao simply took this opportunity to publish the letters brought by the envoy in the Daming Daily, so that he could spread the world. At the same time, he ordered the Censor Ouyang Zheng, the commander of the Shanxi Prefecture, to go to Chahar's tribe to question Lin Danhan.
Lin Dankhan of the Chahar tribe was depressed by the breach of trust in the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Youxiao, and was not in the mood to meet a mere inspector Ouyang Zheng.
But what Lin Danhan did not expect was that while he knew that Ouyang Zheng, the inspector of the Ming Dynasty, was coming to his Chahar tribe, the Third Army of the Imperial Guard suddenly came to Helin and had the potential to march into the Chahar tribe.
At the same time, Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji and others also held troops from Datong to Xuanhua, which seemed to be in a fight.
Every day, the cavalry could hear the news that the Ming army was killing near the border with the Chahar tribe and seemed to launch a large-scale attack. Lin Danhan was frightened. Naturally, he did not know that this was called a military exercise in modern times, and the purpose was a military threat.
But he was indeed threatened. Although Helin Danhan had the ambition to unify Mongolia, he also knew how much he was and did not dare to defeat the military front of the Ming army, which was full of morale.
Lin Danhan had to meet the inspector Ouyang Zheng, and was eager to ask what Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty wanted to do.
But what Lin Danhan did not expect was that when he saw Ouyang Zheng, he saw the majesty of the Supreme Kingdom and also felt the pain of Huang Taiji meeting Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa.
Ouyang Zheng was short and full of acne marks on his face, but he stood arrogantly in front of Lin Danhan, pointed at Lin Danhan and shouted: "According to your Majesty's order, I asked King Shunping: Good, Lin Danhan, I have appointed you as King Shunping, just because you are still in the same mind as me, but now your butt has been to Jiannu's side, what do you want to do! The envoy you sent to Jiannu has been rectified by me, so this matter has never been born. If you dare to do anything rashly in the future, 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 after a long time, he came to his senses. But at this time Ouyang Zheng had already walked away. He wanted to recover him and cut him into pieces, but he did not dare. When he thought that the Ming Dynasty was now on the border line, he could only endure the insult he was scolded by a small censor of the Ming Dynasty.
Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe had to be honest, and Huang Taiji of Jiannu was also dormant.
However, the Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area were too late to go to the Ming Dynasty to fight the autumn wind because Lin Danhan was eroding step by step. In order to prevent Lin Danhan from unifying Mongolia, Zhu Youxiao secretly ordered the Trilateral General Manager Sun Chengzong to sell some weapons, grain, tea, salt, and iron ore and other materials to these tribes at a low price.
There was still no news about Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, and there was no one in Zhang Xianzhong. The riot was born once, but it turned into a riot of some stubborn gentry. Some of the poor went to the capital to make a living, some were busy planting the land of the imperial village, and some followed Huo Weihua's engineering team across the country.
Shanxi merchants did not decline because of the eight major Shanxi merchants. On the contrary, countless new Shanxi merchants sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. However, they were all secretly assigned by Zhu Youxiao. Even if they were not, they were registered with the Ministry of Revenue. In order to do business outside the customs, they had to pay customs fees (disguised tariffs), and even salt and iron were charged separately. Therefore, the court did not have to worry that these Shanxi merchants would become transporters of forces outside the customs again.
What's more, Zhu Youxiao also set up a guard office in Jiubianbian Town, appointing a guard censor to be responsible for levying customs fees and additional taxes on various sensitive commodities (salt, iron, etc.), and also supervises and cracks down on smuggling for the court.
The Liangjing Avenue has been built in Henan, and the demand for migrant workers has further increased. Although the landless refugees have decreased significantly, a new social phenomenon has also emerged - a labor shortage.
The tax revenue of Fengyang, which was under the jurisdiction of Ma Shiying, once again reached a new high. There was even a Fengyang Business Daily, which specifically reported on the business conditions of Fengyang and the entire Ming Dynasty, and also ranked the wealth of various merchants in the Ming Dynasty.
This is also considered the Forbes of the Ming Dynasty, but what is surprising is that among the richest merchants in the world, except for the three merchants who are Shanxi, two merchants who are Hui merchants and one merchants who are Fujian merchants. Five merchants who are Fengyang merchants.
The integrated payment of food for officials and gentry in Shandong has come to an end, but in fact, there are not many officials and gentry paying food. Because Yuan Keli promotes the payment of food for officials and gentry, with the support of Zhu Youxiao, half of Shandong's gentry were punished or beaten outside the border and the west.
Under the forced effect of Zhu Youjiao, countless talents were unknowingly found in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty. According to the memorials of the governors in 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 ministries, one minister and two ministers could no longer meet the operation of the state machinery, but now there are not enough officials, especially those who can be used.
Many scholars or officials only know that there is no other use except to transfer to increase the literacy rate. Zhu Youxiao wondered whether he needed to establish a modern university based on the Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Academy of Sciences, various technical training institutions, Imperial College, Hanlin Academy, etc.
The purpose is to cultivate useful talents and to meet talents in all aspects.
In the nine years of the peaceful apocalypse, everything was going smoothly, but there were also uneasy places. Pirates on the coast of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian seemed to be more and more rampant than before, and there were more and more Western fleets gathered near Macau, and pirates appeared along the coast of Zhejiang.
Although Zhu Youxiao's Ming Dynasty court was a major country, it could not dominate its maritime rights and interests, and it was even less than a small island country in Europe.
A country that could have colonized the world has become a six-country country for various reasons. This has to be said to be a tragedy.
Chapter completed!