In the winter of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty's demolition of the Jin Kingdom successfully came to an end with the sound of "multiple victory" at the triumphal ceremony.

In this battle, the Ming army dispatched more than 60,000 troops, divided into four armies, attacking from Tieshan, Ningjin, Jizhen and other places.

After half a month, the cities of Iron Mountain, Yizhou, Kuandian, Liaoyang, Guangning and Korqin Mongolian Ikton Gelikpo were captured and destroyed.

During the battle, the Ming army killed and injured more than 10,000 Manchu and Mongolian people, suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and rescued more than 50,000 Han people.

After this battle, the Ming army wiped out the situation of retreating since the Battle of Sarhu, which effectively shocked the Jurchens' wolf ambitions and strengthened the confidence of the Ming army and civilians in fighting the Tartars.

In addition, after successfully helping Huduntu to remove the siege of Baicheng, the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces swept across Korqin, also sounded the alarm for the Mongolian troops riding on the grassland, laying a solid foundation for Zhu Youjian's subsequent strategy to Jin.

More importantly, through the success of this combat operation in the Manchuria and Mongolia region, Zhu Youjian established absolute authority in the court, which laid the foundation for a series of reforms that would be carried out in the future.

Three days later, outside Xuanwu Gate in the capital, Ajige was executed by Lingchi, and the other captured generals and officials of Jin Kingdom who were also punished with punishments such as beheading and beheading.

As the number one spy chief of the Jin Dynasty, Li Yongfang still has a lot of information needed by the Jinyiwei Intelligence Department, so he will no longer be executed this time.

Of course, after entering the Jinyiwei Intelligence Department, his fate would not be much better.

In addition, Shuotuo was not executed this time. In order to successfully induce the Jurchen nobles who were greedy and afraid of death in the future, Shuotuo was established as a benchmark under the arrangement of Zhu Youjian.

Although this battle has achieved many results, it is different from the military operations of Manchu and Mongolia against the Ming Dynasty for the purpose of plundering.

This Ming army's action was economically a complete loss-making deal.

Therefore, at the imperial meeting in the Qianqing Palace, Bi Ziyan frowned and reported this year's financial plan to Zhu Youjian, the cabinet and the ministers of various ministries.

The fiscal policy of the Ming Dynasty was formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang. It took more than 200 years and underwent several reforms in the middle, but overall, the framework of the central and local lines has not changed.

In the early Ming Dynasty, everything was in trouble and social and economic activities were underdeveloped, and taxes were mainly based on physical goods.

In order to reduce the loss in the collection process, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that in addition to the taxes required by the central government, the taxes collected in various places should be transported directly to the required places based on the principle of proximity.

To sum up, it is: except for the central government, the rest are all local.

Of course, although the central government does not have physical goods, the central government still needs to investigate and interfere with the distribution of tax collection and distribution in various places.

In the early Ming Dynasty, since the central government used less money and more money, a large amount of taxes flowed directly and quickly to the counterparts without passing through the central government.

To be fair, this fiscal policy has played a positive role in improving the efficiency of fiscal and tax use and reducing fiscal and tax losses.

However, as the central government in the Ming Dynasty became larger and larger, natural disasters and wars became more and more frequent, and the corruption of the administration was caused.

Therefore, this fiscal system, which was transferred by a small amount of taxes and a large amount of taxes, quickly reached the brink of collapse.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the main large-scale spenders were often lost because the central government had no money.

Moreover, in the original history, the Ming Dynasty did indeed lose its country due to the disadvantages of military use and disaster relief.

However, in local areas, due to the lack of direct supervision from the central government, a large amount of taxes are not only intercepted by local governments, but also less than 30% of them are actually used.

Therefore, this strange fiscal policy caused a very strange phenomenon to the Ming Dynasty.

The central government has no money, and the local government has no money. It seems that the taxes are not heavy, but the people are still forced to rebel.

The Ming Dynasty in history has become the only dynasty in the twenty-four histories to be destroyed by peasants' uprisings.

Bi Ziyan talked a lot in a long way, from the drought in northern Shaanxi to the peach blossom flood in the Huaihe River, from the spring sacrifice to the Yellow River embankment, from the nine borders to the pirates in the southeast.

It was nearly an hour, and there was no point in what he said, and Zhu Youjian felt a little drowsy.

Seeing that it was almost time to eat, Zhu Youjian had no intention of preparing lunch for these ministers.

Since learning that the imperial kitchen in the palace has updated the dishes all day long, the important officials often dragged things that could be finished in half an hour until the meal time.

But today Bi Ziyan was confused, but his purpose was not to make a living.

Bi Ziyan made a long discussion today, one of which was to quarrel with Zhu Youjian. This time, he spent nearly one million taels of silver on military service, military pay, rewards and pensions against Manchus and Mongolia, which was a heavy blow to the Ministry of Revenue.

The second is to persuade Zhu Youjian not to make a big fuss when he has nothing to do.

'You can bear it, the Ministry of Revenue can't bear it.'

And this is not what Bi Ziyan meant alone, it is the unanimous call of several important officials of the court, including Li Guopu, Xue Fengxiang, Liu Zongzhou, Guo Yunhou.

In addition, advice is just a guide. The fundamental purpose of the ministers is to take the opportunity to talk about Zhu Youjian’s personal expedition and focus on cracking down on Zhu Youjian’s actions to lift the status of a warrior.

Since that triumphal ceremony, after Zhu Youjian delivered that enthusiastic speech, the nobles and generals who were based in the Governor's Office of the Five Army quickly colluded with the military generals and acted frequently, and the door of the British Duke Zhang Weixian's house was almost broken.

After the Tumu Fort Incident, the group of warriors who were severely suppressed seemed to have the intention of restoration.

Therefore, the entire civil servant group was highly vigilant about this and expressed their inability to bear it. Zhu Youjian collected a basket of memorials of impeachment of military officials recently.

Listening to Bi Ziyan's ignorance, he looked at the solemn expressions of the ministers. Combined with the recent bulletin, Zhu Youjian guessed in his heart.

The fiscal policy of the Ming Dynasty had great problems, and Zhu Youjian did consider the issue of fiscal reform, but it was not the present.

Of course, Bi Ziyan seemed to have talked about a lot of financial issues, and the purpose was not to attract Zhu Youjian's attention and then carry out reforms.

If we really want to reform the finances, we must first communicate with three or five people in a small way, come up with a similar constitution, and then listen to the opinions of the ministers.

If you rashly put forward reform plans like this, 80% of the cases will be criticized before it even begins.

As for the dispute between civil and military officials, Zhu Youjian naturally would not provide these civil officials with introductions.

"Old Bi, if you have something to say, don't talk about things far and near, some are not. Do you think the Ministry of Revenue has no money again?"

So, Zhu Youjian interrupted Bi Ziyan's preparation and directly changed the topic.

Bi Ziyan was confused when he heard this and said to himself: "Don't I say this? Your Majesty, why don't you play according to the rules?"

In Bi Ziyan Youzi's surprise, Zhu Youjian said another sentence.

"Tell me, how much money?"

Bi Ziyan made Zhu Youjian confused and said, "Go back to Your Majesty, one million taels of silver."

"Well, I understand, the old rule is that one million taels of silver, ten years, write an IOU, and send it to the Ministry of Revenue in the afternoon."

Facing the expressions of the ministers looking at each other, Zhu Youjian then spit out two more words.

"After meeting!"

Left a group of ministers who were surprised by themselves, Zhu Youjian left with his sleeves.

Seeing Zhu Youjian leaving casually, Li Guopu asked after chasing Huang Liji.

"Yuan Fu, can we just watch the warriors rise again? The Tumu Fort Incident and the death of Emperor Wuzong were only a hundred years ago. Do we want to be the sinners of the Ming Dynasty?"

In fact, Zhu Youjian followed Huang Liji in advance about the dispute between civil and military affairs.

‘Nine-sides are employed now. If anyone dares to provoke a dispute between civil and military affairs, then wait and see it.’

Regarding Zhu Youjian's meaning, Huang Liji also discussed with Han Dong, Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu and Sun Chengzong.

Han Yu and Sun Chengzong were both people who knew the general principles, so they naturally knew Zhu Youjian’s intention.

Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu are not those who are willing to sacrifice their political future for the sake of civil servants, and they are both silent about this.

But Huang Liji looked helpless about Li Guopu, no matter how many times he talked about it.

Li Guopu always stubbornly said with a righteous look on his face that the tragedy of Emperor Yingzong and Wuzong of the Dynasty must not be allowed to happen again.

So Li Guopu hit it off with several old stubborn people from the Six Ministry of the Nine Ministers, and the previous scene came into being.

After looking at Li Guopu's old face, which seemed decent but was actually ignorant, Huang Liji shook his sleeves and took the lead in leaving the Qianqing Palace.

Then Han Du, Sun Chengzong, Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu, Yuan Keli, Xu Guangqi and others also left with Huang Liji.

Only the diehards led by Li Guopu were left in the hall and sighed.
Chapter completed!