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The source of the empire's chaos was easily transformed into the power of the empire.

Moreover, the money did not belong to Mao Jue. On the third day after entering the capital, he issued a decree that Chongzhen had wanted to issue countless times but dared not issue. , there is no more privileged class, officials and gentry pay taxes together!

If this order was issued by Emperor Chongzhen, it would be extremely difficult, because the main force of the Ming Empire under his rule was civil servants, bureaucrats and big landlord families. This tax is equivalent to taking money from the foundation of his own rule. Even a polished commander in Chongzhen couldn't handle himself.

But Mao Jue is different. The core power of his rule comes from the military households and merchants in Liaodong. In Liaodong, all civil and military officials pay taxes together. This tax exemption also has a time limit, only 20 years. The release of this decree has no effect on them at all. On the contrary, after the tax increase, it is very satisfying to make these parasites and imbecile colleagues in the customs that they have always looked down upon bleed.

As soon as this order was issued in the court, it indeed caused a fierce reaction from the evil bureaucrats in the first place. There were those who opposed, persuaded, and even swearing at the memorial. However, with the military power in hand, all opposition The pies are all ghosts, snakes, and paper tigers! Mao Jue is not as easy to bully as Chongzhen!

The memorials related to the opposition to the unified tax payment were directly taken to the collective kitchen of the central government office as fuel for fire, and the tasks assigned by the ministries were doubled. Isn't there time to write the memorial?Then spend more time writing reports for Lao Tzu, writing proposals, and doing more calculations, you will not be exhausted to death!

And this order is not over yet, in conjunction with the taxation of the officials and gentry, the Qingzhang land, which has changed the color of the local officials and gentry, began. Spider webs spread across Hebei and Shandong, which are basically controlled by Liaozhen. Taking the Daming land mu booklets copied by the capital to check the land counts county by county, this hand can be regarded as completely pinching the lifelines of landlords and bureaucrats everywhere.

And they can't do anything about it, Mao Jue still has about [-] cavalry in his hands near the capital, and the cavalry will arrive in a few days at the border of the two provinces. It's just rebelling against the current situation. It's not negotiable to kill your head and let the whole family cry. Anyway, Liu Xingzuo, a bandit, also did it back then, and he also did home raids in the Wa country. He is very familiar with it.

Of course, it’s not that Mao Jue doesn’t give you a way to survive. You have as much land as you have. Even if you were hidden before and found out, Liaodong still admits that you lost the land and officially made a book for you, unlike Zhang Juzheng in the Wanli period. Many of the hidden lands found out were divided up by him and his henchmen, as long as you can pay taxes according to law.

Another situation is that the landlord relied on natural disasters to annex a large amount of land, and even the entire county is his family's field, but obviously such a vast land, the family can't finish farming, which led to a large area of ​​wasteland. This part of the abandoned land was bought by the empire with money, and then commercial farms were built on the spot like the Liaodong farms, and the empire hired farmers to cultivate the fields.

This also increased the amount of land available for distribution in Mao Jue's hands. The captives of the Dashun Army were still full of apprehension and suspicion, but they didn't know that the land Mao Jue promised to them had already been picked out, and they were waiting to follow the law. The roster is out!

Mao Jue's tossing also caused obvious changes in the two provinces close to the capital. In the household department of the capital, groups of eunuch families from the former Ming Dynasty lined up to receive boxes and boxes of silver at the household department yamen. With sloppy faces and bitter gourds, they arched their hands and greeted each other, caring about the same sentence.

How much was your home cut?

But on the other hand, the outer city of the capital, where beggars are everywhere on weekdays, and the refugees who escaped from other places are impoverished and settled in the streets, has undergone a big change. As long as there are hands and feet willing to contribute, even the old man will be picked away, and some landlord families who came late can't even hire people, so they can only rush out of the city again to hire people in other places.

Under the Qingzhang land policy, abandoning wasteland is tantamount to compensation! Either the excess land is cut off by the empire, or a share of tax revenue is paid.The policy has stimulated the enthusiasm for production! Landlord families who were worried about the unstable situation had to spend all their property and try to hire people to cultivate some early-maturing crops. When Mao Jue entered the capital six months ago, there were still people everywhere in Hebei and Shandong. It was a desolate and messy scene, and in July, corn seedlings and sweet potato seedlings were already showing fresh greenery everywhere.

In fact, Mao Jue really doesn't care too much about how much grain is harvested this year. He now owns a granary in the Great Northern Wilderness and a commercial route leading to overseas. With the strength of Liao Town, even if the grain in the north of the pass is not harvested this year, it will feed almost 3000 million people. The population is more than enough. The more important significance of this move is that through the redistribution of social resources, the Ming society, which had been lifeless like a jar of stagnant water, was revived again. The landlords and gentry resumed production, and the poor also had jobs. can settle down!

However, there is a price for everything. After so much tossing around in the capital, Mao Jue managed to make Daming, who was an official, not so attractive for the first time as an official.

The salary of the Ming Dynasty was low, and many officials planned to resign after working for a few years. After returning to the village, they could make a fortune quickly by relying on the tax-free land of their neighbors. Once this salary was gone, a lot The Qingshui yamen immediately lost hope.

Not only the Qingshui yamen, but even the former oil and water yamen are like this now. For example, the household department allocated 100 million taels of silver for the construction of the railway, and a servant and several principals just put 5 taels into his pocket according to the usual practice. The money was gone, and the officials of the Disciplinary Inspection Committee in Liao Town invited them to the organization to drink tea. Not to mention that 5 taels of silver were sent to repair the railway, and these civil servants were fined 1000 yuan each. Two, all dismissed from public office.

In less than a month in July, there were six officials who died suddenly in their account rooms, more than 100 officials were taken away by the inspectors, and there were all kinds of ways to make money in the past. Suddenly found that the official position at hand turned out to be a hard job

In just this July, more than 700 civil servants of the former Ming Dynasty resigned and went back to seclusion. In addition, those arrested for corruption, Mao Jue actually lacked officials!

This can be regarded as a way for the tax-collected former civil servants to retaliate against Liao Town, but they really caused Mao Jue a little headache.

Central Office.

In Mao Jue's impression, the Forbidden City is a cultural relic, and when later generations visited the Forbidden City, they heard a lot of ghost stories. If you want to live here, you have to panic. The supervisor of ceremonies among the six prisons took over and took the place where the eunuchs worked as Mao Jue's office.

On the other side, several officials and subordinates have been knocked down. The modern Bauhaus-style square house is under construction. Mao Jue’s desk is placed in the empty hall, which makes him feel very awkward. However, the new office The area is not built well, and it can only be awkward if it is awkward.

Fortunately, he was not the only one who was awkward, the six ministers, and Fan Wenju, who was regarded as the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, moved a large round chair awkwardly and sat opposite him.

"The Ministry of Officials is short of photos, and there are 61 people in charge, documents, and handling!"

"The household department also lacks these positions."

"And my criminal department! There are 55 missing staff!"

"Go to the other side. It doesn't matter to your Ministry of Criminal Affairs. Now that we are building two railways, our Ministry of Industry is in urgent need of people!"

Several guys quarreled into a ball, so Mao Jue had one head and two big heads, full of helplessness, he again set his eyes on Hong Chengchou, who was in the presence of the old god, and asked sadly.

"It's understandable that their five departments are short of people. Your military department is all old Liaodong, so what's Master Hong doing here?"

"Back to the Regent, the lower officials are here to ask for soldiers. In August and September, the soldiers will return to Liaodong to harvest. There are more than [-] troops left on the front line, which is too thin. In the past two months, the lower officials think that it is necessary to rebuild the Beijing camp. Stay tight inside the pass!"

"Of course King Liao, we don't have to worry about soldiers in Liao Town, but the lower officials need officers!"

There was nothing wrong with what Hong Chengchou said, but with his sinister smile on his face, he didn't look like a loyal minister at all. Seeing him rubbing his hands, Sun Chuanting and Song Xiance cursed in a low voice.

Now the most important part of the Liaodong civil service system is the military staff. Thousands of Liaodong children who have studied in Acheng College have been sent to the front line. More than half of them are under the Minister of Defense Hong Chengchou. Several people seem to be arguing. Fierce, but Xiao Jiujiu actually hit Hong Chengchou.

My good fellow, this old bastard overthrew everyone's wishful thinking by building an army. Now that the Liao King's great cause has not yet been achieved, Liao Town is still a militant group. At this time, you are drawn from the Ministry of War?That is simply turning against most of the old Liaodong!

Slaps stretched out to Mao Jue, and Mao Jue who stretched out was in a hurry in Northeast dialect, knocking on the table, and he yelled angrily.

"People are needed here! Humans are needed there! Is it impossible for me to give birth to a human being? This king can order the apprentice class of [-] students in Dongjiang Academy to graduate early, how to allocate your own points!"

"Give it all to the Ministry of Industry!"

This has to wait for Mao Jue's voice to fall, and Sun Chuanting, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, jumped out with red eyes in a hurry, shouting angrily as if he was about to desperately.

"This year, troops will be stationed in the east and northwest! In the spring of next year, we will march to the south of the Yangtze River. Who doesn't need a railway? Only half a year! In order to ensure our great cause in Liaodong, we must first send our Ministry of Industry to come!"

However, the other people didn't buy what he said at all, and Fatty Su, the old abacus of the Dongjiang veteran, just rolled his eyes.

"Forget it! Mr. Sun! You have too many people in the Ministry of Industry! Without the abacus of our household department, what do you use to build roads if you don't have money?"

Speaking of this, the fat man still muttered angrily.

"No wonder Chongzhen fell so badly. The Ministry of Households is really a fucking rat's nest. Good guy, Lu Zhong managed to find dozens of rats for me in a month! The project fund of 100 million taels was privately divided into more than 30 yuan. Wan Liang, if there is no decent person, our household department will fall apart!"

"Master Hong, the officers you need to build an army are not staff officers. We have a lot of officers in Liao Town, or we can borrow a hundred or so people from you to deal with emergencies first. Are all of them serving for the great cause of King Liao?" !"

This idea went back to the Ministry of War. Seeing the addition of Fan Wenju and the six wolves looking at him with red eyes, Mao Jue shrank back without any leadership responsibility, as if you were discussing with yourself, Hong Chengchou's face Zizi twitched involuntarily.

However, this old guy was able to mix in the Ming and Qing dynasties in history, and he did have two brushes. He suddenly got up, clasped his fists and bowed heavily to Mao Jue.

"His Royal Highness, everyone, in fact, you don't need to focus on the two colleges in Liao Town. We are now in the capital, and we are bravely taking on the responsibility of the world! Naturally, we also want to recruit talents from the world, and now we need to win people's hearts. On this occasion, the regent, you can hold an Enke!"

"Each department will come up with its own exam questions! Whatever talents are needed by each department, don't they all come?"

"Enko!"

Not only Mao Jue, but also the eyes of those ministers lit up, and finally fell on Song Xiance, who was in charge of the etiquette department.

But this guy is also a scumbag, seeing that the time is near, he immediately spread his hands with a mournful face.

"Manpower is needed to run Enke! Our Ministry of Rites is short of people!"

"You are taking advantage of the fire!!!"

Chapter 600. Enke

This was the first time after Mao Jue entered the capital, he posted the Great Emperor's List on the Forty-Nine City. Early in the morning, the patrolling soldiers pasted the yellow paper on the city gates one by one.Watching the excitement is probably a common problem of no ethnicity. This one has not yet dried up, but the scholar and businessman, the boss, and a large crowd have already gathered around.

"What is this for? Is there a tax increase?"

"The regent of the Liao king should be amnesty for the world, right? Alas, then the bastard at our street will have to be sent home! Alas"