March of the ninth year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of Korea, Hanyang Province.

On both sides of the royal road outside the Dunhwa Gate of Changdeokgung Palace, it is crowded with people today, and it seems that the residents of the entire Hanyang Fortress have come here. These North Korean officials and civilians all wore their best clothes and crowded in different areas according to their status.

Although the king of the Jin Dynasty, Jin Erbo, issued the doctrine of "the imperial examination of the concubine and the son", the hierarchical concept of Korean society is still very strong. As long as the two classes of concubines are not admitted to the imperial examination, they are still inferior to the first class or two or three ranks, and they cannot be ranked with the concubines - because Jin Duoduo is an outsider, he still does not know enough about the Korean hierarchy, so he equates the concubines. On the Chinese side, even if it is a concubine of a noble family, although the status is not as long as that of the eldest son (the eldest son can inherit the title), the difference in status between them is not too much. However, on the Korean side, the concubines belong to the middle people (not to the two classes, but they are higher than the commoners, and can serve as middle and lower-level military attachés), while the evil people belong to the untouchables, and their status is even lower than that of ordinary ordinary people, and they cannot be registered or recognized by their fathers (they all know, but they can't recognize them), and their status is similar to that of slaves.

And Jin Duoduo himself is a descendant, of course, he can't look down on his brother, but he can't treat a good half-brother as a clothed slave! So he took it for granted that all the sins were listed in the ranks of scholars...... These sinful beings of the eight provinces of Korea, as long as they have the conditions, have come to Hanyang Mansion to participate in the imperial examination!

Even if you don't get in, you don't want to leave immediately, and now you are waiting on both sides of the royal road outside the Dunhua Gate of Changdeokgong to kowtow to Jin Duoduo and Jin Erbo, who are closer than your father and mother, and thank you - Jinshi didn't get in, and the status of a scholar still exists, so they can still enjoy the treatment of a scholar in the later granting of fields.

Therefore, counting from the Dunhua Gate, there are thousands of young scholars who are lined up behind the Doctor of the Concubines and the Scholars, all of whom are wearing white Confucian clothes and high hats in the Korean style, stretching their necks to look in the direction of the Dunhua Gate.

Today is not an ordinary day, today is the day of "roll call outside Dunhua"!

The so-called roll call outside the Dunhua Gate is actually a good day for the Jinshi of the North Korean Imperial Examination Middle and High School in the spring of the ninth year of Hongxing to parade and praise officials!

Because this is the first subject of the Jin Dynasty, according to the teachings of King Jin, the officials of the eight provinces of Korea must be replaced by the new dynasty jinshi (the original officials can also go to the exam), so the number of scholars is very large, and there are as many as 6,600 high school scholars, and they all have to come out for a walk today.

In order to show the grandeur, after the Jinshi walked the street, Jin Duoduo would also go out of Dunhua Gate to go around the city under the iron cavalry escort of the Anton Army to show the power of the Jin Dynasty.

The Dunhua Gate has been opened, and 6,600 North Korean Jinshi wearing big red robes and black gauze hats are lining up to come out, most of them are from humble backgrounds, and they are all complacent.

The number of concubines is already more than that of concubines! Moreover, the policies of the Jin Dynasty were favorable to the concubines, so their enthusiasm to participate in the imperial examination was also high, so most of the "winning lots" were concubines. These people now have official bodies, no matter how they are calculated, they are already in the second class, which is really Wang Enhao!

This group of sinister jinshi is undoubtedly the pillar of the Jin Dynasty's rule!

When Kim Duoduo, the prince of the Ming Dynasty and the protector of the capital of Andong and the king of the Korean courtyard, rode out of the Dunhua Gate on an Iberian horse given to him by the state of Sibania, all the Korean scholars on both sides of the royal road knelt on the ground and shouted loudly in Chinese.

"King Chitose, Chitose! Courtyard Jun Chitose, Chitose ......"

Listening to the hoarse cheers of the North Koreans, the smile on Kim Duoduo's face really couldn't be hidden, he was happy! It is not because of the heartfelt support of the Korean Shishu, but the great good news from the Dagukou commercial port - the Ming Dynasty has encountered a financial crisis again, and there is no money to fight, so it has to return to the court!

The edict of the return of the class teacher to the court has been officially issued, and the date of the class teacher has also been set, just on March 18. The candidate for the minister to stay in Beijing has also been finalized, that is, the annoying traitor Shi Kefa, who has been appointed by the minister left behind in Beijing and the envoy of the mountain tombs, not only responsible for staying in Beijing, but also in charge of the repair project of the twelve tombs of Tianshou Mountain, and it is said that six million taels of silver have been allocated for the repair of the imperial tombs......

There are also rumors on the Dagukou commercial port that Emperor Zhu has lost his old capital in order to move several feudal towns in the Central Plains and Shaanxi, and he has spent 20 million or 30 million, and he has to come up with tens of millions of taels of silver every year for maintenance expenses!

In addition, the Ming court also fulfilled the promise of "three-year exemption" and exempted Henan, Shandong (some areas), Shanxi, Hebei and other places from all the land taxes of Hongxing for seven to nine years.

At the same time as exempting the land from the tax, the Ming court also sent a large number of officials to these newly recovered areas, established local governments at all levels, and also scattered a large amount of silver and copper coins to buy hired labor.

These new lands are all overheaded, and they are a big deficit.

And then there are hundreds of thousands of Northern Expeditionary troops who have been tossing for two or three years! In addition to fighting the Qing army, these troops were also in charge of public security and various projects, building roads and forts, dredging rivers, reinforcing the Yellow River dam in key places, and renovating the Beijing Castle.

That's another lot of money!

Even if the Ming Dynasty has mountains of gold and silver, it can't help but spend it like this!

Now that it's okay, Emperor Zhu's family has no surplus food, and if there is no surplus food, it should be able to stop for a while.

As long as there is stability for three to five years, the jurisdiction of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate will be able to recover, and the rule of the Kim Dynasty of Korea will be stable.

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"The class teacher is still in court? Why? The remnants of Dongyu haven't been wiped out yet, why did they return to the division? Did you want to send troops to attack the Great Shun Dynasty? ”

Sichuan, Chongqing Mansion, Chaotian Palace. At the beginning of the year, Li Guo, the son of Dashun who had only returned to Chongqing from Kunming, Yunnan, had just received bad news that the Ming Emperor had returned to the dynasty.

This is good news for Jin Duoduo, but isn't it a good thing for Dashun?

After the news that Beijing was recovered by the Ming Dynasty reached the Dashun court, the Dashun court immediately felt that something was wrong!

As soon as Beijing is recovered, the Ming Dynasty will be able to occupy all the Han land in Guannei, and that "point" seems to be the Sichuan occupied by the Dashun Dynasty!

"Emperor," the news of the Ming Emperor's class was brought to Li Guo by Song Xiance, the military division, "The minister got the news that there was no silver in the Ming Dynasty...... The Ming Emperor's Northern Expedition spent a sea of money, spending tens of thousands of dollars in less than three years, and now the treasury is empty, the people's livelihood is withering, and the source of wealth in the southeast has been exhausted, and there is no silver for Zhu Cihong to squander. ”

"Tens of thousands?" Liu Zongmin took a cool breath, "This Zhu Cihong is too capable of losing the family, right?" It cost tens of thousands in less than three years! ”

"You can also make money!" Sun Kewang interjected, "Tens of thousands of silver! It's a mountain of piles together, how did you scavenge it out? ”

Niu Jinxing smiled bitterly: "There is enough land!" If we occupy the country of abundance and add Yunnan, the grain fields that are rented on the books (those who raise soldiers are called soldiers) are more than 53 million mu, and the land rent that is put into storage a year is also a little more than 10 million. In the Ming Dynasty, the four rivers and two lakes, Fujian and Guangdong, plus Shandong and Guangxi, how could there be 530 million mu of registered grain fields? What's so hard about earning 100 million stone a year? In addition to the commercial tax, customs duty, and salt tax, it is not difficult to add another 20 million taels of silver. It's not impossible to save 10,000,000 taels...... However, the Ming Dynasty earned a lot and spent a lot! The annual expenditure is also more than 10,000,000 yuan, and this Northern Expedition does cost a lot, and it is estimated that it will take another three or two years to save up to have the money to attack our Sichuan.

Emperor, the minister estimates that we can have three years of stable life, and then I am afraid that we will fight for many years! ”

"Hit it!" Liu Zongmin snorted, "Who is afraid of whom!" If you want to look at it, you might as well make a first move! Taking advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty has no military spending, let's fight a guy first, don't let the soldiers and horses of the Zhu family take the lead! ”

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