April was undoubtedly a bumper month for Xiao Tianjian, and sitting in the main hall, he couldn't help but stroke his palms and laugh when he looked at the battle report sent by Yan Chongxi of the Northwest Army.

"Yan Chongxi, Liu Bao, Wang Chengping, they did a really beautiful job! Hehe! Li Zicheng was captured alive! In this way, Shaanxi is basically calmed down, and the decree is that for the meritorious soldiers of the Western Army, they will be rewarded for their merits! In addition, the soldiers and horses of the northwest departments rested on the spot for a month, and then switched to the operation of clearing and suppressing the remnants of the Li thief, so as to clear out the remnants of the thieves in Shaanxi within half a year and return the people of Shaanxi to a stable life! In addition, in another month, it will be the summer harvest season, and the household department must find a way to transfer a batch of grain into Shaanxi to help the hungry people in Shaanxi, so that they can survive until the autumn harvest, as long as the autumn harvest is over, Shaanxi can be stabilized!

Shaanxi natural disasters and wars have been more than 20 years in a row, it is time to let the people of Shaanxi rest at ease for a period of time, pass on the decree, not to mention this year, next year the people of Shaanxi will be exempted from taxes for one year, more from Shanxi and Henan, mobilize some more cattle into Shaanxi, as soon as possible to resume Shaanxi farming!

The officials should also step up the dispatch of cadres into Shaanxi to take over the government affairs of Shaanxi, I do not ask much of them, and let the people return to their land as soon as possible is the focus of their efforts in the near future!

Moreover, now that the people's livelihood in Shaanxi is withering, the population must be compared with 20 years ago, it is already one in ten, taking advantage of this opportunity, the remnants of the people in some places can move to places with better land conditions to resettle, for the banks of the Yellow River there is no need to reclaim, seal the soil and restore the vegetation, so that future generations can also be a little less flooded! ……”

Xiao Tianjian put down this Yan Chongxi sent from Shaanxi after the war report, the mood is very good, one after another to the ministries issued a number of instructions, now Li Zicheng was captured, Dashun no longer exists, Shaanxi only left some of Li Zicheng's old department, has not yet surrendered, but these people in front of the Great Chinese Army, is no longer enough trouble, Shaanxi is now the people of peace of mind, he has been exempted from Shaanxi for two years of taxes, these two years of time, enough for the people of Shaanxi to resume production, as long as there is a year of rest next year, The situation in Shaanxi can be completely calmed down, and who will rebel against the peasants in Shaanxi who have food to eat?

Therefore, the fall of Li Zicheng has one less confidant for the Dazhong Dynasty, and Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben from Fujian also sent back the news of the great victory in Funing Prefecture a few days ago, and now Zheng Hongkui is on his way back to Nanjing, and he will arrive in Nanjing in a few days.

And in less than half a month, the puppet emperor Li Zicheng will also be escorted to Nanjing, which is undoubtedly a series of good news for the whole dynasty.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the ministers in the court hurriedly wrote them down and said that they would arrange it immediately, although the household department had to pay all the taxes in Shaanxi in the past two years because of Xiao Tianjian's lips, and the household department also had to mobilize a large amount of grain into Shaanxi for disaster relief, which was a lot of pressure on the household department.

But Fu Deming thought about it carefully, if the military hadn't put down Li Zicheng's rebellion so quickly, it would still be impossible for Shaanxi to provide taxes to the Great Middle Kingdom, and it would have to invest a large amount of military funds for the military to use troops, so he should have the right to Shaanxi has not recovered it yet.

However, at present, as the situation in various places is becoming more and more stable, the land that was abandoned because of the war disaster has also been reclaimed in large quantities, although this year's fiscal revenue will not be very good, but the problem of food shortage in various places can basically be solved, especially in the north, now the situation has stabilized the fastest, a large number of people who fled south returned to the north before the year, returned to their old land, so that the population of the north began to recover steadily, as long as after this summer, the grain transfer to the north can be reduced by more than half, This gave the household side a big breather.

With the end of the war in the northwest, the consumption of the military will also be greatly reduced, a large number of prisoners of war and displaced people will be immediately resettled and begin to cultivate, and among the army, there are also a group of soldiers who will gradually withdraw from the army and return to the locality, which allows the household department to put down a big burden, so Fu Deming agreed quite happily this time.

And Li Jinde from the ministry also replied: "Please rest assured that the Holy Ministers have already selected a group of capable people and are ready to rush to Shaanxi to take up their posts, and after the Holy Lord sees them, he can issue an order to rush to Shaanxi to take office!" ”

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian nodded and said: "The Ming Dynasty died, died in the civil unrest in Shaanxi, and we also started in Shaanxi, just because the people of Shaanxi are living too hard, and now that the Li thief has been exterminated, our dynasty will solve this problem from the root, so as to make Shaanxi stabilize as quickly as possible, as long as the policy can be given, it can be given, as long as the officials do things seriously, and strive for a year, I can see a peaceful Shaanxi!" ”

Li Xin came out of the column and said: "Qi Shengshang, the war in the northwest can end in a month at most, and now Shaanxi has gathered nearly 100,000 troops, these soldiers and horses think that they can transfer half of them from Shaanxi, I don't know what the saint wants?" ”

"Exactly! Now Shaanxi can't support so many soldiers and horses, and Li Thief has been pacified, don't leave too many soldiers and horses in Shaanxi, pass the order to Liu Bao, the original second town military department, after receiving the order, return to Henan to rest from now on, the first town army stay in Shaanxi is enough to deal with! In addition, after the rest and recuperation, the First Town Army transferred a division of troops back to Xuanfu to garrison, and let Wang Chengping go to Xuanda to sit in the town, and the Mongols still had to make them feel a little pressure! For the tribes that are not convinced, they will be destroyed if they should be destroyed! Let them know that being an enemy of the imperial court is worse than being an enemy of Jiannu! ”

After Li Xin heard this, he immediately wrote it down and retreated.

At this time, a guard in front of the hall walked into the main hall quickly, saluted Xiao Tianjian and said, "Qi Qi Sheng, Gao Su asks to see you outside the hall!" ”

Xiao Tianjian was stunned for a moment, Gao Su since last year, he went to Nanjing to teach the artillery department of the Wutang Artillery Department, specifically for the teaching of artillery officers in the middle army, this year the life is very leisurely, it is said that he married a famous prostitute on the Qinhuai River as a concubine, rarely entered the palace to see Xiao Tianjian, today I don't know why, I actually want to meet in the morning court, so Xiao Tianjian nodded and said: "Pass him to the audience!" ”

After a while, Gao Su, the red-haired devil, wore a straight army general's uniform, trotted all the way to the main hall, and said to Xiao Tianjian in a standard official language: "Weichen see the saint, congratulations to the saint, congratulations to the saint!" ”

Xiao Tianjian looked at this red-haired devil full of Chinese official words, and felt a little ridiculous, it stands to reason that Li Zicheng was captured this time, which is indeed good news, but although Gao Su is now in the military, he is not directly in charge of the military, it stands to reason that it is not the turn of this guy to come and say hello to him!

So Xiao Tianjian said to Gao Su: "No courtesy! Gao Su, even if you have a heart, this time to pacify the Li thief is indeed a great joy, but why are you not in the martial arts hall today, why did you run here, is it possible that you are here to congratulate me on this matter? ”

Gao Su hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, no!" The fall of the Li thief is certainly a good thing, but this matter is not the matter that Weichen is in charge of! Wechen came to see him today, which is another great thing, and I want to congratulate the saint! ”

Xiao Tianjian's interest came suddenly, and he said in his heart, could it be that this guy has made some new cannons? That's not right! With the current cannons of their big Chinese army, looking at the world, even if it is European artillery, they are not far behind, and it can even be said with certainty that the quality of the cannons they cast can already surpass the cannons of Europeans.

So what great joy does this guy have to come to meet him? So Xiao Tianjian sank his face and reprimanded Gao: "Now I am deliberating, you come here today, if you say something inconsequential, be careful that I punish you for half a year!" ”

Gao Su hurriedly explained: "Weichen doesn't dare! Wei Chen knew that the Holy Sun had all the opportunities, how dare he come here to disturb the court! That's the case, I'm afraid the Holy One still remembers those missionaries recommended by Wechen for the Holy God last year! Now those missionaries have returned from Rome! And as promised, he brought back a lot of talents for the saint! Now they have arrived in Nanking by boat, and they are waiting in the city to meet the saint! ”

More than a year ago, Gao Su did introduce a few missionaries to him, when Xiao Tianjian was busy preparing for the Northern Expedition, he simply communicated with these missionaries and threw out a big bait for them to find a way to attract some European talents to China.

Later, because of the beginning of the Northern Expedition, Xiao Tianjian forgot about it, but he didn't expect that more than a year later, these people actually returned to Nanjing, so this news is really good news.

So Xiao Tianjian had no intention of continuing the court, and immediately announced his withdrawal from the court, and asked Gao Su to invite those missionaries to meet him, and after more than an hour, the guards reported that Gao Su had brought those missionaries to the palace and were waiting outside the palace.

"Tell them to see them!" Xiao Tianjian immediately put down some of the notes he was reviewing and replied.

In fact, the missionaries have been active in China for a long time, compared with the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is not very xenophobic, and the Western doctrine is not very repulsive, and the Western missionaries also took advantage of the Ming Dynasty's need to purchase artillery from Western countries, took the opportunity to enter China, and began to preach in China.

Famous scholars such as Xu Guangqi in the late Ming Dynasty were deeply influenced by Western studies, and accepted the baptism, became Catholic believers, and led by him to create modern Chinese science, so Xiao Tianjian is not averse to Catholicism, as long as Catholicism does not try to influence the Chinese regime, then let them preach in China, it is not a big deal, and through these Catholic missionaries, they can gradually integrate Chinese and Western cultures and create modern Chinese scientific concepts.

This time, when he went north to capture Beijing, he also met a celebrity in Beijing, and this person's name was Adam. Shahr, this name may not be known by many people, but he chose a Chinese name for himself, called Tang Ruowang, this name is known to future generations.

Xiao Tianjian also inadvertently, when he was controlling Beijing, he learned that there was such a foreign missionary in Qintianjian, so he accidentally inquired about it and found out that he had a treasure.

For Xiao Tianjian, he knows very well that in this era, in addition to the missionary duties, Western missionaries also have at least one professional skill in them, some of them can even be called multidisciplinary scientists, the church has opened colleges in many places, training priests at the same time, but also through these colleges to systematically teach various disciplines, so that many missionaries are familiar with astronomy and geography, machinery, mathematics, chemistry and other majors, and John Tong is a very representative example.

In addition to being proficient in mathematics, John Tang has a deep attainment in astronomy, and can also cast cannons, which can be described as an all-rounder, even in the Ming Dynasty, it is also quite valued, if it is not for the appearance of Xiao Tianjian, which changed the course of history, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, John Tang also received great attention in the Qing Dynasty, and even once served as an official residence.

So after Xiao Tianjian met John Tang in Beijing, he appointed John Tang as the supervisor of Qintian, allowing him to preach in Beijing and be responsible for the work of Qintianjian at the same time.

Counting the time, since he met with these missionaries last year, these missionaries left Nanking in February, returned to Europe, and now returned here again, which took a whole year and two months, which is very fast for the current traffic situation.

It can be seen how excited these missionaries were after obtaining his permission, I am afraid that in the past year, they have been working day and night to complete the task given to them by Xiao Tianjian.

(Today's special thanks to General Mao Mao and two friends of the infantry regiment for their generous rewards!) Thanks a lot! ）