According to estimates, the population of the country at the end of the Ming Dynasty was about 150 million, but the total number of officials was only 20,000, equivalent to one person in charge of seven or eight thousand people, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the authority of the government in the local area has actually been deprived by the local clans, and it was hollowed out, which is also one of the reasons why the imperial court finances dried up at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Mao Jue's court election did not remove too many officials, about 3,000 Beijing officials, except for the old scum or Donglin background is too deep and too blind to scream, there are almost 2,0034 reserved positions, plus more than 1,000 officials of all sizes stuffed into the Dongjiang River, the number of officials has increased compared with before.

can be regarded as keeping their position, a large group of officials went down to the court and returned home, but when they came to work at the Central Government Office in the afternoon, they found that things were not so simple!

First of all, there were a lot of iron-faced bosses in their yamen, and then, with a bang, the ledger statements like a mountain were poured on the table with Dongjiang sacks in their dull eyes, and then those iron-faced bosses announced coldly in the general tone of the domineering president of later generations.

"The King of Liao has an order, these account books must be made within seven days!"

After saying this, his face was gloomy, and these Liao town officials were extremely domineering, and the president leaned out of the desk, knocked on the table, and snorted coldly.

"If the deadline is not completed, they will be cleared!"

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty pay attention to leisure, it is the elegance of officialdom, and even some county orders have been in office for three years, all of them are chanting poems to collect cash, and all the official affairs are pushed to the master to do, and they are secretly nicknamed the mud bodhisattva master, not to mention the magistrate, there are not a few people who have eaten and dried silver in the corpse of the Beijing official, and the large stack of ledgers in front of them is even about to catch up with their work for a year in the old days, looking at those Dongjiang chief officials with gloomy faces, a large group is simply dumbfounded.

"Lord Shangshu, is this too much!"

couldn't help it, a certain civil official who had just been promoted to a squire couldn't help but stumble and argue.

In this life, I didn't expect that a short man who was abandoned by the imperial examination could sit in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but when I really got to this position, I realized that in fact, it didn't seem to be anything, and there seemed to be no difference from being a foreign minister of Liao under Mao Jue, the only difference was that those regular imperial examination civil officials who had their eyes on the sky in the past had to bow their heads in front of him.

In a trance, and then looking at the forty-year-old, but the person who was accompanied by a smiling face, Song Xiance's face couldn't help but stiffen, and his fingers tapped the document ledger on the desktop, and he snorted coldly.

"These are only three days of work in Liao Town, and the King of Liao will give you seven days, if you can't finish it, what use will you do to the King of Liao?"

Now that it is a troubled time, what will happen to a useless person, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites couldn't help but tremble, bent down and quickly hugged the documents on the table, and hurriedly went down.

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It's not that Mao Jue deliberately wants to toss them, it's really that the entire court has really become a mess of porridge, and it's time to waste a hundred things to be revived, just take the Ministry of Officials as an example, Li Zicheng's army marched eastward, step by step uprooting the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the locality, Mao Jue wants to rule, and the garrison must continue to resend local officials to the local area to take back the local rule, which requires the officials to rotate and transfer at least one of the local officials in Shanxi and Henan within seven days.

This involves the Ministry of Rites again, Mao Jue doesn't want the mud Bodhisattva county order hanging high on the wall in the old days, he doesn't care if the eight articles are done well or not, but he must be proficient in the money valley, know how to collect taxes, how to measure the land, and have to judge it in the event of a lawsuit.

Then there is the household department, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War! Mao Jue's first thing when he took office was to build roads, where the railway in Liaodong led to the cannon can point there, although Li Zicheng was defeated, but he has a precedent of more than ten years of thieves in the Ming Dynasty, Mao Jue does not want to learn from Chongzhen, and he has been fighting guerrilla for more than ten years, as well as Jiangnan, during this period of the fall of the Beijing Division, there are still many bureaucrats fleeing south, it is expected that as in history, in the past few months, the fat Fu King Zhu Yousong may have been crowned emperor under the support of the six departments in Nanjing, even if there is a change, there is also Lu Wang Zhu Changrun there as a spare tire.

Even if the IQ of this uncle and nephew is added together, it is not as heavy as a high heel of Adriana, but after all, it is Jiangnan with a population of tens of millions of nearly 100 million, and those families who have ruled for many years are not easy to mess with, the Qing Dynasty has been fighting for more than 20 years, and when it comes to himself, this war is estimated to have to be fought.

Then a railway trunk line that pulls out from Shanhaiguan, leads vertically to the Yangtze River, and spreads horizontally from Shanxi to Shaanxi and Gansu is indispensable.

Now there is no shortage of silver, thanks to Li Zicheng, not counting Mao Jue's own huge property, in the treasury, Datong City plus a piece of more than 70 million taels of silver, can dispatch the population, the distribution of silver, the purchase of steel, these all need to be planned by the Ministry of Household Industry.

There is also the Criminal Department, the previous "Daming Law" must not work under the rule of Mao Jue, imitating the trade law and reclamation law implemented by the Dongjiang River, and it has to be combined with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty itself, although the Criminal Department is not imminent, but some are busy.

In fact, the most important thing should be the Ministry of War.

Up to now, the Liaodong Corps is still the foundation of Mao Jue's survival, but this is also the least one of the original Ming Dynasty team yamen, before the military department of those stinky fish and shrimp such as Zhang Jinyan and the like either died or fled, and the remaining small shrimp were basically cleared by Mao Jue to other departments, the new military department almost moved all the original Liaozhen Command over, and even did not set up a squire or anything, directly commanding the various corps commanders, the original formula, the original taste, but also the original rest assured.

As for militarily, whether the heavily equipped Liaodong Army is thrown into the northwest or south, it needs too much preparation, and transporting coal and grain from Acheng Hegang to Shanhaiguan and transporting logistics materials from Shanhaiguan to Lianghuai or Xi'an are definitely two concepts, here Mao Jue rarely adopts a conservative Taiwan style, more than 200,000 heavy troops are still deployed in the Beijing division just in case, only to expand outward with infantry and cavalry mixed into small-scale lightly armed troops, and its Chinese Meng Tieshan Corps of 30,000 people entered Shaanxi from Yulin, To receive Guanzhong, Liu Chong led the Dongjiang cavalry and the cavalry brigades of various departments to form a dragoon force of about 50,000 people, followed Li Zicheng to beat him up, and tried to beat him to the south of the Yangtze River.

A large number of opportunities went hand in hand for a while by Mao Jue fluttered away, and the whole Beijing division was tossed by the chickens and dogs, but the imperial court resumed normal operation, driving the people to begin to recover, and the citizens of Beijing who were afraid to hide at home watched from the crack in the door that the officials no longer hung a beggar and pretended to hide in Tibet, and were busy like an office worker's grandson, and hurried to the central government office with a big cake in his mouth before dawn in the early morning. What to do, what to do.

However, in the midst of the hustle and bustle, there is a person who has been forgotten in the back of his mind.

Prince!

Too many tasks have been promulgated, and the officials are busy completing the tasks to keep their black yarn hats, and the army in the north of the Ming Dynasty has been defeated! Now the Jingshi does not even have a patrol guarding the gate under the command of the old Zhu family, as for the eunuchs and nobles of the previous dynasty, they have become the biggest losers in this distribution of power, Mao Jue does not need the sixteen eunuchs of the inner court to check and balance the outer courts, the huge eunuch class has lost its role, and there are only one or two thousand left in the palace of 100,000 eunuchs, and the rest of the birds and beasts are scattered when the Beijing division is broken, and they rely most on the imperial power to speak for the prince, and they have no right to speak, as for the nobles, the family is basically bankrupt, How to win a new feats under Mao Jue's hands has become an urgent problem for them to solve, who would dare to touch Mao Jue's reverse scales at this juncture?

Unconsciously, in the core of this empire, the rule of the Zhu family was gradually forgotten!

(End of chapter)