Chapter 139: The Rising Sun of the Empire
"Dolgon is crazy?"
Yang Feng said speechlessly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Blocking the governor's report, saying that Dolgon is indeed crazy, in fact, there are many Jiannu who are crazy, for example, Fan Wencheng is also crazy, not only singing and dancing every day, but also running around to pick up horse manure to eat, although Dolgon is not as crazy as him, but he also talks nonsense all day long and shouts Da Yu'er from time to time, as if the latter is in front of him."
Li Yutian said.
At this time, the siege of the Qing army had completely ended.
The flag people drilled out of the old forest know very well the terrible cold of winter, although the winter of Xuanfu is not as good as Liaodong, but in fact there is not much gap, because in the northwest wind port of this place even after three hundred years, the winter is often to more than ten degrees below zero, not to mention this Xiaoice period, the vast majority of the Qing troops sleeping in the open only to freeze to death, in fact, after the first snow fell, the Qing troops in the encirclement began to freeze to death, the cold and despair finally destroyed the courage of the remaining Qing troops, The last 15,000 Qing troops finally chose to accept their fate.
At this point, the Dorgon clique was destroyed.
Among the 35,000 elite Qing troops who escaped from Jizhou with Dolgon, a total of 20,000 surrendered to wait for castration, and the rest except for less than 2,000 people who were missing, all the others were buried inside and outside Suoyang Pass, Bolo among the four kings was killed, Kong Youde monk Kexi committed suicide, but Dolgon was already crazy, so he was tied up by his own soldiers and dedicated to the Ming army to leave a life.
"True or fake?"
Yang Feng said in disbelief.
It is said that Rui Wang Ye committed suicide, he believes it, but it is a bit exaggerated to be crazy, and he has been fighting in the south and north for a lifetime, so it should not be so bad in psychological quality, and it is even more exaggerated to say that he is trapped by love, who doesn't know that he and Da Yuer are actually to Jian husband and wife, everyone is a child of the rivers and lakes, where can there be so many feelings at all.
"Forget it, don't care if he's true or not, since he didn't surrender by himself, there's no need to leave him alive, pull him to Beijing, and that Fan Wencheng will be Ling Chi together."
Then he said.
He said that if Dolgon surrendered voluntarily, he could save his life, but since he was tied up by his subordinates and surrendered, it was not a condition for pardon......
Well, he's even more unlucky.
"Your Majesty, this is the first batch of Imperial Village stewards who have just been elected."
At this time, Wang Chengen stepped forward and said.
Twenty men of various ages fell to their knees, waiting to hear their Emperor's hadiths.
These people were selected from the descendants of the righteous people and fallen soldiers, and eight of them were the first students of the emperor, and they would then lead their respective teams to the nearest counties of Daxing and Shunyi to establish twenty imperial estates, measure and rank the land, and then distribute it.
In the future, these Huangzhuang management institutions will become the law, they actually exercise township-level powers, the ancient imperial power rule is actually to the county, and then basically the gentry have the final say, and the Lijia chiefs are responsible for collecting taxes and levying forced labor, etc., and Yang Feng's next is to change the village system, the village level is easy to say, the countryside is gathered in the village and lived, and they can choose each village head, but there is no clear township-level management body, and then the Huangzhuang exercises its powers.
The main function of Huangzhuang is to organize production and construction.
Especially water conservancy construction.
The drought of the Ming Dynasty is not a drought in the modern sense, many of them are actually just caused by the lack of water conservancy construction, and it is necessary to build water conservancy facilities on a large scale in the countryside like Taizu when he founded the country, repair reservoirs, repair trunk canals, and even repair machine wells, and such projects are far beyond the ability of the village level, and the county level is too far.
In addition, the promotion of agricultural technology, breeding, management of agricultural tools and livestock will be taken care of by Huangzhuang.
Then there is the grain purchase.
It is natural that if you plant the emperor's field, you have to sell the grain to the emperor, no matter what happens to the grain system, but in this era when the productive forces are underdeveloped and profiteers are rampant, the unified purchase and sale of grain is the best means to protect the interests of the common people. Therefore, the grain of the Ming Dynasty will no longer be allowed to buy and sell freely, at least before the grain output is greatly increased to ensure the food and clothing of the people, the Huangzhuang must monopolize the purchase of grain, and at most the merchants are allowed to import grain from abroad, but the purchase and sale of domestic grain must be monopolized by the Huangzhuang. You must know that Chongzhen's famine was largely caused by the hoarding of those gentry, and the reason why Yang Feng beat the gentry was to a large extent to regain control of the grain, and the system of grain stations and state-run grain stores would appear in advance in this era.
At most, he will not control the influx of smuggled grain in the future.
Then there is the reservist.
After the guard system was canceled by Yang Feng's decree, the reserve system will become the basis of the Ming military system, and of course this work cannot be done by those old local governments, Huangzhuang is the most suitable, a Huangzhuang to engage in a reserve battalion, no more, the twenty Huangzhuang in the war time, can pull out an army of capable soldiers for him, the entire current emperor's control area, a million troops can be assembled at any time, and they all have enough loyalty.
Then this area alone is enough for Yang Feng to sweep the world.
And these people will also be his first batch of grassroots cadres, in the future Huangzhuang will gradually empty the old bureaucratic system, they will do a good job will be promoted to a higher level, and then they will continue to infiltrate upward, and even enter the cabinet, until the Ming court is completely infiltrated into the emperor's majesty wants, and those outdated old bureaucrats will gradually be hollowed out, gradually marginalized, and even gradually abolished, so that those ancient names will gradually disappear one by one, and finally complete the reform of the entire official system in this way.
In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty at this time must go through a thorough purification, from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, and thoroughly cleanse it to sweep away all the scum, only in this way can we ensure that this ancient empire is rejuvenated and returns to the top of the world, facing the soon-to-be-coming era of great powers.
Of course, this will take a long time, and it is estimated that it will be good if Yang Feng can complete it before he leaves this world.
Fortunately, he still has enough time.
"Get up, I'll take you to see something, and it's a welcome gift for the people."
Yang Feng said.
Immediately afterwards, he led Li Shoufu and the heads of these imperial villages, or the directors of the official name of the imperial village, to the coal mountain where he had hanged himself.
At this time, this hill that has left a special symbol in Chinese history, a large part of the trees have been cut down, and then a large area of farmland has been created, in fact, not only here, but even many places in Xiyuan have begun to farmland, specializing in planting those crops that have not yet been popularized in this era, of course, it is winter at this time, so there is nothing planted here at present, only a dry grass.
In the middle of the farmland is a purpose-built hut with smoke billowing out of a chimney on the roof.
From the open door, you can see that the boiler inside drives the steam engine, which is driving the pumping machine to move up and down, and the well water pumped out from below continues to flow out of the iron pipe that extends to the outside of the room, and flows into a large cement tank outside the wall.
At the same time, in a barren grass at the foot of the mountain, a little eunuch quickly removed a pile of straw, and before he could leave, a fountain behind him shot straight into the sky.
The hapless little eunuch exclaimed.
And the directors of the Imperial Village who watched this scene also exclaimed.
At the same time, Yang Feng also twisted a small thing on another pipe side by side with the iron pipe, and then the straw in another place was removed, and the little eunuch ran fast, and when he left the place less than a foot away, the same fountain also rose in the straw position. Immediately after that, more than a dozen piles of straw below were all removed, and Yang Feng kept unscrewing the valves on the iron pipes around the cement tank, and the fountains also kept spewing out, and soon more than a dozen fountains rose in that wasteland, and a gorgeous rainbow immediately appeared in the mist under the sun, and the water droplets falling from the sky watered the ground like heavy rain.
"Your Majesty, the ministers are brave, although this thing is good, but those people can't afford it!"
A director of the Imperial Village said in a trembling tone.
Of course, they understand that with such an irrigation system, what does it mean for those farmlands, it can be said that they will never have to worry about drought again, but the problem is that this set of things is not to mention ordinary people, I am afraid that even the rich families cannot afford to use this set of things, and they can buy a steam pump, buy those pipelines, and burn coal in the future, I am afraid that no matter which one is out of reach for ordinary farmers, if the emperor really wants to implement this, then it will really go to the road of labor and money.
"Well, you misunderstood, I didn't say this, I said that!"
Yang Feng smiled and pointed to the other side.
There a little eunuch was struggling to lift a thin iron rod, in front of him was a thick iron pipe that was fastened, and in his hand there was a small iron rod pierced at the front end, which was connected to the ear hole next to the thick iron pipe. The tip of the thin iron rod bent at the very end, falling to something below, and as he continued to press up and down, the small stream of water intermittently flowed out of the mouth of the front end of the thick iron pipe, and flowed into the wooden barrel below to receive the water, and many wooden barrels were waiting there.
And just when the emperor pointed to himself, the little eunuch wiped the hot sweat on his face and showed a sincere smile at this side.
"Huh?!"
The director seemed to hear the sound of the festival shattering.