After thinking about it for a while, Chongzhen felt that Yu Xiaotian seemed to have some reason to do this, and that doing so could control the local officials from having too much power, so he nodded and praised it for the first time.

With Yu Xiaotian taking power, when it came to autumn, Chongzhen began to see some better news from the briefing, for the disaster of the Central Plains exile army because of the entry of the slaves, the Yu family army entered Beijing, the imperial court transferred Hong Chengchou and a large number of Shaanxi soldiers into the gap to breathe and start to recover again.

However, with Yu Xiaotian taking power, re-arranging the deployment of officials and arranging for Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to return to the Central Plains provinces to supervise and suppress the exile army, the life of the exile army was obviously not easy.

With the implementation of various new policies, the burden of the common people has been reduced, and in many places where there has been a lot of trouble, the imperial court has directly issued an order to exempt the local people from various tax burdens that have accumulated arrears for many years, and the grain tax of that year has also been reduced or exempted, in an effort to attract the people who have left home to return to their hometowns and resume farming.

As for many places that have suffered from disasters for many years, they have also issued a decree to exempt all arrears of taxes, and promised to re-measure the land and drastically reduce the various additional commissions of the previous imperial court.

This made the common people see hope and no longer worry about not being able to pay the imperial grain, so the common people began to gradually feel at ease, and they were unwilling to join the exile army as a disaster.

The exile army gradually began to lose blood, and many of the rebels in the exile army, after hearing the various policies announced by the imperial court to benefit the people, no longer had the intention of following those bandit leaders, so a large number of them began to become deserters, surrendered to the government, and then returned to their hometowns to become their peasants again.

In this way, quite a lot of the wandering army can no longer be as arrogant as before, and after the elite of the Yujia army also invested in the attack on them, the wandering army of all walks of life has been defeated in successive battles, and the scope of activity has begun to be greatly squeezed.

At the end of the twelfth year, Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong were given the head, and only the largest part of Li Zicheng's department remained, and they were driven to the area of Qingyang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian confiscated a large amount of funds from various places to invest in the relief of the victims, and ordered the local governments to vigorously provide relief to the victims, restore the victims to return to their land for farming, and cooperate with the implementation of the new policy, curbing the momentum of land annexation, so that the common people saw hope and gradually returned to their homeland to resume farming.

During this period, Yu Xiaotian ordered Jinyiwei to make a secret visit, and at the same time asked his subordinates to monitor, and really caught a large number of officials who were hand in chief, these guys were greedy, and now they are handling such a large amount of relief money and food, how can they not reach out to make money, so they rolled up their arms and sleeves one by one and prepared to make a big profit.

Yu Xiaotian was waiting for them to do this, and they were worried that they couldn't find an excuse to kill these guys, and this time they reached out to make money, which can be said to be in Yu Xiaotian's arms.

Yu Xiaotian took a two-pronged approach, while providing disaster relief, he caught the dirty hands of quite a few officials, this time he will not be polite, to deal with these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it is directly a big killing, and the killing can be said to be a rolling head, and even some county seats, from the county magistrate to the following officers, were arrested cleanly, and there were no officials who even did the work.

Yu Xiaotian doesn't care about these, the most important thing in this world is the people who want to be officials, he ordered to draft a decree, select a large number of students who wanted to be officials before but had no chance, and directly sent them to various places to fill the vacancies, as for those small officials who control local affairs, they also use newcomers to fill the vacancies, not afraid that they will muddy the previous waters, and it is a big deal to tie up the bad accounts in the previous local area and open new accounts, in short, to ensure that local affairs are managed.

Although there are a lot of drawbacks in doing this, it is better than following the old system and continuing to let the local officialdom rot, such a thunderous method, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the original Zhu Chongba, even the ruthless Zhu Di is not so ruthless as Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian also tried his best to raise grain, and promoted the planting of improved rice and grain wheat in various parts of the north, so that the people could have grain seeds available first, and mobilized a large amount of grain from the south to transport it to the north and put it into the relief of the victims, so that the people could at least have food to eat first, and it would last until the summer harvest of the year, as long as the north reached the summer harvest of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the chaos could basically be controlled.

Chongzhen saw so many exile troops have been exterminated from the briefing, and he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, he has been the emperor for more than ten years, but the exile army has been suppressed more and more, and the Central Plains is becoming more and more chaotic, but Yu Xiaotian has been in power for more than half a year, and the exile army has been wiped out in large numbers, Henan began to gradually restore calm, and the exile army in Huguang has gradually been cleared, and now only Shaanxi is left, and the exile army has not been completely controlled, and the rest of the provinces have gradually recovered calm.

Although he thought that Yu Xiaotian was so easy to kill, it was not a good thing, and if he didn't get it right, he would make the place unusable, but the facts told him that his worries were not called a reality, and Yu Xiaotian hired a large number of new officials and flooded those places that had been purged of officialdom, and quickly stabilized the shape of those places.

With a large number of disaster relief money and grain was put into the local area, the common people for the first time enjoyed the treatment of the Ming people, although the relief is not much, but it can make them barely survive, as long as there is something to eat, the vast majority of the people are not willing to rebel, and fight with the court officials and soldiers with their heads.

In addition, during this period of time, Yu Xiaotian ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the new Jinyi Wei to strongly intervene in the relief activities, and really arrested and killed a large number of officials who tried to reach out and fill their pockets from the money and food for the relief of the victims according to the old habit, so that the common people really received the money and food distributed to them for the first time, so that they could get real benefits.

In order to persuade farming and restore local agricultural production, Yu Xiaotian also ordered the local supervision of the people who had already received grain seeds to restore the land, and once it was found that some people were lazy and unwilling to exert effort to restore their land and eat the grain that was given to them, he would confiscate their land, put them in prison, and send them to other hard labor camps to work as coolies, and let them repair rivers and roads.

In short, after Yu Xiaotian took over the power, the situation in the north of the Ming Dynasty quickly began to be calmed down, which Chongzhen had to admit that Yu Xiaotian was a hundred times stronger than him, and Yu Xiaotian's wrist was much more vicious than him, and he had a tiger and wolf army in his hands that he could drive at will, this army was extremely loyal to it, where Yu Xiaotian's sword pointed, they would kill wherever they went, and any force that tried to block Yu Xiaotian's progress was completely crushed by them.

And Chongzhen asked himself that although he was the lord of a country, he had never had such an army loyal to him, and he was not capable of creating such a strong army.

The biggest difference between Yu Xiaotian and him is not that he has such a fierce tiger and wolf army at hand that can be driven by him, but that Yu Xiaotian does not seek fame, in order to achieve his goals, he can do whatever it takes, soft or hard, Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and other intimate eunuchs who walked out of the palace during this time also brought back some gossip to Chongzhen.

There are rumors that in the past six months, many officials in various parts of the Ming Dynasty have actually opposed Xiaotian's implementation of the new policy, and many local officials have colluded with local heroes to try to use force to resist Yu Xiaotian's new policy, but many of them have not been prepared and have been assassinated inexplicably.

Moreover, many assassination incidents can be directly pointed at Yu Xiaotian, and there are assassins hundreds of meters away, using muskets, one shot is fatal, and the target of the assassination is solved at once, often leaving them no chance.

Even a deputy general in Jiangxi, because he clamored to support the governor of Jiangxi to raise troops to fight against Yu Xiaotian, one night, his whole family was killed at home, and even the house was set on fire, and in the end there was no evidence left, and as a result, the soldiers and horses under his command were immediately taken over by Yu Xiaotian and disarmed on the spot.

The governor of Jiangxi himself was soon assassinated, and the moment someone went out on his errands and got off the sedan chair, more than a dozen assassins shot him on the roof of a house not far away, and shot him to death with gunfire.

And all over the Ming Dynasty, assassinations like this are said to be everywhere, there are not 10,000 cases, at least there are thousands of cases, although everyone knows that this is Yu Xiaotian's subordinates secretly doing it, but there is no way to take him, so that those who are trying to confront Yu Xiaotian in the Ming Dynasty are all frightened, and they don't even dare to go out of the door, and they are afraid to sit at home.

After hearing this, Chongzhen felt a chill, and had a deeper understanding of Xiaotian, this guy really has no scruples to achieve his goal, no matter what means he uses, as long as he achieves the goal he wants.

At the end of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the sea ban was just opened for less than half a year, at the end of the year, Yu Xiaotian counted the tariffs obtained by the four open commercial ports, and in just half a year, the four cities of Songjiang Mansion, Ningbo Mansion, Quanzhou Prefecture and Guangzhou Mansion were located in the Ming Dynasty to harvest 3.7 million taels of silver tariffs, and these tariffs were directly entered into the treasury of the Ministry of Households, almost on top of the national taxes in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the financial predicament of the Ming Dynasty has always been overstretched, and then it was solved, so Yu Xiaotian made persistent efforts to open up the three places of Dagukou in Tianjin, Fushan in Shandong, and Wenzhou Mansion in Zhejiang, and added a city department for each of them, and the city department was officially directly subordinate to the household department of the imperial court.

The new Hubu Shangshu Zhou Fangzuo will be happy at this time, who was the head of the Hubu Shangshu before, Daming reached out everywhere to ask for money, but the Hubu never had enough money to use, and now with the opening of the sea ban, the city alone has earned so much silver back to the Hubu, and the Hubu finally no longer has to feel a headache for the lack of money every day.

Of course, no one will be disgusted with a lot of money, Yu Xiaotian has a strong ability to make money, but the speed of spending money is faster than anyone else, this guy is generous, often the household department has just received some money and food, and he will immediately spend it again.

At the beginning of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian announced a new policy, that is, the salaries of the current Ming officials were directly increased by two to four times from high to low on the original basis.

In addition, for some people who needed to be supported by officials out of their own pockets in the past, such as some officials who were not responsible for the development of salaries in the imperial court, now Yu Xiaotian instructed the imperial court to set quotas for various localities, and their salaries are also borne by the imperial court.

In this way, local officials are relieved of a very heavy burden of having to pay for the people who have to run errands for them out of their own pockets.

Since the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's officials have not improved, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a policy of supporting the government from frugality, so that the salaries of Ming officials have been in a very low state.

In addition to feeding a large family and ushering in normal expenses, they also have to feed some people who run errands for them, and these people who run errands for them also need to pay out of their own pockets to support.

Therefore, they have to find ways to get money from other places, otherwise they will not only not be able to live a decent life as officials, but they will also go bankrupt.

This is also after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, although he adopted extremely strict management of officials, and even introduced the method of peeling daylilies and killed many officials, but there was still no way to completely control the corruption of officials in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the salary was too low is undoubtedly a very important reason.

Now, in response to this maladministration, Yu Xiaotian has greatly increased the salaries of officials, and included some people outside the system who had to be supported by officials out of their own pockets in the past, and the state has given them a decent life.

But with this alone, it is absolutely impossible to have a high salary and maintain honesty, which is also the original intention of Yu Xiaotian to reorganize Jinyiwei and put it under the Metropolitan Procuratorate to monitor local officials in various places.

At this time, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and its subordinate Xinjin Yiwei actually became a supervision department, which was responsible for supervising the usual work of officials and investigating and prosecuting those who were corrupt and perverted the law.