This can be regarded as Yu Xiaotian's last promise to Chongzhen, Chongzhen has now changed back to King Xin, after hearing it, his heart was bitter, but he also breathed a long sigh of relief, he knows very well the mentality of those in power, the existence of people like him is undoubtedly always a heart disease of Yu Xiaotian, if it is him, he will definitely not leave his life.

So these days, he has been secretly worried that Yu Xiaotian will break his promise and fatten himself, and when he is in the Zen position, after leaving him for a year and a half, he will find a reason to execute his family, and finally kill their whole family, young and old, and talk about death or other reasons casually, and no one will be able to do anything at that time.

But after listening to Yu Xiaotian's whispered assurance today, he didn't know why, but he still believed Yu Xiaotian's words, and his heart became stable.

Since seeing Yu Xiaotian for the first time, in the past few years, he has gradually understood Yu Xiaotian's personality, Yu Xiaotian is definitely not a soft-hearted person, for those who dare to do it with him, he can be described as ruthless, the enemies who have died in his hands over the years, there are not 100,000, at least tens of thousands of people.

But at the same time, he also knows that Yu Xiaotian is a man who keeps his promises, and under normal circumstances, as long as he promises something, he will never break his word and enrich himself, which even his enemies have to admit, and now Yu Xiaotian has repeatedly assured him that as long as he is in peace after Zen, he will not be embarrassed by him, so Chongzhen believes that Yu Xiaotian is not deliberately deceiving him.

If it was replaced by Yu Xiaotian when he entered Beijing a few years ago, he was forced to take the Zen position and handed over the Great Tomorrow to him Yu Xiaotian to sit on, then with Chongzhen's character, he would definitely rather be a broken jade than a complete tile at that time, even if the whole family was martyred, he would never agree to Yu Xiaotian's request.

But after a few years, Chongzhen's character has gradually been smoothed out in this kind of captive life, and there is no longer the sharpness of the year, and now he has no illusions about the revival of Daming, and accompanies his wife and children every day, so that he has become accustomed to this kind of life, and he began to be afraid of losing the family affection he finally had, and began to think more about their future.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has died in name, it is not interesting for him to continue to stay here as this kind of puppet emperor, rather than this, it is better to completely let go, end the Ming Dynasty, and completely hand over the world to Yu Xiaotian to sit, he only wants to be able to save the lives of a few children, and he will never think about it again.

Now that everything is irretrievable, what is the point of continuing to cherish this palace and this throne, now he is no longer the emperor on top, although he knows that after arriving in Quanzhou, he can only be confined to the palace and continue to be a caged bird, but as long as he can keep his children, it is better than living a precarious life now.

Yu Xiaotian also reached an agreement with him in private, that is, if Chongzhen is willing, then Yu Xiaotian can give his sons a chance to change their faces and hide their identities, and after the situation stabilizes in the future, they can return a freedom, give them a chance to return to the outside world, and even let them make contributions in the world.

But the premise is that they keep their promise and never reveal their identities to outsiders, otherwise everything will be empty talk, and even if they don't kill them, then they can only return to the cage and never be free again.

This is already a special extrajudicial grace for a person who has abolished the emperor's family, and Chongzhen also knows that Yu Xiaotian can agree to these conditions, which is already extremely commendable, and as for more things, he no longer dares to hope for extravagant things.

With the end of the Chan Rang ceremony, Chongzhen abdicated and officially gave way to Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian changed the name of the country to Dazhong, changed the Yuan Chengtian, and completely announced the end of the Ming Dynasty's rule, and also announced the end of an era, and the whole China officially entered a new era.

Although there are still many people who do not approve of Yu Xiaotian's accession to the throne as emperor, he assassinated Yu Xiaotian twice a day, trying to prevent Yu Xiaotian from ascending the throne and becoming emperor, but they still failed to stop the giant wheel of history from moving forward, and under the control of Xiaotian, China began to enter a new period.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian came to power, in addition to maintaining stability in various places, he sacrificed the butcher's knife to those who opposed him, hunted down a large number of political enemies who tried to put him to death, and successively extinguished dozens of armed rebellions in various places that tried to openly arm against him, and it took half a year to stabilize the situation, leaving only some hostile forces in various places to go underground in desperation, but it was already not much of a wave.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian insisted on these forces that tried to resist his rule and intended to restore the Ming Dynasty, and issued an order to always adopt a high-pressure policy and never indulge in vain, implicating many powerful and noble relatives of the previous dynasty, gradually eliminating these local forces, and gradually stabilizing his right to rule the country.

After Yu Xiaotian ascended the throne and became emperor, he immediately abolished the status of Nanjing's accompanying capital, abolished all the original government institutions in Nanjing, and hired the original officials on the basis of merit and transferred them to other places.

The original Nanzhili was divided into two, and two provinces were re-established, one Anhui and one Jiangsu, and two provinces were set up in Liaodong, one Jilin Province and one Liaoning Province, which had just been pacified.

In addition, he ordered to send a force of 30,000 people, led by Meng Fei into the Mongolian steppe, stationed in the area of the Naturalization City that was destroyed in the war a few years ago, rebuild the city, expand the original Naturalization City, and become a large city, garrisoned by the Great Chinese Army, and send officials to exercise management over the entire Mongolian tribes here.

For the jurisdiction of Mongolia, Yu Xiaotian decided to come step by step, the next step is to prepare a large number of immigrants to Mongolia, open up wasteland and farm, gradually increase the number of Han people in the area of Mongolia outside the Guan, and then gradually establish Mongolian provinces, and gradually build more cities, through these cities, to point to area, gradually and comprehensively control the Mongolian tribes, and finally complete the complete control of the Mongolian provinces.

As for whether the Mongolian tribes are happy or not, whether they are willing or not, this is not his business, now he has strong troops and strong horses, who is not obedient, sorry, first cut off your mutual market rights, and then call the Mongolian tribes to help the army to fight and destroy it.

In addition, for the palace, Yu Xiaotianxia decreed that the system of continued castration was prohibited, and the recruitment of eunuchs was stopped, and the original eunuchs were diverted and resettled, and they were gradually moved out of Beijing and returned to their hometowns to settle for the elderly, leaving only a very small number of eunuchs to be retained in the palace.

In this way, there are only less than 100 eunuchs and palace maids left in the entire palace, which is far lower than the number of eunuchs and palace maids in the palace of the previous dynasty, which makes the palace suddenly become cold and cold, so many palaces can not be used up at all, Yu Xiaotian then ordered that most of the idle palaces were sealed, including various items in the former palace were also sealed in the palace, and without his will, they could not be opened.

He left only a small number of palaces for him and his family and those palace maids and eunuchs to live in, and let the palace maids serve in the palace until they are twenty years old, and then they can leave the palace to find a mother-in-law to marry.

Then, in the autumn of the first year of Fengtian, Yu Xiaotian did another thing that amazed the world's scholars, that is, he advocated the reform of the imperial examination system that had been implemented in China for thousands of years.

After repeated arguments and games with officials, Yu Xiaotian introduced a new imperial examination system, although the imperial examination system was retained, but in the original imperial examination system, the first mate reduced the proportion of Baguwen in the imperial examination, and at the same time no longer attached great importance to the assessment of poetry and songs.

However, in the original imperial examination, some new subjects were added, among which the study of the scriptures and meanings in the policy questions was also reduced, and the scriptures and meanings were no longer used as the subject of the questions, but the first officers improved the knowledge of political affairs in the policy questions, and this was the theme of the questions.

The policy questions mainly cover the economy, people's livelihood, governance, administration, management, agriculture, water conservancy and other issues, in addition to adding some problems in industry and commerce, raising various questions, so that the students who take the examination can put forward their opinions and their countermeasures on various problems in these practical aspects, and more students will be assessed for practical ability, and no longer pay too much attention to their attainments in Moyi, sticking scriptures, scriptures, poetry, etc., and write a good article, which may not be able to get good results in the future. However, if there is a good form in terms of current theory and practice, you will get good results in the imperial examination in the future.

This forces future scholars to give up the way of learning that used to be done by rote and rote, but forces them to open their eyes and pay more attention to all kinds of practical knowledge, pay more attention to the knowledge of people's livelihood, economy, industry and commerce, and pay more attention to the practical work ability of officials.

In addition, in addition to the policy, there is also an increase in the assessment of arithmetic, if you want to be an official, but in mathematics, you must also have attainments, even if it is not too demanding, at least some knowledge about math and arithmetic, is something that must be learned.

This can be regarded as a compromise in disguise, for the time being, I have to take care of the previous scholars, at least I can't completely stand on the opposite side of the scholars, in terms of governing the country, now Yu Xiaotian can't do without these old-style scholars, and he must leave them a way to advance, otherwise I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to find enough people to do things for him in the future, which is also a problem that the rulers of any dynasty have to face, so in the end, Yu Xiaotian compromised in this regard.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian also added a new examination method in addition to the imperial examination system, that is, under various ministries, a new examination system was established, called professional examinations.

Didn't some people who read poetry and scriptures not learn well before? But in some aspects, they specialize in the industry, but this kind of person basically has no chance to be promoted, so he can't embark on a career in office, at best, he can only act as a small official for the official and take care of some things.

But now, well, to open a new path for you, don't you have a specialization? This is also possible, as long as you have some professional studies and strong professional skills in some aspects, then you can go to various departments and take professional examinations.

These professional exams do not test things like poetry, but only various professional knowledge.

The assessment items set up under the Ministry of Officials, mainly administrative management, for those who are proficient in management, you can choose to participate in the examination of the Ministry of Officials, if you do have a very good ability in administrative management, and also have unique insights in various related practical aspects, you can judge that you have outstanding knowledge in this area, then you can be hired, and you can serve in the local government in the future, the starting point is slightly lower, but it is also a way to advance.