The news of the Datong Incident and the capture of Shanxi merchants spread to the capital.
Cui Chengxiu and Wei Liangqing reported worries first.
Shanxi merchants colluded with the grasslands and Liaodong to resell grain and ironware on a large scale.
One-fifth of the generals here are complicit.
Civil servants are angry!
The emperor was furious!
The matter spread to the people, and the people scolded their dozens of generations of household registration books. The people all clamored to look good at those soldiers at the border of the Ming Dynasty who had betrayed their country and sought glory!
Public opinion is the general trend.
The general trend is an unstoppable torrent.
Therefore, punishing traitors and profiteers has become the mainstream!
There are also people in the Ming Dynasty who are worried that this action will cause turmoil in the nine sides.
They believe that the disaster at the border is a long-term disaster that cannot be solved overnight and must be done with caution.
But serious illness requires strong medicine!
When 35 million taels of silver, more than one million shi of grain, more than 700,000 acres of occupied land, and a large number of shops were confiscated and sent to the Ming Dynasty, and the news of the generals killed at the border also reached here, the Ming Dynasty fell into chaos.
In silence.
They are afraid of Wei Zhongxian's power, but they are eager for these countless supplies!
Subsequently, Emperor Tianqi issued an imperial edict that the eight major Shanxi merchants' customs clearance and treason had been clarified, and Lord Yan, the minister of the Ministry of War, became the highest level this time.
The originally vigorous cleanup ended immediately.
Later, when countless amounts of money and grain arrived in the capital, the civil servants began to turn their attention to money and grain.
Except for the group of Jiannu slaves in Liaodong, the Shanxi merchants who had been killed long ago had already forgotten about it.
The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was directly resolved because of this house raid.
Although there was a hidden danger of drinking poison to quench thirst, it at least gave Ming Dynasty two years of breathing time.
Save these silver coins and spend them for at least two years.
Emperor Tianqi these days can be said to be in high spirits during happy events.
His physical condition has improved a lot. Yuan Qingkai and other team doctors said that Tianqi’s vitality is very strong and he can still run around for at least half a year.
Miraculous ancient people, miraculously healthy!
These days, the young King Xin is being forced to study ideological and education while cursing the country as a worm.
King Xin is living a very fulfilling life these days!
He has been spending his time repenting and accepting new knowledge.
Daming is rich!
With money in hand, he naturally acted without panic. Wei Zhongxian acted in the court according to the strategy formulated by Chen Mu.
Reduce the tax revenue due to poor harvests in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, and send soldiers and generals to issue orders to various counties, towns, and be sure to spread Emperor Tianqi's orders to villages and towns.
In short, the imperial power has gone to the countryside!
Kyoto in the Ming Dynasty was also busy.
Li Miao and a group of staff simply revised the new development plan, and then held a mobilization meeting to divide the elite troops into four groups.
The first group focuses on industrial development, industrial construction, and agricultural production. This group has the largest number of people, up to 70 people!
The second group mainly "protects" the nobles and Emperor Tianqi.
This group is the easiest, but also has the smallest number of people, with only 12 people.
The third group, a total of ten people, mainly selects elite men, trains new recruits, and slowly changes their outlook on life and cognition.
For example, why are we fighting and what kind of troops are we fighting for?
For example, the army of the Ming Dynasty is the soldiers who protect the Ming Dynasty, not rats and locusts.
To serve the country...
The fourth group is Chen Mu's group, their work is the most mixed.
They want to educate and liberate the power of feudal women. They also need to coordinate and arrange the progress of various work, check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps...
It acts as a lubricant for teamwork!
Under the threat of ultra-high-power weapons, Ming Dynasty is temporarily stable.
When a feudal dynasty mobilizes more than 100,000 people to work together on one thing, the efficiency of the action is unimaginable!
These equipments brought from modern times, under the guidance of technicians and the exquisite craftsmanship of countless top craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, began a super-speed chicken-and-egg mode!
There are not many equipments brought back from modern times. They mainly include various types of precision measurement tools, certain medical supplies and other materials, and smelting equipment that is hundreds of years beyond this era, such as drills, boring tools, and the core of various tools.
They rely on these constructions, and then they will be born with two, and two will be born with four...
Of these tasks, training for the third group is the most difficult.
Because they want to select 10,000 elite soldiers from the 80,000 soldiers who were forcibly seconded from the Beijing camp for training.
However, these soldiers in the Beijing camp know how powerful the heavenly soldiers and generals are, and many soldiers do not dare to be presumptuous!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the officialdom collapsed and the army was corrupted. Many of the soldiers in the Beijing camp were the kind of people that their uncles would not care for and their grandmothers would not love them.
But when these heavenly soldiers and generals with super strong combat power met, they were given countless amounts of money to make up for all their previous debts!
Just this one move directly captured the hearts of 80,000 grassroots soldiers!
The krypton-gold offensive was so effective that the soldiers in the Ming Dynasty camp felt relieved.
Then vigorous military training began.
The instructors carefully selected and shaved off the old and young, and finally selected 10,000 Ming people to form a fighting force.
The remaining 70,000 will all be incorporated into the Construction Corps!
At first, the soldiers were not used to this change.
But these people give too much!
Those who complete the training plan and pass the evaluation will receive ten taels of silver per month for grassroots soldiers, while those who do not meet the standards will only receive one or two taels of silver per month.
The nearly ten-fold pay gap is the driving force behind the training of these soldiers.
The remaining 70,000 people were led by the old nobles to carry out a large-scale construction project in full swing.
Time flies!
Thirty days passed quietly.
Meishan in the western suburbs of Beijing.
This time it has completely changed!
At this moment, there are countless people busy here in Meishan!
Looking from the top of the mountain, you can see that this area has turned into a very large construction site for several miles.
Seven or eight small blast furnaces have been built, and two have started smoke production trials.
The blast furnace for burning cement is also running smoothly!
Looking at the construction site, you can see countless workers pushing carts to transport various minerals.
Some transport coke to somewhere, while others transport sand and other items!
If you look carefully, you can see steel-bearing carriages that should not have appeared in this era, dragging thousands of kilograms of pig iron with the help of two horses to the newly built blast furnace.
Fifteen-meter-high smoke pillars are commonplace in modern times, but in this era they were truly behemoth.
Although the smoke plumes from the fire are polluting the sky, the black smoke is the first step in industrial development.
On a small road, two people who were incompatible with this construction site were walking.
Lu Wenzhao, who had basically recovered from his injuries, respectfully followed King Xin and quietly watched the busy construction site!
In the past, Lu Wenzhao and King Xin would not have been so close.
But Chen Mu, who was named Polupp, privately revealed the relationship between King Xin and him in front of Lu Wenzhao.
Not only that, he also took Miss Hokusai away!
Beizhai was an important part of Lu Wenzhao's bridge to King Xin, but he was taken away by them. Lu Wenzhao was very uneasy!
After he spent several days in shock and panic, he finally waited until King Xin sent someone to tell him not to worry.
After the injury was almost recovered, Lu Wenzhao was told that he would be King Xin's personal bodyguard.
He once asked King Xin why he wanted to expose their relationship.
King Xin smiled and said that outsiders had the ability to know the past, present and future.
Lu Wenzhao did not believe in the abilities of these people, but he must obey the orders of King Xin to whom he was loyal.
Walking on Meishan Road, Zhu Youjian was excited!
We are finally going to see steel-making furnaces producing steel.
This is the beginning of the industrial age!
King Xin, this stupid boy, is not a mascot, he is a role model.
If you perform well, you will wear a red flower!
Recently, he has been absorbing certain specific knowledge from modern times with his brother, sister-in-law, and sister!
King Xin was bombarded with modern knowledge, and his knowledge was no longer that of Wu Xia Amon!
It can be said that he was completely fooled by the pie painted by Chen Aiguo and others.
These days, he is like a sponge, absorbing everything and becoming mature from a middle school boy!
The Confucian thought that had accompanied him for sixteen years was almost completely abandoned by him.
These days, when he thought about his stupid act of killing his brother and what his brother had entrusted to him during these days, he secretly regretted it.
Fortunately, these visitors to the Immortal Palace promised him not to reveal his brother-killing behavior.
Although they took Hokusai away, King Nobu believed that this was a kind of protection for Hokusai.
Looking at the busy construction site, King Xin squinted his eyes and his heart surged!
"Such a great Ming Dynasty will surely be revived!"
This chapter has been completed!