Chapter 147 Arm

Ma Cheng is even more speechless. The Donglin Party’s favorite thing is tax exemption, commercial tax exemption, and mining tax exemption. The imperial court collects a little mining tax to compete with the people for profit. A big hat is placed on the emperor’s head. If His Majesty is not right now,

If you keep the pressure, the mining tax may be really exempted. It would be a major disaster. Not only will the national treasury be empty, but the emperor's inner tide will also be hollowed out, which will be a devastating blow to the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Without the income from mining tax, there will be no more internal silver to be transferred directly to Liaodong. It is better to believe in a pig than to rely on a household registration.

Malin put down the tea bowl and ridiculed, "Forget the mining tax, the emperor has no money in his hand, so they can take it. It's really easy to calculate."

Ma Cheng thought of the huge pressure from the Donglin Party members, and felt his brain hurt. The emperor must be unable to withstand it. He was only fifteen years old. Soon Ma Lin handed over another letter, and Ma Cheng sat down.

After receiving the letter, he was excited. It was actually sent by Wei Chao, the eunuch in the palace. The letter had not been demolished yet. Ma Cheng still had a good impression of this eunuch Wei Chao. This person is quite chivalrous and a good person.

A person who makes friends.

After opening the secret letter, Ma Cheng's spirit was revived. Wei Chao didn't say much in the letter, but only reminded that His Majesty now has the style of martial arts in the Shenzong. He often appreciates the father and son of the Kaiyuan Ma family, and does not shy away from others.

He also wanted to summon the Ma family and his son to Beijing to meet him, but he did not do it because the war situation in Liaodong deteriorated. Ma Cheng put down the letter from the Wei Dynasty and looked at him and smiled bitterly with his father. His Majesty is still young after all, and this time it will be a disaster.

If this young emperor admires a civil servant, he will become successful. However, he admires an admiral of the two towns with heavy troops, which is the way to die.

After pondering, Ma Lin said resolutely: "I want to come to Beijing to meet the saint."

Ma Chengran was happy. My old father was very confident and had great military achievements. He also had the capital to come to Beijing to meet the saint.

After thinking, Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Wait a little longer, Father, the will should be coming soon."

Malin thought about it and laughed unrestrainedly: "Okay, killing the slave chief. It's time for my father and son to be famous all over the world and leave their name in history."

Ma Cheng was also filled with pride. Even if he could not have a good end in this life, he could write a lot in history, and this trip would be worth it.

Leaving the mansion and leaving the street, he rushed to Guangshun Pass, and opened his eyes all the way.

Kaiyuan, as a commercial port connecting the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, is expanding at an extremely terrifying speed. The entire Kaiyuan new city has expanded several times larger than the old city. The city defense has formed a system. The inner gate of the newly built city is completely made of bluestone.

It is extremely solid and forms a complete defensive system. Guangshun Pass has also been raised and thickened. There will never be a crisis of being easily attacked by the city wall because the wall is too short, and it will truly become a dangerous pass.

I visited Gao Zhen in Guangshun Pass, but was kept by the veteran for a night and drank until the two of them had fun.

The next day, Tieling.

Standing on a high place and looking down, the dense crowds of people are busy like ants. Tens of thousands of refugees are opening kilns to build houses, hoping to have another shelter from the wind and rain before winter. Don’t underestimate these tens of thousands of refugees, refugees

Most of the middle-aged men are young and strong, and most of the women are young and beautiful. The old and weak have long been killed by Jiannu. Tens of thousands of young men and women get married and have children, and the population of Tieling will explode in the future.

Even the children in the Kaiyuan Army chose young and beautiful women from these refugee women and married them home.

Most of these young women are young and have girls, but now their families are broken and their families are dead, it is a luxury to marry a son.

The most eye-catching thing about Tieling Acropolis is the artillery formation fortifications on the mountain, which are guarded by heavy troops and guarded by groups. The eight meritorious cannons are even more mysterious. They were guarded by Tieling’s guardian Chen Liang as a treasure. Four more were built in a few months. The cannon makes the power of the turrets on both sides more terrifying. Within five miles, the twelve long-body cauldron cannons weighing 2,000 kilograms fired together. Even if the iron bomb was fired, the twelve cannons were fired. The cannon with precise strike capabilities is also amazing.

Seeing Chen Liang, Ma Cheng smiled with satisfaction and said, "It's white, it's fat."

Chen Liang said ashamed: "It's the last general who is lazy, please punish him."

Ma Cheng would not punish him. His right-hand man managed the Tieling defense line in an orderly manner. The front line was covered with open forts, secret forts, beacons, and beacon towers. If there was any slight riot, the army in the Acropolis would be dispatched in full swing. In Tieling, You can see militias with long bows on their backs everywhere. Long bows on their backs have become the symbol of Kaiyuan's regiment training. Although these simple and cheap long bows vary greatly in the quality, they can be defeated by too many.

Caravan armed, militia training, Kaiyuan front line is now full of soldiers, and the martial arts trend is prevalent. Under the instruction of Macheng, Kaiyuan and Tieling did not prohibit the circulation of weapons, and simple local longbows, knives, and axes were not prohibited. However, standard equipment such as armor, war horses, armor-piercing guns are still strictly prohibited from being circulated.

It is a helpless act that everyone is a soldier, and it is also a intentional act of Ma Cheng.

However, Kaiyuan's front-line people have become a trend. Most children over ten years old practice martial arts in the military, and the martial arts hall is created by Shen Liang. They select young sergeants with good martial arts skills as teachers in the military. For the three major subjects of archery, equestrian and infantry, children who enter the martial arts hall to learn martial arts are responsible for two meals a day. Therefore, even many wealthy families, even the children of the local wealthy Li family, have entered the martial arts hall to learn military formations and infantry battles. Law.

With the support of Macheng, Chen Liang refused everyone, and made Macheng highly appreciate it and relied on Chen Liang's ability even more.

This Ritieling Acropolis is the core office area.

The office area of ​​living area, private house, straw shed and sanitation, also called Yamen Street, there are three big characters written in front of the gate of a blue brick house, Fuhanshe, Tielingwei, Fuhanshe, under the plaque, there are more than a dozen The literati dressed in scholars stood with his hands down and respectfully presented a scholarly gift to Macheng. Macheng was helpless. Among the tens of thousands of refugees in Chenyang, there were more than ten people with fame and honor, but those who were willing to join the Fuhan Society were willing to join the Fuhan Society. There are only so many.

There are two Juren, and the rest are scholars and famous. These more than ten people may not agree with the revival of the Han and Tang dynasties. However, Ma Cheng did not care about the character of these people, nor did he care about the intention of these people to join the Fuhan Society. If they need to be scholars, they can only be done by scholars. After entering the academy, there were more than ten blue brick and tiled houses. Half a senior student was reading aloud. Although it was a bit simple, it was very borderline. .

Under the intentional guidance of Ma Cheng, more than a dozen scholars studied the books of the Han and Tang Dynasties and produced several articles, so they naturally could not be called a masterpiece. Ma Cheng was not able to do so, and this argument for reviving the Han and Tang Dynasties is necessary. It's impossible to achieve a few scholars and scholars. It also requires a famous scholar to take action. Even Zhou Yongchun and Zhou are not qualified. Ye Xianggao have this qualification. Unfortunately, they are all Dong Lin Dianren.

After sitting for a while, more than ten scholars were willing to please him. Ma Cheng happily took out a few letters of silver to calm the people's hearts.
Chapter completed!