Chongzhen looked at the report from the Ministry of Revenue and was very satisfied. The Ming Dynasty's currency income finally increased from just over four million to six million taels of silver. In the past two years, more than 200,000 troops were abolished, which greatly reduced the financial burden.
burden.
Now the military expenditure of the Liaodong and Guanning armies is the largest expenditure, one million taels a year.
However, before Liaodong was recovered and the Jiannu were not completely eliminated, he did not dare to dismantle the Guan Ning Army.
After Jin Yiwei Xiaowei read the major events that happened in the country yesterday, a memorial from the Inspectorate attracted Chongzhen's attention. There was a censor who exposed the imperial examination fraud in the Wanli Dynasty.
Chongzhen was a little confused. Now that he was away from Wanli Dynasty, he had already passed Taichang and Tianqi Dynasty. How could anyone still find out about these useless things about old sesame seeds and rotten millet?
He looked carefully and found out that it was the department involved in this matter, and several of them were already important officials in the imperial court. This made him immediately alert. This matter was not simple.
At the end of the memorial, the censor named Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, for impeaching Yuan Chonghuan, who had violated regulations in the provincial examination. He was born in Dongguan, lived in Dongguan, and his registered residence was also in Dongguan. However, he pretended to be a registered official and went to the place where his ancestral home was.
I went to take the exam in my hometown of Teng County, Guangxi.
The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were the same as the college entrance examinations in later generations. Some provinces are major in the college entrance examination. If you try it in Shandong and Henan, you will cry every minute. Some municipalities go to local key universities and their scores are very low. Non-key points in Shandong may be here
Go to Beiqing.
Therefore, in order to reduce the difficulty, many people have taken the exam in a curve and went to municipalities or border areas to take the exam. The most psychedelic thing is to send their children away from elementary school, such as the country of the Three Islands. After graduating from high school, you can get nationality and then become an international student.
Get your identity back. Admission to first-class universities without examination.
There were many such things in the Ming Dynasty. After all, the imperial examination was too difficult.
Seeing the fraud involving Yuan Chonghuan, Chongzhen fell into deep thought.
Yuan Chonghuan is now the most powerful official in the Ming Dynasty besides the emperor. He is also in charge of the most combat-effective army, the largest financial expenditure, and the frontier official who manages the most officials.
There is nothing trivial about him. Although this impeachment is just exposing the Wanli Dynasty, it finally brought up the matter of Yuan Chonghuan impersonating himself to take the exam. However, Chongzhen knew that this was a kind of temptation. Who knew what these people were doing?
, is there any explosive news that hasn’t been revealed yet?
Chongzhen hated party strife, but in this situation, he could only find out who was causing trouble and what they wanted to do.
After Chongzhen discovered Zhu Pi's examination fraud case, it attracted the attention of both the government and the public. Because the examination in question produced many high-ranking officials, especially Yuan Chonghuan.
In the governor's office in Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan was looking out the window with his hands behind his back.
Autumn in Liaodong has begun to get cold. The leaves have fallen under several autumn rains. Only a few leaves are still hanging stubbornly on the branches, swaying in the cold wind and rain.
He Kegang is in charge of the Chinese Army. He is the deputy general of the Chinese Army, which is also the deputy commander-in-chief.
Intelligence, staff and other work are usually done by the Chinese army. He is equivalent to Yuan Chonghuan's chief of staff. He reads the news from the capital with an expressionless face, especially the news about the imperial examination fraud case.
Yuan Chonghuan's face was gloomy and he remained silent without saying a word.
This matter can be big or small. If it gets serious, it can ruin his reputation. The imperial examination is not a trivial matter. His current status is all obtained by the imperial examination. The imperial examination is one of the few in the Ming Dynasty, and it has the lowest level of fairness.
of good governance.
If you fail in this matter, not only will you lose your face, but you will also lose your official position.
He knew that these things were coming for him. He had to take action before the situation worsened. Because someone was watching.
"Master He, don't you have anything to say to the headquarters?" Yuan Chonghuan said coldly.
"If Wenlong is born, the country will be unlucky; if Wenlong is used, the court will be unlucky; if Wenlong is killed, the prince will be unlucky." He Kegang lowered his head and said.
In fact, Dong Lin was unlucky because Mao Wenlong was here. He not only became a source of wealth, but also interfered with their peace negotiations. More importantly, Mao Wenlong, an old eunuch, was the last high-ranking official in the Zheng Guifei line to hold military power.
Yuan Chonghuan smiled bitterly, He Kegang was also a sensible person. He chanted in a low voice:
"Forty years have passed since I was half-lived, and my vision is only separated by trees and the world of mortals.
Now that I am in the land of the Sky King, I have learned to kill people before."
If you have to make a choice, you can only regret one person.
The imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty were full of shady secrets and could not withstand the digging.
Tang Bohu suffered a disaster that year, and there were few clean people here. From candidates to sitting teachers and examiners, every Jinshi is the result of a multi-party game. Because the imperial examination is connected to the officialdom, it is the ticket to the officialdom. It is the source of officials.
Therefore, the carving up of Jinshi was a focus of struggle between various factions in the court.
Yuan Chonghuan sighed. Once he entered the court hall, it was as deep as the sea and there was nothing he could do.
"You forced me to do this," Yuan Chonghuan said to the tree in the courtyard: "If I lose, none of you can win."
He Kegang lowered his head and stopped talking, as if he hadn't heard anything. His face was expressionless, and he just looked at Yuan Chonghuan's somewhat rickety back. It seemed that at this moment, he was much older.
This was a struggle from above, and it was not something he could comment on. He could only remain silent.
All he can do is act according to the instructions above.
"Instructions are given that from tomorrow, the Longhu Navy will conduct a half-month maritime training. Three thousand officers and soldiers from the personal barracks of Jiliao Governor will go to sea by boat and accompany the headquarters to inspect the major islands in Liaodong, coastal towns, generals, and
The island is on guard and ready to receive you in the near future."
At this time, Yang Fan was studying the sand carefully in the newly dug swimming pool at home.
By the end of this year, the railway will be connected to Jiuyuan City. In the middle of next year, Linhe City will be opened to traffic. In this way, the front and back sets will be connected to Beizhili by railway. Large-scale development of the front and back sets
Materials and refugees recruited for settlement can also be transported in large quantities by railway.
Later, the railway is planned to be built to Alxa and to Juyanhaicheng.
Going west from Linhe City, you have to cross three deserts and one Gobi. Although they all cross vertical deserts, each of which is only a few dozen kilometers, building roads in the desert is a difficult problem, especially for railways.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yang Fan found a lot of information on the Internet. Because in later generations, there was a desert highway here, passing through here, taking a straight line to Urumqi.
Yang Fan read the information and found out that it is not difficult to build a road in the desert.
The specific method is to dig wells to extract groundwater. Use steam engines and bulldozers to level the desert. Then sprinkle water and press it with a road roller. Fill it with sand, sprinkle water again, and press it with a road roller until you create a roadbed that is higher than the road surface.
Water can bind the sand tightly together, and even if it dries, it will form a stable road base. Just pour cement directly on top of the road, and finally lay it with asphalt, and it's ready.
This is not difficult because Yang Fan already has construction machinery.
There are steam-powered bulldozers and road rollers. There are also well-drilling equipment and trucks for transporting water. Yang Fan hopes to buy a steam truck. One truck is enough to transport six tons of water.
There are Populus euphratica forests near these deserts and the Gobi. There is underground water under the desert, and the fuel and water for the steam engine are guaranteed. It is completely achievable.
Now, cement can be produced locally. Special-labeled cement can also be transferred over. A lot of asphalt has also been accumulated. In the past year, more than 300 new oil wells have been invested in the Dagang Oilfield. Daming Petrochemical also established a small oil refining company at the location of what would become Huanghua Port.
Base. Asphalt has piled up like a mountain.
After all, in this era, oil refining technology is backward. After crude oil is refined into gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and fuel oil, half of what is left is asphalt.
Although road construction is not a problem, there is a big problem. That is sandstorms.
The desert here is mobile and flows due to wind and sand. The flow of the desert will cover the roads and railways. We must find ways to fix the sand. We even need to build a green belt on both sides of the roads and railways to block the wind and sand.
