Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 462 Mutual checks and balances (fourth update, failure to quit smoking plus update 23)

"Han Yu..." Chongzhen seemed to be thinking about this person.

After Ma Shiying, the former minister of rites, was sacked, he was also recommended by Liu Hongjian, and he was well-behaved in his tenure, but he didn't do anything extraordinary.

"Master Han once told his ministers about the bad government of the country. When it comes to innovation, I only know the general idea, and Master Han is an expert." Liu Hongjian truthfully told Chongzhen.

The imperial court knew that the Ming Dynasty had a lot of bad governance, but Han Yu was the only one who proposed reforms.

As for Han Yu's details, Liu Hongjian had already checked it out. He came from a poor family but he was able to clean himself up, and he didn't join forces with the courtiers, but he was squeezed out because of this.

He has successively served as magistrate of Yingshan County, Xinye County, Biyang County, Linyi County, Bingke Jishizhong, Li Kejishizhong, Inspectorate...

Han Yu was No. 18 in the second class of the scientific examination, and he spent nearly 30 years in the officialdom before he got mixed up in the Inspectorate Youqiandu Yushi.

If we say that Han Yu also has shortcomings, he doesn't like profit, but likes fame, the fame before and after him, and the reputation that will last forever, this hobby is good, Liu Hongjian likes it the most.

Now that you have pushed it once, you might as well push it a second time. Whether there are diamonds or not depends entirely on whether you can do the porcelain work, old Han.

But, alas, another old man!
The seven assistant ministers in the cabinet plus one were nearly four hundred years old, and Liu Hongjian alone forcibly lowered the average age of all cabinet elders by ten years.

Fortunately, he doesn't have to come to work every day, otherwise he will go to work with a group of uncles every day, and he will worry that he will become old-fashioned after a long time.

The function of the Procuratorate to listen to the news was cancelled, and all six departments were abolished during the incident, which can be regarded as a new trend in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Chongzhen understood this point, and the supervisory power must be in his own hands.

Since the Procuratorate is in charge of discipline inspection, it has to produce definite evidence for anyone who wants to be impeached, which is a self-examination of the official system.

The Inspectorate supervises all officials, Dongchang is responsible for supervising the Inspectorate, and still has the duty to supervise all officials, and Jin Yiwei is even more awesome, responsible for supervising East Factory.

Although Liu Hongjian had many professional titles, they were all manageable or irrelevant. For example, the Martial Arts Hall scholar and cabinet member, he could go whenever he wanted, and he would not force himself to go to Chongzhen if there was no important matter.

This was even more so for the Commander of Jin Yiwei, the second in command Liang Yang couldn't find where Liu Hongjian was most of the time.

But there is one thing, no matter whether it is or not, if it is not pleasing to his eyes, the subordinate departments that can suppress the authority will be stern.

This is like a knife hanging in Dongchang and over the heads of all the officials. The courtiers have to consider everything they do. If they are targeted by this lazy, ruthless guy who is still in the hands of the holy family, what will be the consequences.

The Procuratorate, Dongchang, and Jinyiwei are the three eyes of Chongzhen, and the hundreds of thousands of frontier troops in the Beijing camp who have received Chongzhen's grace are his arms and his butcher's knife.

After setting the tone, Chongzhen was determined, and in the next few days, Chongzhen began a drastic rectification.

On the tenth day of the eighth lunar month, nearly three hundred criminals were beheaded by Chongzhen's orders in Xishi, Beijing.

The people watched it, and they all clapped their hands and cheered.

Since Chongzhen raided the treasury of his family and got so much money last year, the land tax in the whole north has been exempted.

Now His Majesty the Emperor personally marches, slaughters the Jurchen savages who have harmed the north for decades, removes disobedient ministers externally, punishes traitors internally, and gives benefits to the people. Where can I find such an emperor?

The current situation in Ming Dynasty is that the courtiers are silent, and Chongzhen does its own way. As long as the people don't make trouble, everything is easy to talk about.

As for the courtiers, if you are willing to act honestly, you can just stay there. If you are disobedient, you will be dismissed directly. Chongzhen is not used to it at all.

Nearly half of the courtiers were implicated in the king's case. With one order, all the concubines of the Hanlin Academy were sent down, and local officials from various prefectures, prefectures, and counties in the Ming Dynasty were brought back to Beijing.

For a while, the situation of the imperial court was completely new, especially the local governors who were summoned from all over the world. They almost dreamed of entering Beijing. Wealthy businessmen everywhere pay tribute.

But is this really the case?hehe.

These days Chongzhen was busy with himself, but Liu Hongjian was free. He came to sleep late every day, got up to do morning exercises, strolled around the Jinyiwei yamen, and then ran to the armory.

With Uncle Song here, the entire Xishan workshop is well organized.

In half a year, the glass workshop and steel workshop alone earned Liu Hongjian more than 80 taels of silver. In addition, the coal and stone business in charge of the Shanxi Gu family and his son also earned 40 million taels of income.

But most of the money came in with the left hand and out with the right hand. Under Liu Hongjian's order, Uncle Song expanded the size of the armory without delay.

Especially the iron and steel workshop, which has been expanded to more than [-] workers in half a year and produces [-] stones of steel per day.

With steel, the artillery workshop and musket workshop have also been expanded. Today, the ordnance factory has produced more than 140 cannons alone, and there are more than [-] new front-loading rifles. Nearly [-] pieces were sold.

After discussing with Song Yingxing, Liu Hongjian stopped the production line of old-fashioned firearms, and the musket workshop stepped up the production of rifled guns at full capacity.

The Northern Expedition fully proved the great power of firearms. Chongzhen admired ordnance very much, so Uncle Song was promoted to the title of Wuweibo.

But neither the courtiers nor Chongzhen had any objection to this. After all, there were no firearms from the Ordnance Institute. I don’t know how many soldiers would die in a decisive battle with Jiannu.

In addition to being grateful for the emperor's kindness, Song Yingxing became more energetic, so that Liu Hongjian was worried that this precious old man would not be able to take it anymore.

Almost all the firearms provided by the Ordnance Institute to the Ming army were sold at a low price. After all, most of the funds were provided by Uncle Chongzhen, and the materials were also provided by the Ministry of Human Resources at a low price. Liu Hongjian did not intend to earn this money.

That is to say, except for glass workshops and spinning workshops, as well as the coal and stone industry in Shanxi, all other workshops do not make money, or even throw money into it.

But there is no way out, everything is difficult at the beginning, but fortunately, the stalls have now been spread out, and when the rifled guns are distributed to the whole army of the Ming Dynasty, the old-fashioned quick-fire guns can be recycled.

Didn't Bo Luochi in Chahar miss our Daming's firearms for a long time? Well, maybe we can contact them after a while to alleviate the plight of lack of funds, Liu Hongjian secretly thought about it.

Anyway, this zero version of the old-fashioned Suifa gun has a slow rate of fire, and the shooting distance is less than half of the rifled gun. It is not a threat to Ming Dynasty. It can also exchange some cattle, sheep, and silver to benefit the people of Ming Dynasty. will refuse.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Ghost Festival.

The 18th year of Chongzhen's Hungry Ghost Festival is destined to be recorded in the annals of history, because on this day, Chongzhen set up another grand banquet in the palace...

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