Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 198
In order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Zongxian did not lead troops into the harem, but only mobilized the female medical generals in the city to equip them with firecrackers, and they took the queen and harem concubines out of the palace.

After the queen and all the concubines went to the East Palace, Zhang Zongxian began to conduct a large-scale search in the imperial city, and all the eunuchs in the palace gathered outside the Meridian Gate to count.

The guards of the palace were all disarmed with the intention of murdering the prince, and they were taken to the outer city.

On the next morning, Zhang Zongxian officially announced his return to the people in the capital.

At this time, [-] legislators had already entered the capital, and began to take to the streets to maintain law and order, and to sweep away the hooligans who took advantage of the fire.

As for the Jingying, which claims to have 20 people, it would be good to have [-] in fact. The rest were either eaten up, or most of them were occupied by nobles, eunuchs, and various ministries in the capital as their servants.

On May 3th, ten days after the Wang Gong factory exploded, the losses were finally counted. No less than 6 people died on the spot that day, and [-] people were killed or injured because of lack of timely medical treatment.

The entire Daming Guixun Group was wiped out, and none of the Beijing officials above the fifth rank was spared. The heads of the 24 prisons in the inner court, and the commanders of more than a thousand households of the Jinyiwei, all accompanied Tianqi to ascend to heaven.

After taking the capital easily, he first announced the death of Tianqi to the world, and then supported Zhu Ciran to ascend the throne after a simple funeral for Tianqi.

On May [-]th, Zhu Ciran, who was less than three years old, officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, with the reign name Yongli.

The queen was also promoted to be the empress dowager. At this time, the empress dowager hadn't come out of the fright, and she didn't expect to listen to the government behind the curtain, and all the affairs were handed over to Zhang Zongxian.

Zhang Zongxian began to purge the inner court and the royal guards, all the eunuchs were imprisoned in the palace, and the disciples of the school began to comprehensively count the royal property.

After the enthronement ceremony was completed, all the minds of the six departments died in Wang Gong's factory. Naturally, the disciples of the school took over the office of the six departments. Then Zhang Zongxian issued an order in the name of Yongli to thoroughly investigate the apocalypse falling into the water and the explosion of Wang Gong's factory.

At this time, various members of the Legislative Army took the imperial decree and began to take over the military affairs of various places according to the predetermined plan.

Zhang Zongxian also convened in the name of the empress dowager: Lu Xiangsheng, Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru, Xu Guangqi, Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chengzong came to Beijing, ostensibly to call them into the cabinet or confer official positions.

In fact, Zhang Zongxian wanted to recruit all these capable people into the capital and monitor them to prevent them from destroying Zhang Zongxian's reforms.

For the remaining bureaucrats in the capital, Zhang Zongxian adopted a wooing method, and issued them the salaries owed to them, without discounting, and directly issued the Taiping bills.

Beijing officials live on their salaries, unlike some local officials who are greedy. Now that they are receiving real salaries, they naturally sing praises to Mr. Shoufu.

As for Guixun, all their homes were confiscated and exiled in the name of murdering the emperor, and they were sent to Liaodong, Guihua City, and Hami City respectively.

Guixun of Ming Dynasty has declined since Tumubao, but he still controls the government affairs of the Five Armies and the Beijing camp. Guixun was cleared out of the capital, and the last obstacle to military power was removed.

When these nobles were moved away, all the servants in their families were also released from slavery. Most of the women were betrothed to bachelors in the army, and the rest were allotted land to them.

At the same time, it also greatly reduced the population of the capital, increased the population engaged in production, and eased the food consumption in the capital.

Moreover, 3000 million taels of silver, as well as tens of millions of stones of grain, acres of fields, shops, and houses, which occupied more than half of the capital, were confiscated from the homes of these nobles, all of which were taken over and auctioned off by the Taiping.

After the news of Apocalypse's death due to the scourge of God spread to Nanjing, before the Sixth Department of Nanjing could react, they received Yongli's ascension to the throne, and Zhang Zongxian, the first shop, took control of the government, which aroused the indignation of the Donglin Party crowd.

Thinking that Zhang Zongxian had stolen the power of the court, and then the empress dowager issued a summoning order, these Jiangnan scholars stopped for a while, and within two days they learned that the navy had blocked the Yangtze River estuary.

The Nine Borders Elite have already controlled all the northern provinces and are marching towards Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, and Sichuan.

At this time, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River realized that the six departments staying in Nanzhili did not want to sit still, especially the military department, and began to gather people from all walks of life to Jinling.

The entire Jiangnan gentry was discussing whether to be king or to establish a new king. People from all sides expressed their opinions and quarreled fiercely.

After the Legislative Army took control of the north of the Yangtze River, it stopped marching and began to digest the occupied territory, and each brigade began to expand into divisions.

Zhang Zongxian hopes that the Jiangnan gentry will establish a new king, so that he can have an excuse to clean up the entire Jiangnan.

However, Zhang Zongxian greatly overestimated the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. Seeing that the Legislative Army had not crossed the river and there was no imminent threat, they copied even more fiercely.

In June of the sixth year of Apocalypse, after completing control of the capital and the north, Zhang Zongxian, in the name of the Ming cabinet, announced to the world that corvée labor was abolished.

Unless there is a formal approval from the cabinet, no yamen is allowed to show their cards, and those who violate it will be dismissed from office and exiled. Any large-scale projects need the approval of the cabinet.

As for the maintenance of water conservancy, there will be three consecutive years of drought soon, and it will be useless to repair it. First, remove the mountain of corvee and let the people delay for a year.

Then, in the provinces that have been controlled, the population and farmland inventory are started, the original tax policy is abolished, and the autumn tax is only paid once a year, and the tax is paid according to the farmland, and the tax is one-tenth of the harvest.

The people only need to hand over the grain to Taiping’s grain store with the land deed, and the grain store will collect the full amount of grain according to the number of acres written on the land deed. The difference is, for example, if it is done in Henan, it will be higher, and in Jiangnan it will be doubled). After receiving the grain, the grain store will issue a tax payment certificate on the land deed.

In order to encourage the common people to plant high-yield crops, potatoes and corn can be taxed, calculated according to the yield of [-] catties per mu. Even if there are large households who grow cash crops, they only need to spend money to buy grain at the grain store and pay the tax.

The title deed is no longer a piece of paper, but a book with enough blank pages to fill in the tax certificate.

The grain store determines how much grain should be collected based on the number of acres of fields in the county. If there is a difference, it means that someone has not paid taxes, and then the difference is handed over to the county government, which calls for payment.

All fields had to be taxed without exception. The officials and gentry paid the grain together. If the tax was not paid, the land would be confiscated.

In order to prevent local government offices from blackmailing and blackmailing the people because they could not make money from tax collection, the cabinet took a gentle approach to local government offices during the transitional period before the comprehensive reform of the official system.

The local yamen's salaries were all handed over to the Taiping Bank, and they received certificates according to their official positions. Zhang Zongxian also took the opportunity to increase the salary of the local yamen, cancel the color discount, and uniformly issue the Taiping bills.

Let the disciples of the Legislative School participate in the daily operation of the yamen and supervise the local officials.

(End of this chapter)