Qin Liangyu's Sichuan army was in Hanzhong, guarding the important pass of the thieves from Shaanxi entering Sichuan through the plank road, and could go north to support Fengxiang Prefecture at any time.

Now stationed in Fengxiang area are brave general Cao Wenzhao and his nephew Cao Bianjiao. The two fought with 3,000 men and horses with several bandits such as Ma Jinzhong and Huntianwang. At present, the two sides are in a stalemate. The main reason is that Ma Jinzhong and others are mostly under horse teams, with few official soldiers, and the horse team is only 500 Cao Bianjiao. The official army is basically based on defense, and Cao Bianjiao, who likes to take risks, leads the horse team to find an opportunity to attack.

The greatest effect of Sun Chuanting's military farming was to greatly reduce the burden on the court, local governments in northern Shaanxi and the people.

Not to mention the salary of the government army, the food consumed by the government army alone was an astonishing number. The court often had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to transport the grain from the south to the capital through the canal, and then organize a transportation team of thousands of people to drive trucks and carry loads to Shaanxi.

When Chongzhen thought of this spectacular scene, he admired these court officials very much.

With this alone, you can't scold others for being useless.

Because Shaanxi has been drought for several years and most of the fields have been lost year by year, it is impossible for the government troops to collect grain from the local area. If there is food, will the people still zào     fǎn?

Therefore, the only channel was established from the Beijing city to transport personnel and materials to Shaanxi.

Every time a thousand or several thousand civilians transport grain, the distance between the two thousand miles is nearly two thousand miles. How much does these civilians consume? Because they are double--you have to come back after going.

All of this has to be calculated in detail by the officials of the Ministry of War, Ministry of Revenue, and Shuntian Prefecture: the number of officials and soldiers, the number of civilian wives, how much food per person eat per day, how much forage from war horses and pack horses is needed, how many days of consumption can be supplied to the official army after transportation, and some discounts have to be given, such as overturning, floods, falling into the river, etc., unexpected events such as accidents occur.

Don’t forget that this is not a one-time performance problem. It has been repeated several times every year in recent years. In this era of extremely backward transportation vehicles, this is definitely an amazing thing. The Ming Dynasty was written by the Qing Dynasty, so we must naturally cover up the good things of the Ming Dynasty and magnify the shortcomings infinitely. If it is true as stated in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was impatient and suspicious, and the court officials only knew their own interests, and the Ming Dynasty was over long ago.

The reason why Chongzhen could last for 17 years was that there were still many unknown officials who did practical things. Although they were also greedy and used their power to seek personal gain, they were really not stained in the festival.

Selfishness is human nature. Chongzhen never thought of asking others to give only efforts but not seek rewards. If you have merits, you will be rewarded, and if you have mistakes, you will be punished. As long as you insist on clearly distinguishing rewards and punishments, most problems can be solved.

Because the situation in Shaanxi is special, there are only a handful of prefectures and counties that have not been war-torn, the court had no choice but to reduce the taxes in Shaanxi for several consecutive years. It would not be possible to reduce the taxes in many places. It is better to just take a stance and tell the gentry and people in other provinces if they see it? The court sympathized with the people and knew that the people in Shaanxi had a severe drought, so the people directly exempted the taxes.

The grain harvested from the military farm in Xi'an Prefecture can be directly supplied to the army for food, eliminating the huge consumption and waste caused by long-distance transportation, which is equivalent to paying taxes to the court.

From this point of view alone, even if Sun Chuanting failed to capture Gao Yingxiang, he had already made great contributions.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen felt a little sorry for this hero. But he solved the big problem that had caused the court for several years, so he gave him such a reward?

No, you have to add some more.

One hour later, several Jinyiwei rushed to Daizhou, Shanxi with a handwritten letter written by Chongzhen. The content of the handwritten letter was to let Sun Chuanting's descendants defeat the enemy and go to the Imperial College for study. After several people delivered the handwritten letter, they would protect Sun Kuangting and return to Beijing together.

This is more of a gesture, so that Sun Chuanting understands that your son’s future is no longer a problem, so you should work hard in front of you.

Chongzhen was already quite safe. Many unstable factors were eliminated one by one. There was a strong army with complete control and an organization that could spy on the government and public opinion. There was no need to worry about being undermined or instructed by court officials.

The late Chongzhen period in history was quite tragic. Li Zicheng's army besieged the capital. In desperation, Chongzhen finally put down his pride and airs, trying to leave a way out for his children. So he found his son-in-law Gong Yonggu and asked his loyal brother-in-law to take the crown prince and King Ding to Nanjing to continue the reign of the Ming Dynasty.

But Gong Yonggu told him very frankly that there was no one under his command and only one servant, so it was impossible for him to take the prince to escape to Nanjing.

Think about it, if the king of a country has someone available to his subordinates, why should he find Gong Yonggu?

And no one is there under a noble man like Gong Yonggu!

Those brainless writings that traveled to Chongzhen who was about to hang himself and killed everyone after passing by were purely nonsense.

You still kill this and that. At that time, you couldn't even command a eunuch. No one listened to you at all, and if you annoyed others, you would be killed in a sudden state.

The sanitation situation in the capital is worrying. Except for the imperial city, the other roads in the capital are basically dirt roads. It is covered with dirt on sunny days, and mud on rainy days is the daily life of the capital.

Moreover, both residents and merchants have the habit of littering. The drainage burrows in the city are basically severely blocked, and urination and defecation are commonplace among peddlers and pawns.

In view of this situation, Chongzhen remembered another function of the Jinyiwei---in charge of the repair and pipeline maintenance of the Jingshi streets.

So Chongzhen issued an edict, and the Jinyiwei and Shuntian Prefecture joined forces to launch a vigorous patriotic health campaign.

Shuntian Prefecture posted announcements everywhere and sent rén     dà to promote the streets and alleys: From now on, littering and urinating and defecating in the capital will be prohibited. Once discovered, no matter who is found, the worst is to beat the board, and the minor is to fine copper coins.

After three days of publicity, the Jinyiwei and Shuntian Prefecture formed a joint law enforcement team, divided into several groups, and began patrolling and cruising in the capital every day.

On the day of patrol, the law enforcement team arrested thousands of people who violated the regulations. Those who were willing to pay the money would be fined ten cents depending on the circumstances, those who littered trash would be fined fifty cents, and those who were urinating and defecating anywhere would be fined fifty cents. The poor pauper who had no money would be pressed on the spot to beat the ten boards.

In just half a month, the streets and alleys of the capital were obviously cleaned, and this bad habit that had accumulated over the years was basically completely solved. After all, no one would be able to pay for money by throwing garbage, let alone being watched by so many people, it was too embarrassing.

Shuntian Mansion builds a pool of garbage for the other party every 100 steps in the city. Whether it is a resident or a merchant, the garbage must be piled up in the pool. Then, at night, Shuntian Mansion hires special personnel to transport it outside the city in a car and be filled.

Considering that there are many outsiders in the capital, their three urgent problems need to be solved urgently. Shuntian Mansion followed the instructions and built a public toilet every two miles in the densely populated neighborhoods in the city, and a mile and one market place. Public toilets are divided into men and women, and special personnel are hired to clean them. There is no charge for both of these items, and the government paid the money, but it was actually Chongzhen himself who paid it. Who made him come from later generations and could not stand this uncivilized phenomenon?

Chongzhen also allocated silver and money from the treasury to the Jinyiwei for purchasing blue bricks and stones, and hired people to repair the roads in the city. The main roads were paved with stones, and the streets and alleys were paved with blue bricks.

This project takes a long time, mainly because there are too few kilns for burning bricks, the mining of stones is not easy, and it is not too time-consuming to lay them. But it doesn't matter. After all the repairs are made, a brand new capital will appear in front of everyone.

The work of unblocking the culvert is also carried out at the same time. Although there have been droughts and rains in recent years, we cannot only look at the present moment, but also think about the future.

There are several ways to make money, but there are more money spent, which makes Chongzhen very troubled.

The two largest ends, Liaodong and the royal family, can be said to be the direct cause of the imperial court's bankruptcy.

Anyone who knows a little about history knows that the military pay is millions of taels per year. After Chongzhen came over, he transferred Zu Kuan and other troops one after another, and the military pay allocated to Liaodong was also reduced accordingly, but the problem was not fundamentally solved. The notebook of the Liaodong army urged silver to pay was basically a few days, just like urging death. Looking at the bitter face of the old man Hou Xun, Chongzhen felt a little reluctant, so he had to allocate it twice, 200,000 taels each time, and asked the cabinet to write a document to scold Liaodong: If the achievements have not been made, how can he have to pay?

After cleaning up the bandits in northern Shaanxi, the solution to the Liaodong issue was put on the agenda. The key was to completely solve the problem. Chongzhen did not think of a good idea for the time being. He could only use Zu Kuan and Li Chongjin to add the rank of general, and granted a mansion in the capital, and made a noise. As long as the two continued to make contributions, the court might have Feng Bo's plan to test it in such a way. See if the leader of the Liaodong army could be divided and disintegrated. This matter has not yet been achieved. I wonder what Zu and Li were thinking.

There is also an almost unsolvable problem--Sectarian vassal.

Chongzhen felt disgusted with the blood-sucking insect and parasite on the Ming Dynasty, but he could not turn against each other publicly. If the problem of vassal can be solved, I believe that the life of the court will be much better, and the people around the royal palaces in various places will be extremely relaxed.
Chapter completed!