"Since the emperor ascended the throne, he has practiced the kingly way and pacified the people, and has achieved such a great victory now, it is God's recognition of the emperor. This shows how brilliant the former emperor's vision is, and it also shows that the emperor is not only chosen by the last emperor's will, but also the choice of God. Any rumors that the emperor will defeat the throne without any attack!" Yang He, the Minister of Justice, stepped out and bowed loudly.

Suddenly, all the ministers below expressed their loyalty, and the crowd was excited.

"Okay, okay, okay." Zhu Yinglong, who was sitting back on the dragon chaise, raised his hands with his hands, and then stopped the sound below.

"Your Majesty, the old minister probably lost so many troops and horses. Ningyuan's siege was resolved. The old minister's intention was to take advantage of the victory and recover Jinzhou?" Sun Shenxing asked for help.

"Old Old Sun, the court has only won a victory at Shanhaiguan. There is no news from Ningyuan yet. Everything is an unknown number. I think it is better to wait until Xiongba and Yuan Chonghuan's memorials arrive in Beijing before discussing this matter!" Zhu Yinglong was not blinded by victory. It is good to recover Jinzhou now, but when he takes it back, he will have to ask for money and send many soldiers to guard it. It is better to throw this burden to Huang Taiji. This is just a temporary strategic concession. Moreover, with Ningyuan's nail, you can head north at any time.

Sun Shenxing hurriedly said, "It's the old minister who is too anxious."

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yinglong announced the order to rectify the inner palace in the near future. The original twenty-four departments remained unchanged, but their functions were all slightly changed. For example, the Lijian cut off the power of criticizing Zhu, and many departments were replaced with female officials, such as the Washing Clothing Bureau, the Scarfing Bureau, the Needle Works Bureau and the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau. All four departments abolished the eunuchs in charge of the seal and were used for female officials to take charge of them, especially the Inner Palace Supply and Use Library, the Key Storage, the Carrier Library, the Guangying Library, the Guanghui Library, the Guangji Library, the Poverty and Punishment Library, as well as the ten warehouses such as A, B, C, D, and Wu, and some houses, factories, etc., and all re-allocated to the six ministries. There is no more inner palace, and the expenses of the Royal Palace and the Royal Clan are all expenses. There is an additional internal department under the Ministry of Revenue to take charge of the expenses of the Royal Palace and the Clan.

Expenditures were also established, and the palace financial approval system was mainly based on the empress, and the palace's financial power was taken into hand to eliminate some corruption as much as possible. Since the empress had not yet been established, this work was praised for being temporarily replaced by Concubine Ying, and at the same time announced the removal of the garrison positions of Tianshoushan, Huguang, Chengtianfu and Fengyang in Nanjing; the eunuchs responsible for the weaving of Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou were all removed; there were also the custody of important places in each province; the management of the three municipalities in Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang; (The courts of these three municipalities were temporarily unable to manage, so Zhu Yinglong issued an order to set up another Yangzhou Maritime Bureau, and the official in charge was his brother-in-law Tian Wan), to supervise warehouses, farms, and military supervisors in various places, and serve as special envoys for procurement, grain tax, mining tax, pass and other special envoys.

This storm meant that the emperor had taken back all the power of the internal eunuchs. Except for the emperor's private property that had not moved, almost all the key positions of the eunuchs who embezzled the national wealth were removed. From then on, the eunuchs had only one power, that is, to serve the emperor in the Forbidden City, and all the privileges were abolished. This move shocked the court. The civil and military officials had long seen that the emperor was intending to abolish the privileges of eunuchs, but they could not expect that the emperor had such a great determination, and he cut off more than 90% of the eunuchs' power at once. He firmly restricted the eunuchs to this square Forbidden City without taking a step, and told the world that no king of later generations could break this rule.

Once this order was promulgated, the entire capital was shocked. This time the emperor was determined to attack the eunuchs. The people in the city rushed to tell each other, and their joy was beyond words. Come forward. Although the eunuch was an incomplete person, he enjoyed all the wealth and power that a perfect person had never had. Now, they no longer had the power to step on the heads of the common people and exploit the hard-earned money they had earned with hard work.

This storm of rectification of internal officials not only received support from the lower classes, but also received strong welcome from the gentry merchants. In the future, they would never look at the faces of the eunuchs. The news reached Jiangnan, which further aggravated the disinterest of the pseudo-Ming court. The Donglin Party members in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as Suzhou and Changzhou, resisted the pseudo-Ming regime in Nanjing, and became more and more intense. Wei Zhongxian lost tens of millions of wealth, but he did not want to get it back. The taxes in several provinces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were increased by nearly three times by him at once. At the same time, in order to please the local gentry, basically no tax was paid. In this way, the public was resentful and the voices of resistance were constantly suppressed by Wei Zhongxian's cruel bloody suppression.

Zhu Yinglong also issued an order to ask Wang Chengen to set up a surrender office in the palace. Anyone who embezzled and bribed the people and exploited the expenses in the palace could surrender at the surrender office and actively explained the problem. Depending on the severity of the circumstances, a certain amount of relief will be given. If the crime is minor, not only will he get a considerable sum of money for settlement, but the court also allocated several acres of land so that he could go back to cultivate land to support his family, so as to avoid the irreparable palace shocks from one size fits all. At the same time, everyone promoted some eunuchs who were respectful in their daily duties to replace the vacancy left by these people. In this way, the entire Forbidden City was firmly controlled by Zhu Yinglong, including the guards, eunuchs, and palace maids. Now their destiny is one with the new emperor, and they are all prosperous and all losses.

The first examination of the provincial examination was over. When these Shuntian scholars heard the great victory of Shanhaiguan and the emperor issued an order to severely rectify the internal officials, they also gave Zhu Yinglong a letter of ten thousand words, praising Zhu Yinglong as a benevolent lord and sage king who had never been seen before. They originally meant to be loyal to the new emperor, originally meant to contribute their strength to the court, and praised Zhu Yinglong as a great emperor than the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Although it was unrealistic and flattering, this was also a recognition of scholars for him as the emperor. The heart of scholars is also very important. After all, in this feudal empire where the people had not yet been enlightened, he needed these people to help him govern such a large country. He immediately issued an order to give these people some encouragement and encourage them to study the books of the saints well and make contributions to the court in the future.

"Six hundred miles in a hurry, Huang Taiji has withdrawn his troops!" A cavalry flew in outside Chaoyang Gate and rode his horse wildly and shouted.

Huang Taiji learned that Xiongba's 20,000 troops had arrived and came with great victory, and his morale was high. On the other hand, his Eight Banners soldiers under his tent were defeated in succession, and his morale was sluggish, losing more than 30,000 elite troops. He had already injured his vitality and could no longer fight. Huang Taiji had no choice but to immediately order the troops retreated from Ningyuan and retreated the army to Tashan, Heishan and Xingshan areas to deploy defenses, and at the same time sent envoys to negotiate with the Ming army.

Yuan Chonghuan could not understand that Huang Taiji would suddenly withdraw his troops at this time. When he saw the commander who came to help Ningyuan, he understood everything. How could he easily fall into Huang Taiji's tricks with Brother Xiong? When Xiong Tingbi replaced the soldiers of Shanhaiguan with his four towns, and sent Wu Sangui to confuse Huang Taiji with eight thousand soldiers. Then he returned to the army and told Man Gui about the elite cavalry division that almost wiped out Huang Taiji's elite cavalry division under the city of Shanhaiguan. Yuan Chonghuan was so surprised that the key point in this battle was to grasp Huang Taiji's eagerness for quick success and instant benefits, so he achieved such a result.

Both Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Chonghuan praised Wu Sangui, and were very impressed by this young man's military talent that made a decision on the spot. Xiong Tingbi took the lead and accepted Wu Sangui as his disciple, which made Yuan Chonghuan feel very regretful.
Chapter completed!