Wang Chengen held a whisk in his hand and hurried towards Qianqing Palace from the direction of Wenhua Palace. Behind him were several eunuchs from the inner court who all lowered their heads and followed quickly.

When they arrived at the Qianqing Gate, several elite guards from the Shangzhi Guards on duty stopped the eunuchs from the inner court who were accompanying Wang Chengen and accepted routine inspections, while Wang Chengen walked quickly.

As time went by, the capital governor's office established by Emperor Chongzhen became increasingly strict under the leadership of Liu Wenbing and Wei Shitai.

Whether it is the palace guards in the Forbidden City or the imperial guards, they all follow a new system to ensure that everything in the inner court is safe. As for the inner court that used to be a sieve, it is gone forever.

No matter who is a minister in the outer court, it is extremely difficult to know anything in the inner court.

Wang Chengen walked into Dongnuan Pavilion and saw Emperor Chongzhen sitting on the dragon throne, playing with wood carvings in his hands, but he couldn't help but feel suspicious in his heart.

I don’t know why these days, but my emperor plays with wood carvings in his spare time, just like Emperor Xizong...

"The edict has been promulgated?"

Emperor Chongzhen's voice sounded, which made Wang Chengen's heart tighten. He quickly bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, I respect your will and have promulgated it."

"What's Wen Tiren's attitude?"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the wood carvings and said calmly: "The commotion caused by Sun Chuanting this time is far greater than I thought. The entire disaster relief agency actually gathered to start a lawsuit.

But that’s fine too.

If it is not broken, it cannot be established.

If even the official land occupied by Henan cannot be properly settled, how can we kill the chickens to scare the monkeys? Then some people in the Jiangnan provinces will only become more and more wanton."

"Wen Tiren's attitude is very clear."

Wang Chengen leaned forward and said: "But Han Yuanfu was a little unnatural. When I rushed to the Wenhua Hall, several members of the cabinet gathered together."

"It's normal."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled, put down the wood carvings, and lifted the sleeves of his robe: "Han Xu is afraid that things will get worse, and he will uncover all the scars that he had covered up in the past.

After all, the matter in Henan has been investigated. Should Shandong be investigated? Should Shanxi and Shaanxi be investigated?

After investigating the northern provinces, do we need to investigate the Jiangnan provinces?

Han Xu, the chief minister of the cabinet, is not easy to be in the position, and I suffer from splints, but it’s okay, with him in the middle, I can do everything well one by one."

The temple is not about fighting and killing, the temple is all about human relations.

If Emperor Chongzhen could come to the tilted Ming Dynasty to retain Wei Zhongxian and a group of eunuchs at the beginning of his imperial reign, then he would not have to do this and let Wei Zhongxian lead the reserved eunuchs to tear up the Ming Dynasty. As for the civil servants, he is firmly in the inner court and killing them, and the situation will only be better than now.

But now that this is the case, Emperor Chongzhen can only adopt a more roundabout way, using this mutual restraint and mutual restriction method to bring order to the chaos bit by bit.

"When will the first generation steam engine come out?"

Looking at the wood carvings in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen sighed softly: "Even if you can't run away and only use it for part of the industry, it's still good. This thing is really too difficult to do.

Wang Banban, send someone to Kunning Palace and ask the queen to squeeze out another batch of money from the internal funds, um, 1 million taels, and secretly escort it to Xishan."

"My slave obeys the order."

Wang Chengen immediately bowed his head.

If you want to continuously improve productivity and move towards the path of primitive industrialization, it is more important than anything else to explore the threshold of the steam age.

It's just that the development of this steam engine, even the crudest version of the original generation, is an extremely difficult task for the Ming Dynasty at this stage.

Climbing in the field of science and technology is a long road, and every step forward requires a lot of money to pave the way. This is really too difficult for the current Ming Dynasty.

"The commercial tax law depends on whether Sun Chengzong can implement it in western Liaoning."

Emperor Chongzhen picked up a memorial and frowned slightly, "Based on the open discussion, we will clarify customs duties, commercial taxes and other matters. If we can achieve initial results in western Liaoning, we can gradually implement them in the northern provinces.

The tax money of the national treasury will be increased accordingly."

As he spoke, Emperor Chongzhen raised his head and looked at the open palace door in front of him. At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to see a gradually changing Liaoxi.

Thousands of miles away, Western Liaoning was not affected by the capital and the court, let alone Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places. However, the influence of Liao itself caused many changes in Western Liaoning.

In Guangning at that time, the office of the governor of Liaodong was located.

"Supervisor, if the trial implementation of the Commercial Tax Law is really known to someone in the court, I'm afraid it will be detrimental to you, right?"

Mao Yuanyi looked a little hesitant, looked at Sun Chengzong and said: "After all, the withdrawal of troops and the establishment of a government have caused quite a disturbance in our territory in western Liaoning recently. Although those who are dissatisfied have not jumped up, but once they are allowed to..."

"If it's not good, then it's bad. We don't have that much time to promote changes in the Liao Dynasty step by step."

Sun Chengzong waved his hand and said: "Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, these administrative officials are all very capable, and they have done a good job in withdrawing the troops and establishing the government.

Precisely in order to stabilize Liao Qian, our Liaodong Governor's Office must make arrangements in advance, actively look for suitable opportunities for what His Majesty wants to do, and gradually implement it on a trial basis.

Otherwise, when all the private workshops pass the checkpoints set up in western Liaoning and make a lot of money, it will only be more difficult to try out the commercial tax law."

The main theme of the Ming Dynasty in the four years of Chongzhen was still the general trend of stability and continuous development under a stable situation. After all, the path chosen by Emperor Chongzhen was the momentum of multi-regional linkage and progress. He used the prerequisite of poor information to let a group of ministers he trusted,

In the northern provinces, most things are the same, but a few are different.

In this way, after being summarized in the capital, by understanding the corresponding pros and cons, we can make corresponding improvements, and then clarify the plans again in each region, and alternately gradually implement many plans.

"Recently, the Liaodong Rebel Army, including the Jianlu Eight Banners, has been making frequent moves."

Sun Chengzong frowned and looked at Mao Yuanyi and said: "If the adjustment in western Liaoning cannot be clarified as soon as possible while Liao is currently stable, the favorable situation gained in the future will be lost again."

"Speaking of which, Li Zicheng's ambition is really quite big."

Mao Yuanyi nodded slightly and said: "Joining forces with the Dongjiang Army and trying to capture Dingliao Youwei and other places is obviously a huge gamble. If Jianlu is forced into a hurry, the consequences will be disastrous."

"So we have to change, and we have to change quickly."

Sun Chengzong said with firm eyes: "If Jianlu reacts and wants to overthrow the Liaodong Rebel Army in one go, then we must try to break the situation and never let Jianlu accomplish this!"
Chapter completed!