.After an hour, Miroslavsky, wearing a robe, arrived at the stewards. Miroslavsky is forty years old. Although he is young, he is a first-class powerful minister in Tsarist Russia. With his support, Princess Sophia seized Russia's military and political power. The most powerful guards' shooting army in the Russian Empire was also under his control. More than half of the officials loyal to him were from the Russian government and the country. Therefore, on the surface, the rulers of Tsarist Russia included the first Tsar, the second Tsar and the Regent, but the real person behind the scenes was Miroslavsky.

"Your Majesty Iji, Your Majesty Peter, Your Majesty Sophia." Miroslavsky saluted the three nominal powers.

Sofia was still a little nervous, but when Miroslavsky came and calmed down immediately, Miroslavsky said: "We have just received the news that the Han people won a great victory in the war with the Junggars."

Miroslavsky frowned. He had been dealing with military and political affairs for so many years, so he naturally understood what this brief news indicates. The powerful Junggars were defeated by the Han people in just one month after the war started. Then the strength of the Han people may have to be re-evaluated. More importantly, once the Han people captured Mongolia, there will be thousands of miles of northern borders bordering southern Russia, which means that Russia will face the possibility of fighting on two fronts at any time.

For any empire, fighting on both sides is a great taboo, not to mention that the Russians face two behemoths of the Ottoman and the Ming Dynasty. Once the Han people invested in the war against the Russians, most of the troops were trapped in the Ottoman War quagmire, Russia might have to hand over the Russian Far East and most of the territory in southern Russia to the Han people. Even Moscow City is extremely dangerous, because most of the main forces of Russia are in Europe and participated in the bloody battle of the Ottomans. The entire Far East and even Moscow were extremely weak.

After a brief silence, Miroslavsky said: "Your Majesty, we should immediately order the troops on the border so that they cannot make any provocations against the Ming Dynasty, especially the two Cossack cavalry in southern Russia and the Far East. What we need to do now is to try not to provoke the Han people and delay time. Winter is coming. As long as winter begins, Russia's winter will help us. In this case, we can delay for a period of time. During this period, I am afraid that His Majesty the Regent should sign a mobilization order to recruit all warriors who can fight and conduct emergency training before spring comes to ensure that they deal with the threats of the Han people next year."

Sofia asked with a worried look: "Is that all?"

Peter, who was standing aside, understood very well that although Miroslavsky was his political enemy, the method proposed was the most appropriate. There were two months left before the arrival of winter, and these two months were the real key. As long as it could be delayed until the arrival of winter, then Russia's winter would be equivalent to a 100,000 army. Even if the Han people came to attack, they were not afraid. They took advantage of the six months to wait for the spring of the next year, and under the surrounding of strong enemies, Russia would have enough time to issue a recruitment order and barely prepare for defense. Only in this way can the situation not be completely damaged.

"Then, I will sign the order immediately, which is to issue a conscript order, ordering the troops on the border not to allow friction with Han people in life." Sophia took out the style of the Regent.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Miroslavsky said worriedly that these are just the beginning. Even if they survived this winter, by the beginning of next spring, Russia is ready, are they really sure to resist the Han people? They destroyed the Han army of more than 100,000 Junggar Mongols in an instant. Can the new army recruited temporarily in winter really resist them?

At this moment, another inner court minister hurried into the palace again. He excitedly reported with a war report: "Good news, the three Majesties and Major General Anov came to the news that the heroic Don Cossack Cavalry Group entered the border of the Han people, looted a large amount of supplies, killed 790 Han soldiers, and burned down four galleries."

The inner court minister was unaware of the situation and thought that the Don Cossack Cavalry had won a great victory this time. He didn't even know about the Junggars, and he thought that the Don Cavalry's operation was to cooperate with the Junggars.

"Oh my God, these idiots." Miroslavsky patted his forehead.

The Don River Cavalry Regiment provoked the Ming Dynasty, so it is not difficult to imagine how the Han people who won the Junggar War would retaliate. Now the entire Russia is not ready for war. Once the Ming Dynasty starts an offensive, most of the Russians who have put their troops into the European battlefield can resist. Now the rear is empty, and the Cossack cavalry are still causing trouble everywhere. What are they not idiots?

Miroslavsky tried his best to calm himself down, sighed worriedly, and then said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid we must prepare for the military struggle as soon as possible. It's better to drop some troops on the front line back just in case.

Zhu Jun stared at His Highness's generals with blood-red eyes, and threw the battle report on the table fiercely, sneering repeatedly, roaring like anger: "One hundred thousand cavalry in Liaodong, two hundred thousand infantry infringement, and 300 thousand coffee;" As soon as he stepped on, he could cut off the flow of the whip, and carried the remaining power of the Junggar people, and his morale was like a rainbow, but he allowed 10,000 Cossack cavalry to break into the border, burn, kill and loot, and killed more than 700 soldiers in battle.

His highness's military officers all bowed their heads and said nothing, with shame on their faces, and they were like defeated roosters. Although more than 700 people were killed in battle, they had not even caught any hairs in the battalions that intercepted the Cossacks so far, and they had lost 700 of them. However, the other side had only more than 70 cavalry left behind and were killed and captured. The battle rate of one to ten was a battle loss rate. In the past, the Ming army used to be one to ten, but today, they all fell. Could it be that the emperor was furious? I am afraid that no one could accept this result.

"Wang Zhijin." Zhu Jun suppressed his anger and the name of the Liaodong Governor popped out from his teeth.

"The last one is here." Wang Zhijin stood out from work shyly and carefully.

"What is the will of the couplet to you?" Zhu Jun looked expressionless, stroked the long desk, and lowered his voice.

"Find them, bite them, and destroy them." Wang Zhijin repeated the emperor's order that day, then knelt down and said, "I will not bear the great use of the emperor, let the emperor down for promotion, please surrender the emperor for his crime.

Zhu Jun turned his anger at this time. He rarely lost his composure, but when he saw the battle report, he really raised all the anger. Ten thousand people entered Liaodong unscrupulously, burned, killed, looted, and blocked the army everywhere, and even let the other party escape. That's fine, his side lost more than 700 people, and the battle was too cowardly. However, his temper was temper. When Zhu Jun calmed down, he would no longer have temper. After all, the Cossack cavalry were just bandits. Liaodong was vast and sparsely populated. They ran around and occupied the initiative. The intercepted army was obviously in a passive place. There was no enemy and immediately advanced to the place. But when he arrived at this place, the enemy had already disappeared. Will they stand here waiting for you to fight?

Zhu Jun smiled bitterly. More than a month ago, did he use this tactic? But now he has changed his identity and has allowed these Russians to take advantage of it. No one else can blame this kind of thing. It is extremely difficult to intercept bandits even in the pass where mountains and rivers are everywhere, let alone Liaodong, which is smooth. However, this battle report made him make a certain decision.

After Galdan's defeat, Zhu Jun was actually considering whether to take advantage of the victory to fight a major battle against the Russians, but he was still quite hesitant. After all, winter was about to begin, and once Russia was in winter, it would be extremely difficult to advance. However, if the offensive started in the spring next year, Moscow would be prepared as soon as possible. Although the weather was eliminated, it did not have an unexpected effect. At this moment, Zhu Jun finally made up his mind that he could not drag it down. The weather was not good, so he could give the soldiers the best cold-proof materials and give them enough high-calorie food to replenish calories. But the longer the time was, once the battlefield in Europe changed, once this opportunity to permanently eliminate the threat from the north was missed, and if he wanted to fight against these tenacious Russians, even if he could win, he would probably invade their territory and annex their territory.

Zhu Jun glanced at the anxious Wang Zhijin, sighed and said, "Get up, you can't blame this on your head. Lian gave you a punishment of half a year of salary, so you can do it yourself."

"Thank you, the emperor." Wang Zhijin breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still very depressed when he thought about his salary for half a year. At that time, the Ming Dynasty's salary was different from that of a hundred years ago. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, witnessed the political situation of the late Yuan Dynasty, and the corrupt officials were corrupt and corrupt officials, and deeply hated corrupt officials and foolish governments to harm the people. Therefore, after the founding of the country, he vigorously rectified the administration of officials, not only established regulations, prohibited officials from neglecting their duties, not only did official duties but private affairs, but also formulated severe punishments and laws to punish corrupt officials and correct the corruption. At that time, the laws stipulated that all existing officials who were corrupt and harming the people could be captured and sent directly to the capital. If anyone dared to stop them, he would destroy the family and destroy the clan. Anyone who was custodian stolen money, grain and other items in the warehouse, if the stolen money, grain, and other items were robbed, and the punishment of recording a thug. At that time, a temple was established on the left side of the prefecture, prefecture, and county government offices.

, used to worship the land god, is the place to record the piping, called the Pichang Temple. There are also a sack of human skin stuffed with grass hanging on both sides of the seats of the government office, which shocked the officials in the hall. During the more than 30 years since Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he successively punished many corrupt officials. In the ninth year of Hongwu, more than 10,000 people were sent to Anweifengyang to farm. In this way, severe punishments and large-scale killing of corrupt officials can be said to have never been seen since ancient times. Zhu Yuanzhang made great efforts to punish corrupt officials with great decisive behavior, which did play a certain role in killing and reducing corruption and improving the administration of officials. However, it should be pointed out that Zhu Yuanzhang could not completely eliminate the phenomenon of corruption. On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang kept killing corrupt officials; on the other hand, corrupt and abuse of power were born all the time, which finally made Zhu Yuanzhang very distressed and sighed.

In fact, the reason for this situation is that the officials who are not afraid of death and are out of the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty for extravagance. At that time, a fourth-rank magistrate only had twenty-four stones per month, and a seven-rank magistrate only had seven stones per month and less than one hundred stone per month. Compared with the Qin and Han dynasties, it was really small and less. Even this extremely low-ranking factory was not given at all, and often had to fold cloth and silk, which was quite similar to the fact that in later generations, the salary was made of white strips. What's even more strange is that these are very

The little rice also nominally includes the salary expenses of subordinate officials. It also means that the salary given to a magistrate by the court is settled at the price, which is about five taels of silver. These five taels of silver are not only given to the county magistrate, but also the entire kilogram. The county yamen system includes the wages of the masters, yamen runners, etc. In a county, the court only pays five taels of silver, so it has to support hundreds of officials. What does this mean? It means that according to the court system, the officials and officials and the whole family have to eat the northwest wind.

Officials are also human beings, and they also have wives, sons and children. They all have to live. How can they live like this? The situation is so urgent that people find ways to make money, so corruption and bribery are prevalent.

The Ming Dynasty was the most cruel period of anti-corruption and the most prevalent period. The real income of Ming Dynasty officials was not based on this extremely small salary, but on corruption and bribery.

Local officials mostly make money from the taxes and fees they handle, especially when using the tax collection. When collecting money, they report income to their superiors or money. In the conversion of grain, the balance is omitted as private ownership. In the jargon, it is called "ping yu" and "adding consumption"; they also collect "filial piety" from subordinate officials. Of course, in activities such as tax collection, case handling, and withdrawal, there are even more corruption and bribery. In order to get rich, there are always methods.

The cadres of the central organs are called Beijing officials. They do not directly collect taxes and handle cases and have few ways to make money, so they collect gifts from local officials to them. In order to promote or change their fat, local officials naturally have to curry favor with Beijing officials. Local officials in the Ming Dynasty mostly use two names: one is that the summer is hot, and some anti-heat and cooling fees are given, which is called "Bingjing"; the other is that the winter is cold, and some anti-freeze firewood and charcoal money is called "Character".

Everyone digs the mountains and digs holes to make money, and gives gifts everywhere. It is not because these officials who are deeply influenced by Confucianism do not want to be clean, but that they have no way to live without being corrupt. Most officials cannot maintain their livelihood at all. Take Hai Rui, the most honest, for example, if you are honest, you can't even afford a coffin when you die. Even if you eat it normally, you grow it for yourself. The meat is even rare to be the best. In order to become an official, you study hard day and night, and pass the Jinshi to get a pound. It's better to be a tenant. Therefore, even if Zhu Yuanzhang convicts your whole family, they have to continue to be greedy. It can be said that the corruption of officials in the Ming Dynasty is not only out of greed, but more often than not, forced out by this evil system.

When Zhu Jun came to power, he finally started reforming the salary of the Ming Dynasty. To put it bluntly, it was to raise integrity. In the past, the salary of a county magistrate was five taels of silver. Now, the salary of a first-class official was thirty taels of silver per month, and the salary of officials was also from the court, so he did not need to pay it out. In the Ming Dynasty, five taels of silver per month could enter a well-off family in one month. Thirty taels of silver was enough for the county magistrate to become a member of the wealthy class. The salary of a prefect is seventy taels of silver per month, and the salary of a first-class cabinet was three hundred taels of silver per month. Military officers and civil officials were the same. However, the salary was raised and the officials were restless. Then you should not think about greed. Tens of thousands of scholars from the North and South Fufu Department were hidden in every corner of the Ming Dynasty, staring at you day and night. Once corruption occurs, the punishment will be punished immediately.

In fact, corruption and speculation are the same. When you are poor and Dangxiang, you will inevitably take risks. At worst, you will have a life to fight. If you catch it, you will be unlucky. If you don’t catch it, then congratulations. From now on, you will be rich and powerful, and your descendants will benefit from it. But are you not poor? The salary given to you by the court is enough for you to live a life of a superior person. So are you still willing to betray the risk of embezzlement? I am afraid that there are very few people who are really willing to take risks. No matter how realistic you are, it is not cost-effective at all. No matter how much money you are greedy, you can only live one pound higher than you are now, and you only eat a few dishes. Do you have to risk betray the risk of betraying for money?

This is also the reason why the so-called international organizations' clean rankings are almost the same as those of per capita rankings in later generations. The higher the living standards, the fewer corrupt officials and the poorer the country. No matter if you catch corrupt officials, you will be shot and beheaded, there are many people who are in danger.

If it were in previous years, the emperor said that he would have been fined for one year and a half year, the officials would not take it seriously at all. The fine was fined for half a year. Hehe, wouldn’t it be less than fifty taels of silver? If I had relied on your income, I would have starved to death. But now, Zhu Jun said that he had been fined for half a year. Wang Zhijin, a first-rank military officer, would have lost more than one thousand taels of silver. And he did not dare to be greedy these days. The Jinyiwei was everywhere, and maybe one of your personal soldiers or the businessman who gave you bribes was the Jinyiwei.

It seems that I have to save money in the past six months, and I am afraid I have to borrow some money from a few old brothers to fight Qiu Feng, Wang Zhijin thought to himself.

At this time, Zhu Jun stood up from the chair: "Transfer the order, all departments gather, and the Northern Expedition

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