Great Zhou Empress

When the Liao people withdrew, they also took away many peasants.

In this era, the lowest-level peasants have no human rights, especially when they encounter a nation like the Liao Kingdom that has a precedent of plundering people.Almost all the Han people in the Liao Kingdom were captured by the ancestors of the Liao Kingdom, which rapidly increased the population of the Liao Kingdom.

Dacheng really had no way to stop it. Fortunately, the Liao Kingdom was still thinking about returning to the north, and brought too many people and walked slowly, so it didn't take too many away, but it also made the already barren North Central Plains even more barren.

Xue Zhijing negotiated urgently with several generals, divided the imperial army into small teams, and rushed to each city to restore the administrative order of each city as soon as possible.

Every city has local gentry and elders. The imperial army contacted these gentry, and let them come forward to form a republic of squires to discuss government affairs and restore order in various places.

The imperial army cooperated with the squires to arrest the local thieves, as well as the clan and nobles who took refuge in Liao.

Xue Zhijing asked Empress Dowager Yuan Hanzhang to arrange some people, together with students from the comprehensive university established by Xue Zhijing, to go to various places to check the land.

Various plans were arranged here, and Xue Zhijing quickly returned to Jiankang City to report the situation to Yuan Hanzhang.

Xue Zhijing told the whole process, and once again talked about his further plans, "Currently, there are ten houses and nine empties in the northern central plains. According to the rough statistics, at least [-]% of the land in a township is unowned. After it is nationalized, it can be Give it to landless peasants. This will attract landless or less landless peasants in the areas controlled by Lord Qin in the west and the rebel areas in the southwest to cultivate, and then reduce or exempt taxes for five years, and the population of the North Central Plains will soon be sufficient. At the same time, this The population flow can not only limit the development of Qin Guogong, but also solve the rebellion in the southwest region, because the rebellion in the southwest region is essentially due to the lack of land and the large number of people there.”

Xue Zhijing spoke briefly, but the grand strategy is accurate.

Yuan Hanzhang only added, "Take your marines and head to the west of Bianjing. Once your strategy comes out, it is equivalent to drawing salary from the bottom of Qin Guogong. It is estimated that he will raise troops again soon."

Xue Zhijing smiled, "He won't last long. But ma'am, the Marine Corps is a way I fooled the Liao Kingdom, and it's not the real Marine Corps yet."

"Then after Qin Guogong's trip is over, you can take care of it. I think it's a good thing." Yuan Hanzhang said.

After finishing the business, we began to chat about family affairs.

Yuan Hanzhang said a little tiredly, "Go and see Yan'er in a while, he collapsed when the wind and cold came down this time."

Xue Zhijing's expression moved slightly, "What did the imperial doctors say?"

Yuan Hanzhang shook his head, "Yan'er is a weak disease brought about by the womb. He has to be nourished since he was a child. He can't stand the cold or the heat, let alone have any violent emotions and actions. The imperial doctor dare not use strong medicine. Raise slowly."

Xue Zhijing was suddenly very dissatisfied with Liu Yan, or rather the entire Liu family royal family.When a royal family is at its most vigorous, it is the generations after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Generations of generations are full of energy, and their offspring are also rich. If the close relatives of the first generation marry, it will be difficult for the descendants, and the more difficult the physical condition of the descendants will be, the more troublesome they will be.

Times have changed too.

But although Xue Zhijing was dissatisfied at this time, he didn't say anything to Yuan Hanzhang.

Soon, Chun Wei came, and Li Jing lived up to everyone's expectations and walked all the way to the palace examination, and finally obtained the status of Jinshi with the No. 14 result in the second class.

The whole country is uproarious.

Last year, when Li Jing was kneeling at the gate of the imperial palace and asked to take the imperial examination, all the courtiers gave Li Jing a chance to take the imperial examination without debating Yuan Hanzhang and Xue Zhijing in the court hall. Zhang didn't mention it, and Li Jing has always been very low-key, and no one mentioned this matter again in a few months.Someone wanted to mention it, and thought that Li Jing would definitely not be able to pass the Jinshi exam as a woman, but they didn't expect that, just like this, they made a hole in the imperial examination.

However, the imperial examination is based on the system of vague names. Li Jing's No. 14 No. [-] was not chosen by Yuan Hanzhang himself, but was unanimously agreed by all the members who participated in the examination, which is enough to show her talent.

You can't even revoke her grades in the name of Yuan Hanzhang's protection.

But an old courtier turned a corner and said, "This court is full of men, and women are officials, so they inevitably have to go in and out with men. This is not good for Ms. Li's reputation."

Yuan Hanzhang said, "It's easy to handle. I set up a military aircraft department in the palace. The Jinshi of Jinke, those who are talented, will be given to the seventh-rank Pin Yi. The main task is to help me deal with the machine in my study. For government affairs. Li Jing will be the first to join the Military Aircraft Office. In addition, when going to court, there is a censor who supervises everyone's words and deeds. Is it about Jing Qingyu?"

A military aircraft department asked Yuan Hanzhang to handle both matters.

If people come to ask what is going on with the Military Aircraft Department, Yuan Hanzhang can say that it is not for the placement of female Jinshi, and secondly that I am too busy all day long, so why not recruit some Jinshi to help me with government affairs?Their ranks are only seventh rank, and they do not violate the promotion rules of courtiers.

At the same time, Li Jing successfully got a job after becoming a Jinshi.

In this era, after most of the Jinshi passed the entrance examination, they first had to study and sort out classics in various leisure departments, and then waited for any vacancies for county magistrates in various places before they could get real positions.

Li Jing not only got a job because of this opportunity, but also a job in the most core department of the government.

Now the Military Aircraft Department has not yet shown its ability. After a while, the chief executives of the Political Affairs Hall will know that their power has been divided.

The Marine Corps came back from the sea and was re-divided into the students of the Military Academy and the Shenji Battalion. Taking advantage of his high prestige, Xue Zhijing proposed to expand the Shenji Battalion and formally form the Marine Corps.

The Shenji Camp recruited from farmers across the country. If only one member of the family joined the Shenji Camp, regardless of gender, the family could be divided into a piece of land in the North Central Plains.Relying on such attractiveness, the Shenji Camp soon recruited members from all over the country, especially the areas where the Maitreya religion was ravaged in the southwest.

The Marine Corps mainly recruits the fishermen in the southern coastal areas. Compared with the inland farmers, the living conditions of the fishermen in the southern coastal areas are worse. Therefore, many fishermen become pirates at sea, or drift to the Southeast Asia. Regional life, and soon, the Marine Corps formed a corps of 3 people.

Now, this first step of recruiting is very successful. The main reason why she couldn't recruit people before was that Xue Zhijing didn't have enough power. With the Military Aircraft Department able to check and balance those two departments, things will be easier.

What remains is to train these ordinary people into soldiers, find a steady stream of funds to supplement military resources, and another victory.

As Xue Zhijing and Yuan Hanzhang judged, Liu Mian raised his troops again.

Qin Guogong Liu Mian was completely forced to raise troops. A jade turtle incident fooled Liu Mian of 200 million copper coins. He was also fooled into printing banknotes to toss deflation in the jurisdiction, and the food input channels were blocked. Watching him The country's grain reserves were about to run out, the army was about to mutiny, and the peasants were about to flee secretly, so he had to fight.

Xue Zhijing and Yuan Jin took the students from the Military Academy, as well as some members of the newly formed Shenji Battalion and the Marine Corps, to the west of Bianjing.

The students of the military academy have been trained as marines at sea before, and they are not pure students. Most of them are the children of middle-level generals, and they have been given a lot of training that military generals should have. At this time, Already able to cooperate with Yuan Jin to be a teenager of different levels.

This trip to fight Liu Mian, Xue Zhijing mainly focused on grand strategy, and made different deployments for Liu Mian's actions. How to fight and how to deal with it depended on Yuan Jin and the students of the Military Academy.

This can be regarded as each performing his own duties, and people make the best use of them.

It can be said that this trip to fight Liu Mian was quite easy, just like it was specially used to train the Shenji Battalion and the Marine Corps. The soldiers on the other side had almost no fighting spirit. There is also a new army full of confidence and vigor.

The battle reached its climax after Xue Zhijing arranged for someone to release a round of Kongming Lanterns. The Kongming Lantern strategy was done against the Liao Kingdom before, and how powerful the Liao Marine Corps was.But this time, it was to scare Liu Mian's soldiers and at the same time trick them into defecting from Liu Mian. If they surrendered voluntarily, they could be given land.

Liu Mian escaped with the help of Xia Guo's army and went straight to Xia Guo.

When Xue Zhijing and the others stepped into the vast western region, they received news from Jiankang that the little emperor Liu Yan had passed away.

Both Xue Zhijing and Yuan Jin's faces were covered with a shadow. Yun Jin is Yuan Hanzhang's trusted niece, and naturally knows that the so-called "son" of Liu Yan is actually a fake. Now that Liu Yan is dead, according to Yuan Hanzhang's character , I will definitely push this baby of a few months to the throne.

The empress dowager.

Xue Zhijing felt that in just a few years, Yuan Hanzhang had been promoted from imperial concubine to empress, and from empress to empress dowager, and now, he was going to be empress dowager again.

She really wanted to suggest Yuan Hanzhang, or else you would become emperor yourself?

But this is not the time to think about these things, Xue Zhijing led the army, gathered Liu Mian's surrendered army, and marched into Liu Mian's core area, the Guanzhong Plain.

This round, Xue Zhijing's arrangement is similar to that of the Northern Central Plains, but the focus is on cleaning up the members of the Liu family's clan here.There are many members of the Liu family, Xue Zhijing doesn't care who you are, except for the Duke of Jin who borrowed troops before, everyone else is regarded as a rebel related to Liu Mian.

The identities of these clan members were deprived, key members were escorted to Jiankang for trial, and unimportant members were confiscated of all their assets.

In this way, a large amount of land and assets in the western region were released and nationalized.

Yuan Hanzhang instead gave Xue Zhijing a large amount of land and assets as rewards, and Xue Zhijing quickly spread out Lichun Yuan, Shengfeng Bank, etc. on his side.

At the same time, she cleaned up the imperial palace in Bianjing City, and took some soldiers and horses to Jiankang to escort Yuan Hanzhang and the ministers back.

What I didn't expect was that when Yuan Hanzhang packed his things and was about to return to Bianjing, the queen of Liu Yan who "give birth" to her "son" joined her family and broke into the palace.