Chapter 277 Kill the land in white, I want the land but not the people!

Chapter 277 Kill the land in white, I want the land but not the people!

The words of the Right Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing are by no means exaggerated.

After more than a year of purge operations, all gentry in the world knows the cruelty of Zhu Youzhan's methods.

The officials, nobles, landlords and gentry killed by Zhu Youzhu reached an appalling number.

When talking about Zhu Youzhang's name, the landlords and gentry began to tremble unconsciously.

Half of them were because of scare, and half were because of hatred.

When Zhu Youzang thought about the possible arrival, the patriarchs of these four major families were so scared that they trembled all over and their eyes were straightened.

After seeing the patriarchs of the four major families, they were shocked, they continued slowly. "You can put your heart in your stomach. By then, not only are you four major families going to revolt, but the entire gentry in Jiangnan will rise up to resist the tyranny with one call."

" By then, the entire Jiangnan will be in chaos. Will Your Majesty still care about your small Xuzhou Prefecture? "

"Besides, don't you understand the principle that the law does not blame the public?"

The words of the Right Assistant Minister reached the hearts of the patriarchs of these four major clans.

After hearing that the number of participants was large, the gentry in Jiangnan would revolt and cause trouble, their originally nervous hearts were immediately relaxed.

As long as there are enough people standing on their side, they seem to have the courage to do anything.

On the one hand, I was waiting to be liquidated by Zhu Youtang. Not only will the ancestral property of several generations be destroyed, but my family may even be destroyed.

On the other side, they responded to each other, jointly opposed Zhu Youzhang's tyranny.

If it is successful, there is no need to say much. If it fails, the law does not punish the public, and they may be able to escape...

Thinking of this, the four major families are from The patriarch finally let go. "Since that's the case, we will rely on the instructions of the Lord."

The four of them bowed to the Right Assistant Minister, and the Right Assistant Minister was calm.

"You can make the right choice, so it's great. As for how to uprising and cause trouble, I don't need to teach you, right?"

"No! No!"

The four major families have The patriarch waved his hands one after another: "We are familiar with this, we will definitely arrange it."

"At that time, not only Fengxian, but the entire Xuzhou will be in chaos!"

There are four major ones With the family's guarantee, the right assistant minister was completely relieved.

The Right Minister had no doubt about the influence of these gentry in the countryside. As long as these four landlords spoke, they would be impossible to be wrong!

Since ancient times, the imperial power has not been sent to the countryside, which has also led to the high status and great influence of the gentry in the countryside.

The fundamental reason why gentry has such a great influence lies in the land distribution situation in rural areas and familialism.

In the countryside, there are roughly three classes, first the big landlord class, then the small landlord class and the rich peasants, and finally the poor peasants.

The poor peasants have the largest number of people and the smallest land is the object of oppression.

The rich peasants don’t own much land, but they have close ties with the small landlord class. Fundamentally, they are biased towards the landlord class and stand opposite to the vast majority of poor peasants.

These intermediate classes rely on familialism and land capital to threaten and intimidate the poor peasants and control the voice of the lower-class people.

And the middle class obeys the orders of the big landlord class.

So this is the place where the landlords Sun, Wang, Zhou, and Li are like local emperors in Xuzhou, and they can do whatever they want without restraint!

To break the class barriers like the countryside, there is no other way except to completely eliminate the large and middle-level landlord class, confiscate all the property of the middle class, and defeat it back to the poor peasant class.

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Conversations like this also happened in various prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River.

In all places, the well-known landlords and gentry, like the four major families in Xuzhou Prefecture, almost all agreed to Zhang Peng and the others' request.

Make sure that at that time, we will respond with one call and cooperate with the actions of Zhang Peng and others.

At the same time, another force in the Jiangnan area also took the initiative to ask Zhang Peng and others for help.

This force is the Jiangnan smuggling group that is deeply involved in smuggling.

This group has complex ingredients and cannot be divided into single ingredients.

These people include local officials, aristocratic families, wealthy businessmen, and landlords and gentry.

This group of people is the group that I fear the most now, because the Jinyiwei commanded Tongzhi Zhuque, the evil god, was arresting those smugglers who were offered by Yu Yunzhong in the south of the Yangtze River.

No one knows who the traitor Yu Yunzhong confessed, and they all feared that they just wanted to drive the boat and escape from the Ming Dynasty.

But he was afraid of alerting the enemy, and ended up like Yu Yunzhong and was captured by the Jinyiwei as a ship.

So, they took the initiative to ask Zhang Peng for help.

Zhang Peng did not forget to win over these people and invite them to work together to make major happen.

The reason is that this group of people holds unimaginable wealth in their hands.

If things really reach an irreversible level, recruiting soldiers and rewarding the army is inevitable.

These all require a huge amount of silver.

Now Zhang Peng and his team have soldiers, some have food.

In addition to these smuggling groups blocking the shortcomings of the last piece of silver, Zhang Peng and others have gathered all the factors that have done major tasks.

When Zhang Peng gave olive branches to the people in these smuggling groups, these people agreed to be much happier than those landlords and gentry.

One of the reason is that those who smuggle are brave and do things that are just losing their heads.

Secondly, it is because they have indeed been forced into a desperate situation by Zhu Youzhang.

Illegal annexation of land and privately hiding the land may have a way out for these crimes.

Break offshore ban and smuggling goods. This crime can be beheaded at the least, and the family will be confiscated to exterminate the clan!

Without any hesitation, various merchants, gentry and nobles in these smuggling groups joined Zhang Peng's plan.

For this period of time, Zhang Peng and others have joined forces with almost all local forces such as local officials, local military institutions, landlords and gentry, nobles and gentry in one go.

With an unprecedented response, all forces expressed strong support to Zhang Peng.

This is not because Zhang Peng is so popular with the people and has a great appeal.

This is entirely because Zhu Youzhang offended all the upper classes in Jiangnan in more than a year!

The contradiction between Zhu Youzhang and local forces in Jiangnan has reached a point where it is irreconcilable and inaccessible.

Apart from the hot war, there is no second way to resolve this contradiction.

Zhang Peng's conspiracy on such a large scale, and the factory guards lurking all over the country also found some news.

The factory guards did not dare to neglect and soon reported the abnormal situation in the Jiangnan area during this period.

The matter is of great importance. The West Factory Supervisor Wang Zhi, the East Factory Supervisor Liu Jin, and the Jinyiwei Commander Mou Bin rushed to the Yangxin Palace as soon as he received the news.

They wanted to report this matter to Zhu Youzhang.

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Forbidden City. Hall of Care for Heart.

Zhu Youzhang's dragon table was filled with official documents.

What Zhu Youzhang read at this moment was two questions about the Annan War.

A letter was sent by Mu Cong, the Duke of Qian and general of Dianzhou, to request battle.

Mu Cong volunteered to participate in the war in Annan, county.

The other letter is a battle report from Wang Yue, which records in detail the battles experienced by the Ming army in Annan.

Of course, the news that Mu Cong had entered Annan privately and met with Wang Yue were also recorded.

Now, Wang Yue's offensive in Annan is generally smooth, and there is no problem with logistics supply.

Although the people at the bottom of Annan were in a serious mood, the officials of the court, nobles, gentry, and wealthy business landlords in Annan were very conscious of the current affairs and often wanted to surrender.

The most important thing is that the soldiers of the Annan army had extremely low combat capabilities and were not the Ming army's one-hit enemy at all.

According to Wang Yue's statement, it is only a matter of time to recover Annan.

No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read! "Rareless! How can a general in a state be resigned without permission and lead his troops into the country privately?!"

The family of the Duke of Qian has been guarding Dianzhou for generations. Their loyalty, Zhu Yuzuki has no doubts.

However, this kind of behavior of not obeying orders and acting without authorization is a taboo in military strategists, and Zhu Youzhang was very dissatisfied.

At this moment, Xiao Jing suddenly reported: "Your Majesty, the West Factory Supervisor Wang Zhi, the East Factory Supervisor Liu Jin, and the Jinyiwei Commander Mou Bin are all outside the hall. Please see me. Your Majesty. "

The leaders of the three major factories and guards are really not very likely to ask for advice at the same time.

Zhu Youtang put down the question book in his hand and took a sip of ginseng tea: "Let them come in."

"Yes, the emperor."

After Xiao Jing withdrew from the Yangxin Palace and informed him outside, the leaders of the three major factories walked into the Yangxin Palace at the same time.

"I am humble, I am humble, I will meet your majesty!"

After the three of them saluted Zhu Youtang in turn, Wang Zhi first said: "Your Majesty, there are abnormal activities in the Jiangnan area. A large number of Nanjing officials have privately contacted the gentry and landlords from all over the country. "

"Your Majesty, do you need the factory guard to stop it?"

In the feudal dynasty, the court was very taboo about the people. Scale private gathering.

Because these people are not allowed to make a king of ideas, it will be another disaster.

The large-scale private gatherings among the people alone are already very serious, not to mention that the two interest classes, officials and landlords, are colluding with each other.

In the Qing Dynasty, because Aisin Jueluo's position was not upright and his virtue was not worthy of his position, the control of private gatherings among the people reached its peak.

Kangxi was afraid that the Han people would unite and overthrow the Qing Dynasty and prohibited more than 20 Han people from gathering privately.

Once it was discovered, the people who formed the meeting were beheaded and displayed in public, and the rest of the participants were either exiled or worked hard.

Wang Zhi spoke out at this time and suggested that Zhu Youzhang intervene in the control, which is reasonable and is by no means a big deal.

Zhu Youzhan frowned slightly and murmured in a low voice: "Nanjing officials have colluded with major landlords in private..."

Zhu Youzhan showed a hint of sneer: "It seems that it was Wang Yanhe Yang Jizong's behavior deeply stimulated these landlords in Jiangnan. They were about to jump over the wall."

The commander of the Jinyiwei, Mou Bin, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, it is not only the Xuzhou Prefecture that Wang Yan and Yang Jizong investigated, but our Jinyiwei Similar situations have been discovered in Yangzhou Prefecture in Nanzhili, Hangzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang, and Jiujiang Prefecture in Ganzhou. "

"I'm afraid that the entire Jiangnan landlords and gentry were secretly secretly by officials from Nanjing. Have a private talk."

"These landlords have a huge influence in the countryside. If they are maliciously provoked, there may be chaos in Jiangnan. We have to be careful!"

Zhu Youling's heart sank and nodded slightly: "I understand."

The Jiangnan incident has always been a major concern for him.

In theory, the troubles in Jiangnan should be slowly taken and eroded slowly.

But now, the local forces in Jiangnan are taking the lead in taking action. Wang Zhi is right, and Zhu Youzhan has to be on guard.

Zhu Youzhang thought for a moment, and then ordered: "Send orders to the important towns on the nine borders to mobilize the war immediately. Each town selects 10,000 elite troops and is ready to go south at any time!"

"The 300,000 stones of food and grass were transferred to all the food and grass in the northern states. When you come to the capital, the canal transport soldiers are on standby at any time to carry food and grass! "

"The commanders of Luzhou, Yuzhou, Ezhou, and the three places immediately led the troops of the guards and the borders to cut off the land transportation entering the south of the Yangtze River!"

"The local maritime departments are prohibited from entering the southern border of Jiangnan by sea!"

Zhu Youzhang's order is undoubtedly a war mobilization.

But the deployment he made was still focused on defensive alert, and did not take the initiative with great fanfare.

In the chaos in Jiangnan, it is best not to move.

If you want to move, it is best to minimize the impact.

As soon as Zhu Youzhang finished speaking, Wang Zhi and the other two immediately bowed their hands to take the order.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Thinking of the possible war, they felt a little excited and couldn't calm down.

But this is not over yet, Zhu Youzhan immediately ordered: "Where is Jia Jun? Call Jia Jun for me!"

Xiao Jing, who was waiting outside the door, heard the heart-wrenching sound. After the order in the hall, he quickly took the order: "Your Majesty, I'll summon Lord Jia now."

Xiao Jing immediately ordered a young eunuch from the Silijian to go to the Ministry of Works to ask the Ministry of Works Secretary Jia Jun.

After receiving the order summoned by Zhu Youzang, Jia Jun rushed to the Yangxin Palace without stopping.

In the Palace of Health and Heart, after Jia Jun saw the gift, Zhu Youzang asked, "Jia Jun, how many flintlock guns have the Ministry of Works made now?"

Jia Jun bowed to the point of view. : "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Works has manufactured five thousand flintlock rifles, two thousand short rifles, and one hundred thousand gunpowder bullets."

Zhu Youzhang was quite satisfied with the efficiency of the Ministry of Works: "Yes, your Ministry of Works is so fast."
Jia Jun said modestly: "This is thanks to His Majesty's factory concept. After the Ministry of Industry successfully built the factory... flow... assembly line, the production speed increased a lot, which is a big deal. The efficiency of our Ministry of Works in manufacturing firearms has been accelerated."

Zhu Youzhang nodded and continued to order: "Your Ministry of Works in Works immediately sends these firearms to the Shenji Camp and the Clan Camp, and there is no delay!"< br>

Jia Jun bowed and took the order: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Last." Zhu Youzhang looked at the two questions from Annan in front of his desk, and then issued an order.

"Ren Mucong is the deputy general of the left of the Conquest of Yi, and assists Wang Yue County Annan."

"Let Wang Yue fight quickly and decide quickly. Those who sincerely surrender to the Ming Dynasty can let go of a way out. Those who resist stubbornly will be killed. No matter! "

"If you are really stubborn, even if you kill Annan into white land, I want the land but don't have people!"

Zhu Youzang's murderous intent made everyone present feel scared.

Xiao Jing did not dare to say much, but just bowed his head and took the order: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

(The end of this chapter)