Since Zhu Cihong promulgated the order on the transfer of troops on the first day of the new year, all the armies in the south of the Yangtze River were dispatched, and in just a few days, all the conspiracies and some opposition forces were uprooted like a storm.

The crown prince's thunderous attack shocked the people, and the entire provinces south of the Yangtze River became silent, no one expected that the crown prince would be so unscrupulous and dare to wave his sword at the gentry, merchants, and officials at the same time.

In this strong suppression, tens of thousands of people were killed, which was close to the total number of the four major Hongwu cases in the early Ming Dynasty.

The Hongwu Four Major Cases are the famous four major events or massacres planned by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, to eliminate those who thought they were a threat to the imperial court, to rectify the rule of officials, and to punish corruption.

Among them, hundreds of relevant officials were killed in the empty seal case, Guo Huan's case is unknown, more than 30,000 people were killed before and after the Hu Weiyong case, and more than 15,000 people were killed in the Lanyu case.

Until the Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the armies of all walks of life have taken full control of several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and in this half month, I don't know how many people are frightened, and how many people applaud.

For the scholars and students who went on strike, they were even more frightened, and the tens of thousands of scholars who rushed to the Jinling Conference were almost slaughtered, and Zhu Cihong suppressed them in the name of rebellion and rebellion, and his descendants were forbidden to become officials in the court for 18 generations.

I heard that the crown prince issued a decree that all students who participated in the strike and tax resistance were not allowed to become officials within five generations, not only did they lose their careers, but even their descendants could not become officials.

Although he was luckier than the soldiers who were killed, such a rule was more painful than killing them.

Zhu Cihong's unreasonable thunderous tactics turned all the forces that resisted the New Deal into ashes, and the previous huge anti-tax activities became a joke.

During the Shangyuan Festival, peace was restored in the entire south of the Yangtze River, and the streets of the slaughtered prefectures were cleaned, and the blood stains on the ground were also cleaned by the officials, and there were sometimes teams of armor patrolling back and forth on the streets.

To the surprise of all the people, the closed shops reopened, and the prices were doubled before the turmoil, and it was heard that the crown prince ordered all merchants to reduce their prices, and those who dared to increase the price were confiscated.

The crown prince not only compensated for his losses in the turmoil at double the price, but also ordered all provinces to erect monuments to commemorate the merchants who were killed by the rioters in the turmoil, and gave them the title of "outstanding merchants of the Ming Dynasty".

Zhu Cihong's various efforts to appease and deal with the aftermath made the affected businessmen feel that they did not support the New Deal in vain.

Zhu Cihong copied the homes of so many gentry and wealthy merchants, and these compensations were all drizzle in his eyes!

Every city and street in Suzhou is full of shouting shopkeepers, who are shouting in front of the shops to solicit business.

The surrounding people flocked to buy meat and food for the festival, everyone was smiling happily, and some people shouted and scolded from time to time: "Those profiteers who are dogs dare to raise prices, no, they have been raided!" ”

These days, the profiteers who resist taxes not only strike the market openly, but also secretly sell goods, driving up prices dozens of times, and some even have no market price.

The New Year needs a lot of food, usually the people are difficult because of natural disasters, buy rice and salt have to be carefully calculated, being so tossed, even the New Year is not happy, naturally complaining greatly.

Now that the chaos is over, and there is an abundant supply of cheap goods, the hearts of the people everywhere have suddenly settled down, and they have praised the crown prince's decisiveness.

In Yangzhou City, Shi Kefa, who had just finished his hometown and was about to return to Nanjing to report, was looking at the surrounding environment with a blank face.

Hearing of the turmoil in various parts of the Yangtze River, and Yangzhou Mansion was also the center of the turmoil, Shi Kefa hurried from his hometown in Henan to Yangzhou, considering whether to support the New Deal or support the resistance of his colleagues in Donglin along the way.

When he came to Yangzhou City, he thought that the anti-tax demonstrations were still there, but he saw the smiling people on the streets, all of whom were queuing up to shop in an orderly manner, without the slightest scramble, and from time to time they scolded those Donglinshi people for not knowing the sky and the earth, in a vain attempt to resist the new deal.

Shi Kefa is still curious, he has also been to Yangzhou a few times, why is the quality of the people so high now? It's weird.

When he saw a group of strutting Tianwu troops patrolling past from time to time, he realized it, but he still didn't know what was going on here, what about those anti-tax denunciators?

After some inquiry, Shi Kefa reacted for a long time, sighed for a long time, and suddenly made up his mind, and instructed the servants around him to arrange a boat to cross the river to Nanjing.

Nanjing Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

The moon and stars are scarce, and before dawn, the sound of the five drums has echoed throughout the Forbidden City.

Zhu Cihong woke up from his sleep, pushed away Dong Xiaowan, who was as smooth as jade on his side, got up and sat up, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he was destined not to sleep lazy, and he had developed the habit of getting up early as after leaving the cabinet.

Dong Xiaowan was sleepy-eyed and dressed in a robe, changing her clothes and bundling her hair for Zhu Cihong, and a touch of coquettishness appeared in her eyes from time to time when she looked at Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong looked at the originally cold ice beauty in front of her, and was secretly satisfied in her heart, no matter how cold the woman was, after some training by herself, she was like a docile kitten.

Zhu Cihong is 14 years old this year, and two days ago she received a letter from Empress Zhou, saying that she was going to arrange a concubine selection for him, and that she had fallen in love with a woman surnamed Ning.

Zhu Cihong replied directly and refused, indicating that he wanted to raise the age of marriage for Ming men to eighteen years old, and he wanted to lead by example.

Raising the age of marriage is Zhu Cihong's idea of alleviating the pressure on the population of the Ming Dynasty, and also to improve the survival rate of newborns.

Of course, what he is doing now is only out of precocious physiological needs, and he has no intention of having children with Dong Xiaowan and others, let alone the idea of making one of them the queen, at most a concubine.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not have high requirements for the harem, as long as the innocent civilian women could enter the palace after the audition, the biological mothers of several emperors were born to palace maids, Queen Zhou's father was Zhou Kui, who was born as a fortune teller, and Li Wei, who was born as a mason, was also born by Emperor Wanli.

Although Dong Xiaowan and others have been mixed by the Qinhuai River, they have never been combed and have always been worshiped as big stars, and now Zhu Cihong has abolished Lehu and made them female officials in the palace, which can be regarded as innocent people.

There is a big difference between prostitutes and prostitutes, prostitutes only sell their arts, prostitutes sell their bodies, the ancient Qinglou is an elegant place, literati and ink writers go more, among them are geisha who sell art, influenced by later film and television, many people confuse geisha and prostitution.

Zhu Cihong sometimes feels awkward, which is also the reason why he is reluctant to include one of Qin Huai Bayan's children as the crown princess.

Of course, it is inevitable that there will be some people who oppose him who will take the opportunity to make irresponsible remarks, but Zhu Cihong doesn't care, he has done so many things that touch the bottom line of officialdom and scholars, and it is not bad for this one, as long as I am comfortable, how can you love it, if you are not convinced, just jump out.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's queen Wei Zifu was still a singer, according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, she was a happy household, no different from a prostitute, and she was not a queen in the same way, and she was a concubine with Dong Xiaowan, no problem at all.