Li Xuan, who immediately dispatched troops to the disaster area, also knew that although it was necessary to maintain military high pressure in dealing with such a matter of civil unrest, it was not a means to prevent civil unrest.

The best way to prevent civil unrest is to let them live and work in peace and contentment, and at the very least, to keep the people in a state of starvation!

Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has been docile and violent at the same time!

As long as there is a bite to eat, the people will not rebel, and their endurance is very amazing, and they are extremely docile.

But when they have nothing to eat and are going to starve, they will raise their banners and rebel!

Shouting the slogan of the king and general Hou Ning to rebel!

Li Xuan himself started a rebellion, so he naturally knew this kind of thing better, so as soon as he heard that the typhoon was coming and suffered heavy losses, he immediately prepared with both hands, maintained high pressure militarily, and prevented any accidents, in addition, Li Xuan also immediately asked the cabinet to organize disaster relief.

Several local reserve granaries have opened warehouses to release grain, and at the same time, they have urgently drawn grain from other places to resettle the victims as quickly as possible, so as not to make the people have no food and clothing, and they will have to eat.

In that case, even if it is a high-pressure military defense, it will not be able to stop wave after wave of civil unrest!

As for Li Xuan himself, he pays attention to the disaster situation every day, and whenever a report from the disaster area comes up, he will personally review it as soon as possible.

But against all odds, there was still a mess!

On June 12, the Gaozhou Prefecture reported an emergency report of 500 miles, and thousands of foolish people were bewitched by several local gentry to storm the local town yamen, and after breaking through the town yamen, they robbed the yamen of the food used to relieve the people.

At the same time, Ningchuan Town in Gaozhou is a scene of chaos.

This Ningchuan town, which was reformed from the Ningchuan Institute during the Ming Dynasty, is a coastal town, and because it is a coastal town, it was also the most severely affected when the typhoon hit.

At first, local town officials and the heads of their subordinate villages were trying to maintain the situation and start saving themselves.

But soon there was a message, saying that the relief food pulled out by the imperial court was embezzled by those corrupt officials, this message spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and soon some people went to the town yamen to ask for an explanation, and then more and more people watched, and then I don't know how to become restless.

These people just began to storm the town yamen, and the town order of Ningcun town was killed on the spot by the angry people in the chaos, and the officials in several other town yamen and more than a dozen patrol officers were also killed or injured.

After the people looted the food and other property that was originally used for disaster relief, they were at a loss, and then a few squires who were quite prestigious in the local area on weekdays took the initiative to stand up, saying that the government would not give them a way to live, and they simply rebelled.

stabilized a group of chaotic people, but several leaders in the town yamen secretly met a person wearing ordinary people's clothes, and his words were quite respectful!

Half a day later, these gentry came out and continued to the north with the rebels, they were going to capture the county seat and rob the grain there!

And at this point, the second battalion under the Second Mixed Regiment of the Tang Army has also completed the emergency assembly, and all the staff were dispatched to Ningchuan to suppress the rebellion.

In the afternoon, the two people met halfway through!

Naturally, there were no accidents, and they didn't wait for the second battalion to charge, but after a few rounds of platoon guns, more than 2,000 homeless people were dispersed!

In the evening of the next day, Li Xuan received a battle report from the Second Mixed Regiment of the Army, saying that the second battalion under the regiment had successfully defeated the thieves in Ningchuan Town, and at the same time, the regiment had urgently dispatched the first battalion to the local area to strengthen its control over the local area.

Looking at the report from Gaozhou Mansion, Li Xuan's thick eyebrows were furrowed!

Immediately, he personally issued an order, strictly ordered the Second Mixed Regiment to control the situation in Gaozhou Mansion, and at the same time ordered the Sixth Infantry Division to transfer a regiment to the western region and cooperate with the Second Mixed Regiment to suppress the place!

At the same time, the Inspectorate and the Patrol Police Department were sent to strictly investigate the deep-seated reasons behind the civil unrest, why the imperial court had already begun to provide disaster relief, and there was no large-scale famine, that is, the civil unrest quickly occurred!

Not only did the Inspectorate and the Patrol Police Department receive the order, but in fact, the spies from the Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy also began to go deep into the local area to investigate the whole story.

Although the combat strength of the Second Mixed Regiment was strong, and it only took one day to defeat the displaced people who had gathered, this made Li Xuan see a problem.

Li Xuan didn't believe that those victims would rebel for no reason!

There must be a reason behind this.

And the reasons soon came out, and the reasons were not just one, but several!

The Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy took the lead in reporting the results of the survey: the civil unrest occurred mainly for two reasons:

First of all, the first one, that is, the reason why there are rumors that the government has seized the disaster relief grain, because it is not just a rumor, but has a certain true component, although the prefect of Gaozhou Prefecture began to relieve the disaster as soon as possible, but only a small part of the grain released in the warehouse was distributed to various places for disaster relief, most of which were purchased by those grain merchants or even at a lower price than the market, and then sold at a high price by these grain merchants!

After a strict investigation, it was found that the Gaozhou prefect actually had the dry shares of a number of local grain merchants, and one of the grain stores was simply opened by the Gaozhou prefect's family.

Another reason is that several local gentry are those who are dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty because of their daily speech, and according to the confessions of the captured gentry, someone asked them to incite the people to rebel.

After an investigation, it was found that the person who instigated these gentry turned out to be a former Ming Zhishi official, and after urgent interrogation, this person said that he had received a messenger from the false Ming Dynasty, asking him to incite the local gentry to incite the people to rebel.

After the truth of the matter was ascertained, Li Xuan's face immediately turned black and terrifying, and he personally ordered: The prefect of Gaozhou Prefecture will raid his family and exterminate his family, and other officials involved in grain merchant affairs should be killed, and they should be sentenced.

As for the dozen or so grain merchants who took the opportunity to buy grain to make black money, they didn't say anything, all of them were wiped out.

Several gentry and former Ming officials who instigated the victims of the disaster were all exterminated.

For a time, more than 10 people were killed in Gaozhou, more than 200 accomplices were sentenced to death, and more than 1,000 people were sentenced to several years in prison.

The Gaozhou case made Li Xuan quite angry, otherwise, he would not have dealt with it so harshly.

In the past, there were no rebellions in Guizhou and Guangzhou, and there were always some rebellions that broke out every year, but most of these were armed to resist taxes, or simply the landlords and gentry were inclined to the puppet people and tried to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

But this time, it was with the participation of officials.

If it weren't for the Gaozhou prefect's greed and perversion of the law, those gentry would not have enough excuse to agitate the victims!

Natural disasters are terrible, but man-made disasters are even more terrible!

Therefore, this time, Li Xuan wants to use the code in troubled times to tell the officials of the Tang Dynasty and the gentry living under the rule of the Tang Dynasty: They all treat me honestly, and whoever dares to take the lead will punish him for the nine clans!

This case is used to warn latecomers!

In order to avoid further turmoil in Gaozhou, Li Xuan even sent the minister on duty in the imperial study, Qian Mengjiu, to personally lead a team to the residential area to deal with the follow-up disaster relief affairs.

At the same time, many high-ranking officials of the Inspectorate were directly dismissed, for the simple reason that the supervision of hundreds of officials was not effective!

The Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy has meritorious deeds in this matter, and the merit is due to the fact that the truth of the matter was quickly investigated, but the reason for the failure is that it is the duty of the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy to prevent spies, especially puppet spies.

But this time, it turned out to be the puppet envoy sneaking in, and he also carried the official documents to command the puppet Ming Zhishi officials to instigate civil unrest.

Therefore, Li Xuan also rewarded and punished the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy, and the person in charge of investigation affairs was promoted, but the official in charge of counter-espionage affairs was taken away.

Then Li Xuan increased the funds of the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy, asking them to send more manpower in various places to arrest false spies, and at the same time strengthen the monitoring and handling capacity of major and important cases.

How did Li Zicheng and other people's armies rise up in the late Ming Dynasty? Many people will say that the Xiaoice River period, but in fact, natural disasters are only one of the factors, not even the main factor, the most important factor is man-made disasters!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was one acre of land in the world, and the powerful occupied eight points.

Moreover, the magnates of the clan and gentry do not pay taxes, and the burden of the entire dynasty is on the poor!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the clan gentry class, if one kills one, they will never kill the wrong one, and if they are killed, the Ming Dynasty will be saved!

It's a pity that the Zhu family clan is the biggest landlord in the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for you to let them commit suicide, kill them all, and this world will not be called the Ming Dynasty.

As the so-called taking history as a mirror, Li Xuan is quite vigilant about this, land annexation, which he does not allow, and the gentry are exempt from taxes, let alone not!

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty established by Li Xuan, all the core internal affairs were built around the 'tax', apportioning the land into the mu, the gentry paid grain and errands, and collected commercial taxes, which is the core of the current Tang Dynasty tax system, and it is also the ruling core of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, many chaotic and exorbitant taxes were abolished, and there was only one type of tax levied on the peasants, that is, the agricultural tax levied according to the number of acres of land, and there was no other tax.

At the same time, in order to curb land annexation, he developed industry and commerce and opened up sea trade on a large scale, in order to guide those landlords to invest their money in industry and commerce, and not to buy land as soon as they had money.

At the same time, it is not allowed to corrupt the rulers!

In the future of the Tang Dynasty, there may be a hundred officials, ninety-nine of whom are corrupt officials, but Li Xuan does not allow it to be now!

After the Gaozhou case, Li Xuan felt that it was time to push for other more profound reform measures!

Although the current Tang Dynasty is not the same as the traditional feudal dynasty in all aspects, Li Xuan feels that it is still not enough!