On April 20, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Liu Shimin, who had been promoted to the position of celebrant and supervisor, arrived in Nanjing.

He came by sailor's clipper.

That is, Yang Xin's schooner, after the construction of cruisers was stopped, Yang Xin's shipyard in Gegu except for a few battleships, the rest of the craftsmen were all building this, and now they can build ten ships a month. The displacement is not large, that is, two hundred tons, double masts, soft sails, only six three-pounder guns on the deck, the only advantage is that it is fast, and when unloaded, the speed is more than an hour and more than fifty miles. However, the sea is not counted like this, but with time, a day and night divided into ten watches, from the new city to Wusongkou, a total of 38 shifts of oblique crosswind, that is, less than four days and nights, the average speed of seven knots.

This is the case with old ships, which is only three or four knots.

At present, 30 ships have been put into operation in the newly established Nanyang Company.

The main voyages are Macao, Hoi An, Brunei, and some along Brunei to Malacca and Batavia, transporting all kinds of goods, and then carrying rice back, the fastest time can be a month round trip.

Making money is so-so.

After all, there are too many boats running on this line.

But there is a lot of rice that is transported back, because of the speed, basically there is no need to wait for the wind, they do not transport rice, they directly transport the processed rice, from the installation of the ship even if it is not a tailwind, four days also to Macao. It happened that the price of rice in Guangzhou had skyrocketed in the spring shortage this year, and they came back with a boatload of rice during the non-trade season, which quickly stabilized the price of rice in Guangzhou.

At this time, because the wind direction had just begun to change, those European merchant ships did not arrive.

As for the ...... brought by Liu Shimin

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a great event."

He said, holding up his glass.

Then there was an obviously perfunctory smile in front of him.

Well, the apocalypse forcibly ended the war by canonizing the crown prince, and the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Ciran, who was not yet a year old, was canonized as the crown prince, and the canonized prince must give amnesty to the world, so he pardoned the Red Turban Army and the people in the areas controlled by the Red Turban Army. And as compensation for the feelings of the civil officials and gentry, the families behind the people arrested by Yang Xin before were pardoned, and they would no longer raid their homes, and these people were still handed over to Yang Dudu for exile. In addition, the scholar Liu Yixian resigned, Xu Bengao and Wang Shimin were dismissed, and the hereditary official positions of the two were also revoked together, as for Huang Shu, although he was the mastermind and should be exiled, but because Yang Dudu promised him meritorious service and exemption, he was pardoned, but he was imprisoned for generations, and he and his descendants were never allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

The Red Turban Army was disposed of in accordance with the plan proposed by Yang Dudu, and the elite of them were reorganized into a loyal army, with 10,000 personnel.

Zhaoyi City was established.

That is, the area currently controlled by the Red Turban Army.

However, Zhaoyi City is directly managed by the emperor, with Liu Shimin, the chief of ceremonies, as the city supervisor, and the same is also the commander of the loyal army, and the internal officials are the county supervisors, and they are also the supervisors of the various armies, which are directly under the control of the seal of the master of ceremonies.

For this holy decree, the civil officials in the capital chose to accept it.

The Cabinet has drawn up its order.

Similarly, six subjects were passed.

However, as compensation, the first assistant of the cabinet resigned from Zheyi in old age, and then the cabinet, the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other important ministers recommended the new first assistant, in fact, it was almost determined that it must be Ye Xianggao, which can be regarded as a compromise with the southern gentry.

Judging from this holy decree, the little emperor is also very cunning now.

It can be said that the benefits are all in his hands.

Although the families were pardoned, in fact, the money of each family had already arrived, and it had been half a year, and Yang Xin had already obtained the confessions of the arrested, and quickly completed the raid. Now it's just a matter of picking up some silver and returning it to them, and a total of 2 million has been sent to the capital, and the other 2 million is partly to repay Yang Xin's military expenses, and partly for disaster relief in various parts of Nanjing.

But the territory of the Red Turban Army, the official figure of four and a half counties exceeded 4 million acres of fertile land, and this fell into the emperor's pocket.

Actually, it's more than four million.

According to the current statistics of the Red Turban Army, it is close to 7 million mu, not to mention 3 million hidden fields, and there are some other types of farmland here.

With a yield of two stones per mu and a land rent of two or three percent, Tianqi can get nearly four million stone of grain rent every year, not counting winter wheat and rapeseed. And this area can continue to be cultivated, especially the polders in the Lake District, in fact, those militias are already cultivating the land, but even now, the land rent that Apocalypse can get from here is more than one-tenth of the income of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that His Majesty the Emperor has received a huge piece of fat, which is equivalent to more than the total amount of land in Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture at present, and has also received a loyal army, and the Red Turban Army and those militiamen will thank Heaven with gratitude.

In the future, if anyone in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is disobedient, especially if something like the tax resistance in Suzhou happens again, this army will immediately suppress it for him.

He was happy.

The people were also happy.

But the gentry in the land wept.

Their wealth is gone, the only thing they get is the returned real estate and shops, but the goods in the shops are definitely gone, and the other is to compensate them to go to Sichuan to claim a piece of wasteland, but the emperor is gracious, there is no need to use the land deed, the wasteland in Sichuan is reclaimed casually, and the reclamation is theirs.

But can they really go?

After they went, did they take their wives and children to work in the fields?

This compensation is meaningless.

After all, everything they have is still lost, and they are taken away by the traitorous ministers and the people of the faint king, these people are all victors, only they are the losers, so this matter is not over, what can the holy decree do? Just like Zheng Zheng's book said, the king has no way, the ministers chase him, and the holy decree of the faint king, just listen to it, if you have the ability to resist, this is just waste paper.

"Grandpa Liu, so many people have died, is that it?"

Xiong Mingyu said.

"Didn't our family say it, this is just in time for the happy event of the crown prince, which can be regarded as showing His Majesty's mercy to all the people in the world. In the final analysis, this incident is also an accident, this earthquake is a natural disaster, the people are panicking after the disaster, and those gentry are carrying people to attack the Jinyi Guard, which caused those people who don't know the truth to follow. In the final analysis, both sides are responsible, and now that things have become like this, people can't be resurrected after death, and they can't just let nearly a million people pay for their lives for the sake of those dead gentry, right?

Let's say something unpleasant here, it's already like this, so don't dwell on it anymore.

Our family will be in Jiangnan in the future.

This city supervisor and the prison army are all our family, and we have to ask you to give me face in the future, especially those local gentry, you have to help persuade them, and they also have to understand Your Majesty's difficulties.

If they don't give up......"

Liu Shimin smiled.

"Our family's prison army also carries Shang Fang's sword."

He went on to say.

The meaning of his words is very clear, you have to accept it, you have to accept it if you don't accept it, anyway, the holy decree has been issued, this matter is decided, who still wants to do things, then he also has the Shang Fang sword in his hand, although it is impossible to behead the Wenchen of Nanjing, but there is no problem with beheading a few gentry.

The civil servants were silent.

Of course, they also know that they can't do things at this time.

Those team training strength is not enough.

But it won't be long before those regimental exercises can really become an army next year, and at that time it will be nothing more than just a casual excuse, as long as there is a disturbance, these civilian officials can say that the Red Turban Army is in rebellion, and then let those regimental exercises be wiped out in one fell swoop. As for Liu Shimin and those prison soldiers, what is so difficult about killing him, there are many people killed in the Wanli years, and he can even be killed to blame the Red Turban Army, so there is more reason to do something to the Red Turban Army.

As long as the Red Turban Army is destroyed, what can the Apocalypse do?

He dares to pursue it?

Tens of thousands of regimental exercises in the hands of the gentry are ornaments!

At this time, these civilian officials also found that this matter was not entirely a bad thing, at least under the banner of running regimental training, so that the Jiangnan gentry really mastered the available force, and at present, the erosion of the official army, unless the border army was transferred from Liaodong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang really had not been able to fight these regimental training.

With them, Donglin Qunxian can finally stiffen his waist when he speaks.

"Ahem!"

Yang Dudu, who had not spoken, coughed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, shouldn't we celebrate the restoration of tranquility in Jiangnan?"

He said.

His satrapy military affairs remained the same.

He was also the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangbei military affairs.

After all, there will be the adaptation of the Red Turban Army and the like that will also be inseparable from him, in fact, Tianqi also knows very well that Yang Xin can't leave here, and those gentry and civil officials are not capable of launching a larger-scale encirclement and suppression, but Yang Xin is here, forcibly blocking their foreign aid from entering the field. The Nanjing Military Department couldn't even mobilize the troops around Nanjing, because Yang Xin was the governor's military affairs, and they mobilized the troops themselves, and the result was that Han Changyan was the end. The military system of the Ming Dynasty did not mean that the military department directly transferred troops, the army was under the jurisdiction of the five military governors, not the military department, and the military department must transfer the order through the five military governors, and the military department transferred the orders to the five military governors, and the five military governors transferred troops from various guards.

This was the military system of the Ming Dynasty.

The guards around here must be mobilized through the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but now that Yang Xin is suppressed here, Chang Yinxu, the boss of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing, has his brain pumped and risked giving the military department this field?

If there was no Yang Xin, the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu could mobilize hundreds of thousands of military households from all over the country, plus the recruitment of the general army from all over the country, together with the gentry regimental training, all of them were pressed to Changzhou, but because of Yang Xin's suppression, the army could not be transferred, and the regimental training in other places was dragged by the Dangkou army, and in the end, it was the regimental training of several surrounding provinces, and of course they couldn't beat the Red Turban Army.

If the apocalypse wants to swallow this piece of fat smoothly, it still has to rely on Yang Xin to suppress it here.

Xiong Mingyu and the others looked at him.

"For the crown prince's birthday!"

Yang Xin said with a smile while holding his wine glass.

Xiong Mingyu drank it all with hatred, then got up and left directly after hugging his fists, and then several other Donglin officials also drank and left the table in the same way, leaving a few northern nationals, or embarrassed to be close to the eunuchs.

Yang Xin kept smiling and drinking.

"Governor, Your Majesty's command, let you take the time to go back quickly."

Liu Shimin next to him said in a low voice.

The eyes of the remaining officials widened instantly.

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