Zhu Houzhao really couldn't admit that this was a counterinsurgency incident worth boasting about.

Because in his opinion, it is more like a farce.

Not only Zhu Houzhao thought so, but Ma Wensheng, Wang Yangming and others also thought so, they were not very excited, and their expressions were very flat.

Even under the city of Nanjing, the officers and soldiers of the First Division of the Guards Army, who were preparing for a fierce battle, were dumbfounded, many of them did not even take the first blood, but the war was over.

Among them, some members of the Zhongjun Society even have a feeling of shouting slogans to encourage morale.

Only, these Jiangnan gentry were still very excited, and they participated in a big war in a trance, a fierce and cruel war, a big war that decided life and death, and they all cheered.

Even Cheng Jian, who had just been named a doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, had a flushed face and arched his hand towards Zhu Houzhao: "The Holy Monarch should be the court!" The subjects of the world do not support it! Rao is a big anti-thief, and it can't be destroyed overnight! This is the work of my emperor, this is the power of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled faintly, ignored the inspection, and left Hongwumen directly.

Ma Wensheng only touched his nose, and explained the next matters to the governor Wang Yangming, and also followed Zhu Houzhao away, he even thought in his heart, although it is a good thing that these Jiangnan gentry can no longer oppose His Majesty, and it will not make Jiangnan chaotic, but it does not seem to be a good thing, from a private point of view, his northern gentry cannot take this opportunity to completely suppress the southern gentry, from a public point of view, such a hypocrite, if he controls the court in the future, the world does not know what will be worse.

Zhu Houzhao happened to see Qianhu Baijingshan standing on the city wall at this time, this was originally Tian Zheng's subordinate, but he told him at the first time that Tian Zheng was going to rebel.

Although Zhu Houzhao didn't know whether Bai Jingshan was really loyal to himself, the emperor, and loyal to the court, when he saw Bai Jingshan clenching his iron fist and looking at the gentry outside the city with anger, he couldn't help but come over and ask: "Bai Jingshan, tell me, what are you thinking about now?" ”

Bai Jingshan didn't expect Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao to suddenly ask him, and hurriedly replied with a big salute: "Back to Your Majesty!" The minister is thinking, the minister will only be a loyal minister in the future, and be a loyal minister who is only loyal to His Majesty! ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly, he could see that the shamelessness of the Jiangnan gentry stimulated these military attaches a lot, making them understand that literati are really unreliable, and at the same time making them understand that it is really difficult to succeed in rebellion, because the world has not yet reached the time when the people's hearts are disheartened, so this Bai Jingshan will say that he wants to be a loyal minister.

"Message! Ascend to Baijingshan as a garrison and station in Zhenjiang".

Zhu Hou made a decree, he could guess that Bai Jingshan, a military attaché, should have seen through the hypocrisy of the Jiangnan gentry from today onwards, and for this reason, he naturally wanted a military attache like Bai Jingshan to be stationed in Jiangnan.

In this way, even if he leaves Jiangnan in the future, there will be people in Jiangnan who are not all the way to Jiangnan gentry to control Jiangnan for him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Bai Jingshan was a little overjoyed, he was even worried that the Jiangnan gentry would use the reason that he was Tian Zheng's subordinate to let the emperor punish him, after all, he would not be allowed to eradicate the roots of the Jiangnan gentry, but he didn't expect that after he said that he wanted to be a loyal minister, Emperor Zhu Houzhao changed hands and promoted him to an official.

"Get up, take a good look at the waters of Zhenjiang for me, if there is another incident of water bandits robbing the tax bureau, I will ask you!"

With that, Zhu Houzhao left with a group of officials.

After Tian Zheng's rebellion ended, Zhu Houzhao was about to return to Beijing.

Although Jiangnan is good, it is a Ming tradition for the Son of Heaven to guard the country, and Zhu Houzhao still has to return to Beijing, and he has to start the promotion of the New Deal reform in other aspects.

Of course, another reason why Zhu Houzhao was in a hurry to leave Jiangnan was that he really didn't want to stay here, and he didn't want to watch the group of Jiangnan gentry shamelessly exalt themselves and shamelessly exaggerate the significance of this counterinsurgency incident.

But what Zhu Houzhao didn't know was that even if he and the central court didn't plan to blow up this counterinsurgency incident, the Jiangnan gentry themselves were still blowing and still caring.

Cheng Jian's scolding of the anti-thief Tian Zheng on the city wall was made into a drama and sung, and it was gradually made into a story of "Cheng Jian scolded and retired 100,000 soldiers", and suddenly Tian Zheng's soldiers and horses were blown into 100,000, and the reason why the 100,000 horses rebelled was unsuccessful was because they were scolded and retreated by Cheng Zhen.

All of a sudden, Cheng Jian became a person with courage and loyalty.

Of course, these Jiangnan gentry also gave Zhu Houzhao a face, and blew Zhu Houzhao into a mighty emperor who came to the city wall to make 100,000 thieves fearful, and even said that his title of Cheng Jian as a doctor of the Five Classics was also said to be a good story of the holy monarch reusing talents, and it was also made into an opera, Zhu Houzhao himself did not admit that he had created a prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty, but the gentry of Jiangnan themselves performed the drama of the prosperous era in Jiangnan first.

Zhu Houzhao knew that the purpose of these Jiangnan gentry to boast about themselves was nothing more than to get more political bargaining chips, and they didn't want to be suppressed by the northern gentry.

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't plan to deal with these Jiangnan gentry now, nor did he plan to completely deprive these Jiangnan gentry of their privileges now, and completely take away their wealth for state-owned, he still had to strike a balance, after all, once the Jiangnan gentry were suppressed now, the northern gentry would probably take this opportunity to press up.

As the emperor, he had to beat a stick on all sides to give a sweet date, and the reform was naturally to let the southern gentry give some blood and then let the northern gentry give some blood, and finally achieve a balance between the north and the south.

In this way, the northern gentry and the military landlords behind them could not become warlords, and the southern gentry and the pirates behind them would not become warlords, and at the same time, the entire Ming Empire would be changed.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he had to take his time and slowly cut the flesh of these gentry and bureaucrats.

The purpose of his visit to Jiangnan this time was to ensure the source of taxes, whether it was the commercial tax collected by the Royal Taxation Bureau or the land under the control of the household department, etc., which could not be reduced.

Now, he has a governor and a tax bureau and tax police and police officers stationed in Jiangnan, and at the same time he has made these gentry pass a treaty in compromise to ensure that the tax is naturally no problem, and even deprives the Jiangnan gentry of their power at the grassroots level, which has achieved his goal.

Therefore, it is the right time for Zhu Houzhao to leave Jiangnan.

Leaving Jiangnan this time, Zhu Houzhao also took away more than 3 million taels of silver, all of which were obtained from the seizure of the family, either the recovered endowment or the income obtained by the seizure of the family because of other crimes.

This is only a part, and many of them have been directly used for stability maintenance funds in Nanzhili.

After all, the establishment of a police department and the recruitment of police officers and the establishment of government-run workshops cost money.

Of the more than three million taels of silver, only one million taels were collected by the household department, and the rest were collected by the Royal Tax Authority.

In other words, Zhu Houzhao's visit to Jiangnan by himself is equivalent to looting more than two million taels of silver into his pocket at once!

Only now did he understand why the officials of Nanzhili were so opposed to him going to Jiangnan.

Moreover, in the future, the household department will be able to get an additional tax income equivalent to two million silver from Jiangnan every year, although the local stability maintenance funds in Nanzhili will increase, but the household department can also increase the income of more than one million taels, so that the central court's finances can also be more relaxed.

Of course, the wool came from the sheep, and Zhu Houzhao believed that these Jiangnan gentry would transfer the overpaid taxes to the overcharged rents, increasing the burden on the tenants.

However, for the imperial court, this could also indirectly discourage land annexation and contribution, because once the tenant rent increased, more peasants would be willing to become yeoman farmers rather than surrender as tenants.

In general, Zhu Houzhao's trip to Jiangnan caused a lot of damage to the interests of the Jiangnan gentry.

However, because Zhu Houzhao's knife for cutting interests was not too big, he did not really deprive the gentry of their privileges, and he did not deprive all the gentry of part of their interests nationwide, and the people's will was still there, so that the Jiangnan gentry could only admit cowardice and accept the fact that this part of the benefits was ceded to the imperial court.

But Zhu Houzhao could guess that these Jiangnan gentry must still hate themselves, the emperor and the reformist officials around them, not only the Jiangnan gentry, but also many northern gentry are also worried that Zhu Houzhao and the reformist officials around him will recover their endowments throughout the country.

Even, the law itself has already angered the entire bureaucracy, after all, it has bound them.

Zhu Houzhao knew that although these bureaucrats did not dare to oppose it on the surface, and even the northern gentry wanted to suppress the southern gentry by supporting the imperial court, they must still be very resistant to the new policies implemented by Zhu Houzhao and his reformist officials.

I'm afraid that I will use all kinds of means to deal with myself and the reformist officials around me, such as assassinating or something.

It is never easy for reformers to end well, Zhu Houzhao knows this, whether it is the emperor or a minister, but he must succeed and get a good death.

The only way is to cultivate a new ruling class through reform, and let this new ruling class deprive the old ruling class of its interests, so that the reform can become not just Zhu Houzhao fighting alone or several people fighting, but following the trend rather than going against the trend.

Even if Zhu Houzhao leaves this world one day, his reform career will not end, and even during his lifetime, there will be people who desperately want to keep his life safe or even extend his life.

Zhu Houzhao also wants to cultivate a new ruling class now, and he wants to change the current lifestyle of rulers who only know how to get promoted and buy land, so that the ruling class of the entire empire will become just want to get rich, and after getting rich, they will not buy land but become a booster and organizer of scientific and technological development.

The landlord and gentry class was naturally to be abandoned by Zhu Houzhao.

The new capitalist class was to be cultivated by Zhu Houzhao himself.

First of all, what Zhu Houzhao wanted to do was to turn some enlightened gentry with the same pioneering spirit and collective spirit as himself into capitalists, so that they could become the first generation of capitalists in the Ming Empire, and carry out the first capital accumulation, resource plundering and colonial expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as he returned to the capital, Zhu Houzhao immediately summoned Wang Hua, the head of the household department, Xu Jing, the head of the Royal Bank and the Royal Taxation Bureau, Tang Bohu of the chamberlain, and some officials of the inner court and the outer court into the Qianqing Palace, and he decided to hold a financial meeting before the end of the second year of Zhengde.