Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but wonder if the Ming Dynasty was really too merciful to these gentry in the past, because, in Zhu Houzhao's impression, this phenomenon of removing a large number of gentry and famous officials also existed in the Qing Dynasty in history, but these gentry seemed to be very well-behaved and obediently recognized them, and they did not force their masters to restore their fame and official status as they do now.

Among them, there was a Xu Qianxue who didn't even have any complaints about Kangxi at that time, and even obediently became Kangxi's minister later, a very loyal kind, so loyal that the defendant was a huge greedy and would be forgiven by Kangxi.

Zhu Houzhao looked at Ma Wensheng and Wang Shu, these civil officials were always worried that they would force the gentry to disagree with him by doing so, but Zhu Houzhao was also thinking in his heart that maybe he was a little harsh, these gentry not only did not disagree with him, but were more loyal to himself, when they thoroughly understood that it was better to be a dog than a human.

From the bottom of his heart, Zhu Houzhao himself doesn't want these gentry to be dogs in the future, he knows that this is called servility, he doesn't want to be able to say that the whole of China will still have servility in the future, but now, it seems that it is impossible not to cultivate servility.

Zhu Hou looked at the lively and numb commoners in the distance of the city gate, and thought to himself, maybe only after those ordinary people in the world have a sense of citizenship, will he, the ruler, not have to cultivate servile people.

But in any case, Zhu Houzhao still doesn't want these gentry to really become slaves, he just wants them to behave in the rules and understand that they also have obligations and responsibilities.

For example, like Ma Wensheng, Wang Shu, Wang Yangming and others around him, it would be good to be a little bit more public in the world, after all, it was only a tax of thirty to one, and if you build a garden with one concubine less, you will save several years of taxes, and it will not hurt your muscles and bones, not to mention that you have not been an official and gentry like Yongzheng.

"People's hearts are not ancient, these gentry are no longer the group of gentry who took honesty and serving the country as their own responsibility, since the Shaobao, it has been getting worse and worse, and the old ministers always lament for it, and now it is indeed time to teach a lesson!"

In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, Wang Shu, who had experienced the orthodoxy, Jingtai, Tianshun, Chenghua, and Hongzhi five dynasties and four emperors, couldn't help but sigh because of this.

Wang Shu is a civil servant, so naturally he will not take the initiative to admit that the change in Tumubao is beneficial to the civil official group and makes the civil official group bigger and more arrogant, and only laments that after Yu Qian was executed by Ming Yingzong, the gentry in the world began to gradually deteriorate, but the time was about the same.

……

Just when Zhu Houzhao and Ma Wensheng agreed with what Wang Shu said, Jinyiwei had already begun to dispatch.

The front Jinyi guards are all holding glass shields, all of which are tempered glass produced by the Royal Industrial Company, and there are also special steel rods, as soon as these brocade guards holding glass shields appeared, they directly formed a row, squeezing out a row of gentry under the Hongwumen city wall, and only encircled the thirty-eight gentry who were encouraged by the leader.

When the thirty-eight gentry saw that they were actually trapped inside, they also panicked, and they were busy walking away and meeting up with the other gentry, but at this time, the brocade guards who followed behind rushed over and directly captured the thirty-eight gentry: "Go!" ”

Seeing this, the gentry outside the glass shield rushed over to save these people, and even wanted to roll up their sleeves directly, but they were all hit back by the hard glass shield, and some of the gentry were directly hit with blue noses and swollen faces!

At the same time, there were two other Jinyi guards rushing from outside, both wearing gas masks filled with charcoal powder and cotton, and as soon as they rushed over, they threw Molotov cocktails into the denser ranks of gentry.

These Molotov cocktails contain chili powder, mustard powder, and sulfur, so when they burn, they have a choking smell.

The gentry choked on the smell of tears and snot, some could not even open their eyes, and some only coughed violently, which made the confusion even more confusing, and the trampled were innumerable.

And all the way the brocade guards came directly with iron rods, and one of the brocade guards shouted loudly: "Fight!" ”

Immediately, these brocade guards greeted these gentry directly, and these gentry were completely powerless to fight back, and could only flee frantically outside, the scene was very chaotic!

The Jinyi guard, who was holding a glass shield, also began to put on a gas mask and move forward step by step, clearing the field outside the Hongwu Gate.

In this process, naturally, some gentry who ran around would also be beaten and run in other directions, and some were directly trampled to death due to stampede accidents.

In less than an hour, these gentry who gathered outside the Hongwu Gate to blackmail the emperor and the imperial court were all dispersed, and there was no big accident, as for the dead and injured people who died because of the stampede, they didn't blame the court, and the Jinyi guard didn't kill a single person from beginning to end.

However, the thirty-eight gentry who were instigated by the leader naturally could not be let go easily, and they were to be killed as an example.

Soon, these 38 gentry were escorted to the governor's yamen, and Wang Yangming was also instructed by Zhu Houzhao to hand over the 38 treason for treason.

The cabinet immediately voted to make a decision, and the celebrant also approved the red, and soon, the thirty-eight gentry were escorted outside the Hongwu Gate and directly slashed to the ground.

And Qin Qingshan was also among the thirty-eight people, at this time, he was full of remorse in his heart, glanced at the Hongwumen behind him, and cried: "I feel bitter in my heart!" I don't want to die! ”

Click!

As soon as Qin Qingshan's words fell, he cut off his head with a knife!

Thirty-seven other heads were cut off.

However, after the 38 gentry were cut down, the Jinyi guard reassembled the bodies and heads of the 38 people according to the instructions above, and put them outside the city gate for publicity, and posted a notice to inform all the people that these 38 criminals were rebels, inciting the people, intending to rebel, and if there were comrades who came to collect the corpses, it was equivalent to turning themselves in and could be dealt with leniently.

As a result, none of the gentry dared to come to collect the corpse.

The gentry of the entire Nanzhili were completely frightened this time, and when they thought of Jinyiwei's methods, they were even more frightened, and of course they hated it, but now they had no choice but to grit their teeth at home.

……

Gu Xiantong's son Gu Xinlei is now gritting his teeth and looking at the Nanjing Palace City in the direction of Hongwumen, he knows that all this is caused by the emperor named Zhu Houzhao in the palace, and he also began to have to admit that the emperor in the palace is a tyrant, and even the courtiers around him are all cool officials!

Because of the revenge of killing his father and the infringement of the interests of the gentry in Jiangnan, Gu Xinlei hated the court he saw now, as well as the king of this court and his ministers, Gu Xinlei decided to go to Zhenjiang to find Tian Zheng, the chief military officer of Zhenjiang.

And like Gu Xinlei, there are naturally more and more Jiangnan gentry who are dissatisfied with the court and the government, but they dare not rebel directly, or they have not found an opportunity to rebel directly.

Some began to pretend to live in seclusion, but in fact began to look for vassal kings and powerful people who were willing to raise troops, while others connived at and even instigated local scoundrels to riot, and no longer used their own clan power to control them, and even secretly colluded with bandits to undermine the stability of the grassroots of society.

At this time, Cao Chutong, the representative of the Nanjing scholar clan and the former Shaoqing of Dali Temple, said to several good gentry:

"Since the imperial court intends to abandon our Jiangnan gentry, then let the imperial court know that there will be no consequences for our Jiangnan gentry, and when the time comes, the entire city of Nanjing will be in chaos, the people will riot, bandits will rise everywhere, and the world will be in chaos, see how the imperial court ends!"

"The Son of Heaven and the scholars can rule the world together to create a prosperous era, since the court only wants to take care of those common people, then let the court see how those ordinary people are grateful to the court!" A Jiangnan gentry said.

As a result, within a few days, a series of smashing, looting, and burning incidents began to occur in Yingtianfu and even other state capitals.

For a while, out of nowhere, many scoundrels launched riots and rebelled everywhere!

Murder, arson, and even rape of people's daughters, brawls, strikes, and strikes are countless.

Even in the city of Nanjing, there seemed to be a lot of people and bandits all of a sudden, and some market towns suddenly appeared indiscriminately slashing and killing, and the people were all panicked, and there were more bandits on the main roads all at once, and many merchants were robbed and killed, and even officials were killed.

The whole of Jiangnan seems to have suddenly entered a state of insurrection, and it seems to have suddenly become a society that harms each other at the bottom, as if there is no legal system at the grassroots level.

The people did not dare to go out during the day, and they did not dare to sleep at night, and even the ruling pressure of the imperial court became greater, but those wealthy scholars still sang and danced.

Zhu Houzhao received urgent reports from all over the country from Wang Yangming, so he also frowned and thought deeply, and asked Ma Wensheng and Wang Shu with a smile: "This is their counterattack?" didn't rebel directly, but made a picture of the chaos in the world, what's the matter, do you want to tell the world that I am brutal and unreasonable, causing chaos in the world? To encourage the world's heroes to rise up? ”

"Your Majesty, they may be thinking about this, but since ancient times, the imperial power has not gone to the countryside, and the gentry and clans below the county level are in charge, and they are only afraid that they will not do it, so the decree will collapse and the society will be in turmoil!"

Marven replied.

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "Are they forcing me to admit defeat? I want to tell me that without them, I won't even be able to rule the country, and I will even lose the hearts of the people, but I won't admit defeat! And don't force me to be anxious, force me to be anxious, I will come to the world and the people will not pay food, see if the people's hearts will still stand on my side! ”

Although what Zhu Houzhao said was angry, it was indeed a plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, after all, Li Zicheng also relied on King Chuang to come and destroy the Ming Dynasty at once.

If he really does this now, all the common people in the world will naturally be on his side.

But Ma Wensheng, Wang Shu and other civil officials naturally would not let Zhu Houzhao do this, so Ma Wensheng hurriedly persuaded:

"Your Majesty is angry! Don't be rash, since these Jiangnan gentry want to mess up Jiangnan, we will take advantage of this to rule Jiangnan with iron and blood! The minister suggested that he take this opportunity to let the court manage the people for the Jiangnan gentry! ”

"What Shoufu said is very true, since the imperial power did not go to the countryside before, and now the local clans are unable to manage the people, so the imperial court will manage it!" The king of the Ministry of Ministers said forgivingly.

Zhu Houzhao deeply agreed after hearing this, and suddenly had an idea:

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of the establishment of a police department? Since these Jiangnan gentry want to mess up Jiangnan and deceive Nanzhili without a judge, then Wang Yangming, the governor of Nanzhili, set up a police department, a police bureau in each prefecture, a police sub-bureau in each county, and a police police station in each township, so as to recruit good people at the bottom as police soldiers to manage local security? ”

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Ma Wensheng and Wang Shu were a little surprised, and then they felt fresh, and at this time, Wang Yangming said:

"Your Majesty, this is very good for maintaining local law and order, and can also replace the gentry in the management of the villagers, but in this way, the number of officials will increase, and the people will suffer, and if such a police battalion is really to be established, it must be restricted from using firearms and cannons, so as not to be obtained by those with bad intentions."

"Your Majesty, what Wang Sheng said is very true, this police officer overlaps with the government service, etc., instead of setting up a new police force, it is better to order all prefectures and counties to increase the number of government officers and arrest them quickly, and they are in charge of various places," Wang Shu said.

"I don't intend to let the police officers be the same as the officials, the police officers are the same as other officers and soldiers, the soldiers are the soldiers of the imperial court, and the officials are also the officials of the imperial court, and they are in charge of the local detention and execution of important criminals, just like the judges in other places! Otherwise, I will directly expand the East Factory and let the East Factory come to Jiangnan to manage public security according to the authority of the judge! ”

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Ma Wensheng and Wang Shu both understood what Zhu Houzhao meant, which was nothing more than setting up people in the Jiangnan area from the village to the political department to manage the prison, but it was just a different name, but what made the two have to admit was that this was indeed conducive to the imperial court controlling the place.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Wang Shu expressed his position directly, in his opinion, it is better to set up police soldiers in Jiangnan than to directly send Dongchang to Jiangnan, after all, Dongchang is all eunuchs, and police soldiers are not eunuchs.

The civil officials have an instinctive disdain for eunuchs, so Wang Shu prefers to set up a police department and police soldiers, not to mention that he has also experienced the era when factory guards were rampant during the Chenghua period.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Ma Wensheng also expressed his attitude, he and Wang Shu also have the same thoughts, it is better to establish a police force in Jiangnan than to let Dongchang expand the number of people and horses to come to Jiangnan to disrupt the government, but the police force is still under the control of civilian officials.

Zhu Houzhao also knew their thoughts, but he didn't debunk it, so he nodded: "Okay, let's draft the order, the governor of Nanzhili Shouren immediately recruited good people as police soldiers, set up a police department, the police department is the same as the prosecutor, and the police department is in charge of the police department, and the police department is in charge of the police department, and it is awarded the three products!" ”

"No! Your Majesty, it is very inappropriate for the person in charge of the police department and other positions to call the palm print, and in the eyes of the ministers, it is better to call it a punishment envoy."

Wang Shu was deeply afraid that the eunuch would be in charge of the police in the future, so he even felt that the word palm print was inappropriate, and changed it to a criminal envoy, which meant that the person who managed the Nanzhili Police Division in the future would still be a civilian official.

Zhu Houzhao did not intend to take away the power of civil officials in prison, but he also did not intend to abolish Dongchang, so he did not refuse, so he said: "Then let's change it to a criminal envoy!" ”

As a result, after the cabinet voted to approve the red with the celebrant supervisor, Wang Yangming, the governor of Nanzhili, officially got the will to establish the police department, and the envoy of the police department was also temporarily concurrently served by Wang Yangming himself, and at the same time, he personally recruited good people to form police officers.

The people of the entire Nanzhili were also deeply affected by the bandits, and they also enthusiastically participated.

Soon, Wang Yangming set up a large police force, and the prefectures and counties of Nanzhili also quickly established police units and recruited police officers and appointed police officers after receiving the Jun order.

As a result, in less than a month, a contingent of officers and soldiers to maintain law and order appeared in the entire Nanzhili.

At the same time, Zhu Houzhao made another decree from the cabinet, ordering Nanzhili to enter a warning period, during which local governments could first kill and then report the crime in order to maintain law and order, but also strictly ordered that innocent people should not be killed.

The gentry Cao Chutong's hao slave had already been instructed by Cao Chutong, and instructed a dry green skin to smash open a private house in Nanjing City, and one of them named Xing Lao Er dragged a yellow flower girl out and was about to directly commit violence, while the other green skins watched and laughed from the sidelines, and the woman's father couldn't help but scold: "Aren't you scoundrels afraid of the government's punishment?!" ”

"We are Cao Sanye's people, do you know who Cao Sanye is, the official mansion is opened by Cao Sanye's family, even if the people from the official government arrest us, we can be released in three or two days, believe it or not! Untouchables, be honest with Lao Tzu, give your daughter to my uncle to play, that's your blessing! ”

The second Xing laughed excitedly, but as soon as he finished laughing, Wang Yangming personally walked over and stabbed him in the back with a knife: "Dare to do evil in Nanjing City, it's really bold!" ”

This Xing Lao Er was killed on the spot!

As he spoke, Wang Yangming directly asked another green skin: "Who is Third Master Cao?" ”

"It's the third master of the Cao family, he is the housekeeper son of the old man Cao's family on East Street", after this green skin finished speaking, Wang Yangming shouted: "Take him down, you go and arrest that third master Cao!" ”

On other streets, other police officers also use violence to maintain law and order, although most of the police officers are newly recruited low-level people, but the police officers are transferred from the brocade guards, so they are not soft on killing.

And those police officers composed of newly recruited people also hated these green-skinned scoundrels and even hated these people, and they were also very active.

As soon as several Qingpi set a private house on fire, they were surrounded by police soldiers who rushed up.

"Ahh Spare your life! ”

Before these Qingpi words were finished, they were directly cut off on the spot.

At this time, Wang Yangming also arrested more than 70 so-called snake figures such as Cao Sanye and Li Siye in half a month, and even some people in the rivers and lakes and some officials who secretly colluded, all of whom were escorted to the Nanjing Execution Ground and had their heads chopped off.

The green-skinned scoundrels saw that even if there were gentry behind their backs and the secret help of the officials, the cost of smashing, looting and burning was still very high, so they were honest again, so in less than a month, public order in Nanjing was restored!

At this time, Pan Duan, who had been recommended by Wang Yangming to be the criminal officer of the Suzhou Prefecture Police Bureau, also set up his own police force with the help of a brocade guard, and after cutting off the heads of more than 80 ruffians and gentry on this day, the law and order of Suzhou Mansion was also restored!

Immediately afterwards, law and order in Songjiang Prefecture was also restored!

Public order in Changzhou Mansion, Chizhou Mansion, Fengyang Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion and other places has also been restored!

However, this is not over, after the restoration of public order, Wang Yangming, the governor of Nanzhili, received a decree, telling the police officers and soldiers in various places to suppress bandits within a time limit, and must find out the bullies and inferior gentry behind the intention to mess up the place, not to tolerate and hide traitors, and even set a reward, and directly explained that it is linked to political performance.

Now, these gentry are really afraid!