At present, there are police agencies in the whole Nanzhili from the township to the county seat of Fucheng, and these police agencies use military control, and if they disturb the law and order, they will be killed first, so that the minions of the gentry, that is, those green-skinned scoundrels, can no longer disturb the normal social life order of the common people.

And some lawless people who want to follow these green-skinned scoundrels to rob and steal behind them, seeing that the imperial court organized people to maintain law and order and directly take people's lives, also honestly went home to farm and farm.

Even those peasants who were bewitched by the gentry and suddenly became bandits began to return to their hometowns to farm, especially after several bandit leaders were cut down, after all, the cost of breaking the law was too high, and there was no real farming.

Generally speaking, most of the people hoped for social peace, and the imperial court had the legitimacy to rule, and it was in line with the people's will to organize police officers to maintain local law and order based on Jinyiwei and replace the public service function of the gentry at the grassroots level.

Therefore, the common people were still very welcome, even the large number of tenants who farmed for the gentry, they also hoped to farm in peace, and the society would not be in chaos.

But for the gentry, it was clear that they were beginning to lose the power to rule the people at the grassroots level, and they could not stop it unless they could justifiably argue that the way in which the court sent police officers to maintain law and order was wrong, and they had to convince the people that it was doing so.

At this time, these gentry found that they were still different from the families of the Han and Tang dynasties, they had no army, no troops, only tenants and domestic slaves, and they could not mobilize tenants and domestic slaves to rebel directly, telling them that it was wrong for the court to do so.

After all, the emperor at this time did not make the people unable to live, nor did he order to shave their hair and obey their ancestors, nor did he impose taxes.

However, the imperial court can take the opportunity of this social turmoil to directly set up a police department, because the imperial court has the legitimacy to rule, and it recruits local people to organize police officers to maintain law and order, which is justifiable and in line with the people's psychology of seeking public security and stability.

The so-called traitorous ministers are in power and even the emperor is brutal, the people naturally do not feel as strongly as the gentry, they want to farm the land and do business and work, you can't let them not work, you gentry can make trouble, but we people can't afford to make trouble.

Wei Yu, the squire of Yingtianfu, watched the police officers capture his son from the mountains back to the township at this time, and cut off his head directly with a click, he almost fainted, but he was helpless, because he didn't dare to admit that the man was his son now, after all, the people were applauding, saying that these bandits were good to kill.

In fact, the power of the gentry to rule the grassroots level was also given to them by the imperial court, and it was the imperial court that gave them the power to rule the grassroots level of society to these clans, and the imperial court naturally wanted to save administrative costs for this reason, but now the imperial court is willing to provoke its own courage and organize people to maintain local law and order, and the gentry cannot object.

The gentry gradually discovered that they had made a mistake, and they gave the imperial court a legal opportunity to intervene in the local grassroots administration, just as in the past, the government would only intervene in a criminal case such as a dead person, but now because of the poor local security, the government will intervene again and will have to intervene for a long time.

This left the gentry with no control over the internal affairs of the clan and not the entire township.

Even the power of these gentry within the clan began to be deprived by the police soldiers, in a village in Jurong County, several clansmen of the squire Liu family were arrested for breaking the peace, and the head of the Liu clan wanted to deal with the matter within his clan, but the police soldiers followed the imperial decree to cut off the heads of this group of clansmen first.

The people of the Liu clan were extremely angry, but they could not deny that these clansmen were not guilty, and they could not deny that the imperial court should not kill these people, so they could only admit it.

Of course, there are also squires who directly mobilize clan forces to kill police officers and seize police stations on the grounds that the police department is violating the law.

A police police station in Ren'an Town, Lishui County, was slaughtered by the local squire Lei Juren to organize the people, and fifty police soldiers were killed, but it caused the anger of the homesteaders and common landlords in the entire Ren'an Town, because most of them were their clansmen, and now they were killed.

Therefore, the officials of Lishui County reported the matter, and Zhu Houzhao finally directly dispatched a battalion of the Guards, directly exterminating the Lei family on the grounds that the Lei clan rebelled, and the Lei family's property was confiscated, and the fields were divided among the local homesteaders and common landlords, and the people all applauded.

The imperial court not only maintained law and order in place of these gentry, but also took the place of their other public services.

Under Zhu Houzhao's instructions, the governor of Nanzhili also began to organize the government to repair and control the river on behalf of the local gentry, took the initiative to collect the displaced people and implement the work for relief, persuaded or forced the merchants to open their businesses, set up government-run workshops and social studies to give employment opportunities to the low-level poor people, and put forward the concept of wages to absorb urban migrant workers who were refused to be accepted by the gentry.

The gentry are good at organizing the people to maintain local stability, Wang Yangming and other local officials are also gentry and scholars, and organizing manpower to maintain law and order is not inferior, and it is more legitimate, but it is accompanied by a steady increase in the cost of maintaining stability, but it does make the gentry find that it seems that the court is not unable to live without themselves.

Now that the third year of Zhengde is coming, this year is the year of the imperial examination, and the gentry in Jiangnan began to know that the gentry in their own place could not shake the dominance of the imperial court, and they messed up their hometown, and the imperial court would send gentry from other places to maintain law and order in the name of the government.

This also means that in the next imperial examination, the imperial court will give more places for the gentry in other places to admit jinshi, and their southern gentry will be reduced because they do not cooperate with the imperial court.

In fact, it is true that the gentry class in other places began to smell the opportunity here, and Tang Ren asked for an increase in the proportion of admission to the township examination and the examination in Sichuan, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, Fujian and other places, and to divide the quota according to the region, not blindly according to the results of the scientific examination, and because of the recent riots in Nanzhili, the scholars have no intention of starting a career, so the quota should be reduced.

It is precisely because of this that the Jiangnan gentry began to be afraid, unless they rebelled and became independent, they could only watch the imperial court cede benefits to the gentry of other regions, and their Jiangnan gentry would suffer great losses, and there would not even be anyone who would be an official in the court in the future.

As a result, some Jiangnan gentry began to take the initiative to help the police department maintain law and order, suppress bandits and thieves, and even take the initiative to open the market, and also learned from the government-run workshops to recruit displaced people in the way of workers, and even escorted the lawbreakers in the clan directly to the government, instead of dealing with them internally.

Cheng Jian, a great Confucian who had been a member of the Criminal Department, knelt under the sun and begged to see Ma Wensheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, just to ask for peace, and Zhu Houzhao personally met and summoned this Confucian Cheng Jian after hearing this: "Cheng Lao, what is the matter of asking to see the first assistant of the dynasty despite the summer heat?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty! The minister wants to ask the first minister to enter His Majesty, ban the warning period, return to the legal system, establish tax laws and conventions, punish the gentry who do not pay taxes, and reward those who help the government and make contributions, in addition, the minister has called on all clans of the Cheng clan to pay all the taxes owed, I only hope that Your Majesty will feel the heart of the subjects of Jiangnan, do not abandon the subjects of Jiangnan, the subjects of Jiangnan still think of Your Majesty, and the mind of Daming! Whining! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! The holy monarch is in charge, and the prosperous feast begins! ”

Cheng Jian knelt down as he spoke, and bowed three times and nine bows to Zhu Houzhao.