Seeing this, Wang Shouren couldn't help but shake his head: "Another one who is unwilling to commit suicide, take it down." ”

Thereupon.

This Xu Zan was taken down, and like the other gentry who followed King Ning's rebellion, he was neither willing to be generously killed nor unable to commit suicide.

Therefore, they can only wait for the judicial organs of the imperial court, that is, the criminal department, to deal with them according to the law.

Although Zhu Houzhao established the outline of the constitution, he did not make changes to the decrees left by the emperors before the Ming Dynasty.

There is no doubt that for this kind of great crime of treason, it will be dealt with more severely according to the law than according to the will of the person.

What's more, now the civil and military officials in the capital are tied together because of what infrastructure investment the emperor Zhu Houzhao wants to make, and most of them have become staunch supporters of His Majesty the Emperor, so naturally they will not easily forgive these traitors who challenge the emperor's authority.

Not long after Sun Sui, who was in charge of the trial and conviction of King Ning's rebellion, arrived in Nanjing, King Ning and all those implicated in the rebel party who followed King Ning's rebellion were escorted to Nanjing to await trial and conviction.

In addition, the governors of Jiangxi, Nanzhili, and Huguang, as well as the officials of the three legal divisions in Nanjing, were all summoned to Nanjing by Sun Sui and held a Ming judicial conference on governing the country according to law.

At the meeting, Sun Sui denounced how heinous King Ning's rebellion was, and at the same time highly praised the great achievements of His Majesty Zhu Houzhao, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and asked all the officials present to maintain high respect and absolute loyalty to His Majesty Zhu Houzhao.

"According to the theory of Confucianism, Your Majesty is the monarch's father, and the most worrying thing for the monarch's father is the food, clothing and wealth of the people of the world.

"Even if it is not according to the theory of Confucianism, from the theory of sacred learning, the Ming Dynasty is composed of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are the real owners of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of the Ming Dynasty now recognize that the current Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty is the king of the country, and since we are the ministers of the king, we must have the correct consciousness in line with the current Ming Dynasty and be loyal to our king! ...... for the benefit of our people"

Although Sun Sui only came to Nanjing to be responsible for interrogating and convicting King Ning and his party, in fact he seemed to have become a loyal supporter of Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and vigorously instilled in the southern gentry the idea of loyalty to the monarch and love for the people, regardless of whether these southern gentry could listen to it or not, and incidentally expressed his hope that the local officials in the south would do more infrastructure construction.

Some of the southern gentry, who were dissatisfied with the central court's too strict control over the south, did not understand why even Sun Sui, who was also a southern gentry, had now become a loyal supporter of His Majesty the Emperor, and wanted the local government to replace the squires in carrying out infrastructure construction activities in the local area.

Only Sun Sui himself knows that everything he does is still just to maximize the interests of his family, but now he can use more glamorous reasons.

Li Shishi, Liu Yangzheng, Wang Lun, Pei Xin, Xu Zan and other officials who followed King Ning's rebellion were all sentenced to Ling Chi by Sun Sui, and their family property was naturally confiscated, and most of their family members were sentenced to life to ten years in prison, so as to provide sufficient labor for the empire to build local infrastructure in the future.

And King Ning, the key offender, was naturally the heaviest punishment, and was cut by a thousand knives.

But those who really understand know that although King Ning is hateful, what is really hateful is the literati who fooled King Ning into rebellion, and they just fooled people into thinking that they could easily win the world, and as a result, they had to pay a heavy price for violating the interests of the entire world.

After King Ning's rebellion was put down, the Ming Empire entered an era of frenzied construction.

The capital accumulated by King Ning for many years eventually flowed into the hands of the imperial court and the government, so that Emperor Zhu Houzhao and his Ming Empire added a large amount of capital after raising a large amount of capital by forming an infrastructure bureau.

In addition, after establishing a colony in Manraka - Haicheng, a large amount of income was obtained, so that the Ming court had sufficient financial resources to carry out the construction of the national economy and people's livelihood.

After all, after the empire has a lot of capital, it cannot be kept forever, whether it is gold, silver, grain, cloth, these things that serve as currency can never reflect their value as currency if they are not spent.

That's why.

The empire had to give this capital to the common people, so that the common people could own more property, so as to increase the prosperity of the people, that is, the prosperity of the country into the prosperity of the people.

However, Daming has not yet reached the point where it can be distributed on demand.

Therefore, the country's capital naturally cannot be directly distributed to the people, but must be distributed to the people who work through public infrastructure, so as to play a positive role in rewarding the industrious, and increase the degree of service for the country in transportation, commercial trade, agriculture and other public undertakings.

Therefore, under the condition that the central court and the local government are spending money non-stop, the construction of official roads has been started, the construction of bridges has also begun to be put on a daily basis, and the rivers and lakes have also begun to be dredged and repaired by the government on its own initiative.

Naturally, the money for these projects is not a problem, Zhu Houzhao has given these localities their own taxes, and those who have money can naturally use local public funds to invest, and those who have no money can borrow from the World Investment Bank, which is state-owned by the Ming Dynasty.

Technology is not difficult, cement concrete in Daming has several years of research and development history, after the construction of Datong official road, the use of cement concrete technology in road construction has a set of experience, and it is not difficult to involve the steel bars required for bridge construction, Daming's state-owned iron works have dozens of iron factories have begun to carry out open-hearth steelmaking.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao established the Daming Academy of Sciences, the Daming Academy of Engineering and the Daming Imperial Library long before.

For the word science, the current Ming Dynasty scholars are no stranger to it, and they also take the initiative to understand it as encyclopedia.

Although the Daming Academy of Sciences is still in the initial period, in addition to a large amount of money allocated to the Academy of Sciences by the Royal and Household Departments every year, the entire Academy of Sciences does not have too many talents, but there are some Jinshi people trained by Beijing Normal University and some people recruited from all over the country who have a certain level in arithmetic, physics, alchemy, Chinese medicine, etc., and some people with relatively strong ability can still be selected to serve as academicians.

In addition, the Daming Engineering Institute has gathered a group of skilled craftsmen, which was reorganized from the previous Ordnance Bureau Research and Development Institute, among them, many skilled craftsmen have made outstanding contributions to the ordnance manufacturing and steel smelting of the Ming Dynasty, and even some people are no longer illiterate, and have mastered the ability of precise number operation and physical ranging.

Naturally, some complex bridge construction and road construction are not too much of a problem.

It's just that the construction of bridges over the Yellow River and the Yangtze River is still a difficult problem for the Ming Dynasty.

In general, the nationwide infrastructure wave set off by Daming since the beginning of Zhengde ten years has laid the foundation for the future take-off of Daming's commodity economy.

After all, this is the first time in the history that the imperial court has carried out large-scale public infrastructure construction, and it is no longer relying on one or two honest officials and enlightened gentry to carry out public infrastructure construction on a whim for a certain period of time, such as the Sugong Causeway and Liu Gongdi in history.

The central court naturally avoided many of the traditional problems brought about by public infrastructure, such as the problem of conscripting the common people for conscription or even forcibly requiring the common people to serve because of the lack of financial resources of the local government.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao also directly issued an edict to carry out administrative intervention, prohibiting the use of ordinary people to serve because of public construction.

So that the people will not be delayed because of large-scale public infrastructure construction, or even oppressed by officials.

For those who disobeyed the will of the imperial court and still required the people to serve, Zhu Houzhao was not polite, and the officials were directly dismissed and exiled to Liaodong or Taiwan.

Of course, because the Ming court has sufficient capital, for some public infrastructure needs to be relocated and relocated, and because the people of the Ming Dynasty have always relocated to the land, the problem is also easy to solve.

Because the Ming court can directly use money to smash it, without forcing the people, the settlement fee of one hundred taels is not enough to two hundred taels.

Of course, the people have the cunning of the people, and the government is too polite to them, which will also make the people forget the violent and cruel side of the ruler, and begin to sit on the ground and shout the price, and even the government will not move if it pays 500 taels or even 1,000 taels.

The government can only change places to build, and the people who raise prices with the government will naturally be empty, and sometimes the tougher local government will also take coercive measures, but it will often provoke civil unrest.

But in the end, the people also tasted a lesson, and the government also knew the proportion, and the government did not dare to compensate the people for the loss of land and property after the relocation at a low price, and the people did not dare to ask for excessively high compensation.

Large-scale public infrastructure construction naturally needs to be completed by the common people at the bottom, after all, the gentry officials will not do this kind of hard work, and because the court has money and because of the fear of squeezing the people too hard and there will be a popular uprising, they hire the people with relatively high wages, so that a large number of strong labor of the Ming Dynasty is invested in public infrastructure.

As a result, people's incomes have increased substantially, and they are no longer just self-sufficient by the sky, and even this has made many people more and more active to become migrant workers or directly become urban workers.

Because the people have found that they can no longer earn enough extra income by simply farming, they can earn real money by mixing cement or carrying a few bricks and stones on the construction site.

As a result, more and more yeoman farmers have become migrant workers.

The problem of land barrenness became more and more serious, and the empire had abolished the road guidance system, which made this phenomenon even more serious, and a large number of people migrated to large and medium-sized cities and wealthy areas, which directly led to the interests of many gentry groups representing the interests of the landlord class being further damaged.

Among them, the most serious problem is the largest landlord in the local area, that is, the vassal princes of the Ming Dynasty.

There were fewer and fewer people who farmed the land, and the income of the feudal princes and clansmen, who could not dare to do anything and had to live on land rent, fell sharply.

Of course, it also had a great impact on the entire Ming Empire that was the decrease in agricultural income, which was directly reflected in the sharp decline in taxes and grains paid in various places, and even led to a food crisis in the entire empire.