Zhu Houzhao didn't expect the Jiangnan gentry to admit it so quickly, thinking that he hadn't come up with a trick to fight the local tyrants and divide the land and let the proletarians dictatorship.

But in any case, since these Jiangnan gentry are willing to admit defeat and compromise, Zhu Houzhao, as the emperor, is not going to give them the opportunity to be good citizens.

After all, Zhu Houzhao didn't want to force the gentry of the world to rebel, and his purpose was not to launch a revolution from top to bottom, which would also kill him as the emperor.

In Zhu Houzhao's view, everyone is a ruler, and no one wants to be ruled unless it is absolutely necessary, but everyone as a ruler can't just let me, the emperor, sacrifice interests to revitalize the empire and even alleviate class contradictions, you gentry must also fulfill your obligations.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao saw the great Confucian Cheng Jian kneeling down to give him a big salute, and he also hurriedly asked Liu Jin to help him up: "Cheng Lao doesn't have to be like this, you were also a Ming courtier, or a great Confucian of science, I didn't ask the scholar to see me to bow down and be a slave, I just asked you to pay taxes according to the rules;

After all, the imperial court needs money and food to raise soldiers, and raising soldiers is to maintain this peaceful and prosperous world, and the peace of the world is not only good for me and the common people of the world, but also good for you gentry, but you can't just let me be thrifty and let the people pay taxes, you don't fulfill the responsibility of the rise and fall of the world, you say yes. ”

Cheng Jian hurriedly thanked him, and then got up and said:

"What Your Majesty said is very true, it is that many gentry do not understand this truth, they only know that they sit in the study and read the book of the saints, and they do not know that the court is difficult, but fortunately, everyone now understands the painstaking efforts of the court, and now please rest assured that our subjects are willing to work for Your Majesty for the great Ming Dynasty!"

Cheng Jian came today to seek peace on behalf of the gentry in Jiangnan, and now that Zhu Houzhao said this, he naturally would not disagree anymore, but only hurriedly agreed.

"If the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are as sensible as Cheng Laowai, there is no need to make such a big move", Zhu Houzhao asked again: "Listen to Master Ma, are you after the second journey?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is after Dacheng (Northern Song Dynasty thinker Cheng Hao)," Cheng Jian replied.

"No wonder he is so knowledgeable, worthy of being a famous family, he intends to be a doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy."

Zhu Houzhao nodded his head and made a will.

The reason why he did this was naturally to show the Confucian scholars in the world, so that these people knew that compromise and concession were also beneficial, and not to think about coming to the imperial court.

As for the officials of the Doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, they are naturally worthless, but the literati value this, especially the family of science.

After all, those who can get this official position now mean that they are saints, such as Mencius Yanzi or something, which is a great honor.

Even after Confucius, he was also crowned a Yan Shenggong by the imperial court, and his status was higher and much higher, so high that Qufu became its independent kingdom, but the Confucian family was also thicker-skinned, and other families could not compare, so the title of the family was so high.

Cheng Jian saw that Zhu Houzhao had given him Cheng Men a doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, and he was moved to cry on the spot, sobbing and bowing again, and his head fell heavily on the ground: "Cheng Jia's gratitude to His Majesty Longen!" The Cheng family swears allegiance to the Ming Dynasty! Whining! ”

Although Zhu Houzhao knew that the promises made by these so-called Jiangnan scholars, especially this kind of science family, were like farts, he had to admit that he still sounded comfortable when he was in the situation, and he had to admit that there are two kinds of people in the world who are most easily moved to cry, one is a bitch, and the other is a reader.

"Get up, you don't have to be like this", Zhu Houzhao smiled, and then said: "Your advice to Master Matthew, I have also approved, and the next intention is to ban the warning period after the conclusion of the "Nanzhili Convention", with the Daming Law as a reference, your gentry and Wang Yangming, the governor of Nanzhili, are responsible for this matter, and the gentry will take you as the representative to conclude a convention, how to punish those who are in arrears of taxes, the distribution of authority between clans and local officials, and other rules. ”

Although in the early days, the police agencies had not yet deteriorated and were indeed maintaining law and order, Zhu Houzhao did not guarantee that these police officers would always have the role of punishing traitors and eliminating evil in the future, and perhaps they would rely on the law enforcement and execution powers granted by the imperial court to indiscriminately kill innocent people for profit, and it could even be said that it was certain, but I am afraid that this phenomenon has already occurred.

Therefore, there is no need for the gentry to beg, Zhu Houzhao actually wants to ban the warning period, after all, this kind of military control is not a long-term solution, a society needs decrees, even if it is a monarchy now, the emperor himself has to let the local officials and the people have a set of laws to follow, so as to restrain the government from killing people indiscriminately, and the people have rules to follow.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao also wants to take back the execution power of the Police Division, after all, human life is still not something that can be taken lightly, and after the end of the warning period, that is, after the end of the military control area, the death row prisoners in the Nanzhili area still have to be the same as other places, and they need to be personally executed by themselves, the emperor, and no one else has the right to do it for them.

The gentry began to continue to fight with the government, and Cheng Jian actively sang praises for Zhu Houzhao after he got the official rank of Doctor of the Five Classics, but for the green-skinned scoundrels and ordinary people who had been instigated by these gentry at the bottom of the society, and some Jianghu people and even bandits, they felt that they had been deceived.

They don't understand that it is the gentry who are obviously dissatisfied with the court, and it is also the gentry who let themselves be smashed and burned, why it is they who are beheaded and imprisoned in the end, and the gentry have won the official position and even eulogized the prosperity of the world, helping the court to scold themselves for not obeying the law.

These people at the bottom can't figure out the key to this, but they know that it is better to be a obedient person in the future, and it is more practical to farm and work honestly, and it is very stupid to listen to the gentry who want to make a windfall and want to get something for nothing.

Of course, not all Jiangnan gentry could see the situation clearly and wisely defect to the imperial court to help the imperial court deal with their former allies, namely the ruffians, and there were also radical gentry who still wanted to oppose the imperial court.

Gu Xinlei is such a person, and under the threat of evidence that he has the Zhenjiang general soldier Tian Zheng and sold firearms to King Ning, and under the temptation of the gentry to cooperate with him, Tian Zheng, the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, was moved by Gu Xinlei to rebel and send troops to Nanjing City in the name of the Qing monarch, the purpose is to punish Ma Wensheng and want to burn Zhu Houzhao to death at the same time.

"Kill corrupt officials! The gentry are exempt from food! Fa Lu Mi! ”

In this name, Tian Zheng, the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, and Gu Xinlei, a member of the company, came to Nanjing City with more than 8,000 officers and soldiers.

However, the slogan they shouted was not to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and kill the emperor, after all, now the officers and soldiers don't want to rebel in their hearts, and they don't hate the emperor so much.

It is worth mentioning that the demand in the slogan is more like a demand than a slogan of rebellion, but the agitation effect is the best.

The people on the road from Zhenjiang to Nanjing looked indifferently at the army that was going to Nanjing to rebel.

At this time, Fang Dacai, an ordinary person in Dantu Town, didn't understand what these more than 8,000 officers and soldiers were shouting for what they were going to do, and couldn't help but ask his father: "Daddy, what are they going to do?" ”

"Do you still have food at home?" This Fang Dacai's father asked.

"Yes, there are many, some time ago, I helped the government repair the river, earned six buckets of rice, and I can also change some cloth to make new clothes", this Fang Dacai said with a smile.

"If they have food, they don't care what they do, they rebel against them, we plant our land, I don't believe they can turn the sky upside down." This Fang Dacai's father said.

Many people are just like the father of this talented man who turned a blind eye to the rebellion of the Zhenjiang chief soldier Tian Zheng, more like watching a play, and they didn't even understand why the Zhenjiang chief soldier rebelled, because he couldn't afford to eat or wear clothes.

It's not just the people who think so, at this time, Bai Jingshan, a thousand households under the command of Tian Zheng, the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, did not understand why the general soldier of Zhenjiang wanted to rebel, and even felt that there was no future for the rebellion, so he did not hesitate to take his men and horses to rush to Nanjing City first, and reported the rebellion of Tian Zheng, the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, to Wang Yangming, the governor.

Not only Bai Jingshan, but also the squires from Zhenjiang to Nanjing also rushed to report that someone had rebelled, after all, they had now confessed and realized that the imperial court still won the hearts of the people.

Even the squires near Nanjing City finally had a reasonable reason to organize the people, and the reason was naturally the escort of King Qin.

The people responded positively to King Qin, after all, the emperor was gone, and the world was in turmoil, and they had just experienced a riot and didn't want to experience another turmoil.

All of a sudden, more and more militia groups gathered outside the entire city of Nanjing, and of course, there were also soldiers and horses of Tian Zheng, the chief soldier of Zhenjiang.

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At this time, Zhu Houzhao also learned about the rebellion of Zhenjiang General Soldier Tian Zheng from Wang Yangming and the whistleblower Qianhu Bai Jingshan, Zhu Houzhao was also quite surprised by this, he was not surprised that there would be a rebellion, but he was surprised that the rebel was actually a military attaché!

Zhu Houzhao thought to himself that he hadn't reformed the guard system and abolished the military status, but now he was just ruthless to the Jiangnan gentry, why was it the military attache who rebelled first?

But in any case, this is also the first time that Zhu Houzhao has experienced a rebellion and it is not far from him, so he is still more serious.

But Zhu Houzhao did not panic, first of all, in addition to the local army in Nanjing, he also had a division of the Guards by his side, with tens of thousands of troops, and secondly, he also had Ma Wensheng, Wang Yangming, and Qiu Yue, three officials who knew the soldiers, so that a general military officer would not be allowed to successfully rebel.

But for Ma Wensheng and other civil officials and even Jiangnan gentry like Cheng Jian, it was still a relatively serious incident, and they all looked solemn and began to discuss how to transfer troops to the king, even Wang Yangming did not dare to despise it, after all, the emperor was in Nanjing City, and it was the first time he faced such an accident, and Qiu Yue was the same.

Zhu Houzhao first ordered the cabinet to lead Qiu Yue to lead the first division of the Guards Army out of the city to annihilate the enemy, and let Wang Yangming be responsible for organizing officers and soldiers to defend the city, while Ma Wensheng and others began to mobilize the surrounding officers and soldiers Qin Wang with Wang Shi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.