At the end of September and the beginning of October, with Wang Yan and Zhu Yihai and Zheng Chenggong reaching an agreement, the war in Zhejiang and Fujian gradually ended, and the Zheng general Gan Hui, who was trapped in Fuzhou, was ordered to withdraw from Fuzhou and go to Xiamen, and then go to sea from Xiamen to Luzon.

Wang Yan began to carry out drastic reforms in the military system and political affairs, and because of the changes in the imperial court, and because of the addition of three provinces at once, political affairs became a little chaotic.

The king of Tang was placed under house arrest, the king of Lu was forced to go to sea, the pro-Tang faction and the Lu faction suffered a major defeat, and the internal political pattern of the Ming Dynasty underwent drastic changes, which made the people of the court unstable.

Some Tang and Lu officials, seeing the failure of the political struggle between the two kings, hurriedly changed their courts and took refuge in the Chu faction, while other officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty pinned their hopes on the seven-year-old co-ruling emperor Zhu Linyuan, forming a new imperial party.

It is worth saying that these imperial party officials do not mean to deny Wang Yan's reforms, but to return to the era when the emperor has the final say, they also approve of the reforms, but they are against Wang Yan's monopoly of power and usurping the Ming Dynasty.

The recombination of political forces in the court will naturally cause chaos in the court, and compared with the chaos in the court, the losses suffered by the people because of this war will cause more serious chaos.

Outside Nanjing, there were once 500,000 or 600,000 landless people who came to Nanjing from all over the country to beg for a living.

Originally, the shanty towns here were convenient, but because King Lu's soldiers came to Nanjing, they were affected by the war, and many people fled back to the township, but these people had no land and could not survive after returning to their hometown, which led to many social problems.

These landless people, if they don't have jobs or fields, can become a huge factor of instability.

With the defeat of King Lu and the relief of the siege of Nanjing, many people who returned to their hometowns returned to Nanjing and wanted to find a job again, but Nanjing suffered from the war after all, and many houses and even shantytowns outside the city were demolished by the rebels to build equipment, resulting in no place for those who came back to live.

In addition, because of the war, the warehouses of many workshops were looted by soldiers, and the looms and workshops were also destroyed, so that a large number of workshops closed down, and it was difficult to resume production for the rest of the time, leaving many hired workers unemployed.

In the traditional agricultural society, as long as the people have land to plant, they will feel at ease, and the social structure is very stable and not easy to have problems, but the Ming Dynasty is now in an era of change, many large cities are commodity societies, once people have no source of income, they will immediately be restless, and many problems will arise.

A large number of unemployed people gathered in Nanjing, which caused a sharp deterioration of public order in Nanjing, and the deterioration of public order caused dissatisfaction among the upper strata and complaints among the people.

Not long ago, because of the increase in the population of Nanjing, but the number of job opportunities decreased, the two Cao gangs fought near the wharf in order to grab the life, killing more than 40 people, and then in the outer Guocheng fire, more than 100 people died, and finally attracted the attention of Ying Tianfu.

After the new prefect Zhuang Wenlie learned about the situation, he urgently reported to the imperial court, and finally Wang Yan knew about it.

Since many of the shantytowns were demolished or burned down by the rebels, Wang Yan ordered the military department to mobilize 10,000 military tents to house the people who had returned to Waiguo.

On the west bank of the Qinhuai River, the ruins of the shantytown are covered with endless tents, there are more than 10,000 tents, and the 60,000 or 70,000 people who live here, if you add the shantytowns that still exist in the tents, there are at least 300,000 people living here.

The annexation of land by the rural clans and the gentry carried out large-scale cultivation of grain, cotton and mulberry seedlings, which improved efficiency, but caused many people to lose their livelihoods.

In the original small-scale peasant society, each family had a variety of several acres of land, some more, some less, and there was little cooperation with each other, but now the big gentry and the emerging landlord class have distributed tools to 100 or 1,000 acres of land and planted them in a unified manner, and the efficiency has naturally been greatly improved.

If 1,000 acres of land originally needed 100 households to plant, now with reasonable planning, after staggering the farming time, it may only take 50 households to complete the rotation of rice, cotton, mulberry seedlings, and fruit trees.

In traditional agriculture, after harvesting two crops of rice every year, they enter the idle time, but now the hired workers harvest rice, harvest cotton, and harvest fruit trees and rice after harvesting cotton, which can fully squeeze labor at the same time, but also strengthen the use and efficiency of land, so that the income of 1,000 mu of land is much higher than before.

In this way, the improvement of economic efficiency will attract powerful landlords and big clans to follow suit, but in this way, if 50 households will be eliminated for every 1,000 mu of land, how these eliminated peasant households will survive will become a huge social problem.

Originally, there were many workshops in Nanjing, and there were other walks of life that provided them with work opportunities, and even their income was no less than farming, but because of the rebellion, the workshops stopped working and closed down, and many people lost their jobs at once.

After Wang Yan returned from Zhejiang, he has been dealing with the aftermath of the Tanglu rebellion, as well as reorganizing troops and horses, and transferring troops to Nanyang and Lianghuai to resist the attack of the Qing army.

Many things are piled up together, and Wang Yan can be said to have a lot of opportunities, but he got Zhuang Wenlie's report, so he still took time out and decided to go to Waiguo City to have a look.

In order to facilitate the understanding of the people's situation, although it is more dangerous, Wang Yan still insists on a private interview with Weifu.

On this day, Wang Yan was escorted by dozens of brocade guards, walking through the shantytowns of Waiguo in Nanjing, where men who had nothing to do gathered together, anxiously talking about where to find a job, while women were busy doing laundry, cooking with small stoves, and groups of children playing hide and seek in alleys and tents, giving people a completely different atmosphere.

In the Chinese countryside, etiquette and religion are prevalent, and there are many constraints on women, but under such chaotic conditions, many of the original rules have been deliberately abandoned by people.

The officials who accompanied Wang Yan to inspect were Wang Fuzhi and Gu Yanwu, plus Zhuang Wenlie, the prefect of Yingtian, who was a person of Zheng Chenggong in history, and finally went to Taiwan Island to be the prefect of the county, but now he has become the prefect of Yingtian.

This man was in his early thirties, very shrewd and capable, he walked behind Wang Yan, and introduced Wang Yan as he went: "Now the population of Nanjing Waiguo is nearly 400,000, and it is increasing every day, but the workshops in Nanjing City are recovering very slowly, and there is not so much work for them to do. ”

Wang Yan looked left and right, the secret shanties on both sides of the alley, this is still a home, there are tens of thousands of households living in tents on the periphery, and there is not even a home, he can't help but feel a headache.

The people in the alley did not notice Wang Yan and his party, there were mixed people here, and there were often people coming, they were not unusual, the men continued to chat, the women continued to be busy, and the children did not understand the hardships of the adults, and still played happily.

At this time, not far from Wang Yan and his party, a team of men in short clothes, brushed aside the children playing on the street, and walked to a two-story shanty, a woman burning a small stove at the door, saw their faces suddenly turned white, but a man led by him smiled: "Sister-in-law, is the second brother there?" We have something to do with him, you let him out! ”

The woman hugged the little girl who ran back in fright, and said with some fear: "My father-in-law ran away early, no longer here!" ”

But as soon as the words fell, I heard a muffled sound, and a flexible fat man jumped directly from the second floor, stepped on the roof of another house, and ran away.

When the man at the head saw this, he was immediately angry, kicked the small stove over, and all the gruel cooked by the woman was scattered on the ground.

"Give me chase!" The man shouted angrily, and several little minions immediately rushed away, but the man did not leave, but sneered at the woman: "Sister-in-law, you owe the debt to pay the money, and the second year of high school ran away, then the brother I can only sell you two to pay off the debt!" ”

As soon as he said that, he waved his hand, and the two men immediately came up to drag the woman, and the woman struggled and shouted for help, and the residents next to him gathered in a circle and talked about it, but no one came out to stop the men's behavior.

This scene fell into Wang Yan's eyes, in broad daylight, there would be such a thing, he couldn't help but glare back at Zhuang Wenlie, and then walked over quickly, and several guards hurriedly stood up first.

"Stop!" Wang Yan shouted angrily, roaring so that the man and the people around him were stunned, attracting everyone's attention.

These men are usually rampant and domineering characters, and suddenly saw a person stand up and roar at them, and some people wanted to go up and cut Wang Yan at that moment, but the person who led him still had some knowledge, and found that Wang Yan was extraordinary, and there were two old men around him, and more than a dozen strong men seemed to be people with him, because he should not be an ordinary character, but the man also had a background, and he was not timid.

He waved his hand to stop his companion, clenched his fists and said, "This brother, it is only right to repay debts. This man owes us money from the Wude Chamber of Commerce, and he has not paid it back, and now that the deadline has expired, we can only use his wife and daughter to pay off the debt! ”

Wang Yan hated this kind of bullies who oppressed the good, especially Nanjing City was at his feet, this kind of thing happened, it was undoubtedly a slap in the face, he was about to cure this group of evildoers, but as soon as the man spoke, Wang Yan was stunned, the largest shareholder of the Wude Chamber of Commerce is his Hengyang Wang family, so he is not the master of this group of bullies?

didn't think that this group of people would still do things for his Wang family, no wonder the surrounding residents didn't dare to step forward to stop it.

Thinking of this, Wang Yan suddenly burst into anger, and the man who was the leader saw Wang Yan's expression, first stunned, then a little incredulous, and finally turned into anger on his face, he couldn't help but be a little confused, and didn't understand why the person in front of him had such a complicated expression.

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