When Zhao Guoliang was in the Wa Kingdom, the Shenwu regime in Nanjing also encountered a new crisis, but this time the crisis did not come from the outside, but from the inside.

With Zhu Hongsan's occupation of Nanjing, the entire Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, the richest places in southern China, became Zhu Hongsan's pot meat. Of course, when you become an emperor, you also have to pay the obligation of being an emperor. And the biggest obligation in front of Zhu Hongsan is how to feed the stomachs of tens of millions of people in Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

According to Zhu Hongsan's previous plan, he occupied Guangdong and then used a large number of refugees from the north to develop his strength, and at the same time let the other unlucky emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty go up to the top, and he made a lot of money in the back. Wait until a few years later, your strength will come up, and then you will go on a northern expedition in one fell swoop, destroying both the Manchu Qing and Yongli.

How do you know that the planning is very good, but Zhu Hongsan forgot one thing, that is, the greed of the Shiren Group.

These literati, led by Ma Mingyuan, in order to achieve their various goals, forced Zhu Hongsan to ascend the throne little by little, and finally Zhu Hongsan was forced by the times to become the emperor in advance.

Claiming to be the emperor has a lot of benefits to his subordinates, and they have all become dog-like bachelors, but it has done Zhu Hongsan, who is sitting on the emperor's throne, harmless than beneficial. Under the banner of the emperor, you Zhu Hongsan completely put yourself on the opposite side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at the same time fell out with Zhu Youlang, who was supposed to be in one camp.

Coupled with the anti-Qing of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong in the first year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan was even more at a loss, but what else could he do after the matter had come to this? Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to overdraft the vitality of his group and send troops to the Northern Expedition with a hard head.

After occupying Nanjing, Zhu Hongsan's strength soared, but the side effects were also very serious. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the great development of the commodity economy, large areas of farmland were converted into mulberry fields and cash crops were planted, and the supply of grain had to rely on the supply of grain-producing areas such as Jiangxi and Huguang. Of course, it was fine in peacetime, but now the whole south has become a nest of porridge.

Now the whole lake is divided into three areas, and several counties around Wuchang are in the hands of Zhu Hongsan. Hanyang, Huangzhou, Xunyang, and Chengtianfu in Jiangbei were in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. However, the Dongting Lake Basin, the largest grain-producing area in Huguang, is in the hands of Zhu Youlang.

Jiangxi is relatively good, all here in Zhu Hongsan, but because of the war in the first year of Shenwu, the entire Poyang Lake grain-producing area was destroyed, and the population fled in large numbers, and the data reported by the local government estimated that it would take at least five years to restore the grain output of Chongzhen's ten years.

The grain-producing areas are not in Zhu Hongsan's hands, but the population is all in Zhu Hongsan's hands. Zhu Hongsan, who occupies Nanzhili, will feed his people, and the people who can't eat don't care about your noble goal of expelling the Tartars and restoring China, they only know that if they can't eat, I will fight with you.

At the same time, Nanzhili was not occupied by the Manchus for a long time, a total of less than three years, the population structure was relatively intact, and there was not much land without a mine. Seventy percent of the land in Nanzhili is concentrated in the hands of the Dashi clan and the big landlords, but the Ming Dynasty is still a legal society, and even the emperor has no right to confiscate the landlords' land for no reason, so how to weaken the land contradiction and increase grain production has become a difficult problem faced by Zhu Hongsan's group.

After Zhu Hongsan took over Chongzhen's position, the contradiction between the big landlord and the emperor in the Chongzhen Dynasty was transferred to Zhu Hongsan without a bad point, but fortunately, Zhu Hongsan was stronger than the unlucky emperor Chongzhen, Chongzhen has completely become a loner since he killed Wei Zhongxian, and behind Zhu Hongsan stands the Huguang Xungui Group, which has become the climate.

Huguang Xungui Group is an upstart built by Zhu Hongsan for more than ten years, most of them are Zhu Hongsan's Huguang hometowns, plus some literati forces who have taken refuge in them. These people are different from the traditional Tushi and big landlord groups, and they started with the countless factories in Guangdong, as well as the mines in Luzon and Qiongzhou. Because of this, these new elites are very aggressive, and only by occupying more land and people can they sell more goods, and Huguang Group can earn more high profits.

Zhu Hongsan doesn't know what such a thing he made is, is it bourgeois? They do not have the openness of the bourgeoisie; Is it a feudal lord? They were much more advanced than the big landlords in the late Ming Dynasty, and at least they didn't want to solidify the peasants in the land. Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and realized that the thing he had created was probably similar to the Junker landlord class in Germany before World War I, and it should be called Junker bourgeois imperialism.

Like the rise of all new elite classes in history, the first thing these new elites did was to open their blood and devour the flesh and blood of the old class. In the "Exile Case" a few years ago, on the surface, it was the emperor's blow to some corrupt officials, but behind the scenes, it was the first blow of these new magnates to those old forces in Nanzhili.

Nanjing, as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was inhabited by a million people in the Song Dynasty, and the food supply of the entire city was controlled by several major families. Zhu Hongsan uprooted several major families through the Daxing "Displaced People Case", and at the same time handed over the big market of Nanjing to the new rich of Huguang under his hands, and the first collision between the new magnates and the old class won with the new magnates.

Of course, the old class led by several Dashi clans in Nanzhili was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the eunuchs were so rampant that year, they had to be knocked to the ground by the Donglin Party they elected. Therefore, after receiving the emperor's grain supply from Nanjing to the Huguang Group, several Dashi clans in Nanzhili were sensitive to find that the emperor was going to attack them.

Therefore, the heads of several Dashi clans in the two provinces of Nanzhili took advantage of the opportunity of the birthday of the head of the Xu family in Songjiang Prefecture to gather together to discuss countermeasures.

The Songjiang Xu family is Xu Jie's family, and the current head of the family is Xu Jie's great-grandson Xu Bengao. The Xu family is on the rich side of Songjiang Mansion, and there are 200,000 mu of land left by their ancestors, which can be regarded as the largest landlord in the entire Nanzhili.

Xu Bengao, a person who was martyred with the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty in history, can be regarded as a backbone literati, but in this time and space, he has no chance to be martyred, so Zhu Hongsan returned to Nanjing.

In addition to the Xu family, the Gao family of Suzhou Prefecture, the Li family of Zhenjiang Prefecture, the Zhou family of Yingtian Mansion, and the historian of Changzhou Mansion came to attend the meeting today. In addition to Nanzhili, there are also the Zhao family in Huzhou Mansion in Zhejiang, the Zhang family in Jiaxing Prefecture, and the Gu family in Hangzhou Prefecture. However, there is also a big landlord in Suzhou, the Qian family did not come, this Qian family is the Qian Qianyi family in Changshu, the old Qian family also has more than 50,000 acres of land, is a first-class big landowner, but the old Qian is sitting on the emperor's side, so it is the Gao family who came to Suzhou to attend the meeting today.

Xu Bengao saw these big landlords in the house, these people together have a total of millions of acres of land, and their families are huge, all of them are local squires with heads and faces, and they all came to their homes today, which is really to give themselves face!

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to the old man's birthday banquet!" Xu Bengao was not going to say anything polite after speaking, it was better to go straight to the point.

"Ladies and gentlemen, since the first year of Hongguang Manchu Qing Tartars occupied Nanjing, it has been three years now, fortunately Emperor Shenwu raised troops from Guangdong and returned to the old capital, our old bones did not die in the war, this is all thanks to Emperor Shenwu!"

Although these Han landlords are not very good in personal morality, they are still good in the overall interests of the country. In the three years of occupation by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although these big landlords did not fight to the end like the Manchus in eastern Zhejiang, they also secretly sent food and money to some rebels. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan treated these people quite well after occupying Nanjing, you must know that in order to ensure safety, they gave money and food to the righteous army and also gave money and food to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. However, Zhu Hongsan didn't have much to do with these wall-riding factions, and after killing the surrendering faction, he could only appease these wall-riding factions.

Xu Bengao took a sip of tea and continued: "It's a good thing to fight the Tartars to restore the Ming Dynasty, and the old man raised his hands in favor." Back then, my son also went north to fight against the Liukou and died on the front line! Thinking of his son Xu Bengao, who died on the front line, he burst into tears.

Several other family heads secretly pouted when they heard Xu Bengao say this, who doesn't know that your son is jealous in Yingtianfu, and was squeezed by Liu Ru to join the army, and what face is blowing the conch here.

However, no matter what, the son of the family sacrificed his life for the country, and this incident has also become the biggest political capital of the Songjiang Xu family. You are all shouting for your loyalty to the country, why don't you let your son go to the army to fight? It is precisely because Xu Bengao died of a son that he is faintly the leader of the major families of Nanzhili.

Xu Bengao cried and then said: "Our people in Nanzhili have shed blood and tears for Daming, Jiading, Jiangyin, Yangzhou, that place is not my Nanzhili people fighting to the death?" But now the peaches have been picked by those Huguang people! Master Zhou, you are from Yingtianfu, tell me about it! ”

Master Zhou is a big landlord in Liyang County, Yingtianfu, he stood up and said: "Everyone, you are far away from Yingtian here, and you don't know the hatefulness of those Huguang people!" They took advantage of being Emperor Shenwu's cronies, and after entering the city, they robbed the local gentry of their industries, and there were hundreds of merchants of all sizes who were forced to death by these Huguang guys! There is also the case of the displaced people a few years ago, this case implicated dozens of grain merchants in Yingtianfu, hundreds of people who were beheaded, and thousands of people who were sent to Luzon! Pity my grandson, who is only six years old and will follow my hard-working son-in-law across the ocean to Luzon, where rabbits don't! ”

Speaking of sadness, Master Zhou also cried bitterly.

At this time, a person stood up on the side and said: "Although these Huguang people are bad, they are not all like this, at least those soldiers are still fair traders!" ”

Master Zhou, who was in pain, saw that it was Li Kui from Zhenjiang Mansion who was speaking, and scolded angrily: "Li Kui, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, your Li family has gained a lot of benefits in the battle of Yangzhou, why do you still have to speak for the people of Huguang?" ”