On the eighth day of June in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the capital, the entrance of the vegetable market.

The morning sun is rising, and when you look at it, there is a sea of people. I saw more than 30 executioners carrying big knives and standing tall on the stage.

Xu Zhaokui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, sat in front of the table and saw a large group of prisoners being escorted up.

"Slash!" Xu Zhaokui didn't say that the hour had arrived, he directly threw a wooden card out, and the executioner took a sip of wine, sprayed it to the edge of the knife, and then slashed down with a knife, and the head fell to the ground immediately.

Immediately after, another group of people were escorted up.

"Slash!" Xu Zhaokui threw out a wooden card again, and the executioner did not hesitate, he swung his knife again and cut it down, and the head fell to the ground again.

The execution, which lasted from morning to evening, only killed people's heads rolling to the ground, blood flowed from the scene, and piles of corpses underneath.

The people who watched the excitement dared to watch it at first, but when they saw that they were all deserted and fled behind, this scene was too bloody.

None of these beheadeds were part of the local ruling class that participated in the rebellion, and one household after another had their heads cut off by the Ministry of Punishment.

King Fu was not killed, but was imprisoned in the Zhenfu Division, and it didn't take long for him to be exiled to the Outer Northeast by Zhu Youxiao. I don't know whether to say merciful or cruel in this kind of disposition.

"King Fu is rebellious, Your Majesty is tolerant of him, and he is really a benevolent saint."

"Your Majesty is generous and has the style of an ancient emperor."

The ministers praised Zhu Youxiao in the early court. But if a person dies for a hundred years, it gives a good time. But if you exile people to the northeast, then King Fu will be guilty. And an exiled Fu King, never want to set off any waves. has completely lost the threat to Zhu Youxiao.

But in the eyes of those ordinary people. The emperor is really tolerant and generous!

It was at this time. Zhu Youxiao issued a decree ordering the pardon of ordinary soldiers in the rebel army, and these rebel soldiers only had to work for a month before returning home.

As soon as this holy decree was promulgated, the emperor ordered a large number of landlords, merchants, and children of scholars to be cut down, and no one said that the emperor was cruel, but they all felt that the emperor was merciful and generous.

When the rebel soldiers learned that the emperor had pardoned them, they immediately felt like they had come down from heaven, and they did not complain about the symbolic punishment of one month of labor reform. The entire concentration camp where the rebels were imprisoned was full of praise for the emperor.

Although these rebel soldiers are all ordinary people, it is inevitable that some of them will be tainted with some bad habits, and only by reversing them in a timely manner through ideological education and propaganda in the process of reforming through labor can they be turned around in a timely manner and then released to freedom.

After some ideological education and propaganda, these rebel soldiers were grateful to the Son of Heaven. At the same time, because of the promotion of the immigration policy, many rebel soldiers decided to emigrate with their families.

Henan has a large population, especially an agricultural population, and its per capita resources are small. After immigration, the per capita resources were abundant, and these farmers were naturally excited.

Most of the land around Luoyang, Henan Province, was confiscated by the imperial court. Obviously, the state-owned agricultural companies will not need so much labor for agricultural production in the future.

Naturally, state-owned agricultural companies do not develop a small-scale peasant economy, so the agricultural activities organized are all of the commodity economy type. Either to produce commercial grain and oil, or to produce commercial cotton, or to use the land for animal husbandry. This model is to maximize the productivity of individuals and produce the most goods with the least amount of life.

Therefore, after the return of these rebel soldiers, the state-owned agricultural company will not need so many tenant farmers, so it is inevitable that the migration will be carried out, otherwise so many unemployed peasants will gather in the local area, and it will not cause serious social problems.

Some chose to emigrate, while others chose to be hired by state-owned enterprises, and after some resettlement measures, these freed rebel soldiers solved their livelihood problems. For those wounded soldiers who lost their ability to work, the imperial court would also issue subsidies every month, and in general, they would not die of starvation, ensuring their basic right to survival.

The rebellion was finally over, and more than 80,000 people had died in the turmoil, all of whom were young and strong laborers. No wonder Zhu Youxiao was very angry and exiled King Fu to the Outer Northeast to suffer.

These young and strong laborers are also social wealth! A rebellion will be reimbursed, not to mention how painful it is.

However, after an internal war, Zhu Youxiao cut down a large number of local ruling classes and confiscated a large amount of land and money and grain.

According to later statistics, at least hundreds of millions of yuan of assets were seized in this war, although most of them were real estate, but these real estate were real means of production, and they were also local means of production. It's not like overseas land, which is so troublesome to develop.

Although disasters in Henan are a bit frequent, it is not much worse to strengthen the construction of water conservancy facilities in the future!

From another point of view, although this internal war killed a group of ordinary people and caused Daming to suffer some losses from the demographic dividend, the war dividend was very rich. And this is only a part of Henan, not the entire Henan region.

To put it bluntly, this is a struggle between two interest groups, both of which are wealthy. If you put the other one down, the wealth will be concentrated in the hands of one interest group.

At this time, the wealth of the Ming Dynasty was basically controlled by the local ruling class. Traditional interest groups have huge resources at their disposal, controlling a large amount of land, population, industry and commerce.

Fortunately, the ruling class in these places is still relatively scattered, like a plate of scattered sand. In this rebellion of King Fu, these scattered wary ruling classes tended to unite, but they were extinguished before they succeeded.

King Fu's rebellion was suppressed on the ninth day, and such a speed also greatly shocked the Jiangnan Shi clan and chaebol. The speed of the imperial court's counterinsurgency frightened them, so much so that they did not dare to respond to King Fu's rebellion in Jiangnan. For the time being, the central government's reform could not change Jiangnan, and these Jiangnan ruling classes had not yet reached the time when they had to fight with the emperor, so they chose to continue to wait and see.

A rebellion that threatened to plunge the Daming River valley into turmoil is finally over.

And Zhu Youxiao also accelerated the speed of reform in the north after this rebellion. After a period of counterinsurgency, Shanxi and Henan were fully incorporated into the New Deal reform system.

It was also after a rebellion. It frightened the local ruling class. The reforms in Shanxi and Henan provinces have become very smooth. No one dared to jump out of the footsteps of King Fu and those unlucky people who supported King Fu at this time. Since I can't resist. Then accept the reform! Paying taxes doesn't directly kill them anyway.

Obviously, this is a world where a big fist is the boss, and after a counterinsurgency, the emperor has also shown a strong muscle, and no matter how reluctant he is, he has to accept the results of reform.

Shandong has entered the stage of comprehensive reform in the past seven years, and various reform systems have been implemented in an orderly manner.

What did not disappoint Zhu Youxiao was that after the reform of Shandong, a strong impetus for development broke out immediately. Jiaozhou Bay Industrial Zone is developing very rapidly, especially in the shipbuilding industry.

Shandong's economy is also improving very fast. Under the construction of a large number of roads, water conservancy projects, and industrial zones, a large number of jobs have been created.

At the same time, the agrarian reform also promoted the process of the land enclosure movement, and a large number of peasants were liberated from the land. Of course, this is a good way to put it, and a bad way to say it is to be forced to leave the land.

The New Deal area has been going on with the land enclosure movement, which is the landlord merging land to form an agricultural company to operate.

Because the landlord continued to collect rent, the tax was too high, and he even had to pay for it every year. For this reason, landlords had no choice but to set up agricultural companies to manage the land, some landlords set up agricultural companies on their own, and some joined forces with other landlords to set up agricultural companies.

Once the agricultural company is established. It is necessary to take the route of commodity agriculture, what is easy to sell and what is planted. And some yeoman farmers sandwiched between these landlords. In many cases, the land can only be sold. Of course, the interests of these yeoman farmers are also guaranteed by the authorities, at least there will be no phenomenon of buying low and selling low.

Apparently the agricultural companies did not need as many tenant farmers, and the homesteaders had to leave the land after selling it, and these peasants had no choice but to make a living in the towns and cities because of the land they could cultivate, and the massive construction activity provided jobs for these farmers.

The influx of a large number of people into cities and towns has led to the construction of towns.

The impact of reform policies on the people's lives is obviously incomparably huge. However, the labor force of these peasants who left the land was fully utilized. As a result of various construction activities, the ability of the whole society to resist disasters has been continuously enhanced.

The land enclosure movement in the New Deal area has lasted for so many years, and the land in Beizhili has become very concentrated. However, Beizhili also retained many yeoman farmers, most of whom were retained after the displaced people who had reclaimed the land had subscribed to the land themselves.

At present, there are two states of concentrated land, one is that the imperial court has designated that most of the land is used to grow a certain crop, and the other is that agricultural companies can grow whatever they want.

For example, the Northeast region is a commercial grain production base designated by the imperial court, and when agricultural companies organize production in the Northeast region, more than 70% of the arable land must be used to grow grain crops. Whether it is wheat, corn, or soybeans, this indicator must be met.

There are also areas that are designated as pastoral areas, and it is forbidden to develop crops without permission, so as not to destroy the pastures. Of course, for some pastoral areas in some areas, there is still a need for some agriculture to be self-sufficient, and the needs of Hermes-Epitek cannot be met by simple animal husbandry, such as growing some vegetables and other things. For example, in the South Island (Hokkaido) of Zhendong Province, a certain scale of plantation is allowed to be developed to meet the living needs of the people on the island.

The other is the model of Beizhili, where the land of the agricultural company can be planted with whatever it wants. It can be used to grow grain, cotton, and sheep.

Nowadays, in the past few years, the scale of cotton planting industry has been expanding, mainly because the population of the new deal area is increasing, the external market is expanding, and the demand for cotton is constantly expanding, and cotton is often in short supply.

There are also many agricultural companies that use their land for animal husbandry, planting corn silage to raise sheep and cattle, or sweet potatoes to raise pigs.

200 million acres of state-owned grassland in Northeast China is now used to develop the horse industry, horses are very important to today's Ming Dynasty, and the continuous development of commerce has a great demand for horses.

The 500 million acres of grassland in the hands of Mongolian herdsmen in the Ming region of Northeast China mainly develop sheep farming, cattle and horses, and now can produce a large number of wool, sheepskin and other industrial products for the Ming Dynasty every year.

In recent years, with the help of subsidies and loans from the imperial court, these Mongolian herders have built a sufficient hardware facility to keep the sheep warm in winter. Ensure that no large number of cattle and sheep are frozen to death in winter. Of course, if you encounter those heavy snowstorms, then there is no way. However, it is not every year that there is a heavy snowstorm.

Wool products are selling well today. The woollen industry has developed in the north. Sweaters have become a mass commodity, women have time to make sweaters at home, wool products into thousands of households, wool insulation capacity is not worse than cotton, but also greatly solve the problem of insufficient supply of cotton.

These woolen products have also been welcomed in the north and south of the river, not only selling well in the northern provinces, but also in Huguang, Sichuan, Jiangnan and Guangzhou.

For the factories in the New Deal area. The market is very vast these days.

In addition to the large internal market of Daming, the overseas market is also expanding year by year. As a result, the supply of raw materials has not kept pace, which has also made those agricultural companies find that after starting to grow cash crops, they can earn a lot more than they used to sit at home and collect rent.

The income has definitely increased, the labor input has decreased, and the profits brought by cash crops are not comparable to ordinary crops, and the income has naturally increased.

Of course, they have to take a higher risk than before, in the event of a natural disaster. You may not be able to recoup your costs in a year. Whether this thing can make money or not, a look at it. One is to look at the sky to eat, and the other is to look at management and technology.

However, the water conservancy facilities in the New Deal area are becoming more and more perfect, and the ability to resist natural disasters has been greatly enhanced, and many places can ensure harvest from drought and flood.

Although most of the land in the Northeast must be grown with commercial grain, it is superior to the vast territory and the terrain is suitable for large-scale production of commercial grain, and the commercialization of grain has also allowed those agricultural companies to sell their grain and make relatively good profits.

Despite the taxes, the landlords who make money running agricultural companies have come to agree with the current model.

There are many landlords who put their capital into industrial production, relying on the Beizhili goods selling well in the Ming Dynasty, as well as the growing overseas market, they are also making a lot of money, although their income is only a soup compared to the state-owned capital consortium, but the money they make is indeed more than the previous rent, and they are more and more supportive of the current system.

As for those landlords who failed in business, they naturally lost their social influence, and even if they opposed the system in front of them, they had few resources in their hands and had a weak right to speak.

Agricultural companies in Beizhili and Shandong were not too concerned about grain planting at first, and were more willing to develop aquaculture and cash crop planting, which had little impact on the current grain supply. This is because the export of commercial grain from Northeast China has begun to grow, while the commercial grain from Taiwan and Nanyang has also increased.

In such a situation, the development of cash crop planting and breeding is also in line with the needs of the Beizhili and Shandong regions, which are then industrially intensive areas, with a large number of people concentrated in urban areas, who need not only grain, but also vegetables and meat, and industrial development also needs more raw materials.

Such an agricultural adjustment is very necessary and is also the inevitability of market development.

The enclosure movement in the newly conquered areas was a milder type, but it was not so rosy for the landlords and peasants who could not keep up with the pace.

Many landlords do not have the ability to operate, so they sell their land with more knowledge, or do not participate in the management after taking a stake in an agricultural company. After the uninteresting hard work, it is often a loss.

Ordinary peasants lost their land and could only enter the towns as workers, and it was certain that life was not so easy at first, and it was not so convenient to enter a new environment, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and not everyone could perfectly adapt to the new environment.

But this is the trend of development, an unstoppable trend.

After the reform of Shandong, cultivated land can pay agricultural taxes to the imperial court every year, and the increasingly large scope of agricultural tax collection has also made the income of agricultural tax gradually become considerable.

Of course, the imperial court will repair the water conservancy facilities on a large scale, and the agricultural company will repair the water conservancy facilities in its own fields, and once these water conservancy projects are completed, the agricultural output will continue to increase. In fact, the output of grain and other crops in this year is not too low, but the lack of water conservancy facilities in many areas has made the yield reduction very serious, and this has led to the phenomenon that only a few dozen catties of corn and wheat can be produced per acre.

The construction of roads has guaranteed the economic development of Shandong, and at the same time has also promoted employment.

The funds required for various construction projects are also guaranteed by bank loans, and now the imperial court can directly issue additional banknotes, as long as it does not inflate quickly, it can print bills.

Inflation is like a whip, whether it is the common people or the rich, this whip is chasing them behind, so that they must work hard, everyone works hard, and wealth will naturally become bigger. Those rich people start to have to do things to maintain their wealth, and they don't think about how to enjoy and show off all day long like they used to.

There are two sides to everything, and although the society in the industrial era has made rapid progress, few people can live a comfortable life. Poor people may not work for months, and their lives will be strained.

Therefore, while the enclosure movement was unfolding, the social security system was also implemented in the reform policy. The main ones are to ensure unemployment, medical care, housing, education, pension and so on. So that those people who have encountered irresistible factors and cannot support themselves can continue to survive.

At present, these social security systems are not yet completely perfect. Especially in the areas of education and pension, some policies have been promulgated in the field of medical care.

Reform activities still have a long way to go for Zhu Youxiao, but the situation is much better than when he first ascended the throne. (To be continued.) )