In these years, rebellion is as simple as eating and drinking water, don't ask what is unwise to hit a stone with an egg, as long as you are dissatisfied with the government, you may rebel at any time.

Especially for those people at the bottom of society, they often don't understand the political pattern, and they don't know who makes their lives difficult, as long as someone casually instigates it, all of them are the emperor's pot. The emperor is like a target placed in front of the people's eyes, as long as he is unhappy, he can shoot a few arrows with this target as the center.

The gap between the rich and the poor in the south is even worse than in the north, and this is especially true in the Jianghuai region. The rich are endless, and the poor have no place to stand.

As long as the people here are instigated, there are many people who are willing to rebel.

The news of the civil unrest quickly spread to the Beijing Division, and the cabinet quickly reacted, and Shen Xiao, the first assistant of the cabinet, quickly came up with a plan to quell the turmoil, and Zhu Youxiao also quickly approved it, and then sent it to Nanzhili as quickly as possible. The cabinet's plan to quell the rebellion was nothing more than to transfer the defenders from all over Nanzhili to suppress the rebellious people in Yangzhou and Nanzhili.

Less than an hour after the cabinet's plan was issued, the Supreme Command also issued a military order, ordering the marines stationed in the Zhoushan Islands to rush into the mouth of the Yangtze River to quell the civil unrest.

The outcome of this civil unrest is already obvious, and Zhu Youxiao is not worried about what kind of climate the rebellious people can become.

Although there is a large gap between the rich and the poor in the south, it is the majority of people who are willing to live a good life after all, and a small number of rebels have no mass base in the south at all, and they will soon be extinguished. Even if the seditions are behind the backing, no amount of money is useless. What's more, they didn't dare to blatantly support the money and food of the rioters, and it was a big crime to be found out.

Just as Zhu Youxiao expected, the civil unrest lasted less than half a month, and it was easily suppressed by the officers and troops who rushed in. The marines who arrived from the Zhoushan naval base were not even engaged in the battle before the civil unrest was over.

Most of the rioters were dispersed, and many became good citizens.

But it doesn't have to be too much of a struggle. The civil unrest in the Jianghuai region was basically like this, it was a land of abundance, and it was impossible to really threaten the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule.

Soon after, Zhu Youxiao promulgated a policy for the resettlement of miners, under which unemployed miners in Nanzhili could register with the local government and be resettled by the Royal Mining Company and other mining companies in the consortium.

At this time, Daming still needed miners, and the rapid development of the metallurgical industry in the north. There is also a growing demand for minerals. The miners in the area of Ma'anshan Iron Mine have skilled mining technology, and the employment problem is still very easy to solve.

As for the civil unrest in Yangzhou, the salt merchants must be inseparable.

Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao realized that this was an opportunity to make a fortune.

"Why don't you use the pretext of inciting civil unrest and copy all these salt merchants." An uncontrollable thought grew wildly in Zhu Youxiao's mind.

You must know that Yangzhou salt merchants can enjoy about 8 million yuan of salt industry dividends every year, of which 3 million yuan is used for various official and private expenses, and official expenses are all kinds of dots. The people's expenses are also the construction of various public welfare facilities and so on.

It is equivalent to a net profit of about 5 million taels per year.

Many salt merchants have accumulated wealth for decades or centuries.

What group of people in the Ming Dynasty is rich enough to rival the country? Naturally, the first place is these Yangzhou salt merchants. They simply have a lot of money.

These salt merchants did not create wealth for the society on weekdays, but were extremely poor and luxurious, which made a lot of manpower and material resources of the Ming Dynasty waste on their personal enjoyment, and also exacerbated the gap between the rich and the poor, thus corrupting the etiquette and customs.

These salt merchants are simply moths to Daming, and Zhu Youxiao has long had the idea of confiscating these salt merchants. It's just that Zhu Youxiao has never had any good excuses before, and he is even more afraid that after the raid of these salt merchants, it will lead to serious panic consequences. This in turn leads to a class backlash and social unrest.

At that time. Zhu Youxiao could not curb the idea of raiding the salt merchants in Yangzhou, and the wealth in front of him was too amazing.

If these salt merchants were confiscated, the imperial court finances might not have to worry about it for several years.

On the same day, Zhu Youxiao summoned Tian Ergeng, Wei Zhongxian, Yang Guorui, Shen Xiao, Sun Chuanting, and other high-level dignitaries of the military, government, business, and security departments to the palace and held a secret imperial meeting in the Qianqing Palace.

On that day, the gate of the Qianqing Palace was closed, and the candles inside were bright, and no one knew what these people inside were discussing. Even Yang Guang, the little eunuch who served by the emperor's side, didn't know what was being talked about.

The pre-imperial meeting lasted for three full hours, and after the meeting, a group of high-level dignitaries hurriedly left the Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, it's time for dinner." Yang Guang reminded that Zhu Youxiao was standing in front of the palace gate. Looking at these backs walking out of the Forbidden City, he nodded slightly. Yang Guang immediately went down to arrange the meal, and a faint smile appeared on Zhu Youxiao's face at this time.

How many beats can life have?

Done!

Even if it is separated from the traditional elite class of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the people's hearts are not lost, it does not matter. What's more, at this time, Zhu Youxiao had formed a new interest group called the Royal Consortium, uniting a group of emerging magnates and wealthy businessmen.

After all, this is a game of wolves and sheep, and now the royal consortium is a wolf, and the Yangzhou salt merchants are sheep. And this emerging interest group formed by Zhu Youxiao also reached a consensus of opinion, that is, the Yangzhou salt merchants must be eliminated by violent means, otherwise it will take too long to annex the Yangzhou salt merchants, and during this period, these Yangzhou salt merchants will consume a lot of people's power.

It was only discussed for a long time on the specific inspection process and the subsequent asset disposal method.

In the middle of the spring of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Dongchang and Jinyiwei suddenly coordinated with the two infantry divisions of the Central Bureau to rush south, and within a few days, three infantry divisions and one cavalry division set off for the south.

All this was carried out in secrecy, and even the troops going south did not know what tasks they were going to perform. Along the way, the local government saw a large group of central troops crossing the border quickly, and all of them couldn't understand what these central troops were going to do, and they thought that there was civil unrest again!

No one could have imagined that these central armies were going to raid homes.

No one thought that the emperor would suddenly attack the salt merchants in Yangzhou, who were still drunk and dreaming in Yangzhou at this time.

Of course, Yangzhou salt merchants are not all enjoying life at this time, because their interests have been seriously impacted. Since the emperor changed from boiling salt to dried salt, and everyone could get salt introduction, and developed shipping, a large amount of Changlu salt began to impact the salt industry in the Yangtze River basin.

These long reed salts are transported by sea, and the transportation cost is extremely low. Moreover, it is the official legal salt introduction, which has led to the Yangtze River basin now being full of Changlu salt. The stoves of the Jianghuai Salt Farm were also completely resettled, which deprived Yangzhou salt merchants of their salt sources.

After holding it for a long time, it was natural to do something to come out, and as a result, the Yangzhou civil unrest came out.

At the same time, some salt merchants were not willing to sit idly by and began to arrange for people to cook salt by the sea, and then sell the smuggled salt themselves. As Zhu Youxiao expected, these Yangzhou salt merchants quickly made their private salt appear in the market with their connections in the officialdom.

If there is anyone that Yangzhou salt merchants hate the most at this time, it must be Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

The civil unrest was unsuccessful, so that these salt merchants began to use other crooked brains, but before they could come up with any good solutions, the central army had already rushed to Yangzhou. (To be continued......)