There were those who impeached Wu Jiayin, the prefect of Songjiang and the secretary of the city, who took advantage of the opening of Shanghai to encroach on the fertile land of the gentry and the common people, and there were also those who impeached local officials for forcing children to go to school in order to fulfill the targets of the Ministry of Rites, and even let girls go to school, so that the religion collapsed, and the people's discussion was boiling, and there were even those who impeached the emperor, the emperor, the emperor, and the officials and businessmen for bullying and dominating the market.

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to see these songs, in fact, as early as the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, since Zhu Youzhen began to collect commercial taxes, there have been countless officials who have been playing to prevent the new policy.

However, because of the Qian Qianyi case and Zhang Shenyan's case, Zhu Youzhen almost completely suppressed the Jiangnan gentry class, so that the commercial tax could be smoothly implemented.

Although there has never been a shortage of people who are willing to be officials in the Ming Dynasty, the relationship between Zhu Youzhen and the gentry class in Jiangnan is indeed getting farther and farther away, and the officials who impeached Zhu Youzhen for his work even explicitly said that they would stop Zhu Youzhen's new policy are still missing, and there are more and more officials who have resigned from their posts or even retreated to the mountains and forests.

If in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen and the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the contradiction between Zhu Youzhen and the Jiangnan gentry class was not sharp enough, then in the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, it was completely sharp.

None of the new policies comprehensively carried out by Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen in the 19th year of Chongzhen did not touch the interests of the gentry class in Jiangnan.

Although Zhu Youzhen only appointed Wu Jiayin, an official who was not afraid of power, to preside over the matter in Songjiang Mansion, Zhu Youzhen could affirm that there were many obstacles, but Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, could not see the twists and turns in the song.

Only Dongchang's report was more detailed, saying that the officials of Songjiang Mansion did not listen to Wu Jiayin's words at first, but listened to the words of the local big families Xu and Lu.

According to Wu Jiayin's idea, he first wanted to recover the official land near Shanghai County and acquire the private land to open a commercial port, but the first problem Wu Jiayin encountered was that almost a large area of the local official land and the private land had been annexed by the local large Xu family and the Lu family.

And the Xu family in this is said to have had a first assistant.

In other words, if Wu Jiayin wants to successfully open a commercial port in Songjiang Mansion, he can only clarify the acres of land and recover the fields that were swallowed by the wealthy families.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen now transferred a group of loyal and administratively capable military attaches in the guard system and guards to Wu Jiayin, who recommended Wu Jiayin to the Ministry of Officials to remove a group of disobedient low-level officials, and let these military attaches and some soldiers serve as local officials in Songjiang Prefecture.

Moreover, Wu Jiayin also secretly requested the mobilization of Gao Jie's army, so that the decree of Qingzhang Tianmu could be implemented, so that the opening of Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture was completed in the nineteenth year of Chongzhen.

In addition, even the construction of water conservancy by the Ministry of Industry and the appointment and dismissal of military attaches to other jobs as local grassroots officials also aroused the dissatisfaction of the Jiangnan gentry.

Although the Ministry of Industry is building water conservancy projects for the benefit of the people, it is competing with the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River for the hearts and minds of the people, which makes the local clan forces feel very frightened, and many officials have begun to impeach the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the local government for corruption through the construction of projects, and even secretly send people to break the embankment or directly and secretly make stumbling blocks.

Most of the demobilized military attaches were officers and soldiers of the Guards who obeyed Zhu Youzhen, and these people had a blind admiration for Zhu Youzhen, and their appointment as local county officials and chief bookkeepers undoubtedly allowed the imperial power to go to the countryside and greatly reduced the basic administrative power controlled by the local gentry.

As a result, there are more and more cases of impeachment and transfer of military attachés for violating local laws and disciplines.

There have even been incidents of local people smashing county officials and assassinating demobilized military attachés, and some local officials are also disgusted with these martial artists serving as their subordinate officials, and have begun to play for impeachment.

In addition, it stands to reason that the expansion of social studies and the encouragement of the children of the common people to go to school, and even the use of official positions to attract low-level scholars to actively participate in the cause of education, should be a good governance praised by the whole people, but there are also officials who play the impeachment of this move will delay the agricultural time, so that a large number of scholars have no intention of studying, and so on.

In fact, according to the Dongchang report, after the expansion of local social studies, the implementation of the policy of free education for three years and attracting low-level scholars to teach social studies with official positions and fame, many low-level people were unwilling to rent landlords' land, which led to a decrease in the income of the landlords exploiting the low-level people.

Zhu Youzhen's move inadvertently touched on the monopoly of education by the local gentry, and even touched on the control of the government by the local gentry through the relationship between teachers and students and fellow villagers formed through education.

It is not a good thing for the local squires to enter the school that a large number of commoner children enter the school, after all, the more books people read, the more reactionary they become, and it will naturally become more and more difficult for some wealthy families who dominate the township all year round to control the local people.

Zhu Youzhen felt a headache, looking at the mountains of songs, he didn't know how to deal with them, and he was bloody, Wu Jiayin, Chen Zizhuang, Tang Xiangtai and other local officials were said to be officials who did all kinds of evil.

However, the report of Dongchang was so terrible that some people began to surround and smash the government, and even assassinate the officials.

Therefore, although Chongzhen's nineteenth year was calm, it was not so really calm, and even some undercurrents were surging, treacherous, although the income of the imperial court and Zhu Youzhen's own income increased substantially, and the local government also reported that its treasury income was also increasing day by day, and grain production began to rise steadily.

And Zhu Youzhen did not levy agricultural taxes again, and even ordered all taxes to be reduced or reduced to Chongzhen for 20 years, but why did he still cause so much civil turmoil.

"Your Majesty, it is reported that Wu Jiayin, the prefect of Songjiang and the city of Songjiang, suddenly died after eating a piece of Western cake in the afternoon, and the newspaper of the place where he will be present will be presented, this is the express report of the East Factory, according to investigation, this Western cake is mixed with a drug that is compatible with Wu Jiayin's illness!"

Dongchang Admiral Wang Chengen walked in, when he informed Zhu Youzhen of the news, Zhu Youzhen suddenly stood up, he didn't expect that even high-ranking officials like Wu Jiayin, the prefect of Songjiang, would be assassinated, how bold these local bigwigs were!

Zhu Youzhen kicked at Wang Chengen: "How did you do the bad thing in Dongchang, the dignified court three-rank official was actually poisoned and assassinated in his own house!" ”

I can't help Zhu Youzhen not be angry, Chongzhen's nineteenth year is about to end, and the new policy is about to see results, but he suddenly found such a thing, which will undoubtedly make some local officials who are still insisting on doing things for themselves as emperors feel afraid, and this is undoubtedly the biggest provocation to Zhu Youzhen, the emperor.

"Your Majesty forgive your sins! Wechen has ordered the people of the local Dongchang to immediately detain all the people in the government, including the shops that provide Western cakes, and they will definitely return justice to the Wu prefect, but His Majesty's top priority is to send a new prefect. ”

Wang Chengen said.

(End of chapter)