"I'm still too naïve, no wonder when I exempted the southern provinces from land taxes, the officials applauded, and only now do I find out that I actually made wedding clothes for others."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen understood the key, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"But Your Majesty, no matter what, you can't let the civil unrest continue like this, or the society in danger."

Wang Chengen, the commander of Dongchang, persuaded on the side.

"It's not so critical, it's good to be chaotic, and the province will make the court and the princes think that the world is really peaceful, and they think that the people of the world can really be exploited by them at will."

Zhu Youzhen said and said with a smile: "I use an analogy, if this world is a pasture of mine, and the gentry and the people are like a group of wolves and a group of sheep raised by me, and now the sheep are unwilling to be eaten by the wolves and attack them in groups, do you say that I am willing to let the sheep defeat the wolf, or let the wolf eat the sheep." ”

"Naturally, you can't let the wolf eat the sheep, and the sheep will definitely not be able to eat the wolf, so Your Majesty doesn't need to help the wolf."

Wang Chengen replied.

"That's the truth, tell the Generalissimo's Mansion, there is no need to transfer troops to quell the chaos, in addition, send an order to the Jiangxi Dudu Command Envoy, most of the people of Jiangxi are one of my Ming citizens, when they can't be treated like untouchables, they can't kill the people without permission, they can be repulsed, but they can't be suppressed, they can be appeased, but they can't be slaughtered, otherwise the Military Justice Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will definitely deal with it strictly, and secondly, let the cabinet issue a decree, this is Jiangxi's civil non-Ming war, and the Jiangxi Governor Ding Chukui will deal with it, and the situation cannot be expanded. Otherwise, it will be on the grounds of dereliction of duty! ”

Soon, Ding Chukui, the governor of Jiangxi, received a decree from the Generalissimo's Office and the Cabinet.

Ding Chukui, the governor of Jiangxi, made a dilemma on the spot: "How can this be good, if you refuse to send troops and refuse to let us go in to suppress them, don't you intend to connive at these chaotic people." ”

"The imperial court is unwilling to send troops, so we can only allow the local government to recruit villagers to form a security group to resist these chaotic people on the grounds of protecting their homeland, and we all command a small number of soldiers and horses of the envoy to only hold a few prefectures and cities, and at the same time send people to appease these chaotic people, and we have to spend some money, since the imperial court says that it can be appeased, then the imperial court will not send troops at least willing to send money, otherwise how can we appease it."

Jiangxi Commander Yuan Ziyi said.

Ding Chukui had no choice but to nod after hearing this, and began to arrange for people to contact the leaders of the rebels, and at the same time ordered the local government to recruit strong warriors to protect their homes.

As a result, the Jiangxi rebellion intensified.

The rebels began to sweep across southern Gansu, but gradually, the local gentry began to organize enough armed resistance.

Most of the rebels used hoes and sickles as weapons, and Ding Yong, organized by the local squires, was mostly swords and spears, and the two sides were on par.

However, because of the strong organizational ability of the squires and the help of the Jiangxi Metropolitan Command Division, gradually, the offensive of the chaotic people was contained.

Then, because of the initiative of Jiangxi Governor Ding Chukui to appease, and the people did not really want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but under the persecution of the gentry there was no way to live so they had to rebel, and now Ding Chukui took the initiative to appease and promised not to blame the people, and promised that the land occupied by the people would be divided among the people or arranged for employment, so that the rebellious people also stopped the rebellion and continued to be obedient to the people.

The leaders of the rebels who took the lead were naturally brought to justice.

The people have been promised by the governor's yamen and the interests of the squires, so there is no need for these "heroes" who led them to rebellion, and it is also in line with the opinions of the people that these "heroes" are executed as the culprits of the rebellion, after all, they do not die, and the court does not worry about them as the people.

The local gentry naturally suffered a lot of losses, and the gentry in several counties were looted, and the land was finally returned to the people in a way that the people were forced to admit as a rebellion.

In addition, the local squires had to sacrifice some benefits in order to organize a brave resistance to the rebels, such as giving out bounties and land gifts.

In addition, after this chaos, many gentry also realized that they could not be exploited too harshly, and began to take the initiative to reduce rent.

The situation in Jiangxi has stabilized, and as Zhu Youzhen expected, there has not been much chaos, but Zhu Youzhen's worries have become heavier.

Because he realized that the three social ecology of the Ming Dynasty doomed the Ming Dynasty as a large country, it would still be very difficult to truly realize the reform of complete industrialization.

A little carelessness can provoke chaos with an immature reform.

Nowadays, the Ming Empire has three social and economic structures in one country, the north is the small peasant economic recovery area, the southwest and central south are the small peasant economic collapse areas, and the south of the Yangtze River is the highly developed commodity economy.

However, it is not so obvious that Chengdu in the southwest is the same as Jiangnan and the north, and Tianjin and Beijing in the north are the same as Jiangnan.

The relationship is complex.

Zhu Youzhen feared that the Ming Empire would have civil strife due to the disharmony of the economic structure of various regions, just like the civil war between the North and the South like in the United States.

The United States has been in a civil war between the North and the South for eight years.

Such a complex economic distribution and geographical pattern of the Ming Dynasty is only afraid of no less than eight years, and it is a great loss for the entire nation at that time.

If the capital group in Jiangnan wins, it would be good, at least the empire can be regarded as conforming to the development of history.

However, if the strong bureaucracy in other regions wins, and even wins the Ming Dynasty, the Zhu family, or the Zhu family, that is, the emperor himself or his own descendants, supports the bureaucracy, then history will be reversed again.

Moreover, no matter who wins, the entire Chinese nation will suffer great economic losses and national losses, and the newly unified world will even fall apart because of this, especially the newly established provinces of Monan, Northeast, Lelang, and Dongying will even become independent again.

Zhu Youzhen did not want such an incident to happen.

Therefore, he was deeply anxious about this, and he had to convene a court meeting to discuss countermeasures.

"This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty that I learned from this southern tour, the three social forms, namely the central south and southwest after the land annexation, the north and the outside the customs before the land annexation, most of the people are engaged in the industrial and commercial Jiangnan, the two interest groups, our bureaucracy and the capital group that controls the wealth, the five roles, workers, peasants, officials, merchants, and gentry;

The social structure of our Ming Dynasty is not uncomplicated, the businessmen do not want to be too ruthlessly taxed by the officials, the workers do not want to be exploited too ruthlessly by the merchants, the peasants do not want to be too ruthlessly collected by the gentry, and the successive anti-tax incidents in Jiangnan and the just-concluded Jiangxi Rebellion all show that these problems have always existed and even intensified.

If it is not addressed and prevented now, who can guarantee that it will not cause chaos in the future? If the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River formed an armed boycott of the imperial court, and the peasants in the southwest and central and southern China formed thieves to compete for the world, if the corruption of officials led to changes in the people in the north and outside the Guan, wouldn't the world be divided again? Or even give the alien race a chance to rise again? ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he couldn't help but say meaningfully: "Ladies and gentlemen, we can't help but be vigilant." ”

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