Yan Yingyuan stabbed a knife into the chest of Ge Zongbao, a former member of the Criminal Department, and after pulling out the knife, he directly led a group of people to immediately break into the backyard of the big Ge family.

Early in the morning of the second day, all the adult males of the Ge family in the entire Ge family compound were killed, not only the Ge family, but also the Pan family, the Xu family, etc., and the gentry and their families who had almost met with Li Tianjing, the new governor of Songjiang Mansion, were all exterminated in a few days at this moment.

The outside world thought that pirates were coming, and Li Tianjing, the governor of Songjiang Prefecture, also posted a notice to calm the people, saying that there was just a small group of pirates attacking and harassing, and that the guards had been asked to suppress the pirates.

In addition, the main place where the Yan Yingyuan Department of the Guards took revenge on some restless gentry on the order of Zhu You's inspection was not in the area where Huangpu and Wusongkou converged, so the ordinary people and merchants here were not greatly affected.

On this day, several large ships transported men, women and children under the age of 15 from various large families who opposed the imperial court to Wusongkou, and then Liu Kongzhao sent naval ships to transport them to the area controlled by the Zheng group on Dongfan Island.

For a time, the wealthy families in Suzhou and Songjiang were shocked when they heard that countless wealthy families who opposed the imperial court had been eradicated, and even exiled overseas, and some wealthy families guessed that this was done by the imperial court through various channels, but they didn't dare to say anything at this time.

The local gentry of the entire Suzhou and Songjiang prefectures were also silent at this time, and they didn't dare to do anything clearly, they didn't expect that their people would kill a prefect and attract such a strong revenge from His Majesty!

Although these Susong officials and gentry at this time did not dare to do anything, they are now more resentful of His Majesty's retaliation, in their opinion, half of the current taxes and grain of the Ming Dynasty are provided by them, and Songjiang Mansion opened the port, but they did not take advantage of the slightest advantage, and they were cleared of the acres of land, and ended up with no land.

In addition, now the DPRK and China are mainly Jiangxi and Zhejiang officials, whether it is Daji or Jingcha, these officials of the Southern Zhili are all at a loss, so now Zhu Youzhen directly used the army to pretend to be pirates and violently eliminate the restless squires, although the squires in the Susong area were frightened, but the hatred for Zhu Youzhen in their hearts was also deeper.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen also knew that by doing so, he was tantamount to using the most brutal means to deter these Su Song and even many officials and gentry in the entire Jiangnan who were dissatisfied with the current government and the distribution of interests, and would deepen their hatred for themselves.

But Zhu Youzhen has to do this, he knows that there is no absolutely perfect new deal in this world, since the benefits are to be distributed from the new, there will definitely be a class that will be harmed, these Jiangnan gentry have enjoyed the blessings of Daming for so long, they should also bleed, and whenever the Jiangnan gentry and even the officials of Jiangnan are hit, it is the most stable time for the court.

As for whether these Jiangnan gentry will make trouble, Zhu Youzhen is naturally not worried, and now in the entire empire, what can compete with his imperial power is nothing more than the traditional gentry and pirate group Zheng business names in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Liangguang and other places, as well as the commercial squires in Jiangnan.

The traditional squires take farming and heirlooms as their business, and control the local grassroots like the commercial squires in the south of the Yangtze River, but they pay attention to the distribution of property rights of agricultural income, and now Zhu Youzhen does not mention the matter of the official gentry paying grain, and repeatedly reduces the field tax, so that the agricultural income of the whole country flows more into the hands of these traditional squires and small landlords of the Shu nationality, they are the majority of the entire Ming official gentry class, and the interests of these people are not deprived by Zhu Youzhen. Therefore, no matter how Rao is Zhu Youzhen rebelled in Jiangnan, it would not let the Ming regime fall into a situation of collapse.

It stands to reason that the Zheng business of the pirate group belongs to a new class with the commercial gentry of Jiangnan, that is, the capital class, but the Zheng business has its own armed forces, which is the difference between him and the Jiangnan gentry, but Zhu Youzhen tied the Zheng group and himself to a carriage through tax exemption privileges, which can be said to be both glory and loss, so it is impossible for the Zheng group to oppose its own Ming court now.

Now only the commercial squires of Jiangnan are left, and what they don't realize is that they have been completely isolated by Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen.

Although the gentry in Jiangnan controlled the grass-roots organizations and agricultural income and even commercial income in the richest areas of the Ming Dynasty, they did not have their own armed forces, and Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, now had his own military power, and with the support of the traditional gentry and the Zheng group, who did not occupy the vast majority of the means of production in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen was currently in a state of comprehensive suppression of the gentry in Jiangnan.

Zhu Youzhen's guards are rewarded by their own royal capital, and the income of the imperial court provides military salaries, but now the main income of the imperial court and royal capital comes from the competition for commercial interests of the Jiangnan gentry, so the Guards, as the strongest land armed force in the Ming Dynasty, will not oppose Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen's comprehensive suppression of the Jiangnan gentry.

Even, Zhu Youzhen was infiltrating the local grassroots level in Jiangnan through theater control and enriching the grassroots official positions with demobilized personnel of the Guards Army, so as to achieve the goal of gradually encroaching on the ruling power of the Jiangnan gentry at the grassroots level.

Zhu Youzhen is not worried that the Jiangnan gentry will openly rebel, and he also believes that he cannot afford to rebel, and during the joint expansion of the two trust armed capital groups (Zhu Youzhen and Zheng Zhilong), it is naturally impossible for the Jiangnan gentry to protect their own interests.

But Zhu Youzhen is now worried that these Jiangnan gentry, who are destined to lose their political power and economic interests, will jump over the wall and use other means, such as assassination and supporting agents, to protect their interests.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know when someone would suddenly take his life, from getting up in the morning to eat to sleeping at night, he began to be a little nervous, afraid that he would die suddenly like Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Youxiao, for this reason, he had postponed the sacrifice of the Xiannong altar next month and sent King Yong to replace him.

That's right, Zhu Youzhen sent the Yongwang, not the important minister of the court or the crown prince Zhu Cihong, and the report of Dongchang Ma Jixiang made him realize that the prince was also his potential enemy, although he was now his own son.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen is a traverser, and he does not have too deep a calf licking relationship with Zhu Cihong, nor does he feel so uncomfortable.

Zhu Youzhen deliberately used this to send a signal to the officials of the imperial court that he had a potential plan to abolish the crown prince.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen was also worried that it would cause an overreaction from some officials who supported the prince, so he had to pay more attention to his personal safety.

Now Zhu Youzhen doesn't dare to go out of the palace easily, nor does he dare to go out to play casually, and now he almost only stays in the entire Qianqing Palace, and even opened the system of flipping cards.

(End of chapter)