"Brother Linghu, Ren Yingying should have been caught by my people, what do you think I should do with her?"

Walking in front of Ling Hu Chong, Chen Quan suddenly asked.

Hearing Chen Quan's question, Fang Zheng's head lowered, and Zuo Lengchan had another thought. And Yue Buqun and the other Huashan disciples looked at Ling Hu Chong nervously.

"If you do something wrong, you deserve to be punished! Brother Chen doesn't need to ask me about this. ”

Glancing back at Yue Buqun, Ling Hu Chong suppressed the sadness in his heart and said lonely. And his answer also made Yue Buqun and the others completely relieved.

Chen Quan smiled and patted Ling Hu Chong's shoulder, this guy didn't waste so much spit to brainwash him, and spent so much time collecting all kinds of information about his father and daughter to provide to him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the leaders of the chaotic party have all been ambushed, and those so-called seven anti-kings can't make any waves. When the world is calm again, I will cooperate with the imperial court to complete a series of major events that benefit the country and the people, and please participate in it. As long as you sincerely participate in and assist the court in completing these things, the court will not lose the benefits of all factions. This is true for both good and evil.

In addition, I hereby officially announce my withdrawal from the rivers and lakes, and no longer ask about the grievances of the rivers and lakes! I won't hold a golden basin handwashing conference like Liu Sanye, but since I said so today, as long as you don't mess with it, all your grievances will not be involved. ”

Chen Quan's words immediately caused an uproar and discussion among everyone present.

Some people breathe a sigh of relief, some people are disappointed and annoyed, and some people face it calmly, such as Chong Xudao. This disciple has done enough for Wudang, and it's time to get out of the fence of the rivers and lakes.

Although Chen Quan's existence can suppress Wudang for an era like Zhang Sanfeng, the power he has at his disposal also makes countless forces extremely jealous of Wudang.

Now that's how it is, it's good.

"Humph! Bring sand to the beach! Whether you are out of the rivers and lakes or not, you are my advanced innate whetstone! ”

After saying that, Dongfang was undefeated and flew away. From beginning to end, no one showed their feet, and no one present knew about the relationship between the two of them that could not be made public.

The great war before Shaolin came to an end, and in the righteous path, Shaolin, Songshan, Taishan, Hengshan and other factions lost some manpower, especially Shaolin, because it participated in the war with the largest number of people, and many of them were just ordinary monks, so the most casualties were more than 30 people. However, compared to the almost total annihilation of the evil way, it is much better.

However, this is only a loss on the surface. For the righteous factions, the real loss is something that cannot be said. For example, the status of Shaolin rivers and lakes has declined greatly, and the Songshan faction has completely lost the hope of unifying the Wuyue Sword Sect and has completely lost the target that can be used to divert contradictions.

Although the Sun Moon Divine Cult is still there, the undefeated strength of the East and the complete change of style of the Sun Moon Divine Cult under the constraints of the Eastern Undefeated have made Shaolin and Songshan dare not and cannot use the Sun Moon Divine Cult as a target at all.

However, Chen Quan didn't bother to pay attention to this matter on the rivers and lakes. After taking Shaolin's Yijin Sutra and Washing the Marrow Sutra, and saying goodbye to Chongxu Daochang, Chen Quan went directly to Luoyang, fully mobilized his own forces, and cooperated with the imperial army to encircle and suppress the seven anti-kings.

The action of the Seven Great Anti-Kings seems to be huge, and there are thousands of literati to support it, but after Zhu Di's successful rebellion, the prince of the Ming Dynasty was congenitally defective, and the capital of the rebellion was too poor.

Although a large number of literati waved their flags and shouted for them, and some local army generals listened to the deception of those literati and joined in, they found that they were divided and surrounded by the imperial army only five days after raising the anti-flag. Hundreds of thousands of troops divided and besieged the army of nearly 200,000 of the seven anti-kings in a single place, unable to move.

What's even worse is that the anti-kings found that in addition to their own grain reserves, the grain depots in the areas under their control were empty, and the grain merchants' stores did not have much grain in stock.

As a result, although the anti-kings in various places raided Chen Quan's money houses and businesses in their respective control areas at the first time, and obtained millions of taels of money, these money could not be exchanged for much food and other urgently needed materials. Most of these materials were transferred to other areas by Chen Quan in just over ten days.

With the help of powerful commercial forces, this seemingly imposing judgment was quelled in just about 20 days. All the seven anti-kings were detained in Beijing, and tens of thousands of literati and nearly 1,000 officials were killed. Even the princes of various places who did not participate in the rebellion were subject to stricter restrictions.

A rebellion not only swept away most of the vassal kings formed by the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years, but also dealt a huge blow to the civil power. The reason for this situation is entirely the death of the literati themselves.

Tens of thousands of literati, nearly 1,000 civil officials actively promoted the rebellion of the Seven Kings made Zhu Youzhu have a great vigilance against the literati, and finally under Chen Quan's suggestion, the Ming Dynasty spent five years to implement the division of civil and military rule at the same time, the establishment of military schools, the reform of the military system, the implementation of the military rank system and the system of liuguan.

Although the system of the guard post has not changed, under the military rank system and the system of liuguan, the soldiers of the guard post are no longer the private property of any official, and it has greatly curbed the corruption method in the army, such as empty salaries. After all, the five-year system of changing officials makes those officers dare not risk being exposed by their successors.

As for raising relatives, don't even think about it! When you go to another place and you take up a thousand soldiers, what do you want to do?

In addition to the changes in the military and political aspects, there have also been tremendous changes in the economic aspects.

With the momentum of counterinsurgency, Zhu Youzhu officially implemented the commercial tax reform and agricultural tax reform in an all-round way, collected taxes from the merchants and gentry of the entire Ming Dynasty, established the City Park Division, and collected customs duties.

Although there were many obstacles during the period, under Zhu Youzhang's tough implementation and the support of Chen Quan's business intelligence network, the tax reform was fully implemented, and it showed remarkable results in the second year.

In the second year, although the tax reform was fully implemented for less than half a year, the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty reached more than 32 million taels that year, of which the agricultural tax was only more than 9 million taels.

In the case of the direct overturning of taxes, there is no lack of livelihood for the people in the world as those diehards say, but because of the continuous prosperity of commerce and Chen Quan's large import of Nanyang wealth, the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty have risen instead of falling.

Such a change has completely solidified the gains of tax reform, so that those forces that fight back can no longer make any waves. Although they had bribed the chamberlain to attack Zhu Youzhang, the result was that Zhu Youzhu was unharmed, but it caused a shocking case that affected nearly 10,000 people, and the power of the Jiangnan gentry was also dealt a fatal blow.

These were changes in the Ming court, Chen Quan only participated in some of them, provided some advice and intelligence support, and his main energy was focused on the huge infrastructure construction of the six northern provinces and his own cultivation.