Seeing that the situation has developed to this extent, some people with ill intentions have also mixed in with the chaos and tried to make profits from it, they are either the old rebels of the White Lotus Sect, or the heroes of various cottages, and even the gentry who want to take this opportunity to fight the enemy, with the help of these people, the turmoil is getting bigger and bigger. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

They even repelled the attacks of the guards, occupying one or two small towns, and the local officials in Jiangnan gradually lost the lid and had to report what happened here to the imperial court; Before that, Li You got these news through channels such as Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Jiangnan Town Guard.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a piece of music sent by Jiangnan, let's take a good look." Li You asked Wang Chengen to distribute these folds to Sun Chengzong, Wang Qia and other important ministers of the imperial court, ready to listen to their opinions first, now that the nine sides have gradually stabilized, it is time to withdraw their hands to solve the Jiangnan gentry.

Everyone had heard some news before, but after reading it in a hurry, Sun Chengzong took the lead and said, "Your Majesty, Jiangnan is my Ming Dynasty's tax destination, once there is turmoil, the consequences will be unimaginable, and we have to find a way to quell this turmoil as soon as possible." ”

"Oh? I have also seen the account books of the household department, and the tea tax is less than ten taels a year, which is still called a tax land? Although he knew that what Sun Chengzong said was the truth, Li You couldn't help but sarcastically say that the gentry in Jiangnan occupy the most fertile land in the world, hold the most abundant funds in the world, and live the most comfortable and comfortable life in the world, but they have repeatedly relied on their privileges to avoid the obligation to pay taxes, and they are also extremely harsh to the people under their command.

"Your Majesty, what these people have done is really excessive, but it is still necessary to focus on this time at the moment, and it is not too late to plan for things such as tea tax and salt tax after the turmoil has subsided." Sun Chengzong was also embarrassed to help these people speak, because what they did was too much, fortunately, His Majesty's heroic military force pacified the Jiannu in just a few years, exempted the Liao, and saved a lot of expenses by cutting out the clan and verifying the soldiers of the Nine Sides, otherwise the taxes transferred to the people in the northwest by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River would have crushed them long ago, and now the north of the Ming Dynasty may have been in chaos.

"Your Majesty, what is the cause of this? It can't be that these weavers just get up and make trouble for no reason, right? Wang Qia, the secretary of the military department, asked a question at the right time.

"Luo Qing's family, let's tell you all about the information collected by your Jinyiwei, and see what good things these Jiangnan gentry have done." Li You called out the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Yangxing, and the ministers heard this, and their hearts sank when they heard this, and from the words in the pen, it could be heard that he did not have much ill feelings towards these rebellious weavers, but was dissatisfied with those Jiangnan gentry, and now these Jiangnan gentry were afraid that they would be in big trouble.

"Wechen obeys." Luo Yangxing replied, he was now agitated in his heart, he didn't expect that just a few drawings would cause chaos in Jiangnan, His Majesty's strategy is really far beyond his ability to speculate, it seems that he needs to be more cautious in the future, and the matter of drawings must be rotten to the stomach, and must not let outsiders know, "My lords, the lower officials inquired about the origin of some of this matter from the Jinyiwei in Jiangnan, it turned out that those Jiangnan gentry for their own selfishness, regardless of the life and death of the weavers, a large number of weavers were cut, These weavers had no food or clothing to get up and beg for a bite to eat. ”

Luo Yangxing understood what Li You meant, and in the process of explaining the matter, he also put most of the responsibility on the gentry behind the textile workshops, "And I also inquired that because the price of cotton has soared, many landlords in Jiangnan now plan not to plant rice next year, but to plant cotton instead, maybe next year, Jiangnan will encounter a food shortage." ”

"Jiangnan food shortage?" Many ministers suddenly felt a little unbelievable, Jiangnan has always been the land of fish and rice, Ms. Lai here is not only enough for the local people to eat, but also through the canal to the north to supply the capital needs, this is the so-called grain, if Jiangnan encounters a food shortage, not only Jiangnan local, but also the capital will also be extremely seriously impacted, and even some people have begun to wonder whether to let the family buy more rice and noodles to store, so as not to be able to grab it when the price of grain in the capital soars in the future.

"Exactly, the number reported by Jinyiwei is already very large, this is still planned at present, if it waits for a while, I am afraid that there will be more, if this matter is not taken precautions early, I am afraid that Jiangnan will be even more chaotic in the coming year." Luo Yangxing replied affirmatively, and he also took out the figures counted by Jinyiwei and distributed them to these ministers, Sun Chengzong and the others were all surprised when they saw these figures.

"Your Majesty, this matter must not be taken lightly, and it is necessary to send a messenger to the south, and strictly order the gentry in Jiangnan not to do it lightly." Sun Chengzong still came up with this old method.

"Hehe, if just one messenger can handle this, I won't be in a hurry, but in Sun Aiqing's opinion, is this just something that a messenger can do?" Since the rise of the Donglin Party, the Jiangnan gentry have become more and more ignorant of the orders of the imperial court, and the Jiangnan scholars have not done it once to expel the county officials and beat the envoys of the imperial court.

The main hall suddenly became noisy, and some people supported Sun Chengzong's opinion that reliable men should be sent to act as messengers; And some officials from Jiangnan said that the gentry in Jiangnan are loyal to the country and sympathetic to the people, and they will never do such things that will lead to chaos in Jiangnan, but I am afraid that even he himself does not believe this, right?

"Okay, this matter is very important, I plan to send the soldiers of the Beijing camp to the south first to quell the turmoil, and the magistrate in Jiangnan should also be replaced, and it is time to make such a big mess for me, and the turmoil has happened for so long, before someone reported it to me, if it weren't for Jinyiwei and Dongchang, I don't know how long they would be hidden, if they are allowed to mess around, Jiangnan still doesn't know what Luancheng will look like." Li You knew that to solve the problem in Jiangnan, it was not something that could be solved by just one messenger, and a big change was necessary.

"I plan to let Cao Wenzhao lead 30,000 troops south, and after the turmoil is quelled, these 30,000 soldiers and horses will also stay in Jiangnan to help reorganize the garrison in Jiangnan." Li You said.