At this point, the salt reform has come to an end, and the next step is to steadily implement it according to the established plan. Yuan Keli did not leave, but said that the people inside and outside Yangzhou were divided, the gentry and officials were panicked, and many merchants avoided Yangzhou, so that the ground in Yangzhou was very depressed.

"The minister has learned that the people of Yangzhou are worried that His Majesty will clean up the officials of the yamen and dispose of the gentry and merchants as he did in Shandong, so the people's hearts are uncertain." Yuan Keli sighed.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "I have no intention of carrying out official reform in Yangzhou Mansion for the time being. ”

It's not that I don't want to, it's that Zhu Youzhen is really unavailable now. The scholars recruited by the accompanying clan were all sent to serve in the salt works, and now only the army was left with them. To clean up the yamen, it is necessary to send a large number of people to replace the officials of the principle, so that the affairs of the government will not be paralyzed. Before there are enough manpower, Zhu Youzhen will naturally not do it.

Of course, it is also possible to send people from the army to take over the yamen, because in the promotion of literacy in the army, many officers and soldiers in the army are familiar with writing and ink, especially the large number of prison soldiers, and it is more than enough to serve as government officials with their ability. But Zhu Youzhen would not do this, because he only had five or six thousand troops left around him now, and he didn't want any loss in the army's combat effectiveness.

"In this case, can you ask Your Majesty to promulgate a decree to calm the people to stabilize the hearts of the people in Yangzhou." Yuan Keli pleaded.

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, agreed, and asked Hong Chengchou to draft a notice on behalf of himself, to the effect that the two Huai salt systems were chaotic, and the nest merchants colluded with the salt transportation Sihao Stove to bully and oppress the stoves, manipulate the price of salt, and smuggle smuggled salt, so that the people could not afford to eat salt, the stove households could not eat, and the income of the imperial court had plummeted. At present, the reform of the salt system of the two Huai has ended, the officials of the yamen should perform their duties to stabilize the streets, and the people should perform their own business, so there is no need to panic.

"So Yangzhou is determined." Yuan Keli said happily and said goodbye and left.

"Yuan Shangshu should be strong and strong." Looking at Yuan Keli's back, Hong Chengchou praised.

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "It's the minister of the society." ”

"Your Majesty, do you want to let the Marquis of Funing bring the beauties over again?" Wang Chengen asked.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "Forget it, a seventy-year-old man is still working hard for the Daming Society, and I can't continue to slack off." ”

It doesn't matter if you have fun occasionally, it's not okay to be obsessed with pleasure, not to mention that Zhu Youzhen doesn't have much interest in so-called pleasure at all.

Leaving the water pavilion and returning to the study, Zhu Youzhen ordered the inspector to move the music sent from Beijing and began to read them one by one. According to the explanation when leaving Beijing, ordinary affairs can be decided by the cabinet, and then handed over to the celebrant to wear red, and major matters need to be sent to Zhu You's inspection as soon as possible, so it is not too much. Wang Chengen had already classified the music and placed it on the case.

Zhu Youzhen looked at it, took a copy from the thickest stack, and when he opened it, it was a bullet seal, which was actually the impeachment of Huang Liji, the first assistant of Zhang Heng, the imperial history of the Inspectorate!

The first assistant of the cabinet was impeached, and the cabinet naturally could not make a decision, so it had to be sent to Zhu Youzhen for a decision. Zhu Youzhen looked at it and found that there were six major charges of impeachment, which were nothing more than corruption, bribery, forming a party for personal gain, and tyrannizing power without authority.

casually threw it aside, took down another one, and looked through it to still impeach Huang Liji. I looked through several books one after another, all of which impeached Huang Liji.

Zhu Youzhen sneered.

Although far away from the imperial court, Zhu Youzhen's ears and eyes are not closed, and Jinyiwei will send all kinds of information to the imperial front every day, although it will be delayed for a few days, but Zhu Youzhen still knows the situation in Beijing well.

"When I arrived in Yangzhou, the next step was to cross the river to Jiangnan, and many people finally couldn't bear it." Zhu Youzhen muttered.

In this life, Zhu Youzhen did not listen to the flickering of the Donglin Party at the beginning of his ascension to eradicate the eunuch party, nor did he deliberately expel the Donglin party. Appointing officials according to their ability, rather than faction and personal morality, is the purpose of Zhu Youzhen's current employment.

In addition to strictly grasping the army and raiding homes to make money, Zhu Youzhen has delegated power to other things, and he is no longer in charge of everything like in his previous life. In a sense, Zhu Youzhen has managed to get rid of the tedious court affairs. And the courtiers are also very clear about Zhu Youzhen's temperament, so the court in this life is more harmonious, and there are no frequent party disputes like in the previous life.

And now, many officials have impeached Huang Liji, the first assistant, and the party struggle in the court has risen again, which means that Zhu Youzhen is naturally clear. This was his own move that frightened many people, for fear that he would cross the river, like when he was in Shandong, so he launched a party struggle to try to draw his eyes back to the court. The court is unstable, emperor, do you still have the heart to go south to make trouble?

Of course, if it was just a matter in the court, Zhu Youzhen could ignore it completely. As long as an order is issued to severely punish those officials of the Donglin family who have been impeached, and they are sent to the wasteland one by one, this wave of party disputes can be stopped. But the problem is that except for the court, the place is also unstable.

In Henan, the Red Turban Thief rebellion intensified, the thief leader Red Lady captured Chenzhou and then waved south, has occupied most of the Runing Mansion, because of its equal land, not to pay for the slogan, attracted countless farmers to vote, the number of anti-thieves has developed to as many as two or three hundred thousand, and now the anti-thief leader Red Lady is leading troops to besiege Ruyang City.

To the west of Runing Mansion, Li Yan of the Red Turban Army led his troops to occupy several prefectures and counties in the mountainous area of western Henan, and after leading his troops to attack Nanyang City, he led his troops north into the Luoyang Basin. However, the attitude of the people around Luoyang towards the peasant army was very unfriendly, and they formed villages to resist the peasant army. Even the slogan of opening a warehouse to release grain and not paying grain could not attract the farmers around Luoyang, which made Li Yan very surprised.

Li Yan didn't know that as early as the seventh year of the Apocalypse, shortly after Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, Lu Xiangsheng led troops to quell the rebellion of King Fu, distributed the fields occupied by King Fu to the people, and recruited more than 10,000 soldiers around Luoyang City into the Praetorian Guard. Therefore, there are too many family members of the Praetorian Guards around Luoyang, and each household has the fields allocated to them by the emperor, plus the military salary that the Praetorian Guards bring home, although Henan is also dry for many years, but the people around Luoyang are not bad, at least there is no problem with a full stomach. So it's no wonder that the anti-thief army that came over can be welcomed?

Seeing that the peasants around Luoyang were very hostile to him, Li Yan knew that he could not do anything, so he led his troops back to the mountains and attacked Nanyang again, but was met with fierce resistance from the Nanyang City army led by Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang.

After attacking Nanyang City, Li Yan led his army all the way to the south, conquering many cities in Dengzhou, Xinye, and Tang County, and had the tendency to go south to Xiangyang and enter Huguang.

The Praetorian Guards dispatched from the three sides had not yet arrived, and the situation in Henan was so critical that Zhu Youzhen had to worry about it. In this situation, should we continue to cross the river to the south?