In response to the violent resistance to the law in the Daimyo Mansion and the Shunde Mansion, Feng Quan, the right capital Yushi Fengquan, who had returned to power, was eager to show loyalty to Li Xingzhi, a powerful minister of the Ming Dynasty, and under the instruction of Song Guangkun, carried out a bloody suppression of the gentry and clan forces in Nanle and other places.

The gentry who originally rode on the heads of the people of these three counties did not go through the three law divisions, but directly ordered to kill all the gentry in the name of storming the government and attempting to rebel, and confiscated the family property of the gentry, and all their families were escorted to the manufacturing bureau established in Miyun.

Although this method was brutal, it was effective, not only deterring the gentry who were about to move in the northern Zhili prefectures, but also winning the hearts of the people who fled to these three counties.

Because these gentry and clans had a great deal of land, and now all of them have become ownerless land.

After distributing the high-class fields and part of the floating wealth of the landlords' families, which they had never dared to think of, the common people suddenly fell to the freezing point because of the gentry's demagoguery, and the fear of the Jingbei army suddenly dropped to the freezing point, but they were full of hope for the new decree issued by the imperial court.

Regarding Song Guangkun and Feng Quan's decree to solve the problem by force in the Daimyo Mansion and Shunde Mansion, Li Xingzhi took a tacit attitude, and even expressed his support for Song Guangkun with his actions.

After receiving that Song and Feng had executed a total of more than 2,300 gentry and local clan leaders in Daimyo and Shunde, Li Xingzhi immediately petitioned the imperial court to add Song Guangkun as Guanglu Doctor and Feng Quan as Honglu Siqing.

Li Xingzhi did not think that this repression would cause resistance from the gentry of the rest of the provinces, but on the contrary, these gentry would only succumb to their own long sword.

In later generations, when Manchuria entered the customs, the scale of the massacre was no more than the execution of thousands of gentry and local villagers, but the gentry in the north could not raise any intention of resisting at all, and they all watched the Manchurians staking their land in Beijing, and watched the money and grain that their families had worked hard to accumulate for several lifetimes being looted by the crazy Manchurians.

It is true that Li Xingzhi could not follow the example of the Manchurians and use massacres to intimidate localities, but there was no problem in killing a group of gentry who had violated national law.

The Prime Minister's Mansion did not seize your own registered land, and second, it did not deprive you of the tenants you had originally employed, but only demanded that you surrender the land and the displaced people.

What shocked Li Xingzhi the most about this purge was that Song Guangkun looted 160,000 stone of grain, 630,000 taels of silver, and a large amount of salt, iron, copper, and other materials, which greatly alleviated the food crisis brought about by the small relocation of the Guanning military family to Beizhili.

There was a famous saying in the previous life, that is, war is fought by logistics, and even if a war without logistics is won, it is only temporary.

In this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the war was actually fought with food, whether it was the Songjin War or the southwest counteroffensive presided over by Sun Kewang of the Yongli Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the final success fell short, and the main reason was the difficulty of food supply.

The rebellion of the displaced people during the Chongzhen period was actually that the people were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, and in order to survive, they could only take up arms to build an official rebellion.

The same is true of the rebellion outside the Guan, in order to be well fed, they can only fight the Ming idea that is richer than them.

After the Dongyu entered the customs, the main reason why the north was pacified by them in a short period of time was that the population of the north had fallen to the limit because of the perennial peasant war, and the output of the land in the north was enough to feed these people, that is to say, Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang provided the foundation for the Dongyu to enter the Central Plains in disguise.

As for the prosperous Kangqian era boasted by Manchuria and Qing Fen in later generations, in fact, it was the sweet potatoes, corn and other crops adapted to drought that Xu Guangqi and others purchased from Xiyi at the end of the Ming Dynasty that became popular in northern China.

As long as the common people have a bite to eat, he will naturally not risk his life to create a rebellion against the ruling class, as for whether this ruler is Han or Manchurian, they don't care at all, they only care about themselves and their small stomachs, even if they can survive by eating sweet potatoes, they will be willing, so the prosperous era under the rule of the so-called Manchurian holy ancestor Kang Mazi is actually the prosperous era of sweet potatoes.

The bloody suppression made everyone in Beizhili fearful, and under the condition that they could keep their names and considerable family property, the gentry of various provinces finally succumbed in front of the bloody long knives of the Jingbei army.

A large amount of ownerless land was reclaimed, and millions of displaced people from Henan and Shanxi were re-registered, and then the land was redivided by the imperial court, and of course their seeds and cattle for cultivation and food were all borne by the landlords and gentry who exploited them.

That's it, after three months of rectification, Song Guangkun still looted nearly 200,000 stone of grain for the Jingbei Army in Beizhili.

Of course, the gentry who were obedient on the surface and even handed over a large amount of money and grain were not convinced by this almost barbaric and rude policy of dividing land and inventory, and they did not dare to point the finger at Li Xingzhi, but regarded Song Guangkun, the governor of Beizhili and Feng Quan, the pioneer of land reform, as the targets of venting.

Almost every gentry's house has a villain with Song Guangkun and the eunuch Yu rebel Feng Quan, when they are fine, they pick it up and curse it, or hope that the Donglin Party in the south will go north as soon as possible and kill Li Xingzhi and his comrades who regard the gentry as pigs and dogs.

There are more than 2,300 gentry, and their families are tens of thousands of people, and it is impossible for Song Guangkun to feed these people in vain, even if millions of money and grain are copied out of their homes.

Digging reservoirs, building cement kilns, and setting up manufacturing bureaus all required manpower, so that the nobles who used to be high above were reduced to the lowest level of coolies.

Under the supervision of the heavily armed Jingbei Army and local troops, they had to sell their strength and wield shovels desperately, and at this time they were not even as good as the craftsmen they had always despised.

Originally, Kyoshi had a staff bureau, a ministry of works, and a staff bureau, and these workshops specializing in the creation of weapons and tools have always supervised tens of thousands of craftsmen.

At the same time as the construction of the Miyun Reservoir, these craftsmen were also urgently requisitioned, of course, Li Xingzhi did not treat them differently from the craftsmen of the Zhaoyuan Manufacturing Bureau, and at the same time as requisitioning them, he ordered that each craftsman should be paid two taels of silver per month and one rice per month.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Li Xingzhi paid the silver first and then gave the order, but because the Jingshi had just fallen under the control of the Jingbei Army, all the money and grain distributed this time were genuine silver, not silver dollars with his own portrait printed.

They didn't expect the prime minister to attach so much importance to these craftsmen whose status is inferior to that of the military households, so after receiving the money, they were happily brought to the site of the Miyun Manufacturing Bureau by the officers and soldiers.

Because all the matters of the manufacturing bureau in Shandong have been carried out steadily, Wang Hui, the ambassador of the manufacturing bureau, was transferred to Beijing by Li Xingzhi, and Li Xingzhi appointed him as the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry, with the title of third grade, which can be described as a step to the sky.