Wen Tiren and other important ministers naturally did not discourage the emperor from doing so.

Because they have no reason to dissuade, and they do not want to dissuade.

After all, now that they are the ruling ministers of the DPRK and China, the benefits brought to them by the official industry are far greater than their rent.

The complete abolition of forced labor would indeed further free up the labor force controlled by the landlords.

However, in order to expand the scale of the government-run industry, the most important thing is manpower.

In fact, the emperor did this because he was no longer the largest landlord in the empire, but the largest capital oligarchy in the empire, so he would be free from servitude in the world.

It was not long before the edict was issued.

Although the emperor and the ministers of the central court did not oppose it, and even supported it, the local officials and landlords did not want to see the world's forced labor permanently abolished.

First of all, for the local officials, they have one less opportunity to exploit the local common people.

After all, even in today's Ming Dynasty, there are still ordinary people who would rather really serve than pay the conscription silver because of the large number of laborers at home.

In the eyes of the common people, their own strength is worthless, and they will spend as much as they want.

However, the conscription silver is a bottomless pit, and the ruthless and greedy officials will try all kinds of ways to turn the conscription silver into a whip tax that is several times higher than the whip tax stipulated by the imperial court, and there are even cases where it is collected in advance until the 20th or even 30th year of the Apocalypse.

Therefore, for many ordinary people, they would rather serve than pay the conscription silver.

There are also common people who would rather work long and short-term jobs for the landlord's family to avoid forced labor than pay the forced labor.

After all, the payment of the levy will be exploited by the officials, but if they work for the landlord, the landlord will use his power to prevent the officials from exploiting the employees under his name, and will also give some benefits to the employees under his name.

However, under the current circumstances, the imperial court directly abolished the name of conscription, which had been exploiting the people for thousands of years, which undoubtedly caused great losses to the local officials.

Secondly, for the landlords, they can no longer have an advantage in the matter of exploiting the people.

In the past, the common people would rather choose to be exploited by the landlord in order to avoid being excessively exploited by the government, after all, the landlord is not a rogue official, for the sake of the hometown, many times the appearance will not be too ugly, at least the appearance will not be too ugly, on the contrary, the officials, especially the local chiefs, how many foreign officials, basically can make as much money as possible, especially when they are about to leave office, they will make a lot of money, so that they will not care about public opinion or anything, after all, the public opinion of the common people does not pose a threat to their future.

But now, once the forced labor is really abolished forever, the government will no longer exploit the people in the name of forced labor, and the people will no longer have to worry about being excessively exploited, and they will no longer be willing to exploit the landlords.

Therefore, at the beginning of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the new policy of forever exempting forced labor was a draw on the local officials and landlords and gentry in the world!

Except for the common people and a few oligarchic ministers around him, and some scholars who read corrupt books, who felt that this was the ultimate light and meager endowment, and pursued the same virtue as Yao Shun, no one supported such a policy, and even most of the Confucian people were quite sideways or silent about it.

However, for the imperial court, the positive effect is obvious.

A small number of local officials still carried out the new edict according to the decree, and no longer urged the levy of forced labor, and the levy silver was no longer levied, so a large number of surplus laborers among the Han people no longer chose to go to the landlord's house to work, but chose to leave their hometowns to work in the north to earn money, because the level of industrialization in the north is high, the demand for labor is greater, and the wages are also high.

All of a sudden, the problem of labor shortage in railway construction has been alleviated a lot.

However, the effect, if any, is not obvious.

Because most of the local officials and landlords in the country chose to ignore the edict of the imperial court, but continued to serve themselves in the name of conscription, controlling the labor force in their own jurisdiction and serving only themselves.

In the face of interests, the emperor's edicts were often useless.

But the emperor is not blind, not to mention the problem of lack of labor in the major official industries of the imperial court, so he will still severely punish some officials who resist and do not obey the decree according to the report of some loyal inspectors or governors.

It's just that in this way, the contradictions are further intensified.

Cheng Kegong, who was transferred to the prefect of Yingtian, was impeached by Yang Tinglin, the governor of Nanzhili, and he still conscripted the people to serve and disobeyed the edict, which caused the new emperor Long Yan to be angry, and immediately ordered Dongchang to arrest Cheng Kegong.

As a result, there may also be the eyes of the landlords inside the East Factory, which makes the news leak.

Soon, Yang Tinglin was surrounded by a group of scholars when he was supervising the school in Zhenjiang Mansion, and at the same time, the Dongchang Official School, which went south to arrest Cheng Kegong, was also stopped outside Yingtianfu City.

Cheng Kegong himself was not afraid of this, but sighed that things had finally developed to this point, and said to Feng Xuexian, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, quite resentfully: "This method should not be done in the first place, I just can't figure it out, why does the Son of Heaven have to do this law!" Now it seems that it can only force everyone in the world to raise troops to clear the king's side!"

"This is still due to the fact that the Son of Heaven does not let the people benefit! If you have to let the railways be run by the government, and even the minerals should be run by the government, so that the imperial court will compete with the landowners in the world for the population of the world, which is called exemption from forced labor, in fact, you want all the heads of the world to contribute to their imperial court!"

Feng Xuexian said, "Unless the imperial court can make the world's industry benefit the people, this sword and soldier matter is inevitable."

Cheng Kegong nodded: "What we need is a benevolent lord who can benefit the people, not a selfish husband!"

"The official academies of the 200,000 Jiang defense soldiers are all the children of our southern clans, although the generals and other officers of the general army in several important places in the north are only served by the students of the military academy who are not from the southern clans, but there are still a few general soldiers and generals of the northern clans, and they have long been secretly dissatisfied with the Han people's supremacy of governing the country and the imperial court's disrespect for Confucianism and reverence, and they have long promised that as long as we raise troops in the south, they will also respond."

Feng Xuexian followed up and said, "So now we can raise our arms for the restoration of the etiquette system!"

Cheng Kegong bowed his head after hearing this, and then asked with a sneer: "In this way, these Dongchang official schools outside the city should be slaughtered!"

Feng Xuexian also replied with a smile: "That's right! Use the heads of these people to prove to the court that I am determined to be in the south!"

As he spoke, Feng Xuexian ordered, "Inform General Fang and order him to kill all the official schools in Dongchang outside the city!"

Not long after Feng Xuexian said that, a large number of Nanjing Caojiang officials and soldiers surrounding the Dongchang official schools outside the city fired at these Dongchang official schools.

Suddenly, all the Dongchang official schools were beaten into a sieve and died by the river outside the city.

At the same time, Yang Tinglin, the governor of the imperial history, was also forced by the local landlords to jump into the river and flee to the north by boat.

Not long after, the governors of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Sichuan provinces officially reported that they would form an alliance to protect themselves and resist the chaos and harm to the people.

As a result, almost the entire South was plunged into chaos at once.

Many local officials in the south also formally restricted the southerners from moving north, set up checkpoints on various major roads, and pulled barbed wire along rivers and mountains.

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