Chapter 1109: The First Year of the New Daming Dynasty (two chapters merged)
Following the Great Purge after the Tax Operation.
Hundreds of officials' heads fell to the ground.
So a turmoil inevitably happened.
The scale of this turmoil was directly beyond Zhu Youxiao's imagination. Several southern provinces were afraid of what they had done over the years, and no one dared to say that they were fine. They lived too boldly over the years. If they were found, then ten people would not be enough to cut them.
Moreover, the emperor also likes to search the house. As long as he is exposed, the whole family will be finished.
This is the most terrifying because why do they do this? First, it is for their own desires, and second, it is for their family members. One person can gain the power of the whole family.
It’s okay if you die, but if your family is gone, it will be gone.
So they began to resist, and those who are loyal to the emperor are not loyal to the emperor. If the emperor dares to touch us, we will fight with him!
In this way, the turmoil in the southern region spread little by little, and the scale was beyond Zhu Youxiao's expectations. Even the people from the General Staff Headquarters and the Jinyiwei did not expect that the situation would evolve to a situation where they could not control it.
The first month was still calm, but this started with the turmoil in Zhu Youxiao’s consolation of the tax authorities in the Qinhuai River.
At that time, the emperor was holding a glass of wine to drink with these meritorious officials. Just as Zhu Youxiao walked to these tax meritorious officials, a woman pouring wine pulled out the beads on her head and stabbed directly at Zhu Youxiao's chest.
The tip of the bead hairpin was covered with a very poison, and it was said that it was blood-sealed. The bead hairpin was inserted smoothly on Zhu Youxiao's shoulder, but it was not broken.
Zhu Youxiao thought he was not so cute that no one dared to kill him. He wore a thin soft armor outside. This soft armor was made by Zhu Youxiao himself, which was very thoughtful.
The materials are all made of laboratory-level polymer materials with extremely high technological content. Their characteristics are tough and soft, and they can be made into clothes like ordinary fabrics.
This soft armor kept Zhu Youxiao from being injured, but it made him panic. He didn't notice any abnormality even with such strict controls, which made the woman get in, which shows how powerful the person who wants to kill him is.
He began to destroy the ancient forces in the south, and the local snakes would not wait for the emperor to destroy them.
It was not until the 13th year of the Apocalypse that Zhu Youxiao stayed in the southern region and did not return to the capital.
He also temporarily moved the cabinet and the main officials of the six ministries of the capital to Yingtian Prefecture. After three years, Zhu Youxiao devoted himself wholeheartedly to the great cause of suppressing the rebellion, and even the great plan for artificial humans was shelved.
As the first army of the Eastern Front, the main force to suppress the rebellion, the commander of the army Cao Bianjiao led the First Army to rush around to suppress the bandits and suppress the rebellion everywhere in the southern region. In three years, tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in the First Army.
Zeng Zeng, the commander of the Second Army of the main Western Front, even threw away two fingers in Jiangxi, which shows how large the scale of the rebellion was.
Fortunately, there was no major situation in Zhu Youxiao's main force to suppress the rebellion.
The system of dual military officials, coupled with the voting system of the General Staff and the military conference, greatly reducing the possibility of the army becoming a one-person private army.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao also used the winning magic weapon, which is the ideological construction and cultural learning of the army, and the directional complaint conference system. Don’t ask why it is directional, you know.
In addition, a two-pronged approach to suppressing rebellions and land reform.
The soldiers of the entire army supported the emperor to a point where there was no one who knew whether there were any visitors.
It’s not that no one in the military was bribed. Some intermediate officers could not withstand the enemy’s sugar-coated shells and fell down, but they could not pull the army because Zhu Youxiao captured the grassroots level.
Whenever those poor soldiers received a letter from their families, which said that they had been divided by the government and had a good harvest of potatoes grown this year, the whole family not only had enough food, but also could buy the excess grain to the Daming Grain Company.
The family had surplus grain and even had surplus money. They bought some cloth to make a new piece of clothing for the boy at home, and their wife also bought a new comb.
Life is getting better and better, the whole family has hope and life has hope.
At the end of the letter, he also told the soldiers that they would fight hard and defeat all the bad officials and landlords who bullied them. If they had so many emperors, they would have to repay their kindness. Otherwise, our Zhang family and Liu family would not have you, as an unworthy descendant!
These are just one aspect, and there are also benefits in the army. Any family who sacrificed can get five acres of land and children to raise it until the age of sixteen, and also to go to school. The parents of the family are given 30 kilograms of grain and 1,000 copper coins per month until a hundred years later.
Even the wounded soldiers have benefits, not only the treatment of injuries, but also the disability will be subsidized. If they cannot join the army, they will be arranged to go home to do things. The family is combining villages into towns, and a large number of government officials are needed.
You should know that death is not scary, because after death, you will be completely eliminated and you will not know anything. But being disabled is the most terrible, because you are disabled, it will be useless, and you will also waste food and manpower.
In the past, the army had digged holes and buried the disabled. The better ones were bandaged and you would just bandage them and let them die.
That was a miserable thing. He was afraid to go back with his family with a broken body. When he went back, he would harm his family because his family had no food to eat. What's more, there was a waste. Who wouldn't want to join the army if he had food to eat?
Now, if anyone is injured and retired, it will be more honorable than marrying a wife. With the big red flowers, the government officials rode the horses and rode back. Everyone in the village knows which one was injured and retired during the war, and he has an official position, so he has been fed to the official family.
Because of this, some soldiers deliberately faced the enemy's knife in order to be injured and retired. There was even a battle in which a soldier in a team broke his arm and retired home. The letter sent back stated that they had done the job of the deputy mayor.
As a result, the soldiers in the team were jealous. They felt that they were no worse than those people. Why could he be the deputy mayor? He couldn't do it. So when they were fighting, they used their bodies to hit the rebels' blade.
However, the rebels didn't know what happened. They only knew that a group of officers and soldiers were all crazy people. They didn't need to use their arms to hit their swords when fighting, and they were still yelling arrogantly.
"Cut me! If you get the vegetative, you will kill me!"
Facing the mad rebels, who were already on the verge of collapse, thought there was an ambush, so they not only dared not go up but also kept retreating.
This made the soldiers of this team angry. I asked you to kill me and you dare to run away! Do you look down on the teacher?
It’s not as good as me, but I’m not good at getting a cheaper person. Now you look down on me!
I'll kill you!
So the deputy division commander of the team was given such information. The team he sent out to lure the enemy to chase seven or eight thousand people, and killed thousands of people and captured more than 4,000 prisoners, and captured the enemy's chief generals.
Well, when the deputy division commander heard that he had arranged a three-day ambush plan, he was destroyed by a team of soldiers. Regardless of the brilliant results, they actually completed the task in excess.
There is only one problem. Why did I do so much and mobilize the two battalions of troops to dig holes and do forgings here?
Just to ambush loneliness?
Zhu Youxiao learned about the glorious injury in the army, which made him laugh and cry. The policy was established to better stimulate the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and to avoid their worries. Who would have thought that they would take advantage of this loophole?
Unfortunately, Zhu Youxiao urgently ordered the military police to follow the army and not be injured by sending them to him. He also put forward the slogan of leaving useful voices to serve His Majesty, which slowly restored the normalization of the army.
Under various welfare policies, the imperial army won many battles and moved to several provinces in Jiangnan, and cleared all the rebels on this thousands of miles of front.
Three years later, wars were raging in southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, and the people were displaced. They all hoped that the royal army would arrive as soon as possible.
It is also because the rebellion in the past three years exposed countless ambitious people, landlords and gentry and other forces that Zhu Youxiao did not need to try his best to find them, and directly waved the scalpel to cut off the rotten flesh on Daming piece by piece.
Although this pain caused great harm to the Ming Dynasty, it did not reach the point of injury. Instead, it caused the Ming Dynasty to cut off the borer lying on its body and sucking blood and stood up again.
In the past three years, millions of people have been implicated, and more than 100,000 people have been ordered to be executed by Zhu Youxiao alone, which is really bloody.
There are countless people who died indirectly because of him.
It can be said that his name in the past three years is enough to make a lot of marks in history, and it can even be ranked alongside Emperor Yang of Qin Shihuang.
They are all the top tyrants in the ages.
No! It is even more terrifying than Emperor Yang of Qin and Sui.
Be the No. tyrant of the ages!
What is the harsh rule of Qin than a tiger? It should be changed to the Ming Dynasty's harsh rule of Tianqi and even more so than a tiger.
All of these must be conveyed by historical books and people who want to think about the future, but this can only be passed on as unofficial history. People in later generations may not see any official records that would say so.
It is said that Zhu Youxiao killed innocent people indiscriminately and harmed the people, and his blood was floating on the river, which was the best of his cruelty forever.
There are also things that can be heard by villains and kill loyal and kind people, and what are the harsh and miscellaneous taxes that make money and miscellaneous life?
Because scholars in Jiangnan should also pay attention to their heads when speaking, and they have to consider what they can and cannot say.
At the beginning, those scholars thought that even if the emperor could kill people, he could still read the world's and people's lingering words.
You can choose to kill me, but what I said has been spread. In history, I will remember my name and sacrifice my life for the sake of the people. I will use my life to announce to the people of the world that tyranny is tyranny after all, and the rabbit's tail cannot grow!
However, these scholars miscalculated because their words did not arouse the resistance of the people, but instead brought them a prison disaster.
Because of the existence of the Ming Propaganda Department, all the seven existing newspapers in the Ming Dynasty were under the control of the Ming Propaganda Department. When rebellions occur in each place, many people will be killed and will be published in the newspaper.
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's Ming Pao also added pictures to the newspaper, so-called pictures and truth.
In this era, you just talk with your mouth, but we have seen real pictures. The feasibility can be imagined. Those scholars who think they have mastered the murderous intent of public opinion are completely defeated under the system of newspapers and propagandists, and are abused and cannot bear to bet.
The people even spontaneously began to criticize those scholars who spoke good words for the rebels.
The most typical case of hundreds of scholars gathered together to give speeches to a rebellion in Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang.
These scholars said that the people of Ningbo Prefecture were forced to rebel by the court's heavy taxes. How many people in Ningbo Prefecture had killed many people? The blood flowed into a river and destroyed the family and even dared to massacre the city and snatch a rich county town.
As a result, the newspaper posted evidence in a tit-for-tat way, and there were pictures of rebels who were snatching the rulings of the county town, which was the county town that was slaughtered by the imperial army in the mouths of scholars.
Not only that, Ming Pao also asked people from that county town to prove that their county town was tortured by the rebels, and that the imperial army rescued them, avenged them and food to prevent them from starving to death.
After the people learned that these scholars were lying and slandering the court that gave them land and food, their attitudes became different.
Who did what, actually the people have a scale in their hearts. They know that at least, the land and food given to them by the court is the best proof.
So the people began to accuse those lying scholars and accused them of lying.
But how could these scholars admit that they were talking nonsense? Just like this conflict began, thousands of people were angered by scholars.
Yes, we can't compare to you in terms of knowledge, and we are not as good as you, so we admit that it is not okay?
Hundreds of scholars were spraying thousands of people with their tongues and lotus flowers, and they even squirted them so hard that they kept their mouths and dared not say anything. Such a feat made hundreds of scholars feel that they were about to float up.
Today's move can be completely counted in history, and I can be regarded as leaving a name in history.
But these proud scholars did not see the people getting more and more angry. The more they swear, the more angry the people became, and the less respect they had for these scholars.
So a conflict inevitably began.
I don't speak, but my fists are not decorations!
Hundreds of scholars practiced with thousands of people.
The consequences are conceivable. The hundreds of scholars were caught by the people on the spot and beaten them hard. Thirty-seven were beaten to death, and more than forty seriously injured, of which 80% were disabled.
If the officers and soldiers had not rescued them, none of them would have survived.
In this way, scholars from all over the south of the Yangtze River have learned a lesson, and what they have taught them is the mud legs they look down on.
From then on, Zhu Youxiao felt that scholars had changed and became honest.
Chapter completed!