Xu Youcheng led the team to Wujiang for five days before returning to the Suzhou Bureau. Then he immediately sent someone back to the capital, instructed Li Ruolian to make a written report on the gains during this period, and escorted the money he had collected this time back to Beijing.

Liu Canjing and other main culprits were imprisoned in the jail of the garrison office, and many families were detained in their respective mansions, with Wu Qian leading some lieutenants to monitor them.

In addition to Liu Canjing, all the eight gentry in Changxu Garden were listed as followers of the case of rebellion, and their property was confiscated. The gold and silver alone cost more than 3.3 million taels of gold and silver. The value of the remaining antique calligraphy and paintings was unestimated. There were more than 100 shops and workshops, and the land reached more than 100,000 acres.

In other words, these nine families occupy nearly 20% of the fertile land in Wujiang County. With the habit of planting mulberry and hemp in Jiangnan for decades, the value generated by these tens of thousands of acres is really not low.

After the crops produced in these fields are sent to the workshop, they will soon be converted into expensive silk cloth and sold to various places, bringing more wealth to these big families, which is also the main source of their wealth of hundreds of thousands.

The upcoming new policy is equivalent to taking money from their pockets, which will of course be strongly resisted by the gentry.

In the past few days after Xu Youcheng left, the families of the students who were arrested posted the posts and found the Suzhou Government Office, and asked the prefect Fang Wen to release the person. However, the reply was that the prefect did not arrest anyone at all. As for whom your son and nephew were arrested, our government did not know, because it is not only the government in Suzhou City that has the right to take people.

Besides, these people posted posts late at night and attacked important officials of the court. This move violated the court's laws and was taken for granted by others. Is it natural that our mansion has to stand up for these people?

After hearing this most obvious hint, these people suddenly realized it. However, out of natural fear of the factory guards, even if they knew that their children were taken away by the Jinyiwei, they would not dare to ask for people directly. But if they were not brought out, what if they were damaged by these wolf-like and tiger-like factory guards these days?

After all, everyone came to the Suzhou government office again, either begging in person or holding a post from a local famous scholar to meet Fang Wen, asking the palace master to come forward in person and go to the Jinyiwei Department to catch the person out, and ensure that he would not do such a confused thing again.

Seeing that these students were arrested and no longer appeared on the streets, Fang Wen was secretly proud: I dared not act rashly before the matter was unknown, for fear of breaking the master's plan, so I tolerate you. I didn't expect you to be arrogant. Isn't you scared this time?

In order to stabilize the current situation, waiting for Zhu Youjian's final decree to come, Fang Wen thought about it carefully, pretended to be unable to refuse, so he sent someone to assassinate him with the name of the Qianhu, asking to meet Qianhu, the answer he could get was that Qianhu had already taken people to Wujiang to arrest the criminals of the rebellion. Some of the students who posted the posts were plotting against rebellion, and others might be implicated.

When Fang Wen announced the news in public with a solemn expression, everyone present changed their voices and expressions, and many of them turned pale.

Since ancient times, plotting against rebellion has been the first of all unforgivable crimes. As long as you are involved in this crime, the three tribes of Yi have the least ones, and it is useless to ask anyone to plead for mercy.

After everyone returned to their own homes with their own thoughts and spent the night in a panic, another news that made them even more scared came: Liu Canjing, the number one gentry in Wujiang, and eight other local gentry were confiscated, and the charge was for rebellion.

This news made all the gentry and wealthy families secretly colluded with each other and prepared to unite to fight against the imperial court even more panicked. The head of the local wealthy family in Suzhou that Liu Chengren lived collapsed to the ground on the spot, and after shouting several times, "It's destroyed, it's destroyed!" After vomiting blood, he fainted.

As the news spread, the voices of the court cursing the emperor in Suzhou City and the prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction ended abruptly, and the subtle situation that was originally surging undercurrents almost became completely silent.

"What's wrong with the visit of the Grand Priest Fang? I heard that in recent days, many people asked the Grand Priest Fang to plead with you and ask you to come forward and release others. Is this matter serious?

Prefect Fang, I would like to remind you, you are a court official, and you have to sit upright in your butt on major issues. Someone who doesn’t rub the sand in his eyes can’t tolerate eating the food of the Tian family, but those who are connected with those things behind you!”

Xu Youcheng, proud and satisfied, looked at the young prefect sitting opposite him and said in a warning tone.

Before he came to Suzhou, he knew that this young prefect was valued by the emperor, but Xu Youcheng also knew that as long as he came to the prosperous Jiangnan, it would be difficult for anyone to escape the coercion and temptation of local gentry. Fang Wen has been in office for two years. During this period, who dared to guarantee that he would not become a collusionist with local gentry?

"I know Xu Qianhu's unpleasant words, so I thank you in advance.

Xu Qianhu was a newcomer who didn't know what to do. Fang was determined to be a public servant and never had any intention of seeking personal gain with others. If he didn't believe it, Xu Qianhu would go to the capital and ask if his previous Qianhu had any records of his official bad deeds!

This official came today, not for others to ask for entrusting others. He just thought that before the imperial edict on the gentry to pay food together, Suzhou should focus on stability and should not cause too much storm.

Since Xu Qianhu arrested and punished several relevant people for the crime of treason, although the remaining students did excessive actions, they did not have much guilt.

Therefore, I came here specially to discuss with Xu Qianhu, and asked such a person and other family owner to write a guarantee document to ensure that after the imperial edict was conveyed, we would do our best to cooperate with the implementation of the new policy and not cause any further trouble to the emperor and the court. What is the idea of ​​Xu Qianhu?

Xu Qianhu, the major policies that the emperor wants to implement are indeed unprecedented strategies. If a certain place achieves its results first, will you and I use Fang to explain in detail before?

Xu Qianhu has already established his authority first, but the ultimate goal is to complete future plans, not just to kill people!

This is all this, please think twice!”

After seeing the Jinyiwei take action, the slightly chaotic situation within the Suzhou area was quickly stabilized. Fang Wen also had a new plan after he was secretly happy.

The trick of killing the chicken to scare the monkey has worked. These powerful gentry families who are harsh and weak are obviously scared. At this time, as long as they give them a reassurance, they will definitely be grateful and their governance will be smoother.

If the new policy is determined to be implemented in the future, the Suzhou Prefecture where he is located should take the lead and become the first area in the Ming Dynasty to fully implement this policy. In that way, his name will once again attract the attention of the emperor and will be a great help to his future career.

Xu Youcheng stared at Fang Wen with suspicious eyes. After seeing the openness in the other party's eyes, the suspicion in his heart gradually faded.

"Xu is not studying, don't deceive me, otherwise Xu and you will never end up!

Well, I believe you once!"
Chapter completed!