On the third day after Lu Xiangsheng arrived in Nanjing, the Jiangsu Governor's Office issued a notice to ban private slaves, requiring all major households to break off their relationship with private slaves within one month, return their contracts to relevant people, change their current occupations to hire workers, and pay their wages on time every month.

In the notice, the Governor's Office listed one of the charges of the four maritime merchants in the Songjiang Prefecture case, which was an example of private slaves with bad intentions, to warn some people who disobey the government's orders, and said that local governments will send people to verify this situation. If there is a person who is disrespectful after the deadline, the head of the family will be arrested and imprisoned immediately.

After the notice was issued to the local governments, Lu Xiangsheng met with a group of honors in Nanjing, led by Zhu Guobi and Xu Wenjue, in the official post. The two sides exchanged frankly opinions on the new policy that was about to be implemented.

Zhu Guobi and others said that the Nanjing nobles actively responded to the call of the emperor and took the lead in starting the dismissal of private slaves, setting an example for others. As for clearing the land and paying food together, they will also be carried out simultaneously with others according to the facts.

Lu Xiangsheng thought that the most resistant to the new policy was the nobles, but he didn't expect that the other party's attitude was very clear. While this surprised him, the pressure in his heart was immediately relieved.

Lu Xiangsheng knew in his heart that the nobles had finally put forward the statement that what happened later was synchronized with others. Since they had already expressed their intention to disband the private slaves first, the gentry and the gentry would have to respond first.

As long as the nobles take the lead in making a gesture, Lu Xiangsheng believes that as officials, gentlemen and gentry who are well-read and well-understood and have a deep understanding of justice, the probability of making a hindrance should not be very high. Even if some people cannot see the general trend clearly and want to force the court to take back this law, it will not affect the overall situation.

Nanjing may not be the hard bone I imagined.

But Lu Xiangsheng misread the faces of the gentry and wealthy people this time.

For the sake of their own interests, the so-called righteousness is worthless to them.

On the afternoon of the same day when I met the Nanjing nobles, several waves of officials and gentry in Nanjing came to the official post to meet Lu Xiangsheng.

Among these people are senior officials who have retired and returned home, as well as Lu Xiangsheng's year of the trial, and there are also those who are in power, as well as Lu Xiangsheng's elders and childhood friends in his hometown of Changzhou Prefecture.

No matter what name these visitors came to visit, after the simple narratives brought the relationship closer, they turned the topic to the gentry's food collection together, and their attitudes were surprisingly consistent, and they all expressed their opposition to the New Deal in a classic way.

The visitors all expressed it lightly or secretly that since Lu Xiangsheng was born in Jiangnan, he should stand up at a critical moment and list the serious consequences that may arouse to the emperor, immediately abolish this measure of seizing profits from the people, and protect the vital interests of the people in Jiangnan.

In order to express his sincerity, everyone visiting him held thick gift lists, including gold, silver and antiques, as well as land and shops. Although Lu Xiangsheng has not seen it, he can also guess the value of these gifts. As long as he accepts these gift lists, the Lu family will quickly join the ranks of wealthy people in Jiangnan.

Because of his unkindness, Lu Xiangsheng patiently met several guests one by one, but in the end he returned all the gift list and told everyone righteously that the new policy was accomplimentary facts. I hope that the whole people in Nanjing will recognize the situation and actively cooperate with the implementation of this policy. Do not make mistakes, so as to cause disasters.

A group of visitors who felt embarrassed either sneered and turned away, or turned away with embarrassment, but they were extremely dissatisfied with Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't care about this. He immediately ordered the guards on duty at the official office gate. In the future, except for the Jiangsu Province and the head of the Nanjing Prefecture, no one should be allowed to visit. In the future, more than a dozen waves of visitors were rejected for several consecutive days, and the number of people who came to visit gradually disappeared.

On the fifth day after the notice of dismissing private slaves was issued, the Jiangsu Governor's Office announced the order to implement a clearance of land in the province, requiring local governments to officially launch it on the first day of the 12th year of Chongzhen.

The content of this order is exactly the same as the plan formulated by Suzhou Prefecture, but the time has been delayed a lot. This is also considered that as the year approaches, everyone is focused on buying New Year's goods and preparing for the family's New Year's Day. If it starts to be implemented now, the enthusiasm of poor bookkeepers and officials will be greatly reduced. It is better to wait for the New Year holiday to be fully completed before implementation.

"This Lu Jian has been an official for more than ten years, and is unreasonable in the officialdom. I don't know how he has sat at the current high position!

His words and deeds are extremely pedantic, so how could we think that we are flexible and flexible? Such people are not worthy of being above the temple!"

In the study of a mansion southeast of Nanjing City, Xu Wenyuan, former Minister of Personnel of the Nanjing Small Court, said angrily with a sinister face.

The Xu family has nearly 100,000 acres of fertile land in Wuxi County, and Xu Wenyuan also has more than 20,000 acres of land in Nanjing Prefecture. If the new policy is implemented, the Xu family will be cut off a small piece of meat every year. How could this make Xu Wenyuan willing?

Since he escaped by chance from the last time inciting civil unrest in Suzhou, Xu Wenyuan was forced to resign from his post as Minister of Personnel and turned into an official and gentry. He lived a life of retiring to chant the wind and the moon while feeling unwilling to do so.

After receiving the news of the new court policy, Xu Wenyuan immediately took action, using his personal connections when he was in office to lobby and collude everywhere, and encouraged the gentry and wealthy families to unite and fight against the unfair measures of the court.

Xu Wenyuan was an official in Nanjing for many years, had a wide connection and had common interests with the gentry. So it didn't take long for Xu Wenyuan to become the top figure in this confrontation.

For a moment, the Xu Mansion, which was originally much deserted, became crowded again. The well-known gentry in Nanjing came to the Xu Mansion one after another. While expressing everyone's desire to share the same hatred of the enemy, they gathered together to discuss countermeasures. Finally, because they were afraid that people would talk too much and disclose the secrets, the gentry unanimously elected five people famous for their wisdom, using this as a small center to discuss the overall strategies and specific methods.

"Brother Xu said very well. It is rare for such ignorant people to behave well. Such aliens in the officialdom will have a good end!

However, now Lu Jiandou is extremely trusted by the emperor, and now he is even more indifferent to the supervision of the government. If he wants to stop the evil policies, he is an extremely important person and a level that we cannot avoid. He must find every possible way to open the gap from him as soon as possible!"

The person who received the conversation was Wang Duo, who was the current Imperial College Priest. After the city of Nanjing was captured in history, as a Grand Secretary of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he took the lead in shaving his head and changing clothes and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

"Brother Juesi, we have worked hard to invite countless people, but it is ineffective. Lu Jiandou is simply not good at soft and hard, and he is determined to be an enemy of the gentry in Jiangnan. Now it seems that there is nothing we can do about it. Could it be that Brother Juesi has any tricks?"

The person who spoke was Tang Shiji, the censor of the former left-level imperial censor of the small court in Nanjing.

After Zhu Youjian issued an order to abolish the small government of Nanjing last year, Tang Shiji was unwilling to move north to the capital to be a free official, so he took the initiative to resign from his official position and became a rich man in Nanjing.
Chapter completed!