Now there are police agencies in the entire Nanzhili from townships to county towns and towns. These police agencies use military control. If they disrupt public security and violate laws, they will be killed first, so that the minions of the gentry, namely those green-skinned rogues, can no longer disrupt the normal social order of the people.

Some illegal people who wanted to cause trouble behind these green-skinned rogues who robbed and robbed people and saw that the court organized people to maintain public order and directly took human lives, they went home to farm honestly.

Even those farmers who were bewitched by the gentry and became bandits all at once began to return to their hometowns to farm, especially after several bandit leaders were cut down. After all, the cost of illegality was too high and there was no real farming.

In general, most people hope for social peace and the court has the legitimacy of rule. It is to organize police soldiers based on the Jinyiwei to maintain local public security and replace the public service functions of gentry at the grassroots level, which is in line with the will of the people.

Therefore, the people are still very welcome. Even the large number of tenants who farm for the gentry hope to farm peacefully and not be in chaos in society.

But for the gentry, they were clearly beginning to lose the power to rule the people at the grassroots level. Unless they could justify the court's way of sending police soldiers to maintain public order is wrong and they had to convince the people, otherwise they would not be able to stop the court's behavior.

At this time, these gentry discovered that they were still different from the aristocratic families in the Han and Tang dynasties. They had no army or troops, only tenants and slaves. They could not mobilize tenants and slaves to rebel directly, telling them that it was wrong for the imperial court to do this.

After all, the emperor did not make the people unable to survive at this time, nor did he order his hair to shave his hair and dress to avoid worshipping his ancestors, nor did he impose taxes.

But the court could take advantage of this social unrest to directly establish a police department. Because the court has the legitimacy of rule, it recruited local people to organize police soldiers to maintain public order, which was justified and in line with the people's psychology of seeking public security.

The so-called treacherous ministers are in power and even the emperor is cruel. Naturally, the people are not as strong as the gentry’s feelings. They have to farm and do business. You can’t let them not work. You gentry can make trouble, but we people can’t afford to make trouble.

Wei Du, a gentry from Yingtian Mansion, watched the policeman take his son back to the countryside from the mountain, and chop off his head with a crack. He almost fainted, but he was helpless because he didn't dare to admit that the man was his son now. After all, the people were applauding, saying that these bandits were killed well.

In fact, the power of the gentry to rule the grassroots was given to them by the court. The court gave its power to rule the grassroots of society to these clans. The court naturally wanted to save administrative costs for this, but now the court is willing to provoke its own courage and organize people to maintain local public order, and the gentry cannot object.

The gentry gradually discovered that they had made a mistake. They gave the court a chance to legally interfere in local grassroots administration. Just as the government would intervene in the past when criminal cases such as death occurred. Now, because of poor local public security, the government intervenes again and has to intervene for a long time.

This will make the gentry only manage the internal affairs of the clan and unable to manipulate the entire village.

Even the power of these gentry within the clan was deprived of by policemen. In a village in Jurong County, several tribe members of the gentry Liu family were arrested for destroying public order. The leader of the Liu clan wanted to handle the matter within his clan, but the policemen followed the imperial court decree and chopped off the heads of this group of tribe members.

The people of the Liu clan were extremely angry, but they could not deny that these tribe members were not guilty and could not deny that the court should not kill these people, so they could only recognize them.

Of course, some gentry directly mobilized clan forces to kill police soldiers on the grounds of chasing the police and seizing the police.

A police station in Ren'an Town, Lishui County was slaughtered by the local gentry Lei Juren. Fifty policemen were killed, but this aroused the anger of self-cultivated farmers and commoners in Ren'an Town, because most of the policemen were their tribe members, and now they were killed, they naturally felt angry. Your clan cannot rely on the large number of people to make things mess around, not to mention that these tribe members are organized by the court, which is legal and reasonable.

So, officials from Lishui County reported the matter. Zhu Houzhao finally dispatched a battalion of the Guards and directly destroyed the Lei family on the grounds that the Lei clan members rebelled. The Lei family property was confiscated, and the land was divided into local self-cultivated farmers and common landlords. The people applauded.

The court not only replaced these gentry to maintain public order, but also replaced their other public services.

Under Zhu Houzhao's instructions, the governor of Southern Zhili also began to organize the government to repair and manage rivers instead of local gentry, actively gather refugees to implement labor-for-relief, persuade or force merchants to open business, set up official workshops and social schools to provide employment opportunities for poor men at the bottom, and proposed the concept of wages to absorb urban migrant workers who were refused admission by the gentry.

The gentry were good at organizing the people to maintain local stability. Local officials such as Wang Yangming were also from gentry and scholars. They were not inferior to the organization of personnel to maintain public order and were more legal. However, the funding for maintaining stability was rising rapidly, but it did make the gentry realize that it seemed that the court would not be unable to survive without him.

The third year of Zhengde is coming, and this year is the year of imperial examinations. The gentry in Jiangnan began to know that the gentry in their own place could not shake the ruling status of the court. If they messed up their hometowns, the court would send gentry from other places to maintain public order in the name of the government.

That means that in the next imperial examination, the court will give more places to gentry in other places to be admitted to Jinshi, and their gentry in Southern Zhili will be reduced because they do not cooperate with the court.

In fact, there are indeed gentry classes in other places that began to smell the opportunity here. Tang Ren, the director of the household department, submitted a memorial to request an increase in the admission ratio of provincial examinations in Sichuan, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, Fujian and other places, and the quota is divided according to the region, not blindly according to the scientific examination results. Moreover, because there have been riots in Nanzhili recently, scholars are unwilling to take careers, so they should reduce the quota.

It is precisely because of this that the gentry of Jiangnan began to fear. Unless they rebel and seek independence, they could only watch the court give benefits to the gentry in other regions, and their gentry of Jiangnan would suffer great losses, and even there would be no one in the court in the future.

Therefore, gentry in Jiangnan began to take the initiative to help the police department maintain public order, suppress bandits and catch thieves, and even open the market. They also learned from the official workshops to recruit refugees in the form of workers, and even escorted illegal activists directly to the government government instead of dealing with them internally.

Cheng Jian, a great scholar who had been a doctor in the Ministry of Justice, knelt under the sun and asked to see the chief assistant of the cabinet, Ma Wensheng, because he wanted to ask for peace. After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao personally met and summoned the great scholar Cheng Jian: "Why is it that Mr. Cheng, despite the heat of heat, seeking to see the chief assistant of the current dynasty?"

"Report to Your Majesty! I want to ask the Chief Supervisor to come to Your Majesty with his words, ban the alert period, return to the law, enter into tax laws and conventions, punish the gentry who do not pay taxes, and reward those who assist the government and make contributions. In addition, I have called on all tribes of the Cheng family to pay all the taxes owed. I only hope that Your Majesty will be the hearts of the people in Jiangnan and do not abandon the people in Jiangnan. The people in Jiangnan still think of Your Majesty and the Ming Dynasty! Woo! Long live my emperor! The grand banquet of the Holy Lord is here! "
Chapter completed!