Zhu Houzhao really couldn't admit that this was a counter-rebellion incident worthy of boasting.

Because in his opinion, it was more like a farce.

Not only Zhu Houzhao thought so, but also Ma Wensheng, Wang Yangming and others thought so. They were not very excited, and their expressions were very dull.

Even under the city of Nanjing, the officers and soldiers of the First Guard Division who were preparing for a fierce battle were stunned. Many of them did not even get the first blood, but the war was over.

Among them, some members of Zhongjun Society feel that they are shouting slogans in vain to encourage morale.

Only these gentry in Jiangnan were still very excited. They were vaguely involved in a war, a fierce and cruel war, and a war that determined the survival of life and death, all cheered.

Even Cheng Jian, who had just been named a doctor of the Five Classics of Hanlin Academy, bowed to Zhu Houzhao with a flushed face and said, "The Holy Lord is in the dynasty! All the subjects in the world support him! Even if the rebels are powerful, they can only be destroyed every once in a while! This is the merit of our emperor, and this is the power of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Houzhao smiled faintly, ignored the inspection and left Hongwu Gate directly.

Ma Wensheng only touched his nose and gave the next matter to the governor Wang Yangming, and followed Zhu Houzhao away. He even thought in his heart that although these gentry in Jiangnan could no longer fight against His Majesty, it would not cause chaos in Jiangnan, it seemed that it was not a good thing. In private terms, the gentry in the north could not take this opportunity to completely suppress the gentry in the south. From the public, if such a hypocrite is in control of the court in the future, the world would not be as bad as it would be.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao happened to see Qianhu Baijingshan standing on the city wall. This military officer who was originally a subordinate of Tian Zheng, but immediately reported to him that Tian Zheng wanted to rebel.

Although Zhu Houzhao didn't know whether Bai Jingshan was implicated because he was afraid of rebellion failure or was really loyal to himself, the emperor, and the court, when he saw Bai Jingshan clenching his iron fist and looking at the gentry outside the city with anger, he couldn't help but come over and ask: "Bai Jingshan, tell me, what are you thinking now?"

Bai Jingshan didn't expect that Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao would suddenly ask him, and quickly gave a big greeting and replied: "Return to Your Majesty! I am thinking, I will only be a loyal minister in the future, and a loyal minister who is only loyal to Your Majesty!"

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly. He could see that the shamelessness of the gentry in Jiangnan had greatly stimulated these military officers, making them understand that literati were really unreliable, and at the same time they understood that rebellion was really difficult to succeed, because the world was not yet at a time when people were disintegrating, so Bai Jingshan said that he wanted to be a loyal minister.

"Transfer the order! He sent Shengbai Jingshan as the garrison and stationed in Zhenjiang."

Zhu Houzhao issued a decree. He could guess that Bai Jingshan, a military officer, must have seen through the hypocrisy of the gentry in Jiangnan from today. For this reason, he naturally wanted to let military officers like Bai Jingshan stay in Jiangnan forever.

In this way, even if you leave Jiangnan in the future, there will be people in Jiangnan who are not the same as Jiangnan gentry to control Jiangnan for you.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Bai Jingshan was a little overjoyed. He even worried that the gentry of Jiangnan would use the reason that he was Tian Zheng's subordinate to let the emperor punish him. After all, the gentry of Jiangnan would not tolerate him because of his character of eradicating the roots. But he did not expect that after he said that he wanted to be a loyal minister, Emperor Zhu Houzhao was promoted to his official position.

"Get up and look at the Zhenjiang waters for me. If there are any more incidents of water bandits robbing the Tax Bureau, I'll ask you!"

As he said that, Zhu Houzhao took away with a group of officials.

After Tian Zheng's rebellion ended, Zhu Houzhao was about to return to Beijing.

Although Jiangnan is good, it is the tradition of the Emperor to keep the country's borders. Zhu Houzhao still had to return to the capital and began to promote the reform of the new policy in other aspects.

Of course, another reason Zhu Houzhao was in a hurry to leave Jiangnan was that he really didn't want to stay here anymore, and he didn't want to see the group of Jiangnan gentry shamelessly praising him and shamelessly exaggerating the significance of this rebellion. He was afraid that if he stayed for a long time, he would really forget himself and become as shameless as them.

But what Zhu Houzhao didn't know was that even though he and the central court did not intend to whine at this rebellion, the gentry in Jiangnan themselves were still whine at and were still whine at the fantasy.

The story of Cheng Jian scolding the rebel Tian Zheng on the city wall was even composed into an opera, and was sung, and gradually formed into the story of "Cheng Jian scolded and retreated 100,000 soldiers". All of a sudden, Tian Zheng's soldiers were blew into 100,000, and the reason why the 100,000 troops failed to rebel was because Cheng Jian scolded and retreated.

Suddenly, Cheng Jian became a person with courage and loyal soul.

Of course, these gentry in Jiangnan also gave Zhu Houxiao a very good face, and whispered Zhu Houzhao into a mighty emperor who was in person to scare the city wall. He even called him Cheng Jian a doctor of the Five Classics a story that the sage king valued talents, and was also compiled into opera. Zhu Houzhao himself had not yet admitted that he had created a prosperous Ming Dynasty, but the gentry in Jiangnan himself performed a prosperous drama in Jiangnan first.

Zhu Houzhao knew that the purpose of these gentry in Jiangnan boasting about their own abilities was nothing more than to gain more political chips and not to be suppressed by the gentry in the north.

However, Zhu Houzhao did not intend to dispute these gentry in Jiangnan now, nor did he intend to completely deprive the privileges of these gentry in Jiangnan now and completely take away their wealth for state ownership. He still had to balance it. After all, once the gentry in Jiangnan is suppressed now, the gentry in the north may take this opportunity to suppress it.

As the emperor, I had to beat each side and give a sweet date with a stick. The reform naturally required that the gentry in the south give out some blood before the gentry in the north give out some blood, and finally achieve a balance between the north and the south.

This will prevent the northern gentry and the military landlords behind it from becoming warlords, nor will the southern gentry and the pirates behind it become warlords, and at the same time, it will also change the entire Ming Empire.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he had to take it slowly and cut off the flesh of these gentry and bureaucrats.

The purpose of his visit to Jiangnan this time was to ensure the tax source. No matter whether it is the commercial tax collected by the Royal Taxation Bureau or the land tax and labor service managed by the Ministry of Revenue, it cannot be reduced.

Now, he has permanently stationed a governor and a tax bureau, as well as a tax policeman and police officer in Jiangnan. At the same time, he has also allowed these gentry to compromise to pass a convention to ensure that taxes are naturally fine, and even deprived the gentry of Jiangnan to have the power at the grassroots level. For him, he has achieved his goal.

Therefore, it was time for Zhu Houzhao to leave Jiangnan.

This time, Zhu Houzhao took away more than three million taels of silver. These were the proceeds from the house search, either the tax recovered or the income from the house search for other crimes.

This is only part of it, many of which have been directly used as the stability maintenance fund in Nanzhili.

After all, it costs money to establish a police department, recruit police soldiers, and establish official workshops.

Of the more than three million taels of silver, only one million taels is a tax collected by the Ministry of Revenue, and the rest are collected by the Royal Taxation Bureau.

In other words, Zhu Houzhao's own trip to Jiangnan would be like plundering more than two million taels of silver into his pocket at once!

Only now did he understand why the officials in Nanzhili were so opposed to his going to Jiangnan.

Moreover, in the future, the Ministry of Revenue could receive more tax revenues of 2 million silver from Jiangnan every year. Although the local stability maintenance funding in southern Zhili increased, the Ministry of Revenue could also increase its income by more than one million taels, so that the central court's finances could be more abundant.

Of course, the wool comes from the sheep, and Zhu Houzhao believes that these gentry in Jiangnan will transfer the overpaid taxes to the overpaid rent, increasing the burden on the tenants.

But for the court, this could indirectly curb land annexation and investment, because once the tenant rent increases, more farmers will be willing to be self-cultivated farmers instead of investing as tenants.

In general, Zhu Houzhao's trip to Jiangnan has greatly damaged the interests of the gentry in Jiangnan.

But because Zhu Houzhao's knife to cut off the interests was not too big, he did not really deprive the gentry of his privileges, and did not deprive all the gentry of his interests across the country, and the people's hearts were still there, the gentry of Jiangnan could only admit defeat and accept the fact that he gave this part of the interests to the court.

But Zhu Houzhao could guess that these gentry in Jiangnan must still hate themselves as the emperor and the reformist officials around him. Not only the gentry in Jiangnan, but many gentry in the north were also worried that Zhu Houzhao and the reformist officials around him would recover the taxes nationwide.

Even the test method itself has already made the entire bureaucratic class feel angry, after all, the test method has bound them.

Zhu Houzhao knew that although these bureaucrats did not dare to object on the surface, and even the gentry in the north wanted to suppress the gentry in the south by supporting the court, they must have been in secret against the new policy implemented by Zhu Houzhao and his reformists.

I am afraid that I will use various means to deal with myself and the reform officials around me, such as assassination or something.

Zhu Houzhao knew that reformers had never had a good ending, either the emperor or the minister, he had to succeed and have a good ending.

The only way is to cultivate a new ruling class through reform and let this new ruling class deprive the interests of the old ruling class. Only in this way can the reform become that it is not just Zhu Houzhao fighting alone or a few people fighting, but to follow the trend rather than against the trend.

Even if Zhu Houzhao leaves this world one day, his reform career will not end. Even before his lifetime, there will be people who will try their best to keep his life safe and even continue his life for him.

Zhu Houzhao now also wants to cultivate a new ruling class. He wants to change the current lifestyle of the ruler who only knows how to get promoted and buy land, so that the ruling class of the entire empire only wants to get rich, and after getting rich, it is not buying land but becoming a promoter and organizer of technological development.

The landlords and gentry class will naturally be abandoned by Zhu Houzhao.

The new capital class needs to be cultivated by Zhu Houzhao himself.

First of all, what Zhu Houzhao had to do was to turn some enlightened gentry who had pioneering spirit and collective spirit like himself into capitalists, so that they could become the first generation of capitalists of the Ming Empire, and carry out the first capital accumulation, resource plunder and colonial expansion of the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!