Seeing this, Wang Shouren couldn't help but shook his head: "I'm another person who doesn't want to commit suicide, take it down."

then.

Xu Zan was taken down, just like other gentry who followed King Ning to rebel, he was neither willing to die generously nor could he commit suicide.

Therefore, we can only wait for the court judicial organs, namely the Ministry of Justice, to deal with them according to the law.

Although Zhu Houzhao established a constitutional outline, he did not make any changes to the laws left by the emperor before the Ming Dynasty.

There is no doubt that for such serious crimes of treason, it will be more harsh to deal with according to the law than to deal with according to the will of the person.

What's more, the civil and military officials in the capital are now tied up because of the infrastructure investment that Emperor Zhu Houzhao wants to do. Most of them have transformed into a firm supporter of His Majesty the Emperor. Naturally, these rebels who challenged the emperor's authority will not be easily forgiven.

Sun Sui, who was responsible for the trial and conviction of the Ningwang Rebellion Party, arrived in Nanjing not long after he arrived in Nanjing, all involved in the rebels who followed Ningwang to rebel, were taken to Nanjing, waiting to be sentenced and convicted.

In addition, the governors, censors, prefects, officials of the three judicial systems of Jiangxi and Nanzhili, and Nanguang were all summoned to Nanjing by Sun Sui and held a judicial meeting on governing the country according to the law.

At the meeting, Sun Sui denounced how guilty King Ning's rebellion was. At the same time, he highly praised the great achievements of Emperor Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and asked the officials present to maintain high respect and absolute loyalty to Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

"According to the Confucian Neo-Confucianism, Your Majesty is the king and father. The most worrying thing about the king and father is the food and clothing of the people in the world. We are all officials of Your Majesty's pastoral guards. Just like the sons of the king and father, we should share the worries of the king and father and benefit the people. Therefore, we should not attempt to disrupt the world, harm the country, and cause the people in the world to suffer from war. Instead, we should do more practical things, pave roads and bridges, develop water conservancy and dredge rivers, and open workshops of hundreds of labours!"

"Even if we do not follow Confucian theory and follow the sage theory, the Ming Dynasty is composed of the people of the Ming Dynasty. The people of the Ming Dynasty are the real owners of the country. The people of the Ming Dynasty now all recognize that the current Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty is the king of the country. Since we are ministers of the king, we must have the correct consciousness of the current Ming Dynasty and be loyal to our kings! We benefit our people..."

Although Sun Sui only came to Nanjing to be responsible for interrogating and convicting the Ningwang Party, he actually seemed to have become a loyal supporter of Emperor Zhu Houzhao. He kept instilling the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and loving the people in the south. Regardless of whether these southern officials and gentry could listen or not, he also expressed his intention to hope that local officials in the south would do more infrastructure construction.

Some southern officials and gentry who were dissatisfied with the central court's excessive control over the south did not understand why even Sun Sui, who was also a gentry in the south, has now become a loyal supporter of His Majesty the Emperor, and local governments should replace gentry to carry out infrastructure activities in the local area.

Only Sun Sui himself knew that everything he did was still to maximize the interests of his family, but now he could use more glamorous reasons.

Li Shishi, Liu Yangzheng, Wang Lun, Pei Xin, Xu Zan and other officials who followed King Ning's rebellion were all sentenced to Lingchi by Sun Sui, and their property was naturally confiscated, while most of their families were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from life to ten years, providing sufficient labor for the empire to carry out local infrastructure in the future.

The main criminal, Ning Wang, was naturally the most severe punishment and was cut into pieces.

But those who truly understand know that although King Ning is abominable, what is really hateful is the literati who fooled King Ning to rebel. They just fooled others into thinking that they could easily win the world, which resulted in having to pay a heavy price to violate the interests of the whole world.

After King Ning's rebellion was put down, the Ming Empire entered an era of crazy construction.

The capital that King Ning had accumulated for many years finally flowed into the hands of the court and the government, which allowed Emperor Zhu Houzhao and his Ming Empire to raise a lot of capital by raising a large amount of capital by establishing the Infrastructure Bureau.

In addition, after establishing a colony in Malacca, Haicheng, it obtained a large amount of income, which gave the Ming Dynasty sufficient financial resources to carry out construction on national economy and people's livelihood.

After all, after the empire has a lot of capital, it cannot always exist. Whether it is gold, silver or grain cloth, these things that act as money will never reflect its value as currency without spending it.

Because of this.

The empire had to distribute this capital to the people, so that the people could have more property, thereby increasing the level of national prosperity, and turning the country into national prosperity.

However, the Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the point where it can be allocated on demand.

Therefore, the country's capital cannot be directly distributed to the people. It must be distributed to the people who work through public infrastructure. This will play a positive role in rewarding hard-working people and increase the level of service to the country in public utilities such as transportation, commercial trade, and agricultural disaster resistance.

Therefore, while the central court and local governments were spending money continuously, the construction of official roads began to start, the construction of bridges began to be put into daily life, and the rivers and lakes were also started to be actively dredged and repaired by the government.

The money for these projects is naturally not a problem. Zhu Houzhao gave these localities their own taxes. Those with rich can naturally invest local public funds, and those without money can borrow from the state-owned World Investment Bank of the Ming Dynasty.

Technology is not difficult. Cement concrete has been developed for several years in the Ming Dynasty. After the construction of Datong Guan Road, we have had a complete set of experience in the technology of using cement concrete in road construction, and it is not difficult to involve bridge construction. Dozens of iron plants in the Ming Dynasty have begun to carry out the open furnace steelmaking method.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao established the Ming Academy of Sciences, the Ming Academy of Engineering and the Ming Empire Library long ago.

The current Ming Dynasty scholars and people are no longer unfamiliar with the word science, and they also actively understand it as an encyclopedia.

Although the Ming Academy of Sciences is still in its inception, except for the large amount of silver grants given to the Academy of Sciences by the Royal Family and the Ministry of Revenue every year, there are not many talents in the entire Academy of Sciences. However, some Jinshi Juren trained by the Peking University and some people who have a certain level of human qualifications recruited from the country, and some people who are recruited from all over the country can still select some people with relatively strong abilities to serve as academicians.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty Engineering Academy has gathered a group of skilled craftsmen, which were reorganized from the previous R&D Institute of the Military Weapons Bureau. Among them, many skilled craftsmen have made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty's ordnance manufacturing and steel smelting. Some people are no longer illiterate and have mastered precise digital computing and physical ranging capabilities.

Naturally, some complex bridge construction and road construction are not too big problems.

However, building bridges on the Yellow River and the Yangtze River was still quite difficult for the Ming Dynasty.

In general, the nationwide infrastructure trend that began in the decade of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty laid the foundation for the future take-off of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, this is the first time that the imperial government has carried out public infrastructure on a large scale in ancient times, instead of relying on one or two honest officials and enlightened gentry to carry out public infrastructure construction on a certain period of time, such as Su Gong Dike, Liu Gong Dike and so on in history.

The central court naturally avoided many traditional problems caused by public infrastructure, such as avoiding the issue of local governments recruiting the people to perform labor service or even forcibly demanding the people to serve due to insufficient financial resources.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao also issued an edict directly to carry out administrative intervention, prohibiting the people from serving their services due to public construction.

This will prevent the people from delaying the farming season due to large-scale public infrastructure construction and even being oppressed by officials.

Zhu Houzhao was not polite about those who disobeyed the will of the court and still required the people to serve, and officials were dismissed from office and were exiled to Liaodong or Taiwan.

Of course, because the Ming Dynasty had sufficient capital, the problem of some public infrastructure that required the people to relocate and relocate was easy to solve.

Because the Ming Dynasty could use money to directly spend money without forcing the people, the settlement fee of 100 taels was not enough.

Of course, the people have their cunning points. If the government is too polite to them, it will make the people forget the violent and cruel side of the ruler and start to yell, and even the government refuses to move 500 or even 1,000 taels.

The government can only change the local area to build, and the people who raise prices with the government will naturally be in vain. Sometimes the tough local governments will also take compulsory measures, but they will often arouse civil unrest.

But in the end, the people also learned the lesson and the government also knew the right thing. The government did not dare to compensate the people for land losses and property losses after relocation at a low price, and the people did not dare to ask for excessive compensation.

Large-scale public infrastructure construction naturally requires the people at the bottom to complete. After all, gentry and officials would not do such hard work. Because the court was rich and had civil changes, they used relatively high wages to hire the people, which led to a large amount of strong labor from the Ming Dynasty invested in public infrastructure.

The income of the people has also increased greatly, and it is no longer just relying on the weather to make a living, and even this has made many people increasingly proactively become migrant workers or directly urban workers.

Because the people have found that they can no longer obtain enough extra income by simply farming, and they can earn real money by mixing cement or carrying a few bricks and stones on the construction site.

Therefore, more and more self-cultivated farmers have become migrant workers.

The problem of land desolation is becoming more and more serious. In addition, the empire has banned the road-guiding system, which makes this phenomenon even more serious. A large number of people migrate to large and medium-sized cities and prosperous areas, which directly leads to the interests of many gentry groups representing the interests of the landlord class.

Among them, the most serious problem is the largest landlords in the local area, namely the relatives of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty.

There are fewer and fewer people farming, and the income of these vassal princes who dare not live on rent is decreasing sharply.
Chapter completed!