But the rebellion of the Xiang Sect and other reforms that need to be gradually promoted forced him to treat them carefully.

If you analyze in-depth the reason why the Yinxiang Sect can mobilize the people to raise the flag to rebel, it is precisely because of the serious land annexation and the collusion between officials and gentry, which makes the promotion and fighting people live too hard and too tiring.

The collective of officials and gentry is complicated and has a lot of energy, but it is more difficult to deal with than the fragrance sect.

Split up complex matters, form simplified units, and deal with them one by one. This is Zhu Youxiao's thinking and method.

When officials and gentry separate, officials and gentry are the officials and gentry.

The corruption among officials is dealt with in accordance with the law, and the promotion and salary increase of those who are honestly responsible. To put it bluntly, it is a matter of administration and has been a big problem for thousands of years.

If the administration is unclear, good policies will not bring benefits to the people. And the people are resentful to the court.

The gentry is an intellectual group that holds certain political and economic privileges, is the real controller of power in the countryside, and has become a special class and strata.

The so-called imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the gentry was a powerful tool for the feudal court to maintain grassroots rule. With their cooperation, taxes and corvee can be guaranteed.

Officials and gentry have many interactions. For example, retired officials return to their hometowns and become gentry; if the gentry's family passes the exam, they become officials' families.

For such a group, Zhu Youxiao cannot use simple and crude means to deal with such a group without being destroyed.

Unless the situation is so bad that it is impossible to overestimate, it will become Zhu Youxiao's choice.

Now, Zhu Youxiao also has a way. Although his actions are not too big, he is a two-pronged approach, drawing corrupt officials on the left and cutting bad gentry on the right.

There is no online report, no circle of friends to cheat and no quick and smooth information transmission, I will definitely not be able to eliminate all corrupt officials in one go.

However, it is feasible to adopt a high-pressure stance against corruption and keep pursuing it unremittingly. As for the effect, it is impossible to not appear.

As for the bad gentry, Zhu Youxiao will take precise attacks, one by one, rather than one by one. Being lucky and selfish is a bad nature of a person, but it is also his nature. If disasters fall on his own, how many people will take risks to care about others?

As long as there are compelling reasons or charges that others do not think are a large-scale blow, who will stand up for the criminal who searched the house?

As long as you don’t connect and resist, Zhu Youxiao will not be afraid. Moreover, this is a good way to get money and collect land.

When he lays paper and picks up his pen, Zhu Youxiao ordered the factory guards to investigate their property and land, as well as crimes of illegal and illegal discipline, starting from the gentry who owed the most taxes in Jiangnan.

However, the crime of arrears was obviously not satisfied with Zhu Youxiao, and the gentry would even realize that the court had the intention of a full-scale crackdown.

Retrieving the arrears of taxes was only one of the goals that Zhu Youxiao wanted to achieve. It made the gentry in Jiangnan fear the kingly law and paved the way for the implementation of "spending the resident into the acres", which was the final result he wanted to see.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was willing to punish severely and kill a chicken to warn the monkey, even if it was fabricated or exaggerated.

The rebellion of the Yinxiang School gave Zhu Youxiao an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

You don’t understand the so-called bad things turn into good things, good things turn into bad things, materialistic dialectics.

"Emperor, the governor's office urgently reported." Wang Tiqian hurried into the hall and knelt down to report urgently.

Zhu Youxiao knew that it was the arrest of the backbone of the Wenxiang School without looking at it. He reached out to take it and opened it to take a look.

Following Wang Haoxian, Yu Hongzhi, the backbone of the Wenxiang Cult, was arrested in Wuyi, and then Kang Fufu from Ze County and Li Enxian from Gushi County, Runing Prefecture, Henan Province.

Shandong Governor Zhao Yan also began to mobilize troops. He first appointed former Datong General Yang Zhaoji, who was resigned as Shandong General, and had full command.

Then he ordered Shandong Duke Yang Guosheng and Liao Dong to recruit soldiers to gather local tyrants to protect the safety of the canal transport passage.

Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, also sent three thousand soldiers, led by the guerrilla general Zhang Bang, and rushed to Yuncheng quickly.

The factory guards also concentrated their strength in Shandong, either to mobilize local government officials' yamen, or to act alone, and captured the backbone of Wenxiang Cult, Chen Zhi, Xia Zhongjin, Zhang Jianbai, Hou Wu and others.

Obviously, even if Xu Hongru missed the net or even raised the flag to rebel in order to succeed, he would never have achieved the shock in history, nor would he plunder several counties, disrupted half of Shandong, and resisted for half a year.

By relying on his own foresight, he once again seized the opportunity, minimizing the harm, and perhaps even completely resolving it, Zhu Youxiao did not have any pride or pride.

This is a wake-up call, reminding him that if he cannot cheer up and reform, this is just the beginning and there will be more uprisings.

Moreover, if Xu Hongru doesn't get caught for a day, he can't completely relieve himself.

"Emperor, the Ministry of War is urgently reporting." Wang Tigan saw the palace servants outside the palace sending another report, and hurried out to get it and submit it.

Zhu Youxiao reached out to take it, and when he opened it, he frowned.

Xu Hongru, after all, he took action. The Yinxiang Sect rebelled, but finally failed to kill the bud.

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The arrest operations of the factory guards and government officials have not been able to completely block the news. This is normal. There will always be believers who miss the internet, and it will be a matter of time before the news leaks.

Given that the backbone was arrested one after another and the news of the flag rebellion had been leaked, Xu Hongru struggled to act in advance.

On April 16th, Xu Hongru led the uprising in Liujiatun, Yuncheng in advance. The believers in Caozhou Prefecture and the peasants in the countryside came to thousands. They first captured Weijiazhuang, Liangjialou, and occupied four villages in succession.

Then, Xu Hongru called himself Zhongxing Fulie Emperor in Xujialou, changed the year name to the first year of Xingsheng in Dacheng, and appointed Chen Canyu as the right prime minister, and his younger brother Xu Heyu as the King of Yinglie. In addition, he also had positions such as governors and generals, and sent troops to Yuncheng.

Rebellion and proclaiming emperor are already the most serious crime of rebellion in feudal society.

This is not a civilian change. Neither the Ministry of War or the local government can be regarded as lightly.

As the new Minister of War, Sun Chengzong suddenly felt heavy pressure and wrote continuously, and transferred to Henan, and the officers and soldiers of Nanzhili went to wipe out.

Compared with the heavy and shocking of the court officials, Zhu Youxiao was quite steady. He neither urged or got angry. How did the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue transfer troops to draw silver? He completely delegated power.

Regarding military actions, Zhu Youxiao knew that he was an amateur. Especially in ancient times, there were relatively fixed patterns in mobilization, assembly, actions, etc., and he could not get up as soon as he wanted.

But Xu Hongru's rebellion will definitely not cause any major storms. Zhu Youxiao could affirm this and would not stop the reform.

It is still about the accumulated shortcomings of the administration of officials, but Zhu Youxiao introduced a salary increase for officials. It increased twice a year, which is equivalent to mid-year and year-end bonuses, and the total amount reaches twice the original amount.
Chapter completed!