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Chapter 150 Official Administration is a Problem
It can be seen that the rebellion of Wen Xiangjiao and other reforms to be gradually promoted made him have to treat it with caution.

If we deeply analyze the reason why Wenxiangjiao was able to inspire the common people to raise their flags to rebel, it is precisely because of the serious land annexation and the collusion between the officials and the gentry that the common people in Shengdou lived too hard and too tired.

However, the collective of officials and gentry is intricate and powerful, but it is more difficult to deal with than Wen Xiangjiao.

It is Zhu Youxiao's thinking and method to separate and analyze complicated things, form simplified units one by one, and then deal with them one by one.

Officials and gentry are separated, that is, officials and gentry.

Corruption among officials is dealt with in accordance with the law, and those who serve honestly are promoted and raised.To put it bluntly, it is a problem of official administration, which has been a big problem for thousands of years.

The government is unclear, and good policies will not bring benefits to the people.And it was the imperial court that the people resented.

The gentry, on the other hand, was an intellectual group who held certain political and economic privileges, and was the real manipulator of power in the village, and had become a special class and stratum.

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

And officials and gentry have many intersections. For example, retired officials who return to the countryside are gentry;

For such a group, Zhu Youxiao really couldn't deal with it with simple and rude methods while the foreign enemy was still alive.

Unless the situation is so bad that it can't get worse, it will be Zhu Youxiao's choice to toss to death.

Now, Zhu Youxiao also has a solution.Although the action is not too big, but it is a two-pronged approach, corrupt officials on the left and evil gentry on the right.

Without online reporting, without a circle of friends who cheated your father and husband, and without fast and smooth information transmission, if you want to have a wave of news and wipe out all corrupt officials at once, you will definitely not be able to do it.

However, it is feasible to adopt a high-pressure posture against corruption and constantly grasp it.The effect is small and big, it is impossible not to show it.

As for the evil gentry, Zhu Youxiao will take precise strikes, one by one, not one by one.Taking chances and selfishness are the bad roots of human beings, but they are also nature.How many people would take risks to manage others when the disaster didn't fall on them?

As long as there are convincing reasons or charges, so that others will not think it is a large-scale blow, who will stand up for the criminals who ransacked their homes?
As long as they don't join forces to resist, Zhu Youxiao will not be afraid.Moreover, this is a good way to collect money and land.

Spreading the paper and picking up the pen, Zhu Youxiao gave the factory guard an order to start with the gentry who owed the most taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, secretly inspecting their property and fields, as well as crimes against law and discipline.

Just punishing the crime of arrears obviously cannot satisfy Zhu Youxiao, and it will make the gentry aware that the court has an all-out intention to attack.

Recovering the arrears of taxes is only one of the goals Zhu Youxiao wants to achieve. The final result he wants to see is to make the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River fear the king's law and pave the way for the implementation of "split into the mu".

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao would not hesitate to impose heavy punishments and kill chickens to make an example of monkeys, even if the charges were fabricated or exaggerated.

Wen Xiangjiao's rebellion gave Zhu Youxiao a chance to take advantage of the situation.

You don't understand the so-called materialist dialectics of bad things becoming good, and good things becoming bad.

"My lord, there is an urgent report from the Governor." Wang Tiqian hurried into the hall, knelt down and submitted the urgent report.

Zhu Youxiao knew without looking that it was about arresting the backbone of the Wenxiang Sect, so he reached out to take it and opened it to watch.

After Wang Haoxian, Yu Hongzhi, the backbone of Wenxiangjiao, was arrested in Wuyi, followed by Kang Fufu from Ze County, and Li Enxian from Gushi County, Runing Prefecture, Henan Province.

Zhao Yan, the governor of Shandong, also began to mobilize troops. First, Yang Zhaoji, the retired former general of Datong, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Shandong with full command.

Then he ordered Yang Guosheng and Liao Dong, the governors of Shandong, to recruit soldiers and gather the courage of the village to protect the safety of the water transportation channel.

Yuan Keli, governor of Denglai, also sent [-] soldiers, led by guerrilla general Zhang Bang, to rush to Yuncheng.

The factory guards also concentrated their forces in Shandong, either mobilizing local government officials Xiangyong, or acting alone, and capturing the backbone of Wenxiang Sect Shen Zhi, Xia Zhongjin, Zhang Jianbai, Hou Wu and others.

Obviously, even if Xu Hongru slipped through the net, or even raised the flag to rebel in order to succeed, he would never achieve the shock of history, let alone raid several counties, disturb half of Shandong, and resist for half a year.

Relying on his own foresight, he seized the opportunity again and minimized the harm, and maybe even completely resolved it, but Zhu Youxiao didn't feel complacent or proud.

This is a wake-up call, reminding him that if he can't get up and innovate, this is just the beginning, and there will be more uprisings.

Moreover, if Xu Hongru does not get caught for a day, he cannot be completely relieved.

"My lord, the Ministry of War has an urgent report." Wang Tiqian saw that the palace people outside the palace sent another report, so he hurried out to get it and present it.

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

Xu Hongru, after all, he still made a move.Wen Xiangjiao rebelled, but finally failed to kill it in the bud.

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The arrests by the factory guards and the government still failed to completely block the news.This is also normal, there will always be believers who slip through the net, and news will leak sooner or later.

In view of the backbone being arrested one after another, the news of the flag-raising rebellion has been leaked, Xu Hongru is dying, and he acts in advance.

On April [-]th, Xu Hongru led an uprising in advance in Liujiatun, Yuncheng. The believers in the Caozhou Prefecture, together with the peasants in the countryside, numbered in the thousands. They first captured Weijiazhuang and then Liangjialou, occupying four village.

Then, Xu Hongru called himself Emperor Zhongxing Fulie in Xujialou, changed his year name to the first year of Dacheng Xingsheng, made Chen Canyu the Prime Minister of the Right, and made his younger brother Xu Heyu the King of Heroes. Yuncheng.

Rebellion and proclaiming the emperor are already the highest crimes of rebellion in feudal society.

This is not a civil uprising, neither the Ministry of War nor the local government can take it lightly.

As the new minister of the Ministry of War, Sun Chengzong felt heavy pressure, and wrote continuously, mobilizing officers and soldiers from Henan and Nanzhili to exterminate them.

Compared with the heaviness and shock of the court officials, Zhu Youxiao behaved quite steadily.He neither presses nor gets angry, and he completely delegates power to how the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households will mobilize troops and withdraw money.

Regarding military operations, Zhu Youxiao knew that he was a layman.Especially in ancient times, mobilization, assembly, action, etc. all had a relatively fixed pattern, and it was not something he could get up quickly as he wanted.

However, Xu Hongru's rebellion will definitely not cause a big storm. If Zhu Youxiao can be sure of this, he will not stop the pace of reform.

It is still about the long-standing malpractices of the administration of officials, but Zhu Youxiao has introduced a salary increase for officials.It is increased twice a year, which is equivalent to mid-year and year-end bonuses, and the total amount has doubled.

(End of this chapter)