The purpose of Zhu Cihong's establishment of the Royal Group was to deal with profiteers, clansmen and overseas colonization in the future.

It can also be said that it was prepared to collect business taxes and rectify the many royal family members of the Ming Dynasty.

He knew that once business taxes were collected, profiteers would inevitably go on strike to resist, and the Royal Assembly would step forward to fill the vacancies left by the profiteers' strikes.

Clan has always been one of Zhu Cixiang's priorities. Zhu Cixi knew very well that in order to truly solve the Ming Dynasty problem, hundreds of thousands of royal family members must be resolved, but the time is not yet ripe.

The West has the East India Company, and the Ming Dynasty has the Royal Group. In the future, the Royal Group will definitely be the most powerful multinational group in the world, and it will also be the tool for the Ming Dynasty to harvest Western wine and food.

If you want to maintain a stable position in the country, you will never be able to last long without strong economic support. This is true both in ancient times and in later generations. As a time traveler, Zhu Cixiang certainly knows better.

Henan

After Zhu Cixiang took the emperor and I on a trip to Henan, the fate of many people in Henan began to change.

In addition to the money and grain allocated by the court, Li Yan and the Red Lady also carried out vigorous operations to fight against the local tyrants and evil gentry to distribute the land.

The land inventory and distribution work in Kaifeng Prefecture has come to an end, and disaster relief operations in other areas are still continuing.

Although the victims of the disaster in Henan still do not have enough to eat, there are very few cases of people starving to death because of government relief and porridge.

In the huge Henan Province, with its huge population, it was difficult for the victims to escape the crisis of survival due to the relief provided by the imperial court alone. At this time, those evil landlords and gentry began to contribute to the disaster relief work.

Of course, it was not them who took the initiative to provide food for disaster relief, but Li Yan and the Red Lady forcibly confiscated their land and food, and used the money from confiscating their homes for disaster relief.

Chen Yongfu and his son also made great contributions to disaster relief. They led the army to transport food day and night, and sent troops to set up soup kitchens in various counties. They asked the victims to gather in the county to facilitate relief when the land could not be cultivated.

However, Henan is too big, and there are still many local landlords, gentry, and large households who forcibly resist the government's inspection and distribution of land. However, Li Yan and the Red Lady only have 5,000 troops and cannot take care of them.

Chen Yongfu and his son not only had to transport food for disaster relief, but also traveled around the country. Sometimes they also led the army to attack some bandits and protect soup kitchens. They could not cover everything at all.

This puts the land inventory into a temporary dilemma, such as in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng Prefecture, and Gong County, Luoyang Prefecture, where the landlords and gentry are very resistant to land inventory.

Because it borders Kaifeng Prefecture, after the gentry and landlords here knew that Kaifeng Prefecture was dividing the land, they quickly united for their own interests. Two teams that inspected the land were beaten away by them, and several casualties were caused among them.

At this time, Li Yan and Lady Hong were allocating land in Xiangcheng County, Kaifeng Prefecture, hundreds of kilometers away from Gong County and unable to get back.

One of Chen Yongfu and his son were in Guide Prefecture, and the other was in Nanyang transporting grain to provide disaster relief. However, water from far away could not quench their thirst nearby.

Why the gentry and landlords in Gong County dared to be so rampant was mainly related to one person, Prince Fu of Luoyang. Prince Fu owned land and shops in Gong County and was worried about his own interests being damaged, so he supported these people from behind.

There is a huge difference between King Fu and King Zhou of Kaifeng. King Zhou was busy with disaster relief and did not interfere with Li Yan and his wife's land inventory work.

When the reform touched the interests of the royal family, the king of Zhou was wealthy and did not care. He did not say a word when hundreds of acres of land were divided.

Of course, those lands were originally wastelands, and the people who reclaimed them either starved to death or became refugees, and were later occupied by the palace.

But King Fu spared no money from the victims, and took the opportunity to make a fortune from the national calamity, raising the price of food so high that he did not allow the victims to approach Luoyang, let alone go to the city to beg.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month of the tenth year of Chongzhen, a large group of victims appeared outside the gate of Gong County. Because it was a time of peace, the gate of Gong County was not closed, and there were only a dozen or so government officials collecting tolls.

Seeing a group of about a hundred victims approaching, with a few wheelbarrows being pushed in the middle, the faces of more than a dozen government officials showed smiles, and their eyes began to shine. They felt that they could plunder some property again.

When the wheelbarrow was pushed in front of the government officials, Gong County team leader Li San hurriedly led people to block the way:

"You need to pay an entrance fee to enter the city, two cents per person. If you don't have money, get out..."

A tall, strong man in tattered clothes raised his fist at the officer and said:

"My lord, money is not a problem. Let them enter the city first, and I will pay them together later."

After the bandits were driven away by Lu Xiangsheng and others, there were very few bandits in Henan who caused large-scale troubles. The government officials did not take these people seriously. They let the refugees into the city with a big hand. When the big man walked up to them, the squad leader immediately stretched out his hand:

"One hundred and twenty people, a total of two hundred and forty coins, please pay quickly!"

The big man smiled and put his hand into his waist. The supervisor thought he was touching money and didn't think much about it.

Unexpectedly, the big man took out a short knife. Before the class leader could understand what was going on, the short knife in the big man's hand had already been stabbed into the class leader's chest:

"puff……"

The class leader screamed and died unexpectedly.

The big man kicked the squad leader's body away and then shouted:

"Brothers, show off, kill all the dirty officials and guard the city gate!"

After the big man gave the order, the refugees immediately picked up their handy weapons from the wheelbarrows and brutally hacked to death more than a dozen government officials at the city gate.

The government officials were originally weak, and they were quickly engulfed by the bandits without any preparation:

"Puff puff……"

There was a sound of bayonets entering flesh, and a dozen government officials were quickly killed.

There were many common people and refugees inside and outside the city gate. When they saw someone killing the government officials, they immediately realized that the bandits had entered the city and immediately began to flee...

After this group of people killed all the government officials outside the city gate, they immediately guarded the city gate with weapons in hand. They did not enter the city immediately, nor did they kill the refugees and civilians.

There are only 600 troops in Gong County. They have been in arrears all year round and have no training and no combat effectiveness. Because they have no food to eat, they have gone away for more than 200 soldiers. Now there are only more than 300 soldiers.

Seeing more than a hundred bandits seizing the city gate, the instructors and officials immediately panicked and hurriedly led people down to the city to recapture the city gate.

However, this group of bandits was very fierce. More than a hundred people, led by the big man at the head, jumped on them, howling and screaming.

As a result, as soon as the two sides came into contact, dozens of soldiers were killed, and the instructors and officials ran away when they saw that the situation was not going well.

The petty officials had all run away, but the soldiers certainly would not risk their lives. They immediately followed their superiors and fled.

The people in the distance saw that the soldiers who usually bullied them were defeated in one blow, and in their hearts they paid their respects to the ancestors of the soldiers for eighteen generations...

After the rogue bandits guarding the city gate defeated the officers and soldiers, they did not pursue them, but returned to the city gate and continued to guard the city gate. This made many people unable to understand.

Just when everyone was confused, smoke and dust suddenly billowed from the mountain not far away, and soon an army of thousands of rogues came over.

Seeing so many rogues arriving, the people's expressions suddenly changed. They hurriedly shouted that the rogues had entered the city and fled as fast as they could...

"It's over, the bandits are back again, and the food in the city will definitely be robbed..."

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