Chapter 132                                                             

The reason why Zhou Mengchen chose Li Sui was because Li Sui was able to persuade the rebellious army to quell, which shows that Li Sui still had some prestige among the rebellious army.

Zhou Mengchen wanted to change the Nanjing Jingying again by making drastic moves.

Just as Li Sui and Zhang Ao were worried about the past, they were both worried about a large-scale war in Nanjing, which would turn the land of gold and powder in the Six Dynasties into a mess. Zhou Mengchen should also avoid this opportunity as much as possible.

The reason why he exiled tens of thousands of people was on the one hand because of the seriousness of this matter. Although there is no central organization in Nanjing now, the capital is still carrying out mutiny in the capital, and this consequence is the right one. On the other hand, it is also a killing chicken to scare the monkey. With the consequences of these two battalions, the resistance will be much smaller when attacking other divisions of the Beijing battalion.

Also, it is to open up the situation for the Nanyang Governor's Office.

During this period, Zhou Mengchen was not only busy with Nanjing, but also touched the situation in the south, especially the difficulties of the governor of the South. He felt a little angry, but he had no choice but to see it.

What problems did Tang Shunzhi encounter?

That is the difficulty of immigration.

Many people find it strange. Didn’t it be said before that the southern population is growing very large and the pressure is very high, and some areas have been rebelling. Why is no one willing to go to sea now?

At first, Zhou Mengchen thought it was the reason why it was difficult to leave his hometown.

After all, Chinese people never want to leave their hometowns. This is helpless. But at the critical moment of life and death, some things are not things that are willing or not. Who would like to work outside the country nowadays?

But is it okay not to work?

By the same token, living in your hometown is better than dying. Although going overseas is very hard and even the mortality rate is very high. But in the end, a few of the family can always survive. This joint is not a question of what they think.

So this is not the reason.

Someone doesn't want to.

Who doesn't want to? They are the gentry and landlords.

As mentioned before, landlords have economic exploitation of tenants and other personal dependence. Many of them are basically servants, but servants from generation to generation. The so-called family giving birth to children.

In addition, gentry and landlords also had control over self-cultivated farmers.

During the Zhengde period, Jiao Fang, a Grand Secretary, built a house at home, and was rich and powerful. He used the government to mobilize the people of several nearby governments to work for him.

There were also scholars and officials from Fujian who came to visit him. They were about to leave that night. The local scholars and officials who were entertaining him ordered that all tenants go out, hold up torches, and line up from home to the county town to make pedestrian street lights.

This may be a good talk for the scholars and officials, but it is an invisible exploitation for the people.

It can be said that not to mention other places, the Japanese pirate rebellion in Fujian has a certain meaning of peasant uprising.

But the problem is that Zhou Mengchen did a great job and put down all the troubles in various places. In the eyes of these gentry, the world has returned to normal. Now, if you want to immigrate, you have to spit out the population.

For them, these populations are their property. They are wealth they can possess for free. How are they willing to spit them out?

As for whether these tenants can survive by themselves, it has nothing to do with them.

Just like many people who raise cats sterilize cats, they actually reduce their own troubles. They call it a cat. Nowadays, the same is true for these gentry. They do not have the size of their size and cannot afford to marry their wives. As long as they marry maids from wealthy families and marry them, they mean that when their children come out, they will be slaves to others.

It takes a lifetime or even descendants to be slaves and servants to exchange for the family lineage.

In the past, when the gentry's control over the people was weakened. So many people fled, causing trouble, and rebelled. A large number of people became free people. But now this is the situation. On the one hand, countless people are struggling on the line of life and death, and even take risks. It is like a volcano is brewing and erupting. On the other hand, the scholars and officials are relying on the Three Bonds and Five Constant Permanence. The heavens do not change, and the Tao does not change. The possession of slaves and control of the people will not change.

In this situation, Zhou Mengchen had no choice but to do anything for a moment.

Because in such a situation, killing a few people or even a group of people is useless.

On the one hand, this hope is based on the ability of local officials. Zhou Mengchen has written a letter to Wang Daokun, and Wang Daokun has agreed to raise personnel for the immigration as much as possible. However, it is difficult to solve the problem for a while. However, Tang Shunzhi has already gained a firm foothold in Luzon.

Zhou Mengchen was not very clear about the specific situation, but only knew that Tang Shunzhi had established his first camp in a port in northern Luzon.

This is the time to fill it with people.

Zhou Mengchen sent these people over. Although no one could fight five or six thousand soldiers in Nanjing Jingzhang, they were male and strong men. In addition, they had military training on weekdays, so I thought they could use it.

For this purpose, Zhou Mengchen didn't want these people to resist. Li Sui, who was once a Quanfu rebel, was very important.

Although Li Sui was stubborn, he had just been listening to the scene. At this moment, he was both ashamed and angry. But he was a little scared.

It’s not that Li Sui didn’t want to punish the rioters. It was not very similar to what Zhou Mengchen thought. Zhou Mengchen’s inner calculations were more of a political pros and cons. There were not many emotional things.

After all, if a politician is too emotional, there will be problems.

Li Sui was different from some literati and officials. They were very angry at the offensives. Don’t they want to deal with all these people? It’s not that they don’t want to, but that they can’t.

It is because the law does not punish the masses. The Beijing camp is very involved.

Once they take action, they can't believe what will happen.

But Li Sui never expected that Zhou Mengchen had arranged everything overnight and controlled everyone's military camps. As the main force of the mutiny, he was taken down without any resistance.

So what else did he say?

Zhou Mengchen said, "You will come forward to appease the various departments of the Beijing camp to explain the intention of the court. You will only punish the evil people and never ask about them. But some things still need to be explained."

Li Sui said: "Please explain to you, how should the departments of the Beijing Camp be dealt with?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "In addition to Zhenwu Camp and Hechi Camp, other battalions, after today, can be exempted from military access. The court will issue severance silver for each person, ten taels of liang. If you are willing to continue to serve in the army, then train well. All departments are soldiers of the court, and the court will give a way out."

Li Sui said, "The officials understand."

Li Sui was still a little prestige. He went to each battalion to preach, but stabilized the emotions of each battalion. To be honest, it may not be a good thing for most soldiers to not be a soldier. After all, most people in Nanjing have been no different from the common people in Nanjing for many years. But for officers, they are unwilling.

Nothing else, in the army, officers can occupy the property of soldiers. Just as in the army, the land originally distributed to each soldier has become the property of officers, and soldiers have become slaves of officers.

Such a relationship is common in many places in the Ming army.

Therefore, the training of the new army broke the original chain of interest. How could the original vested interests be willing? Why was their representative, Xu Pengju, Duke of Wei, who had no idea what was going on, had no idea what happened. He was sent back by Zhou Mengchen.

Even if he knows what happened in the future, he will not dare to confront Zhou Mengchen in person.

The Nanjing nobles are local snakes in Nanjing. But his source of strength has always been the army in their hands. The nobles without the army are just a few rich and idle people. Under the premise that Zhou Mengchen did not invade their wealth, no one dared to move.

Zhou Mengchen glanced at everyone and said, "Now, is anyone having any problems?"

No one dares to speak.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Since that's the case, let's stop here. Go back and explain what happened today to the people clearly. Silence the Nanjing city and do what to do? By the way, the Ministry of Justice sent people here. During the mutiny that day, there were soldiers who killed the people, and they found out one by one."

"Yes." said the Minister of Justice of Nanjing.

Zhou Mengchen is on par with them, but for some reason they all feel like they face Shangguan.
Chapter completed!