"Why are there always unruly people trying to rebel?"
The person who made this sigh in the East Lake Palace was Zhu Cixiang, who had been the emperor of Shengtian for 20 years!
After learning that people in Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an, and Xiangyang prefectures were colluding with bandits and planning to rebel, Zhu Cixiang, the emperor of Shengming, was also helpless!
Under his governance, the Ming Dynasty was prosperous and prosperous, and its land area was far greater than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties! It can be called an empire on which the sun never sets.
The sun never sets, so why do people still want to rebel? Don't they look at a world map? Aren't you proud of Tomorrow Never Sets?
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Today, our country's national power is at its peak, which is rare in ancient times. Twenty million people are well clothed and well fed. A clown and an arrogant thief can't harm the overall situation." The one who told the truth was Wei Zaode, the chief assistant. Look at him. With a confident expression, you know that what you are saying is the truth.
Zhu Cixi nodded in agreement. The Ming Dynasty is so good, but you still rebel, you are just a clown, you are an arrogant thief!
"Your Majesty," Li Yan, Minister of War, reported, "Since the founding of this dynasty, civil commotions have occurred in various places in an endless stream. There have been thousands of civil commotions in various places. There have been quite a few when the emperor was in power in the past dynasties. In comparison, the country is still ruled by your Majesty. The world is the most peaceful and happy place. From the first year of Hongxing to the present, excluding the land occupied by rogue bandits and Donglu, the total number of civil uprisings and rebellions has been less than 100. Counting this time, there have been only 96 in total..."
Only 96 times?
Zhu Cixiang rolled his eyes and rebelled! Are 96 rebellions very few? I have only been emperor for 20 years! There have been 96 rebellions... How come there are so many unruly people in the world?
"Really 96 times?" Zhu Cixiang's face darkened, "Why don't I remember?"
Li Yan smiled and said: "Most of the rebellions happened in the early years of Hongxing, and they were not large in scale. They rose and fell... Your Majesty was busy with everything, so he may have forgotten it."
Emperor Zhu had already remembered something at this time, nodded and said: "I remember, it was mainly the chaos caused by slave rebellion and high food prices... After ten years of Hongxing, few people rebelled. .”
In the early days of Zhu Cihong's rule, the situation was still very chaotic. Even in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, the core areas of his rule, dozens of civil uprisings occurred. The reasons that triggered these civil uprisings were, first, the slave uprisings caused by the abolition of slavery! The second is the rebellion of hungry people caused by food shortage!
And abolition of slavery and food shortages often intertwined. In fact, the abolition of slavery was not due to Zhu Cixiang's desire to protect human rights, but because the southeastern gentry was unable to keep slaves after losing their privileges, so they had to abolition a large number of slaves. In this process caused many conflicts. In order to maintain the stability of the southeast, Zhu Cixi simply issued the "Edict to Abolish Slavery", which was considered to be in compliance with public opinion.
However, while Emperor Zhu abolished slavery, he resolutely defended the private property of the slave-owning gentry and landlord class (he was not Li Zicheng. He wanted to develop capitalism, so he had to defend private property) and did not allow freed slaves to possess their original owners. production means, and were unwilling to allocate government-owned production means to these emancipated slaves.
As a result, many freed slaves fell into hunger and cold...
However, ten years after Hongxing, with the further development of southeastern industry and commerce, the development of Jinou and Jinghai, and the successful management of Huanghuai transportation, the Ming Dynasty's direct provincial areas were relatively peaceful, but there were still rebellions every year! It was not until the past few years that the development of the Northern Central Plains, the Northeast, and the United States of New Zealand on the other side of the ocean were on track, which gave the poor people in the Ming Dynasty more ways out, and at the same time promoted the further development of industry and commerce in the southeast, and made the Ming Dynasty society truly Stabilized.
"Your Majesty," Ma Shiying, the Minister of Criminal Affairs, also said, "Although there are unruly people in Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an, and Xiangyang prefectures who have rebelled, there are also many righteous people who reported the anti-thief conspiracy to the government. Local police patrol officials and factory security officials It is also relatively effective. During the first month of the year alone, eleven cases of conspiracy to rebel were reported, six of which had already closed the net to arrest people, and five of which were fishing for big fish."
"How many rebels have been caught in total?" Zhu Cixiang asked.
Ma Shiying replied: "There are currently 286 rebels in custody awaiting trial, and there are 18 other gangsters, all of whom are detained in the Prison Prison and the Military Justice Department."
Now there is no Jinyiwei prison system. There are only three prison systems: the cells in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, the cells of the Military Justice Department of the Ministry of War, and the Taiwan Prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The Jinyi Guards are under the jurisdiction of the Military Advisor's Office, so the suspects captured by them are taken to the military prison of the Ministry of War. Dongchang nominally belongs to the Cabinet Office, and the captured thieves are taken to the Ministry of Punishment Prison. The Metropolitan Procuratorate mainly arrests corrupt officials, and they cannot be punished as high as officials. They always want preferential treatment, so they were sent to the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, also known as Yushitai Prison.
"How many more can we probably catch?" Zhu Cixiang asked again.
"About three to four thousand people!" The person who answered this question was Zhu Chunjie, the commander of the Jinyiwei.
"So many?" Zhu Cixiang was surprised, "It won't cause too much trouble, right?"
"No," Zhu Chunjie said, "Two righteous citizens in Yiling Prefecture not only reported the rebel conspiracy to the government, but also sent people to infiltrate the rebels and learned that the rebels were going to launch a large-scale attack on the second day of February. The location Right in Huya Mountain! At present, the rebels who have not been arrested in Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an, and Xiangyang are all concentrating on Huya Mountain. It is said that the leader of the rogue bandits will personally come to Huya Mountain to preside over the rebellion!
I am waiting for this big thief to arrive and catch them all! "
"That's great!" Zhu Cixiang nodded, "What are the names of these two volunteers?"
"One is named Ding Shixiang and the other is named Zhang Haoran."
It’s Ding Papi and Zhang Jiugui!
"Okay!" Zhu Cihong said, "Tell them that if they succeed, they will all be rewarded heavily!"
"I accept the decree."
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"Rebellion! Rebellious! It's all fucking rebelled..."
The one who roared was the number one rebel in the world, Li Laiheng, the "Emperor of Dongxing" of Dashun.
At this time, Li Laiheng was in the imperial study room in Wuhuashan, Kunming. He was not sitting behind the desk, but walking around in the study room, looking a little angry and uneasy.
What made him furious was the peasant uprising that took place in Dajian Mountain!
Of course, there were no rebellions under Dashun, but unlike the Ming Dynasty where most of the rebels were poor peasants, the rebels here in Dashun were usually chieftains - Dashun's territory was in the southwest where chieftains were everywhere, so of course they couldn't tolerate as many as the Ming Dynasty. The chieftain regime existed.
Therefore, since Dashun ruled Sichuan and Yunnan, this peasant regime has become the mortal enemy of the southwestern chieftains! In the past 20 years, the competition between the two sides has been life-and-death!
However, the farmers under Dashun have always been relatively peaceful. Even though they were "dispossessed of their fields", they never launched an uprising. The reason for this is actually related to Dashun's military system. There are 600,000 military households in various parts of the town. , there is no doubt about the ability to suppress. So under the Ming Dynasty, there were 96 uprisings in the past 20 years. Under the rule of Dashun, if the war with the southwest chieftains is not included, the Dajianshan Uprising that just occurred was the first large-scale peasant uprising!
Although this uprising was mostly started by demons from the White Lotus Sect, it was ultimately a peasant uprising!
"Your Majesty, please calm down... King Jin, King Sui and King Chu have already dispatched troops to Dajian Mountain to encircle and suppress them. I believe it won't take long to wipe out all these monsters!"
"Your Majesty, don't worry, these monsters and rioters are nothing to be afraid of...they are no match for my Shunchao soldiers! And we just use this opportunity to wipe out the Xiaoxiao from all over the place!"
The speakers were Liu Wenxiu and Liu Fangliang. Among the eight kings who currently discuss politics, only four kings, Sun Kewang, Liu Zongmin, Liu Wenxiu, and Liu Fangliang, remain in Kunming, while the other four kings are outside to supervise the army.
And Liu Wenxiu and Liu Fangliang were the kings responsible for the military affairs of the Shun Dynasty, so it was up to them to report the Dajianshan Uprising to Li Laiheng.
"But the war in Shaanxi is about to begin!" Li Laiheng gritted his teeth, "Dajian Mountain is stuck in Jiangeguan's throat again..."
Liu Wenxiu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the King of Jin has already got a clever plan, and he will take advantage of the Dajian Mountain rebellion to get Wu Sangui into trouble!"
