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Chapter 2816 2818 [Falling Flowers and Flowing Water]

Qianlong envoy transferred to Jinyiwei, and after turning from darkness to light, his strength expanded rapidly.

There were only 3000 people before, but the number expanded rapidly to more than 2 people.

And the [-] well-trained elite soldiers, once dispatched, those officials are naturally no match.

So soon they are in prison, and there is no way to resist.

But those aristocratic families still refused to give in.

In the first year of Tianshou, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River supported the fourth prince Li Chengyuan and rebelled under the pretext of Xiang Nan's "seeking to usurp the throne and steal the great order".

Within ten days, more than a dozen state capitals were captured, and the momentum was quite terrifying.

At the same time, the gentry of Hedong Road supported the third prince Li Chengwen, and also rebelled in the name of "challenging traitors and restoring orthodoxy".

In a short period of time, more than a dozen state capitals in Hedong Road were captured, and even Hebei Road and Henan Road were affected.

The situation was extremely critical for a while.

All the ministers wrote to ask Xiang Nan to stop implementing the New Deal in order to reassure the people.

But Xiang Nan didn't care. He sent Pei Zhao with [-] soldiers and horses to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion.

Seeing that Xiang Nan dispatched such a small number of troops, the ministers thought that they would definitely lose.

Because the number of rebels in Jiangnan has reached more than 10, and the number of rebels in Hedong Road has also reached more than 9.

Their backbone is the private soldiers raised by the powerful and noble families, all of them are well-equipped, brave and good at fighting, even more than the elite of the imperial court.

Therefore, they believed that Xiang Nan was really overconfident when he only sent these soldiers to suppress the rebellion.

Because of this, those rebels didn't pay attention to the imperial army, and concentrated their superior troops carelessly, wanting to start a decisive battle with the imperial army.

Prepare to defeat the imperial army in one fell swoop, and then gain fame and sweep the country.

……

March of the first year of Tianshou.The Jiangnan and Hedong rebels assembled their superior forces and fought a decisive battle with the imperial army.

Among them, the Jiangnan army was 15, and the Hedong army was 16, while Pei Zhao only brought [-] soldiers and horses, and Zhao Jingyu only brought [-].It seems that the gap is quite large.

Therefore, as soon as the war started, the troops in Jiangnan and Hedong went all out to launch a general attack on the imperial army.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, nearly a hundred thunderbolt-like noises broke out suddenly, followed by a violent explosion in the rebel army, killing thousands of people at once.

The war horses ran away in fright, and the soldiers were all stunned.After the second round of volleys, the rebels completely lost their morale and all fled.

Pei Zhao and Zhao Jingyu commanded the army to cover up and kill the rebels all the way, killing the rebels without leaving a single piece of armor.

In less than half a month, all rebellions were wiped out.

The third and fourth princes, various gentry families, powerful families, corrupt officials, and local tyrants who participated in the conspiracy were all wiped out.

Such a result surprised everyone.

They originally thought that Xiang Nan's new emperor ascended the throne, and his foundation was unstable. Coupled with the fact that the rebel army was strong, it would not be uncommon for the suppression of the rebellion to last for several years.

Never expected that it would end so simply and so neatly.

How did they know that Xiang Nan knew that there was a battle with the gentry and the powerful, so he cast a large number of artillery in advance, which is very powerful, comparable to the European howitzers of the eighteenth century.

In comparison, the nobles still use cold weapons.Under the volley of hundreds of cannons, it was completely defeated before it rushed to the front.

So it was easy, and Xiang Nan beat him to the ground.

……

"How will the emperor deal with King Rong and King Yun?" The Empress Dowager asked Xiang Nandao.

"Although the third and fourth brothers conspired against each other, we are brothers after all." Xiang Nan said to the Empress Dowager, "I have already lost my eldest and second brothers, and I don't want to kill each other again.

I am going to abolish their titles and put them under house arrest in the original palace.Grandma, do you think I can do this? "

The Empress Dowager nodded.

Li Chengwen and Li Chengyuan committed the crime of treason, and it was a great mercy to survive, and she didn't dare to expect too much.

"In this case, then it's settled." Xiang Nan nodded and said.

Later, Li Chengwen and Li Chengyuan, together with their families, were escorted to the capital, and then placed under house arrest in the former residences of King Rong and King Yun respectively.

The imperial court allocates 2 taels of silver every year for the two of them to live on.In addition, after they reduced the title to the people, their descendants would no longer inherit the title, but they could participate in the imperial examination.

Xiang Nan was not afraid that Li Chengwen and Li Chengyuan would rebel again.

To be honest, they are worthless.

Those gentry families have been completely beaten to the ground, and the rest of the local tycoons, princes and ministers have no confidence to rebel.

What's more, even if they want to rebel, Xiang Nan can beat them down again.

When the time comes, he won't be lenient again.

……

The easy sweep of the rebels made Xiang Nan's prestige reach its peak for a while.

Whether it is a court minister or a local tycoon, no one dares to challenge Xiang Nan's authority and try the power of a cannon.

Therefore, the new policy of "scaling the households into the mu", "officials and gentry working together as a errand, and one mention of grain" was successfully implemented.

This move has greatly reduced the burden on the common people, so countless common people are grateful.

And "the stalwarts are allocated to the mu", "officials and gentry work as one, and one pays grain as one", which also greatly increased the taxation of the court.

The tax tax of the year before the rich dynasty was only 3000 million guan.

Xiang Nan then introduced the systems of "returning consumption and envy to the public" and "raising honesty and silver".

The so-called consumption envy means that when local officials collect money taxes, they will collect more money and silver on the grounds of consumption, which is also called fire consumption or consumption envy.

However, the scope of consumption is greater than fire consumption, and consumption also includes sparrow consumption and so on.The rice grain collected in Yunjing was stolen and consumed by sparrows, which is called sparrow consumption.

In the Han Dynasty, every stone paid for grain added two buckets of consumption. During Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty, the consumption of sparrows increased from two buckets for one stone of grain to four buckets.For farmers, it is naturally a huge burden.

After consumption and envy returned to the public, as a normal government tax, it was collected uniformly, kept in the treasury, and given discretion to civil servants in the province to support their integrity.

This reform measure concentrated the power of tax collection, reduced the extra burden on the people, increased the salaries of foreign officials, and played a positive role in rectifying the administration of officials and reducing corruption.

In addition, Xiang Nan introduced the "Secret Zoubao" system, stipulating that all central and local officials above the fourth rank directly submit the secret zhezi.

Secret folders have special paper, special boxes, special locks, and special keys, which are difficult for ordinary people to open, so as to ensure the confidentiality and safety of the memorial.

In this way, the officials supervise each other and constrain each other, which is a constraint for everyone; secondly, the secret deeds can reach the heavens directly, which also helps to improve administrative efficiency; ...

Through a series of means, the imperial power in Xiang Nan's hands was greatly strengthened, which further consolidated his rule.

Even Gao Yuming was frightened by this, worried that Xiang Nan would settle accounts with him at some point, so he proposed to sue his old age and return home early.

(End of this chapter)