Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 1044: Emergency in the Southeast (3)

"Yijie! Several slave rebellions have occurred in many places under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi and Fujian!"

He Kai's voice sounded outside the hall, causing Jiang Chen, who was originally feeling emotional, to change his attitude immediately.

Xiao Niezhong frowned slightly.

The frequency of slave rebellions has become increasingly higher in recent years.

From the outbreak of the so-called Japanese invasion to the constant conflicts in the Nanyang region, many places along the southeastern coast were no longer harassed by the so-called Japanese invasion. In fact, before and after this, there had been slave rebellions in the southeastern provinces.

However, since this situation arose until now, many government offices at all levels in the southeastern provinces have simply not taken this matter seriously, especially in Jiangxi.

"How many of these slave rebellions were suppressed? How many casualties were caused?"

While Xiao Niezhong was lost in thought, Jiang Chen stood up, looked at He Kai who was walking towards him, and said with a serious expression.

Today, the detective team led by Jiang Chen is not only responsible for solving the problem of counterfeit currency and tracking down a group of special groups, but also takes over the supervisory slaves formerly belonging to the Western Investigation Factory.

Because in Zhu Youxiao's view, the above events are related. If you want to solve the problem from the root, you must discover the essence.

Over the past two years, all officials stationed in the southeastern provinces have had their powers and matters under their jurisdiction refined and adjusted to ensure that there is no confusion.

The slave rebellion was a matter of great importance to Zhu Youxiao.

In the original timeline, due to the rise of the Jianlu, frequent disasters, intensified party struggles, uprisings and other multi-level reasons, the extremely active slave rebellion in the southeast was forcibly covered up.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Southeastern groups intentionally wanted to cover up this matter. After all, slave rebellion is not a glorious thing, and it has caused great losses and casualties to many groups in the Southeast, especially the privileged groups.

The emergence of slave rebellion actually has traces to follow.

This is inseparable from slavery.

Although Zhu Youxiao abolished the craftsman registration system a long time ago in order to develop intensive handicraft manufacturing industry and allowed craftsmen in various fields to move around, this policy was mostly effective in northern provinces. As for the areas south of the Yangtze River, the effect was not so good.

After all, the handicrafts of the southeastern provinces have always been ahead of those of the north, especially the textile industry, where wealth is measured by how many looms one owns.

This is an inevitable situation.

Exploitation!

After all, looms do not create wealth directly. It requires people to work hard and sweat to make products, so that value can be created.

But for the group that owns the means of production, if they give more money to those below them, their wealth will be lost.

Zhu Youxiao adopted that attitude towards the southeastern provinces not only because the control of the central government was continuously weakening, but the deeper reason was that he wanted to eliminate batches of greedy guys based on some disturbances that occurred. If these groups were not eliminated, the beneficial policies and measures he formulated would not be able to be effectively extended to the grassroots.

If this is the case, no matter how much Zhu Youxiao did, he could not change the fate of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the wealth created by the Ming Dynasty, even the wealth created by the New Deal, was intercepted by the middle groups and could not be circulated to the bottom. In this way, the serious problem of class contradictions could not be alleviated. It was precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao consciously relocated the population, especially the northwestern provinces, and relocated the bankrupt groups to Liaodong and Dongfan, giving them land and a way to live. In this way, when disasters occurred frequently, there would be no rebellion in the northwest, and the court would not be able to solve it.

"Only half of them were suppressed. Several slave rebellions caused more than hundreds of casualties." Under Jiang Chen's gaze, He Kai said solemnly, "But in the areas under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi and Fujian where slave rebellions occurred, most of them took measures to conceal it, and did not even send troops to hunt down these fleeing groups."

Jiang Chen's face looked grim.

Since Jiang Chen was in charge of monitoring the slave rebellion, he discovered an extremely serious problem, that is, the local authorities would conceal the situation and perfunctorily deal with the higher level authorities, in short, pretending that everything was peaceful and nothing had happened.

But is this actually the case?

Not at all!
One thing after another is suppressed and solved in a simple and crude way, and it seems that the problem is solved in this way. However, what is lost is not only the people's hearts, but also the public grievances are increasing.

"Detective, this cannot continue like this."

Xiao Niezhong stepped forward and said in a serious tone: "Affected by the slave rebellion and other factors, the bandit situation in the southeastern provinces is becoming more and more serious."

"Although the situation in Zhejiang and Songjiang is better, the situation in other places is becoming increasingly severe."

"Among these active bandits, many are former slave rebels. They gather in dangerous places and have a significant impact on local order."

"I have already submitted a secret report to the Emperor on this matter."

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Jiang Chen frowned and said, "You are right about this matter. If we don't find a way to resolve it, once the trend of slave rebellion spreads to the southeastern provinces, the consequences will be disastrous."

"Especially nowadays, there are many groups that want to scheme for something and are unscrupulously driving up prices and stirring up public opinion. If this irritates some groups, then..."

Having said this, Jiang Chen could not continue.

Why is Jiang Chen like this now?

That has to do with seeing too many things.

There are too many selfish people who don't consider anything else. The stability of the country or the stability of the place has nothing to do with them. As long as their interests can be ensured, even if it means changing the world, it doesn't matter to them. After all, the country is not theirs. It doesn't matter who becomes the emperor and sits on the throne, right?
Due to the continuous opening of the sea in the central region, a number of industries have emerged on the southeastern coast, which has fundamentally changed the situation in the southeastern provinces from before.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao attached so much importance to the development of the navy and the army lies here. From the very beginning, Zhu Youxiao knew that there would be great turmoil in the southeast. How to resolve this turmoil and resolve the problems in batches was what Zhu Youxiao cared about.

But if you want to do all these, the prerequisite is to have soldiers in your hands.

"Detective, should we share this matter with the Western Investigation Bureau and other places?" Seeing Jiang Chen's words, Xiao Niezhong hesitated for a moment, but still said what he was thinking, "Especially the Seventh Army under the command of General Qi, after all..."

"You don't need to think too much about this."

Jiang Chen waved his hand to interrupt, "I will take care of what to do. The pressure at the West Jishi Factory and other places is not small. Things are not as simple as you think."

Jiang Chen had been working on this matter before, but it was not just his detective team that was under pressure. Other departments also had a lot of things to do. Many times you couldn't do whatever you wanted!
(End of this chapter)