Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 966 Internal and External Training (5)

Xuzhou.

A steady drizzle.

"Jiandou, do you think His Majesty will approve of this?" In a teahouse, Shen Tingyang stood with his hands behind his back, standing by the window facing the street, overlooking the crowd on the street, with a somewhat complicated expression.

"After all, if this is really done, the section of Shandong Caoyun south of it has finally been opened up, and it may be shut down again because of what you are going to do."

"I don't know either."

Lu Xiangsheng sat on a brocade stool and said calmly, "But you are in charge of this matter in Nanzhili and other places. I believe His Majesty will clarify it soon."

"You."

After hearing what Lu Xiangsheng said, Shen Tingyang turned around and said, "It's always like this when doing things. Once you've made up your mind, no matter how others persuade you, it won't work. You can obviously do it separately, but you insist on doing it so hastily. Aren't you afraid that something might go wrong?"

"The court can't wait any longer, and the country can't wait any longer either."

Facing Shen Tingyang's gaze, Lu Xiangsheng said calmly: "So many things happened in Jianghuai before, but think carefully, which one touched the core?"

"nothing!"

"The superficial dross has been solved, but the internal dross has not been eradicated. In return, all we get is a short-term peace. But is this what Your Majesty wants?"

Shen Tingyang was silent.

Because of the reorganization of the grain army, too many things happened in the Jianghuai area, such as raising grain prices, rebellions and civil unrest. During this period, the army commanded by Lu Xiangsheng was very active. It was only under Lu Xiangsheng's planning that the situation was prevented from escalating further.

Now it seems that Jianghuai is indeed stable, but this stability is a bit weird.

It was precisely because of this that Lu Xiangsheng secretly plotted a big event and conducted a lot of secret investigations for this purpose. This investigation really allowed him to find out a lot of things.

What he was planning this time was to wipe out all the hidden forces in the Jianghuai area, but because the matter involved too many things, after it became clear, he wrote a secret memorial to present to the emperor as soon as possible. At the same time, he also wrote a letter to Shen Tingyang in Nanzhili.

This matter cannot be achieved without the support of Shen Tingyang.

It was also because of this incident that Shen Tingyang secretly rushed to Xuzhou as soon as possible to discuss in detail with Lu Xiangsheng. After all, if this matter was really to be done, there could not be any mistakes, otherwise there would be big problems.

"Let's not talk about Jianghuai, let's talk about the southeast."

Lu Xiangsheng lifted his sleeves, looked at Shen Tingyang and said, "What is the current situation in the areas headed by Zhejiang? Why has the rebellion not been quelled yet?"

"As far as I know, Qi Jin and his men are capable of fighting. Why is it that the situation in Zhejiang and Fujian has become increasingly chaotic?"

"It's done by humans."

After hearing this, Shen Tingyang said with disdain: "How can there be so many Japanese? They are all ghosts in disguise. Qi Jin and his men were not fighting against Japanese from the beginning to the end, but ghosts!"

"Do you know how many people Fang Zhenghua and his men have captured and killed in Nanzhili and other places?"

"How many?"

Lu Xiangsheng frowned.

"countless!"

Shen Tingyang said: "Now even I can't understand the situation in the southeast. You say it's chaotic, but many places have stabilized. You say it's stable, but some places are still very chaotic."

"I can't understand, I can't understand."

"But right now I am worried about one thing. If no one takes this matter seriously, it may bring greater danger to the southeast in the future."

"what?"

Lu Xiangsheng asked. He knew what kind of character Shen Tingyang had. In fact, he had been paying attention to Shen Tingyang's affairs in the southeast for a long time.

Because he found that this turmoil was simply incredible.

Lu Xiangsheng felt that there were several invisible big hands pushing and playing games. Lu Xiangsheng knew that one of the big hands was the emperor far away in the capital, but he still couldn't guess the rest.

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't guess exactly when the situation in the southeast would stabilize.

But Lu Xiangsheng knew one thing: only when the Southeast became obedient could it be stable.

It was precisely because of this that Lu Xiangsheng became determined to resolve the Jianghuai issue as soon as possible. Otherwise, if it were the same everywhere, it would be too passive for the court.

"Slave transformation."

While Lu Xiangsheng was thinking, Shen Tingyang said seriously.

"Slave transformation?"

Lu Xiangsheng raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't expect Shen Tingyang to say this.

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"Exactly."

Shen Tingyang said seriously: "I didn't care at first. After all, the Southeast was in such chaos. It was normal for slaves to rebel against their masters in some places."

"Some groups in the southeast are different from those in the north. They don't treat people as human beings. You can imagine that people in some places enjoy abusing others. Every time I hear this, I feel angry."

When he said this, Shen Tingyang's eyes became sharp.

Shen Tingyang was from Suzhou, South Zhili. His family had a deep foundation in Suzhou, but he had never paid attention to these in the past, so he didn't know much about them.

But as he entered the official career, especially with heavy responsibilities, Shen Tingyang began to come into contact with other things, which led to such a change in Shen Tingyang.

If people want to change, they must go through some things.

"and then?"

Seeing that Shen Tingyang remained silent, Lu Xiangsheng spoke.

"Nowadays, there are frequent slave rebellions in many places in the southeast, ranging from a dozen people to hundreds of people, which has caused great trouble to the local areas."

Shen Tingyang continued, "What makes me angry is the behavior of some local officials. They suppress things whenever they can. This is most prominent in Fujian and Jiangxi. In Zhejiang, on the contrary, many local officials are drawn from the Shaofu and Northern Zhili. When they encounter such things, they intervene immediately, so the situation does not get out of control."

"Have you submitted this matter to the Emperor?"

Lu Xiangsheng frowned.

"Presented."

Shen Tingyang said, "Your Majesty's order is for me to pay close attention to this matter and report everything I know to the Joint Office for Suppressing the Japanese."

"But the more I investigate, the more frightened I become. I am really worried that if this trend becomes prevalent in the southeast, what kind of disaster will it bring."

Lu Xiangsheng was silent.

Unlike Shen Tingyang, Lu Xiangsheng had his own ideas about slave rebellion, because he had discovered the bad habit of slave abuse at a very early time, before he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination.

But now, after hearing all this again, combined with his current situation, Lu Xiangsheng realized that if this matter could not be resolved fundamentally, even if the slave rebellion was suppressed, it would only be a temporary stability. But how could it be possible to abolish slavery in the Ming Dynasty? If he really did that, God knows what would happen.

In this way, Lu Xiangsheng thought of the emperor in Beijing again, and a terrible idea arose in Lu Xiangsheng's heart...

(End of this chapter)