Zhu Youxiao was uncertain whether the more than 10,000 people brought by Duoduo when he pacified Jiangnan in history or the more than 10,000 people in the West Factory he mobilized.

But Zhu Youxiao believed that the troops he temporarily mobilized as the West Factory would not be worse than the butcher Duodo.

Needless to say, Qi Jin and his Zhejiang soldiers, the loyal and brave army, which was wiped out by the entire Ming army in history, caused the Donglu to suffer heavy damage in the bloody battle of Hunhe, and the resentment of Wu and Yue was deeply rooted in the two places. The Zhejiang soldiers, dominated by Zhejiang people, would undoubtedly have great motivation to tax the land of Wu.

Not to mention Qin Minping's white-rod soldiers, like Zhejiang soldiers, they had fought with the Eastern Barbarians and could even fight the Tartars, and it was impossible for them to defeat the gentry's slaves.

Zhao Rujiao belonged to the border general. He had accepted the emperor's instructions to expose the fact that the civil servants had lost their fortunes. It can be seen that his loyalty is reliable and he was also a brave general who died on the battlefield for the Ming Dynasty in history.

The same is true for Man Gui. He was a naturalized Mongol. It was difficult to have any connection with the gentry in the south. Moreover, he was also killed in the battle for the Ming Dynasty in history, and his loyalty was also reliable.

Zhu Youxiao could not have to wait until his own personal army was trained on a large scale before collecting taxes.

Because the powerful and powerful gentry would definitely not just watch the emperor's personal army become stronger and stronger.

These powerful gentry who controlled most of the food resources of the Ming Dynasty would definitely restrict the flow of food into the emperor's hands. Now the emperor raises more personal troops.

Therefore, if Zhu Youxiao wants to raise more strong military, he must control more food resources. Silver alone is not enough, it must be food. After all, food is the most important strategic resource. If only silver is the only one, the silver will only be silver and cannot be filled with it.

Therefore, if Zhu Youxiao wanted to control more food, he had to ensure that the gentry paid the food tax in full.

In this way, he had to use his emperor's identity to first attract one gentry to attack another gentry, and at the same time he also used the loyal northern military landlords to attack the disloyal southern gentry landlords, or in turn, used the loyal southern gentry to attack the disloyal northern military landlords.

Then, Zhu Youxiao took this opportunity to reap the benefits of the fisherman and slowly expanded his own military scale.

"Ministry, General Manager, I would like to ask why His Majesty suddenly asked us to go south to cooperate with the taxation?"

On the way, Qi Jin, Zhao Shujiao, Man Gui and other military generals couldn't help but ask Wang Yingjiao and Li Yongzhen because of curiosity. After all, they suddenly received a secret edict and urgently transferred them to the capital, so they thought there was something wrong with the capital, so they needed to serve the king. Therefore, they rushed to the capital without undressing their armor.

But they did not expect that the court would actually make those who were in battle and killing the enemy a tax supervisor in the West Factory.

"Because the court can no longer collect taxes, many people below did not take the emperor's order seriously, and even if they issued an order, they ignored it. Therefore, His Majesty had no choice but to transfer troops to form a Western Factory to collect taxes."

Wang Yingjiao replied.

"Who dares to see the emperor without him? Do you want to rebel? I killed him! The tribe, tell me, what is the imperial edict? How many clans are destroyed?"

Zhao Rujiao suddenly shouted and pulled out his knife.

After Zhu Youxiao ordered the Bai Gan Bing and Zhejiang Bing to assist Jinyiwei in confiscating the Shanxi merchants, he did not ban the border trade function of Shanxi merchants, but instead replaced it with the Maritime Bureau. Therefore, the grain of the border officers and landlords was purchased by the Maritime Bureau on a larger scale than that of the Shanxi merchants, and was hoarded as important strategic resources or sold to the Mongolian tribes in the name of the government as an economic weapon to control the Mongolian tribes.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao controlled the economic interests of the officers of the border town, which made these border town generals not only dissatisfied with the court because of the Shanxi merchants being circulated, but were more loyal.

Zhao Rujiao was so excited. He was impulsive and reckless on the surface, but in fact he showed his loyalty.

Li Yongzhen couldn't help but pale and smiled awkwardly: "General Zhao Shen, please be careful. At that time, the main thing is to search the house, not kill people."

At this time, Man Gui said: "No wonder the food and salary have not been paid yet this year. I don't know if the ministry can pay our food and salary first. It's true that the officers and soldiers below have already complained."

Wang Yingjiao said, "The food and salary will be paid, and Your Majesty specially designed to pay military salary, and he also gave performance reward silver. Whoever recovers the tax will receive more rewards, and even the soldiers at the bottom will not be less than fifty taels! But it cannot be paid yet, because your food and salary are still in the hands of those who are unwilling to pay taxes. The court must recover the tax before sending it to you after it comes back."

"The soldiers are not less than fifty taels? You should go to Jiangnan and don't have to go to the border town to get cold and blown by the cold wind this winter. I didn't expect that there would be such a bad situation."

All the officers and soldiers' eyes glowed.

Therefore, the people from the West Factory went south to be particularly enthusiastic and fast, almost three or five days faster than expected.

This time, Zhu Youxiao asked the Xichang team and Feng Quan to directly take charge of Suzhou, and used the Suzhou Prefect's Office to temporarily serve as the Southeast Governor's Office and the Xichang's Office.

After copying some gentry who really wanted to resist taxes to the end, they reported to the gentry's residence as the official offices of the Governor of the Southeast and the officials of the West Factory.

Therefore, Wang Yingjiao and others came to Nanzhili and came directly to Suzhou.

As soon as Wang Yingjiao and Feng Quan arrived in Suzhou, they immediately summoned officials from all over the country, including Xiao Jingao, Governor of Yingtian, Sun Chengzong, Governor of Susong, and other officials of all sizes in the southern Zhili, and asked these officials to immediately notify the scholars and citizens in their jurisdiction to pay the tax within half a month, and asked these officials to immediately prepare to arrange for clearing the land and clarifying the tax.

Local officials and gentry in Nanzhili and other places, as early as when Wang Yingjiao and others left Beijing, they learned from various channels that the court had sent large-scale troops and some important officials to Nanzhili.

However, because Zhu Youxiao did not allow the imperial edict to be transferred to Beijing to form the Western Factory to be announced to the public through the Dibao and the Huang Mingbao, and the East Factory secretly took confidential measures, although local officials and gentry from Nanzhili heard some news, they were not sure of the purpose of the imperial court sending large-scale troops and some important officials to the south.

Now, after learning about the true purpose of the imperial court, officials from all over the country were naturally very surprised.

However, because they were worried about the black hat on their heads, some civil servants were willing to stand on the side of the gentry in Jiangnan, but they did not dare to explicitly resist the imperial decree at this time.

So, the next thing was to recover the fu and clear the land of Zhangzhang in the beginning.

In particular, Governor Yingtian Xiao Jingao and Governor Su Song Sun Chengzong were more supportive, after all, the emperor's orders were difficult to violate.

Therefore, officials at all levels informed the pursuit of the tax and the impending clearance of the land.

But as soon as this decree was informed, it caused great shock to the gentry in Jiangnan.

"How could the court do this? It's just to send so many soldiers to urge the tax to pay! Is this really going to force us to rebel directly?"

Wang Shiqi was furious and slapped the table directly.

Dong Zuhe, who was discussing the matter in the Xu family garden, sneered: "Is this more than anything? Now this tyrant is really mean and merciless! Sometimes I really want to rebel and rebel!"

"Don't say this, be careful of the disaster of the nine clans! Although the emperor is unrighteous, he is the lord of the world. In my opinion, don't worry about this beforehand. As long as we don't rebel, the court may not kill us. After all, killing us is useless. Almost all the gentry is in this tribute. Unless we are killed, can the court kill us all? If he kills us all, does he still want Jiangnan? If the court wants to rule Jiangnan, we cannot do without us."

Shen Yongjia started talking.

"That's right, building bridges, building roads, providing relief to disaster victims, controlling common people's livelihood, strictly preventing pirates and pirates, educating neighbors, and cultivating people who govern the country. These all require our gentry to do it for the court. Even if Zhu Youxiao wants to do something indiscriminately, the old ministers in the court will not agree! This is what my grandfather Xu Wenzhen said. If the emperor wants to maintain a long-term stability in the country, he cannot do without the literati and officials to govern the country for him."

Xu Yuanqing started talking.

"But we can't be too contemptuous. Let's look at the formation first. If the court urges the ruthlessness of the ruling, we don't have to force ourselves! Anyway, the entire Jiangnan gentry is in the fu, not ours."

Shen Yongjia started talking.
Chapter completed!