But Zhu Youxiao had to admit that these rebels were not considered strict bourgeoisie, and rebellion was not considered bourgeois revolution.

Because Zhu Youxiao discovered through the administrative orders of these rebel gentry that these people still retained some backward forms of agricultural civilization and feudal landlords, and still respected the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism thoughts that bound human nature.

Moreover, he was very tolerant of himself, the emperor who was the worst to them. He neither said he wanted to judge himself nor chop his head. He still just let the favored ministers around him take the blame;

Moreover, there are requirements for women and ordinary men who have nothing to do with this matter, otherwise they would not have deposed the foot-blocking ban that they had just issued, and would have prevented men from engaging in other professions other than farming and studying.

Of course, these rebels require that people in the world can only engage in farming and reading, which means that not everyone can read, but that gentry only needs to read, ordinary people only need to farm well, and the gentry landlords who study can exploit them.

"They are hilarious about what kind of decrees they have now. They have to wait until they repel my imperial army. It is not too late to plan any decrees. However, the decrees that these people have planned are very popular among gentry in terms of their concepts."

Zhu Youxiao said a few words, then asked Xiong Tingbi: "Xiong Aiqing, do you think these traitors may succeed in winning over gentry with such orders?"

Xiong Tingbi replied: "Return to your Majesty, in the opinion of my ministers, these rebels' threats are not as good as those who rebel. Although the rebels cannot sympathize with the gentry, they can get many people's responses, because most of the rebels' rebels are because of famine, and they only want not to starve to death, and what the people ask for is nothing but not to starve to death, so they can respond;

These rebel gentry did not live or eat enough. They rebel against the court just because their profits were taken away. Naturally, it was difficult for them to have the same sense as the people and would not win over the people. The people would naturally not respond. However, most of the gentry members never blindly follow their actions and those who are enlightened and understand the general principles will naturally not respond. Therefore, the ministers believe that these rebel gentry will not be able to respond to the people or support them;

Even in order to strengthen themselves, although these rebel gentry took care of the gentry in their political orders, in fact, it is difficult for them to preferential treatment for gentry who do not support themselves, because the people have no money to plunder and have no money to make them grow. Therefore, they can only ask gentry for money, and they can only plunder the gentry who does not support them. Moreover, they cannot get the response of the people and can only recruit a large number of unemployed vagrants and hooligans. These people are lazy and love to rob families the most. Once they are gathered by these rebel gentry and given weapons, they will only become more severe and become more and more robbed. Extortion and robbery of the gentry is inevitable!

Therefore, in my opinion, these gentry and local brave men are difficult to accomplish. Unless there is a government order that restricts military discipline, distributes food to common people, and reduces taxes to common people, it will be worthy of attention from the court. Like the Eastern Barbarians, although they plunder the Liao people, they strictly enforce military discipline and share land and wealth, which makes them far more threatening than other barbarians."

Zhu Youxiao agreed very much after hearing this. He had to admit that Xiong Tingbi was a visionary person in this era, and he was willing to look at the problem more thoroughly than many people in this era.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but think: "Fortunately, it was not Xiong Tingbi who rebels. Of course, smart people like Xiong Tingbi will not blindly rebel because of their own interests."

"There are reports from the East Factory in this regard. How did the rebel gentry treat other gentry in Jiangnan who did not participate in the rebellion?"

When Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian at this time, he needed to clarify whether these rebel gentry had preferential treatment for gentry who refused to participate in the rebellion.

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly replied: "Report to the emperor, according to the suspicion reports of merchants in various places in the Dongchang, as Grand Sima said, at the place where the rebellion occurred, all the gentry who refused to rebel were burned, killed and looted by the rebels. Yan Zhiji, the clan of the Ministry of Justice, was killed. Sun Yuanwen, the top scholar in Jiaxu, hanged himself for his sacrifice. Ma Chunren, a student in Liuhe County, died of a spear. Before his death, he shouted, "How can scholars rebel against the king! There is also a son named Wu Zhiji who jumped into the river and died because he refused to follow the thief."

Zhu Youxiao fell silent after hearing this.

Perhaps this is the value of the emperor's orthodox identity.

Whether you know the general trend of the world but don’t know it and just adhere to the Confucian way of loyalty to the emperor, your spirit is commendable, which is enough to show that your identity as an emperor cannot be deprived of by anyone.

"All of them are loyal ministers! Han Aiqing, he gave all the people mentioned in the East Factory a ceremony of posthumous title."

Zhu Youxiao said something.

"I obey the order!"

Han Du, who had not spoken much, quickly replied.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know whether these rebellious gentry were really stupid or had no choice. He treated gentry with the same class as him and had different ideas.

But he had to admit that this just gave him an opportunity to bring one group to fight one group after going to Jiangnan in the future.

"How is the situation in Nanjing's inner city now?"

However, Zhu Youxiao was still worried that among these rebels, some knowledgeable people would capture the inner city, use the imperial court to hoard money and food that had been hoarded in Nanjing but did not deport to the capital to prepare for disasters in the southern area, and recruit soldiers and horses, without having to loot the gentry who did not support their rebellion, or achieve this goal by slaughtering the nobles in Nanjing. As far as Zhu Youxiao knew, the nobles in Nanjing were also rich. If he was a rebel, he would rather slaughter these nobles than offend the gentry in the whole world. After all, the reason why the nobles were nobles was because there was a court behind them, and now they had rebeled the imperial court, so why were they afraid of nobles?

So, Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian again at this time.

"Return to the emperor, according to the report from the Dongchang, the inner city has not been lost. Li Changgeng, the Minister of War of Nanjing, closed the inner city in time, causing the rebels to fail to take down the inner city in time."

Wei Zhongxian replied.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao asked Xiong Tingbi again: "How long does Xiong Aiqing think Li Changgeng can stay in the inner city?"

Xiong Tingbi hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, Li Changgeng has been a border minister for a long time, is very knowledgeable about military affairs, is very good at defending. Your Majesty is wise and let this person take charge of the Nanjing Ministry of War. In the eyes of his ministers, this person is in Nanjing. Even if the Nanjing Jing camp is old, weak, sick and disabled, Li Changgeng's ability to rectify military affairs, and with the inner city's food and fodder and the city is high and thick, when he can hold on until the army reaches Nanjing, as long as the army and the civilians in the inner city defend their lives, even the warriors will find it difficult to shake such a strong city, let alone, the rebels are just brave and gangsters!"

Zhu Youxiao ordered his head.

Since Xiong Tingbi thought Li Changgeng was fine, Zhu Youxiao no longer continued to worry about the loss of Nanjing inner city.

But Li Changgeng was not appointed by Zhu Youxiao, but recommended by Fang Congzhe.

As the emperor, he was at the top of power, and it was difficult to see the talents of all officials, and he did not ask about everything because of his complicated affairs.

But when Xiong Tingbi said this, Zhu Youxiao felt that Fang Congzhe was still thinking about recommending officials, and he could be considered as the prime minister to prepare for the future.

"Wei Zhongxian, send someone to ask, after I left the capital, what are the capital now, Fang Congzhe, and Zhu Xungui in the capital doing."

"yes!"
Chapter completed!