When Zhao Guoliang showed his power in Japan, the Shenwu regime in Nanjing also encountered a new crisis, but this crisis did not come from outside, but from inside.

With Zhu Hongsan occupying Nanjing, the most prosperous places in southern China, such as Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, became Zhu Hongsan's meat in the pot. Of course, when he became an emperor, he had to pay the obligation to be an emperor. The biggest obligation before Zhu Hongsan was how to feed the belly of tens of millions of people in Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

According to Zhu Hongsan's previous vision, he occupied Guangdong's separatist rule, and then used a large number of refugees from the north to develop his own strength. At the same time, he allowed the other unlucky emperors of the Southern Ming to take over and make a fortune in silence behind him. After a few years, his strength increased, and then he fought in the northern expedition to destroy both the Qing Dynasty and Yongli.

But I didn't know that the plan was very good, but Zhu Hongsan forgot one thing, that was the greed of the scholar group.

These literati, led by Ma Mingyuan, forced Zhu Hongsan to take office bit by bit in order to achieve their various goals. In the end, Zhu Hongsan was forced to become emperor in advance because of the times.

It is a lot of benefits for the literati to become emperors. They all become great masters, but they are harmful to Zhu Hongsan, who is on the throne of the emperor. If you take the emperor's banner, Zhu Hongsan will completely put yourself in the opposite direction of the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, you have a falling out with Zhu Youlang, who was supposed to be in the same camp.

In addition, the anti-Qing of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong in the first year of Shenwu made Zhu Hongsan at a loss, but what else can he do? Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to overdraw the vitality of his group and sent troops to the north with his head.

After occupying Nanjing, Zhu Hongsan's strength increased greatly, but the side effects were also very serious. In the late Ming Dynasty, due to the great development of commodity economy, large areas of farmland were converted into mulberry fields to plant cash crops, and the supply of grain had to rely on the supply of grain-producing areas such as Jiangxi and Huguang. Of course, there was no problem in peace, but now the entire south has become a nest of porridge.

Now the entire Huguang is divided into three regions, and several counties around Wuchang are in the hands of Zhu Hongsan. Hanyang, Huangzhou, Xunyang and Chengtian Prefecture in Jiangbei are in the hands of the Qing Dynasty. However, the Dongting Lake Basin, the largest grain-producing area in Huguang, is in the hands of Zhu Youlang.

Jiangxi is still better, all of them are here in Zhu Hongsan. However, due to the war in the first year of Shenwu, the entire Poyang Lake grain production area was destroyed and the population fled in large numbers. The data reported by local governments is estimated to be restored to the 10th year of Chongzhen’s grain production, which will take at least five years.

The grain production area is not in Zhu Hongsan's hands, but the population is all in Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan, who occupied Nanzhili, had to feed his people. People who couldn't eat no matter what your noble goal of expelling the Tartars and restoring China, they only knew that they couldn't eat, and I would fight with you.

At the same time, Nanzhili was not occupied by the Qing Dynasty for much time. It took less than three years to complete. The population structure was relatively complete and there was not much unowned land. The mulberry fish pond Zhu Hongsan built in Guangdong was not good at all. 70% of the land in Nanzhili was concentrated in the hands of the great gentry and the landlords. However, the Ming Dynasty was still a legal society, and even the emperor had no right to confiscate the landlords' land for no reason. Therefore, how to weaken land conflicts and increase grain output became a problem faced by Zhu Hongsan's group.

After Zhu Hongsan took over Chongzhen's position, the conflict between the landlord and the emperor in the Chongzhen dynasty was transferred to Zhu Hongsan. Fortunately, Zhu Hongsan was stronger than the unlucky emperor Chongzhen. Since Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, he has completely become a lonely man. Behind Zhu Hongsan stood the Huguang Honorary Group, which had become a climate.

Huguang Xungui Group is a new noble that Zhu Hongsan has worked hard to build over the past decade. Most of them are Zhu Hongsan's fellow Huguang people, plus some of the literati forces that have defected to him. These people are different from the traditional great geniuses and the big landlords. They started their own business by countless factories in Guangdong and mines in Luzon and Qiongzhou. Because of this, these emerging powerful people are very offensive. Only by occupying more land populations can they sell more goods, and the Huguang Group can earn more high profits.

Zhu Hongsan didn't know what he made of, it was the bourgeoisie? They did not have the openness of the bourgeoisie; they were feudal lords? They were much more advanced than the big landlords in the late Ming Dynasty, at least they did not want to solidify all the peasants on the land. Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and found that the thing he created was probably similar to the Junker landlord class in Germany before the later World War, and should be called Junker bourgeois imperialism.

Like all the new powerful classes in history, the first thing these new powerful people did was to open their bloody mouths to swallow the flesh and blood of the original old class. In the "vador case" before the New Year, it was the emperor's attack on some corrupt officials on the surface, but behind the scenes it was the first attack on the old forces of Nanzhili by these emerging powerful people.

As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing already had a population of millions of people in the Song Dynasty, and the grain supply in the entire Nanjing city was controlled by several major families. Zhu Hongsan uprooted several major families through the "refugee case" of Daxing, and at the same time handed over the large market of Nanjing to the new nobles under his command. The first collision between the new powerful and the old class won the new powerful.

Of course, the old class led by several great gentry families in Nanzhili was not a good deal. The eunuch party was so rampant that time, he would be defeated by the Donglin Party they selected. Therefore, after the emperor handed over the grain supply from Nanjing to the Huguang Group, several great gentry families in Nanzhili were sensitively discovered that the emperor was going to attack them.

Therefore, the heads of several great gentry in the two provinces of Nanzhili, taking advantage of the birthday of the Xu family in Songjiang Prefecture, gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

The Xu family in Songjiang is Xu Jie's family, and the current head is Xu Jie's great-grandson Xu Bengao. The Xu family is rich in Songjiang Prefecture, with 200,000 acres of land left by their ancestors, which can be regarded as the largest landlord in the entire Nanzhili.

Xu Bengao died in history with the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty. He was considered a backbone scholar, but in this time and space he had no chance to die for his country and Zhu Hongsan returned to Nanjing.

In addition to the Xu family, the Gao family in Suzhou Prefecture, the Li family in Zhenjiang Prefecture, the Zhou family in Yingtian Prefecture, and the Shi family in Changzhou Prefecture. In addition to the southern Zhili, the Zhao family in Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, Zhang family in Jiaxing Prefecture, and Gu family in Hangzhou Prefecture. Anyway, the big landlords in the grain production area around the Taihu Lake Basin have all come. However, there is another big landlord in Suzhou that has not come. This Qian family is the Qian Qianyi family in Changshu. Lao Qian also has more than 50,000 acres of land. He is a first-class big landlord, but Lao Qian sat on the emperor's side, so the Gao family came to Suzhou today.

Xu Bengao saw these big landlords in the house, who together had a total of millions of acres of land and a huge family income of 10,000 yuan. They were all well-known local gentry. They all came to their homes today, and they really gave themselves face!

"Everyone, thank you for attending my birthday party!" Xu Bengao was not ready to say anything guru after he said that, so it would be better to go straight in one go.

"Everyone, it has been three years since the Qing Tartars occupied Nanjing in the first year of Hongguang. Fortunately, Emperor Shenwu launched an army from Guangdong and returned to the old capital. We old bones did not die in the war. This is all thanks to Emperor Shenwu!"

Although these Han landlords were not very moral, they were still good in national justice. Although these landlords did not fight to the end with the Qing Dynasty like in the east of Zhejiang, they also secretly sent food to some rebels after occupying Nanjing. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan was quite good to these people after occupying Nanjing. You should know that in order to ensure safety, they also gave money to the rebels and grain. However, Zhu Hongsan had no good way to deal with these fence factions. After killing the surrender factions, they could only appease these fence factions.

After drinking a sip of tea, Xu Bengao continued, "It was a good thing to fight the Tartars and restore the Ming Dynasty. I raised my hands to agree. Back then, my son also went north to fight the bandits and died on the front line!" Thinking of his son Xu Bengao who died on the front line, he burst into tears.

When the other heads of the family heard Xu Bengao say this, they secretly sneered. Who wouldn't know that your son was jealous in Yingtian Mansion and was squeezed by Liu Rushi to join the army, and what face was there to blow the magic snails here?

But no matter what, his son sacrificed his life for the country, and this incident became the largest political capital of the Xu family in Songjiang. You all shouted loudly for the country, why didn’t you let your son join the army and fight? Because Xu Bengao died a son, he was vaguely headed among the major families in Nanzhili.

After crying, Xu Bengao continued, "We Nanzhili people shed all their blood and tears for the Ming Dynasty. Jiading, Jiangyin, Yangzhou, aren't I Nanzhili people fighting to the death? But now the peaches have been picked by those Huguang people! Master Zhou, you are from Yingtianfu, tell me!"

Mr. Zhou is the big landlord of Liyang County, Yingtian Prefecture. He stood up and said, "Everyone, you are far away from Yingtian. I don't know the hatefulness of those people in Huguang! They took advantage of the confidants of Emperor Shenwu and robbed the local gentry's industries after entering the city. There were hundreds of merchants of all sizes and big and small by these Huguang guys! There were also the case of refugees a few years ago. This case involved dozens of grain merchants in Yingtian Prefecture, hundreds of beheaded, and thousands of people sent to Luzon! Poor my grandson, who was only six years old, had to follow my miserable son-in-law across the ocean to Luzon, where the rabbit was not shitty!"

When it comes to sadness, Mr. Zhou also started to cry.

At this time, a man stood up next to him and said, "Although these people in Huguang are bad, they are not all like this. At least those soldiers are still fair!"
Chapter completed!