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But the final whereabouts of Prince Fu and his son have become an eternal mystery. No one can tell clearly. Prince Fu and his son disappeared inexplicably during the Luoyang Rebellion.

As for the royal families in the remaining provinces who tried to muster force to confront Yu Xiaotian, none of them could survive the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. In the face of the powerful firepower of a new type of army such as the Yu Family Army, those who had gathered temporarily

The rebels were basically fighting against the five scum, and as expected, they were all quickly wiped out by Yu Xiaotian's troops.

Moreover, by the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the Yu family army also invaded Yungui and other places where Yu Xiaotian had not penetrated his power before, and quickly defeated some local resistance forces that did not obey the imperial court's orders.

Furthermore, Yu Xiaotian ordered that all the registered royal relatives of the Zhu family should be placed under strict supervision by the local government. Unless otherwise permitted, they could only stay in the mansion and were not allowed to leave the mansion without permission.

The local government has unified distribution and supply, which is equivalent to completely locking the descendants of the Zhu family in a cage.

Yu Xiaotian's method is already quite mild. Compared with some methods of massacring all the original royal family during dynasty changes, it is already quite lenient.

After two years have passed, the situation in the entire north and the Central Plains has basically stabilized. Although some cults like the White Lotus Sect are still trying to cause trouble in some places, and some unyielding powerful are still trying to cause trouble for the court.

However, under the strong suppression of Yu Jiajun, these are just small troubles and basically cannot cause much waste.

With the gradual implementation of various new policies in the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere in the officialdom gradually became clearer, and various methods that officials used to blackmail and coerce the people were gradually banned, which greatly reduced the burden on the people.

Agricultural production is gradually recovering. Even in Shaanxi, the area that suffered the most disaster, people are now returning to the land and starting to reorganize it.

Years of wars have caused a sharp decline in the population of the north. Many places that suffered serious war disasters have experienced a situation where ten houses are empty. Even after the refugees return to their hometowns, there is still a serious lack of population, leaving a lot of land

They were all abandoned because there was not enough manpower and animal power for farming.

So Yu Xiaotian issued an order to relocate some places in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan, especially villages that were not suitable for farming in the previous mountainous areas. The limited number of villagers were moved out of the mountainous areas and transferred to some places with a sparse population but more suitable land for farming.

After rearrangement, they rented official farmland, abandoned some of the original villages in the mountainous areas, and converted farmland into forests to conserve soil and water. In terms of the natural environment, they took the first step in conserving soil and water.

In April of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian finally issued an order to cancel water transportation and replace water transportation with sea transportation. The money and grain transferred from the south to the north abandoned the canal and took the sea route. It was loaded on sea ships from coastal ports and transported to the north. This completely eliminated the cost of water transportation and cost the country too much.

Mismanagement of resources.

However, this incident also caused a violent backlash, because the abandonment of water transportation will affect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of boat people who previously relied on water transportation, as well as Caoding and various officials who manage water transportation affairs.

The solution given by Yu Xiaotian is to subsidize some of the water boats by the state, purchase them, or dismantle them or use them for short-distance transportation in rivers, and relocate some of the boat people ashore to transfer their land.

for farmers.

Another group of boatmen who were still willing to make a living on boats moved to coastal areas and recruited them to serve as crew members on ships.

As for the Caoding in various places, they were reorganized. Those who should be demobilized and resettled, and those who should be recruited into the army to continue serving as soldiers were recruited into the army and served.

There are also some former water transport officials who have been arranged separately, or dismissed, or transferred to other places. Only some canal sections with better water conservancy conditions will be retained and continued to be maintained. As for many sections of the canal that are seriously silted up, they will be abandoned.

On the surface, this approach is very appropriate and has taken into account the interests of the vast majority of people. However, in fact, it has seriously affected the vested interests of many people who have benefited greatly from canal water transportation matters.

As a result, these people must have been very unhappy, so they vigorously encouraged the people to cause trouble among the people, and some people with ulterior motives participated in it and secretly paid for people to try to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.

Yu Xiaotian had also anticipated this in advance. It was impossible for him to be unprepared for such a large-scale problem that affected the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people. Before this imperial edict was issued, a large number of agents had been placed in advance and infiltrated among the Cao people.

, so when some people began to gather to make trouble, the military and local officials in various places immediately began to use thunderous means to arrest a group of those who started the trouble and punish them on the spot.

By the way, they also pulled out radishes and brought out the mud, which involved many officials who were fishing in troubled waters. Among them, the South Zhili area alone arrested hundreds of officials, and all of them were quickly sentenced, beheaded and abandoned in the market.

As a result, the civil unrest along the canal, which had just started for a short time, was suppressed one after another in just over three months.

After removing the leaders or secretly instigating the brains, the remaining Cao people will be much easier to deal with. In addition, the court has given them more preferential treatment. Compared with these low-level boatmen, they are cheating on the boats.

When they were working as boatmen, and with the current treatment provided by the court, they naturally stopped and began to accept resettlement.

This way, the imperial court could save huge amounts of water transportation costs every year. The most important thing was to relieve the burden on ordinary people who had been stripped of their skins because of water transportation in the past.

Part of the money saved was invested in maritime transportation. A large number of new cargo ships were built to transport grain from the south to the north. Many shipwrights who had lost their jobs due to the cancellation of water transportation were accommodated, and a large amount of waste due to water transportation was reduced.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian was not allowed to use the remaining funds for other purposes. Instead, he invested all the money in the renovation of rivers in the Huanghuai area that are prone to flooding all year round, especially the two major rivers of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River.

The main goal of huge investment management.

The Yellow River has changed its course many times in history, which has brought endless disasters to the people in the Huanghuai area in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The Yellow River is sandy and can easily silt up the river channel, causing frequent breaches in the lower reaches. That is to say, during the Wanli period, minister Pan Jixun tried his best to control the Yellow River, and the lower reaches of the Yellow River were considered

The river channel stabilized.

However, after the Chongzhen period of Tianqi, the state became increasingly chaotic, the finances were stretched, and the corruption of officials was prevalent, which made the imperial court unable and unable to comprehensively manage the Huanghuai flooded areas.

Now that Yu Xiaotian has canceled water transportation and saved a large amount of money, he simply invested in the management of the Huanghuai River Basin. The people happened to be very poor, so Yu Xiaotian selected a group of capable officials to go to various places to carry out management.

River projects, and the order cannot arbitrarily recruit people. Instead, idle disaster victims can be recruited through work-for-relief methods, and river repairs can be carried out by providing food and money.

The work-for-relief method has brought benefits to the people. At this time, there are still many people who have not been settled. These floating victims may bring instability to the society at any time. Once they are deceived or led by someone with a deliberate intention,

, it may cause a big mess.

The work-for-relief method attracted a large number of floating victims to the river control project. The imperial court allocated money and grain to the project in exchange for the refugees' work and efforts, which caused frequent flooding everywhere.

After the completion of the project, we are also responsible for providing land and residences to these people to stabilize them, so that they can have fields to farm and homes to return to, fundamentally solving the problem of mobile disaster victims having nowhere to resettle.

Yu Xiaotian was particularly impressed by the fact that Li Zicheng opened Kaifeng three times and later excavated the Yellow River flooding the city of Kaifeng. Now that Li Zicheng has been destroyed, Kaifeng is temporarily safe, but the Yellow River next to Kaifeng still seems to be in Kaifeng Mansion, Guide.

It is like a sharp knife on the heads of the people in the area, and there may be breaches and floods at any time.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian specially ordered the Ministry of Industry to strengthen the repair work of the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River downstream of Luoyang, and dispatched supervisory censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to conduct secret inspections at various river control construction sites, and conducted strict financial reviews of the river control projects to ensure

The money invested can actually be used for river control projects, instead of being used to line the pockets of officials.

For this reason, the dirty hands of some corrupt officials were indeed caught. Yu Xiaotian did not kill them. After checking, he ordered people to chop off their hands alive, but did not let them die, so he hung them on the river control construction site.

It is exposed to wind and rain and is available for people to visit, in order to deter the officials who succeeded them from extending their dirty hands to control the river.

Throughout the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, all parts of the Ming Dynasty entered a relatively stable state. Although there were still small-scale riots or civil commotions in many places, the scales were not large, and they were quickly dispatched from various places.

The Yu Jiajun was destroyed.

As the Yu Jiajun extended its tentacles to all parts of the country, the old-style armies in various places gradually began to be replaced by the Yu Jiajun. A large number of former Ming troops disarmed and returned to the fields, taking off their identities as soldiers for generations and becoming Zhenger.

The farmers of Bajing allocated land to them and allowed them to settle down and cultivate it.

This also allowed the Ming Dynasty to reduce many redundant troops and reduce the financial burden on the court. However, this was the dismantling of the official army, which also encountered strong resistance and backlash from many Ming generals. Military generals in many places learned that

His troops were about to be disbanded, and they would soon become mere commanders, so of course they would not give in easily.

Some generals with more troops simply led their troops to rebel, attacked the surrounding prefectures and counties, plundered the places, and forcibly coerced the people into the army to serve as cannon fodder for them.

Among them, the one who caused the most serious commotion was Zuo Liangyu, the general stationed in Xiangyang Prefecture. This guy was not a good bird in another historical time and space. In this time and space, he still has the same old virtues and respects himself by supporting troops in Huguang.

, often disobeying orders and causing harm to the people.

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