Although Zhu Hongsan, like Zhu Yuanzhang, was born in the market and was a stinky hooligan before, he and Zhu Yuanzhang faced different situations. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of people died due to wars, plague and other disasters, and large areas of grain-producing areas such as the Central Plains and Nanzhili were ownerless wasteland. Follow Lao Tzu, what if you win, how much land you share, anyway, the land is not his, no matter how you say it.

But Zhu Hongsan couldn't do this, he came to Guangdong, there was no major war here in Guangdong, at most, some homeless people in the north got some bandits and bullies or something, and a large area of reclaimed land was firmly in the hands of the Guangdong gentry. And Zhu Hongsan did not come to Guangdong alone, a large number of Huguang gentry followed him to Guangdong, these people are Zhu Hongsan's foundation, and Zhu Hongsan has to draw a big cake for them for himself.

This is also the main reason why the local gentry did not support Zhu Hongsan when he first arrived in Guangdong, but later with the addition of Chen Zizhuang, the Guangdong gentry began to slowly change their attitude towards Zhu Hongsan, of course, this is inseparable from Zhu Hongsan's concession of a large number of factories and shops, but after all, the attitude of the Guangdong gentry has changed. However, with the entry of the Qing army into Huguang, Jiangxi and Nanzhili in recent years, a large number of displaced people from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River entered Guangdong, and these people brought a large number of laborers to Zhu Hongsan, but also brought social turmoil. In the past few years, there have been four to five million displaced people from the north who have gone south, and you must know that in the past, the population of Guangdong Province alone was less than 10 million, so one-third of the population was a foreign population.

These people came to Guangdong to eat and work, but Guangdong is different from Nanzhili, Huguang and other land of fish and rice, except for the Pearl River estuary, the rest of Guangdong is hilly, there is very little land suitable for reclamation, and most of the cooked land is occupied by the Guangdong gentry.

In the past, when the number of people in the Huguang faction was small, Zhu Hongsan could still suppress them, but with the increase in the number of displaced people in the south, a large number of gentry from Huguang, Jiangxi, and Nanzhili went south one after another. After they arrived in Guangdong, they needed not only political resources, but now they have a large piece of land in Guangdong. After these southbound gentry found that they were suppressed by these Guangdong landlords, they immediately rallied around the leading figures of the foreign faction headed by Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia, which greatly increased the power of the Huguang faction that was originally suppressed by Prime Minister Chen Zizhuang, and finally made Zhu Hongsan also find a way to appease these southbound gentry.

Zhu Hongsan can't help it, Guangdong is so big, there is so much land, and now there are three tables of guests for one table of dinner. If Zhu Hongsan has 300,000 new troops now, he doesn't have to worry about these at all, just go on a direct northern expedition, there are large tracts of wasteland in the north to satisfy the appetite of these gentry, but Zhu Hongsan's new army can't reduce the cost of equipment because it uses weapons that exceed the productivity of this era. Although the steam engine was used in the production of weapons, the technology of this era led to a high rate of scrap in the production of weapons such as artillery and muskets. Zhu Hongsan calculated, now it takes 50 peasants to feed a musketeer, and now Zhu Hongsan has 100,000 new troops in his hands, which requires 5 million peasants to feed them, although Guangdong now has a population of more than 13 million, but don't other aspects cost money? Commerce, industry, bureaucracy, and infrastructure projects all require large populations. If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Hongsan had gotten a large amount of rice from Luzon and Annam in recent years, and that a large area of the hills in Guangdong had been planted with sweet potatoes and corn, Zhu Hongsan's Guangdong regime would have been dragged down by the New Army.

When five million displaced people come to Guangdong, each of them only needs to pay 30% of the land rent, and the land will be their own five years later. However, the local tenants in Guangdong did not have this kind of treatment, and they rented the landlord's land, and the land rent actually reached 60 percent, and the highest 70 percent was quite a few; seeing that the rent of the displaced people was more than half less than their own, a large number of tenants fled one after another, and Guangdong's relatively stable environment became unstable.

Zhu Hongsan was at a critical juncture in the confrontation with the Manchu Qing in the north, which would make his base in Guangdong unstable, so he had long wanted to rectify these local gentry in Guangdong. In February, when the Canton Incident occurred, Zhu Hongsan seized this opportunity to fabricate some trumped-up charges by taking advantage of the Jinyiwei and Dongchang controlled by the Huguang faction to get some small landlords who had no merit to go to Luzon to open mines, and their land became Zhu Hongsan's official property, and then distributed these lands to local tenants in Guangdong.

This can be done to small landlords who have no roots and no roots, but this is not possible with large landowners who have made a name for themselves. If they are killed indiscriminately, these guys will be able to go to Fujian and Jiangxi the next day to introduce the Qing army into Guangdong, and it will be a good thing to have the righteousness of the family and the country in the face of their own interests.

Zhu Hongsan's method for these big landlords was to redeem them, using some factories under his control to let these landlords use the land as shares, and some unimportant industries were completely handed over to the landlords, but they had to hand over two-thirds of the land to each family, and the remaining one-third had to reduce the rent to 30 percent. The 20 percent of the landlord's land rent was compensated by Zhu Hongsan with industrial products such as sugar and salt in kind, but it was only for three years, and after three years, it would be completely reduced to 30 percent.

In this way, Zhu Hongsan had a large amount of land in his hands, and after distributing it to some foreign gentry, he could also settle millions of displaced people. Zhu Hongsan's loss was a large number of factories, in order to appease the Guangdong gentry and foreign gentry, Zhu Hongsan even divided the sugar workshop and salt factory in Leizhou, so that there was no major chaos in Guangdong, but the loss of the Guangdong gentry was still a little, but within the scope of bearing, naturally they still had some resentment in their hearts.

However, after the victory of Ganzhou, the strong combat effectiveness of the new army spread to Guangdong, and there was no resentment at all. Because Zhu Hongsan gave them hope, Ganzhou only had less than 10,000 new troops, and won a frontal victory of 100,000 Qing troops, which was a victory that the Ming Dynasty had not won in the past 50 years, and also let everyone see the hope of a successful Northern Expedition.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that these guys were angry, and even Chen Zizhuang, who was quite honest, was a little dissatisfied in his heart, after all, his family took out two-thirds of it this time, which is enough for tens of thousands of acres of land. But there is no way, there is no way to talk to them in the face of this kind of thing. The emperor and the officials are naturally opposed, in order to maintain his own rule, the emperor must ensure that the people of the world have food, but the officials don't care about this, they are just a bunch of workers, and they eat their own ditches and ditches to level the life and death of your emperor. If the country is not good, it will be said that the emperor is a faint king, and we must choose good birds to perch on. The world is peaceful, and it is said that the emperor is a plaything, and now the world is peaceful because of the credit of our literati.

Zhu Hongsan also did admit that this group of stinky old nine governed the country has a set, and the Ming Dynasty in the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the civil economy, culture, and population developed greatly, and the emperor did not go to court at that time, and political affairs were entrusted to this group of stinky old nine. But at the critical moment, these guys will drag their feet, for example, now, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to fight at the doorstep, and some people want to send troops to destroy Zhu Youlang in Guangxi first, gain absolute political authority, and then concentrate the strength of Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou and other places to go all out on the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Hongsan is now sitting on the dragon chair, looking at Huang Yingxiu below and talking eloquently, should I say it or not, these stinky old nine are really eloquent, if Zhu Hongsan didn't know history, he would have been a little moved by what they said.

In history, it was also these guys, after supporting Emperor Shaowu to ascend the throne in Guangzhou, they immediately fought with Zhu Youlang of Guangxi for who was the boss, but Li Chengdong took advantage of the situation to occupy Guangzhou, and the unlucky emperor Zhu Youlang fled to Yunnan. If it weren't for Li Dingguo and other Great Western Army defecting to Zhu Youlang later, maybe Nanming would have ended here.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan secretly thought, should he send someone to contact Li Dingguo? If he took hundreds of thousands of Western troops to take refuge in himself, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan would be able to get their hands on it without a single soldier, saving him a lot of effort. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan decided to arrange for Qian Fatzi to send someone to contact Li Dingguo after the meeting.

Zhu Hongsan is flying in the sky above, and Huang Yingxiu below is still talking about the benefits of quelling Zhu Youlang's rebellion first. In fact, what Huang Yingxiu said also has some truth, now that the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty are in power, there are no two monarchs in the country, so that some of the Ming Dynasty control areas are at both ends. He Tengjiao of Huguang bet on both sides, he nominally submitted to Zhu Youlang, but he also had contact with the Guangdong Shenwu regime in private. If Zhu Hongsan sent troops to destroy Zhu Youlang, He Tengjiao would not be able to step on the two boats, and the Shenwu regime could also get the manpower and material resources of several provinces.

But Zhu Hongsan is not a deflated San who doesn't understand, not to mention whether Zhu Youlang, the first escape master, can honestly wait for himself to be caught, just according to what Huang Yingxiu said, Zhu Youlang was caught in Guilin, but now the provinces that Nanming can control are only a few provinces in Liangguang and Huguang. Guangxi is now different from later generations, this place is full of toast, and the Han population is not as large as that of Guangzhou, so why occupy it? In order to prevent the Tusi rebellion, Zhu Hongsan also sent troops to suppress the Tusi. Now there is only one regiment in Wuzhou, and if Guangxi is occupied, it will not be a regiment that can suppress it. Zhu Hongsan estimated that in order to prevent Tusi from rebelling, it was necessary to guard against the Qing army in Sichuan, at least one division of the new army. And now there are only four divisions of the army that Zhu Hongsan can take out in his hands, one in Luzon to guard against the Franc machine, one in Nanzhili to suppress the Qing army, one in Ganzhou to guard against the Qing army south, and the last Praetorian Division in Guangzhou to protect Zhu Hongsan's safety. After the Guangzhou incident, Zhu Hongsan absolutely could not make the center empty. There are still a few scattered regiments, Qian Yong of Chaozhou Prefecture has two regiments, to guard against Li Chengdong in Fujian, and the rest is the regiment in Wuzhou, so he has no strength to occupy Guangxi at all. If we really want to occupy Guangxi, we must at least wait until the end of the year, and wait until 50,000 recruits have been trained.