Li Xin and Zheng Lian discussed a few words with their fellow villagers in Henan, and Li Xin stood up, bowed to Chongzhen, and began to tell what he had seen and heard in his hometown.

Zhu Youzhen asked Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu to take people to Henan, and he had long been prepared for land and grain requisition from the gentry and landlords in Henan, and these people would have some problems in the implementation.

Not to mention that now, even in later generations, under the leadership of party members who are the most organized in modern times and have faith, there have been many quite outrageous mistakes in the process of carrying out land reform for the whole of China.

And the old-style officials led by Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu would have implemented such a policy that was close to land reform, and it would be strange if they didn't cause problems.

Zhu Youzhen felt that as long as these two people didn't put all the land and grain they had requisitioned into their pockets, he would already be satisfied.

The speech of Li Xin, a person from Henan, really confirmed his guess. Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu obviously did not understand what civilized law enforcement was, and the way they implemented the land and grain requisition policies was basically no different from the way the Kuomintang requisitioned grain.

When they arrived at the place, they first asked the local magistrate to summon the local gentry to the city for a meeting, at which they asked each family to report their land and the amount of grain they had stored, and then fill out a voluntary contribution form for land and grain.

In this process, some gentry passed on their land and grain storage to their opponents by bribing the two; Or simply take some public land or wasteland as their own land and hand it over to the imperial court.

All in all, in order to avoid the imperial court's policy of land and grain requisition, the Henan gentry racked their brains and transferred the burden of the imperial court on themselves.

Of course, this was the practice of some of the less powerful and more intelligent gentry, and some of the big landlords, who were not smart enough and occupied most of the local land in the county, scoffed at the policies issued by the imperial court and were unwilling to pay attention to them.

In the eyes of these big landlords who occupy tens of thousands of acres or hundreds of thousands of acres of land, they are the head snakes of their own county, not to mention the officials sent by the imperial court such as Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu, even if they are local county officials and guards, they also don't care about them.

Although there are many guards in Henan, but today, when the guard system is withering, a guard can pull out dozens or hundreds of strong men, which is considered good. But as long as they give an order, the servants in their own manor alone can gather thousands or tens of thousands.

In the eyes of these big landlords, Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu can implement the policies of the imperial court, and they can catch those small shrimps and not provoke themselves. If they really provoke themselves, then they must learn from the Jiangnan gentry, gather their servants, and tenant farmers who rent their own land, and drive these remnants of the eunuchs out of their county.

These large landowners have great influence in the local area, and most of the previous rebellions against the requisition of grain by the righteous people in Henan were also initiated behind the scenes. Even if this action deviates from the original intention, the righteous people become real mobs.

The army composed of those rebellious people did not dare to attack these powerful large landlords' estates. After all, their manor was built extremely strongly, not only with semi-militarized trained families, but also equipped with sophisticated weapons, and stored a large amount of food and supplies, which could not be captured by the rebel army with wooden sticks.

In their minds, Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu are also officials of the imperial court, and if they go to the local area to provoke a popular uprising, they will have to go around if they can't eat. So when the big landlords heard about the conditions they had given, they made up their minds to resist by force, an order no different from robbery.

However, they used their previous experience to measure the courage of Xu Xianchun and Yang Xiu, which was obviously a big mistake. Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu obviously didn't care about whether Henan was chaotic or not, and the places they started first were all near the three prefectures in southern Henan.

These three prefectures were close to the Dabie Mountains and the Huai River, and were previously joined by Sun Chuanting, the prefect of Luoyang, and Guo Zengguang, the governor of Henan, to drive the rebels in the north and east of Henan into several counties centered on the Dabie Mountains.

For Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu, the three southern provinces of Henan are all occupied areas, and if something goes wrong, they can be blamed on the rebels, or they can simply be cleared up as rebels and thieves.

As these large landowners in Henan predicted, Henan's Weisuo army had long been rotten to the end, and it would not be the opponent of the family they had raised at all.

However, Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu didn't expect to use the Henan Guard Station at all, they directly transferred the tomb guarding troops from Fengyang, as well as some troops from Shaanxi, and the men and horses summoned by the Henan Guard Station were used as guides and garrison troops.

Whether it is the mausoleum guarding troops in Fengyang or the army in Shaanxi, they can't get along with these Henan people.

In addition, Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu publicly declared that after exterminating the bandits in these secession areas, one-third of the floating wealth would be directly distributed to the troops participating in the attack, and the captured grain would be used for disaster relief in Shaanxi.

As a result, the anti-bandit troops, with the Anhui and Shaanxi people as the main force, appeared extremely brave in the battle.

These big landowners in Henan soon found that their dreams were shattered. In the past, their servants and servants were able to beat the weak officers and soldiers of the guard around them to the head and blood, because they thought that the power of their master's family was stronger than that of the other party, and they were not fighting the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, but the house slaves commanded by a certain guard.

Once the imperial court sent a regular army and really exterminated them as anti-thieves, these family members and servants immediately became confused, and some family members saw that the situation was not good, and directly opened the door to welcome the court officials and soldiers anyway.

The Henan gentry, who originally wanted to resist the expropriation of land and grain by force, were immediately frightened by the bloody means of the imperial court. They gave up armed resistance and re-searched within the system for ways to attack Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu.

In addition, some of the Henan gentry simply entrusted their land to the names of some real wealthy families or clans, hoping to escape this catastrophe.

Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu's past reputations were not good, and the Henan gentry already hated the storm that the two of them set off in Henan.

Therefore, while contacting the senior officials of the court and the central government, they also funded Henan scholars such as Li Xin and Zheng Lian to go to Beijing to file complaints, bent on putting Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu to death and restore the peaceful life of Henan.

This Henan scholar named Li Xin gave his talents, and his thinking was also very clear, and when he told Chongzhen, he summarized 11 major crimes and 21 minor crimes for Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu in an orderly manner.

Under his infectious accusation, Zhu Youzhen also noticed that many of the students present were also a little indignant.

Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Qian Qianyi, who was sitting on his right, and saw that this old Qian Ge was looking at him with blank eyes, obviously he had no way to deal with Li Xin's accusation, and was waiting for his instructions.

Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head and smiled at Li Xin and said, "That's good, if what you just said is true, then our officials really have to put things in order." ”

Zheng Lian, who was standing beside Li Xin, hurriedly interjected and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the student dares to guarantee with his life, what Li Juren said is the truth, and Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu, two traitors, have done much worse things in the local area than this..."

"Presumptuous." Zhu Youzhen suddenly patted the coffee table next to him and stood up, interrupting Zheng Lian's words.

The scholars subconsciously lowered their heads, not knowing why the emperor was suddenly angry. And after the imperial guards outside the door heard Chongzhen's angry shouts, they immediately rushed in as if they were facing a great enemy.

Zhu Youzhen looked at these imperial guards waiting for his orders, and waved his hand at them, and these imperial guards who rushed in with their waist knives suddenly restrained their murderous aura and exited the room in an orderly manner.

Zhu Youzhen turned his gaze to Zheng Lian again, and reprimanded in a cold tone: "You are just a mere person, Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu are both officially appointed officials of the imperial court, what qualifications do you have to humiliate the imperial court officials in front of me?" Do you still understand the superiority and inferiority, and do you know what the three outlines and five constants are? ”

Zheng Lian was speechless for a while, but Li Xin calmly defended him from the side: "Please also ask Your Majesty to calm your anger, Zheng Juren saw Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu poisoning the people in Henan, and he was angry for a while, so he lost his temper in front of His Majesty." ”

Zhu Youzhen stared at Zheng Lian and Li Xin, who were kneeling on the ground and pleading guilty, for a long time, before he said a little calmly: "If I didn't think that what you might say was the truth, would I still allow you to continue to talk to me here?"

I asked you to sit down and talk with me, and that was for the sake of your worries about the country, so that you could report the facts to me, and I would send someone down to check everything you had said.

If such a thing really happens, then I will naturally order someone to investigate and punish the relevant officials. But before the matter is clarified, no one can carry out personal attacks on the officials of the court so unscrupulously, unless you deliberately want to humiliate the court and humiliate me. ”

Zheng Lian's face was pale, and under Li Xin's reminder, he hurriedly defended himself to Chongzhen: "The student has no such intention, it is the student who has been restless for the past few days, so he lost his words for a while. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the other scholars in the room, and for the reprimand he just had, whether it was a student from Yenching University or a scholar from Henan, they all bowed their heads and did not dare to make a move.

However, the scholars of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance were a little strange, and the young man named Xia Yugong was very eager to try and wanted to argue with himself. However, his shoulders were held down by Zhang Pu and Wang Chongjian beside him.

After Zhu Youzhen glanced at it, he slowly sat back and said to Qian Qianyi beside him: "Mr. Qian, I didn't expect that once these officials left my sight and the court's sight, they would be able to do such things in the local area.

I think this matter needs to be properly investigated, and we can't let go of a bad person, nor can we wronged a good person. ”

Qian Qianyi's cheeks flushed slightly, as if he had just been frightened by Chongzhen, and he hurriedly replied to the emperor: "After the minister returns, he must convey His Majesty's imperial order to the cabinet." ”