These local wealthy families in Henan, they feel that they are still measured, and as long as the local people do not attack the county seat, they do not kill the court officials.

Generally speaking, those officials in the imperial court will choose to thin the mud, isn't that exactly the case in Suzhou tax resistance that year?

What's more, now that the Ming Dynasty is worried about internal and external troubles, the emperor will not be happy to see it, and these local officials have messed up Henan.

The ideas of these local tycoons soon went bankrupt because they forgot one thing, that in the past, the actions of the local people against the government were isolated incidents at one time and one place.

And now it is not uncommon for wealthy families in Henan to think the same way, which also makes the action of driving away officials and officials into a large-scale incident one after another.

At this time, even if the local officials in Henan want to turn a blind eye, there is nothing they can do, because these officials can no longer hide it.

In the center of the imperial court, Huang Liji didn't want to hide anything for the gentry in Henan, because Henan was located in the Central Plains and was second only to the southeastern provinces, so there were many gentry. But officials from Henan do not support either the north or the south, and they prefer to hug themselves together.

In the past few years, during the party struggle in the imperial court, some officials took refuge in the eunuch party, and some officials took refuge in the Donglin party, but most Henan officials chose neutrality. As long as the interests of the Henan region are not harmed, these officials choose to remain silent.

This makes the officials from Henan not suffer a great impact during the party struggle, but it also means that the officials from Henan do not have the ability to influence the court.

For example, when Chongzhen proposed to implement a temporary policy of unified purchase and marketing of grain in Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, Henan's opposition was the smallest. Both Huang Liji and the Donglin Party members were unwilling to stand up for Henan to oppose this policy.

The ministers of the imperial court, represented by Huang Liji, wanted to take this opportunity to break the tradition of the Henan gentry controlling local government affairs.

However, when the cabinet had not yet figured out how to adjust the positions of officials in Henan, some people in Henan wrote to the imperial court to expose that these incidents were a conspiracy planned by some wealthy families themselves.

This apparently gave the cabinet a more advantageous weapon, and Huang Liji even intended to use it to punish a group of Henan gentry, so as to strengthen his leadership over the imperial court.

However, when Huang Liji had not yet figured out how to deal with this matter, the situation in Henan changed again.

The uprisings of the righteous people initiated by these Henan gentry soon escaped their own control. Some bandits took advantage of this opportunity and began to raid villages and towns in the countryside.

Some of the common people, who were dissatisfied with the local gentry's disobedience to the imperial court decree and refused to enforce the decree to stop usury, also began violent actions against the local gentry.

The orderly expulsion of officials quickly turned into disorderly violence. Soon, with Tongbai Mountain and Huoshan as the center, two larger armed forces of righteous people emerged, and they attacked the gentry manors in the southwest of Henan, and even besieged Huoshan County for a time.

These righteous people and mobs mixed together suddenly made the gentry of Henan feel the pressure. With their strength, it is more than enough to suppress the villagers near their own estate, but if they want to unite and suppress the already united people's rebellion, the local government needs to come forward to organize.

After all, although the Ming Dynasty is in decline now, it is not yet the time for the heroes to rise into chaos in the world, without the approval of the government, the local wealthy families are privately linked, and what is the difference between forming a militia and rebelling.

But the local officials who had been driven away by these gentry were unwilling to cooperate with these gentry at this time. They believed that these were the righteous people whom the gentry had praised before, and they had all been reported to the imperial court for the record.

Before the imperial court gave an order, how could they send troops to exterminate the righteous people? If this is spread, it will become their personal vendetta afterwards.

Therefore, in addition to guarding the county seat, these officials only wrote to the court to ask for instructions, but they were unwilling to take the lead in encircling and suppressing the mob.

And the people's mutiny army in Henan gradually found that attacking the county seat did not seem to be beneficial, but would be surrounded and suppressed by the imperial army. But if they only attacked the manor outside the city, there was no risk of being encircled and suppressed, and there were many gains.

The gentry of Henan soon tasted the bitter fruit of lifting stones and hitting their own feet. The righteous people incident they created not only did not threaten the imperial court, but instead used some disgruntled displaced people as an excuse to incite civil revolt.

What they couldn't stand the most was that the imperial court dealt with the officials who wrote to attack the new policy. However, the popular uprising in Henan has returned to the bureaucratic procrastination of the past.

However, Sun Chuanting and the governor of Henan, who were strongly impeached by them, showed a spirit of responsibility at this time, and took the initiative to clear out the mobs, righteous people, and displaced people in Henan Mansion and along the canal before the imperial court made a decision.

Many small groups of mutinous groups that could not stay in Henan Prefecture and the canal line went south one after another and took refuge in the popular mutinous forces gathered in Tongbai Mountain and Huoshan Mountain.

Tongbai Mountain and Huo Mountain have a more outstanding name, which is Dabie Mountain. The Dabie Mountains are located between Huguang and Henan from southeast to northwest, spanning more than 500 miles, and Tongbai Mountain is connected to the Qinling Mountains in the west.

That is to say, the power of the people around the Dabie Mountain can hide in the mountains and become bandits, or they can go south to Huguang or enter the Qinling Mountains westward.

The cabinet is very troubled by the current situation in Henan, Sun Chuanting needs to ensure the safety of Henan Province, after all, Luoyang has now become a grain reserve market, and most of the grain collected by the imperial court from Henan has been transported to Luoyang City.

The governor of Henan needed to guard the canal line to prevent the militia from threatening Caoyun. There is enough strength to quell these people's mutiny troops based in Dabie Mountain, but there are only the garrison troops in Fengyang, the central capital, left.

But whether it is Huang Liji or other officials, they will not be willing to give the current Fengyang town guard eunuch and Wei Zhongxian a chance to make meritorious contributions again. And Chongzhen also has an ambiguous attitude towards how to deal with the righteous people of Henan.

After consulting with the cabinet, he ordered the blockade of the edge of the Dabie Mountains and asked the Henan guards to protect the local county seat and the main transportation routes. The Cabinet is still deliberating on other matters related to the aftermath.

Fortunately, Henan did not use any major disasters this year, so there were not too many people who participated in the people's army. In addition, Henan Prefecture repaired the road from Luoyang to Sanmenxia, but it absorbed many local displaced people.

Therefore, the People's Army was soon confined to the vicinity of Tongbai and Huoshan counties. However, the voices of officials from Henan urging the court officials and soldiers to quell the rebellious people in Henan as soon as possible began to get louder.

These are the predicaments that Daming is facing now, and in addition to this, there is also a problem that makes Bi Ziyan feel that he is not suitable to appear at the celebration.

That is, three days ago, there was an explosion in the glass workshop near the Liuli Factory, killing two people on the spot, seriously injuring three people, and losing hundreds of taels worth of mirrors and glass.

For this accident, neither the glass workshop nor the officials of Suncheonfu wanted to spread out. Even the news that came out of the palace was that after finding out the cause, a preventive measure was formulated, and safety education for other workers was put to an end.

Bi Ziyan was a little hesitant, and among the officials under him, only Wang Siren was opposed to such an understatement of the matter. He believes that it is too dangerous for the glass workshop to be set up in the downtown area of the city, and that it should be moved to an open area outside the city.

The officials of the Shuntian Mansion, including Liu Chongqing, unanimously opposed his unfounded claim.

The finished products of the glass workshop range from utensils, optical lenses, glass windows to glass mirrors, from hundreds of taels per month at the beginning to more than 30,000 taels per month now.

The tax ratio of the glass workshop is 8%, which means that the monthly profit and tax paid by the glass workshop is as high as more than 2,400 taels.

The glass workshop is located on the ground between Daxing and Wanping, so there is a lot of dispute between the two counties over who collects this tax.

Originally, these local taxes were not directly related to Suncheonfu, and Suncheonfu could only receive the part of the taxes paid by the two counties.

However, the rising turnover of the glass factory, coupled with the quarrel between the two prefectures, gave the Suncheon officials the opportunity to intervene. After some competition, Shuntianfu received sixty percent of the tax revenue of the glass workshop, and the two counties of Wanping and Daxing shared the rest of the workshop tax equally.

If calculated based on the current turnover of the glass workshop, the profit and tax paid by the workshop in a year exceeds more than 28,000 taels, which is almost the amount of commercial tax in Wanping County in the past.

Everyone knows that the current glass workshop capacity has not reached the limit, and if the Beijing-West Railway can be completed, it may not be impossible for the glass workshop to triple the current production capacity.

Wouldn't moving the glass workshop out of the city mean that Shuntianfu would lose control of the glass factory, and maybe the tax revenue would be wasted. This commercial tax is related to the welfare of the officials of the Shuncheon Prefecture, and who will push the money out.

Although Bi Ziyan agreed with Wang Siren's opinion that the glass workshop should be relocated, he was unwilling to confront the entire Shuntian Mansion officials, after all, most things in the Shuntian Mansion still needed them to do.

However, Bi Ziyan, who was in a bad mood because of this, avoided participating with Chongzhen at the opening ceremony of the first horse-drawn railway in Beijing.

For Chongzhen, in the process of promoting industrialization, such accidents are simply inevitable.

The whole process of the industrial revolution is that countless workers use their lives to verify all kinds of mistakes in the process of industrialization, and finally find a correct path.

Various industrial technical manuals and safety measures are the summaries of the experience of countless human lives. The explosion in the glass workshop was actually caused by the workers accidentally adding mercury to nitric acid, which led to the accident.