But in the end, the final whereabouts of King Fu's father and son have become a mystery for the ages, and no one can say clearly, King Fu's father and son disappeared inexplicably in the Luoyang Rebellion.

As for the royal family in the remaining provinces who tried to gather force to confront Yu Xiaotian, none of them could survive the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen safely.

Moreover, by the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, even Yungui and other places where Yu Xiaotian had not infiltrated before, Yu's army also invaded them, and quickly defeated some local resistance forces that did not listen to the imperial court.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian ordered that all the registered imperial relatives of the Zhu family be handed over to the local government for strict supervision, and without special permission, they can only stay in the mansion and are not allowed to leave the mansion without authorization.

Yu Xiaotian's methods are already quite gentle, compared to some methods of slaughtering all the original royal family when changing dynasties, they are already quite lenient.

After two years passed, the situation in the entire north and the Central Plains was basically completely stabilized, although there were still some cults like the White Lotus Sect in some places trying to make trouble, and some powerful people who refused to settle down were still trying to make trouble for the imperial court, but under the strong suppression of the family army, these were all small fights, and basically they couldn't make much waves.

With the gradual implementation of various new policies in the land of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere of officialdom has gradually cleared up, and some of the methods used by officials in the past to extort and coerce the people have been banned little by little, so that the burden on the people has been greatly reduced, and agricultural production in various places has gradually recovered.

Even after the displaced people returned to their homeland, there was a shortage of population, so that many of the original lands were abandoned because of insufficient manpower and animal power to cultivate.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotianxia decreed that some places in the south of Shanxi, especially the villages that were not suitable for farming in the former mountainous areas, should be relocated, and the limited villagers should be moved out of the mountainous areas and transferred to some places with relatively sparse populations but the land more suitable for cultivation for rearrangement, so that they could rent official land, abandon some villages in the original mountainous areas, and return farmland to forests to maintain water and soil, and took the first step in conserving water and soil in terms of the natural environment.

In April of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian finally issued an order to cancel the Cao Yun and change the Cao Yun to sea transportation, and the money and grain transferred from the south to the north abandoned the canal and took the sea route, loaded from the coastal ports to sea ships, and transported to the north, completely eliminating the malpractice of consuming too many national resources for Cao Yun.

But this incident also provoked a violent backlash, because the abandonment of the transport would affect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of boat people who had previously relied on the transport for their livelihoods, as well as the livelihoods of the boatmen and the various officials who managed the transport affairs.

In this regard, Yu Xiaotian's solution was that some of the boats would be subsidized by the state, purchased and disposed of, or dismantled or changed to short-distance transportation in the rivers, and some of the boatmen were resettled to go ashore and give them land to turn into farmers.

Other boatmen, who were willing to earn a living on the ship, moved to the coastal area and recruited their Shanghai ships to serve as crew members.

As for the Cao Ding in various places, they were reorganized, and those who should be resettled were resettled, and those who should be recruited into the army to continue to serve as soldiers were recruited into the army for use.

There are also some officials in the former Cao Yun area, who are either disbanded or transferred to other places, and only retain a part of the canal with better water conservancy conditions and continue to maintain it, while many sections of the canal that are strictly silted up choose to be abandoned.

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

In this way, these people must be very unhappy, so they wantonly instigated the people to make trouble, and some people with ulterior motives participated in it and secretly paid to buy people to try to take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos.

Yu Xiaotian also expected in advance that such a large-scale problem affecting the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people, he could not be unprepared, before this holy decree came out, a large number of fine works had been installed in advance and mixed into the Cao people, so when some people began to gather to make trouble, the military and local governments in various places immediately began to use thunderous means to arrest a group of people who provoked trouble, and corrected the law on the spot.

By the way, he also pulled out the radish and brought out the mud, which involved a lot of officials who fished in troubled waters, among which Nanzhili alone caught hundreds of officials, and they were all quickly judged and decapitated and abandoned the city.

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 pinching off these heads or secretly instigating the minds, the remaining Cao Min will be much easier to deal with, plus the imperial court has given them more preferential treatment, these low-level Cao boat boatmen compare, when they were boatmen on the Cao boat, and now the treatment given by the imperial court, they naturally died down and began to accept resettlement.

This time, the imperial court can save a huge amount of transportation costs every year, and the most important thing is to avoid the burden of ordinary people who were stripped of several layers of skin because of Cao transportation in the past.

Part of the money saved was reinvested in maritime affairs, a large number of new cargo ships were built for the transportation of grain from the south to the north, and many shipwrights who were unemployed due to the cancellation of the transportation were resettled, thus reducing a large amount of waste due to transportation.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian was not allowed to divert the remaining funds for other purposes, but invested all of them in the river renovation of the perennial rivers in the Huanghuai region, especially the Yellow River and the Huai River, which are the main goals of the huge investment in governance.

Historically, the Yellow River has been diverted many times, bringing endless disasters to the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Huanghuai area, the Yellow River is sandy and easy to silt up the river, resulting in the downstream often bursting, that is, during the Wanli period, there was a minister Pan Jitao who tried his best to control the Yellow River, so that the lower reaches of the Yellow River could be regarded as stabilizing the river.

However, after the reign of Tianqi Chongzhen, the state affairs were in turmoil, the finances were stretched, and the greed of officials was prevalent, so that the imperial court was unable and incapable of comprehensively managing the Huanghuai flooded area.

Now Yu Xiaotian canceled the Cao Yun, saved a lot of money, and simply put his head into the Huanghuai River Basin river management, just the people are also very poor, Yu Xiaotian selected a group of capable officials, dedicated to going to various places to carry out river control projects, and ordered not to requisition the people at will, can be in the form of work relief, to recruit idle victims, to give food and money, to repair the river.

At this time, there are still many people who have not been settled, and these floating victims may bring unstable factors to the society at any time, and once they are bewitched or led by someone with a heart, they may cause chaos.

The imperial court allocates money and grain to the project, or gives money or grain, in exchange for the displaced people's efforts to strengthen and repair the rivers that are often flooded, and after the completion of the project, it is also responsible for reconciling the land and residence of these people and fixing them, so that they can have land to plant and a home, so as to fundamentally solve the problem of nowhere to resettle the floating disaster victims.

Yu Xiaotian was particularly impressed by Li Zicheng's three openings, and later excavated the Yellow River to flood Kaifeng City, and now Li Zicheng has fallen, Kaifeng is temporarily safe, but the Yellow River next to Kaifeng is still like a sharp blade on the heads of the people in Kaifeng Mansion and Guide Mansion, and there may be a flood at any time.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian specially ordered the Ministry of Industry to strengthen the repair of the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River section in the lower reaches of Luoyang, and sent the inspectors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to carry out secret inspections on the river control construction sites in various places, and conducted strict financial reviews of the river control projects to ensure that the money and grain invested could really be used for the river control projects, and would not be filled by those officials.

For this reason, he also caught the dirty hands of some corrupt officials, Yu Xiaotian did not kill them, after the verification, ordered people to chop off their hands alive, but did not let them die, so they were hung on the river control site, beaten by the wind and rain, for people to visit, in order to deter those officials who took over them, so that they did not dare to stretch out their dirty hands to control the river in the money and grain greedy ink.

Throughout the fourteen years of Chongzhen, all parts of the Ming Dynasty have entered a relatively stable state, although there are still many places where there will be small-scale riots or civil uprisings, but the scale is not large, and it was quickly extinguished by the Yu family army stationed in various places.

As the Yu family army extended its tentacles to all parts of the country, the old armies in various places gradually began to be replaced by the Yu family army, and a large number of former Ming troops disarmed and returned to the fields, took off the identity of generations of soldiers, and became serious farmers, and gave them land and let them settle down for farming.

This also made the Ming Dynasty reduce a lot of redundant soldiers and redundant personnel, and reduced the financial burden of the imperial court, but this is the reduction of the official army, and it has also been strongly resisted and rebounded by many Ming generals.

Some generals with a large number of troops simply led their troops to rebel, attacked the surrounding state capitals and counties, plundered places, and forcibly coerced the people into the army to serve as cannon fodder.

Among them, even the most troublesome is Zuo Liangyu, the general stationed in the area of Xiangyang Mansion, this guy is not a good bird in another historical time and space, in this time and space, he is still old and virtuous, and he supports troops in the Huguang area and is self-respecting, and often does not listen to dispatches, which is a disaster for the people.