Liu Ru was wearing a cyan official robe, sitting behind a low table, holding a small pen in his hand, and was writing hard, recording Zhu Youzhen's words. Her current status is equivalent to the secretary's side of the emperor, and this is her duty. Emperor Chrysostom said that some of the words she casually ordered were holy decrees, which she needed to record and then be polished and written into holy decrees by others, and then they would be issued.

After staying by the emperor's side for a period of time, she was exposed to national affairs every day, which made her sincerely scared and faintly excited every day. Compared with "participating" in national events, the kind of life that I was familiar with before is really not interesting at all.

In fact, working beside the emperor is quite unfree and very boring, but Liu Ru is doing it with relish, as if he feels that a door is open to him, and the world behind the door is so novel and so desirable.

In between Zhu Youzhen's words, Liu Ru would stop his pen and look at Zhu Youzhen quietly. This young emperor also made her feel novel, she once thought that the emperor's life must be extravagant, it must be a wine pond and meat forest, and it must be surrounded by harem beauties.

And the emperor in front of him only eats four dishes and one soup every day, and the food is very simple, which is not as good as the diet he ate when he was in the Qinglou. The emperor in front of him didn't even bring a concubine by his side, except for a few palace maids who were waiting, he was only a female official, and he was not lustful at all. The emperor in front of him is very young, but he has the wisdom that young people do not have, he has the great achievements of defeating Jiannu and recovering Liaodong to suppress the Mongols, and he has the bodhisattva heart of compassion for the world, and he does not hesitate to go to war with the gentry class for the sake of the people, and he is a true lover of the people like a son.

All in all, the young emperor in front of her was completely different from the merry and talented people she was familiar with, and compared with the emperor, those who claimed to be erudite and talented were as naïve as children.

"That's it, immediately send an order to Beijing, summon Li Banghua and others to come to Nanjing quickly. Other things will be carried out after the establishment of the Sixth Ministry. Zhu Youzhen looked at Liu Ru in a daze in surprise, and said to Hong Chengchou.

"Yes." Hong Chengchou agreed, saluted and retreated.

Hong Chengchou left, there were only palace maids and eunuchs around him, and there were no outsiders, so Zhu Youzhen didn't care about his image, slumped on the chair, and only felt physically and mentally exhausted. Long conversations, continuous thinking in the brain, is very energy-consuming.

"Your Majesty, why don't you pinch it for you?" Liu Ru stood up and whispered to Zhu You.

"Huh? Okay, just pinch it. Zhu Youzhen was stunned for a moment, and then he understood the meaning of pinching, and said casually.

So Liu Rushi stood behind Zhu Youjian, pressed his two jade hands on Zhu Youjian's shoulders, and gently kneaded them.

She learned a lot of things when she was in Qinglou, not only piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also the skills of serving men. At this time, she was not one of the Qin Huai Bayan in later generations, and she was just a maiko under Xu Fu'er, and she didn't have much fame. After Xu Fo got married in another time and space, she arrived at the Qinhuai River, and her fame really came out.

Liu Ruyi's technique is very good, Zhu Youzhen feels very comfortable, and after being kneaded by her, the fatigue on his body seems to have disappeared, and his brain is much clearer.

Leaning back on the chair, letting a pair of jade hands knead on his body, smelling the fresh virgin fragrance, Zhu Youzhen's mind was thinking about the current situation.

It has been a month since the end of the Battle of Nanjing, and the post-war clean-up work in the city of Nanjing has been completed, and the streets have returned to normal, and the shops on the streets are also open for business. Except for the lack of a few dozen noble gentry, the others looked no different from usual.

No, it's still different, and many people have a lot more smiles on their faces.

In the original Nanjing, most of the industries belonged to the noble and noble gentry and wealthy families, and most of the remaining people were attached to these noble and noble gentry and wealthy families. Now these upper echelons were almost wiped out, the decree of the release of slaves was announced in the newspapers, and the domestic slaves who had been attached to these people were restored to their freedom. Zhu Youzhen even issued an order to divide the fields outside the city and outside the city equally among the slave tenants who cultivated the fields, and in the future, these people only needed to pay the imperial grain and national tax, and the burden was reduced a lot.

After consideration, Zhu Youzhen announced that the property rights of these shops would be restructured, and the property rights of the shops would be owned by the imperial court and managed by the Yamen of the Nanjing Household Department, but the original shopkeepers and managers of the shops would get some dry shares, and the profits of the shops would be distributed to them in a considerable proportion in the future. This is equivalent to turning the business of many industries in Nanjing into state-owned, and former employees have become employees of state-owned enterprises.

can still do the original job, and the salary is much better than the original, which naturally makes many people overjoyed, and the smile on their faces naturally increases a lot.

Nanjing is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, and it may not be as rich as Suzhou, but it is by no means below Hangzhou, ceramics, printing and dyeing, and papermaking, and many industries are to be the leaders in the country. The original owners of these industries were raided, and the industries were nationalized, and the silver earned by the businesses of these industries every year alone was a huge amount.

The wealth obtained from the seizure of the family, coupled with these industries, was Zhu Youzhen's greatest harvest after entering Nanjing. However, Zhu Youzhen also knows that he cannot do the business of drying up and fishing, and it is impossible to control all industries in the country. There is neither so much energy nor so many manpower, and there is no control at all.

Therefore, except for the confiscation of the noble gentry property involved in the rebellion, Zhu Youzhen did not disturb the other properties, and was still controlled by the original owner. Moreover, after the Praetorian Guards entered the city, they were strictly disciplined, there was no robbery at all, and they did not accept bribes to buy and sell, which made many merchants sigh, which also made the Nanjing market soon restore prosperity.

Li Dingguo was still attacking the city and plundering land, attacking Huizhou and other places that were attached to Jiangxi, while the city of Nanjing was already peaceful and completely recovered from the wounds of the war.

Since then, many things in the Nanjing market can be taken care of by these fangs, and those that cannot be taken care of will be handled by the county government, which can effectively control the millions of people in the entire city of Nanjing. Originally, there were only three yamen in the whole city of Nanjing, but they had to manage millions of people, and the management model was too extensive.

Li Dingguo was attacking the Huizhou Mansion, and the 200,000 anti-thief army was completely annihilated, which made the people in the anti-thief control area panic, and often as soon as the army arrived, the local officials appointed by the anti-thieves would take the initiative to open the city and surrender. According to the current situation, this spring it will be possible to completely recover the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and push the front to Jiangxi.

According to the plan, after the summer grain was collected, there was enough food, and the newly recruited Praetorian Guards also trained for three months, and then it was time to officially send troops to Jiangxi. Since he held Nanjing and controlled the entire Nanzhili, Zhu Youzhen was no longer in a hurry to attack, and decided to fight steadily, recover one place and stabilize another, and then attack the next place.

Originally, I was worried about a food shortage in Jiangdong, but now I don't have to worry about it. Just a few days ago, a grain fleet arrived in Nanjing, but it was a grain merchant from Huguang.

After the Battle of Nanjing, the Huguang soldiers who originally came to Nanjing were so frightened that they did not dare to continue to come, but entered Poyang Lake and went to Nanchang under the leadership of the governor of Huguang. The results of the Battle of Nanking quickly spread to all parts of the country, and the local gentry and officials, who had already taken refuge in Jiangxi to fight against the thieves, were panicked. The 200,000 army has been defeated, where is the strength to resist the Janissaries?

Except for some gentry and officials who had taken the lead in the rebellion and could not turn back, the other gentry were shaken, they finally realized how powerful the emperor's power was, and knew that if they continued to fight, they would probably end up like the Nanjing gentry and nobles, and they would be wiped out!

A massacre at the entrance of the Nanjing Caishikou frightened the gentry throughout the south of the Yangtze River, beheading, beheading, and even Ling Chi, and these punishments were quickly spread through the newspapers, making countless gentry officials feel terrified. The gentry in various places have figured out that if they do not resist, after the arrival of the Praetorian Guards, at most they will go to the fields, and even some business can be kept, and if they resist any more, everything will be gone, and it is naturally not difficult to decide how to choose.

Of course, there is a better way, which is to take the initiative to join the emperor, and if he can be accepted, he will not have to worry about it in the future, and maybe even the land will be kept. Of course, this is the delusion of some gentry, because in any case, Juntian is a policy that Zhu Youzhen must adhere to, and it will not change because of anyone.

However, it is not easy to defect to the emperor, after all, not everyone can see the emperor, and it is difficult to say whether he can be accepted or not, and he must do something as a vote. As a result, grain merchants from Huguang transported grain to Nanjing.

Previously, in order to blockade Jiangdong, the Jiangxi Imperial Court issued an order to prohibit the grain from Jiangxi and Huguang from being transported to Jiangdong, hoping to cause a grain shortage in Jiangdong and cause civil strife in the territory controlled by Zhu Youzhen. After all, in this era, the largest granary in the Ming Dynasty is Huguang, followed by Jiangxi, Jiangdong because of too much mulberry cotton, food can not be self-sufficient and needs to be purchased from Jiangxi Huguang. If grain is forbidden to be transported to Jiangdong, there will inevitably be a large-scale grain shortage in the four prefectures of Jiangdong this spring, and tens of thousands of people will surely starve to death, and there will inevitably be a great chaos.

The plan was very good, but the outcome of the Battle of Nanking changed all this, so that the grain merchants of Huguang were so frightened that they no longer dared to make the move of hoarding grain, and rushed down the river with grain ships to Nanjing, hoping to win the emperor's understanding. Of course, they will push everything above the war, saying that because of the great battle on the river, they dare not bring grain here, and it is not that they are colluding with the thieves.

Zhu Youzhen was naturally very happy and sent someone to tell these grain merchants that they would no longer be held accountable for their past crimes, but that the grain must be sold at market prices, and it is not allowed to deliberately hoard grain at too high prices. Naturally, these grain merchants did not dare to go against Zhu Youzhen's will, and they said one after another that they would sell grain at a fair price, and some grain merchants even said that they would sell grain at the purchase price and that they did not intend to make a penny in order to show their loyalty. Of course, there are smarter grain merchants......

"Your Majesty, Governor Hong sent someone to report that Huguang grain merchant Zhu Ping went to the governor's yamen and said that he would donate ten boatloads of grain to the imperial court free of charge. Governor Hong asked if he wanted to accept this batch of grain? Wang Chengen walked in and said.

"Has this Zhuping been attached to Jiangxi?" Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and asked.

"Jinyiwei has investigated, Zhu Ping has a good reputation, and has a good relationship with the governor of Huguang, Yamen, and he was also actively moving closer to Jiangxi anti-thieves, and took the initiative to unite with the grain merchants in Huguang, and agreed to tear up the contract with the Jiangdong gentry and no longer transport grain to Jiangdong." Wang Chengen said.

"The two ends of the first rat see the wind and make the rudder." Zhu Youzhen sneered.

"That's exactly the case, so Governor Hong didn't directly accept the grain, but sent someone to ask for instructions."

"Don't collect grain, send someone to tell Hong Chengchou, let him send someone to tell Zhu Ping, let him transport the grain to Jiangdong by himself, but this grain is not allowed to be sold to the gentry, but to the Jiangdong government, after arriving in Jiangdong, there will be officials to connect with him, and the price is still according to the price agreed in the contract." Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said.

For a gentry like Zhu Ping, Zhu Youzhen wanted to confiscate his grain directly, and then arrest people and raid his house. But after thinking about it carefully, I still held back, because it was not conducive to future things.

In any case, Zhu Ping chose to surrender to himself, took the initiative to transport grain to Nanjing, and expressed his willingness to donate grain. If he does not let go of the other party in this way, it will inevitably chill the hearts of other gentry and businessmen, and will force many gentry to join the queue of rebellion against him.

In order to quickly pacify the world, it is impossible to exterminate everything, and all the gentry, landlords, and businessmen cannot be pushed to the opposite side.

Leaving a way for the gentry, landlords, and businessmen to survive is the best choice now.

Moreover, the imperial court cannot do everything, and the world is inseparable from merchants. No agriculture, no stability, no business, no wealth, if the Ming Dynasty wants to continue to be strong, it is inseparable from the participation of businessmen. And the big businessmen of the Ming Dynasty now, all of them have gentry backgrounds, and it is impossible to exterminate them.

Therefore, it is enough to divide their fields, so that these gentry and merchants can devote themselves to business from now on. In this way, the common people can have food, and it also leaves a way for these gentry to retreat, so that they will not resist to the end. And while these gentry merchants made money in business, they also contributed a large amount of commercial taxes to the imperial court, which was the most advantageous situation.

Of course, this would also make the gentry have a lot of wealth, but there was no way to do it.

Although Zhu Youzhen has always said that everyone is equal, in fact, it is impossible for everyone to be peaceful. There is a great difference between people, and there is a great difference in IQ between the ordinary peasant and the gentry and merchants, and the difference in IQ makes the difference in wealth very great, and the difference in wealth makes absolute equality impossible to achieve.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to build a Datong society, but knew that it was impossible. Therefore, it is only necessary to maintain the equality of personality and ensure a certain degree of fairness.