The sun rose, but Luoyang changed its days.

All officials of the small court in Luoyang turned against each other and the rebel army was defeated, and even the emperor was captured.

The streets and alleys of Luoyang were surrounded by teams of Han soldiers, while the brigade of civil war was extinguishing some sporadic flames, carrying wounded and dead bodies.

Liu Yongzheng took his hundred militias to assist in confiscation of crimes.

At this time, for the big families in Luoyang City, it was a nightmare. The thieves had just started killing and confiscated thousands of big families. As a result, everyone turned against each other and finally welcomed the Han official army. As a result, after the official army entered the city, they soon began to investigate the rebels again.

Next to the gate of the Luoyang cabinet chief Lu Xueqi, there was a row of soldiers standing, with the words "big search" posted on the door.

Liu Yong and his men moved out boxes and baskets of gold, silver, calligraphy, and silk sections from the Lu family's houses.

The Lu family had a lot of property, with a lot of them piled up in the yard, and more than a dozen staff officers were busy recording them in the book.

"You said that the man surnamed Lu is so rich, why are you still thinking about rebelling? It's so stupid. Now it's all gone at once." A militia shook his head and said, "I don't know what these people are trying to do."

Liu Yong directed everyone to sort out the copied property and replied with a smile, "So many property are not too much of it, but they are all exempted from corruption, relying on the power of the past, and they are all wealthy and ointment. The emperor ordered them to pay some taxes, and they immediately seemed to be revenge for killing their father. Now, they have to be confiscated."

"I won't be confiscated, right? Didn't the person named Lu turn a blind eye?"

"I can't think of anything if I say a word to abandon the darkness and turn to the light? Then he is too good at thinking. How can there be such a good thing in the world? Since he dares to rebel, he must be prepared in advance." Liu Yong knew the emperor's temper. If gentry like Lu Weiqi did not rebel, there would be a liquidation.

But there will be a bottom limit. If you pay the tax for five years, then ask them to pay the past and return some of the land they have occupied, and at most they will use it to exchange for a contract to collect their property tax. With their wealth, it will be just a little blood. But most of the property can still be preserved.

But now that these people are trying to die like this and want to rebel, that is to seek death. Even if they turn against each other now, they will not have a good result.

If they do not turn against each other, these people will definitely be scouting their families and extermination of their clans. Perhaps the emperor will give mercy and reduce some crimes and punishments, and may be released from power overseas.

Even though they are in a rebellion, they may be exempted from death. They cannot escape the crime of living. At the very least, they can be exiled to the army, and at the worst, they will be executed. At the very least, their property will definitely not be preserved.

However, many of Luoyang's officials and gentry who turned against each other did not think so. They were still thinking that I was already there, and I should be a hero.

I am still a gentry, a prominent family in the local area, and the imperial court should treat it with preferential treatment.

This is especially true for many scholars who had previously served as officials in the small court in Luoyang, and they all shouted to see Zhang Laohu and Cai Laopao.

"The doctor cannot be punished, and we are also heroes of Pingluo. Why do you lock us up here? We want to see Zhang Laohu and call Cai Laopao!"

Zhang Huangyan looked back at the prisoners of war locked in the military camp.

There were as many as thousands of people. These people were not ordinary prisoners of war, but were all fake officials from the pseudo-de-de-de-de-de-Luoyang.

He sneered in contempt, turned around and did not forget to spit at those people.

It is really a shame for our famous children to read the books of sages in vain. They all read the books of sages and wise men, but they are still so shameless.

With a quick horse, the news of Luoyang's recovery was quickly sent to the capital.

"A great victory, great victory. The official army recovered Luoyang and captured the rebel leader Zhu Changxun alive. The 100,000 thieves in the treacherous army were destroyed in one day, and only more than a thousand remaining troops fled west!"

"Great Victory. Great Victory"

In a blink of an eye, the entire capital knew about the great victory in Luoyang. When the people and officials in the capital heard this news, they were all excited. Now the prices in the new dynasty are gradually stabilizing and their lives are peaceful. Who would like to see the restoration of the Ming Dynasty?

"Your Majesty, great victory!"

The Privy Councilor Fu Shan reported the good news to Liu Jun with a smile on his face, but Liu Jun had already learned the news before Fu Shan.

"Zhang Shan and Cai Yuan have been in Henan for more than half a year. They probably have been in a bad position and finally got a great victory."

Soon, Yuan Jixian and Jiuqing also entered the palace to greet Jie.

"Your Majesty, how to deal with Zhu Changxun and his traitors?"

Liu Jun asked back, "What should you do if you think it should be done?"

Ni Yuanlu, Li Banghua and others were unwilling to speak out.

Liu Jun snorted coldly, his face unhappy.

Yuan Jixian had to speak first, "Your Majesty, Zhu Changxun plans to rebel, and not killing all of them is not enough to shock the little girl."

Fu Shan also expressed his opinion, "It should be killed, and it must be severely punished. I think it should be sunk by the Wumen Gate, so I ordered all officials to observe the punishment and finally beheaded and displayed to the public."

Li Banghua couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, I think it's better to give him three feet of white silk and give him a whole body, which can also be regarded as leaving a face for the previous dynasty, and at the same time comforting the royal family of the previous dynasty in the world."

Liu Jun couldn't help but shake his head.

"I didn't give them a chance, but they still wanted to rebel. Could it be that I still have to tolerate the traitor? For Zhu Changxun, just shoot him out. The public execution of shooting in the suburbs can be considered as leaving him a complete body."

As for the other people who were accused of rebellion, Liu Jun did not intend to be careless, but he did not intend to kill them.

"All of them were exiled to the overseas islands, and all their blood relatives were exiled."

After Liu Jun became emperor, he had tried his best to reduce the death penalty. Unless he was executed for the sins of unforgivable crimes, he would generally be exiled to overseas islands. However, the lesser crimes and punishments were not placed in prison, and all were changed to labor reform.

People are precious resources, and labor is even more precious. It is difficult to go to jail, so labor reform is required.

"All those who are ruthless will confiscate their property and be exiled."

Depending on the severity of the crime, the farther the exile is, the farther it is, the exile is to Singapore and the concession islands in Japan and North Korea, again, Taiwan and Hainan, again, coastal islands, and again, areas outside the customs. When they arrive in these places, there will be special labor reform farms, and everyone has to earn a living by labor.

After the sentence expires, don’t think about returning to the Central Plains. Just send a piece of land on the spot and take root there in the future.

"Your Majesty, those who are right?"

"Anyway, some labor sentences can be shortened according to the situation, while others remain unchanged."

Liu Jun would not be polite to these people. If you don’t kill them, you will be forgiven.

Liu Jun was in a good mood all day long, not only because he recovered Luoyang and destroyed the Luoyang court and captured Zhu Changxun alive. It was also because of Li Zi's success or failure, and there were only a few thousand people left, so what could he do.

Especially many of Li Zicheng's civil and military officials were captured alive.

Li Yan and Hong Niu Zizi took the initiative to turn against each other, and Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance were captured alive. Only Liu Zongmin and Yuan Zongdi Liu Jianxiu and other groups of confidants protected Li Zicheng and escaped.

It can be foreseen that after this defeat, Li Zicheng would have no chance to turn around.

What's more, Luoyang's harvest this time is much more than this.

The capture of Luoyang reported by Zhang Shan also made Liu Jun very happy.

The land of the rebels who were seized had no less than 300,000 hectares. These fields were not limited to Luoyang Prefecture, but were in Henan, Hubei, Shanxi and other places. In addition, there were countless houses and shops, including seized money, calligraphy and paintings, etc.

Nothing can be faster than a gentry and merchant who suddenly lost nearly 90% of Henan Prefecture's gentry and merchants.

The accumulation of these big families for hundreds of years has all come to the hands of the court. If they did not rebel, Liu Jun would not have been able to confiscate their house. Now that they are delivered to the door, how could Liu Jun let it go?

Changing dynasties is a process of redistribution of wealth. Originally, Liu Jun's change of dynasties was relatively moderate and was more usurping the throne. However, the current rebellion gave Liu Jun the opportunity to have a grand liquidation.

No matter what you really do, you are not as good as having the right to make money, let alone being an emperor.

Not to mention anything else, after Liu Jun became emperor, the military fields, official fields, imperial fields, royal villages, and Wangzhuang in the world were recovered, and the land merger was very powerful since the late Ming Dynasty, and the process of Ming Dynasty in the Han Dynasty was also moderate. There was no major reduction in population rules, so the price of land in various places is still high.

In Susong and other places in Jiangnan, the land price can reach more than 50 taels or even 100 taels per acre. In Huguang area, the price can reach 30 to 40 taels. Even in the north, Guanzhong, southwest and other places, each acre of land can reach 20 to 20 taels.

Even if it is an average of five taels of silver per mu, it is only ten yuan in silver dollars, and hundreds of millions of mu of land, it is only billions.

However, these are all real estate, but they are handed over to the people to tenant, even if they can only be tenant for 35% of the income each year. The annual income is also very considerable.

But who would think that money was too low? Liu Jun could make money and needed money even more urgently.

Liu Jun was an ambitious emperor. He raised salaries for officials, paid salaries for soldiers, changed equipment, etc., and maintained a huge official team and a larger army. The expenses in this regard were quite amazing.

According to the report submitted by the Ministry of Revenue, since the army is expanded this year, the equipment must be equipped with weapons, and because of the expenditures on various wars such as quelling the rebellion and the imperial captives this year, the total military expenditure this year has reached 80 million yuan.

There are also many other expenses. The Ministry of Industry proposed to re-change the Yellow River back to the old road in the north and allow the Yellow River to enter the Bohai Sea to improve the silt of sand and soil in recent years since the Yellow River seized the Huai River, resulting in frequent dam breaking and flooding in the Huanghuai area. Reverting back to the North Road will naturally greatly improve this situation, but to change the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River thousands of miles from the south to the old road in the north and into the Bohai Sea, the money will cost not 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, nor one or two months.

According to the Ministry of Works' plan, this may take at least three years, which will cost millions of migrant workers and require at least 20 million silver dollars.

Liu Jun rejected the plan to build an outer city in Beijing last time, but he was very supportive of the plan to divert the Yellow River.

Although the Yellow River is the mother of China, it is also the most harmful. Every time the dike is broken, it will cause great disasters. Liu Jun supports the governance of the Yellow River and returns to the old road. At the same time, he also asked the Ministry of Works to manage the Huai River at the same time.

The floods on the Huaihe River are also extremely serious, but the Huanghuai Plain is the most important grain-producing area.

Liu Jun added another 10 million Huaihe River management budget to the Ministry of Industry for 20 million yuan, and asked the Ministry of Industry to form a Huanghuai Management Yamen to prepare this super project.

Since ancient times, the imperial court feared the most was this large-scale water conservancy and civil engineering project that mobilized countless migrant workers. Therefore, this would be extremely burdened and difficult to manage. If it was not managed well, chaos would arise. For example, the construction of the Eastern Capital and the construction of the Yellow River at the end of the Yuan Dynasty all caused rebellion.

But Liu Jun still insisted on repairing, but he did not intend to recruit the people and the people, nor did he intend to increase the cost of river management, which would undoubtedly cause public grievances.

Liu Jun prepared that the 30 million yuan of river management funds would be paid by the court. At the same time, all the civilians who governed the Huanghuai River did not force the levy, but instead hired them, and the court would provide food, accommodation and salary.

A major project that disturbs the people has been changed to a project that benefits the people. Not only can the management of Huanghuai well be beneficial for a long time, but it can also allow the people to take the opportunity to do work during the slack season and make some extra money.

In this way, there will naturally be no public grievances.

But in this way, all the expenses for water control fell on the shoulders of the court.

In addition, the local governments are not allowed to collect fire consumption now, and the court has to take out another amount of money from the taxes and hand it over to the local government as office funds. In this way, the court's fiscal expenditure budget this year will reach 150 million silver dollars.

Liu Jun felt that such a large expense was a little heavy.

Now that there is a chance to confiscate these rebellious property and enrich the treasury, how could Liu Jun let it go?

Abandoning real estate such as fields, houses, shops, workshops, and treasures such as antiques, calligraphy, paintings, jewelry, etc., this time, after the recovery of Luoyang, the confiscated sins of gold and silver can reach no less than 80 million yuan.

Eighty million, if you count it, you can count forty million taels of silver. In fact, just over 30 million taels of silver can be cast into eighty million dollars.

It looks a lot, but it is actually quite normal.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the people were very poor, the court was very poor, and even the emperors were poor, but the gentry in the world were very rich. In the Jiangnan region, those with a household income of 1,000 taels of silver could only be considered a well-off family, and those with a household income of 10,000 taels were considered a middle-class person for free, and many of them had a property of 10,000 taels. Many small counties had many household income of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

There are many wealthy people with millions of dollars, and there are also tens of millions of dollars.

In history, Li Zi sieges into the capital, made 5,000 sticks, tortured all officials, and recovered stolen silver. In a short time, he confiscated 70 million taels of silver from the homes of all officials and Xunqi.

Among them, Zhou Kui, the father of Empress Zhou, before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen asked Zhou Kui several times to donate silver and provide money, asking him to donate 100,000 taels with him, but Zhou Kui cried and said that he could only eat moldy rice if he was poor. In the end, he could not resist and said that he would donate 10,000. Chongzhen felt that it was too little, so he asked him to donate at least 20,000.

Zhou Kui could not escape, so he asked for help from the daughter Hou Hou. Empress Zhou took 5,000 taels of silver to her father, asking him to give another 15,000 taels of silver and raised 20,000 to the emperor. As a result, Zhou Kui took the 5,000 taels of silver, but in the end he only donated 3,000 taels and deducted 2,000 taels.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing and tortured Zhou Kui, Zhou Kui paid 700,000 taels of silver in one go, and Liu Zongmin's men also collected more than 500,000 taels of silver from his mansion.

In just a short period of time, the cash bank in Beijing reached more than 1.2 million taels of silver, which is not considered real estate, let alone industries in other places.

Most of the gentry officials were like this, rich, but they refused to pay a penny to pay taxes or a piece to support the court.

Liu Jun asked them to pay the tax for five years, and they immediately held Zhu Changxun and rebelled. As a result, all of them have been in Liu Jun's hands.

Seeing this memorial, Liu Jun couldn't help but think that it might not be a bad thing if these big families in all over the world rebelled foolishly.
Chapter completed!