Some people are punished, and some people resist.

For example, the Zhou family, a large landlord in Pingyin County, Dongping Prefecture.

Because he was a good friend of the local county magistrate, he participated in Chen Luo's corruption case with the county magistrate, which provided great help for Chen Luo to transfer stolen money and stolen goods, and was listed on the list.

His family has a large area of ​​land and a lot of financial resources and force. He was originally a well-known local tycoon.

When the Jin people were still there, the Zhou family brought up a private armed force to protect themselves in the midst of the changes.

During the Ming Dynasty's war to destroy Jin, many of the defeated generals of the Jin Kingdom fled in scattered and had no place to return. They were attracted by the young and strong Zhou family who took the initiative to throw out their olive branches. So some of the remaining soldiers of the Jin Kingdom who were disbanded in the war surrendered to him in order to survive and became his lackeys.

Therefore, his power not only did not weaken, but was strengthened compared with before the war, and gained a position in the distribution of interests after the war, and he leaped from a small and medium-sized landlord to a big landlord and powerful, and had a good relationship with the new local county magistrate, and his power further increased.

This also led to his strong resistance from the team led by the judicial officials who went to condemn him.

He mobilized all his private armed forces, used his own good defense facilities to fight to the death and refused to surrender, and refused to be punished, and fought to the death.

He knew that he could not survive in Shandong, so he tried to take his family to escape to the south and escape to the Southern Song Dynasty, and maybe he could survive.

There were 100 people in the team that went to capture him, all of whom were elite soldiers who were good at fighting. The soldiers would never let him go, so they formed an army and attacked him in the form of an army, defeating all his private armed forces and killing many Zhou family members who were fighting stubbornly.

In the end, the big landlord did not surrender. After the complete failure of resistance, he chose to hang himself. When the soldiers rushed into the inner hall, he was already dead.

Before his death, he killed his wife and son and other major relatives, perhaps because he did not want them to accept the cruel fate of survival.

I have to say that he died so happily.

Therefore, the surviving family members must double their responsibility for their crimes.

There is also the Liu family, a big landlord in Dong'a County. When the arresting personnel went, the head of the family happened to visit the Wang family, the in-laws' home. The house was confiscated, and a servant ran to the Wang family to report the news.

Before the arresting personnel arrived, the Wang family knew that they could not escape, so they decided to take the Liu family to escape, trying to escape south to the Southern Song Dynasty for a life.

However, the arrest team caught up with them quickly and fought fiercely with them.

They had more than 300 armed private parts on their hands. Because they took a lot of money, they fought to the death, causing considerable trouble to the pursuit troops.

But in the end, they were no match for the regular army, and they were wiped out under the attack of the regular army.

The Liu family and Wang family still resisted stubbornly and refused to surrender. So the pursuit troops regarded them as rebellion that betrayed the Ming Dynasty and killed them all.

Coincidentally, several large landlords in Jinan Prefecture chose to resist because they held certain private armed forces. Two or three landlords heard the news and decided to unite and pull up a team of thousands of people to try to resist, which had a certain power.

However, their purpose of resistance was basically to escape, because they themselves did not believe that they could defeat the prestigious Ming army. They did not dare to resist Su Yonglin in a righteous manner. They knew that things broke out and did not dare to resist, so they could only run away.

The direction of escape was quite consistent, and they all chose to run towards the Southern Song Dynasty.

Compared with the landlords, business travelers ran faster because of their sharper sense of smell. They basically fled south with money or abscond with makeup, trying to cross the border blockade by the Ming army and entered the Southern Song Dynasty. From then on, the sky was high, the birds flew wide, and the sea was wide, and the fish jumped.

However, because Su Yonglin conveyed orders to many border prefectures, border prefectures were prepared in advance, not only blocking the main roads, but also blocking many mountain roads, small roads and water roads.

So these bastards who tried to abscond the Ming army eventually did not escape the blockade line and were arrested and became prisoners.

By early May, Dongping Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture, Dizhou, Zibo Prefecture, Yidu Prefecture, and Binzhou were fully blossomed by Su Yonglin and were blasted.

Hundreds of landlords, government officials, and hundreds of officials were dealt with, and the corruption case of the Yellow River project in the entire Shandong broke out completely.

At this point, people finally knew that the emperor Su Yonglin, as if he had changed his figure, moved from Kaifeng to Shandong in an instant, where he was sitting and punished the corruption officials.

The corrupt officials who had colluded before and wanted to advance and retreat together did not even react, and were instantly taken down by the emperor.

The emperor took the initiative first, caught everyone off guard, and took the initiative completely.

This anti-corruption campaign that the emperor personally visited shocked the entire Shandong officialdom and upper class society. For a time, Shandong was in a panic and everyone was in danger. Many people tried to know if this anti-corruption storm had anything to do with them.

Even those who have connections in Zhongdu even sent people to Zhongdu to send letters, trying to contact relatives and friends who are officials in Zhongdu to inquire about the news, or thinking that if they commit a crime, there are still people who can run for themselves in Zhongdu.

However, Su Yonglin will never let any criminal go.

And through the disposal and purge of these states, Su Yonglin also initially felt how much power these old local families that have continued from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the present have accumulated in the changing situations.

Although he had started a rebellion with such a group of people, he also knew how rich the Shandong tyrants represented by Zhao Kaishan had, but when these things were really completed and placed in front of him, he couldn't help but be surprised.

For example, the Xu family, a landlord in Dizhou, owned 40,000 mu of land, nearly 2,000 tenants, with a population of more than 10,000, and the family is extremely powerful.

In the court's account, the Xu family was just a small powerful man with 1,000 acres of land and 100 tenants.

For example, the Tian family, a landlord in Binzhou, owned 30,000 mu of land, 1,700 tenants, with nearly 1,000 people.

However, in the imperial account, they only had 1,500 acres of land and 200 tenants.

For example, the Qian family, a large landlord of Yidu Mansion, owned 32,000 mu of land, 1,800 tenants, with nearly 1,000 people.

In the imperial account, they only had 1,300 acres of land and 270 tenants.

These three families alone occupied nearly 30,000 people, and further swallowed more than 95% of the 30,000 people on the demographic chart of the court, so that the court could not count their financial resources and could not truly own taxes.

The local government also colluded with them, deceived their superiors and subordinates, and concealed the true situation of the local landlords from the court.

This is actually a historical issue.

These Shandong tyrants annexed a large amount of land and the collapsed Song soldiers at the intersection of the Jin and Song dynasties, and then gathered a large number of people, established a huge private force, and occupied a large amount of wealth.

Its power is so huge that the local governments of the Jin Dynasty feel it is very difficult and dare not take action rashly.

The Jin Dynasty's rule in Shandong lasted for only more than 30 years, and the actual governance of Shandong was only about twenty years. It was impossible to effectively manage Shandong and establish an effective household registration system.

Therefore, in the past twenty or thirty years, it was an era when Shandong landlords and powerful people quickly accumulated wealth and strengthened their strength, and it was also an era when the Jin Dynasty continued to migrate its population and rapidly expanded ethnic conflicts with its local governments.

So when Su Yonglin was uprising, because of the increasing conflict between the Jurchens and Han landlords, the Shandong landlords raised up and resisted the Jin soldiers.

The Shandong landlords led by Zhao Kaishan brought up a team of more than 300,000 people to fight against the Jin Kingdom, which is a manifestation of the powerful power of Shandong's local landlords.

Before going north, Su Yonglin asked Su Yin to collect social information in Shandong and Hebei, and also had a preliminary understanding of this. However, it would take more time to fully understand such things. Su Yonglin did not have this need at the time.

Now that there is a need, there is no need to send someone to conduct open and secret investigations. It will completely destroy their family and go in and count directly.

This statistics show the astronomical wealth background.

Most of the wealth generated by the entire Shandong in more than 30 years without the intervention of the government was taken into account by these landlords and powerful people.

Even every household has a large number of weapons. Some big landlords have found armor and crossbows in their manors, and even those who have seen the sacred arm bows.

There is no doubt that these are all products of the war era. They did not subjectively think of using these weapons to challenge the Ming regime, but in fact, they mastered these weapons and armor and had a certain amount of force.

This is something strictly prohibited by the clear law.

Therefore, Su Yonglin further confirmed the cases of corruption among these landlords and powerful people, and added the charge of rebellion, making it very legitimate to cleanse them in the court and not to be questioned.

After the great purge, the huge financial reserves, grain reserves, population reserves and military reserves of these landlords and powerful people all became Su Yonglin's spoils. Su Yonglin felt that he had defeated a Jin army in the war era and obtained a large number of seized.

It is estimated that if cash, real estate, gold, silver, pearls and jade and other luxury goods, as well as livestock and weapons, the income from the search of the Dongping Prefecture alone is worth nearly 2 billion yuan.

There are more in Jinan Prefecture, about 2.3 billion yuan.

Some officials and gentry in the two palaces had a property valuation of more than 4 billion yuan due to the criminal raid. The wealth of these people surprised Su Yonglin.

You should know that Su Yonglin's total investment in the Yellow River Century Project is only 30 billion yuan, and there is another additional investment of 5 billion yuan.

And it is very important that if the 5 billion yuan is not used at that time, it will be returned to the Ministry of Finance. It is not entirely a financial investment in the Yellow River Project. Lin Jingchun has been staring at the Yellow River Project and is looking forward to getting the 5 billion yuan back.

Good guy, it's just a numb thing.
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