After the Feng family in Jiangyin raised their flag, the Ma family in Hangzhou followed suit.
They also raised the banner of resistance in Hangzhou.
Chu Kesheng, who had just become the governor of Zhejiang, faced the rebellion of the Ma family, a powerful and influential family deeply rooted in Hangzhou.
He was also at a loss and could only close the gates of Hangzhou and write to the court, requesting that the court send troops to quell the rebellion.
However, not long after his letter was sent out, the gates of Hangzhou were opened from the inside by the Ma family.
Subsequently, countless serfs under the command of the Ma family, led by the Ma family's elite servants, stormed into Hangzhou.
Chu Kesheng had only been governor for a short time when he died amidst the rioters.
Unlike the Feng family in Jiangyin, after taking Hangzhou, Ma Juyun, the head of the Ma family, directly raised the banner of restoring the Great Wu.
And they found someone from somewhere and said that this person was Emperor Zhu Jianshen.
He took the opportunity to shave his head, disguise himself as a monk, and escape from Nanjing.
The one who was burned to death in the Nanjing Imperial Palace is a fake.
Meanwhile, local landlords and gentry organized their own armed forces and began to respond to the banner raised by the Ma family, saying that they would restore the Great Wu.
And they all respectfully referred to the person in Hangzhou as Emperor Zhu Jianshen.
Li Qin watched as landlords and gentry in various places rebelled under the banner of restoring the Great Wu.
After letting out a cold snort, he casually tossed the intelligence report in front of him onto the table.
Reclaim the Great Wu?
If you landlords and gentry were all truly so loyal...
I wouldn't have been able to conquer Jiangnan so easily back then.
Leaving aside others, let's talk about the Ma family in Hangzhou. Back then, their nephew, Li Xuanshang, came to Hangzhou.
The Ma family was the first to surrender.
Now they're raising the banner of "restoring the Great Wu" and "punishing the traitor Li".
These people are merely using the banner of restoring the Great Wu to carry out armed resistance against taxes.
Li Qin was not worried at all about their actions.
If you fight him, you've really bitten off more than you can chew.
I don't have many political talents at my disposal right now, but I have quite a few military talents.
Li Qin then immediately ordered Xia Nianyong and Cui Yuanbin to lead teams to various locations to quell the rebellion.
Xia Nianyong went to quell the rebellion in Jiangyin and other places north of Taihu Lake, while Cui Yuanbin led a team to quell the rebellion in Hangzhou, Zhejiang and other places south of Taihu Lake.
This time, Li Qin did not use his trusted generals Liu Chenghui, Dugu Yu, Zhang Hengshuo, etc.
Instead, they used Cui Yuanbin and Xia Nianyong, who were at a lower level.
The reason is simple: Liu Chenghui, Dugu Yu, Zhang Hengshuo, and others have followed him for too long and made too many contributions.
Suppressing this rebellion in Jiangnan was actually not that difficult.
These achievements are not difficult to obtain.
But he no longer wanted these people to be involved.
They are now dukes.
If he continues to accumulate merits, they will be crowned kings.
Li Qin was very cautious in granting fiefdoms to these kings of different surnames.
Those who have been granted the title of king are all feudal lords, and one of them is his nephew, Li Xuanshang, who is a member of the royal family.
He has now begun promoting junior officers within the army.
Next, he will select and promote some capable new generals from within the army.
We need to gradually replace them, and we can't let them stay in the army for too long.
The longer a person holds power, the more cronies they have, the deeper their influence becomes, and the harder it is to remove them.
Therefore, he absolutely cannot allow them to hold power for too long, especially military power.
They've held power in the military for so long that they have so many cronies within it.
I'm afraid they'll start to look more and more like their fathers.
There are many cronies in the army, waiting for the court to make a move against them.
Those close associates who fear being implicated in the purge might very well rally around him and do the same things they did.
rebel.
After all, Li Qin himself knew that he had such a successful case ahead of him.
How could this not arouse strange thoughts in those military generals?
You should know that those military generals basically fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Fearless of heaven and earth.
If they harden their hearts, they might actually follow his example and rebel.
Therefore, what Li Qin needed to do was not to select loyal generals.
Because there were no truly loyal generals.
What he wanted was for no one in the army to have the ability to rebel.
Both Xia Nianyong and Cui Yuanbin were somewhat surprised after receiving Li Qin's order.
After the rebellion in Jiangnan, everyone thought that this time it would be the same as before.
The rebellion was quelled by Liu Chenghui or Zhang Hengshuo, trusted generals of Li Qin.
But in the end, it was their turn.
After receiving Li Qin's orders, they immediately led their troops and set off.
Those minor rebellions were quickly quelled by their joint efforts.
The two quickly surrounded the two hotspots of the rebellion, Jiangyin and Hangzhou.
They suffered some setbacks in their sieges of both locations.
After all, both places have been run by the Feng and Ma families for decades and are deeply rooted in the local area.
However, Li Qin was determined to get them.
How can he keep the remaining gentry of Jiangnan in check if he doesn't completely wipe them out?
Only when they are terrified will they abandon their previous attitudes towards the previous dynasty and develop a sense of awe towards their new dynasty.
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