Just as Zhu Youxiao expected, the turmoil in Panshui Tusi in Guizhou eventually turned into a fight between the various chieftains. The officers and soldiers of the court only guarded a few critical areas and provided timely with the Xi'an family and the Shuidong Song family, and did not participate in their fight.

The barbarians of Panshui Tushi are indeed quite powerful. I don’t know how long it has accumulated, but they even used artillery and other objects. However, this also shows that people appeared in the Ordnance Division or the army and actually smuggled weapons privately.

Master Zhu Youxiao must not let the East Factory Joint Military Law Department strictly investigate. Zhu Youxiao adopts zero tolerance for such acts of smuggling main war weapons.

Despite the support of the court, Panshui Tusi was indeed quite powerful. Most of the Thirteen Villages of Shuixi'an clan were defeated in a blink of an eye, and the Yang clan in Bozhou had almost reached a time to completely disappear.

However, the places directly ruled by the imperial court were still as stable as usual. Chen Jiru still taught in Yadong, and merchants from all over the country still brought goods into major market towns.

With the arrival of Qin Liangyu's White Peak Soldiers, the scope of the war further expanded. The barbarians of Panshui Tushi had to fight one fierce battle after another with the White Peak Soldiers, but the outcome was difficult to predict. Such jungle battles were difficult to wipe out once and for all. Basically, when Panshui Tushi lost one thousand, the White Peak Soldiers would also lose eight hundred.

Fortunately, the White Peak Soldiers have the support of the imperial court, and Panshui Tushi is a rebellion, and it is basically considered that the White Peak Soldiers have the upper hand.

The war lasted for half a year. The first ones were the Shui Xi'an clan, the Shui Dong Song clan and other local officials who were attacked by Panshui Tusi, and then Panshui Tusi, who were beaten almost to a small amount of them by the Baigang soldiers.

According to the strict orders of the imperial court, the Panshui Tushita could not tolerate it, so the Baigang soldiers had to continue to pursue and suppress it, which also caused the Baigang soldiers to suffer certain losses. The war was ended until a brigade of the Fourth Army entered Chishui and Luzhou.

But this means that the situation in Kawakui was officially controlled by the court, and the chieftains with a little strength nearby, including Shizhu chieftains, no longer have the ability to affect the local situation, and they have to comply with the imperial court's will to rest and recuperate.

During this period, Zhu Youxiao, who was in Guangxi, was unaware that the war that was not far away from him and was provoked by him was getting hotter and hotter. At this time, he was enjoying the feeling of boating on the blue waves. What was floating in the distance was the loud singing of the Zhuang people, and the screams of the egrets nearby made him feel much more relaxed.

The quiet sunset was surrounded by the single peaks, and under the single peak were rice fields with dragonflies playing. This beautiful scenery that was difficult to feel in the Forbidden City made him very intoxicated.

Moreover, according to Li Mingrui, from Wuzhou to Guilin, many rice fields were wastelands reclaimed by the imperial villages and contracted to local people. Therefore, local gentry could not find tenants, and had to reduce rent and interest rates to attract strong labor tenants. Later, there was even a phenomenon of not renting and paying wages to help harvest.

This phenomenon is not only found in Guangxi, but also occurs almost in other departments of the State Council.

As the proportion of state-owned land expanded and the court's financial dependence on agriculture became increasingly zero, it made it difficult for rural arable land to become a source of continuous income for gentry.

Many gentry began to use the stored money to buy land instead of using it to operate, sell, or even invest in shares.

Just like after the popularity of real estate in later generations, people were unwilling to continue to store their money in the bank and went crazy to buy houses.

After all, after buying land, you have to spend money to hire people to farm, but the profits of agricultural products are not considerable, especially in the peaceful years, when grain prices continue to fall, the people may be able to make some money to subsidize their daily life while being self-sufficient. However, for the gentry who live in luxury, it is not as profitable as shopping malls that allow them to gain enough wealth to support their huge expenses.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, no one did not talk about business. Even in the nearby rebellion of Panshui Tusi in Guizhou, people in the nearby areas were not thinking about what to do if these rebels fought to the neighboring provinces, but how to make some money with this.

Because as soon as this war begins, the iron, grain, cloth prices, etc. in Guizhou will inevitably rise sharply, while the neighboring provinces such as Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places still decline due to the dividends after the Ming Dynasty colonial expansion, resulting in the prices of various means of living and production such as iron.

Therefore, many bold merchants risked being investigated by the government to smuggle these living or production materials to earn the difference in price to make profits. If they were to smuggle important living and production materials in this way, they would have been a serious crime for the whole family to confiscate the family.

But now the contradiction has changed. Panshui Tusi is not a Tartar, and these merchants are not Shanxi merchants who are rich enough to compete with the country, so the handling method is different.

But it is precisely because of this that the war has been fighting for half a year. Otherwise, one month would be enough.

Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that many officials and businessmen would take advantage of this to make a fortune, but he had no other choice but to let the East Factory carry out a certain degree of control, because this was also caused by himself. Because of his reforms, more and more people began to no longer use land to make money, and could only make money by war and trade.

The wealth that Panshui Tusi saved for many years and the wealth looted from other Tusi fed the nearby gentry who played the nature of a merchant and officials colluded with the merchants. In addition to the local Tusi, there were also the imperial courts. The imperial court suffered losses in Guizhou in the short term and also paid a certain amount of military pay.

But this is not a problem. Most of these local officials and gentry will put their money in Royal Bank or invest in Royal Capital Enterprises after they get rich. After Royal Capital Enterprises obtain huge investments, they will spend these investments on larger overseas colonial projects.

Royal capital absorbs their wealth to create greater wealth, and everyone is making a fortune. As long as the total wealth of society increases and there is no problem with distribution, the entire society is still thriving. Local rebellion will not bring a sense of chaos in the world, and even make keen people's eyes shine, knowing that this is an opportunity to realize the realization of wealth redistribution.

As long as they invest in royal capital, these businessmen can use this to share greater dividends. It is precisely because of this rise to become a new big bureaucratic capitalist. They are close to the core of the empire and naturally they are more likely to obtain investment plans.

They even used their prominent official positions and strong relationships with royal capital to raise funds to invest in royal capital enterprises in the imperial court. Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, who had been dismissed, played this way, and even set up the first private bank for this reason.

Unfortunately, due to the cholera incident, the Guo Financial Empire he worked hard to manage failed.js3v3
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