The Last Action Is His Chapter 193

At this time, it had been almost a year since Emperor Chongzhen led his troops from the capital.

During this year, Emperor Chongzhen went all the way south and first dealt with the Kong family in Qufu, depriving them of the title of Duke Yansheng. He then exiled all the members of the Kong family to the nine borders and confiscated millions of acres of private land, thus getting rid of the largest landlord in Shandong.

Then he went to Yangzhou Prefecture, where he confiscated the property of major salt merchants and reformed the salt policy, changing the salt sale from being sold by merchants to a government monopoly. When a storm occurred, he also sent troops to provide disaster relief, so that the people of Yangzhou were so grateful that they voluntarily sent the troops across the river on boats.

Subsequently, with the shipwreck incident as an inducement, Emperor Chongzhen took action against the nobles and officials in Nanjing. Eventually, because Du Yinxi brought back the news that the nobles in Nanjing were colluding with Zuo Liangyu's troops, he launched a large-scale confiscation of property and execution of the nobles in Nanjing, thus reforming the noble system.

These events had affected the Ming Dynasty's systems for hundreds of years, and were changed by Emperor Chongzhen within a single year.