The people of Jinling City once again heard the roar of artillery.
In the early morning of winter, many people were awakened by earth-shattering loud noises before they woke up from their sleep.
At first, after a brief period of confusion, the common people hid in corners and were at a loss.
But soon there were many people lying on the cracks of the door or hiding in the corners of the wall looking out. Liu Ke's way of thinking was different from others. Instead of hiding, this dandy prince sent someone to directly take over the Jinling Mansion. Yamen, sent several teams of soldiers to beat gongs everywhere in the city to announce.
"The Xilin party members are affiliated with evil cultists and pirates outside, with the intention of rebelling. King Zhongshun has ordered to suppress the rebels, so the people in the city don't have to worry..."
"King Zhongshun has ordered to put an end to the rebellion. No one is allowed to go out without the king's order. Anyone who orders the people to put a curfew and join forces with others will be punished severely by the Xilin Party."
"I would like to inform all living beings that Xilin conspired to rebel and cause rebellion. Your Majesty is benevolent and will only punish the first culprits. Those who do not conspire with the rebellious party can report to the imperial envoy after the end of the rebellion and will not be punished. Those who conspire to rebel will be punished by the three tribes. Participate in it. The rebels will wipe out all seven tribes.”
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One after another, the royal orders were spread to all directions, and followed the messengers to spread to the nearby state capitals. Within a few days, they would spread throughout the provinces south of the Yangtze River.
Liu Ke knew very well that the most powerful thing about the Xilin Party was not their fighting power, but their method of deceiving people.
At present, all other methods are in vain, and it is enough to grasp one point: anyone who participates in the Xilin Party members' plan will have their fame and honors taken away, and the right to take the imperial examination for three generations will be deprived of them.
Political review can spread disaster for three generations. If you don't believe it, you can't make these stupid scholars submit.
Xilin Academy has been completely captured by the officers and soldiers. Those Xilin Party members who came to Jinling from all over to "jointly support the great plan" are like eggplants beaten by frost at this time.
His former graceful demeanor had long since disappeared. Qiu Ba, who was looked down upon by them, was strung up with a rope, disheveled and disheveled, and brought to the Wengcheng of Jinling.
A execution platform has been set up in the urn city. The three guillotines with dragon, tiger and dog heads shone with golden light in the sunlight, making the onlookers squint their eyes.
Public trial, this is what Liu Ke believes is the best way to reveal the true face of the Xilin Party members, and it is also one of his favorite "games".
Even if you kill someone, you must also kill your heart.
The Xilin Party members once incited the people to resist the new policies of the imperial court and poured sewage on the imperial court one after another.
Today he will retaliate with tooth for tooth and let these people taste the feeling of being despised by all the people.
Qian Qianren, one of the few famous scholars in Jiangnan and the former leader of the Daxia Xilin Party, even though he is now seventy, is still the hidden leader of the Jiangnan interest group.
The Dragon Guards have never stopped monitoring and investigating important members of Xilin Yiying over the years, but even if there is enough evidence, the Supreme Emperor has no way to punish them according to law.
Jiangnan's taxes accounted for more than half of the country's total revenue. If sea trade, salt taxes, mutual trade, etc. could not support the normal operation of the country, the stubborn fourth son would not be able to perform surgery on Xilin.
Maybe others still need to take into account the official affairs and material affairs, but Liu Ke sent Xia Lingxing and Xu Jin out of Jinling Mansion early in the morning, and his original plan was completely forgotten.
As soon as the three guillotines were placed on the execution platform, the people who came to watch the excitement immediately took a deep breath and started whispering among themselves.
"This is Prime Minister Bao Bao Qingtian's guillotine!"
"Grandpa Tian, His Highness King Zhongshun is not going to kill all these gentlemen, right? They are all scholars!"
"What's wrong with scholars? Can't scholars beheaded?"
"That's Mr. Qian! Mr. Qian has students all over the world, and many of our Jiangnan officials are his students..."
"Hush! I don't want to say this now. Didn't you listen to what those soldiers said? The Xilin Party members are guilty of causing rebellion, and the culprits will be punished. The conspirators are also guilty. Those officials now wish they had to know the Xilin Party members."
In fact, when Liu Ke mounted artillery on the top of the city wall and blasted open the gate of Xilin Academy, many Jinling officials and gentry who took advantage of the situation already knew what to choose.
Dong dong dong dong...
The drums were beating loudly, and the dragon guards in flying fish uniforms escorted Prince Zhongshun Liu Ke in python robes and jade belts when they arrived at Wengcheng. Everyone stopped talking, holding their breath and concentrating, not daring to express their anger.
The dandy prince who used to be carefree in the past is now as pale as water.
Liu Ke sat down on the high platform, and with a wave of his hand, he saw the royal soldiers walking forward quickly carrying several large boxes.
With a clang, the box hit the ground heavily.
"I have been in Jinling for a few days. I travel to various places in the city on weekdays. I think everyone who comes to Jinling should be familiar with me..."
As Liu Ke spoke, the people below nodded involuntarily.
If this man were to change into a member's uniform, the people of Jinling would definitely think that this man was an old dude. He couldn't do anything but eat, drink, play with birds, walk his dog and fight with crickets.
It only took the inhumane Liu Ke two months to make the people of Jinling familiar with him, and he gained extraordinary popularity in Jinling.
He is bold, generous and has no airs, and can play with anyone.
Who could not love such a prince who showed no mercy to the wealthy officials, gentry and wealthy merchants who oppressed the common people, and treated the common people as if they were prosperous?
"You guys may still not know why I, the king, have always disliked this group of 'gentlemen' who are so sage-like. Today, I will let you explain the reasons..."
Liu Ke seemed to be chattering and chatting with the people in the audience, but in fact, he was pulling the people's hearts towards him bit by bit.
"In these boxes are all the good deeds done by the 'gentlemen' beside the execution platform over the years! Someone, please open the boxes and read them one by one, starting with Qian Qianren!"
Bang~
The first box among them was opened, and a Dragon Guard stepped forward and took out the top one, cleared his throat and began to read.
"In the third year of Taiping's rejuvenation of the country, Sun Shi'an attacked Jiaxing and fell into Pinghu County. The Qian family took advantage of the man-made disaster and obtained 3,247 acres of land and 2,811 acres of middle land, and recruited 800 households as tenant farmers. "
"In the sixth year of the Taiping and the rejuvenation of the country, the imperial court implemented a policy of banning the sea. Qian colluded with the pirate Sun Shi'an and smuggled overseas, earning more than one million taels of silver per year."
"In the eighteenth year of Zhaowu, the palace ordered a draft to be drafted into the palace. Qian Taixu, the eldest son of Qian Qianren, the magistrate of Huai'an Prefecture, searched for and forced eighty-one girls into the palace. It was called a draft, but it was actually used to infiltrate the Qian family's inner house."
"By the 49th year of Zhaowu, the Qian family had coerced, kidnapped, and bought nearly a thousand women under various pretexts. When Qian Qianren was over sixty-five years old, he took the women he bought as his concubine and tortured her to death. .”
"The Qian family is a 'good old-fashioned' person who took the indentured people as slaves, tortured the young girls to death, made them into wax, and kept them in the study. He said: Red sleeves are used as candles, which can reveal the mind and wisdom..."
"In the sixth year of Yuanyou, Japanese pirates invaded the inland and ran rampant in the south of the Yangtze River. They all originated from the Xilin Party members headed by Qian, who sold the secrets of the government and army to the Japanese."
"Japanese pirates are 100% real Japanese and 90% are Xilin lackeys."
"In September of the eighth year of Yuanyou, the state reformed the tax law and increased commercial taxes to reduce the burden on the people. However, this policy affected the interests of the Qian family and other gentry and wealthy families, and incited the people to fight against the court..."
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The Dragon Guard's investigation was very detailed, with more than a hundred charges in total, and there was detailed evidence behind each one.
In particular, Qian Qianren loves young girls, likes to abuse women, and advocates retro serfdom. His behavior makes the people in the audience horrified.
In particular, the Dragon Imperial Guard miraculously transported human wax from Zhejiang, holding a candle wick in its mouth and kneeling to hold the ink.
The woman was definitely no more than twelve or thirteen years old. Even though she had been turned into human wax and put into a weird posture, she could still see the desolation and misery before her death.
Long Jinwei read the crimes committed by Qian Qianren and the Qian family one by one, and the people in the audience gradually clenched their fists.
If kidnapping women and being abusive can make the people say that it has nothing to do with them, then colluding with Japanese pirates and causing man-made disasters to seize Jiangnan's fields is enough to make the people of Jiangnan no longer able to hold back the burning anger in their chests.
"Behead Qian Qianren!"
"kill him!"
"Kill Qian Qianren and avenge your dead relatives!"
The Xilin Party members, who were tied in a string next to the execution platform, felt for the first time the powerful power of the people under the anger.
Only then did they finish reading out the sins of the Qian family, as well as the Zeng family, the Lu family, the Cheng family...
The Xilin Party is famous and powerful, occupying almost half of the south of the Yangtze River. They are so high up there that they have never seen these mud-legged people.
But at this time, these mud-legged people who they didn't like actually hit them with mud...
Liu Ke only used the public trial to mobilize the real people's hearts in Jinling City.
Those scholars who were hiding in the crowd and watching, followed the people and shouted to kill the thieves and take revenge. No one dared to say a word against it at this time.
Because they were afraid that they would be drowned on the spot by the angry and restless people!
Liu Ke stood up and pressed down with his hands.
The restless and angry people suddenly stopped shouting and waited quietly for His Royal Highness King Zhongshun's decision.
Just one action can stop the angry people. This is what the people want!
"Everyone, I am guarding the south of the Yangtze River on behalf of Heaven. Your Majesty once said that the king is the boat; the people are the water. Water can carry the boat, but it can also capsize it. Daxia is the emperor who shares the world with the people, not the scholar-bureaucrats."
"Today, I will use the "Daxia Law" to judge the crimes of Qian Qianren and others for the people of Jiangnan, and avenge the innocent people who died at the hands of Qian and others!"
Wow~
The people in the audience knelt down one after another. They believed what the loyal and shun king Liu Ke said, because this prince had never deceived the people since he came to Jinling City.
"My lord is wise! Thank you lord for avenging us!"
"Long live, long live, long live the Holy Emperor!"
In the sixth year of Yuanyou's reign, the Japanese invaders were a man-made disaster. Which family in Jiangnan didn't have any relatives affected?
Not to mention other things, tens of thousands of people were massacred by Japanese pirates in Southern Zhili and Zhejiang.
In Jiangnan, the most vicious words to curse people are that you are a Japanese, you are a Japanese pirate...
Liu Ke used the public trial strategy to completely arouse the resentment of the people of Jinling against the Xilin thieves. This wind will soon spread throughout the entire Jiangnan.
By then, the Xilin Party's strongest shield will no longer exist.
The imperial court will completely control the south of the Yangtze River, and no one will come out to hinder the New Deal's plans.
"Everyone, please get up. The public trial has just begun. Let's take a look at what kind of faces these 'gentlemen' have behind them!"
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The cold wind of winter never stopped the anger of the people of Jinling, and the three-jawed guillotine never stopped for a moment. Every time a person's crime was read, the executioner on the execution platform would open the guillotine and send the formerly aloof Master Xilin to the eighteenth level of hell.
There were constant sounds of curses and applause in Wengcheng, and people kept knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Ke. Their great revenge was avenged, and they prayed to the sky for their relatives who died at the hands of the Japanese pirates... no, at the hands of the Xilin thieves.
It took seven days for the public trial in Wengcheng to come to an end.
When Xia Lingxing and Xu Jin received the news from Jinling, they were already fettered by the situation in Songjiang Mansion and found it difficult to rush back to stop Liu Ke's impulsive move.
Of course, they don't want to stop it, there are things that someone should do.
The situation in Songjiang Mansion was neither good nor bad. The navy deliberately let Ma Dayuan and other thousands of people ashore.
The army was ambushing the Jiangnan Shipyard. Ma Dayuan and his men rushed into the shipyard effortlessly, and then closed the door and beat the dogs.
When the two bosses stood in front of Ma Dayuan wearing purple official robes, he was completely stunned.
Surrounded by officers and soldiers armed with crossbows and muskets, their every move has been clearly investigated by the government.
It is true that the main force of the Navy is not in Songjiang Mansion, but Songjiang Mansion has more than just naval forces!
As the second assistant to the cabinet, Xia Lingxing was determined to be the next chief assistant of Daxia University. He was holding a golden arrow and had already transferred tens of thousands of saltmen from the Salt Patrol Palace.
In order to rectify the salt class, Lin Ruhai dismissed all the old, weak, sick and disabled people who were lax and incompetent, recruited salt men from good families, and equipped them with the most sophisticated weapons in Daxia.
It can be said that in the entire Jiangnan, the ceiling of combat power is the Songjiang Navy, and the second in the list is the 30,000 saltmen who patrol the Salt Censor's Mansion.
Ma Dayuan is dead, and so is the Cao Gang.
When they broke into the Jiangnan Shipyard, a forbidden area in Great Xia, they could not get rid of the charge of rebellion no matter what.
Bang bang bang~
Whoosh whoosh~
Bows, crossbows and muskets were fired, and in less than a quarter of an hour, thousands of Cao Gang members were killed by the officers and soldiers, leaving no trace behind.
Ma Dayuan took his daydream to see the Lord of Hell, and most of the top brass of the Cao Gang died in Songjiang Mansion.
Immediately, Xia Lingxing used the power of the second minister of the cabinet in Songjiang Mansion and announced that the Cao Gang had colluded with the Xilin Party members, the White Lotus Cult, and the Japanese pirates to attack the government and rebel.
As a bachelor of the auxiliary government and an imperial envoy to patrol the south of the Yangtze River on behalf of the sky, he ordered all provinces, prefectures, and county yamen to use all their strength to suppress the bandit Caobang, White Lotus Sect, and the remnants of Xilin.
He also ordered Xu Jin, the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, to temporarily act as the left chief envoy of Southern Zhili and preside over the government affairs of Southern Zhili.
At the same time, the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were ordered to suspend the academies run by the Xilin Party members, waiting for the officials appointed by the imperial court to give instructions to rectify the scholarly style of scholar-officials in the south of the Yangtze River.
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No definite news has been sent back from the navy's suppression of bandits, but Xia Lingxing and others are not too worried.
Songjiang Navy has just received the latest warships, equipped with rapid-fire cannons developed by the Ministry of Industry. Let alone fight against pirates with junk equipment, even if they directly go one-on-one with Western warships, they will not be at a disadvantage.
The most important thing at the moment is the matter on land. After Lao Shisan held an earth-shattering public trial in Jinling, the reputation of the Xilin Party members and the entire Jiangnan gentry was almost infamy.
This has both advantages and disadvantages. Any scholar who has had contact with the Xilin Party now dare not even leave the house.
Because in Jiangnan, some people took the opportunity to stir up the evil trend of hatred of scholars, deliberately expanded the attack on the thieves in Xilin, and launched evil acts of beating, smashing, looting and burning.
Xia Lingxing had to take Xu Jin around to put out the fire, and quickly sent a letter to Liu Ke, asking him, the wise king among the people in Jiangnan, to stand up and stop this evil trend.
It was under such circumstances that Jia Cong returned to Jinling Mansion. As soon as he stepped into Jinling Mansion, he realized something was wrong.
After inquiring about the specific situation, he quickly went to King Wu's Courtyard to find Liu Ke, and solemnly told the possible outcome of the matter, which made Liu Ke, who had always been ambitious, break out in a cold sweat.
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