Chapter 090 The Vicious Scholar
Liu Weisi and others were put under house arrest by Chen Cao in disguise. Liao Kaiwen paced back and forth in the lobby, looking outside from time to time. The guards on duty were outside the door and would not let them go out. Whenever they wanted to use the toilet, they had to go. It was two people who followed together.
"Master Liu, in my opinion, let's forget it." Liao Kaiwen had already backed down.
Liu Weisi opened his eyes and squinted: "Now the dispute in the court has reached a fever pitch. If we show weakness to the enemy, we will embarrass the princes in the court and retreat. He, Chen Cao, is the backbone of the eunuch party." , if you are dragged down here, your promotion will not be a problem in the future."
"But now that Huang Chongtao has gone to mobilize troops and horses, and we are still here without expressing our position, are we not just sitting back and waiting for death?" Liao Kaiwen asked tightly.
"A warrior is a warrior after all, and he can't keep his temper." Liu Weisi shook his head helplessly: "But I believe that this time I can at least make Chen Cao disgraced from Qi Shangwen. With the help of the princes in the court, I can kill him His title is no problem."
"It will take at least twenty days for the official document to come back and forth. When the court order comes down, maybe Chen Cao has already figured out a way." Liao Kaiwen was a little worried.
Liu Weisi sat a little numb: "It doesn't matter, the official who went to Beijing this time has been sent eight hundred miles urgently. It takes ten days to get the reply from the court. Do you think he has the ability to handle it within ten days?" Are these things good?"
"If the Nanjing garrison is really mobilized, your and my career will really come to an end." Liao Kaiwen saw that Liu Weisi was still so present, but he was already very anxious in his heart.
Liu Weisi turned his head and stared closely at Liao Kaiwen: "The imperial court will not allow chaos in Zhejiang, and it does not dare to, but... Mr. Liao, have you defected to the eunuchs?"
"Ah?" Liao Kaiwen was stunned when Liu Weisi asked him this question, and then quickly waved his hand: "Master Liu, please don't make blind guesses. Mr. Mu Zhai and I are in the same subject."
Liu Weisi still stared at him closely: "Then you keep showing off your own prestige? Your doing so has indeed aroused suspicion..."
Liao Kaiwen felt that talking too much would be a mistake, so he quickly changed the subject: "Now we can only wait and see when the governor comes back."
"Qi Shangwen must be settled properly and he must not fall into Chen Cao's hands." Liu Weisi said coldly.
Liao Kaiwen nodded: "I am still the key to this matter, but I am still worried about his daughter."
"Don't worry..." Liu Weisi comforted.
In the evening, the Hangzhou guards led by Huang Chongtao began to garrison the city. They first advised the people who were surrounded outside the camp to go home. At that time, they also responded and left one after another before night came.
However, after midnight the next day, someone once again took the lead in instigating the uninformed people to go to the imperial envoy's camp to ask for an explanation, and asked the imperial envoy Dingwu Bo to come forward to clarify for everyone.
At noon, some people shouted slogans, demanding that the imperial envoy Dingwu Bo be expelled and the eunuchs be overthrown...
On the third day, the second day of November, scholars with Zhejiang academic status called on students from various prefectures around Hangzhou to go to the imperial envoy's palace. The situation gradually escalated...
On the fourth day of November, the Nanjing right guards who were mobilized urgently entered Hangzhou city...
On the fifth day of November, more than 30,000 people gathered, including more than 5,000 students...
On the sixth day of the lunar month, Zhejiang Academic Affairs came forward to persuade students to withdraw. Not only did this move not reduce the number of students, but it actually increased the number of students again because of the relationship with Zhejiang Academic Affairs...
On the seventh day of the lunar month, nearly 40,000 people surrounded the camp...
The eighth day of November...
"How is it, Mr. Liu, is it close to your expectations?" Chen Cao was sitting in the middle of the lobby, eating.
Liu Weisi and a dozen other officials from the Third Division were all eating in front of them, but none of them had a bad appetite.
"Uncle Dingwu, you trapped me and my colleagues in the camp for nearly ten days. After this incident, regardless of public or private affairs, all subordinates will go to the Golden Palace to impeach Uncle Dingwu for abusing his power." Liu Weisi said calmly.
Chen Cao took a bite of the mutton leg meat and chewed: "Okay, don't be polite when the time comes, but you have to think about how to save your own lives. Listen, how loud is the shouting outside?"
The slogans are not that loud, everyone can hear them clearly as long as they are not deaf.
"How about it, are you gentlemen happy? Expulsion of the eunuchs one by one, and return to the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, hahaha," Chen Cao put down the leg of mutton: "Since you like to do things without blaming others, don't blame me and Uncle Ben. You fall out."
In the middle of the demonstrators, a burly man nodded to a few people a few steps away from him, and then suddenly shouted in Hangzhou dialect: "Common people, this is not the way to go, Chen Cao is. The Count of the Ming Dynasty is also an imperial envoy. If this matter is not resolved, he will definitely be massacred by them. There are no good people in the eunuch party. Today they robbed the daughter of the county magistrate. Tomorrow he can rob the wives and daughters of ordinary people at will. It cannot be Tolerate."
The few big men who had said hello before shouted, "I can't bear it." '
The students in front were the most susceptible to being deceived, and they started shouting without knowing the truth. Seeing this, the big man from before led his people to squeeze to the wall of Hangzhou guards, and suddenly shouted: "I just have a request, you Why did you hit me? Why?"
Then he started fighting with the soldiers in front of him, and the men behind him shouted: "People, kill people... We can't let them act recklessly, fight in... kill the imperial envoy..."
"Come on..."
If someone takes action, someone will follow. This is the unchanging principle of following the crowd. Groups of people rushed towards the soldiers of the Hangzhou Guard. However, there were too many people. The more than two thousand soldiers of the guard were swallowed up by the torrent of the crowd. The last line of defense stood with hundreds of Jinyi guards and Zhang Fengnian's retainers. Upon seeing this situation, Zhang Fengnian and Zhao Xin, who was guarding the door, looked at each other and shouted, "Protect uncle and retreat." Retreat immediately.
Chen Cao was eating the last mutton in the lobby when he suddenly saw Zhao Xin running into the lobby in a hurry: "Uncle, something bad is going on. There is a mob inciting people to attack the camp. The Hangzhou Guards cannot resist it. My subordinates protected my uncle and evacuated first."
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Chen Cao jumped up, then smiled and cupped his hands towards Liu Weisi and others who were sitting on the chairs: "My lords, this is what you want to see. I won't play with you anymore. I say goodbye. You are free. ..."
After saying that, Chen Cao took Xin Zhao and fled quickly. When Chen Cao ran out of the back door under the protection of the guards, hundreds of people had already run into the camp with sticks in hand under the attack of the unstoppable mob, and he took the lead. The big man and his companions raised their hands to Liu Weisi who had just walked to the front of the hospital in front of a large group of scholars and common people: "Sir, according to your instructions, I have gathered 8,000 people from Huzhou and Shaoxing to come to my aid. , I will lead people to chase the imperial envoy team."
Liu Weisi was startled, knowing that he had been cheated. Just as he was about to yell at him, he saw that the big man had already shouted slogans and led his men to chase him out. There were at least two to three hundred people in front of the hospital. Who didn't hear what the big man said? Because of this The news was so weird. The scholars looked at each other, winked at each other, and then saluted Liu Weisi before hurriedly running out with Tong Nian.
The people who reacted also ran out.
Liao Kaiwen moved a little: "Master Liu...I...you...have caused trouble..."
Liu Weisi shouted angrily at Peng Chun beside him: "Stop those people... Chen Cao... I am incompatible with you."
Chen Cao and his men trotted all the way to Laowankou in Qiantang County, where the entire Nanjing right guard had already set up a formation.
After Chen Cao got on the boat, he quickly drank a cup of tea, because running made him really out of breath: "That guy Huang Chunyao is really too vicious."
Xin Zhao also drank a cup of tea: "I really admire scholars. They say that scholars are too narrow-minded and full of bad ideas. I really look down on those people..."
"Huh?" Chen Cao looked at Xin Zhao in a long tone.
Zhao Xincai realized that Chen Cao was also a scholar, and immediately explained wittily: "How great would it be if we could all be as reasonable as our uncle?"
"You bastard..." Chen Cao sat down on the deck and said, "Have Huang Chunyao and Xia Yunyi come back?"
"No," Zhao Xin said bluntly: "The two of them went to various governments to contact the same year. After the outbreak here, they will spread rumors locally."
"I told you, Xin Zhao, you should read and write more books in the future. You are telling the truth, which is really not pleasant to listen to..." Chen Cao couldn't help but stretched his leg and kicked Xin Zhao.
Xin Zhao laughed, and then said: "Uncle, how about the people arranged by my subordinates? Will Liu Weisi really come to uncle later?"
"I don't know whether he will come to see me or not, but I know that Liao Kaiwen will definitely come." Chen Cao looked into the distance like a pearl in his hands.
"Uncle..." A school captain hurriedly ran to the boat: "The mob began to attack the shops in the city, and some people took advantage of the fire to loot."
"Huang Sihai, Huang Sihai, you old boy actually drugged me. I don't know if the drug I gave you this time is suitable for you to take..." Chen Cao read with a smile.
At this moment, Huang Sihai in the general military office was already in a state of panic. Tang Shining jogged for a while, and the old guy was out of breath: "Sir, something bad happened. The mob broke through the camp, and the imperial envoy disappeared without a trace. Now he is smashing, looting, and burning in the city. What should we do?”
"Where are Dusi's bastards?" Huang Sihai cursed: "Where are they, Huang Chongtao... who did this guy arrange?"
Tang Shining stroked his beard and coughed: "This time things are getting bigger and bigger than originally expected. I don't know where these more than 30,000 people came from, and there are so many students. Sir, I'm really shocked..."
"A bunch of trash..." Huang Sihai cursed, and then stared at Tang Shining: "Assemble your troops immediately to suppress them."
"Sir, if we mobilize soldiers from our General Military Office, the nature will change..." Tang Shining quickly dissuaded him: "It's better to let the Dusi Yamen deal with it first. If it's not possible, it's better to intervene later..."
Huang Sihai took a deep breath and looked outside the hall, feeling a little regretful.
(Starting from this chapter, the number of words per word has been reduced to 3,000. Because it is the Chinese New Year, it is too late to code, so please bear with me. Thank you. The number of words will return to normal after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.)
