"The exam is over! The exam is over... Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated! How can we, the Southeast Scholars, be humiliated by the traitors of the eunuch party!"
As Su Jin, a famous scholar from Suzhou, raised his arms and shouted, the entire Jiangnan Gongyuan suddenly became excited. Many people who were sitting in the examination room in a daze or standing in a daze downstairs in Mingyuan suddenly came to their senses.
Today is not an exam, it is a showdown! The cunning and cruel Prince Fu Jun finally tore off all pretense and set out to conquer the rich land in the southeast. They can't write the "Tax Collection Policy Theory" well in these essays, so today's test question is an insult to them - if they can't win the Jinshi, they will still be humiliated. How can the academic men from the southeast agree?
So the Gongyuan immediately exploded.
"No more exams! No more exams! This kind of grace is a complete insult to the sages! We, the Southeast Examiners, and all those with bloody ambitions should stop taking the exams!"
"Yes! Stop the exam! Stop the exam!"
"No one is allowed to write papers anymore!"
"Go downstairs to Mingyuan and find the examiner..."
"Yes, the examiner must be a eunuch!"
"Go and catch the eunuchs..."
In the blink of an eye, a wave of boycotts started. Like a tide, the angry candidates rushed to Mingyuan Building from all directions and surrounded the place where Prince Zhu Cihong was.
Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingzi, and Wu Meicun all panicked when they saw this scene. Of course, Zhu Cixiang did not come alone. He went to Jiangnan Gongyuan with two to three hundred fully armed guards to invigilate the examination. These guards are in the Mingyuan Building now. If they go out to fight... it will be a murder!
But if you don't kill...what happened? How to calm down the storm of boycott? The prince is so strong, is he willing to give in to the scholars in the southeast? If he gives in, how can he still be in power or usurp the throne?
"Master Qiansui, please go out and persuade them..." Qian Qianyi said bravely.
He is a cabinet minister and the leader of Donglin, so what he says should work, right?
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "Mr. Qian, you will get beaten when you go out... You are my teacher. If you get beaten, where will I put my face?"
Qian Qianyi glanced at Gong Ziai and Wumeicun. Now is the time for them to stand up and be beaten by the common people!
"Mr. Gong and Mr. Wu don't need to go out," Zhu Cixiang smiled, "If you are going to get beaten, my face will be as shameless as mine!"
"Then, who is going?" Qian Qianyi asked.
"Yin Yun!" Zhu Cixiang shouted.
Immediately, a strong man wearing cloth-covered iron armor came up from downstairs. When he arrived in front of Zhu Cixiang, he knelt down on one knee and said, "Master Qiansui, the end will be here!"
He was born in Tianjin Sanwei, and was originally the head of Cao Youyi's servants, holding the rank of Chief Qian. During the Battle of Tianjin Guards, he was favored by Zhu Cixiang. He was constantly promoted and promoted, and now he has become the head guard.
"Master Qiantose, you can't do that!"
"Your Highness, I'd better go out, I'm not afraid of being beaten..."
"Your Highness the Crown Prince..."
Seeing the murderous Yin Yun, the "three people from Jiangzuo" upstairs in Mingyuan panicked. This is a bloodbath in Gongyuan! Not to mention that nothing like this happened in the Ming Dynasty, even hundreds of years ago it didn’t happen!
Zhu Cixiang just sneered: "Yin Yun, ask your people to check the fire blunderbuss, then cut the match rope into one foot and five inches, and light it on both ends!"
After listening to the order given by Zhu Cixiang himself, Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingzi, and Wu Meicun were half scared out of their souls.
We really want to go on a killing spree and shoot the test takers!
Zhu Cixiang looked at Qian Qianyi with a half-smile at this time, "Teacher, if we kill three to two thousand people in the Jiangnan Gongyuan today, clear the land in the southeast and strictly levy commercial taxes, will no one dare to stop it? "
"Master Qianqian Qiansui, you can't..." As Qian Qianyi spoke, his vision went dark, his body went limp, and he collapsed on the chair and fainted.
Zhu Cixiang glanced at him, then looked at Wu Meicun and Gong Dingzi, "Qian Ge is fainted, are you two fainted?"
"We, we..."
"Master Chitose..."
The two Jiangnan talents no longer know what to say? The prince went crazy and wanted to bloodbath the Jiangnan Gongyuan! There are now more than 10,000 to 20,000 Juren in the Gongyuan... If we kill three or two thousand of them, most of the rest will be scared to death, and they will definitely pay the taxes obediently!
...
"Dear filial piety and integrity, I am Su Jin from Wu County. Today I have the honor to gather with you all at the Jiangnan Gongyuan to punish the remnants of the eunuchs. I pray for the lives of the people, show prestige to the scholars, and eliminate adultery for the court. I will definitely be remembered in history..."
Downstairs from Mingyuan, Su Jin, a talented scholar from Suzhou, was standing on a table that was moved from somewhere and was giving a speech. The people standing under the table were all candidates who had come to take the exam but could not complete the paper. There were always three to two thousand people, and more people were arriving one after another. The soldiers who maintained order in the Gongyuan didn't know where they were hiding? He was probably scared away by the rebellious Juren master.
When scholars make a fuss, how can they dare to control these stinky soldiers?
Just when Su Jin thought that he would soon become famous in Southeast Shilin and become a new generation of Donglin leader, someone among the onlookers suddenly attacked him!
"You're talking nonsense! You're a traitor to the eunuchs!"
"The Suzhou man standing on the table is a eunuch. Don't believe him..."
"Yes! He is an eunuch, and he didn't sign the "Complaint to Protect the People from Captured Prisoners"!"
"He is a eunuch, so he is not afraid of the Tatars coming!"
"Yes, he is a eunuch..."
What? What? Am I an eunuch? Su Jin was scolded by several young people with Hunan and Jiangxi accents who appeared out of nowhere, and she was immediately speechless.
He was just a scholar who could write eight-legged essays, not an eloquent politician, so when he was suddenly accused of being an eunuch, he was a little unable to react.
How could he be a eunuch? However, he did not sign the "Complaint to Protect the People" - in fact, there were not many Southeast Asian scholars who signed the "Complaint to Protect the People", not as exaggerated as tens of thousands, only eight or nine thousand at most. The rest is made up.
Even the telegraph had not been invented these days, and the communication methods were so backward. How could tens of thousands of scholars be mobilized to sign signatures in a short period of time?
Moreover, the Donglin Conference has not yet opened, and the Donglin Party is still an existence in name only, and has no political mobilization ability!
Therefore, the joint signature campaign has only been carried out in Huai'an, Yangzhou, and Yingtian. It is not surprising that Su Jin, who is in Suzhou, did not sign.
On the other hand, in Shandong, due to the orders of Duke Yansheng's Mansion and Prince Lu's Mansion, as well as the desperate instigation of the two regiment leaders Gao Hongtu and Zuo Maodi, many scholars were invited to participate in signing, but their signing activities were not carried out by Sun Zhi. Xie and Jin Zhijun did not end their rebellion before the North, so there are actually no names of Shandong scholars on those boxes of "blacklists"...
"I, I, I, I am not a eunuch, I didn't sign because no one asked me to sign!"
He really defended his lack of signature, but his defense was weak. And those who accused him of being an eunuch were even more unreasonable.
"Nonsense! He is a eunuch!"
"Yes, only the eunuchs oppose the strict imposition of business taxes!"
