When Qian Qianyi heard Feng Quan's voice, he knew that he would not be able to escape.
Because as an important figure in Donglin, he naturally knew that Feng Quan was now the vanguard of the Donglin Party against him.
But Qian Qianyi is not a simple person. He is not the kind of ordinary person who gnashes his teeth in hatred and loses his mind when he sees his political opponents.
Qian Qianyi, who was well aware of current affairs, knelt down directly towards Feng Quan.
"Please spare your life!"
Qian Qianyi knelt down and bowed directly to the ground and said something.
As a result, Feng Quan was a little less angry than before when he learned that the Jiangnan scholars were crying about the Confucius Temple, and he laughed in surprise: "I didn't expect you, Qian Muzhai, to be so sensible!"
"Feng Quan! You treacherous minister, it turns out that you personally led the troops to surround my Confucius Temple. Are you still considered a disciple of Confucius and Mencius? Where have you read the books of saints? You actually led a large army here to attack the place of saints. So disrespectful!”
Zhang Pu and others could not leave the Confucius Temple because there were already officers and soldiers in front of them, so they followed Qian Qianyi to the backyard with Ye Maocai, Chen Yutai and others.
But Zhang Pu didn't expect that as soon as he arrived at the back door, he saw Feng Quan riding a horse.
Zhang Pu scolded him first.
But then, Zhang Pu saw Qian Qianyi, and found that Qian Qianyi was kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to Feng Quan.
Zhang Pu was shocked.
Qian Muzhai was the leader of his own Jiangnan Shilin, and he had such a banner. Even the former chief minister Ye Gongye, who had high hopes for Gaodu, how could he suddenly kneel in front of Feng Quan, a treacherous minister.
"Mr. Mu Zhai, what are you doing?"
Zhang Pu couldn't help but ask.
"Qian, Qian."
Qian Qianyi didn't know how to explain it for a moment, but finally an idea struck him and he came up with an excuse.
Qian Qianyi sighed first, and then said: "I don't have the face to meet all the gentlemen!"
Then, Qian Qianyi made a very sad look and said: "I want to beg Feng Quan to let us people go. I told Feng Quan that we have honestly made up for the endowment and cooperated with him to clear his father's land. Now we are just What's wrong with just crying and offering sacrifices to the late emperor in the Weeping Temple? If you really want to punish this unwarranted crime, please only punish Qian. Qian would rather kneel down and kowtow."
Qian Qianyi said: "So, you just saw Qian kneeling and kowtow to Feng Quan."
"Mr. Mu Zhai is really like the ancients. He would rather be humiliated than save our fellow scholars. We feel this deeply!"
Only then did Ye Mao speak.
"Yes! Mr. Mu Zhai is very righteous!"
Other Jiangnan scholars also echoed.
Feng Quan saw this and smiled coldly: "It's really hypocritical!"
Then, Feng Quan shouted to Qian Qianyi: "Qian Muzhai! You really surprised me!"
"Feng! What on earth do you want to do? You led your troops to surround the temple of the Holy Master. Even now, Mr. Mu Zhai does not hesitate to kneel down to show weakness to you. Are you still unwilling to give up?!"
At this time, Ye Maocai loudly questioned Feng Quan.
Feng Quan was also gnashing his teeth at other Jiangnan scholars.
Qian Qianyi didn't dare to look into Feng Quan's eyes.
Qian Qianyi also didn't understand how he ended up in this situation. He couldn't help but thought: "I just organized the Jiangnan scholars to cry in the temple. How could I recruit officers and soldiers? Could it be that the court is not even allowed to cry in the temple now?" Already?"
When Qian Qianyi thought of this, he couldn't help but feel regretful. He regretted organizing this temple-weeping event. He couldn't help but slandered again: "Now it seems that His Majesty is not only trying to snatch our rights and interests, but also We must shut our mouths! This tyrant really does everything he can!"
"Your Majesty has decreed that private association, lectures, and sacrifices to people other than your own ancestors are strictly prohibited. Otherwise, you will be plotting something evil. At the least, you will be dismissed from your honor, and at the most serious, you will be executed!"
Feng Quan first conveyed the decree of the imperial court, and then said: "You are crying to offer sacrifices to Confucius Temple, or even to mourning the late emperor without the permission of the imperial court, and you are also trying to avenge the rebels who defied the imperial decree and even attempted to murder the imperial envoys. You are obviously plotting something wrong! Otherwise, if you want to redress your grievances, why don't you go to His Majesty? It's obvious that you don't take His Majesty seriously! In addition, redressing the grievances of Xu Yuanqing and others is obviously dissatisfied with the imperial court!"
With that said, Feng Quan ordered: "Arrest all these scholars who are plotting evil! If they disobey, they will be killed without mercy! Do not disobey! Otherwise, if the court knows and you tolerate these people who are plotting evil, none of you will survive!"
"yes!"
Li Ruobi replied loudly. He already knew the emperor's will, so naturally he did not dare to disobey Feng Quan's order. He responded quickly and immediately waved his hand: "Go!"
So, a group of soldiers rushed in and began to arrest these soldiers.
Ye Maocai, Zhang Pu and other Jiangnan scholars were horrified.
Qian Qianyi calmed down and said to himself: "It's just as I expected! This tyrant can't even let us even verbally oppose him!"
"Feng, you are pretending! Your Majesty cannot issue such a decree, and we have no evil intentions. You are setting up a trap!"
Zhang Pu shouted excitedly, even though he was pinned to the ground by the camp soldiers.
Ye Maocai also shouted loudly: "Feng Quan! You scholar scum! If you are so unscrupulous, aren't you afraid of being kneeled in a cast iron statue like Qin Hui in the future! You are also a scholar-official, how can you have such no bottom line!"
Feng Quan snorted coldly: "When you humiliated Feng, you never thought that Feng was also a scholar. When you insulted Feng, you never thought that Feng was also a scholar!"
After saying that, Feng Quan shouted loudly again: "Take them all away! Find out the main culprits of each literary society!"
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"Take them all away! Forming a society privately, writing community anthologies, and compiling history privately. This is truly an act of ignorance of national laws!"
Feng Quan arrested all the scholars from the Wailing Temple and sent them to prison. Fang Shihong also continued to inspect the bookstores. At this time, he ordered the arrest of the operator of a large bookstore in Nanjing.
At the same time, all the books related to government affairs that appeared in these bookstores were gathered in open areas and burned.
Many illegal and banned books were confiscated.
It took less than a day for the search to turn up a small pile of illegal and banned books, which were burned like a mountain of flames. Many beggars and poor people simply gathered around these fires to warm themselves, and some people even took back the burned ashes. use.
"Remove this post!"
At the same time, Fang Shihong also ordered his people in Chongwen Temple to tear down the stickers from various places. At that moment, he happened to see a member of his family quietly posting stickers beside a city wall.
Seeing this, Fang Shihong immediately shouted: "Catch that man! The imperial court has repeatedly issued orders prohibiting the writing of unofficial posts and making rumors, but there are still people who are not afraid of death!"
"yes!"
The military supervisor of Chongwen Temple immediately ran over and caught the student.
This student's name is Zong Lin.
Zong Lin hurriedly shouted: "You are so presumptuous! I am a scholar, and my father is the right servant of the Nanjing Household Department of the imperial court! Which yamen official are you, and you dare to take advantage of me!"
"We are official servants of Chongwen Temple, specializing in recruiting scholars!"
Fang Shihong came over and said something at this time, picked up the unveiling post that Zong Lin wanted to put up, and read it, and saw that it said, "Yan Shifan came to Jiangnan for the second time to cut off my Jiangnan cultural background and quickly hide the books of various families!"
Therefore, Fang Shihong laughed and asked: "Your name is Zonghe, and he was a Jinshi in the 38th year of Wanli?"
Zong Lin was shocked. He didn't expect that he would fall into the hands of Chongwen Temple, so he quickly denied it: "No, no, I'm not!"
But Fang Shihong only gave instructions to his own people: "Inform Commander Xu of Dongchang and tell him that the son of Lang Zong, the right minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing, is spreading the news that I am going south!"
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