After Gu Bingren finished speaking, he returned to his garden through the back door.
But the sound of demonstrations outside still made him restless.
He also walked out, preparing to loudly reprimand and threaten the tenant farmers and hired workers to let them understand that the government could support them now, but don't think that the government would always be their supporter.
However, the Gu family's tenant farmers and hired workers were also very angry because Gu Bingren's son not only refused to come out to have a good talk with them, but also beat them directly.
Therefore, many of these tenant farmers and hired workers have begun to have the idea of directly violently confronting the Gu family, regardless of the organizers sent by the National Taxation Department to set up farm cooperatives and labor cooperatives among them.
"Come in and beat these guys to death!"
"They beat us without talking about rent reduction and interest rate reduction, just like when we begged big bosses like them to reduce rent because of the floods and not much harvest, but they refused and sued the officials and beat those of us to death who went to him. They don’t regard us as human lives at all!”
"Now that Mr. Hai is willing to make the decision for us, what do we have to fear? Just rush in and beat them to death!"
"Yes, kill them!"
For a while, the crowd was excited.
Some tenant farmers and hired laborers had already bumped into the door that the officials had taken the initiative to re-close for the Gu family, and some even put torches directly under the eaves of the Gu family to burn down his home.
There are also many tenant farmers and hired workers who can eat white flour steamed buns because they are participating in demonstrations organized by the National Taxation Department. They don't care about the roasted sweet potatoes they brought, and they all throw the roasted sweet potatoes directly at the gate of Gu's house.
Some even just throw the torch in.
It is very likely to turn into a situation in history where "people copy Dong's officials".
At this time, Gu Bingren was hit in the chest by a roasted sweet potato that suddenly flew towards him. His clothes were covered with mashed sweet potatoes and his chest hurt. He immediately stumbled and cursed: "Damn it! Damn it!"
Then, Gu Bingren saw a torch flying over and igniting a bamboo grove inside his garden gate, and then ran straight to the backyard:
"You have rebelled. The unruly people have rebelled. Please inform everyone at home and leave!"
Bang bang!
But at this time, the patrol team also arrived and promptly stopped the people who wanted to riot directly. They also arrested several tenant farmers and hired workers who did not listen to the advice and wanted to force their way in and violently deal with the Gu family.
Most of the tenant farmers and hired workers who came to demonstrate at the Gu family were young and strong people who were responsible for their duties, rather than ruffians who were afraid of chaos. Therefore, they were prevented by the patrol team and other government soldiers from directly launching any major riots against the Gu family.
Of course, mass movements cannot avoid riots.
Even when the police and government forces were insufficient, some large gentry houses were violently looted by protesting tenant farmers and hired workers, and Hai Rui had to punish several demonstrators afterwards.
But because the government was guiding and cleaning up the aftermath, no large-scale riots occurred.
However, Hai Rui and other bureaucrats in the government did not blindly favor the gentry, but still brought an increasing sense of oppression to the right-wingers.
Not only did the government not suppress the demonstrations for rent reduction, interest rate reduction, and money processing, but encouraged them, the other reason was that the government took the initiative to seek justice for the people.
Hai Rui himself left Nanjing and went all the way to Suzhou and Hangzhou to inspect and receive the lawsuit without mentioning it.
Sun Guangyou was instructed by Hai Rui to patrol Chuzhou, Hezhou, Anqing, Chizhou, and Huizhou, picking up Zhuangzi along the way to redress the grievances of the people.
"Zhishi Township eunuch Fan Qianxian, together with the county magistrate and subordinate officials, seized the land of Su Biliang, a humble citizen, and beat Su Biliang to death. Fan Qianxian and the county magistrate's subordinate officials were immediately arrested and imprisoned! Report to the court for disposal!"
Sun Guangyou became selfless and selfless for this reason, and first took action directly against the returning officials and gentry and their protective umbrellas and minions.
As for Inspector Tian Le, who was patrolling along Yangzhou, Huai'an, and Fengyang, he directly imprisoned Yang Sizhi, a bureaucrat's son who was disturbing the post station, and directly expelled him from his job title. He also directly imprisoned Yang Sizhi for beating three people near the post station to death. He was sentenced to death and sent to the capital.
Not to mention Hai Rui here, he has always advocated strict control in accordance with the requirements of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, so because on the road he saw Shen Nan, the grandson of Shen Shiliang, the former right servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, wearing a new red dress but wearing a square scarf with the symbol of a student, he also He ordered Shen Nanxin to be detained and dealt with according to Ming law, saying that he did not abide by etiquette.
In short, these right-wingers were protested by tenant farmers and hired workers at home, and were punished by conscientious bureaucrats for disturbing the inn, acting illegally, or not observing etiquette when they went out.
"The younger one is Zhang Yingqi, a slave of Dong Shangshu's family. He sued Dong Sigong, the son of the Dong family, for beating his sister to death because she disobeyed him!"
And because of this, slaves from large families began to complain to the government.
Hai Rui received a complaint in Huzhou at this time, and immediately ordered the arrest of Dong Sigong. After finding out that the matter was true, he said:
"According to the Ming Dynasty Laws, if the slave is innocent and a good family beats and kills the slave without suing the official, he will be punished with sixty sticks and a sentence of one year! This person will be given sixty sticks and then report to the Ministry of Punishment to arrange a prison sentence!"
"slow!"
Dong Fen, the Minister of Etiquette who had become an official, rushed over. When he saw Hai Rui, he raised his hands and said, "Mr. Gangfeng, can you show mercy?"
"There are certain laws that cannot be forgiven!"
After Hai Rui said this, he slapped the crowd and said, "Hit!"
Snapped!
Snapped!
Snapped!
As a result, Dong Sigong was beaten on the spot, and he cried out in pain: "Father, it hurts! Tell him to stop!"
Seeing this, Dong Fen shouted: "Hai Gangfeng! Are you going to force me to crash to death in front of your hall today?!"
Hai Rui said in a deep voice: "Dong Gong, are you going to force me to go directly to this church? Are you lax in your upbringing and indulging your children and grandchildren to bring disaster to the village?!"
"I don't believe that the imperial court really wants to sit back and watch you, a cruel official, treat us and other nobles so harshly!"
"Today, I will show my blood that we Confucian scholars do not want to be humiliated by the harsh laws of cruel officials like you!"
Dong Fen said and hit the doorpost.
Seeing this, Lu Kun quickly looked at Hai Rui: "Budang, do you see?"
Hai Rui said with a sullen face: "Let him bump into me! If he dares to bump into me, it will prove that scholars in this dynasty still have some bones. Even if the rent reduction and interest rate reduction does not work, it will be another good thing."
After hearing this, Lu Kun said nothing more and only looked at Dong Fen.
Dong Fen ran to the front and back of the doorpost, suddenly stopped again, and then sat down beside the door, panting heavily, and sneered at Hai Rui:
"How can I let you get what you want! Let you go to Shu and say that I threaten you with death to implement the New Deal! I will not be fooled by this!"
Lu Kun and Hai Rui looked at each other disappointedly.
"ah!"
At this time, Dong Sigong's screams attracted Dong Fen.
Seeing this, Dong Fen felt heartbroken again. He seemed at a loss for a moment. He glanced at the pillar next to him, but still couldn't make up his mind. In the end, he just knelt down to Hai Rui:
"Kaibutang! Please give me some face because I was once an important minister of the imperial court. I promise that the Dong Mansion will never dare to beat a slave to death for no reason again!"
Hai Rui sighed.
At this time, the execution soldier came over and said to Hai Rui: "Bu Tang, you are out of breath!"
Dong Fen was stunned after hearing this, then he sat on the ground and burst into tears. Then he looked at Hai Rui and said, "Hai Gangfeng, I want to find you as a ginseng!"
"This church is deeply sorry for what happened to Ling Sun."
"But as for Mr. Dong who wants to join this hall, please do so!"
After Hai Rui said that, he said, "Who else wants to file a lawsuit?"
"The little boy told the minister that Master Dong forced the little mother to be a slave, so that the little girl was also forced to be a slave of the Dong family since she was a child. The little mother originally wanted to be virtuous after her father died early, because Master Dong coveted the beauty of the little mother. , and fabricated the lie that the young father owed his family a loan shark, bought a notice to the county, and forced the young mother into a slave."
At this time, a slave girl who came with Dong Fen suddenly ran in, knelt in front of the hall and began to speak in tears.
Dong Fen was furious: "You bitch! Your mother obviously begged to be a slave to my Dong family!"
"The younger ones are also being sued!"
"There are smaller ones too!"
But for a while, many slaves of the Dong family came to complain.
When Dong Fen saw this, he couldn't help but said: "Rebellion, really rebellion! Haigangfeng, why do you allow your slaves to rebel against us!"
…
"Rebellion, really total rebellion, then the unruly people who were completely instigated by Hai Rui rebelled!"
Gu Bingren also fled to Ma Weiming with sweet potato puree all over his body, and then started talking to Ma Weiming with red eyes:
"I want to write to my nephews who are officials in Beijing and tell them that if they can't force His Majesty to let Jiangling conquer Haigangfeng, severely deal with these Jiangling lackeys in Nanzhi, and kill all the unruly people, then I will be in Nanzhi." It will completely destroy the etiquette and elegance!"
"And it will be difficult for them to see their ancestors and fellow villagers in the future! This is disloyal and unfilial!"
Gu Bingren spoke with veins popping out.
