At this moment, Qian Yu was shocked and asked: "Father, what kind of father-in-law, why do you let me go with you?"
"You have to go if you don't want to!"
A soldier put a gun against his waist.
Shi Qianyu didn't say anything else, he just followed the two scholars into a private house cooperatively, and saw a white-haired eunuch without a beard.
"Eunuch Cheng, he is Shi Qianyu."
When Shi Qianyu saw the eunuch, the two men guarding him said something.
After the two scholars talked, the Dongchang eunuch known as Eunuch Cheng looked at Shi Qianyu and said, "You are very brave. You instigated many fools to beat up the governor. Do you hate him Li Zhuowu so much?"
After Eunuch Cheng said this, he raised his head and asked the two scholars who came to Qianyu: "What other treasonous things has he done, what other treasonous words has he said?"
"He plans to instigate troublemakers to go to Huaiyang to launch a strike of trackers and watermen, hoping to interrupt the water transportation of the imperial court."
At this time, a scholar replied.
Another scholar replied: "Yes, but several scholars expressed opposition. It is one thing to cry out for injustice, but it is another thing to disrupt the world."
"Very good. This shows that we have made progress and are not completely brainless."
"Your Majesty, you can rest assured."
As Eunuch Cheng said this, he looked at Shi Qianyu: "However, you villains are very courageous. You are afraid that the world will not be in chaos, right?"
"Despicable and shameless person!"
Shi Qianyu only turned around and scolded the two scholars who escorted him: "You actually work for these dog officials, are you still worthy of being scholars?"
After Shi Qianyu scolded him, he looked at Eunuch Cheng: "If you want to kill me or cut him into pieces, please feel free to do so. I only hate that there are many despicable and shameless people in our scholarly community, which makes you so rampant!"
"It seems that he is unwilling to submit without being punished."
After Eunuch Cheng said this, his face sank: "I'm going to be punished. Ask him who ordered him!"
So, a pair of clamping sticks was brought from the Dongchang Banner School below and put on Shi Qianyu's hands.
Shi Qianyu couldn't help but look frightened.
"ah!"
Soon, Shi Qianyu began to howl from the moment the rope on the clamping stick was tightened, and his veins bulged in pain.
"Tell me! Who ordered it?!"
Eunuch Cheng asked in a deep voice.
Shi Qianyu ignored it.
Seeing this, Eunuch Cheng said: "Since you don't want to say anything, let's continue with the torture. This is not the Three Laws Division, nor the Royal Guards, nor a place of etiquette. I will punish you to death!"
Shi Qianyu was stunned and said: "No! I'm telling you, I was ordered by Xiao Damao, the younger brother of Xiao Dacai, the governor of Suzhou, to let the scholars and people go on strike from school and market to smash, loot, and burn, burn down government offices, and block water transportation. , causing great chaos in the country's affairs, forcing the emperor to use a large army to suppress it, making the hatred between the king and the people as deep as the sea, and there is no longer any mutual understanding, and we can only rely on us bureaucrats to rule the people for the king and father. "
"record on file!"
This time Eunuch Cheng gave an order.
Shi Qianyu fainted at this time.
…
at the same time.
Qianqing Palace.
"Your Majesty!"
"Suzhou Dongchang came to report that many of the rioting scholars and people indeed maintained restraint and rationality, had their own independent thinking and clear needs, and began to consider the world."
"As evidenced by the submitted slogans, they have begun to organize pickets to actively maintain order, and have begun to actively negotiate with the government and are willing to open the market to the common people."
Sun Bin handed the unveiling slogan to Zhu Yijun and said: "In addition, Dongchang has also arrested a large number of people who fanned the flames. Sure enough, many of them are bureaucrats and officials behind the scenes. They intend to force His Majesty to become someone who does not care about the common people in the eyes of the people. tyrant."
Since Zhu Yijun murdered Qi Jiguang because Chen Zheng and other eunuchs did not obey the rules and cooperated with the old party, and even plotted to have him drowned, in order to teach the eunuchs a lesson, he handed over many inner court affairs such as the Shipping Department and the Weaving Bureau to the clan nobles. After the relatives took charge, a large number of eunuchs were assigned to Dongchang, responsible for developing informants among the people.
Zhu Yijun did this not only to strengthen the power of Dongchang, but also to prevent the eunuchs from being dissatisfied because too much of their power was taken away. At the same time, it also gave them a chance to perform again. If they can't even do the work of Dongchang well, Then I can only go back to the palace to serve people.
Because of this.
The eunuchs also understood very well and did not dare to think that they were as important as before. Knowing that the emperor was so powerful that they did not really need them to control the power, they became more serious and loyal, which made Dongchang's ability more powerful. It has been strengthened a lot.
In addition, Zhu Yijun no longer allowed Jinyiwei to be controlled by Dongchang, but instead made the two independent intelligence agencies.
Moreover, Zhu Yijun also gave Dongchang and Jinyiwei their own division of labor. Jinyiwei was mainly responsible for investigating the bureaucratic class, the scholar class and external intelligence, while Dongchang was responsible for civilian investigations and democratic movement work.
In addition, the two supervise each other.
However, the two will also cooperate, and there is no strict separation. When necessary, Jinyiwei can also participate in polls and democratic movements, and Dongchang will also investigate bureaucrats, because many times the boundaries between officials and the people are not clear-cut.
Less gossip.
After Zhu Yijun read the announcement and slogan, and heard what Sun Bin said, he said: "Very good!"
"Now that the Suzhou scholars have shown that the new workers and businessmen can be used for help, the Dongchang side will help the troubled scholars and turn the incident in a direction that is unfavorable to the bureaucracy and only beneficial to the protection of national interests. First, arrest them immediately. The people behind the scenes who are fanning the flames must be arrested, no matter what their identities are; secondly, the strike will focus on brothels, theaters, antique and jade shops, and bearers and other aspects that have little impact on ordinary people, and organize them to raise funds. At the same time, Dongchang Internal funds can be requested to participate in fund-raising organizations.”
“In short, we must force the bureaucrats to make changes and compromises on their own!”
"yes!"
…
Shortly after.
Suzhou magistrate's office.
Xiao Dacai was arrested from the backyard by the fierce people.
And Xiao Dacai couldn't help shouting: "What are you doing, what are you doing! How can you unscrupulous people be so bold, come on, come on!"
At this time, a scholar named Liu Zengren came over and said to him:
"Xiao Fuyin, please stop shouting. We are here to take you to Beijing on the basis of the Great Edict, because your brother and his gang of bad friends have recruited you. They say that you have pocketed the profits from the subscription coupons, and they are fanning the flames and trying to force you to do so." The imperial court sent soldiers to kill us, and now we are bringing you to Beijing just to ask the emperor to bring justice!"
"As for the people in the government office, they all agree to this, because they don't want the subscription tickets to be stolen by you, so it's useless no matter how much you shout, even if your throat is broken."
The "Da Gao" left by Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as a magic weapon for Zhu Yijun to let the people deal with the bureaucrats for him, so that these Ming Dynasty bureaucrats can be arrested by the people and brought to Beijing.
Xiao Dacai was also startled after hearing this, and then he couldn't help but cry because he thought about the people arresting officials again: "Oh my god, what kind of world is this!"
(End of chapter)
