When things have reached this point, it's time to come to a conclusion.
So the judicial officials and officials of the third division were mobilized in full force, and together with the soldiers of the Yanyun Corps transferred to command by Su Yonglin, they began a large-scale arrest of Shandong Confucian scholars.
The scale of the arrests this time was quite large. Judicial officials led soldiers to completely surround the gathering places and residences of the Confucian scholars.
No matter how the frightened Confucian scholars resisted, the soldiers swarmed forward without sparing a hand, and regardless of whether they resisted, they went up and knocked them to the ground with the wooden sticks they carried, tied them up, and arrested them.
No matter how much the Confucian scholars resisted, they were no match for the soldiers. What's more, Su Yonglin mobilized 10,000 soldiers to launch the operation. Although the number of Confucian scholars was large, it was not 10,000, and was far less numerous than the soldiers.
Under such circumstances, the well-trained soldiers rushed quickly and drove the Confucian scholars to pieces with lightning speed.
The Confucian scholars were in chaos and fled in all directions. Some ran to the street, some ran to the houses, and some even wanted to jump into a well or climb a tree to avoid capture.
It was useless. The soldiers ran faster and soon knocked the fleeing scholars to the ground and captured them.
The Confucian scholars who jumped into the well or climbed into the trees could not escape. They were picked up or dragged down by the soldiers, and then fell to the ground and rolled around in great pain.
In order to avoid arrest, some Confucian scholars living in houses or hotels blocked the doors with heavy objects to prevent the soldiers from entering, and then tried to escape by jumping out of the windows.
The soldiers who were blocked outside chose to break in through the window, directly pressed the Confucian scholar in the room to the ground, tied him up, and arrested him.
When things got to this point, the Confucian scholars finally realized that the court would no longer tolerate them, and the emperor would no longer tolerate them.
They felt fear, a deep fear of the future.
They cried loudly, or admitted their mistakes, or begged for mercy, or asked the soldiers not to offend noble scholars like them, but what awaited them was only ruthless blows.
Now that we have reached this point, is there any point in being a scholar or not a scholar?
One after another Confucian scholars were arrested and brought to justice, and one after another noble scholars lowered their proud heads.
Their time is over, and the future does not belong to them.
On the evening of June 19, the third year of Hongwu's reign, the prison in Zhongdu City was full and could not accommodate the nearly 10,000 Confucian scholars who had been arrested. Therefore, a large number of Confucian scholars were escorted by the army to the military camps outside the city for detention, awaiting the outcome of the proceedings.
Kong Maojie, Jiang Chengyue and Shen Ge stood in front of Su Yonglin, waiting for Su Yonglin's final decision.
"What is there to hesitate about? Screen immediately. Anyone whose family has committed corruption crimes will be executed and sentenced in accordance with the law. If no crime has been found so far, we will inquire about their place of origin, search their homes, arrest them, and escort them all to Jishi Prefecture. !
Remember, this is the stage of revolution and it is a life-and-death struggle. For these people, no matter how pitiful they appear, we must remember that they are top-notch scholars who grew up by sucking the blood and sweat of the common people. There is no possibility of reconciliation with us. .
Therefore, to deal with them, we can only fight to the end, liquidate them to the end, and never compromise! I ask the local Fuxing Association branches in Shandong to all take action, the village farmers' associations, the township farmers' associations, and the villagers' self-defense forces to all mobilize!
Tell them that now they should fight for their brothers and sisters who are being oppressed and exploited and do what they should do! Make a complete break with all the filth and filthiness of the past! "
Su Yonglin clenched his fists and ordered, and Kong Maojie and the other three immediately took the order.
The critical moment of the revolution has arrived, and Su Yonglin decided to launch a dimensionality reduction attack on the Confucian scholar group and launch the second and real great purge of Shandong.
Launch an all-out attack on Confucian families, landlords, gentry families, and wealthy merchant families, conduct a comprehensive cleansing of Shandong, and completely complete the transformation of Shandong.
He has tolerated too much for this place where he started, and this time, he will never tolerate it anymore.
Shandong Confucian scholars can be said to be the most intolerable group of people in his regime. From now on, he will comprehensively promote the ideas of the Renaissance Society to replace Confucianism as the official guiding ideology of the Ming Dynasty. This group of people who master Confucianism must be Eradicate cleanly.
In comparison, whether it is the Yanyun family, the foreign family, or the landlords, gentry, old bureaucrats, old military officers, etc. in Guanzhong, they are all skin diseases. They are on the surface of the body and are visible to the naked eye. They only need to be eradicated by hand. .
Ideological erosion is the real thorn in the side.
It’s time to see the revival meeting through to the end.
This is a blow to the old era, a break with the old era, and also a self-cleansing and innovation of the Ming Dynasty. It will sweep away all the parasites brought by the old era and march lightly towards the future.
Su Yonglin also asked the Renaissance Association's Supervision Department to take action and keep an eye on his own people.
During this operation, any of our own people who show signs that something is wrong will be dealt a merciless blow.
Compared with external enemies, internal ghosts are more hateful and terrifying. Su Yonglin fully understands this.
Su Yonglin's decisive action shocked not only the group of Confucian scholars who were arrested, but also the remaining forces of the Shandong clique who hid behind them and fanned the flames in an attempt to reverse the court's decision.
Su Yonglin took action and wiped them all out like the autumn wind sweeping down fallen leaves.
After Kong Zheng and other Shandong clique bosses were dealt with, the remaining Shandong clique bureaucrats were not dealt with for the time being. They were unwilling to accept the failure and tried to rescue the Shandong clique and save the situation.
At least the basic base of the Shandong system must be preserved.
So they tried every means to trick the Confucian scholars into rushing to the front while they hid behind, trying to reap the benefits. They thought that no matter how fierce the court was and how decisive the emperor was, they would not dare to attack the group of Shandong Confucian scholars.
Because there were too many people, and there had been a tradition since ancient times that the law should not punish the masses, it was difficult for the emperor to take action against so many Confucian students, and in the end he had no choice but to let it go.
But they didn't expect the emperor to be so decisive, and their actions were detected by Skynet agents.
When the time came to close the net, judicial officials immediately led soldiers to rush to the residences of these Shandong officials and arrested them one after another. A wave of purges wiped out almost all Shandong officials in the DPRK and China.
There were only two or three kittens left, and they were let go because they really had no status and were very honest and made no mistakes.
Of course, they will no longer make any political achievements.
On June 25, the arrest operation against Shandong clique and Shandong Confucian scholars was gradually coming to an end.
The arrested Shandong scholars and officials who had not been pardoned all began the process of being escorted to Jishi Prefecture and distributed.
What awaits them will be an extremely difficult environment and extremely heavy construction work.
For the future western expedition plan, Su Yonglin needs to build Jishi Prefecture into an important advance base, which requires a large amount of infrastructure, which is obviously not possible with local manpower and material resources.
These exiled laborers will become the main force in the construction of Jishi Prefecture.
At the same time, the freed-up Third Judicial Department also launched a simultaneous purge of the Foreign Clan and Yanyun Clan.
Based on the many clues and information obtained after the large-scale interrogation, as well as the information submitted by the Shandong criminal officials in order to reduce the punishment, the Third Judicial Department identified a group of criminals from the Yanyun family and the foreign family, and arrested and arrested them. trial.
For example, Yelu Yixian, Yeluhu Dugu, Sun Yixin and others who were bitten out before.
These people are all backbone members of the Yanyun and Foreign clans. They are young and energetic. They also held certain official positions in the Jin Kingdom and have administrative capabilities. They are the basis of these two factions.
After a group of backbone members represented by them were taken down and interrogated by the Third Judiciary Division, the forces of the Yanyun Clan and the Foreign Clan also suffered a very serious blow.
For example, the Yanyun family leader Huo Jianbai's family was uprooted by Su Yonglin. Although Huo Jianbai himself was not guilty of any serious crime, he was implicated by his nephew Hoge and was taken down.
Another big boss, Han Shiling, was also implicated by his tribe. He was removed from his official position and lost his political status. He himself also served a prison sentence for accepting a gift from his nephew.
The Yanyun faction suffered a heavy blow, with many of the upper and middle levels deposed and captured, and the faction's power almost collapsed.
At this point, the entire Shandong clique was wiped out, and the Yanyun clique was in despair.
For the time being, the only ones that can still be considered powerful are the foreign clans.
