The nights in Jiangnan are cold.
The bright moon hangs high.
Emperor Zhu walked alone in the spacious and empty palace.
A feeling of loneliness came over me.
in this era,
There is a big generation gap between him and his ministers and concubines.
This loneliness made it clear to him.
There are not many courtiers and officials who agree with him. Even a die-hard like Gu Song only supports all his policies based on the loyalty of "the emperor and his subjects".
Essentially.
Gu Song was still a scholar-official.
for the entire scholar-bureaucrat class.
Emperor Zhu has been wooing him for several years.
All the benefits that should be given were given.
But giving benefits can only buy off real villains.
It is of no use to a gentleman or a hypocrite.
Now many "true gentlemen" from Sichuan are coming to Zhongdu.
Therefore, this tool of the Ming Dynasty’s dictatorship must be put to use!
"Why are we starting a tax audit now?"
"You haven't taken the exam in Sichuan yet, and Sichuan will always be military and political?"
"The emperor is unfair! Unjust!"
soon.
News that the imperial court suspended the imperial examination in Sichuan reached Chengdu.
It immediately caused great dissatisfaction.
Although the court ostensibly gave in to the Sichuan scholars.
But in fact, they were left alone.
Of course, these Sichuan scholars know that if the examination is not held in Sichuan now, then Sichuan officials will have to be appointed by outsiders.
All the benefits of being an official belong to foreign officials.
How can they accept this?
Therefore, the Ming court's decree not only failed to appease the scholars of Sichuan.
On the contrary, it made them even more excited.
More frustrated.
It’s not that they don’t want to take the imperial examination.
But I don’t want to take a new exam.
"Baomingjiao! Stop the New Deal!"
someone shouted from the crowd.
"Baomingjiao! Stop the New Deal!!"
It quickly aroused a public response.
"Gather at the Gongyuan, we must let the Emperor know our determination!"
"Equalitate to acquire scholars and reject new learning!"
"Equalitate to acquire scholars and reject new learning!!"
Soon, a large number of scholars gathered at Chengdu Gongyuan.
The governor's office of Sichuan Province in the Ming Dynasty was on high alert, and memorials reporting the situation were sent down the Yangtze River one after another.
"The situation in Sichuan is in chaos!"
"Scholars from all counties have gone to Gongyuan!"
"They are all seeds of reading!"
"What did the Emperor say?"
"You're not going to use a knife to rob me, are you?"
In the Zhongdu court, the affairs of Chengdu Gongyuan soon became the focus of everyone's discussion.
The ministers of the imperial court gathered in Qinzheng Hall and discussed in low voices.
Of course, Emperor Zhu also placed the issue of the academic dynasty in Chengdu at the top of his desk.
"The opposition always tricks students into causing trouble. Is this also a traditional performing arts?"
Emperor Zhu muttered in a low voice when he entered the Qinzheng Hall.
"Your Majesty, there are tens of thousands of scholars from all over Sichuan gathered in the Ding Gongyuan. They ask the imperial court to select scholars and hold the Sichuan imperial examination within the year!" Peng Jun, the Minister of Education, said with a frown.
Zhu Daohua snorted coldly: "Eight-legged essays to get scholars? Impossible! Just take the new exam, whether you like it or not, I am good enough to them. I gave 20,000 black gauze hats to one province in Sichuan. Isn't that not enough? What else should I take? Do you listen to them? Send an order to Sichuan Governor Luo Dingshan and ask them to send troops to suppress them!"
Peng Jun was stunned for a moment, and then a chill ran down his back.
I sighed in my heart.
Those people behind the scenes really thought that the emperor did not dare to use swords and guns.
It might be okay to just give it up when it's good, but if it's hard to hold on, none of those people behind will be able to escape.
"Hahahahaha! Emperor Zhu's empire is in chaos so quickly!!"
Chengdu.
A restaurant next to Gongyuan.
A middle-aged man wearing a hat laughed heartily.
The two young men next to him looked at each other nervously, then lowered their voices and said, "Master, keep your voice down, keep your voice down, be careful that the walls have ears!"
"What am I afraid of? Emperor Zhu has dragged all the Manchu people to Uriyasu Tai. If he wants to catch me, I am a fish that slipped through the net!"
The speaker had obviously drunk a lot, and his face looked a little excited.
Obviously they are the "remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" that have not yet been cleaned up.
This is the Ming Dynasty that has not undergone a complete revolution.
After hiding for more than a year, they discovered that the Ming Dynasty had not launched any major campaign to "capture the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" across the country, so they changed their surnames and came out to act.
In the Ming Dynasty, reactionaries were everywhere.
It was the third day of May, the fifth year after the Ming Dynasty was restored.
Chengdu, Sichuan.
The genius is bright.
The owners of the street shops had just ordered their waiters to open the doors.
There is some noise in the market.
The men who brought water, delivered goods, butchered pigs, and sold fish pushed their carts into the city with a clanging clang.
At this time, these hawkers found that many people had appeared on the streets.
They are all men wearing red military uniforms.
and
Everyone has a musket with a bayonet!
Don't know where they came from.
They formed an impossibly neat queue on the street.
The expressions of the soldiers were serious.
At the front.
A sun and moon flag symbolizing the Ming Dynasty flutters in the wind.
"The Emperor has decreed that the whole province of Sichuan is under martial law and all gatherings are prohibited!"
"Now I declare martial law and discipline"
An officer barked orders.
soon.
The streets were controlled by Ming army soldiers to a certain extent.
They are all soldiers of the first and second brigade.
It was the army that Emperor Zhu started his career with.
No mobilization is needed at all, and they can faithfully fulfill all orders.
"They are going to Gongyuan!"
The local shopkeepers and shopkeepers in Chengdu who had just opened their doors for business looked dumbfounded at these murderous Ming Army soldiers.
In my mind, I have begun to imagine the miserable situation of those scholars in Gongyuan.
"It's over, it's over, the emperor is going to use swords and guns. Are these scholars really allowed to say what the emperor's family will take exams for?"
"The emperor said that you can take whatever exam you want, now it's time to cut off your brains!"
"Oh, these soldiers are real. Anyone who hits their guns will surely end badly!"
Soldiers with guns and ammunition were swaggering through the streets, with a clear goal, which was to go to Gongyuan.
"Zongzhen, I think those Sichuan scholars are very fierce. I'm afraid they won't be easy to scare, right?"
On the city wall of Chengdu, Luo Dingshan, who was holding on to the battlements, heard Zeng Ada's doubts beside him and couldn't help but sneered.
"Do you think I really just scared them?"
"Isn't it? You can really attack this group of scholars."
"It's not a big deal to start, but it's okay to catch a few typical ones." Luo Dingshan said.
"But I don't think these people can stand up to the emperor to the end."
Luo Dingshan knew that these people were just minions.
The key is the people who deceived them from behind.
Tap tap tap!
Neat footsteps sounded on the streets of Chengdu.
Chengdu Gongyuan has become a base of protest for Sichuan scholars.
Many of them brought bedding and slept here.
Various slogans were plastered all over the walls, making preparations for a protracted war.
But when they found that Emperor Zhu's army had its butcher knife raised, everyone was frightened.
All kinds of crying sounds sounded.
"It's over, it's over, what's the fuss about? The emperor will take whatever exam he takes, and now he's going to chop off his head."
"The official has nothing to do, he has to sit in the waiting room."
(End of chapter)
