The execution strength of the Nanyue Army can be said to be the first in this era. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The speed and strength of the action can be described as vigorous and resolute, sword and foot.

Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Zhenjiang, Jiangyin, Changzhou and other state capitals all temples, Taoist temples and other public buildings, all requisitioned by the government. The hosts of these temples and palaces couldn't help but feel furious on their backs when they saw the military masters driving in in a row, "Could it be that my little incident happened?" Are these people here to arrest people? ”

Once the temporary detention facility has been set up, the imperial court is about to start arresting people! Together with Ruan Dacheng, Yuan Hongxun, Yang Weiyuan and others, who were listed as counter-cases by Donglin, were the first to recover and became Ruan Dacheng's right-hand man.

Hundreds of people, including Gu Gao, Guichi, Wu Yingji, Liu Cheng, Shen Shoumin and Tang Yunjia of Xuancheng, Chen Zhenhui of Yixing, Xu Fuyuan of Songjiang, Yang Tingshu and Qian Xi of Wuxian County, who initiated the prevention of chaos in the capital at that time, were in panic every day, lest they hear the footsteps of the captain slamming on the door and entering.

Today's Ruan Dacheng can be regarded as completely torn up with the Fushe and Donglin factions. If he still cooperated with Donglin at the beginning and developed in his career, now, he no longer thinks so. "As long as you follow in the footsteps of Liang Guogong, why worry about not having high-ranking officials?" From a character who is in the city of Nanjing for "all the celebrities and gentlemen to drink and drink and the halberd is fast", to now being in charge of the life and death of countless people to seize power, where does this glory of power come from, Ruan Dacheng is not a fool, so he naturally distinguishes it clearly.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), the former first assistant Zhou Yanruzhi was recalled to the position of first assistant again, which was the result of two years of operation by Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, who combined the power of the government and the opposition to collude with Feng Quan, the culprit of the "reverse case", and bought off the eunuch and Tian Guifei with 60,000 taels of silver (one said 200,000 taels). Among them, there are also 10,000 taels of silver and strength contributed by Ruan Dacheng. ("Lie Huang Xiaoshi", "Ming Ji Beiluo", "Double Ape Collection", "Survival Record", "Restoration Society Chronicle") and Feng Quan, who is the son of Wei Zhongxian, is the leader of his subordinates, the famous Wei family pavilion elder.

is also colluding with the eunuchs, bribing the eunuchs and the harem to buy officials, and Zhang Pu bought a position above 10,000 people under one person for Zhou Yanru, a famous traitor, and is still the leader of a righteous man and a gentleman.

Now that he has such a good opportunity to take revenge in the name of justice, how can Ruan Dacheng not throw off his arms and do a big job?

The officials and celebrities involved in the Shun case and the fake prince case are all on the list of Ruan Dacheng and others.

The first to open the breakthrough was the Jintan Zhou brothers, who were regarded as the geniuses of the Restoration Society. Zhou Zhong's charges are undoubtedly conclusive, and Zhou Biao has also been arrested and imprisoned, and according to the confessions of the two and the letters, notes, and poems confiscated at home, they can simply summon the people of the Fushe and the officials of the DPRK and China who have close contacts with them on a daily basis for questioning.

Ruan Dacheng even called this form "assisting in the investigation" according to Liang Guogong's formulation. However, the gentry officials in Jiangnan and Jiangbei only went to help, and never saw anyone who returned after the investigation. For a while, people's hearts were worried.

Another breakthrough in the Shun case is the one who fled from Beijing to Jiangnan to give the matter to Guang Shiheng. This person is the same as Zhou Zhong, the crime is obvious, the evidence is conclusive, and the government and the opposition are shouting and killing. This duke first blocked Chongzhen's southern tour, and cited the precedent of Tang Suzong's Lingwu ascending the throne to prevent the prince from going south. When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, this Guangda immediately changed his court and descended to Dashun.

Mr. Guang's famous trademark is called "Birdman" brand, known as "Washing Bird Imperial History". It is said that the image of Lord Wen Shoufu Tiren back then was very powerful on the outside, but the image on the inside was very obscene, and according to the current words, it is ed. According to the ancestral secret recipe, Guang Shiheng insisted on rinsing Wen Shoufu with "Jie'er Yin" and the like every day until the vitality of the adult reappeared. It is said that it is not too prominent to serve the leader in close service, help the leader poison and kill everyone at a critical moment, and just wash the bird for the leader in person. What stands out is that Mr. Guang washed the way forward for himself, transferred from the county to the central organ, and "washed" himself into a superintendent of the imperial history.

Master Guang was flattered in front of Li Zicheng's drive, and with a very complicated feeling, he wrote a letter to his son who was still in Jiangnan: "Summoning the rebellion, adding a reward to the face, and following the instructions to treat things as the original official." Shi Heng sent a letter to his son Youyun: "The Zhuge brothers are divided into three kingdoms, and the father and son of the Wu members are also in the two dynasties. ’”

The level of Master Guang cannot be said to be worse than Mr. Zhuge . There has always been a problem of accuracy in the study and judgment of the international situation. According to the Guang Daren's point of view, it is unlikely that Li Zicheng will be completely defeated, and it is also impossible to carry out the revolution to the end. So, taking Zhuge as an example, the children participated in the imperial examination in the Southern Dynasty, the old man worked in the Northern Capital, and we were naked officials in several places, and in the end, which tree fell, it was not too much of a hindrance......

With this letter as evidence, Ruan Dacheng can set off a big storm in the government and the opposition.

First of all, a survey was conducted among scholars and scholars in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, and all those who had relatives and teachers who held official positions in Li Zicheng or the areas controlled by the Qing State in Jiangbei were all revoked and suspended from their posts pending investigation.

As a result, the palaces and temples inside and outside the city of Nanjing, which stayed in the capital, were immediately overcrowded. Whether it is the visible restoration of the society or the invisible Donglin, who has not been in contact with those officials in Jiangbei who first descended to Shun and then to Qing? Moreover, the Restoration Society itself is a muddy pond and Wang Bawo, all kinds of relationships, such as fellow villagers, fellow families, fellow societies, friendship and good times, etc., as long as Ruan Dacheng and others want to find out who they are, this person will undoubtedly go to the detention center to find a bunk.

In this way, the leaders of Donglin could not sit idly by.

Liu Zongzhou, the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who was very famous, said on the third day of the first month of September: "Dacheng advances and retreats, and Guanjiang Zuo rises and falls. "Went into battle shirtless directly and demanded the dismissal of Ruan Dacheng, the right deputy capital imperial history. Stop the investigation of the traitors and arrest those involved in the Shun case and the fake prince case. Preserve a vitality for Jiangnan Shilin.

However, in the court, Li Shouhan, who was already determined to fight Donglin to the end, threw out another bombshell before he finished reading an extremely sensational article. The confession of the fake crown prince Wang Zhiming!

"Wang Zhiming, the nephew of the late Captain Wang Qi, a native of Gaoyang! He once guarded the East Palace, his family broke and ran south, and on the way, he met the Honglu Temple Shaoqing Gao Mengji family slave Mu Hu, and then lay down together! Li Shouhan consciously raised the last sentence an octave to emphasize the importance of this sentence.

In the late Ming Dynasty, literati and doctors not only liked women, but also men. What is the concept of a house slave and a teenager he met on the road "lying up together", there is no need for Li Shouhan to emphasize, these ministers are clear. Don't say that the prince is a nobleman with golden branches and jade leaves, even people with a little status in the Shilin will not do this kind of bad thing, and lie down with a servant's slave. (To speak human words is to be a small sufferer.) ）

"It was unanimously recognized by the ministers of the Chinese Wuxun of the dynasty that the prince's eyebrows were longer than his eyes, and he was calm and graceful. However, his hair hangs down his shoulders, his skin is white and his demeanor is rash, and his body is stiff and sorrowful; is far from the prince's description. There is no doubt that it is a traitor and a fake. According to Wang Zhiming's confession, it was a fraudulent claim of the prince by the Muhu Sect. ”

After reading this confession, Li Shouhan handed the confession signed by Wang Zhiming to Liu Zongzhou, "Lord Liu, this son is so bold and reckless, dare to pretend to be the bloodline of the first emperor, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, if there is no one behind his back to command and support, just Mu Hu is a domestic slave, where can he have such courage?" Therefore, this matter must be thoroughly investigated to the end, in order to comfort the first emperor and the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty under Jiuquan. ”

With such a big hat buttoned down, Liu Zongzhou also responded speechlessly.

He set his eyes on Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and looked at him with a pleading look. "You are a famous Tianqiao star in my Donglin Party, and you are a military advisor think tank. Now when others want to cut off my Donglin lineage, how can you pretend to be deaf and dumb there? ”

How did he know that Qian Qianyi, who is known as Tianqiaoxing, is naturally better at looking at style than him, and has long been in order to protect himself, through his red-faced and white-haired wife Liu Ruyi, he secretly communicated with Ruan Dacheng, who has some friendship with Liu Rus, although it is not a loss of sincerity, but also expresses a little kindness to himself. At this time, at most, he can barely protect himself, and even Ruan Dacheng has to communicate through the wife's route, (historical fact. Nima's, so informative! How dare you stand up and compete with Li Shouhan, the backer behind Ruan Dacheng?

This is the true color of Donglin.

Although the reputation of the eunuch party was described extremely badly by Donglin, the eunuch party was a person who could do some practical things. Moreover, even the current eunuch Ma Shiying, the first assistant, has some different opinions with Li Shouhan on the issue of treating Donglin. He still advocates that the enemy is at present and peace is precious. After he became a scholar of Shoufu University, he wanted to contact people from all walks of life, especially the leading figures of the Donglin-Fushe Society, so as to create a situation of mutual hope and mutual assistance. If it weren't for Donglin's various small actions and intrigues, Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying would not have made such a ruthless move.

In contrast, the level of competence and morality of Donglin's backbone is astonishingly low. Many of them have never made any real achievements since they came out, but have formed associations by giving lectures, making high-minded statements, and daring to admonish them, and "making a name for themselves all over the world," and then they have proclaimed themselves good ministers who govern the world, as if as long as they are in power, they can immediately see peace. Actually, that's not the case at all.

At the beginning of the Jiashen summer, when the southern gentry of the Ming Dynasty were at the forefront of a national crisis, the main figures of the Donglin-Fushe Society were not concerned about how to go to the national disaster together, but on fighting for the supreme ruling power in the remaining half of the country. After ruling out the bankruptcy of King Fu's conspiracy, they were afraid that Ruan Dacheng's use would lead to the overturning of the entire "reverse case" out of the consideration of preventing the slightest problem. So, he caught Ma Shiying recommending Ruan Dacheng and made a big fuss in the court.

Since you stirred up trouble first, don't blame me for overturning the table!

When people talk about the party struggle since the end of the Ming Dynasty, they are often influenced by the backbone people of Donglin, and they are very biased. Huang Zongxi played the worst role. Huang Zongxi, as a generation of historiography and philosophical masters, is one of the masters in the history of Chinese thought, with many disciples and grandchildren, but in this section he is obscured by the view of the door, not only obsessed with biased views, but also very disgraceful means, so that his private morality has been discussed, and also influenced a large number of scholars of the Eastern Zhejiang School of History. This is a very regrettable thing and a lack of human resources.

Mr. Gu Chenggu, the author of the History of the Southern Ming Dynasty, said that "Huang Zongxi played the worst role", which is really pertinent. Another example is Wei Dazhong's son Wei Xuelian before and after Li Zicheng broke Beijing, contacted Chongzhen in the same year of the sixteenth year of Shu Jishi to surrender, and behaved positively, first with Zhou Zhong in the persuasion table to scold Chongzhen and for this lifelike, the second on the "Ping Liang Zhe Policy", etc., and then because Wu Sangui broke Li Zicheng in Shanhaiguan, Wei Xuelian then committed suicide in the period when Li Zicheng returned to Beijing and withdrew from Beijing, Wu Sangui and the Qing army occupied Beijing. However, Huang Zongxi did not see Wei Xuelian's name in the list of people who surrendered to the city in his "Hongguang Record Banknote", and later in Wei Xuelian's epitaph, he directly pointed out that Wei Xuelian's surrender was Ruan Dacheng's rumor-mongering and slander in retaliation. This kind of attitude of only discussing intimacy and distancing right and wrong, and reversing black and white, is really despicable. (Familiar, right?) and the modern public knowledge of the big V in the same line, only separate from each other, regardless of right or wrong. ）

A cannon in the court ended silently with Liu Zongzhou dying down.

"Mu Zhai Gong! What the hell do you think?! At night, in Jiang Yueguang's mansion, Qian Qianyi, Zhao Zhilong, Jiang Yueguang and others sat in groups, and Zhao Zhilong asked Qian Qianyi, who had always been known for his resourcefulness, with a red face.

"Now that the Ruan thieves are wantonly searching for my Donglin students, in a few days, thousands of people have been assisted in the investigation in Liudu, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places because they are involved in the Shun case! Even your hometown of Changshu County has hundreds of people! If this continues, Jiangnan Shilin will inevitably suffer a lot of vitality! Can you bear to see righteousness fail, and traitors run rampant in the court? ”

"It's not just a matter of getting along with the case." Qian Qianyi was sad. Fiddling with a Nanzhong Tongbao in his hand, Huang Chengcheng's very thick Tongbao shone with a lovely blue-yellow light under the lamplight, "Suzhou has been turned upside down by that mad dog." ”

In addition to clearing up the arrears of money and grain in accordance with the standards of the "Wanli Preferential and Exemption Regulations", Zha Jizuo also offered a magic weapon, that is, to cross-check the accounts of the arrears of money and grain. Gather the household clerks in various places and explain the stakes, "You are all condemned to death by the emperor. But the emperor thinks that God has the virtue of a good life, and gives you a way to live, it depends on whether you can walk or not. ”

If you go, you will go to the neighboring county to check the arrears of money and grain, clean up the accounts, and collect them locally. If you behave well, not only can you avoid the death penalty, but you can also offer a reward from the money and food collected from the clean-up. On the one hand, there is a difference in the head, and on the other hand, it is promoted to make a fortune. These Qiangu officials have made their own choices without even thinking about it.

Either hand over the money and grain payable calculated according to the standard of preferential exemption rules promulgated in the Wanli period, and it must be calculated from the second year of Chongzhen, or wait for the house to be raided. However, Zha Jizuo also has a forgiving heart and does not calculate interest and late fees, otherwise, the officials and gentry in Jiangnan would really have to find scalpers to line up to get the number to jump into the river. But in this way, countless wealthy families in Suzhou also fell into decline overnight.

To add insult to injury, many of the official gentry's homes are more or less implicated in the "Shun Case" and "Fake Prince Case" in which Jiangnan people are talking about tiger color change, and those who have been arrested are good in the past, not to mention anything of the iron bones, those Jinyi Banner School have moved out all kinds of torture tools, tiger chairs, cold water, bamboo sticks, leather whips, soldering irons, clamping sticks, canes, shackles, handsticks, leg irons, clamping sticks, finger swings, knee presses, interrogation boards and other torture tools in front of them. On weekdays, the officials and gentry who boasted of cultivating the righteousness of heaven and earth, the ancient and modern perfections, immediately turned into Fu Zhigao, and began to scramble to report and expose their classmates, peers, and friends from the same society.

In this way, there are too many people who have been caught chasing after the wind and shadows!

Therefore, in view of this situation, after several correspondence exchanges between Jizuo and Wang Fuzhi, Gu Jiang and others, who had recently joined the Li Shouhan shogunate, a new system began to be implemented in all parts of Jiangnan through the imperial pen ruling of Emperor Hongguang.

That is the system of payment and atonement for sin.

In fact, this method was not invented from the Qing Dynasty and the Shen period, but from the Western Han Dynasty. The two famous ministers of the Emperor Wu era, Zhang Qian, who pierced through the Western Regions, and Li Guang, who was known as General Fei, both escaped by relying on the system of paying money to reduce the charges at that time.

This set of systems moved out of the Western Han classics is also almost the same. Anyone who is listed in the Shun case or the fake prince case, but the deeds are not obvious, can write a defense (confession, review, etc.), sign and draw a pledge, and find five official gentry and village sages who have not been listed in the two cases as guarantees, and after handing over at least 10,000 silver dollars, they can be removed from their reputation and returned home to be placed under residential surveillance by the local government. You can avoid the pain of that prison!

Don't be too expensive, don't be too harsh, this silver is not something anyone can pay if they want to. It has to be that the facts of the case are not so serious and the crime is not particularly obvious. In addition to handing over the silver to atone for sins, it is also necessary to get rid of the fame, find someone as a guarantee, and return home to report to the government on time.

As soon as this system was introduced, hundreds of families in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Changzhou, and Jiangyin paid various amounts of money and handed it over to the inner government for storage. Seeing that thousands of white flowers of silver flowed into the inner treasury every day, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong couldn't open his eyes with a smile.

This year is autumn, and those scholars whose families have been forced to pay the money and food they have accumulated over the past ten years have also changed from the poetry and wine of previous years, and have become a little cold.

"If you want to win a game, you have to make a fuss about these people! The official has already invited Hou Gongzi to the Tribute Courtyard. Qian Qianyi's face was broken. (To be continued.) )