An impassioned voice in the courtyard of the Confucius Temple: "The harm of commercial taxes, the emperor has shown it undoubtedly, one goods and one person, taxes and taxes, ointment and marrow, and the people are unbearable ......."

"The disaster of commercial taxes in the Wanli Dynasty is still fresh in my memory. Fighting carries the road, and disasters flow all over the world, not trapped businessmen, but trapped people. The sage said that taking the wealth of the people is not the way to make money. The way to make money, to be born, to be thrifty, is only at both ends. The harm of the increase is not calculated by tax, but the harm of commercial tax is measured in days. The collection of commercial taxes is to seize the wealth of the people, this move is angry and resentful, and there is no day of light and darkness, where is the vitality of Jiangnan? ”

"The land south of the Yangtze River, although it is known as rich, how can it bear this exploitation? If this is the case, there will be a sparse number of business difficulties, people's livelihood will wither, and the disaster of Wanli will be at hand."

The speaker was a group of scholars dressed as scholars, all dressed in Confucian shirts, wearing square scarves, of different ages, both with white beards and hair, and young men with black fluff just emerging from their upper lips.

Among the scholars present, several of the faces we had seen in front of Meixianglou that day were present, but they did not have the poetry and wine of the day, but the faces of the country and the people.

Although the events of that night were also circulated among the scholars near the Confucius Temple, in any case, Hou Fangyu was the son of the leader of Donglin, and he was outstanding in his writing, and he was still very appealing among the scholars in various places. And Qian Qianyi is a senior in the literary world, and countless people regard him as an idol. "The people of my generation who read are a little out of shape in their manners, and they are also the arrogance and chic of those who read, how can he be known as a rude warrior who can only lead troops to fight?"

This is the reader's reaction to Hou Fangyu and others after being severely reprimanded by Li Shouhan that day.

There were many scholars present, except for the scholars who lived in the area around the Gongyuan and Confucius Temple. There are also scholars from other places in the city, and even those who live in Qixia Temple in Qixia Mountain, Rongchang Temple in Baohua Mountain, and Jiming Temple in the city, gathering almost hundreds of people.

Many of the scholars present were also heartbroken by your words. The signing of the Jianghai Joint Defense Treaty between Li Shouhan and Liu Kongzhao and the establishment of the Haiphong Yamen of the Three Provinces in Songjiang Prefecture have spread to everyone in Nanjing.

It must be known that since Wanli, Jiangnan has no longer relied on growing grain as its main source of income. At that time, Suhu Lake was ripe for the world, and it also quietly became Huguang for the world, and Jiangnan changed from a grain production area to an import area, and most of the crops were cash crops such as silk tea.

Which of the scholars and students present did not have a store? Merchants from all over Jiangnan. Which one has nothing to do with maritime trade? Even if they are not directly engaged in maritime trade. Then, the huge industrial chain of procurement, manufacturing and transportation of various goods is also related to them.

Finally, when everyone was a little tired, an agreement was reached. Follow the example of the sages of the past. Publish the post of staying in the capital to prevent chaos and unveil it. The establishment of the three provinces of coastal defense yamen, which is angry and resentful, and unpopular is overthrown! These scholars and scholars who have read the books of sages and sages, and the pillars of the imperial court. It is necessary to give advice to the court and the emperor with practical actions!

At this time, the streets outside were already invisible, and the cars and horses were deserted. Since the morning, many shops in the city have not been open, and all trading has stopped. The people in Nanjing panicked and began to set off a rush to buy grain, rice, oil and salt, and by noon, most of the shops in the city had closed their doors, and the price of brown rice in the city had soared to 4,000 wen a bucket.

The market was in a depression, and the people were panicked, not knowing what had happened to Ludao. Not only that, but there were huge crowds of petitioners on the streets. He went to the yamen in various parts of Nanjing, and cried to the scholars and servants of various ministries and hospitals, asking them to come out and abolish the joint defense of the river and the sea in this sick country and the people.

By the afternoon, the atmosphere in the city had become more and more eerie. The streets and alleys were filled with howling crowds, and all kinds of anonymous lists were posted everywhere. If an official's sedan horse passed by, it was attacked by rubble thrown by the crowd.

Faced with this situation, the various yamen left behind in Nanjing pretended to be deaf and dumb one after another, closed their doors, and just waited to see what Tong'anhou, who served as the garrison of Nanjing, would deal with it.

Although the garrison yamen also posted notices in the city, warning the people everywhere not to be bewitched by the gangsters, "Make sure that everyone lives in peace!" ”

As soon as the notice came out, the boycott alliance seemed to be on the verge of collapse, and the merchants and scholars gathered together again to discuss the matter, and the feather fans and the proprietors behind the scenes also came out.

After some conspiracy, the turmoil in Nanjing continued, and there was a tendency to spread to the surrounding towns. The merchants scattered a large number of men, domestic slaves, and tenants on all sides, and scholars from all over the city explained to them, which made the crowd of petitioners in the city even more huge. They either listened quietly all over the streets, or gathered in front of various official offices to cry and complain, and even some green-skinned ruffians took the opportunity to rise, and the scene was chaotic.

However, people always vote with their feet, and all the shops are closed, where should those small people go to buy grain and oil? How do you swap a day's hard work for food to feed your family?

"Brothers, here's food! These Nanban are hoarding and not selling! Rob! ”

"That's right! Rob! ”

A few ruffians with green cloth on their heads, known as old poles by the people of Nanjing, shouted and smashed the door panel of a grain store.

Immediately caused a burst of screams of approval, the street suddenly chickens and dogs jumped, and many nearby citizens came to watch, and some people quietly held rice bags, baskets and other things in their hands.

"Boom!" The solid door panel of the rice shop finally couldn't withstand the repeated impact of the thick wood, and it was knocked to the ground, revealing a gap. Several thugs immediately cheered and rushed in to open the door of the rice shop, letting more accomplices in.

Suddenly, the mountains of rice piled up in the back warehouse shook so much that people could barely open their eyes, and the thugs quickly snatched the money from the counter, turned around and squeezed out of the frantic crowd, and fled. The rice shop quickly became the target of robbery by the citizens, carrying the whole bag of rice, pouring the rice into the basket and carrying it away, and using the rice bag to fill some rice in a hurry and fleeing, and the whole rice shop quickly became the center of the storm. Countless people flock to this place.

Grains of rice from white flowers sprinkled half the street.

What happened to this rice shop became the fuse of the turmoil in the city.

Soon, someone shouted in the street, "This is Nanban's cloth shop!" Grab it! ”

"It's a jewelry store! Grab a gem and go back for a lifetime! ”……

Soon, the city was in chaos.

The servants and tenants who had been crying to the officials in front of the yamen everywhere could no longer hold back when they heard the sound of someone shouting and screaming to get rich.

Like their peers, they quickly smashed the shops in groups of three or five on the streets, rushed in to loot the goods and belongings of the stores, and then smashed the shops into a mess. There were even painful cries and moans of women in several shops. Smoke rose from several houses. I don't know if someone set fire to the house or accidentally knocked over the incense candles. A large number of hooligans in the city are singles and scoundrels, and they even take advantage of the chaos to fish and rob money and goods.

The city has become a pot of porridge. The anxious garrison yamen, the Caojiang yamen, the five military governor's mansions and other Nanjing garrison departments are like ants on a hot pot. And before, he was still pretending to be deaf and dumb in his own yamen, like an old monk, and turned a blind eye to the outside world. It came like a tide, and the Shangshu and the waiters came to the door to accuse them like mourners, asking several marquis and uncles who held military power to quickly put an end to the chaos.

"My lord! Oh no. A large group of rioters went to Xinjiekou and other places! ”

Naxinjiekou is a bustling commercial area in Nanjing, where countless shops are located. It can be said to be the essence of Nanjing's commerce.

"Not good!"

"Master Hou! Please send troops quickly to put an end to this turmoil! ”

"Lord Garrison! If you can't quickly quell the riot, you will bring the first thug and the people behind it to justice. ”

For a while, begging, threatening, invective, and bitter persuasion, all forms only expressed one core, "Settle this turmoil as soon as possible, and don't let our losses be too great." ”

Looking at this group of officials who have their nostrils facing the sky on weekdays and seeing them arrogant, Liu Kongzhao, Guo Zuoyong, and Xu Hongji felt as comfortable as eating ice on dog days. "So you beg us sometimes!?"

Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, performed very well: "This group of dog thieves, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in the place where they stay in the capital, they dare to be presumptuous!" Come! Please come out with the gun of the ancestor of the King of the Mountains! Prepare horses for your own country, and when I am clothed in order, I will go to exterminate these daring fellows! ”

"Wei Guogong, the situation is still unclear now, the chaos is great, and we still need to think about it in the long run. It's getting late now, so it's better to close the city gates, and wait until dawn to make a big deal in the four cities. ”

Hearing Guo Zuoyong's old and serious opinion, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, hurriedly nodded in approval. I only hate the officials of the six Shangshu Shilang and the courts, and the roots of their teeth are itchy. But there is nothing to be done.

When the first fireball in the city rose, Shouhan was leading people to incense in the Dabao'en Temple outside the city.

Located in the Qinhuai River outside the treasure gate, the big Bao'en Temple, that is the ancestor for his biological mother to build, with ten years of work, spent millions of taels of silver to build, for many years to the pagoda and the temple building famous. In particular, the glazed tower of Dabao'en Temple, nine floors, eight sides, dozens of miles away on the Yangtze River can also be seen. The top of the brake is inlaid with gold and silver jewelry. There are 152 wind chimes hanging under the corner beam, which ring day and night, and the sound is heard for several miles. Since the date of completion, 140 lamps of Changming Tower have been lit, and 64 catties of fuel are consumed every day, which is brilliant and bright day and night.

At this time, the soldiers of the Guards Regiment were all over the temple and outside the temple, although they did not bow and unsheath, but they were also heavily guarded, and those guards searched for suspicious targets with vigilant eyes, lest someone come out to the detriment of the lord.

From the day before yesterday, after Li Zhenli and Yan Cao's two gang leaders went to Xingyuan to report the news, Shouhan ordered someone to take his name card to Dabao'en Temple and inform the abbot that he would come to incense today, and by the way, add some lamp oil to the Buddha.

After two days of wandering, Li Zhenli, who was like a sister with Ao Lei Yilan, was still dressed as a man, but she changed into a suit similar to that of an officer of the Nanzhong Army, with a brocade robe and cape, and the sword hanging from her waist, which made her look more and more heroic. With his left hand, he pulled Ao Lei Yilan, who was also dressed as an officer, and his face was full of excitement, and all the way to Ao Lei Yilan, who was not good enough, told the allusions of Da Bao'en Temple and introduced the buildings in the temple.

Behind the two, several maids followed closely with Li Xiangjun, and an older mother-in-law peeked at Li Zhenli's moisturized radiant face. Looking at Li Xiangjun's pearl-haired emerald again, he couldn't help but think about it in his heart, and then looked at the wolf-like guards around him, and dispelled those thoughts stiffly, "Amitabha, sins and sins!" ”

Shouhan didn't know that some of the people accompanying him could think of the secret of the curtains, and only listened to the abbot who was dressed in a cloud brocade robe and treasured solemnly told the origin of this great Bao'en Temple, and rejoiced under the glazed tower of Bao'en Temple, and heard the abbot say that the glazed tiles, glazed components and white tiles that were fired by this tower were built that year. All in triplicate. One copy was used to build the tower, and the remaining two copies were buried in the ground in case of defects, and reported to the Ministry of Works. Repair according to the number of accessories.

Hear that. Shouhan couldn't help but laugh in his heart. "That's a lot more than the Germans' oil-paper cow forks! You just have to get some plumbing fittings, and we'll prepare all the parts for a tower! ”

"Abbot, this official is here this time. One is to pay homage to the treasure temple, and the other is to ask the abbot and the monks of the temple to do a water and land dojo for the soldiers of our Nanyue Army to sacrifice their lives for the country, so as to surpass the heroic soul. Thirdly, it is said that the scriptures of each temple today are all from the Guibao Temple, and I would like to invite a set back to promote Buddhism in various parts of the southern and central regions. ”

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Da Bao En Temple has always been the center of Chinese Buddhist scripture circulation, especially for compiling, carving, and printing the Tripitaka, a collection of Chinese Buddhist scriptures.

Being able to fund the engraving and printing of a Tripitaka has always been regarded by Buddhists as a supreme and meritorious event.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Da Bao En Temple has a unique and lofty position in this field. Among the 5 Tripitaka scriptures that appeared in the Ming and Qing dynasties, 3 official carvings are related to the Great Bao'en Temple and its predecessor, Tianxi Temple. Among them, the directly related ones are "The First Moment of Nanzang" (formerly known as "Hongwu Nanzang") and "Yongle Nanzang". The "Yongle North Tibet" carved in Beijing is not only based on the "Yongle South Tibet" as a model, but also many of its hosts are from Dabao'en Temple.

The scripture plate was engraved in the Dabao'en Temple and preserved, printed and circulated in the temple for a long time, and the "Yongle Nanzang" had the greatest influence. It can be said that since the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420) "Yongle Nanzang" was carved, Dabao'en Temple has been undertaking the task of printing the scriptures of most temples in the country, and is the absolute center of the circulation of Buddhist scriptures in China. It is difficult to count how many copies of "Yongle Nanzang" have been printed, but Zheng He alone has printed 10 "Tripitaka Sutras", which are famous all over the world. (Huh?) Seems to have found something wrong again? ）

"Uncle Ning Yuan's ambition and kindness are something that my Buddha likes to see." Someone came to the door to ask for scriptures, why didn't the abbot agree?

"Please come to the fate book!"

The acquaintances of Dabao'en Temple have already prepared the fate book, and the pen and ink are complete.

"Please write that you will offer 500 catties of lamp oil every month. In addition, the monks of the temple each have a set of clothes for the four seasons. One bucket of gems and pearls needed to decorate the Buddha statue, and 1,000 taels of gold for re-decorating the Buddha statue. As for the matter of the Tripitaka, the official is willing to pay 5,000 silver for a copy of the Tripitaka and its engraving. ”

Such a huge amount of charity made the abbot, monks, intellectuals and others feel like they could not help but listen to the 300,000 Jialing birds in front of the Buddha of the Western Heavens singing in unison.

Zhike was busy writing on the edge book, and the dragon snake recorded this cloth construction neatly on it, "Please take a look at it." ”

"No need, second brother, just take a look."

For such a thing, Shouhan is naturally too lazy to care. Just holding the hands of Li Zhenli and Ao Lei Yilan in his left and right hands, he is looking around at the glazed pagoda known as the Yongle Great Porcelain Kiln.

Zhike hurriedly held the fate book in front of Li Peiting, who came with him, and planned to ask him to take a look.

"Big treasurer, news from the city, it's begun."

"Tell the two masters that everything will go as originally agreed!"

I only heard someone muttering a few words in Li Peiting's ear, and the acquaintance secretly shouted in his heart that it was not good, thinking that he had inadvertently broken the secret of others!

"My lord, the soup kitchen has prepared a meal, please come to the dining hall to eat!" He hurriedly changed his words, pretending that he had not heard anything.

The city was already in chaos.

The troublemakers and robbers composed mainly of the chaotic households, tenants, and slaves, and the green-skinned and single-handed ruffians who were the first to smash and rob the shops, were chased around by groups of sturdy men who were disheveled, but with a few straws tied to their left arms, with wooden sticks and pennies, and drove them into the tea houses, silk shops, and tung oil shops that had been operating in Nanjing for many years, and specialized in foreign business.

After the entire warehouse, stack, and warehouse were smashed open by these people, they were driven away by men with straw on their left arms, and then, these men swept away the goods in the entire warehouse with extremely professional handling actions.

Large bags of silk, tea, raw silk, lacquerware, and porcelain were loaded onto the car and disappeared into the streets and alleys of Nanjing in a blink of an eye.

Under the cover of the gradually falling twilight, these valuable goods were quietly sent to the garbage boats on the river in the city, and then passed through the water gate to the Yangtze River, and then changed into large ships and headed straight east.

In the Jiming Temple in the city, enjoying the extremely famous vegetarian food in Nanjing, and at the same time commanding nearly 10,000 gangs to carry out organized robbery activities against all the shops of the wealthy people in the south of the Yangtze River in Nanjing, I feel that this kind of life is not too comfortable!

More than 100,000 horses of various colors of silk, tens of thousands of bales of raw silk, more than 400 ships of porcelain, and more than 200 ships of tea, such a huge amount is that the two gang leaders who are accustomed to seeing large quantities of goods can't stop smacking their tongues.

Shouhan used the right to sell and transport fine salt from the newly opened Yingge Haiyan Shop in Qiongzhou Prefecture to the Yancao and Yancao gangs within three years, so that after the rebellion in Nanjing, they organized gangs to carry out organized robbery activities against the business shops of wealthy families in Jiangnan in various parts of the city.

"All I want is the goods, and the gold and silver will be yours. However, the craftsmen in the computer rooms in various places in Nanjing, you have to take advantage of the chaos to get them out for me and send them to Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture! ”

This is the condition agreed between Li Peiting and the two gang leaders. (To be continued......)

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