The gentry of Suzhou Mansion were naturally very angry about this, they never expected that the magistrate Pan Duan would dare to treat them like this.

Within a few days, more than 100 students gathered at the Confucian Temple to vent their dissatisfaction in the name of sacrificing to the first emperor, and cried in the Confucian Temple.

For a time, the entire Suzhou Mansion was a sensation, causing more and more students to start crying in the Confucian Temple.

Among them, a student named Qin Qingshan directly encouraged on this day:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the county magistrate Pan Duan is greedy, cruel and ruthless, stealing and selling official rice, abusing the people to death, doing all kinds of evil, we can't let it harm our Wu County people! We're readers! When the pleadings are revealed, accuse them of their crimes! ”

"Yes, accuse him! This surnamed Pan does all kinds of evil, does not respect the gentry, abuses the people and harms the people, and is heinous! Let it be punished! ”

One of the students responded.

And then the other students also responded:

"Accuse him!"

"Accuse him!"

"Accuse him!"

……

So, Qin Qingshan immediately organized the students to write a letter of complaint to inform the county Pan Duan, and selected 20 students to go directly to Nanjing to inform the county Pan Duan.

At the same time, the other gentry who remained in Suzhou began to spread rumors to slander Pan Duan, and created a series of evil things that Pan Duan did in the county.

The purpose of these gentry of Suzhou Prefecture was to force the imperial court to send Pan Duan, the magistrate of the county, to the eighteenth layer of hell and never be able to live forever, and they wanted everyone to know the consequences of disrespecting the gentry in the county of Jiangnan.

However, these gentry of Suzhou Prefecture did not know that at this time, the entire Nanzhili was carrying out an operation to recover the Fu.

Therefore, they naively handed the paper to Wang Yangming, the governor of Nanzhili, in their opinion, now Nanzhili has no imperial history, and can only count on the governor Wang Yangming to make decisions for them.

Of course, they may not know that Wang Yangming had just killed fifty gentry some time ago, or they may know but not realize the political relationship involved, and they may not realize that Wang Yangming came to Nanzhili not to be an official who is in charge of their gentry, but to grab benefits from the gentry for the imperial court.

Just as in history, the Jiangnan gentry had illusions about the Manchu Qing at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and hoped to join forces with them to deal with Li Zicheng and put forward the policy of "uniting the capture and leveling the Kou".

At this time, these students of Suzhou Mansion also had illusions about Wang Yangming, thinking that he would really hold a magistrate responsible for them.

"Great Grandmaster! Student Qin Qingshan! Student Dai Jianye! Student Wan Qisheng...... Today, he specially sued Pan Duan, the magistrate of Wu County, Suzhou, for 30 crimes of insulting soldiers and harming the people! I hope that the great master will be the master for us and severely punish this person! ”

Wang Yangming is now the governor of Nanzhili, and he is also the governor of Nanzhili Xuezheng, so these students from Suzhou Mansion directly call him the great master.

Wang Yangming also took the paper.

However, Wang Yangming naturally guessed why these students of Suzhou Mansion wanted to inform the county Pan Duan, and he was not polite, and asked directly: "Do you have any evidence to inform the county Pan Duan?" ”

"Returning to the Great Grandmaster, there is empirical evidence, and his killing of Di Lou and other three students in the county is empirical evidence!" This Qin Qingshan replied.

"This Di Lou and the others owe the imperial court taxes, and they are more than 500 stones, and they think they haven't paid it for three months?" Wang Yangming asked coldly.

Qin Qingshan did not answer this question, he was Di Lou's friend, and naturally knew that Di Lou owed taxes to the imperial court, so he chose to change the topic and said: "Great Grandmaster, no matter what, Di Lou and the others are not guilty to death, they are scholars, please ask the Great Grandmaster to be the master of our scholars!" ”

Wang Yangming did not answer, but ordered someone to look through the archives of the Suzhou Mansion, and immediately slapped the shocking wood:

"This official will naturally make the decision for you, but this official will not cover up that you can evade taxes at will, Di Lou and other students owe more than 3,000 stones, according to the will of the imperial court, they should be removed from their reputation, and the government can force and recover it by three times, and they deserve to be killed! Therefore, Di Lou and the others were also to blame for being killed, and the official was deeply saddened by this, but he would never mess up the discipline of the court because of them! Stand down! ”

Wang Yangming is a civil official in the end, and he still treats these students kindly, so he didn't think about blaming them for accusing Shangguan of the crime, but only explained the situation and let Qin Qingshan and other students retreat.

However, this Qin Qingshan and other Suzhou students do not seem to be willing to give up because of this, among them, Qin Qingshan still knelt in front of the hall: "If the great master refuses to be the master of the students and punishes Pan Duan, the students will not be able to kneel for a long time!" ”

"The students can't afford to kneel for a long time!" The other students also responded.

Wang Yangming was quite annoyed when he saw this, he didn't expect that these Suzhou students would dare to threaten him in the public court, and couldn't help shouting: "Aren't you afraid that this official will redress your reputation?!" ”

"Returning to the great master, the students are naturally afraid, but the students and others are even more reluctant to see corrupt officials rampant in the township, today's state of paper is the joint name of one hundred and twenty students in Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, from the people of Suzhou to ask the great master to be the master of the people! If the Great Grandmaster refuses to obey his will, then ask the Great Grandmaster to remove the merits of these 120 students! However, the students wanted to ask, did the Grand Master really want to kill one hundred and twenty students for the sake of a greedy official?! ”

This Qin Qingshan was also articulate, and immediately refuted Wang Yangming didn't know how to answer, he could only take out Pan Duan's big plan to evaluate:

"Since Pan Duan took office as the magistrate of Wu County, he has never increased the fire consumption by half a centimeter, and he has made political achievements in studying and repairing the river, your father Qin Qingshan, Qin Changli, who was the political envoy of Hu Guangbu, even wrote an article to boast about him, and you were even taken by him Pan Duan as the head of the county;

Now that he Pan Duan is just recovering his endowment and acting according to the will of the imperial court, how can he suddenly become a heinous person in your mouth! ”

"Pan Duan is so treacherous, he deceived us all! He's just damned! If he doesn't respect us gentry and Confucianism, he deserves a good death! ”

At this time, a more irritable student roared directly.

However, Qin Qingshan did not answer, only proudly raised his head to look at Wang Yangming.

Wang Yangming found himself now in a difficult situation, on the one hand, almost the entire Wu County of Suzhou Prefecture, and on the other hand, Pan Duan, a county official who collected taxes for the imperial court, he could only choose to support one side, and to support one side must severely punish the other side.

Wang Yangming looked in the direction of the Purple Mountain, where there were Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and Ma Wensheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, and others, he knew that he now wanted to carry out the great plan and the decree of recovering the endowment for the above, and if he wanted to gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan, he must be decisive and ruthless at this moment.

"Bring the official seal! One hundred and twenty students including Qin Qingshan of Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, did not focus on their studies, interfered with the government affairs, and even blackmailed the court officials, which shows that their virtues are at a loss. Report to the Ministry of Rites, send it to the Cabinet, and let the Holy One approve it! ”

After Wang Yangming clenched his fists and said this, he waved his sleeves and left the lobby.

And Qin Qingshan and the others in the hall couldn't help but be shocked, they didn't expect that this governor Wang Yangming really dared to change their reputation, and they were angry, hateful and a little regretful in their hearts.

"Sure enough, it's the officials who protect each other! Phew! ”

Qin Qingshan scolded, and then left the governor's yamen with a group of dismissed students, but this Qin Qingshan refused to give up, not to mention that now he has no fame as a student, so he directly shouted:

"Ladies and gentlemen! Now the great master also shields the evil official Pan Duan, it can be seen that these officials are all complicit, embarrassed and treacherous, we can't sit back and watch the world be dirty, and we can't tolerate what we have learned all our lives being ruined by such traitors, and today is in Nanjing, let's go to the Miyagi bus to read! ”

"Yes, the bus is on the book!"

The other students also responded, but there were also those who were timid and asked: "However, what if something like that happens in the capital, at that time, Yang Tinghe took the Jinyi guard to slaughter almost the entire Guozi prison students in the capital. ”

"What are you afraid of! Could it be that among the officials of Nanjing City, who else would dare to be Yang Tinghe! What's more, once today, if the imperial court approves the removal of our fame, our life's work will be in vain. ”

After speaking, Qin Qingshan walked towards Hongwumen first, and the other people who were relegated also followed when they saw this.

However, when Qin Qingshan arrived here, the entire Nanjing Palace City Hongwu Gate was already crowded with people, because not only Qin Qingshan and others, but also the gentry of Yingtianfu and other provinces also came to ask for their lives, but they knew better than Qin Qingshan and others in Suzhou Mansion that Wang Yangming, the governor of Nanzhili, was not a good stubble, so he came directly to Hongwumen and directly forced Zhu Houzhao to administer justice for them.

……

Zhu Houzhao also stood on the wall of the palace city at this time and watched all this, and asked Ma Wensheng, the first assistant of the cabinet: "Do these people really not know the majesty of the imperial court, and dare to come here to demonstrate?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty! They are not ignorant, they just feel that the court will definitely forgive them, after all, since the two Song Dynasty, the emperor has not given preferential treatment to scholars, and the minister has to admit that they are too rampant, but the so-called literati are arrogant, in the opinion of the minister, it is better not to see each other, and the minister is willing to persuade in person! ”

Cabinet First Assistant Ma Wensheng replied.

"How do you persuade? Promise them that you will give them back the name that was removed from them? Or give them back the recovered endowment? Where is the majesty of the court in that way, what will the court do in the future, is it that if they make such a fuss, they will not be able to do anything? ”

Zhu Houzhao said angrily, he originally wanted to use this time to demote this large number of Jiangnan gentry to commoners, and also reduce the number of some privileged classes, but now if these are allowed to regain their fame, it will not be a waste of work.

Ma Wensheng didn't know how to answer, so he could only sigh.

At this time, Wang Yangming also came here and told Zhu Houzhao about the complaint of Qin Qingshan, a member of Suzhou Prefecture.

Zhu Hou looked at the crowds of gentry outside, just smiled, and immediately shouted: "Guo Rong! Take the brocade guard out! Disperse them according to the method I gave you! In addition, the dozens of leaders who knelt at the front were arrested and brought to justice! Judged by the governor! ”