Chapter 848. Broken dreams

The scale of this coup d'état was far larger than the one when Ma Shiying was killed, and the execution ground located at Caishikou killed a young and strong talent who was quite famous in Jiangnan in one day, and there were 137 people who were refuted from the society, and I don't know how many people were indiscriminately killed in the search last night, and the search in Nanjing City did not stop, and the killing continued.

In terms of quantity, more than one-third of the active Jiangnan literary scene has been killed! What is even more ironic is that Gu Nie, the grandson of the founder of Donglin and the great Confucian Gu Xiancheng, and Huang Zongxi, the orphan of the Seven Gentlemen of Donglin, were also killed in this coup.

The original intention of Donglin was good, in the late Ming Dynasty when Yangming Xinxue was abused, they tried to reorganize the literary world with self-discipline and science to resist the tyranny of Wei Zhongxian, but when the previous enemies were eliminated from front of them one by one and became the final victor, the Donglin Party, as the spokesperson for the interests of the big landlords in Jiangnan, also degenerated to the exact same as the eunuch party they despised before, stubbornly conservative! No lower limit! In order to protect the vested interests in hand, unscrupulous and outrageous!

All the rules of heaven that the physicists once followed were abandoned by the ruling Donglin, and Donglin is no longer the Donglin of the past!

However, after this coup d'état, the most worried and angry person was a red-haired and red-nosed foreigner.

At dusk in the Caishikou execution ground, flocks of crows are still flying all over the sky, making a desolate and ugly hissing sound, last night's search, many family members of the officials of the Restoration Society were cut to death, and those who were lucky enough not to die also hid in horror, no one dared to come to collect the corpse, the body of the former merry celebrity was thrown on the ground after being beheaded, provoking flies all over the sky, and the bloody head was hung on the pole like a lantern, cruelly declaring the authority of Donglin's government, blown by the wind, a drop of scarlet continued to drip down, The strong fishy wind is almost disgusting.

Just when the forbidden army in charge of guarding was slacking off and covering his nose and hiding to the side, a clanging sound suddenly came, killing too many people and being afraid of himself, Leng Buding was so frightened that a fierce spirit, the leader of the forbidden army pulled out his knife violently and looked at the past in fear.

However, under the sunset, there was a burst of incense, and what appeared in his sight was a foreign monk wearing a red and white cloak and a huge silver cross on his chest, shaking the incense burner in his hand, and reading the foreign scriptures that he couldn't understand in his mouth.

"Where did the ghost come from, the execution ground is heavy, get out of here!"

This era is not the time for foreigners to eat everywhere, raising the knife, the leader of the forbidden army is unceremoniously scolded the past.

Listening to his scolding, they stopped, but these foreign monks did not leave, but walked out of the red-nosed head among the Xiaoyang monks who followed the chanting, and walked to the front with difficulty against the unpleasant smell of blood, but they took out a large ingot of shiny silver from their arms and stuffed it into the hands of the leader of the forbidden army.

"University scholar Lord Qian asked me to wait, this time, after all, many of them are also protégés of Lord Qian, please make it convenient for the general!"

With the name of Qian Qianyi and the silver in his hand, he happened to be choked by the bloody gas, but the leader of the forbidden army didn't have much to do, so he simply waved his slap to let his people disperse, and then muttered bluntly.

"I'm packing it up!"

"Yes! Be! Rest assured, general! ”

The philistine nodded, turned around and waved at the funeral procession, but as soon as he walked past the guards of the forbidden army, Cohen's pale old face became gloomy, looking at the tragic situation in front of him, his heart was simply dripping blood, not only because his personal friendship with these scholars made him feel sad, but also because he persuaded the Dutch East India Company that Nanming, who had spent a lot of effort to support, how much his hard work was in vain in this catastrophe.

It is foreseeable that the civil war in Nanming is about to start inexorably, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance that the civil war in Nanming has not started, the master in the north will never give up the opportunity in front of him! Full of trembling, taking off the head of Huang Gongzi, who was still discussing with him a few days ago, Cohen couldn't help but sigh heavily.

Nanjing has no chance!

This time, it was indeed entrusted by Qian Qianyi, and a black and ebony coffin was brought, but it was used to restrain a woman, and the rest of the corpses, these Protestant priests did not have so much energy to pick, so they could only wrap a head with a body and wrap it in a cloth, and hastily carry it out.

Reality always has a bit of black humor, this time, it is the most glorious achievement of Protestantism after it came to the Ming Dynasty, it can hold funerals for so many Ming Empire officials and celebrities, and it is buried in the church cemetery, the church children from afar are playing the desolate violin, the archbishop is painting the cross and making mass, but Sir Cohen took off the priest's costume, changed back into his old black suit, put on a jazz hat, and carried a small crutch, silently watching the corpses fall into the ground, Watching his efforts and hopes in the East be buried, it took a long time for him to let out a deep sigh for the third time.

"Prepare the carriage, leave Nanjing, and go to Fujian! It's time to get in touch with His Royal Highness King Tang there! ”

Turning around and walking towards the carriage, before getting into the carriage, the old man who had been in business for decades stopped again, turned his head, but his tone carried a hint of pessimism, and he commanded his servant more urgently.

"In addition, bring an urgent letter back to Europe, and bring it to His Majesty Louis XIV, the Sun King, if France does not do anything to those pirates and apostates in the British Isles, there will never be a chance!"

After saying these words, the stubborn old man finally boarded the carriage

The hopes shattered by the upheaval are not limited to the majority shareholder of the Netherlands.

Although Donglin has fallen, but many years of experience in party struggle, still let them do things without leakage, just when Donglin Zhugong and Zhang Pu argued in court, in fact, there was already a brocade-clothed guard riding with a holy decree, straight to the Jiujiang camp.

The messenger is still a nobleman, Ningbo Hou Zhao Ruizong, who is worried that it is difficult to cope with the increasingly heavy military pressure from the Beiming on the other side of the Jiujiang River, and gets a response from Yingtian, Shi Kefa, who is in the Jiangdong camp, is simply ecstatic, without thinking about it, he directly led the guards out to greet him, and personally welcomed the person to his own Chinese army tent, gathered the generals, and listened to the holy decree.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Shoufu University scholar Shi Kefa supervised Poyang, during his tenure, he made many achievements, worked hard, and now the northern captives are pressing, the major events of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival, I have to check! However, the ministers were speechless, and I was helpless, so I urgently recruited university scholars to discuss how to deal with it! Chin this! ”

Donglin is very strategic, he didn't want to take Shi Kefa as soon as he saw him, but he praised him first, and then invited him to respond to the sky in the name of consulting, which happened to completely ponder Shi Kefa's heart, as a civil minister, Shi Kefa's highest ideal is not to supervise the outside world, but to respond in the middle, and to assist the emperor in dealing with the world's major affairs is his dish.

However, Shi Kefa is Shi Kefa after all, and before receiving the order, he still raised his head worriedly and asked: "Ningbo Hou, the army can't be without generals for a day!" Now that the northern army is marching fast, at this critical time, if the old minister goes east, he will be handsome with others? ”

"Master Shi doesn't need to worry, the gentlemen have already thought about it, and Lord Chen Zilong, who is in the military, and Father-in-law Tian Fen, the eunuch of the supervising army, will temporarily act as the commander to recruit Lord Shi to return to the east, but it is just a matter of the gentlemen consulting the previous situation and planning the outline, after the discussion, you still need Lord Shi to return to the front line to resist foreign humiliation for the imperial court, your lord does not have to worry!"

A slender face like a radish smiled very harmlessly, Zhao Ruizong's words could be regarded as solving the last doubt in Shi Kefa's heart, he was really afraid that Zhao Ruizong, who would hand over the military power to the airborne, and he didn't know anything would be in charge, and he would do something out of the ordinary to let Chen Zilong, who had been with him for a long time, take charge of the army, he was undoubtedly more relieved, and breathed a sigh of relief, Shi Kefa kowtowed heavily, stretched out his hand and held it high.

"The old minister takes the order!"

He took the bright yellow holy decree with both hands and handed it over to the soldiers around him for safekeeping, in the smiling gaze of Ningbo Hou Zhao Ruizong, Shi Kefa took the initiative to represent the military power on the handsome case, the big seal and Shang Fang's sword were taken out, hugged in a pile, and reached out to hand it to Zhao Ruizong.

However, this kung fu, the upheaval happened, suddenly, the explosion of gunfire suddenly sounded in the Chinese army, full of disbelief, Ningbo Hou lowered his head in horror, looked at the huge blood hole that erupted in his chest, and then raised his head in horror, and turned to Shi Kefa.

In the uproar, the brocade-clothed guards who came with Zhao Ruizong scolded angrily and pulled out the short fire hammer and knife, but at such a close distance, the bayonet was better than these two things, and it was also in their surprise, the cold and shining bayonets outside the tents on both sides pierced fiercely, and in the sound of sharp blades entering the flesh, the twelve brocade-clothed guards were stabbed down ten, and the remaining two were also stabbed to death by the sharp soldiers of the Jiujiang Army who rushed in in the fear of begging for mercy.

"Shi Kefa, you, do you want to rebel?"

Covering the wound with his left hand, and pointing at Shi Kefa's stunned face with his right hand, Zhao Ruizong was like a chicken cutting his throat, screaming and scolding as hard as he could, but immediately, he directly turned into a dead chicken, and hurriedly broke in.

It happened too suddenly, and only now did Shi Kefa finally wake up, full of anger, he Hula suddenly pulled out Shang Fang's sword, pointed it directly at Hou Chaozong's throat, and roared with unforgivable anger.

"The Chinese army intercepted and killed the imperial court, do you want to rebel?"

Donglin's Qincha set off in the morning, after Zhang Pu got out, he had to send out the news in the second half of the night at the latest, on the time, how Donglin won, but Gao Hongtu and other bigwigs missed the human factor, Zhao Ruizong is noble, pampered, can't bear the hardships of the long way, stop and go, but the resumption of the society is life, the messenger who set off galloped forward, and the twelve hours of fatal time were actually snatched back.

Full of grief and indignation, Hou Chaozong, the young general of the Restoration Society, suddenly knelt on the ground, but kowtowed sadly.

"Lord Shi, it's not that the lower officials are reversed, but Donglin is reversed, five days ago, Gao Hongtu Jiang Yueguang and a group of rebellious ministers and thieves launched a mutiny, kidnapped His Majesty, and searched for people in my Fushe all over the city, it is said that Lord Huang Zongxi and Lord Gu Nie have been killed, and I heard that they also killed Lord Luo Ningluo, the former treasurer of the North Dynasty East India Company! This bastard is trying to trick you into going out and then murdering you! ”

In an instant, Shi Kefa felt as if he had been poured into a large jar of high-altitude wine in one go, and he was dizzy all of a sudden, and staggered backwards.

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