At the end of the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, because of the chaos of Wang Guolin, the magistrate of Peng County, it aroused the anger of the people of a county and triggered the "Remove the Five Worms" movement that stirred up the whole Sichuan.

The "Five Worm Eradication" campaign was a real upheaval. This turmoil was not a short-term catastrophic event such as the passage of thieves or the attack of local rioters, but the weak ruling ability of the Shu government and the general outbreak of contradictions among all social strata. Its influence is vast and far-reaching, far beyond the imagination of Wang Guolin, the originator of the gray beard.

Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu at the beginning of the journey, rose strongly through turmoil, emerged politically and militarily, and became a pivotal figure in Shu. The local tyrants of Shu took the opportunity to absorb a large number of ordinary people and scholars, and made great progress in terms of combat effectiveness and vision. And the ruling backbone of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry class, was also forced to make its own choice in the turbulent times.

Among the upper-class gentry, a small number of people are greedy for profit and short-sighted, and insist on grasping the power and wealth of the past, such as Yang Tianguan and others in Qiongzhou. Others judged the situation and actively looked for backers, linking their fate with the fate of the Ming Dynasty and the fate of Zhu Pingjin, such as the Shu family in Luzhou and the ancestral family in Chengdu.

The lower classes of the gentry and the ordinary scholars were more thoroughly divided. Some people passed the Shu examination and entered Zhu Pingjian's private pocket. Some people were recruited by the government and lived and died with the Ming Dynasty. Some people have exerted their influence in the localities by bankrupting their families, recruiting troops and forming associations, raising the banner of uprising, setting up villages to consolidate themselves, and protecting their townships and people. There are also some people who commit treason and join thieves, or become local tyrants, or become outcasts, and give advice to them and do all bad things. There are also some people who think that the meeting of the wind and clouds is the day when the heroes of the world will emerge, and it is inevitable that there will be some false illusions of becoming bigger and stronger.

The affairs of Xichong County were done by a bunch of gentry.

Zhu Pingjian's contemplation is an attempt to characterize the behavior of these gentry through sober analysis. After qualitative, it is natural to take corresponding disposal measures.

There is a big difference between the contradictions among the people and the contradictions between the enemy and ourselves.

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At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few dozen students in a county. In the year of Chongzhen, in order to make up for the financial embarrassment, rich merchants began to be allowed to exchange wealth and loss of official positions in exchange for fame. As a result, there are more and more students, even as many as 1,000 people in one county. On the one hand, these fame bought with money have lowered the gold content of the fame itself, which makes those scholars who have passed the serious examination and entered the official career hate. On the other hand, it solidified the social class division, so that many scholars from poor families will never have a bright future.

The imperial court has gained small profits for a while, but it has to pay for these small profits for a long time. Because of the fame that is sold, in addition to political treatment, there is also economic treatment: a certain degree of tax exemption. If tax evasion measures such as dedication and fraudulent mail are added, the tax loss of the imperial court will be magnified several times.

Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun's march into northern Sichuan, and the active surrender of Du Zhifu and Jiangding Town in Shunqing Mansion made the century-old backwater of Shun and Bao two mansions in northern Sichuan like a pebble falling into a pond, flooding slightly; A few days ago, Master Shu held a Shu examination in Shunqing Mansion, and it was like a red soldering iron thrown into the cold water, and a white smoke was stirred up; Recently, the local rioters suddenly left Bashan south and plundered the area east of the Jialing River, which was more like a war drum beating, which stirred people's minds uneasy.

At this time, the Xichong County Government, which had been overwhelmed by the task of autumn grain tax, continued to increase the collection of taxes in order to help the officials and soldiers, so at the instigation of the gentry and even personally took the lead, a new round of fighting against the yaya beetle began.

In one day, the county government was burned, and the magistrate died tragically. The officials fled, and the county changed hands.

The Xichong incident caught Shunqing Mansion and Shunqing Wangzhuang off guard. Because the military forces, including Wang Fu Zhuang Ding, have already driven to the east of the Jialing River to defend against the local riots who swept in. At the critical moment, Zhu Pingjin's key personnel arrangement played a role.

Li Sixian, the deputy head of the Shunqing General Zhuang, who was stationed in Shunqing Mansion, took advantage of his status as a military and political commissar of northern Sichuan and his part-time job as the deputy supervisor of the Shunqing Zhuang Corps to immediately order the transfer of troops. He transferred two platoons from the third company of the Nanchong County Huzhuang Brigade guarded by Nanchong City to guard the official road from Xichong County to Nanchong County to prevent the chaos in Xichong County from spreading to Nanchong County, the capital city. After the preliminary arrangement, Li Sixian hurried to Shehong County and found Wang Daniu, the deputy captain of the Miantong Huzhuang Corps, who was training new recruits there, and asked him to immediately send troops to Xichong.

Wang Daniu's military literacy may be poor, but his loyalty to Zhu Pingjin is as solid as a rock. After receiving the news, Wang Daniu, who had no good impression of the gentry, didn't say a word, and ordered three hundred soldiers to follow Li Sixian. After two days of rapid marching, Li and Wang surrounded the county seat of Xichong, which was occupied by the rebels, at dawn on the third day.

When the gentry saw the arrival of the official army, they immediately panicked and retreated back into the city. While they were still arguing over whether to send negotiators, Wang Daniu had already attacked the city gates with gunpowder and firewood. By the day before yesterday, order had been restored in the county, and a small number of rebels had fled northward, while 279 people, including the leaders of the rebels, Gongsheng Chen Haogu and Chen Haowen, and Li Qianyi, a member of the Li Wan clan, had been arrested.

Among those arrested, 30 percent were Xiucai, Gongsheng, and prison students, and more than 70 percent were scholars. Jiang Dingzhen, Li Sixian and Wang Daniu all had the intention of killing people, but there were so many reading seeds involved, they didn't dare to dispose of it without permission, so they rushed to the Fujiang River overnight to ask to see the prince. In order to enhance the persuasiveness of their views, they also invited the most famous official gentry in Xichong County, Li Wan, the head of the Li family in Huaixigou in Fenghuang Mountain, to come with them.

Li Wan and several other big families did not stand on the side of the small and medium-sized gentry during the county incident, but actively assisted Wang Daniu to quell the chaos. Li Qianyi, the leader of the rebels, was Li Wan who personally led his clansmen to take it and sent it to Wang Daniu's camp.

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Zhu Pingjin was a little unconvinced, and opened his mouth again to confirm: "Lord Li's intention is to kill everything?" It's all readers! ”

Li Wan is not young, and he is no less than sixty. However, although he is old-looking, he is in excellent spirits. Speak loudly, a radish and a pit, and the style is quite similar to Master Shu.

Li Wan's eyes were blazing, staring at Zhu Pingjin and said:

"Qi Yu Shizi, the lower officials think that these scholars are not scholars, and they are ruffians and hooligans!

What is a reader? Know etiquette, know honesty and shame, follow the rules, and emphasize the order. Respect the ancestors of heaven and earth, and be loyal to the monarch and the community. Chen Haogu, Chen Haowen, the villain in the city, the most scoundrel, relying on the official mansion to lose the bank, got a tribute and made a name! Jiangdong local thugs ravaged the state and county, and they advocated chaos in a county, which is clearly collusion with thieves to mess with our Ming Dynasty! If such thieves are kept, it will be a local scourge after all! If such thieves are not killed, who in the world should be killed? ”

"Shicai Ben Shizi looked at the roster, and there are still a few real talents!" Zhu Pingjin defended softly, "The talents have been killed, will the people of the world think that the Shu Wangfu insults Sven and is the enemy of the gentry......

"The son of the world is ridiculous!"

Before Zhu Pingjian's words fell, he was reprimanded by Li Wan: "Fake shows should be killed, and real shows should be killed!" Knowing the law and breaking the law, the crime is added to the first! A thief is a thief, and if you read a book, you are not a thief? As for the words of the people, out of the mouths of the people, what compassion is there? Daming Jiangshan Sheji, and the world's corporal Lin Feng comment, which is more important, please think carefully! ”

Zhu Pingjin has been an official for many years in his previous life, and the biggest lesson he has learned is that everything is not on fire, even if it is on fire, it must be pressed in his heart.

He was scolded, but smiled lightly and said, "Master Li, everything must be reasonable, advantageous, and responsible." A person cannot be resurrected after death, and if his head is cut off, he cannot grow any longer. There are two theories of morality and punishment, and morality is the main and punishment is supplemented; The world is light and the world is heavy, and the people do it because of the time. The foundation of punishment and reward lies in persuading the good and punishing the evil. Blindly using punishment, or using excessive punishment, will make the people fearless of punishment! ”

Shizi language, carefully consider the words. After the prince finished speaking, Li Wan suddenly found that he was abrupt.

He did not hesitate to be the minister of the government, and he committed the following crimes, accusing the prince of the vassal kingdom of "absurdity". It is the knowledge that he has always been quite proud of, and under Zhu Pingjin's tepid rebuttal, it is somewhat untenable.

Since the end of the Qin Dynasty, China's rulers and intellectual circles have deeply reflected on the lessons of the death of Qin II from different angles. One of the accepted conclusions is that the Qin Dynasty was rampant in the idea of heavy punishment, the punishment was too dense and too strict, and everything was decided by punishment, and as a result, the people were resentful, and in the end, the whole world rebelled. The theory of the son of the world is the correct theory of "prudent punishment, provincial punishment, and lenient punishment" of Confucianism in the past dynasties.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, Jiang Dingzhen stood up with a smile and played a round game: "The prince is benevolent, no wonder the people died in the front, and the hundred official dogs followed!" ”

Jiang Dingzhen and Li Wan have the same idea, but the purpose is different. Kill these disobedient scholars, and their fields and mansions will become Wang Zhuang, and they will become his political achievements. Therefore, Jiang Dingzhen played a round game, and still said that Li Wan supported him: "Weichen thinks that although the prince is benevolent, these chaotic people and thieves are forgiving!" ”

Jiangding Town's character is unbearable and his knowledge is excellent. He spoke eloquently in front of Zhu Pingjian, and his words did not have a trace of sluggishness:

"Zi said, if the government is lenient, the people will be slow, and if it is slow, it will be rectified violently; If you are fierce, the people will be disabled, and if you are disabled, you will be lenient. Wide to help fierce, fierce to help wide, government is to peace. Zi said again, one piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and military affairs. In the past, Taizu set the country, and the world was restless. Taizu Youyun: I must be fierce to govern the troubled times. Attach importance to it, set the "Da Ming Law", and make the "Great Message" to warn the lawlessness in the world. The prince also said just now that the world is light and the world is heavy. The minister thinks that now the thieves are hundreds of miles away, and it is the time when the king is heavy! ”

Confucius was brought out, and Zhu Pingjin's ancestors were also brought out, and Zhu Pingjin had to face it head-on. If you don't dare to face it head-on, you will lose.

Several people here, Zhu Pingjin has already understood their respective thoughts.

Li Wan is a scholarly family and a high-ranking official of Jinshi, so he naturally hates those crooked brands. In addition, he has always been loyal to the king, and he is eager to cut down all these people who killed officials and rebelled;

Jiangding Town is the leader of Shunqing Wangzhuang, it is his duty to spread Wangzhuang, and it is his task to collect taxes. The government collects taxes, and these scholars will rebel. In the future, if he engages in tax collection, won't those scholars also rebel? It is better to take the opportunity to kill now, so as not to get in the way in the future, and also to give a clear warning to potential opposition;

Li Sixian is a eunuch and a domestic slave, and he is not the same kind of person as these scholars. His only allegiance can only be his master, Zhu Pingjin, and if he colludes with scholars, Zhu Pingjin will not use him. He is now in the local government, and he has the responsibility to defend the territory, and whoever rebels and makes trouble is his enemy;

Wang Daniu was born as a poor tenant and hated the gentry very much in his heart. Zhu Pingjin asked him to do it, and he raised the butcher knife without blinking his eyes!

Everyone wants to kill, and there is nothing wrong with that, including Zhu Pingjin himself.

Everyone said that they could be killed, not only could they be killed, but they should be killed.

Zhu Pingjin can kill a few, but he can't kill them all.

If they are all killed, then it is not called "killing", but "slaughter"! Slaughtering students in a county, if you don't get it right, it will shake the world! For Zhu Pingjin's competition for Shilin in the future, the influence of public opinion is too bad.

But these students went too far. The law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that killing an official is a rebellion, and rebellion is the destruction of the nine clans!

To kill or not to kill? This is another problem.

Zhu Pingjin was stunned.

After the three of them finished speaking, they didn't know what the prince was thinking, so they had to look big at each other, and the inn fell silent for a while.

"What will my wife think," Zhu Pingjin, who was in a daze, couldn't help touching his lips. Those pimples on the lips, red pimples, and white pimples bloom one after another (Note 1).

"My wife must do things according to the law. There are laws that must be followed, and law enforcement must be strict.

Immature!

Under the way of heaven, it is all human law. The laws of man are all set by people, and all people are determined by people's desires, so all the laws of people are under people! Where is there a man who is separated from man and walks in vain? If you talk about ideas without the purpose of your behavior, you can only deceive the public, college students, ordinary people, and wives of foreign-funded enterprises! ”

Zhu Pingjin thought about his wife, and his pimple-covered lips couldn't help grinning, revealing a mysterious smile.

Imperial Mind!

Jiang Dingzhen was shocked!

Note 1: I borrowed Lin Huiyin's love poem: red flowers and white flowers bloom. Make everyone laugh.

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