In the Ming Dynasty, it took a long time to transmit information by relying on the way horses ran and people walked. If information is deliberately blocked and intercepted, the time it takes to deliver it will increase dramatically.

When the states and counties around Chengdu began to start one after another, Chengdu Prefecture, which is located in the center of the whirlpool, was still calm.

The provincial capital neither declared martial law nor took any measures to quell the gentry riots. Huitong Money Bank is open as usual, the underground stock market is trading as usual, and everything seems to be business as usual.

The only big news that caused a frightening sensation in the market was that notices were put up in all the shops of the Shu Palace, saying that there were many high-imitation counterfeit silver mixed with zinc, tin, and lead on the market, and even the standard silver ingots used by Huitong Money Village to cash silver banknotes were also counterfeited.

The notice warns the citizens and merchants to keep their eyes open when receiving money, to bite with their teeth, to hear with their ears, to burn with fire, and not to waste their life's hard-earned money.

It is precisely because there are fakes in the silver, and it takes a lot of time, energy and cost to identify the real and fake, and the Wang stores announced in the notice that before they catch the counterfeiting and adulteration criminals and destroy the counterfeiting and adulteration dens, they will only accept silver money and refuse to accept cash; In the future, the bank will also charge a certain percentage of appraisal fees and purification fees when collecting cashiers.

The silver is fake, and this is worth it!

The fake silver wave quickly swept the city. Wangdian does not accept cash, and other merchants have always been the only ones in the Shu Wangfu, and they did not hesitate to follow up quickly. The little bit of silver that the people pressed at the bottom of the box was often their life savings. Just in case, and in order to reduce costs, panicked people quickly poured into Huitong Money Bank, and exchanged the broken silver ingots in their hands for safer silver banknotes.

In the course of a day and night, the people's doubts about the silver money were transferred to the silver, and in a blink of an eye, there were more people changing money than there were people changing money.

The run on silver money has finally stopped.

However, in addition to official notices and newspapers, there are many other sources of information for the common people, and that is the ubiquitous and nowhere to find the source of street rumors.

From all kinds of street rumors, the people of the provincial capital have smelled the unsettling atmosphere in the air.

Repeated wars or turmoil have taught the people of the provincial cities how to survive in troubled times. Most of them closed their doors, stooping down to their nests, their eyes wide and their ears pricked up, waiting for clarity to come. Even if you barely need to go out, you just need to step up the tunmi tuncai, fill the water tank, and empty the toilet.

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People choose to go out less, and there are fewer pedestrians on the streets. In some traditional bustling markets, the decrease in the flow of people is particularly obvious. At night, the streets are sparsely populated, and only the occasional barking of dogs can be heard from the deep alleys.

This unsettling calm is sure to be broken. But people didn't expect it to come so quickly, so violently, and it came from the center of the provincial capital, the main gate of the Shu Wangfu - under the Duanli Gate.

On April 7, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, in the middle of the night when the Protector Army began its full-scale operation in various parts of western Sichuan, a group of people came up from the dark Imperial City Dam.

They carried a table of eight immortals, a big spirit card, made loud noises, laughed, pushed and shouted and walked downstairs to the Duanli Gate City.

The square in front of Duanli Gate is full of garbage, and there are no honor guards in the city. A few dim dying wind lamps hung under the eaves of the tower, illuminating only a small section of the battlements. The huge roof of the city tower, without the light to shine, had to bend down and hide in the endless night darkness, invisibly dwarfing the tall three-story Duanli Gate city tower.

Known as Huayang's three talented sons Li Jiande, Wang Xiangzheng, and Zhang Buyao, they have been very busy these days.

I'm so busy that my mouth is dry, I'm so busy that I'm dizzy, I'm so busy that my feet don't touch the ground, and I'm so busy that my butt doesn't touch the bench.

However, although Huayang Sancai is very busy and tired, he is so busy that he is worth the money and is so busy that he is willing.

When they led the overwhelming head to rush to the gate of the Shu Palace, the feeling of the mass leaders responding to the call made them flutter and made them feel for a moment that they were the masters of the world!

"Set the table there! Put the tablet of the Holy Master on it! Li Jiande, who stood at the highest point of the Jinshui Arch Bridge, commanded the supporters very arrogantly.

The location of Li Jiande's finger had already crossed the Jinshui River, just in front of the largest doorway in the middle of the three doorways of Duanli Gate. Above the head, there is a huge portrait of Emperor Taizu Gao hanging above the Duanli Gate Tower and the door opening.

For the famous Wang Fubing, to be honest, Li Jiande was very worried. But these days of rampant unscrupulous, let him gradually understand a truth:

Xiucai met soldiers, and it was unreasonable to explain, it was because these Xiucai were too cowardly, too timid, and too ineffective!

As long as the tablet of Sage Kong is brought out, the high-ranking officials will kneel down and worship, not to mention these illiterate mud-legged princes!

Look now, where are those fierce royal soldiers?

You don't have to think about it to know that they must have quietly hid on the wall above their heads, covering their bodies with the battlements, so that they would not be seen by the angry crowd below!

With confidence in his heart, Li Jiande was even bolder.

Seeing the crowd gathering, he lined up the minions that were blocking the way, strode forward, and walked to the table of the Eight Immortals where the Confucius spirit card was placed.

I saw Li Jiande lift the placket in front of him, press it with one hand, pouted his buttocks, and his body had jumped onto the table. With another powerful wave of his hand, the buzz in the crowd immediately disappeared.

"Students! People! We are solemnly gathered here today to commemorate a righteous man who will forever go down in history!

Maybe everyone knows, maybe everyone doesn't know, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve the year before last, on this imperial city dam, just under this end of the ceremony, a righteous man surnamed Huang gave his young life!

The unyielding head of the righteous man was hung on a high fireworks stand by the current rulers!

Why? For the rulers of the kingdom will use the heads of the righteous to terrorize the ignorant people!

Let you bend your knees, let you surrender, let you shout hoo live hoo long live! ”

Li Jiande howled hoarsely, inciting the crowd at his feet.

He knew very well that many of the scholars in front of him were not good people.

They are the scum of the lower strata of society, such as street skins, hooligans, thieves, and robbers, the officials who have been driven out of the yamen and lost all their wealth, the children of rich families who hope to buy fame with silver, the broken families who lose their wives and children after failing in stock market speculation, and the scholars who have been poor for more than ten years but have gained nothing and hope to get ahead in the turmoil.

Only by using hatred, greed, lust for power, jealousy and other bad roots of human nature to stimulate the greedy desires of the participants and encourage them to do things that they would never dare to do before, can they set off a vigorous "expulsion of Shu" movement in Chengdu Mansion and in the entire Shu region, in order to get the attention of the Beijing master and the blue eyes of the emperor, and to get the opportunity to show their talents in the troubled times!

Li Jiande's pouting butt arched the Confucian tablet on the edge of the Eight Immortals Table to a staggering degree. Su Guansi, who was in the inner circle, took the opportunity of Fuzheng and used the cover of the tablet to take a hurried glance at the city tower behind him.

A few days ago, the Qin descendant sent someone to send a message to Su Guansi, asking him to create the sin of the scholar head as soon as possible, so that the prince of the mansion would become famous.

It was easy for Su Guansi to win the trust of the scholars.

His experience of fighting with the Imperial City Tyrant, his tragic life experience of nine deaths, his public accusation of the persecution of the Shu Palace, and his original influence among the street hooligans in the Huangcheng Dam area can completely dispel the scholars' doubts about him and regard him as their most reliable comrade-in-arms and ally.

These days, he has been putting on the most revolutionary appearance, by approaching the most popular Huayang three talents, instigating them to do something out of the ordinary, making things even bigger, so that the Protector Army has a reason to send troops to suppress it.

However, Huayang Sancaizi got a painful lesson in the battle with the dealer last year, knowing that he could only fight with literature and not with martial arts, and once he fought with martial arts, he would inevitably suffer losses, so he was always very cautious and restrained. In their public speeches, they never even mentioned the name of Shu Shizi, but they used some kind of brute to abuse and insinuate without naming them!

I can't get a real handle, Su Guansi is a little anxious, what should I do?

“…… The blood of Huang Yishi is sprinkled on the land around us!

Huang Yishi's spirit in heaven is watching us in heaven above us!

A real warrior, dare to face the bleak life, dare to face the dripping blood!

What kind of sorrow and happiness is this? ”

Li Jiande is still desperately sensational, and the enthusiasm of the crowd is already at the critical point of boiling.

Wang Xiangzheng and Zhang Buyao, two of the three talents of Huayang, are raising their fists and shouting slogans at the crowd:

True warriors!

True warriors!

At this moment, a small light suddenly fell into Su Guansi's eyes, which were three small yellow lanterns rising from the flagpole on the side of the Duanli Gate Tower.

The Shu Wangfu is ready to do it!

Su Guansi's heart tightened at first, thinking of the bone-chilling cold in that winter; Then it was a joy again, and I thought of a lot of white flowers.

However, his mind quickly focused on the task at hand, that is, how to create ironclad evidence of crime for Li Jiande and his loyal fans!

"Su Xiucai! The little ones you want are here! Suddenly, a voice shouted at Su Guansi.

He turned his head and saw that it was an old acquaintance.

That street skin used to follow the Imperial City Tyrant in the nearby streets, but later the Imperial City Tyrant was beheaded, and the old brothers were down. After Su Guansi came back, the gang saw the hope of re-emergence, so they recognized him as the eldest brother.

It's just that Su Guansi is very modest, and always pushes Li Jiande, Wang Xiangzheng, and Zhang Buyao, the three talented sons of Huayang, to the front, so that the street skins call them big brothers.

"It's not this show, it's the big brothers! You have to remember! Su Guansi sank his face and reprimanded.

"Yes! Be! The little ones have made a note of it! ”

"How many? There are so many people here! Su Guansi asked.

"As much as you want! The brothers hired a carriage and picked up a few large baskets on the river beach outside the city! There is also a car full of unveiling posts ordered by Brother Li to be printed! ”

"Good!" Su Guansi was overjoyed and ordered, "Hurry up and bring up the basket and distribute it to the people here!" ”

The large basket was immediately carried into the crowd, and it was full of round pebbles. Su Guansi took a few, handed them to the inexplicable Wang Xiangzheng and Zhang Buyao, and stretched out his hand to Li Jiande on the table.

"A true warrior! Brother Li is full of talent, and he is really witty and extraordinary! ”

Su Guansi raised the stone and raised his arms and shouted:

"Today, under this bow, let's be real warriors!

This stone is not a stone!

This stone, a sharp sword, a long ge, is our answer to the politics of the pigsty!

This first sword thrown Changge, Brother Li, you are the one who everyone expects, and you should not let it go! ”

Hundreds of faces distorted by fanaticism shouted:

True warriors!

True warriors!

Lee so-jae! First place!

Lee so-jae! First place!

The stone that is dusty with dirt or dung, to pick it up or not to catch it?

This is not a problem, because hundreds of hoarse and high-pitched mouths have already called out the answer!

"Okay, this first stone will be thrown by Ben Xiucai!"

Li Jiande spread his legs and stood on the table of the Eight Immortals with pride, holding the pebbles firmly like welcoming Jin Baoyu Xi.

The pebble was raised above his head under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eager eyes, and then he was thrown one by one, and suddenly broke away from his palm, drawing a parabola and flying towards the Duanli Gate Tower.

It's a pity that Li Jiande is a big show and not a grenadier, and his feet are still a little far from the city. The top of the parabola crossed the wall, and then fell rapidly under the pull of gravity, and it was below the top of the city.

Ay! The big guy sighed.

Bang! The stone struck the top of the cave in the city gate, hitting the eye of the huge portrait and turning a wise and kind old man with a white beard into a blind man.

"A true warrior! Smash it together! Someone in the inner circle shouted: "Smash the pickled pig's head in the city!" ”

"That's right! Right! Everyone's smashing! The crowd screamed and echoed, and hundreds of stones flew together towards the Duanli Gate Tower.

A pebble shot, and the pouring momentum was out of control, and the sound of the stone hitting the wall was endless.

The worst thing is still the huge portrait on the doorway, which attracts a lot of firepower like a magic mirror with magnetic power. Soon, the white-bearded old man went from being blind to having a crooked mouth, and finally to a pockmarked face.

When the mob in the city was about to take revenge, something unexpected happened.

I only heard a loud horn on the city tower, and the two gates on the left and right of the Duanli Gate were opened, accompanied by the sound of broken iron hooves in a hurry, and the two iron horsemen rushed out!

"Deliberately destroying the true appearance of Emperor Taizu Gao of this dynasty is a heinous crime of rebellion (Note 1)!" A shrill voice rang out among the cavalry, "Take them all!" Especially the evil on the table! ”

Li Jiande stood on the table, stunned to see his team being encircled by cavalry like sheep.

His hand was in mid-air, and he was holding a pebble that had not been launched in time.

Note 1: Plotting against the Great Rebellion ranks second among the heinous sins of the "Da Ming Law".

The punishment for the crime of conspiracy against the Great Ming Law is far heavier than that of the "Tang Law": the offender himself is executed by Ling Chi, grandfather, father and son, grandson, brother and cohabitant, regardless of the opposite sex and the son of uncle and brother, regardless of nationality, and the age of 16 or older will be beheaded.

The Ten Evil Sins are stipulated in the "Da Ming Law" as ten serious criminal offenses: rebellion, rebellion, rebellion, rebellion, inmorality, disrespect, filial piety, disharmony, injustice, and civil strife. Its specific connotation is based on the famous legal treatise "Tang Law Discussion" in the Chinese legal system in the past dynasties.

"Those who commit the ten heinous crimes are not forgiven by constant forgiveness", this is where the phrase "ten heinous crimes" comes from.