Chapter 112: Poke the hornet's nest
"Traitors, you traitors, you traitors who bring disaster to the country and the people!"
The official erupted instantly.
At the same time, the other civil officials and gentry also came to their senses, and they were completely stunned by this heavy punch, and they rushed forward without hesitation, trying to snatch the holy decree to see if it was true or false, or to say that they would not cry if they didn't see the coffin, but when they saw the Shang Fang sword in Yang Qing's hand, most of them immediately came to their senses, and only one squire who relied on the old and sold the old still tried to squeeze to Shi Kefa's side, and stretched out his hand to grab the holy decree......
The sword in Yang Qing's hand flashed coldly.
The old squire let out a heart-rending scream, and then fell to an official next to him with his right hand, which had lost four fingers.
The official immediately glared at Yang Qing angrily.
"Those who destroy the holy decree are regarded as complicit in rebellion, and I am a sword of Shang Fang!"
Yang Qing said casually.
After all, the official still didn't dare to continue to entangle with him.
"Shi Ge Ministry, who mentioned this proposal, this person harbors evil intentions to disturb my Ming!"
He shouted angrily at Scofa.
"This is Your Majesty's first meeting."
Shi Kefa said.
This was indeed the first thing Chongzhen put forward, Yang Qing just provided a fuse, and then His Majesty the Emperor shouted it out in a way that was detonated in anger, which was seen by the princes of the Qianqing Palace at that time, as for Chongzhen was bewitched by Yang Qing, Shi Kefa knew that there was no evidence, and it was obvious that with his style, he would not make something out of nothing without evidence.
However, his truth-telling made those officials all suffocated.
Chongzhen's own proposal must not be described as harboring evil intentions.
"Even if it is the first discussion of His Majesty, he is also confused by the traitors of the close ministers, as the first assistant of the cabinet, he should take Kuang Zheng Sheji as his own responsibility, why not return this kind of chaotic life?"
The official reacted quickly and asked.
"The king's order cannot be violated!"
Shi Kefa said abruptly.
He actually told these people that it was useless to resist on this issue, this was what Chongzhen had been planning for a long time, no matter how dissatisfied he was in his heart, he must understand that as a minister after all, he could not disobey the holy decree, and the only choice was to accept it, and he could find a way to redeem the holy will in the future, but he could only accept it when the holy decree was issued.
"This is Shi Gong, who is famous for his admonitions? How can the public see Zuo Gong underground? ”
The official said disdainfully.
Shi Kefa was speechless, only sighed.
"What are you doing with him? The left and right are not collecting taxes from his family, how can these northerners really think about the people of Jiangnan for the sake of me? What a disciple of Zuo Gong, it is simply an insult to the master! I still need to wait for myself to wait for the affairs of the southerners, why don't I cross the river and Fuque to admonish? If this law is implemented, it will be in danger, and we will not be able to sit idly by and watch the traitors and rebel countries, who is willing to go with me! ”
Another official raised his arms and shouted.
Then the officials, the squires, and the scholars all echoed with righteous indignation, and then they left Shi Kefa and rushed to the river, ready to board a boat to cross the river to Nanjing to play their best Fuque, but as soon as they took a few steps, they were blocked by a wall of Jinyi guards with steel crossbows.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the decree has not yet been read!"
Yang Qing said.
Shi Kefa sighed and picked up the holy decree again.
"What the hell is going on?"
Song Quan asked Yang Qing in a low voice.
He and those generals are completely confused, although he is also a civil servant, but as a northern official who fled south, he and these people in the south are not all the way, and he and Shi Kefa, although he is from the north, have been officials in the south, he has never been a southern official, and naturally he cannot integrate into the officialdom of Nanjing, even if he is actually a wealthy family with generations of hairpins, but it is also because of this that he has become Chongzhen's most trusted Wenchen, commanding the three armies of the Beijing camp and responsible for the formation of the other three armies with the position of commander of the Beijing camp.
"Which side is your ass sitting on?"
Yang Qing said very simply.
"What do you mean?"
Song Quan asked.
"If your ass sits on their side, then you will follow them to make trouble, and if your ass sits on the emperor's side, then watch the excitement on the side."
Yang Qing said.
Song Quan hurriedly glanced at the few generals who came forward, and they quickly knelt in front of Shi Kefa to stop doing anything, while those righteous people continued to stand in front of the row of brocade guards with righteous indignation, looking at Yang Qing with hatred, as if they were going to kill him with their eyes.
In this strange atmosphere, Shi Kefa held the holy decree and mechanically read the content of the reform one by one.
Almost every word he utters will cause the indignation of those who are righteous.
Especially after the article on the return of fire to the public was read, those incumbent officials were completely scolded.
This means that they have no income other than bribery, although this thing seems to be not worth mentioning, but in fact it is the easiest for the magistrate to operate, because it has no standard, and the amount of fire consumption collected is largely determined by the magistrate himself. More importantly, the key to this content is actually to fill in the loopholes, to fill an artificial loophole that has lasted for thousands of years, and has been specially designed to make money for officials.
No emperor has ever done anything about this.
But today, Chongzhen is doing something against this unspoken rule that has lasted for thousands of years!
Is it tolerable or unbearable!
And when Shi Kefa finished reading all the follow-up contents such as re-conducting the meridian boundary, checking the hidden fields in various places, and completing the apportionment into the mu within three years, the scene was completely out of control.
This is a knife stabbed in the body of the official gentry!
Both the officials and gentry were all angry like mad dogs and the country would not be a country, and some impatient gentry had begun to shout that the people were not afraid of death, but why should they use the slogan of death to demonstrate against the Jinyi guards who blocked them.
No, there is definitely no hard rush.
In other words, everyone is also a smart person, knowing that there is no need to provoke a villain like Yang Qing at this time, and it is impossible for these brocade guards to block the dock all the time, and they are just demonstrating now, and then lighting the fuse, as for this kind of thing, we must connect more people, we must mobilize all the scholars from all over the country, and then directly set up a demonstration group of thousands of people.
It's not interesting to go to this point now, a team of brocade guards can clear the field.
Of course, the main thing is that the law is not enough to hold the public accountable.
"Look, look at how much they look like they're playing monkey show!"
Yang Qing said as he watched their performances.
Indeed, these guys' performances are like a hilarious monkey show!
Except for them, there were only 100 people in total, and all the other soldiers and civilians at the scene were watching from the sidelines.
"When the Jiangnan gentry rise up, you won't think it's a monkey show anymore!"
Song Quan said.
These people are really not a big deal, they are nothing more than the officials of Liuhe Chuzhou and the gentry who didn't have time to flee to the south, how many of them are? They have no other means except Fu Que, and Fu Que's tricks are useless to deal with Chongzhen, who has Yang Qing, a good thug, and Yang Qing has not done anything trampled by the iron horsemen outside Qufu City. What is really difficult to deal with is all the officials and gentry in the entire Jiangnan, especially those who are far away from the emperor and completely control the place and even have private arms, the issuance of the holy decree can be regarded as a clarion call for struggle at most, but the real struggle will have to be later, and maybe it will have to last for many years!
Even failure is possible!
"Afraid of what? Could it be that these soldiers' knives are ornaments? ”
Yang Qing sneered.
"But they also have knives!"
Song Quan said.
"Then it depends on whose knife is sharper!"
Yang Qing said.
"Invite them all!"
Then he said to the men beside him.
The brocade guard quickly understood what his boss meant, and then he waved his hand, and with his subordinates, he rushed forward with his subordinates to unceremoniously take down those officials and gentry, and then escorted them directly in front of Yang Qing.
"Yang Qing, what do you want to do?"
One of the civil officials who looked at the tonic was the seventh grade, and he shouted inwardly.
"It's nothing, Benjue was ordered to supervise Jiangbei and was ordered to act cheaply. I think that Ben Jue had also traveled with that high merit before, this person led his troops to escort the holy car south, and he was quite obedient along the way, and he didn't look like that kind of ferocious and vicious person, and he was also in awe of His Majesty, and he had never lost his courtesy when he traveled thousands of miles. There may be another hidden reason for this southern invasion, so I want to send someone to talk to him and ask him why he invaded the south for no reason. You are all righteous men and gentlemen, virtuous and respectful, even if they are thieves, they are respectful, and they are full of poetry and books, and the awe-inspiring atmosphere is enough to shock their hearts, such a task is really no one else can do it except you, so please go for the emperor and for our Ming Dynasty! ”
Yang Qing said.
Those officials and gentry were all stupid.
In other words, the shamelessness of this villain simply made them jaw-dropping.
Let them send an envoy to the army?
The corpse of the county order on the gate of the Great Wall of Heaven is still hanging!
The dead bodies of the gentry and officials on both sides of the road from Tianchang to here are still hanging! Yesterday, the Shun army just hung all the officials and gentry caught outside Yangzhou on the branches!
"Uncle Zhongyong, I am the imperial history, you have no right to command me!"
The officer shouted.
"That's it!"
Yang Qing said to his subordinates: "Then send this imperial history to Nanjing!" ”
The brocade guard hurriedly led someone to pick up Lord Yushi.
The latter let out a sigh of relief, and under the resentful gazes of the others, followed Jinyiwei to the ferry on the pier.
Then before he could react, the brocade guard kicked him into the Yangtze River......
"Oops, Mishi-sama has fallen overboard!"
The brocade guard exclaimed exaggeratedly.
"Hurry up and save people!"
Yang Qing also exclaimed exaggeratedly.
Then the two brocade guards jumped into the river at the same time, which was actually up to the neck, and the poor lord of the imperial history just struggled to emerge, and then they pressed back into the river again, and then with a burst of bubbles, the lord of the imperial history floated up like a dead fish, and the two brocade guards dragged him back to the boat, and took great care to give first aid......
"Sir, forgive me for my humble duty and ineffective efforts to save people, Lord Yushi unfortunately drowned!"
The brocade guard looked up and said with regret.
"Well, who of you wouldn't want to go?"
Yang Qing said to the rest with a pure face.
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