Nanking.

"The scholar next to the emperor, the most favored person around the emperor, his nephew, and the new branch jinshi of Jiannu, the son of the left capital of Jiannu's pseudo-capital inspection institute, left the emperor's line together.

And they came from the north together.

And Ding Qixiang was still in Huoqiu four months ago!

What's in it? ”

In the lobby of a tavern, a man who was drinking, pretending to be a prodigious man while holding peanuts.

The two people at the same table looked at him with expectant eyes, and the other people drinking at the table in the lobby also looked at him with expectant eyes......

Then he shut up.

"What the hell is the truth, you can say it quickly!"

A drinker couldn't bear to say.

The guy gestured with the empty plate in front of him, and the questioner was obviously impatient, and without hesitation stood up, took a plate of food on his table and placed it heavily in front of him, then rolled up his sleeves and looked at him with a threatening gaze, while showing his fist in front of him. And this guy, who looked dressed as a guy from a certain business, ate his food contentedly, and then looked at the obviously unhappy eyes around him......

"This way is very simple, someone is colluding with Jiannu?"

He whispered.

"Who?"

The guy next to him said.

"I don't dare to say the name, this matter is obvious, Ding Qixiang first listened to the order to leave Huoqiu and go north to secretly go to the northern capital, negotiated with Jiannu, and then took Liu Nan, the messenger of Jiannu, to Huoqiu, and finally confirmed that it was correct, and the two of them returned to the northern capital together, Liu Yang replied to Dolgon, otherwise Dolgon would not know whether Ding Qixiang was true or false.

As for what they plotted?

Well, you'll have to treat me to another plate of peanuts! ”

The man said.

"Do you want to eat the fist-sized peanuts?"

Acute Zi shook his fist and said.

There was also a disgruntled clamor all around, and the man quickly changed his smile and said, "What else can they plot?" It's been almost half a year since I arrived in Huoqiu, and I still don't dare to come to Nandu, isn't it just scared! Isn't it that there are no soldiers in hand, and it's useless to be afraid of coming! Since the 2,000 Japanese slaves were indeed alone and did not dare to come, wouldn't they dare to replace them with Dolgon's 200,000 slaves? ”

"But this is treason, isn't it?"

Acute sub is a little obvious and does not dare to face the reality of the said.

"Treason? What has been the struggle for the throne since ancient times? Father and son cannibalism, sibling fighting, are not worth mentioning, when Zhu Youqi led the troops to kill his father, he was still shouting in the back to break the old thief's body into ten thousand pieces! As far as our Ming Dynasty is concerned, Chengzu's throne was snatched from his nephew, and it is difficult for us to say who is who, but this fact is indeed the case, compared with these direct cannibalism, what is a collaborator and treason? If you succeed, you will rule the world, kill all the old ones and then find a good reason when compiling the history books, who will care about these old things in a few decades, but it will hurt us people again! I just enjoyed a few days of happiness, followed Chu Gong for a few days of peace, and now I have to face this military disaster again, if Jiannu goes south, we have civil strife here, and Li Zicheng and these people take advantage of the fire to rob again, I am afraid that our good days of drinking will really be a few days! ”

The man sighed.

"It doesn't come to this point, does it? The Duke of Chu is an immortal! ”

A man at the other table said.

The man said disdainfully, "What about the immortals? After all, he is still a minister of the Ming Dynasty, can it be that the Duke of Chu can still kill Huoqiu City, to say that the Duke of Chu is too loyal, the emperor is so bent on dealing with him, and he still thinks that nothing has happened. Although he has a deep affection for the princess, but since ancient times, which loyal minister has been able to get a good result in the end, not to mention, even when Zhang Juzheng died, he was almost whipped ...... corpse."

"That's him!"

Suddenly, his words were interrupted.

Immediately after that, several patrol officers walked outside, and one of them pointed at him and said: "It's him, it's him who talked nonsense in the teahouse yesterday, spreading rumors and slandering the Holy Lord, it's simply lawless, and the Holy One is also what you dare to say?" Take him back to the prison and detain him for seven days! ”

The man's face turned pale with fright.

The man next to him returned to his desk as fast as he could.

Immediately afterwards, two patrol officers stepped forward, showed their handcuffs and put them on him, and then dragged them directly outside, the man struggled and screamed as he walked: "What are you doing, we have freedom of speech, you can't sin people with words, what kind of law have I committed!" Let me go! Let's ...... the Ming Dynasty for freedom of speech"

The rest of the people in the tavern looked at each other.

"Be smart, don't talk nonsense about some things that shouldn't be said, be careful of disturbing the peace, and let you all go in and squat for seven days!"

A patrol officer scolded.

With that, he turned and left.

"It's true!"

After he left, a drunken man said.

But this time, no one dared to pick up the stubble, they were all there to make eye contact, this is all catching people and gagging, it must be true, otherwise why are you afraid of others saying it! In the past few years, because of the tolerance of the Duke of Chu, it will not be forbidden for the people to talk about state affairs at all, that is, openly accusing the imperial court of governance in the newspapers, and even scolding the Duke of Chu for having bad intentions, there is no prohibition, let alone arresting people directly like this!

This is a void of heart.

The Duke of Chu was still too loyal and didn't want the common people to know the fact that the emperor had committed treason.

The hotel shopkeeper hurriedly took a note and pasted it with a smile on his face: "Guest officials, don't talk about state affairs, don't talk about state affairs!" ”

"What are you afraid of, isn't it just squatting for seven days?"

The man said.

However, they still did not dare to continue the topic after all, and the man had been escorted into the prisoner car outside at this time, and hundreds of ordinary people gathered around him, talking about the reason for his arrest. He was still continuing to talk about his sentence about our freedom of speech, but soon some people began to pick up the reason why he was arrested, and then the topic spread very quickly, especially when someone took a newspaper and analyzed the article about the interview with Yan Wu above. Because of the courage to capture the Jiannu spies, Yingtian Daily conducted an exclusive interview with him, and he detailed the whole process of meeting these two people, as long as he has a little thinking ability, he can understand what happened at a glance from this interview.

And the unlucky one in front of him confirms this from another angle.

And then it went viral.

The discussion about the emperor's treason spread to the streets and alleys of Nanjing with great speed, and more and more people joined the discussion, and even began to evolve.

Similarly, the police continue to detain similar people.

And the crime is to disturb the peace, after all, the Ming law does not target this, unless those who say this matter openly mention the emperor's name, otherwise they can say that they are talking about Ding Kuichu, and Ding Kuichu is theoretically not even an official, just a consultant hired by the emperor privately, so what is the crime of them?

I know that I never sin anyone.

At most, it is just a disturbance of the peace and detention.

This blockage is useless, let alone the police, is it blocked? It's obviously fueling the fire, it's nothing more than seven days of detention, and if there is an activity at home, it's basically released immediately. Even if anyone is really detained, who is still afraid of those seven days, at this time, although the Daming prison system is not humane, in fact, Yang Qing does not care about the humanitarian problems of the prison, is it possible to set up a prison for people to provide for the elderly? But in any case, the seven-day detention is not very terrible, and out of this mentality, more and more people join the discussion of this issue, and this kind of thing becomes more and more widespread, and it soon becomes a national topic.

And then the inevitable happened.

"The emperor's treason is the same as the common people!"

In the Huguang Guild Hall, a representative of the four people from Huguang said indignantly.

"Yes, what's wrong with the Emperor? So how did England cut off the king's head, wasn't it because the king was treasonous? The people recognize him, he is the emperor, if the people don't recognize him, he has to step down, and if he commits a crime, he has to be punished, isn't this how King Zhou Li was driven away? Thousands of years ago, our ancestors were already able to do this, why don't our descendants dare today? It's the barbarians in the UK, and this kind of guts, let's let Zhu Xi's things be worse than the barbarians, and they talk about what they do every day, but they forget that the biggest program is the people's heart! ”

Another delegate said.

Even if these representatives were uneducated before, they all understand everything by now, after all, they have been here for three whole years, and even if they are self-taught, they should be able to learn everything.

According to the timing, they have two more years left in their term.

The four people's representatives of the Ming Dynasty are held every five years, although they are drawn lots, although the vast majority of them may only be ordinary people, but at the end of the five-year term, they have basically become useful talents. However, although it is unlikely that they will be the next term, they still have the right of local supervision, that is, they can directly bypass all procedures and submit the right to write to the prison state, and they can write letters to the prison country through special channels.

It's called a consultant.

After the expiration of the term of office of all the representatives of the four peoples, they will automatically become advisers, not only can they be written, but also have the right to supervise local officials, that is to say, local officials can directly stab them to the highest level if they commit crimes, and this advisory right is for life.

As for the provincial Four People's Congress, there is no one for the time being.

Yang Qing is not ready to set up such a body in a short period of time, it is enough to have this national one, once the local Four People's Congress is established, it will cause a lot of trouble, officials are appointed rather than elected, and the local Four People's Congress will affect the implementation of government decrees. But there must still be local supervision power, that is, these outgoing representatives of the four people, they will assume the power of local supervision.

So these people are also full of energy.

"The matter has not been clarified, and the two prisoners have not yet been taken to Nandu, so it is too early to say this!"

Wang Fuzhi said.

"Mr. Jiang Zhai, do you still need to check this?"

A representative took the more detailed report in his hand and said: "This is a louse on the bald man's head, a clear matter, the emperor wants to seize power, but there are no soldiers and horses in his hands, two thousand Japanese slaves are just a caretaker, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the two don't want to give him real help, and King Gui just wants to protect himself." He had no choice but to find Dolgon, and Dolgon knew that he would be the next one to be cleaned up, and he was also eager to make trouble for Chu Gong to delay time, and the two of them did not hit it off in this matter.

Look at what Yan Wu said.

They also wanted Yan Wu to take them to see Li Zicheng.

What does that mean?

If you want Dolgon to invade the south, and then Li Zicheng goes east, it is estimated that Zhang Xianzhong and King Gui will have to be added, this is to make the four families work together to deal with the Duke of Chu, if they really want to succeed, our Four People's Congress will be the first to be cleaned up. The emperor doesn't have a good impression of us, and the resolutions he promised us before, I'm afraid he has already held back his anger at us, and he is waiting to settle accounts with us one day. Aren't you just waiting for the emperor to seize power and succeed in replacing us?

That's a big appetite!

I don't know how much benefit the emperor has given to these people?

Is it a land cession or an indemnity?

It seems that the emperor didn't care about anything in order to seize power, regardless of the face of his ancestors, regardless of the life and death of the common people, and regardless of the kindness of the Duke of Chu to the reinvention of their Zhu family! As long as he can regain power and kill Duke Chu, he will dare to do anything, luring wolves into the house is nothing at all, is he going to learn from Shi Jingjiao in the future and find a father for himself? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, he is still the emperor after all, he is still the emperor without conclusive evidence, you can be dissatisfied with him, but you can't say the same about him!"

Wang Fuzhi rebuked angrily.

"Evidence?"

The representative said, "Do you need evidence for this kind of thing?" ”

"To convict a common man, it still needs to be complete with human and material evidence, do you want to speculate and convict an emperor of treason? If there is conclusive evidence, we cannot ignore it, even if the king of a country should be abolished for treason, but without conclusive evidence, we cannot blame the monarch for speculation. ”

Wang Fuzhi said.

This is not a matter of discussion.

The example of the British, after being beautified by Yang Qing's vigorous advocacy, was based on the principle that the world is the world of the people under heaven, and there was no obstacle to the abolition of the emperor. If Zhu Cihong colluded with Jiannu to commit treason, even Wang Fuzhi would vote to depose him at the Four People's Assembly, and it was not unprecedented, and the monarch was unjustified and was expelled by the people, which was not a big deal before the Spring and Autumn Period......

Of course, that people actually have a very different meaning.

But the old ancestors at least did this, and now even the barbarians can do this, why can't the people of the Ming Dynasty kick the King of Dao aside like the old ancestors?

A minister cannot kill a king.

But the Four People's Assembly is not a minister!

The Four People's Congress represents the people of the world, the true lord of the world.

And what about the emperor?

The emperor is just a man from the world to manage the country, he is at most a part of the people of the world, but the world is not his own.

"I'm afraid I have to ask Duke Chu if there is any evidence, now there are rumors in the city, there is actually evidence, but Duke Chu doesn't want to make the princess sad, so he hides it himself. Since Ding Qixiang and the others returned with written things, it was impossible for Dolgon not to have written guarantees, and it was wrong that they didn't find this on them. ”

Another delegate said.

"What then?"

Someone asked.

"Wait, don't act rashly before the prisoner arrives, I'll go to Liu Yingshan, he really has to give us an explanation!"

Wang Fuzhi said immediately.