The news that Fang Yuan, the governor of the four prefectures, was going to have a public debate with Gu Yanwu immediately spread throughout Wuxi County, and then it spread far and wide, and the literati of Wujin County and Yixing County also got the news.

At least 5,000 literati from far away counties are eager to try, and they have come to Wuxi County directly, plus 4,000 or 5,000 literati from Wuxi County, who have gathered in Wuxi County to see Fang Yuan and Gu Yanwu's live broadcast.

The entire Ming Auditorium can accommodate up to five hundred people to watch on the spot, and Fang Yuan thought of another way to install ten loudspeakers at the entrance of Donglin Academy and the adjacent streets, as long as the literati in the nearby streets can hear the debate between the two clearly, it can be regarded as a live broadcast of voice.

Waiting for the days of public debate in Wuxi County, Fang Yuan was not idle.

He first announced Gu Zhang's crime of violating law and discipline in public through Lin Yu's mouth, sent Gu Zhi to prison, and ordered the Gu family to compensate Qi Weng and other eight families for the sale of houses, a total of 5,000 taels.

As for the county order Lin Ao, Fang Yuan directly gave him a three-month penalty of salary, which was trivial to Lin Tuo, and could only be regarded as an understatement to give him a warning.

The silver compensated by the Gu family is enough for ordinary people to have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, Qi Weng and other people are grateful to each other, and they appeared at the gate of Donglin Academy to say the word, praising benevolence and winning the hearts of the people for Fang Yuan.

Secondly, Fang Yuan ordered the Xuanjia Army and Jinyi Wei to arrest the ruffians and ruffians who took the opportunity to fan the flames and make trouble, and brought them to justice. The damaged houses of the people, the forced eating and living of the indebted silver, one by one, can be counted clearly.

If he can pay compensation and eat and live in the silver, he will be punished with the rod ten times and then released; If he could not compensate the people for their losses, Fang Yuan paid the compensation for the people out of his own pocket, and the people involved were directly escorted to the military base in Suzhou Prefecture as labor, and after paying off Fang Yuan's advance, he was released back to his hometown.

All the people who were compensated in this literati riot were grateful, and they vied with each other in the county town to praise the name of Governor Fang's benevolence and righteousness.

Then, Fang Yuan also ordered Jinyiwei to go out of the list to calm the people, so that the people of Wuxi County should not panic and live with peace of mind, and strictly ordered to tear up all the psoriasis slogans posted in the county town and restore the normal order of life in the county.

Fang Yuan spent a full ten days sorting out the relevant government affairs, and then, it was his turn to have a public debate with Gu Yanwu.

When it came to the day of the public debate, the vicinity of Donglin Academy in Wuxi County was already crowded with people, and those who came to watch the public debate were not only Wu Zhao, the prefect of Changzhou, and the officials of the government, but also the county orders of Changzhou Prefecture, and even Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture, all gathered together to participate in this once-in-a-century grand event in Wuxi County.

The literati in Jiangnan were pressed to death by Fang Yuan in terms of force, and they had already held their breath, waiting for Gu Yanwu, who was fighting on behalf of the literati, to win back Fang Yuan's mouth, and let out the evil anger in his chest.

At three o'clock, the public debate in Donglin Academy finally began!

Fang Yuan sat leisurely on the chair, tasting the top-grade Biluochun, with his identity, he naturally wouldn't speak first, waiting for Gu Yanwu to come first.

Gu Yanwu is a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, nor is he afraid of any tricks falling into Fang Yuan's hands, and said loudly, "Fang Junmen, I want to ask on behalf of the literati of Changzhou Mansion, Donglin Academy is just a academy, why did you offend Fang Junmen, and actually want to change the academy into a brothel, and humiliate it?" ”

The transformation of Donglin Academy into a brothel was the fuse of this incident, and Gu Yanwu's debate was straight to the point, and he came up to the point.

Fang Yuan slowly put down the teacup, looked at Gu Yanwu and asked, "Gu Gongzi, let me ask you, what is the academy for?" ”

Gu Yanwu replied, "There is also a place for preaching and teaching to solve doubts. ”

"Well said!"

Fang Yuan stood up and shouted, "The academy was supposed to be a place for teaching, but it was set up by the two brothers Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng into a small group that sought political power. The Donglin Party used the Donglin Academy to form a party for personal gain, but in the name of caring about the affairs of the world, it was changed to a brothel or wronged the brothel. At least the prostitutes in Qinglou make money and act in a fair and honest manner, but the Donglin Party led by Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng are bitches and want to set up a chaste archway, which is far worse than the conduct of prostitutes in Qinglou. ”

He was merciless in his rebuke of the Donglin Party, Gu Yanwu said sharply, "Fang Junmen, you are open-mouthed, why do you say that the Donglin Party is a political group?" ”

Fang Yuan smiled coldly and said, "Does this army have a mouthful? Li Sancai, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, Wei Dazhong, Gu Dazhang, these people are all court officials, isn't it a political group together? ”

Gu Yanwu said in a deep voice, "When the literati of Donglin are together, they are also acupuncture, for the country and the people." ”

Fang Yuan said coldly, "The Donglin Party is in a high position, and it does not seek its position in its position, and it does not change the high land rent, tax transfer, land annexation, **** faced by the Ming Dynasty within the scope of its authority, and corrupt officials are rampant in these major matters related to the national economy and people's livelihood. ”

Gu Yanwu said, "Why hasn't the Donglin Party done anything big? Dou Wei Eunuch, Zhengguoben, isn't it a major event to eliminate harm for the people! ”

Fighting down Wei Zhongxian is one of the great achievements of Chongzhen's pro-government, Fang Yuan can't admit in public that the Donglin Party's fight against Wei Zhongxian is actually a dog eats a dog, that is to slap Chongzhen's face.

This Gu Yanwu is a set of words!

Fang Yuan thought for a while and said, "Since the establishment of the Donglin Party, the Zhejiang Party has fought the Chu Party, the Chu Party has fought the Eunuch Party, and it is all your Donglin Party who stirs up trouble, lest the world be chaotic." The whole world and the whole officialdom are corrupt, ignorant, and smoky miasma, so you Donglin Party is innocent?! ”

However, among the corrupt officials and heroes arrested in the four prefectures, the literati of the Donglin Party account for eight or nine out of ten. Yang Lian's son, Yang Zhiyi, ran rampant in the township, bullied men and women, colluded with Hong Chengchou of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and forgot his ancestors; Even Gu Xiancheng's grandson is a cancer that plagues the township and the people, how do you explain it? ”

He skillfully switched the dispute between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party to the struggle between the Donglin Party and the entire officialdom, and even brought out the examples of Yang Zhiyi and Gu Shan, proving that the Donglin Party is also a group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the Eunuch Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, a raccoon dog, what kind of big tail wolf?

Gu Yanwu pondered for a while, and then said, "Fang Junmen, what can you do to solve the maladministration you are referring to?" ”

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "Bad governance is a stubborn disease accumulated over a hundred years, how can it be changed overnight? The petition system that I promoted in Suzhou and Songjiang is a channel to listen to the people's livelihood and make decisions for the people. ”

Gu Yanwu said, "But I heard that Fang Junmen's petition system is just a tool for the party to fight against differences and attack political opponents. ”

Fang Yuan sneered and said, "The Donglin Party's bullying of the people is the oppression of the people, which is an ironclad fact. Is it because the Donglin Party is my political enemy, they should not be punished for oppressing the people? Gu Yanwu, you keep saying that you are the master of the people, and when you encounter problems, politics comes first? ”

Gu Yanwu continued, "Fang Junmen, but you are selectively enforcing the law, but if you are a political enemy, you will be strict; But whoever obediently obeys, you will be lenient. I wonder, what is the rationale for this? ”

It seems that this Gu Yanwu has done a lot of homework behind his back, and there is a group of people behind him who are waving flags and shouting for him!

Fang Yuan looked at him with a smile and said, "The moral master and the punishment are the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, and they are also the key to Confucian governance. There are clouds in the left, people are not saints and sages, and there are clouds, and knowing mistakes can improve greatly. For those who can recognize their mistakes and can actively compensate and atone for their crimes, whether they are officials, wealthy merchants, gentry, or ordinary people, of course, they should be given a chance to mend their ways; For those stubborn and ineffective Donglin Party who vainly try to fight against the imperial court through rebellion, collude with foreign enemies, and launch literati riots to achieve ulterior motives, this army will never show mercy, and kill as many as you want! ”

His gaze swept over Gu Yanwu, looked around, and said in a deep voice, "But anyone like the Donglin Party who forms a party for personal gain, rides high on the heads of the people, and vainly claims to represent the people, in fact, the bureaucrats and literati who are in the common people are all literary ruffians and official ruffians!" ”

"The petition system, the military will push to the end, within the jurisdiction of the army, every citizen will have the dignity of being a human being! No matter what party dares to use any beautiful pretext to oppress and humiliate the people, it will be severely punished by its own army! ”

The reason why Fang Yuan was willing to come out to debate with Gu Yanwu was precisely to take the opportunity to once again promote the petition system for the common people to the officials, wealthy merchants, gentry, and ordinary people in Changzhou Prefecture and even the four prefectures.

Gu Yanwu said coldly, "Fang Junmen's big words are good, and under the pretext of a few corrupt officials of the Donglin Party, he will comprehensively crack down on the Donglin Party. Its essence is just that Fang Junmen is in the mouth of the people, and it is not the Donglin Party that is attacked, but also the Fushe, and all the literati in Jiangnan. Because we have spoken what you do not want to hear, and you are afraid of us to speak! ”

He got up suddenly, looked directly at Fang Yuan and scolded, "To borrow a phrase from Fang Junmen, everyone else is a corrupt official, and your Fang Junmen is innocent?!" Fang Junmen can use Jinyiwei to supervise officials, gentry, and wealthy businessmen, so who will supervise Jinyiwei?! Wei Yin Jian is in front, and the disaster of Jinyiwei cruelty to the people will only be more severe than that of the officials! ”

Gu Yanwu's words were a powerful counterattack, and the literati inside and outside Donglin Academy, the people nodded again and again when they heard it, and they talked about it.

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned when he heard this, this Gu Yanwu was really difficult because he was in the people, and he had no scruples when he spoke.