In early August of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Cui Yingyuan set off north to return to the capital with a group of arrested criminals, and the tense and depressing atmosphere over Suzhou City finally dissipated, but the panic that permeated the city lasted for several months.

Although Cui Yingyuan only stayed in Suzhou City for a month, the shock he brought to the magnates and people of Suzhou City was incomparable, and dozens of people from the governor to the ruffians and hooligans in Suzhou City were arrested.

At the same time, the outside world is also really aware of the horror of Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei does not need to explain to outsiders at all when handling the case, he is only responsible to the emperor, and saying that arresting people will not give you any reason at all.

Under Cui Yingyuan's thunderous offensive, the wealthy gentry in Suzhou quickly realized a problem, that is, they were not on the same order of magnitude as Cui Yingyuan at all: even Zhou Qiyuan, the dignified governor of Su Song, and Zhou Shunchang, who had been a high-ranking official in the imperial court, were imprisoned, not to mention them.

It is worth mentioning that when Gao Panlong learned that the Jinyi guard sent by Cui Yingyuan to arrest him was about to arrive, he knew that his catastrophe had arrived, so he left a suicide note and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.

Speaking of which, Gao Panlong and Zhou Shunchang and other six people should have been arrested by Jinyiwei and returned to the capital for trial last time, because their residences are distributed in several places in the south of the Yangtze River, so Jinyiwei was the first to arrest Zhou Qiyuan, anyway, these people can't run away from the local family.

Who knows, something happened when Zhou Qiyuan was arrested, and a brocade guard was killed directly, so the arrest of Gao Panlong and others was delayed.

Cui Yingyuan was not in a hurry to catch Gao Panlong and the others, he was naturally not afraid that the other party would run away, and he also wished that the other party would escape, so he was afraid of crime and absconded.

Therefore, after Zhou Qiyuan took the initiative to walk out of the governor's yamen, Cui Yingyuan sent people to arrest Gao Panlong and Zhou Shunchang and others, but he didn't think that Gao Panlong would commit suicide by throwing himself into the water, so Jinyiwei who went to arrest people brought his body back, after all, Gao Panlong committed a royal case, and even if he died, Jinyiwei would be responsible.

In fact, Cui Yingyuan only dealt with Zhang Youhai and a few other leading figures in Suzhou, and he didn't move the others at all, after all, Suzhou is an important tax collection place in the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't want to mess with it.

But it is precisely because Suzhou is a prosperous and wealthy place that the Jinyi guards and Nanjing soldiers he brought have the idea of fishing for oil and water, otherwise they would not have run in vain, they are all outsiders and have no scruples at all.

Therefore, not only Suzhou City, but also the rich families in the entire Suzhou territory were basically harassed, and the people of Jinyiwei came to the door with the soldiers of Nanjing to extort money, and gained a lot.

As a well-known wealthy businessman in Suzhou, Liu Xingwen's family was naturally harassed by Jinyiwei, and a Jinyiwei rushed into Liu's mansion with people, wanting to knock out a sum of money from Li's family.

It happened that Du Boqing happened to be in Liu's Mansion at the time, and when the arrogant Jinyi Wei Baihu learned that the middle-aged man in front of him was the vice president of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the relationship with Liu Xingwen, he was so frightened that his face changed greatly, and he left in a hurry before he had time to wait for the Liu family's subordinates to get the money.

That Jinyi Wei Baihu is naturally not afraid of Du Boqing, a businessman, but he can't afford to provoke Li Hongyu behind the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, don't say it, even Cui Yingyuan only has a share when he sees Li Hongyu, so where do he dare to ask for the Liu family's money, if it reaches Li Hongyu's ears, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After learning of this, the wealthy gentry in Suzhou City, who were not captured by Cui Yingyuan but were harassed by his Jinyi guards, came to visit Du Boqing, hoping that he could mediate to ensure their safety.

With the arrest of Zhou Qiyuan, Zhang Youhai and others, the rich gentry in Suzhou City were afraid, this brocade guard is not like the errand in the yamen, those errand soldiers want to arrest them, at least there is a reason, and everyone is a villager and does not dare to mess around.

But Jinyiwei is different, there is no need for a reason when arresting people, to be precise, there will be no reason for the arrested person at all, even those princes and magnates in Nanjing can't ask, which makes them have no bottom in their hearts, God knows if those Jinyiwei will arrest them.

Of course, Du Boqing didn't dare to act rashly, and immediately asked Li Hongyu for instructions, and only after getting Li Hongyu's reply did he leave to see Cui Yingyuan to intercede for those wealthy gentry in Suzhou, and hinted that Cui Yingyuan's rich gentry would have some heart.

Cui Yingyuan naturally knew what Du Boqing meant, of course he couldn't come to Suzhou in vain this time, if he didn't make money at this time, it would be intolerable.

The reason why those brocade guards are blackmailing everywhere is also because of Cui Yingyuan's deliberate indulgence, he can't help but let his brothers get rich, this is also to put pressure on those rich gentry to let them spend money to eliminate disasters.

For this reason, Cui Yingyuan readily promised not to trouble those troubled rich gentry who were worried, anyway, he had already caught enough people to give Wei Zhongxian an account, and the next thing to do was to make a big profit from Suzhou, and he couldn't cheapen those rich gentry and businessmen who got rich by relying on ill-gotten wealth in vain.

Of course, it is impossible for Cui Yingyuan to take the money alone, and after he returns to Beijing, he will give Wei Zhongxian and other bosses who are closely related to his interests a generous gift, which is a courtesy in the officialdom.

In other words, the atmosphere of Daming officialdom is such that Cui Yingyuan can't be a clean official at all, otherwise he will offend people, which is why Hai Rui, who has the reputation of "Hai Qingtian", will be regarded as an alternative by Daming officials.

In mid-September of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, after the interrogation of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, Zhou Qiyuan, Zhou Shunchang, Miao Changqi, Li Yingsheng, Zhou Zongjian, Huang Zunsu and other senior officials who lived at home and Zhang Youhai and several local tycoons in Suzhou were executed on the grounds of embezzlement and bribery and murder of Jinyiwei.

Not only that, Wei Zhongxian also asked the Emperor of the Apocalypse to demolish the academies in the Ming Dynasty except for public schools and private schools on the grounds that Gao Panlong, Zhou Qiyuan and others used Donglin Academy as a base to form a party for personal gain, and forbade associations in the name of lecturing.

For a time, all the academies in Daming, including Donglin Academy, were demolished.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were four incidents of banning and destroying academies, and the academies of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have had a bad fate and suffered repeated disasters.

Of course, the Ming court would not do this for no reason, but some of the actions of these academies had already touched the interests of the imperial court or those in power in the imperial court, so they destroyed it.

The first and second births were in the Jiajing period, the third birth was in the Wanli period, and the fourth birth was in the Apocalypse year, which was the incident of the ban on the destruction of the academy led by Wei Zhongxian.

It is worth mentioning that the person who banned the destruction of the academy for the third time was Wanli Fu Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng once said:

"The sages are trained by scriptures, and the country is a man by scriptures, and if they can understand the scriptures, they are enlightened and learned. Why bother to mark the door and gather the party to talk. In the future, each student will be promoted to supervise the instructors and students, and they will be sure to study the scriptures and books on weekdays, pay attention to them, and practice them so that they can be used in other days. It is forbidden not to create academies, gather gangsters, and call on others to wander and eat and abandon their businesses."

It can be seen from this that Zhang Juzheng's ban on the destruction of the academy is not a ban on the scriptures and doctrines taught in the school, but an opposition to some people using the academy as a medium to "gather the party and talk about empty talk", which is the most important.

In the year of the Apocalypse, with the gradual strengthening of the Donglin Party, the Emperor of the Apocalypse realized the harm of the academy, which was no longer a place for scholars to do their studies, but a place for forming parties and running private businesses.

Since the people who can enter the academy are all scholars of the Ming Dynasty, many of them have fame and privileges in the local area, so if they are gathered together, they will become the most powerful interest group in the local area.

For this reason, there was a ban on the destruction of the academy during the Apocalypse, mainly aimed at the Donglin Academy, which was the most influential at that time, which undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the officials of the Donglin Party.

If the killing of six people, including Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, was the Emperor of the Apocalypse who pulled the Donglin Party from the ruling class of the court in one fell swoop, then the killing of seven people, including Zhou Qiyuan and Gao Panlong, was the warning of the Emperor of the Apocalypse to the Donglin Party not to confront the imperial court.

Of course, these two things were accomplished by the Emperor of the Apocalypse through Wei Zhongxian, so Wei Zhongxian naturally became the most hated person in the Donglin Party.

Because Zhou Qiyuan and Gao Panlong are all important members of the Donglin Party, they are called the "Seven Gentlemen of Donglin" by the Donglin Party, as opposed to the "Six Gentlemen of Donglin" such as Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou.

With the killing of Zhou Qiyuan and Gao Panlong, the prestige of the Emperor of the Apocalypse was officially established, making the civil and military officials in the court realize that the people they served were no longer the ignorant young Son of Heaven back then.

Therefore, since then, the decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse has been smoothly implemented, and neither the major ministers and officials in the capital nor the local powerful forces dare to disobey his holy will, after all, the sword in the hand of the Emperor of the Apocalypse is much sharper than that of the Wanli Emperor

When he learned that the imperial court was going to ban the destruction of the world's academies, Li Hongyu couldn't help but sigh helplessly, this is a matter of time, the foundation of the Donglin Party is in the Donglin Academy, and since the Donglin Academy, academies have sprung up all over the Ming Dynasty.

Although these academies, like Donglin Academy, taught classics, they also became a gathering place for local gentry forces, and the phenomenon of forming factions and societies was serious, which attracted the attention of the upper ruling officials of the Ming court and even the emperor.

Naturally, the Western Academy opened by Li Hongyu is not in the ranks of the forbidden ones, because Li Hongyu has already attached it to the name of the Customs Department.

In other words, the nature of the Western Academy and the Medical College in Haicheng was a government school, and after teaching in it for a few years, they would be sent to work in other places by the Customs Department, which was different from the Ming Academy, private schools, and government schools, so they avoided this catastrophe from the beginning.

After the incident in Suzhou, all the civil and military officials in the court saw the strength of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so no one dared to openly disobey the Holy Will of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and the monarchy of the Emperor of the Apocalypse was consolidated and strengthened.

As the spokesperson of the Emperor of the Apocalypse in the court, Wei Zhongxian's market rose even higher, and he became the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty, making the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty give him three points.

(End of chapter)

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