Fang Yuan waited in Suzhou City for half a month, and Zheng Zhilong's side finally came with the news of the envoy, and the envoy sent by Zheng Zhilong to Suzhou City for peace talks came to Suzhou City and brought new conditions for peace talks.

Since he took the initiative to send a peace envoy to come, it proved that Zheng Zhilong was showing weakness to Fang Yuan, and he had no plans to invade the north for the time being, and Fang Yuan's hanging heart also fell.

As for the envoy of the peace talks, Fang Yuan didn't want to see it at all, and he didn't even look at the conditions of the peace talks he brought, so he directly ordered Qin Zhan to send the envoy a hundred taels of silver and rushed back to Fujian, and by the way, the envoy brought back the heads of two people from the Qian clan.

This is already the tenth head of the Qian clan that Fang Yuan sent to Fujian.

Fang Yuan did not negotiate with Zheng Zhilong's envoy, and gave a hundred taels of silver as if to send him on the road, which was to imply that Zheng Zhilong did not accept this candidate for peace talks at all. Sending the heads of the Qian clan people means that the work of killing the Qian clan people will continue.

The only candidate he could accept for peace talks was the detained Liu Rushi. If he doesn't put Liu Ruis back, he will continue to kill until he kills all the people of the Qian clan.

Zheng Zhilong took the initiative to show weakness, and the Songjiang Mansion has not moved until now, and it seems that it has not colluded with the Changzhou Mansion this time.

According to the news from the Changzhou government, after nearly a month of commotion by the literati in these demonstrations, the rise of the literati riots has weakened, and the so-called hunger strike has not starved to death, but is all for show.

On the contrary, there were indeed some literati with ulterior motives, who began to harass the people in the name of demonstrations and hunger strikes, and forced them to eat and live in the people's homes, causing a miasma. The people of Changzhou Prefecture, Wuxi County, and Yixing County are suffering unspeakably, and several major clashes have broken out with these literati, resulting in dozens of dead and wounded.

The letters asking for help from the officials of the Changzhou Prefecture were one after another, and they reached Fang Yuan, all begging Fang Yuan to intervene.

Fang Yuan's previous attitude was to ignore it and let the riot continue to ferment. People will always sympathize with the weak, so they led the Xuanjia Army and Jinyi Wei to quell the literati riots, and most of the people in Changzhou who have nothing to do with themselves will also sympathize and pity the literati.

Only by pulling the people of the entire Changzhou Mansion into the water and wetting their feet, really empathizing with them and feeling the pain in their own bodies, can they see the true face of the hypocrisy of these literati.

Fang Yuan was still waiting, waiting for the county order Lin Yu collected by Jinyiwei, as well as the evidence that the descendants of the Gu family were traitors.

Twenty days later, Jin Yiwei, who had gone to Wuxi County to collect intelligence, finally returned, bringing intelligence that the county commander Lin Yu had detected and the Gu family had at least colluded to encroach on private houses at a low price.

With the information of these Gu family traitors, the time is finally ripe to quell the civil riots. Since the officials of Changzhou Mansion were all panicked, the literati riots caused public anger among the people, and the crimes of the Gu family were also clearly investigated, what else did Fang Yuan have to worry about?

He led 4,000 Xuanjia troops and 500 brocade guards to kill directly to the territory of Changzhou Mansion.

The most troublesome in the entire Changzhou Mansion was Wujin, Wuxi, and Yixing counties, and Fang Yuan sent Jingjie and Li Zongze respectively, each with 1,000 Xuanjia troops, to Wujin County, where the Changzhou Mansion was located, and Yixing County to stabilize the situation.

The principle he explained was not to kill or injure, but to go to maintain local law and order, arrest those with ulterior motives who took the opportunity to disturb the people, make trouble, and smash cars, and persuade all the literati who participated in the demonstrations to end their hunger strikes and demonstrations, and to go home and do what they should do.

Fang Yuan himself led two thousand Xuanjia troops and five hundred brocade guards, and stationed in Wuxi County, where Donglin Academy was located.

Fang Yuan led the army to stop outside the city of Wuxi, and ordered Ma Lin to lead the Xuanjia army to enter from Wanghu Gate and go to Donglin Academy to control the situation.

He himself took Qin Zhan and fifty brocade guards in civilian clothes into Wuxi County. In the past half a month, Jin Yiwei has verified eight or nine cases of Lin Yi and the Gu family, most of which are related to the expansion of Donglin Academy.

Fang Yuan wanted to meet first, it was these people who had been violated by the county order Lin Tuo and the Gu family, and they had first-hand information about Lin Tuo and Gu Shan's violations and crimes.

Fang Yuan and his entourage entered from Wanghu Gate and walked on the county seat of Wuxi, where the walls of the streets and alleys of the entire county town were plastered with stickers protesting against tyranny, burning books and pit Confucianism, insulting Confucius, and severely punishing the murderer Liangshan Liukou, a chaotic scene.

Fang Yuan looked at these slogans and asked in amazement, "Fourth, what does the Wenran riot have to do with the Liangshan Liukou?" ”

Qin Zhan whispered, "Boss, Liang Shan has killed the outgoing first assistant Zhou Yanru, Zhou Yanru is a native of Yixing, this is the request made by the literati of Yixing County. ”

Fang Yuan sneered, these literati didn't help their relatives, Zhou Yanru framed him, and when Li Qingshan, the leader of Liangshan, was killed alive, why didn't he see these literati come out to uphold justice?

He walked around the streets and alleys, and was taken by Jinyiwei to a verified family of ordinary people who needed to avenge their grievances to the county magistrate Lin Yu and the Gu family of Donglin Academy, and saw an old man silently tearing the propaganda slogan posted in front of his house.

It seems that ordinary people are really unbearable to these rioting literati.

Fang Yuan approached the old man and asked, "Old man, what is this Wuxi County making trouble?" ”

The old man glanced at him and asked, "Are you an outsider?" ”

Fang Yuan said casually, "Yes, I came to the local area to do business, but I saw that the whole city was plastered with these, who is burning books and pit Confucianism?" ”

The old man sighed and said, "I won't tell you, who else can there be, it is the governor of the four provinces, the governor of Fang Yuanfang." ”

Fang Yuan asked again, "Why is this Governor Fang burning books and pit Confucianism?" ”

The old man took a sip and said, "Where is the book burning pit Confucianism?" I heard that Governor Fang has set up a petition system in Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion, which is dedicated to making decisions for the common people and punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, rich businessmen and powerful people, I still hope that Governor Fang will come to Wuxi County as soon as possible! These little cubs are full of food all day long, and they have nothing to do, and they are idle, making the whole county a miasma. ”

It seems that the people who can't read a few big characters can still distinguish between right and wrong, but those literati who are stupid in reading are reversing right and wrong and raping public opinion! Since the will of the people is available, what else is there to worry about?

Fang Yuan already knew it in his heart, smiled and said, "Old man, I heard that you have a grievance to be avenged?" ”

The old man looked at him in amazement and began to speculate about his identity, "Who are you?" ”

Qin Zhan stepped forward a few steps forward and reported Fang Yuan's name, "He is Governor Fang, if you want to avenge your grievances and find Governor Fang, that's right!" ”

"Governor Fang?"

The old man looked at Fang Yuan incredulously, looked at it for a while, and finally returned the letter, and suddenly knelt down, "Governor Fang, you love the people like a son, Hai Qingtian is alive, get back the ancestral house for me!" My Qi family has lived there for generations, and I can't lose it! I'll kowtow to you, kowtow! ”

Fang Yuan hurriedly helped him up and stopped him from continuing to kowtow, "Qi Weng, let's talk about it one hundred and fifty ten!" We are the biggest backer of the people, and there is nothing to scruple about!

Qi Weng remembered the sad thing, and said with a gloomy expression, "It's the Gu handle of the Gu family, in order to rebuild Donglin Academy, colluded with the county to order Lin Yu to occupy my ancestral house at a low price, and I was driven to this small alley and lived there for ten years!" It's all tears when you talk too much, don't say it! ”

As he spoke, he was already in tears, wiping his tears with his wrinkled hands from time to time.

After Donglin Academy was built by Gu Xiancheng for the first time, it was destroyed once when Wei Zhongxian was in power. But after Chongzhen came to power, the Gu family rebuilt Donglin Academy, and it seems that this Qi Weng was the victim of the Gu family's second reconstruction of Donglin Academy.

Fang Yuan didn't pay attention to the Gu family, the originator of the Donglin Party, since even Yang Lian's descendants were wiped out, and Qian Qianyi's clansmen were also killed, would he still have a descendant of Gu Xiancheng?

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Qi Weng, are there any other people who are involved in this Gu family and have been occupied by the Gu family and Donglin Academy, you have found them, and I will do it for you at one time." ”

Qi Weng nodded again and again, pulled Fang Yuan into a dark and poorly lit room, settled down a little, and went from house to house, contacting the neighbors who wanted to avenge their grievances.

Fang Yuan waited in this dark and damp room for two hours, and Qi Weng contacted eight families to come and see Fang Yuan together.

Eight families complained about the Gu family's evil behavior of forcibly occupying private houses at a low price in order to expand Donglin Academy.

Of course, Fang Yuan would not believe the words of the people, so he asked Qi Weng and these people to take out the contract of selling the house, and asked Qin Zhan to go to Wuxi City to verify the price of the house and determine whether it was a low-price purchase.

Qin Zhan came back for half an hour and came back to report that these house sales contracts were indeed only about half of the house prices in Wuxi.

Qi Weng's redress of grievances is at least ninety percent credible, since the evidence is conclusive, what else can be said, Fang Yuan ordered Qin Zhan to take the people who avenged their grievances and killed Donglin Academy.