Although the emperor did not make a clear statement on Qian Shisheng's case, for Qian Shisheng, it was even more embarrassing than directly sentencing him.

Originally, the prosecution of him was just a legal issue, and at most it was just for him to leave his post and return to his hometown. However, under the fermentation of public opinion, the wrestling between the northern and southern gentry, and the game between the palace and the bureaucracy, his problem has now risen to a political issue.

Qian Shisheng not only failed to keep his official position, but also failed to protect his reputation. Chongzhen's decision to demand that everyone from the central government to the local government take a stance on Qian Shisheng's case made Qian Shisheng's case not only spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, but also made a political statement criticizing Qian Shisheng's tax evasion and other crimes.

Before public opinion fermented, some officials were privately holding grievances for Qian Shisheng, believing that this was Li Kuilong's party instructing Li Jin to suppress the righteous man and gentleman, and that this was a party dispute rather than a fair judicial complaint.

However, with the fermentation of public opinion, the remarks of these officials were also discovered, and the people vigorously criticized the remarks of these officials, believing that they deliberately used the name of party persecution to prevaricate their illegal acts, and this was a mutual cover-up between criminals.

Li Kuilong and others naturally did not let go of such a good opportunity, and they used public opinion to criticize these officials for their lack of basic political literacy; On the other hand, he sent a letter to the cabinet and the emperor, demanding that these officials be transferred to official schools for legal education, so as to correct the problem of these officials ignoring the law and discipline.

Since its establishment, the Central Government School has been developing extremely rapidly, and now it has set up branch schools in all provinces. For officials, entering the official academy can be described as a mixed blessing, which may be a prelude to the imperial court's preparation to promote you, or it may be the imperial court's plan to dispose of your strategy of transferring the tiger away from the mountain.

As Li Kuilong and others have requested, it is obvious that the transfer of these officials who have made erroneous remarks to study in government academies is obviously not for the purpose of promoting them.

Although this way of transferring to a government school to study is better than the treatment of being sent to a prison in the past, at least there is no need to suffer from punishment. However, in the past, being in prison could at least win a political prestige, and as long as you didn't die in prison, there was always a chance to get ahead.

However, transferring erring officials to government academies not only fails to win the sympathy of the people, but is also politically tantamount to being completely marginalized. In this regard, officials with political aspirations would rather go to prison than go to any official school.

Therefore, when some officials who spoke out in support of Qian Shisheng were dragged to study at the official school, the officials from the top down immediately knew how to express their stance on this matter. No matter how good an official is with Qian Shisheng, before defending him as a person, he must first state that his crime is unmistakable and undeniable.

Under the criticism of the outside world, Qian Shisheng once wanted to commit suicide in despair, but he was not Gao Panlong after all, and he still cherished his life very much. Therefore, in the end, under the hint of the emperor, he publicly published a repentant text in the Daming Times, thus obtaining the emperor's pardon for him.

Although Qian Shisheng saved his life, his behavior completely tore open the gorgeous coat of the gentry class, allowing the world to see how dirty and dilapidated it was.

In this case, for the first time, the new business owners made their voices heard politically. Chongzhen used this incident to gather a consensus for the society, that is, tax evasion is disloyalty to the country, and a person who is disloyal to the country cannot hold any public office, no matter how brilliant his talent is.

The Qian Shisheng case disturbed the officials and gentry in the north and south of the country, but there was only one place that was indifferent to this case, and that was Shanghai.

After upgrading from Shanghai County to Shanghai City and swallowing Songjiang Prefecture as well, Shanghai began to enter into an all-out economic construction. Centered around the county seat, the city center has developed into a new port city, starting with farmland between the county seat of Shanghai and the Suzhou Creek to the north.

By the tenth year of Chongzhen, the area of the port outside the county seat of Shanghai and the new area in the north had faintly exceeded the area of the county seat of Shanghai, and a total of 15 roads were built from Suzhou Creek to the south.

Sixteen new wharves have been built along the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, and even so, on busy days, there are still merchant ships moored on the Huangpu River, waiting for byes from the wharves.

The land south of Suzhou Creek has risen tenfold compared to the time when the port was opened, which forced latecomers to cross the Suzhou Creek to buy land to build warehouses. As a result, a stone arch bridge and a wooden bridge on the Suzhou Creek have now been turned into five bridges connecting the two banks.

Shanghai's officials and citizens are immersed in economic construction, trying to create a better future for the city and themselves, and can afford to bother with a political struggle.

August 12 is the day when Song Yingsheng and Ma Shiying completed the handover, and it is also the day of the inauguration ceremony of the sixth bridge of Suzhou Creek, the Wai Ferry Bridge.

Located at the mouth of the Suzhou Creek, the Wai Ferry Bridge is also the second iron bridge modeled after the Luanhe Bridge. The substructure is a reinforced concrete abutment with a wooden pile foundation and a concrete hollow sheet pier, and the upper part is an all-iron structure riveted bridge, which is made of wrought iron from Daye Iron Works, with a total cost of 250,000 yuan.

This iron bridge, like the Luanhe Bridge, represents the most cutting-edge industrial capacity of the Ming Dynasty, and also means that the construction technology of the iron bridge has begun to gradually mature.

The completion of the outer ferry bridge not only facilitates the people on both sides of the strait, but also the 21-meter-wide bridge deck of the iron bridge is enough to build two railroad carriages, so that the goods on both sides of the strait can be directly transported.

When Song Yingsheng wrote the name of the Wai Ferry Bridge, he thought that the name of the bridge was too straightforward, so he changed the pendulum to white, and the iron bridge became the Wai Bai Du Bridge.

After attending the inauguration ceremony of the Waibaidu Bridge, he was ready to take a boat to Qingdao and then a railway to Beijing. However, looking at the spacious streets and those rows of buildings behind him, Song Yingsheng suddenly felt a trace of reluctance in his heart.

He had participated in the planning of the construction of almost every street here, and now he was leaving here as if he was leaving his children.

Ma Shiying, who accompanied Song Yingsheng, was full of ambition, and Song Yingsheng had laid the foundation for Shanghai in the past ten years, obviously building a stage for him to show his strength.

Although Ma Shiying is not an outstanding business genius, looking at these Shanghai citizens walking on the streets, he also knows that the city is on the verge of economic take-off. All he has to do is to continue to implement the urban plan that Song Yingsheng has already formulated.

Ma Shiying is not one of those young talents who has not suffered setbacks, and he has to overturn the layout of his predecessor and start a new set of ideas to show his talents. He didn't mind picking the fruit of the fruit tree that Song Yingsheng had planted, so that he could take this opportunity to reach a higher level.

When Song Yingsheng reluctantly watched the Shanghai he had built, on the passenger ship dock, Zhang Xianzhong and several others were also saying goodbye to their bosses and colleagues who came to see him off.

After the Taihu Lake bandits, the crackdown on the unemployed vagrants in the city made Zhang Xianzhong run around the south of the Yangtze River. To be honest, although he has been a fast catcher, since he joined Jinyiwei, he is not very interested in this kind of work of capturing unemployed vagrants.

When he received an order from the capital, asking him to return to the capital, and then preparing to go to Hami to serve as the military judge of the Hami Tuntian army, Zhang Xianzhong's mood was still very relaxed. It's just that his righteous son Zhang Nengqi is a little unhappy, how can he go to Hami Tuntian to supervise the case in Jiangnan as comfortable.

But he was afraid of Zhang Xianzhong, so he could only keep the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in mind, and then followed Zhang Xianzhong on the road.

For Zhang Xianzhong, an excellent subordinate, Zhao Yiwei, who has been promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, attaches great importance to it, not only came to see him off in person, but also sealed a thick bag of Cheng Yi to him.

Zhao Yiwei pulled Zhang Xianzhong aside and said to him: "Zhang Qianhu, it is really an excellent opportunity for you to go to the Western Regions this time. According to the information I have received, Hami Tuntian is just the beginning, and it is to establish a base area for our dynasty to recover the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

It is not certain that the Tuntian Army will become a field army in the future, as long as you can gain a foothold in Hami, maybe you will be able to reach a higher level in the future.

I want you to remember that whether you are on the roster or not at that time, you are also a member of our Jinyiwei..."

Zhang Xianzhong immediately replied respectfully: "Commander Zhao, please rest assured, no matter where you are, you will not dare to disobey the orders of Jinyiwei and Commander Zhao..."

Zhao Yiwei accepted Zhang Xianzhong's oath of allegiance to him with a smile, but he didn't believe much in Zhang Xianzhong's oath in his heart. After all, this is a child from the Jinyiwei family, and it is difficult to say how much loyalty he will have to Jinyiwei.

But Zhao Yiwei still hopes to be able to entrap Zhang Xianzhong, after all, this person is a rare talent who understands military affairs in Jinyiwei, and it is okay for others to handle cases and arrest people, but let them go to the battlefield to fight, that is the ability to command the team to fight.

Zhao Yiwei, who has achieved the position of the commander of Jinyiwei, also wants to restore the grand occasion of the Jinyiwei victory in the past. Jinyiwei is not today's spy agency from the beginning, but the Jinyi pro-army beside the emperor, an army that can go to the battlefield.

If today's emperor is the same as the previous emperors, he is the master who guards the door and refuses to go out, then Zhao Yiwei will not have any idea of making contributions.

But today's Ming Dynasty, with equal emphasis on land and sea, expands everywhere, and with the emperor's youth, this is obviously a world of force. In such an era, he was still cowering in the capital as a spy leader, which made Zhao Yiwei a little unwilling.

He also looked forward to taking advantage of the opportunity of the Ming Dynasty to expand his territory and restore the reputation of Jinyiwei, instead of being reviled by those literati all day long. It's a pity that the emperor did not agree to go to Hami to handle the affairs of Tuntian with him, but sent him to North America as the first governor of the North American colonies.

So when he was about to part, he could only hope that Zhang Xianzhong would remember his overtures and make plans when he came back from North America.

After bidding farewell to his boss and colleagues, Zhang Xianzhong, who boarded the passenger ship, looked at Shanghai in front of him and was also in a trance. After this farewell, I don't know when I will be able to come back again.