Kou Shen leaned over and said: "Hui Yu, today's incident is so noisy, the people of Suzhou are already in turmoil, if your lord orders all of them to be arrested at this time, I am afraid that these people will take risks under the anger of these people, and will do everything to fight against the official army, in this case, the situation that General Yang has finally calmed down may further deteriorate, and the matter will be even more difficult to deal with......

Mao Yilu shouted violently: "But they killed Liu Dexi, the top messenger, and also killed several Jinyi captains, if this matter reaches the ears of Gonggong Wei, how can we deal with him?" ”

Kou Shen said: "Master Mao, now that Gonggong Liu is dead, people can't be resurrected after death, and we can't do anything about it." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut if you are angry with the people like this, I am afraid that it will provoke the people to be angry and break out again. Of course, we are not doing nothing, as long as we take the leaders of this instigation of the riot and bring them to justice, we can deter other people who participated in the rebellion. Second, you can also go to the imperial court and to the Duke of Wei; Third, it can also let the court know that the adults are effective in scheduling and dealing with it well, isn't it a good thing to turn clumsy into coincidence? ”

Mao Yilu was reminded by him, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought - the source of the popular uprising in Suzhou was caused by Wei Zhongxian's efforts to crack down on the Donglin Party, but I am afraid that his father-in-law Wei would not expect that the people in Jiangnan would dare to confront the government and kill Tiqi angrily, and now that a civil uprising broke out in Suzhou, this matter is really not trivial, I am afraid that Wei Zhongxian will also be afraid of this, and dare not act rashly in this limelight.

If, according to Kou Shen, only the first evil is taken, then you can not only send a mission to the Duke of Wei, but also use this to visit the next intention of the imperial court. If the imperial court intends to delve into this matter, then it can still be done by itself at that time; If the court does not plan to investigate deeply, then what he has done is enough to give an account to the court.

Thinking of this, Mao Yilu secretly rejoiced in his heart, fortunately he did not act recklessly, and the best strategy at this time was to calm down the situation as soon as possible, so he said: "Since this is the case, then we will arrest the first evil of this rebellion, and the rest of the people will not be investigated." After a pause, he said, "Sun Yueling of Fenghua Society is the leader of the riot, General Yang, you immediately take people to seal up Fenghua Society, and bring all the people of Fenghua Society and others, especially Sun Yueling, the first evil, must not be let go!" ”

Yang Yufan leaned over and said, "The last general will obey the order!" He was about to turn around, but he heard Kou Shen stop him again: "Wait, this matter should not be rushed, otherwise I am afraid that something will happen again." ”

Mao Yilu said unhappily: "Why does Kou Futai always help the rebellious party speak? ”

Kou Shen leaned over at Mao Yilu and said: "The lower officials don't dare, what the lower officials say is for the sake of Lord Mao and the court, and I hope that Lord Mao will think deeply." ”

Mao Yilu said impatiently: "Then tell me, why not?" ”

Kou Shen arched his hand and said: "Your Excellency must also know that the most fundamental reason for this people's riot is that Tiqi arrested Zhou Shunchang, Miao Changqi and others in Jiangnan, the leaders of the Donglin Party, otherwise the people would not have stormed the government and killed the officials." Now all the leaders of the Jiangnan Donglin Party have been arrested, and only a few people such as Sun Yueling and Qian Qianyi remain. Sun Yueling has a very high prestige in Jiangnan and is deeply supported by the people, if the adults still want to arrest him at this time, I am afraid that it will anger the people of Suzhou, thinking that the imperial court wants to wipe out the Donglin in Jiangnan, and if it causes the people to riot again, it is really worth the loss......"

Mao Yilu was annoyed when he heard this, in fact, he also knew that it was not the best strategy to arrest Sun Yueling at this time, but Sun Yueling launched a riot among the people, stormed the yamen of the official mansion, and also killed the official messenger and threatened him, the governor of the party, which made his face go where, so he said hatefully: "Could it be that we let him go like this?" ”

Kou Shen replied, "Of course not. This time the matter is so big, why do we have to explain to the imperial court. Just because you can't do anything to him now doesn't mean you can't arrest anyone else. Speaking of this, Huanyan glanced at the officials present, and continued, "We can send someone to the Fenghua Society to negotiate with him, force him to hand over the other responsible leaders who incite the people to rebel, and let him take him to the yamen on his own." In this way, it not only punished the leader of the rebellion, but also achieved the goal of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, so that he would not dare to act rashly in the future. ”

As soon as these words fell, many officials echoed and applauded and expressed support.

Mao Yilu saw that everyone was united, and after pondering for a while, he nodded and said, "Okay, just do it." Since this idea was conceived by Koufutai, then you are solely responsible for this matter, and those who lead the troublemakers must not be allowed to go unpunished. ”

Kou Shen responded: "Don't worry, my lord, the lower officials know what to do." ”

After everyone discussed how to deal with the aftermath, they were about to take action, but a soap li rushed to report and shouted: "Everyone, it's not good, the Xichayuan has been set on fire......

The officials present were shocked when they heard this, the Western Procuratorate was a branch of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Suzhou, and it was also the location of the Yamen of the Imperial Procuratorate, representing the law and justice of the imperial court.

Wang Qitai recognized that this person was from the Yamen, and hurriedly asked, "Did those mobs do it?" ”

The soap replied: "Exactly, it was Yan Peiwei, Yang Nianru and others from the United Trading Company who burned down the Xichayuan. ”

Wang Qitai slammed his fist on the table and said hatefully: "They are taking advantage of the chaos to take the opportunity to retaliate." ”

Yan Peiwei, Yang Nianru, Shen Yang and other three people were arrested and interrogated by him on the same day for the crime of spreading rumors, and tortured and severely tortured them.

Wang Qitai was angry, and said to Mao Yilu: "My lord, this mob is lawless and must be severely punished, I think these three people must also be arrested as the first offender, what do you think?" ”

Mao Yilu was still thinking about how to deal with the affairs of the court in the future, and when he heard this, he said: "Okay, in addition to these three people, the person who killed Gonggong Liu must also be arrested." ”

Wang Qitai answered the order, hurriedly counted the manpower, and walked towards the door with Yang Yufan and Kou Shen.

The team of thousands of people went out of the academy street, and soon came to the gate of the Fenghua Society, but thousands of people still gathered on the long street in front of the Fenghua Society, Wang Qitai found that among these people there were people from the Fenghua Society, there were also people from the United Trading Company, and even people from the Jinling Society, they gathered here at the moment, I am afraid that the government will be unfavorable to Sun Yueling, so they stayed here to strengthen their momentum.

With Yang Yufan's 1,000 elite soldiers, Wang Qitai's confidence was several times stronger than before, and a group of people who came forward with their fingers stopped outside the gate of Fenghua Society, shouting: "Tell Sun Yueling to come out to see me!" ”

The news of the arrival of the official yamen with the army had reached Sun Yueling's ears, and soon his figure appeared outside the gate, followed by a group of adults, all of whom were the backbone of the people's uprising.

Sun Yueling was very helpless, originally according to his deployment, after storming the government, he asked them all to disperse and not appear in the sight of the government. But to his surprise, none of them were willing to leave, and they all expressed their willingness to stay in Fenghua Society to wait and see what happened.

He was moved by this, but he was also a little worried. Today's matter is so big, the government can't give up, according to the Ming government's treatment of such things, it is very likely that the leader of the troublemaker is arrested to set an example, at this time he Sun Yueling himself is still difficult to protect, how can he be able to protect them?

Despite this, Sun Yueling still made up his mind that if the government wanted to take people, it would stop him alone; If the government wanted to arrest them all, then he decided to fight to the death, riot to the end, and completely mobilize tens of thousands of people in the city to raze the governor's yamen to the ground.

Sun Yueling looked at Wang Qitai coldly and said, "Lord Wang came out of the yamen so quickly, he really deserves to be an inspector. ”

Wang Qitai's face changed, how could he not hear Sun Yueling mocking him, he whispered in the yamen before, it was forced by the situation, but now that the situation has reversed, the fire that he has been holding in his heart finally broke out, and said loudly: "Sun Yueling, you instigated the people of Suzhou to rebel, stormed the important places of the government, killed the imperial court, and committed the great crime of punishing the nine clans......"

Speaking of this, he could hear Kou Shen coughing on the side, and his brain couldn't help but be shocked, and he suddenly remembered the words that Mao Yilu told him when he was leaving, and hurriedly said, "This people's riot is obviously being provoked by some people with ulterior motives. The government is aware of this and has already made a decision on this. Those who were instigated to participate in the riots can be held accountable, but those who incite the people must be severely punished. ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head and glanced at Yang Yufan, and said boldly: "Sun Yueling, this official knows that your prestige among the people has always been very high, as long as you can assist the government to hand over the ten people who took the lead in the rebellion, this matter can be stopped, otherwise, the government will definitely investigate to the end!" ”

This has been said obviously, it is tantamount to negotiating with it, as long as Sun Yueling's side can hand over the ten leaders of the rebellion designated by the government, the turmoil can be resolved.

Sun Yueling said lightly: "This matter is all done by me, not anyone else's business, I am the leader of this instigation of the people's uprising, if you want to take people, just take me!" ”

Kou Shen walked up and said to him: "Master Sun, you must know that this time the government can open up to you and others, and only take the ten leaders who incite rebellion, it is already magnanimous and make concessions, you are a smart person, you naturally know what to do, don't make us too embarrassed." ”

Qian Qianyi walked to Sun Yueling's side and asked, "Which ten people do you want to take?" ”

Yang Yufan took a step forward, took out a list and shouted: "Yan Peiwei, Yang Nianru, Shen Yang, Ma Jie, Dongfang Shengping, Zhang Pu, Yang Tingshu, Wang Jie, Liu Yuyi......" Speaking of this, he added, "And the last one is Zhou ......, the culprit who killed Gonggong Liu." "Along the way, they have already discussed the list of ten people to be arrested, most of them are people that Sun Yueling relies on, although they can't catch him, the real culprit, but at least they can cut off his arm, so that his strength is greatly damaged.

Sun Yueling couldn't bear it anymore when he heard this, the ten people in this arrest list were either the heads of the Lianshe Trading Company or the backbone of the Fenghua Society, and the others were all leaders of the younger generation in Shilin, even Ma Jie of the Jinling Society was included, and he interrupted him without waiting for Yang Yufan to finish speaking: "Liu Dexi was killed by me, it's none of the other people's business, if you want to arrest me, arrest me!" ”

As soon as these words fell, Wang Qitai and others looked at each other. They thought that the government would make concessions this time and let Sun Yueling only hand over a mere ten people, and he would definitely not disobey, but they didn't expect him to speak like this, clearly taking the initiative to take the matter over, which caught them off guard.

Kou Shen sighed, and said to Sun Yueling again: "Master Sun must not be rash, it is not easy for the government to make such a decision this time, do you really want to go down the road and go black?" In that case, it will not be a good thing for you, for your Fenghua Society, or even for the United Trading Company that you have worked so hard to run. ”

Sun Yueling looked directly at Kou Shen and said: "Kou Futai, Liu Dexi was killed by me, this is a matter for all to see, I, Sun Yueling, do things alone, as long as you are willing to withdraw your troops and no longer implicate others, I can go with you." ”

"No, you can't go with them!" Someone shouted hurriedly.

"Who dares to touch our Sun Hui Master!" Someone shouted.

"There is no way in the court, we fight with them!" Others were so angry that they wanted to rush forward and kill all the officials.

"There is no way in the court, we fight with them!" The crowd began to boil, and countless people crowded forward, surrounding the officers and soldiers in the center.

"Choke!" Yang Yufan Yanling unsheathed his knife and shouted loudly: "Who dares to rebel, they are all impatient?" ”

The sound of "choking" was endless, and a thousand elite soldiers pulled out their long knives at their waists and aimed them at the crowd in all directions.

The situation suddenly became tense.

"Brother Sun, please be cautious!" Sun Yueling turned around and saw that it was Qian Qianyi who was speaking, and the latter was looking at him with expectant eyes.

Sun Yueling sighed in his heart, Qian Qianyi actually called him brother at this time, this sentence was tantamount to implying that he would rather lose the car and protect the handsome than mess around, turned to Wang Qitai, stared at him fiercely and said: "Lord Wang, I have already made it very clear, as long as you take me alone, I will not resist." If you have to implicate others, then Hugh blames me for not obeying the king's law. ”

Wang Qitai was intimidated by his eyes, and couldn't help but take two steps back, and said in a trembling voice: "You...... How dare you? ”

Sun Yueling was about to speak, but saw Zhou Wenyuan running out from behind, shouting at the officers and soldiers: "I killed Liu Gou, I, Zhou Wenyuan, am willing to go with you!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Yan Peiwei, Yang Nianru, and Shen Yang also rushed out and shouted, "I'm willing to go with you!" ”

They took the lead and immediately stimulated others. Seeing this, Ma Jie was not willing to be left behind, and rushed forward and shouted: "If you want to kill, you will kill, if you want to kill, how can we be afraid?" ”