Guizhuang finally failed to see Qian Qianyi. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the night of the pass, Guizhuang was captured by the local officials in the inn where he was staying, and after a brief interrogation in the yamen of the governor of Jiangning in Suzhou, he was sent directly to Nanjing.

"The suspect returned to Zhuang, and on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Shunzhi, he gathered a group of rebels at home to discuss collusion with Zhejiang bandits, Haikou and other rebellious acts......"

In the lobby of the Yamen of Zhentai, the scribe read out the complaint handed over from Suzhou.

Since the Tonghai case, Li Zhichun, He Wangsheng, Ping Yitong and others have borne the brunt, and they have either recruited Zheng Chenggong's army or organized the assistance of the righteous army, and they are all the first offenders, so they naturally kill them to set an example. However, during this period, a large number of gentry and Confucian scholars ran for the Ming army and persuaded the county officials and green camps to be punished.

For those officials and green camps anyway, Zierharang pinched his nose and re-displayed the tricks that the Manchu court had previously used on Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao, Hao Shangjiu and Ma Xiong to do anyway, and those officials who had received the guarantee that they could be guilty of meritorious service received the signal that Jierharang and Ma Guozhu intended to set off the Tonghai case, and arrested the gentry and Confucian scholars who had persuaded them to do so before, so as to prove their loyalty to "I am the Qing Dynasty".

According to the interrogation and the intelligence of Jiangnan officialdom, in addition to Li Zhichun and others, there is another organization that has made a great contribution to the instigation of so many gentry, that is, the Hidden Poetry Society, and Guizhuang is the culprit among them. As for the reason, it is very simple, the meeting was held in the house of Gui Jia, and the identity of an organizer of Gui Zhuang would never be able to escape.

"The evidence is conclusive, does the suspect have any excuse?"

Now that the evidence of the crime has been confirmed, it is nothing more than a formality. The officials in the hall spoke perfunctorily, and the return to the village under the hall was also silent.

"Drag it down, and the rod will be eighty."

The cane is just a punishment for passing the court, and there are still a few gentry blurting out and scolding in the hall before, first slapping their mouths, and then one punishment after another, if they don't have to leave a life waiting to be beheaded to show the public, I am afraid that they will be killed alive in the hall long ago.

Guizhuang didn't speak, it's not that he has nothing to say, it's not that he has altruism in his tongue, but on the one hand, he doesn't bother to pay attention to these Manchu lackeys, for fear of dirty tongues, on the other hand, he can't do it now, at least until something is determined.

The water and fire stick hit his body at once, and Guizhuang gritted his teeth and endured silently until the moment he lost consciousness. After a while, a basin of cold water poured down, and Guizhuang woke up quietly, but the pain on his body came suddenly along with the next punishment, and a huge pain erupted from his mouth.

After going back and forth like this several times, Gui Zhuang felt as if his entire body was no longer his own, like a walking corpse, and even those pains could no longer be cried out.

The purpose of punishment is to inflict pain on the body and at the same time to show this pain to others, so as to achieve the effect of punishment before and after. Guizhuang had been beaten to the point that he didn't even have the strength to scream, and the envoy in the hall did not continue to torture him, but asked the officials to drag Guizhuang, who had fainted again, away and put him on death row. And he and other officials in the court had to work overtime to "try" other criminals suspected of "Tonghai", never letting go of any rebel who dared to say no to the Qing Dynasty, and never wronged anyone who could prove his innocence with silver.

Of course, such a first evil as Guizhuang, even if there is silver, it is useless, because no matter how good the silver is, it is not as expensive as the head.

The official dragged the fainted Guizhuang into the prison like dragging a dead body, and it was not until a long time later that Guizhuang slowly woke up. In the dim light, what I saw was that the prison was filled with prisoners, but if I looked closely, it was all scholars dressed as Confucian scholars. Some of them lay on the ground like him, some sat on the wall with their eyes blank, and some even let out whining and weeping, and from time to time they would summon the laughter of others.

"Hengxuan, why are you also arrested, didn't Chiming personally inform you?"

Guizhuang raised his head, but what he saw was a familiar acquaintance of the Hidden Poetry Society, who rarely had anything to say on weekdays because of his inconsistent interests, but his eyes were full of concern, and he directly blocked his words in his throat for a while.

"I still have important things to do, who knows ...... on the way"

Speaking of this, Guizhuang suddenly pulled the man, lowered his voice and asked him, "Apart from you and me, is there anyone else who has been arrested?" ”

Hearing this, the man was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head at Guizhuang, indicating that he didn't know very well, but he didn't see a single member of the Hidden Poetry Society when he was imprisoned in this prison.

With this answer, Gui Zhuang's heart calmed down a little. But he also knew that this person did not know that Qian Qianyi was the supporter and organizer behind the scenes of many anti-Qing people in the southeast, so he had to keep inquiring and knocking on the side. Fortunately, among the captured Wen people that this person knew, there was no Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Southeast Wenzong, and he was completely at ease when he returned to Zhuang.

"Fortunately, the shepherd was not exposed."

Gui Zhuang, who had settled down, only felt that the man was overwhelmed with fatigue when he boarded, and fell asleep on the thatched ground in a groggy state, and it was not until the next day that the servant woke up when he went to the court again, and what he was about to face was a new round of punishment......

While arresting the anti-Qing activists in the southeast, Jiangnan officials also confiscated the family property of these anti-Qing activists according to the charges. Many of these possessions were privately swallowed by officials at all levels, and most of them were transported to Nanjing to serve as food for the army of Zilharang.

In this way, officials from all over the country benefited a lot, and soon became happy. Next, it was Tonghai who went to see Zheng Chenggong in the First War of Nanjing, and it was Tonghai who persuaded the local government and the green camp anyway, and it was Tonghai who resisted the oppression of the Manchu nation in the past, and it was Tonghai who resisted the government administration or resisted taxes, and it was Tonghai who expressed dissatisfaction with the Manchus orally or in writing, and even later, even those who had grudges or contradictions with officials in various places were framed as Tonghai......

The Tonghai case began to evolve into a movement in which officials from all over the country pulled the tiger skins of Zilharang and Ma Guozhu and used them to make a fortune through framing and other forms. And for these actions of completely forcing the vast number of southeastern gentry to the opposite side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zierharang did not express any dissatisfaction, and while sending a huge amount of goods along the canal north, the prince of Heshuo Zheng also used a simple sentence to explain the truth to the apprehensive Ma Guozhu.

"The hearts of the people? My Qing Dynasty is a barbarian country in the eyes of the Han people, and it is easy to shave and obey, and there has never been any popular support. The current atmosphere can be relied on nothing more than the deterrence of the Eight Banners Army and the slaughter again and again. The Han people are afraid, so that the Qing Dynasty can be stabilized, and what this king is doing today is to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the conscription army. As long as you can win the battle against the Zhejiang bandits, no matter how many gentry rebel against this Jiangnan, it will still be in the Qing Dynasty, but if you can't win, this mess will also be cleaned up by Chen Wen, why are you wasting so much effort? ”

With these words, the enthusiasm of the Jiangnan government in the Tonghai case was further enhanced, but the gentry in the southeast were not completely pinched to death if they wanted to. In addition to a large number of people fleeing to the areas occupied by the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang, they even gathered crowds in mountainous areas, lakes, islands and other places to organize the righteous army to oppose the Qing Dynasty.

For a time, the seven prefectures and one prefecture controlled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were in flames everywhere, and a small anti-Qing rebel army like Pingyuan was greatly replenished with personnel and materials, and the local rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty soon broke out with a destructive power far greater than before.

"We still have to ask the king of Huiji County to send troops, we won't last long like this."

I just killed a few small officials and officials who went to the countryside to urge the department, compared to these gentry around me who were full of ambition and seemed to be able to recover Nanjing tomorrow, the plain had been swimming on the tip of the knife for a few years, and the basic truth was still known.

In this world, the grass on the wall is always the most, don't look at the large number of gentry who are now engaged in resisting the Qing Dynasty, but the vast majority of people are still obedient to the people, just like when the Manchu Qing Dynasty issued an order to shave their hair. Compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the gap between them in manpower and material resources is too big, and now they are sneaking up on some small officials and servants, and when the regular army does not get it right, they will finish the game immediately, even if they don't die for a while, they will be consumed to death sooner or later. For the sake of today's plan, only by inviting the tiger from eastern Zhejiang can the two brutes Jierharang and Ma Guozhu be killed, there is no other way.

It is not only Pingyuan who can see this, but also a large number of gentry who fled to the areas occupied by the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang, in addition to singing peace in the local area, and even more indispensable to go to the Huiji County Mansion in Jinhua Mansion in person, asking Chen Wen to send troops to serve them justice and relieve the suffering of the Jiangnan gentry from hanging upside down.

This is the proper meaning, and now even a fool can see that the only people who can solve this crisis are the remnants of the eunuch party, shameless people, vulgar warriors, and rebellious ministers and thieves that they blurted out and scolded before. Even in the words of some nerds, the king of Huiji County will not come out, and he will be born!

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Wu Yan left and returned home, and soon entered the territory of Songjiang Mansion, where the Ming army was stationed, although the Nantang battalion retreated to Jiaxing Mansion and Hangzhou Mansion to hand over, but the deterrent power of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was placed here, and the Manchu officials in Suzhou did not dare to arrest people here.

But on the day he entered Songjiang Mansion, he got the news of Guizhuang's arrest, and the bad news came into his ears, but Wu Yan didn't even care about sighing, and rushed to Jinhua overnight, because Chen Chen and Gu Yanwu were there, and now one is working in the Propaganda Department of the Huiji County Palace, and the other has joined the Huaxia Revival Association that was slandered by the Jiangnan gentry as a white lotus and smelling incense, and only by letting them go to Chen Wenjin as soon as possible can Guizhuang have a chance to survive.

Sitting in the carriage day and night, it was easy to arrive at Jinhua Mansion, and Wu Yan found Gu Ningren who was meeting guests at home according to the address that Gu Yanwu had left for Guizhuang before.

"Ning Ren, Hengxuan was captured by the Tartars, and was arrested by the Tartars......"

is strange and strange, not only about the style of the two, but also about the friendship between the two. Guizhuang was captured by the Qing army, which was definitely a bolt from the blue for Gu Yanwu, and he was allowed to stay where he was.

Next, Wu Yan informed him of the news and went to Kunshan to persuade Guizhuang to go to persuade him, and Guizhuang relayed to Gu Yanwu word for word what Guizhuang said to him.

Guizhuang once asked Wu Yan to tell Gu Yanwu that he must not go back to his hometown in Qiandeng Town, his servant Lu En's betrayal of the master had colluded with Ye Fangheng, who coveted the Gu family's property, which happened in this year in history, Gu Yanwu was imprisoned for this, and Guizhuang begged Qian Qianyi to rescue him. Now Gu Yanwu did not go home because he had always been in Jinhua with Lu Liuliang and others to improve his knowledge and promote the idea of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

"Quick, let's go, go to the Huiji County Palace."

Gu Yanwu took Wu Yan and left, but the guests in his house were not Jiangnan people, but they had read his articles in the Di newspaper, and the Jiangxi gentry who came to visit him saw that Gu Yanwu could no longer take care of him, so he had to leave a book to say goodbye - it was none of his business, he hung high, how the Jiangnan gentry scolded Chen Wen behind his back, he had heard a lot. Moreover, in the past few months, the newspapers in Zhejiang and Jiangxi have been publishing articles scolding Sun Kewang, from the house arrest of the Son of Heaven to the forced departure of Li Dingguo to the armed confrontation in Yuanzhou Mansion during Chen Wen's dispatch to Hangzhou, no matter how you look at it, it looks like he is going to march into Huguang and welcome the Son of Heaven, who knows if Chen Wen is willing to care about the life and death of the gentry in Jiangnan.

Gu Yanwu hurried to the palace of Huiji County, but Chen Wen was not in the palace, but in a workshop of the Department of Military Industry, interviewing a Huizhou businessman named Wang Fu.

"Raw materials have all over the Tuntian, especially in Zhejiang, many of them can be replanted, and the goods are produced without worrying about sales, Taixi, Japan, North Korea, Ryukyu, which side will be purchased at a high price, which is a sure profit and no loss. The rest depends on Mr. Wang, this king just wants to be a shopkeeper. ”

Supporting industry, this is Chen Wen's established plan, and now the water conservancy workshop has become a scale, mass production of various fixed types of machinery, whether it is hydraulic machinery, or windpower, manpower, animal power machinery, the production speed is far better than hand-built. As long as Chen Wen thinks, Zhejiang will be able to fill the workshop in a few years, and the goods produced will also use the channels of European and Chinese maritime merchants to go to the world.

"The king has all the opportunities, and it is a blessing for the villain to be able to share the worries of the king."

With Chen Wen's tiger skin and Huizhou intact to the hands of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, Wang Fu not only won Chen Wen's endorsement, but also entered the forefront of the support list, even higher than the old gentleman of the Zhu family in Quzhou, who he once regarded as an idol. Wang Fu understands all this as a continuation of the "heavy military merits of the national dynasty", so he cherishes this hard-won reward even more.

"Mr. Wang can choose a site now, build a workshop, and the machinery needed will be in place soon, and you are the first batch."

With the Tonghai case, a large number of Jiangnan gentry went south, which not only drove Zhejiang's consumption, but also stimulated the economy to a certain extent, and also brought the habit of empty talk back to this land.

Every day, there would be petitioners who unanimously demanded that Chen Wen immediately lead the army north and drive the Manchus out of Jiangnan in order to relieve the suffering of the people in Jiangnan. The slogans were shouted one after another, and even those who took the initiative to praise the military supplies were very large, and the amount was quite a lot, which was a treatment that Chen Wen had not enjoyed for several years.

Back in the palace, Chen Wen didn't have time to go back to see his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law when he saw Gu Yanwu, who was already sweating profusely, and listened to Wu Yan's experience very politely, but Chen Wen couldn't give them any time, because as soon as he said this, it would immediately spread throughout Zhejiang and Jiangnan, and Jierharang could get time to send troops when he sat in Xingyuan. No way, this is the gentry.

Back home, his daughter was still taking a nap, Chen Wen ate a snack and went back to the study, trying to deal with some official business before dinner.

In the study, the subordinates are not allowed to enter it, only Zhou Yueying grinds by hand at the desk and adds fragrance to the red sleeves. It wasn't until a long time later, when the time for dinner came, and Chen Wen's official duties came to an end, that she held Chen Wen's hands.

"Husband, the time, the place, and the people, all three are in place, it's time to send troops."

"Indeed, as the lady said, it's time!"