As soon as these words came out, the crowd was silent. www.biquge.info This matter has been going on for three years in Changzhou Mansion alone, and ordinary people have heard those small officials read it out as long as they have entered the county seat, and even read it out in front of the gentry and the common people a few times, and some of the people present have heard the cocoons in their ears.

The Gu family can't be deceived on this, because many gentry, including Qian Qianyi, have also accepted Qingzhang Tianmu, and the Jiangnan gentry are not monolithic, so it is not a secret to the people. Seeing this, they had no choice but to make up a lie to arouse public anger, as long as the team was not allowed to go to the countryside to measure, then it would be easy to say anything.

At this moment, everyone's eyes converged on Gu Shu's face, and the whispers sounded again, but they were no longer the same as before, but directly suspected that the Gu family was deceiving the government and the people.

The whispering voice became more and more dense, Gu Shu was stunned for a moment, then jumped out and shouted loudly to the voice: "You are not a local citizen!" ”

Gu Shu wanted to change the topic, but also to imply to the people present that this person's words were not credible. This is a common way of thinking, and when a person is deemed to be untrustworthy, even if he says something that people have seen with their own eyes, some of them ignore it.

For this kind of means, Gu Shu is familiar with it, and he understands it. However, the man was not in a hurry, when he walked out of the crowd, bowed directly in front of Zhu Weining, and said respectfully: "The villain is indeed not a native citizen, but a businessman who walks on his feet. This time, I heard this Gu Juren say that the government should levy an additional tax on the basis of the autumn tax to make up for the deficit of the usual liquidation, so he came to join in the excitement out of righteous indignation. ”

The merchant bowed, and he was completely respectful and respectful. Although no one knew this person, looking at the small objects in the bamboo basket, as well as the wear and tear of the clothes on his body and the temperament of the whole person, he looked like a businessman at a glance.

"Since you are not from your hometown, why are you here, and how did you listen to the words of the Gu Juren?"

"Back to the words of the old man, the villain is a person from Suzhou, who sells goods for a living. This time, Suzhou has a new look, so it purchased a batch and shipped it to Wuxi to sell. Most of the villain's goods are sold in the county, and these are the ones left, thinking about going out of the city to sell them out, and then collecting some things from the countryside and returning to the hometown to sell. Early this morning, the villain went out of the city, listened to the guidance of passers-by to sell goods in the village, and just sold two pieces, just in time for the Gu Juren to gather in the village with domestic slaves and tenants, and he would rush here. ”

After listening to this explanation, many people in Suzhou immediately believed it. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the gentry and the common people caught up with the fashion trend, which was nothing more than two places. One of them is the palace, for example, one day Concubine Yuan wore a light blue silk dress to serve the king, and Emperor Chongzhen praised "this special Yaqian", which was spread to the outside of the palace.

Relative to the palace and other occasional such places, Suzhou is the real leading fashion trend of the place, the Ming and Qing dynasties have "Su style", "Su Yi" said, from the way of life to the way of behavior, such as clothing wearing, the use of utensils, food and living, calligraphy and painting appreciation, antique collections, opera performances, language expression, all-encompassing, are based on the style of Suzhou, artistic conception as an example. And this kind of trend, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, was popular for three centuries.

In the same way, many of the merchants in Suzhou also sold goods to other towns with new styles of utensils. And in the bamboo basket of this businessman, if you look carefully, there are styles from last year, and there are also those that have just become popular this year, one of which is a copy of Jin Sheng's sigh and criticism of the Water Margin, looking like that, it is obviously not less read.

"The villain seems to have seen this merchant selling things in the county yesterday, and he is a little familiar."

"Yes, today he is still selling a comb to my mother-in-law in the village, which is a new style this year, but it is beautiful."

With proof of what the merchant said, Zhu Weining turned to look at Gu Shu, frowned, and asked him directly: "Gu Juren, you just said that the people invited you to come over and make decisions, but now it seems that you are spreading rumors and making trouble. You are so deceived by this official, what is the intention in it, and what are the disadvantages of it, say! ”

"This, this ......"

Whether it is Gu Shu or the gentry who came with them, they resist the decree on weekdays, and the civil officials are in the same class as them, how can they leave a little affection, the officials are like this, and the small officials who are almost hereditary locals dare not offend them, and there is no such "traitor" behind them, they have always been used to it, where have they seen such a scene.

A fourth-grade civil official asked with displeasure on his face, Gu Shu swallowed his saliva, Rao is he was originally a talented man, and he only reacted after a while, and directly threw the black pot on the previous tenant.

The civil prosecutor, now there is no need to fight the killer baton again, and if the lawsuit wins, there is naturally no need to worry about the two thousand miles of the army, but the matter of Chang Ping was originally made up by the Gu family to arouse the anger of the people, and falsely accusing the official is not a light crime at any time.

At this moment, Gu Shu had no choice but to look at the tenant and ask the tenant to carry the matter down. However, in the face of Zhu Weining's harsh words and Gu Shu's hard work, the tenant was already so anxious that he was sweating profusely, but he couldn't say a word, and after a few breaths, he passed out on the ground.

Seeing this, Gu Shudeng breathed a sigh of relief, and then saluted Zhu Weining, and said slowly: "Zhu Daotai, this person is a tenant of the student's family, and the family is an honest farmer. The student knows a little bit about this person, and believes that he does not dare to lie, and there must be a problem with closing the position. If it is confirmed that there is nothing wrong, the student is willing to personally send him to the yamen of the Criminal Department to await trial, and he is also willing to explain a thing or two to the people for the government. ”

According to Gu Shu's calculations, now that things have returned to the original point, the work team cannot advance an inch, Zhu Weining returned to the city, today's Qingzhang is the first battle is unfavorable, and today even Tuntian Road is forced to return to the city, and the morale of Qingzhang's work is also extremely huge. At that time, try to reach a compromise with the government, completely settle down those hidden fields, and spit out a little bit, and give King Qi a face, and this matter will be over.

As for the crime of spreading rumors, when the results of the investigation came out, he had already completed the coercion and temptation of the tenant, and when the time came, it was said that the tenant listened to the bewitchment of the footman and reported the matter to him, so that there was this incident.

To be honest, although it is foolproof to deal with it like this, it still makes Gu Shu extremely aggrieved. However, now that the officials who had collusion between the government and the gentry have been taken down, the new arrivals are all crazy people who want to use their family property as capital for future promotion, completely ignoring the decency of scholars. In addition, His Royal Highness the King of Qi, who had used knives against the gentry in Zhejiang and Jiangnan, and the incident mentioned by Wu Zhaoqian made the Gu family a little restrained in terms of resistance, not as unscrupulous as Ming Ji Cheng.

Gu Shu calculated very well, but Zhu Weining did not plan to perform according to his script, and it can even be said that this Tuntian Dao had no intention of playing cards according to common sense from the first moment he appeared here.

"Gu Juren wants to be the master for this official this time, but this official is only a Tuntian Dao, not an official of the Criminal Division, and it is useless for Your Excellency to do it."

Speaking of this, Zhu Weining turned his head and asked a civil official beside him, and the civil official next to him gave him only one answer, that is, even the tenants, Gu Shu and others had to go back to the criminal department together, because this matter was either dealt with according to rumors, or according to the people to report corruption cases, the defendant or the plaintiff, it didn't matter if the identity of the plaintiff, it was impossible to let the Gu family and the tenants collude.

It's just a tenant, Gu Shu has no plans to come out, but if he is caught, Chen Wen will have a reason to punish them, which the Gu family does not want to see.

Put it in the past, let the tenants go back with you, and then send someone to inform the small officials and officials in the county government, and there is still an impermeable wall? But now, all the officials in the county government who are related to them have been taken down, and as soon as the tenant wakes up and is intimidated by the government, it is not even necessary to be punished, and they can get the certificate that is unfavorable to them, and then I am afraid that it will no longer be as simple as clearing the acres of land.

"Zhu Daotai, the students and others have all read the books of sages, can they still lie? This person is indeed honest, maybe he was bewitched by that stranger with ulterior motives. Such innocence and goodness must not be taken away, otherwise what heavenly justice and justice are there in this world? ”

Speaking of this, Gu Shu's voice also increased sharply, so that more people could hear it as much as possible, so as to arouse the common hatred of the people in his hometown. However, there are a lot of people who came this time, more than 1,000 people, and it is not as neat as the army array, and Wuyang and Wuyang spread on the official road and the ridges and trails on both sides of the official road. No matter how loud Gu Shu's voice is, it is just for the people near the left to hear it clearly, as for the farther places, especially the rear of the crowd, at this moment, he is still immersed in suspicion of the Gu family's rumors.

"The left is also their Gu family, the right is also their Gu family, their Gu family is a good person in front of the government, and they are also a good person in front of the villagers, and the bad people are all ordinary people, when the government blames them, they are clean, and it is not us people who suffer?"

"That's it, that's it, let them say all the good things, and the government must not think that we are all Diao people, and if something happens in the future, it will definitely not be good."

"If you want to say that this reader has a lot of eyes, but he doesn't want to benefit the people, and always uses his eyes on us, then even if he reads a lot of books, he is not a good person."

This makes sense, when the Tartars went south, the ivory wat boards in Nanjing City were piled up like a hill, God couldn't stand it, it was called a heavy rain, but the old men in the court went to the city gate to kneel to welcome the Tartars, which really lost the face of the scholars. Counting on them, we have to follow the shaving of our hair and change our clothes, and we will not see our ancestors after death. ”

"We countrymen don't know much about the things outside, but I have heard that the juniors of the Gu family have been studying hard in the past few years, preparing for the imperial examination of the Tartars, if it weren't for His Royal Highness the King of Qi recovering Nanjing, I am afraid that they will be cruel to the people for the Tartars."

“……”

At the back of the crowd, at first it was just the whispers of a few idlers from other places, but when the sound came out, someone would always hear it. Gradually, more and more people heard it, more and more people discussed, and the suspicion of the Gu family gradually spread, but Gu Shu still relied on the domestic slaves and tenants by his side, and openly discussed with the team his traditional theory of "about that they are scholars, and scholars are righteous gentlemen, and righteous gentlemen do not lie, so as righteous men and gentlemen, they are the truth, and anyone who differs from their views is a treacherous person".

"As long as I Gu Shu is here today, I will never allow you to wronged such kindness!"

Gu Shuyi's words are righteous, and he is afraid that even if Old Master Confucius comes into the world, he will be ashamed of himself. Seeing this, the gentry who came with him also stepped forward one after another, standing side by side with Gu Shu, and the tenants of the Gu family were also driven forward by the house slaves, with the momentum of the strong gentry.

Gu Shu and the other gentry, like their predecessors, stood tall in front of the government's decrees, shoulder to shoulder, fearlessly looking directly at the eyes of the task force. In contrast, the team saw the crowd of people, and the officials carried water and fire sticks to guard the front, and they trembled like frightened hens.

Justice is about to be served, and the plot seems to have begun to develop like the tax resistance and order resistance that Gu Shu and they had seen before. However, at this time, a son of the Gu family ran over like a dead person, and when he saw Gu Shu, he told him a shocking news before he could even breathe.

"Master, it's no good, another team from the government is almost in Jingli, and they are attacking the west."

Hearing this, Gu Shu was stunned, Jingli is where the old house of the Gu family is located, the Gu family is the fourth ancestor of Gu Shu, and the fifth ancestor of Gu Zhenguan, Gu Xue's generation, is just the pavilion chief in the township, operating some small workshops of tofu, grain and rice to make a living, completely relying on Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng brothers to be admitted to the Jinshi, and then founded the Donglin Party.

On the Jingli side, where the old house is located, there is also a large area of land, if the team is asked to clear the land on the side of the old house, they will stick to this side, even if they block the way of Zhu Weining and his party, it will be worth the loss, and even put the cart before the horse.

Thinking of this, Gu Shu had a plan to send some people back to the old house. However, before he could think through the pros and cons of this, the task force suddenly moved, and when he looked closely, it turned out that the garrison that had been repairing on the side of the road suddenly stood up and began to form a formation on the official road.

It is a recognized fact that the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang has the best combat effectiveness in the world, whether it is the Eight Banners Army of the Tartars or those Western thieves, they have never taken advantage of the Ming Army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang. Seeing the garrison of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, the crowd fluctuated and exclaimed, and even Gu Shu and the gentry were trying their best to retreat, intending to retreat into the crowd of domestic slaves and tenants.

It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but at the same time as this moment of wavering, bursts of exclamations came from the rear of the crowd, and the "demonstration" procession of more than 1,000 people immediately became a mess.

"The Gu family forbade the Tartars, the evidence is conclusive, Master Wang is here to arrest them!"

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi said that if anyone dares to shield the Gu family, he will be guilty of the same crime as the Gu family, and he will be killed!"

"This group of bastards of the Gu family wants to pull us to be dogs for the Tartars, we are all good people, sons of the Han family, we must not be in the same league with the Gu family's group of traitors."

"The officers and soldiers are going to do it, let's not be here to accompany the funeral of the Gu family, run!"

“……”

The screams rang out at the back of the crowd, spreading to the crowd a hundred times faster than the previous whispers. As a man took the first step to escape, in the heart of fear against the king master, the people also fled in all directions. In a short time, thousands of people ran away in full view of these gentry, and not only did they fail to dissuade one or two, but even the house slaves and tenants they brought with them also ran away.

"This, how can this be?"

The garrison only stood up, reorganized itself, and did not take even half a step forward, and thousands of people with farm tools in their hands were scattered in a burst of rumors. Gu Shu and the others looked at all this dumbfounded, their eyes full of disbelief.

"There is a lot of help for the righteous, but there is little help for the unjust, resisting the decree is to resist the king, it is to open his eyes for the Tartars, those villagers are not fools, who is right and who is wrong?"

Zhu Weining was like this, Gu Shu was still in shock, but his son Gu Zhenguan had already reacted, and when he rushed forward, he pointed at Zhu Weining's nose and asked loudly: "Zhu Daotai, the king of Qi has a heart of disobedience, and since you are the surname of the country, why bother to show up for it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Gu Shu and the others were even startled, especially the person from the Gao family, their eyes widened, obviously they had been frightened by Gu Zhenguan's wild words.

Gu Zhenguan was like this, obviously a dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, Zhu Weining saw this young scholar like this, but he only sneered: "You have to worry about it, the official is surnamed Zhu, and his hometown is also in Jiangxi, but he is not a prince and grandson, and there are many people in the family who were exploited by those vassal kings in the early years." Even if the official is the king and grandson, he also knows that this world is not the world of one person, but the world of the people, and as an official, he is the parent of the people, and he must try to make the people's life better. As the sage said, if you are in a hurry, you know the etiquette. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Weining smiled, looked at the sky in the distance, and stroked his left chest with his right hand. There, inside the official robe, a badge of the membership of the Chinese Revival Association was clearly displayed in the touch of the palm.