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The rebellion against the Qing gentry and parishioners lasted less than twenty days before being quelled by the Taiping army, which reacted quickly.

Compared to the well-organized and battle-hardened Taiping army, the hastily organized rebels who lacked weapons and training were not even as good as bandits. Facts have proved that if it were not for the limited transmission of information in this era, so that it could not be suppressed in advance, I am afraid that at the beginning, all the gentry and religious leaders involved in the uprising would have been captured.

The most brutal and badly damaged repression was Matsue. Zhou Shixiang stayed in Songjiang for seven days, until the last parishioner was hacked to death with a knife, and the head of the head of the sect was chopped off with lime, and the head was sent to various places to spread the head, and then Zhou Shixiang left the temple that was destroyed by fire and went to Suzhou.

On the day he arrived in Suzhou, Zhou Shixiang immediately summoned Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangsu, and after scolding the latter, the order to launch a rebellion was issued from the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu.

The anti-rebellion movement severely cracked down on the Jiangnan gentry who participated in the rebellion, and almost uprooted the gentry forces who had managed to survive from the three major cases. As a result, the people in Jiangnan did not dare to send their children to school again, for fear that they would be tied up and beheaded by the Taiping Army after they read the book. And those parishioners scattered all over the south of the Yangtze River were also surrounded by officers and soldiers one by one for screening. The monasteries were demolished one after another, and in the face of the butcher's knives of the Taiping army, the parishioners chose to obey. They are powerless and dare not dare to resist again, because the head of the sect and bandit who came from the head is not fake.

The screening process is also full of blood. In some places where the bandits were seriously harmed, there were even retaliatory actions that were not organized by the government, and after the vendetta killings, the number of parishioners in Jiangnan plummeted to less than 30 percent of the original number. After the screening, it was the promulgation of the Protestant temple decree, and a large number of scripture teachers were deprived of their missionary qualifications and sent to study in the Nandu Dajiao Temple, and they could never return to the world in this life.

Although Zhang Changgeng was the main leader of the anti-rebellion movement, it was Wang Shirong, who had experience in suppressing the rebellion in Guangdong, who actually commanded it.

Wang Shirong has meritorious service in guarding Kunshan, and this time he was directly promoted by Zhou Shixiang, and he was actually responsible for the Jiangnan rebellion.

Wang Shirong had to be reused, and he showed his ambition and ability, and in just half a month, more than 1,000 gentry and scholars were signed and killed by him. Tanhualang Ye Fangai and his father Ye Tiancheng, who fled north to no avail, were convicted of "treason", first paraded through the streets of their hometown in Kunshan, and then tried in Suzhou. After the public trial, he was beheaded in public. After learning that Tanhualang had been beheaded, some superstitious people rushed from all over the world just to get a little of Tanhualang's blood and go home to treat their relatives.

Because this riot seriously affected Zhou Shixiang's plan to go north, and caused serious losses to the provinces, Zhou Shixiang strictly ordered that the suppression of the rebellion must be re-executed and completely eliminated. This caused many gentry who were originally only sentenced or released to prison to Annan to be executed, and Wang Shirong made a big deal of trouble, such as the father plotting against the son and the son conspiring against the father to be executed. But if one person in a family participates in the rebellion, the whole family will be punished. And encourage the people to expose, for a while, countless heads in Jiangnan fell to the ground, bloody and terrifying.

However, compared with the smell of blood that permeated the sky over the south of the Yangtze River and the "public revelation of the state of Liudu Parliament" that was taking place in Nanjing, it was far from enough to shock and fear the gentry of the southern capital.

In the eyes of the gentry in the southern capital, no matter how many people were killed in Jiangnan, they were not as ruthless as Gu Yanwu's big-character poster.

Nanjing City has now been turned upside down by Gu Yanwu's public revelation.

After a while in Songjiang, Gu Yanwu was promoted by Zhou Shixiang as the imperial history of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but after Gu Yanwu went to the southern capital, he did not go to the Imperial Palace, but personally posted a big-character poster at the Daming Gate in Nanjing - "Leaving the Capital to Discuss the Public".

On this big-character poster, Gu Yanwu openly proposed that the emperor should be the holy son of heaven, learn from Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor and rule by the arch, and the emperor should decide if the world is not right, but should be entrusted to the virtuous ministers and nobles. He boldly proposed that the world is for the public, and nothing can be humane for the world. And bluntly said in the public revelation that the world is not the court, and the court is not the world. The so-called "world" is a nation, tens of millions of Han people, not a surname and a king.

In other words, Gu Yanwu, the great Confucian of the time, had a backbone in the back of his head, and he actually thought that the emperor could not do it.

At the same time, Gu Yanwu believes that the current officials and gentry should reflect on why the Ming Dynasty has come to this day, why there is a difficulty in Jiashen, and why there is a catastrophe that almost destroyed the country. In addition, he proposed that the abolition of officials should be abolished, schools should be established, and the establishment of villages and townships should be comprehensively promoted. At the same time, we will vigorously train professional talents to replace the original imperial examination officials. However, the imperial examination should be thoroughly reformed, and the subjects of arithmetic, economics and history (language), law and order (law), gewu (science), military equipment (military), government affairs (common sense of organization and process), and industry and commerce should be used instead of the previous eight shares.

Half of the various measures proposed by Gu Yanwu are being implemented by Zhou Shixiang, but this time they are comprehensively summarized and proposed by him, a great Confucian, and are characterized by "putting things in order".

The core concept of "Staying in the Capital and Discussing the Country" can be summed up in one sentence, the country has today's difficulties, and it is all the fault of the system and the gentry, so the system must be changed, and the gentry must also be changed. Since in the past, it was people who did not have the ability to cause the country's difficulties, then from now on, whoever has the ability in this country will do it.

As soon as the public announcement of the parliament was revealed, the whole city of Nanjing was shocked, and even Emperor Dingwu, who had not been in court for a long time, was also shaken.

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The first to know that Gu Yanwu posted the "Confession of the Discussion of the Kingdom of Liudu" was the great Confucian Huang Zongxi, who was still a Taifu at the time, and the great Confucian Huang Zongxi was personally recommended to Emperor Dingwu. And Gu Yanwu is the right capital of Zhou Shixiang. Now, this right capital imperial history didn't even come to the yamen, and even his left capital imperial history didn't visit, so he posted a sensational big-character poster outside the Daming Gate, and Huang Zongxi was extremely angry. And in his opinion, the content of the public disclosure is so arrogant and presumptuous.

As the saying goes, "there are no three sunny days", the clouds and clouds will not disappear on their own, and they will not give up the vast sky on their own.

As soon as Gu Yanwu's big-character poster was posted, Zhou Dang's cabinet scholar Ding Zhixiang and Yuan Kuoyu immediately organized people to build momentum for him, and organized three discussions on state affairs with more than 100 participants.

Although the first assistant Guo Zhiqi is not a member of the Zhou Party, he also supports Zhou Shixiang's governance, but this time Gu Yanwu openly proposed a hypocrite and wanted to completely reform the government, implying that all the princes of the dynasty were incapable people, which obviously made Guo Zhiqi difficult to accept. Moreover, Guo Zhiqi has deep doubts about what Gu Yanwu revealed, that is, who is the capable person?

The person who Gu Yanwu claimed to have the ability did not refer to Zhou Shixiang, the king of Qi. The purpose of his proposal is not to test the court and test people's hearts for Zhou Shixiang. Once the emperor is dethroned, will this capable King of Qi be able to replace him?

If the hypocrite is just to change the king, then Gu Yanwu must have been instructed by Zhou Shixiang behind this public revelation, does this show that His Royal Highness the King of Qi finally can't hold back his inner ambition and wants to usurp himself and stand on his own?