Chapter 16: Official Coercion and Civil Rebellion (1)
Wu Jianzhang went to the British Concession to find out the situation of arresting Chen Dingtian to no avail, which made Lu Jianying, who was in charge of cleaning up this "Officialdom Appearance", very angry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info But Lu Jianying didn't dare to go too far, because Lu Jianying knew that the Manchus were very afraid of foreigners, and they didn't dare to offend foreigners. But he also knows that if Chen Dingtian, the "main master", is not arrested and severely punished, then most of the effect of cleaning up "The Appearance of Officialdom" this time will be gone.
Because the author of "The Appearance of Officialdom" is Chen Dingtian, if Chen Dingtian, the author, is at large, then the effect of this on the Manchu Qing Dynasty's attack on those intellectuals will be greatly reduced. It's like some so-called cases, just those little minions are sentenced, but the main culprit is at large, which is actually a big discount for this case. Punishing criminals is actually to curb crime, but the main culprit is just sentenced to some minions, so it is actually useless. So Chen Dingtian was not caught, which made Lu Jianying very depressed.
"After the order, anyone who dares to collect this "Officialdom Appearance" will be severely punished, and the whole family will be arrested and severely punished. Since we can't catch Chen Dingtian, then we will use iron-blooded means to suppress it, so who would dare to hide this "Officialdom Appearance" privately. Lu Jianying said.
Obviously, this Lu Jianying can't catch Chen Dingtian, so he will use ordinary people to be angry. Since Chen Dingtian could not be caught, he deliberately used this method in Zhulian, and then it could play a warning role.
And those officials and even various low-level officials heard the news, which was even more exciting. This is the "Shang Fang Sword" that has been widely connected, which can completely allow them to implicate innocents without scruples, and then extort money. This is the intention of the top to deter through the strain, because this Lu Jianying can't catch Chen Dingtian, so he naturally hopes to create "white. terror" to deter. However, for those middle and low-level officials, it is a good opportunity to make a big profit, so they also feel very developed.
In Jiading County, people are arrested every day. Of course, in fact, most of them are wronged. Maybe someone has found a "Officialdom Appearance", not only the person who collects it will be arrested, but also the surrounding neighbors, all kinds of relatives and friends.
There are even some more hateful, that is, those Manchu officials casually threw a copy of "The Appearance of Officialdom" into other people's homes, and then deliberately pretended to search for it. In the end, the search was found, and immediately began to arrest people on a large scale.
Therefore, in just three days, people in Jiading County were also panicked, and more than 300 people were arrested. Even the scope of this strain is still expanding, and those officials also swear not to give up on those who were caught, and even if they don't squeeze out the last copper plate.
"Get out of here!" Several officials threw several people out.
These people were not lightly injured, but they were all skin injuries, and they did not hurt the vital point. And these people, obviously a few readers, they thought that you had been arrested for "The Appearance of Officialdom", and now because you were knocked out of the bone and sucked the marrow, there was really no oil and water, and they were all thrown out and self-destructed.
"Brother Liu, our family is gone, and all our family's properties have been sold. In order to save me, they sold all their property, even cheaply! The price of the sale is less than 10% of the past!" A literati cried.
That Brother Liu also cried: "Yes! It's the same with our family, our family is all sold, and now we are penniless, even if we come out, how can we live! ”
"I can't live!"
There were four or five scholars here, and their families were originally from some landlords, but now because of this "Officialdom Appearance", they were arrested by those Manchu bureaucrats, and then carried out extortion. In order not to be affected, their family did not hesitate to sell all their properties. In the end, there was really no oil and water left to blackmail, so they were released. After these four or five scholars came out, their homes were gone, their land was gone, and some of them were even forced to sell their sisters to others, just in exchange for not being imprisoned by this text.
"I don't have the face to live, my mother, my mother actually ...... in order to save me Mother, why didn't you think about it and go? Someone knelt down and cried.
Obviously, in this ugly era, under the persecution of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, there is really no humanity left. In order to save her son, a mother may have done something that did not conform to the ethics and morals of this era. But this made his son have no courage to live, because if anyone else heard him, they would definitely point fingers. Even, after his mother came out, she committed suicide in order to ensure her honor.
If it were another time, the people around him might look down on him, and even more so on his mother. But now, everyone's situation is similar, so they all feel the same way. At this moment, all of them, the literati, also erupted with strong indignation.
"Brother Liu, this is really an official coercion and a rebellion! The appearance of officialdom is really a living officialdom appearance! This is really the government forcing the people to rebel, forcing us to rebel! A thin-looking literati said angrily.
That Brother Liu was still a little nervous, and said, "Be cautious, be cautious!" ”
But another scholar laughed very miserably, and said, "Be cautious? We're all in this situation, are you still cautious? I'll his grandma! ”
Finally, a scholar immediately said, "We might as well do the opposite, right?" ”
"Rebellion?"
Hearing this, everyone was stunned.
"Yes, we have nothing left, no home, no relatives, what do we have? We are just a rotten life, fighting with these corrupt officials and corrupt officials! ”
Originally, in the eyes of these readers, it was a big rebellion. But at this moment, a few readers next to him didn't refute, at least not immediately. Because they are all victims of the corrupt officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they have no home and no wealth, and they are also a rotten life. So now these people are all poor and crazy, and they have nothing.
And after experiencing this incident, they also completely saw the decadent rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the rotten nature of the Manchu feudalism. So they don't have anything else now, it's just a rotten life, so they will fight with them.
And most other readers are like this, because these readers are actually very "honest" on weekdays, but honesty does not mean that there is no anger. Countless historical experiences can prove that it is often honest people who get angry, and that is the most terrible. An honest man is like a spring, maybe he doesn't get angry on weekdays, but once he is really forced to get angry, he will be desperate.
Although these readers seem to be weak and deceitful on weekdays, they often really force the readers to the point of getting angry, which is really the most terrifying.
Sure enough, when other literati heard about the rebellion, they didn't object, and immediately that Lao Liu also thought about it and said: "This world is really a rebellion of officials and people, and they actually connected us for a "Officialdom Appearance", and we don't have anything else now, that is, a rotten life." In that case, we might as well fight. Fight to the death, count one, we fight with them! ”
"Okay, fight with them!" The few people around who were miserable were also angry.
Soon, several scholars didn't care about anything, and they turned around together and returned to the yamen, not caring about anything at all. The two officials at the door watched the scholars rush over, obviously not thinking of what they were going to do, but they still walked over very proudly.
"What? Do you still want to come and die? Stinky beggars! The two officials said disdainfully.
"Kill me!"
Four or five scholars rushed in front of the two officials, which was only a few meters away, and even the literati had arrived in an instant. What's more, those officials didn't expect that these weak and bullying scholars would suddenly work hard. In their eyes, these scholars are all show-talented people who have failed to rebel for three years, and they are all very weak. But now that I'm going to fight hard, I'm really unprepared!
Soon, under Lao Liu's command, the other four scholars pulled the official respectively, and two of them were responsible for strangling the official with his arm according to the plan they had discussed before, and the other was responsible for disturbing the struggling hand of the official. In such a team of two, although they were literati, they were bitter and unintentional, and after making a plan in advance, they all succeeded in killing these two officials who were not too strong.
These four scholars successfully killed two officials, so that in Chen Dingtian's "killing" number, he succeeded again in +2.
The four scholars were also a little bit of a level, so they actually made a plan, changed the clothes on the officials, and then deliberately pressed the three arrested scholars by the two officials, and then walked into the county office. Of course, this situation is not new, and it is also happening these days. Many officials were also deliberately implicated, so many people were arrested.
Under the leadership of Lao Liu, the five scholars successfully passed the clothes and waist cards of the officials and entered the county government, and then they still had a few levels and came directly to the county government cell.
"Kill!"
The two scholars used the knives of the officials they had just seized to kill the jailers of the two prisons, and seized two knives again, as well as some keys.
Soon, this disguised reader finally revealed his identity.
"Ladies and gentlemen of Jiading, we were originally good people, but we were killed and extorted by these corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Even if we can't come up with the money, then we will all be killed. Many of us now have no homes, no wealth, no property, and we have nothing. Are we willing to go on like this? Our family, our property, everything we have have been robbed by this corrupt official. We now have nothing but a rotten life. Are you willing to follow me to fight against his mother, and then are you still willing to wait here to be knocked out by these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and in the end life is better than death? When the time comes, everyone's family will be gone, and wives, wives, daughters, and even mothers will all be defiled by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials. At that time, what kind of face did we have to live in this world? When the time comes, what kind of face will we have to live in this world? ”
"So, we're fucking back. Any of you who will follow me against the fuck, stand up for me. It's a gentleman, stand up for me! Whoever wants to follow me against the fuck, I'll let him go right away! The old Liu took the key he had snatched from the jailer's hand and shouted loudly.
Sure enough, there are many people who can't stand the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
"I'm willing, I'm going to it off! I'm also a pig killer, and they actually slandered me for having this forbidden book. I can't even write my own name, so how can I be a collector of banned books? It is unreasonable for these corrupt officials to arrest me. Fight with them! A butcher shouted.
Soon, with the first, there was also the second. Many people are innocently implicated, or even framed. So they all began to despair about this Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were desperate for Mai Qing, and they were not willing to be knocked out of their bones and sucked by the Manchu corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and then they were oppressed to death. In the end, they were even made one by one not ghosts, their own families, their wives and sisters, and even their mothers, all of whom were insulted by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials. At that time, a man himself, a man who was a son of man, a brother, a father, and a husband couldn't protect his mother, sister, wife and daughter, so what kind of face did he have to live in this world?
Therefore, they also chose to rebel. Anyway, they don't have anything else, that is, a rotten life, what is there to care about? In this kind of situation, which is just a bad life, the idea of killing one is enough and killing two to earn one suddenly appeared.
These scholars, who were originally good citizens and even the core of feudal rule, began to despair of the Manchu Qing and even became crazy. At this time, they also chose to come out to rebel, because they had begun to despair of the Manchu government.
"Rush!"
The hundreds of people who came out of the prison and were arrested by the Manchus began to rush out one after another, chasing and killing those from the Manchu government everywhere. Jiading County suddenly became a pot of porridge and became the world of those insurgents. The ranks of those who revolted quickly expanded from a few hundred to thousands, and began to hunt down the Manchu officials everywhere.
Soon, the whole of Jiangsu was shocked by the uprising in this Jiading County.