Chapter 10: The Appearance of Officialdom (2)

"Bastard, immediately order, order the three classes of officials, all of them to go out, to take away this so-called "Officialdom Appearance" for me. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhoever dares to hide it privately, it will be severely punished! Yu Longguang, the magistrate of Qingpu, shouted angrily.

Soon, all the officials in Qingpu County also searched everywhere, and then began to search everywhere in the county, and all the books that were found in the officialdom were confiscated. And all kinds of printing houses were forbidden, and if they dared to continue printing, they were also closed down. Those officials went to the streets to search for various versions of the official appearance, but many of them were not the ones compiled and commissioned by Chen Dingtian for printing. Even many printing houses have started to type a lot of new editions on their own, so there are all kinds of editions. In this era, there is no pressure to pirate, and those various printing houses will print whatever books are good to sell.

As a result, in just a few days, although the original genuine copies of the Heaven and Earth Society were only 5,000 copies, those pirated copies were definitely more than ten times his. In this ancient world, didn't a scholar read just to become an official? When they see that this "Officialdom Appearance" teaches you how to be an official, they will also spend money to buy a copy, not to mention that it is not expensive. Therefore, this is almost Qingpu County, and even all kinds of readers in Shanghai and East China. Such government officials searched everywhere, but they could not search cleanly at all.

"Lord Zhixian, we are similar, we have only found more than 1,000 copies in the past few days, and we secretly don't know how many there are! Even, you see, my lord, now there are not only big books, but also all kinds of small books. Look at this, it's so small that it can be put directly into the sleeve, and we have no way to search it! If we go and search the sleeves of the people who secretly want to read, then we are really insulting, we are not human inside and out! The officials smiled bitterly.

Yu Longguang looked at this "pocket version" of "The Appearance of Officialdom", and suddenly felt a toothache. These printing houses are all very smart, as businessmen, where do they not know how to operate? Yu Longguang ordered a search, and even the magistrates of several other surrounding counties also ordered a search of this officialdom to prevent them from continuing to read.

However, the style of those who have policies and countermeasures has been brought into full play, and the merchants of those printing houses have launched "pocket editions" of books, which are very small and can be stored directly in their pockets or sleeves. In this way, those officials were caught quickly, and they did not dare to offend those scholars during the Manchu Qing Dynasty. They may search the homes of scholars, but they do not dare to search them, because these scholars have many privileges, and they do not dare to offend them easily.

So, it's embarrassing. Not daring to search the body means that these pocket versions of "The Appearance of Officialdom" cannot be searched, and the pocket version of the forehead style is still spreading, so they can't stop this circulating trend.

"But what about this? Could it be that this Chen Dingtian's book is circulating everywhere? If this is the case, then the face of our court will also be lost. This Chen Dingtian is really unreasonable, an out-and-out rebellion. It is unreasonable that he would dare to write such a book. He dared to smear and slander my Qing court like this, he really deserves to be punished! Hmph, if he hadn't been hiding in the concession, I would have ordered him to be beheaded a long time ago! Yu Longguang said angrily.

The master next to him didn't dare to take a breath, although this Yu Longguang said that it was Chen Dingtian who slandered and smeared the Manchu court, but the people they were all in the Manchu court, how could they not know what this Manchu court was like. This Manchu court, and the court in this officialdom appearance, are almost actually carved out of the same mold. Even, in fact, there are more than that. Sometimes, reality is far more bizarre than fiction. The darkness in these officialdoms is not even something that can be summed up in "The Appearance of Officialdom", and this Officialdom Appearance Record may only be written in a very small part.

But this made those corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty stab their backs one by one, and they felt that a needle pierced deeply into their hearts, making them feel painful. Under such circumstances, they had to order a ban on the circulation and dissemination of this officialdom. He even vigorously slandered this officialdom appearance, thinking that this officialdom appearance record was slandering and smearing the Qing Dynasty. However, as insiders, they know very well that what this officialdom appears says is true, and there are still many omissions.

This officialdom appearance made them feel slapped in the face, and even painful. This "Record of the Appearance of Officialdom" fired a big map cannon and directly hit the entire Manchu bureaucratic collective. This one stuffy stick is more painful for them than directly hitting them physically. If you just hit them with your fists, even if you cut them with a knife, they might not be able to recover quickly. But this "Officialdom Appearance" is like a sharp knife stabbing them into their hearts, making them feel painful, which is the reason why they hate this officialdom Appearance so much.

They have the feeling that the ugly things they have done and the dirty things that they have done are suddenly exposed to the sun. And this "sun", they don't know what it is, and when they go outside, hundreds of people also look at them, the people inside the yamen, with strange eyes. Make them feel hot and nervous, as if their actions are exposed to everyone.

Even some people, when they dream back in the middle of the night, they will be frightened to wake up. It is enough to realize the appearance of this officialdom and remember what a huge bomb it is for those corrupt officials who are weak in their hearts. Even, this is like cutting their bodies with a knife, making it even more difficult for them to sleep peacefully. They even felt that the people looked at them as if they were arrows shot at them, and they seemed to be very afraid. Therefore, if this officialdom appearance record continues to circulate, then they will not sleep peacefully for a day.

"Forbidden, forbidden, all forbidden. If anyone dares to continue to spread this record of officialdom, arrest them all, arrest them! Yu Longguang, the magistrate of Qingpu, shouted angrily.

The magistrates of several surrounding counties also made similar orders, in short, they were very weak in their hearts and had to give this kind of order.

"Good! How unreasonable do you dare to hide a banned book? Someone, arrest me! The officials said to a literati.

However, the officials looked at the people next to them and said, "Since you have come here to drink together, it means that you are in a group, and you must know that he is secretly hiding forbidden books, so you will also be punished together." Grab them all! ”

The entire East China region was made by this "Officialdom Appearance", and many readers were arrested one after another, and the reason was that they had banned books for private use. Of course, these officials and corrupt officials are not fuel-efficient lamps, and they took the opportunity to use this as an excuse to implicate innocent people, and then arrested those innocent people. As a result, prisons in East China were overcrowded, and various figures were arrested.

"Poor master, how can you say that we can let our son-in-law go, our son-in-law is also innocent! He didn't know that his classmates had this forbidden book! Poor master, how did you let go of our son-in-law? A servant said.

The official laughed, stretched out five fingers, and said, "Five hundred taels of silver, I'll take care of this for you!" ”

"Five hundred taels?" The servant was taken aback.

"Tell you, this is a forbidden book! If it was in the Kangxi and Qianlong meetings, they would have to lose their heads! Even, this time, maybe the imperial court will set off a literary prison again, and if I want to help at that time, I may not be able to help. So, take advantage of the time to get your son-in-law out of here, so that you can avoid being caught up in some kind of literary prison when the time comes! ”

When the servant heard the words "word prison", he almost collapsed to the ground in fright. You must know that China has had a literary prison since ancient times, but the craziest literary prison is the Qing Dynasty. In other eras, the literary prison sometimes does not kill people at all, and even if they do, they will not be easily connected. Even if it is a strain, it is only a relative. However, the Manchu literary prison is unreasonable, and even touching this book will be killed, and even the whole family will be killed.

At that time, Kangxi was in various literary prisons since the Ming History Case, but there were countless straines, adding up to tens of thousands of people who lost their heads! There are also all kinds of cases, all kinds of literal prisons can be terrifying. At present, although there are not too many literary prisons in recent years, the horror of literary prisons back then has scared countless people to the core. This time, this "The Appearance of Officialdom" spread widely, and even directly pierced into this Manchu officialdom like a sharp knife, and its influence was even more terrifying than the various literary prisons of the year.

You must know that the literary prison of that year only threatened the minority rule of the Qing Dynasty. But this time, "The Appearance of Officialdom" involved the entire Manchu bureaucracy, and people had to feel the horror behind it.

"Master, I've heard that this time it's a very big deal, maybe the text prison of the year will be reproduced again. This time he asked for five hundred taels, which was actually not much. If this is okay to get the son out as soon as possible, then if you can escape this text prison, maybe it's not terrible! Sir, we have to do it as soon as possible! At that time, if the imperial court really launched the literary prison, at that time, there will be countless plants, it will be ......"

When the old man heard this, he was immediately terrified. Obviously, he is also very afraid of the literary prison, and the horror of the literary prison is shocked by the Jiangnan generation. Although he had not experienced it, the horrors of the literal prison had been passed down from generation to generation. Now if you want to open a text prison again, it will be really terrible. When the time comes, his son will be involved, and maybe he will be implicated, and his family will also be implicated.

Who knows to what extent the Manchu literary prison is implicated in a head, and at that time, tens of thousands of heads may fall to the ground. So, this old man made a decision right away.

"Five hundred taels, I can afford it, hurry up and let the son get out of this matter, hurry, hurry!" The old man said.

The old man asked the servant to take five hundred taels of silver and go to the servant, hoping to get this matter out as soon as possible, so as to avoid implicating himself in the literary prison at that time. However, when the servant found the servant, the servant suddenly changed his mind.

"I'm sorry, five hundred taels, that's the price in the morning. Your Yang family is worth a lot of money, and the price of Yang Gongzi can't be thousands? The Liu family, which is not as good as your family, is willing to spend eight hundred taels in order to let Liu Gongzi come out, your Yang family is so rich, one thousand taels is not too much, right? The official said with a hole in his eyes.

"You, you, you......" The servant trembled with rage.

"Okay, a thousand taels, not one less! Let me tell you, maybe the market will still rise in the future, and you must gather a thousand taels of silver today. Perhaps, tomorrow's market will not be this market, and I don't know how much it will cost at that time. So, it has to be as soon as possible! ”

Obviously, when this banned book was being investigated with the help of the "Officialdom Appearance", all kinds of officials in the yamen, masters, and so on took advantage of this time to make money. He even did not hesitate to expand the scope of arrests, and then extorted those people on a large scale. And those people are afraid of being implicated in this literary prison, so they have to spend a lot of money in the hope of pulling out this family member.

However, this has further boosted the appetite of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, making their appetite change three times a day, 500 taels in the morning and 1,000 taels in the afternoon. Maybe the next day it will be two thousand taels.

When the old man heard that it had actually become a thousand miles, his face suddenly turned pale, and his hands trembled.

"Bastards, these corrupt officials, corrupt officials! Sure enough, it is worthy of "The Appearance of Officialdom", this time I finally saw it, I finally saw it, this is really a living officialdom appearance! This officialdom of the Qing Dynasty is really darker and more hopeless than in this "The Appearance of Officialdom". Sure enough, it's the appearance of officialdom, and I finally saw the real 'officialdom appearance'! These corrupt officials and corrupt officials, I finally realized their true colors. This Qing officialdom is really hopeless. This Qing Dynasty is indeed a sign of the death of the country! The old man said in despair.

Obviously, there are still a lot of people who have similar ideas. This time, the yamen staged in various places is really a living "officialdom appearance", which is really more absurd and absurd than those in those books, and more terrifying. The comparison between the two is simply that art comes from life, and the facts in life are more terrible and absurd than the plot in the novel. This time, countless people have really seen a "Officialdom Appearance", which is even more terrifying and hopeless than the situation in "Officialdom Appearance".