When Zhu Jishi was thinking wildly, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps, and then saw the little Chiba beauty rushing into Emperor Zhu's bedroom. At this time, Zhu Jishi was changing his clothes under the words of a maid, and he didn't turn over the sign last night to call a woman to come to bed, after he became the emperor, there were really not many days of such moderation.

Zhu Jishi knew who came in, so he asked without looking back: "Zuonazi, what's the matter?" ”

Chiba Sanako said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the Donglin Party and the Jishi Youth Party have all gathered, and they have already marched on the streets and come to the Imperial City Square, and the courtiers are rushing to get the news and gather in front of the Fengtian Hall to wait for the emperor. ”

Zhu Jishi turned his head abruptly and looked at Zuo Nazi with burning eyes: "How many people are there on both sides?" ”

Zanazi frowned: "Jinyiwei reported that the Donglin Party has gathered 30,000 to 40,000 people...... There must be more than 100,000 on the side of the Jishi Youth Party! They had gathered 100,000 people in the railway station square last night, and now there are many more coming from outside the city. ”

Zhu Jishiyi stretched out his hand and took the dragon robe from the maid's hand, and put it on his body: "Zuonazi, go and call the queen, Maria and the crown prince, let them go to the Fengtian Palace, I want to go to the Hongwumen City Tower with them!" ”

Chiba Sanako looked puzzled, but she didn't say much, just nodded, and immediately turned around and left.

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On Hongwu Avenue, there was already a huge crowd. After this newly built avenue that can accommodate four carriages in parallel, you can go straight to the Imperial City Square, the north of the Imperial City Square is the Hongwu Gate, and the Hongwu Gate will be the Ming Imperial City, including the Forbidden City. Generalissimo's Palace. Cabinet Office. The yamen of the ministries under the cabinet, the army and navy, the camp of the Guards, and the Imperial City Public School are all concentrated here. And the petition bell tower, which is said to reach the heavens, was built on the edge of the Hongwu Gate, which was the goal of these enthusiastic soldiers.

Yu Chengzhang from Wu County is one of these enthusiastic scholars, he is just 30 years old this year, and he was a talent in the former Qing Dynasty. However, in the two imperial examinations of this dynasty, Sun Shan was famous, and now he is past the age of participating in the imperial examination, and he is destined to lose his chance with officialdom in this life! Moreover, his family is not rich, only 15 acres of thin land is rented out, in exchange for more than 20 yuan of land rent, and he also needs to support his old mother and raise his wife and children, and the pressure of life is conceivable. After the second time he fell to Sun Shan, he fell seriously ill again, but unfortunately he did not dream of God. I didn't have the courage to rebel, so I had to honestly become a private school teacher. Teach dozens of children in the same village to enlighten and earn a few small amounts of money to subsidize their families.

But who would have thought that the imperial court would take the wrong medicine to carry out compulsory education, all children who have reached the age of 6 and are not yet 10 years old have to go to primary school, although this primary school can be rebuilt from a private school, but he also knows that such a good thing will not be his turn, and he has several big surnames in the town to arrange - these big surnames have children who are officials, and of course there are children who cannot be officials to arrange.

"This court is too bad, and this world is too unfair!" Yu Chengzhang is full of grief and indignation whenever he thinks of his experience in the past few years. "If the Qing Dynasty is still there, although it may not be possible to get into the Jinshi with his own articles, it is still very promising to raise people...... One person is enough to make the family prosperous. ”

"It would be nice if someone made a fuss...... Sometimes, Yu Chengzhang will think the same way, make a fuss, no matter how big the trouble is, it is always a hope, maybe the emperor will see it and change his ways! It is precisely because of this idea that after the turmoil in Jiangnan Shilin this time, he will be full of hope, pawn the land (right to use) of the family's ten acres of fields, bring his own travel expenses and dry food, and run to Nanjing City to make trouble with everyone. By now, the dry food brought by the family has long been eaten, and the silver in Diantian has also been spent.

His mother-in-law just wrote a letter, saying that the rent of ten acres of land was missing (there was no rent for the field skin), and he only got seven and a half yuan of rent, and after paying the field endowment, there were less than seven yuan left, and the family really couldn't sustain it...... The mother-in-law actually said at the end of the letter that she wanted to sell her family's fields and houses, and then sign up to go to the Northeast to participate in the collective farm farming, and when they arrived in the Northeast, their family of five could get 100 acres of land, and he Yu Chengzhang could also go to a certain farm elementary school teacher's errand, and then life would be better...... It's so unambitious!

"Gotta make a name for yourself!" Yu Chengzhang secretly made up his mind and walked forward with a firm step following the mighty flow of people.

"Gotta beat them up!" At the same time, on another road leading to the Imperial City Square, Wu Qi, a construction worker from Shandong, also secretly made up his mind. "These scholars have no conscience, and they are against such a good emperor! Be sure to hit hard! ”

Wu Qi is a person from Liulin Town, Tangyi County, Shandong, and his family was originally a poor peasant, ranking seventh, so he was called Wu Qi. When I was 7 years old, my father died, and I had no choice but to beg for a living, until I was 12 years old, and the People's Liberation Army ...... No, it was the Ming army who arrived to liberate his hometown. And then...... The meal became very good, yes, yes, yes, I had to go to Shanghai, and then I got a job in the shipyard of Nanyang Hong. First sawed wood, wrapped food and housing to earn 5 silver dollars a month, since he was a child he also wanted to study he also went to the night school run by Nanyang Bank, learned literacy and arithmetic, and can also read the drawings of foreigners, so he became a mechanic, and now he can earn 30 silver dollars a month. Now I have also borrowed from HSBC to buy a house in Shanghai, and I am waiting to get married and marry a wife!

This is all thanks to the blessing of the Emperor of Recovery, those "poor landlords" who don't know what to do and what they do are actually going to make trouble against the emperor, this kind of person must be taught a hard lesson - so this Wu Qi, like Yu Chengzhang, paid out of his own pocket and brought his own dry food to Nanjing. In fact, there are many laborers like him, accounting for more than half of the masses mobilized by the Jishi Youth Party, and they are basically the "new middle class" of mechanics, dock workers, railway workers, small merchants, small traders, and so on.

Just when Wu Qi was about to beat people, the team suddenly paused, and then heard a Suzhou accent roaring: "Stop, stop, stop moving!" ”

The person who shouted was Liu Shipin, a scholar in his 30s -- he used to read the books of sages, but now he is studying at Lanxiang Academy, and he pawned his family's land and real estate to study Western medicine. I'm going to graduate this year, and then it's a new-style talent who can earn hundreds of yuan a month (now there are more Western doctors in three-legged cats, and the salary has decreased).

"Mr. Liu, what's wrong?" Wu Qi asked a little anxiously, "Is it a place?" As he spoke, he tiptoed to his feet and craned his neck to look forward. Not far ahead, there was a huge square at the end of the road, and there was a big road at the other end of the square, which was also densely packed with people--it was the Donglin Party soldiers!

Weng Tongshu stood at the front of the line of scholars, looking at the crowd of people opposite. These people are not scholars in Confucian clothes, they look like strong men, I don't know if they were hired by the company, and some of them look quite strong, so they are the thugs of the Hongmen Gang.

The upright soldiers stopped one after another, the slogans and flags in their hands stopped waving, and some of them slowly moved backwards.

"Retreat, retreat quickly......" Weng Tongshu thought silently in his heart, his forehead was already full of cold sweat. The strong man on the other side must not be able to beat him, so why don't you end this petition here today...... How bad is it to save the peace and hurt the flesh and skin when the fight starts later?

But at this moment, a roar full of righteousness sounded: "Donglin Lords! Go with me! Then I saw Xu Geng, one of the three gentlemen of Donglin, walking out of the team with his head held high and walking forward. Suddenly, a slogan sounded all around, overwhelming. Donglin Shizi, like a tide, poured into the Imperial City Square. (To be continued......)