As soon as the rainstorm stopped, the night was dark and the wind rose, Zhu Youjian walked out with an oil-paper umbrella, and stepped directly on the beach under his feet.

Chen Yuanyuan couldn't help frowning, and Shi Kefa, who was kneeling on the ground, also raised his head.

Zhu Youzhen didn't have any expression, he was standing in front of Shi Kefa like this now, and Shi Kefa was just looking at him.

"Let's go back!"

Zhu Youzhen handed over the umbrella in his hand as he spoke, and Chen Yuanyuan also put another umbrella on Zhu Youzhen's head behind him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Shi Kefa only felt that he was unconscious below his knees, and he wanted to stand up but couldn't stand up, so Zhu Youzhen saw this and personally grabbed his arm and helped him stand up.

"Weichen", Shi Kefa snorted, wanting to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

"Take it!"

Zhu Youzhen threw the umbrella in Shi Kefa's face, then turned around and went back to the Qianqing Palace.

The rain knocked on the vermilion palace wall, Zhu Youzhen suddenly felt a little unspeakably lonely, but at this moment he still made up his mind, some things can only wait, before the world is unified, he can no longer be an emperor who can kill and decide at will.

In the early morning of the next day, when dawn was revealed, Zhu Youzhen ordered Wang Chengen, the governor of Dongchang, to acquit Gu Lin, no longer pursue the interrogation records, compensate Gu Lin with 1,000 silver dollars, and return to his hometown in a stagecoach.

Gu Lin returned to Wuxi, Changzhou, and became famous for a while, and thousands of members of the Duanwen Society greeted him, and called him a hero of the world, daring to go to the edict for justice, and actually made hundreds of officials intercede and was released by His Majesty.

Of course, Gu Lin didn't say a word about his cowardly performance in the edict, only said how he was not afraid of power, allowed Dongchang's minions to torture him, and still scolded traitors and so on.

For a time, almost most of the bureaucrats and scholars in Jiangnan who were dissatisfied with the government were quite respectful of Gu Lin.

Guan Shaoning, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Huo Da, the governor of Susong, also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Gu Lin was really a brave warrior, and he didn't say anything under the torture of Dongchang.

And Zhu Youzhen did not let Wang Chengen arrest Shaoning, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Huo Da, the governor of Susong, and others, making everyone think that Gu Lin was really a true gentleman who resisted the oppression of Dongchang, and Gu Lin himself would not admit his cowardly side, and even took the initiative to make up the story of how he resisted torture and oppression.

As he spoke, sometimes Gu Lin himself believed it, and the Duanwen Society was even stronger and more arrogant than before, openly began to interfere in the political affairs of the local government, and even blackmailed officials from all over the country to serve their political interests.

The officials who asked to see Zhu Youzhen that day did not say anything after they returned, and even when asked, they did not say a word.

It's as if nothing had happened.

……

"Your Majesty actually held back, he didn't even make a difficulty, and Fan Jingwen and the others didn't ask His Majesty to kill Wang Chengen again, this ending is really incredible!"

After Guan Shaoning said with a smile, Chen Shiding sighed:

"Perhaps Your Majesty really realized what it meant to rule the world with scholars, and it seems that he really chose forbearance and compromise in order to resist the Qing Dynasty;

Now just waiting for the Qing Dynasty to dominate the world, we can accept the land and worship, if the Qing Dynasty can not dominate the world and still divide the north and south, presumably Your Majesty will not do anything to us, after all, he can't force us to the north of the Qing Dynasty! ”

"Whether this Jiangnan will still be the country of the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty in the future, we can't give up the business interests of Jiangnan!"

Ouyang Da said very righteously, and looked at Tu Guobao:

"To be honest, if it weren't for being a minister, it would be difficult to betray loyalty, Ou Mou hoped that the Qing Dynasty could dominate the world, and the corporal of the regent Lixian was far above His Majesty today, Hong Chengchou, Chen Mingxia, etc. were all reused, even if Fan Wencheng had a disagreement with the regent, the regent did not punish him, which shows that his heart is as humble as a valley;

I heard that the lord of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi, is also a young and intelligent, and my prince of the Ming Dynasty is far worse than it, not Ou Mou Tang Tu, he can dominate the world one day, but I am afraid that it is really the Qing Dynasty, even if the Ming Dynasty occupies the south of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that it is the same as the Southern Song Dynasty, but a hundred years of luck. ”

Tu Guobao saw that these Ming officials and gentry all had a good impression of their own Qing Dynasty, and they were quite proud in their hearts, thinking that the people's hearts belonged to their own Qing Dynasty, and they laughed from the sidelines:

"As Ouyang Gong said, although the Son of Heaven of the Qing Dynasty is not my Han people, but my Confucian people have always recognized the virtuous as the Son of Heaven, and now at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, they will lightly punish the thin endowment, abolish Zhu Ming's maladministration, and emphasize agriculture and suppress business, unlike Zhu Ming's exploitation of commercial taxes and the interests of the people, and Zhu Ming has occupied the world for more than 200 years, and the number of qi has already been exhausted.

"That being said, the matter of eating the king's loyalty to the king, since he is a minister, he can't abandon the king first, fortunately, now His Majesty has a heart of repentance, compromise, and look at it, the Qing Dynasty can really dominate the world, although it is the blessing of the country, but it is not our luck, and the prince is still benevolent today, if he ascends the throne and then opens my Ming Zhongxing, it is not known."

As soon as Chen Shiding said this, Tu Guobao only smiled faintly, he also knew that it was impossible to let these ministers take refuge in the Qing Dynasty before the situation became clear, and he also despised these wall grasses in his heart.

However, that night, Tu Guobao asked people to secretly bring a letter to Dolgon, saying that the gentry in Jiangnan were all interested in the Qing Dynasty, which was undoubtedly to Dorgon's heart, so as to strengthen his idea of dominating the world.

……

"That's what they said?" Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen nodded: "In accordance with Your Majesty's orders, Weichen did not order the arrest of this Guan Shaoning and others, but he had already sent more eyeliner, but Weichen didn't expect these people to be so rebellious, as my Ming courtier, but I want to be a slave of Jiannu, Your Majesty issued an order, wait for Weichen to arrest this group of traitors with two hearts!" ”

"Don't be in a hurry to do it first, continue to keep an eye on them, now that the war is imminent, the country should be stable and not chaotic, I don't do it now, and even let Gu Lin go, and let the Duan Literature Society grow bigger, just let this group of guys have a trace of luck and dare not completely deviate from me, so it's okay, I can rest assured that I can deal with the Manchus, as long as the dream of the Manchus dominating the world is broken, and then I will clean them up!"

Zhu Youzhen clenched his fists as he spoke, and sneered:

"Next, I want to give them some more sweetness, so that they can continue to be proud for a while! By the way, that Manchu spy Tu Guobao should not touch him first, let him continue to jump for a while, just let him try the loyalty of the courtiers! ”

Zhu Youzhen did choose to forbear after calming down for a while, he was afraid that it was not these reactionary gentry in Jiangnan, but that most of the traditional gentry who remained neutral would be forced to stand with the reactionary gentry in Jiangnan.

To put it bluntly, the emperor himself could not do whatever he wanted, because the Manchu Qing still had a certain combat effectiveness, so that there were still many gentry who opposed their political views and still had delusions, wanting the Manchus to dominate the world and give them more benefits.

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