At this time, there were nearly 1,000 people surrounded by nearly 1,000 people on the three floors outside the lobby of the Huguang Governor's Palace.

There are dozens of officials brought from the capital, as well as the masters and staff of these officials, and hundreds of scholars, small businessmen, and idlers from Nanning Prefecture.

Chen Ping, the chief bookkeeper of the Marquis Mansion in Zhenxi, knelt in the middle of the lobby with a cold face.

"Prisoner Chen Ping, this governor asks you, is it true that you killed the officials of the imperial court?" said Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, angrily.

Chen Ping said quietly: "Your Excellency, I have said many times that this matter is not true. ”

Wu Sanshi, the governor of Guangxi, said: "Then you can speak slowly." ”

Chen Pingdao: "First of all, His Majesty's will is that Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, will lead the post of governor of Huguang, and the Marquis of Du Bian will take charge of the three southwestern provinces and the military power of Hunan, right?"

"Yes. Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said: "It is rumored in the world that the southwest of the empire is chaotic, and the people are not happy. Moreover, the life and death of the Marquis of Du Bian is uncertain, and some people in the southwest want to claim the king and hegemony behind closed doors, so of course the pavilion must let go of the Qing nobles in the capital and come to Huguang to take up the post of governor. This is the will of the Son of Heaven, can't this governor come, shouldn't he come?"

Chen Ping said: "The lower officials did not say that the Governor should not come, in fact, the Governor Li Wenyu did not prevent the arrival of the Governor, and even endured the country, and the Governor and the relevant officials went to the post smoothly. ”

Then Chen Ping said: "Not only that, because of your arrival, the forces of the Marquis Mansion of Zhenxi immediately withdrew from Hunan Province, and the current position General Li Zhan only retained 10,000 troops to garrison Hunan, and the rest of the civil officials have all withdrawn. Therefore, for the arrival of the Governor-General, our Marquis Mansion in Zhenxi cooperated, and your officials entered Guangxi to take office, and we did not stop it, and even took the initiative to give up a lot of power. There is only one reason, the Marquis of Du Bian is loyal to the court and His Majesty. ”

"Hmph......" Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, sneered.

Chen Ping said: "It is precisely because Marquis Du Chang is loyal to His Majesty that we continue to give in in many things. But you should not subvert the decrees of the Marquis of Du and the governor's palace of the town west of the town. We have already collected taxes from the peasants in Guangxi Province once, so your officials should not collect them a second time. The people went to the Tianyamen, the prefect of Wuzhou, to seek justice, but were suppressed and dozens of people were killed. The dozens of people who were killed in the key were all military dependents, all of whom were military dependents of the town west of the town. As the Marquis of Zhenxi, the head of the Governor's Mansion in the west of the town, do I have the right to investigate?"

"According to the laws of the imperial court, you are not qualified to investigate. Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said: "Only Wu Sanshi, the governor of Guangxi, and I, the governor of Huguang, have the right to investigate this matter. ”

Wu Sanshi, the governor of Guangxi, said: "Because the military family of the town west of the town was killed, the governor's palace in the west of the town can come to investigate, but it needs the cooperation of the local government." ”

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said sharply: "If you come to investigate, you will investigate, but who gives you the right to kill people, and kill the officials of the imperial court? Your Zhenxi Marquis's Mansion is so domineering, even more presumptuous than the Zhennan Duke's Mansion? Is Guangxi really the independent kingdom of your Dubian Marquis?"

Chen Ping said calmly: "Your Excellency the Governor, please pay attention. The prefect of Wuzhou suppressed the people, and the dozens of people killed were all military dependents of the town west of the town. ”

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said: "That's because the children of these rebellious people served as soldiers under the Marquis of Du Bian and held their own backers, so they dared to attack the government." ”

Chen Ping shrank his eyes and said: "No, this is a premeditated killing, specifically to kill the families of the army under the command of Marquis Du Bian. The purpose is to provoke the contradiction between the local government and the Zhenxi Marquis' Mansion, to divide and tear apart the relationship between you and me. ”

"Moreover, the prefect of Wuzhou and the three county orders were not killed by the samurai I brought to Dongchang at all. I led the Dongchang warriors to Wuzhou, not entirely to seek justice for these dozens of deceased, but to investigate the Fang espionage case. ”

"I led the Dongchang warriors, and I didn't go to the Wuzhou prefect's yamen at all, or even to any local government yamen. I entered the Wuzhou Dongchang Thousand Households, but the Wuzhou prefect and local officials led hundreds of officials to storm the Wuzhou Dongchang Thousand Households Office, besieging and questioning me. Then the spies of the Fang Department took advantage of the chaos to kill the Wuzhou prefect who was present, as well as three county orders. ”

"This is obviously the conspiracy of the Fang family, in order to drive a wedge between Lord Du and the capital, and to tear apart the contradictions between you and me, Lord Li Wenyu officially saw this, in order to avoid falling into the trap of the enemy, so he endured it again and again, and I was arrested by the Governor without any resistance. Otherwise, in the southwest, no one has caught me yet!"

Chen Ping calmly stated all the facts.

"Presumptuous, ridiculous. Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said in a cold voice: "Chen Ping, are you really a fool to be the governor? Are you really a fool to be an official in Guangxi? Are you really a fool to think that these thousands of people are fools? Obviously, you are holding the power of the Marquis of Dubian's mansion, bending the law, and brutally killing the officials of our court, but you say that what is the work of the Fang family of spies, how ridiculous is it?"

Then Wang Jianshu said in a cold voice: "What kind of master is it that trains such a despicable person as you?"

When Chen Ping heard this, he immediately said coldly: "Your Excellency the Governor, as a pillar of the imperial court, you should not say such slanderous words against the pillars of the empire. ”

"Imperial Pillar Stone?" Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, sneered in his heart: "Du Bian, a twenty-year-old eunuch can also be called an imperial pillar stone, there is no hero at the time, and the erector is famous!"

Chen Ping said coldly: "In addition, let me ask again, the Governor's Mansion of the town in the west of the town has already collected taxes from the people of Guangxi once, why do your officials need to collect taxes again?"

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said: "Isn't it a matter of course for the local government to collect taxes and pay grain to the local people? Otherwise, how can it be handed over to the state treasury and how can the localities be governed?"

Chen Pingdao, the chief bookkeeper, said: "The governor is afraid that he has forgotten that His Majesty the Emperor will, the three southwestern provinces have gone through war, so they have been exempted from paying taxes to the court for three years." ”

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, was suddenly slapped in the face, and his face became extremely ugly, but he quickly cheered up and said: "His Majesty the Emperor has pity on all the people, so he has this will. But after we came to Guangxi, we found that this was not the case at all, the fields and countryside, the grain was chopped, and the people were rich, almost comparable to the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River. With such abundance, shouldn't we solve the country's worries and solve problems? You must know that the capital is still short of food, and the royal family only eats two meals a day. ”

Chen Pingdao, the chief bookkeeper, said: "The imperial court exempted the three southwestern provinces from taxes, but according to the order of Lord Du Bian. A few months ago, we still handed over 300,000 stone of grain to the state treasury for the purpose of military rations in Liaodong. Immediately after that, he handed over 3.8 million taels of silver, isn't that enough?"

Then, Chen Ping said: "The Governor kept saying that the law in the southwest is chaotic, the people are not living, and there is hell on earth. Now it is said that the people of Guangxi are rich and should share their worries for the country. Now I want to ask, is it because the people in the southwest are not living well, or are the people rich?"

Bang bang, Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, was slapped in the face again.

Suddenly trembling with anger, he said sharply: "Sure enough, there is a master, and there is a servant, what a Diao people's face." It is a fact that the three southwestern provinces are rich, and it is also a fact that hell on earth is also a fact. How many families of scholars and doctors have been displaced, how many scholarly families have been ruined, and how many famous scholars have lacked food and clothing? Is it not a violation of the law that the Marquis of Du Bian did not respect Confucius and Mencius and trampled on the imperial examination?"

Chen Ping said coldly: "The scholar family continued to annex land through the imperial examination and escaped taxes. As a result, the people of the world cultivated less and less land, and the imperial court paid fewer and fewer taxes, and His Majesty the Emperor had no choice but to send the Eunuch Party Mining Department and the Salt Transportation Department to fill the treasury and barely maintain the operation of the empire. In less than a year after the implementation of the new law in the southwest, we have achieved a bumper harvest and achieved great development, and we have paid more taxes and grain to the imperial court than in any other year.

"Clever words, sophistry and treachery. Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said coldly: "Chen Ping, where have you read all your skills? You really shouldn't participate in the imperial examination, a person's heart is crooked, and it is useless to read high." ”

Wang Jianshu was really angry, because he couldn't say many words.

But he felt that the scholars were of course superior to others, because they helped the Son of Heaven to rule the people. Without these elite scholars, those ignorant people would have lost their way. So isn't it natural for the reader to be supported?

Of course, he was also opposed to land annexation.

However, the so-called scholar, of course, his ass sits on the side of the scholar.

Therefore, the new law implemented here is of course a chaotic law, a chaotic law that reverses the world and destroys the world.

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, stood up and arched his hand to the thousands of people outside: "Fellow villagers, tell me, is the new law of the Marquis Mansion in Zhenxi good or bad?"

"No, no!" shouted thousands of people.

These people are really not trusts, and if there are benefits from the New Deal, there will definitely be losers.

At present, Du Chang's new policy in the southwest has benefited the peasants, who account for the largest number of people. And the most damaged are the scholars and scholars. And the less damage is the merchant class.

Because the focus of the entire Southwest New Deal is now on grain, metal smelting, weapons development, city wall construction, and so on. And it has the color of a planned economy. It is in the initial stage of laying the foundation and has not yet benefited the business.

Du Bian did not deliberately crack down on the power of merchants, and in the next few years, there will be a big explosion of commerce, and a large number of businessmen will become the biggest profiteers.

But now, because of the majority of scholar families, wealthy families have been suppressed, and business has naturally withered temporarily. The consumption power of the broad masses of the people has not yet been built, so the life of the businessman is not good, so he curses Du Chang every day and dies well.

And when the news of Du Bian's death came, the sound of firecrackers sounded in Nanning City, Guilin City, and Wuzhou City, as if celebrating his death.

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, asked again: "Is the new policy of Du Chang a violation of the law?"

"Mess with the law, mess with the law!"

"The eunuch party must not die well! Du Chang must not die well!"

"Du Yan is dead. ”

"Good to die!"

"Good death!" shouted someone in the crowd.

They are not trusts, or even scholars, but small businessmen, and even idle people who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic.

Because of Du's new policy, he earned dozens of taels of silver a year, and of course he hated it.

Of course, if it weren't for Du Chang, Guangxi might have been a mess long ago, and this small businessman would have died in the war.

But they won't care about this, they only know that Du Bian made him earn dozens of taels of silver less, so he should die!

Moreover, because of Du Bian, all the illegal smuggling has stopped, and a larger group of businessmen cannot make money, and they are even more eager to peel Du Bian's skin and cramp, eat its meat, and drink its soup!

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said sharply: "Chen Ping, the chief secretary of the Marquis Mansion in Zhenxi, killed the officials of the imperial court, and was complicit in rebellion, should he be killed?"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!

The thousands of onlookers are either scholars, small businessmen, or idlers, who either hate Du Chang, or don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement.

Of course, Roar Kill!

And Wu Sanshi, the governor of Guangxi, frowned.

This cabinet minister, Wang Jianshu, was a clean official, and when the party ruled the court at that time, he disdained it and went home to study.

But he came out of the Hanlin Academy, and later became an inspector of the imperial history, and then entered the inspectorate, and the highest was the right capital imperial history.

has been scolding and fighting all his life, and what he is best at is guiding public opinion and attacking it in groups.

But he has never been a local magistrate in his life, and now he is a governor who still uses the same set of imperial history to incite public opinion to achieve his own means, and he is really not a qualified feudal official.

On the contrary, Chen Ping is reasonable, can read, and can do things, and is indeed a rare talent.

And in the debate, he did not fall behind in the face of cabinet ministers like Wang Jianshu. On the contrary, Wang Jianshu avoided talking about other things left and right, inciting emotions, and vainly trying to suppress the momentum.

Why did the capital send such a person to serve as the governor of Huguang? It was completely pragmatic and not pragmatic, and it was also paranoid and naïve.

Alas, there are too few people in this world who are clean officials, wise men, and capable generals like Zhang Yangming.

"The prisoner Chen Ping, who brutally killed the imperial court officials, is an unforgivable crime and sentenced to be executed!" Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, stood up abruptly and threw the sign on the ground.

At this moment, he felt that he was indeed a blue sky.

"Your Excellency the Governor is wise!"

"Your Excellency the Governor is wise!"

Thousands of people outside chanted.

Li Wenyu came out of the back hall, took Chen Ping's hand directly and said, "Let's go." ”

Then, he said to Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang: "Jianshu Gong, is the party struggle really so important, can we ignore the facts? Chen Ping said that the prefect of Wuzhou and the three prefects were not killed by him, but by the spies of the Fang family, why don't you investigate it? I will take Chen Ping away, and I will personally go to the capital and ask His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to send a messenger to try this case. ”

Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, said in a cold voice: "Duke Wenyu, don't make a mistake about yourself! You are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and the imperial court, not Du Yan himself. Moreover, he is dead!"

Then, he waved his hand violently and said, "Come on, take down Chen Ping, and behead him immediately." For the major crime of treason, it is not necessary to hand it over to the criminal department for review and a final decision. ”

"Yes!"

Then, dozens of warriors poured out to take Chen Ping away and kill him!

......

"Boom ......"

Suddenly, the gate of the Huguang Governor's Mansion was smashed.

Du Bian led hundreds of cavalry and rushed in.

The first thing he looked at was not Chen Ping, nor Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, but his father-in-law Li Wenyu.

There was a sigh in my heart.

It was precisely because of Li Wenyu's consent that Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, entered Hunan and Guangxi.

Moreover, in many battles, the other party had to advance an inch, and the officials of the Marquis Mansion retreated.

Li Wenyu has been suppressing the Marquis Mansion of Zhenxi, the Governor's Mansion of Zhenxi.

He was extremely ruthless to the Li family and the other party.

But in the face of the emperor's lineage, he was a little powerless, because he was more loyal to the emperor than everyone else.

He can only desperately maintain it and not let the contradictions between the two sides completely intensify.

But it is precisely this that has caused a certain amount of chaos in the southwest.

Du Bian, who was riding on the horse, looked at Chen Ping for the second time, the other party was so excited that he couldn't stand at all, his whole body was trembling, tears welled up, and the whole person seemed to be so surprised that he was about to explode.

Finally, he looked at Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang.

This Qing official, this once famous minister, was driven back to his hometown because he repeatedly fought against Fang Zhuo.

After the Fang faction completely withdrew from the court in the capital, these courtiers who had been driven away by the Fang faction all returned to the court and formed a new cabinet.

There are a lot of clean officials in this.

But...... Many Qing officials, especially those of the inspectors, are also ghosts and haters, and their biggest ability is to fight and talk rhetorically.

Anyway, I don't embezzle, I stand on the moral high ground, and whoever disagrees with me anyway is a traitor.

The party is the same and tries every means to criticize a person to death and to stink.

As for right and wrong, they are not very particular about what is right or wrong. They only care about the end and the result, and the process and means are also very unsophisticated.

Anyway...... I'm a clean official, and I'm right.

And the moment I saw Du Bian!

Li Wenyu was extremely ecstatic, extremely excited, and then the whole person was about to relax, and then he was dizzy for a while, and he really felt like he was about to collapse during these days.

And Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang, was shocked at first, almost unable to believe his eyes.

Then, he scolded angrily: "Marquis Du Bian, you actually led the attack on my governor's yamen? can you have half the dignity of the court ministers? can you have half the court in your eyes, and your majesty in your eyes?"

Here it is again, people who are born as officials are very annoying, and every time they open their mouths, they will button up a big hat.

Du Chang said lightly: "Your Excellency, it is disrespectful for me to rush into the Governor's Mansion on horseback. Then you keep saying that I am a traitor, that I am dead, is this the dignity of a court minister?"

Wang Jianshu said coldly: "If you do it, can't others say it? ”

Fuck your mother, you've told me everything.

In short, you are right to scold, and I am scolding people is a big rebellion?

Du Bian said calmly: "I'll take Chen Ping away, and I will investigate Chen Ping's murder of Wuzhou prefect and other officials." ”

"No, the Governor has already found out and sentenced him to death. Wang Jianshu said: "Marquis Du Chang, the southwest is not a place outside the law, it is not your independent kingdom, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the people." Chen Ping is your confidant, but he killed court officials and conspired against him, so you shouldn't shield him, right?"

Du Chang said: "I said it, the case of Chen Ping's killing of the imperial court officials has yet to be investigated. In addition, the Huguang Governor's Mansion can be located not only in Nanning, but also in Changsha Mansion, so it is better for the Governor to go to Changsha Mansion. ”

Du Bian really gave in.

The Wang Jianshu in front of him, after all, is a Qing official, after all, he is a friend of Li Wenyu for more than ten years, and after all, he is a member of the emperor's new cabinet.

So you go to Hunan, that province is up to you, and I'll give up a province.

"Hahaha......" Wang Jianshu said coldly: "I am the governor of Huguang, if I want to be in Hunan, I will be in Hunan, and if I want to be in Guangxi, I will not be the Marquis of Laodu." I don't interfere in the military affairs of the town west of your town, and you don't interfere in the affairs of my side. ”

He came with a mission, how could he go. He vowed to become a pillar of the Empire, to take back the entire Southwest for the Empire, and to build a strong Southwest.

After completing this mission, he Wang Jianshu will be famous for eternity and will be remembered for centuries.

Du Bian narrowed his eyes, this person's temper is really stinky and hard. But if this person is moved, it will be a slap in the face of the capital, or even a slap in the face of the emperor, which may make the contradiction intensify to the point of irreparable rupture.

"Take Chen Ping away. Du Bian ordered.

When the time comes, send troops to drive away these people, and he is too lazy to fight with this old man.

Seeing that Du Bian flinched and did not take on the throne as he imagined, Wang Jianshu was overjoyed.

He could see that Du Bian was unwilling to intensify the conflict with the capital, and he was even more unwilling to break up.

In the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he has seen a lot of this kind of thing, and this is the best time to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, not to sell the name of the overlord, although this famous poem has not yet come out. But it is the strategic law of those imperial histories of the Imperial Inspectorate.

So take advantage of this opportunity to suppress Du Bian and kill Chen Ping.

In this way, he won the first battle with Du Bian and was able to gain a firm foothold in Guangxi.

Because he has the righteousness of the imperial court, he should seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely dispel Du Chang's arrogance.

As for whether Chen Ping really killed the three officials of the Wuzhou prefect, he didn't care very much.

Politicians only care about the result, not the process.

"Who dare?" Wang Jianshu, the suddenly thin governor, stood up suddenly, blocked in front of Chen Ping, and said sharply: "Who dares to take Chen Ping away? Marquis Du Bian, do you want to rebel?"

At this time, Wang Jianshu was iron-clad and righteous.

"Fellow villagers and scholars, the time has come to uphold the law of the imperial court and the justice of the world. Can you allow a warlord to take away an innocent sinner?"

Suddenly, dozens of young scholars and hundreds of officials' staff were instigated, and seeing that Du Yan was retreating in front of the governor, he felt that this was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Suddenly, dozens of scholars, hundreds of officials and staff, plus small businessmen who hated Du Chang, and idlers who watched the excitement rushed up one after another and gathered around Wang Jianshu, the governor of Huguang.

"Marquis Du Chang, do you see it, the justice of the world is on our side, you want to take Chen Ping away, unless you step over our corpse!" Governor Wang Jianshu was overjoyed in his heart, his fighting methods in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, inciting emotions, really tried again and again.

However, Wu Sanshi's face changed drastically.

Li Wenyu's face also changed drastically, and he said sharply: "Wang Jianshu, don't ......"

"Haha, Governor Wu Sanshi, you succumb to the obscenity of the warlord? My Wang Jianshu is not as soft as you, there is a righteous path in the world, and there is righteousness in my heart, what is my Wang Jianshu afraid of?"

"Marquis Du Chang, you want to forcibly take Chen Ping away, you disregard the laws of the imperial court, if you want to rebel, just step on my corpse!" Wang Jianshu said impassionedly.

"You have exhausted the little patience I have, are all the imperial historians of the Imperial Court like you?" Du Yan sighed: "Others are going to turn their faces, what other ways can I step on your corpse? It doesn't matter!"

"Rush! Those who dare to block it will be killed!" Du Chang ordered.

Hundreds of iron horsemen charged and trampled on.

In an instant, hundreds of scholars, officials, staff, idlers, and small businessmen outside the lobby were rushed out of the way, their muscles and bones broken, and their mouths spitting blood.

Countless people were directly trampled into pulp.

"Ahh......h

A terrible howl!

Blood splattered, countless dead and wounded!

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