Chapter 531: Shocking Conspiracy

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Thick smoke billowed into the sky, and the fire quickly reached the second floor, and the fire broke out, and people from various shops on Shantang Street carried buckets of water to try to help extinguish the fire. Several adjacent shops were even more panicked, desperately transporting things out, and there was a mess on Shantang Street.

I don't know when, a large number of ruffians appeared, rushed into various shops, and began to smash and loot, and suddenly the entire Shantang Street was in chaos. And the riots continued to spread rapidly, spreading to the rest of the city......

"Where are we going?" After escaping from the newspaper office, seeing that there was no one chasing after him, Xia Yunyi asked.

Chen Zilong thought about it, and he had no idea for a while. He is not from Suzhou, and he lives in his friends' homes when he comes to Suzhou, but most of his friends are also from the Restoration Society.

"Go weave the yamen!" Yan Mingda, who was guarding them, suddenly said in a deep voice.

"Weaving the yamen?" Xia Yunyi was stunned for a moment.

Chen Zilong's eyes lit up. In Suzhou, if you say that the safe place should be the weaving yamen, because the weaving yamen belongs directly to the inner court! The eunuch in charge of weaving the yamen is the eunuch sent by the emperor, and if he comes to ask for help, he will definitely not ignore himself!

But Chen Zilong was a little hesitant, after all, he was born in a man and was also a member of Shilin, and he had an instinctive resistance to defecting to the eunuchs.

"Don't hesitate, it's not good for them to catch up." Yan Mingda urged.

Chen Zilong gritted his teeth: "Let's go, go to the weaving yamen!" ”

has already been slandered as a traitor, what can I do if I am detained as a colluding eunuch? Besides, everyone is equal, eunuchs are also human beings, and there is nothing that cannot be dealed!

The group quickly moved away from Shantang Street and ran towards the weaving yamen.

"The newspaper office is on fire!" Suddenly, someone shouted. The group hurriedly turned their heads to look, and sure enough, they saw thick smoke billowing from the direction of the newspaper office.

"How can they do this! How can you do something about arson! Xia Yunyi said angrily. Shantang Street is lined with shops, and I don't know how many people have suffered from this fire!

"Without him, it's just a riot." Chen Zilong has seen it through.

A group of people walked quickly, one by one panting, it took half an hour to arrive near the weaving yamen, who knew that they saw the crowd in front of them, and saw countless people gathered in front of the weaving yamen.

"What's going on?" This time, even Yan Mingda was stunned. The weaving yamen is directly under the inner court, and the emperor personally sent eunuchs to manage it, who is so bold and dares to besiege the weaving yamen?

Yan Mingda raised his head, and one of the attendants in civilian brocade clothes quickly broke away from the crowd and headed towards the weaving yamen to find out what was going on, and ran back after a while.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I heard that they were dissatisfied with the tyranny of the weaving yamen and forcibly expropriated the silk in the hands of the weavers at a low price, so the weavers spontaneously came to ask for an explanation, demanding that the weaving yamen compensate for the losses, and that they should not forcibly collect silk from the weavers in the future." The brocade guard said.

"This, this is a rebellion!" Yan Mingda was shocked. The weaving yamen directly belongs to the royal family, and is responsible for transporting silk to the palace, and the annual profit of the weaving yamen is also a great source of wealth in the palace. These chaotic people dare to besiege the weaving yamen, which is tantamount to persecuting the royal family!

Chen Zilong sighed, he knew that this must be from Zhang Pu's handwriting. Besieged the weaving yamen, created a riot in the entire city of Suzhou, and then pushed all this to the emperor Juntian, saying that Juntian caused the panic in the south of the Yangtze River, so as to coerce the imperial court to force the emperor to give up Juntian's policy. Zhang Pu is very familiar with this kind of thing, and it is the same as the civil unrest in Suzhou in the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

But does it really work? How could the emperor compromise because of this?

Although Chen Zilong only saw Zhu Youzhen's side, he knew that Zhu Youzhen's plan was very big, and he wanted to completely overthrow the entire gentry class, so how could he easily compromise because of this matter?

Maybe Zhang Pu and others have other means.

However, in this situation, the weaving yamen could not go.

"Why don't you go to Changmen, I have a distant relative who has a shop outside Changmen, but I don't usually come and go......," Xia Yunyi hesitated.

I usually don't come and go, and it's naturally inconvenient to trouble others at this time. It would be troublesome to leak his whereabouts and attract attacks from those people, Chen Zilong shook his head, denied Xia Yunyi's proposal, and then looked at Yan Mingda, wondering if Yan Mingda had a way.

"You can go to the post station outside the city, the post station now belongs to the Jinyi Guard, although it is not the same system as my Jinyi Guard, but it is also my own person." Yan Mingda thought for a while and said.

After the former post station was reorganized, the post guards were given the status of brocade guards, which gave them the confidence to say no to the past gentry. And the post station has another task, which is to be the emperor's eyes and ears in the place.

Chen Zilong's eyes lit up: "Just go to the post station!" ”

Although the inn is full of people, there are a large number of rooms, and there is no problem in hiding these people. Moreover, with the help of the post station staff, the newspaper can be quickly distributed after printing. Until now, Chen Zilong has not forgotten his mission.

The group quickly turned around and headed for the gate to the west. Not far to the west of the Changmen is the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and the Suzhou Post Station is located on the east side of the canal.

However, not long after walking, he suddenly met an acquaintance, but it was Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu. Everyone was very surprised when they met!

"Brother Zilong......" Huang Zongxi arched his hand.

Chen Zilong smiled coldly: "Brother Taichong is helping Zhang Tianru take me?" ”

Huang Zongxi sighed: "If I say that I don't know about this, does Brother Zilong believe it?" ”

Chen Zilong glanced at Huang Zongxi deeply, and saw that Huang Zongxi's expression did not seem to be fake, so he nodded: "I believe you." Brother Aetherchong's character would not do such a thing. But I'm in a hurry right now, so we'll see you another day. ”

"Brother Zilong, is he going to go out of the door? It was not safe outside the city gates. Huang Zongxi hurriedly said.

"Brother Taichong mean?" Chen Zilong asked in surprise.

Huang Zongxi didn't explain, but said: "If Brother Zilong believes me, I will help Brother Zilong find a place to live." ”

"Brother Taichong, isn't afraid that Zhang Tianru will know and blame you?" Chen Zilong was stunned for a moment and smiled.

Huang Zongxi shook his head: "It's a battle of ideas, why fight and kill, Zhang Tianru is wrong this time......

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"Will Huang Taichong sell us?" On the way, Xia Yunyi asked quietly.

Chen Zilong smiled slightly and said quietly: "No." If he did such a thing, he would not be Huang Taichong! ”

has been friends with Huang Zongxi for many years, Chen Zilong knows what a proud person Huang Zongxi is, and he will not do double-faced things at all. And if Huang Zongxi really betrayed himself, when the emperor's army came to Suzhou, he would inevitably avenge himself, how could Huang Zongxi do the thing of raiding his family and exterminating his family?

And took himself in and passed it out, Huang Zongxi will inevitably be dissatisfied with Zhang Pu, Huang Zongxi is also a famous person of the Restoration Society, if there is a conflict with Zhang Pu because of this, the Restoration Society, which is originally based on profits, may be split because of this. And this is also the reason why Chen Zilong is willing to listen to Huang Zongxi's arrangement.

At this moment, Zhang Pu, who was nagged by Chen Zilong, was not in Suzhou City, but in Dongting West Mountain in Taihu Lake.

The vast Taihu Lake, with a radius of hundreds of miles, has countless islands in the lake, and Dongting Xishan, which is close to Suzhou, is the largest island in the Taihu Lake. The forty-one peaks of Xishan Island have beautiful scenery, and there are as many as 100 buildings on the island, all of which are the manor courtyards of the gentry of the Soviet Union. The entire Xishan Island is dozens of miles in radius, and the whole belongs to the gentry of Wuzhong! Civilians are not allowed here at all.

At this moment, Zhang Pu is in the largest and most luxurious courtyard on Xishan Island, with beautiful scenery and beautiful gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the flower hall, seven or eight people sit opposite each other, drinking and appreciating chrysanthemums comfortably, which seems to be very comfortable. But the content of their conversation was anything but light.

"The grocery store was burned, Shantang Street was in chaos, and the riots had spread, but unfortunately Chen Zilong had lost his trace." Zhang Pu sighed.

"If you are missing, you will be missing, but you are also from Shilin, and if you really die, it is difficult to explain." On the main seat is a middle-aged man in a white silk robe, waving his hand.

"Nearly 1,000 people besieged the weaving yamen, and the weaving eunuchs were so frightened that they sent people to jump over the wall to ask for help from the governor's yamen, and the governor sent dozens of pacesetters, but they did not dare to drive the crowd away, and only watched from a distance." Zhang Pu said with a smile, "I see in the governor's heart, if the emperor's people arrive in Suzhou, he will be considered to have done it as the governor, and I only hope that things will make a bigger scene." ”

"Shantang Street, weaving yamen, these two places alone are not enough." The middle-aged man in white silk shook his head and said.

Zhang Pu said: "The head of the Shen family doesn't need to be in a hurry, there will be a big noise at the latest night!" Let's just wait. ”

"Haha, I'm naturally relieved to do things like the sky." The middle-aged man in white silk smiled and said, "Everyone, if this thing can be done this time, Tianru will make great contributions, and everyone will give him a cup!" ”

"Brother Tianru has worked hard!"

"Brother Tianruxian, please!"

The others in the flower hall raised their glasses and laughed. Zhang Pu hurriedly picked up the wine glass and drank it all. Don't look at him as the leader of the Restoration Society, in fact, he is just the person who was pushed to the front by these people present.

Zhang Pu is ambitious, although he has not yet been admitted to the Jinshi, he wants to control the court and even the entire Ming Dynasty. But he knew that he couldn't do this with his own strength, so he took the initiative to unite with the most powerful people in Wu, and with their help, he established the Fushe, and then recruited Jiangnan scholars in the name of the Fushe. It was that many court officials entered the Fushe and worshiped under Zhang Pumen.

However, just when Zhang Pu was full of ambition, the emperor stopped the imperial examination, and he was still a high school jinshi, and he could not obtain the status of an official. What made Zhang Pu and the people behind him even more angry was that the emperor actually toured south, and the places he passed were turbulent. Seeing that the gentry and officials in Shandong were all cleaned up by the emperor, even the salt merchants in Yangzhou were also upheld by the emperor. Now the emperor has crossed the Yangtze River and is stationed in Zhenjiang, and is releasing slaves in Juntian, Zhenjiang, and the next step is bound to come to Suzhou Juntian.

For the gentry of Suzhou, this is a big bad news, they are naturally unwilling to have their own fields equalized, and they are naturally unwilling to lose the privileges of the gentry! These gentry have been entrenched in Jiangdong for many years, and they have long regarded Jiangdong as their own territory, and they do not have much reverence for imperial power. To be honest, since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry in Jiangdong have not liked the Zhu family very much, because since Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor has been too harsh on the gentry in Jiangdong!

Under normal circumstances, the Jiangdong gentry no longer disliked the Zhu family, and they would not make trouble. After all, their privileges are also attached to the imperial court. But that doesn't mean they are loyal to the emperor.

In another time and space, although Jiangdong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty seemed to be very powerful, in fact, it was not that the Jiangdong gentry were really loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but that the Qing soldiers touched their fundamental interests. At the beginning, when the Qing soldiers went south, the entire Jiangdong also surrendered without much resistance, on the contrary, there were Zhang Huangyan and others in Zhejiang who firmly resisted the Qing. However, after pacifying Jiangnan, the Manchu Qing Dynasty made a stupid move, and Dolgon ordered to shave his hair and change clothes, which annoyed the Jiangdong gentry, and the Qing soldiers looted and burned in Jiangnan to do nonsense, so Jiangyin, Jiading and other places have resisted the Qing.

For these gentry in Jiangdong, as long as their interests can be guaranteed, whoever is the emperor is the same. But if it touches their interests, they will rebel. If the light does not work, the yin will come.

The real famous families will not go into battle shirtless, Zhang Pu is the representative of their launch. As long as Zhang Pu is obedient, they will always support Zhang Pu. In another time and space, Zhang Pu was famous all over the world, and his power was so great that he could hold the imperial court hostage, and even the first assistant Zhou Yanru had to listen to him. It is claimed to be able to control the court from a distance of thousands of miles. And then gave birth to great ambitions. Maybe it was too much ambition that made many people feel uneasy, and finally died inexplicably.

Of course, now, Zhang Pu is still a good thug, and these people are quite satisfied with Zhang Pu.

Everyone ate and drank, talked and laughed. After talking about the matter, the head of the Shen family waved his hand, and a team of young and beautiful singers entered the flower hall and sat down next to everyone, and everyone became even more profligate. The silk bamboo sounded, and a singer sang with her hand on the yaoqin.

Half of Suzhou is in turmoil, and the Dongting West Mountain Swallow Dance and Ying Song is only dozens of miles away, but it is like two worlds.

The sky gradually darkened, and in the depths of Taihu Lake, dozens of sand boats took advantage of the night to sail out, out of Taihu Lake and into the canal, heading towards the north of Suzhou. The canal was lit with lights, and boats were moored everywhere along the river, and the boatmen looked at the fleet sailing at night in amazement, but did not think much of it.

The convoy had passed Suzhou and traveled another twenty miles to the north, and in front of it was Hushu Pass, where soldiers guarding the pass waved lanterns and shouted orders for the fleet to stop.

Hushu Pass is the tax customs in the north of Suzhou, and any ship going south and north must be inspected and pay commercial tax. At night, the customs are closed and no ships are allowed to pass through.

The fleet slowly approached Hushu Pass, although countless figures flashed out of the boat, carrying lanterns and torches and holding knives and guns to kill Hushu Pass, and in an instant, Hushu Pass was in chaos.

The soldiers guarding the tax gate never imagined that someone would attack the tax gate, and they were easily killed into the gate without warning.

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