"Officers and soldiers have killed ......!"

Finally, under the strong pressure of the Jinyi Guard, in front of the cold muzzle of the Jingbei Army, many officials were afraid, and Zhou Zhonglian, the Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites, screamed strangely, and was the first to rush out of the crowd, and knelt down shamelessly in front of a Jinyi guard holding a spear on the right.

Zhou Zhonglian really regretted it, regretted that he shouldn't have listened to Wu Changshi's nonsense, came to the Forbidden City to pick up the tiger whiskers of Xiao Li thief, what to say about the internal constraints, there are strong soldiers outside, Xiao Li thief was defeated in Jiaoshan, he will definitely back down under pressure.

"Phew!" Dong Zhuo was in turmoil, the princes of the Eighteenth Road begged for Dong, the Tiger Prison Pass and the Bishui Pass were lost one after another, Dong Zhuo was afraid, didn't he burn Luoyang City with a fire, and escorted the Son of Heaven and the civil and military officials to Chang'an, looking at the posture of the little Li thief, even if the armies from all walks of life gathered in Beijing, the little Li thief would not compromise, but would only follow Dong Zhuo's example and move the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials to his old nest Shandong.

Someone took the lead, and many scholars rushed in the direction of Zhou Zhonglian's kneeling as if they had found the backbone, and knelt down in front of the dangling spear of the brocade-clothed Wei Ming.

Fucking righteousness, going to their fame and fortune, fucking etiquette, righteousness and shame, these are not as important as their own net worth and life, and they have studied hard for more than ten years, and once they were lifted, they didn't give their lives in vain.

Isn't it the salt and iron tax and the commercial tax of one out of ten taxes? Lao Tzu admitted, isn't it the reform of the imperial examination system? Didn't Sage Kong also say that the six arts of a gentleman, and it was not completely unreasonable to agree to Xiao Li Thief, so he had already been promoted to become an official, could it be that Xiao Li Thief could let himself take the second art of archery again?

Wu Changshi was also stunned, he didn't expect that the public opinion offensive he had painstakingly created would collapse like this.

"The erector is not enough and scheming, so timid and afraid, won't the court in the future let Xiao Li thief take it away?"

Wailang Xu Zhizhi scolded angrily, if it weren't for Wu Changshi's persuasion first, and then Zhou Zhonglian's lobbying in the same year, he would have long wanted to follow Fan Fucui's example and ask Zhishi to return to his hometown, why bother with this troubled water, now you Zhou Zhonglian is actually cowardly, this will be his deep regret that he is so obsessed with their thief ship in Wuchang, this is good, people are killed, I am afraid that this thing is very good, can he still leave Beijing safely?

Besides, since ancient times, the powerful ministers have rebelled, and how many people can really succeed, even if Dong Zhuo is as arrogant as the world, isn't it also under Wang Situ's serial plan to die without a place to be buried, traitors and thieves like Wang Mang have replaced the Han Dynasty, a new policy, the huge new dynasty collapsed under the counterattack of the scholars, and now the Ming Dynasty is still there, and the governors loyal to the imperial court are still there, and it is impossible for Xiao Li to cover the sky with one hand, as long as our scholars can endure the temperament, for the time being, it is not impossible to revive the dynasty, And why fight for the length of the moment?

"Tell Ma Sande that all those who kneel on the ground and confess their guilt will be arrested and put into the prison of the Criminal Department to be disposed of, as for Wu Changshi and Zhou Zhonglian, they will be handed over to the three law divisions, and they will be tried by Jinyiwei, Dali Temple and the three halls of the Criminal Department, Liu Gelao, this matter will be supervised by Sun Zhiqi of the Imperial History of Zuodu, and no one who is related to the rebellion case can be let go."

After Xu Yixian and Liu Qiao returned to Beijing, they had already informed Li Xingzhi of the Tongzhou assassination case, and although there was no evidence that Wu Changshi and Zhou Zhonglian had a clear relationship with this matter, they would rather believe that they had it than that they did not.

"Sun Zhiqi?"

Liu looked at Li Xingzhi with puzzlement, he didn't know how this eunuch member who had been in office for thirteen years got into Li Xingzhi's eyes.

Li Xingzhi smiled and said nothing, Sun Zhiqi, the initiator of the implementation of the shaving order in later generations, is still useful in Li Xingzhi's opinion, the assassination is according to the Jinyi Wei report, and the Donglin Party in Jiangnan must be inextricably linked, it is better to use this person as a pawn to open the knife to Donglin, and when the anger is aroused, then find a reason to cure him for the crime of being a slave, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone.

A group of Jinyi guards dressed in flying fish suits slowly advanced forward with fire guns, and the leading officer only repeated the military order just issued by Ma Sande, the commander of Jinyiwei, "Kneel on the ground and don't kill!" ”

The restless crowd knelt down like a wave of wheat in front of the bright spear, the first to kneel down was to watch the lively people of Beijing, joking not to kneel, these Qiu Ba really killed, in just a few hundred breaths of time, hundreds of scholars, officials and people were stabbed through the chest alive by the spear.

Then, some gentry and officials also honestly knelt on the ground according to the requirements of Jinyiwei, and the knees of the scholars were also weak, and none of them dared to jump out and scold Jinyiwei for lawlessness.

"You cowards, you really don't eat soft, now it's okay, you have to force the Son of Heaven to show the knife, and when someone dies, you are afraid, what the hell are you doing."

The servants of the Shuntian Mansion who followed closely behind the Jinyi Guard sighed, and the Yifu was angry, holding the chains and wooden shackles of the prisoners, regardless of what kind of courtiers and nobles these people were, or scholars and ordinary people, they put the wooden shackles on the heads of those officials who were usually high, and those people who had nothing to do were tied into strings of sugar gourds with thumb-wide hemp ropes, and then waved big sticks and iron rulers to escort out of the encirclement of Jinyi Guard.

The initiator of the incident, the idol in the eyes of the officials and gentry, the big officials in the hearts of the people, Wu Chang and more than ten court officials are still standing there.

Until this meeting, Director Wu still couldn't believe that Jinyiwei really dared to kill people, and he couldn't believe that the mighty petition team collapsed like this under the butcher's knife of the officers and soldiers.

"You Jinyi Wei are good at killing the officials of the imperial court, and the blood stains the Daming Gate, this is a great disrespect, this is tantamount to rebellion, is the prime minister trying to emulate Dong Zhuo?"

Wu Ganzhong, the secretary of Honglu Temple, almost roared and looked at Ma Sande, who was stepping in, he was also the main official who refused to kneel to welcome the Jingbei Army in the previous battle of Jingjing, Li Xingzhi because he refused to surrender Li Zicheng in history, he deliberately added grace to envelop him, and added him as Honglu Temple, but he never thought that this person actually colluded with Wu Changshi.

"The prime minister is even, anyone who does not kneel and confess his guilt will be punished with great disrespect and impact on the crime of Jinyiwei, if Wu Shaofu can plead guilty to the prime minister now, the prime minister and his old man may be able to open the net."

Ma Sande also knew that Wu Ganzhong was promoted by Li Xingzhi, and after a little thought, he decided to give him a chance.

"Hmph...... Kong said Chengren...... Eminent....... ”

Wu Ganzhong hadn't finished speaking, but the Daming Gate behind him slowly opened.

"The prime minister is thundering, the queen mother has a decree, and the officials outside the palace are mainly persuaded to retreat, and they must not open the killing ring without permission, disturbing the royal majesty."

Wang Dehua, the new eunuch of the Celebrant Seal, hurriedly walked out of the Forbidden City, without looking at the corpses that had fallen to the ground and countless prisoners who were escorted by the servants, and ran to Ma Sande out of breath.

"Our family wants to see the prime minister!"