With the appearance of Zhou Yi as a sign, Liu Jin's second wave of action began.

To the north, those completed case files were quickly sent to the Beijing Division.

To the east, although officials are not as casual as the gentry, the crime of colluding with the squire and disobeying the holy decree is not light.

For a time, the officials in the south of the Yangtze River were all in the air.

Even some high-ranking officials in Nanjing who stayed in the capital were not spared.

Among the seven people reported by Han Ziren, the official position was the largest Wang Yunlong, the right deputy imperial envoy of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate.

He was arrested that night, and by the next day it had spread throughout the city of Nanjing.

Along with this name, there is also the rising Zhou Yi.

If it's just Wang Yunlong alone, there are still people behind the key, as long as someone with a little brain can understand it.

At night.

Zhou Yixin's mansion.

In the study, a fierce quarrel suddenly broke out.

"I heard people talk about it today, I still can't believe it, I didn't expect it to be really you, Brother Zhou, you and I are both saint apprentices, Confucius said that a gentleman has something to do and something not to do, how can you be with that Liu Jin at this time?"

Zhou Yi originally had a very good friend, and this person was also a petty official in Nanjing, in the past, although they did not have much to do in their careers, but their lives were not bad.

This person looked at Zhou Yi angrily, both angry and heartbroken.

Zhou Yi looked calm, "Brother Wen, Liu Jin came to Jiangnan by holy order, and all these things he wants to do are His Majesty's will." You and I are officials and loyal to the king, what's wrong with that? ”

"Ridiculous! The emperor was unclear for a while, and mistakenly believed Liu Jin. Liu Jin brutalized Zhongliang, killing people is not counted, how can he be a loyal monarch? Did you know that someone has been framed for you! ”

"To promote the world's Qingtian Order is to be loyal to the monarch. As for the people Brother Wen said, isn't what they have done against the holy will? Even if the emperor is there in person, he will arrest them and ask them for guilt. ”

"You! There is nothing wrong with the Qingtian Order in the world, but how can it be called benevolent government if it is so eager and takes the lives of so many people? ”

"There is not so much room to turn around, and the longer it drags on, the more people will die, so it is better to end it as soon as possible."

……

"This official is the emperor's personal envoy to the right deputy capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, without a holy decree, you dare to arrest this official, this official wants to go to the emperor to participate in you!! Moreover, since the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the emperor has ordered that no more heavy codes should be used in the brocade guards, what are you doing here?! ”

This old man is Wang Yunlong, who has just been arrested.

He had a gray beard, probably a little scorched somewhere, and the prison uniform on his body was also tattered, but it couldn't hide his fat belly.

This is the dungeon of Nanjing Jinyiwei, at this time Wang Yunlong is tied to a cross-shaped pillar, and it is Han Ziren who interrogates him.

There will be a rattling of iron chains in the dungeon, and I don't know if there is any torture instrument to be dragged out.

Han Ziren sat on the bench facing him, with his right foot on it, his posture was a little arrogant, "The honorific title of you is Wang Vice Xian, because you have also been a high-ranking official of the imperial court, and you should have also seen the emperor." You are right about the 12th year of Hongzhi, the emperor had such a will. But...... When did you, the disobedient of the Divine Decree, care so much about the Divine Decree? ”

"Phew!" Wang Yunlong spat out from afar, "Blood spews people, this official is an official of the imperial court, it's not that you can convict this official with a sentence of 'disobeying the holy decree'!" ”

Han Ziren didn't panic, and said with a smile: "Okay, your nephew has already explained everything, touch your light, he has forcibly occupied a lot of fields in Gaochun County in recent years, and when he saw the imperial court issuing the Qingtian order, he was greedy for profit, and he was very afraid, you know all the things he did under fear, right?" Thanks to your ideas, he got a good night's sleep for a few months. ”

Wang Yunlong's face turned red and white for a while, "You are slandering!" ”

"You can be stubborn, anyway, my people have already searched your home for correspondence, although not all, but enough. He used a trick to clean up those surveyors, how you came forward to defend him after the incident, how much of the land he occupied, how much of it was only in his name, but in fact it was all yours, these are all clear. You don't think that the nephew who only knows what depends on you is a great man, hard bones, right? ”

Wang Yunlong is an old fritter in officialdom still doesn't believe it, "Haha, it's really like you said, why do you bother to judge this official." ”

Han Ziren pointed at him, "There is still value in your mouth." That's the emperor's holy decree, and you dare to do it behind the emperor's will? Even if you walk at night, you have to find a few people to pass and be brave, right? ”

"Don't think!" Wang Yunlong immediately understood, he scolded, "The factory guards are chaotic, they are clothed in hemp and eat meat, they don't care about the common people, and they are smoky!" I, Wang Yunlong, will never help the abuse, don't even want to hear half a word. ”

"You'll tell." Han Ziren said firmly, "Speaking of which, Lao Tzu is also from the county, and he has nothing to do with this brocade guard. However, when Lao Tzu was the magistrate of the county, he especially hated you evil officials who looted the people's fat and ointment! At that time, people were soft-spoken, and they couldn't clean you up, and today Lao Tzu will not be polite! ”

"You, what are you going to do?"

"Don't do anything, those heavy canons don't let you taste them, and you're scared to death like this, so I'll give you a light canon first." After speaking, Han Ziren's face changed, "Come on, go to punishment!" ”

During the Hongwu period that year, Zhu Yuanzhang handled several major cases and also explained to each other, one person to one person, and in the end, the scale could go up to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

In modern mathematical expression, this is called exponential growth, and it is more like cell division. The human head doesn't have time to react at all, and it may have already fallen on your head.

And here in Liu Jin, there will be a paradoxical phenomenon,

On the one hand, more and more newly compiled fish scale atlases from all over the country are being sent faster and faster, and on the other hand, there are more and more officials involved in the case, which is really a strange sight.

On the other hand, the resignation of Xie Tizhong and other officials has also been prepared, and these people have no choice but to go and go to the mountains and forests.

But Liu Jin is not a righteous gentleman, he wants to go, but he may not be able to go.

Liu Jin, who didn't go out for a few days, had to go specifically for him, because he was among the people Wang Yunlong explained.

In Xie Mansion, Xie Tizhong was not like ordinary people who cried and made a fuss after being arrested, he was very calm, and he walked out surrounded by Jinyiwei.

"Why do I always oppose the Qing Tian of the Imperial Court, it turns out that I am afraid of clearing your field."

In the courtyard, his people were holding torches, and the light of the fire made Xie Tizhong's face flicker.

After Zhou Yi's pointing, this guy now understands where these people's pain is.

Xie Tizhong really scolded, "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse!" Liu Jin, if you go against the sky today, there will be retribution in the future! You need to know that if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself! ”

Liu Jin's eyes were gloomy, "Our family doesn't know who the sky you are talking about, and the only heaven in our family's heart is the emperor." You have turned a deaf ear to the emperor's will, and the emperor wants to kill those who resist the decree, and say that it was the work of the faint king. You can't escape this sin! ”

"If you want to kill, you can kill it, Hugh has to splash dirty water and humiliate people's reputation, why am I afraid of death?"

"If our family doesn't kill you, our family will insult you and clear your name, and we will let Your Majesty know how you are deliberately disobeying the imperial court's order to clear the world! How to say the word faint with righteous indignation! Come on, take it! ”

Xie Tizhong is a famous person like Li Dongyang, the Xie family itself is also a scholarly family, his hometown is in Zhejiang, and people at the time will say that he has some relationship with Yuyao Xie Qian, but neither side has confirmed it.

It is estimated that it will not be confirmed now.

And if Xie Tizhong can't keep himself, then the officials who were originally active in Nanjing City can probably be swept away, and only the character officials who are really not involved in this matter can escape the catastrophe.

And then not only Nanjing, from Zhenjiang, Changzhou all the way to Suzhou, fortunately, in recent years, the country's politics have gradually become clear, and the officialdom ecology has gradually improved.

Jing Shaokui personally went to the Changzhou inspector, and the officials he saw two days ago suddenly heard that he had been taken away on the third day.

Even the local family behind him also suffered a great disaster.

This level of murder has indeed led to social unrest.

Because there is no one in the government, even if there are people who have their minds on the Qingtian Rebellion, they will not care about anything else.

So many Xiaoxiao began to haunt again, and they took advantage of this chaos to rob their homes, thinking of making a few votes and making a small fortune. Others are revenge on private people, or take people's money and eliminate disasters for others.

The increase in civilian homicides has forced wealthy families to increase their manpower to defend against threats.

to September 21, 11th year of Zhengde.

In Wuxi County, the capital of Changzhou, several squire families who thought that they were also dead on the left and right began to join forces to resist the officers and soldiers sent by the government to arrest people.

After all, if the stall is bigger, there will be a shortage of manpower, and if you look at you as a dozen or twenty people, some people will take risks.

This kind of thing, there are one and two,

There was an accident in Changzhou Mansion, and soon there was a situation in Songjiang Mansion where the people resisted the officers and soldiers.

Our people are not gentle, once his brain is warmed up, a few brothers will discuss it, and after the righteousness is strong, he will not care what court law you have.

Who is the Emperor? I haven't seen it.

Jing Shaokui, who heard the news, was as anxious as fire, he was the governor of Yingtian, and it was his duty to maintain local stability.

So he didn't care about Liu Jin, and directly ordered in the name of the governor of Yingtian that as long as the squires and the people were willing to cooperate with Qingtian, no one was allowed to deliberately make things difficult.

This is to reiterate the imperial court's order on the basis of Zhang Xuan and Zhang Gelao, which is always correct.

At the same time, he wrote a letter to Zhou Shangwen, the Marquis of Jingju, who was stationed in Zhenjiang Prefecture, reminding him to pay attention to the timely response to the public situation in various places.

And he himself rushed to Wuxi County.

Liu Jin is now busy 'framing' officials from all walks of life, and he doesn't care.

But now most of the squires have been frightened, and basically agreed to the government's Qingtian request, after all, those who did not agree were actually slaughtered......

In this case, the imperial court released the information of stabilizing the place, so he still had to be careful not to really cause civil unrest, so it was still necessary to issue an order with the governor's yamen.

This is a soft hand.

Of course, in order to maintain stability, the people who really came out of the crowd will definitely not be spared.

It's a hard hand.

At the same time, on the river to the west of Nanjing, there were also people hurrying away.

Jiangnan has such a chaos, he has to return to Nanchang as soon as possible and report the news.