Chapter 267: The End (2)

A butterfly gently flipped its wings, triggering a storm thousands of miles away. The direct trigger for this chaos in Jingshi was also the death of an unknown little person thousands of miles away.

Chu River.

Chu He is a Wenxi person in Shanxi, and when he was a teenager, he followed a Jin merchant as a small servant. It may be that the passing year is unfavorable, the Jin merchants were ill in Suzhou Mansion in Nanzhili, and the people disappeared in a few days, so the Chu River fell on the streets, and then was taken in by Zhou Yuanwai.

The Zhou family is famous in Suzhou Mansion. The so-called scholarly family heirloom has produced many talents for more than 100 years, and some of the clansmen have even been officials to governors and servants. In the generation of Zhou Yuanwai, the young master Zhou Yun was named on the gold list when he was twenty years old, and now he is in the Ministry of Officials - he is still the Langzhong of the Wenxuan Qing Officials!

You must know that in Daming, the power of officialdom is not only determined by rank, each department has its own sphere of influence, within this range, even a sesame official can torture people to cry without tears, but you can't find any fault! This is called the county magistrate is not as good as the current management.

The Ministry of Officials is the head of the six ministries and controls the evaluation, promotion and appointment of officials in the world, while the Department of Literature and Anthology is the head of the four departments of the Ministry of Officials, which is in charge of the setting of vacancies and the evaluation of grades of all civil officials at the central and local levels, as well as the selection, promotion, and transfer of posts. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Lord Zhou Yun and Zhou can control the lifeblood of most officials in the world. It is precisely because of this that the status of the Zhou family in Suzhou Mansion and even in the entire Nanzhili can be imagined - let's put it this way, every time the prefect sees Zhou Yuanwai, who only holds the title, he is the first to take a bow!

Don't look at Lord Zhou's power, it's rare that the reputation is not bad. Of course, you can't say that Lord Zhou is really as spotless as Hai Rui who read books and completely read himself stupidly - Daming's low salary is the highest in the world, and Lord Zhou can't be allowed to grow vegetables and raise chickens in the courtyard of the Ministry of Officials, and if you really play like Hai Qingtian, Lord Zhou has to starve to death. The so-called good means that Lord Zhou abides by the rules, never stretches out his hand when he shouldn't take it, and won't open his mouth in everything. This is already rare, so the relationship with the Qingliu in the court is very good: Zong Daoren is a son and daughter of the engineering department, Zong Daoren and the right capital of the imperial history Zhao Dongzhu are not only distant relatives, but also the same door, Zhao Dongzhu and Zuo Yizhi are the same year...... All in all, Lord Zhou is also a clear stream.

If you have a good reputation, can you be recognized as a fellow believer by those who seem to be above the top? How can it be! Their slogan is not for people, even if you are so poor that you can't even afford the coffin for your mother's burial, as long as you have different political views, you will be considered an enemy, and you will never die. Actually, there are deeper reasons for this. There are only those positions in the establishment of the Ming officialdom, and the team of alternate officials can have hundreds of thousands at most. The second and third grades, called the "Tiger Class" in the Ming Dynasty, are on the spot when they are vacant, and they don't have to wait, and the others have to look at the creation. There are also many positions of assistant officials, such as local wardens, chiefs, inspectors, etc., which do not require meritorious fame. In addition, the prefectural decree of the lower county can also be held by the juren and the tribute sheng. There are more places where the Anthology Division can make articles! Let's take the teachings as an example, on the surface, it is an eight-grade that has not entered the stream, and it is not even a sesame official, and it is so poor that it jingles. However, the priest is in charge of the education of the whole county - in other words, in the future imperial examination, the person who has achieved fame in this county will be counted as his protégé! This teacher-student relationship is not only for life, but also the most important link in officialdom. Imagine that your brothers have a good relationship with the DPRK and China, and your relatives and friends have taught in more than a dozen counties, and in ten years, all the jinshi who have passed the examination in these places will be your people!

In order to realize the so-called "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" situation that Qingliu dreamed of—the court is full of our people, and those who are not ours are of course evil—Lord Zhou is the key person.

Understand?

The problem was caused by Li Shizhong's tax collection.

Suzhou Mansion is rich in the world, and of course Gonggong Li has to send someone. The Zhou family is one of the largest households in Suzhou, even the ancestral property is invested in thousands of hectares of good land, and there are countless shops, and the business is even done in the country, but because of the grace of the dynasty to the scholars, they have never paid a copper plate of land and business tax - this is what Gonggong Li is looking for.

Old man Zhou was trembling with anger with a list in his hand: three thousand taels, pay the money in three days. Isn't this a deliberate attempt to pluck a tiger's beard to show jokes to idlers! Of course, it is impossible for the Zhou family not to take out this money, only three festivals and two birthdays per year, the money spent by the Zhou Mansion is several times this, the problem is that the old man can't swallow this breath! The prefect is sick and can't be contacted (the person who came is Dongchang with Jinyiwei, the prefect is not sick now, I'm afraid it won't be long before he gets really sick, well, it's so heavy that he can lose his life), then I have to think of other ways......

On the third day, thousands of people gathered outside the Zhou Mansion, tenants and men, all of whom came "spontaneously and proactively". A large group of guys who can only eat a few bites of white rice during the New Year are indignant to "uphold justice" for Zhou Laoyuan, who has to drink two mouthfuls of ginseng soup before going to bed. Who are Dongchang and Jinyiwei, even if they break into which yamen to find out the master, does any of those guards dare to fart? Joke! A small flag officer deliberately showed his face in front of the uncle of Dongchang, and shook the iron chain in his hand: "Dongchang takes people, you people dare to obstruct official business?" ”

This sentence is a big disaster.

In the Zhou Mansion for a few years, Chu He has grown into a strong young man with big shoulders and a round waist. Because he is down-to-earth and hardworking, he is very important to the old staff, and he has been thinking about returning for the old man. The young master is a Qingliu party, and the family letter inevitably reveals his disdain for the factory guards, the old staff are older, and the people talk a lot when they are old, and Chu He ignorantly feels that the factory guards are all traitors and eunuchs, plus the prefect who represents the supreme authority of the government has always been polite to the Zhou Mansion, and Chu He, who does not know the importance of the matter, thinks that in this world, in addition to the saint, he has to be the second in the Zhou Mansion. Who dares to bully the old man outside, isn't this looking for death? After listening to the words of the little flag official, Chu He became more confident, and shouted: "We still thought it was the emperor's order, what kind of pig and dog are the traitors in Dongchang, kill you little red guy*!" A stick swept over, and the unsuspecting little flag officer fell to the ground.

The knowledge of the tenant guys is even worse than that of Chu He, seeing that the followers outside the old Zhou took the lead, and their arrogance rose sharply, lest they fall behind the people and be regarded as ungrateful by the old staff, so they rushed up, sticks and pickaxes flew together, blood and brains - in a blink of an eye, people died: one died in Dongchang, and Jinyiwei was beaten to death. The collective unconscious, when there are more people, they will embolden each other, and each one will be more ruthless than the other.

Now it's all right.

Old man Zhou originally thought that he would first put on a big array to fight the majesty of these guys in Zhenzhen, and then send some silver in private, and everyone would make a step and the matter would be settled. On weekdays, he scolded and scolded in private, but Old Man Zhou knew that thousands of people were armed to resist taxes at the door of his house and killed several officials - oh, no, where is the official errand, the factory guard is the emperor's errand - what kind of crime is it!

It's too late to say anything. invited Chu He to eat and drink well, and when he woke up, he found that he and several other tenants of the Zhou family who he didn't know were already in the prison of Suzhou Mansion.

The old man was bloodied. In order to feel sorry for the three thousand taels of land to pay business taxes, in the end, he took the initiative and was passive, and spent a total of sixty or seventy thousand taels of silver. However, the matter is finally confused.

Fooled around for the time being.

To say, it really shouldn't be blamed on Li Shizhong's father-in-law. There must be tax collection, but objectively speaking, most of it is indeed for the imperial court. The tax resistance killed several emperors, and the nature was absolutely extremely bad, and no one could say anything if they really copied the Zhou family. However, Gonggong Li also knew that Qingliu was very powerful, and unless he had to, he was not willing to make a mortal enmity with a large group of vicious mad dogs. Since the other party is willing to spend money, the people who die are all the lowest small characters, so they don't plan to go any further.

Gonggong Li wanted to forget it, but he couldn't stand the Qingliu and was unwilling. On the one hand, everyone has a good relationship with Lord Zhou on weekdays, but they can seize the opportunity to show friendship. On the other hand, the families of these people are also unable to escape the misfortune of paying taxes, and they are all holding back their anger, and they have to vent! So, I started to make an article with this incident.

Of course, Chu He's heads were cut off without any suspense. As a result, some people contributed money and some efforts, and even built a "tomb of the six righteous soldiers" for them, and also erected a monument in a grand manner. In the past, it was too much to pay attention to the name of the person before and after his death, and to build a monument to the murderer who killed the emperor in public.

The factory guards are all over the place, of course Li Shizhong will know. However, he also knew the virtues and tempers of those guys, shook his head and pretended not to see, and didn't say anything.

You think that's the end of it? Hehe.

"Rough spirited, not subject to dust; Dripping with blood, I know a lot of loyalty! ”

This is an elegy written by the Qingliu people to the "Six Righteous Warriors".

"Every year, I spend flowers and wine in the city, I don't love my body and I don't love my name. Speaking of unrighteous things in the world, the mallet cracked his chest and scolded Jing Qing! ”

This is an elegy they wrote for the "Six Righteous Soldiers".

Illiterate in big characters, Chu He, who smashed his braincase with a stick in order to help the lord resist taxes, became a loyal and righteous hero in a blink of an eye...... I just don't know what he would say if he knew it underground.

Gonggong Li sighed heavily, but he still endured it - no matter what, the money was also collected, let them make a fuss for a while, no one cared about it, and the trouble naturally stopped when they were tired.

Has it stopped?

Of course not.

Because it was at this time that the rebellion of luxury was quelled, those guys found new grievances, and they had to use the topic to play!

Troops, dispatching officials, sowing discord, and competing for merit...... has already been quarrelling, some people still think that things are not big enough and chaotic, so they simply pointed the finger directly at the Son of Heaven himself - earlier there were two Niangniang who were happy (as a result, a prince gave birth to a princess), and recently two more Niangniang were pregnant, and the Holy Dragon was not in good health, the three things were connected together, and the only conclusion could only be that the Son of Heaven was unscrupulous and indulgent! It's like one plus one equals two.

The upper performance is the engineering department to the affairs of the sect Daoren.

This guy is not just as simple as playing: he actually recited it loudly from beginning to end in the court, and won the applause of the mad dogs!

Li Shizhong listened to the little chamberlain reading the chapter, and his lips trembled with anger: When the saint is in the court, there are more of them, and you are vigorously clamoring for what is important, the saint, you still go back to the harem, it's okay to press down a few more mothers to give birth to a dragon son, and the mother is happy, and you pull your neck and shout "The minister hears that the harem is filthy", isn't this a complete bastard! The Holy Bow disobedience is a matter of the last two months, Niangniang is happy three months ago, the Holy Lord has been sleeping alone for a long time, others don't know, can Li Shizhong still not know? Besides, the Son of Heaven has not been in good health since he was a child, and he has recently suffered from the wind and cold, and he has a hairy relationship with lewdness and indulgence? It's one thing to speak unscrupulously, it's another thing to blatantly slander and slander the Son of Heaven, pointing at your nose and scolding the street!

"Find some other stubble for our family and grab it! After a few days of prison food, it's time to shut the dog's mouth! ”

Gonggong Li was wrong again.

Zong Daoren and Lord Zhou are sons and daughters, one is to use the topic to play for the Zhou family, and the other is to rely on the identity of the official and so many colleagues outside, he will definitely find a way to fish himself out, simply break the jar, and simply tear his face with the eunuch completely! A man who counted down in the court from the seven grades and scolded the eunuch leader in prison - who else could there be in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty? Thousands of years later, it will also be a green history!

Then, he died in the North Town Fusi Prison.

It's so normal. You scolded him by name in Gonggong Li's territory, and brought all the guards with you, if you don't clean you up, should you be a wolf-like cell boss and a white lotus?

Zong Daoren's death finally pushed the crumbling empire to the edge of the cliff one step further.

*Knowledge points in this article: Red guys

The swearing in the Yangtze River Delta region originated from the stabbing system of the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent him from concealing his identity and escaping, he had to be tattooed on his face and painted with cinnabar, hence the name. Later, it was extended to "sooner or later be a thief embryo who will be black-faced and reinforced" to curse and curse people, which is somewhat similar to the "thousand cuts" in the north - the guy who will be Ling Chi sooner or later. It's just that the "people who have suffered a thousand cuts" in the north have gradually changed their taste, and sometimes the more intimate people can also say it when they are teased and scolded, and the "red guy" is always a curse.

Chu He was in Suzhou Mansion when he was a teenager, so he unconsciously learned this sentence.