The nights in Gangnam are cold.

The moon hangs high.

Emperor Zhu walked alone on the spacious and empty palace.

A sense of loneliness welled up in my heart.

In this day and age,

He has a big generation gap with his ministers and concubines.

This loneliness made him understand.

There are few courtiers and officials who are of the same heart as him, even if they are hardcore like Gu Song, they only support all his policies based on the loyalty of "monarchs and ministers".

Essentially.

Gu Song is still a scholar.

For the entire class of scholars.

Emperor Zhu has been courting him for several years.

The benefits that should be given are given.

But giving benefits can only buy real villains.

It's not useful for a gentleman or a hypocrite.

Now many "true gentlemen" from Sichuan are already coming to the central capital.

Therefore, the tool of the dictatorship of the Ming Dynasty must also be used!

"Why is this going to start the tax audit?"

"I haven't taken the exam in Sichuan, and Sichuan has always been military and political?"

"The emperor is unjust! Unjust! ”

Soon.

The news of the imperial court's suspension of the imperial examination in Sichuan reached Chengdu.

It immediately caused great dissatisfaction.

Although the imperial court ostensibly made concessions to the Sichuan scholars.

But in fact, they were left to dry.

Of course, these Sichuan scholars know that if the examination is not held in Sichuan now, then the officials in Sichuan will have to be done by outsiders.

The benefits of being an official will all go to the non-local officials.

How can they accept this?

Therefore, the will of the Ming court not only did not appease the scholars of Sichuan.

On the contrary, it made them more excited.

More aggrieved.

It's not that they don't want to take the imperial examination.

It's that I don't want to take the new exam.

"Defend the name! Stop the New Deal! ”

Someone shouted in the crowd.

"Defend the name! Stop the New Deal!! ”

It quickly aroused a group response.

"Go to the Gongyuan to gather, let's let the emperor know our determination!"

"Eight shares of scholars, refuse to learn new!"

"Eight shares of scholars, refuse to learn new!!"

Soon, a large number of scholars gathered in Chengdu Gongyuan.

The Yamen, the governor of Sichuan Province in the Ming Dynasty, was on high alert, and a letter of report on the situation went down the Yangtze River.

"The situation in Sichuan is in chaos!"

"The scholars from all counties have gone to the Gongyuan!"

"It's all reading seeds!"

"What did the emperor say?"

"It's not going to be a knife, is it?"

In the Zhongdu Imperial Court, the matter of Chengdu Gongyuan soon became the focus of everyone's discussion.

The courtiers gathered in the Qinzheng Hall and discussed in a low voice.

Emperor Zhu's desk, of course, also put the incident of the Chengdu Dynasty in the highest priority.

"The opposition always fools the students into making trouble, is this also a traditional art?"

Emperor Zhu muttered in a low voice when he entered the Qinzheng Palace.

"Your Majesty, there are tens of thousands of scholars from all over Sichuan who are now gathered in the Gongyuan Academy, and they require the imperial court to take the imperial examination in Sichuan within the year!" Peng Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Education, said with a frown.

Zhu Daohua snorted coldly: "Eight shares to take the scholar? No way! Just take the new test, love the test or not, I am good enough for them, Sichuan Province gave 20,000 black yarn hats, is it not enough? What do you have to listen to them? Send an edict to Luo Dingshan, the governor of Sichuan, and let them send troops to suppress it! ”

Peng Jun was stunned for a moment, and then his back was cold.

I sighed in my heart.

The people behind him really thought that the emperor didn't dare to use knives and guns

It may be okay to accept it when you see it, but if you go down hard, none of the people behind you will be able to run.

"Hahaha! Emperor Zhu's country was in chaos so soon!! ”

Chengdu.

A restaurant next to the Tribute Courtyard.

A middle-aged man in a hat laughs heartily.

The two young men next to him looked nervously, lowered their voices and said, "Master, be quiet, be quiet, beware that the wall has ears!" ”

"What am I afraid of, Emperor Zhu has dragged the entire Manchurian clan to Uriya Sutai, and he can catch me if he wants to catch me!"

The one who spoke had obviously drunk a lot, and his face was a little excited.

It is obviously the "remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" that have not been cleaned up.

This did not go through a thorough revolution in the Ming Dynasty.

After hiding for more than a year, after discovering that the Ming Dynasty did not set off any major actions to "arrest the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty" in the country, they changed their surnames one after another.

This Ming Dynasty is really full of reactionaries.

The fifth year of the Ming Dynasty's recovery, the third day of the fifth month.

Sichuan, Chengdu.

Genius is bright.

The owners of the street shops had just ordered their men to open the door.

The market began to make noise.

The people who delivered water, the people who delivered the goods, the people who killed the pigs, and the people who sold the fish pushed the carts into the city.

At this time, these business vendors noticed that there were already many people in the streets.

They were all men in red uniforms.

And

Everyone is armed with muskets with bayonets!

I don't know where they came from.

Lined up in unspeakable lines on the streets.

The soldiers' expressions were serious.

At the forefront.

A sun and moon flag symbolizing the Ming Dynasty fluttered in the wind.

"The emperor has decreed that the whole province of Sichuan will be under martial law and all assemblies will be banned!"

"Now I declare martial law discipline"

An officer was shouting orders.

Soon.

The streets were controlled by the Ming soldiers.

They were all soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Brigades.

It was the army that Emperor Zhu started with.

There was no need for mobilization at all, and they were able to faithfully carry out all orders.

"They're going to Gongyuan!"

These local shopkeepers and guys in Chengdu who had just opened their doors to do business looked at these murderous Ming Army soldiers in amazement.

In my mind, I had already begun to imagine the tragic situation of those scholars in the Gongyuan.

"It's over, the emperor is going to use a knife and a gun, these scholars are really, what do the emperor's family want to test, do they have to say?"

"Emperor Lao Tzu said that he would take whatever he wanted to test, now it's okay, it's going to cut off his brain!"

"Well, these soldiers are real. Whoever hits them on the muzzle of their guns will not end well! ”

Soldiers with loaded guns swaggered through the streets, with a clear goal, that is, to go to the Gongyuan.

"Zongzhen, I see that those Sichuan scholars are very fierce, I'm afraid it's not easy to be scared, right?"

On the city wall of Chengdu, Luo Dingshan, who was holding the battlements, heard the doubts of Zeng Ada, and couldn't help but sneer and said.

"You think I'm really just scaring them?"

"Isn't it? I can really attack this group of readers. ”

"It's not good to start, but it's okay to catch a few typical ones." Luo Dingshan said.

"But I don't think these people can fight the emperor to the end."

Luo Dingshan knew that these people were just minions.

The point is to fool the people behind their backs.

Stomp, stomp!

The sound of neat footsteps sounded in the streets of Chengdu.

The Chengdu Gongyuan has become a base for protests by Sichuan scholars.

Many of them brought bedding and slept here.

All kinds of slogans were plastered all over the walls, making preparations for a protracted battle.

But when they found out that Emperor Zhu's army butcher's knife had been raised, everyone was terrified.

All sorts of crying voices rang out.

"It's over, it's over, what's the trouble, what the emperor wants to take is what he wants, and now he's going to cut off his brain."

"The official master has nothing to do, so he has to sit in the class room."

(End of chapter)