Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Suzhou civil uprising
In contrast, the city of Beijing was full of joy...
The news of "Ningyuan Great Victory" lifted the hearts of the people who had been depressed for a long time, and the people rushed to celebrate with whips and cheers; of course, the atmosphere in the court was even more different.
All the brows that had been deeply locked because of the "Liao Incident" suddenly opened up, and everyone showed smiling faces full of hope and confidence, and made various eager voices—although the many voices had different starting points and forms, But in the end it evolved into a consensus.
Wang Yongguang, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was inspired by emotion: "Liaozuo launched a crisis, and all the cities collapsed. In the past eight years, the bandits have only suffered a setback, and we know that there are people in China!"
However, Liaodong Jinglue Gaodi’s memorandum simply brazenly reported the results of the battle first, and then praised him to cover up his original insistence on withdrawing from the pass, allowing Yuan Chonghuan to guard Ningyuan alone, and even preventing his generals from sending aid. When he was on the battlefield, he lied first: "The slaves attacked Ningyuan, shot a big leader, wrapped them in red cloth, carried them away, and cried loudly."
He also intentionally made his words a little vague, but emphasized that the enemy was "crying loudly" on the battlefield, implying that the big boss who was shot was an important figure in Houjin—even possibly Nurhachi himself—in this way , The results of the "Ningyuan Great Victory" will be even more brilliant.
However, he refused to attribute this brilliant victory to Yuan Chonghuan, who fought alone, lest Yuan Chonghuan's reputation and aura would surpass him. Therefore, "two birds with one stone" attributed all the credit to Wei Zhongxian— —He not only didn't mention Yuan Chonghuan, but immediately added a personal letter to Wei Zhongxian, saying with all his shamelessness: "Ningyuan's great victory is all about nine thousand years of great blessings and equal heaven, virtue surpassing sages, and sending to the gods Bless, defeat the enemy in one battle—"
Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan and more than 10,000 soldiers risked their lives to defend the city, all of a sudden became Wei Zhongxian's contribution.
And he made such a start, and immediately reminded the others—Ningyuan's great victory is a good opportunity to flatter Wei Zhongxian, how could he fall behind and miss the good opportunity to flatter Wei Zhongxian?
In a short time, everyone wrote and praised Wei Zhongxian: "God bless you for nine thousand years, defeat the enemy in one battle——"
Some people even go to a lecture every day to praise, and the words that can be used to flatter and flatter are limited after all, and after a few days, the words are exhausted and the content is repeated; but these shameless people do not stop, they continue eulogizing.
This is so full of ugliness that a tragic battle on the front line to defend the country and the people turned into a chilling ugly drama in the court; the blood of the front line soldiers was all shed in vain.
And what extended to Wei Zhongxian was a worse evolution.
After telling the lie three times, even the mother of Zeng Zi, who is as wise as Zeng Zi, was misled, let alone Wei Zhongxian who was born as a scoundrel.
Of course, he believed that he was a man of great fortune and good fortune in the sound of flattery and praise over and over again. The great victory in Ningyuan was inspired by his holiness, and God bless!
The delusion is like a handful of cotton falling into the water, which swells ten times, a hundred times, and a thousand times——the more he believes that he is the most wise and wise person in thousands of generations, and the more unscrupulous he acts.
In February, Li Shi, an eunuch who wanted to flatter him, gave a performance to denounce Zhou Qiyuan, the former governor of Yingtian, Zhou Shunchang, the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Gao Panlong, the censor of Zuodu, Yu De Miao Changqi, Li Yingsheng, Zhou Zongjian, and Huang Zunsu for corruption. Perverting the law and plotting wrongdoing.
In fact, Li Shi was not his cronies, and even Donglin wanted to win over him to deal with him. Li Shi entered the palace during the Wanli period. A member of Wang An's command, however, his status is neither important nor important, and there is nothing special about it.
After Wang An lost power, thanks to his status of "neither important nor important", he was not punished as Wang An's confidants like Wei Chao and others. Hang Qu when weaving.
Not long ago, he got news that Li Shi met Huang Zunsu and others in Donglin in private; he had already instructed the lackeys of the eunuch party to "take care" of this person when they had time, but unexpectedly, Li Shi was the first to tell him " Anyway".Asked by Cui Chengxiu, Cui Chengxiu analyzed with a smile: "This old boy must be afraid that Jiu Qiansui will punish him for the crime of adultery with Huang Zunsu, so he simply betrayed Huang Zunsu and others in order to 'confess' to Jiu Qiansui, begging Jiu Qiansui year-old forgive him!"
This statement is correct, but it also caused him to react with contempt: "Huang Zunsu is too cheap to be a man. A 'excuse' will cost so many lives-it's also because Huang Zunsu has no understanding of people, so he thought for nothing. Stomach books are exactly 'sold for others, but still counting money for others'!"
But he was about to commit crimes like Huang Zunsu's, and Li Shi's sudden memorandum just happened to be used as a tool.
"Saved me the other way—"
Therefore, he grandly dispatched the White Boot Captain to make a list to catch people according to Li Shi's memorandum.
Another horrible bloodbath unfolded.
The memory of the tragic death of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others is still fresh. The sound of horseshoes raised by the white boots makes people tremble with fear from three miles away. The Donglin people on the list can only "see death as home" to encourage themselves.
Gao Panlong simply sank himself in the water before the arrival of the white boot captain - on this day, he got up early in the morning, first went to pay homage to Yang Shi, the founder of Donglin Academy in the Song Dynasty, and burned the long article written by himself; Finally, I calmly wrote the suicide note and the letter to the students, and then laughed and talked as usual, closed the door at night, and then threw myself into the water with proper clothes.
But a few days before his self-sinking, Captain White Boots arrested Zhou Shunchang in Suzhou, which sparked a civil uprising.
When Zhou Shunchang was an official in the court, he was honest and promising, made many achievements, and had a very good official reputation. During his residence in the countryside, he was virtuous in the countryside. Respect; this time, he was accused of "corruption and breaking the law", which not only made the people who heard the news very angry, but also actively gathered to call for his injustice.
When Captain White Boots arrived, tens of thousands of people had already gathered.
These people came to plead for Zhou Shunchang spontaneously, from scholars, farmers, businessmen, and from all walks of life. Xiang begged, and some Tai students united to petition the government.
Among the students, Wen Zhenheng, Yang Tingshu, Wang Jie, Liu Yuhan, etc., went directly to the governor Mao Yilu and the inspector censor Xu Ji, hoping that they would convey the public opinion to the court and consider canceling the order to arrest Zhou Shunchang .
And how can Wei Zhongxian's minions take "people's sentiments" seriously?
Even in the face of the tens of thousands of people who gathered to express their feelings by coincidence, this group of white-shoe captains who were used to rampant behavior became impatient, drew their swords, drove the people away, and shouted sharply: "Dongchang take people, Who dares to talk too much?"
He also took out all kinds of shackles and threatened the people: "Anyone who dares to speak out will be brought into the factory guards to punish him!"
While shouting, he threw several pairs of shackles on the ground with more force, making a loud "crazy" noise.
How did they know that such an arrogant and domineering posture not only failed to intimidate people, but aroused the resentment of the masses; and the temperament of Suzhou people was originally "harmonious on the outside and strong on the inside", after this agitation, the crowd became indignant.
Several people raised their arms and shouted: "The imperial decree was originally issued by the emperor, but now it is just casually spoken by the fans of Dongchang!"
As a result, more people responded: "Jiaozhao—the Fanzi of Dongchang Jiaozhao—"
And the voices that followed were even more uproarious: "The eunuch is correcting—"
"Wei Zhongxian's edict——"
"Reverse the eunuch to correct the imperial edict, to frame Zhongliang—"
Tens of thousands of people shouted, like a landslide; although the captains of the white boots were holding sharp weapons, they were few in number and could not withstand such a strong impact, so they began to consider fleeing; unexpectedly, at this moment, an angry crowd appeared A loud shout: "Hit—"
In an instant, all the people shouted: "Kill Jiaozhao Fanzi—"
Before he finished speaking, his fists and kicks rushed towards the white-booted captain who came to take the man...
This line of eunuchs who were bullying with their teeth and claws was beaten to death, and the rest were injured. They climbed the wall and fled into the governor's yamen to hide before they saved their lives.
Mao Yilu and Xu Ji, who were originally members of the eunuch party, were stunned by such a stormy civil uprising scene. Not only did they not know how to deal with it, but they were so panicked that their hands and feet were weak, unable to speak, and hid in the house Fortunately, Kou Shen, the magistrate, and Chen Wenrui, the county magistrate, were quite popular among the people on weekdays, and they came out with twisted words to explain the decree, which gradually persuaded the angry people to disperse.
However, things have gotten worse.
Mao Yilu and Xu Ji, who had regained their sense of security, hated the incident after they were shocked, and simply took vicious and severe revenge—the two directly sent a letter to Wei Zhongxian to file a complaint against this "civil uprising" It is all the fault of the assembled people.
The flying letters of the white-boot captains, who were lucky enough to survive the rest of their lives, distorted the facts even more, saying that the people of Suzhou rebelled and were about to cut off the waterway and rob the water transport boats that transported rice to Beijing.
As a result, the situation became more and more serious - Wei Zhongxian was reported, of course he regarded it as a "big chaos", and he dispatched troops to Suzhou to quell the chaos.
Seeing the catastrophe, Suzhou, which is a paradise on earth, is about to become a hell; Zhou Shunchang, who couldn't bear the suffering of the people, voluntarily surrendered as early as the day when the incident happened, and Huang Zunsu, who was outside the city at that time, heard the news and voluntarily surrendered to the county government; In order to protect all the people, local officials from prefectures and counties came forward to coordinate in order to avoid military disasters...
After two days of tossing, things finally began to turn around; Mao Yilu, who has become an official "governor", certainly does not want the army to overwhelm the country, slaughter the people, and affect his own future, so he adopts the policy of "making big things small and small things nothing" In principle, four civilians including Yan Peiwei, Ma Jie, Shen Yang, and Yang Nianru were arrested, along with Zhou Shunchang's servant Zhou Wenyuan, a total of five people who were known as "chaosers" were beheaded for public display, and then reported to Wei Zhongxian, saying that the chaos had been settled. , There is no need to deploy troops to suppress it.
Finally, the ending of "peace the matter and the people" was achieved, and five innocent heads were exchanged for the peace of the whole city. However, the hurt in the hearts of the people and the disappointment with the government were scars that could no longer be healed, and became a great Ming dynasty. A catalyst in the process of decay.
After Zhou Shunchang, Huang Zunsu, Li Yingsheng, Zhou Qiyuan, Miao Changqi, and Zhou Zongjian were escorted to the capital, they of course followed in the footsteps of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, and died in prison after suffering inhumane torture. The number of honest gentlemen will be reduced a little.
What was exchanged, of course, was the accelerated demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Wei Zhongxian's maniacal laughter seems to represent destruction. The victory of a Ningyuan battle only supports the appearance and can only delay the time of destruction. A dynasty that has been eroded internally cannot temporarily stabilize the situation of external aggression. Get reborn.
It's a pity that no one in the whole country realizes this...
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