Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Martyrdom

Xu Xianchun was afraid, he was afraid of Wang Wenyan's curse, so he found a solution: kill Wang Wenyan. The confrontation after death is still the next step. If he is allowed to confront him alive, the next step of the plan will not be able to proceed. In April of the fifth year of Tianqi (1625), Wang Wenyan was murdered in prison, and he never surrendered. In the same month, Wei Zhongxian's second plan started. Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong and other Donglin party members were arrested. They were charged with accepting bribes, and the briber was Xiong Tingbi, who had been executed.

The evidence for accepting bribes is naturally Wang Wenyan's so-called confession. In this shameless document, Yang Lian was found to have accepted 20,000 taels of bribes, and Zuo Guangdou and others were also involved. The interrogation began, and Yang Lian was the first to be interrogated as the main target. Xu Xianchun took out the forged testimony and asked: "How did Xiong Tingbi pay bribes?" Yang Lian replied: "Before the fall of Liaoyang, I wrote a letter to impeach this person. After he was defeated, how could I help him out of prison? The documents are still available for confrontation."

Xu Xianchun was speechless. It is obvious that Xu Jinyiwei is good at playing dirty tricks behind the scenes, and he almost talks nonsense in front of his face. Since he can't speak in silence, he can only pervert in silence: "Punishment!" Here is Yang Lian's reaction: "What kind of punishment? There is only death!" Xu Xianchun wanted him to die, but he had to find a reason to die. The torture was carried out as scheduled, once every five days, until it was unbearable. Yang Lian's jaw fell off and his teeth were knocked out, but there was still no confession.

So Xu Xianchun used a steel brush, and after a few times, Yang Lian's body was completely shattered. According to historical data, "the skin and flesh are shattered like silk." However, he "could not stop scolding" and never bowed his head. After a severe torture, Yang Lian returned to his prison cell and wrote "Success to Yue Wu Mu Shu". In this document, Yang Lian did not complain helplessly, nor did he curse angrily. He said: "This trip will be unpredictable, and I am willing to accept it myself." He said: "Lian's family is nothing, but the general situation of the country hurts a lot."

In the dark prison cell, there was inhumane persecution, indescribable pain, and the struggle on the verge of death, but there was no hatred or resentment. Only be calm, calm, and take the world as your own responsibility. After countless failed attempts, Xu Xianchun finally realized that it was absolutely impossible to make this person bow his head and confess his guilt. When planting doesn't work, assassination does. Wei Zhongxian knew very well that Yang Lian was a formidable opponent and he would never let him go.In any case, he must be killed, and the news must not be leaked. Xu Xianchun received the order, and he confidently stated that Yang Lian would die quietly in his prison, and his injustice and torture would never be known.

The facts were indeed so. The court only knew that Yang Lian had financial problems and was brought in. The so-called torture and torture were unheard of. Regarding this point, Yang Lian himself knew very well that he could die, but he didn't want to die without knowing why. Therefore, in the dark prison cell, Yang Lian tremblingly wrote a suicide note of 2,000 words with his hand that was almost crippled by the beating.In his suicide note, he wrote down the truth of the matter and his rough life. The posthumous writing was finished, but it was useless because it could not be sent out.

In order to ensure that Yang Lian's death is not clear, Xu Xianchun sent more people to check Yang Lian's cell frequently. If there is no accident, this last letter will eventually fall into Xu Xianchun's hands and become the fuel for the stove. Therefore, Yang Lian handed over the last letter to Gu Dazhang, a member of the Donglin Party who was imprisoned in the same batch. Gu Dazhang accepted, but he couldn't help it, because he was a felon in Donglin, if Yang Lian was killed, he would die.Moreover, this seal is too important, if it is concealed, it will be a repeat offender, and no one dares to accept it if it is pushed back and forth.

What's more troublesome is that when the guards checked the prison, they found this must-written letter, and Gu Dazhang had no choice. He faced the guards of the prison, told him everything frankly, and then calmly waited for the ending. After a short period of silence, he saw the guard put away the last letter with no expression on his face, and told him calmly: This last letter will never fall into Wei Zhongxian's hands. The last letter was initially hidden behind the statue of Emperor Guan in the prison, and then buried under the corner of the cell. After Yang Lian was killed, the guard took it out and finally announced it to the world.

No matter when and where, justice exists after all. In July of the fifth year of Tianqi (1625), Xu Xianchun started the murder. No evidence can be left, so no knife cutting, no sword stabbing, no obvious skin trauma. So Xu Xianchun smashed Yang Lian's chest with a copper hammer, almost breaking all his ribs. However, Yang Lian did not die. He immediately used the most famous killing technique in the prison - pressing the body with a bag. The so-called bag pressing is the only way to kill in prisons. It is specially used to deal with those prisoners who are difficult to kill but have to kill.The specific operation procedure is: find a cloth bag, fill it with soil, and press it on the prisoner at night while he is sleeping.According to Fang Bao, a famous scholar of the Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty (who was once in a black prison), basically it is suppressed at night and died at dawn, and the quality is guaranteed.

However, Yang Lian still didn't die, he pressed a cloth bag on him every night, it was like covering him with a quilt, and stood up again during the day. It's okay if he can't get a confession, but Xu Xianchun is going crazy because he can't even kill him. So this crazy person used insane methods. He sent someone to drive a nail into Yang Lian's ear. I don't know the specific method of operation.All I know is that this is not something humans can do. Yang Lian, who had the iron nails in his ears, still did not die, but the exception would not happen again. The inhuman torture and the iron nails in his ears had severely damaged Yang Lian, and his sanity began to blur.

Yang Lian knew that he would not live long, so he bit his finger and wrote the last blood letter to this world. At this time, Yang Lian was already on the verge of death, and he didn't have the strength to hand over the blood book to Gu Dazhang. In that silent night, relying on his tenacious will, he dragged his disabled body and used trembling hands to hide the blood book. in the pillow. Let's end it, Yang Lian smiled, waiting for the final ending. When Xu Xianchun came, it was already beyond his power to describe his despicableness and shamelessness with human words. Looking at this man with tenacious belief and tenacious vitality, Xu Xianchun was really scared, and smashed all his ribs. He didn't die, he was pressed with a soil bag, he didn't die, he was nailed into his ear, and he didn't die either. Xu Xianchun, who was extremely frightened, decided to use the last and cruelest move. The night of July 24th in the fifth year of Tianqi (1625). Xu Xianchun drove a big iron nail into the top of Yang Lian's head. This time, the miracle did not happen again, and Yang Lian died on the spot at the age of fifty-four. The great martyr thus ended his glorious life! Yang Lian hopes that his blood book will be discovered by relatives when he cleans up his belongings after his death. However, this is destined to be a shattered dream, because of this, Wei Zhongxian also thought of it. In order to eliminate the evidence, he ordered a careful inspection of all Yang Lian's belongings, and absolutely nothing could be missed. Obviously, Yang Lian didn't hide it well. During the inspection, a guard easily found the bloody book. He was very happy and planned to take the blood book as a reward. But when he read the blood-stained last words, he changed his mind. He hid the blood book and took it home. When his wife found out, she panicked and asked him to hand it over. The prison chief ignored it, but held the bloody book tightly, weeping bitterly, while repeating this sentence: "I want to keep it. In the future, it will atone for my sins." Three years later, when the truth came out, he took out this blood book and made it known to the world. as follows: Benevolence and righteousness lived their lives, and they died in the imperial prison. It is hard to say that there is no place for them to die. Why regret it to heaven and blame others?I am the only deputy constitutional minister who was once ordered by Gu. Confucius said: I entrust my father with my life.Holding this thought, we can finally see that the first emperor is in the sky, and the second ancestor and ten ancestors are in the emperor's land, and the world will last forever! Laughing, laughing and laughing, cutting Dongfeng with a knife, what does it matter to me! He doesn't know how long he can live, who will know after his death, whether he can be rehabilitated, or whether this blood book can be seen by others. There is no hope, only utter loneliness and helplessness. This is the words written by Yang Lian, whose ribs were broken in the eerie prison cell, at the most desperate moment. Every word is shining with hope and light. Torture, torture, and inhumane torture subdued his body, but not his will.No matter when, he sticks to his belief, the belief that he wrote in his last pen, the lofty, glorious, and only belief: Lian's body has no bones, and the corpse is offered to maggots and ants, which is what he was willing to do. I hope that the country will be strong, the holiness will be bright, and the country will enjoy the blessing of peace. This stupid idea will not change until death. Someone once asked me, if you read history books all over the place, what you see is the genealogy of emperors and generals, what's the point? In a thousand years, is there a person who does not seek wealth, generals, or fame, but takes the responsibility of the world, the country, and the people, willing to suffer humiliation, willing to suffer, and death as his home? I replied: There was once a person who did not seek money, wealth, or fame in history. Yang Lian, after a thousand years, will be immortal after all! The day Yang Lian died.Zuo Guangdou also died. As a senior officer of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zuo Guangdou was also the key target of Xu Xianchun's torture, and Zuo Guangdou had suffered the same amount of torture that Yang Lian had endured. And his attitude was the same as Yang Lian's, never giving in, never yielding. Although he was beaten to death at any time, Zuo Guangdou didn't care, he never bowed his head. He doesn't care, someone else does. First, fellow villagers in Zuo Guangdou's family started to raise money, intending to get him out, at least to save his life.After the invalidation and no refund, his family members and students are going to visit the prison, at least to meet again. But this request was also rejected. Finally, one of his students tried his best to bribe a guard and enter the prison. He changed into rags, disguised as a trash picker, and after a long time groping in the prison in the dark winter, he found Zuo Guangdou's cell. Zuo Guangdou was sitting, because his legs had been beaten off (muscles and bones were gone).Facing his student's visit, he didn't show any surprise, because he didn't know at all——his face had been scorched by a soldering iron, and he couldn't even open his eyes. His students were stunned, so he knelt down, hugged the teacher, and cried bitterly. Zuo Guangdou heard the cry, he woke up, there was no surprise, no lament, only anger, outrageous anger: "Fool! What kind of place is this, you dare to come here (where is this, and you come here)! The country has reached this point, I will die when I die, but you are so reckless. If something happens, the future of the country Who is going to take care of things!?" The students were stunned, transfixed. Zuo Guangdou's anger seemed to be getting more and more intense. He fumbled for the shackles on the ground, made a throwing motion, and said the last words: "Aren't you leaving yet?! If you don't leave, I don't need a traitor to do anything. I will kill you (cull you) myself!" Facing the warmest threat in the world, the student retreated quickly with tears in his eyes. Before he died, Zuo Guangdou used his actions to teach the student the last lesson: One should hold on to one's beliefs and not waver until one dies. On July 25th of the fifth year of Tianqi (1625), Zuo Guangdou was killed in prison at the age of fifty-one. Twenty years later, Yangzhou. Shi Kefa, Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, a scholar of the cabinet, and the number one minister of the Nanming regime, stood on the top of the city and looked at the Qing army outside the city. It was February of the first year of Hongguang in the Nanming Dynasty (1645). The snow was heavy, but Shi Kefa had been standing outside, arranging deployments. His subordinates advised him several times to enter the house to hide from the snow, but his reply was always the same: "I can't be sorry for my teacher, I can't be sorry for my teacher (ashamed of my teacher)!" Shi Kefa finally did it, and his behavior was enough to make his teacher proud. After Zuo Guangdou's death, Wei Dazhong, Yuan Huazhong, and Zhou Chaorui, members of the Donglin Party who were imprisoned in the same batch, were killed one after another. Only Gu Dazhang was left alive. Gu Dazhang, who was a doctor in the Ministry of Rites at the time, was regarded as a department-level cadre. Among the six people, he was not a big official in terms of official positions, but he still had a background. His teacher was Ye Xianggao, and he was usually active in activities, so this This time, he was also arrested as a key criminal. Six of them were captured, and the other five were all dead. He is still alive, not because of his high status, but because he once held a special official position—the head of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. The head of the Ministry of Punishment is roughly equivalent to a director of the Ministry of Justice, but it just so happens that his department happens to be in charge of prisons. The guards of the so-called Heavenly Prison of the Ministry of Punishment and Jinyi Imperial Prison were originally his subordinates. Now that the old superior has entered and met the old subordinate, it is like being robbed on the road. At first glance, it turns out that you were my classmate in elementary school, and you were punished together, so it is not easy to start.Grit your teeth, buddy, go there, I won't do this business, be careful next time, don't hang around in my business area again. In addition, Mr. Gu is usually a kind person and takes good care of the prison guards, so when he first entered, the guards saluted him, bowed and bowed to him very politely, except for the routine torture of scumbag Xu Xianchun, he basically suffered no harm. . But after the others are killed, his situation is in danger. After all, there are six in total, and five of them are dead. It seems unreasonable to leave you alone.More importantly, these brutal and inhuman tortures cannot be known by others. If he is released from prison, people all over the country will know about it with a flick of a pen, and the pressure of public opinion will be relatively high. In fact, Xu Xianchun and Wei Zhongxian really planned to kill Gu Dazhang, and the sooner the better.The day when Gu Dazhang goes to Hades to seek justice is not far away. However, in this world, unexpected things always happen. Generally speaking, the person in charge of the cell has a wide range of contacts.Especially in high-end prisons such as Tianlao and Imperial Prison, except for Dou E and Zhongliang, most of the people who come in are of a certain level or have special skills. We have reason to believe that Gu Dazhang knew some such people. Because at the beginning of September, the decision to execute him had just been passed, and the prison guards knew it. But the guard did not tell Gu Dazhang the news, but informed another person. The name of this person is unknown, known as Yan Daxia, he also hangs around in the imperial prison, but he is neither a prisoner nor a guard, he hangs around there every day, it is said that he took the initiative to sneak in, and no one has been in charge of him for several months. It's unknown how he got in, and why no one cares about it, I'm not sure, but the reason why he came in was only to save Gu Dazhang.It's not clear why Gu Dazhang was saved, anyway, he came in. When he heard the news of the execution, he didn't panic. He just found the guard who reported the news and asked him a question: "If I give you the money, can I delay it for a few days?" The guard asked: "How many days?" Yan Daxia replied: "Five days." The guard answered: "Can." Five days later, the guards came to see Yan Daxia: "I have tried my best, the five days are over, and I can no longer guarantee Gu Dazhang's safety tonight, what should I do?" Yan Daxia is not nervous: "There will be a turning point tonight." The guard thought that Yan Daxia was dreaming, so he left with a smile. A few hours later, he received an order to escort Gu Dazhang to the Ministry of Punishment. Before he could recover, Xu Xianchun came again. Xu Xianchun hurried over, lifted Gu Dazhang out of the prison, and said something harshly: "You still have to come back in a few days!" Then he hurried away again. Gu Dazhang was very happy. As a veteran in the officialdom, he understood the hidden meaning of Xu Xianchun's words - he was about to leave the imperial prison, and Xu Xianchun was helpless. Because the so-called Jinyiwei and Dongchang are secret service agencies, not judicial agencies.This case was transferred to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the trial was open, which meant that Xu Xianchun and the others could not handle it. Obviously, they were under pressure. But why he couldn't handle it, and what pressure it was, he didn't know. This is a rather weird question: Duke Wei's power overwhelmed the world, and even Wang Wenyan, who was the most able to make connections, was killed. However, Yan Daxia turned out to solve the matter again, which is really incomprehensible. Gu Dazhang didn't know the answer, the guards didn't know the answer, and Xu Xianchun might not know it either. Hero Yan knew, but he didn't tell me, so I didn't know either. I have introduced many such behind-the-scenes conspiracies before, and my attitude towards this kind of stuff that the devil knows is, if you don’t know it, say you don’t know it, and never guess. I want to guess, because of this kind of black box operation, I can still guess.For example, Mr. Ma Qian from the Taishi Company was able to guess. After the death of Qin Shihuang, Li Si and Zhao Gao conspired to kill the prince. The old man was not present. What happened hundreds of years ago, God knows you know me, and you can guess the conversation. come out.After thousands of years, no one said that he guessed wrong, after all, that's how things were done later. But this matter is too complicated, Xu Xianchun didn't make any moves, Eunuch Wei didn't care (or couldn't manage it), and they didn't ask me to go when they discussed it, so I really didn't dare to guess randomly. No matter what the truth is, Gu Dazhang has come out anyway.After dozens of days of painful torture, he finally walked out of hell. It is said that when it comes to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, it is Mr. Gu's world, but it is not the case. Because Li Yangzheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, also voted for the eunuch party, if the minister is like this, Mr. Gu will have nothing to do. On September 12th in the fifth year of Tianqi (1625), the Ministry of Punishment conducted a joint trial. Sure enough, Li Yangzheng lived up to his name as an eunuch, and he scolded Gu Dazhang as soon as he came up, asking him to confess honestly.What's even more funny is that the crime he held in his hand was handed over to him by Xu Xianchun, and he didn't change a single word. Gu Dazhang could recite it. Li Shangshu mispronounced it, and Master Gu still mentioned him a few words from time to time. The interrogation process was also very simple. Li Shangshu asked Gu Dazhang to admit it, but Gu Dazhang refused to admit it, and gave the reasons for not admitting it: "I can't bear your framing on behalf of the dead." Li Shangshu was silent, he knew that this former subordinate was wronged, but he still made a verdict: Six people, including Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, and Gu Dazhang, were executed by beheading for accepting bribes and making friends with Jiang Chen. This is a rather boring verdict, because five of the six people in the verdict have already died. In fact, Mr. Gu Dazhang was pulled out to practice alone. State the legal reason for hitting you. The situation took a turn for the worse, and Yan Daxia panicked. One night, he found Gu Dazhang and told him that the situation was not good. Unexpectedly, however, Gu Dazhang did not panic. On the contrary, he revealed a secret to Yan Daxia in a calm tone-the secret of getting out of prison. The next day, in the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Gu Dazhang disclosed the secret. Gu Dazhang made a confession, and the content of his confession included the following points, the cause of Yang Lian's death, the cause of Zuo Guangdou's death, Xu Xianchun's method of punishment, swear words, inhumane torture, and shameless murder. The Ministry of Punishments knew it, the imperial court knew it, and the whole world knew it. Wei Zhongxian didn't understand, Xu Xianchun didn't understand, and even Daxia Yan didn't understand, the reason why Gu Dazhang endured the humiliation and survived until today was not because of luck or opportunism. He wanted to die a long time ago, and die honorably together with the other five comrades who sacrificed their lives for righteousness, but he couldn't die. The moment Yang Lian handed over his last pen to him, his life no longer belonged to him. He knew that he had an obligation to live on, and to tell everyone in the world about everything that happened here, the ugliness of evil, and the brilliance of justice. people. So he endured and waited until he was released from prison, not for stealing life, but for eternity. Just like what he said to Great Xia Yan that night: "I want to spread the name of the murderer to the world (Broadcast to the world), and when the world is clear in the coming day, none of them will be able to escape (No legacy)!" "My eyes are dark." This is his ultimate goal. He did it, so we today can know everything about that year. A day later, he wrote his suicide note with his crippled hand (three fingers had been knocked off), and hanged himself that night. Yang Lian, I have completed the important task you entrusted to me that day. "My eyes are dark." So far, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Yuan Huazhong, Zhou Chaorui, and Gu Dazhang have all been killed, which is known as the "Prison of the Six Gentlemen" in history. Even if it's the most vulgar TV series, the villains should rest at this point. But Wei Zhongxian is really a super villain, and he also made another killing list. On this list, there are seven names, namely Gao Panlong, Li Yingsheng, Huang Zunsu, Zhou Zongjian, Miao Changqi, Zhou Qiyuan, and Zhou Shunchang. The status of these seven dear friends is not high, but they are usually a little harsh when they scold Eunuch Wei, but Eunuch Wei killed them immediately and wants to send them to the king of Hades in a group. The Six Gentlemen are done, and it is not a problem to have a Seven Gentlemen. The proud and invincible Wei Gonggong believes that he is already invincible in the world and can do everything he can. Wei Zhongxian was wrong. In a rather nonsensical Hong Kong movie, a certain master once repeatedly said a sentence that is not too nonsense: If everything is too exhausted, fate must be exhausted early. At the beginning, things went smoothly. The members of the Donglin Party had no influence, but they still had integrity. They would neither run nor escape, and sat at home waiting for someone to arrest them. Four people including Li Yingsheng, Zhou Zongjian, Miao Changqi, and Zhou Qiyuan were arrested one after another. I was very happy when I was on the road. Because in their view, it is a glorious honor to stick to the faith and be captured by Wei Zhongxian. Gao Panlong was even more powerful. Before the East Factory agents who captured him arrived, he was on the road—he committed suicide. On the night before his arrest, he straightened his clothes, kowtowed to the north, and then committed suicide by throwing himself into the water. Before he died, he left a suicide note, which said: You can die, but you can't be humiliated. Among these seven people, Gao Panlong is the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Yingsheng, Zhou Zongjian, and Huang Zunsu are all censors, Miao Changqi is the Yude of the Imperial Academy, and Zhou Qiyuan is the governor of Yingtian. Zhou Shunchang is gone. This Mr. Zhou, a former member of the Ministry of Officials, Wailang, is a junior in terms of seniority and power, but it is he who caused the change in the situation. Zhou Shunchang, courtesy name Jingwen, was a Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli, and he hated evil like hatred. Speaking of Brother Zhou, there is another story that makes me laugh and cry. When he was an official in a foreign country, he was invited to watch a play once. He was very happy at first, but halfway through watching, he suddenly became angry and jumped onto the stage in full view, grabbing the actors Beat him violently, and leave after the beating. The reason why the actor was beaten was because he was playing Qin Hui that day. I heard that when I played the white-haired girl back then, I usually acted and acted, and a shot came from below and killed Comrade Huang Shiren. It seems that there is a historical tradition. Even Qin Hui who was hundreds of years ago is not spared, and Wei Zhongxian who is ready-made is of course no problem. In fact, there were only six people on the original list, and there was no Zhou Shunchang at all. The reason why he became an alternate was because when Wei Dazhong was passing through the border, he invited Mr. Wei to his home, had delicious food and drinks, and married his in-laws. go, and he said: "Don't you know there are people who are not afraid of death?! Go back and tell Wei Zhongxian, my name is Zhou Shunchang, just look for me!" Later, when Dongchang arrested Zhou Qiyuan, he stood up and scolded Wei Zhongxian again, so Eunuch Wei got upset and sent someone to arrest him. Zhou Shunchang is a native of Wu County in Southern Zhili, which is today's Suzhou, Jiangsu. Zhou Shunchang is clean and honest, his family is very poor, and he is very loyal. He often helps others and has a good reputation in the local area. The secret agents of the East Factory probably didn’t know much about this situation, and felt that Suzhou’s humanities were sloppy and easy to bully, so they made unspoken rules as soon as they arrived, asking Zhou Shunchang’s family to give money, and publicly threatened that if they didn’t pay, Zhou Shunchang would be handed over to him on the way. blacken. It's a pity that Zhou Shunchang really has no money, and he himself can take it easy, and also threatened: "If you don't give me a penny, what can you do?" But the masses quit, and they began to raise money. Some poor families pawned all their clothes, and only asked Dongchang to raise their hands. The Dongchang spy who led the team to arrest people this time was named Wen Zhibing. He was the bastard among the bastards. This is too much nonsense, but for Zhou Shunchang's safety, everyone endured it. The next day, in order to protest the arrest of Zhou Shunchang, a city strike was held in Suzhou. If you want to change to a sensible person, if you see this sign, you should run away, but these spies are too arrogant (or too stupid), they don't stop at all, and they are blatantly bullying the common people. In order not to implicate Zhou Shunchang, everyone put up with it. One day later, Suzhou citizens rushed to the streets to see Zhou Shunchang off. Hundreds of thousands of people almost overwhelmed the county government.Someone immediately persuaded him, public anger is hard to offend, don't arrest Zhou Shunchang, and say a fair word in the memorial. Mao Yilu was relatively timid, he didn't dare to offend the masses, and naturally he didn't dare to offend Wei Zhongxian, after much deliberation, he didn't dare to say a word. The so-called raging fire with dry wood is roughly like this. Hundreds of thousands of people are aggressive, just waiting for a fire. So Mr. Wen Zhibing stepped forward and shouted: "Dongchang arrests people, how dare you, a rat?" The fire was lit. Extortion, taking money and not doing things, bullying the common people, with hundreds of thousands of people standing in front of them, and daring to threaten the masses of the people, people are so stupid that they don't need to bear it anymore. After a short period of calm, a person walked to the front of the crowd, faced Wen Zhibing, and asked a question: "Is it the order of Wei Zhongxian (Wei Jian) ​​to arrest people in Dongchang?" The person who asked the question was a person who was unknown at the time and later became famous in history. His name was Yan Peiwei. Yan Peiwei is a commoner, a powerless commoner, so when Agent Wen confirmed his identity, he immediately flew into a rage: "Cut your tongue! So what about Dongchang's orders?" Wearing official uniform and holding a weapon, he thought that Yan Peiwei, an unarmed commoner, would be afraid and shrink back. However, this is a wrong judgment. Yan Peiwei raised his arms: "I thought it was the emperor's order, but it turned out to be Dongchang's lackey!" Then he grabbed the despicable, shameless and domineering spy in front of him, punched and kicked him, and vented his anger. Wen Zhibing was taken aback, but the other spies reacted quickly and drew their knives one after another, ready to come up and hack this daring man to death. But then, they saw a scene that made them fear for the rest of their lives. Hundreds of thousands of daring people rushed towards them. These lambs who were silent and slaughtered before have turned into vicious wolves, and they swarmed up one after another, and if they were caught, they would be beaten violently.Because there are too many people, only those who are close can step on a few feet, and those who are far away take off their shoes, and smash them in if they see them (reminder: people like to wear clogs at that time). The people in Dongchang were crazy. They were used to being grandpas. Senior officials trembled when they saw them. How dare these civilians resist. Because of the huge contrast, many people didn't turn their minds around and stayed in a daze for a long time. But they deserve to be well-trained. In the face of reality, they quickly completed the ideological struggle, and recognized their own escape routes, and fled in all directions. to the beam. To be honest, I think the people who jumped on the beams have some brain problems, and the masses are not wild animals. Do you think they can't climb trees? For this kind of heartless person, the masses used a more concise method. With a sudden attack, even the beams of the house were moved, and the person was directly shaken down. They beat him up and killed him on the spot. Relatively speaking, the other Dongchang spy was much more miserable. He was kicked down, and before he could react, he was stomped on again and was trampled to death. Even the perpetrator could not be found. It is commendable that apart from being bloody, the citizens of Suzhou are also very strategic.All the spies were caught and beaten violently, but with the exception of a few, they were all killed—half to death.In this way, he vented his anger and did not implicate Zhou Shunchang. After beating the spies, the masses were still not satisfied, so they ran to the governor Mao Yilu to settle the score. In fact, Governor Mao was wronged. He was just carrying out the order. He was timid and scared out of his wits. He could only hide in the cesspit and wait until the magistrate came out to intercede and stabilize the order. Then he fished out the smelly Governor Mao. In this incident, the Dongchang spies were beaten dizzy, many were disabled, and left with deep psychological trauma.It is said that after some people returned to Beijing, they only dared to hide in small dark rooms all their lives, afraid of light and sound, as if they had rabies. Enough anger is enough, and things have become big. Dongchang arrested people, but they were beaten to death if they were not caught. Eunuch Wei is so useless, it is really shocking, and this has never happened in hundreds of years. Ordinarily, there should be a bloodbath in the future, but after more than ten days, let alone a counterattack, there is not even a word. Because Eunuch Wei was also terrified. After the incident, Wei Zhongxian learned that the situation was serious, so he panicked at that time, and immediately arrested the chief assistant Gu Bingqian and scolded him, saying that he didn't want to arrest people, but he did it after hearing your bad idea. what to do? Wei Zhongxian's meaning is very clear, he doesn't like this scapegoat, and hopes that Gu Bingqian will help him carry it.But Mr. Gu is not an idle person, he just kowtows and doesn't speak, he recuperates when he goes back, so he simply doesn't come. Eunuch Wei had no choice but to deliberate, so he had to order Zhou Shunchang to be escorted to the capital, and the participants would not ask any questions. Having said that, after a few days, Gu Bingqian jumped out again after seeing the news, saying that he would pursue the matter. Before he could do anything, someone surrendered. Those who turned themselves in were the five people who took the lead that day. They took the initiative to find the governor Mao Yilu and told him that the incident was done by themselves and had nothing to do with others, and they should not implicate the innocent. The names of these five people are: Yan Peiwei, Yang Nianru, Shen Yang, Zhou Wenyuan, and Ma Jie. Among the five, Zhou Wenyuan was Zhou Shunchang's bearer, and the other four had never met Zhou Shunchang, nor had any relationship with him. A few days later, Zhou Shunchang was escorted to Beijing, tortured by Xu Xianchun, and died unyielding. A few months later, Zhou Shunchang's coffin was sent back to Suzhou for burial. The crowd was so excited that Mao Yilu decided to execute five people in order to quell the incident. On the day of beheading, the five people looked calm. Shen Yang said: No regrets! Ma Jie laughed: "We were killed by Wei's treacherous eunuchs, so we may not leave a name for thousands of years, go, go!" Yan Peiwei laughed: "Please go ahead, the students are gone!" So he died bravely. After the death of the five people, Zhang Fu, a famous literati in the Ming Dynasty, felt his loyalty and wrote an article called "The Tombstone of Five People". More than 400 years later, it was included in the middle school Chinese textbook of the People's Republic of China. Yan Peiwei and Ma Jie are businessmen, Shen Yang is a middleman in a trading house, Zhou Wenyuan is a bearer, and Yang Nianru is a cloth seller. Don't think that smallness has no power; don't think that humbleness has no dignity. The only difference between the weak and the strong is whether the belief is firm or not.