Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 555
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There is an old saying in Zhongyuan Tangkou, which is called "all mouths make gold, and accumulation destroys bones."

For example, there was such a story in the Ming Dynasty 17 years before Jiashen, and it even spread to the Qing Dynasty:
It is said that during the Hongwu period, a school lieutenant fell in love with the hostess of the neighbor’s house. This woman is really beautiful. "Pharaoh".

One day, Xiaomei's husband went out to work, and Lao Wang saw the man walking away, so he slipped into the neighbor's room. Then, Lao Wang and Xiaomei began to operate enthusiastically, but just after a few times of rain, suddenly the yard door rang Yes, Xiaomei's husband came back, Lao Wang could only put on his shorts in a hurry, turned over and got under the bed, Xiaomei tidied up briefly, opened the door and asked, "Sir, why did you come back halfway?"

Xiaomei's husband is honest and honest. Not only did he not doubt Xiaomei, but he cared more for Xiaomei: "My wife, you were sleeping when I went out, and I saw your feet were exposed. I didn't care at that time, but I When I went out and walked on the road, I found it was very cold, and I thought that if the cold wind blows into the house, I am afraid you will catch cold. I came back to cover you with a quilt!"

Xiaomei acted coquettishly and told her husband not to worry, so Xiaomei's husband went out again.

If the story ends here, then it’s just a short note about Mrs. Wu’s private meeting with a senior official in Ximen. It’s not a big deal. The problem is that the story doesn’t end because the person under the bed was suddenly moved. Thinking about how Xiaomei's husband treats her like this, and Xiaomei actually having an affair with her behind her husband's back, it is really shameless!
Well, Lao Wang felt that Xiaomei's affair with him was an extremely shameless act. When his conscience found out, he simply crawled out from under the bed and killed his lover Xiaomei with a knife. After the killing, he swaggered and went to work.

By the way, this old man is on duty, he should eat and drink, and Xiaomei’s side is blown up—the old man who delivered food to Xiaomei’s house knocked on the door many times and no one responded, so he just pushed the door and walked in. Xiaomei was found lying in a pool of blood.

The old man who delivered food to Xiaomei’s house was terrified. After thinking twice, he chose to report to the police, but the old man was very unlucky, because the officials of the Ming Dynasty are relatively stupid. In line with the reasoning of “you didn’t kill people, why do you report the case” In principle, the old man who delivered the food was sentenced to death.

If the story ends here, it will be another unjust case. Disgusting people are enough disgusting people, but they are not considered bizarre. The problem is that the story does not end here—on the day of the execution, the little girl was killed. The beautiful Pharaoh once again appeared swaggeringly and shouted: I killed the wife, why should someone else pay for it?
Seeing that there was a problem, the beheading officer hurriedly reported it layer by layer, and finally arrived at Zhu Yuanzhang's place. Zhu Yuanzhang was also unambiguous, summoned Lao Wang directly, and asked face to face: "Why did you kill someone?"

The school captain Lao Wang said frankly: "This woman is my neighbor. Because of her beauty, I fell in love with her. That day, before she and I finished our business, her husband came back. I hid under the bed and listened to her. When I heard what his husband said, I felt that I was not a human being, but I was even more angry with this woman—her husband was so kind to her, but she cheated on her. I felt so sorry for her husband, so I killed Xiaomei, and then I I heard that the old vegetable seller was wronged and became a murderer and was about to be beheaded. At that moment, I couldn't bear it anymore. I did it myself, so I should bear it myself!"

As for the truth, when the life and death of a country and nation are at stake, will those scholars dare not stand up because they have lost their blood...

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished listening, he nodded and said, "It's a good thing to kill an unjust person and save an innocent person!"
Is it bizarre enough?
What about the lieutenant of the Weisuo having an affair with his neighbor's wife, what about the incompetence of the officials and wrongly judging the unjust case, what about Zhu Yuanzhang's inability to distinguish right from wrong, not only has the connotation of Fengyuewen, but also gathers all kinds of reversals, and finally cleansed the old king.

And behind these people, there are thousands of families, and tens of thousands of people can be involved casually!
Zeng Cheng felt dizzy when he thought of the thousands of scholars and the families or clans behind them.

The difference is quite big, and once Zeng Cheng takes the blame, what awaits Zeng Cheng in the future is overwhelming impeachment and even revenge-style assassination.

All they care about is the ideal they agree with.

First of all, the Censor's Yamen will write a letter to impeach Zeng Cheng for arbitrarily mobilizing troops and killing students, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will also ask Zeng Cheng to drink tea. Once they catch some small tail, waiting for Zeng Cheng may be a dead end.

Deny an emperor who is about to conquer the world...

As we all know, the group of students is the most magical.

Emperor Zhu sneered and said, "If you have any new news, you might as well tell me."

But their biggest problem is that they think they are smart and are easily fooled.

But anyone who knows Zhu Zhishan's old man should understand that this is another nonsense article to smear Zhu Chongba.

Emperor Zhu couldn't help but glance at Zeng Cheng unexpectedly.

However, the "Taizong Veritable Records" that has been changed by Jigou does not mention Fang Xiaoru's extermination of the ten clans. Even the "Ming History" dedicated to discrediting Ming Dynasty also does not record this matter. Song Duanyi wrote during the Chenghua period His "Li Zhai Xian Lu", "Ge Qu Lu" and other books about Jianwen's loyal officials only wrote: "Yi Qi Clan" but there is no such thing as "destroying ten clans".

After listening to Ke Zhiming's words, Zeng Cheng knew that today's matter was completely over. No matter whether Emperor Zhu was persuaded before or whether he wanted to change his decision, there was no room for any relaxation. .

"History of the Ming Dynasty" also records that after Fang Xiaoru and his brother Fang Xiaoyou were killed in Nanjing, Fang Xiaoru's wife Zheng Shi and two of his four sons, Fang Zhongxian and Fang Zhongyu, hanged themselves, and their two daughters also jumped into the river to commit suicide. Zhu Di's "Yi nationality", but his wife, daughter and son were martyred after her husband was killed.

Then, Zhu Laosi asked Fang Xiaoru to write the enthronement edict.

Ke Zhiming had a gloomy face, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, those students... those students shouted slogans and wanted His Majesty to go out of the palace to meet them. They also said that if His Majesty does not come out If you go to see them in the palace, they will go to Taimiao and Confucian Temple and Weeping Temple."

However, Emperor Zhu sneered, stared coldly at Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming and said, "Do you know what is the Son of Heaven?"

A real college student is a real treasure, a scarce human resource.

Even if Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate can't catch Zeng Cheng's little tail, will the relatives of the killed students want to kill Zeng Cheng?

Ever since, this story was spread in Ming Dynasty, but it was slowly spread after the Zhengde period. Before the Zhengde period, Daming, from the emperor to the common people, had never heard of this story, because it was recorded in A story in "Previous Story".

However, this does not mean that Emperor Zhu will indulge these students indefinitely.

After finishing speaking, Liu Heming paid respects to Emperor Zhu seriously: "Your Majesty, I'm just a piece of rubbish that cannot be supported by mud. You asked me to read more books, but I just couldn't read it. There is nothing I can do about it. "

It would be easy to say if this ideal is right, but what if the ideal they insist on is wrong?
For example, those sand sculptures holding white paper and shouting slogans, such as those bastards who shouted that the fireworks in the world have begun to recover—maybe, the fireworks and fireworks are not connected?
Therefore, the enthusiasm of scholars is essentially a double-edged sword, which can easily hurt both the enemy and oneself.

Although it is certain that the Beijing camp enters the city to arrest and kill people, whether the order was issued directly by Emperor Zhu or Zeng Cheng proposed it, these are two completely different concepts—if Emperor Zhu directly ordered troops to arrest and kill people , then all the pots belong to Emperor Zhu, and the infamy of cruelty and bloodthirsty in the history books cannot be escaped.

The truth is this, but when they gathered outside the palace and shouted for the abolition of the ancestral system of "only students are not allowed", the nature of all this changed.

It was just that Zeng Cheng's voice had just finished speaking, but outside the main hall, Captain Jin Yiwei rushed over, whispered a few words to Ke Zhiming, and then left quickly.

After pondering secretly for a long time, Zeng Cheng tried to persuade him: "Your Majesty, those students are mostly idiots who have not read their books. I think it's okay to get rid of their fame according to what the governor said, and then rush back to the village and never use it." That's it, why should His Majesty's reputation be damaged because of them?"

But killing three thousand students is an unprecedented event!
More importantly, these [-] Jinshi are only those who have already rushed out of the palace, and there are more on the way who have not rushed over!

Including the ridicule of later generations that undergraduates are everywhere, and specialists are not as good as dogs, which are actually bullshit among bullshit.

This is really rushing to court death!
After being silent for a while, Zeng Cheng couldn't help but sighed slightly, and then bowed his hands resolutely and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I want to ask the governor to transfer the capital camp into the city, and kill all the traitors who are not ministers after nightfall!"

They are young, they are passionate, they are cynical, and they can't understand all injustices.

The description of this period of history in "History of the Ming Dynasty" is "Xiao Ru threw a pen to the ground, cried and cursed and said: "Death is death, and the edict cannot be careless. "Cheng Zu was angry and ordered all the cities. The description in "Records of Emperor Taizong" is "The treacherous ministers Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, etc. came to Que Xia.Counting his crimes, Xian Fugu was killed in the city. "

Similar to this is Fang Xiaoru's murder of the ten clans.

Forcing the emperor to modify the ancestral system is tantamount to denying Zhu Chongba, and denying Zhu Chongba is tantamount to fundamentally denying the correctness of Emperor Zhu's accession to the throne.

This is more than 3000 Jinshi!

What kind of bullshit is this riding a horse!
Zhu Jinsong was upset, and his face naturally became colder and colder: "They are willing to come, so why don't I stop them? Don't you want to know what they want to do?"

It's over!

On the contrary, Qian Qianyi, who is too cold, was born as a student of Donglin, and Wang Zhaoming, who attempted to assassinate the regent Zaifeng, was born as a scholar.

Emperor Zhu laughed back angrily, looked at Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming and said, "Is this what you said about being stupid in reading? From my point of view, they are not too stupid, at least they know how to go to the Taimiao Weeping Temple!"

Just when Zeng Cheng had already slightly closed his eyes and prepared to meet the unknown fate, Liu Heming suddenly laughed, looked at Zeng Cheng and said, "Although Mr. Zeng Ge is the first and assistant minister of the cabinet, your cabinet can't control me five times." The military governor's mansion, so the deployment of troops should be ordered by me, the commander-in-chief."

It is said that back then, Zhu Lao Si saw that he was pretending to be crazy and foolish, but he couldn't escape his nephew's poisonous hands, so he simply set off Zhu Yunqi's situation in a rage. After the Yan army entered Nanjing, Zhu Yunqi disappeared, and Zhu Laosi could only helplessly express, "This is my nephew after all. My son's country, now that he is missing, I, as an uncle, can avoid the trouble and temporarily act as emperor for him."

The sky is falling!

Regarding Emperor Zhu's question, not to mention Zeng Cheng, who is well-read in poetry and books, even Liu Heming, who was born in the army, knows the meaning of emperor.

Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming looked down at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes - as the saying goes, it's hard for the king of Hades to save the damned ghost, it's fine for these students to leave their good books and don't read and come to the palace. Want to run to the Taimiao and Confucian Temple?

Yue Wumu was not a scholar in the traditional sense. The teacher had served as a soldier for half a year before entering Hunan No. [-] Normal School.

Don't forget, there is an old saying in the hall of the Central Plains: Every time more dogs are slaughtered in righteousness, most of them are scholars who are ungrateful.

As the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty and an old fritter who had been the magistrate in the Qing Dynasty, it is impossible for Zeng Cheng not to know the risks involved—that is to say, when Zeng Cheng proposed this suggestion, he already knew it in his heart. Prepared to die.

However, if Zeng Cheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, directly proposed it, it means that Zeng Cheng took the initiative to take the blame for killing the students. Although Emperor Zhu may have a reputation of being unknown, at least he will not be burdened with cruelty and bloodthirsty. notoriety.

This is not a solution, after all, compared with the impact of killing thousands of Jinshi at a time, it is so small that it is not even a fart!

"But, no matter how stupid I am, I still remember the hardships of sweating when farming, and the bitter days when I woke up hungry in the middle of the night and could only rely on drinking water to satisfy my hunger. I also know a truth-social studies The popularization of county schools and prefecture schools is to enable people all over the world to read and understand, so that people all over the world have a way out, so that they don't have to be blind like we were back then."

"Those bastards are now clamoring to restore Kexing, but they have become Juren masters. They don't want more people to become Juren masters. They want to cut off the way out for others. They want to be the same as before. Playing tricks on people all over the world."

Liu Heming took another deep breath, and continued: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty, I want to transfer the Beijing camp into the city without an order, to put down the rebellion!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Heming took another deep breath, bowed heavily to Emperor Zhu, and then got up to leave.

(End of this chapter)