The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 322 The Real Demonic Book

As soon as "Yu Wei Jing Yi" was published, the capital was suddenly shrouded in dark clouds.

This is a sign that the dispute over the national foundation will re-emerge.

In that darkness, countless civil servants with ulterior motives were discussing shameful activities.

Wanli has killed many people because of the dispute over the foundation of the country. Is there anyone else who dares to jump out and fight for the foundation of the country?

It’s hard to say. Some young people will risk their lives if they are fooled, so it is not impossible for them to jump out.

The Zhejiang Party’s purpose was obviously to stimulate the young and ignorant people of the Qingliu to fight for the foundation of the country, and then let Wanli fight against the Qingliu!
Will Qingliu be fooled?

It’s hard to say, because Qingliu has gradually evolved into Donglin.

All the Qingliu people seem to be proud to be from Donglin. Even if he is not, if others say he is, he will proudly admit it!
This is not a joke. Donglin's appeal among the elite is quite scary, especially among the young and inexperienced people. It's really scary.

As long as they raise their arms and call, thousands of young people will follow suit!

What is even more terrifying is that there are officials from Shanxi and Huizhou merchants in Donglin. They are not clean officials at all, but they gradually took control of Donglin.

It is possible that these civil servants with ulterior motives deliberately sent the young and inexperienced people to their deaths in order to incite the real clean forces to confront Wanli.

So, will Wanli be fooled?
Wanli now only wants to catch the people who secretly distributed the evil book, and then follow the clues to find out the mastermind behind the scenes, throw them into the imperial prison, give them a good beating, and then deal with them.

Luo Sigong was also determined to catch the man in the dark who had brought shame to their secret guards.

In fact, the progress of the demon book case in history was not so fast.

After the publication of "Youwei Jingyi", the Zhejiang Party achieved its goal and completely controlled the power of the court. The Qingliu were suppressed by them. The real evil book was released when the Qingliu launched a crazy counterattack.

However, at this moment they had not achieved any goal, so the progress of the demon book case was accelerated.

Early in the morning at about noon, Wanli had just arrived at the imperial study when the chief minister of the cabinet, Shen Li, came in hurriedly with a list.

After the emperor and his subjects exchanged greetings, he held up the notice in both hands and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, this humble servant left this notice early this morning when I went out and discovered that someone had posted it on the gate of my residence."

These guys are afraid that you can't see it, so they put it on the door.

Wanli took the list and looked at it, and couldn't help but sneer.

These guys are really good at this. They even curse their own people to cover up their tracks!

The reason why the demon book case in history was shrouded in mystery was probably because the real demon book even cursed Shen Yikuan himself, so no one suspected that the demon book was related to this guy.

The name of this evil book is "Continuation of the Discussion on Worries and Dangers", and the author calls himself Qin Xucheng. The name means that the son of Imperial Noble Consort Qin Lan, Zhu Changxu, will definitely become the crown prince.

However, this is irony, used to stimulate those young and inexperienced people.

The book curses Yu Youcai, Shen Li, Shen Yikuan, Zhao Zhigao, Sun Yu, Yang Zhao, Liang Menglong, Lu Guangzu and others as the lackeys of Imperial Noble Consort Qin Lan, who helped Imperial Noble Consort Qin Lan to deceive the current emperor and want to support the emperor's second son Zhu Changxu.

The current emperor has been deceived by these treacherous people and has not appointed his eldest son Zhu Changluo as the crown prince, which has led to instability in the country and panic among the people.

What's more, the current emperor wants to delay until the queen passes away, and then continue to confer the title of imperial concubine Qin Lan as queen, so that he can legitimately make the second son Zhu Changxu the crown prince!

These guys are really good at making trouble.

The evil book cursed Shen Yikuan, Zhao Zhigao, Sun Yu and Lu Guangzu together, not only to deceive people, but also to remind him of his intention to be emperor.

These guys wanted to remind him that the Zhejiang Party was in cahoots with him, and that the Qingliu were the ones who were against him.

The evil book simply curses the Zhejiang Party and the Imperial Party in the tone of the Qingliu people, without cursing any of them.

This will lead people to mistakenly believe that the evil book was written by Qingliu, and that Qingliu wants to stir up a dispute over the foundation of the country.

If the young people of Qingliu were provoked by this evil book and really submitted a petition to establish a crown prince, it would prove that the evil book was written by Qingliu!
By then, the Zhejiang Party will be able to use this as an excuse to frantically impeach Qingliu.

Who came up with this vicious plan?
No, Shen Li has seen the evil book, so it must be scattered all over the capital. How come Luo Sigong didn’t catch the person who spread the evil book?
Wanli was just wondering when Luo Sigong came running to ask for an audience. After the emperor and his minister exchanged greetings, Luo Sigong held up a list and said carefully, "Your Majesty, we caught someone distributing the evil book last night."

There is no need to read the evil book, which is "Continuation of Discussions on the Crisis and Crisis". The key is whether the person who spread the evil book confesses the mastermind behind it.

Wanli asked impatiently, "Have you tried him? Did he confess?"

Luo Sigong nodded repeatedly and said, "I have investigated this person. His name is Gao Shengcai. His brother, Gao Shengguang, asked them to spread the evil book."

Gao Shengguang?
This guy seems to be really related to the demon book case.

Wanli pondered, "They? Does this mean a group of people are spreading the evil book?"

Luo Sigong nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, there were many of them spreading, so they spread very quickly. By the time we discovered them and went to catch them, they had almost spread out.

These guys are all ruffians in the capital, and each of them knows the streets and alleys of the capital better than we do. We chased them through countless streets and finally caught this Qiao Shengcai.

You only caught one?
Wanli asked, "What about the others? Didn't they catch any of them?"

Luo Sigong explained, "It seems the other hooligans have gone into hiding, but Gao Shengguang has a family, so we caught him right away."

This guy has a family, why doesn't he hide when something happens?
Wanli asked curiously, "What does this Gao Shengguang do for a living?"

Luo Sigong explained in detail: "Gao Shengguang is a student of Shuntian Prefecture School and is quite famous in the capital.

However, this reputation isn't for talent, but rather for ruffianism. This guy is one of the leaders of the Beijing gang, and he usually extorts people for a lot of money."

Are there people in Beijing who specialize in blackmail?
Wanli was quite annoyed and asked, "How did he extort money from people?"

This doesn't seem to be the point, right?
Luo Sigong was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "Your Majesty, because time is running out, and he has blackmailed too many people, I can only interrogate a few of them.

He said that he once heard that a country gentleman wanted to curry favor with a corrupt official in the capital, so he went around looking for the official's favorite jade cups. He went directly to the pawnshop and bought a pair of jade cups worth fifty taels of gold. He went to the pawnshop and lied to the seller that the jade cups were worth a hundred taels of gold, but he was in a hurry to get rid of them, so he sold them for fifty taels. The country gentleman bought them without hesitation.

As a result, a few days later, he had several yamen runners escort him and a eunuch to find the squire, saying that the jade cup was stolen from the palace and had been discovered, and they were in big trouble.

The squire was so frightened that he had no choice but to bribe him everywhere and give him money. Only after he gave him thousands of taels of silver did he let the squire go.

Later, when the son of the corrupt official whom the squire had been currying favor with died, he actually ran over and cried in the mourning hall for a whole day.

The corrupt official didn't recognize him and asked him why he was crying. He said, "I'm crying because I have no good fortune. Your son promised me that when he conquered the world and became emperor in the future, he would grant me the title of king. Now he is dead, and everything is ruined."

The corrupt official was frightened by him and quickly stuffed him with over a thousand taels of silver to silence him.

This guy is really a talented person!

Wanli suppressed his laughter and said with a stern face, "This trend must not be allowed to spread. All the ruffians who committed fraud with Gao Shengguang should be arrested and exiled three thousand miles away. By the way, has Gao Shengguang confessed the person behind this?"

You finally asked. I would have felt embarrassed if you hadn’t asked me.

Luo Sigong shook his head helplessly and said, "No, that person is very careful. He always goes to look for Gao Shengguang at night, and he also wears a mask. Every time he leaves behind a list and a few hundred taels of silver and leaves."

These guys are really careful.

Wanli looked at the demon book in his hand and couldn't help but frowned slightly.

Will those young and naive people in the Qingliu sect be provoked to submit a petition to establish a crown prince this time?

If those young and foolish people really petitioned to establish a crown prince, how would he deal with it?

This is indeed a bit troublesome.

If he severely punished the young man who submitted a petition to establish a crown prince, he would fall into the trap of the Zhejiang Party, and the young people of the Qingliu would probably follow him one after another and fight him to the death; if he did not severely punish the young man who submitted a petition to establish a crown prince, more and more people would follow his example, which would make him extremely annoyed.

He thought about it carefully, then sighed softly and said, "Now we can only wait for them to make a move. Let's put Gao Shengguang in prison first. Maybe he can be of some use."

(End of this chapter)