Chapter 84 Dongchang settled accounts after autumn, and the civil servants begged for mercy!

Zhang Gui looked at the pile of officials and rich businessmen in Yangzhou piled up like a mountain, and couldn't help but glance at Zhao Yan, thinking: "The civil servants who have started to support the reform will not lose to me with an iron fist! Maybe because they are scholar-bureaucrats themselves, He also understands the scholar-bureaucrats better, so he is not much gentler than my own country's uncle."

  After thinking this way, Zhang Gui smiled and said to Zhao Yan: "Zhao Butang is a capable minister who put down the chaos in Shandong after all. Even the governor admires this method."

   "Uncle Guo doesn't know, there is no such means. In fact, Zhao can't quell the Shandong rebellion! Because the whole Shandong Xu Hongru rebellion is not so much a rebellion by Luojiao, it is better to say that the government forced the people to rebel."

  Zhao Yan said again: "After a few years of governor of Shandong, I am more certain that the imperial court should indeed make up for the loss."

"Put all these heads on the ship, as well as the heads of the Governor of Water Transport and the General Soldier of Huai'an, and write down their crimes and the reasons for their execution, so that they can go down the river and let other governments in the south of the Yangtze River You know, this is the end of fighting against the imperial court’s new policy.”

   Zhang Gui gave orders at this time.

"yes!"

   Not long after, the boat full of heads arrived at Zhenjiang Mansion.

  The prefect of Zhenjiang was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly sent someone to inform the governor of Yingtian Zhou Qiyuan of the news.

  After Zhou Qiyuan learned about this, he was quite shocked, and couldn't help saying: "It's appalling, it's really appalling!"

   Staff member Li Guangcheng therefore asked: "Zhongcheng, what should we do now? Do we want to stop the new government policy? The officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River wrote to say, I hope you can make decisions for the people, and don't let the tyranny that disturbs the people appear in the south of the Yangtze River."

   "Can't stop! Take the boat to meet the business immediately!"

  "If you really come to implement the New Deal, you may violate it."

   "But judging from the current situation, they came to implement the New Deal without any intention of discussing it with you. It can even be said that they are using the name of the New Deal to rebel against the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River!"

   "And I am an official of the imperial court after all, so I can't fight against the imperial court!"

   Zhou Qiyuan ordered again after speaking: "Tell the squires, I can't help them!"

  …

   "This is not reform, this is rebellion!"

  The capital.

  Shangshu Zhao Nanxing looked at the urgently delivered letter from Huai'an with trembling hands and said.

  He originally thought that Uncle Zhang Gui and Governor Zhao Yan, who went to the south of the Yangtze River to carry out the reform and implement the New Deal, would be afraid after encountering local obstacles, and would not dare to implement the reform thoroughly.

  But he didn't expect that these people didn't mean it at all, but they had long been determined to take away the profits of the officials and gentry!

  Obviously, even if people like myself don't take the initiative to cater to them, they will directly force them.

   And because of this, Zhao Nanxing had to admit that he didn't even have the chance to mix in the reform team and wait for an opportunity to do things behind the scenes.

Because after the country's uncle and Zhao Butang went south, they had already taken the initiative to settle accounts after the fall on the outage of grain transportation, and took the lead in attacking such high-ranking officials as the Governor of Water Transportation, so that the bottom pants of the opposition who did not support the reform in essence The child was stripped clean!

  Tianqi sneered after receiving the confession sent by Zhang Gui: "It's really tricky to cut off the water transportation."

   "Wei Zhongxian!"

   Then, Tianqi called out.

   "The servant is here."

   Wei Zhongxian replied.

   Tianqi threw the confession in front of him: "Catch!"

"yes!"

  Wei Zhongxian agreed and went to Dongchang with the confession.

   Soon, the official school of Dongchang took action.

   Zhao House.

  When the gatekeeper saw the official school from Dongchang rushing in, he hurried towards Zhao Nanxing's study: "Master, it's not good, someone from Dongchang is here!"

Zhao Nanxing was startled when he heard this, and then he smiled calmly: "Sure enough, there is such an uncle Guo who uses the posture of direct rebellion to reform, no matter how much I think, I can't do it. Now the only way is to hit the wall and commit suicide. .”

  Zhao Nanxing ran towards the wall as he spoke.

  Seeing this, the porter hurriedly shouted: "Master!"

   But the concierge didn't stop him.

  Zhao Nanxing himself stopped when his head hit the wall, and sat down on the ground: "It's too difficult to kill myself!"

   Not long after, the Dongchang official school rushed in. Seeing Zhao Nanxing sitting slumped on the ground, he didn't say much, just set him up and left.

  Zuo Guangdou also heard the news here, and was very angry because of it: "I didn't expect that my uncle from another country would directly raise troops to attack the Governor of Water Transport! He is a scourge, so mean and ruthless!"

   When Zuo Guangdou complained so much, people from Dongchang broke in.

  Zuo Guangdou couldn't help shouting and asked: "What are you doing?!"

   "I take you by order!"

  The official school of Dongchang replied.

  After hearing this, Zuo Guangdou realized that Dongchang must have grasped his crimes, so he hurriedly said: "You can't take me, I want to see Your Majesty, I want to see Your Majesty! I want to see Your Majesty!"

  For a while, all the civil servants who participated in the cut-off of grain transportation were arrested.

  Many civil officials in Beijing also realized that after the uncle Zhang Gui and others went to the south and directly turned the table, the emperor also began to settle accounts after autumn, so everyone was panicked.

  The civil servants also knew that it was time to give in.

  After all, no one expected that the uncle Guo who went to the south of the Yangtze River would directly use desperate methods to carry out reforms and new policies, so that the old background of cutting off food and grain was picked out.

  Therefore, many civil officials related to the interruption of water transportation came to Xiyuan and begged Tianqi for mercy.

"Your Majesty, be merciful! The courtiers are ignorant of the general situation. They were resentful because the scholars were killed because of the trouble, so they did the thing of cutting off the grain supply. But their original intention was not to endanger the society, nor was it true. My ignorant father! Your Majesty!"

   "Your Majesty! The officials and gentry of the world already know that they are wrong, and they are willing to make up for last year's rations. I only ask His Majesty for mercy, and insist on bringing up another big case! Since Your Majesty is the father of a monarch, he should be a courtier with benevolence!"

   "Your Majesty! Uncle Guo and Zhao Butang went to the south of the Yangtze River, obviously not to implement the New Deal, but through the implementation of the New Deal, they slaughtered officials and gentry, framed the loyal, and attacked dissidents! Your Majesty!"

   "Your Majesty, please call back Uncle Guo and Zhao Butang, so that we don't want to disturb the world again! Last year's water transportation was blocked because of the ineffectiveness of the water transportation yamen, and there will never be another failure of water transportation in the future. Please learn from your majesty!"

"Your Majesty, I believe that in the future, we can pay an extra one million shi for food grain every year, so as to benefit the court. I would rather suffer the common people than let the father suffer from food shortages. I only hope that your majesty will be merciful and allow the uncles and the others to come back!" "

  …

  These civil servants are really scared.

They are afraid that if Zhang Gui and Zhao Yan continue to use this method of overturning the table in Jiangnan, they will completely expose the old background of these scholar-bureaucrats, and then not only the loss of wealth and life, but also the loss of reputation. , and even in the annals of history, it must be difficult for future generations to see a group of Weiguang upright scholars and bureaucrats.

   After all, no one knows how many dark things will be brought to light after the table is lifted.

  That's why these civil servants came to the emperor in a hurry to cry and remonstrate, and even willingly gave up their profits. They would give the emperor an extra one million stones of grain in the future, and wanted the emperor to recall his uncle Zhang Gui and his minister Zhao Yan.

  (end of this chapter)