Chapter nine hundred and twentieth eight major cases
Jin Shengtan and others did not notice Su Na and his party. They only had the people who responded loudly in their eyes, and the yamen runners who were like stray dogs. They really had a strong morale along the way.
From beginning to end, Jin Shengtan, his friends Ding Ziwei, Ding Guansheng and others were all at the forefront, fearing that the people would not recognize him. Mr. Jin Da seemed to be like this. The scholars were extremely flattering to Jin Shengtan, and they all said that if Mr. Jin Da had not come forward today, how could he have such a momentum? Seeing the people's wishes, everyone went to the Holy Temple to bow and cry. Needless to say, the cruel official Ren Weichu was the first to begin. Even the prefect of Suzhou Yan Shaoqing, the governor of Jiangsu Jiang Guozhu, etc. would be afraid of the general trend of the people.
"The government is called Qingqian, but it is actually to attack our Jiangnan family, and it means to dominate our Jiangnan people!"
When Weng Shuyuan's family was forced to be levied by Ren Weichu, Jin Shengtan said this to his friend. In his opinion, the so-called "clearing the debt is not true at all. Since there has not been money and grain collection for many years, why should we still be levied again? Moreover, Jiangnan has only been in the Ming Dynasty for a few months. In the past, Jiangnan belonged to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty did not clear the debt to the people of Jiangnan. Why did the Ming Dynasty ask the people of Jiangnan to pay the debt to the people of Jiangnan? The new dynasty is a pardon, and it is not understandable. Besides, the tax on the clear debt is cleared; the tax on which is the debt? Is it your Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty? If you don't explain this, there is no way to talk about the debt.
Jin Shengtan was extremely arrogant. When he was a scholar in his early years, he wrote articles as he wanted and did not follow the rules, so he never passed the imperial examination at his fifties. After the Qing army entered the pass, he changed his name to Jin Renrui, pretending to be a famous scholar who pursued freedom, and believed in gods and Buddhas, and liked to read Buddhist scriptures and make friends with monks. He didn't know where to learn the spirit of the spirit. He called himself the reincarnation of the disciple Zhiyan, the founder of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism. He called himself the "Li'an" master, and claimed to have stored more than 30 deceased women as disciples in the underworld. He also noted some Tuibei pictures. He was a nonsense and unruly person, but he gained the reputation of a great talent. When he was old, he was respectfully called "Mr. Jin Da", which greatly relieved his regret of not being able to win the imperial examination when he was young.
Jin Shengtan happily accepted the praises of the crowd, and felt very unsatisfied. He cried 10% of the temple, saving Ni Yongbin and others, and then blocked the government's bullshit, and his name as Mr. Jin could be widely spread in Nanjing City.
The incident of crying in the temple first happened three days ago. The Jiangsu Governor's Office reported the matter to the Queen of Qi. Governor Jiang Guozhu received the approval from the King of Qi and ordered Suzhou Prefecture to take people. However, he only took Ni Yongbin and other five scholars, and did not want to take Jin Shengtan who wrote the unveiling. On this side, although Jiang Guozhu still didn't want to make the matter too much, on the other hand, there were people in the court. Qian Qianyi, the Grand Tutor of the dynasty, was his uncle, and his aunt, Liu Rushi, was also in Suzhou City.
If he didn't look at the monks and Buddha's faces, the King of Qi criticized the people, but Jiang Guozhu always wanted to show some mercy. He just wanted to scare these scholars, and asked the gentry in other places to know the court's determination to be ungrateful, so that they would be tactful and obediently to pay money and food to the new dynasty, but he had not yet intentionally killed people to establish his authority, and he would not want to start a huge case in Jiangnan.
Jiang Guozhu first reported the matter of the reimbursement of the Qing Dynasty to Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang. But at that time, Lang Tingzuo was a simulated trick on this matter. However, the governor Zhu Guozhi was very enthusiastic about this matter and often told him that Jiang Guozhu that the case would be punished. Jiang Guozhu knew that the case would definitely offend many people, so he was determined to handle this matter by Zhu Guozhi. He had political achievements but his resentment was taken away by Zhu Guozhi. Later, the Taiping Army broke the city of Nanjing, and Zhu Guozhi and Lang Tingzuo were taken to Xiaoling and were cut alive. Jiang Guozhu also turned into the governor of Jiangsu in the Ming Dynasty. The commander of the Taiping Army, His Highness of the King of Qi of the Ming Dynasty, found his official document and threw it in front of him, which made Jiang Guozhu difficult to get rid of the tiger.
If the case was cancelled, Yu Qi would definitely be of great benefit. Jiang Guozhu could take advantage of this big case and completely wipe out his status as a demoted official. However, if this case really happened, it would definitely be a shocking case. If it was not done well, it would even force the gentry of Jiangnan. Jiang Guozhu would only dare to think about the consequences. He was afraid that he would not be able to suppress it, and he was even more afraid that His Highness of the King of Qi would throw it away after he used it. Then he would have no place to talk about it.
Jiang Guozhu wanted to do it step by step, from small to large, and slowly advance this matter, and take out money and food from the gentry of Jiangnan little by little. This would not be so intense, and there would be no need to make a big prison. When he finally found an excuse to stop the matter, he would explain it to the King of Qi. After all, some money and food were made. The gentry was easy to say, but he didn't let you lose everything, he just gave up some blood.
But people's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. Jiang Guozhu, here, instructed Yan Shaoqing to pilot the clearance of debts in Wuzhong County first, which caused a crying temple. The King of Qi's reply was also very strict, and he wanted Jiangsu to be tougher, and it was also pointed out that the governor, prefect, and prefectures of Zhili should count the money and grain of his subordinates. The punishment should be carried out in accordance with the state and county. Those who owe one point were fined for six months. The promotion would be promoted as usual. Those who owe two points were repaid, those who owe three points were reduced in salary one level, those who owe four points were reduced in salary one level, those who owe five points were demoted, those who owe six points were demoted, and those who owe six points were demoted, and those who owe all were punished for the second level, those who owe seven points were demoted, and those who owe nine points were dismissed.
With such a severe punishment system, the direction of the matter was not the "moderate" that Jiang Guozhu had previously imagined. But even so, Jiang Guozhu was still unwilling to be a cruel official. He left a move to Jin Shengtan, which was not only to show kindness to the gentry of Suzhou, but also to the officials in Jiangnan in the court.
Jiang Guozhu didn't know that his kindness was taken as donkey liver feces. After Jin Shengtan learned about this, he actively contacted hundreds of scholars from Suzhou and wanted to go to the Holy Temple to cry together. In order to make the news louder, he forced the government to release people, admitted that the demands of these scholars were reasonable, and punished the cruel officials Ren Weichu. Jin Shengtan and his group privately took a lot of money to buy people to boost their momentum, so that more people who didn't know the truth could participate. This is called "suppressing people with power."
"Go to the Holy Temple, go to the Holy Temple!"
Hundreds of scholars shouted in unison to go to the temple to cry in front of the statue of Confucius, and hundreds of idle men who were in great power also clamored. Whether the people watched the fun or whether the temple was really good for these scholars to cry, they were also shouting. The scene seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and the more intense it became.
Chapter completed!