"Are you threatening me?" Chongzhen said with a smile, "You want to say that justice is not in the hearts of the people, but in your Donglin Party, the people in Jiangnan will only believe in your Donglin Party, right?"
"That's not what I meant." Yuan Pengnian said suddenly.
"But if Your Majesty insists on understanding it this way, I will not be able to argue with you."
"You're quite alert and your words are impeccable." Chongzhen smiled and said to the outside of the carriage, "Go to Chaoku Street."
The imperial chariot turned a corner and turned from Taipingmen Street onto Chaoku Street. After driving for about half an hour, a high-pitched voice sounded outside the carriage: "Long live my Lord, we have arrived at the end of the field."
Chongzhen said: "Open the curtain."
Gao Qianqian immediately opened the gauze curtain on one side of the imperial chariot.
Chongzhen pointed to a building on the street and said to Yuan Pengnian: "Yuan Pengnian, where do you think this is?"
"Qingyuan Teahouse?" Yuan Pengnian smiled and said, "Does the Holy One want to invite me to come here for tea?"
"Invite you to tea?" Chongzhen said with a faint smile, "Look at that storyteller again, do you recognize him?"
"Isn't this Liu Mazi and Liu Jingting?" Yuan Pengnian said, "Your Majesty likes listening and speaking books? Then you have found the right person. Liu Mazi is a master of storytelling."
Chongzhen said calmly: "Would you like to listen to what he is saying again?"
Yuan Pengnian frowned slightly, but still listened carefully. Although the distance was a little far, he could still vaguely hear Liu Jingting's clear voice.
"...But they say that the Yuan family is a family of Huai'an officials."
"His father Yuan Zhongdao and his uncles Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Hongdao are collectively known as the Three Yuans, and they have quite a literary reputation."
Hearing this sentence, Yuan Pengnian frowned for a moment, and called him "Three Yuans"? A family of officials? The key is that the names of these three Yuans are the same as those of Yuan Pengnian's father and two uncles! What is Liu Jingting going to do?
I heard Liu Jingting continue to say: "Let's talk about the army of Jiannu besieging Shanyang. Because they could not attack for a long time and suffered heavy casualties, the ten kings of Jiannu were unhappy. Yuan Pengnian immediately stepped forward and offered a plan: Report to the ten kings, I have a plan, Shanyang
The city is at your fingertips! All the women’s property in the city belongs to the ten kings and the Qing Dynasty!”
When I listened again, I saw that the teahouse was already full of curses.
"Traitor, it turns out that Yuan Pengnian is a traitor and a traitor to the country!"
"If you bump into a thief next time, I will hit him with a rotten egg!"
"Damn it, this traitor is so bad, I have to scold him later!"
In an instant, everyone inside and outside the teahouse heard that the book sellers, the common people, and even the green-skinned gangsters were filled with indignation. If Yuan Pengnian appeared in front of them at this time, he would definitely be beaten.
Yuan Pengnian turned livid with anger and said, "What does your Majesty mean by this?"
"Liu Jingting is just the beginning." Chongzhen said coldly, "Next, storytellers throughout Nanjing and even the entire Jiangnan will tell the same storyteller in teahouses, docks and streets in various cities."
"The content of the storytelling is also the same. Yuan Pengnian helped Jiannu attack Shanyang."
"But in the end, because he suffered a defeat, he ended up being castrated as a slave and sent to the palace."
"I believe that the people of Jiangnan will re-judge you and the Yuan family after hearing this."
"Zhu Youjian! You fool!" Yuan Pengnian stopped trying to hide it and said angrily, "You have deliberately ruined the reputation of our police officer Yuan family, are you worthy of being a human king?"
"Then you committed regicide and rebelled against the king, are you worthy of being a minister?"
Chongzhen sneered and said: "I just want you to understand that not only your Donglin Party will lead the public opinion, but even if your Donglin Party has been deeply rooted in Jiangnan for forty years, I have the ability to disintegrate overnight."
To get rid of your control over public opinion, just a simple commentary is enough."
"Zhu Youjian, one day you will pay the price for your misdeeds."
After saying this, Yuan Pengnian continued: "What's more, you can deceive these foolish men and women, but you can't deceive the scholars in Jiangnan. The Jin gentlemen in Jiangnan are not so easily deceived by you."
Chongzhen smiled and said again: "Gao Banban, go to Tongji Street."
Gao Qiqiandang put down the gauze curtain and drove to Tongji Street again.
About two-quarters of an hour later, Gao Qiqian said through the curtain again: "Your Majesty, we have reached the end of the field."
After Gao Qiqian rolled up the gauze curtain, Chongzhen pointed to the building in front of him under the light and said, "Yuan Pengnian, look at this again."
Yuan Pengnian looked in the direction of Chongzhen's finger and saw a two-story building. Although it was already late at night, the lights inside were bright.
There are many people coming and going.
He looked very busy.
Chongzhen pointed to the lintel and said, "Look at the lintel."
Yuan Pengnian's eyes moved up and landed on the lintel of the first floor. He saw a huge plaque hanging on it, with the four seal characters "Huang Ming Times" written on it.
"Huang Ming Times?" Yuan Pengnian couldn't help but read out loud.
"Yes, Huangming Times." Chongzhen said, "Do you know what this is?"
Naturally, Yuan Pengnian didn't know, so he could only respond silently. Asking questions made him appear very ignorant.
"I'm sorry you don't know either." Chongzhen said, "Let me tell you straight. This is a newspaper. It not only contains the eight-part essays for the imperial examination, but also the poems and songs that the ladies in the boudoir like, as well as the peddlers and thugs.
Of course, there must also be announcements issued by the imperial court about the strange stories and ghosts and fox fairies that the common people love to hear about."
"Ah?" Yuan Pengnian instantly realized the power of newspapers.
Such a newspaper is much more powerful than word of mouth among scholars.
But then he thought to himself that such a newspaper must be worth a lot of money.
In this case, the problem is not big, because the price is expensive and the contact area of Dibao is limited.
Especially as soon as they left Nanjing, the transmission of news between villages had to rely on word of mouth among the scholars who sympathized with the Donglin Party.
However, Yuan Pengnian's idea was quickly shattered, because Chongzhen immediately said: "The most important thing is that such a newspaper only sells for three cents!"
"What? Three cents?" Yuan Pengnian was stunned and said, "How is this possible!"
Chongzhen said coldly: "Selling only three articles will definitely make a loss, but the reason why I asked people to run this newspaper was not to make money, but to enlighten the people's wisdom and prevent the people of Jiangnan and Shilin from being deceived and fooled by your Donglin Party!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It is you, Zhu Youjian, who wants to deceive and fool the people of Li and Jiangnan Shilin." Yuan Pengnian sneered.
But it can be seen that Yuan Pengnian has obviously lost the confidence he had just now, and his momentum has slumped.
Yuan Pengnian is obviously a discerning person. He has already seen that under Chongzhen's combination of punches, the Donglin Party will not only lose its ability to control the public opinion in Jiangnan, but even the scholars in Jiangnan will not follow their Donglin Party.
And Qiwu, this means that from this moment on, the foundation of their Donglin Party has been eradicated by Chongzhen!
Without the foundation under its feet, how can the Donglin Party compete with the imperial power?
Chongzhen's face turned cold and he said again: "Yuan Pengnian, my patience is limited, and time is even more precious. There are too many things waiting for me to deal with, so I don't have time to waste with you."
"I now give you two options. One is to plead guilty."
"As long as you take the initiative to plead guilty, I can promise that you will not be guilty as much as your family."
"Especially the reputation of your police officer Yuan family will never be affected in any way."
"But I'm afraid you won't be able to escape death, and your reputation won't be preserved either."
"The second is to resist to the end and then wait to be annihilated by the three tribes."
"I actually don't like killing people, and I deeply hate things like Guamanzhao. But if someone insists on forcing me to do this, then I have no choice but to kill them."
After saying this, Chongzhen said again: "I will give you three days to think it over carefully."
"Zhu Youjian, I don't have to think about it!" Yuan Pengnian snorted, "I can definitely reply to you now. The case of regicide and rebellion has nothing to do with me, Yuan Pengnian. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!"
Chongzhen shook his head and said: "Go back to prison and think it over carefully."
After saying that, Yuan Pengnian was escorted into another carriage by the Jin Yiwei.
Chongzhen, his father and his son took the royal chariot directly back to the Imperial Academy.
…
At dusk the next day, outside the Jixian Gate of the Imperial College.
As soon as Zhang Dai got off the carriage, he saw Chen Zhenhui walking towards him.
"Brother Dingsheng?" Zhang Dai hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, "Are you also coming to the Imperial Academy to attend the Supreme Court's trial of the regicide case?"
"Brother Zongzi." Chen Zhenhui and Zhang Dai bowed to each other, stood up and said, "The Holy Emperor is personally trying the case today. This is an unprecedented event that is rare in a century. How can you miss it?"
Chen Zhenhui's tone contained a hint of first-class ridicule.
Although Chen Zhenhui spoke cryptically, Zhang Dai could still hear it.
Zhang Dai frowned slightly, because recently there was a private discussion among scholars in Nanjing that the regicide case in Yangzhou was arranged by the Holy Emperor himself.
The purpose is to frame the Donglin Party.
Then he took the opportunity to raise a prison and eradicate the Donglin Party.
Zhang Dai didn't believe this. He felt that the Holy One would not do this.
On the contrary, Zhang Dai felt that the possibility of Donglin Party regicide was actually very high.
But Chen Zhenhui obviously doesn't think so. He is obviously leaning towards the Donglin Party.
Zhang Dai felt that he didn't want to go with Chen Zhenhui, but he couldn't express it because of his feelings, so he could only follow Chen Zhenhui into Jixian Sect.
By chance, two scholars were walking inside.
I vaguely heard the two scholars discussing: Will Jin Yiwei use punishment?
"Brother Zongzi, what do you think?" Chen Zhenhui asked, "Do you think Jin Yiwei really can't use torture?"
Zhang Dai frowned slightly and said, "The Holy One has already said that punishment will not be used. The Jin Yiwei absolutely dare not use punishment. Otherwise, it would be contempt for the King, and it would be disrespectful."
"Brother Zongzi, you are such a nerd." Chen Zhenhui said, "Since ancient times, I have thought that there is no way to handle cases without punishment. Although the Holy One said that punishment will not be used, but if Jin Yiwei really uses punishment, is it possible that the Holy One will still punish him severely? I wonder?
What? Jin Yiwei is a minion raised by the Holy Lord, can he still destroy his own minion?"
"Brother Dingsheng, be careful what you say." Zhang Dai really couldn't listen.
