The green-skinned men fled in panic to the east of the city, revealing 216 scholars still sitting at the door of the General Military Mansion.
Seeing the soldiers killing Qingpi, the more than two hundred scholars looked shocked.
The scholars did not expect that Li Zhi would take action so quickly. In the morning, a group of green men started to make trouble at the General Military Mansion. At noon, Li Zhi mobilized troops and horses. These soldiers had been fighting for many years and were full of murderous intent. At first glance, they were elite soldiers with strong combat capabilities.
With these soldiers standing guard, a few thousand green men can't change the sky.
This Li Zhi is worthy of being a great governor who has made many military exploits in the southern and northern wars. He does have strong soldiers under his command.
But the scholars witnessed Qingpi being killed, but they were still not afraid.
These green skins are scoundrels in the market, and their lives are worthless. Usually, if the servants of the Jin gentry's family beat many green skins to death, the government would pay them dozens of taels of silver at most. They would never impose heavy penalties on those who beat green skins to death. These green skins were never punished severely.
He is lazy and idle, collecting money from others to beat others, collecting debts, and running errands. As soon as he earns a few dollars, he goes to a casino to gamble. The final outcome is either starvation or being beaten to death.
Li Zhi killed several green men, but the court would not hold Li Zhi responsible. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were extremely ferocious. Even killing good people and pretending to be military exploits was commonplace, and no one was ever punished for it. Li Zhi's
Soldiers and horses are cruel to Qingpi, which is a sign of decisiveness and ruthlessness.
But the weight of scholars is completely different.
In the Ming Dynasty, the country was governed by scholars. It can be said that the emperor and scholars share the world. Although a scholar is not as good as a scholar or a scholar, he still has a political status that is completely different from that of a commoner. Scholars can wear swords, and they do not have to kneel before the county magistrate.
, Scholars can report to the county magistrate when encountering official matters. All kinds of privileges mean that scholars are already part of the ruling class.
The scholars went on a hunger strike and resorted to self-mutilation to resist Li Zhi's business tax. In fact, the scholars relied on the power of the scholars behind them to compete with Li Zhi. If Li Zhi really let a scholar starve to death in front of the General Military Mansion, the scholars in the world would definitely
Praising a scholar who died of starvation as a great hero will also lead to a fight with Li Zhi who "actually committed robbery in the name of business taxation".
Because of this level of reliance, more than 200 scholars, instigated by county magistrates from various places, immediately went to the front line to fight against Li Zhi.
Although the scholars were not confident that this hunger strike would definitely sway Li Zhi, they also did not believe that Li Zhi would dare to attack fellow scholars like them.
The massacre of scholars is not just a matter of treacherous ministers. Normally, if a scholar breaks the law, the county magistrate must first punish the scholar by removing him from his academic title. If the scholar is slapped with a sledgehammer, the person who is hit is not the scholar but the scholar.
According to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, scholars rule the world. If Li Zhi dared to publicly kill scholars, Li Zhi would not be waging war against the more than 200 scholars near Tianjin, but would be waging war against the official system of the Ming Dynasty.
How could Li Zhi shake the official system of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years?
The scholars did not believe that Li Zhi had such courage. They looked at the green-skinned men who were in disarray, still calmly sitting at the door of the General Military Mansion.
During the riot, more than two thousand Qingpi soldiers occupied a large area of the street. After the soldiers of the Huben Division opened on the west side of the street, all the Qingpi soldiers ran away. At this time, the soldiers of the Huben Division were still some distance away from the scholars on hunger strike at the main entrance of the General Military Mansion.
The distance was gradually closed bit by bit.
The scholars were a little afraid that Li Zhi's soldiers would not understand the situation and their identities. When the leading middle-aged scholar saw five hundred soldiers pressing over him, he stood up and said loudly: "Heroes in front! We are from the nearby prefecture and county.
A scholar! I’m going on a hunger strike here to clarify my ambition!”
But the soldiers of Huben Division ignored him and continued to press forward little by little with neat steps.
Division Huben had just killed dozens of people. At this time, the soldiers were stepping on the green-skinned corpses as if they were stepping on sandbags. The green-skinned corpses were still bleeding out. As soon as they were stepped on, the blood pillars would erupt from the ground.
Blood spurted out from the wound. Blood was all over the ground. The soldiers stepped on the blood all over the ground and dyed the soles of their shoes red, but none of them even looked at it. The murderous aura that had lasted a lifetime of fighting made the middle-aged scholar stand up and speak.
Somewhat doubtful.
Do these soldiers dare to kill the scholar?
The scholars sitting on the ground gradually became a little uneasy and looked at each other with some panic in their eyes.
Several scholars sitting next to the middle-aged scholar also stood up, and the soldiers of the Huben Division who rushed over shouted:
"Heroes, we are students!"
"We are scholars!"
What responded to them was the silent footsteps of five hundred soldiers. The five hundred people walked as if they were one person, stepping on the bluestone with neat footsteps, making a "tap-tap" sound, filled with murderous intent.
Walking a hundred meters away from the scholar's team, 500 soldiers of the Tiger Division raised the flag.
The middle-aged scholar who took the lead turned a little pale.
Li Zhi's soldiers were obviously preparing to attack the scholars. He anxiously shouted again: "We are scholars."
Before he could finish the word "show", soldiers from the Huben Division opened fire.
Twenty soldiers stood a hundred meters away from the scholars and pressed the trigger. The white smoke symbolizing death came out of the tube again, and the twenty bullets were arrogant like twenty gods of death, and they plunged into two hundred people.
Scholars who sit quietly for a long time.
The leading middle-aged scholar was shot in the left chest. The blood spurted from the wound splashed for more than ten meters, and all the kerchiefs on the heads of the scholars in the front row were dyed red. He looked at his chest in disbelief.
After suffering the wound, his whole body gradually lost strength, and he fell backwards onto another scholar.
More than a dozen scholars were also shot. The blood spurted out from the body of the person who was shot like a fountain, splashing all over the bodies and faces of other people nearby. The person who was shot fell to the ground and screamed,*
*Twitched, and the blood flowing out covered the bluestone on the ground red.
The governor has killed the scholar!
Not to mention being soft on the hunger-striking scholars and giving up business taxes, the governor did not even leave any dignity to the scholars. He treated the hunger-striking scholars exactly the same as he treated the troublemaking Qingpi, killing them indiscriminately, all at once
He killed a dozen well-dressed men.
The other scholars were so frightened that they exploded from the ground. At such a time of life and death, they no longer cared about their integrity and ran away one by one. The two hundred scholars could not care about "hunger strike for death" and left them behind.
The injured companion, who was bleeding profusely, tried his best to escape to the east of the city.
However, the jealous soldiers of the Tiger Division were unwilling to let them go and treated them as fleeing enemy troops. The first row of soldiers retreated, and the second row of soldiers came up and opened fire on the fleeing scholars.
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Amidst the crackling sound, a sheet of white smoke came out, and a dozen slow-running scholars were shot and fell to the back of the team screaming.
The scholars who were still alive ran even more panic-strickenly. Many of them lost their shoes and ran wildly on the road. The wide straight roads had great wind resistance, which was not conducive to running, but these scholars ran very fast at this time.
