When Wang Yuan was planning to build the railway, the rebellions in Guangxi and Yunnan had been subsided, and then riots broke out again in Shandong and Shanxi.
The rebellion in Shandong has nothing to do with "cotton eating people", but has something to do with the school of physics.
A miners' uprising broke out in Yanshen Town, the largest ceramics and glass production base in the north. The reason was that the eunuchs exploited the miners too much and the officials did not treat the miners as human beings. The miner king killed the mine supervisor and fled to Henan with thousands of miners along the way. More than thirty civil and military officials were killed, and all the physics school's glass orders were in vain.
As for Shanxi, Chen Qing of Lucheng County rebelled. This guy really doesn't deserve sympathy.
The Chen family is a powerful family in Lucheng County, with hundreds of uncles and brothers in the fifth service.
Chen Qing's eldest brother colluded with the county magistrate to make loan sharks, and Chen Qing himself was a clerk in Prince Shen's Mansion. Chen Qian, a clan member, killed the anti-theft officer and was arrested and imprisoned. He confessed that Chen Qing was also involved in the murder and robbery, so Chen Qing was jailed. Sentenced to death.
His concubine, Mrs. Wang, went to Shanxi's censor to complain about the injustice, and Shanxi's censor took Chen Qing away to retry the case.
As a result, during the escort, Chen Qing took the opportunity to escape, returned to his hometown and led his tribe to resist the government. He drove away the officials who came to arrest him many times, and finally took over the mountain and became the king of the bandits.
The reason for the rebellion is even more ridiculous. The wife of a businessman named Liu, Wang, was kidnapped and taken hostage. By the time the government came forward to help redeem her, Wang had already become the concubine of Chen Qing's father. Chen Qing's father Yue Yue The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't bear to part with the stolen concubine, so I actually led the bandits to rob the county town, hoping to snatch the Wang family back to the bandits' den again.
Originally they only planned to plunder the county seat and take back the concubine, but unexpectedly they accidentally captured the county seat... The magistrate fled to Fucheng, crying and saying that the Chen family and his son had launched a rebellion.
Historically, this absurd farce became so big that the imperial court dispatched officers and soldiers from Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and North Zhili provinces to annihilate it. Xia Yan was responsible for dealing with the aftermath, upgraded Luzhou to Lu'an Prefecture, added Pingshun County, and added Building two walls, three military forts, and four patrols to prevent the chrysanthemums in Datong Town from being stabbed by the mob - Xia Yan started his career based on this case. He suddenly came into the sight of Emperor Jiajing, and by virtue of his support for the Jiajing Division Sacrifice to heaven and earth to gain favor.
Now, Chen Qing and his son had just occupied two county towns, and Xi Shu, who was responsible for rectifying the military affairs of Datong Town, sent a new battalion of 5,000 leopards to the south, and easily killed these bandits.
Xia Yan, I still don’t know how to show up.
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Xia Yan was very distressed. He had been an official for eleven years and was only promoted from the seventh rank military department to the left.
His first official position was that of Zhengbapinxingren, that is, an official who specialized in serving the emperor.
When going to a vassal state, the main envoy is an official from the Rites Section or the Ministry of Rites, and the deputy envoy is usually a pedestrian. In addition, the emperor wants to visit the vassal king, ministers, and talents. If these people are in other places, he will also send pedestrians to lead the delegation. Or if an old official returns home after becoming an official, he must be escorted all the way and make arrangements for his daily life on the way.
Xia Yan struggled for several years, and finally was promoted to the seventh rank, Shizhong. After a few more years of hard work, he was promoted to the seventh rank, right hand, and then to the seventh rank, left.
As a public official, it is natural for him to troll others, but Xia Yan is always slow to do so. Because his interpersonal relationship is very bad, he doesn't want to take him with him when he is trolling others. Xia Yan can only watch. When others complain about it, I just follow it belatedly and can’t come up with anything new.
To this day, Wang Yuan and Yang Tinghe don't even know that Xia Yan has sprayed them.
fail!
On this day, Xia Yan came to the School of Physics. He hesitated for a long time and was too embarrassed to walk in.
After eleven years of wasted work, Xia Yan also started to think of clinging to the rich and powerful. The one with the thickest legs was obviously Wang Yuan. It would be easy to make people laugh if he came to seek refuge directly, so he just went to the School of Physics, Xia Yan.
I even taught myself "Mathematics" and "Physics" privately.
Clinging to the powerful, there is no turning back if you take this path.
Xia Yan hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and moved forward. So what if he was a dog for Wang Yuan? As long as he could be promoted, Xia Yan's edges were almost smoothed, although he was still arrogant and arrogant in his bones.
Xia Yan was about to step through the door of the School of Physics when he saw another person walking around the door.
"Do you want to become a disciple of physics?" Xia Yan asked curiously.
The other party was quite wary and asked: "Who are you?"
Xia Yan replied: "The military department left the matter to Xia Yan."
The other party asked: "The officer who complained?"
Xia Yan heard that he had a foreign accent and smiled: "It counts. Both the minister and the censor can hear about the matter. Are you coming to the capital to complain?"
"My name is Xue Liang, from Shanxi." The other party pulled Xia Yan to a deserted place.
"If you have any grievances, just tell me." Xia Yan was very happy. He came to Beijing from Shanxi to file a complaint. There must be huge grievances. If he takes the case, he may become a blockbuster.
Xue Liang whispered: "Zhang Yin, the deputy director of the Chemistry Department of the School of Physics, is actually Li Fuda, the demon leader of the White Lotus Sect in Shanxi."
"What?" Xia Yan thought he heard wrongly.
The deputy director of the Department of Chemistry is the deputy director of the Department of Chemistry. The School of Physics actually hides such a monster!
"This is absolutely true," Xue Liang said, "Li Fuda has a grudge against me. He spreads Maitreya Buddhism in Shanxi, which is actually the White Lotus Sect strictly prohibited by the imperial court. After the failure, this guy changed his name to Zhang Yin and settled in the capital as a craftsman.
He also joined the School of Physics. He can burn mercury to make elixirs, and has already become the deputy of the Department of Chemistry. He also offered elixirs to make friends with Guo Xun, the Marquis of Wuding, and got a vacant post as the commander of the Taiyuan Guards."
"Be careful and come with me." Xia Yan did not dare to talk about this outside, so he took Xue Liang to his residence.
The Li Fuda demon case was the most serious unjust case in the Jiajing Dynasty. Because it was involved in the Jiajing ceremony, dozens of officials were involved. Including Zhang Cong, Xi Shu and others, in order to defeat Yang Tinghe, they all helped the White Lotus demon
He was acquitted, and it was not until Jiajing's death that the verdict was finally overturned - political battles are so dirty, once the situation becomes a fire and water, morality must be put aside first.
This case is different from history because there is an additional school of physics, Li Fuda actually became the deputy director of the Chemistry Department of the School of Physics.
This guy had the backing of the School of Physics, made friends with Guo Xun, the Marquis of Wuding, and even got a free post as commander of the Taiyuan Guards. Surrounded by three halos, he instantly became proud. He even dared to secretly return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and was recognized by his enemy Xue Liang.
When the officials heard that he was the leader of the White Lotus Sect, they immediately went to arrest him and captured Li Fuda's two sons.
From the county magistrate, the prefecture magistrate, the inspector censor, to the chief secretary, and the inspector general, Li Fuda's true identity was confirmed. However, this guy bribed the governor of Shanxi to counter Xue Liang's false accusation, and showed off his multiple identities.
Using the names of Wang Yuan and Wu Dinghou, local officials were frightened and did not dare to deal with them.
The matter dragged on for two years, and the whistleblower Xue Liang was imprisoned.
Coincidentally, both the patrol censor and the governor were replaced. The new patrol censor, Ma Lu, was not afraid of trouble and immediately took charge of the retrial.
Li Fuda went to Datong to find Xi Shu and said that he was the deputy director of the Chemistry Department of the School of Physics. He once helped the department director Lu Youzhen to develop a method for refining gunpowder from urine, and jointly invented a method to improve cement refining. Everyone in the School of Physics was
Do you know, how could it be the White Lotus Demon? Xue Liang had a grudge against him, so he bribed the government to falsely accuse him.
As soon as Xi Shu heard that it made sense, he was busy rectifying military affairs, so he wrote to Taiyuan, which frightened the Shanxi officials so much that they did not dare to investigate further.
Xue Liang spent two years in jail for no reason. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, so he came to the capital to seek justice. But when he heard that the School of Physics was involved, no one dared to take the case. Xue Liang was desperate and planned to break into the School of Physics.
Xia Yan clings to the powerful.
Xia Yan took a deep breath, feeling both excited and anxious. Here was his chance to make a name for himself!
If it only involves Wu Dinghou Guo Xun, Xia Yan is not afraid at all. For officials, the honor is a tool to increase their reputation and political achievements. But when Wang Yuan and Xi Shu are involved, this matter will not be easy to deal with. Even if
If he can kill the demon Li Fuda, he might also completely offend Wang Yuan.
At night, Xia Yan wrote the memorial over and over again, and tore up the memorial over and over again.
He didn't dare, for fear of ruining his future.
The Ministry of Punishment is Yang Tinghe's stronghold. The Ministry of Punishment did not dare to take this case, which shows that Yang Tinghe and Wang Yuan have a tacit understanding and are no longer political enemies at odds with each other. How can he, a seventh-rank official, go against these two?
Do you want to be a strong-willed public official, or a loser who clings to the powerful?
Xia Yan chose the latter.
The next day, Xia Yan went to the inn to find Xue Liang, and gave him a letter saying: "The King is an honest man, and he will not allow his disciples to do evil. Take this letter, and my famous assassin, and go directly
I went to the west of the city to pay homage to the king, Shangshu."