Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 321 External Force
After entering the city, Li Banghua declined Zhao Zhilong who invited him to stay in Xincheng Bo's mansion, but set up the imperial envoy in an inn called Dongli Pavilion. The cavalry guards were stationed in the barracks of Nanjing Zhongwei nearby.

Li Li divided the 200 people into four groups, with fifty heavily armed soldiers in each group guarding the inn in turn under the leadership of the captain.

After bathing and resting, around [-]:[-], the sedan chair that invited Li Banghua to Taibailou for a banquet came to the door of the inn. After the sentry corporal reported inside, he came out and told Qin Shaowen, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple in Nanjing who came to greet him, that the constitutional constitution was not feeling well. Unable to attend the banquet, thank Uncle Xin Cheng and colleagues in Nanjing for their hospitality.

Qin Shaowen didn't say much after hearing this, he turned around and got on the sedan chair and walked away.

The scene that happened on the pier this afternoon has already spread in Nanjing City. Almost all the officials and gentry in Nanjing City are quite dissatisfied with Li Banghua's behavior. This is clearly an enemy of the entire Southern Zhili officials and gentry.

In the back garden of a four-entry house located on the west side of Nanjing City, Lu Weiqi, Xu Wenyuan, Qian Shisheng, the right servant of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Lang Shizhen, the doctor of Zhejiang Qingli Division of the Nanjing Ministry of Households, are drinking tea in the highest pavilion in the garden. discussion.

"Brother Jieru, Li Mengan is aggressive this time, ignoring the rules of the officialdom, and blatantly uttering unreasonable words to the second-rank officials of the imperial court in full view. This action is tantamount to treating me as nothing in Jiangnan! Brother Jieru As the head of all the officials in Nanzhili, but to be humiliated like this really makes us feel uneasy! No matter how Brother Jieru fights back, we will fight against the same enemy with Brother Jieru! We will discuss it together!"

Xu Wenyuan, who was about forty years old, with a white face and long beard, and an upright expression, said with emotion.

Ever since Xu Qiming, Jiao Yunfeng and others were captured by Jinyiwei successively, and the city strike in Yangzhou and other four prefectures failed before it spread to surrounding prefectures and counties, Xu Wenyuan felt that something was wrong.

This method, which has been tried and tested since the Wanli period, completely failed this time.In the impression that he was in the palace, the blind and deaf emperor of the Zhu family suddenly became able to see and see, and completely disregarded the possible civil unrest in the south of the Yangtze River, brazenly resorting to force to end the incident extremely quickly.The factory guards on errands seemed to have been waiting there a long time ago, watching them step by step into the net before they tied the ropes, and then they made a lot of money while laughing.

All these subversive practices made Xu Wenyuan feel terribly cold. Xu Qiming and others fell into the hands of the gang of ruthless Jin Yiwei, and it would be difficult for him to get out of it this time.

Most of the high-ranking officials who were sent to Nanjing will find it very difficult to return to the power center of the imperial court. Their political opponents will never allow such a thing to happen, and these political enemies are the bigwigs currently in the imperial court. In view of this, even if Xu Wenyuan wanted to ask someone to exonerate him in front of the emperor, he could not find anyone at all.

After discussing with Lu Weiqi, Qian Shisheng and other good friends several times, no one can do anything about this matter, and can only hope that Jin Yiwei will not make a big move.

For the first time, Xu Wenyuan, who knew that he was in a desperate situation, felt anxious all day long, worrying all the time that Jin Yiti would come and take him to jail.

In this way, after more than ten days in fear, the imaginary Tiqi did not appear in Nanjing City, and Xu Wenyuan's heart was slightly relieved.

At this moment, the emperor's imperial envoy suddenly came to Nanjing, which made Xu Wenyuan tense up again after he had relaxed a little earlier.

Xu Wenyuan rushed to Lu Weiqi's mansion immediately after receiving Lu Weiqi's invitation to talk to him over the mansion.

Lu Weiqi and Qian Shisheng took the same subject in the 44th year of Wanli. Although Qian Shisheng was five or six years older than him, they had similar personalities.

Qian Shisheng is warm and hospitable, generous and generous. During the Tianqi period, he spent a lot of money to rescue Wei Dazhong and Wan Jing, the key members of the Donglin Party who were arrested by the Eunuch Party. It is highly praised by the Donglin party members in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, he was worshiped by Zhu Youjian as a scholar of the Dongge University and a minister of the Ministry of Rites. The government-run smelting, stopped sending officials to Jiangnan to supervise the collection of owed taxes, and strongly opposed the proposal to levy commercial taxes in Jiangnan, and even planned to arrest the proposer and put him in prison. disgusted, and was sent to Nanjing the following year.

"Mingde's words are very reasonable. First, the officials and gentry of the four prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River were arrested and imprisoned by the factory guards for their legitimate appeals, and now there is another brother Jieru who was humiliated. These two incidents have shown that today's mistakes Believe in the slanderous slander of Chaotang, and there is suspicion that we want to lay a heavy hand on our Southern Zhili. If we lack corresponding countermeasures, we will be defeated by them one by one. For the present plan, only if we join hands with the outside world, can we make today's The superiors take back the chaos, so that the prosperous land will not fall into the control of people with ulterior motives, so that our gentry and people in the south of the Yangtze River can live and work in peace and contentment, without suffering from excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes!"

"Brother Yi, brother Mingde, how could Weiqi not know the concerns of the two of you? But this time Li Meng came secretly, and with the evidence of Su Yang and other officials who committed crimes in the four houses, he was determined to win. Now. Although we have the heart to resist the chaos, we really have no power to resist it! This matter is tricky!"

Since returning home from the pier, Lu Weiqi has been thinking hard about how to let Li Banghua return home, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still can't figure it out. In desperation, he found these three people who are usually closest to him to discuss countermeasures.

The two hundred cavalry brought by Li Banghua put too much pressure on everyone.

Not to mention now, when the Japanese invaded during the Jiajing period, a Japanese pirate with less than a hundred men landed and swept across more than ten prefectures and counties along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and finally directly hit the city of Nanjing.At that time, the Jiangnan guards who had not yet been completely corrupted gathered troops to encircle and suppress them, and they were all defeated one by one by this small group of Japanese pirates, let alone the surviving guards who were completely civilians now.To put it bluntly, there is no problem with this Jingying cavalry sweeping Jiangnan.

Regardless of whether it is Lu Weiqi or the other three, their huge family interests are in the land of Southern Zhili. Whether it is the family business or the official positions of old disciples, they are basically concentrated in the most prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. A relationship that affects the whole body.Once an accident occurs to one of them, other forces will try their best to grab the resources occupied by the person who caused the accident. This is also an unspoken rule in Jiangnan officialdom.Although the two sides will not really tear faces, it is inevitable that the party that loses will be gradually marginalized in all aspects.

Because of this, for their group, even if something happened to Xu Qiming, Jiao Yunfeng and others, as the upper-level people who control power, they cannot be implicated. They must try their best to resolve the crisis and keep the people directly involved. Xu Wenyuan et al.

"The lower officials think that what Lu Butang said is very reasonable. Judging from the current situation, only by seeking external forces can we break this difficult situation. Otherwise, it may be difficult for the capital to resist with our governance alone. You ministers seem to be Ignore this matter, besides Li Mengan, there is a more difficult opponent who has not shown up, if he makes a sudden attack, the outcome will be even more difficult to control!"

Lang Shizhen, who had been unable to get in the way, put forward his own opinion while several people were silent.

He is the son of Qian Shisheng Kaimeng's mentor. After Qian Shisheng's career has been promoted step by step, Lang Yongzhen, who is quite talented in his career, also passed the pilot test. The relationship remained in the Ministry, but Cheng Ye and Xiao He defeated Xiao He, and Lang Yongzhen was later implicated by Qian Shisheng, so he was sent to Nanjing one after another.

"Oh? What is Ziqun's opinion? Tell me quickly! What is external force?"

Qian Shisheng hastily urged.

Lang Shizhen's words made several people's hearts feel heavier, especially Xu Wenyuan's pressure increased sharply.

The tough opponent Lang Shizhen was talking about was of course the factory guards. They still had some confidence and strategies against literati like Li Banghua, but these methods were of no use against Shang Jinyiwei.

Once Jin Yiwei shows up, he is here to take people, and he will not reason with you at all, he will leave after taking them, and then decide whether to ransack the house according to the circumstances.

"The lower official thinks, can the two places other than Lu Butang use their strength to resolve this catastrophe? As long as they have enough benefits, these two places may not be willing to help. If it is about the close relationship with the capital, it should be far superior Let me wait? If you have the heart, you should act as soon as possible!"

The external forces Lang Yongzhen spoke of were the other two giants in the Southern Zhili area: the guarding eunuch and the guarding nobles, and if they want to persuade them to come forward and slow down the court, each family must show full sincerity.

After some secret discussions, Qian Shisheng visited the residences of Zhang Yixian and Zhao Zhilong overnight, but it is unknown what they talked about.

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