The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 111 Gao Yin cuts off the throne
Only half an hour after Lin Tiansheng was thrown into the cell, the officer from the yamen had already found the leaflets he had discarded before according to the location mentioned by Lin Tiansheng, as well as a large basket used to hold the leaflets that was left in the smelly ditch.

This bamboo basket was originally to be burned according to Fang Baozhou's request, but Lin Tiansheng's companions didn't have time to get it. When they saw someone coming to arrest them, they hurriedly flattened the basket and threw it into the ditch, and escaped from the city. go.

The unfinished leaflets and the versions printed by Wang Wenlong and Wang Pingbao were mixed together and hurriedly sent to the Fuzhou government office. The three masters in the government office immediately checked them together.

These three masters all specialize in handling criminal charges. Investigating important cases is an ancestral craft. Wang Wenlong has interacted with them all, and even went to one of them's home to watch lanterns.

What's more, this is a task assigned by Jin Xuezeng. As the aides of the prefect and county magistrate, they are grasshoppers on a string such as the demon book case.

Regardless of whether they are public or private, these three people must work hard today.

A master put several leaflets together, shined them one by one into the light, and then quickly took out one of them.

He said excitedly in a Shaoxing accent: "The evidence is here!"

Xu Xueju and Jin Xuezeng, as well as two magistrates, one magistrate, as well as the county magistrate, experience, and ministers, etc. hurriedly went up and saw that there was a handprint in the corner of the "Yiping Dao Jing", which seemed to have been accidentally rubbed on when mimeographing. of.

Jin Xuezeng asked: "Can you find someone with this fingerprint?"

The master said with confidence: "As long as he doesn't chop off his fingers!"

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Two days later, Fang Baozhou, who was hiding in the mountains of his hometown in Fuqing, was found and kidnapped from the deep mountains and forests in shock.

This is also because Fang Baozhou has too little knowledge.

If someone with a little knowledge encountered this situation, they would never just hide in their hometown. Not to mention escaping overseas, they would have to at least escape from Fujian to be barely safe.

Fang Baozhou thought that he might get into trouble, but he only thought that it was a battle between Wang Wenlong, Wei Tianjue, or other forces. He was afraid that he would become a fish in the pond, so he thought that he could just hide in the mountains of his hometown and ask relatives to deliver food. , it will be fine if it lasts for a few months.

He never imagined that this matter would go so far as to use the entire Fuzhou force to search for it.

But when Fang Baozhou was thrown into prison, his mind was racing and he shouted loudly: "Don't use torture, I will tell you everything!"

The county magistrate who was in charge of the case had not yet dropped the sign in his hand. He couldn't help but laugh when he saw Fang Baozhou so alert.

"Then you must recruit me honestly and don't cheat!"

Fang Baozhou said directly: "Wei Tianjue saw that the second daughter of Li Dan's family could make a furnace for Gao Yin to practice the art of harvesting yin and replenishing yang. He kidnapped her and wanted to send her to Quanzhou, but she was rescued by Wang Wenlong's men. Wei Tianjue Therefore, I felt resentful and ordered me to print a demon book to frame Wang Wenlong. I only printed the "Yiping Dao Jing" of the demon book. The person who wrote the book was the fortune teller Qian Qi of the Chenghuang Temple. "Xu Worry Hong Yi" was not written by me, most likely It was Wei Tianjue who found someone else."

Hearing this, the Minhou County Magistrate frowned. This matter really involved Wei Tianjue, and there was also the matter of someone else writing a book, but it became more and more complicated and difficult to deal with.

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"Grandma, this Fang Baozhou is such a scourge, he actually gave me away!"

"You subordinates are also useless. I asked you to kill Fang Baozhou. You took the first step and were caught by the Yamen people first!"

Wei Tianjue cursed at his men at home, and captured the two men responsible for killing Fang Baozhou. While they were crying, he ordered their right hands to be chopped off as punishment.

After that, Wei Tianjue directly ordered the horses to be prepared. He knew that for such a big case, even with Gao Yin's name covering his head, it was impossible to scare away Jin Xuezeng and the others. After the informants in the Yamen came out to spread the news to him, the people searching for him soon started. Come to your door.Wei Tianjue decisively decided to go to Gao Yin.

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Just when the demon book case in Fuzhou was causing uproar in the city, a new turmoil was also rising in the court of the Ming Dynasty.

With the launch of Li Hualong's army, although the Ming army encountered some setbacks in Wujiang and other places, the strength gap was there after all, and the battlefield situation was still developing in a direction favorable to the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that the Bozhou Rebellion was about to subside, when the war was raging, Sichuan native Han Yinglong suddenly asked Wanli to mine salt and wood in Sichuan. Several military attachés in Yunnan also wrote to ask for mining of the treasure wells in Awa and Mengmi in Yunnan.

This is an old routine used by Wanli to collect taxes. The so-called civil petition is an excuse for Wanli to send tax inspectors to Sichuan and Yunnan.

But this operation still made the ministers of the DPRK and China look stupid.

Now that there is a war in the southwest, how much effort did Li Hualong use to organize the military affairs in the southwest to make friends with the local chieftains?The purpose is to win over the local people.

As a result, Wanli was not lucky. Before the war was over, he began to think about going to the southwest to collect taxes.

The southwest has just experienced war. Not to mention the young corvées and poor taxes, they are so impatient that they send tax inspectors to exploit them. It would be weird if they don't cause a civil uprising.

During the incident, Wang Dewan of the Engineering Department hurriedly sent a letter to persuade Wanli to stop the tax supervision, but Wanli turned a deaf ear. Wang Dewan contacted the civil servants of the DPRK and the Central Government, and soon the DPRK and the Central Government once again launched a major criticism of Wanli's policy of mining supervisors and tax collectors.

There happened to be an earthquake in the capital at the beginning of spring this year, and the rains this spring were not good. These natural disasters once again proved Wanli's lack of justice. The officials cried out sadly and the court became noisy.

At this moment, Gao Yin, who is a direct beneficiary of the tax supervision policy, is also worried about the situation between North Korea and China.

I was afraid that the emperor would be unable to bear it this time and withdraw himself.

At this moment, his Tiqi leader Lin Zongwen hurried in.

"Eunuch, something happened to Wei Tianjue in Fuzhou!"

Gao Yin took the letter from Lin Zongwen's hand, opened it, and instantly slapped the table and became furious.

"Is this Wei Tianjue crazy? He actually got involved in rebellion!"

It's really hard for Gao Yin not to be angry. It's a critical moment. If this matter is magnified, it will definitely become a piece of evidence against the eunuch in the memorial in a few days.

He directly said to Lin Zongwen with a cold face: "Go to Fuzhou immediately, catch Wei Tianjue on the official road, and send him to Fuzhou Prefecture for justice in my name. Then I will write you a note and give me that Fang Baozhou." Kill him as soon as possible. As for Wang Wenlong, send him a message telling him not to be ungrateful. If you don't say a few words, you won't be able to kill him!"

Gao Yin is also a political animal. Even if he likes Wei Tianjue, he still knows his priorities. Wei Tianjue wanted to write to him for help, but Gao Yin decisively chose to give up his car to save the commander.

He is a member of the emperor, and it doesn't matter whether he does evil things in the local area, but if it involves royal matters such as treason or the appointment of a prince, it is digging his own foundation.

Regardless of whether Wei Tianjue and Fang Baozhou were framed or not, Gao Yin would give up on them decisively now that the clues were in the hands of officials, and he would not get involved in this matter and cause trouble.

He didn't want to have any idea of ​​continuing to have anything to do with Wei Tianjue.

(End of this chapter)