Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 105 Generous tears stained with tassels (6)

On Wanggui Cliff in Zhangzhou, Fujian Road, there is a spring named "Ying'chao" on the top of the cliff, which flows out from the dangerous rock. It does not dry up even when it is dry.On Wanggui Cliff, there is a thatched hut with the mountain behind and the sea facing the sea. Looking at the rising sun in the morning, the red clouds are everywhere, and the wind and clouds gather and disperse. At night, you can see thousands of stars and the sparkling blue sea.

At this time, in this thatched hut, the two sat facing each other on their knees, with a piece of paper full of ink stains placed in front of them.

Deng Su's face was full of pain: "Shaoyang, I am ashamed of Minghuan."

Chen Dong was no longer as energetic as he was when he was in Bianjing, and he added a bit of melancholy. He slowly picked up Zhang Bing's left ink, watched it quietly, and his breath gradually became heavy. Slight waves, set off monstrous waves.

The Chen clan moved from Danyang to Zhangzhou a hundred years ago, built earthen buildings and lived in a cluster, multiplying and multiplying, with dozens of houses and hundreds of people. Just ten days ago, his father summoned the whole family in the ancestral hall and officially removed him from the Chen family tree.Forgetting to return to the owner of the hut, he really became a homeless person from then on.

"For loyalty, I was ordered not to be an official for the rest of my life. To fulfill my filial piety, my father drove me out of the house. At sunset, the journey is poor, and it is better to forget to return than to go against the law." Chen Dong moved out of the Chen family building, calling himself a layman of forgetting to return. A two-acre vegetable garden has been reclaimed next to the "Tide" spring for self-sufficiency, farming and studying for a living, overlooking the "tide" rise and fall of the East China Sea every day, and it seems that the old ambitions have been completely forgotten.

Deng Su's visit completely shattered the peaceful life of the owner of Wangguilu.

"Zhang Minghuan didn't die from exhaustion after being imprisoned and tortured, but was murdered by a 'traitor'?" Chen Dong could no longer restrain himself.

"Exactly," Deng Su said in a low voice, "in the case of exposing the post, two thousand scholars were locked up in Beijing, and tens of thousands of scholars were involved in posting the post outside Beijing. I think that the recurrence of the disaster of the party in the Han Dynasty in this dynasty is a sign of the country's subjugation. The Holy Majesty also made a move, and the "treacherous" thief retreated to the next best thing, and no longer interrogated the crime of treason. As long as we confess our repentance and admit that we have made friends I will not pursue the faults of cliques and slandering the government. We agreed one after another under the persuasion of our teachers and friends, but Zhang Minghuan was stubborn in his goodness and was willing to be interrogated by the three divisions."

"Then what?" Chen Dong pressed his hands on the table and stared at Deng Su.

"The traitor tortured repeatedly, but Ming Huan still refused to give in. So the Kaifeng mansion was ordered to wrap the body with a thick quilt at night, and then cover the mouth and nose with yellow paper. Layer upon layer, they suffocated to death without leaving any trace.” Deng Su’s face showed remorse, and when the scholars who were detained together in Kaifeng Prefecture Prison heard that there was a chance of release, most of them immediately agreed to repent, and the rest also They all succumbed under the persuasion of their teachers and friends, and Zhang Bing was the only one who demanded justice. That's why the 'treacherous' culprits attacked him painfully.

"This incident was witnessed by Fan, a subordinate official of the Kaifeng Mansion. Fan was also touched by Ming Huan's loyalty. That's why he agreed to bring out his left ink the night before, and also brought me a sentence."

"What?"

"If the king is in the law, it is enough to cause great harm to the world. If the law is in the king, it is enough to bring about great order in the world."

Chen Dong was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that what Zhang Bing could not forget before his death was the moral dispute between him and Deng Su. "Ming Huan, what a..." He couldn't find a word to describe this friend, Chen Dong felt his nose was slightly sore, but he heard Deng Su say again.

"After I confessed to the faction, I found out that I had fallen into the trap of the 'traitor'. The 'traitor' party had long held a grudge against the scholar Qingliu. Many upright people have been dubbed cronies, as many as [-] people. In addition, although the imperial court only prohibits party members from serving in official positions, the party members of the boy thief Cai Thief in various states and counties frantically fabricate crimes and frame party members for crimes The most outrageous thing is that Huang Yaochen, the son of Jingxibei Road, was falsely accused by his neighbors of his wife Chu's adultery with a scoundrel. The neighbor and scoundrel invited hundreds of people to watch the beating. Unable to bear the humiliation, the Chu family hanged himself that night, and Huang Yaochen also committed suicide the next day. Luo Dongzhen, the son of Jing South Road, was falsely accused of conspiring to seize the widow's property. He was jailed by the state government and died suddenly a few days later."

Deng Su looked ashamed, and sighed: "Although I'm not in the prison of Kaifeng mansion now, I'm still a knife and I'm a fish. Now I know, it's not Ming Huan's stubbornness, it's our ignorance!"

Chen Dong's eyes shattered when he heard this, he slapped the table and shouted angrily: "It's tolerable, which one is unbearable."

After he was kicked out of the house, he had spent the past few days meditating on his own life, deeply suppressing his fiery temperament, but at this moment, like a volcano erupting suddenly, he was going back and forth like a caged animal, swearing Said: "Old thief, bullying too much!"

Deng Su said in a deep voice: "When I came, Master Qin Enshi also said that the 'treacherous' bandits are powerful and have great means. We must not let them bully us and just sit and wait for death."

"Exactly!" Chen Dong said in a deep voice, a cold light flashed in his eyes.His father Chen Zan drove him out of the house, on the one hand he hated him for causing trouble, on the other hand he might not have no intention of avoiding disaster for the family.For the current plan, the only way to survive is to fight to the death.

"The 'traitor' party framed more than 8000 gentry in our Lishe case. If we work together, we may not be without the power to protect ourselves." Chen Dong said in a deep voice, "For example, when the Fangtian average tax law came out, all the gentry in the southeast of me Hundreds of thousands of people jointly signed a letter, and the court has no choice but to take it back." He paused, and said with a sneer, "We are only friends with morals. Now the 'treacherous' party wants to We are tied together to deal with it, and we can only be tied together to deal with the 'treacherous' party."

Deng Su frowned slightly and said, "We have no power or power, how can we deal with the 'treacherous' party?"

There was a sneering smile at the corner of Chen Dong's mouth: "How many of the party members of Cai thief and Tong thief are clean under their buttocks? There are now more than 8000 gentry members on the register, all over the country, and they can always find out some of them through open and secret investigations." Weaknesses, hold the handle, I will wait for the bottom to build momentum, and the teacher will wait for Qingliu to impeach in the court. If you can’t move Cai Jingtong, you will move the arm of the state government. If you can’t move the state capital, you will move the county magistrate. If you can’t move the order, then deal with those subordinates. To deal with these mad dogs, you can only be crazier than them. Tong Guan Cai Jing’s henchmen, whoever dares to jump out and bite us, whoever bites us the hardest, is my eight thousand party members A public enemy. It is better to cut off one finger than to injure his ten fingers, and he must be attacked to death."

"Most of the 'treacherous' party members spare their lives and lives. This is the only way for us to make them afraid, or kill all eight thousand of our party members. It's clean." Chen Dong looked like a madman, with blue veins on his forehead. He said fiercely: "Even if I really go to vote for Mingjiao Fang La, I will drag Cai Zeitong down to the eighteenth floor of hell."

"Shaoyang," Deng Su's complexion changed drastically, and he stood up, brushing away the tea in front of him with his sleeve, "You must not act on your will."

Chen Dong was held back by him, his mind calmed down slightly, and he was silent for a moment before he said in a deep voice, "Brother Deng, don't blame me for losing my composure."

He sat down on his knees again, dipped his finger in tea and drew a picture: "The most urgent thing is the following. To compete, everyone should communicate with each other and support each other. For example, Huang Yaochen on the Northwest Road of Beijing and Luodong Town on the South Jingnan Road. Invading party members. Fang La is causing chaos in the world, if the imperial court wants to survive this disaster in peace, it will not allow the "traitor" party to harm us at will."

"But?" Deng Su said with a look of embarrassment, "The gang members of the 'treacherous' bandits all have official positions, and we are still under the suspicion of the court, so it is difficult to resist."

Chen Dong sneered and said: "It's true that the 'treacherous' party is powerful, but not everyone is as deep-rooted as a child thief. We can choose the weak ones to cut them off first. This will prevent the shrimp soldiers and crab generals from thinking that we are easy to bully. It’s embarrassing.” He paused, and his voice became deep, “During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, there were Zhuan Zhu Yaoli and Nie Zheng Jingke, but now there may not be any. If there is no one, I, Chen Shaoyang, would like to be one. It’s also right, Ming Huan gone."

"Shaoyang, you?"

Chen Dong smiled generously, and changed the subject: "That's a last resort." He then said with concentration: "The second important thing, everyone carefully collects the connections and scandals between the 'traitor' parties, and compiles them into a booklet. I have to carefully analyze the stakes in it for later use. To learn the lessons of this posting, if you have to publish it in the future, you must hit it. The third major event, this posting case shocked the world, and I fled all the way Come here, most of the common people hate 'treacherous' thieves, and their hearts are waiting for us. We must not underestimate ourselves and live in depression." He felt a little ashamed at this point, and continued, "Water, the world is as soft as it is weak. However, water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it. It is best for everyone to follow the example of Zhao Yuanzhi who opened a private school in Hejian, teach without discrimination, widely teach the way of loyalty, and continue to win the hearts of the people through the influence of the exposed post case."

Deng Su nodded and said: "That's right, I'll contact everyone immediately, and get these three major things done in advance. I will definitely fight the 'traitor' to the death." He paused and sighed, " Yuan Zhi is pragmatic and shrewd, but unfortunately he doesn't know where he is, if he is here, this matter will be more handy."

The next day, Chen Dong and Deng Su went down the mountain together to contact party members from all over the country who were implicated in the case of exposing the post.On Wanggui Cliff, there is only an empty thatched hut and a two-acre vegetable garden, overlooking the rising and falling tides of the East China Sea day and night.