Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 340 Capture Gu Lin
Since the establishment of the Duan Literature Society, its influence has snowballed, and many scholars began to flock to join.

Some people want to use this to gain fame and fortune.

There are also those who want to express their dissatisfaction with the political situation of the imperial court.

From Wuxi to Changzhou, to Suzhou Songjiang and other places to Yingtianfu and even Jiangxi.

Today, even in Jinling City, thousands of commune members have gathered.

Many of them are the children of officials and eunuchs.

Even many members of the Duan Literature Society have close contacts with officials from the DPRK and China.

As the founder, Gu Lin has almost become a guest of the bureaucrats, and he has the ability of his ancestor Gu Xiancheng.

The Gu family was already wealthy, and now they have a Duan Literature Club.

Gu Lin even used this to win over and collude with various forces, and actively created momentum for bureaucrats who met his political demands.

And many bureaucrats seeking promotion also began to get in close contact with Gu Lin.

Gu Lin also became more and more satisfied, thinking that he could be regarded as the prime minister in the mountains.

Of course, in the eyes of the rulers at the top of the Ming Empire, Gu Lin at this time was not enough to make them pay close attention.

Wang Chengen, the admiral of the East Factory, is one of them.

At first, he never thought of paying attention to an ordinary student like Gu Lin.

But after listening to the reports of his subordinates.

He still began to realize that although Gu Lin looked like a student, he seemed to be really doing things that threatened the government.

Naturally, Gu Lin also knew that the people from Dongchang would follow him, but he didn't think Dongchang would dare to touch him now.

Because he is now a leader respected by thousands of scholars.

In addition, he also has close relations with many officials in the DPRK and China.

Even if Dongchang had the imperial power in his hands, he would not dare to touch himself easily.

Moreover, he felt that Dongchang had no reason to move him at the moment.

Because he didn't do anything criminal, as for Tang Ying and Wei Dawei's matter, he believed that the people in Dongchang would not find out anything.

Wang Chengen, the admiral of the East Factory, would indeed not have trouble with a student for no reason.

Now Wang Chengen only cares about who might threaten the safety of his Emperor Zhu Youjian in the Ming Dynasty.

The death of Wei Dawei is the only thing that makes him, the admiral of the East Factory, have to be vigilant and pay attention.

In addition, even the actions of the Duan Literature Society among scholars made him realize that there might be a second Donglin Party.

As the admiral of the East Factory and the emperor's eagle dog, Wang Chengen did not want such clues to appear.

But both of these are related to the student Gu Lin.

Therefore, Wang Chengen directly chose to arrest and interrogate Gu Lin without any conclusive evidence or reason.

Rather lead to an unjust case, Gu Lin, who may have participated in or mastermind the assassination of student Wei Dawei, should be interrogated first.

This is the special feature of Dongchang. He is not a judiciary and does not need to follow the procedure of adjudicating a case. He can be arrested as long as he has doubts.

At Wang Chengen's order, people from Dongchang rushed to Wuxi immediately.

At this time, Gu Lin had no idea that he had been targeted by the Dongchang people. He just came back from the Susong Governor's Office and said to Zuo Jinmao and other members of the Duan Literature Club:
"Ma Shiying has left the court now. As long as the chief assistant Fan Jingwen falls, the position of chief assistant will definitely not fall on someone surnamed Ma. The rest of the ministers of the six cabinet departments may have the intention of being the first assistant, but I'm afraid If no one dares to impeach Fan Jingwen for them, and they themselves dare not appoint them explicitly, we might as well instruct these ministers secretly, as long as they agree to allow our ministers and Zhongcheng to join the cabinet and the six ministries, let us do the impeachment of Fan Jingwen !"

Zuo Jinmao, one of the leaders of the Duan Literature Society, nodded: "Okay, let's contact this matter. As long as there are ministers in the DPRK and China who are willing, I will contact Ouyang Rui. His elder brother has always been good at impeaching powerful officials. Straight name."

"Brother Zuo and all colleagues have had to work hard on this matter. It is impossible for His Majesty to let someone from Nanzhili be the chief assistant. Now we can only let our department hall and Zhongcheng, or one of them, be among the six cabinet departments. , so as to help His Highness the Crown Prince's influence in the court and the opposition, one day, no matter what the reason for His Majesty's death, His Highness will be able to ascend the throne smoothly."

As soon as Gu Lin said this, he pulled Zuo Jinmao aside, and asked in a low voice: "There is a reply from the Baiyi Sect, don't they want to take the life of the dog emperor?"

"The people of the White Clothes Sect said that the imperial court is now strictly investigating, and His Majesty has been living in seclusion, and the security is much stricter than before. He never had the opportunity to attack before the time came."

Zuo Jinmao replied.

"Useless stuff! Forget it, this matter can only be done by them in white clothes. Now we can only help Butang and Zhongcheng to take charge of the government."

Just as Gu Lin was talking, he heard a loud bang, and suddenly saw two teams of Fanmen from the East Factory rushing over from the corridors on both sides.

Gu Lin was a little stunned, he never thought that Dongchang would come to his own room one day.

Zuo Jinmao reacted quickly, and immediately spared the fence from the backyard, and just got out of the dog hole.

At this time, the servants from Dongchang didn't come to raid the house, so naturally they didn't care about Zuo Jinmao and others, and the head of Dongchang just locked Gu Lin directly.

After Gu Lin returned to the country at this time, he began to bark: "What are you doing, this son is after Duan Wengong, why do you lock me up!"

"What kind of shit is Duan Wengong, it's only right and proper to kill someone, come with us!"

The head of the East Factory yelled and dragged Gu Lin out with an iron chain. Gu Lin was a little at a loss. He never thought that the people in the East Factory would lock him up for murder, although he had indeed assassinated people. , but he didn't think that he would be found, so he simply took advantage of this and yelled: "My colleagues, Dongchang innocently locked Gu and framed Gu, and I ask you to help me make the decision!"

On the contrary, some students saw that Gu Lin was taken away and couldn't help their eyes tearing up. In their view, Dongchang was committing crimes and did not obey the law at all.

Naturally, the people in Dongchang didn't care so much, and dragged Gu Lin directly to the prison.

Wang Chengen really doesn't want to care about right and wrong now, and he doesn't bother to respect a scholar. He just wants to reduce the threat to His Majesty's safety within Daming as much as possible.

As for whether Gu Lin had been wronged, he was too lazy to investigate, and directly ordered someone to torture Gu Lin with severe punishments to see if he had murdered the student Wei Dawei.

Gu Lin was not as tough as Wang Chengen imagined. After using one or two instruments of torture, Gu Lin began to confess that he killed Wei Dawei.

At the same time, Gu Lin admitted that he did indeed kill Tang Ying.

However, Gu Lin didn't tell the whole truth. He only said that his motive for killing Wei Dawei and Tang Ying was jealousy, but he didn't fully admit the real reason why he killed Tang Ying and Wei Dawei.

Wang Chengen was not in a hurry to force out all that Gu Lin knew, he was only thinking about how to find a breakthrough in this matter so that His Majesty's safety would be more secure.

On the surface, the deaths of Tang Ying and Wei Dawei seemed to have nothing to do with His Majesty, but Wang Chengen learned of the dispute between Tang Ying and Gu Lin before he was killed by Gu Lin after interviewing other Wuxi students.

Therefore, Wang Chengen tortured Gu Lin again after detaining him for three days.

(End of this chapter)