Han’s Son is Not a Slave

The students said that Xianyang was good, and when they came to the pit, they complained about Qin.

Suzhou, Wuzhong, the emperor's will and his uncle's pleas did not save Mr. Jin Da's life.

Aunt He Dongjun waited for a long time at King Qi's place, but the only thing that came to him was the sentence-"Crazy life goes against the law, it's up to one's own fault, not killing it today is not enough to understand the law, and it's normal."

After receiving the decree from the King of Qi, Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangsu, and Yan Shaoqing, the prefect of Suzhou, immediately arrested Jin Shengtan and Ding Guanzhong and brought them to justice. However, due to the fierce reaction of the Suzhou gentry and the common people, and the complicated background of Jin Shengtan and others, Jiang Guozhu was worried that Nanhui would interfere, and the case might be reduced to a major issue and a trivial matter to nothing. In that case, it would be inappropriate for him to kill the person early, so he did not dare to execute the person immediately, but waited for a few days.

Sure enough, after the Crying Temple case spread to the southern capital, it caused an uproar in the southern capital. Hundreds of officials came to sparse, asking the emperor to pardon the scholars who petitioned for the people, and even officials from Jiangnan wrote to the court, pointing out that "clearing debts and urging expropriation" Evil law, the people who use it are all cruel officials, not only can't increase the money, grain and taxes for the court, but it arouses the people's uprising, causing the people to be detached from the court.

In one day, 72 memorials were made, which is the first since the founding of the dynasty.

The great Confucian Huang Zongxi wrote a letter saying that the matter of clearing the debt was unheard of in ancient times, and it was the most absurd thing in the world. It also refers to the fact that Wu Zhongxiu’s talents gathered to cry at the temple, which is the moral policy of the Ming Dynasty practitioners for more than 200 years, and it is also the custom of local supervision officials for illegal things. points, right or wrong is unclear.

The second Fu even wrote a letter to the city walls in anger, pointing out that Jiangnan had just recovered, and it was the time when the people were recuperating. Go to Manqing. If the Crying Temple case is confirmed, the people of the world will not be enlightened.

The day after the letter was written on the city wall, Emperor Dingwu issued an decree to stop clearing the debt, and even sent an decree to Zhou Shixiang, the king of Qi who was recovering from his wounds in Zhenjiang, and severely reprimanded him.

The emperor was angry, the officials and gentry were turbulent, and everyone knew that Zhou Shixiang would give in, but they never thought that the debts did not stop, but became more and more serious.

On the grounds that Anhui's military affairs were urgent, Zhou Shixiang asked Emperor Dingwu to send Lianchengbi supervisors in Anhui and Henan to transfer him from the southern capital. Later, in the name of the King of Qi, he appointed Zhang Changgeng, a lower-ranking official, and Wang Shirong, who was under the curtain, to manage the debt-clearing yamen. Not only were they stationed in various provinces to urge expropriation, but they also set up branch offices in the prefectures and counties. The yamen could contact the local garrison in addition to the local officials. In a short time, the word "clearing debt" will change the color of the person who hears it. On both sides of the south of the Yangtze River, tens of thousands of households were forced by the yamen to clear their debts.

After all, Jin Shengtan is his own nephew. Qian Qianyi is the leader of Jiangnan Shilin, and he is even more the grandmaster of the Dingwu court. Seeing that King Qi has become hostile to the Jiangnan gentry due to his debts, his own nephew is about to die tragically. Afterwards, he made a trip to Zhenjiang in person, intending to persuade King Qi to change his ways, to clear his debts, and to forgive a group of scholars in the crying temple, in order to ease the current tension. Unexpectedly, when Qian Qianyi arrived, King Qi went to Jinshan to review the troops and horses of the two towns that had just been added, and the two sides could not meet.

Helpless, Qian Qianyi had to write a personal letter and ordered someone to send it to King Qi quickly, asking King Qi to look at his face and let him let go of the crying temple. This letter was sinking into the sea, and King Qi did not reply at all. Qian Qianyi waited for two days in Zhenjiang to no avail, so he had to return to Beijing angrily. After that, his wife He Dongjun also rushed from Suzhou to Zhenjiang to intercede for Jin Shengtan. This time, the king of Qi was very clear. He called Jin Shengtan and others the Weeping Temple. , the imperial court could not be maintained.

When Hedong Junlin left, he got a handwritten letter from the King of Qi and wrote a number - "If you don't pay food or pay taxes, you will have no country and no home."

In Suzhou, Jiang Guozhu saw that neither Qian Qianyi and his wife nor the emperor's imperial decree could make King Qi change his mind. He knew that he could not delay any longer, so he ordered Jin Shengtan and other scholars to be executed by Yan Shaoqing, the prefect of Suzhou.

The day before the execution, in the prison, as a rule, a group of scholars who will be sent to the execution ground tomorrow will be given a "decapitation meal". At this time, the scholars know that they have no way to survive, and everyone regrets it. .

That night, there was a lot of crying in the prison, and some scholars were so frightened that they lost control of their bowels. In order to escape death, he pretended to be crazy and foolish, but everything was useless. The prison guard was only sneering at the strange situation in the prison, but he had no sympathy. It was probably because the province had just started writing, and in the future, the county officials, yamen, prisoners, etc. would all be paid by the yamen who owed debts. This dry man will have no salary. In this way, county officials and other officials would not dare to collude with the big gentry anymore, otherwise it would be small if they had no income, it would be small if their jobs were not guaranteed, and it would be big if their heads fell. For example, the elites in prison instigated the people of large families not to pay food or pay taxes, which would cut their life. Since then, the two sides have been enemies, and it is only natural.

On the other hand, Jin Shengtan, who was designated as the main culprit in the reverse case, lived up to his reputation as a "crazy life". He laughed and ate the guillotine, so he called the jailer and told him that he had something important to tell him. The jailer thought that Mr. Jin Da had something earth-shattering to tell, or revealed some secret treasures, so he happily brought his pen and ink to serve Jin Shengtan.

Unexpectedly, Jin Da Kuangsheng pointed to the meal he had just finished eating, and said to the jailer with a smile: "Chewing peanuts and dried bean curd together has the taste of walnuts. Once you have passed on this skill, you will die without regrets. !"

The jailer was dumbfounded by Jin Shengtan, but seeing that he was really not afraid of death, he also let him go, not to care about him.

The next day, the execution was desolate and solemn, a gloomy open space with a small radius, with swords, lights and swords flashing around, making it look eerie and terrifying. Thirty-one talented people, including Jin Shengtan, who was designated as the leader of the case for "confused and incited the public", were all wearing shackles and standing on the prison cart. On the execution ground, the executioner held a ghost-headed knife that shone with cold light, which made people shudder.

In order to achieve the effect of killing chickens and warning monkeys, Yan Shaoqing ordered thousands of people to observe the punishment. In order to prevent chaos in the execution ground, more than a thousand troops were dispatched to maintain order.

Seeing that the execution time was approaching, Jin Shengtan's two sons, Li'er and Lianzi (nicknames), looked at their father who was about to end Yongjue, and became even more sad and burst into tears. Although Jin Shengtan was sad in his heart, in order to comfort his son, he calmly said: "What's the use of crying, come on, I'll make a couplet for you." After saying that, he recited the first couplet "Lianzi's heart is bitter".

His two sons were kneeling on the ground at the moment, crying with dry throat and split liver and gallbladder, how could they have the mind to couplet.

The two children are also implicated by their father. The county school officials notified them a few days ago that because their father resisted grain and taxation, the government issued a document within five years that they would not be allowed to enter the imperial examination. The imperial examination is the only way for scholars to enter the office. Today, Er’er is not allowed to take the imperial examination for five years. Although it sounds like a short time, five years are long and very important for scholars. Not being able to take the exam for five years is equivalent to breaking their way of taking the imperial examination, making them hopeless in the future. How can the two not complain about their father. However, they are connected by flesh and blood. Today, the father is going to be punished. As the son of man, he can only cry bitterly.

Jin Shengtan saw Er'er crying a lot, thought for a moment, and sighed, "You all get up, stop crying, and read the second couplet for you for your father." Then he read out the second couplet "Pear (Li)'er is sore in his abdomen".

This pairing is very clever, and it is even more moving. Yan Shaoqing, who was in charge of the punishment, snorted coldly after hearing this, and this madman is too dark to change. He was too lazy to listen any more and threw the lot on the ground.

"cut!"

I saw the cold light flashing, the knife began to fall, and a generation of mad students fell.

The executioner saw two **** of paper rolling out of Jin Shengtan's ears, and opened it suspiciously: one was the word "good", and the other was the word "pain".

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