Chapter 318 317 Suzhou

Chapter 318 317 Suzhou

"No matter how big or small the matter is in the mansion, the envoy will be sent to ask about it."

Seeing that Prince Yu's Mansion was still extremely dependent on Gao Gong after Gao Gong left, Wei Guangde was both envious and disappointed. From this, he also had the idea of ​​not working as an errand in Prince Yu's Mansion.

If according to the current situation of Prince Yu's Mansion, even if he enters Prince Yu's Mansion, he will only become a transporter between Prince Yu and Gao Gong. He is really not sure to replace Gao Gong's position in Prince Yu's heart.

For nine years, Gao Gong spent nine years with Prince Yu in Prince Yu's Mansion. This is definitely not something that can be easily forgotten.

However, before Wei Guangde had time to find Gao Gong, an urgent memorial of 100,000 yuan from Nanzhili was sent to the court, which once again triggered a huge earthquake in the court. Everyone was shocked by the content of the memorial. It was so unexpected.

"On the tenth day of the eleventh month, each armed with long knives and giant axes, they attacked Wuxian, Changzhou and Suzhou guards at night, robbed prisoners, made noise, attacked the capital procuratorate, and broke in through the door. Yingtian Governor Weng Dali and his wife escaped over the wall Go. The "evil young men" then set fire to the yamen, and the edicts, symbols, symbols, "order" and flag boards that Weng Dali had enshrined were all destroyed at once. The momentum of the evil young men became stronger and stronger, and they wanted to rob the government and plunder the government treasury. The prefect Wang Daoxing and his soldiers bravely arrested him. At dawn, all the "evil young men" rushed straight to Fengmen, cut through the gates, and fled into Taihu Lake."

Who would have thought that such a thing would happen in the prosperous Suzhou Prefecture?

Hundreds of people were blatantly gathered to attack the governor's office, forcing the governor Weng Dali and his wife to escape over the wall. The governor's edicts, symbols, flags and other items were burned by the gang of villains. This was a blatant attempt to kill officials and rebel.

You must know that the governor's ceremonial guards are all given by the emperor, and they represent the emperor. The governor's place is represented by Daitian herdsmen. If they dare to besiege the governor's Yamen, they are besieging the emperor.

The governor of Yingtian wanted to attack the Yamen of Suzhou and plunder the treasury. Fortunately, Wang Daoxing, the prefect of Suzhou, was bold and unfazed. He summoned troops to arrest the rebels along the street. The officers and soldiers were frightened by their momentum and allowed the rebels to stop. The thieves fought their way out of Suzhou City and fled into Taihu Lake.

The official circles in the capital were shocked. Immediately after the news spread, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were in a collective climax. Everyone rushed back to their duty rooms and started writing memorials to impeach Governor Yingtian Weng Dali. Such a big disaster shows that he is really a mediocre person.

As a censor, your job is to curse people. Swearing people for no reason will make people hate you. But if such a big thing happened, there is a sufficient reason to impeach.

As for why such a disaster occurred, no one in Suzhou Prefecture paid attention to it for the time being.

When Wei Guangde got the news, he was still reading in the public room of the Hanlin Academy. When he heard the news from Lu Bu, he was shocked on the outside and tender on the inside.

Wei Guangde's first thought, like other censors, was to impeach Weng Dali. Even if there were various reasons, Weng Dali's guilt could not be escaped.

Governor Yingtian can cause civil unrest, but it can only be said that his level is not good enough.

But Wei Guangde was also very curious, how could there be so many ruthless people in Suzhou Prefecture, and they were a little too courageous. The governor's office was really not an ordinary place, could it cause trouble?

"Do you know what's going on over there in Suzhou? Who are those rioters?"

Wei Guangde didn't believe that the officials in the capital were so capable that they didn't know the actual situation below, let alone Suzhou. There were quite a few Suzhou officials serving as officials in Beijing, so they should know more or less.

Even if they didn't know that someone in Suzhou was going to cause trouble, it was impossible for them not to know about the troublemakers in the family book.

Regarding Wei Guangde's question, Lu Bu naturally shook his head in confusion.

When he heard the news, he came back immediately to report it. It was good to remember what happened.

Details, where people of their level can know.

"Go and inquire outside to see if there is any news about the troublemakers in Suzhou Prefecture. Who are they and why?"

Wei Guangde could only give this instruction, and it was hard to say anything else.

Although Wei Guangde is serving in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he has not yet turned into a mad dog and is not crazy about future political achievements. Therefore, although he also has the idea of ​​​​impeaching Weng Dali in a memorial, Wei Guangde intends to figure out the situation first and then work together. Impeach.

During lunch, Wei Guangde called Zhang Ji again to inquire about the news.

At this time, in the Yongshou Palace in Xiyuan, Emperor Jiajing had already received the news and was sitting on the throne watching the memorial after the cabinet had just sent the draft.

After a long time, Emperor Jiajing finally spoke: "I ordered Dali to destroy the crime within a time limit in order to stabilize the local area.

Hum hum, is Weng Dali still trustworthy?

If he had the ability, how could he have provoked a civil uprising without being aware of it beforehand? "

Weng Dali, courtesy name Rucan and nicknamed Jianhai, was a Jinshi in the 17th year of Jiajing and a native of Yuyao.

Previously, Emperor Jiajing felt that Weng Dali was a trustworthy person and was considered safe and sound during his tenure as an official in Shandong, so he was transferred from Shandong Zuo Buzong Envoy to patrol the Yingtian and Suzhou prefectures as the right deputy censor.

I just didn't expect that he would cause such a big trouble just one year after he went to Yingcai.

"Have the documents from Jinyiwei been delivered?"

This incident happened suddenly, and Jinyiwei did not receive any information in advance, so Lu Bing did not give any warning in advance.

When the memorial was sent to the General Affairs Office, Lu Bing only got the news. He just handed the note to the palace and began to investigate the identity and background of the culprit, as well as the information passed on by Nanzhili. information will be reported later.

Although there were endless civil rebellions in the Jiajing Dynasty, whether it was the White Lotus Rebellion in Shanxi, the rebellion of ethnic minorities in Guangxi and Guangdong, and there were also riots in the mainland, none were as serious as this incident.

The rioters broke into the governor's office and burned the governor's edicts, symbols, flags and other ceremonial guards. The nature was really bad.

If Emperor Jiajing cannot be provided with the complete background and other details of the entire incident in the future, Lu Bing may not be able to handle it.

Emperor Jiajing was very face-saving, but now, after feeling that his authority had been severely trampled on by a group of mobs, he found that he knew nothing about it.

Who are they?

Why do you do this?

Suzhou is a prosperous place. As the saying goes, "poor mountains and bad waters breed unruly people." They should not appear in Suzhou Prefecture.

This may be a microcosm of Jiangnan. What does Jiangnan look like now?

After receiving Huang Jin's answer of shaking his head, Emperor Jiajing knew that Lu Bing should not be distracted from official duties at this time, because he was afraid that he had not received the report from below.

Under the leadership of Lu Bing, Jinyiwei has actually been doing pretty well.

Maybe this time there was really no sign before, so after the incident occurred, the Jin Yiwei below knew that the matter was a big deal, and did not dare to report it casually, fearing that they would also collect relevant information below and report it together. Otherwise, with Jin Yiwei's family methods, he is also famous for being ruthless.

Emperor Jiajing did not comment on the cabinet vote and directly threw the memorial in his hand on the imperial desk.

The emperor did not express his position, and Huang Jin did not dare to criticize it. He just carefully put the memorial away in the middle of the imperial desk, which meant that the memorial was temporarily retained.

In the eyes of the outside world, arresting these bandits who fled into Taihu Lake should be the top priority at this time, but in the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, this was not the case at all.

The Suzhou prefect was able to calmly summon troops to arrest the rioters on the street after the incident, which shows that these people have no fighting ability at all and are just a bunch of rabble.

But no matter what, they captured the governor's station, and Weng Dali, a loser, turned out to be so miserable.

There is absolutely no problem in leaving these rioters to the local authorities, but he must know the cause of the incident, and whether the entire Jiangnan prefectures are now like Suzhou Prefecture, with great public dissatisfaction.

It has been many years since the Japanese were suppressed. The Japanese bandit leader Wang Zhi is still in prison, but the Japanese rebellion has not yet been eradicated.

Wang Zhi is of no use anymore.

Emperor Jiajing also woke up at this time.

Wang Zhi had not been executed before because Emperor Jiajing also hoped that the Japanese pirates would be able to use rat weapons. Having their leader in the hands of the court might restrain them.

But now it seems that Hu Zongxian's idea was wrong.

It is certain that the people in the south of the Yangtze River were filled with resentment because of the increased taxes and fees. Emperor Jiajing also read similar memorials.

However, he had no choice. If he did not collect this money, the court would not have money to pay for the army. The guards' army was incompetent, and the new Zhejiang army reported by Hu Zongxian, Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang had not yet taken shape, and some people did not have much combat effectiveness. , we still have to rely on the money-grubbing people in the guards.

Money is the courage of a hero. The reason why those guardsmen who can fight now do not run away is because reward money will be distributed after each battle.

Emperor Jiajing had the idea at this time that he could not allow Jiangnan to continue to develop like this, and first he had to understand the actual situation in the various states in Jiangnan.

It seems that we need to send someone trustworthy to go down and take a look.

Going through the Jinyiwei system would have been the best way, but Hu Zongxian was now at the helm of Jiangnan, and Yan Song was involved, so Emperor Jiajing did not dare to fully trust Lu Bing's integrity.

How did Zhao Wenhua die?

He was determined to let him go, but he still died in the end.

Although Emperor Jiajing didn't ask any more questions, he still had his own judgment in his heart.

As for Zhao Wenhua's family, since they are dead, there is nothing to worry about. This is why the family was confiscated and the descendants were confiscated as military households to repay the misappropriation of public funds for generations.

Emperor Jiajing actually knows better than anyone what the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River is like now. Compared with Beizhili, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

With such an environment, Hu Zongxian is afraid that he will not be clean there. If he asks Jin Yiwei to go out to investigate, he doesn't know what will be reported.

Emperor Jiajing had long since given up on officials’ conduct.

Now his requirements are not high, that is, he can manage the people under his rule well and handle the official affairs assigned by the court. As long as no trouble is caused, he is too lazy to take care of it.

But the incident in Suzhou made him vigilant. After years of suppressing Japanese pirates in Jiangnan, he was afraid that people's emotions had reached a critical point, and if things went wrong, big changes would occur.

Send someone to see it. Who should you send?

Officials from the north or officials from the south?

Everything was being quickly calculated in Emperor Jiajing's mind, but nothing showed on his face. To Huang Jin and other eunuchs, the emperor was in a daze, as if he was hit by the incident in Suzhou Mansion.

As news from Jiangnan continued to be quickly sent to the capital, the truth about the incident in Suzhou Prefecture gradually spread. At this time, Wei Guangde also knew the cause of the incident.

Since the outbreak of the Japanese Rebellion in the 31st year of Jiajing's reign, Japanese pirates often fled to the outskirts of Suzhou, and the Suzhou government recruited local warriors to fight against the Japanese.

As the government paid more and more attention to and invested in the suppression of Japanese pirates, in addition to wreaking havoc in coastal counties, it became increasingly difficult for Japanese pirates to enter inland state capitals. Since then, the civilian volunteers summoned by the Suzhou government naturally needed to be abolished.

However, when the volunteers were summoned, they did not realize who they were.

Since the Hongzhi Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the life of landlords in the south of the Yangtze River has become increasingly luxurious, the social atmosphere has become increasingly corrupt, and the middle and lower class local gentry have become increasingly gangsters.

Some of the sons and daughters of powerful officials, fallen scholars and unemployed literary men in Suzhou have nothing to do all day long. They collude with local gangsters, local gangsters and other idle people who do not care about production. They rely on their power to commit lawlessness and idle in the streets and alleys, gathering in groups. Fighting, drinking and having sex with prostitutes for fun seriously disturbed the local social order.

People call these gangsters with local gentry background "evil young men", and they are also nicknamed "Da Xing", "Zha Huo", "Baila" and other nicknames.

This group of people may "show off their martial arts and bravery, and engage in illegal activities such as robbing relatives, resisting widows, worshiping gods, and committing fraud, which are common in their generation" or "gather evil gangs and lurk on the side of the road, waiting for village gangsters to enter the market and invite goods to be stolen." Or "privately opened a dental shop, and merchants passed by, using all kinds of tricks to induce them, and they could not spend their money." Ordinary people were bullied. Some of them "went home crying with bare hands, some were hungry, resentful, and were beaten." For a while, they were deeply loved by the people. Harmful.

As the Japanese invasion intensified, these people took the opportunity to join the local volunteer effort, wearing uniforms as officers and soldiers but continuing to harass the people.

In fact, Weng Dali, the governor of Yingtian, did not do anything extraordinary. He only ordered the prefectures and counties to strictly punish them, supervised the prefectures and counties to arrest the evildoers, and listed the leaders and went around to seize them.

This was originally a strategy to protect the country and the people, but I didn't want these "bad guys" to know about it in advance. After all, many of their leaders were "second generation" and very well-informed.

In fear, the "evil young men" drank blood to form alliances, wiped their foreheads with white towels, each armed with long knives and giant axes, attacked Wuxian, Changzhou and Suzhou guards at night, robbed prisoners, made noise, attacked the capital procuratorate, and hacked After entering, Weng Dali and his wife fled over the wall.

The evil spirits are getting stronger and stronger, and they want to rob Suzhou Prefecture and plunder the government treasury.

You must know that Su Song's Second Mansion is the wealthiest in the world, and the wealth stored in the treasury is also very amazing. What's more, a lot of taxes and fees collected by Hu Zongxian from Nanzhili are now stored here.

Fortunately, Wang Daoxing, the prefect of Suzhou, acted decisively and summoned troops to suppress the incident, so no greater disaster occurred.

After learning the details, although he knew that what Weng Dali did was normal, he was ultimately responsible for the incident. Wei Guangde still submitted a letter for impeachment as the censor of Fujian Province.

Knowing that he is evil, he rarely commits evil, and he does not handle things secretly beforehand, and he must not be fully prepared. This shows that his ability to handle emergencies is poor, and it will not be easy for him to continue to serve as governor of Yingtian.

At this time, as the truth of the incident spread to the DPRK, the impeachment of Weng Dali by Beijing officials, especially his colleagues in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, had dropped sharply.

There is a little bit of fuss in doing things, but there is nothing fundamentally wrong.

Wei Guangde's impeachment letter at this time still attracted the attention of many people.

After all, Wei Guangde's record in filing complaints is still very brilliant.