"quiet!"

Yang Qing shouted to the cheering people.

The cheers spreading from front to back in the imperial corridor gradually stopped.

He turned his eyes to the green insects.

"The Shigemen is loyal to His Majesty and is willing to risk his life for the Ming Dynasty to avoid the war in the Jiangnan people. This is actually the rebirth of our Ming Dynasty, Zhongsu. What is your intention to slander him as a treacherous minister?"

He shouted righteously.

The tens of thousands of eyes on the imperial corridors on both sides gradually turned to these green insects.

The latter is silent.

They had nothing to say for a moment. The leading censors did prepare ten major crimes for Shi Kefa, but they were all made up, or they could also be said to be fabricated. Fortunately, as the censor, he had the right to report on the news, so even if it was found out that it was fake, it would be fine. He made up a story and said that the rumors he heard could not be investigated.

Isn’t it like this when children sing and so on in ancient times?

But the problem is that these crimes are all about Shi Kefa colluding with the enemy, deliberately implementing the new policy to disrupt the Ming Dynasty, and creating a chance to go south for Li Zicheng's army, because they cannot attack Shi Kefa on other things. Before agreeing to the new policy, Shi Kefa was the symbol of Donglin Qunxian and was the most satisfied prime minister of Shi Lin in Jiangnan. What he had done before was to slap himself in the face because they spared no effort to praise him, and Shi Kefa's personal personalities were also blameless, saying that he had extravagant, lustful, and corruption would just make people laugh.

Then you can only make a fuss about his hometown.

After all, he is from the northerner and a Kaifeng native who has been leveled by the Yellow River. But even if Kaifeng is leveled by the Yellow River, it means that his hometown has the basis for collusion with Li Zicheng in the area controlled by Li Zicheng.

By the way, pull Gao Hongtu up again.

Lao Gao’s family is from Jiaozhou, Shandong.

Just say that because their hometown is in Li Zicheng's territory, they have a different mind to Chongzhen, thinking of leading Li Zicheng south to become a leader, and then gaining the favor of Li Zicheng. They are selling the people of Jiangnan to seek honor. By the way, the mad dog censors are all masters, and they used to do this.

Anyway, I'm just a matter of news.

Anyway, I have no responsibility to find evidence, which is the privilege of the censor.

In this way, the northerners in the core of the Nanjing court can be completely cleared, and southern officials completely control the cabinet and the six ministries. It should be said that this is not just a matter of being angry with the new policy, but essentially the local ministers in the south were purges of the northern ministers. Shi Kefa used to be the Donglin Party, so he could be special, but now he is a traitor, which can be used as a typical example.

But now...

How could he frame his collusion with Li Zicheng?

"You can't say it? Then I'll tell it for you!"

Yang Qing sneered.

"The Shigemen has become a treacherous minister whom you call the example of the ritual and the symbol of the wise men overnight, and even framed him by the way of petitioning him. Why? Isn't it because he agreed to His Majesty's new policy? Isn't it because he agreed to collect taxes from the gentry and exempted you from hundreds of years of privilege?

Then I'm curious?

Why can the people pay this land tax? You can't pay it?

They are all raised by their fathers and mothers, and they are all subjects of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Why are you so different? Are you more noble? The gentry in Beijing who was trapped by Li Zicheng to death and abandoned corpses and ditches, I think there is no difference between them and the starving people in the wilderness outside Beijing. So are you more meritorious to the Ming Dynasty than those people? Farmers can grow grain, craftsmen can build weapons, soldiers can defend their families and countries, and even those vendors can ensure trade circulation, so what can you do? They are useless and scholars. The only thing you know is to write eight-part essays to be officials, but your officials are given by the emperor, and you are the emperor's officials.

Then I'm even more curious.

You eat the emperor, drink the emperor, and use the emperor's. Everything you give is given by the emperor, so why can't the emperor ask you to collect some taxes?"

Yang Qing yelled with a bronze trumpet.

"Yes, why don't you pay taxes?"

"If you want to, you will be the same!"

...

The shouts in the imperial corridor sounded, and then they turned into countless shouts.

By the way, the people certainly welcome this kind of thing.

Although the new policy did not bring them much practical benefits, it was at least fair. Why did the people pay taxes to support officials, but those officials and gentry don’t have to pay? They are all raised by their parents, so why should you have privileges? In the past, we didn’t dare to say something lightly, and there were no wise ministers who told the emperor for us that it is rare that Shi Kefa, who cares about the people, stand up. In addition, the emperor is wise and sympathetic to the people, and finally changed this. As a result, you immediately act like a mad dog, and insist on frameing Shi Kefa into a treacherous minister and forcing the emperor to change it back. It is simply unreasonable!

What you mean is that it is reasonable for you to always be one level higher than us?

Then immediately someone started to blame the green worm.

And the green insects fought back without hesitation.

The quarrel between the two sides is becoming more and more intense. It is obvious that the gap between the people of our Ming Dynasty and the people of our Qing Dynasty is obvious. If the people of our Qing Dynasty dare not talk to these juren, supervisor, tribute student, and even the censor. However, the people of our Ming Dynasty, especially the people of Jiangnan, have a high literacy rate and have been often polluted by the heresies of the Taizhou School in recent years, so they do not have much awe of the green insects.

Just a fight!

Who is afraid of whom!

You are knowledgeable and have unparalleled talent. Is it a bad thing for our common people to curse?

Do you talk about the ways of sages?

Mama, the turtle man!

"Shi Wen is so sweeping the floor!"

Yang Qing stood on Chengtian Gate and looked proudly at the scoundrels besieging the green insects. The verbal dispute between the two sides was quite exciting, but there was no one who took action, which was a bit regrettable.

"You know Sven's sweeping the floor?"

Shi Kefa said angrily.

Now he was so gentle that he realized how vicious this guy next to him was. What this bastard was trying to destroy was not the privilege of gentry. He was simply destroying the high status of the literati. He was step by step lowering the literati to the same level as the rogue in the market. To be precise, he was pulling all the people of the Ming Dynasty, whether officials, gentry, civilians, soldiers and craftsmen to the same level.

Or there is no high or low status.

But, is this wrong?

Shi Kefa was confused.

"quiet!"

Yang Qing raised his trumpet and shouted again.

He spoke very well, and the chaos below gradually stopped, and everyone looked up at him.

"Yu Street is just in the imperial city. You are here to disturb the Shengting and leave immediately, otherwise the Jinyiwei will forcibly expel it. From today on, a separate cordon will be set up between the east and west Chang'an Gate. No one is allowed to stay north of the cordon!"

Yang Qing shouted.

The pattern of Nanjing Imperial City is the same as Beijing. It extends a long imperial street to the south. The left and right Chang'an Gate is on both sides of the north, and the main entrance is Daming Gate. Yu Street exits from Chengtian Gate and directly leads to Daming Gate. The Qianbu Lobby on both sides of this imperial street is the Qianbu Lobby on both sides. Unlike Beijing Yu Street, the Qianbu Lobby in Nanjing is a commercial street like the Southern Song Dynasty. Countless shops are arranged on both sides. People can pass east and west by east and west. Shopping shows that the Ming Dynasty is prosperous. Officials also enter and exit the imperial city. However, they must get off the horse and walk in front of the door. So it is not possible for him to close this area. In that way, he must drive away all the shops on both sides like Beijing. Therefore, he can only set up a separate cordon on the north, that is, the south of Jinshui Bridge to prevent anyone from blocking the Chengtian Gate.

When he finished calling, the common people immediately retreated back to the Qianbulang area, and only the green insects were left in front of Chengtian Gate.

"You guys aren't leaving yet!"

Yang Qing shouted to the green insects.

"We ask for the people..."

A censor raised his arms and shouted.

There was booing in the thousand-step corridor behind him, and it was obvious that the people opposed it.

"We ask for the people and eliminate traitors for the country. Why should we be afraid of this eunuch party? Let's continue to move forward, let the emperor hear our voice, let the Ming Dynasty hear our voice, let these eunuch party treacherous ministers see what loyal ministers and righteous men are!"

The censor was thick-skinned and continued to shout passionately.

Immediately afterwards, he stood up and walked forward. The censors stood up one after another. The green insects behind also stood up with determination, but some were still left. A few of them even stood up and left, but most of them still surrounded and walked onto the Jinshui Bridge. They soon arrived at the north of the bridge and approached Chengtian Gate, and they shouted slogans, and some were chanting poems. The censor at the front held a ten crimes of impeaching Shi Kefa. Although they could write directly, they threw them aside from Wang Chengen, so this method must be adopted to force the emperor to take it personally.

"I can't blame me!"

Yang Qing said to Shi Kefa.

“Are you ready?”

He turned to a Jinyiwei and said.

"Sir, I'm waiting for your order!"

The Jinyiwei said.

Yang Qing looked at the green insects who had all walked across the Jinshui Bridge. The censor in front was almost at the city gate.

"Then let's start!"

He continued.

"What do you want to do?"

Shi Kefa said vigilantly.

"Nothing, just sober them!"

Yang Qing said with a wicked smile.

At this moment, the wooden doors of the Chengtian Gate Tower behind him opened one after another. Teams of Jinyiwei walked out carrying lead pipes and quickly laid them on the battlements of the city walls, aiming at the outside of the city like a row of muzzles. The other end of these pipes extended into the spectacular city tower of Chengtian Gate. Inside, you can see things that seemed to be pillars stretched down from above, and these outwardly thin tubes are connected to these huge pillars.

Yang Qing looked at Shi Kefa proudly.

"put!"

Then he said.

"Let's go!"

The Jinyiwei shouted to the top of the city tower that was more than ten meters high.

A strange sound came from the tube. The next moment, all the tubes sprayed out water columns almost at the same time. In the severe cold of at least five degrees below zero after the snow in the twelfth lunar month, accompanied by the north wind, water dragons fell into the green insects...
Chapter completed!