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Chapter 40 Cat and Mouse

A few days later, relying on the raw materials and craftsman foundations in the Zhejiang Ming Army Military Industry Department's workshop, the recruitment was quite smooth. After less than ten days of preparation, the preparations for the first issue were completed, and the distribution work began when the case of the criminal prosecutor named Zhang Yida as the murder of Feng Jing, and the popularity of the veteran's vendetta case had just begun to decline.

Zhejiang Dibao is not a daily newspaper of later generations. Evening newspapers have to publish one issue every day. The first regular issue is one issue per month. If there are special circumstances, special issues will be issued.

The dibao is an indispensable way for the people to obtain imperial decrees. In addition, Lu Liuliang, who had previously written two comments on the articles on the Qing Dynasty imperial examinations and became famous in eastern Zhejiang, announced that he would serve as the first editor-in-chief of Zhejiang dibao. The comment article will be exclusively published in the dibao in the future. So, this dibao has been highly anticipated before it was published among the people.

In the Ming Dynasty, the south was always better than the north in terms of literacy. It was related to the massacre of Jin and Yuan, and it was even more related to the differences in the economic levels of the south and the north. In the south, Jiangsu and Zhejiang had the highest average level, and the small citizens in cities in their elite areas could more or less recognize some words. Even in Dongyang County, Jinhua Prefecture, such a small county town that could not even have the words of economic development and development, there were many people who knew the words.

Education has always been one of the evaluation results of ancient Chinese officials. Seeing the Ruquan Pavilion that the county government has been facing, the long queue that was not known where it was left before the temporary release point of Zhejiang Palace Newspaper, the local magistrate decided to make a strong mark on his political achievements, and even the county school officials were smiling. Unfortunately, not everyone would be happy about such a grand occasion.

"What's the use of a bunch of mud legs that can understand the newspaper? Is it their turn to speak in this government?"

A few days ago, in the private room called "Bamboo", the fat scholar who was privately commenting on the little things between the Mission Office and Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying in the Missionary Office, was lined up in the queue with impatient expressions, and rubbed the handkerchief with powdered powder and kept wiping it on his face, but his head was covered in oily sweat. The more he was mixed with the powder, the more he became, the more we became.

"What the master said is, who knows whether they are watching it by themselves or selling it for others, and maybe they can buy it and sell it again." Next to the fat Confucian scholar, a handsome servant with a handsome face was also angry. "Or why the villain is here, go and have some tea and enjoy the cool air."

"I really don't love you in vain on weekdays. I know I love you, Master. I will benefit you when I get home." As he said that, the fat scholar touched the servant's little hand, then left the queue and walked towards the small teahouse in the distance.

"Brother Wanshi."

"Brother Zhao."

After entering the tea shop, the fat scholar saw a former relative living in Fangqian Town, so he had fewer contacts on weekdays and was waiting here, so he simply sat in one place.

"If Brother Shi wants to read this residence newspaper, just send someone to buy it. It's better to let me know my brother. Why bother to come here from afar?"

"I'm going to say that if it's an ordinary newspaper, it would be fine. The editor-in-chief of this newspaper in Zhejiang is Lu Sheng who commented on the imperial examination article. The analysis of the exam questions in his article is really helpful for our academic examinations. Even Brother Yu is very interested in the passage explaining the defense of the barbarians and the Xia. Now that the comment articles are only published in the newspaper, I am naturally unbearable. It just so happens that I can meet old friends and comment on the current affairs. It is also a good thing."

"What Brother Shi said is very much."

The two sat at the same table, chatting while waiting for their servants to report the residence. Of course, Zhang Yida's murder of Feng Jingshi was indispensable. This was the proud work of the fat Confucian scholar. He revealed it at a perfect time, and he felt that he was doing it without any leakage. He was inevitably bragging about his familiarity. However, this matter was ultimately interfering with Chen Wen, who is now powerful. He would rather let it go, but the inside and out of the words still inevitably highlighted some of his role in it, and ridiculed the dusk energy of the six clans.

Unexpectedly, when he heard this, the Confucian scholar who came from afar was stunned at first, then he looked anxious, and then gritted his teeth before saying to him: "Brother Yu was at home recently. He was Shi Xi's Five Dynasties History of Duke Ouyang Wenzhong and Sima Wenzheng's Zizhi Tongjian. Among them, the articles about the remnant Tang and Five Dynasties, I personally think that my good brother can read one or two."

After saying that, the Confucian scholar was just approaching his servant holding the mansion report, and hurriedly bowed to the fat Confucian scholar, leaving the city gate almost like a escaping. Even the reviews had already made an appointment with a famous Confucian scholar or old friends to leave behind, as if there were people who could eat people in the city.

The fat scholar watched all this happen in a daze. It was not until the servant brought the mansion to him that he had put his mind and used his spirit to the mansion.

This Zhejiang newspaper is different from the past. It uses several larger pieces of paper, which are not bound, but are just folded in half. The fat scholar's interest in this newspaper is still the commentary article. It is just a glance, but it is still an old comment circulating in the market. Editor-in-chief Lu Liuliang also said at the end that the original one would be modified and published in the first two issues. He lost the intention to continue reading and planned to go home to compare and appreciate the manuscripts he copied.

After reading the comments, the fat Confucian scholar planned to find out if there was any text about Zhang Yida's murder case. Unfortunately, after rummaging over and over, they were still issued and explained by the decrees. When he was a little annoyed and was about to collect the mansion and return home, he happened to scan a line of text. He stood there for a moment and hurried to the restaurant where he had last gathered.

After a while, the fat Confucian scholar rushed to the restaurant, asked the shopkeeper and walked straight to the elegant room with the word "bamboo".

With a "bang", the door of the elegant room with the word "bamboo" was pushed open by the fat scholar, and he instantly squeezed in. It was difficult to tell whether the door was pushed open or knocked open for a while.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

I had originally made an appointment to comment here tonight. The fat scholar took a new concubine, with red sleeves and grinding them with plain hands. These days it was just like a tangle that I didn't make an appointment with them at noon. Unexpectedly, this guy not only came, but also looked anxious, which immediately made the most inconspicuous goatee among the people present stutter in his heart.

"Look at this!"

Before the fat Confucian scholar could breathe evenly, his anger had already spread out. One of the Confucian scholars picked up the newspaper and looked around with the others. They saw the passage that the fat Confucian scholar had just seen in the tea shop. The Confucian scholar's hand couldn't help but shake, and the entire newspaper fell down, covering the table of side dishes.

The most eye-catching part in the eyes of everyone clearly begins with: "Strictly punish rebellions who apply for the exam and obtain the fame of the enemy's court, and never allow such a scum of the holy religion who is unpretentious and defended will continue to be watched by the enemy's court!"

The whole vernacular text seems to be a linguistic person who is afraid that he will not understand it. The blood in it is not clear.

The case of Zhang Yida's murder of Feng Jingshi was caused by the Feng family who used Zhang Yida's grandfather to illiterate and deceived him into signing usury loans that were far higher than the promised interest, resulting in the Zhang family being forced to sell themselves as slaves. In the past two years, the murderer Zhang Yida joined the army and restored his surname, while the victim Feng Jingshi was serious because of his participation in the formation of a group training in the Cao Conglong Rebellion. He was sentenced to death, confiscated his property, and his wife and daughter were incarnated into the Jiaofangsi as slaves, which can be said to have reversed each other's situation.

On the day of the incident, as an arresting officer, Zhang Yida, as a slave of the Feng family, knew where the secret room was located in the study room. When he killed Feng Jing privately, he closed the secret room to cover up the evidence. The words "murder" and the public revenge were all on the charges. He was still a military officer, so he should be sentenced to the military law and behead his head to shock other soldiers.

With the murder case solved and verdict, all the prisoners, officials and yamen runners involved in the investigation, arrest and interrogation of the criminal officials, officials and yamen runners were imprisoned. The charges were very simple, with only the word "out of authority".

I thought this matter was over, but the military was at a disadvantage in this fight of invisible swords, guns, swords and halberds. Unexpectedly, the Zhang Yida case had just ended, and with the government orders written in the Zhejiang residence newspaper of the first issue, the arrest of scholars who participated in the six governments of Jin, Qu, Yan, and Wen, and who had won the title of the Qing Dynasty were already ringing in full swing.

The county town is close to the entrance of an alley near the east gate, and it is now crowded with people watching the fun. A few of them are wearing regular clothes, and they are the Confucian scholars who can be stunned by reading a newspaper at noon yesterday.

"Inquiry, Luo Hongming, a criminal who participated in the Hangzhou Luting Examination in the fifth year of Yongli, was awarded the imperial examination. At the end of the year, the king recovered Jinhua. The man did not think about his own faults, did not know how to serve the court, ignored the great defense of China and the barbarians, and still had his own communication with the officials of the prison court, Li Zhifang and Zhu Zhixi, and betrayed Jinhua Prefecture, especially the virtual and real situation of Dongyang County. Now, Feng Anyuan Hou Mansion, Jinhua Prefecture Division, Jinhua Prefecture School, and Dongyang County Prefecture Commander, took away the fame of his student in the 15th year of Chongzhen and arrested him. If there is any evidence involved in the case, he can be sent to the Dongyang County Prefecture Division Office, and reported that there will be rewards."

After reading it, an official from the Examination Department led a group of yamen runners to escort the Confucian scholars who had been shackled and dozens of people from the family. The last two yamen runners took the water and fire sticks to put the seals on them and followed the escort team.

"It's a good thing that guy has a word in his name, which is a disgrace to his politeness, it's a disgrace to his politeness!"

Those Confucian scholars returned to the elegant room, but they were already as if they had lost their parents. They all looked as if they were a gray face. After a long time, the fat Confucian scholar said something, which broke the dead silence here.

"Svene? Now that the two countries are fighting, no matter how everyone named Luo knows that they have an old relationship with Zhu Zhixi. Last year, I also hinted that I was still in communication with that guy. But there was no such thing. I took the fame of a Tartar court, and that was to be prepared to do things for the Tartars. No one could say that the marquis had done it wrong. At most, it would be too strict to use it."

"Now, the only thing that the surname Luo can count on is that he came back this time to mourn. He took the word filial piety to gain some sympathy and could have a happy time when he was executed." After that, Goatbeard sighed. But at this moment, a voice from among the crowd was still trembling.

"Or, why don't we gather some scholars to cry to the temple."

Crying temples is the most effective method for scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to encounter dissatisfaction. They use crying Confucius Temple to gain sympathy for the world to achieve their own goals, and even to expel local officials. It was very common in the late Ming Dynasty. However, when he heard this, the goatee turned his body immediately and glared at the talking Confucian scholar fiercely.

"Cry, tell me who do you cry for and for those scum who don't want your ancestors, aren't you afraid of being involved?!"

A word, accompanied by the spitting star, the Confucian scholar squirted the face of the proposal, but no one else was there to make any noise. Instead, he stared at this companion who was usually inconspicuous, hoping to get the answer to unlock the situation from the face they had always been ridiculed as despicable by them.

"I told you to wait. Now it is a chaotic era. In order to fight for a few tenants, I will go and provoke the martial artist for nothing. Yesterday I completely figured out why the six tribes of Dongyang hid far away. Dongjuan Wei and Totang Zhang both came from the remnant Tang and Five Dynasties, especially the Thaotang Zhang family. They have seen the style of those warriors. Even the other four tribes have experienced the change of dynasties, and their sensitivity to the direction of the wind in this chaotic era is not comparable to that of us."

The goatee kept complaining about his companions. He did persuade him at that time, but the original tenant at home re-leased the military household with a lower tenancy in the village, and was persuaded by these companions. However, his complaints heard in the ears of everyone, even more fear in their hearts.

"Everyone is already a grasshopper on a rope. What's the use of saying this now? If it doesn't work, let's make a big deal. I heard that it seems that Wu Dengke, the general of Chuzhou, killed people and rebelled with Xu Du, found a witness, and dug out the matter and see how he dealt with it."

"Die your ancestral grave!"

The thin and dry goatee actually pushed the fat Confucian scholar to the ground. He was a juren, and the fat Confucian scholar was also a juren. However, he had been taking the exam for half his life before he could barely get a juren's fame. At that time, the grades were the last. The fat Confucian scholar's provincial examination was quite smooth, and his grades were also among the best at the time, so he was always very arrogant in front of others. However, he never thought that the quality of the imperial examination was not only not directly related to the level of knowledge, but even his IQ could represent it.

"You're going to kill Wu Dengke, don't pull everyone!"

As the years passed, the family had long disappeared. Even though they had not lost their families in this chaotic world, Wu Dengke's status and status have now left here, and even here they dare not come out to prove it. Moreover, the incident happened at the time of the Xudu chaos, and the entire Jinhua Mansion was in chaos. In the middle of the night, there was no physical evidence for the murder case, and the evidence was lacking credibility over time. Even the prison officials might not really believe it.

Even if it is true, Wu Dengke is now the general officer recorded by the court, Chen Wen's confidant general. Before joining the army, he killed a minor official to avenge his parents. Chen Wen wrote a memorial and even the emperor would issue an edict to save him from his crimes to win over Chen Wen, a powerful faction. In the end, Chen Wen and Wu Dengke did not do anything. Instead, they tried their best to make Chen Wen unhappy and would become public enemies of the entire Ming army in Zhejiang. The result can be imagined.

"This is not possible, that is not possible, what should I do?" The fat Confucian scholar sat on the ground with his own concession, not getting up, as if the force that supported his legs to stand upright had been pushed away by the goatee.

"No, let's run away."

"Yes, it's not safe here. Let's go somewhere else. My in-laws still have land and houses in Shaoxing, so I can always avoid this time."

""

Everyone started chattering, as if they could get relief from it, but before a moment passed, the fat Confucian scholar muttered: "If you want to run away, you must also ask Hong Chengchou and his Green Camp soldiers. They have killed all the people twenty miles from the six palaces of Jinquyan and Taiwen. You will be able to give them the credit for clicks and killings."

Once this was said, everyone present was speechless, and some even began to cry in a low voice. From beginning to end, none of them mentioned that they had not won the title of the Qing Dynasty, because they knew very well where they offended Chen Wen. In this case, even if they were really like white lotus, they would be found guilty. Moreover, these gentry were used to act as a hero in the countryside, and no one of them could be cleaned. The charges were sent to Chen Wen's copy.

Now, Chen Wen is using methods similar to their previous ones to repress the wind direction to offset the adverse effects caused by the execution of Zhang Yida. The strength of the two sides is extremely different. Even so, Chen Wen still steadily occupies the commanding heights of morality and uses the Confucian scholars who participated in the Qing Dynasty imperial examination to establish their authority, so that they and the entire local Confucian scholar class behind them know who has the final say on this land.

After a long time, the goatee stood up first, tidied up her clothes, and strode towards the door.

"where you go?"

After looking back at the fat Confucian scholar, looking at the others here, Goatee sighed, and then said, "I will go to the capital city, become an official, and join the civil service training class. As long as I can protect the family, let alone be the governor of Sun, and the chief Zhou serves as his teachers, even if I recognize them as my adoptive father, I will do it!"
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