As soon as this statement was said, the crowd was silent. The land was cleared. This matter had been going on in Changzhou Prefecture for three years. As long as ordinary people entered the county town, they had listened to the small officials, and even read it in front of boycotting gentry and the people several times. Some of the people present heard calluses.

The Gu family could not deceive this because many gentry, including Qian Qianyi, also accepted the land of Qingzhang. The gentry in Jiangnan was not a monolithic piece, and it was not a secret to the people. Seeing this, they had to make up a lie to arouse public anger. As long as the work team was not allowed to go to the countryside to measure, everything would be easy to say.

At this moment, everyone's eyes gathered on Gu Shu's face, and whispers rang again, but they were no longer what they had before, but directly suspected that the Gu family was deceived and concealed their superiors and subordinates between the government and the people.

The whispering voices became increasingly dense. Gu Shu was stunned at first, then jumped out and shouted loudly to the voice: "You are not a local citizen!"

Gu Shu aims to change the topic, and even suggests to the people present that the person's words are not trustworthy. This is a common way of thinking. When a person is considered unable to trust, even if what he says is seen by people, part of it will be ignored.

Gu Shu was naturally aware of this method. However, the man was not in a hurry. He immediately walked out of the crowd and fell directly in front of Zhu Weining, saying respectfully: "The villain is indeed not a local citizen, but a businessman who is walking. This time, he heard the Gu Juren say that the government would charge the government on the basis of autumn tax to fill the usual deficit of closing the position, and came to join in the fun out of righteous indignation."

The merchant bowed and respectfully looked like a little man. Although no one in the audience knew this person, he looked at the small objects in the bamboo basket, the wear and tear of his clothes and his overall temperament, and he looked like a traveling businessman at first glance.

"You are not from your hometown, why do you appear here? How did you listen to Gu Juren's words?"

"When I go back to Master Qingtian, the villain is from Suzhou and makes a living by selling goods. This time, Suzhou has a new look, so he bought a batch of goods and transported them to Wuxi for sale. Most of the villain's goods were sold in the county town, and only these were left. He thought about selling them out of the city and then collecting some things from the countryside to sell them. This morning, the villain left the city and listened to the guidance of passers-by to sell goods in the village. He had just sold two items, and happened to catch the Gu Juren with his family slaves and tenants gathered in the village, and then he arrived here."

After hearing this explanation, many people believed it immediately. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the gentry and people followed the fashion trends, and there were only two places. One was the palace. For example, one day, Concubine Yuan wore a light green silk garment to serve the king. Emperor Chongzhen praised it and said, "This is a very elegant and elegant", and it was passed outside the palace. For a time, the light green color in the boudoir was the most loved by women.

Compared with the occasional location of the imperial palace, Suzhou is the place that truly leads the fashion trend. There was a saying of "Su Style" and "Su Yi" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. From lifestyle to behavior, everything from clothing, use of utensils, food and living, appreciation of calligraphy and painting, collection of antiques, opera performances, and language expressions is included, all with Suzhou's style and artistic conception as an example. This trend has been popular for three centuries from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

Su like this, most of Suzhou travelers sell goods in new styles of utensils for sale in other places. If you look closely at the bamboo basket of this travelers, there are the styles from last year and some of them just became popular this year. One of the Golden Shengtans’s Water Margin, which looks like that, obviously has been read a lot.

"The villain seemed to have seen this peddler selling things in the county town yesterday, and he looked familiar."

"Yes, today he is selling my wife a comb in the village. It is the new style this year, and it is so beautiful."

After the peddler had proven what he said, Zhu Weining turned to Gu Shu, frowned, and shouted directly to him: "Ju Ren Gu, you just said that the people invited you to come and make decisions, but now it seems that you are spreading rumors and causing trouble. If you deceive your official position so much, what are the consequences of it? Let's say!"

"This, this..."

Whether it is Gu Shu or the gentry who came with him, they resisted government orders on weekdays, and civil servants were both scholars and they had to leave some kindness. As such, the minor officials who were almost hereditary to locals dared not offend them. There were no such "traitors" behind them. They have always been used to being smooth sailing, and they have never seen such scenes.

A fourth-rank civil servant asked with an unhappy face. Gu Shu swallowed. Even though he was a talented man, he realized it after a while and directly threw the blame on the tenant before.

When the people sued the official, there is no need to beat the Killing Stick anymore. If you win, you naturally don’t have to worry about being in power for two thousand miles. However, the matter of often closing the position was compiled by the Gu family to arouse public anger. False accusing officials is always a serious crime.

At this moment, Gu Shu had to keep winking and asked the tenant to take the matter down. However, facing Zhu Weining's harsh words and Gu Shu's hard work, the tenant was already anxious and sweating profusely, but he couldn't say a word. After a few breaths, he fainted on the ground.

Seeing this, Gu Shu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then bowed to Zhu Weining, and said slowly: "Zhu Daotai, this person is a tenant from the student's family. The family is a honest and decent farmer. He was intimidated by the official of the Daotai, which shows that he was timid and afraid of things. The student has a little understanding of this person. I believe he dare not lie. There will be problems with the position of settlement often. It is better for the Daotai to go back to the city first to check. If there is nothing wrong, the student would rather send him to the Criminal Office to wait for trial in person, and would also be willing to explain to the people to the government."

According to Gu Shu's calculations, now things have returned to the starting point and the work team is not allowed to make progress. Zhu Weining returned to the city. Today, Qingzhang was not in a good first battle, and today even the Tuntian Road was forced to return to the city. The morale of Qingzhang's work on Qingzhang's land was also extremely severe. At that time, we will try to reach a compromise with the government and completely store the hidden land. We must spit out a little and give the King of Qi face. This matter will be fine.

When the investigation of the crime of spreading rumors and causing trouble came out, he had already completed the coercion and inducement of the tenant. At that time, he said that the tenant had heard the bewitching of the traveling merchant and reported the matter to him, and this incident occurred.

To be honest, although this is foolproof, Gu Shu was still extremely aggrieved. However, the officials who had been involved in the government and the gentry have been taken down. The newcomers are all madmen who want to use their property as capital for future promotion, completely ignoring the demeanor of scholars. In addition, the King of Qi has used to attack gentry in Zhejiang and Jiangnan. Moreover, the incident mentioned by Wu Zhaoqian made the Gu family a little restrained in boycotting, unlike Ming Jicheng's usual unscrupulous ones.

Gu Shu had a good idea, but Zhu Weining did not plan to perform according to his script. It can even be said that this Tuntian Road had no intention of playing according to common sense from the first moment it appeared here.

"Ju Ren Gu wants to make this decision for me this time, but I am just a farm road, not an official in the Criminal Department. It is useless if you do this."

Speaking of this, Zhu Weining turned his head and asked a civil servant beside him. The civil servant next to him had only one answer, that is, the tenant and Gu Shu and others had to go back to the Criminal Department together, because this matter was either handled according to the spread of rumors or reported corruption cases based on the people. The defendant or the plaintiff had no concerns about his identity, and it was impossible to allow the Gu family and the tenant to collude.

Just a tenant, Gu Shu had no intention of making a move, but if he was caught, Chen Wen had reason to punish them, which was something the Gu family didn't want to see.

In the past, let the tenants go back, and then send someone to inform the minor officials, yamen runners, and airtight walls in the county government? But now, all the officials related to them in the county government have been taken down. Just wait for the tenants to wake up and be intimidated by the government, and even the punishment is unnecessary. Then they can get certificates that are not conducive to them. By then, they may no longer be as simple as clearing the land of the millennium.

"Zhu Daotai, students and others have read the books of sages. Can they still lie? This person is indeed honest and decent. Perhaps he was bewitched by the foreigner with ulterior motives. Such innocent and kindness must not be taken away, otherwise what kind of justice can be said in this world?"

Speaking of this, Gu Shu's voice suddenly increased, so that more people could hear it as much as possible, so as to arouse the common hatred of the people in the hometown. However, there were quite a few people coming this time, and more than a thousand people were not as neatly as the army lined up. Wuyang and Wuyang spread on the ridges on both sides of the official road and the path. No matter how loud Gu Shu's voice was, it was just for the people near to hear it clearly. As for the farther places, especially behind the crowd, they were still immersed in doubt about the Gu family's rumors and troubles.

"They are also the Gu family on the left, and the Gu family on the right. The Gu family is a good person in front of the government and a good person in front of the villagers. The bad people are all ordinary people. When the government scolds them, they are clean. Are we the people suffering?"

"That's right, they've told them all the good things. The government should not think that we are all troublemakers, and we will definitely not be able to fall in love if we have something to do in the future."

"If you say that this scholar has a lot of mind, but if you don't want to benefit the people, you always use your mind to us. Even if you read more books, you will not be a good person."

"This makes sense. When the Tatars went south, the ivory tablets in Nanjing were piled up like hills. God couldn't stand it anymore. It was a heavy rain, but the men in the court came to the city gate together to welcome the Tatars, which really made the scholars lose all their faces. If we hoped that we would shave our hair and change our clothes, and we would not be able to see our ancestors after death."

"We rural people don't know much about the outside, but I heard that the juniors of the Gu family have been studying hard for the past few years, preparing to take the imperial examination for the Tartars. If His Highness of the King of Qi had not restored Nanjing, they would have been afraid that they would have abused the people for the Tartars."

“…”

At the back of the crowd, at first, there were only a few whispers from the idle men who were joining in the fun in the countryside, but when the voice was heard, people would always hear it. Gradually, more and more people heard it, and more people were talking about it, and their skepticism about the Gu family gradually spread. On the contrary, Gu Shu still relied on the slaves and the tenants were beside him, and he discussed his traditional theory of the Donglin Party about "About them being scholars, scholars are all gentlemen, and gentlemen will not lie, so as gentlemen, they are just the truth, and any different opinions from them are evil people."

"As long as I, Gu Shu, are here today, I will never allow you to wrongly accuse such goodness!"

Gu Shu spoke righteously, and his righteous spirit was afraid that even Confucius would be ashamed of being ashamed of his own. Seeing this, the gentry who came with him also stepped forward one after another and stood side by side with Gu Shu. The tenants of the Gu family were also driven forward by the slaves, with the power of the strong gentry.

Gu Shu and other gentry stood upright in front of the government's government orders, standing shoulder to shoulder, looking at the work team fearlessly. In contrast, the work team saw crowds of people, and the yamen runners were guarding the front with water and fire sticks, and they were trembling like frightened hens.

Justice and justice are about to be fulfilled, and the plot seems to have begun to develop like the tax resistance that Gu Shu and the others had seen before. However, at this moment, a family of the Gu family ran over with a lifeless child. When they saw Gu Shu, they told him a shocking news before they even breathed.

"Master, no, another work team from the government is almost here. They are calling out to attack the west."

Hearing this, Gu Shu was stunned. Jingli was the old house of the Gu family. The fourth generation ancestor of Gu Shu and the fifth generation ancestor of Gu Zhenguan were Gu Xue. He was just a pavilion leader in the village who ran some small workshops for tofu grain and rice. He relied entirely on Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng's brothers who passed the Jinshi exam and then founded the Donglin Party to make a fortune.

Jingli is not only the old house, but also a large area of ​​land. If the work team is asked to clear the land of land on the old house, they will stay here, even if they block Zhu Weining and his party's way, it will be more than worth the loss, or even put the cart before the horse.

Thinking of this, Gu Shu had the intention to split some people back to the old house. However, before he could figure out the pros and cons of this, the work team suddenly moved. Looking closely, it turned out that the garrison that had been repairing the roadside had suddenly stood up and began to line up on the official road.

The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was the most combat-reader in the world. This is a recognized fact. Whether it was the Eight Banners Army of the Tartars or the Western thieves, they had never taken advantage of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Seeing the Ming army garrisons of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the crowd immediately fluctuated and exclaimed. Even Gu Shu and other gentry retreated hard, intending to retreat to the crowd of slaves and tenants.

It is human nature to seek profit and avoid harm, but at this moment, a burst of exclamations came from behind the crowd, and the "demonstration" team of thousands of people immediately became in chaos.

"The Gu family has an affair with the Tartars, and the evidence is conclusive. The Wang Shi is here to arrest them!"

"His Highness of the King of Qi said that if anyone dares to shelter the Gu family, he will be punished with the Gu family and will be killed without any hesitation!"

"The Gu family's bastards want to help us as dogs for the Tartars. We are all good people. Han family members must not be traitors with the Gu family."

"The officers and soldiers are going to take action. Let's not bury the Gu family here, run away!"

“…”

The screams rang behind the crowd, spreading to the entire crowd with a speed of 100 times faster than the previous whispers. As a man took the first step to escape, he was in a fear of resisting the king's army, the people fled around one after another. Not only did they fail to dissuade them, but they even ran away a lot of slaves and tenants they brought.

"How could this happen?"

The garrison simply stood up and organized the team, and did not move forward even if it was half a step. Thousands of people holding farm tools were scattered in a burst of rumors. Gu Shu and others looked at all this in a daze, their eyes full of disbelief.

"With the truth, many helpers, few helpers, and resisting government orders means resisting the king's army, and watching the Tartars. Those villagers are not fools, and they still can't tell who is right and who is wrong?"

Zhu Weining was so shocked, but his son Gu Zhenguan had already reacted. He rushed forward and pointed at Zhu Weining's nose and shouted loudly: "Zhu Daotai, the King of Qi is a dissatisfied person. Since you are a national surname, why bother to open your eyes for him?"

As soon as this statement was made, Gu Shu and others were immediately startled, especially the person from the Gao family who widened their eyes, obviously they were already scared by Gu Zhenguan's crazy words.

Gu Zhenguan was like this, obviously a desperate situation. When Zhu Weining saw this young scholar like this, he just sneered: "You have been worried too much. My official surname is Zhu, and my hometown is also in Jiangxi, but he is not a royal nobleman. In his early years, there were many people in his family who were exploited by those vassal kings. Even if he was a royal nobleman, he knew that the world was not a single person, but a world of the world. As an official, he was the parents of the people, and he wanted to try to make the people live a better life. As the sage said, if you have enough money, you will know etiquette."
Chapter completed!