The scholar rushed over the white line and received the order. The yamen runners holding the hose in both hands aimed the mouth of the yamen who were swarming forward, while the two yamen runners holding the handles were pulling the handles up and down.

In a blink of an eye, the raised machinery converted human power into pressure. The water in the water tank under the monster car was under pressure and sprayed out of the hose directly, and immediately hit the heads and bodies of the scholars who rushed to the front like a storm.

In the twelfth lunar month, Suzhou is not as good as the dripping water in the north, but it only has a few degrees Celsius low temperatures. For these scholars who were born here, grew up here, and who are usually pampered in luxury, even if they cannot be pampered in luxury, the cold well water sprayed out by the strange car immediately made the scholars feel cold, and their steps could not help but pause.

The yamen runner holding the handle lifted and pressed it, and then pressed it. The cold water in the water tank splashed almost continuously on the bodies of these scholars through the hose.

The cold water column hit the scholars, and the pain sensation immediately appeared in the place where the flesh was leaking, which made the scholars crying in the temple subconsciously retreat step by step. The front row was back, but the back row was still moving forward, and the team crying in the temple was immediately in chaos.

The team of the crying temple lost control, just like the chaotic army on the battlefield, immediately became a better target. The cold accompanied by the southeast wind, and the soldiers' clothes were immediately wet, and the heat was quickly lost. Every inch of wet clothes also changed from a tool to keep warm and shame-proof tool to a cold sticking to their bodies like maggots on their tars.

Suddenly, there was only a "bang" sound, and among the crowd, the Confucius's God Card that Wang Feng was holding was out of hand and fell heavily to the ground.

"What's that?!"

On a small building in Zhoujinfang in the distance, Wang Shimin brought glasses tailor-made for him by Sun Yunqiu, a famous optical instrument manufacturing expert in the late Ming Dynasty, looking at the square in front of the Confucian Temple from a distance, and staring at the God-Master Card held by his son in his hand.

At that moment, Wang Shu was in the front of the crowd. When the scholars in the temple were brave enough to push him to the second row, but then the water splashed, the front row retreated, and the back row surged, and the God Lord Card was squeezed to the ground under the crowd.

"Xun, Xunweng, that thing seems to be the firefighting machine equipped by the Nanjing Firefighting Team a few days ago. It was called a barrel."

The gentry who spoke had not seen it with his own eyes, but when he visited a friend in Nanjing a few months ago, he heard the same year as he was working in Yingtian Prefecture. It is said that it was a water spray device recently developed by the Military Industry Department's workshop to extinguish fires.

When was the first invention of the machine barrel? It is no longer verified. However, as early as the Kangxi period, the Qing Dynasty used fire prevention team to fight fires in the palace to extinguish fires had already become the commonly known as the machine barrel. In the Ming Dynasty, there were firefighters in big cities, but Chen Wen abolished the old garrison and could only form a professional firefighting team in major cities that were managed by county governments.

Nanjing is the residence of the Qi Prince's Mansion and the most influential city under Chen Wen's rule. Machine barrels are also the first to be equipped. As the second batch of Jinhua, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Nanchang, Ganzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and other places, they have only recently started to be equipped in batches.

But it was no better than that. Suzhou's barrels were transported to the public just a few days ago. The firefighting team wearing yamen runners' uniforms had just been skilled in using them. However, this first time was not used to put out fires, but it was used to squirt and cry for the scholars in the temple like they used to destroy the parades in later generations.

"This guy Chen Wen dares to humiliate scholars so much, and dares to do so..."

Seeing this scene happening, Wang Shimin was already trembling with anger. If the gentry had not come forward to help him, he would have fallen to the ground.

The small building in Zhoujinfang was stunned. In the square in the distance, the God Lord's Plate fell to the ground, and was immediately stepped on by the pair of big feet that didn't know where to go into a pile of broken wooden boards. Seeing that the scholar's amulets were gone, the firefighters also worked harder to pull the handles.

The cold and bone-blazing water splattered on every scholar in the crying temple. They had never seen such a scene. After the initial chaos, the first one ran around. With the first one, soon, the second one, the third one, and even the entire crying temple team began to shrink continuously during the run.

The scholastic men's team was getting smaller and smaller. Even if there were no one who had not escaped, most of them tried their best to use their hands, arms, and backs to resist the jet of water. Among them, only Jin Shengtan stood with his head held high and faced the impact of this primitive "high-pressure water gun", and the scholastic men's pride was revealed. Just after looking closely, the face was not a brave face facing the tyrannical attitude, and was completely shocked.

In ancient China, scholars marched and cried in temples, and the government did not dare to suppress them severely. At most, they were just persuading them with gentle words. The literati had a transcendent status and had a great influence among the people. In addition, the Han Dynasty, which was prosperous in the imperial examinations like the Song and Ming dynasties, not only did the rulers not suppress the scholarly style, but instead had to encourage them. But if it were ordinary people, the suppression would never be as simple as "high-pressure water guns". At the least, they were constables, the sticks of the yamen runners, and at the worst, the green edge of the army was the blade.

The scholars present were surprised by this situation, but there was nothing like Jin Shengtan. However, no one knew that at this moment, Jin Shengtan's eyes were no longer splashing water and the gentry fleeing in the desert. There was only the prophetic fragments he had seen in his dreams, and finally they were stringed up by these water flows and turned into a complete image.

"On the fourth day of the second month of the 18th year of Shunzhi, the student from Jiangnan was Wu Chong and was brave enough to deceive the world and destroy the ancestors. He openly broke the rules of thousands of years, ignored the benevolent policies of the Holy Dynasty, and secretly went to the common people's utmost to be a common man. He colluded with Cao Wu, a tribe of rats and dogs, and stole public grain. The crime was inflicted, and the people were in full swing. Those who studied should take the four-dimensional and eight virtues as their qualities. Unexpectedly, animals were born, like Ren Weichu, who was ashamed of his students, and the master was dying, so he went to the Confucian Temple to cry..."

In front of the Suzhou Confucian Temple, which was covered by dark clouds, Jin Shengtan posted the written cries of the temple on the gate of the Confucian Temple. He cried in unison with more than 100 local scholars from Suzhou who came with him, denounced the evil deeds of Ren Weichu, the new magistrate of Wu County appointed by the Qing court, who used severe punishment to urge taxes and killed one person, while stealing and selling official rice, and filling his personal bags.

However, Crying Temple did not get compromised by the government. Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangsu, who is known as Zhu Baidi, arrested five scholars, including Ni Yongbin on the spot.

Next, Zhu Guozhi arrested more than a dozen Suzhou scholars, including Jin Shengtan, who participated in the crying temple. Then, he even sentenced eighteen people including Ni Yongbin, Chen Lang, Gu Weiye, Zhang Han, Shu Xianqi, Ding Guansheng, Zhu Shiruo, Zhu Zhangpei, Zhou Jiang, Xu Jie, Ye Qi, Xue Erzhang, Yao Gang, Ding Ziwei, Jin Shengtan, Wang Zhongru, Tang Yaozhi, Feng Zhi and other 18 people were sentenced to death.

"Cutting your head hurts; drinking alcohol is a pleasure. Cutting your head and drinking alcohol first, it's a pleasure!"

On the execution ground, Jin Shengtan was calm and asked the prison officer for wine and drink, and went to death with joy. The executioner's big sword fell down, and Jin Shengtan closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a water column sprayed from the barrel.

Jin Shengtan stood proudly, attracting the attention of the firefighters. Several barrels pointed at him and sprayed him directly, and even sprayed him directly on the ground.

When he stood up again, Jin Shengtan did not continue to stand there to show the pride of scholars, but sighed with satisfaction, turned around, shook the water on his sleeve, and walked calmly to the distance. Seeing this, Ni Yongbin and others who were familiar with him on weekdays also hurriedly chased after him - today's Jin Shengtan is completely different from usual, and it really makes people worry about his mental state.

"Saint sigh?"

Ni Yongbin asked tentatively, Jin Shengtan turned around, looked at him, and smiled and said, "I'm fine, no need to worry."

"What happened today?"

"No need to get involved anymore. Xunweng and others are willing to make trouble, so let them go by themselves. But I have to say that coming here today is the most correct decision in my life; leaving this time is also the most correct choice in my life." Speaking of this, Jin Sheng sighed and smiled: "We have lived in a new era. If we miss it, we are afraid that there will be no place to regret it."

After saying that, Jin Shengtan laughed and then left. Although Jin Shengtan, Ni Yongbin and others looked at each other, they didn't say anything more, so they had to watch Jin Shengtan go away. In addition to commenting on literary works, Jin Shengtan was more famous among the gentry in Jiangnan. Not only were there many famous gentry like Qian Qianyi praised it, but Ye Xiaoluan, the talented gentry in spirits, is also a popular story among the scholars in Jiangnan. Such people cannot be guessed by common sense.

Jin Shengtan disappeared among the crowd watching the people. Ni Yongbin looked back and saw that the barrel had stopped spraying water. The governor of Susongchang Town's four prefectures strode forward and ordered the remaining ten gentry to leave on their own, otherwise they would have to eliminate their fame.

In response to this, the few gentry left in the square did not let him blow in the cold wind for a while. After hearing this, he looked at each other and turned into birds and beasts. All that was left was a piece of water stain on the square, dozens of lost shoes and the God Lord card that had been trampled to pieces.

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In history, in the 18th year of Shunzhi, after the Qing court eliminated the Yongli court and determined that Zheng Chenggong's Fujian Ming army was unable to carry out a large-scale counterattack against Jiangnan, it created a series of major cases including the Tonghai case, the crying temple case, the Jiangnan memorial case, and the Zhuang family Mingshi case to crack down on Jiangnan gentry and alleviate huge financial pressure.

In this series of major cases, the Qing court massacred the gentry of Jiangnan and eliminated the fame of a large number of Jiangnan gentry. Since then, with the strongest Confucian scholar-class gentry, Jiangnan, lying under the power of the Qing court, extensive publicity and brainwashing of the defense of the barbarians and Xia with the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and the improvement of the idea of ​​restraining the eight-legged essay, especially those notorious literary inquisitions, during the Qing Dynasty, Confucian scholars completely became slaves under the rulers of alien rulers.

The ban on Chinese books was destroyed, while foreign book translation work was more at a standstill. For example, in the "Geometric Origins" which is of enlightenment in the world mathematics community, Xu Guangqi, the second assistant to the cabinet in the Ming Dynasty, completed the translation work of the first six volumes as early as 1606 AD. However, the last nine volumes of this masterpiece were not until 1856 AD. The Qing Dynasty was bombarded by European ships and powerful guns, and the scholars and officials were forced to "open their eyes to see the world" again. For this reason, a joke about the origin of the word "255", which was said that the 250 years between the two was the greatest Kanggan prosperous era in human history in the braided drama.

In recent years, Chen Wen has been committed to ending the Qing Dynasty by force. It is not only the modernization of the army. Hydraulic workshops are prevalent in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Today, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are large or small hydraulic workshops on slightly more conspicuous rivers. Of course, this is far from enough, at least far from meeting Chen Wen's expectations.

Thinking of this, Chen Wen stroked the magazine "Science" at hand, which was filled with the knowledge crystallizations of Confucian scholars and ordinary craftsmen. Many of the knowledge has already taken practical directions, such as vernier calipers, the tracks of the Qin people, and the scientific principles and technological inventions written in a series of scientific and technological books, including "The Art of Heaven and the Art of Creation". Most of these existing technologies have begun to be used in the great cause of benefiting the people.

In recent years, basic science has been continuously popularized in the Boy Scout Academy and Nanjing University, and there are many gentry children, whose family background is an indispensable supplement. Perhaps one day in the future, one day within two hundred and fifty years, China will also have a scientific master such as Newton and Edison. It will not be possible that the Chinese scientific community will not be able to influence the world's scientific process in the next two hundred years.
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