Wang Shimin is dead.

Whether it was a sudden heart attack that caused a sudden heart disease or some other reason, in short, he died. With Wang Shimin's death, the Suzhou strike group completely fell and scattered. The participating gentry and wealthy families took the opportunity of the yamen, hoping to spend money to buy a way to survive.

"Idiots, a bunch of idiots."

Wang Shimin died, and Gu Shu fled Suzhou overnight and headed northwest. The northwest of Suzhou Prefecture is Wuxi County in Changzhou, which is the hometown of the Gu family, including the Gu family, Donglin Academy, and the connections accumulated by the ancestors and founding foundations. It is better than staying in Suzhou and waiting to die.

Fortunately, Suzhou Prefecture City is not far from Wuxi, and the carriage walked overnight and finally returned to his hometown as quickly as possible. At least when he was at home, the clan still knew nothing about the reversal of the situation in Suzhou.

"The king Shimin is stupid and does not listen to others. I have told him that this matter is a trap for the King of Qi. They did not listen at all and insisted on doing their own thing. Now, we have made wedding clothes for the King of Qi's mansion!"

Back at the old house in Jingli, Gu Shu talked about the past that happened in Suzhou these days, and it was okay to stop the market and cried in the temple, but the shopping was mostly filled with mist. First, they did not have a clear understanding of this as the previous two, but more importantly, Gu Shu was in it, but he did not understand the specific operations here too well, especially the performance of the government did exceed their expectations.

At this moment, in front of his family, he could blame Wang Shimin and the gentry and wealthy families forgot about his followers. However, these situations were a different feeling to the core tribes of the Gu family.

"Where is the diary newspaper, all of Suzhou have been published. We have also booked it in the county town. Why haven't it been delivered yet?"

Chen Wen posted a report to approve the suspension of the market, and the words were carefully written. Only in this way can Chen Wen understand the intensity of his efforts this time and make appropriate responses.

"It's probably Suzhou is the place where the incident happened, so the mansion newspaper will be delivered first. Besides, we have to book it in the county town, so it will take time to deliver it."

Speaking of this, the tribe member looked at each other quickly, and then said to Gu Shu: "Let's do this for now. Come back and report the message, go home and rest for half a day, and then talk back. That is, be careful of Zhenguan, don't let him go out to make trouble with the scholars of the Yunmen Club. We have thought about it before you come back. If you don't have to wait, you can go to Mu Weng's way, he can speak for His Highness King Qi. But if Zhenguan goes out to make trouble again, I'm afraid Mu Weng won't care."

Hearing this, Gu Shu, exhausted, also agreed. Qian Qianyi is the only remaining figure in the Donglin Party and has a close relationship with the Gu family. When things come to this point, he has to ask Qian Qianyi to give them a good word in front of Chen Wen, just to regard it as a memory of rising.

Gu Shu left dejectedly, but none of the other tribes left. Everyone kept looking at the tribesmen around him, and most of his eyes were dodging, and no one wanted to take the lead.

After a long silence, the clan member who had just persuaded Gu Shu to leave sighed and then said to everyone: "Now, the blind man knows that both the Ming Dynasty and the capitulation court are already declining. If nothing unexpected happens, the world will belong to His Highness King Qi sooner or later. All this under the world is the king's land, and the king's ministers are the king's ministers. He will not extinguish the anger of His Highness King Qi towards our Gu family as soon as possible. Not to mention delaying the future of his juniors, fame, and tribe-destroying disasters are all in front of him."

The gentry in the four prefectures of Susongchang Town was really a big fuss this time. From the countryside to Suzhou City, they spared no effort to clear the land and crack down on smuggling. The Gu family is a family that is the one who has the most fun in Changzhou Prefecture. Gu Shu, Gu Zhenguan and his son jumped up and down, and even went to Suzhou City. Wang Shimin was able to connect such a large-scale shopping operation. At least Changzhou has participated in the work of the Gu family, which can be called the culprit.

"From the beginning, the boy from Zhenguan said nonsense after drinking. His father was also an unreasonable person. He came to deceive us and then we would confront the government. Now that the situation is over, we still have to try to preserve the foundation passed down by our ancestors. Such unworthy descendants, such unworthy descendants..."

After saying this last few times, he said the original words "It will be left to the government to punish you." "This matter was caused by their father and son, and we were all blinded. Otherwise, how powerful and wealthy His Highness of Qi was, why should we make things difficult for him?"

"Yes, I asked for a visit to Rongfantai a few days ago by taking advantage of the tax matters after the clearance of the land, and Rongfantai met me, but the elder Fujun was very dissatisfied with our family's participation in the connection in Suzhou. I see, this time, if our Gu family wants to protect the family business of our ancestors, it is not enough to rely on Mu Weng alone. He must hand over the culprit, His Highness, the culprit, to relieve his anger."

"The Book of Rites? Doctrine of the Mean" says: "A benevolent person is the greatest, and the relatives are the greatest; righteousness is the right one, respecting the virtuous is the greatest. Killing relatives, respecting the virtuous, etc. are born from etiquette." Now that friendship between relatives and relatives is insurmountable in the survival of the family and whether it will be implicated in front of oneself, the killing of relatives is no longer far and near, but the real word for killing.

Since they were sure, everyone was discussing what they needed to do. The old house was filled with a gloomy breath, which made everyone unable to breathe. But at this moment, a loud sound came from the door in the distance.

"I'm sending the mansion to the newspaper, open the door and sign for it."

The gatekeeper was not sure about him, so he opened the door and was about to lead the newspaper clerk who was going to send the newspaper to the door. Unexpectedly, as soon as the door bolt was put down, the gate was forcibly pushed open. Then the brigade's yamen runners and the garrison rushed in under the leadership of the Wuxi County Magistrate.

"The incompetent businessmen in Suzhou, evil gentry sacked the market and harmed the people, and had an affair with Jianli. According to the investigation, the Gu family in Jingli in Wuxi was also the mastermind. The official arrested the Gu family under the order of the four prefectures of Susongchang Town to arrest the Gu family and waited for trial in Suzhou. If there is any arrest, killing will not be done!"

When they arrived at the lobby, the yamen runners stepped forward and followed the map to arrest the Gu family members present. As for those who were not here, they entered the house to lock them up. The yamen of the four prefectures of Susongchang Town received a report that the Gu family participated in the linking of the countryside of Wuxi County and the countryside to resist government orders, Suzhou cried temples, market strikes and shopping goods, were all masterminds, and they were asked to be careful that the Gu family was anxious and organized to arrest slaves by force, which led to the scene just now.

However, the arrest by force did not happen, and there was not even one who escaped. It seemed that everyone was stunned and could not believe what was happening in front of them.

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Taking action here, Suzhou's report was also delivered to the Qi Prince's Mansion in Nanjing. Chen Wen carefully reviewed the report and gained a further understanding of the latest situation there.

The market strike in Suzhou started from the second day of the twelfth lunar month to the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which lasted for twenty-two days. In order to abolish the government orders to clear the land and crack down on smuggling, the gentry of Susongchang Town first stopped the market, and then contacted the scholars to cry the temple. They even used goods worth no less than 30 million taels of silver to sweep the Suzhou market. They could be said to be using everything.

However, on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, the market in Suzhou was still full of goods and the market was slaughtered. After hearing a series of bad news, the sweeping group fell down and scattered. The mastermind Wang Shimin died suddenly. All the other masterminds were arrested. Other governments were also taking action, but the specific reports had not been delivered yet.

"Strike and crying temples are a means for gentry and merchants to resist corrupt officials, which is not a bad thing. However, this time, some of the unscrupulous merchants, and evil gentry used these means to use the lives of millions of people living in Suzhou as a threat to achieve the unreasonable requirement to force the government to abolish government orders."

"Since ancient times, the army has been scattered without food. Our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings have swept away all the Huyan in several southeastern provinces. All of them have achieved such great achievements after bloody battles. Some of the bad gentry in Susongchang Town of the four prefectures used the preferential exemption policies of the state and the court to hide the land and evade taxes, which has violated the law. What's more, they colluded with unscrupulous merchants to smuggle strategic materials including grain, steel, and other strategic materials, and sell them to the court. What's the difference between this and the traitor of the country?"

After reading the article in the newspaper, Zhou Yueying smiled slightly, feeling relieved. In the palace, she knew the limit of the crime. The mastermind conspiracy to confiscate the house and die, and the threat was divided into three or six categories, from beheading to beating the board. Only those gentry involved in the crying temple, put aside the mastermind, others would be characterized as being deceived by some evil spirits out of righteous indignation, but did not understand the right and wrong, did not investigate, blindly participated, ordered to go home and think about their mistakes, and submit a letter of repentance to the Confucian Temple within three months, otherwise they would be eliminated.

From this classification, Zhou Yueying seems to be normal. Compared with the market strike, shopping and crying in the temple is a reflection of the character of scholars. Previously, there were corrupt officials harming the people while gentry cried in the temple, which was just used by those who were interested.

Chen Wen wanted to use this incident to attack the gentry in Jiangnan, but he was definitely not going to kill them all, eliminate those who were stubborn and leave those who were willing to abide by the laws. As in Zhejiang, with such a comparison, it would not lead to class wars and fall into the dilemma of the Dashun Dynasty.

"Firstly eradicate the scholastic class, most of my civil service system in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be disabled. Not to mention this, the organizational strength of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is far from enough. Besides, if you want to truly eradicate it, you must overthrow the fundamentals of the Confucian scholar class, that is, Confucianism, completely stepping into the mud, is impossible in the current era, and there is no need to do it. At least I don't want to see the situation where the old moral system is pushed down and the new moral system cannot be established. A society with moral deficiency will only continue to appear disgusting things."

"A society with moral deficiencies?"

This was something Zhou Yueying had never thought about. In fact, from the beginning, she supported Chen Wen to fight against the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and was only to attack the overly arrogant and extremely deformed arrogance and style they had formed over the years. They should be re-regulated within the legal system rather than completely eradicated.

"I wouldn't want to see a society full of children who are unwilling to support their parents. Every household will have brothers and sisters who compete for inheritance. The elderly rely on their seniority to be old. Young people do not know how to respect and love the elderly. Ordinary people enjoy bullying the weak. Celebrities are keen to spread rumors to achieve their goals. Any kind of demon and ghost can make trouble. I think, you don't want to see them, my wife."

Confucianism, from the perspective of Confucius and Mencius, is all about guiding people to be good. Benevolence is the core of Confucianism. However, hundreds of schools of thoughts compete for power and ideas collide. In order to develop, Confucianism began to pursue rule that was conducive to feudal rulers, which gradually became distant from Confucius' original intention. However, the spread of its thoughts among the people formed a true moral system. Ordinary people followed moral constraints, which was better than those scum who read Confucian classics well but were full of thieves and prostitutes.

No matter what society, ordinary people are the vast majority. If they deny all Confucianism for the sake of those scums, they are also acts of choking and slapping off their food. The final consequences will inevitably lead to the unhealing harm of the entire Chinese civilization.

Thinking of what Chen Wen said, Zhou Yueying immediately felt a chill, goosebumps all over her body, and the chill followed.

"Have you ever seen such a society?"

"I've seen it in my dream."

Speaking of this, Chen Wen sighed sincerely. What causes and what results are obtained? Chen Wen doesn't want a society full of slaves, because he doesn't want the Qing Dynasty to compare who will enslave the intellectual class and who will be better able to create slaves; and he doesn't want to see the benevolent thoughts of Confucianism, which has become a part of Chinese civilization, be removed, causing greater blood loss to civilization.

"A piece of rat shit can ruin the whole pot of soup. My husband now needs to boil a pot of hot pot, so he has to pick out all the rat shit in the ingredients first. That's what it means, husband?"

"Those who know me are the wife."

After saying this with a smile, Chen Wen skipped the topic just now and mentioned a series of achievements made this time.

"The gentry swept the goods and a large amount of silver was exchanged for silver dollars. In less than a month, silver dollars were already the main currency on the Suzhou market now, and silver ingots became a minority. If it weren't for the small amount of silver that was one cent per cent, it was still the auxiliary currency, and it would be a dream to completely abolish the two-yuan dollar to change the country."

This is the result of Chen Wen's regulation of bulk goods in silver dollars, but it is not the only result. Zhou Yueying knew that Chen Wen was planning to create more currencies of different values ​​- gold coins worth ten silver dollars, three cents silver dollars worth half silver dollars, and seven cents silver dollars worth one tenth silver dollars, and other series of auxiliary coins, which completely replace silver ingots.

"I've made a lot of money in this incident. I don't know if I buy something for Xinruo and Xinhua. I'll still be a father."

"I will definitely buy it, I will definitely buy it. Not only Xinruo and Xinhua, but I will naturally have a share of it."

After achieving a great victory over the gentry of Jiangnan, the couple was inevitably going to celebrate the first and second. However, the celebration was still being prepared, but the Supervision Department heard news that it was the Supervision Department stationed in Nanjing University who sent a staff member to get a message. Perhaps Chen Wen would be interested. After seeing the content of the news, Chen Wen really became very interested, so he couldn't wait to rush over.

Nanjing University Hall is located in the city. Chen Wen rode his horse and arrived there soon. At this moment, most of the teachers and students in the university hall were concentrated outside the big library. Chen Wen climbed to the teaching building opposite the big library, took out his carrying telescope, and looked at the roof of the big library from afar.

The top three floors of the large library are raised, and each floor is already an extremely high height when it reaches the roof. On the roof, a thin young student stood on the edge, holding an iron trumpet and shouting to the teachers and students downstairs. It was a bit distance away. Chen Wen could only vaguely hear some of the content, but even so, it made him full of expectations for this young man.

"Student Shi Xiaoniu and a physics student in the Department of Quality Testing are here today. We are going to learn from Fashi Xianneng Jiagongliluo, and here we verify the conclusion that two objects of different weights will eventually land at the same time."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Xiaoniu threw the iron trumpet aside. The towering library made him look at the teachers and students below like a group of childish children, and the things in front of him were even more shaking. However, he did not stop his work. Then he picked up an iron ball with one hand, one big and one small, very clearly. Then, he let go of his hands at the same time, and the two iron balls fell at the same time, heading straight to the ground.

The iron balls were specially painted with red paint, which was very obvious. The two iron balls fell at the same time, and at the same speed, with the background of the large library as the background. In a blink of an eye, the two iron balls hit the ground at the same time, not only hitting everyone's hearts, but also showing them in front of Chen Wen without exception.

"This is the dawn of dawn. Next, I will completely line up the dark clouds in the sky. No matter who it is, I can no longer cover up the dawn. I, Chen Wen, will never allow it!"

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I remembered after I finished updating, and I wanted to say something to you when I wrote about the lack of morality.
Chapter completed!