prosperous age

Chapter 318 317 Suzhou "Evil Younger" Incident

"There is no big or small matter in the government, and the envoy must be asked to ask."

Seeing that Prince Yu's Mansion was still extremely dependent after Gao Gong left, Wei Guangde was both envious and disappointed, so he also had the idea of ​​not entering the Prince Yu's Mansion as an errand.

According to the current situation of King Yu's Mansion, even if he enters King Yu's Mansion, he will only become a trafficman between King Yu and Gao Gong. He is really not sure of taking Gao Gong's place in King Yu's heart.

For nine years, Gao Gong stayed with King Yu for nine years in Yuwang Mansion, which is definitely not something that can be easily forgotten.

However, before Wei Guangde had time to find Gao Gong, a [-]-fire memorial from Nanzhili was sent to the court, which once again triggered a major earthquake in the court. Everyone was shocked by the content of the memorial. It was so unexpected.

"On the tenth day of the first month of November, each armed with a long knife and a huge axe, they attacked Wu County, Changzhou, and Suzhou Wei at night, robbed the prisoners, made noise, attacked the capital procuratorate, and broke in. The governor of Yingtian, Weng Dali, fled across the wall with his wife. Go. The "evil young men" then set fire to the yamen, and the edicts, talisman signs, "Ling" characters, and flag boards that Weng Dali had entrusted were all destroyed in one moment. The magistrate Wang Daoxing and the supervisors bravely arrested them. At dawn, all the "evil youngsters" rushed straight to the Fengmen Gate, broke through the pass, and fled into Taihu Lake."

Who would have thought that such a thing would happen in the wealthy Suzhou Mansion?

Brazenly gathering hundreds of people to attack the governor's office, forcing the governor Weng Dali to flee over the wall with his wife.

You know, the governor's guard of honor is given by the emperor, representing the emperor, and the governor's place is Daitian herdsmen. If they dare to besiege the governor's yamen, they will besiege the emperor.

Not to mention the governor Yingtian's yamen, he wanted to attack the Suzhou government office and plunder the government treasury. Fortunately, the Suzhou prefect Wang Daoxing was brave enough not to be surprised, and summoned troops to arrest the rioters along the street. The thief escaped from Suzhou City and fled into Taihu Lake.

The official circles in the capital were shaken. Immediately after the news spread, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate had a collective climax. Everyone rushed back to their respective guards and began to write memorials. Such a catastrophe happened, which shows that he is really mediocre.

As a censor, what he does is to swear at people. Swearing at people for no reason is to attract people's hatred, but such a big thing happened, and naturally there are sufficient reasons for impeachment.

As for why such a catastrophe happened, it was still in Suzhou Mansion, and no one paid attention to it for the time being.

When Wei Guangde got the news, he was still reading in the public room of the Hanlin Academy, and when he heard the news from Lu Bu, he was also shocked by Lei.

Wei Guangde's first thought was the same as other censors, to impeach Weng Dali, even if there are various reasons, Weng Dali's guilt cannot be escaped.

Governor Yingtian was able to cause civil unrest, but his level was not good enough.

However, Wei Guangde was also very curious, how could there be so many ruthless people in Suzhou Mansion, and they were a little too courageous, the governor's yamen is really not an ordinary place, can they make trouble?

"Do you know what's going on in Suzhou? Who are those rioters?"

Wei Guangde doesn't believe that the officials in the capital are ignorant of the actual situation below because of their unparalleled methods, let alone Suzhou, where there are quite a few officials from Suzhou who are officials in Beijing, so they should know something more or less.

Even if they don't know that there are people in Suzhou who are going to make trouble, it's impossible for them not to know something about those people in the family letter.

Regarding Wei Guangde's question, Lu Bu naturally shook his head and didn't know it.

When he heard the news, he came back and reported it immediately. It was good to remember what happened.

How can people of their level know the details.

"Go outside and inquire to see if there is any news about troublemakers in Suzhou Mansion. Who are they making troubles and why are they making troubles?"

Wei Guangde could only give one order, but it's hard to say anything else.

Although Wei Guangde is holding a post in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he has not yet become a mad dog, and he has not reached the level of crazily biting his political achievements in the future, so although he also has the idea of ​​impeaching Weng Dali in the memorial, Wei Guangde intends to figure out the situation first before working together. Impeach.

During lunch, Wei Guangde asked Zhang Jiye to inquire about the news.

At this time, in Xiyuan Yongshou Palace, Emperor Jiajing had already received the news, and he was sitting on the throne at the moment watching the drafted memorial just sent by the cabinet.

After a long time, Emperor Jiajing said: "Order Weng Dali to take his crimes and exterminate them within a time limit, so as to calm the local people."
Hmph, is Weng Dali still trustworthy?
If he is capable, how can he stir up civil uprisings, and disappear without notice beforehand. "

Weng Dali, whose name is Rushen and whose name is Jianhai, is a 17-year Jinshi in Jiajing and a native of Yuyao.

Before, Emperor Jiajing felt that Weng Dali was a trustworthy person, and that he was safe and thoughtful during his official career in Shandong, so he was transferred from Shandong Zuo Buzheng to governor Yingtian and Suzhou prefectures as the right deputy capital censor.

It's just that he didn't expect that he would cause such a big mess after going to Yingtian for a year.

"Have the documents from Jin Yiwei been delivered?"

The incident happened suddenly, and Jin Yiwei didn't get an informant in advance, so Lu Bing didn't warn in advance.

Lu Bing only got the news when the memorial was sent to the General Political Department. He just handed over the note to the palace and began to investigate the identity and background of the chief culprit. The information will be reported later.

Although civil rebellion incidents emerged endlessly during the Jiajing Dynasty, whether it was the White Lotus Sect uprising in Shanxi, or the ethnic minority rebellion in Guangxi and Guangdong, and there were also riots in the interior from time to time, none of them were as serious as this incident.

The rioters broke into the governor's yamen and burned the governor's ceremonial guards such as edicts, talismans and flags. The nature is really extremely bad.

If in the follow-up, Emperor Jiajing cannot provide the complete background of the whole incident and other details, Lu Bing may not be able to hold it.

Emperor Jiajing was very face-saving, but now, after he felt that his authority was trampled by a group of mobs, he found that he didn't know anything about it.

Who are they?

Why do you do this?
Suzhou is a rich place, as the saying goes, "Troublemakers come out of poor mountains and bad waters", they should not appear in Suzhou Prefecture.

This, perhaps, is a microcosm of Jiangnan. What does Jiangnan look like now?
After receiving Huang Jin's answer of shaking his head, Emperor Jiajing knew that Lu Bing should not be perfunctory with his official duties at this moment, and he was afraid that he had not received the following report.

Under the leadership of Lu Bing, Jin Yiwei has actually been doing pretty well.

This time maybe there was really no sign of it before, so after the incident, Jin Yiwei below knew that the matter was a big deal, so they didn't dare to report it casually, maybe they would also collect relevant information below and report it together. Otherwise, Jin Yiwei's family law is also known for being ruthless.

Emperor Jiajing was noncommittal about the cabinet's proposal, and directly threw the memorial in his hand on the imperial book case.

The emperor didn't make a statement, and Huang Jin didn't dare to criticize it, but carefully put the memorial in the middle of the imperial book case, which meant that the memorial was temporarily retained.

In the eyes of the outside world, arresting these bandits who fled into Taihu Lake should be the top priority at this time, but in the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, this is not the case at all.

After the incident, the prefect of Suzhou was able to calmly summon soldiers and bravely arrest the rioters along the street, which is enough to show that these people have no fighting power at all, but they are just a group of mobs.

But no matter what, they captured the governor's residence, and Weng Dali, a waste, was so unbearable.

There is absolutely no problem in handing over the handling of these rioters to the local government, but he must know the cause of the incident, and whether the entire Jiangnan prefectures are now the same as the Suzhou government, which has great public grievances.

It has been many years since the Japanese rebellion was suppressed, and Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese pirates, is still in prison, but the Japanese rebellion has not been wiped out.

Wang Zhi, it's useless.

Emperor Jiajing also woke up at this time.

Wang Zhi had not been executed before, because Emperor Jiajing also hoped that the Japanese pirates would be wary, and having their leader in the hands of the court might restrain them.

But now it seems that Hu Zongxian's idea is wrong.

It is certain that the people in the south of the Yangtze River will be filled with grievances because of the additional taxation and lijin. Emperor Jiajing has also read similar memorials.

However, he has no choice. If the money is not collected, the imperial court will have no money to pay the army. The guards are extremely powerful, and Hu Zongxian reported that Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang compiled and trained the Zhejiang New Army. Some people do not have much combat effectiveness. , still have to rely on the greedy people in the guards to serve.

Money is the courage of a hero. The reason why those guards who can fight don't run away is because there will be reward money after each battle.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing had the idea that he could not allow Jiangnan to continue to develop like this, but first of all he had to understand the real situation of the state capitals in Jiangnan.

It seems that a trustworthy person has to be sent down to have a look.

Going through the Jinyiwei system was originally the best way, but Jiangnan is now at the helm of Hu Zongxian, and when Yan Song is involved, Emperor Jiajing dare not fully trust Lu Bing's integrity.

How did Zhao Wenhua die?

He tried to let him go, but he died in the end.

Although Emperor Jiajing didn't ask much, he still had his own judgment in his heart.

As for Zhao Wenhua's family, since they are dead, there is nothing to worry about. This is why the family ransacked their homes and their children and grandchildren repaid embezzled public funds from generation to generation.

Emperor Jiajing actually knew what the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River was like now.

With such an environment, Hu Zongxian was afraid that he would not be clean there, and he asked Jin Yiwei to go out to investigate, but he didn't know what he would report.

Emperor Jiajing had long given up extravagant expectations of official conduct.

Now his requirements are not high, that is, to manage the people under his rule well, and to do the official duties entrusted by the court. As long as there is no trouble, he doesn't bother to take care of it.

However, the Suzhou government incident made him start to be vigilant. After years of suppressing the Japanese in Jiangnan, he was afraid that the sentiment of the people had reached a critical point.

Send someone to see, who to send?
Officials of northern origin or southern origin?

Everything was being quickly calculated in Emperor Jiajing's mind, but nothing showed on his face. In the eyes of Huang Jin and other eunuchs, the emperor was in a daze now, as if he had been hit because of the Suzhou Mansion incident.

As news from Jiangnan continued to arrive in the capital, the truth about the Suzhou Mansion gradually spread. At this time, Wei Guangde also knew the reason for the incident.

Since the outbreak of the Japanese Rebellion in the 31st year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates fled to the suburbs of Suzhou from time to time, and the Suzhou government recruited local strong men to fight against the Japanese.

As the government paid more and more attention to and invested in the suppression of Japanese pirates, it became more and more difficult for Japanese pirates to enter the inland prefectures except for wreaking havoc in coastal prefectures and counties. Since then, the civil volunteers called by the Suzhou government will naturally need to be abolished.

However, when the volunteers were summoned at the beginning, they didn't realize who they were calling.

Since the Hongzhi Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the landlords in the south of the Yangtze River have become increasingly luxurious, the social atmosphere has become increasingly corrupt, and the middle and lower local gentlemen have become hooligans.

The sons and daughters of rich and powerful officials, unemployed scholars, and unemployed ruffians in Suzhou City, some of them do nothing all day long, colluding with local hooligans and local ruffians who do not want to produce, relying on their power to run amok, idle around at the end of the streets, and gather together Fighting, drinking, and sex with prostitutes are fun, seriously disturbing the local social order.

People call these gangsters with local gentry backgrounds "Evil Young Masters", and they also have various nicknames such as "Daxing", "Zhahuo", and "Baila".

This group of people either "show off their bravery, snatching relatives, resisting widows, raising gods, and defrauding other illegal deeds are common among generations." Or "privately opened a dental shop, merchants passed by, tried every means to lure them, and they did not spend their money." Ordinary people who were bullied, some "cryed home with bare hands, some were hungry and complained, and were beaten." Harmful.

The Japanese plague is on the rise, and this group of people took the opportunity to participate in local volunteers, wearing uniforms of officers and soldiers, but they continued to harass the people.

In fact, Weng Dali, the governor of Yingtian, didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but he ordered the prefectures and counties to deal with them severely, supervised the prefectures and counties to arrest all the villains, and listed the names of the leaders.

This is a policy to protect the environment and the people, but I just don't want to be known by these "evil youngsters" in advance. After all, many of their leaders are "second generations" and they are very well-informed.

Frightened, all the "evil youngsters" drank blood to form an alliance, wiped their foreheads with white scarves, each armed with long knives and giant axes, and attacked Wu County, Changzhou and Suzhou Wei by night, robbing prisoners, making noise, attacking the capital's procuratorate, and hacking Entering through the door, Weng Dali and his wife fled across the wall.

All the villains are getting more and more powerful, and the people who are rehabilitating want to rob the Suzhou government and plunder the government treasury.

You must know that the wealth of the Second Mansion of Su and Song Dynasty is the highest in the world, and the wealth stored in the treasury is also very amazing, not to mention the taxes and levies collected by Hu Zongxian from Nanzhili, and a lot of lijin are stored here.

Fortunately, Wang Daoxing, the magistrate of Suzhou, acted resolutely and summoned troops to suppress it, so no greater disaster occurred.

Knowing the details, although he knew that what Weng Dali did was normal, but after all, it was hard to absolve himself of the blame for this incident. Wei Guangde still wrote a letter of impeachment as the supervisory censor of Fujian Province.

Knowing that evil is rare, doing evil, not being careful in advance, and not being fully prepared, it can be seen that his ability to deal with emergencies is poor, and it is not easy to continue to serve as the governor of Yingtian.

At this time, as the truth of the incident spread to the court, the impeachment of Weng Dali by Beijing officials, especially the colleagues of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, has dropped sharply.

It's a bit more serious in doing things, but there is nothing wrong with it in essence.

Wei Guangde's letter of impeachment at this time still attracted the attention of many people.

After all, Wei Guangde's record in filing complaints is still brilliant.

(End of this chapter)