In the early morning, Jinling City had just ushered in the rising sun. The thick city gate slowly opened. The beggars and wanderers who were leaning against the walls began to enter the city continuously.

Wang Yongguang, the Minister of War of the Nanjing Ministry of War, has always loved the people, so he did not restrict these people from going to the city to ask for food because of the emperor, Zhu Youxiao, who came to Nanjing.

But today's difference is that these beggars or wanderers do not scatter their food. Some weavers who have worked in wealthy families and have seen a certain world and may know a few words, took them to Sanshan Street.

As we walked, we saw more and more people gathered from alleys, and the crowd increased from dozens to hundreds to thousands, and even tens of thousands.

When you cross Sanshan Street and arrive at the prosperous area of ​​Nanjing, you can see a large crowd of people coming from all directions, and the directions of Jian'anfang and Taiping Bridge are already shoulder to shoulder.

These people were either full of indignation, colorless, or mournful; most were ragged or short straw sandals, but if you carefully observe, you will find that there were also gangsters or slaves with flesh on their faces, ordinary people holding iron-wrapped sticks in their hands, and even those with sharp blades hidden, and their eyes were fiercely shining at the shops or neighborhood houses on the surrounding streets and alleys.

The officers, soldiers and yamen runners who were inspecting ignored this or did not take it seriously. They simply took a detour when they saw a lot of people.

On the Huitong Bridge, Chen Mingxia, under the escort of several slaves, shouted loudly to the people in the city surrounding him:

"Dear Yingtian Prefecture's fellow villagers, now the treacherous ministers in the court are in power and poison the people's wealth. First, they start businesses to collect taxes to seize the people's profits, and then set up a royal weaving bureau to seize the weaving industry in Jiangnan. Countless workshops have been ruined, and millions of weaving workers have no food and clothing, so they have to beg for, sell their children and daughters to live;

My Duke Dong is a great man, and I have always pity the poor and weak. I can't bear to see the people in Jiangnan displaced, so I took advantage of the opportunity of His Majesty's southern tour and Chen Jiangnan's true situation in front of the imperial court. Unexpectedly, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet Li Mingrui did not ask about the mistakes of Dong, and he killed Duke Dong without asking about it. This is the great hatred of the scholars and people in Jiangnan. If I don't kill Li Mingrui, a treacherous minister, we will continue to be in the midst of fire!"

At the same time, on the Jinling New Floating Bridge, Fang Dayou and Mao Pijiang also stood on the bridgehead and shouted to the people on both sides of the bridgehead, under the bridge:

"It is difficult to get up early and go to bed late; it is difficult to have a thatched hut when you eat porridge and bran, and it is difficult to get hungry when you eat belly. Why is this!

The reason is that the current dynasty is chaotic, corrupt officials are rampant, and there are treacherous ministers such as Qian Qianyi, Li Mingrui, and Lu Xiangsheng; the eunuchs Wang Chengen, Wei Zhongxian and others are arrogant because of favor, deceive the emperor, corrupt and abuse of power, and seize the people's wealth; I, Jiangnan, are a prosperous place in the world, and the people do not know famine, and scholars do not know the hatred of the country, but once Wei Zhongxian comes, my Jiangnan literati was scolded as a straw dog;

The people in Jiangnan were also mocked as selfish and shameless, but think about it carefully, who made your family have to sell houses and land to live in a small shed, and who made you who could have received wages to drink wine on the Qinhuai River but now have to beg for life, they are all! They are the royal weaving houses of the eunuchs, and Li Mingrui, the treacherous minister who killed Mr. Dong!”

Mao Pijiang also hurriedly shouted: "Scholars and people in Jiangnan, now Your Majesty is in our Jinling City. Let us meet Your Majesty like you were a corrupt official who met the high emperor hundreds of years ago, let Your Majesty know our injustice, and let Your Majesty punish these treacherous and slanderous people!"

At this time, Fang Dayou and Mao Pijiang's slaves rushed to echo, shouting slogans such as "eliminating treacherous slander", "killing Li Mingrui", "repaying Dong Gong's innocence", and "abdicating the Royal Weaving Bureau".

Suddenly, the unemployed people who had been suppressed for a long time due to the intensification of social contradictions also responded, shouting slogans, each of them was filled with blood, as if they were full of anger and needed to be vented. They were red eyes and clenched their fists.

In the Jiangnan literati land, Chen Mingxia, Fang Dayou, Mao Pijiang and other literati have already controlled the right to speak here, so it is easy to incite the people to hate the government.

The people did not understand the specific interests here. Their intuitive experience told them that it was the government's over-examination and taxation that led to their displaced now. In addition, after hearing the logical instigation of these literati, they felt that this was the case.

Therefore, Li Mingrui, Wei Zhongxian and others were regarded as haters by the people, while Chen Mingxia and others seemed to have a supreme sense of accomplishment because of this. They felt that they truly represented the people's hearts and the truth.

In this way, coupled with the effect of herd mentality, the whole crowd became crazy and turned into a huge crowd movement; the earth-shaking shouts began to sound on the main roads of the Nanjing City.

I don’t know who taught me, but some people started to use strips of black text on white background to pull up banners with words like “Dong Gong is so shameless and injustice, not killing Li Mingrui is not enough to quell the public’s anger”.

Some of the market scholars who had not originally planned to participate also joined. As the abortion of people rolled over and over the years, the scholars began to think that if they didn't join, they would be treacherous eunuchs.

And gradually, people who think they are the truth begin to force others to join in, and if they don’t join in, they will scold or beat them.

Some people even took advantage of this chaos to steal or rush into the store to rob, saying that these were all run by corrupt officials.

Some shop merchants were frightened and wanted to close the store immediately, but they were still rushed in by angry people, robbed or smashed, and there was chaos!

This scene is not only performed in Jinling City.

Wang Siren has always been very famous in Shaoxing Prefecture. Under his leadership, students and even juren from the entire Shaoxing Prefecture and County Schools began to gather in front of the government offices or county offices to shout for justice. Gradually, some people even joined in, which gradually turned into an unstoppable movement.

Chen Jiru could no longer control the situation in Songjiang Prefecture at this time. He seemed to feel that someone was using this to make trouble, but he could not stop because he wanted to speak up for the Ming Dynasty and his friend Dong Qichang.

Even Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places have begun to strike, and the people have gone on strike to the streets to surround the yamen and cause trouble.

Therefore, theft, robbery, beating, murder and other evil things that were often found in various places have begun to become the norm.

A movement called yelling for justice has also turned into a turmoil. The government offices in various places were blocked and some innocent small businessmen or people who just wanted to live a stable life were bullied.

It seemed that just one night, the entire peaceful Jiangnan changed.

No one knows whether this was a long-deliberate conspiracy, or whether it was really caused by the chaos in the court and the long-standing resentment of the people. But it is true that the richest Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty was in chaos!

At this time, the Dongchang and local governments also began to pass the news into the Forbidden City, waiting for the ruling of Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
Chapter completed!