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Chapter 33 Demolition of Donglin Academy

Qian Qianyi used to be a clean official, with a noble status but not much real power. Although he is an inspector, he can be regarded as an imperial envoy in a province. His rank is not high but his weight is no less than that of the governor.

On behalf of the emperor, he made a decision on major matters and made decisions on minor matters. Since he became a provincial inspector, he also had dozens of big flags such as "Tanhua Passing the Year", "Hanlin origin", "Ru Linlang", "Nanzhili Inspector Censor", "Admiral and Academician", etc., and he opened the way, and roared the gong and threw the whip. At this time, Qian Qianyi, who was sitting in the sedan chair and walking on the South Road of Qiuyu Jiangnan, was also majestic and added a lot of confidence.

However, his Donglin friend and student did not know that Qian Qianyi had already served as the inspector. They all thought that the Donglin leader would definitely be executed after being escorted to Beijing by the Dongchang people, and would even scold Zhu Youxiao.

Some even prepared the best nanmu coffin for Qian Qianyi, and his students even prepared mourning clothes. After Qian Qianyi was unyielding, they immediately ran to the Qian's ancestral hall to cry to show their respect for their loyalty and martyrdom.

Qian Qianyi was embarrassed to tell himself that his friends and students from the Donglin Party had changed their families.

Although he never wanted to die for the Donglin Party, as the former leader of Donglin, it is shameless to bring soldiers to destroy Donglin Academy after all.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi did not return to his hometown Changshu first, but went directly to Wuxi.

However, as the inspector of the Southern Zhili Censor, he was in charge of the academic and political affairs of a province. Since he arrived in Wuxi, the current courtyard of Donglin Academy, Chen Yuting, former left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, came directly outside the ten-mile pavilion to greet him after hearing the news.

"Now the treacherous ministers in the court are in power, the factory guards are rampant, Your Majesty trusts eunuchs, and countless loyal ministers have suffered a disaster. Now Mr. Qian will be the second Yang Zhonglie. We are really sad."

Chen Yuting stood outside the long pavilion wearing a Confucian robe, and said to Wang Shengyu, the magistrate of Wuxi County who came with him to welcome the new inspector.

As a student of Qian Qianyi, Wuxi County Magistrate Wang Shengyu naturally agreed with Chen Yuting's view that his mentor was about to win the name of loyalty and wise, but in addition, he had to show off and cried a few times:

"I'm sorry that my teacher has not achieved great success. I could have shown my ambitions. Now I'm framed by a thief. If possible, the student would rather not have his official position and live to pay for his mentor."

Chen Yuting naturally praised Wuxi County Magistrate Wang Shengyu's extremely kind and filial behavior, but when he saw the ceremonial guards appearing in front of him, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Chen Yuting rubbed his eyes, and then looked at the inspector and censor in the curtain. He was even more surprised and hurriedly pulled Wang Shengyu up: "Zilong, look, is that Mr. Muzhai?"

Wang Shengming, whose courtesy name is Zilong, was a juren who was admitted to Qian Qianyi in the year of Xinyou. He was also a fellow villager with Qian Qianyi's family, so he recognized Qian Qianyi. When he saw that the inspector was Qian Qianyi, he didn't think too much and immediately said happily: "It's his mentor."

Wang Shengming hurriedly ran over and gave a big gift: "Student Zilong pays his respects to his mentor."

Qian Qianyi originally wanted to secretly demolish Donglin Academy, but he didn't expect that the Wuxi County Magistrate would come to greet him in person. The key was his student. If it were normal, he would come down to encourage him, but now he dare not.

Anyway, he had many students, so it didn't matter if he didn't know this one. So Qian Qianyi ordered the soldiers to accompany the army to force the Wuxi County Magistrate Wang Shengming to the side of the road, and then walked directly to Donglin Academy.

Wang Shengming was stunned for a moment and asked Chen Yuting who was walking over: "Strange, since his mentor has not been framed and has become an official again, it should be worth celebrating, so why do you hide from us?"

"How can I know where I wait? But it's really hard to understand. Since the emperor hates the Donglin Party, why did he ask Mr. Muzhai to be the provincial inspector?" Chen Yuting said in surprise, "Why did he go directly to Donglin Academy? Does Mr. Muzhai want to go directly to Donglin Academy to tell the story of his reputation in front of the Donglin scholars that he was escorted to Beijing and strongly advise His Majesty?"

"Perhaps, I didn't expect that my teacher's visit to Beijing would be a blessing in disguise and became the person his Majesty was concerned about. In the future, our students will also have many benefits in their careers."

As Wang Shengming said that, he was excited to come to Donglin Academy with Chen Yuting.

...

When I heard that the scholars from Donglin Academy came to Donglin Academy, the scholars from Donglin Academy gathered outside the gate. For a moment, they were tall and tall and covered in big hats and fluttering clothes, which was as lively as a grand ceremony for literati.

However, Qian Qianyi did not prepare any wonderful speeches for these Donglin scholars. He waved his hand and asked, "Are the oil and firewood ready?"

"Go back to Master, you're ready."

Qian Qianyi nodded and saw countless scholars bowing to him. He didn't say he was rude and directly shouted: "After investigation, Donglin Academy talked about the country's affairs, and used the name of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness to steal the reputation and deceive the world, bewitched the scholars and slander the current emperor, but did not want to educate the villagers but colluded with the Tartars to do shameless things. Now, as a provincial inspector, this official has to demolish the Donglin Academy, which poisoned the country and country of the Ming Dynasty for the imperial court, and defiled the way of Confucius and Mencius, and came!"

"exist!"

A group of soldiers shouted in unison.

"Go in and search, and all the antiques and jade books were confiscated. After an hour, I burned the Donglin Academy for me! At the same time, I arrested Chen Yuting, Chen Mingxia, Xu Yifan and others who were lying about the country's affairs!"

With Qian Qianyi's order, countless soldiers rushed into Donglin Academy.

When a scholar met a soldier, he couldn't explain it clearly. He talked freely and even the emperor dared to curse him. The Donglin Party members didn't know what to do for a while.

It was not until they came back to their senses that these people looked at Qian Qianyi with resentful eyes, and the Donglin Party finally tasted the taste of being betrayed.

Qian Qianyi did not dare to look up at them, but there were still radical Donglin Party scholars rushed over and scolded Qian Qianyi for traitors. Fortunately, the soldiers around Qian Qianyi reacted in time and hurriedly protected Qian Qianyi. However, someone still hit Qian Qianyi's forehead and a lot of blood was immediately shed.

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but be furious. Since he had done such a thing, he simply gave up and broke up with the Donglin Party. So he brazenly ordered the soldiers to beat these Donglin scholars.

For a moment, the scholar and the soldiers were beaten together, but the pen could not beat the gun after all. In less than half an hour, all the scholars of the Donglin Party fell to the ground.

Not long after, the Donglin Academy in front of him was swallowed up by a fire. As the "holy land" of the Donglin Party, demolishing it was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the Donglin Party.

Zhu Youxiao asked Qian Qianyi to do this to completely divide them, and would not let them mature gradually and pose a huge threat to themselves, a dictator.

This is politics. The Donglin Party is selfish, and Zhu Youxiao himself is also considering his own Ming Dynasty, but it is just that he is more in line with the interests of China's progress.

Of course, in addition to this, Zhu Youxiao also successfully transferred the hatred of most people in the Donglin Party to Qian Qianyi.

Under Zhu Youxiao's arrangement, there was another shameless person in the world who was scolded by the Donglin Party, which made the Jiangnan gentry forget everything. In fact, he, the king.

At the same time, the Donglin Party members have no longer been a solid piece of the same body since then, especially for the young Donglin scholars, they have undoubtedly completely destroyed their beliefs. Even the dignified Donglin Kuishou, Mr. Muzhai, is so shameless. So are they all so noble?

The collapse of belief is undoubtedly a devastating blow to a political group.
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