The sharp whistle of the train made Jiang Guolin come to his senses. When he first got on the train, he was still shocked by the steel monster that was so sucking in the car, but after sitting in the car for a while, the novelty passed, and he still looked at several other books given by Tao Enpei.

They stayed in Shanghai for two days. In addition to seeing Shanghai's increasingly prosperous industry and commerce, they also saw the powerful force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The group of soldiers and enthusiastic people joined the army made them feel sad. Tens of millions of people in several provinces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have completely become fans of the thieves.

The books they have in their hands are indeed sold publicly in major bookstores and bookstores in Shanghai, and most of the people who come to buy books are scholars. Jiangsu and Zhejiang have always been rich, so there are many scholars. Jiang Guolin knew that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to win the hearts of scholars in the world. Although these books did not make the scholars fully support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Jiang Guolin believed that even if the government army fought back in the future, the scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang would not be as respectful as before. If the official army recovered Zhejiang, there seemed to be no better way for the scholars here except to kill them.

Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not destroy Buddhism and Confucianism like in Hunan and Hubei. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, he also saw temples and Taoist temples that were still incense. People began to admire the new Confucianism that emerged under the leadership of the Western King's Lady. This new Confucianism theory is to restore the old Confucianism before the late Ming Dynasty, eliminate the slave shackles imposed on Confucianism by the Qing Dynasty, and promote the theory of being practical and practical.

At the same time, the rise of industrial and commercial private capital in Shanghai and other places made Jiang Guolin see that Confucian families such as Yu Songnian were investing in industry and commerce. These Confucian students had no idea of ​​scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. They were not ashamed of doing business. On the contrary, many people actually applied the essence of Confucianism in doing business and regarded themselves as Confucian business.

The only thing that made Jiang Guolin feel gratified was that many schools were opened in Shanghai. The Book of Sages is listed as Chinese studies here, and the children studying here are completely free, which made Jiang Guolin feel that these rebels can no longer be called thieves. What they did was to regard themselves as new countries, and they were raising the people, rather than robbing them like thieves.

Through the car window, Jiang Guolin saw the traditional scenery of the fish and rice hometown between Su and Shanghai. Between the rivers and ports, there are large areas of endless rice fields. Now the summer rice is about to be harvested, and the heavy rice ears represent another bumper harvest. Many places in Su and Shanghai can already ripen two or three a year. Such a rich scene makes Jiang Guolin feel that the government army may never be able to fight back.

When the train arrived in Suzhou, it was as prosperous as Shanghai. Various goods transferred from the mainland were transported to Shanghai through here. Imported products from Shanghai were sold to the mainland through here. As the original base camp of the Taiping Army in the West Hall, what is more intense here than Shanghai is the political atmosphere. Jiang Guolin heard that hundreds of gentry from Suzhou had jointly written to the King of the West, asking the King of the West to return to Suzhou to take charge, abandon Jinling City, and establish Suzhou as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. This surprised Jiang Guolin. The gentry here actually supported the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom so much that he had completely given up on the Qing court.

Compared with the Qing Dynasty, Jiang Guolin could not see the miserable world. Although there were poor people under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, the heavenly kingdom always allowed the poor to work, build roads, mines and go to factories to work as workers. In short, no one could get it without work. The Chinese people are famous for being patient. As long as they can have food and clothing, they will not rebel. Jiang Guolin knows this well, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom seems to have done better. Every place has a minimum wage system, which stipulates that the wages earned by the workers cannot be less than this amount, and it is clearly stipulated that the working people should not work for more than five hours a day.

Jiang Guolin felt that the military and civilians under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did live better than the Qing Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not fully implement the so-called "being with fields" together. Jiang Guolin found that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom drove most of the people without land into factories, mines or to build bridges and roads. The most common things seen in various places were recruitment notices and night school classes of certain types of jobs. People without crafts can learn crafts there, and then start to enter factories and mines to work.

Jiang Guolin couldn't help but think secretly, why can't this be done under the Qing Dynasty? Then he realized that the Qing Dynasty always emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, and the preferential policies obtained by industry and commerce in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are unimaginable. Any wealthy gentry with spare money in the family is investing in industry and commerce to make money. However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom restricted the land purchase and sale. The wealthy gentry here could not buy large tracts of land like the one under the Qing Dynasty. There was very little land available for purchase on the market, so they invested the money they earned in new factories or mines.

Suzhou, Wuxi, Zhenjiang and then to Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin walked around the richest place of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The more they walked, the more confused they felt. Isn’t the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a place where people live in harmony is exactly what he had dreamed of? Could it be that the Qing Dynasty had been exhausted and replaced by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

After arriving in Tianjing, the so-called prisoner offering ceremony was not arranged to humiliate them. Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin both breathed a sigh of relief. The most important thing for scholars was to face. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom retained their face. They were arranged to live in a house, which was under house arrest, but no one summoned them. All day long, the two could only pass the time by reading books and newspapers sent by guard soldiers.

Jiang Guolin’s favorite reading is Shen Bao. Although this newspaper is not as early as the Sufu Xinbao, it often criticized the governance problems of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which opened his eyes. If it were under the Qing Dynasty, such newspapers would have been investigated as major cases. At first, Jiang Guolin was worried about the safety of the people who wrote these articles, but for several days, this person has been published in the newspapers, and it is obvious that this person is still alive and lively.

The most popular thing I have read recently is the case of factories occupying civil land published in the Current Affairs Column of Shenbao. The article reveals that many local officials and local gentry under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom colluded with each other to occupy privately, forcibly buy and sell, and forcibly requisition civil land as factory land, causing many civilians to lose their land and lose their source of income, etc.

At first, Jiang Guolin believed that since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom encouraged industry and commerce, he must turn a blind eye to such matters, and may even be left alone. However, a few days later, Shen Bao published several places that were jointly investigated and punished by the Industrial Department and the Agricultural Department, and dealt with the invasion of civil land. Several illegal gentry were severely punished, and several officials were dismissed from their posts and investigated. Shen Bao finally used a passage from the Western King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: "The country encourages industry and commerce, which is limited to the national policy and laws. No one can trample on the private industries under the protection of national laws. If there is one day of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this method is effective..."

Jiang Guolin experienced it for a while before he realized that this was the Western King's plot. He tied the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime. With the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it could protect the people and their private property. However, if the Qing Dynasty came back, everything that everyone had may no longer exist. How open and honest the Western King's plot was played without any trace? Jiang Guolin was even more sure that the Qing Dynasty could not defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The house arrest for several consecutive days made Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin become more and more depressed and irritable. Whether to kill or cut is just one sentence, what is this? On the eighth day, the two were finally taken out and boarded the carriage. It is said that they went to the procuratorate of the Ministry of Justice next to the Confucius Temple in Tianjing for trial.

Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin were very strange. Who was the two of them going to be heard? Outside the Procuratorate Office, there were already crowds of people, and many of them were ordinary people. When they entered the yamen, a huge courtyard was filled with people who were hearing the trial. Several tables were arranged, with tables and chairs on both sides. The two words were judged on the table in the center, the two words were prosecuted on the right, and the two words were defendant on the left.

Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin stood under the bedroom and recognized that Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui were sitting in the dock. Then more than ten officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom arrived and each sat down. Several foreigners in suits sat aside to listen to the trial. Jiang Guolin thought to himself that he was going to try Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui, but what did the people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ask the foreigners to do?

Wang Kai, who brought them over, said indignantly: "I heard that the ministers of Britain, France, the United States and other countries reported in succession in recent days, saying that they were asking their friends Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui to be lenient. These two dog officials not only killed many innocent people, but also became lackeys of foreigners."

Jiang Guolin suddenly realized, but he didn't find it strange that foreigners from Britain, France, the United States and other countries came out to protect Ye Mingchen. Ye Du finally cooperated with foreigners in Guangzhou, and it was not surprising that the foreigners gang leader was in trouble at this time.

The trial then began. Officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, standing in the prosecution seat, stood up and read out the complaint of nearly 30,000 words. The ones mentioned were all the crimes of Ye Mingchen killing tens of thousands of innocent people during the Tiandihui Uprising in Guangdong. The prosecutor then summoned dozens of survivors of the Holocaust from Guangdong and Fujian as witnesses, and presented more than ten black and white photos taken by British journalists, as well as testimony and testimony from dozens of Qing army generals and soldiers.

Faced with the tearful accusations of the surviving people, Ye Mingchen looked pale and sat there trembling constantly. Bai Gui was not much better. Finally, when the people who were hearing the scene shouted angrily: "Kill these two dog officials!", Bai Gui suddenly collapsed into his seat.

Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin both felt a little reluctant to continue watching. I remember that both of them had advised Ye Du not to expand the killing. Many innocent people were killed just because they were neighbors with rebels. If the soldiers were to harm the countryside, they would lose the people's hearts. But at that time, Ye Du was very determined and said that he would rather kill a hundred mistakes than let one go. So in addition to the family of the rebels, tens of thousands of innocent people died under the purge of the Qing army. For this reason, Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin also submitted memorials to impeach Ye Mingchen, but the memorial was sank to the sea and there was no news.

Faced with the shouts of many people, the foreigners who were hearing the trial felt very embarrassed. Faced with a large amount of detailed evidence and witness testimony, they had nothing to say. Massacre of tens of thousands of innocent people in their own country is an unimaginable felonial crime in Britain, France, the United States and other countries, and they couldn't mention anything else. This is a fair trial and there is nothing to blame.

In the end, Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui were sentenced to death on the spot. Jiang Guolin didn't think it was wrong. He only thought of four words, which was that this report should be... (To be continued...)
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