Chapter 42 Vicious Circle (Part 1)

"In early July, the Criminal Bureau convicted the case for the crime of treason. The students cried and called for the wronged, and scolded Boyan Shouzhong for harming others and himself. Only Liu Chen stood up and bowed north, saying loudly: "We came to kill the thief, and we only regret not fulfilling our complete achievements. Why are there any wronged?" So he was ready to kill, and the color of death changed a lot."

"The people who went to the mission on the same day were seven people, including Zheng Yu, Wang Han, Yao Run, Wang Mo, and Wang Feng, and there were 43 servants of his servants. The emperor heard about it in Dadu and cried, but he refused to eat all day long. The Censor and Chief Censor asked the statues of all students to be established at the Confucius Temple in Dadu forever. The treacherous minister Ha Ma was afraid that the army in the south was strong, so he blocked it. This proposal was dismissed. The emperor once wrote the name of seven people on his clothes and lapels. When he was hunting in the north, he still recited them every day." "The Later Zizhi Tongjian·The Yuan Dynasty·The Biography of the Loyal Ministers and the Chivalrous Man" by Zhao Yi.

"Before this incident, we can clearly see that Zhu Chongjiu was full of strong nationalism and idealism. However, since then, he has no essential difference with the peasant uprisingers who have paid dividends in the past dynasties. He just got the final success by chance." "Oriental History", author George Gordon Byron.

"This incident shows that when capitalism and feudalism collide, it will inevitably be full of darkness and blood. However, its final outcome is the progress of history and human society. However, the fatal flaw of the capitalist system itself leads to such progress becoming conservative and reactionary. Therefore, a new, scientific system that can fully protect freedom of speech will replace the increasingly decaying old system, which we call, communism." "Original Capital·Oriental Volume" Karl Marx.

"Does there be boundaries of freedom of speech? This question has been with us since the freedom of speech was proposed. After studying countless typical cases in history, we found that this boundary is real, that is, first, freedom of speech must be based on not harming others. Second, freedom of speech must not involve violent actions. Third, freedom of speech is two-way, and one party cannot be asked to shut up with the freedom of one party, otherwise freedom of speech will not be worthy of its name." "Politics Theory", author, Xiong Shili.

"When unarmed people try to denounce their demands from force, they cannot expect that the other party will put down their weapons and kill them." Author of "National History and Nation", Dameng Shusheng

"From ancient times to the present, any regime will instinctively reveal its fangs when it involves its survival." "Miscellaneous Notes of Baicao Garden", author, Lu Wen

"He died. At the moment he was shot, the hero was dead. After that, he was rescued, but he was nothing more than a coward wearing a hero's skin. He could only use killing to cover up his timidity." "The Birth of Tyranny", author, Liang Qichao

Later generations of Chinese and foreign scholars talked about the assassination that occurred in Jiangning in the early years of Long Feng. There was great controversy over whether it was the cause or the final method of handling it.

Some people believe that the result of the case was the second persecution of Confucianism in history, and its cruelty was no less than that of Qin Shihuang burning books and burying scholars. Some people believe that those Confucian scholars and their servants who were executed deserved the crimes, because according to the laws and people's perceptions at that time, whether they were verbally or put into practice, it was a crime of family punishment. The Huaiyang General Administration only killed the main culprits and accomplices who were caught on the spot, which showed kindness. If the seven Confucian scholars planned the plan for the Mongol Yuan emperor Tuohuan Timur, not only them and the servants present, but also their family members and their families would be uprooted, and none of them would be spared from the 80-year-old man to the infant in the cradle.

These two views have their own opinions and have been arguing for many years. Every once in a while, they will be noisy. Later, they will spread to the whole world and are repeatedly discussed by philosophers, thinkers and historians.

As the saying goes, when looking at it from the horizontal, it becomes a peak. When future generations discuss it, they inevitably stand on their own standpoint and perspective, and conceal or enlarge certain details. As a result, the originally not-so-complex cases become more and more confusing, so that hundreds of years later, there are still many film and television and literary works, which are born as templates, and each adaptation can attract countless attention.

However, these excitement belonged to later generations. At that time, Zhu Chongjiu and Liu Bowen did not have enough time to think about it. Their purpose was very simple. They should end the assassination as soon as possible, weaken its influence to the lowest level, calm the entire Huaiyang area, and then calm the turmoil around Huaiyang.

Their purpose was basically achieved. After the mastermind of the assassination case was forced to be on the heads of several corrupt scholars, not only the civil and military officials from Huaiyang breathed a sigh of relief, but the other princes around him instantly put their hearts back into their stomachs.

Although the princes knew very well that a few corrupt scholars alone would definitely not cause such a big storm, at this moment, no one would take the initiative to jump out and sing a counter-topic with the Huaiyang General Administration. The corrupt scholars were loyal to the Mongolian Yuan, not their ministers, so they did not have to force themselves. In addition, at this critical moment, they jumped out to call for justice for those corrupt scholars. Isn’t it obvious that Zhu Chongjiu was not involved in the assassination case and he had to be kicked by a donkey in his head so that he had to send it to the gun mouth of the Huai'an Army.

No one who can take the position of princes in one place is stupid. On the contrary, they are far smarter than ordinary people and know better how to seize opportunities than ordinary people. On the fourth day after the Huaiyang General Administration announced the death sentence of several corrupt scholars, they had already shrunk all their troops to Pingjiang. Zhang Shicheng from both Hangzhou immediately dispersed his team again, and at the same time sent a handwritten order to confiscate all the property of the assassin who was from his territory. Their disciples and disciples, in the same year, all those who had close contacts deprived them of their family property and expelled them to the territory of the Mongols and let them die.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was waiting for trouble all day long, also responded quickly, and sent all the two Confucian scholars under his rule, as well as dozens of other Confucian scholars who refused to serve as loyalty and still regarded the Yuan Dynasty as the official official, to confiscate their homes, and their clan members were taken to the mines to serve, and they would not be released for life.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Bowen, Peng Yingyu, Zhao Pusheng and others also took similar actions one after another. While sending envoys to Yangzhou to visit the disease, while taking advantage of the excuse of capturing the assassin's remnants, under their respective rule, launched an unprecedented purge, and all the crazy people who refused to cooperate with them were criticized as "assassin's remnants" and arrested and imprisoned.

For a time, from the south of the Yellow River, all areas controlled by the Red Turban Army were in panic, and the "remnants" of the princes, their homes were confiscated and forced to serve hard labor were far more than the number of assassins themselves dealt with by the Huaiyang General Administration, so that in the streets, alleys, teahouses and wine shops, it was hard to hear the voices of political discussions. Neighbors met by chance on the road and looked at each other.

The only one who reacted slowly was the Mongol Yuan court. When the news that Zhu Tuhu was lucky enough to die reached Dadu, the private soldiers led by Chahan Timur and Li Siqi had already fought with the Fourth Army of the Huai'an Army in north and south of the Yellow River. In the previous battle, the five thousand soldiers who smuggled across the river were killed by Chen Dechen Zhishan, the deputy commander of the Fourth Army. In the next battle, the Fourth Army took advantage of the victory to chase two brigades north of the Yellow River, but fell into a dilemma between Chahan and Li Siqi.

"These two idiots, I just asked them to find fighter planes on their own, but they didn't ask them to get angry." Prime Minister Hama was so scared that he shivered when he received the "good news" from Shanzhou. He threw Bingcui Feitian, who had just spent a lot of money to buy it back for less than three days, and was immediately crushed to pieces.

"Sir, be careful, Bingcui is prone to pricking her feet." Several loyal servants rushed forward immediately, and while supporting Hama, he walked to the chair not far away, he brought a dustpan and a broom to carefully clean up the fragments of Bingcui on the ground.

Their kindness was not rewarded. Prime Minister Hama, like crazy, kicked the servants close to him one by one to the ground, and his hands were covered in blood. "Silly donkey, stupid donkey with no brains and eyes. I am careful not to be careful, and I have to teach you. Get out and get out and get the board. I don't want to see you today."

"Yes, sir." The slaves were beaten, but they did not dare to complain. They bent their bodies and greeted Hama's big feet with their backs, while continuing to quickly clean up the glass scraps on the ground. "Stop your anger, sir, sir, sir, sir, just pick up the boards by yourself. Don't stretch your thighs."

"Get out." Hama heard this and could no longer kick it. He put his feet away with hatred and drank unhappily: "Hurry up and get out of here after you finish it. The board will be recorded in the account first, and the crime will be doubled another day."

"Thank you for your kindness, so let's get out now." The slaves were overjoyed and kowtowed in enduring the pain on their bodies.

"If you want to get out, hurry up and close the door for me." Hama frowned impatiently and continued to scold. A Bingcui Feitian is worth ten strings of Yangzhou's good money. Although it is not expensive, what is rare is Feitian's shape, that chest, that butt, and half-covered clothes. In order to make money, this Yangzhou vendor really wants to even want his face.

Thinking of the word "making money", his heart shivered for no reason, gritted his teeth, and whispered, "Call Chen Zongjun to me, invite me to me, and ask him to come over to prepare books for me."

"Yes." The servants agreed in unison, and walked backwards with the glass scrap full of dustpans. After a while, the door of the house was pushed open from outside again. Chen Liang, a counselor hired by Hama, hurriedly walked in with a folding fan, and said, "Subordinate Chen Liang, have met the adults, I wish him."

"Forgive!" Hama waved his hand and ordered generously, "No need to be polite between you and me. I came to you today. I asked you to write a warrant for Chahan Timur for me, asking them to surround three and one, let them go to the south, and let Chen Zhishan withdraw the team himself."

"Yes, sir." Chen Liang agreed loudly without thinking, then walked to the desk and started grinding the ink. However, halfway through the ink, his arm slowly stopped, "Sir"

"You don't need to ask, just give them an order." Hama frowned in anger, and added loudly, "With a 100,000 army surrounding the other six thousand-man teams, he and Li Siqi still have the face to be proud. What if the butcher Zhu is angry and send all the five legions under his command across the river, will they dare to stop the butcher Feng Ying?"

"What the lord said is very much." Chen Liang, a military officer, nodded vigorously, "But the humble position and the worry about being humble, it is not whether he should order Chahan Timuer, but whether he should order the order or send someone to pass it on his word."

"Is there any difference?" Hama heard the news, his brows tightened slightly again, then nodded, and said with a little gratitude, "Well, I will send someone to inform the two idiots, so as not to see the handwritten books and take them out to make a piece of paper, but"

After a pause, Hama quickly added, "I cannot give someone a handle, but I cannot let the two righteous soldiers do whatever they want. You can write a letter to my brother Xuexue to find a way to mediate. That is to say, Chahan and Li Siqi acted without authorization and were not subject to the imperial envoy. If the butcher Zhu was willing to stop the army, everything would be easy. If the butcher Zhu refused to stop the army."
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