Chapter 318 317 Suzhou "Evil Young Man" Incident

"No matter how big or small the matter is in the mansion, the envoy must be sent to ask about it."

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

If according to the current situation of Prince Yu's Mansion, even if he enters Prince Yu's Mansion, he will only become a transporter between Prince Yu and Gao Gong. He is really not sure to replace Gao Gong's position in Prince Yu's heart.

Gao Gong spent nine years with Prince Yu in Prince Yu's Mansion. This is definitely not something that can be easily forgotten.

However, before Wei Guangde had time to find Gao Gong, an urgent memorial letter from Nanzhili was sent to the court, which once again triggered a big earthquake in the court. Everyone was shocked by the content of the memorial. It was so unexpected.

"On the tenth day of the eleventh month, each armed with long knives and giant axes, they attacked Wuxian, Changzhou and Suzhou guards at night, robbed prisoners, made noise, attacked the capital procuratorate, and broke in through the door. Yingtian Governor Weng Dali and his wife escaped over the wall Go. The "evil young men" set fire to the government office, and the edicts, symbols, "order" and flags that Weng Dali had enshrined were all destroyed. The evil young men became more powerful and wanted to rob the government and plunder the government treasury. The prefect Wang Daoxing and his soldiers bravely arrested him. At dawn, the "evil young men" rushed straight to Fengmen, cut through the gate, and fled into Taihu Lake. "

Who would have thought that such a thing would happen in the prosperous Suzhou Prefecture?

Hundreds of people were blatantly gathered to attack the governor's office, forcing the governor Weng Dali and his wife to escape over the wall. The governor's edicts, symbols, flags and other items were burned by the gang of villains. This was a blatant attempt to kill officials and rebel.

You must know that the governor's ceremonial guards are all given by the emperor, and they represent the emperor. The governor's place is Daitian herdsmen. If they dare to besiege the governor's Yamen, they are besieging the emperor.

Not only did Yingtian, the governor of Yingtian, want to attack the government office and plunder the treasury, but fortunately Suzhou prefect Wang Daoxing was bold and unfazed, and summoned troops to arrest the rebels along the street. The officers and soldiers were frightened by their momentum, and they allowed the rebels to stop. The thieves fought their way out of Suzhou City and fled into Taihu Lake.

The official circles in the capital were shocked. Immediately after the news spread, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were in a collective climax. Everyone rushed back to their duty rooms and started writing memorials to impeach Governor Yingtian Weng Dali. Such a disaster shows that he is really a mediocre person.

As a censor, your job is to curse people. Swearing people for no reason will make people hate you. But if such a big thing happened, there will naturally be sufficient reasons for impeachment.

As for why such a disaster occurred, no one is paying attention to it in Suzhou Prefecture for the time being.

When Wei Guangde got the news, he was still reading in the public room of the Hanlin Academy. When he heard the news from Lu Bu, he was shocked on the outside and tender on the inside.

Wei Guangde's first thought, like other censors, was to impeach Weng Dali. Even if there were various reasons, Weng Dali's guilt could not be escaped.

Governor Yingtian can cause civil unrest, but it can only be said that he is not good at it.

But Wei Guangde was also very curious, how could there be so many ruthless people in Suzhou Prefecture, and they were a little too courageous. The governor's office was really not an ordinary place, could it cause trouble?

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

Wei Guangde didn't believe that the officials in the capital were so capable that they didn't know the actual situation below, let alone Suzhou. There were quite a few Suzhou officials serving as officials in Beijing, so they should know more or less.

Even if they didn't know that someone in Suzhou was going to cause trouble, it was impossible for them not to know about the troublemakers in the family book.

Regarding Wei Guangde's question, Lu Bu naturally shook his head in confusion.

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

Details, where people of their level can know.

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

Wei Guangde could only give this instruction, and it was hard to say anything else.

Although Wei Guangde is serving in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he has not turned into a mad dog and is not crazy about future political achievements. Therefore, although he also has the idea of ​​​​impeaching Weng Dali in a memorial, Wei Guangde intends to figure out the situation first and then work together. Impeach.

During lunch, Wei Guangde called Zhang Ji again to inquire about the news.

At this time, in the Yongshou Palace in Xiyuan, Emperor Jiajing had already received the news and was sitting on the throne watching the memorial after the cabinet had just sent the draft.

After a long time, Emperor Jiajing finally spoke: "I ordered you to destroy the crime within a time limit in order to stabilize the local area."

Hum hum, is Weng Dali still trustworthy?

If he had the ability, how could he have provoked a civil uprising and then disappeared without noticing it beforehand? "

Weng Dali, courtesy name Rucan and nicknamed Jianhai, was a Jinshi in the 17th year of Jiajing and a native of Yuyao.

Previously, Emperor Jiajing felt that Weng Dali was a trustworthy person and was considered safe and sound during his tenure as an official in Shandong, so he was transferred from Shandong's Zuobu Envoy to inspect Yingtian and Suzhou prefectures as the right deputy censor.

I just didn't expect that he would cause such a big trouble just one year after he went to Yingcai.

"Have the documents from Jinyiwei been delivered?"

This incident happened suddenly, and Jinyiwei did not receive any information in advance, so Lu Bing did not give any warning in advance.

When the memorial was sent to the General Affairs Department, Lu Bing only got the news. He just handed the note to the palace and began to investigate the identity and background of the culprit, as well as the information passed on by Nanzhili. The information will be reported together later.

Although there were many civil rebellions during the Jiajing Dynasty, whether it was the White Lotus Rebellion in Shanxi or the rebellion of ethnic minorities in Guangxi and Guangdong, there were also riots in the mainland, but none of them were as serious as this incident.

The rioters broke into the governor's office and burned the imperial edict, the imperial flag and the flag, which was extremely bad.

If Lu Bing could not provide the complete background and details of the whole incident to Emperor Jiajing in the future, he might not be able to cover it up.

Emperor Jiajing was very face-conscious, but now, after feeling that his authority was severely trampled by a group of mobs, he found that he knew nothing about it.

Who are they?

Why did they do this?

Suzhou is a rich place. As the saying goes, "poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people." They should not appear in Suzhou Prefecture.

This may be a microcosm of Jiangnan. What is Jiangnan like now?

After Huang Jin shook his head, Emperor Jiajing knew that Lu Bing should not perfunctorily handle official duties at this time, fearing that he had not received the following report.

Under the leadership of Lu Bing, the Jinyiwei had been doing quite well.

This time, perhaps there was really no sign before, so after the incident, the Jinyiwei knew that the incident had become a big deal, and they did not dare to report it casually. They were afraid that they were also collecting relevant information and reporting it together. Otherwise, according to the family rules of the Jinyiwei, they were also famous for being fierce.

Regarding the cabinet's draft, Emperor Jiajing did not comment, and directly threw the memorial in his hand on the imperial case.

The emperor did not express his opinion, and Huang Jin did not dare to make a red comment, but just carefully put the memorial in the middle of the imperial case, which meant that the memorial was temporarily kept.

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

The fact that the Suzhou prefect was able to calmly summon soldiers and braves to arrest rioters along the street after the incident was enough to show that these people had no combat effectiveness at all, but were just a group of rabble.

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

There was no problem in handling these rioters and handing them over to the local authorities, but he must know the cause of the incident, and whether the prefectures in the whole of Jiangnan are now as resentful as Suzhou Prefecture.

It has been many years since the suppression of the Japanese pirates, and now the Japanese pirate leader Wang Zhi is still detained in the prison, but the Japanese riots have not been suppressed.

Wang Zhi is no longer useful.

Emperor Jiajing also woke up at this time.

He had not executed Wang Zhi before because he also hoped that the Japanese pirates would be cautious and that their leader in the hands of the court might restrain them.

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

It is certain that the people in Jiangnan are boiling with resentment because of the increase in taxes and lijin, and Emperor Jiajing has also read similar memorials.

However, he had no choice. If the money was not collected, the court would not have money to pay the military pay. The garrison troops were not strong enough, and the Zhejiang New Army organized by Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang, as reported by Hu Zongxian, had not yet taken shape. Some of them did not have strong combat effectiveness, so they still had to rely on the greedy people in the garrison soldiers to serve.

Money is the courage of heroes. The reason why the garrison soldiers who can fight now did not run away is because they would be rewarded after each battle.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing had the idea that he could not let Jiangnan continue to develop like this, and first he had to understand the actual situation of the various prefectures in Jiangnan.

It seems that he had to send a trustworthy person to take a look.

Going through the Jinyiwei system would have been the best way, but Hu Zongxian was now at the helm of Jiangnan, and Yan Song was involved, so Emperor Jiajing did not dare to fully trust Lu Bing's integrity.

How did Zhao Wenhua die?

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

Although Emperor Jiajing did not ask much, he still had his own judgment in his heart.

As for Zhao Wenhua's family, since he was dead, there was nothing to worry about. That's why the family was confiscated and his descendants were sent to the army to repay the embezzled public funds.

Emperor Jiajing actually knew better than anyone what the officialdom in Jiangnan was like now. Compared with Northern Zhili, the emperor was far away.

With such an environment, Hu Zongxian would not be clean there. If the Jinyiwei went out to investigate, no one knew what would be reported.

Emperor Jiajing had long given up hope for the integrity of officials.

Now his requirements were not high, that is, to manage the people under his rule well and to handle the official duties entrusted by the court. As long as there was no trouble, he was too lazy to care.

However, the Suzhou incident made him alert. After years of suppressing the Japanese in Jiangnan, the people's emotions had reached a critical point, and there would be a big change if things went wrong.

Send someone to check, who to send?

Officials from the north or the south?

Everything was being calculated quickly in the mind of Emperor Jiajing, but there was no expression on his face. In the eyes of eunuchs such as Huang Jin, the emperor was just in a daze, as if he was hit by the Suzhou incident.

As the news from Jiangnan continued to be sent to the capital, the truth of the Suzhou incident gradually spread. At this time, Wei Guangde also knew the cause of the incident.

Since the outbreak of the Japanese invasion in the 31st year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates have occasionally sneaked into the suburbs of Suzhou, and the Suzhou government has recruited local warriors to fight against the Japanese.

As the government attached more and more importance to and invested more in suppressing the Japanese pirates, it became increasingly difficult for the Japanese pirates to enter the inland prefectures and counties, except for wreaking havoc in the coastal prefectures and counties. Since then, the civilian volunteers summoned by the Suzhou government naturally needed to be disbanded.

However, when the volunteers were summoned, they did not realize what kind of people they were summoned.

Since the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, the life of the landlords in Jiangnan has become increasingly extravagant, the social atmosphere has become increasingly corrupt, and the middle and lower-level local gentry have become increasingly gangsters.

Some of the children of officials and powerful people, failed scholars, and unemployed literary ruffians in Suzhou City have nothing to do all day long. They collude with local gangsters, ruffians and other idle people who do not think about production, rely on power to do lawless things, idle in the streets and alleys, fight in groups, drink and visit prostitutes, and seriously disturb the local social order.

People call these hooligans with local gentry backgrounds "evil young men", and they also have many nicknames such as "daxing", "zhahuo", and "bai la".

This group of people either "showed off their fists and bravery, and all illegal activities such as robbing brides, resisting widows, lifting gods, and swindling were mostly caused by this group of people" or "gathered evil parties, hid on the roadside, waited for villagers to enter the market, and invited them to rob goods" or "privately opened pawnshops, and lured merchants passing by, and did not stop until they had spent all their money." Ordinary people who were bullied and humiliated, some "returned home crying with empty hands, some were hungry and complained, and some were beaten and injured", and they were deeply harmed by the people for a while.

The Japanese invasion was getting worse, and this group of people took the opportunity to join the local volunteers, wearing the uniforms of officers and soldiers, but they could continue to harass the people.

It can be said that Weng Dali, the governor of Yingtian, did not do anything extraordinary. He just ordered the prefectures and counties to severely punish them, supervised the prefectures and counties to arrest the evil young men, and listed the names of the leaders and demanded them everywhere.

This was originally a strategy to protect the country and the people, but they did not expect these "evil young men" to know it in advance. After all, many of their leaders were "second-generation" and well-informed.

In fear, the "evil young men" drank blood to form an alliance, wiped their foreheads with white towels, and each held a long knife and a huge axe. They attacked Wuxian, Changzhou and Suzhouwei at night, robbed prisoners, made noises, attacked the Censorate, broke into the gate, and Weng Dali fled over the wall with his wife.

The evil young men became more and more powerful, and they gathered people to rob the Suzhou government and loot the treasury.

You should know that the wealth of Suzhou and Songjiang is the best in the world, and the wealth stored in the treasury is also very amazing, not to mention that many taxes and lijin collected by Hu Zongxian from Nanzhili are stored here.

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

After learning the details, although it was known that Weng Dali's actions were normal, he was still responsible for the incident. Wei Guangde still wrote a letter to impeach him as the Supervisory Censor of Fujian Province.

Since he knew that the young man was doing evil, he was not careful in advance and did not take full precautions. It can be seen that his ability to handle emergencies was poor, and it was not easy for him to continue to serve as the governor of Yingtian.

At this time, because the truth of the incident was spread to the court, the impeachment of Weng Dali by Beijing officials, especially colleagues in the Censorate, had been greatly reduced.

He was a little hasty in doing things, but there was nothing wrong in essence.

Wei Guangde's impeachment at this time still attracted a lot of attention.

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