Volume 1: Birth! Seven time travelers Chapter 118 Donglin also wants to publish a newspaper (Part 7)
"It is clear to all! It is clear to all! In the bright and clear world of our Great Ming, there are actually such mobs! Such atrocities! Wang Fuyin, if you cannot give our Censorate an explanation for this matter, I will fight you to the death!"
"What a disgrace! It's a huge disgrace! Investigate it thoroughly ! You must investigate it thoroughly!"
Although Shuntian Prefecture was the real capital and political center of the Ming Dynasty, Yingtian Prefecture was in charge of the place with the most taxes besides Zhejiang Province. Therefore, Yingtian Prefecture was actually the economic center of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the rank of Yingtian Prefecture Governor was also very high, second only to the six ministers and higher than the vice minister. Generally speaking, except for the two chief officials of the Metropolitan Censorate, the left and right censors, other censors had to call themselves subordinates when they saw Yingtian Prefecture Governor.
But at this moment, the many crazy imperial censors didn't care about the official rules. From pheasants to quails, and even a few magpies, all of them had red faces and surrounded the Yingtian Prefecture Governor Wang Shaozheng and roared wildly!
There is no other way, it is so miserable!
The censors didn’t have much income to begin with, and the censors in Nanjing were even poorer. They just wanted to be censors because of their noble title. Once someone helped them, they would be promoted to the people-friendly official system. With the experience of being a censor, they would be promoted much faster. So, although they were a little poor, they finally had hope...
But now...
Don't say it was done by the mob. The Ming Dynasty had already gone down the evil path of moral governance by this time. As a censor, if you have this black history, your future promotion is almost doomed - there are only a few positions that can make money, and there are so many people who want to go. Once you enter the competition, your opponents will directly bring up your black history and brush it off: the censor of shit, the censor of half hair... What else do you want?
Therefore, what happened last night was not simply a matter of beating a few people and throwing a few buckets of feces. Instead, it ruined the careers of a group of people!
It's not that no one thought that this was the work of the Crown Prince. After all, everything that happened last night was very similar to the style of the Crown Prince who abolished Yang Yingwen a few years ago: he didn't play by the rules and had no bottom line in making trouble. If he didn't make a move, it would be fine. But once he did, he would beat the other party to death!
You guys are not afraid of the cane, right? I can't spank you! But I will definitely ruin your reputation and your career!
It looks like it, it really looks like it! No, this is definitely the work of the Crown Prince!
But there is no evidence! Not to mention the prince himself, even Fangshan School can't find any connection - all the students are locked up in the school, and they are not allowed to go out on weekends. As for Jinling Daily? They have stopped publishing, what do you want me to do?
Moreover, after what happened last night, those officials who had impeached Zhang Yicheng but were lucky enough not to be affected, while secretly shouting their luck, were almost scared: let alone there is no evidence now, even if there is evidence, who dares to impeach the crown prince? Do you really want to follow Yang Yingwen's example and return home in disgrace, accepting the contempt of the neighbors and even the relatives in the clan?
These guys cried out that they were lucky. The censors who were beaten up even though they had not submitted a report looked at these lucky guys and wanted to kill them: If not for this, these bastards would have listened to Gu Xiancheng and impeached Zhang Yicheng out of thin air. How could such a thing happen? How could I, your father, suffer such an unprovoked disaster?
Jinling Daily is doing well, and The Legend of the Condor Heroes is also being serialized well. Everyone loves to read it! But you crazy people are going to go up there and bark! Do you really think we don't know what you think? Impeaching Zhang Yicheng, on the one hand, is to give an explanation to Gu Xiancheng. On the other hand, if Zhang Yicheng leaves, wouldn't you guys have a chance to be the editor-in-chief and responsible editor of Jinling Daily?
What was the result? It caused us great harm!
We are the censors! Our duty is to correct the crimes of officials for the country through the criminal law. Can you not think too much about your own personal gain? Even if you want to gain personal gain, please think before you act! Is it possible to provoke a ruthless person like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?
In short, before arriving at Yingtian Prefecture, the censors of the Censorate had a big quarrel among themselves in their own yamen, where, although it had been washed by a flood, the air was still filled with the fresh smell of rice fields.
The two censors looked at it and said: How can this be allowed? No matter what problems there are within the Censorate, the entire yamen has now been flooded with manure. If they don't speak in unison, what will happen in the future?
Therefore, the two chief censors quickly suppressed the internal strife among their subordinates, and then took everyone to the Yingtianfu Yamen together - if something happened in this place, of course, they had to report it to the local officials first.
At this time, Wang Shaozheng, the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture, had once been the Minister of Personnel during the Tianqi period in the original historical plane. That was when the Nine Thousand Years Old was at the peak of his power. After the Donglin Party members were slaughtered by the Nine Thousand Years Old, he was transferred directly from the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the Ministry of Personnel as the Minister. Well, in the original historical plane, he was a member of the Eunuch Party.
In short, even now, this master has no good feelings towards Donglin Academy. He is also very dissatisfied with the many censors in Nanjing who impeached Zhang Yicheng some time ago - the master has no more The Legend of the Condor Heroes to watch, and he is very annoyed now!
He had a stern face, and although he looked serious on the surface, he was actually happy inside. After listening to the fierce criticism from the people in the Censorate, he immediately said righteously: "Your Excellencies, what you said is very reasonable, it is indeed too outrageous! Please rest assured, I will definitely order a thorough investigation of the entire Yingtian Prefecture! I must give you an explanation!"
"how long?"
"Well, my Lords, if we set a time limit, it will easily lead to the people below finding someone to take the blame, and they will inevitably be tortured into confessing."
"Master Wang, what do you mean by this?"
"That's what I mean. Oh, by the way, whose ? Please stay for a while. I will send someone to take notes. It would be best if you describe what happened last night in a clearer way so that I can send a letter to Shangyuan and Jiangning counties to facilitate the investigation."
As soon as Wang Shaozheng said this, the Yingtianfu Yamen, which had been in a state of outrage and noise just now, suddenly fell silent: Describe it more clearly? How clear should it be? There were three piles of feces thrown on the left side of the gate, and two on the right side?
If this is recorded in the criminal record, it will be a complete black material. Don't you think it's not embarrassing enough?
So when things got to this point, the atmosphere became a little awkward.
Outside the Yingtian government office, on the streets of Nanjing, after the people got up early in the morning, all kinds of news spread quickly.
Nanjing people like to start their speech with the sound of "sigh". So early in the morning, countless Nanjing people got up and sighed.
"Oh, you know? Last night, dozens of imperial censors had their doors smashed by heroes from all walks of life."
"Oh, I know. They didn't just smash the door. They even threw feces at the entrance of the Censorate."
"If you ask me, it's a good deal! Who let them stir up trouble all day? Look, my The Legend of the Condor Heroes is gone. The 1,000 taels of silver that I gave to the Jinling Daily newspaper a while ago was also returned. Does the master care about that 1,000 taels of silver? It's for advertising! The master's shop needs advertising!"
"If you ask me, these guys deserve to be beaten to death. But shaving half of their women's heads is too much. The crime should not be punished by their wives and children. "
"That's true, but if we don't do this, how can we deter these bastards who keep barking for no reason?"
"That makes sense."
After the dejected censors came out of the Yingtian Prefecture government office and heard the people's comments on the matter, their heads, which were already drooping, naturally drooped even lower.
On the morning of February 26, the governor of Yingtian Prefecture sent a letter to Jiangning and Shangyuan counties: Search the entire city for the thugs who committed crimes last night!
Over the next seven or eight days, the two counties arrested some people one after another, but no evidence was found.
On March 5, Zhu Youdong, who had officially received the report of this incident during the new round of ten-day meeting, flew into a rage and slammed the table fiercely: Investigate thoroughly! Investigate thoroughly with all our strength! We must uphold the dignity of the Ming Dynasty Censor!
On March 8, Wang Shaozheng submitted a report: After investigation, 137 thugs who attacked the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the residences of the censors on the night of February 25 were arrested. All of them confessed. The reason was that the Jinling Daily was suspended, so they could not hear The Legend of the Condor Heroes...
As for why these people were all well-known rogues in Nanjing, well, coincidence, it's all coincidence.
His Royal Highness the Grand Prince ordered: The ringleader should be executed in prison, and the case should be reported to the Ministry of Justice in Beijing for the Emperor's approval of the death penalty. The rest should be exiled.
In any case, the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate's feces-throwing incident, which had caused a lot of disturbance, was finally settled. The various impeachments against Zhang Yicheng naturally disappeared without a trace. After his last self-defense, since there was no new impeachment, Zhang Yicheng was successfully reinstated, and the Jinling Daily naturally resumed publication.
And on March 11, Wuxi's Donglin Academy officially announced: Donglin Daily was founded!
