Zhang Tongchang looked at Zou Yuanbiao who was excited and did not speak, but his expression became more and more serious.

After a long time, Zhang Tongchang said: "Well, my ancestors reformed and eliminated the corruption in the world, and you, Zou Yuanbiao, tried your best to stop it. Now I am ordered to demolish Donglin Academy, and you are here to stop it. Since my Zhang family will inevitably deal with you for the sake of the world and the king, I can only kill you!"

As he said that, Zhang Tongchang waved his hand: "Satisfied what Mr. Zou asked for, step over him!"

Zou Yuanbiao was quite shocked, his lips trembled, and pointed at Zhang Tongchang: "You, you, you..."

"yes!"

At this time, Yang Huan and other Dongchang soldiers had already come over first.

“Get out of here!”

Moreover, Yang Huan kicked Zou Yuanbiao in person.

Zou Yuanbiao fell directly to the ground, causing a severe pain in his abdomen and a fishy and sweet feeling in his mouth.

But before Zou Yuanbiao could speak, he saw a foot suddenly appearing on it and stepped on his face.

Zou Yuanbiao's head just raised and hit the ground again.

Zou Yuanbiao's face hurts sharply and was about to curse, but at this time, he stepped on another foot and stepped on his eyes.

"ah!"

Zou Yuanbiao couldn't help but scream.

But at this time, countless feet had already stepped towards him. As soon as the foot of Yidong Factory Flag School stepped on Zou Yuanbiao's belly, it immediately stepped on his face.

After countless banner schools in the East Factory and the King Guards Camp passed, Zou Yuanbiao was trampled and mixed with blood and unconscious.

"You court hawks and dogs have insulted me like this!"

At this time, Yi Shizi accused Zhang Tongchang and others of coming.

Yang Huan, who walked over, didn't say much, stabbed the scholar directly into the stomach, and then drew a bleeding knife and said, "Those who stop the officials of the court will be killed without mercy!"

"Kill without mercy!"

The other flag schools also drew their swords and killed the scholars wearing square scarves one by one.

These scholars had to flee in a hurry.

In the end, except for the dozen killed scholars and Zou Yuanbiao lying on the ground, they were covered in blood, and there were also square scarves and folding fans that were thrown all over the floor.

The escaped scholars finally stopped when they fled to the far side of the back mountain.

Because they had already seen that the flag schools of Dongchang and the King Guards were beginning to demolish Donglin Academy.

The flag schools of Dongchang and the Kingweiying were pouring tinder oil everywhere in Donglin Academy.

Then, with the ignition of a fire, the entire Donglin Academy began to turn into a sea of ​​fire.

The fire was engulfing every wooden building here.

The crackling sound of wood when it burns is very crisp and loud.

But for this winter, so much wood burning makes people feel particularly warm.

Some of the tenants in the nearby huts began to gather around to keep warm.

Next, Zhang Tongchang organized these tenants belonging to Donglin Academy to turn the burnt Donglin Academy into farmland.

Naturally, Gu Xiancheng was also killed by the coffin and corpse.

The entire Donglin force was completely eliminated at this point, and Jiangnan scholars' desire to manipulate the government affairs through private lectures in private academies was further stopped.

Zhu Youxiao gave these scholars in Jiangnan a lesson again, forcing these people to know that the Ming Dynasty was an imperial society and a world where the emperor ruled.

Naturally, the news that Donglin Academy was burned was soon known to all civil servants and gentry.

Although there was no bourgeois-style democratic idea in this era, the emperor's toughness and autocracy still made these civil servants and gentry feel uncomfortable.

As scholars, as elites, they can only accept the rule of the emperor and rule, and it is difficult for them to accept a life that is governed like the common people.

"Donglin Academy has been burned down, Man Gong and others have been killed. Nearly 10,000 gentry in Jiangnan in Liaodong are working hard like the common people. Many great scholars in our Jiangnan also live in straw huts and thatched huts every day, and have to carry manure and dig soil. It is really a gentle face. Qian Gong, what do you think you should do?"

On that day, in the dark room of a guild hall, Wu Zhihuan, a young secretary in casual clothes, told Qian Longxi about this.

Qian Longxi trembled for a moment after hearing this and asked in surprise: "What did you say? How did he expose Man Gong was killed?"

Seeing Qian Longxi asked, Wu Zhihuan sighed: "This matter is not the case of the gentry in Jiangnan. Because the emperor directly followed up the riots in Jiangnan, the gentry in Jiangnan could not sit still and did not dare to blame the king, so he could only persuade Duke Man to step up. Duke Man agreed, but later the members of the Yingshe Society were still taken. I don't know whether Duke Man took the initiative to report it or was forced to report it. But what is certain is that the gentry was too weak from the beginning."

After hearing this, Qian Longxi didn't know how to speak, and his fists were pinched and then opened.

After a long time, Qian Longxi sighed: "The gentry in Jiangnan has harmed me and Mr. Man! If I had known that they were so unreliable, it would be better to be a loyal minister and a treacherous person completely."

After Qian Longxi finished speaking, he took out a porcelain bottle and said with a wry smile: "But fortunately, I also expected that there would be such a day. I can't stop him. The gentry in Jiangnan, I can't stop him even more, but I will be implicated by them sooner or later. Now it seems that this is true."

As he said that, Qian Longxi swallowed the pills in the porcelain bottle.

"Mr. Qian!"

Wu Zhihuan shouted.

But not long after, Qian Longxi fell on the chair, his pupils dilated.

...

"Report to the Emperor, because the member of the society, Zhang Cai and others, exposed that Qian Longxi, the Left Minister of Rites, was related to this riot in Jiangnan. I was about to ask you whether to send someone to arrest him, but suddenly I received a secret report. Qian Longxi, the Left Minister of Rites, had already committed suicide by taking medicine. I dereliction of duty and asked the Emperor to punish him."

After Qian Longxi committed suicide, Wei Zhongxian quickly got the news and immediately came to the Political Affairs Hall to report to Zhu Youxiao.

"I understand, please step down."

Zhu Youxiao replied.

"yes!"

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Next, Zhu Youxiao asked the other party Congzhe for this: "Qian Longxi is a smart person. It is better to commit suicide than to wait for me to take action. However, this time he cannot escape this disaster, but I can't blame me. This can only blame the group of people they rely on for not being brave."

"What Your Majesty said is that these people have always bullied the weak and feared the strong, but I dared to say that if this continues, I am afraid there will be a hidden worry, that is, the scholars and officials in the world will not dare to talk about current affairs anymore, and then there will be a sign of silence in thousands of horses. This is not conducive to the empire's plan for thousands of years."

Fang Congzhe knew that Zhu Youzhe was violent and did not faint, so he directly expressed his opinion.

Zhu Youxiao guessed that Fang Congzhe would say so.

Because he also knew that in this era, a dynasty wanted to maintain long-term stability, he had to control the literati and officials, and also used the literati to maintain the ritual principles.

But Zhu Youxiao had considered these things long ago, and said: "Before the people's wisdom is opened and the people of the world have the consciousness of the master of the country, what I need is these scholars and officials obedience, not supervising me, nor being free from the king's law when acting;

Now, any measure that hopes that the literati and officials will become an opportunity for some people to seek rent and usurp the imperial power. Instead of hoping that the literati and officials will supervise the king and let the king know how to govern the country, it is better to focus on how to cultivate and choose a good future king!

Of course, if the scholars and officials are still allowed to supervise the king, then who will supervise the scholars and officials? Are the common people? Are the profit-giving people willing? This is not impossible, but it is in line with the ancestral system. The "Great Edict" created by Taizu has the words of the common people supervising officials."

Fang Congzhe smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty is still wise! I am inappropriate in words! At this time, it is not the time to follow the ancestral system and ask the common people to supervise all officials! As Your Majesty said, the common people have not yet opened up their wisdom and do not know etiquette and law. In this case, the overseeing of all officials will only cause the upper and lower levels to lose harmony, and the scholars and officials cannot overestimate the etiquette system and have no king in their eyes."

Compared with absolute democracy and letting the common people make the decision, Fang Congzhe Ning would rather choose absolute monarchy.

"Yuan Fu is a wise man. I have been ordered by heaven. If I am not worthy of being the lord of the world, heaven will take it. If the people in the world are not worthy of being a human being, I will take it!"
Chapter completed!