Although Suna was the Marquis of Xin'an and the highest general of the Taiping Army stationed in Suzhou, he was not in charge of this matter. Moreover, the scholars just went to the temple to cry at the mud statue of Kong Laoer. It was not considered a riot or arousing the people to rebel. The military was naturally not easy to intervene. With this idea, Suna had no intention of watching the excitement, so she led her personal guards to take the horse and left. But after walking for a while, she thought that this matter was so big that Jiang Guozhu could not come out to deal with the matter in the city. If he did not go to the governor's office, Jiang Guozhu ran here. Therefore, he called him to turn around and follow the crowd far away, so as not to get out of trouble with Jiang Guozhu.

The tradition of crying temples was very prosperous during the Chongzhen period, especially during the Tianqi period, which was performed several times every year to show the gentry of Jiangnan's hatred of the eunuch party in the court and the country. The Wuxi County, not far from Suzhou, had an incident of the Five Gentlemen that year, which really hit the eunuch party's arrogance.

Several ordinary people in the market had the courage and power to compete with the eunuch party. Besides, the scholars who were well-read about the books of sages, this incident was spread to Suzhou, which triggered another round of public opinion offensive against the eunuch party. In those months, the scholars in the Confucius Temple came one after another, and their saliva made the statue of Confucius look like a sage.

After decades of evolution, the crying temple has become a tradition of the gentry of Suzhou. Whenever this matter is mentioned, I am happy to talk about it and can tell countless flowers. The notes of literati are records. In their writing, all the scholars who participated in the crying temple are righteous and disregard their own safety and are only seeking justice for the people.

Unfortunately, in the Jiashen year, the Qing army went south, and the tradition of crying temple was broken. Faced with the butcher knives of the Qing Dynasty, the gentry in Suzhou shrank their necks, and no one dared to gather to cry temple again. Until the Nandu was restored and the Ming Dynasty was revived, the Ming Dynasty's revival was expected, and the incident of crying temple was once again staged in Suzhou City.

It has been 17 years since the Confucius Temple finally awakened again!

Three days ago, the deeds of the cried temple of scholar Ni Yongbin and others spread around Suzhou. No scholar who could participate in this incident personally sighed and regretted that he had not personally participated in this traditional grand event of scholars in Suzhou. Today, when Mr. Jin Da stood up and called on everyone to cry again, hundreds of scholars came out of their homes and embarked on this path that shined for eternity with a full sense of pride and demands for justice and justice.

"I cried in the temple, and I cried in the temple again!"

Suzhou City is also in full swing. Men, women, young and old gathered at the Confucius Temple from all directions just to see the charm of the scholars and to cheer for the scholars. It is important to know that the husbands have taken the initiative to enter the Confucius Temple to oppose the government’s debts. They are seeking benefits for the people! We don’t support anyone! If you don’t support it, you deserve to pay food to the government!

Such a major event has not happened in Suzhou City for many years. Ren Weichu, the county magistrate of one of the parties involved, is really frightened now. He is afraid that the prefect Yan Shaoqing and the governor Jiang Guozhu will push him to be a scapegoat in order to calm the situation. However, Yan Shaoqing's tough attitude after bringing people to the scene made Ren Weichu feel very determined. Yan Shaoqing actually signaled Ren Wei's junior scholars to enter the temple and then lead people to surround the temple and take down all the people.

Jiangsu Governor Jiang Guozhu also came, his face looked ugly. After he arrived, he scolded Ren Weichu for being ineffective, saying that he was ineffective in doing things, and the situation became like this.

Ren Weichu did not dare to argue, and Yan Shaoqing gritted his teeth and said a few words to him, saying that Jin Shengtan and the others suddenly attacked, and there was no news in advance. Wuzhong County was unable to detect it in time, which led to the escalation of the situation.

"There are too many people and you must not take people directly in front of so many people, which can easily cause civil unrest."

Jiang Guozhu was very serious and saw that there were too many people watching. If Yan Shaoqing closed the gate of Confucius Temple and locked people directly, it would probably cause civil unrest. If thousands of people really came to chase and beat prefecture officials and forced him, the governor, to hide in the toilet, everything would be over.

If you can’t just take people, how to deal with this matter? Do you really have to follow the scholars’ requests, stop clearing your debts, and push Ren Weichu, the culprit, to calm public anger?

Yan Shaoqing was uneasy, while Ren Weichu was heartbroken and fell into the ice cellar. Fortunately, Jiang Guozhu knew that he could not be soft. King Qi had just given him a reply, giving him courage to strengthen his courage. This crying temple case was an introduction to the case being cancelled, and he could not be withdrawn.

When Su Na learned that Jiang Guozhu had arrived, she hurriedly brought people over. Seeing that the Marquis of Xin'an were also there and witnessed the incident from beginning to end, Jiang Guozhu was very embarrassed.

Su Na chuckled. His Chinese language is now fluent. He understood what the scholars who have passed by just now said 80% of them. To sum it up, it is just a sentence. Jiangsu government asked them to collect money and grain this year and in previous years, but they refused. They had no basis to explain that they had no way to make up for the debt. Even if they wanted to pay back the money and grain from the Qing court, it was nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.

"The Marquis doesn't know that the wealthy families in Jiangnan refused to pay grain to the court since the Wanli period. After the government urged them, they made various excuses, which caused the taxes in Jiangnan that did not exist for decades. During the Qing Dynasty's ten years of governing Jiangnan, these wealthy families also paid grain, but the amount of grain was different. It was all because the officials in Jiangnan were closely related to the local governments, so it was common for them to conceal and report them less."

Jiang Guozhu knew that although the Marquis of Xin'an surrendered to the Manchu general, he was extremely trusted by the King of Qi. This can be seen from the fact that the Marquis of Xin'an led the army in Suzhou. He was determined to clear the difficulties of his debts through the Marquis of Xin'an to tell the King of Qi that he knew about it, so he complained loudly.

Jiang Guozhu did not say nonsense, but was talking about the truth. According to him, the Qing court implemented a stricter tutoring in the Jiangnan region than the Ming Dynasty. All officials who were awarded tens of the imperial examinations were awarded as the test, and those who were not sufficient would be punished. However, the gentry and powerful Jiangnan still relied on their former power to transport government officials, bribe the government to buy books and officials, and obscured the money and grain, resulting in the accumulation of hundreds of thousands of yuan. In politics, they had not completely forgotten the Zhuming Dynasty. This was the most powerful when the Jinxia Zheng army entered the Yangtze River last year. Jiang Guozhu was the governor of Jiangning. In order to suppress the privileges of the gentry and suppress the landlords of Jiangnan, he submitted a document to the Governor Lang Tingzuo, who wanted to use the excuse to resist food and create a case to severely crack down on these gentry and powerful Jiangnan.

From the perspective of the Qing Dynasty, this matter is fair and reasonable, and it is also a must. But now the Ming Dynasty is doing this, which is a bit inappropriate.

In order to raise money and grain as soon as possible, Zhou Shixiang only asked Jiang Guozhu to start selling the money and make sure he was fine. He wanted to get a batch of money and grain from Jiangnan as soon as possible, but he did not consider that Jiangnan had not returned to the Ming Dynasty before. There was no reason in this world that he had to pay grain and pay taxes for the "National-controlled Area".

King Qi only had money and food, and said nothing else, and Jiang Guozhu couldn't do anything, so he used his previous concept of punishment and cash in Wuzhong County. When the rich people in Wuzhong County heard that your government asked me to pay the money and food this year, it would be fine, but why did he have to pay even the money and food a few years ago? I said I wouldn't pay, and I said I wouldn't pay taxes. What's the point?
Chapter completed!