Chapter 957 There are many prison cells
Mr. Ye finally coaxed the so-called Qingkuansi military and military personnel to reconcile for a few days, and sent people out of Yejiazhuang overnight. One group was heading towards the county town, and the other group was heading towards Yangzhou, Jiangbei.
The group headed by the second manager Song Sanzhen, who was headed to Yangzhou, was Ye Fangming, the nephew of Ye Fangming. The former was inquiring about information in the county, while the latter was in Yangzhou and asked Tanhualang to move quickly.
Yejiazhuang is located in Huaqiao, which is dozens of miles away from Yushan, Kunshan County. Although the road in Jiangnan is solid and wide, it is very humid to run a carriage on the road, but it is at night and it is almost nowhere to go. Song San and his two servants did not enter the county town until Dongfang Fangbai.
As soon as he entered the city, Song San went straight to the county government. When he arrived at the county government, he was stunned. The originally lively Kunshan County Government had no one except an old man guarding the door. From the semi-deaf old man, Song San learned that just three days ago, the magistrate Wang Daoling and the magistrate Cui Youjiu and others were dismissed from office by the officials from the city due to the disadvantage of the debt. Now he was in a prison carriage to the capital and sent to the Ministry of Justice to discuss the crime. Except for the magistrate and the magistrate, the officials from the three squads and six wings of Kunshan County were all arrested by the soldiers sent by the magistrate. Now the Kunshan County Government is paralyzed, and all the affairs in the county are taken over by the magistrate Department located in the south of the city.
"Is this court really a move?!"
Song San was shocked by the news. Throughout history, there have been dynasties and generations, and there have been rebellious and kings, and there have been Hu people who have fought over, but I have never heard of the county governments asking people to abolish them.
Song San, who came to his senses, did not dare to stay outside the county government office, nor did he dare to go to the Qingkuansi Department in the south of the city. Instead, he went to the Lu family, where he had always had a good relationship with the Ye family and had a marriage in-laws in the east of the city.
The Lu family is not inferior to the Ye family. His ancestors were the Shangshu during the Hongzhi period, and they were even father and son during the Wanli period. The head of the family is now a Jinshi in the Tianqi period, which is much better than the Ye family. When Luye and Ye families got married, they were not said to be the Ye family. If the Ye family had not produced a Tanhualang, the Lu family would not take the in-laws seriously at all.
When it comes to the relationship in the officialdom, the Lu family is also very far-reaching. Not to mention anything else, there is a scholar from the Lu family in the Dingwu court. The great scholar Huang Zongxi also received a lot of favors from the Lu family in his early years. Even the Grand Tutor Qian Qianyi has also received a lot of secret donations from the Lu family in recent years. Therefore, if there is something wrong with the Lu family, there will definitely be someone in the court to do it for his family. Of course, Song San was unaware of these, even his master Ye Tiancheng knew very little. After all, how dare the Lu family know about such rebellion only by relying on the in-laws relationship? Besides, the Ye family was also a Tanhualang of the Qing Dynasty and a new nobleman in the new dynasty. How could the Lu family dare to know about it?
Song San knew that before leaving, the master repeatedly reminded that if something happened in the county, he would go to the Lu family and tell the Lu family about the experience of the Ye family. Ye Tiancheng explained this, of course, it was not because the Lu family could lend a helping hand to the Ye family for the sake of in-laws, but wanted to use the Lu family to reveal the news. To put it in a big way, the officials and gentry in Jiangnan were in unison and helped each other, called each family, but in fact they were one. To put it in a small way, everyone was all gentry in Kunshan. The Ye family was suddenly in trouble, and the rest of the families could not be able to protect themselves. If they didn't come out and fight against the court, when would they wait?
However, before Song San arrived at the Lu family, he saw a group of soldiers escorting a group of people to the Qingkuansi in the south of the city. A servant who followed Song San to one side was sharp-eyed and looked at the group of people Lu Wan, who was the head of the Lu family, and was so shocked that he screamed.
Who is Lu Wan?
He was a fellow Jinshi during the Tianqi period, a member of the Ministry of Revenue of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and a Shaoqing of the Tongzheng Department of the Hongguang Dynasty. He was a great man who surrendered to the city with the Duke of Wei Xu Jiujue, Duke Baoguo Zhu Chengbi, and Bo Xincheng Zhao Zhilong. Although after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, Lu Wan was remorseful and refused to serve in the Qing Dynasty and returned home, in recent years, in terms of influence, which one in Kunshan could compare with him? Even the Qing Dynasty did not look down on him because Lu Wan refused to take office. The Jiangning governor Zhu Guozhi personally visited Lu Wan in Kunshan, and the governor of Liangjiang Lang Tingzuo even wrote the four words "Ji Shan Family" to send to the Lu family.
Song San couldn't understand why Lu Wan was also called to Dabing. You should know that after Shunzhi became Dingwu, the Lu family took the lead in proposing that Kunshan gentry welcomed Emperor Dingwu. For this reason, Nanjing also sent people to Kunshan to commend the Lu family. I heard that the emperor had mentioned Lu Wan's name. What a glory and what a contribution it was, but why did the Dingwu court turn against each other?
Song San asked someone to inquire, and then he understood why Lu Wan was taken away by Dabian. It turned out that like his Ye family, the Lu family was taken away by the newly established owed debt department because they refused to pay some taxes.
The people in the Qingkuansi were very good at doing this. I heard that they were all transferred from other places. None of the locals in Suzhou were from the hosts. Except for the hosts, the following were all military men who could not read the word "give" a lot of gangs. The group of people were very unreasonable. As soon as they arrived in Kunshan, they collected all the yellow books and archives of the county's households. Then they bought many local rogues and asked them to explore the bottom of the big households and make the fields of each family clear. Then they sent troops to the door and asked people to pay taxes. If they didn't pay, they would break into the door and take them away, and they would confiscate the house, making Kunshan uneasy.
After exploring the city for a long time, Song Sanyue was frightened and felt that something was going to happen, because everyone from all families said that the Ming Dynasty was not as good as the Qing Dynasty. If the Qing Dynasty was said to be a dog, the Ming Dynasty was a wolf. A dog could be used to get rid of a bone, and the wolf would not give up if it didn't bite a piece of meat. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was really a mischief. I thought that Jiangnan had been occupied by the Qing Dynasty since the Hongguang period. For fifteen years, the Ming officers and soldiers had never come. Now, the gentry in Jiangnan had been waiting for the Ming Dynasty for thousands of years, but when these soldiers arrived, they asked them to pay the taxes that began in the first year of Chongzhen and counted all the fifteen years of the Qing Dynasty rule. What was this? What was it?
Chapter completed!