Zhao Xinchong shook his head at Lu Shoushan: "I am not a bannerman."
Zhao Xin remembered clearly that ten years ago, his father took him to visit a relative in his family. In terms of seniority, his father wanted to call the old lady Qi Grandma.
During the conversation, the grandma of the seventh ancestor mentioned that our Zhao family moved from Jiangsu in the early Qing Dynasty, but the specific location, the old lady could not tell, it seemed to be Yancheng.
"We are not the subjects of your Qing Dynasty. Don't you understand when you look at our clothes?" Wu Siyu explained to Lu Shoushan.
"Yes, no one here has pigtails. They are all said to be overseas survivors." Liu Sheng helped.
Lu Shoushan felt relieved after hearing this. Like the Xu brothers, he also had tattoos on both sides of his cheeks. The tattoo on the left cheek was "Disobedience" and the tattoo on the right cheek was "Ning Guta".
And this was also the reason why the four of them did not dare to hide in inhabited villages; anyone who looked at them would know that they were runaways, and if they were caught and sent to the official, they could receive a reward.
Lu Shoushan begged: "Master, let me take a look at the young master. I won't wake them up."
However, Zhao Xin didn't say anything. He walked to the car, gently opened the door, and waved to Lu Shoushan behind him.
Lu Shoushan tiptoed up to him, looked into the door, and was startled.
When he was at Xu's house before, he had never seen such wealthy furnishings.
Zhao Xin pushed behind him and asked Lu Shoushan to get into the car. He followed him and closed the door. He patted Lu Shoushan on the shoulder and pointed to the bed where the two children were.
After Lu Shoushan got in the car, he was dazzled by the furnishings around him and breathed cold air. He didn't dare to move at all. Following the direction of Zhao Xin's fingers, he saw the two brothers sleeping in the quilt, and the quilt followed.
Breathing up and down.
"Sir, where is my brother?" Lu Shoushan slowly turned around and asked Zhao Xinyi, cupping his hands.
Zhao Xin turned around and pointed to another bed. Lu Shoushan looked and saw that it was not Pan Xiucheng. His face was facing the outside, and he was also sleeping soundly.
He felt relieved. When he saw Zhao Xin waving to him, he followed Zhao Xin out of the car.
When Zhao Xin closed the car door, he returned to the place where he was standing. Lu Shoushan quickly stepped forward, knelt down and kowtowed to Zhao Xin.
"If you keep kneeling like this, I won't care about you." Zhao Xin said to Lu Shoushan with a serious face.
Lu Shoushan still kowtowed three times respectfully, then stood up and said to Zhao Xin: "These three heads, I want to thank the master on behalf of the Xu family. If the master had not come to rescue, the Xu family would have been extinct."
Already."
"Xu family?" Zhao Xin thought for a while, but he didn't have much impression. "Can you tell me what's going on with you guys?"
"Master, can you find a secluded place? There are so many people here." Lu Shoushan looked around at the refugees who were busy in the camp.
"Okay. Angkor, you guys come too." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he turned to Li Ji who was standing aside and said, "Find an unoccupied tent and ask two people to come over and keep an eye on it so that no one can listen."
In fact, this was meant for Lu Shoushan. Who else in the camp except Zhao Xin and the other seven could understand it.
What no one noticed at this time was that Liu Sheng turned around and left.
Liji went there in a hurry, and trotted back after a while, saying that the tent was ready.
So Zhao Xin asked Li Ji to lead the way. He, Lu Shoushan, and Wang Yuanfang arrived at a tent at the outermost side of the camp. Not long after they sat down, Liu Sheng, Ding Guofeng, Zhao Liang, and Deng Fei also came. It turned out that he was
Went to call someone.
Everyone sat down cross-legged on the cotton mats in the tent. Soon, Shino and A Miao entered the tent carrying a pot of tea and several cups.
After pouring tea for everyone, Zhinao left, while A Miao stayed outside the tent to wait in case Zhao Xin had anything to say.
Lu Shoushan held the tea cup, thought for a while, and asked Wu Siyu: "Sir, you can speak our Dongtai dialect, but do you know Yizhulou in Dongtai County?"
Wu Siyu shook his head in confusion and said: "My ancestors were from Yangzhou, and I only learned a little Dongtai dialect from listening to others speak it."
Lu Shoushan saw that he didn't know, so he said: "This incident in the Xu family happened five years ago. However, the root of this incident has to be told more than forty years ago..."
As Wu Siyu was translating some dialects in a group, Lu Shoushan narrated a past incident that made everyone who heard it sad.
Lu Shoushan was once called Xu Shan, and he was a follower of Xu Shounan's grandfather. He also read some books when he was young. Because he joined the Xu family as a servant since he was a child, he took the surname Xu; as for the one who was still showing off
Pan Xiucheng, the driver of the Xu family, was originally named Xu Xiucheng after his master's surname.
Lu Shoushan had followed Xu Shounan's grandfather for many years. When he grew up, he ran several errands and was highly appreciated by the Xu family. Later, he was asked to change his surname back to his original surname and added the word "Shou" to his name.
The Xu family was originally the largest squire in Tuancha Town, Dongtai County, near Taizhou, Jiangsu. The story begins with Mrs. Xu, the great-grandfather of Xu Shounan, the master of the Xu family.
This old man Xu was originally named Xu Shukui and given the courtesy name Xiaowen.
In the third year of Qianlong's reign (1738), Xu Shukui was thirty-five years old and passed the provincial examination. However, he violated the examiner's taboo because he wrote in the answer question on the examination paper: "Those who are polite will commit suicide as a result of the rule of law."
.As a result, he failed to pass the examination of the Ministry of Rites, and was disqualified from participating in the future examinations. From then on, he was no longer in officialdom.
This matter was widely circulated in Dongtai Town. Lu Shoushan heard his master Xu Huaizu talk about it several times and remembered it.
It is said that Xu Shukui was so disappointed that he had to return to his hometown to study knowledge and write poetry. He built a library in his courtyard. Because there was a big pillar in the center of the library, and the roof beams were erected like umbrella ribs.
This pillar was later named "One Pillar Tower".
In the twenty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign (1762), Xu Shukui died in depression, less than sixty years old.
After Xu Shukui's death, Xu Huaizu, Xu Shounan's grandfather, invited two scholars, Xu and Shen Chengzhuo, two of his father's students, to sort out his father's works. He also invited famous celebrities to write prefaces to the works and publish them in books. This is
"Yizhulou Poetry Collection".
In the following ten years, no one ever pointed out to Xu Huaizu that there were fallacies in his father's books.
It wasn't until the 42nd year of Qianlong's reign (1777) that Cai Jiashu, the second eldest son of the Cai family in the same village, became resentful because of a land dispute with the Xu family.
To put it simply, the eldest son of the Cai family sold his family's land to the Xu family because of the family's decline. However, the Cai family's ancestral tomb was in this field. At that time, the Xu family set aside an acre of land around the Cai family's ancestral tomb.
Gave it back to the Cai family.
Later, Cai Jiashu verbally clashed with Xu Huaizu about donating money to the village. Xu Huaizu used Cai Jiashu's son to shave his head on National Memorial Day and sued the Cai family to the county government, forcing the Cai family to donate money. Cai Jiashu harbored a grudge.
In the summer of this year, Xu Huaizu suffered from an emergency and died.
The head of the Xu family was replaced by Master Xu's son Xu Shitian, who was also the father of Xu Funan and Xu Shounan.
When winter came that year, Cai Jiashu came to the door and said that he wanted to redeem the land that had been sold for 2,400 taels that year for 960 taels. Xu Shitian could not agree to this request, so he was kicked out on the spot.
As a result, before leaving the house, Cai Jiashu said that Xu Shitian's grandfather's "Yizhulou Poetry Collection" contained the words "destroying this dynasty" and that he wanted to sue the officials.
Xu Shitian immediately found Xu and Shen Chengzhuo, his grandfather's disciples and the organizers of his works. As the proofreaders of the Yizhulou anthology, these two old scholars were clearly listed on the front page of the book. ("Chengzhuo" coincides with each other.
Manchu Qing Dynasty (meaning to shave one’s hair)
Several people carefully scrutinized the words and sentences in the work and found that some words would indeed arouse criticism. However, the prevailing trend in the literary world at that time was that good poetry must have character, and if it does not express a few complaints, it cannot be considered high quality.
Moreover, among the people who wrote the preface to "Yizhulou Poetry Collection", apart from Yao Delin, who was the ambassador of the salt field at the time, the other one was once called "an old famous person in the south of the Yangtze River" by Qianlong. After his death, he was posthumously named the prince and grand master, and was given the posthumous title Wen.
The Suzhou scholar Shen Deqian went to the Xianliang Temple to worship.
After some discussion among several people, Xu Shitian decided to hand over the printed and distributed books and book plates to the county government. Other unprinted books were also handed over one after another.
After Cai Jiashu on the other side returned, under the instigation of his housekeeper Tong Zhilin (who wanted to study in Taizhou in the early years but was not accepted by Xu Shukui, so he held a grudge for many years), the two of them searched for the "words of disobedience" in Xu Shukui's writings.
So he submitted a complaint to the county government, and the complaint mentioned the land dispute between himself and the Xu family.
When Tu Yuelong, the magistrate of Dongtai County at the time, was interrogating the case, he also noticed poems in the books such as "It would be a shame to destroy my clothes, and destroy the nest in the Ming Dynasty." However, he did not want to directly conflict with the big squires like the Xu family.
, so I sent the manuscript, stereotypes and books to Jiangning Bookstore for processing.
In his judgment, County Magistrate Tu first praised Cai Jiashu's behavior. However, he said that the Xu family had handed over the engraved books to the county government before the Cai family came to file the complaint, so they were exempted from prosecution according to law; as for all Xu Shukui's writings
, he will send someone to Jiangning Bookstore for review and treatment; as for the land dispute between the Cai and Xu families, he ordered the Xu family to allocate ten acres of cemetery land, and the Cai family will redeem it at the current price.
After the county announced the verdict, Cai Jiashu refused to accept it. In the forty-third year of Qianlong's reign, he continued to appeal to the Jiangning vassal.
Tao Yi, the then Chief Minister of Jiangning, had no intention of taking care of such trivial matters, so he asked one of his capable staff, Lu Yan, to handle it on his behalf.
After some understanding, Lu Yan issued a letter to ask Xie Qikun, the prefect of Yangzhou, to try the Dongtai County case. He believed that Cai Jiashu, the first accuser, was "a cunning person who used suspicion to accuse others." (In the letter Lu Yan sent to Yangzhou Prefecture,
Finally, he wrote this paragraph: "If you talk about classics and biographies, or publish them as songs or chants, if your words are out of order, involved in suspicion, and there is no evidence of rebellion, the person who raised your head will be punished according to the law for the crime he was falsely accused of."
, there are clear rules in the book. If Cai Jiashu makes accusations based on suspicion and his plans fall into disgrace, he should strictly adhere to the proposal.")
After Tao Yi, the chief envoy, read the text on the plaque, he did not make any changes. He just smiled and said that Lu Yan hated evil as much as he hated evil, and it was vivid on the paper. At this time, Tao Yi never thought that it was his carelessness that eventually led to great disaster.
After receiving the inscription from the feudal lord, Xie Qikun, the prefect of Yangzhou, immediately issued a document ordering Dongtai County to detain the first accuser and defendant in the case and transport them to Yangzhou.
Xie Qikun was interrogated in court, and then carefully read the "Yizhulou Poetry Collection". Finally, he determined that there were indeed rebellious terms in the collection of poems. The Cai family sued the Xu family for printing anti-poems, and they were right.
After the second court inquiry, Xie Qikun escorted the tagged poetry collection, Dongtai County's case files, and all the book editions to the Chief Envoy's Yamen.
Unexpectedly, before the reply from the feudal lord arrived, Cai Jiashu's son and housekeeper Tong Zhilin took the petition and complained to Jiangsu academic administrator Liu Yong who was staying in Yangzhou.
That's right, it's that Liu Yong.
After Liu Yong's staff received the petition and the collection of poems as evidence, they realized that the matter was serious and reported it immediately.
Mr. Liu first noticed that the preface in the book was written by Shen Deqian, a great scholar from Suzhou, and it was full of beautiful words. The most important thing was that he noticed that in the collection of poems, there is "Zhenhe in the Ming Dynasty, and he went to the Qing capital in one fell swoop."
, "When the emperor meets again tomorrow, he will put the pot aside." He immediately understood that this was another major scandal no less than the "Zi Guan Case".
(In the 42nd year of Qianlong's reign, Wang Xihou, a native of Xinchang (now Yifeng), Jiangxi, was reported for compiling "Zi Guan". Qianlong said, "The crime cannot be punished, so it should be drafted according to the law of great rebellion." Wang Xihou was executed and seven of his descendants were
They were all sentenced to beheading, and the relevant relatives were "consigned to Heilongjiang and made into slaves with the armored men", and all the officials involved were questioned.)
The matter was serious and Mr. Liu, who was "brave enough to take on the task", immediately submitted a memorial to Qianlong and ordered the immediate arrest and detention of those involved in the case.
(Liu Yong wrote in the memorial to Qianlong, "If there is any disobedience, it will be dealt with strictly; if there is no rebellious behavior, it will be written off, so as not to confuse people's hearts and customs. It is now transferred to the governor to handle.")
Qianlong was furious after receiving Liu Yong's report, so he ordered a strict investigation and handling.
As a result, the case escalated infinitely because of Liu Yong, and the implication was extremely wide. The first to bear the brunt was the Xu family of Dongtai, then the Xu and Shen Chengzhuo families, the Shen family of Suzhou, the family of Tao Yi, the chief minister of Jiangning, and the family of Lu Yan, Tao Yi's staff.
and all officials handling the case.
As long as it comes into contact with "Yizhulou Poetry Collection", I won't let it go.
All the above persons were searched and their homes were searched, and then their punishments were determined.