"Your Majesty, have you seen it? The public opinion cannot be violated!" Zhang Fengxiang, who had finished scolding Chongzhen, pointed to the dense ships on the river surface, and even had floating bridges and shipwrecks. He said to Chongzhen, and he bowed, "Your Majesty will return the capital to the capital!"

Chongzhen, who had never left the capital, has seen this scene for the first time. He had heard before that during the Wanli period, there had been a large-scale civil unrest in the south. The anti-mining and tax supervision civil unrest began in the 27th year of Wanli. I heard that tens of thousands of people were causing trouble, and the eunuchs and the Jinyiwei were beaten to death.

On April 24, 27th year of Wanli, thousands of people rushed into the tax envoy's yamen in Linqing, Shandong, beat the tax envoy to death, and finally set fire to the yamen in fire. More than 40 people died in this incident. In July of the same year, thousands of people rushed into the tax factory in Jingzhou, Hubei. Chen Feng, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison, was driven away, the eunuch and the Dongchang Manzi were injured, and the tax envoy was burned. Emperor Wanli was not a soft persimmon, so he sent the Jinyiwei to suppress and dismissed all the officials in the position. However, when the Jinyiwei arrived in Wuchang and was about to capture Feng Yingjing, it caused a riot of tens of thousands of people. The tax envoy was burned, and six Dongchang Manzi and the Jinyiwei were beaten to death and threw them into the Yangtze River.

In the 29th year of Wanli, in the Suzhou weaving chaotic incident, tens of thousands of people caused trouble, the tax yamen was burned down, and tax officials who had no time to escape were killed; the civilian revolution in the 34th year of Wanli was the most violent, and the Yunnan tax magistrate Yang Rong was thrown into a fire and burned to death, and more than 200 Dongchang Fanzi and Jinyiwei were beaten to death; at the same time, Li Sancai of Fengyang bribed the death row prisoner in the prison and bit the Shandong tax magistrate Chen Zeng to death, but Li Sancai killed Chen Zeng's Dongchang Fanzi and Jinyiwei.

This time, the "people" of Shandong blocked the canal, which reminded Emperor Chongzhen of the civil unrest in his grandfather's era. He was scolded by Zhang Fengxiang again, but he didn't know how to refute it, so he could only sit on the dragon throne with a blue face.

"Di Wang, there are gentry behind these troublemakers. The former imperial officials such as Zhang Fengxiang and Chen Mingxia took the lead." Zhang Shuheng attached to Wang Chengen's ear and whispered a few soft words.

"You are going to force Your Majesty to return to Beijing to die?" Wang Chengen, who could not bear it, finally yelled, "Where is Zhang Dusi?"

"The emperor is here!" Zhang Shuheng stood up and bowed.

"Let the Jinyiwei drive out the troubled people in the river!" Wang Chengen shouted with a blue face and pulled his sharp voice.

"You castrated dog! I'm killing you castrated dog!" Zhang Fengxiang pulled Wang Chengen's sleeve with a stern aura, waved his old fist and greeted Wang Chengen's face.

Wang Chengen shook his sleeves hard, Zhang Fengxiang couldn't stand steadily, and fell into a mouth and gnawed mud, and several of his teeth fell off. After all, Wang Chengen was only in his thirties, and had experienced bloody battles such as the defense of the capital, the defense of Tianjin, and killed thieves with his own hands. His physical strength was not comparable to Zhang Fengxiang, who was an old bone.

Zhang Fengxiang stood up, patted the dust on his body casually, pointed at Wang Chengen's nose, and scolded with righteousness: "Cast dog! I am a Jinshi in the 29th year of Wanli! Who are you? Why dare to teach me a lesson here?"

Zhang Shuheng was furious: "Where is the general of the Han Dynasty!"

"I'm in a humble position!" Several great Han generals stood up.

Zhang Shuheng pointed at Zhang Fengxiang and said, "This old dog is insulting the emperor and humiliating the governor. It is unbearable! Raise this old dog and give it out!"

"No!" Several great generals took sticks and overturned Zhang Fengxiang to the ground, forked him with sticks, walked off the dragon boat, boarded a small boat, and arrived at the shore. The great generals threw Zhang Fengxiang, who was shouting at the top of their lungs, and drove back to the big dragon boat.

"Parent Wang, Zhang Aiqing, isn't it too scary to do this? I'm afraid it will stir up civil rebellion. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, civil rebellion occurred frequently, and even the Dongchang Fanzi and the Jinyiwei were beaten to death by them." Chongzhen pointed to Zhang Fengxiang who was yelling on the shore and said to Wang Chengen and Zhang Shuheng.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Shuheng knelt in front of Chongzhen, "The militia back then were not those court officials and local gentry colluded with each other and made trouble behind their backs? Your Majesty, can't you see the true faces of those officials and gentry now? When the thieves come, they will surrender; if the Tartars come, they will definitely surrender! The so-called righteousness is for their own interests! Do not compete for profit with the people? The so-called people are themselves! The mob stops the emperor from hunting in the south and should use thunder to suppress it!"

Zhang Shuheng had no favors to those gentry. He was originally an orphan, but the reason why he was killed and left his hometown was not because of the gentry? So he hated the gentry in his heart. Li Guodong and Wang Quan saved him, but without Li Guodong, he would have starved to death. Now that the lord wants him to be loyal to the Emperor of Ming, he will listen to the lord and be loyal to the Emperor. Whoever goes against the Emperor can eliminate those people at all means.

"But, many of them are people, and I can't bear to hurt innocent people." Chongzhen sighed.

"Your Majesty, among these people, the backbone is retired officials, gentry and scholars. The rest are ship workers on the canal. Because you are traveling to Nanjing, you will not need to transport the canal in the future, and these ship workers will be provoked by gentry to cause trouble." Zhang Shuheng said.

"But the boatman is also an innocent person."

"Since they were provoked by gentry and stopped the saint's hunting in the south, they were not innocent people, but a group of unruly people who resisted the orders!"

"Oh, but this matter..." Chongzhen sighed.

"Your Majesty, suppressing the troublemakers is not your will, it is your own decision! Please avoid it for the time being." Zhang Shuheng said loudly.

Wang Chengen also stood up: "Your Majesty, if something goes wrong, I will be responsible for it!"

"Your Majesty, there is also a meritorious minister! Let me bear this guilt!" Li Guodong also stood up.

Chongzhen must have avoided such a thing temporarily. The dragon boat embarked on its return journey, turned the bow of the ship on the river surface, and sailed slowly back. The suppression of scholars and unlucky people naturally made Wang Chengen take the blame. Wang Chengen followed Li Guodong and Zhang Shuheng to board Li Guodong's flagship of the central army.

"Master, do you really want to take action? There are many scholars among these people." Wang Chengen still couldn't make up his mind.

Li Guodong laughed: "Of course I took action! They did not obey the order, so of course they would kill them! If it were the Hongwu Dynasty, what would the end of the order? Eunuch Wang knows?"

On the shore, I saw the emperor's big dragon boat turn to sail north, and the boatmen and scholars on the shore burst into laughter.

Wang Chengen suddenly shouted: "You and other unlucky people are punishing the sages to stop the southern tour of the emperor. It is a serious crime! If you don't obey the order, it is a serious crime. It is time to be executed!"

Li Guodong ordered his personal soldiers around him to shake the flag and send out a flag-speaking signal.

"The soldiers of the Huai Army obey orders! The fuse is lit and the ammunition is loaded! The crossbow is skewed, and the cavalry is ready to attack! The infantry is forming formations!" Seeing the flag-tongued signal, officers at all levels quickly issued orders.

The officers and soldiers on the navy's inland river warship were busy. One cannon was lifting the cannon suits, and the black muzzles were aimed at the small boat on the river in front.

"Fire the gun!" The officer on an inland gunboat roared.

"Boom boom boom" the muzzle gusts, and the cannonballs whistled through the air. Accompanied by the desperate screams of scholars, they instantly collided between the dense crowds on the boat. At only a distance of 100 steps, the power of the solid bombs almost did not decay. As the shells penetrated, blood and flesh splattered on the boat, and the scholars fell from front to back like dominoes that were pushed down.

Because the boatman's reaction was much faster, they had already jumped into the river when they heard the sound of cannons. Those who were left on the boat were all those scholars with no power. As a result, a row of shells came over, and flesh and blood flew across the boat, and wood chips splattered. Rows of scholars screamed and fell into the river. The boat was also smashed into the hole, and slowly sank with the bodies of the injured scholar and scholars.

"The catfish kills people!" The undead scholars rowed the boats one after another, desperately rowing towards the shore.
Chapter completed!