In the spring of February of the seventh year of Taiping, the Jiangdong exam fraud case occurred, and the people were so angry that the morale was fierce; he asked the criminal branches and blamed more than one hundred families between Hangzhou and Vietnam, and the officials, officials and officials were inevitable. . . . Jiangdong's deputy envoy (Li) saves, and the superintendent (pi) is off every day, and is also reprimanded. . .
The chief offenders and their respective dredgers were sentenced to slay three thousand li in the family, and the characters of the three tribes were condemned; to assist the five thousand li, the characters of the family’s background were convicted. . . . The ten evils, peeling the grass, began to be heard in the world.
"Wu Li Biezhi. Encouraging Learning"
—I am the dividing line —
On the waterway pier outside Jiangling City, Yu Eshui, who had just returned from a foreign place, was a little surprised to see where he was going to report in the text-the headquarters of the Zhenfanhui in Xingyifang, west of Jiangling City, instead of the usual patrols of others. Forbidden teams or missions, or even the agricultural technology institutes of large seminars.
"Let you go to the anti-revolutionary meeting? That's right. You don't know how much wrong has happened before on the road? It's because of the news sent back by the group of people you led!"
However, Wang Renshou, the predecessor who came to greet him, sighed without hesitation:
"Nowadays, most of the governors are extremely angry, and they have ordered thorough investigations and severe punishments. Nowadays, there are not only many stakeholders and other people who have broken families, but also the Xuezheng and Jiangdong Rehabilitation Office of the Mission Department. Official business has already been suspended, and the anti-revolutionary committee has been conducting self-examination!"
"Isn't it the righteousness of my generation to seek a living for the people and to show justice?"
When Yu Eshui heard the words, he responded with some excitement and inexplicable pleasure, but he was a little lost and remembered what he had seen before:
Obviously it is a town where the folk customs for generations in the Yuezhou area are fairly simple, but because some people passed the exams for the students of the big training center, it caused a lot of wrongs and evils. Because the ancestor of the family in the exam is a foreigner and a small surname, it is regarded as a local master who has a dual relationship between in-laws and teachers. He secretly played around with his hands and feet to replace his status and quota; even bought the stationed township officials and modified the stickers. The list that came out.
If it weren't for the other party who thought he had failed the ranking, he happened to come to the county to petition and relax, and by the way, I could see the difference in the ranking. I'm afraid that this matter will really sink into the sea and there will never be a day before. However, the most hateful thing is that it is known as the scholarly family. After the abuse was discovered, it did not want to make up and correct it, but relied on the relationship and kinship in the village to mobilize all parties to pressure and persecute the victim's family.
The victim's family had to stay away overnight and hide in the relatives' homes in the city. Only then did they escape the mass follow-up persecution. What’s worse is the fact that those local managers who have been linked with it want to put the matter down as self-protection, so they not only tried to block the complaint of the victim, but also secretly instructed Poppi to harass and Rosso’s. , Making it uneasy day and night.
They also tried to invite the victim’s teacher, the same year, relatives, and friends, and took turns to force and induce the victim, only to get the victim to sign the so-called voluntary collusion to change the student status document that gave up accountability; even once deceived and imprisoned the victim’s family in a disguised form , And forced his family to press fingerprints on the huge debt as a means of threat.
If it were not for the unannounced visit team where Yu Eshui was, he happened to have arrived nearby as a plaster vendor and found some clues. I am afraid that the victim would have to succumb to it in desperation. After all, the other party is just an ordinary middle-aged person. The whole family has worked so hard in the limited fields, but he has only provided for such an eldest man who reads and reads; it is really unbearable.
And the internal situation of this incident also touched Yu Eshui, who had experienced similar mass persecution in the past; what happened afterwards was much simpler. Although the corresponding unannounced visit team cannot directly intervene in the place, it can apply for the assistance of the garrison under special circumstances in order to preserve the corresponding personal and physical evidence.
However, no matter how many people cover the sky and have a vast network of people in the local area, they will not interfere with and influence the position of the Taiping Garrison, which is dominated by foreign soldiers. As a result, the follow-up matters were suddenly beyond his personal control, and Yu Eshui and others, who inevitably exposed their identity as a result, had to embark on their way home in advance to return to Jiangling to report on their duties.
It's just that he didn't expect that His Royal Highness's reaction and handling methods were much more intense and tough than he thought. And this predecessor Wang Renshou continued to say:
"Next, you stay in the place arranged by the anti-revolutionary meeting, don't walk around or have contact with others; because this is likely to affect the evaluation results of your follow-up hearings; after all, you and I are both It's the origin of the three teams, I really don't want you to be involved in something right and wrong..."
"Why, can it be in Jiangling City..."
Yu Eshui was a little surprised and said:
"Don't think too much about it. Today's Jiangling City is naturally a safe place for the world to wait for."
Wang Renshou shook his head and said:
"However, the stakes behind this matter are not small; since you are in it, naturally you are not afraid of the means by the public, but you have to be careful of some deliberate means of darkening and creating momentum!"
"This... How can this be? Isn't it just a place..."
Yu Eshui was a little surprised:
"This may seem to be just an accidental discovery in a small part of Jiangdong; but for those old family members and officials who are always subject to the Taiping examination method and have nowhere to apply for the examination and the official relationship, it may not be able to wait and see. That's it!"
Wang Renshou said solemnly:
"If the chief governor deliberately wants to rectify the situation and further reorganize and clean up the situation in Jiangdong, you will be the key point. To say ten thousand things is to guard yourself, and don't slander the people of this generation. , The opportunity to frame and question your position and attitude!"
"Thanks for your advice. I'm saving it..."
Yu Eshui also respectfully saluted this senior who came to mention him.
Of course, for Wang Renshou, who was born in the three teams but came from the son of the Wang family in Jinyang, Hedong, there are actually some inconvenient speculations. For example, did the general governor/His Royal Highness of the King of Chu intend to use this to reinforce the imprisonment in order to liquidate the early retained personnel of Jiangdong Sanlu, and further suppress the existence of those traditional scholars and old officials from the background of the governor's office
After all, with the batches of re-trained and re-engineered students in the large workshops, they have gradually been enriched among the grassroots organizations and personnel of various departments in various places; the traditional scholars who had contributed halfway and recruited unexpectedly. Students, the corresponding role, value and influence have been gradually declining.
Therefore, this case of fraud may not be a touchstone, to test out the positions and attitudes of these old Japanese scholars; whether they can still keep up with the development trend of the Taiping Army, and continue to maintain a place in the new dynasty: or just sink into it. Right or wrong, it's better to die without name.
—I am the dividing line —
At the same time, Dongchuan Road, outside Shehong City in the south of Zizhou, seemed to be a mess after continuous fighting.
The Dongchuan Army under Song Hao, and the Taiping Yuzhou Army who occupied Shehong County, have fought a dozen battles one after another; although the two armies had casualties under the confrontation, the Dongchuan Army’s losses were slightly greater than that of Yu. The state did not send troops; but he also successfully blocked and fettered him near the city of Shehong, and could no longer advance it much.
In the rear of Song Hao’s camp, there are people’s husbands and regiments that come from Zhoucheng to the city. It’s between this relatively gentle north-south valley road, race against time to build a number of convenient for keeping the peace. The stronghold of resistance is coming. However, although everything seemed to be advancing in an orderly manner within the expectations, Song Hao, as the leader, did not have much glamour and joy.
Because, he originally expected that the battlefield to block the enemy and see-saw was not under the city of Shehong, but near the city of Qixian (now Nanqijiang Township, Santai County, Sichuan), which is a more geographically and harmonious prefecture; Hongcheng himself lost too fast. The fact that these thieves took the initiative to suspend the confrontation and could not defend it was not entirely due to the frustration of the officers and the army, but also because the medicine and equipment were exhausted.
However, once the arrival of Jiangxun in the beginning of the spring, the subsequent water transportation will return to smooth and convenient, I am afraid it will be a new round of war and offensive period. And during the buffer period he was trying hard to win by leading troops south, it was undoubtedly the last time to prepare for the war with all his strength. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask Zhu Jingmei, the envoy of Dongchuan's Military Supervision Academy:
"When I walked with Xichuan Town, I still didn't reply?"
"I don't dare to extravagantly expect the troops from the north to be able to rush to help. At the worst, the troops who prepare for the enemy in the Lu and Rong generations in the south, can they be dispatched one or two?" (End of this chapter)