In Sanguan Town, Zhongmu, Henan, when Wang Pingfan, the general of Wu Sangui's tribe died in battle, Jiangnan, thousands of miles away, was killed.

The riots that supported Qing gentry and religious people lasted less than twenty days, and were pacified one by one by one by the Taiping Army who quickly reacted.

Compared with the Taiping Army, which was closely organized and long-standing, the rioters who were in a hurry and lacked weapons and training were even worse than bandits. Facts have proved that if it were not limited by the information transmission of this era and that they could not suppress them in advance, I am afraid that at the beginning, all the gentry and religious leaders who participated in the uprising would be captured and killed.

The most cruel and most severely damaged one was Songjiang. Zhou Shixiang stayed in Songjiang for seven days until the last priest was cut to death by a random knife. The leader of the priest was cut off and choked with lime. After the horse was sent to various places to pass the heads, Zhou Shixiang left the temple that was burned by the fire and went to Suzhou.

On the day he arrived in Suzhou, Zhou Shixiang summoned Jiangsu Governor Jiang Guozhu, scolded the latter and launched an order to suppress the rebellion movement from the Jiangsu Governor's Office.

The anti-revolutionary movement severely cracked down on the gentry of Jiangnan who participated in the rebellion, and almost uprooted the gentry forces that had finally been breathed from the three major cases. As a result, the people of Jiangnan did not dare to send their children to school again, for fear that they would be tied up by the Taiping Army and beheaded after reading the books. The gentry people scattered in Jiangnan were also surrounded by officers and soldiers to identify them. The gentry temples were demolished one by one. Facing the Taiping Army's butcher knife, the gentry people chose to obey. They were powerless and courageous to resist again, because the gentry leaders who came from the head were not fake.

The identification process is also full of blood. Some places where the sect bandits were seriously harmed by the sect even had retaliatory actions without government organizations. After the revenge, the number of religious people in Jiangnan dropped sharply, less than 30% of the original ones. After the identification, the laws of the Protestant temple were issued, and a large number of scholars were deprived of their qualifications for preaching and were transferred to Nandu Dajiao Temple to study. They would never return to secular life.

Although the anti-rebel movement was dominated by Zhang Changgeng, the actual command was Wang Shirong, who had experience in suppressing anti-rebels in Guangdong.

Wang Shirong made contributions to defending Kunshan, but this time he was directly promoted by Zhou Shixiang, who was appointed as the right deputy chief censor of the Censorate, and was actually responsible for the rebellion in Jiangnan.

Wang Shirong was reused again, so he showed his ambitions and abilities. In just half a month, more than a thousand gentry scholars were signed and killed by him. Ye Fangai, the Tanhua Lang, who had failed to escape north, and Ye Tiancheng, was convicted of "treason". He first paraded in the streets of Kunshan's hometown, and then public trial in Suzhou Prefecture City. After the public trial, he was executed in public. After some superstitious people came from all directions after learning that Tanhualang was executed, just to get some of Tanhualang's blood and go home to treat his relatives.

Because this riot seriously affected Zhou Shixiang's plan to go north and caused serious losses to the governments. Zhou Shixiang ordered that the rebellion must be severely punished and completely eliminated the problem. This led to many gentry who were originally sentenced or released to Annan only were executed, and Wang Shirong was implicated, such as his father plotting to be executed by his son, and his son plotting to be executed by his father. However, one of his family participated in the rebellion, and all his family was killed. The people were encouraged to expose it. For a moment, countless heads in Jiangnan fell to the ground, which was bloody and terrifying.

However, the smell of blood over Jiangnan is far from shocking and fearing the officials and gentry in Nandu compared with the "revealing of Duke Liudu" that is happening in Nanjing.

In the eyes of the officials and gentry in Nandu City, no matter how many people were killed in Jiangnan, they were not as cruel as Gu Yanwu's big-character poster.

Nanjing City is now upset by Gu Yanwu's revelation.

After a while in Songjiang, Gu Yanwu was recommended by Zhou Shixiang as the right censor of the Censorate. However, after Gu Yanwu went to the Nandu, he did not go to the Censorate. Instead, he personally posted a big-character poster "The Reveal of the Duke of the Capital and the State" at the Daming Gate in Nanjing.

In this big-character poster, Gu Yanwu openly proposed that the emperor should be the sage emperor and learn from Emperor Xuanyuan to rule. The world should not be decided by the emperor, but should be entrusted to the wise ministers and nobles to discuss. He boldly proposed that the world should be the lord, and that nothing should not be used to the world. In the public disclosure, he bluntly stated that the world is not the court, nor is the court the world. The so-called "world" is a nation, and it is thousands of Han people, not one surname and one monarch.

In other words, Gu Yanwu, a great scholar of the times, had a rebellious mind, and he actually thought the emperor could not do it.

At the same time, Gu Yanwu believed that all officials and gentry should reflect on why the Ming Dynasty has come to this day, why there was a difficult situation in Jiashen, and why there was a disaster of almost a national destruction. In addition, he proposed to abolish clerks, establish schools, and comprehensively promote the construction of villages and townships. At the same time, vigorously cultivate professional talents to replace the original imperial examination officials. The imperial examination should undergo thorough reforms, using arithmetic, classics and history (Chinese), laws and regulations (law), investigation of things (science), military preparations (military), government affairs (organizational structure and process common sense), industry and commerce and other subjects, instead of using the former eight-legged essays.

Half of the various measures proposed by Gu Yanwu were being implemented by Zhou Shixiang, but this time he, the great scholar, comprehensively summarized and proposed it, and was characterized by "remedy the chaos".

The core concept of "The Religious Disclosure of the Duke of the People's Republic of China" can be summarized in one sentence. The country has its current difficulties, which are all the faults of the system and the officials and gentry. Therefore, the system must be changed, and officials and gentry must also be changed. Since the incompetent persons in the past led to the difficulties of the country, from now on, whoever has the ability will do it in this country will do it.

As soon as the Duke of the State announced, the whole city of Nanjing was alarmed, and even Emperor Dingwu, who had not been to court for a long time, was shocked.

The first person who knew Gu Yanwu posted "Liudu Gong Jie" was Huang Zongxi, a great scholar who was recommended by Qian Qianyi, who was the Grand Tutor, who was personally recommended to Emperor Dingwu. After hearing Huang Zongxi's state opinions in the palace, Emperor Dingwu appointed him as the left censor of the Censorate. However, Gu Yanwu was the right censor recommended by Zhou Shi. Now, the right censor of the right censor even came to the yamen, and even the left censor of the left censor, he posted a sensational big-character poster outside the Ming Gate. Huang Zongxi was extremely angry. In his opinion, the content of the public disclosure was so arrogant and so presumptuous.

As the saying goes, "The sky has no sunshine for three days." The clouds and winds will not disappear by themselves, and will not give up on the vast sky by themselves.

With a poster of Gu Yanwu's big-character poster, Zhou Ding Zhixiang and Yuan Kuoyu, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, immediately organized people to build momentum for him, and organized three major discussions on state affairs with more than 100 participants.

Although the chief assistant Guo Zhiqi was not the Zhou party, he was also very supportive of Zhou Shixiang's administration. However, this time Gu Yanwu openly proposed to the vain king and wanted to completely reform the government. He pointed out that all the officials of the dynasty were all incompetent people, which obviously made it difficult for Guo Zhiqi to accept. Moreover, Guo Zhiqi had deep doubts about Gu Yanwu's disclosure, that is, who is capable?

Does Gu Yanwu’s capable person refer to King Zhou Shixiang of Qi? His purpose of proposing Xu Jun was to test the court and people’s hearts for Zhou Shixiang. Once the emperor was defeated by Xu Jun, can this capable King Qi replace him?
Chapter completed!