I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Wei Zhongxian kicked over the chair in front of him, and the chair rolled several times on the ground, a fan hurriedly stepped forward to clean up the mess.

"People in Shaanxi are worthless. At this time, they can actually make the White Lotus Sect jump out and make trouble!" Wei Zhongxian sat on another chair, all the wrinkles on his face trembling.

After a while, he waved his hand and said:

"Shaanxi is the old nest of the White Lotus Sect. This time, we will start to investigate from Shaanxi, and fly letters to the listening notes and sitting notes of the various branches. The governor wants to see if it is Dongchang's knife fast, or they are hiding deep!"

"This time, the investigation of the White Lotus Sect will be carried out by Tian Ji, the head of Shaanxi, Zhao Peng, the head of Shanxi, and Zhang Na, the head of Shandong!"

"Tell them that His Majesty gave me nine months to deal with the White Lotus Sect, but I only gave them six months."

"If the nine-month period expires, and the traces of the evil party of the White Lotus Sect have not been found, hehe..."

Wei Zhongxian didn't continue talking, but his expression made the surrounding bosses and servants shudder.

It is rare for this factory governor to be so angry. It can be seen that the White Lotus Sect has a lot to do with instigating the people in Shanxi and conspiring to rebel.

This time the emperor issued a secret decree to Dongchang to investigate the White Lotus Sect. It can be seen that this is the beginning of a secret war.

It is true that this civil uprising in Shanxi was quickly quelled by the government and the army, and its leader Ji Shouen has also put down the law, but the hidden danger is still there.

In the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect was regarded as a cult and strictly prohibited.

During the Hongwu and Yongle years, armed riots occurred many times in Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shandong and other places. Afterwards, it was found out that they were all committed by members of the White Lotus Sect.

During the Jiajing and Wanli years, some members of the Bailian sect separatist from one side and claimed the title of emperor, but they were all suppressed bloody.

The most recent one was the "Great Uprising" of Shandong Wenxiangjiao Xu Hongru in the second year of Tianqi.

In the third year of Tianqi, the internal and external forces of Wenxiangjiao were completely wiped out by the army and Jinyiwei.

However, the Wenxiang Sect is just one of the many branches of the White Lotus Sect, which is more famous in Shandong. The White Lotus Sect still has churches scattered all over the place.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were many folk cults of the White Lotus Sect, including Jinchan, Wuwei, Longhua, Wukong, Huanyuan, Yuandun, Hongyang, Maitreya, Jingkong, Dacheng, Sanyang, Hunyuan, Wenxiang, Luodao, etc. Dozens of them.

In addition, in some branches of the White Lotus Sect, there are several names in each branch, and they are called by one name in one place, so that the government can find nothing to follow.

These cults of the White Lotus Sect have a common characteristic, that is, they firmly believe in the so-called "lifeless mother will descend to save the world".

They belong to each other, have many different teachings, and their organizations, rituals and activities are also different.

But almost all of the White Lotus Sects are only active in the impoverished areas of the five provinces of the Central Plains, mostly bewitching the poor and refugees.

In the south of the Yangtze River, it is becoming more and more prosperous, and there is no trace of the White Lotus Sect at all.

These cults more or less bear the imprint of the White Lotus Sect, so the folks generally refer to them as the White Lotus Sect.

As long as the White Lotus Sect is still alive, there will never be a day of peace in the five provinces of the Central Plains.

With the construction of Baiyun Temple and Anmin Temple in Beijing, the rumors that were boiling among the people finally calmed down.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't know what so-called "strange appearance" will happen in the future, but now he has a way to deal with it.

In any case, the way to suppress such rumors is to use temples and Taoist temples as the sword in the hands of the emperor.

After the rumors gradually subsided, the DPRK and China also resumed the past.

At this time, in order to target the development of the followers of the White Lotus Sect, Zhu Youjia formally issued an imperial decree, which once again clearly stipulated that the White Lotus Sect was banned nationwide.

From the day when the imperial decree was issued in March of the sixth year of Tianqi, the temples of Wusheng Laomu all over the country will be burned down, and any books, calligraphy and paintings about Wusheng Laomu will be prohibited from appearing on the market.

Any speech that gathers people to promote lifeless mothers is regarded as an evil party.

In addition, the classics of the White Lotus Sect, such as "Wusheng Laomu Xiasheng Jing" and "Xing Ming King Birth of the World", are clearly stipulated as banned books.

Dongchang began to search these banned books on a large scale across the country, burned them in public, and arrested those who collected these books and put them in prison for strict interrogation.

Since the rise of the White Lotus Sect in the Tang Dynasty, successive dynasties have severely suppressed the White Lotus Sect, and Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's methods were even more bloody.

In Zhu Youxiao's apocalyptic era, law enforcement can be described as the coolest and most intense.

The White Lotus Sect has become a stumbling block for Zhu Youxiao to further stabilize his rule.

Chapter 7 and five of the five tombstones

On Chess and Chess Street, a raging fire ignited the battlefield between the Apocalypse Dynasty and the most deep-rooted cult of the people, the White Lotus Sect.

The Fanzi had a place to use their skills again, and in order to show their ability to the emperor, they naturally went all out. In the next six months, they vowed to uproot the entire White Lotus Sect.

Seven or eight fans dressed in white stood by the fire, and what was burning crazily here was the demon book used by the White Lotus Sect to restrain the mind and confuse the hearts of the people.

The leader of the stall, with a pair of knives on his waist and soap boots on his feet, waved his hand, and the fans immediately brought more than ten people.

These people, men and women, old and young, were all shackled.

The head of the party said sharply: "These 16 people have privately collected demon books. Now His Majesty has issued an order to clean up the White Lotus Cult. Those who have privately stored them will never be lightly forgiven!"

"If there are book collectors, hand them over now, and forget the past. If it is found out afterwards that they are still collecting books at home, it will be the same case!"

"kill!"

After saying that, he turned his head to signal.

Fanzi behind him naturally understood, and immediately swung down the broadsword he had prepared long ago with all his strength. In a short while, sixteen heads rolled to the ground, and blood flowed into streams.

The bloody smell gradually dispersed in the crowd, and all those who smelled it covered their mouths and noses, frowned, and remained silent.

"I, I pay...!" A chubby gentry in a purple silk robe stood up tremblingly and stretched out his hand, for fear that others would not see him.

The stall head looked over, nodded and said:

"Very well, you're fine."

"Anything related to the so-called lifeless mother of the White Lotus Cult, such as calligraphy, paintings, statues, and books, is considered contraband and needs to be handed over!"

"Who else has to pay?"

Seeing that the first person to eat crabs was fine, everyone talked a lot, and they all raised their hands one after another, enthusiastically handing over items that they thought might be considered contraband at home.

Looking at these objects that quickly piled up into a hill, the head frowned secretly, and then said:

"If we can confess to the remnants of the White Lotus Cult, our Dongchang investigation will prove the truth, and it will be regarded as a meritorious service for the court!"

"is there anybody?"

The crowd was silent for a while, and soon someone said: "I see Wang Shanren from the suburbs of Beijing is always running to a ruined temple, I don't know if it is!"

Looking over from the front, I found that the person who spoke was actually a beggar in shabby clothes.

"Talk about it carefully."

The beggar said: "When I was begging in the suburbs of Beijing, Mr. Wang Shan always came to give me porridge, but I saw him stay in a ruined temple for a long time every time."

"That's all I know. I don't know if he is a member of the White Lotus Cult."

After thinking for a while, he said: "Reward him with two liang of silver, take people to see the ruined temple, and send people to search Wang Shanren's house together."

Watching several fans leave in response, the head sneered a few times, and said to himself:

"Wang Shanren? It's really strange..."

……

On the side of the imperial palace, Wei Zhongxian originally wanted to enter the palace, but his old cold leg committed a fatal pain, so he spent a lot of money to order an open sedan chair.

He came to ask Zhu Youxiao for instructions, and said that he could walk back and forth in a sedan chair in Da Nei when he fell ill in the future.

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about this.

After all, Wei Zhongxian's age this year belongs to an advanced age, and it is normal to have some problems. If he is sick and can't walk, it is understandable that he occasionally sits in a sedan chair a few times in the palace.

However, Zhu Youxiao specially selected eight young and alert internal officials from the Yumajian, and rewarded Wei Zhongxian to help him carry the sedan chair.

Wei Zhongxian could also guess what the emperor was thinking, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to accept it honestly.

After all, if he doesn't make any fools out of himself and does things honestly, nothing will happen to the emperor.

The internal officer carried Wei Zhongxian's sedan chair to the west of the Qianqing Gate and out of Da Nei's territory, Wei Zhongxian was relieved and leaned firmly on the sedan chair.

Back at the mansion, Wei Zhongxian had just rested his feet and was washing up when he saw Fu Yingxing walk in and said loudly:

"Duke, it's not good, something happened in Suzhou!"

"It's Suzhou again, that land is so uneasy..." Wei Zhongxian said vaguely, with a toothbrush in his mouth, with a dazed face, frothing his teeth:

"what happened again?"

This toothbrush was one of the many treasures seized from the Dutch galleon in the First World War in Penghu. Brushing your teeth with this thing is much more comfortable.

The emperor gave a lot to the concubines in the harem, and then he used it at any time, and gave Wei Zhongxian a lot.

Ever since he got this thing, he has been brushing his teeth every day.

Wei Zhongxian is really lucky to be old. As Daming began to set foot in the great voyage, all kinds of strange and strange things that he had never seen before began to circulate.

Some things, even he has to admire how much the Hongyi people know!

Fu Yingxing didn't notice what Wei Zhongxian was saying, but said with resentment on his face: "There are students who provoked the people in Suzhou and killed our flag officer in the East Factory!"

Wei Zhongxian said: "Who did it?"

Fu Yingxing said: "Who else can it be? The remnants of the Donglin folk, they all think of themselves as noble!"

Compared to Fu Yingxing's panic, Wei Zhongxian seemed calm and unhurried.

He froze for a moment, slowly rinsed off the scum in his mouth, and took a towel from the eunuch to clean his face.

Fu Yingxing couldn't wait for his reply for a long time, and said again:

"Duke, this is the second time that a flag officer was killed in Suzhou, this time we can't just let it go!"

Wei Zhongxian glanced at him coldly and said:

"The governor has known about this for a long time. The flag officer surnamed Zhao has arrested the wrong person. Zhou Shunchang, the promotion official in Suzhou, did oppose the establishment of a mine supervisor and the collection of mine taxes."

"Find other excuses to arrest people, the same party to attack dissidents, as long as it is not too extreme, anything is fine, but he can't use the excuse that the emperor arrested the White Lotus Cultist this time to arrest people!"

"Are you blind when you're an emperor? If Dongchang continues to arrest people like this, do you think the old man can't see him in the deep palace?"

"Let me tell you, the emperor sees it better than anyone else!"

Fu Yingxing was at a loss for words, fell down on the seat, and said unwillingly: "Then, the governor, Zhao Qiwei was beaten to death by those Donglin remnants?"

"If we swallow our anger this time, Donglin Yudang will be celebrating the New Year."

Being poked at the sore spot, Wei Zhongxian strengthened his hand slightly, threw the towel, and whispered with a sneer:

"This time we are looking at the emperor, so we don't touch the remnants of the Donglin, let them make trouble, it will be better if the trouble becomes big."

"It's best to go to the emperor's side, and then we will act in accordance with the holy will."

Speaking of this, Wei Zhongxian looked gloomy.

"The remnants of Donglin have long been killed by Bendu. Their elders are no match for Bendu, and these younger generations are even more powerless."

"You send someone to Suzhou and tell the local fans to lie down for Ben Du."

"Anyone who arrests the White Lotus Cultists and arrests them indiscriminately, be careful that the Governor wants their heads!"

"If you don't care about this matter, the emperor will have Ben Du's head!"

Chapter 7 and Six

"Putian shares the same grievances, not just one person?"

With a gloomy face, Zhu Youxiao burned the Jiaoshifu Mizuo from Suzhou on the oil lamp, and then sat for a while, still feeling puzzled, and kicked the imperial case over.

This secret rehearsal is about Zhou Shunchang's drunken poem in a certain brothel in Suzhou. The words in the poem are fierce, and he compares himself to Wen Tianxiang, and compares Emperor Tianqi to a fatuous emperor like Emperor Yang of Sui.

Whether Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was as stupid as the literati scolded or not, Zhu Youxiao only knew that he had no good intentions in making comparisons like this.

"What a Zhou Shunchang, how dare you compare me to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty!" Zhu Youxiao's chest kept rising and falling, and when he rolled his eyes, he had an idea in his heart.

Zhu Youxiao knew a little bit about the tombstones of five people in history, and the reason for this time is actually similar.

To put it bluntly, it is the tax revenue of the Supervision Department going to Yangzhou, which affects the profit channels of the interest groups behind the Donglin Party.

And the Donglin Party wanted to speak for their masters, but they were afraid of being killed by Wei Zhongxian, and they didn't dare to jump out. They could only instigate some ignorant people to violently resist taxes at the local level!

They bewitched the common people, and fanned the flames with some criticisms brought about by the court's tax collection, so that the ignorant common people and the local hooligans who watched the excitement as a big deal were used as cannon fodder, in order to fulfill their reputation.

It is this kind of thing, which is actually passed down in later generations as a drama about punishing evil and promoting good, how sad.

Historically, although these people were all arrested by Dongchang, killed and imprisoned, their goals have been achieved.