Chapter 157 Ubiquitous Listeners

The explosion effect this time was extremely spectacular. Six canisters exploded almost at the same time, carrying thousands of nails and shooting all the dummies within a diameter of 200 meters to pieces.

The Army soldiers who went over to inspect it were speechless while taking pictures. They looked at the holes in the dummy and the small iron nails inserted into it, and felt cold all over.

The second time the plane passed by, the nearby sergeants hid further and watched from a distance as a large amount of incendiary bombs were dropped in the sky.

Huang Degong held the telescope in his hand and looked at the dummy door that had become a sea of ​​fire in the distance and was attached with gunpowder. It burned into torches and burned for a long time, but it was still not extinguished.

"Everyone, I'm afraid the future wars will be very easy."

"I'm afraid there will never be any large-scale battles again. Once this thing flies in the sky, we will be left to dig through corpses."

Wang Jiayan said in shock from the side.

After the video was sent back to Chongzhen, Chongzhen and Chen Ye watched it again and were finally satisfied with the results.

"Lao Zhu, you continue to ask the gunpowder department to make integrated bombs and then put them in the display window. I will go back first."

"Shopkeeper, go and do your work."

Chongzhen and Chen Ye exchanged a few words, and Chen Ye activated the system and returned to modern times.

Chongzhen put the drone back in the display window. Although Chen Ye had placed an order, he still couldn't bear to put it outside.

After the Royal Army on the other side cleaned up the entire site, the test site returned to a brief period of calm.

Later, the artillery battalion came over to practice artillery firing, and people from the Gunpowder Department and the Ministry of Works also experimented with simple grenades here.

Capital Yongguang Temple.

A group of scholars gathered here to drink tea and exchange poems. Chen Gui and Qian Jun were having a heated argument.

"Brother Chen, the sit-in at the palace gate is forcing His Majesty to make a decision. Have you ever thought about the situation you are going to put Grand Scholar Chen in?"

"I'm not afraid of you. What are you afraid of? This time I must knock down this arrogance, and I can't let His Majesty be deceived again.

As for my uncle and the ministers in the cabinet, they have now become a group of villains who do not distinguish between right and wrong and only cater to others.

Such a villain is not worthy of being a member of our Chen family, and such a group of flattering ministers is not worthy of being a great scholar of our Ming Dynasty."

When Chen Gui talked about this, his momentum became even stronger. In their view, Chen Yan and other academics did not object this time, but instead helped the tyranny. They were oppressing the literati and betrayed the class.

Qian Jun thought so too, but he had his own interests to pursue, and Qian Qianyi had put so much thought into entering Beijing.

Now the wait is almost over. As long as Qian Qianyi takes office, he will have the opportunity to directly join the official position. He doesn't want to cause trouble at this time.

So he decided that it would be better for him to stay away for the time being.

"Brother Qian, are you thinking about your uncle Qian Qianyi?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I just feel that this kind of behavior is not what a scholar should do."

"If you are afraid, you don't have to go. In short, we will go to the palace gate meditation one day later.

Gentlemen, the time has come to rectify the name of our generation of scholars, we should go and show these flattering ministers the power of our scholars."

"That's right! Your Majesty must give an explanation!"

"Brother Chen, let us do what we should do for the rights of scholars in the world!"

"Brother Qian, you have to understand that we are not doing this just for ourselves, we are doing it for the legitimacy of scholars all over the world.

If you were to put yourself in someone else's shoes, if you were Master Chen and Mr. Mu Zhai, would you also stop your juniors? We can be impulsive, but they can't!"

Qian Jun stared at Chen Gui with an ugly expression, and began to wonder in his heart, could this be the instruction of that guy Chen Yan?

He didn't believe that Chen Gui dared to go against Chen Yan like this. It was only possible that someone had endorsed this guy.

After thinking about it, Qian Jun came up with a plot.

Naturally, Chen Yan and others were extremely opposed to the imperial examination policy issued by the emperor this time. Anyone who came from an official family can figure out the reason.

The road to the imperial examination seems to be fair, but in fact it has long lost its fairness. Several cabinet ministers and the chief officials of the six ministries seem to have been promoted, but in fact the core power has always been those few.

The new officials are basically from official families, from grass-roots families, and less than 20% are from military households. They are just ordinary grass-roots people. They will pay homage, but people who come from military households are really incompatible with officials.

Therefore, a passage suddenly appeared that broke the original route and led directly from the military household. The literati couldn't help but take it easy. This was cutting their cake with a knife.

But they were in a high position and could not openly oppose it. After all, Chongzhen was now very powerful. He had an army and money and food in his hands. He was fearless and had to raid his house and replace him.

This was obvious to both the government and the government, so they needed to adopt a compromise approach.

It was their credit to use students to force the emperor. The emperor couldn't kill on a large scale, right? That would be going against the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty, and the students were basically their descendants or brothers-in-law.

If it fails, you can still put more pressure on the government. You see, all the students and officials in the world will not agree. If you do this, you will be a coward. With Chongzhen's good face, the matter will be over anyway.

Thinking of this, Qian Jun couldn't help but feel impressed by the rigor of these big shots in doing things. He made Chen Gui act like he was breaking up with his family in advance, which saved his face.

In the Chen Mansion, Chen Yan was thinking about the recent emotional problems of the students when he suddenly sneezed a few times.

"That's strange? The weather isn't cold either? Someone is talking about me?"

After Qian Jun colluded with the plot in his mind, he finally decided to join this grand event.

"Okay, I'll join."

"Hey, that's right. Scholars in the world should be single-minded. After all, Your Majesty doesn't understand the operation of the world's officialdom better than we do.

Qian Jun, since Mr. Mu Zhai is about to enter the capital, you should be the leader. Your clan uncle arrives in the capital just when he needs to make a splash."

"Okay! Then we will go to the palace gate to sit in meditation at the end of the fifth watch tomorrow. I think my uncle will also support my behavior."

Qian Jun looked serious and felt that he had begun to do a great thing, something to speak out for scholars all over the world.

Dengzhou waters.

Qian Qianyi and Fang Yuegong were sitting in the cabin drinking, looking at the calm sea outside, Qian Qianyi was about to write a poem.

"A sneeze, a sneeze, a sneeze."

"Mr. Mu Zhai, are you feeling cold?"

Fang Yuegong retreated in disgust.

"That's not true. It's just a sudden discomfort in the nose. Someone in the capital must be thinking about me."

Qian Qianyi took out his handkerchief and wiped his nose, and said nonchalantly. He opened his mouth and wanted to read a poem, but the sentence he just said suddenly disappeared. He was still a little bored and felt like he was being plotted against.

Capital listening room.

According to priority, several young eunuchs took the dedicated intercom and called Wang Chengen to report the discussions of the students.

Wang Chengen immediately started sorting it out, and then went into the palace to report it to Chongzhen.

"Your Majesty, the Intelligence Department has just received a message that at the listening point in the temple hall No. 4, a conspiracy to force the emperor to evacuate the palace was heard.

A group composed of Qian Jun, Chen Gui and other students will hold a sit-in in front of the palace gate tomorrow to force the palace to force His Majesty to withdraw from the military imperial examination channel."

"Oh? How many people are there in total? Are they the only group?"

Chongzhen paused the tablet and asked out of curiosity. He showed no concern at all and even had a little excitement in his eyes.

"The exact number of people is unknown. There are dozens of people. It seems that officials from six ministries are also going to join them."

"There are six more officials?"

"Your Majesty, there is a call from Li Ruolian's intercom."

Chongzhen sat up straighter now and had a serious attitude. Just as he was about to ask in detail, the little eunuch who took over from Wang Chengen to take care of the walkie-talkie handed over a walkie-talkie.

"Hey, hey, hey, Li Ruolian, Li Ruolian, I can hear you. Say it quickly. It's over."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, reporting to Your Majesty, I have received news from all over the capital. Today, several groups of students are gathering in the city.

They were divided into two large groups, one wanted to protest, and the other wanted to jointly sign up to join the army.

The cabinet ministers have been closed recently, and there are no abnormalities in the six ministers.

The left minister of the household department frequently visited students, and the left and right ministers of the official department were visited by people. There were more unusual people among the ministers of each department, and the details cannot be determined.

Your Majesty, please give further instructions and the report is completed."

After hearing this reply, Chongzhen put his hands together and squeezed, stood up and stretched slightly excitedly.

"It's finally here. I thought they could hold it in for a long time, but I didn't expect that they could no longer hold their breath after just a few days.

Being completely wiped out by Jinyiwei like this, you are so upright, do you think I really have nothing to do?"

Wang Chengen listened to Chongzhen's words and felt slightly that some people were going to be in bad luck.

"Li Aiqing, now focus on analyzing who is the leader of each student group and which family is behind it. Then report to me and wait for instructions, complete."

"Wang Banban, go and notify the Sixth Department immediately, and several people from the cabinet are coming.

I don’t believe they don’t know about such a big news, but if they don’t inform me, are they going to put me on the fire?”

Chongzhen snorted and sat down again. He was already thinking about how to deal with this group of people.

An hour later, the six ministers and several cabinet ministers had gathered in Wuying Hall.

"Dear dear sirs, the reason why I am sending this sudden edict is because there is a message from the Jinyi Guards just now. When I saw it, I was very angry, so I asked you how to deal with it."

Chongzhen handed several papers that had been written by Wang Chengen to several people.

After looking at it, Fan Fucui had a dull look on his face. The other people's expressions changed, but they were okay. Only Chen Yan, who had recently been living in seclusion at home according to Chongzhen's orders, looked ugly.

"The Royal Army defends the country, and the personnel in the army are all normal good family members. I let scholars join the army to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty and to train them.

So I also set up imperial examinations in the army to make them capable of civil and military skills. I have good intentions, but why can't they understand?"

"Your Majesty, maybe it's because the military imperial examination skipped the jurisdiction of the six ministries, so everyone feels it's unfair?"

Listening to the reply from Li Rixuan, the Minister of Civil Affairs, Chongzhen looked at him with some disappointment. This guy was still a relative of Li Banghua, and he didn't expect that he was also playing tricks.
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