Shao Song

Vol 2 Chapter 20: Public opinion (continued)

   In March, public opinion in Tokyo was turbulent.

   The original cause of the incident could not be simpler. Of course, it was the imperial court’s liquidation of accumulated abuses and deprivation of abusive grace and shame. But ridiculously speaking, the commotion caused in the middle was quite twists and turns.

When the court first dealt with this incident, it was impossible to determine whether the six households whose homes were ransacked were involved in the incident. Therefore, many stakeholders carried out rumors and satire with strong tentative emotions. This is the first time. A commotion in public opinion.

   was clearly aimed at the new policies of the Zhao official family and the court.

   But soon, the court responded to these people with a very tough attitude.

   It is not only that the imperial court has increased its efforts to chase abuse and abuse, but what is terrible is that the theoretical leader of these people, that is, the biggest hope, Lu Haowen, Gongxiang Lu directly publicly expressed support for the imperial court. The official Zhao’s family made an order personally, and the Imperial Secretary vigorously investigated the source of the rumors and distorted poems in the previous few days, and used the imperial squad to directly search the house...At this time, the temptation and satire of those people quickly stopped.

  Because most of them still know very well that they know that they have no real power.

But as the saying goes, the tree desires to be quiet and the wind keeps going. Just when these former powerful and powerful people took the initiative to voice their voices for a safe transition, a "secret" from the senior leaders of the Kingdom of Jin was spread almost at the same time, that is, the prime minister of the Kingdom of Jin and the Marshal of the Kingdom of Jin Han imprisoned him. The matter of the King of the Kingdom has greatly stimulated the existing bureaucratic system, the scholars in the field, and ordinary people in Tokyo.

   The subsequent public turmoil was mostly initiated by these people.

   The official, and he is a familiar official, one of the masterminds who made the Jingkang change in the past, suddenly did this kind of thing, and related rumors immediately flew all over the sky:

   Some people say that Wu Qi buyer is fighting with Nianhan, and now Nianhan is imprisoning the country's lord, so he will soon lead the army to the south to avenge the love of Wanyan Lou.

Others say that Wu Qibu may not be the master, and Nianhan may not fight, but since Nianhan has imprisoned the lord, the next step is to usurp the throne, and the ministers who want to usurp the throne must always come up with something to buy people’s hearts. Those who build prestige, then dare to ask how barbarians like Jurchen can buy people's hearts and build prestige?

  , of course, went south to rob Central Plains!

   Therefore, at this time, Nian Han is not willing to go south but also south, or he does not want to fight, and he has to lead his army to fight the Song to the death!

   Of course, it’s not that no one is optimistic, saying that Nian Han is a truly talented minister, then he will start from the overall situation and take the initiative to negotiate peace with Da Song.

   But the question is, even if you want to negotiate a peace, is the peace easy to negotiate? What should we say about northern Shaanxi, Shandong, Hebei, and Hedong? The official will allow? If you say you can’t make peace, you still have to fight in the end!

All in all, no matter what the specific views of these people are, almost everyone feels that since such earth-shattering things have happened to the top of the Kingdom of Jin, then it must directly affect the national level... and at this time, the court must It is necessary to cut the mess quickly, quickly end those meaningless internal "waves", and concentrate on dealing with the north.

   Under this situation, other people who were originally neutral about the'recovering the indiscriminate grace and shame' immediately changed their direction and chose unrestricted support for the imperial court and Zhao's official policies.

   To put it bluntly, the political prestige of the Zhao official family originally came from leading the Song Dynasty to withstand the invasion of the northern golden people. And no ordinary people, including bureaucrats and powerful people, are willing to experience the changes in Jingkang again. Therefore, even if everyone has a conservative or stable instinct, once they really face the threat of the possibility of the north, the Zhao official family will not only have unrestricted power, but will also receive great support from the public opinion. .

   Don't forget, that unforgettable crash, only five years ago!

   Correspondingly speaking, the old powerful people quickly fell under the attack of the bureaucracy and public opinion.

   Among the people at the bottom, everywhere it is said that these people are simply crafted by golden people!

   There are also some scholar-bureaucrats and Tai students who are at a higher level. They probably know that these people are unlikely to be meticulous, but they think that these people have actually affected the country's preparations for war, and they should be dealt with quickly, strictly and quickly.

   Public opinion's tolerance for these people dropped to a minimum in an instant.

And one of the most representative things is that there are dozens of slightly radical Tai students who, on the one hand, wrote articles in the palace, and on the other hand, contributed articles to the newspaper office of the Hongyu Temple and directly demanded that the imperial court behave in extraordinary times. Treat these people as'North Spies' temporarily, and put them under detention. After major events, they will be dealt with to ensure a calm attitude towards the north.

Of course, the imperial court would not listen to these words, but there is no doubt that the bureaucratic system has quickly become tense, and this tension and official compensation for the previous years and a half years, plus rewards and posthumous political promises of the ministers since Jingkang have formed a double Stimulus... but it forces the entire bureaucracy to quickly complete the cut with these people, and then the efficiency and intensity of the operation and handling of this matter have reached a new height.

As for the protagonists in the vortex of the incident, that is, those powerful and powerful in the former Fenghengyu era, they fled to Yangzhou and returned, so that these people who had no actual merits in Jianyan really never thought of it. Thousands of miles away, a bad old man was caught in the wind, which directly affected their net worth and lives... it was almost as mysterious as the story in "Journey to the West".

   However, the documents for pursuing Enyin's official position, as well as the investigation of previous rumors and distorted poems, can no longer be true.

   Saying that, in the midst of the storm, Zheng Yinian, who went out to inquire about the news that evening, went directly to his brother Zheng Xiunian’s bedroom when he returned home, then rejected the servant-wife, and asked the elder brother face-to-face in the bedroom:

   "Brother, tell me the truth, does that crooked word of Hanfangyuan have anything to do with you? Why do I ask, they all said that the relevant people who happened to be in Hanfangyuan that day were you among them?"

   Zheng Xiu-nian, who had deliberately been sick at home these few days, looked pale and was speechless for a while.

   When Zheng Yinian saw such a situation, he knew it clearly, but he got up and stamped his feet on the ground, then turned around and asked, "Brother, how are you so confused?"

   "Isn't there really some resentment in my heart?" Zheng Xiunian, who was lying on the couch and pretending to be sick with a small quilt, was completely helpless and could only explain in a low voice. "The real estate is gone, and the attendant ranks that the Emperor Taishang Daojun rewarded our brothers in the past are also gone. There is only some floating wealth left sitting in the sky, thinking about how prosperous the family used to be, but now it is gradually falling in my hands, of course I am not angry... and that When I was watching Cuju on the day, I happened to have some wine in the box with some relatives, and then talked about it again. As soon as the grievance came up in my heart, I wrote that little word before leaving..."

   "What if you are not upset?" Zheng Yinian was completely helpless. "Nasu is an official leader!"

   "At the time, I felt that, apart from the official, family, and military affairs, it was still not very harsh." Zheng Xiunian frowned slightly on the couch. "Who can think that this official will turn his face when he turns his face? After all, I always feel that our brother's official status is a reward from the Taishang Taoist emperor. Our Zheng family can be regarded as the home of generations of prime ministers, plus the queen mother's relatives. How can he be like this? Regardless of decent? Want me to say..."

   "Let me say that the Emperor Taishang is a fart?!" Seeing that his brother was still a little obsessed, but was completely furious, he took the words on the spot and jumped in front of the bed and yelled at him. "Emperor Taishang Daojun had to make up his own clothes in the Five Kingdoms City! In the middle, because he couldn't stand the suffering, he cut his clothes into strips and wanted to hang himself. In the end, he didn't have the guts to die. He cried shirtlessly, and finally had to find a gold man. Needle and thread to let the Queen Mother help to re-sew...what kind of person is this kind of person?! Do you still want to borrow this kind of human body?!"

   Zheng Xiunian was frightened by his brother for a while.

   But Zheng Yinian seemed to be completely angry, but his face kept getting hideous. "Brother, let me ask you, do you know how the word decent comes from? If you don't know it, I know! After I went to the Five Kingdoms City, I knew that if you want to be decent, you have to have this strength. Supported behind. How did the power come from? It’s not the two characters for soldiers and horses?! And whoever holds the soldiers and horses today can be decent! Whose soldiers and horses are the strongest, and who is the most decent! The golden soldiers are strong and strong, The decency was given by the golden man. Later five years before and after the official, he trained an army of 200,000 imperial battalions and became the most decent person in the world! But what about you? You don’t know anything about decency and strength! I actually feel like I can rely on a prisoner from a five-nation city to talk about decentness to the most decent person in the world? You are not trying to be decent, you are trying to ruin our Zheng family for something that has been lost long ago!"

   "The second child is serious." One decent after another, Zheng Xiunian was so frightened by his brother that he could only comfort him a little.

   "Say a serious ass!" Zheng Yinian was still angry. "Brother, I only want to ask you one thing. Have you thought about it? Yang Yizhong's fellow came to investigate, what shall we do? Do you really know what it's like to be exiled? Let me tell you, a trip to the Five Kingdoms City, your brother Now I only think that Tokyo City is like a fairy nest! But do you have to have dozens of people in your family go and suffer crimes with you? Not to mention, you inscribed that kind of crooked word, which really cures you of accusing the public and inciting people’s sins. There is nothing to say, not only will the whole family be exiled, but your life will not be guaranteed!"

   Zheng Xiunian thought of the most direct threat before him, and again softened his tone: "When I wrote the inscription on that day, there was only one servant who was holding ink..."

  In the middle of the conversation, the two brothers were stunned. Immediately, Zheng Xiunian wanted to turn over and get up from the bed, but was directly stopped by Zheng Yinian, who had a pale complexion, raised his hand.

   "What's the meaning of the second child?" Zheng Xiunian lowered his voice relative. "A lesson from the past, should people be dealt with?"

   "You can't hide..." Zheng Yinian's voice was trembling directly. "The key is not that person, but that the current public opinion is accusing us, and the officials are extremely dissatisfied with the fact that I brought the Second Saint's letter that day. In this case, those people are eager to deal with us severely to please us. Officials... Therefore, as long as they find our house and keep the servant, of course it is a witness, but removing him is evidence of our fear of sin!"

   "That..." Zheng Xiunian finally panicked completely. "I will give him a big reward?"

   "Under Five Trees, where can you stand it?"

   "Is there really no way out?"

   "I couldn't think of it." Zheng Yinian's heart was cold, but he was thinking hard again. "You use my situation to write an inscription, and the words say,'It's better to go back and be a Qimin'. This is something that everyone can think of me. This is one of them; and you were among the people who went to see Cuju that day. , A little bit of inquiries and changes will also be able to know, this is the second... Therefore, Yang Yizhong found our house only two days ago, since it has been found, there is a gap, but it is simply impossible."

   Zheng Xiunian was at a loss.

However, Zheng Yinian slammed a fist on the bedside several cases: "I knew this before, I might as well go to Jinan, I can live for another half a year! I can still be exiled a year or two later. …"

   Zheng Xiunian was slightly startled, but he stopped talking.

   Zheng Yinian looked at his brother's expression, also startled.

   "Run away..." Zheng Xiunian said carefully with a slightly trembling voice. "Second, let's run away, brother! From our family background, when I went to Jinan, I was bound to be regarded as a guest of honor by Liu Yu, where he became a high official and collected some wealth, and when Zhang Junyue flew back to fight, Let's run away from the back, go to Goryeo, go to Japan... wait until the world is settled before we change our name and change our surname, or we don't come back at all... Isn't this a way of life?"

Zheng Yinian's eyes flickered, and he was silent for more than a dozen breaths before he shook his head in a panic: "This is a way of life... But elder brother, have you ever thought about it, if it's just our brothers, we will run away, but can my sister-in-law, nephew and niece do this? Take them to escape, how can we escape? And if we leave without them, then we will enjoy half a lifetime of wealth, but they will be imprisoned, how can you and I bear it?"

  Zheng Xiunian is totally desperate...How can he be willing to give up his wife and children.

   But at this time, his brother Zheng Yinian slightly covered his nose under the light, carefully facing each other: "But if the elder brother runs away alone and I stay, it will be the best of both worlds..."

   Zheng Xiunian looked up blankly and looked at his brother, seemingly puzzled.

   "Brother..." Zheng Yinian stepped forward, carefully explaining in a low voice before the bed. "You went to the Cuju field that day, this matter can't be covered, otherwise I will definitely bear the charge for you, and then let you go to Kaifeng Mansion to report the crime in order to escape..."

   Zheng Xiunian was startled, but stared at his brother.

   "Brother, you go to Jinan, sister-in-law, I will take care of you." Zheng Yinian finally gritted his teeth. "Up to now, this is the only way to protect our family!"

   Zheng Xiunian was eager to argue, but he couldn't speak, so he could only sit on the couch.

   "Brother, let's go, a sturdy man, he can still get out if he wants to escape." When Zheng Yinian saw that his brother was reluctant to speak, he simply took the plan completely out of it as a response. "After you leave, I will delay for half a day, and then go to Kaifeng Mansion to report. Since we have the merits of killing relatives, we can tell our relatives to intercede, so that the misfortune will not affect his wife and children... At that time, my brother will be free to collect money and escape in Jinan Goryeo, turn back secretly again, and I am holding my house in Tokyo, taking care of my elder brother...this is a serious way to live! Brother me, if you are ruthless, don’t disturb your elder sisters and them, just take advantage of it. Black, immediately steal your makeup away. I will send you to the Maxing Street Night Market to wait. At dawn, I will follow the night market people out of the city to the east and head straight to Jinan!"

   Zheng Xiunian listened for a while, and suddenly started crying with this little quilt on the bed.

The reason why he cried was not because he was desperate, but because he thought and thought, his brother’s plan is really the best way out right now... But the more so, the more he is reluctant to give up his wife and children and grow up in Tokyo. , And the more reluctant to give up, on the contrary, the clearer you have to leave.

   Until now, I can only say that I regretted it!

   If you drink less wine and listen to Gao Yaokang and Gao Yaofu's brothers (both Gao Qi’s sons), they will not cause such troubles.

In this way, Zheng Xiunian cried for a long time. After all, he was forced to change into a servant’s clothes by Zheng Yinian, and then he was dragged by Zheng Yinian, pretending to be a master and servant, and going out through the back door, ready to go to the Maxing Street Night Market. go with.

However, as soon as the two brothers walked out of the back door and walked only fifty or sixty steps, they were blocked by a group of strong men with lanterns at the back door alley, and then they were taken to a pot sticker tofu stall in the opposite alley. .

   Under the light, facing Yang Yizhong and Wan Tuao who were drinking tea with tofu, the Zheng brothers looked pale, and Zheng Xiunian, who was lucky enough before, even collapsed directly to the ground.

The owner of the potsticker tofu stall and the owner of the tea stall on the side were taken away from the scene early, but Yang Yizhong looked at the brothers, but he rarely showed a puzzled expression: "How are you two so confused? Han Fangyuan's inscription is like this. The big flaw, why did you want to escape today? Do you guys know that the three sons of the former Taiwei Gaoyao, the third son of the former Taiwei Gaoyao, came forward yesterday and told his two brothers to talk to each other in Hanfang Garden. The incident you met directly implied that the crooked word was written by you, and if we hadn't waited for your brothers, we would have arrested people on a large scale."

   The Zheng brothers completely lost their voice, and it took a long time for Zheng Yinian to step forward and hand over: "Let the two of you tired."

   "It's hard to be tired." Yang Yizhong didn't know if he was squeezed in the palace, his expression became more and more moving. "It just made me and Yushi Wanzuo ate three full meals of potsticker tofu here, and it's not good to eat something...I'm young, but Yushi Wanzuo just said that my belly was bloated last night!"

   "Okay..." Wan Hao was also weak and waved his hand directly. "It's Zheng Xiunian who is going to leave, right? Let's go! When you arrive in Jinan, you have two things to do... One is to seek out the false prime minister, Hong Ya, and establish contact with him. Don't be too direct and obscure. That person will understand. ; The other is to inquire about your own situation and make it clear to the host of Jinan Lingjiu Temple. In this way, not only will your wife and children be innocent, but your brother will also be able to take up actual positions, and you will have good results in the future..."

   Zheng Xiunian was at a loss for a while, but he still didn't react.

  Wan Tumao and Yang Yizhong looked at each other, and they both looked suspicious, but Zheng Yinian couldn't help but press his brother and directly bowed his head on the ground.

   "What if your inscription would be good?" Yang Yizhong couldn't help shaking his head when he saw this.

   "How can UU read www.uukanshu.com get confused when the official comes back from the Five Kingdoms City?" Zheng Yinian smiled bitterly on the spot. "This potsticker tofu will not feel bloated for the whole life."

  Yang Yizhong also laughed, but first put the tofu money, then stood up, and made a retreat. Wan Chengmao was asked to go first, and only then took a dozen big guys straight away... as if he had never been here to wait for a rabbit.

   And Zheng Xiunian finally woke up at this time.

The next morning, great news broke out in the city of Tokyo—that is why Zheng Xiunian, the grandson of Prime Minister Wang Gui and the eldest son of Prime Minister Zheng Juzhong, fled in fear of crime. A reactionary group that has gathered for many times to "accuse Cheng Yu"

   The eldest son and second son of the former Taiwei Gaoyu, his brother Zheng Xiunian, his cousin Wang Huan, and many sons of the ruler and chieftain.

The imperial court did not hesitate and immediately wiped all these people out. With the exception of Zheng Yinian and Gao Bin, who were the leaders, they also set aside their background texts and offered a reward for the capture of Zheng Xiunian... This incident was regarded as a public controversy in Tokyo in early March. A full stop was drawn.

   Depriving the work of abusive grace and shame, there is no hindrance.

   The only thing that makes people feel a little regretful is that a few days later, Zheng Xiunian was determined to have successfully escaped and entered Jinan, and was appointed by the overjoyed Liu Yu as the Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

  

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