Outside the Great Zhou Heavenly Palace, there is a drum called Zhentian.

The earth-shattering drums sounded, and their sound shook the sky, and the whole city could be heard.

The earth-shattering drum sounds, and it reaches the heavens to listen, and those who have been wronged cannot be beaten. Those who are not civil prosecutors are not allowed to knock on them. The law and government of the Great Zhou Kingdom are clear, and the earth-shaking drum that has not been sounded for decades is sounding today, and the sound is endless, which is regrettable.

The people of Luoyang, who were still waiting in fear, were quiet, and the hundreds of officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty were quiet.

The Great Zhou Heavenly Palace, under the earth-shaking drum.

One by one, the haggard-faced men fell to their knees and cried out loudly.

"Please let the emperor call the shots and give me justice. Arrest the bandits and return my belongings. ”

"Your Majesty, the grass people pay countless taxes every year, and now the family wealth has been robbed, please ask the emperor to be the master!"

"Your Majesty, Zhao Shangshu instructed the servants to rob my family of property, and I implore the emperor to punish Zhao Shangshu!"

"Your Majesty, the grass people have evidence, General Zhou's servants robbed me of my property and set up servants as bandits, please punish the emperor!"

"Your Majesty, the grass people have opened a store in Los Angeles for a hundred years, and they have nothing to do with Hongfu Money Bank, and they are willing to ask the emperor to make decisions for the grass people. ”

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The people who cried were all merchants from Luoyang City, and at this moment, they were holding up the paper, kneeling at the entrance of the palace, crying and waiting for the emperor to make the decision.

And not far away in an attic.

Dongluo and Xue Nianci looked at the merchants in front of them, and a coldness flashed in their eyes.

"Among the dozens of people here, only the first few people are from my Xue family. Xue Nianci pointed to the distance.

Dongluo nodded and said, "Wait slowly! The earth-shaking drum sounds, and there will be more and more merchants who come to sue the emperor." The shops related to Hongfu Money Bank are still afraid to move, and they are still waiting for a clear definition of yesterday's events. But those shops that have nothing to do with Hongfu Money Store can't take care of it so much. Whether it was robbed by the officials' domestic servants or spontaneously robbed by the people, they would all come to sue the emperor. ”

"Then Zhao Shangshu also deserves it, although everyone likes to eat, but his eating appearance is too ugly. Originally, Hongfu had nothing to do with him, but let the servants provoke the people to rob the competitors' shops. Doesn't this arouse the indignation of the masses and the boiling of public resentment? Fortunately, we have been prepared for a long time and have recorded all this. Xue Nianci chuckled.

"I can bear Wenchen's greed for money, and I can endure the general's fear of death, my heart dictates it! I still look down on Zhou Fei, as a general, he should protect his family and defend the country, and kill him to the death on the front line. He is good, he is old, and he has taken the lead in robbing other people's property, and at this time he remembered that he had taken the lead? If Zhou Tianzi didn't kill him, I wanted to kill him. Dongluo said coldly.

"The Word has no partiality, and he has all kinds of causes and effects of today. No, retribution is coming. Xue Nianci looked up at the earthy yellow clouds overhead, and remembered a poem for no reason.

Liujia welcomes yellow gas, and Sanyuan descends purple mud.

"Nian Ci, what do you say Zhou Tianzi will do with these people?" Dongluo pondered.

"Killed, the ministers of the court will not let it. Let it go, but the people of Luoyang City are not convinced. If I change places, it will be difficult for me to make a decision for a while!" Xue Nianci shook her head and said.

"Isn't it difficult to decide? I don't think so, just kill half of it, and let half of it go!" Dongluo said with a smile.

"What you said is light, who to kill? Who to let go? What's more, at this time, does Zhou Tianzi dare to kill? Will the ministers let him kill?" Xue Nianci laughed angrily.

Dongluo raised his head and looked at the earthy yellow clouds in the sky, and said with a smile: "Yes! It's hard to kill or not! If it's okay on weekdays, but now that the border of the Great Zhou is undecided, how many of these Luoyang City are spies from other countries. Now the ministers must have known that there was a driving force behind all this. You're already on the bright side. No one should believe that your little Snow Clan has this power. What do you think the ministers think?"

"What else can you think, just guess hard at the enemy country! Could it be that you can still destroy my Snow Clan!" Xue Nianci said indifferently.

Half a month ago, he might have carefully removed the Snow Clan from this whirlpool, but now! Even if he is in the whirlpool, the Snow Clan will not move like a mountain. In the end, it will definitely make a lot of money.

"Yes! It was because of this speculation that they did not dare to do it. Because now that a Zhao Shangshu has been killed, believe it or not, we don't need to make a move, and there will be accusations of high-ranking officials such as Prime Minister Yi and Pang Taishi immediately, so when the time comes, will they kill or not? If you don't kill them, the people's grievances will be difficult to settle! The weak in the world look down on the weak the most, because he himself is a weak person. But the weak also sympathize with the weak, because he is also weak. If you are unkind to the officials and oppress one people, what will the other people think? I will definitely think what if you bully me in the future?"

Dongluo sighed with emotion: "Of course, as soon as you have the opportunity, you will trample him under your feet and rub him hard! You have to believe that the weak have never spared no effort to trample on the strong." ”

"I still won't believe that Zhou Tianzi will kill them all!" Xue Nianci said with certainty.

"Of course not! I don't have a mortal enmity with them, and I don't want to send them to their deaths. Otherwise, there wouldn't be just so many people kneeling here and beating the earth-shaking drum. I just want them to go to Weicheng and Saibei to see the yellow sand, go to southern Xinjiang to inhale miasma, and go to the East China Sea to blow the sea breeze. When they drove my father to his death, they should have done the same. Dongluo said coldly.

In the Great Zhou Heavenly Palace, Zhou Tianzi smiled playfully.

Good boy, play with me to borrow a knife to kill people, and borrow my knife to kill my people.

Zhou Tianzi said coldly: "Zhao Dashangshu, what else do you have to say?"

Zhao Liren, the secretary of the Criminal Department, hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is also blinded by lard!

"Your Majesty, if the officials bully the people, the country will not be a country. For today's plan, if it is not the time to be accountable, let's first appease the people's grievances!" said Prime Minister Yi bitterly.

I thought that the matter of a household department book could be closed, but I didn't expect that now I might have to take a criminal department book. If this continues, the pillars of the Great Zhou Dynasty have already gone to two.

"Prime Minister, I have let you supervise the country for 20 years, and you have the right to depose hundreds of officials, look at what you have made my court, you say, how to appease the people's grievances?" Zhou Tianzi said lightly.

Prime Minister Yi was silent for a moment, and said bitterly: "Your Majesty, Zhao Shangshu can't be killed." General Zhou can't be killed. None of the officials sued by the people could be killed, at least not for now. As for the people's grievances, the state should come forward to appease them, and the prime minister should be the head of a hundred officials, and if the officials are not strict, they should be removed from their posts as ministers to set an example and show punishment. ”

Zhou Tianzi sneered: "There is no official in my Great Zhou Kingdom that cannot be killed. All of you remember to me that in the Great Zhou Kingdom, the people are the sky, and the people are heavier than the kings of the hundred officials. If you often claim to be an official and think that you are a cultivator from above, then I will tell you right now, even if you are an immortal in the sky, in my eyes there is not much difference from an ordinary person. ”

"Yi Zhi, get rid of the post of prime minister, and now set off for southern Xinjiang. Zhao Liren, the secretary of the criminal department, Cui Hao, the secretary of the household department, Zhou Tai, the waiter of the military department, and the officials reported by the people under the earthquake drum, all the officials related to Hongfu Qian Xing, handed over to the Dali Temple for verification, once verified, all the family property was confiscated, demoted to the common people, and distributed to the frontier, never recalled. Retreat. ”

After Zhou Tianzi finished speaking, his figure flashed and disappeared directly from the main hall.

The chief of the group exhaled, glanced sympathetically at Zhao Liren, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and left quickly.

Damn, it's so dangerous, it's good that I didn't participate in yesterday's snatch battle. didn't fish in troubled waters, otherwise it would have been me who was assigned to the frontier now!

Zhao Shangshu looked at all the ministers indifferently.

In the past, this group of ministers was extremely supportive of themselves, and when they gave orders, all the voices of 'ministers seconded the proposal', among which there were many protégés and former officials, but at this time, no one was willing to speak up for themselves?

Zhao Liren suddenly was in a trance, as if he saw himself seventy years ago, young and ambitious, and full of spirit. When I first entered the officialdom, it was smooth sailing. It was even more difficult to reconcile the relationship between the Han and the king at that time.

It seems that the situation faced by the Han King at that time was even worse than his own! The Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, and no one pleaded for it. At that time, King Han should have looked at him as disappointed as he was when he looked at his ministers now!

Zhao Liren slowly walked out of the main hall, looked at the person standing at the door with his hands in his sleeves, and said bitterly: "Prime Minister, the lower official has disappointed you." ”

Although Yi Zhizhi was dismissed from his post as prime minister, it was only a matter of time before he was restored.

Yi Zhi walked in front, Zhao Tai slowly followed, and said softly: "There is no way for good and evil, but people call themselves." In fact, you don't have to go to today, there are fewer and fewer pure scholars in this world, if the King of Han knew that you have become what you are now, I don't know what he would think! Do you know that there were so many people in the court back then, why did the King of Han talk to you very happily alone? I remember that at that time, you were just a small Confucius of the Hanlin Academy. How can you get into the eyes of King Han, one of the nine monarchs of the Great Zhou. It's just because you have a breath. It's just a mouthful of the righteousness of a reader. ”

"At that time, you were cynical, youthful and energetic, and you cared about the world, and every time you drank with King Han, you talked about the world and were full of spirit. Walking shoulder to shoulder on the streets of Luoyang City. Saying those unpopular nonsense. dared to scold the Son of Heaven for being mediocre and daring to scold corrupt officials, but at that time, you only admired the Han King who did things freely and behaved casually. But you don't know that the King of Han is by your side, and listening to your nagging, you will say two bad words about the King of Han from time to time. Cause you to be angry and scolded. Yi Zhi laughed as he spoke, and seemed to be envious of such a relationship, but he also knew that the higher a person stands, the fewer friends he has, and as for how high he has stood, maybe only he knows it!

Zhao Liren also seemed to have regained a little bit of vitality, as if he was dozens of years younger, but more like an old man in the twilight, "But then he should have been disappointed in me!"

"Disappointment? maybe!" Yi Zhi thought about it seriously, "However, his disappointment is in himself and in the world. But I am not disappointed in you. Before he was exiled, he came to me, for you. He asked me to take care of you, and I agreed. Really, I envy you, and of course it's not just me! It should be that the people of the entire Great Zhou Kingdom are envious of you. It's a matter of pride to be able to drink a pot of wine with someone like him. When he is drunk, he can still walk on the streets with no one on his back, vomiting all over his body, which is even more proud. ”

The dignified criminal department of Shangshu, the person in charge of the criminal law of a country, suddenly squatted on the ground and cried, crying like a child.

Yi Zhi silently looked at this person who was not as old as him, but older than him, took out a spirit stone from the mustard seeds, and gently threw it to Zhao Lidao: "Go to Weicheng and bring two pots of the best Du Kang wine in Luoyang City to see him! He should have been waiting for this pot of wine for sixty years." ”

Zhao Liren staggered to his feet, laughed and said with a crying voice: "Everyone in the world knows that immortals are good, but they can't forget their fame......"

Yi Zhi stopped, looked at Zhao Liren who staggered away, and suddenly laughed.

Jun buried the mud under the spring and sold the bones, and I sent the world full of snow.

Maybe that's what I said!

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One morning a long time later, an old man with a white beard came to Weicheng and settled in Weicheng with peace of mind.

The people of Weicheng only knew that this old man used to be a big official in the capital, and no one knew what kind of official it was. The arrival of the old man took the place of Mr. Teach, who had fled and left earlier.

Every day, the old man would carry a pot of wine to a small earthen bag by the Weishui, silently look at the passing Weishui, and fill the two empty wine bowls beside him one by one.