Since the Later Zhou Dynasty, the imperial court has paid great attention to the problem of flood discharge in Kaifeng. After Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was added, Kaifeng was still designated as the capital, and the construction of underground channels was the most important project.

After several years of repair, the underground of Jingshi can not only drain water, but also run horses to build houses.

The underground drainage system in Kyoshi is deep and wide, and it can accommodate people, so it has become a refuge for the lonely.

At the same time, it has also become a nest for criminals, and many outlaws hide in it, which they call "Sanssouci Cave";

There are also some traffickers who abducted women and hid here, also called "Ghost Fan Tower", which existed from the beginning of the dynasty to the time of war, although the imperial court often sent people to clean up, but they could not be eliminated.

Yang Wenguang handed over the interrogation file to Meng Ming, Meng Ming also felt that it was difficult to deal with at first glance, he remembered that he had been to Kaifeng in his previous life, and he had also seen Kaifeng's channels and dungeons.

In addition to the channels under Kaifeng Mansion, there is also an ancient city in the Warring States Period, and the folk song says "Kaifeng City, the city stacks the city, and there are several cities buried underground",

Therefore, he knew that it would undoubtedly be difficult to find a person from these underground passages and caves;

Moreover, the suspects have lived here for a long time, are very familiar with the terrain inside, and are well versed in the "enemy comes, I run, and the enemy retreats, I return", and are good at fighting guerrilla warfare with law enforcement officers, and law enforcement officers who are not familiar with the terrain cannot find them at all.

He had already asked Zhang Miaoniang to go to find out the news, especially to focus on monitoring those who had dealings with Sanssouci Cave.

Meng Ming was about to go home, and an edict came from the imperial court, asking him and Fan Zhong to go to the court to face the saints.

Meng Ming knew that the murders and self-immolations of these scholars during the demonstrations would definitely put him and the University of Tokyo on the cusp of turbulent public opinion, and that Meng's new school would be regarded as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh by the Confucian diehards, and he was bent on getting rid of them as soon as possible.

Meng Ming suddenly felt a lot of pressure at this time, and when Fan Zhongyan saw it, he went to comfort Meng Ming instead.

He said: "Meng Zhengsheng, don't mind, the truth is often in the hands of a few people, it is normal for it to be criticized, criticized and even destroyed at first, Lao Tzu said: "When the sergeant hears the Tao, he acts diligently; When the sergeant heard this, if he survived, he died; When the corporal heard this, he laughed loudly, and it was not enough not to laugh." ”

He added: "Truth will go through the following three stages before it can be accepted: first, it is ridiculous and ignored; the second stage is to strongly resist heresy; In the third stage, I accepted it without thinking about it. ”

Meng Ming suddenly relaxed when he heard this, and then said with a smile:

"In this way, Xinxue is already in the second stage, and the good thing is that the current predicament is just the darkness before dawn."

From time to time, the two arrived in front of Meng Ming's house, Meng Ming opened the car door and wanted to get out of the car, but he heard someone screaming again and again, he was just about to look up, suddenly felt a pain in his chest, dizziness in his head, and his eyes were dark, and he suddenly fell under the car.

At this time, Fan Zhongyan saw Meng Ming clutching his chest, blood gushing out from his fingers. He saw a young scholar with a dagger in his hand, the dagger was dripping with blood, and he was glaring at Meng Ming angrily, and he wanted to continue the murder.

He hurriedly stood in front of Meng Ming, not afraid in the face of the cold and shining dagger, he suddenly rushed up and held the murderer's dagger desperately, his hands had been injured by sharp weapons, and blood was gurgling down the blade.

The guards of Meng Ming's family had already rushed over, and the assailant seemed to be a scholar, but Kong Wu was powerful, and the guards fought against him for a while before taking him down, and then controlling him.

I only heard this scholar laughing wildly, and I heard him say hysterically: "I imitate the righteous act of the Holy Master to kill Shao Zhengmao, Meng Ming deviates from the scriptures, and has both the five bad qualities of "heart and danger, action and firmness, hypocrisy and argumentation, ugliness and knowledge, and obedience and righteousness", and everyone in my generation can impose a "gentleman's punishment" on him, so as to eliminate harm for the holy study and the right way for the holy study. ”

Let's talk about the incident of Confucius killing Shao Zhengmao, talking about the later Confucius acting Lu Xiang, who served for three months, and fabricated five crimes:

One of them is "the heart is dangerous and dangerous" (the heart is familiar with the world and the heart is sinister),

2. "Perseverance in deeds" (depraved deeds without repentance),"

The third is false and argumentative" (strong words and good at quibbling),"

Its four ugly and broad" (deliberately focusing on the dark side of society),

The fifth is to follow the unorthodox and even immoral guiding ideas to spread like a river flooding),

In the end, he was framed for "disorderly government" and killed.

Meng Ming had already been carried to the house at this time, and at this time, Zhang Ruolan happened to diagnose Zhao Mingyue's pregnancy in the house, and she heard the news and came to treat her.

Seeing that Meng Ming's chest clothes were stained red with blood, and the blood was still coming out, Zhang Ruolan hurriedly cut the clothes on his chest with scissors, and saw a deep knife on the right side of his chest.

She hurriedly began to stitch the wound to stop the bleeding, only to see her fingers skillfully threading the needle and thread, and soon finished sewing the wound, and finally tied a cross knot.

When she saw that Meng Ming was in a coma, her face was pale, and she knew that he had lost too much blood and hurt his vitality, so she prescribed a prescription to nourish qi and replenish blood.

It is the soup of the four gentlemen: ginseng, atractylodes, and poria cocos each one money eight (nine grams), licorice one money two (six grams), decoction in water.

Jade Cicada and Zhao Mingyue both rushed over to visit, and when they saw Meng Ming's weak breathing and unconscious appearance with his eyes closed, they immediately became sad and cried bitterly.

Jade Cicada even ignored the blood stains on his body, and lay on him and called him: "Husband, wake up quickly, don't scare me, if you have three long and two short, how can Qi'er and I live." ”

Zhao Mingyue also lost her mind, crying and crying and fainted, Zhang Ruolan suddenly panicked, rubbed her chest again, patted her back, and pinched people, and it took a while to see her wake up faintly, and cry again.

Zhang Ruolan persuaded: "Two ladies, don't be overly sad, especially if the second lady is pregnant, let alone grieve, otherwise it will be detrimental to the fetus; Meng Langjun is no longer in trouble, but he will endure some more flesh and skin suffering. ”

At this time, Zhao Zhen had already received the news of Meng Ming's assassination, and he hurriedly summoned Yin Wangsui of Kaifeng Mansion and Yang Ji of Dali Temple to come for questioning.

Zhao Zhen asked, "Did the two Aiqing know about the assassination of Meng Yuma?" It is really appalling that the emperor's relatives were assassinated in front of everyone, and the security in the capital has reached such a poor state. ”

Wang Sui said: "Qiqi official, your subordinates have learned about the assassination of Meng Yuma, and now the murderer has been sent to prison, and I have already communicated with Lord Yang about this case." For such a horrific case in the capital, I deeply feel that I have a negative grace and ask the officials to punish it. ”

Zhao Zhen said: "Your mistakes will be recorded for the time being, and you will be allowed to make meritorious contributions, solve the case within a time limit, and catch the mastermind behind the scenes. Stand down. ”

Zhao Zhen hurriedly went out of the palace to visit Meng Ming at this time, Meng Ming had woken up at this time, but the severe pain of the wound made him a little unbearable, this taste was endless, and it had been tormenting his fragile nerves, and Meng Ming was quite afraid of pain in these two lives.

Zhao Zhen came to Meng Ming's house, and hurriedly entered his ward, he looked at Meng Ming on the sickbed, and saw that he was naked, his chest was wrapped in thick gauze, and blood was still soaked out from time to time; His face was pale and his breath was dying.

He asked urgently, "Meng Aiqing, how is it?" You have to take good care of your injuries and get better as soon as possible, I still rely on you to contribute to the court. ”

But after he learned the news from Zhang Ruolan that Meng Ming was out of danger and his body was fine, he also let out a long breath, and the heart he lifted was also put back in his stomach.

Wang Sui returned to Kaifeng Mansion, and at the same time invited Yang Ji to ascend to the court to judge the case, and Wang Sui immediately sent someone to escort the prisoner to the trial.

This scholar, although he was wearing a scribe's shirt, but he saw that he was powerful, his eyes were fierce, and he looked arrogant, and the more they looked at him, the more they felt that he was not like a scholar, but like a martial artist.

Wang Sui asked people to observe his palms, and saw that the joints of his fingers were thick, and the green tendons on the back of his hands were bursting out, like terrible green worms winding, and the calluses on his palms were bulging high, and the tips were glowing with white light.

Wang Sui immediately concluded that this man was a martial artist, so he sank his face at that time, and then slapped the shocking wood heavily.

Then he shouted loudly: "Bold thief, report your name, you dare to pretend to be a scholar and assassinate the master of the court, can you be guilty?" ”

I heard the prisoner shouting loudly: "My lord, my surname is Wang Shenyan, the word is only Nian, a person from Xiongzhou, I came to Tokyo to study this time." I also have the county government documents and road citations as evidence. ”

Wang Sui asked people to present the county government documents and road guides at this time, and he saw that there was still such a thing, and Wang Shenyan was still a talent.

He was half incredulous, so he asked again: "Wang Shenyan, what's going on with your palm, at first glance, it is due to the fact that you are a martial artist and often practice weapons." ”

Wang Shenyan said at this time: "Xiaomin was born in Orion, followed his father to hunt since he was a child, and was proficient in archery, so his hands were often sharpened to become like this. ”

Wang Sui still didn't believe it, he said: "Since you are a showman, then I will test you, you recite a few paragraphs of "University", that is, from the beginning to the paragraph "Therefore the gentleman must be cautious of his independence". ”

When he saw Wang Shenyan, he opened his mouth and came: "

The way of the university, the way of learning, is in Mingmingde, in the people, in the perfection.

Knowing and then there is certainty, and then there is stability, and then it can be quiet, and then it can be peaceful, and then it can be considered, and then it can be obtained. Things have a beginning and an end, and knowing the order is the shortest.

………

Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious of his independence. Zeng Zi said: "Ten eyes see, ten hands point, it is strict!" "Furun house, virtue run body, heart wide body fat, so the gentleman will be sincere."

After listening to this, the doubts in Wang Sui were immediately dispelled, and he asked Wang Shenyan to transcribe the content he had memorized.

He saw that Wang Shenyan's handwriting was still good, written in regular letters, which was relatively square but quite ingenious, and looked a little dull.

Wang Sui asked, "Why did you assassinate Meng and the horse, and who instigated you?" ”

Wang Shenyan said at this time: "Meng Ming distorted the learning of the saint and deviated from the scriptures. ”

Wang Sui said: "Shut up for me, Meng Juma's new learning has been recognized by Yan Shenggong, and it is not something you can criticize." Is the Taoism you insist on necessarily the orthodoxy of the Holy Master? In the battle of knowledge, why can't we sit back and talk about the truth and argue with each other about the truth and the falsehood? Why do you want to break your head? ”

Wang sent the classics written by Meng Ming and asked Wang Shenyan to read, especially the two articles "The Mission of Confucianism" and "The Past for the Present, Pushing Through the Old and Bringing forth the New, and Advancing with the Times".

Then Wang Sui asked Wang Shenyan to be escorted down, asked him to study Meng Ming's article, and ordered someone to put a lamp for Wang Shenyan in the cell.

Wang Shenyan flipped through the "Confucian Mission", and he had already read the new Confucian mission proposed by Meng Ming: "Respect the will of heaven, establish the heavens, the earth, and the people, and achieve sincerity, righteousness, truth, knowledge, self-cultivation, and family, govern the country and the world, unite knowledge and action, and strive to reach the realm of sages." ”

It is summarized in four sentences: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations".

Wang Shenyan was suddenly shocked by Meng Ming, and he felt that Meng's new school was not a heretical doctrine, but could be cited as a classic and a guideline.

At this time, I was also deeply moved by his doctrine, and I also gave myself a deep sense of identity and mission in my heart.

At the same time, he also felt remorse for his reckless behavior, and at this time he also felt that he had been seduced by people with ulterior motives, and was used by others, and was used as a pawn and a gun in vain.

He made up his mind to make up for his mistakes and make the first accusation and expose these people who had harmed him.