My lord is wise, just a few words made these thieves lay down their weapons and go home, if they were replaced by someone else, I'm afraid, they would have already started fighting!"

"Yes, yes, it's only us, if it's Pang Fei and the others, it is estimated that the ground is already drenched in blood, and there are corpses all over the ground!"

Song Ci said: "They don't want to be thieves, if they are not forced by life, no one wants to do this, the risk is too great, fortunately, today's report came in time, otherwise once they have tens of thousands of people in the team, and a few more people who take the lead in making trouble, I'm afraid this Changting County will be over."

"Wencheng Wenwu, you go to the granary at night to count the grain, and tomorrow we will distribute all these people for free, and at the same time, if there is more, half of it will be given to the people for free, and the rest, let's keep it for backup, and the disaster relief food after that day."

"It's my lord!"

Everyone quickly returned to the yamen, and at the same time, in the Lin'an Xuande Palace, Song Lizong, Cao Tang and Wu also learned the news, as well as the newly appointed director of the Criminal Department, Lu You.

In the room, Song Lizong sat on the dragon chair, and he looked at the people below: "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of this matter?" This Song Ci, is it considered to be a tiger returning to the mountain? Or is it a tiger for trouble?"

Lord Cao of the Ministry of Rites immediately said: "The emperor is wise, you see that among these hundreds of people, these thieves are already carrying weapons, and they are very likely to use knives to go to the streets to fight against the yamen, against the people, and against the court."

Moreover, they were obviously dissatisfied with the court, and the ministers dared to think that they would have to rebel sooner or later, and in the opinion of the ministers, they must all be taken down, and then beheaded for public display.

Lord Tang also followed, "Your Majesty, Lord Cao is completely right, you see, these thieves have food, don't they want to continue to expand their team?" Now there are hundreds, and in a few months or even years, there will be many more? If you want to crusade against them in the future, it's really difficult, it's difficult. ”

Song Lizong was silent when he listened, the two of them analyzed it very reasonably, and he felt that this matter was completely correct.

But Lu You's opinion at the moment was the opposite of them, "Your Majesty, this Lord Cao and Lord Tang are not the same, here, Lu wants to ask, why do these people want to be thieves?" Do you know why?"

"The reason? Hehe, naturally he is dissatisfied with the imperial court and the entire Great Song Dynasty, otherwise, what do you think?"

Lu You continued: "Then may I ask the three adults, why are they dissatisfied? There has to be a reason for this, right? Could it be that you are a thief for no reason?"

The three of them were questioned about their weak hearts, they knew that there was an original tail in it, but their opinions were not consistent with Lu You.

"Lord Lu, I don't know what their reason is, but you are excusing these thieves, do you think it is appropriate? Don't you think these thieves are not at fault?"

Lu You said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are not excusing them, but, our court must at least know why the thieves gather to prepare for an uprising, at least, there must be a reason!"

Song Lizong smiled, "Lu Aiqing, since this is the case, can you analyze and analyze it for me?"

"The minister is naturally willing." Looking at Cao Tang and Wu with their eyes, Lu You thought to himself, they don't want to destroy the Great Song Dynasty, if any of these three people are dealing with this matter, I'm afraid it will already make a big fuss.

"Your Majesty, as far as the ministers know, these people are rebels, in fact, because Pang Fei, the former magistrate, oppressed them from time to time and forcibly took back the land that originally belonged to them. How many people in the family, do you have to ask for food?"

Song Lizong felt reasonable, but Wu Xi shouted, "Lord Lu, you are full of nonsense!" It's just a matter of talking nonsense, and you even speak for the thief, yourself, are you guilty?"

"Anti-thief? Hehe, if the anti-thieves are not oppressed, they are willing to be anti-thieves? If they can eat, can fill their stomachs, and are they willing to be enemies of the court? Joke, three adults, Lu thinks Song Ci is not wrong, he just used another method, what's wrong with you?"

Lord Cao said angrily: "Lord Lu, this official thinks you have some truth, but you don't know the truth of letting the tiger return to the mountain, if.... What if all this heat goes back and then continues to rebel in the future? Is it possible, do you want Lord Lu to lead troops to exterminate it?"

"That's it, Lord Lu really doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, the seriousness of this matter, it seems that Lord Lu still doesn't know very well, the emperor, in the opinion of the minister, it is best to arrest this Song Ci, even if he is not convicted, then he should be dismissed."

Hearing this noisy sound, Song Lizong's head was big, he pinched his temples hard and said: "Adults, you should stop arguing for now, I feel that each has its own reason, and none of you is at fault."

"However, although the thieves appeared, they did not take the lead in making trouble, and they were also disbanded, I thought that Song Ci had reduced the number of casualties, which was a good matter.

"The emperor is wise.

"However, I feel that the three major people of Cao, Tang and Wu are also reasonable, let me ask, which dynasty did not perish because of inaction? It's like Datang, so this matter must not be sloppy. ”

Wu Xi said: "Yes, Your Majesty, this time the thieves have gathered hundreds of people, and next time it may be thousands, or even more, which yamen can resist their attack?"

Lu You said: "Then according to Wu Darao's opinion, these people should die?" Your Majesty, they already have opinions about the imperial court, Song Ci assumed that he killed them all, and the people's anger was enraged, although the matter was flattened, but it was inevitable that more people would choose to be thieves, just ask, who can bear this matter?"

With such an analysis, Song Lizong felt more reasonable, and at this moment, he also had some appreciation for Song Ci.

But Cao, Tang and Wu were not happy, "Your Majesty, Weichen agrees with Lu Darao's point of view, but he can't be soft on the anti-thieves, he must be completely suppressed and completely extinguished their signs, the emperor, if you believe in Weichen, Weichen can send someone to take up the post of magistrate of Changting County, as for Song Ci, since he loves to fight, why doesn't the emperor arrange for him to go to a place where there are many anti-thieves?"

Lu You immediately stopped, "Lord Cao, Song Ci is a literati, not a military general, his profession is to raise criminal officers, and if the emperor doesn't reinstate him as an official, why should he be sent to encircle and suppress?"

Lord Tang laughed, "I, Lord Lu, this is Cao Darao's hard work, how can you not understand?" Since he Song Ci has a siege, why can't he go to these places where there are soldiers and horses? For the sake of the Great Song Dynasty and the emperor, Song Ci has no opinion, why are you dissatisfied?"

Lu You was angry, knowing that it was useless to persuade them, so he simply looked at Song Lizong.

"Your Majesty, Song Ci is a civil official, not a military general, this can not be encircled and suppressed, he is a talent who solves strange cases, how can the emperor be assigned to different positions?"

Song Lizong laughed and said: "Where is it, Lord Lu, now my Great Song Dynasty is not the Great Song Dynasty of the Ningzong period, and the unjust and false cases are not as before, even if there are occasional cases, it is not intentional, right?"

....

"The three adults of Cao, Tang and Wu, I will depend on you at this moment, come here, immediately send a holy decree, tell Song Ci, the magistrate of Changting County, that I have decided to transfer him to Huainan to be the deputy general of the local encirclement and suppression, Chen Shixiong, and cooperate with the encirclement and suppression."

"Yes, the emperor is wise!"

Lu You said worriedly: "Your Majesty, Song Ci is a civil official, not a military general, is it too reckless for the emperor to transfer him to suppress bandits?"

As soon as these words came out, Wu Xi snorted coldly, "Lord Lu, this is the emperor's careful consideration, don't you still have an opinion on this?" Besides, you don't joke, under the holy decree, do you still want the emperor to change his words?"

Lu You didn't know how to answer, so he had to sigh and express his silence.

Song Lizong looked at the three ministers in front of him, and said softly: "Ladies and gentlemen, don't fight, under my holy decree, since Song Ci is suitable for suppressing bandits, let him go, and Lord Lu, as for his promotion to the post of criminal officer, in my opinion, for the time being, I will reinstate the official first, and then see the situation in the future."

"Yes!"

"The emperor is wise."

"The emperor is wise, with the emperor's high opinion, I still have ten thousand years to go in the Song Dynasty!

On this day, hundreds of people gathered at the Yamen Gate of Changting County, and they pushed the carriage and came to the Yamen Gate at this moment, waiting for Song Ci's grain.

Hundreds of people, close to 100 households, a family of 1,000 catties of grain, so down to 100,000 catties, for the Yamen treasury, is nothing.

Song Ci received the report from his subordinates, and immediately walked out, came to the outside of the house and said: "Fellow villagers, since you have come, then Song will not talk nonsense, Wencheng is civil and martial, lead the way ahead, you come with us."

"Yes, my lord."

A group of people walked on the street, and after a while, they had already arrived at the place where Jia Nidao had gathered a few days ago to fight the crickets, and some of their servants had been arrested, and there was already a new warehouse at this moment.

The gate was opened, and there were many things, clothing, and many weapons for the servants, but more food, at least tens of millions, full, in sacks of sack.

The eyes of these people are red, and many of them cannot eat, but the granaries are already moldy, and there are even many rats, which is really an unforgivable sin, an unforgivable sin.

Song Ci also sighed when he saw it, if these grains are not seen for a long time and are not eaten by the people, they will become moldy after a long time, and they will even be inedible.

He sighed and said: "This bag is one hundred catties, ten bags of one thousand catties, Wencheng Wenwu, give ten bags to each family, no more and no less, after all, there are still many people in the county who can't eat, we want a bowl of water."

"Yes, my lord."

They beckoned to the people and put ten sacks of grain on each wagon, and soon they were distributed.

These people were grateful, and suddenly they all knelt on the ground, "My lord, if this Great Song Dynasty is a magistrate like you, then, why am I afraid of the Jin people, how can I be willing to be a thief?"

Song Ci shouted them all, "Folks, no matter how much land this Pang Fei has taken from you, now Song promises that all your land will be returned to the original owner, and it will not belong to anyone except you."

The people were overjoyed, and after bowing down, they pushed the grain and left, and they did not intend to continue to be thieves.

In the granary, there is still a lot of grain, these are the grains accumulated over the years, and they have been pressed every year, and over time, so much has been saved.

"Yue Xiaoxiang, immediately let it go outside, all the people in Changting County, each person can come in and fight a bag of grain for free, we will distribute half of it, and leave half of it to prevent floods and droughts in the future."

"It's my lord.

After all this, there were a few people left here to guard, Song Ci and others also returned to the Yamen, along the way, many people were singing about the current emperor, and some people were praising the magistrate of Changting County.

When Song Ci heard this, he was slightly satisfied, if the whole Song Zhi County was like this, I am afraid that no one would want to be a thief.

Song Ci returned to the Yamen Gate house physically and mentally exhausted, and when he walked into the house, he saw that his wife Yu was actually on the Lin, his face was black at the moment, his body was stiff, and his body was already cold.

As a puppet, Song Ci could naturally see that his wife Yu had died, and just this morning, just a few hours later, she died of illness.

Song Ci felt that he had fallen into the ice cave, he blamed himself and regretted it, Mrs. Yu had not been easy these years, when she was a criminal officer, she raised the children alone and took care of the elderly, and she was ashamed of her.

I am also ashamed of this family, ashamed of my children, now, how to explain to my father-in-law? Outside the house, Qin Yue, Xiaoxiang and others also walked in, and when they saw Yu on the bed, they immediately cried.

"My lord, let's... What's going on, our lady...,.? Why is this so...."

Song Ci said weakly: "Madame died of illness, it has nothing to do with anyone, Yue Xiaoxiang, have you seen anything unusual about her recently?"

Xiaoxiang cried: ..... A few days ago, I had already whispered to Miss Heyue that she knew that she was seriously ill, and told us not to tell the adults, and let us take good care of you!"

Song Ci sat on the stool weakly, "Since she knows that she is sick, why don't you go to Lang Zhong and look for her?" Why..... Why is it delaying until now? This is not.. Isn't that you don't take your body seriously!"

“.... My lord, my wife, her illness is no longer curable, and the reason why I don't want to tell my adult is that I don't want to let my heart decay. ”

Song Ci lowered his head, he was very sad in his heart, he and his wife Yu have been married for more than ten years, and the days together are as short as this, adding up, less than a year, he is ashamed of her, he is ashamed of her.