On the fifth day of the fourth month, the Empress Dowager drove to Lin'an City, and the little emperor led the Chinese military officials to greet him, and because of the assassination incident that had just occurred, the security was even tighter, and all the people were isolated from the march, and anyone who crossed the border would be captured on the spot. However, the ceremonial guard to welcome the Empress Dowager was more grand than when the little emperor entered the city, and even the trees were wrapped with yellow silk, and the curtains stretched from the city gate to the front of the North Palace.

Chen Yizhong sat on the window seat on the third floor of Deqing Building and looked at the royal street, driving closer and closer, after the leading procession passed, it was the entourage of the head of the six departments and Zhongshu Province, and the car of the queen mother and the little emperor drove in the middle like the stars holding the moon. Watching the convoy getting closer and closer, he couldn't help but sigh a little, if he hadn't gone to occupy the city in the first place, would there be a place for the team that greeted him, instead of just being a bystander at the moment.

"Absolutely not, we are already like fire and water, and it will not tolerate me!" Chen Yizhong shook his head secretly and muttered. He knew very well that his relationship with the little emperor had not been harmonious from the beginning, and then with the deepening of the contradictions, it was irreconcilable. And now it has reached the point of death and death, and today he is ready to have a showdown with the little emperor and make a last stand.

"Spread out, don't startle the Holy Driver!" Suddenly, there was a noise and the shouting of the soldiers outside the window, Chen Yizhong looked down, and saw a group of people in various costumes seeing that the holy car was coming, and wanted to break through the cordon arranged by the guards, but they were stopped by the officials of the Lin'an Mansion who were patrolling and forcibly dispersed them.

"Lord, our people can't go up, and they are all driven away by the officials!" At this time, Cai Rui trotted upstairs with his clothes.

"I've seen it, the little emperor is already prepared!" Chen Yizhong sighed.

"Lord, then I will immediately gather people to go to the North Palace and prepare to write to the court." Cai Ruiyan said.

"I have a terrible eyebeat today, I don't know if this is evil or lucky?" Chen Yizhong looked out the window at the crowd rolling by, and said with a frown.

"My lord, there is no turning back when you open the bow, the little emperor raided their mansion in the city yesterday, indicating that they have discovered our whereabouts and realized that we are planning behind us. I'm afraid that I have begun to secretly arrest the whole city, and now there is no way back! Cai Rui saw that Chen Yizhong's old problem had made another mistake, and when the matter came to an end, he began to retreat again, so he hurriedly persuaded.

"It's okay, success or failure is here, I will go with everyone to beat the drum of Nadengwen and ask for the people's lives!" Chen Yizhong thought for a while, and then seemed to have made up his mind, stood up and dressed up.

Chen Yizhong and his entourage went downstairs, blended into the crowd, and slowly moved in the direction of Beigong with the crowd watching the excitement. The journey to Qingyang Palace has been over, but they have gathered dozens of people, and when they arrived at the Taimiao, a few passers-by secretly merged into it, and there were as many as two or three hundred people in front of the palace. Seeing that so many people were going to break into the palace, there were immediately guards who came up to stop them, but when they heard that they were going to Dengwenyuan, they didn't dare to stop them, but they only strengthened their vigilance to prevent the crowd from breaking into the palace.

A group of people hugged Chen Yizhong to the hanging drum set up in the west corridor of the inner palace city, Chen Yizhong made a look, and an attendant immediately stepped forward to take the drumstick, and opened his two arms to beat the big drum 'dong dong'. The sound of drums shook the sky, and it was heard far away, and the people outside the palace gathered here in shock, and the palace also caused a panic, and several people hurried over from the east corridor......

When Zhao Yu heard the sound of the drums, he was also stunned before he reacted. Speaking of the drum, modern people who have watched costume dramas know that it is a big drum hanging outside the yamen, and it is often a drama of beating the drum and singing grievances. As long as it sounds, everyone understands that something big has happened, and when they hear the sound of the drum, no matter what the chief official of the government is doing, he must immediately go to the court to ask about the case. Speaking of the end of the year, it was one of the important ways to express oneself in ancient China.

According to historical records, there was a Dengwen drum in the Zhou Dynasty, which was called "road drum" at that time. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, all dynasties were equipped with Dengwen drums, and the Dengwen drums in the Tang Dynasty were set up in the Gaozong period. Wu Zetian also created the Kuang Embassy Academy. The Yuan Dynasty also set up drums and invited cars to drive. However, the importance of different periods in history is very different, and there may be additions in successive dynasties, such as inviting a car driver or a bus to write a book, knocking on the bus, etc.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the imperial court began to set up the department to manage the Dengwen Drum and the Dengwen Drum Inspection Yuan, both of which accepted the complaints of the officials, and belonged to the full-time government office of the Imperial Court. The parties can go to beat the drum first, and the officials of the headquarters will come to receive them, and then forward their pleadings to the emperor. The Dengwen Drum Academy is open to the people of the government and the opposition, and the drummers are not limited by their status, and "all those who talk about the gains and losses of the government and politics, public and private interests, military secrets, Chen begging for favors, Li Xue's injustices, and strange methods, changing literary resources, correcting their names, and entering without example" are allowed to come to this court to complain.

The Great Song Dynasty had hundreds of millions of people, the world affairs were complicated, and the emperor was only the supreme of the secular world, not an omnipotent god. Should you first ask the ministers to review the pleadings submitted by the officials and the people, and then select and submit them to the imperial court as appropriate, so as to reduce the burden on the emperor? Emperors of all dynasties have discussed this matter, but the answer is of course not. The ministers believe that the people go to the Dengwen Drum Courtyard only for their own demands to "go up to the heavens to listen", if there is a checkpoint in the middle, people will have more worries when they go to the book and talk about things, with the emperor's guarantee, the people dare to tell the truth in the Dengwen Drum Courtyard.

In the Great Song Dynasty, there were not only civil lawsuits, but also common things for officials to sue officials. If the Dengwen drum is beaten well, that is, the power of the political opponent will be knocked out, and some officials who are in love with the stack have instructed the "good people" under their control to go to the Dengwen Drum Courtyard to play the drum to build momentum for the re-election of officials. Of course, the official complaint is not mostly a personal vendetta, and there are also awe-inspiring actions out of justice, but the officials and the people still have to be cautious about using the big drum of the Dengwen Drum Temple.

In principle, the imperial court has a routine prohibition on people from appealing beyond the level, and beating the drum to voice grievances is only an expedient measure to correct judicial errors. In addition, according to the criminal law of the Great Song Dynasty, if the complaint is not true, he will be sentenced to 80 rods of corporal punishment, but he will not be asked to roll a nail board for beating the drum in the commentary. On the whole, the Dengwen drum system is still effective, it is the road to heaven for the people to show their grievances and reach the bottom of their feelings, and it is also a mirror to test whether the politics are clear or not.

During the reign of a wise monarch, Dengwen Drum did have the role of conveying the feelings of the people and supervising the bureaucracy. Although the unjust cases in which the people appealed to the Dengwen Drum Court were generally resolved, it played a certain role in clarifying the rule of officials. However, there are also limitations to the Dengwen drum system, and not all cases can be satisfactorily resolved. It is a pity that after the Song Dynasty, the conditions for hitting the drum became more and more harsh, until the Qing Dynasty has become a virtual reality, and stipulates that the person who beats the drum will have a staff of thirty to prevent the malicious petition of the people for no reason, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the law has become more and more complete, and the drum has only become a symbol.

Zhao Yu knew the rules of this dynasty, whenever he hit the drum, no matter what the emperor was doing, he must go to the court. Although a court meeting is being held to congratulate the Empress Dowager on her return to Beijing, she must also stop, otherwise how will she explain to her ministers in front of everyone's eyes! And he already knew Chen Yizhong's plan, that is, he wanted to use today's court meeting to beat the drum, force himself to deal with it in front of the ministers, and ask the queen mother to depose him.

Although he had a bottom in his heart, Zhao Yu was still worried, because in the history of the Great Song Dynasty, there was indeed a big incident caused by Dengwen Drum, which forced the emperor to change his mind. It was during the Jingkang period that the imperial court was forced to cede land to the Jin State and sue for peace, and to remove Li Gang, the minister of the main war faction. Chen Dong, a student of Tai, led tens of thousands of citizens to the streets of Kaifeng, calling for the reuse of Li Gang and the famous general, and to remove the jealous and jealous Li Bangyan. coincided with Li Bangyan's entry into the court, and the people scolded angrily, and then they came to the Dengwen Drum Courtyard and beat the drum to ask to see the emperor.

The inappropriate actions of the officials at the time led to a peaceful petition that turned into a riot. Qinzong was forced to reinstate Li Gang as the defense envoy of the capital, recovering the disadvantages on the battlefield, and making the situation slightly better. But then after Qinzong and Huizong were taken away by the Jurchens, Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne in Yingtianfu, and Chen Dong successively wrote to ask Li Gang to stay, and asked Zhao Gou to drive the northern expedition. Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and others angered Zhao Gou with words such as "Words are not urgent, and the people will be subdued" and executed Chen Dong.

Zhao Yu understands that whether it is Chen Dong's success or sacrifice, it is not that the emperor is afraid of him, but that he is afraid of the impact caused by the tens of thousands of people beating the drum, which will cause mass incidents and lead to the occurrence of ****, just like the modern 'color revolution'. Now Chen Yizhong just wants to follow the example of the bus back then, forcing the Queen Mother to depose himself and reactivate him.

And Zhao Yu knew that Chen Yizhong was very good at incitement, and when he was a student, he wrote with Liu Huang, Huang Yong, Lin Zezu, Zeng Wei, Chen Zong and others to dismiss the powerful minister Ding Daquan, and was known as the 'Six Gentlemen of Xianguan'. It can be seen that he has the experience of leading the masses to make a revolution and has rich experience in struggle, and he is also an expert in conducting mass movements, so he is still a little nervous, and if he is not caught off guard, he will smash the pot......

The two procuratorates of Dengwengu and the People's Procuratorate accept the handling of unsatisfactory matters by institutions at all levels. According to the procedure, the local petitioner must have passed through the county, state, or transit to accept the unsatisfactory matter. Those who sue in Beijing must first belong to the temple supervisor, the second Shangshu Province Ben Cao, the second Yushitai, the second Shangshu Du Province, and the second Dengwen Drum Temple. In the procedure of entering the form, the Dengwen Drum Institute and the Dengwen Inspection Institute form the same chain, and the Dengwen Drum Institute is under the Dengwen Inspection Yuan, and those who have not entered the Drum Court shall not be accepted by the Inspection Court. Only those who are not accepted by the Dengwen Procuratorate can stop the car or go to the Yushitai to report themselves.

It can be seen from the procedure of filing the petition that although the two procuratorates are subordinate to the court, they do not have the duties of admonishing, deliberating, impeaching, supervising, and adjudicating cases, nor do they participate in the handling of the petition. It can be seen that they are neither speech organs nor judicial departments, but only responsible for receiving and forwarding petitions, similar to modern petition agencies. The petition submitted to the Drum and the Procuratorate must be directly reviewed by the emperor, and other officials cannot read it on their behalf, and the emperor will appoint officials to handle it after they have been reviewed.

"Your Majesty, there are more than 300 Confucian scholars and old squires led by Chen Yizhong, the former prime minister of the left, beating the drum and writing the book!" The drum sounded for a while, and then the envoy of the inspection court went to the palace to give a report and present it to the emperor.

"Alas, I can't dispose of this form, so let's transfer it to the Queen Mother for disposal!" After Zhao Yu took the scroll and opened it, he browsed it and asked Wang De to transfer it to the Queen Mother.

"Your Majesty, is everything you say in the form true?" Wang De held it to the Empress Dowager Yang behind the curtain, and asked Zhao Yu after reading it. Although everyone couldn't see the Queen Mother's expression clearly through the curtain, it was not good to listen to her tone.

"Queen Mother, I don't think I have done these things, if I have any of them, please ask the Queen Mother to make a decision!" Zhao Yu got up and saluted behind the curtain.

"Lu Xiang, what do you think should be done?" Empress Dowager Yang sighed lightly and transferred the form to Lu Xiufu.

"I think it...... I think it's not true! Lu Xiufu took it and looked at it, frowning. It is no wonder that His Majesty wants to transfer it to the Queen Mother, and she transfers it to himself, which is full of words condemning the little emperor, and there are more than a dozen large and small crimes, and they are shocking.

To sum up, the main ones are: when he was the king, he had the heart of self-reliance, and wanted to hold the emperor hostage after occupying Qiongzhou, which is a crime; After the death of Emperor Jingyan, he colluded with the forbidden army to unify Jiang Cheng and coerce the Empress Dowager and the ministers to make him emperor by force, which is a two crimes; After stealing the throne, he coerced the empress dowager to move the dynasty to Qiongzhou, and then expelled the old ministers of the court and appointed cronies, so that the important ministers of the court were all from his hidden residence, these three crimes; used cronies to force the queen mother to retreat to the harem, and usurped power with her prison country, these four crimes.

Greedy for power, relying on the party's evil, and disrupting national politics. Those who like it are recommended, those who are evil are framed, and the traitorous party at home and abroad is cited, and the world is discouraged, these five crimes; For the government is unfair, the covenant is not kept, it is not tolerated in the world, and it is rebellious, these six crimes; The seven sins of being brave and thirsty for killing, wantonly killing and surrendering, and embezzling property; Sexual cruelty and unkindness, so the public is punished severely, and the gap between the eyes will be triggered, and people do not protect themselves, these eight crimes; It is forbidden to speak in the way, fear of picking up estrus, and blocking the way of speech, these nine crimes; Advocating martial arts and valuing commerce, suppressing scholars, so that the land is barren and the villagers are uneducated, these ten sins.

recovering the hometown of Jiangnan, mutilating the old officials, killing the squire, and making the people panic, these eleven crimes; Spending the country's resources, using troops in vain, provoking Jiangbei, and refusing to go along with it, so that the people are uneasy, these twelve crimes; Rigidity for his own use, using troops in the mausoleum of the first emperors, causing damage to the mausoleum and disturbing the ancestors, these thirteen sins; is also in Lin'an, does not think about the grace of the queen mother's upbringing, and welcomes the queen mother into Beijing, which is not small, this fourteen crimes; for his heir, and the fifteen crimes of harming the children of the clan without authorization......

Chen Yizhong's concrete form counted more than ten sins of the little emperor in one breath, and this time the number of words was eloquent, and the pieces were shot at the little emperor like arrows, and Lu Xiufu felt angry. And the various rebellious evils and major crimes he said mean that the queen mother should be in charge of the government, remove the little emperor from the post of supervising the country, depose his status as the emperor's heir, and choose a virtuous successor to the throne. He thought that the little emperor must have exploded his lungs after reading it, and if he didn't get it right, he would go on a killing spree, and blood would be splattered in the hall, but when he looked up, he found that his face was calm, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, which didn't seem to take it to heart!