"Has the Cangzhou Yamen accepted it? How was this handled? ”

"Of course it's going to be accepted. This is the duty of the government. You can't treat it differently if it involves Cangzhao, right? ”

Lao Tong said lightly as a matter of course.

But Su Taiwei always felt that this old man was faintly mocking.

Lord Zhizhou immediately accepted the case and summoned Zhao Gonglian to appear in court to respond to the lawsuit. Zhao Gonglian did not come, but he did not delay his resignation, and immediately sent Li Zhu, the director of Zhao Zhuang, who is also Zhao Gonglian's brother-in-law, to respond to the lawsuit in Yamen. The old man dared to guarantee that Mr. Zheng absolutely enforced the law impartially, absolutely did not use his power for profit, and confiscated any benefits from creditors, but he worked tirelessly to sort out the huge and complex debt relationship in court, and actively safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of creditors and the majesty of national law, and made a correct and legal judgment quickly and decisively on the spot. ”

Listening to Lao Tong's slow and logical statement, Su Taiwei's heart became heavier and tighter, and he asked urgently: "How is the verdict made?" ”

"Hehe......"

Lao Tong twisted his beard and smiled, and took a sip of tea before he said calmly: "All the property owned by Cangzhao, including everything in Cangzhou, and the only property in the name of Zhao Lao Er in Liangshan, Shandong, will be compensated to the creditor." ”

"Because the amount of debt is too large, it is four or five million yuan, although Cangzhao owns a lot of land, but there are few people in Cangzhou now, and there is also a lot of land vacated by our Great Song Dynasty, and there is a shortage of people to occupy the countless fertile fields along the coast, let alone cultivate, right? Here, the land given by the government for nothing is lacking in people, and the land is not valuable. Liangshan is just a barren mountain and a broken water puddle, there is no factory trade, and it is not worth a few big people, and it is far from a matter of being accompanied by all of them. “

"There are many creditors, hundreds of people, at that time, the yamen was a lot of people, there were all dialects, and the creditor's rights were complicated, ranging from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands, all of them were creditors, and they couldn't do their best to accompany anyone and not pay anyone. I heard that these creditors are only close or have the faith to come first, and many creditors from Tiannan, Haibei and other countries in the distance have not heard of or have not yet had time to come. At present, it is impossible to divide the debt into a specific one. If you lose it, there is no creditor who wants it.

Chai Jin suggested on behalf of all the creditors that all the property rights of Cangzhao should be mortgaged to him and kept by him temporarily, and the creditors who came later would consult with him, so that he would no longer have to trouble Lord Zhizhou. The Cangzhao family can also live in Zhaozhuang. The land is also cultivated by Zhao Zhuang. Let the Cangzhao people work hard and try to earn money to gradually repay their debts. ”

"After all, the reality is like that, Cangzhao is so poor that he has no money, and eating is a problem. It's useless for you to force him now, isn't it? If it's like this, if there is something right now, you will lose something, and it will be over, but it will be cheaper, and Cangzhao will make Zhao Gonglian's family easier. Take a step back like this, maybe the smart Cangzhao can be developed again to pay off the debt. If it really doesn't work, and you can't see the signs, it's not too late to divide the mortgage in your hand by the creditors in proportion. ”

"As a representative of the advantage, Chai Jin is also a large creditor, and has the privilege of first occupying Zhaozhuang Castle and thousands of acres of land between the two rivers of Zhaozhuang and east of the river."

"Hehe, Lord Zheng agrees with this proposal very much, saying that it is indeed fair, and it is also fair and tolerant to Cangzhao, Zhao Gonglian has to thank the creditors, otherwise he would not have to take his grandmother to live in the open air and beg for food and drink the northwest wind. That's it. That Li Zhu's face was very dark, but he didn't pay the bill, he also admitted it, and settled the title deed or something on the spot. Now, Zhao Zhuang is actually no longer surnamed Zhao, but has changed his surname to Chai. Zhao Gonglian's family and his subordinates are only temporarily living there, and they may be driven away at any time. ”

After Su Yuanjing listened, his heart sank to the bottom, and his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Sure enough, sure enough, Zheng Juzhong, this bastard, really can't do enough evil!

How can he still have the slightest mind to take care of the overall situation? How can there be any real discipline of loyalty and patriotism?

Such a verdict is legally correct, and no one can say that he is wrong.

But on a case-by-case basis, it has to be analyzed and treated.

When it comes to a special person like Zhao Gonglian, no matter how urgent the creditors are to chase after them, no matter how many people there are, you, Zheng Juzhong, as the chief official of the Yamen, have to do everything possible to drag it out.

That's good. Zhao Gonglian's family has been reduced to the point that they will be swept out of the house at any time, sleeping and begging, how can he have the heart to do anything for the country to solve any difficulties?

State affairs, national disasters, have their own imperial court. To contribute and solve problems, Zhao Gonglian has to fight for his own family first.

How filial is Zhao Gonglian to his grandmother?

How deep is the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren?

How arrogant is Zhao Gonglian to save face?

How could he ignore his grandmother's safety and well-being of being a beggar at any time, and care about the country or not?

I can't take care of myself, at this time, it is indeed a disaster for the country that matters to him. If the Great Song Dynasty falls, if the world is in chaos, it will be a blessing for Cangzhao.

Su Yuanjing couldn't sit still anymore, he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and he didn't shy away from this old general judgment who had a conscience and should also secretly look down on Zheng Juzhong, so he wrote an emergency memo at the old cosmetic's house, and found a name, saying that it was an urgent order to the Hejian Mansion army, and sent a team of guards to secretly rush to the capital to report with the recital overnight.

Zhao Ji, Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang and others learned from this urgent letter sent by 800 miles that Zhao Gonglian had actually fallen to the point of embarrassment and despair with nothing, and they were shocked, and at the same time, there was always a sense of pleasure in their hearts that was difficult to declare, that is, the feeling that was difficult to suppress was particularly relieved.

There is no one to be ashamed of.

There is no one who sympathizes with the current situation of the Cangzhao family.

They all only scolded secretly: dare to resign and quit? Dare to decide not to serve the court? Dare to ignore the imperial power, the supreme authority of the imperial court, arrogant and barbaric, and refuse to accept the holy decree? Hmph, what kind of thing are you Zhao Gonglian? Who do you think you are? If you dare to resist the imperial court, you deserve to be unlucky.

The monarchs and ministers are all Confucian elites, all of them are gentlemen, hypocrisy, and they sigh a little, but in fact, they tacitly gloat in their hearts, and they are in a happy mood, and they immediately change their faces to be just for the country, and they are enthusiastically discussing whether they are just taking advantage of the difficult and critical situation of the Cangzhao family, and holding Zhao Gonglian's passivity to force him to comply, so that even the previously sealed Yasukuni Gong, Cong Yipin's wife, and the military power of the four states do not have to give anything, anyway, Zhao Gonglian did not accept the order, just deny not to give, let alone give the reward, There is no need to add any additional benefits, and there is no need to give a big son, so force him to return to his post honestly and obediently for the imperial court to desperately stabilize the border pass and appease Hebei, if Zhao Gonglian still dares to be ignorant, he might as well make a fuss about the debt, and let those creditors gather together in Zhao Zhuang to force Zhao Gonglian to repay the debt immediately and get out of Zhaozhuang and Liangshan, so that his family has no place to live and lives in the wilderness, braving the cold wind and eating sand.

At that time, look at him Zhao Gonglian, what is still arrogant and hard?

Seeing that he still dares to put up a shelf and go against the court.

Just when you were discussing happily and enthusiastically, the plan was insidious and thorough, and the monarchs and ministers were tacitly enjoying themselves, a basin of ice water was poured on the top, no, it should be said that it was like a meteor smashed into the palace, almost smashed on the shameless faces of these monarchs and ministers, and shocked everyone from the emperor to the prime minister and important ministers to collapse to the ground, all frightened.

This is because there are another 800 miles of urgent alarm.

In return, the Zhijia Army, which was located next to the West Hebei Road, also had a vicious incident of military and civilian defection.

The soldiers of the Zhejia army, who have always been very loyal to the Zhi family, actually became agitated after hearing the news, and suddenly rebelled under the leadership of some middle-level generals and many lower-level officers in the army who were disloyal to the imperial court, and after killing and robbing some powerful and wealthy officials in the state capital and county, they also ran away with weapons, equipment, money, family members and recognized good officials, and quickly caught up with the traitors on the West Hebei Road.

In the face of great changes, the Zhi family did not hurry to wave their troops to intercept and chase them.

First, the soldiers who did not defect are also in a fierce and turbulent mood, and they don't know what they are thinking, maybe they are secretly wondering whether they are also defecting, and they are also emotionally unwilling to hunt down their former comrades-in-arms and family members.

The second is that the rebels rose in a hurry, there was no prior preparation at all, the military was almost unaware, there was no big tandem with each other, that is, by virtue of the familiarity between the comrades-in-arms from the eyes of the collusion, the temporary random defection, one person raised his arms and shouted the opposite, let's escape, take the family to join the pirates to live a good life, and suddenly a group of people followed and shouted back, gathering a department to act, but they knew the key to the key point and successfully escaped, they belonged to various departments and places, but they tacitly almost all started to snatch the war horses first, He also swept away as much as possible, the most terrifying weapon of blocking and pursuit. There is no horse, no matter how shocked and angry he is, he wants to intercept the defection, and he can't cut all the people who dare to betray him into meat sauce, but the army can't catch up with the cavalry with only two legs, and even if it can catch up with the slowness of the rebels and their families, they don't have the confidence to compete with the large number of cavalry who defected in the field.

They all eat military meals in the same army or even in the same pot, and who doesn't know whom.

They all know how powerful they are in the Western Army.

The Western Army, which was in a hurry to flee and would fight for the survival of himself and his family, was even more courageous. With such a red-eyed army, who would dare to stop it easily?

Besides, not to mention the Western Army, even the unbearable armies of the Great Song Dynasty have never had such a swift and efficient collective defection before. When the upper-level generals faced the sudden outbreak of this crisis, they were all shocked, their brains were so wooden that they couldn't think, and they didn't know where their hands and feet were for a while.

What made Zhao Jijunchen paralyzed with fright was that if the Western Army heard the news and there would be a large-scale defection, then the Great Song Dynasty would really be finished.

Not to mention the defection of pirates, a powerful overseas enemy that the Great Song Dynasty had no way to deal with, that is, they scattered into the Great Song Dynasty as thieves, and no army could exterminate them, and the Great Song Dynasty was finished.

That was the Western Army, the most powerful army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the most important pillar of the Great Song Dynasty.

The pillar stone has fallen, there is no need to fall all, it has become a hostile force, and the throne of the country still needs to think about sitting firmly for a long time?

Only Western Xia took the opportunity to attack, and the Great Song Dynasty also had to die.

The unlucky monarch and minister who gloated about the misfortune of Zhao could no longer be happy, and he did not dare to use the pride and confidence of calculating and forcing Zhao Gonglian to continue to be a cow and horse honestly.

It was only at this time that Zhao Ji and the others clearly realized that they had hurt Zhao Gonglian and forced the Zhao family to be so miserable, but in fact, it quietly chilled the hearts of the soldiers and civilians at the border gates. Therefore, when Zhao Gonglian couldn't do it anymore and couldn't gain a foothold in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, the soldiers and civilians at the border gates lost their confidence in the imperial court and had no hope for the Great Song Dynasty.

Things are as fast as a fire and they have developed to this point in a few days, and the Great Song Dynasty regime said that it would collapse at any time, how dare these monarchs and ministers grind their scheming again.

At this time, Xue Bi and others, who were in charge of investigating Liangshan, also happened to return to Beijing.

After learning that Liangshan was not threatened by troops, and judged that although Zhao Gonglian was strongly dissatisfied with the imperial court and was unwilling to serve the imperial court again, he was not ready to rebel, and the frightened Zhao Ji breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly issued a holy decree: Zhao Gonglian was crowned as the Duke of Jingguo (upgraded, this time it was the county duke), the deputy pacification envoy of Gaoyangguan Road, who was usually in charge of the military affairs of the four armies in Cangbei, and at the same time had the right to supervise the training of other armies on the road and guard the border, and had the right to assist Su Taiwei in mobilizing the whole army to fight in a unified manner during wartime. In addition, a reward of 100,000 taels of silver. If the Cangbei army can be quickly stabilized and effectively influence the soldiers and civilians in other places can restore stability and continue to be loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, there will be a reward of one million yuan and 10,000 taels of gold. ”

This time, Zhao Ji, who was anxious, was finally willing to move seriously, not only willing to give benefits, but also made a bloody investment.

In addition, he also urgently discussed with the ministers and issued an urgent order: All the prefecture capitals around Liangshan that did not deal with Liangshan should be transferred to Jingdong Road and stationed in Qingzhou and Weizhou, and strictly ordered to be responsible for eliminating the robbers and thieves headed by Erlongshan as soon as possible, and to make meritorious contributions to the crime, and if they dare not do their best, they will be severely punished. The prefects and other major officials deceived the imperial court in the matter of exterminating the robbers in Taohuashan, and embezzled the great merit of killing thieves in the independence of the righteous people and strong men of Liangshan, and all these governors were also transferred to other places. Among them, Tian Shizhong, the prefect of Dongchang Prefecture, was transferred to Qingzhou to replace Murong Yanda as the prefect; Cai Jing's protégé Yunzhou Zhizhou was transferred to Weizhou; The prefect of Jeju was transferred to Hebei West Road to take over the prefect of the commander who was killed in the mutiny. At the same time, all the principal officials of other state capitals were also transferred to the vacancy of the dead officials on the top of Hebei West Road. And when the decree came, all the officials should go to their posts immediately, and they should not be postponed.

In short, the main civil and military officials of these state capitals and the officers and soldiers who should have been retired and punished as coolies long ago will no longer enjoy comfort and happiness, and they should all fight and risk their crimes to atone for their crimes.

The holy decree also made it particularly stern: The court did not ask for the guilt, these officials dismissed the official and sent them to prison to raid their homes, which is already a grace of heaven and extrajudicial favors, if you dare to be ignorant or only care about greedy pleasure, make money, harm the people, and deceive the local government as before, without thinking about serving the country loyally and not being loyal to the court, then you will never be spared.

Zhao Ji's hand was actually apologizing to Zhao Gonglian, and showing that the imperial court trusted the Cangzhao family very much, and no longer surrounded and defended Liangshan with hostile bureaucrats and troops.