On May 15th, it is fashionable to call the Dragon Boat Festival in various parts of the south, and it will slowly become popular in the north after a long time. In fact, the festival is a pretense for rich and idle people who want to party, and they always feel that there is no reason to eat and drink together, if it happens to be a festival, then eating, drinking and having fun are a little justified. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. However, people who have no money and no time should not worry about the holidays when you are busy, who told you to choose the wrong career or choose the wrong person when you were reincarnated.

Sun Chengzong is at home today for the Dragon Boat Festival, needless to say, the sons and daughters-in-law around him, the daughters and sons-in-law who are away all return to their parents' homes with their grandsons, and the reunion of the whole family is not lively. In the afternoon, Sun Chengzong was taking a nap to eliminate the feeling of drinking, and suddenly the housekeeper reported that there was a guest visiting, although the head was still a little drowsy, but I heard that the uninvited guests were Ye Xianggao, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian and other three, Sun Chengzong immediately changed his clothes and went to the study to meet.

After coming to the study, they greeted each other hastily, and Ye Xianggao first said, "Lord Sun, it's not good!" Last night, the emperor sent Jinyiwei to secretly arrest more than a dozen people, and now they are being detained in Jinyiwei's edict prison, I don't know if Lord Sun heard about this? ”

Sun Chengzong said: "I don't know, do you know what the reason is? ”

Yang Lian said: "The lower officials inquired with Liu Qiao, who was in charge of the edict and prison, and he refused to say it at first, and later hinted that it was because of the ♀ tabloid posted five days ago, didn't the emperor say that he didn't want to pursue it?" Why did you suddenly start arresting people again? ”

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said: "After drinking and eating with everyone, even if it settles down the vast majority of people, since most of the people are stable, then it is appropriate to punish a small number of people, otherwise, whoever thinks it out will jump out and scold, ordinary people can't stand it, let alone the respect of the Ninety-Five?" But what I wonder is what you adults are anxious about? Does this have anything to do with you? ”

Gao Panlong said: "I didn't wait for anything but it has something to do with Donglin Academy, there are two people from Donglin Academy among the people who were arrested, if it is convenient, I also ask Lord Sun to say a favor to the emperor." ”

Sun Chengzong frowned and said: "Although the emperor treats me well, I am now in charge of the Military Affairs Yuan, and it is taboo if it has anything to do with local affairs." Why don't you go to a few princes in the government council to ask about the situation and see if they can talk? ”

Ye Xianggao sighed and said: "I have found it, King Rui, Chrome and the others were so frightened that they hurriedly shouted to close the door of the mansion, only King Xin asked about the situation, but also said that he could not interfere with it." ”

Sun Chengzong asked, "Why is that?" Could it be that the king knows what is going on? ”

Yang Lian said: "Because there are not only court officials, scholars, scholars, but also businessmen and leading generals, I heard that the emperor also directly ordered the Bohai Naval Region to send 5,000 people from Zu Dashou to the south, and it is not clear what to do, and it is estimated that there will be an answer immediately." ”

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said: "It is understandable that King Xin is not easy to ask, he is the prime minister of the Government Council, but he is also the prince surnamed Zhu, if a prince is involved with businessmen and army generals, it is a big taboo ♀, wait until tomorrow I will ask the emperor to see what is going on, let the emperor say that he will not be investigated and start arresting people, as far as I know, the emperor generally speaks of words, unless something unusual happens." ”

Ye Xianggao smiled bitterly: "Your Lord Sun is in charge of the Military Affairs Yuan, and you didn't know about the transfer of the army, there must be an unusual situation, I hope this matter is not too wide." ”

The next morning, Sun Chengzong came to the Military Affairs Institute to check the reports on military affairs, and saw that two of them were related to what Ye Xianggao said. First, the king of the Bohai Naval Region sent it on 14 May, saying that the officers and men of the 5,000 Marine Battalion of Zu Dashou received the Heavenly Apocalypse Saint on 12 May and were transferred to Nanzhili in Dengzhou, and it was only on the morning of 14 May that the emperor's envoy went to Tianjin to inform the Bohai Military Region. Second, the general army of Nanzhili made an urgent report at 600 li on the afternoon of the 15th, saying that the 5,000 men and horses of the Bohai Naval Region had surrounded the officers and men of Hongshanwei on the night of the 14th, and had disarmed them, and showed a holy decree for the governor of Nanzhili and the general army to discuss sending another army to garrison them.

This Red Mountain Guard is also 5,000 people and guards according to the danger, and was surrounded by 5,000 people overnight and disarmed, which is incredible. But Sun Chengzong can understand, of course, in addition to understanding, there is also a sigh. Hongshanwei's men and horses had not fought for many years, and it was better to say that there were more than 5,000 soldiers than more than 5,000 peasants, of course, if you look carefully in their home, you may be able to find a rusty knife or a gun with a broken handle, which can prove that they were once a glorious soldier.

These people have hardly any training in ordinary times, and they probably have little combat experience when they start fighting, and in addition to the accumulated bullying and exploitation of the officers, they have all become so numb that they have become lambs to the slaughter and the emperor's holy decree factors, and some of these people have no power to fight back at all under the attack of the officers and men of the Marine Battalion of the Marine Division, who have been fighting with the Jurchens for many years.

Sun Chengzong thought about it and immediately went to the Yangxin Palace to ask to see the emperor, and it happened that the Apocalypse immediately passed him in the Yangxin Palace, and when Sun Chengzong entered, he found that there were two people inside, one was Liu Yixie, the assistant minister of the Government Council, and the other was Liu Zongzhou, the head of the Holy Academy.

When Tianqi saw Sun Chengzong coming, he first gave him a seat, and then asked the eunuch of the internal guard to hand Sun Chengzong a copy of the interrogation transcript, which was confessed by more than a dozen people who were arrested. From this interrogation transcript, it can be found that the last tabloid incident was not a simple matter, but a complex incident that was premeditated and used in the middle of the way.

The cause of the incident was two people from Donglin Academy, who saw that the people of Donglin Academy were driven home by Wei Zhongxian one after another the year before last, and they discussed the government in private with resentment, and slowly formed a point of view that it was not a good thing for the country that the imperial power was too large and there was no restraint. Last year, Tianqi recalled the Donglin Party members and exiled Wei Zhongxian to Nanjing in disguise, and the two people believed that Tianqi had not done everything to eliminate evil, and their dissatisfaction was not reduced at all, but only slightly restrained. On the sixth day of the first month of May, they happened to visit friends in Beijing, and they were stripped of their clothes by the wind set off by the explosion of Wang Gong's factory.

In fact, what they have done in the past two years has been seen by several people, and these people are a few big families in Nanzhili. Compared with the mental stimulation of the academy scholars, the material losses of the big families made these families feel painful and strongly dissatisfied with the new policy of the Apocalypse. They were first forcibly asked to quit their fields, and when they were doing business, they were asked to cap their profits, and what made them most indignant was that Wei Zhongxian grabbed their sore feet and repeatedly extorted several of their money houses to almost bankrupt them, which made their old and new hatreds come to their hearts together.

Seeing that someone came out to vent their dissatisfaction, these big families immediately found comrades, and they contributed money and efforts to let two young people from Donglin Academy write a tabloid like an article overnight, counting more than a dozen mistakes in the past year of the Apocalypse, so that the Apocalypse could change the old system and not restore it.

The two young people of Donglin Academy were originally very gentle, but they were stripped naked in the flying disaster and felt insulting to Sven, so they became angry young people, referred to as angry young people, and when they were angry and wrote books, they met several angry old men invited by several big families, and the weight of these angry old men was not light, they were all squires and imperial historians in the court. Originally, they should be scholars in terms of seniority, but who knew that Zuo Guangdou, Gu Dazhang, Miao Changqi and others, who were favored by the apocalypse, later took the position and lost their minds under the torment of the anger in their hearts.

On the night of May 10, they wrote dozens of tabloids overnight and sent people to post them everywhere overnight, and the next day they were a little frightened after the excitement had passed the outburst period, but two days later they were relieved to hear that the ministers of the Apocalypse feast and said that they would not pursue it any longer, and when they returned home, they forgot everything, and only thought that they were young and crazy. Who knew that on the night of 14 May, Jinyiwei went out to arrest people overnight, and none of them ran away and were all arrested and put in prison.

Sun Chengzong saw that there were not only a few big family heads but also two disciples of Donglin Academy in the list, and the most strange thing was Huo Weihua, Qiao Yingjia and other squire-level officials. Sun Chengzong thought for a while and asked Tianqi: "Your Majesty, this matter is not a big deal, and the emperor also said that he will not pursue it anymore, and now he has arrested them with great fanfare, will it be a little inappropriate?" ”

Apocalypse said: "If I just laugh at this, but it involves the garrison of the guard, and I don't think anyone can be calm." ”