Volume 2 The Divine Capital is as Deep as the Sea Chapter 179 The Battle of Public Opinion (Part II)
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There are greedy children rubbing their eyes, looking at the apricot trees on the street corner, some regrets that those green apricots are not growing, not yellow, yesterday tasted the apricots are still very sour, today how can it still taste like this. I hated to pour a soak of urine on the roots of the tree, this damn old apricot tree, can't you let the apricots grow faster!
Look at the locust trees on both sides of the road, take a sip of saliva, compared to apricots, locust flowers are the real delicacy, a handful of white locust flowers and brown rice steamed together, that sweet taste can be transmitted to the market.
The dust raised by the fast horse is always so annoying, Daxing City in summer, because it has not reached the Tang Dynasty, the streets in Chang'an City are all paved with stone slabs, if it does not rain, the dust floats, and it is always a little gray.
A silent young man jumped off his horse, carrying a bucket of paste in his hand, dipped it in the paste with a pen, brushed it twice on the wall, and then took out a piece of paper from the bamboo tube on the horse's back, and pasted it on the wall.
There are more than one or two such horseback riding youths, as many as three thousand who do the same thing, scattered all over the capital and around the city early in the morning, all of them are dead soldiers raised under Yang Guang, but now they are doing the same thing - brushing paste, stickers.
This is fresh, in addition to the government in the capital, a notice has been posted at the gate of the city. And then there are occasional Jingzhao Mansion will let the green forest thieves who catch fast will do evil or dare to start with the aristocratic and wealthy flower thieves to post the picture and graphics, who has ever seen someone paste the precious paper all over the city. There are still words written on it, and there are almost no literate ordinary people in Dasui, but many people don't know how to read, and a group of people are looking at it with their eyes, curious and anxious to die.
The people who had good deeds immediately called out the shopkeeper of the bookstore next to him, and the neighborhoods counted him as literate, and whoever held a red and white wedding or wrote something would ask him to come forward.
However, this time the shopkeeper coughed twice, cleared his throat and prepared to read aloud, so as to show off his knowledge, who knows, as soon as he saw what was written on it, he immediately covered his mouth, without saying a word, turned around and took three steps and two steps back to the bookstore, and then everyone saw people shouting that their son and mother-in-law went up to the baffle as fast as they could, and even closed the door of the store, and did not even do business.
Seeing the shopkeeper of the bookstore like this, the neighborhood became even more anxious and curious.
"What is written on this, is it that the government is going to increase the commercial tax on various shops in the capital again?" Someone whispered, with a worried face, which caused a group of people to worry and frustrate.
The ordinary people in the capital are mainly engaged in all kinds of large and small businesses for a living, and at the same time, they are worried for a while, but there are also different opinions, but there is no clue about it, Fang Zheng and Wuhou are now reporting to the officials of their respective yamen, and they can't find a literate and hyphenated person for a while.
A scholar from a poor family wearing a gray robe and looking a little depressed happened to pass by here at this time, and an older old man stepped forward to greet him with his fists, and the young scholar was also easy to speak, so he came to the bottom of the list without saying a word, and said to the surrounding neighbors at a glance: "More than 3,000 women and children have disappeared every day in Daxing City over the years, and they have been secretly kidnapped and abducted by a slave trading gang called Changsheng, and they have sold women and children to other places, and many of them are sold directly to the Turks and Khitans, and the Turks and Khitans like ...... A group of relatives and friends, neighbors and villagers have women and children missing, maybe it is this slave trading gang called Changsheng who secretly kidnapped and kidnapped and sold them for black money. ”
Before the down-and-out scholar could finish his words, someone grabbed the scholar and asked who the leader of the slave merchant group named Chang Sheng was? His children have been lost for two years, and the scholar told him that this is the daughter of Li Chen, a famous man in Dongcheng, who disappeared a few days ago, Li Chen scattered all his family wealth, and asked the rivers and lakes to look for his daughter everywhere, and finally found his daughter on the way to the Northern Turks, but unfortunately the other party was powerful, and he couldn't afford to rob people, so he asked a friend to borrow three hundred taels of silver to buy his daughter back, why is it so expensive, the big guy may know that Mr. Li's daughter is a beauty, but unfortunately, Li Chen's daughter has been ruined by the leader of the slave merchant group, The day after Li Chen brought his daughter home, that is, last night, Li Chen's daughter hanged herself.
Li Chen is well-known in the capital, and many people know that Li Chen's daughter seems to have really disappeared for a while a while ago, and then it was rumored that Li Chen's daughter hanged herself at night, and it turned out that this happened. But few people know that this person is a staff member under Yang Guang, the prince of the East Palace.
Of course, Mr. Li was very angry and sad, so he put up a notice to warn the neighbors to be careful about their children and the young women in the family, not to be robbed or deceived by others to sell them to the Turks and Khitans, and he even went to the Jingzhao Mansion to sue the slave merchant group and its master, the Changping Palace, to seek justice for his daughter.
As soon as the down-and-out scholar finished speaking, he bowed his hands and left, and when he left, he warned the neighbors to be careful of his daughter-in-law and the young woman in the family, and looked at the neighborhood that cried and lost his child and daughter-in-law, sighed and left.
After the street corner, the down-and-out scholar changed his clothes, replaced the wooden hairpin on his head with a hosta, took out a pinch of mustache from his sleeve and stuck it on his lips, and suddenly changed from a down-and-out scholar to a young scholar with a good temperament......
It didn't take long for the news on the notice to spread throughout Daxing City, which was a real household name, and the children who were still running and playing outside were immediately dragged home by their mothers, and received several slaps on the buttocks, only to hear his mother tell him about the terrible tragedy of the children being captured by the hateful slave merchants of the Changping Palace, and sold to the Turks as human skin drums.
The children who were originally running around in Daxing City are gone, the young girls who like to go shopping are gone, and some of the half-grown children and young women who have to come out in order to make a living are also in a hurry on the street, with a panicked face, like a frightened deer, and they are so frightened that they run away when they see strangers, especially the area around Changping Wangfu has become a no-man's land for a while, and no one dares to approach.
When the sun turned west, people felt that it was no different from usual, and at the same time they secretly breathed a sigh of relief, some self-righteous people wondered if Li Chen had an enmity with the Changping Palace, so they used this means to take revenge on the Changping Palace, and prepared to go home and release the children who had been locked in the house for a day to breathe.
But then the news spread, Li Chen really took the paper to the Jingzhao Mansion to tell the Changping Palace, from the east to the west, most of the people in Daxing City saw this middle-aged scholar who was quite famous in the capital, as if he had aged twenty years old overnight, his eyes were red, and he went to the Jingzhao Mansion with a sad face.
In front of hearing the sound of the wind, he rushed to see the hundreds of people in the capital who were bustling, and struck the bells and drums on both sides of the Jingzhao Mansion. Before the people complain, they always have to ring the bell and drum to urge the lazy old man to go to the court to handle the case, and this rule has been in place since the Han Dynasty.
The people have no way to sue the officials, and the people sue the officials for guilt first, even if the lawsuit is won, the spine cane is eighty, it will not be less, and the exile of three thousand miles will definitely not be one mile less, but Li Chen is also a nobleman, although the family has declined, but there is still a rank from the seventh grade.
Looking back at the large group of people in the capital behind him, Li Chen's face was grief-stricken, but he was quite happy in his heart, his daughter had been sent to Luoyang overnight, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince promised him that he would find a middle-class family to marry, and as long as he did this well, he would be one of the participants in the entire plan. One of the three people with the greatest credit, and when the Changping palace was drowned in the tide of the sea of people that Qin Anhou said, it was the day he came out under the crown prince.
Jingzhao Mansion Yin has just taken over Wang Tong's position, the former Yongzhou assassin Chen Sansi who has only been in office for three days, at this time Chen Sansi regretted that he ran to the capital early to take office, although he was also from a family, but the Chen family in Shandong is only a medium family, there is no strength to confront the Changping Palace, and there is no qualification to be involved in the competition for the position of the prince.
The other officials under the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion are also as pale as earth, although most of them are also from the nobles of the family, but most of them are not as good as Chen Sansi, and they can only be regarded as a small family in front of the Changping Palace, if the Jingzhao Mansion dares to accept the paper, in their opinion, the Lord Yin of the Mansion who is valued by His Majesty may be fine, but they themselves, and even their families, are likely to fall into a place of no return under the revenge of the Changping Palace, and the Yin Prince.
Chen Sansi didn't want to take it, but after Li Chen entered the inner hall, he took out the prince's token and a letter, he sighed, took it and read it carefully, thinking about the letter sent to him by Wang Junlin yesterday, Chen Sansi gritted his teeth, and finally took Li Chen's form, which was forced to make a choice in the competition for the crown prince.
However, Chen Sansi still didn't want to offend the Changping Mansion and the former prince too harshly, so he left some leeway for himself, gritted his teeth and said to Li Chen: "Mr. Li sued the Changsheng slave merchant group of the Changping Royal Mansion for kidnapping his daughter, and suspects that the women and children who have disappeared in the capital over the years have been committed by the Changsheng slave merchant group, but there is evidence, if there is no evidence, it will be difficult for this official to do it!" You must know that this official has just taken office, and he is not familiar with the situation in the capital, and the people sent to look for evidence do not know when there will be progress, and maybe the people in the Changping palace will not take care of this official. ”