Chapter 344 Calmly stealing life is difficult

The person who came was the young man from Jinling University that Zhang Duanyi saw on the train, Zhang Duanyi was not familiar with him, but Zhao Jingyun was very familiar: "Yi Sheng, why are you here!" ”

Chen Anping spread his hands lazily: "There is a lively place, naturally there is me Chen Anping, depending on the situation, I am not too late." ”

After finishing speaking, he corrected his color again: "How is the situation now?" ”

"I don't know."

The answer given to him by the crowd was three words.

They really don't know what the situation is, if they had been arrested yesterday, then everything would have been fine, but until now, the guards sent by the imperial court have only stood at the door—they have come more to protect the Weekly Office than to arrest criminals.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the people who had usually come to work in the office of the weekly magazine did not come, only a few of them still gathered in the office, fortunately, Zhao Jingyun and Zhang Duanyi were not gentlemen in the kitchen, and they opened the fire in the kitchen at will, and finally they were not hungry in the morning. Seeing that the situation was like this, Deng Ruoshui frowned even more, he summoned everyone and spoke very slowly: "I'm afraid that this weekly will not be spared." ”

"But I'm too b......old," Zhang Duanyi said with annoyance.

"What do you have to do with it, if I don't send your manuscript, there won't be this turmoil." Deng Ruoshui shook his head, he said: "This is not the time to pursue responsibility, we should wait to discuss a countermeasure, we must not sit still!" ”

"Exactly, I thought that I caused this incident, and I went to Lin'an Mansion to turn myself in." Zhao Jingyun nodded.

"If I surrender to save the weekly from disaster, I am willing to go." Zhang Duanyi said.

"Wrong, if you turn yourself in, won't you admit your guilt?" Chen Anping shook his head and said: "Mr. Quan Weng's article is not a big problem, it is just that he has objections to the imperial court's mercantile policy, although the words are fierce, but there is not much to blame. Brother Manqing's article has never mentioned the Son of Heaven, and this turmoil is also certain, for no other reason, Brother Manqing's article has already dug the lifeblood of the scholar! ”

In the past few years, he has thought about it repeatedly, and he always feels that there are many problems in the process of industrialization in the Great Song Dynasty, the most prominent of which is the political status of the emerging class. Originally, the wealthy businessmen were attached to the magnates and scholars, so they naturally did not have their own political requirements, but now with the implementation of the mercantile policy of the Great Song Dynasty, the rich businessmen and magnates have become relatively independent, and their demands for political power have become urgent. Then there are the new workers and clerks, the retired soldiers of the Guards, who are a new class cultivated by the Son of Heaven, who not only have a certain amount of wealth, but are also literate, understand the major affairs of the country, and pay attention to the current situation, and they also hope that the policies of the imperial court will be tilted towards them. There is a contradiction between the two, but at the same time, there is a contradiction with the scholars who hold most of the power of the court, and the relationship between the three parties is extremely complicated. After seeing Zhao Jingyun's article, Chen Ansheng suddenly realized that with the rise of these two emerging classes, it was inevitable that they would ascend to the court.

How did the scholars give up their authority willingly, Zhao and Ju spent more than ten years of efforts to encroach, and only took a part of the power from them, and Zhao and Ju did it very hidden, although he installed a lot of people he cultivated, but on the whole, the scholars entered the official career through the imperial examination and the regular election, and still held most of the power.

Therefore, before realizing this, the scholars and doctors can still indulge in a leisurely manner, while chanting and admiring the smoke and haze, while pointing out the country. However, after Zhao Jingyun's article exposed this point, the scholars and doctors immediately became vigilant and would inevitably counterattack Zhao Jingyun's view of decentralization and people.

Therefore, the key this time is not the Son of Heaven, but the scholars.

After listening to Chen Anping's analysis, everyone looked at each other, which can also explain why the people who arrested them have not yet come: the Son of Heaven is waiting for the reaction of the scholars, and the scholars are waiting for the reaction of the Son of Heaven.

"If so, we're afraid it's even worse...... Since all dynasties, party strife has been a taboo. Deng Ruoshui said with a wry smile.

Zhao Jingyun was also in a cold sweat, and glanced at Zhang Duanyi, since the two came to the Weekly Office, they would put their life and death out of the equation, but if this controversy turned into a party dispute, it would be an unpredictable variable for Da Song, who finally appeared in the current situation.

"It's come to this, and it's too late to regret it." After Deng Ruoshui realized this, he was also annoyed, it was just an academic dispute, it was just a few of them falling into the frieze, but if it became a party dispute, the political situation of the Great Song Dynasty might be affected by it, and they were really wrong. He thought for a while, and then said resolutely: "Everyone, in this situation, all of you who are willing to come to the office are all strong men who can generously go to righteousness, but since ancient times, it is not difficult to be generous to righteousness, and it is the most difficult to survive by stealing a living. ”

"Generosity to righteousness is just a death, and stealing one's life, but carrying the unfinished business of the dead for the rest of one's life, may even be ruined because of this. Cheng Ying's pestle and mortar, someone must do it, I am old, and the rest of the years are not a pity, Zhao Manqing must not get out of this source of this disaster, I am willing to be a pestle, you can be Cheng Yinghu? ”

As soon as his words came out, Zhang Duanyi was the first to come out and object: "If you talk about the source of the disaster, I am also one of them, how can I only let the two of you die generously?" I'm also old, and I don't have the energy to entangle with the rotten people, so please let me be with you too! ”

"That's it, Deng Gong, Quan Weng and I, let's go to do this pestle mortar, and a few of you will be Cheng Ying." Zhao Jingyun is a decisive character, he immediately stood up, and without waiting for Chen Anping, Li Shimin and Wu Wenying to oppose, he said loudly: "Zhizheng, you are the eldest of the three of you, if you still treat me as a friend of Zhao Manqing, you will take the two of them away." Yi Sheng, I took you to the countryside to collect wind at the beginning, and your knowledge has increased greatly over the years, and you have far surpassed me, and I will hand over this matter to you for the common people. ”

"Günt, you also have something to do, I'm afraid that the weekly magazine will not be spared this time, if the weekly is not there, who else will run for the people of my Great Song Dynasty!" Hearing Zhao Jingyun's explanation of the aftermath, Deng Ruoshui then said to Wu Wenying: "After the weekly magazine is suspended, you will run another newspaper, and there will be no righteousness in the world!" ”

"I don't want it!" Wu Wenying's face turned red: "Deng Gong, Zhao Manqing, how to underestimate me!" ”

"Hugh has to be righteous, and I and my family must be entrusted to you." Zhao Jingyun slapped the table: "There is a big righteousness and a small righteousness, and a small righteousness is sacrificed for the sake of the big righteousness, if you don't even understand this, Hugh wants to say that it is my friend of Zhao Jingyun!" ”

They were arguing, suddenly heard the sound of leather boots outside, through the window, they saw a team of sergeants from the Military Intelligence Department walking in, Deng Ruoshui knew that the last time had come, and stood up with a flick of his sleeves: "That's it, Quan Weng, Man Qing, let's go!" ”

The sergeant of the Military Intelligence Department entered the room silently, and the leader looked cold, and opened an official letter: "Your Majesty has a decree, and the Military Intelligence Department will arrest Zhao Jingyun and Deng Ruoshui, which of you is Zhao Jingyun and who is Deng Ruoshui?" ”

He obviously recognized these two people, but at this time he looked like he was doing business, Deng Ruoshui and Zhao Jingyun listened to him carefully, and when they heard only the two of them, their faces were full of joy, and they should all be.

"Quan Weng, you can help Wu Junte a little." Deng Ruoshui confessed, the sergeant of the Military Intelligence Department had already come up and detained him, and Zhao Jingyun was also generally shackled. These sergeants acted vigorously and resolutely, and took the two out in a moment, Zhang Duanyi reacted and hurriedly ran over: "I'm Zhang Duanyi, why don't you take me!" ”

But no one paid attention to him, Zhang Duanyi shouted again, but the sergeant of the Military Intelligence Department had already gone out.

Zhang Duanyi looked back at Wu Wenying and them, with both shame and annoyance on his face: "Why is this happening!" ”

Before he finished speaking, he could hear the chaotic footsteps outside, but this time it was a group of guards from the Criminal Department who came in, they were murderous, and as soon as they came in, they shouted: "On the order of the Criminal Department, arrest the criminals Zhao Jingyun, Deng Ruoshui, etc., and seize the Office of the Great Song Times Weekly, among them, who is Zhao Jingyun and who is Deng Ruoshui?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Jingyun was brought out of the inner prison, he initially thought that he was going to interrogate him, but after following the sergeant for a while, he realized that something was wrong, and the direction of this was not the official office, but the palace.

He was a wise man, and he immediately understood that it was the Son of Heaven who wanted to see him. This made him very uneasy, and the last time the Son of Heaven saw him was more than a year ago, when he returned from overseas, and the Son of Heaven specially summoned him to the palace and rewarded him with many books.

After more than a year, when they met again, he went from being a hero who was praised and encouraged by the Son of Heaven to a prisoner in a cage.

Zhao and Ju still met him in Boya Building, the same place where they last saw Zhao Jingyun. Except for Long Twelve, there was no one else around him, Zhao Jingyun was a little relieved, the last thing he dared to face was the teacher Wei Liaoweng who was affected by him.

"Zhao Qing has done a great job." Zhao Youju stared at Zhao Jingyun kneeling in front of him for a long time, and then sighed.

Zhao Jingyun didn't respond, just lowered his head slightly.

"Why don't you speak, haven't you always been bold, the person who the Holy Monarch can diswant, why didn't you say a word to me?" Zhao Youju sneered: "I want to know, where did your guts come from!" ”

"Minister......" Zhao Jingyun was shocked by his words, and actually raised his head: "The courage of the minister comes from the ancients, from the present, from Your Majesty!" ”

"Oh? The ancients? Nowadays? I? ”

This answer surprised Zhao and Ju, who stood up with their hands behind their backs and paced back and forth in the room for two steps: "You say, how did the ancients, the present and I give you this courage!" ”

"Mencius said that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light." Zhao Jingyun said: "If Mencius dares to speak, the minister will dare to speak!" ”

"In today's world, there is good governance, but good education is not enough, and the ministers call for the small people with the words of one family, what is the crime?"

"Your Majesty has repeatedly warned your ministers to dare to speak up, not to be with the light, and the ministers will collect the hearts of the people for Your Majesty, and throw bricks and bricks to attract jade, in order to seek long-term peace and stability.

He said unhurriedly, looking at Zhao Youju, when he first came in, because he was a little ashamed in his heart, so he didn't take a closer look at Zhao Youju, and now look at it, compared to more than a year ago, the emperor's forehead climbed up with several very obvious wrinkles, although he didn't look old, but Zhao Jingyun still felt that a trace of tiredness seemed to flash in the eyes of the official.

His generous statement did not get the desired effect, on the contrary, Zhao Youju's face showed a hint of disgust.

"I came to ask you, and the question you said was very simple, that is, the scholars should delegate power to the people." Zhao Youju returned to his seat and patted the recital on the table lightly: "See, no, these are all the recitals written by the scholars to me, none of them want to consciously delegate power to the people, what do you say?" ”

"If they don't take the initiative to give up power today, they will be forced by the people to give up power in the coming day, and then the ministers will be afraid that there will be something unbearable!" Zhao Jingyun replied.

"I can't bear to speak...... Why don't you say it directly, that the people will rise up and rebel, and the doctors and I will be overthrown? Zhao Heju smiled: "The princes and generals are the prime ministers, and then there is a kind of thing, and then the dynasty is changed, a new dynasty is established, and those people become new scholars, and then wait for the next batch of people to rebel...... The cycle goes on and on, and my Huaxia Jinghua is lost in this internal friction every three hundred years, and then let the surrounding barbarians take the opportunity to invade and have another Wuhu chaos, right? ”

Zhao Jingyun's heart froze, but he didn't speak for a while.

"You are familiar with the history books, during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the countries were strife, and as a result, Rong Di went south one after another, which made Confucius Yun: Micro Tube Zhong, I was sent to the left. The decline of the Han Zuo, the chaos of the Yellow Turban, the Three Kingdoms, the rolling Yangtze River, all the blood of the heroes flowed, the vitality of the Central Plains was greatly damaged, and then there was the chaos of the Five Hu, the fertile land in Guanzhong, so it was all embers. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the feudal towns were fighting, the Huangchao erections, the Central Plains, and then the Khitan party and the like were allowed to sit big, and the trouble of moss mustard became the harm of henchmen. Zhao Youju did not stop because of this, and further pressed: "You used this word to advocate chaos, provoke the relationship between the scholars and the people, cause civil strife between the officials and the people, and the aliens took advantage of the situation to rise - you are in deep trouble, don't you know it?" ”

Zhao Jingyun was dripping in cold sweat, he only knew that the people needed power, but he didn't think carefully about whether it would be cheaper for foreign countries if the people clashed with the ruling scholars.

"Minister...... The minister is really guilty of not thinking about it! He was not stubborn, and when he realized his mistake, he bowed deeply.

"Since ancient times, there has been no bloodshed in the revival of dynasties, and you want civilians to also ascend to the court, denying the necessity of kings and scholars, which is a greater change than any dynasty. In the past, when the Ding Revolution was made, the heavenly family and the people suffered, and the scholars and doctors just changed the court, before the Taizu received Zen, Feng Dao was a member of the five dynasties, all of whom were above the three princes, which is an example. As soon as your article comes out, it is not only my country that you want to overthrow, but also the country of scholars...... I can tolerate you, and the scholars can't tolerate you! ”

"The minister is not afraid of them, but the minister is only afraid of civil strife because of the minister's words!" When Zhao Jingyun heard this, he didn't care.

"Hehe, of course you're not afraid...... Do you know that I sent someone to bring you on the front foot, and the person who wanted you from the Criminal Department arrived on the back foot...... The Criminal Department arrested you, but it didn't report to me! ”

Speaking of this matter, Zhao and Ju were also a little annoyed, the bureaucrats and doctors paid more attention to what Zhao Jingyun said, "the holy monarch is not enough", but "the virtuous minister is not enough", so the criminal department was forced to send people to arrest Zhao Jingyun and Deng Ruoshui without reporting it.

"Your Majesty will hand over your ministers to them, and the ministers are willing to atone for their sins with their lives!" Zhao Jingyun said again.

"Do you think you can redeem your life alone, idiot, all the great plans I have laid out over the years have been messed up by your shouting! Do you think I have mercy on your life? First, you have accumulated credit over the years, and I have not rewarded you yet, and second, if you fall into their hands, it will inevitably lead to party strife, and I don't have the energy to listen to you short-sighted fellows arguing over trivial matters all day long! Seeing that he was still so stubborn, Zhao Heju had the heart to go up and kick him: "Get out, I'll be angry when I see you." ”

After drinking Zhao Jingyun, Zhao Youju sat back in the chair, knocked lightly on the table, and let out a long breath.

How to severely punish Zhao Jingyun's rash behavior without causing too much turmoil is a problem he has to worry about.

Note 1: Cheng Ying's pestle and mortar, you can see "Zhao's Orphan", and in addition, Quan Weng is Zhang Duanyi's self-name.

Note 2: The words of good governance and good religion are also what Mencius said, and the original words are as follows: Benevolence is not as deep as benevolence, and good governance is not as good as good education to win the people. Good governance, the people fear it; Good teaching, people love it. Good governance wins people's wealth, and good education wins the hearts of the people.

Note 3: Feng Dao is a very interesting bureaucrat, and if you put aside the so-called "loyalty", he is actually a very capable person.