The half-moon period is not long, but it is not short, and the students are running around to contact and send off Huang Zhoushan, the Taichang Shaoqing who was reprimanded out of Beijing. In addition to studying the scriptures hard, Zhao Xingde pulled Chen Dong around everywhere, occasionally had time, and even started to write the sequel to "The Wizard of Snow Shadow", and was very busy, and before he knew it, it was the day when Huang Zhoushan, who was belittled out of Beijing by Prime Minister Cai Jing, left Beijing.

After breakfast, when he saw Li Rui, who was about to go out to see off Huangzhoushan together, Zhao Xingde couldn't help but sigh, it was sunny outside, but this guy stepped on long-toothed clogs, holding a green oil paper umbrella in his hand, just like the dress of the turbid son of Shijia in the smoke and rain of West Lake in the world opera. In the past half month, the climate has turned from cold to warm, not only the snow has melted, but also spring rains.

Zhao Xingde coughed dryly, pointed to the clogs and umbrella and asked, "Brother Li, why is this?" ”

Li Rui said with a straight face: "I look at the sky, last night there was a young boy under the grass in the corner of the courtyard, and this morning there was a girl ~ The yin wind lingered on the willow tops on the wall, yin and yang meet, it is inevitable that the clouds and rain will be spread, so I have to take precautions early." ”

In the terminology of later generations, the warm and humid air flow in the east and the dry and cold air flow in the west may meet over Bianliang today, forming a frontal rainfall.

Zhao Xingde nodded, and scolded with a smile: "It's a pity that you don't go to be a Taoist priest." He is young and strong, and he can take shelter from the wind and rain a little, and he doesn't want to prepare rain gear as solemnly as Li Rui, which makes people laugh.

Li Rui sneered at each other: "What I have learned is the art of observing the heavens of Guan Gongming, but it is Yuanzhi's saying that your cold air and heating meet and walk in the rain, which has no teacher in itself, and is quite similar to the theory of new learning vitality. ”

Zhao Xingde and Li Rui walked in the car, laughing and joking all the way, and came to Baokangmen Street, which is hundreds of steps away from the east corner gate of the inner city. Huang Zhoushan will board a boat at the Bianhe Wharf outside the East Jiaozi Gate of the inner city, enter the Grand Canal along the Bianhe River, change ships in Yangzhou, and sail down the coast to the legendary miasma rampant Qiongzhou.

At this time, many tea shops, wine shops, and foot shops are still closed, but the flow of people on the street has been one after another, the rich gentry and eunuchs are still a little jealous of the power of Prime Minister Cai Jing and his party, but the thousands of peddlers and pawns in the city do not care about these, and when they heard that today is the day when Mr. Zhoushan, who wrote a letter against the two evil laws of land competition and intersperse, was demoted from Beijing, they have temporarily stopped their lives and come to see them off. Out of the East Corner Gate, the crowd of people is even more immense, more than ten miles everywhere is the flow of people towards the Bianhe Wharf, and the people gathered outside the East Corner Gate are more than tens of thousands, the Hongqiao across the Bianhe River seems to be crumbling, and it is crowded with people who can't stop looking.

"If the horse is shocked, the gentleman is uneasy; If the people are shocked, the gentleman will not be in place. In the Accord on the third floor of Fengxing Restaurant next to the Bianhe River, a middle-aged man dressed in a blue and white satin Confucian costume with a square face and long hair looked out of the window and said thoughtfully, "Gentleman, Zhouye; Those who are familiar with the people, the water is also. The water carries the boat, and the water capsits the boat. He looked sideways at the painter who was painting in the window next to him, and said in a deep voice: "This 'picture of sending virtuous people to the city' must be painted truthfully and attentively." ”

Although the middle-aged man's words were pleasant, he was not angry, and the painter shuddered, bowed and said, "Yes, my lord." The middle-aged man was not used to seeing the painter's timid and fearful appearance, frowned slightly, turned his face to the side, and continued to observe the situation on both sides of the Bianhe River.

Another Confucian scholar next to him sneered and said, "No wonder Enxiang attaches so much importance to Huizhi, this clever strategy of killing two birds with one stone is really clever." However, if it weren't for the Danqing master like Zhang Painter, it would be difficult to enter the eyes of the saints. This picture was presented to the Holy One, for fear that the old thief would no longer be able to deceive the Holy Hearing. The painter Zhang Zeduan was found by him, so Luo Ruji was also quite smug.

The two of them are the confidants of Vice Minister Zhao Qianfu. Although Zhao Zhifu was recommended by Cai Jing as the prime minister, he secretly cultivated party henchmen in an attempt to confront Cai Jing. Qin Hui won the trust of Zhao Zhifu because he had a city government, a calm demeanor, and a decisive manner, and specially arranged for him to serve as a doctor of Guozi in Qinggao to accumulate protégés and popularity. And Luo Ruji is also a member of the official residence and criminal department, a character who eats people and does not spit out bones, and has eyes above the top.

Hearing that Luo Ruji's mouth was not dense, Qin Hui's eyes flashed with a dissatisfied look, glanced at the painter, and saw that he was concentrating on sketching the landscape figures, and didn't seem to pay attention to the conversation between the two adults, so he snorted, shook his head, and sighed: "The old thief's position in the heart of the saint is as stable as Mount Tai, how can a painting be shaken, but if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, and when the time is right in the future, maybe it will be of some use." His face sank slightly, and he changed the topic and said, "Brother Yanji, the old thief henchmen have already mobilized the government and the forbidden army, but are they confirmed?" ”

"Exactly." Luo Ruji's face was pale, Qin Hui nodded slightly, and said nothing.

Luo Ruji, who was next to him, continued uninterestingly: "Having said that, the doctrine written by Huang Zhoushan is not only to the left of Yuan You's academics, but also different from the traitorous party's pseudo-studies. The official family also looked at the ancestral family law of Dr. Yourongshi in this dynasty, so he was allowed to take a head, who knew that he was getting more and more powerful, and he actually opposed the bidding and the two methods of financial management. He holds five cars of Xuefufu, but he doesn't know that this dynasty inherits the will of Prime Minister Wang Cheng and takes national financial management as the first priority. Just look at the ministers and scholars of the Manchu Dynasty, except for a few princes who don't know the height of the sky, only the families of these peddlers and pawns came to see them off, and they know that this person is ignorant of current affairs and has little help, hum! ”

He chattered endlessly, but Qin Hui only frowned slightly, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes. The crowd of people seeing them off suddenly stirred, and the slight ripples quickly spread into boiling waves.

"Lord Huang, Lord Huang is here." The people crowded on the Hongqiao leaned out from the guardrails on both sides, and the wooden railings creaked in the layers of front and back, and the children who climbed on the willow trees on both sides of the Bianhe River ventured to climb a few steps upwards, desperately stretching their necks. Even scholars such as Zhao Xingde and Li Rui, who were drowned in the crowd, were also infected with inexplicable excitement, and involuntarily rushed towards the official road of Dongjiaozimen with the flow of people.

The bustling crowd has blocked the way from Dongjiaozimen to the Bianhe wharf. I saw a large group of protégé disciples surrounded by two middle-aged people wearing Confucian robes slowly walked out from the Dongjiaozi Gate, behind this group of Confucian students, followed by several ox carts carrying family members and soft bulges, and further outside was the escort officer of Kaifeng Mansion with more than a dozen officials with high chests and protruding bellies, blowing their beards and glaring to drive away the crowd blocking the road.

The people of Bianliang usually saw the official errand as if a sheep saw a wolf, but at this moment, they just rushed forward, and the three layers inside and the outer three layers surrounded Huangzhoushan and his party. The people in the front row stood on tiptoe and looked, and the people in the back row could only see the heads in the front row, "Lord Huang!" Mr. Zhoushan! Between the shouts and drinks, mixed with a lot of gossip discussions, Zhao Xingde heard an idler foaming at the mouth and chewing his tongue and said: "This treacherous minister Cai Jing and his party are transformed by demons and monsters, and they specially go down to the mortal world to cause trouble to the government and poison the living beings, Cai Jing is a bear monster, Gao Taiwei is a horse demon, Liang Shicheng Tongguan is the reincarnation of two pig demons who were castrated in his previous life, Li Bangyan is a goat demon, fortunately, I am happy to have Lord Huang ......in my dynasty."

Since the accession to the throne today, the taxes are as heavy as a day, the officials are up and down, and the people are forced to be tight every day, Prime Minister Cai Jing and others are trying their best to collect in order to please Shangyi, the treasury income is several times that of the past, and the officials up and down are filling their own pockets, in the countryside, the grain is not yet ripe, and the government will levy two taxes in summer and autumn in advance. What is even more odious than the advance collection of the two taxes is the advance borrowing, and some counties in Jiangnan Prefecture have actually borrowed the two taxes in advance ten years later, and what makes the people cry even more is that after the former magistrate was promoted, most of the subsequent magistrates did not recognize the two taxes borrowed in advance.

Cai Jing to "for the country finance" as the advertisement, play empty thoughts, clever name, tyrannical collection, Taizu in the early years, the government used silk and linen is still bought with money, now it is also the same as the two taxes for nothing, in addition, there are also the army to play white strips to extract grain and grass, big bucket in, small bucket out of the provincial consumption, rat and bird consumption, warehouse consumption, all civil money transactions to collect money, in order to increase military spending and special collection of monthly pile money is the most miscellaneous, the bottom of the state and county officials in the month pile money under the name of the clever name includes money, vinegar money, selling paper money, Even if you win the lawsuit, you have to pay the money of the victory, and so on.

After Cai Jing took office, he simply converted the field endowment and cloth into coins for the people to pay, which was called "folding silk money". In a famine year, if they cannot make ends meet, they will have the risk of not having enough to eat, and they will be in danger of selling their children and daughters, even in a good year, if the profiteers take the opportunity to lower the price, the price of grain is low, and the silver money obtained by the people after selling grain is often not enough to pay taxes, so they have to sell their rations. When it comes to paying taxes, the people are often extorted by corrupt officials. Huang Jian reprimanded him in the above book: "The court is tyrannical, greedy from top to bottom, deboning and sucking the marrow, and doing everything, so that all industries in the market wither, the people have no blood, and the place is exhausted." ”

Among the scholars of the Manchu Dynasty, only the Lord Huang in front of him spoke up righteously, and asked for the abolition of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but was degraded to Qiongzhou, and some of the people who saw off thought about the difficulties of their livelihoods, so they howled and cried, and for a while, the crying on both sides of the Bianhe River shook the heavens and the earth, and many people staggered and fell to the ground, crying and shouting for Huang Jian.

Huang Jian thanked the four sides several times, but the crowd did not disperse and did not get out of the way. Huang Jian simply stopped, looked at the people of Bianliang who were hugging around with emotion, and sighed: "The previous envoy to the Liao State, discussing the general trend of the world with the Liao State Minister, the Liao people said that my Chinese are weak and weak, have no courage at all, and are a slave country, more than enough to defend and not enterprising enough, but today I see that the people of our Central Plains, although they have been suppressed, have not lost their anger, only one or two British lords and famous ministers need to be rectified, North Wai Khitan, and the suit is strong in summer, it is not impossible." He turned back to Shao Wudao, the superintendent of the imperial history, who saw him off: "The traitors are in charge, the filthy officials are rampant, the fools have been expelled, and the matter of Kuang Fu Sheji must be stopped and the brother will be treated more." ”

Shao Wu nodded and replied: "Although there is some truth in Brother Zhoushan's words, the imperial court has its own discipline, and if the people are vigorous, it will be chaotic, and if it can be appeased, it will be good, and if it cannot be appeased, it will be chaos. Whether it is academic or political, he and Huang Zhoushan have different opinions, although they are not conspirators, but Shao Wuying obeyed Huang Zhoushan's courage to fight against Cai Jing, so he did not hesitate to commit the taboo of the traitorous party, and gathered all the disciples to send each other, but in terms of moral and political opinions, it is absolutely impossible to give in.

Zhao Xingde, Li Rui, Chen Dong, Zhang Bing, Deng Su, He Fang and other Taixue students have already squeezed into the front row at this time, and Zhao Xingde also saw the appearance of Huang Jian, the great Confucian of the world, for the first time. I saw that he was not tall, a little thin, with long narrow cheeks, three locks of long hair under his chin, thick eyebrows, slightly dark skin that did not look like a scholar, but his eyes were very clear.

Zhao Xingde has been cold for ten years, in addition to the scriptures that must be examined in the imperial examination, the works of the Confucian masters of the world, and the academic tendencies of the important ministers of the imperial court are also the key points that must be mastered, otherwise, in front of a new party minister, talking about Yuanyou's academics will end up more miserable than the prodigal son who does not learn and has no skills. What the new party opposes is exactly what the old party professes, and vice versa. To put it simply, Xinxue is the official academic of the imperial court, pretending to be the rule of three generations to carry out reforms, advocating three generations of sages and despising the Han and Tang dynasties, focusing on scriptures and despising the historiography.

In addition to the new party and the old party, there are Luo Xue, who advocated the "unity of heaven and man" in Henan Academy, and Huang Zhoushan, who advocated "the world is the main thing, and the king is the guest". There are many people in various Confucian sects, and there are a large number of supporters among the people, but they do not tolerate each other, and the dispute between Confucianism and Confucianism is elevated to a military and political strategy, and it is entangled with the party struggle of the imperial court.

Since the dispute between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, although the imperial court has vigorously criticized the friends, but there is no effective support from the party, even if Confucius and Mencius are reincarnated, Guan Zhong Leyi is resurrected, it is difficult to stand alone in the Great Song Dynasty, only the Tang Dynasty is in the rivers and lakes. This is also the reason why Ercheng has been idle in the countryside although he is a great Confucian in the world, Cai Jing dared to ignore the material discussion and denounced Huang Jian from the high position of Taichang Shaoqing to Qiongzhou.

Zhao Xingde was pondering, when he was suddenly pushed and shoved, he almost fell, and when he came back to his senses, he saw a servant holding a scabbard in his left hand and a waist knife in his right hand, glaring and scolding: "Stinky sour ding, blocking the way of the official mission, but do you want to rebel?" Seeing that the handle of the knife was about to slap Zhao Xingde's face.

Before Zhao Xingde could answer, Chen Dong had already shouted: "Filthy little official, do you dare to beat the bachelor?" Zhang Bing, Deng Su, He Fang and other students shouted loudly. The imperial court has always been tolerant of scholars, and the students are not ordinary people, they only need to pass the examination to become officials, and they are the top bosses of these yamen officials, so they can not be bullied by them.

When the people in the distance finally saw that the yamen officials were also depressed, some people took advantage of the chaos and shouted: "Such a traitor plots to kill Zhongliang, we will first kill all the henchmen, and then ask the official family to get rid of the traitor!" The people who were originally emotional went up one after another to punch and kick them, so that more than a dozen officials couldn't stop begging for mercy, and even Huang Jian, Shao Wu and others behind couldn't persuade them, and they were about to beat people to death.

The escort officer who led the team hid beside Huang Jian and the others while muttering: "Rebellion, rebellion." He took out a rattling arrow and fired it into the sky, the sharp whistle echoing far away in the midst of the noise.

"Not good." Li Rui's face changed greatly, Zhao Xingde secretly screamed in his heart, Huang Jian, Shaowu and his party and all the Taixue students gathered as the center, and the chaotic crowd around them kept coming forward, some wanted to take a look at Lord Huang, some wanted to fight the government officials to vent their anger, some were squeezed around, and some were simply watching the excitement but were squeezed in the middle and couldn't get out. The sounds of shouting, scolding, forgiveness, and even crying fathers and mothers resounded. Although the scholars had the intention to avoid it, they were tightly embraced by the crowd in the middle, and it was difficult to move half a step.

Not long after, faintly sounded the sound of messy horses' hooves in the distance, about 500 Xiaowu cavalry galloped out, the forbidden army held short sticks and beat around, rushed straight to the place where there were many people, everywhere the people all ran with their heads in their hands, followed closely behind the cavalry there were more than 2,000 palace front division foot soldiers, each holding a sword, punching and kicking, scolding and scolding to disperse the crowd, behind the front of the palace division foot soldier is the official of Kaifeng Mansion, holding an iron ruler and chain, specializing in arresting the person who leads the trouble, and even wears a low-grade official uniform and a person who looks like a Confucian does not let go.

Huang Jian and Shao Wu's disciples all looked at their teacher, Huang Jian's face showed anger, and he shouted: "Treacherous and jealous of me, why bother and cripple the people!" Shao Wu's face remained unchanged, he stood with his hands held high, looked back at the disciples on the left and right, and said in a deep voice: "Mencius said that he was mighty and unyielding, and he was called a great husband. The bones of the corporal people in the world are getting more and more devastated, and today I want to see what the traitorous henchmen want to do with us? All the disciples nodded their heads one after another when they were instructed by their teacher, and stood side by side with Huang Jian and Shao Wu around them, more than 1,000 people stood still, their clothes fluttering, and their expressions were awe-inspiring, as if they were generously dying.

The forbidden army and the servants rushed to Huang Jian and the others in front of them, and after intimidating them for a while, they saw that everyone was standing still, so they divided their troops into two ways, only beating and arresting the scattered crowd, separating the ordinary people from Huang Jian and Shao Wu, and leaving hundreds of foot soldiers in front of the palace to guard around. The Song State emphasized literature over military force, the status of scholars was respected, and the status of soldiers was quite low. These soldiers in front of the palace were like wolves and tigers when they beat the people, and they were restrained by the officers at the moment, only shouting on all sides, and they didn't even dare to look at Huang Jian and the others.

Upstairs in Fengxing Restaurant, Luo Ruji showed a disappointed look on his face, if these forbidden soldiers and servants didn't know how to measure, killed scholars, and violated the rules of the ancestors of the Zhao family, they could take the opportunity to make a big fuss, even if they couldn't win Cai Jing, they could also take the opportunity to cut off many of his henchmen. Qin Hui sighed secretly, suddenly heard footsteps behind him, and looked back, it was actually Zhao Guangshi, the son of Enxiang Zhao Zhifu, who accompanied the crown prince Zhao Ke and walked in.

"It is really a great rebellion that the traitorous henchmen dare to mobilize the forbidden army without authorization." Zhao Ke's face showed a look of indignation, Zhao Ke brought Zhao Guang to visit the situation today, if he didn't go fast, he was almost beaten by the forbidden army, and he was inevitably stumbling in a hurry between the rush and running, and the hem of the robe was stained with mud.

Zhao Guangshi looked down from the balcony of the restaurant, the chaotic scene of the soldiers and the people running wolf was not as thrilling as just now, and his heart slowed down, shook his head, and sighed: "How sad is that the Master's way of forgiveness has not been practiced in the world!" He trotted with Zhao Ke for a while, but he didn't feel that the sweat was wet in his middle clothes, and he felt a little cold on his body, looking left and right, there were no servants around, so he had to forcibly endure it, and change his clothes after returning home.

"It's not trivial to mobilize the forbidden army without authorization, Lord Qin, the old thief deceives people too much, can you write a letter to impeach the traitor?" Zhao Ke's eyes showed a ruthless look, which was very different from the usual cautious appearance in front of Emperor Zhao You.

"Kaifeng Mansion, Yushitai," Qin Hui hesitated for a moment before he said, "There is also the Imperial City Division, all of whom will speak for the old thief, and they can use the civil unrest as an excuse to say that they are in a hurry to obey the power and shirk responsibility." For more than ten years, the saint's favor for Cai Jing has not diminished. If you make a fuss about this matter, at most Cai Jing will be reprimanded, but if the old thief is hated because of this, it will not be conducive to His Highness. ”

His tone was not slow or hurried, but with a persuasive force, the prince pondered for a moment and nodded. "If he is lonely and becomes the emperor, he will definitely repel all traitors like Cai Jing who see the wind and rudder." Zhao Ke said secretly. His mother died early, and his personality was not as high-flying as his father's, so although he was made the crown prince, he was not as popular as his father. In recent years, the third prince Zhao Qiwen has outstanding talents, and he has become more and more favored by his father.

The rumors of the displacement of the East Palace are getting stronger and stronger, because the Imperial City Division is in the hands of the third emperor's brother, and Zhao Ke is sitting on pins and needles every day, for fear that he will be caught by mistake. Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng, Tong Guan and other important ministers relied on by his father and emperor showed favor to Zhao Qi one after another, while the deputy ministers Zhao Zhifu and Li Bangyan only secretly expressed their support for the crown prince and were unwilling to publicly offend Cai Jing and the three princes.

Qin Hui saw the hatred in the prince's eyes, sighed secretly, and looked back at the area from the Dongjiaozi Gate to the Bianhe Wharf, the original crowds of people had all been expelled, leaving only a mess, one hundred and ten leaders of the chaotic people who were arrested by the officials of Kaifeng Mansion were guarded by the forbidden army, among them, there were actually a few low-grade officials in green robes who were on the ground, and then looked at it, it seemed to be the trick officials of the Si Tianjian, the Taishi Bureau or the East and West Eight Workshops. He muttered to himself, the trick officials were regarded as mediocre in this dynasty, and their status was not as good as that of the martial arts, thinking that it was because Huang Jian had played to improve the grade and treatment of these trick officials, these people were grateful, and they came to see each other today, but they were ashamed of themselves, they couldn't walk with the scholars, they were only mixed with the people, and this kind of situation was about to be used by Cai Jing to do it.

After the forbidden army and the officials dispersed the people, they surrounded Huang Jian, Shao Wu and the disciples who saw them off. After a while, an officer came on horseback, and without saying much to the crowd, he commanded his soldiers to get out of the way to the Bianhe wharf.

Shao Wu snorted coldly, if this officer doesn't know the current affairs, he will come forward to be verbose, and even report his surname by name, Shao Wu Residence supervises the imperial history, and the sword and pen have a thousand powers, if you want to cut off the future of your little low-grade general, even Cai Jing can't stop it.

Everyone slowly walked to the Bianhe wharf under the foot and sanitation, and Huang Jian and his family servants boarded the official ship.