Chen Dong had already been hinted by Shao Wu, the master of the seat, that he would definitely be admitted to the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites, so although the autumn was approaching, he was still running outside to contact Tong Guan about the downfall. And people like He Fang, Zhu Sen, Zhang Bing, Deng Su and others have died down at this time, and they live in simplicity. Zhang Bing and Deng Su have always been good friends, so they are studying together.

In the study of Li Mansion in Bianjing, the maid curtain was looking at Zhao Xingde timidly: "Uncle, what do you think of the taste of this pear paste?" ”

Zhao Xingde held a small bowl of fine porcelain in his hand, carefully scooped a spoonful of steamed pear paste with Sichuan fritillary, frowned slightly, and said, "It's a little bitter." ”

"Huh?" The roller shutter was about to cry, and hurriedly said: "This is the ointment that the young lady checked the medical book and boiled with her own hands to clear the lungs and relieve the heat." The young lady specially told her to ask her uncle's opinion, which is "a little bitter", but how can she go back to her life.

"Hmm," Zhao Xingde knocked on his head, there are ten days left before the date of the autumn festival, during this time he read the scriptures and read his head into wood, he ate the love pear paste in two bites, and then handed the empty bowl to the roller blind, and said with a smile: "It tastes good, no, it's good." ”

The roller shutter then walked away with a smile.

Zhao Xingde smiled and was about to continue to review his schoolwork, when the servant came to report, and Li Rui, a classmate of Taixue, came to visit. Zhao Xingde invited him to the study to meet.

"The big exam is approaching, everyone is preparing for it, Brother Dongyan, you are so idle." After Zhao Xingde asked him to sit down, he said with a smile.

Li Rui smiled slightly and said, "I have no intention of career, I have decided to travel to the Xia Kingdom, and this time I came to resign to Brother Yuan." He gently blew the foam on the tea, as if not participating in Jinke was such an insignificant thing for him.

"Yuan Zhi knows that I am very good at astronomy. This dynasty also forbade private astronomy, so he had to travel to the Xia Kingdom. I heard that the Tianji Academy of the Xia Kingdom Academy's Mansions predicted that the celestial phenomena were extremely accurate, and even the rules of the sun and the moon, and the size of the stars, there was also a way to follow. ”

"If you want to go, why bother to pick this opportunity, seeing that this branch is approaching, it is better to wait for the autumn, I will send the wine." Zhao Xingde said with regret, knowing in his heart that everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't help it. Since then, there has been one less person who can speak in Bianjing City.

Cai Jing rarely worked in Zhongshu Province for several days in a row, and the bullet stamps on several Zhao Party officials secretly quoted the content of the post and were withheld by him. In the imperial history, Cheng Qin Hui, the superintendent of the imperial history Shao Wu, and the prince of the country, the priest of the wine Yang Shi, first asked to meet the official family, but they were all stopped by the prime minister Cai Jing and the school inspector Liang Shizhong for various reasons. He had also heard that the villagers in Hebei, and even the Bow and Arrow Society in Henan, spontaneously organized to intercept Tong Guan's entry into Beijing, but there was no definite news. If it weren't for the fact that he had known Tong Guan for a long time, Cai Jing would even have some doubts about whether this eunuch was frightened and absconded in fear of crime.

As Cai Gong expected at the beginning, after the movers of the Jingshi posted a period of unveiling posts, as the triennial world competition approached, Confucian scholars who had a career in the world temporarily put down their denunciation of Tong Guan and buried themselves in preparing for the exam.

However, it was like a match thrown on a dead branch all over the ground. Due to the inexplicable evaporation of Tong's father-in-law, this party struggle because of him is far from ending, but has become more and more intense. Under the guise of the Hebei rebellion and the court's unfair treatment of Tong Guan, the more the court exploited the place, the greater the backlash. Just three days ago, more than 20,000 people in the southeast area, instigated by the squires, made trouble and smashed the Suzhou Worship Bureau, killing and wounding many officials and officials, and Zhu Wen, the director of the Worship Bureau, escaped from the dog cave. Hundreds of thousands of catties of flowers and stones hoarded in the worship bureau were actually moved away by the people, and the account books of the worship bureau were also burned by them. On the same day, the Hangzhou Construction Bureau was also besieged by tens of thousands of people, and the Hangzhou regimental training envoy mobilized the forbidden army to suppress it to keep it. The southeast Caoyun gang ship actually intercepted it in the middle of the road, and the tribute grain and grass were snatched up.

Cai Jing is also a master of articles in the world, and he once brought the posts handed down by the lifters, carefully figured out the omissions himself, and also asked his scribes to find faults, wanting to find out some words that violated the taboo of the imperial court, or led the troubles in other directions. As long as the slightest handle is grasped, it can be banned with great fanfare. But this article is too old and spicy, whether it is narrating or scolding, it is all leaky, even if it is intentionally attached, there is no place to use it at all.

At this intermittent moment, the merchants of Bianjing took the opportunity to start hoarding Juqi, and there were many who closed their doors and closed their businesses, but fortunately it was not winter, otherwise the coal could not be transported in, and many people would have frozen to death. Kaifeng Mansion forced the opening of shops, barely maintaining the market. Because of the suspension of the Cao Gong and the closure of the Cao Gong also faint signs of instability, some Hebei origins were instigated, clamoring to beat the drum to sue the emperor, Kaifeng Fu caught a few leaders, temporarily suppressed, but the bottom is still ready to move.

Today, the news came from the Bianhe wharf that for 20 hours, not a single boat docked, and the southeast water transport was finally completely cut off after more than 10 days of sluggishness. This matter can no longer be covered, and it is conceivable that the bullet seals of the Taiwan admonition will inevitably be overwhelming under the pretext of the severance of Caoyun, and as soon as the officials ask the reason, they will draw out the responsibility for the chaos in Hebei and the crime of bullying the monarch by Tong Guan. Since Tong Guan couldn't rush back to Beijing in time to cry and plead with the official family in person, Cai Jing had no choice but to give up his plan.

"It seems that these juniors are going to see the poor dagger. A moment of appeasement will eventually become a major disaster. He hated to think, "If this revelation had been suppressed by thunderous means in the first place, maybe it wouldn't have been such an uncontrollable situation." ”

"Anyway, weakness is better than strength. Let's allow these juniors to run rampant for a while. Cai Jing took the report of Caoyun's severed performance, and was a little gloomy and ready to get up and go home, Qingliu wants to impeach Tong Guan, then impeach. Liu Yanqing in Hebei may be affected by the pond fish, but Cai Gongxiang himself cannot be involved.

As soon as he walked to the door of the political affairs hall, he was almost bumped into the arms by a rushing scribe, Cai Jing's face immediately sank, and he shouted: "Why are you so panicked? ”

The scribe was on an errand in the Privy Council, and when he looked up, he saw that it was the prime minister who was panting, and his face immediately turned pale with fright, and he said in a trembling voice: "Cai Gongxiang forgives his sins!" The villain has eyes but no beads. ”

The documents held in the hands of such a small official also trembled, Cai Jing saw the pattern of the gold plate marked on the head of the text in a hurry, and was secretly angry, could it be said that Tong Guan could not be saved this time, even the chief and deputy privy envoys Wang Fu and Li Bangyan did not take themselves in their eyes, and the gold plate military plane actually did not go through the political affairs hall and was sent directly to the imperial front?

"What the hell is the alarm?" Cai Jing asked in a deep voice.

"The southeast is reversed!" The scribe replied in a trembling voice.

"What?" The scribe stammered, Cai Jing suppressed his anger and shouted, "Bring me the military book." ”

The scribe did not dare to be strong, and respectfully presented the general's letter to the prime minister.

Cai Jing swept over with a glance and was suddenly shocked. No wonder Cao Yun was completely cut off, just the day before yesterday, Fang La, the demon of Mingjiao in Jiangnan, pretended to trust the mandate of heaven, proclaimed himself "Holy Father", changed the yuan to "Yongle", led the crowd to start an incident, and put the generals in charge. On the same day, Mingjiao members raised troops in more than 10 prefectures, including Su, Hu, Wu, Chu, Tai, Yue, Quzhou, Hu, Chang, and Xiu, and are now attacking prefectures and counties in all directions. Hangzhou, an important town in the southeast, has fallen into the hands of the thieves, Fu Bing and Huang Tan, who are the supervisors of the soldiers and horses of the two Zhejiang roads, and Huang Tan were killed by the thieves, Du Shouwen, the envoy of the two Zhejiang roads, and Qiu Jian, the envoy of Lian Wan, were assassinated, and Ouyang Tai, the governor of Hangzhou, fled, and many state and county officials have fled or even defected. It is said that the thief armies from all over the country are converging on Jinling, preparing to conquer Jinling and then divide the river and rule, and even take Bianliang in the north!

Seeing the back, Cai Jing's lips trembled slightly, and the green tendons on his forehead appeared, according to the military book, because the southeasterners thought that Hua Shigang was done by him at the instigation of the official family, the ancestral grave of the Cai family in Hangzhou was dug up by the chaotic people, and his father and ancestors were all abandoned Yang corpses. The Cai family's old house was burned down after it was looted, and the rest of the Cai clan did not know what to do.

Behind this military book is the text of Fang La's uprising, he had no intention of reading it again, but the habit of cultivating in the political hall for more than ten years is that all important official documents must be seen from the beginning to the end, so as not to be mistaken by others. Behind it, it was actually "the child thief caused the fall of Hebei, millions of people were ruined, and the faint king did not ignore the national law and tolerated the adulterer." Thousands of people posted public revelations, exposed them in front, and accused them of treachery, the world was in an uproar, and the faint monarch and traitorous ministers were unmoved. The people of the southeast have been suffering from exploitation for a long time! In recent years, the disturbance of flowers and stones, especially the Fukan. If you can rise up in righteousness, the four sides will hear the wind and respond......"