Chapter 241: The Nature of the Endless War in the Southeast

Well, I'm a little tired of writing today, and the chapters are bigger, so that's it

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Even in some special years in later generations, there is a folk saying: I would rather be a dog in the city than a countryman.

The Great Song Dynasty also has this saying, probably it is better to be a dog in Tokyo than a countryman. In addition, the people of Greater Tokyo regard everyone outside of Tokyo as a countryman.

The war in Chizhou, as well as the freezing season, did not affect the prosperity of Tokyo as the center of the world today, and the streets were already full of traffic early in the morning, and the outskirts of several official cities were full of congestion and chaos.

The people of Tokyo were very happy in this era, and there was a special winter charcoal fee from the emperor, and there was also a steady stream of affordable charcoal from all over the country that arrived in the capital through Cao Yun, and the security was much better than others.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Eight hundred miles to step up! ”

In the heavy snow after the gates opened, a beggar shouted loudly and rushed into the city.

Due to the blockade of the severe cold, the military report from Chizhou has only arrived now.

In the middle hall, Cai Jing, whose hair was completely gray, was looking at the paperwork from Chizhou.

This is a very strange document, after handing it to Assistant Prime Minister He Zhizhong for inspection, Lao He bowed slightly with a strange expression, "The document is a real document...... Strange, it is not a Chizhou document, but a report from Wu Zhixiang in Shidai County, Chizhou. ”

Cai Jing was very anxious, because this meant that Chizhou was in a hurry to be besieged, and he couldn't even send the news. It seems that the rebels are not strong enough to besiege the county together. Since then, Wu Zhixiang, the magistrate of Shidai County, has only now arrived in the middle hall.

There was no surprise in this report of Wu Zhixiang, in fact, he only said about the eight words related to the theme, "the rebels are in danger of Chizhou", and rarely mentioned the details of the battle in Chizhou, most of which stated the various moths of Zhao Cheng, the lieutenant of Guichi County and the commander-in-chief of the Chizhou campaign.

For example, Zhao Cheng was rude and unruly, and Lao Wu spent more than 700 words explaining the matter of threatening and beating officials, and then said that before the situation was critical, Zhao Cheng and the people of Li ignored it, rejected the military documents from various counties, concentrated all military forces in the state capital, and finally broke off in Shili Pavilion, and so on.

That's probably what this document talks about, and it's impassioned and verbose. It is mainly the impeachment of the official Zhao Cheng, and as for the extent of the siege of Chizhou, very little pen and ink has been spent.

"Zhizhong, what do you think?" Cai Jing also looked strange.

It was also embarrassing to be asked like this.

Although Zhao Cheng is only a small county lieutenant, he can't talk about sesame officials. But the ingredients can be complicated, it was Cai Youbaoju and Cai Jing personally approved.

In fact, what has happened in Chizhou so far, Zhongtang is completely unaware of the inside story, and he doesn't care, the result is important.

As a result, Chizhou was in an emergency, and the state city couldn't even send the news.

This was a very big event for the imperial court. Judging from Zhao Cheng's appointment as the temporary commander-in-chief of the Chizhou Campaign, it was ostensibly authorized by Huang Wenbing, but in fact, everyone knew that without Cai You's approval, Zhao Cheng would not have been able to command Chizhou.

In other words, it is simple to deny Zhao Cheng, and there are many reasons. As long as the result is defeat, all the moths in his future can be a reason. Living here, Wu Zhixiang wittily felt that after the defeat basically became a fact, he seized the opportunity to write a letter of impeachment, which is equivalent to finding a back-up man for the defeat of Chizhou, so that the bigwigs will not be too embarrassed.

Theoretically, this is the rule of officialdom, even if Zhao Cheng is a member of the Cai family, and Cai Jing personally ordered it, there will be a chess way to abandon the car and protect the handsome. There's nothing wrong with that. His son, Cai You, only bears a small amount of responsibility for negligence.

The problem is that Wu Zhizhong knew the inside story of the incident in Shidai County at that time, and knew the origin of Zhao Cheng and Wu Zhixiang's heart disease.

The reason why I know is because before the emergency in Chizhou, his precious son He Zhi fell for these old foxes, and the scholar was angrily involved in the Chizhou incident, and he made a mistake, and Zhao Cheng took the pigtail.

Later, his son wrote sourly and said: Cai Xiaoniang's surname is almost Zhao.

It is He Zhi's ambiguous words that make it difficult for Wu Zhizhong to make a choice now, and he can't judge how deep the binding between Zhao Cheng and the Cai family is.

Xiaguan felt that this matter should be viewed objectively, Wu Zhixiang did not look like a military report at all, and rarely mentioned the details of the Chizhou Campaign, and he was in Shidai County, so Xiaguan thought that it was very likely that Wu Zhixiang did not know the inside story. Since he doesn't even understand the essential issues, his other statements are debatable, and there is a possibility of misunderstanding. ”

Wu Zhizhong finally said something that was slightly biased towards Zhao Cheng.

Cai Jing smiled, feeling that Wu Zhizhong spoke very intimately. That's why he still walks in the middle hall, otherwise he should have kicked him away and flew to Zhizhou, a place that is even more chaotic than Chizhou.

But in fact, I know that there is suffering, and now although Cai Jing is smiling, he actually seems to be three years old in an instant.

In short, no matter what, this time the matter can't be suppressed, and the fire on several sides is now.

Cai Jing made a series of wrong moves under the suffering of gains and losses.

The affairs of the southeast are too complicated, and the insider Cai Jing is psychologically clear, simply put, he and his protégé Zhu family are in the same clothes, and they are too ugly. It occupies a special position, and has a single line of contact with the royal and central halls, and is almost not controlled by the local government.

This huge and deep-rooted family in the southeast has a large number of members, and the family members have been separated from gangs, gangs, and other underworld forces in the southeast region, and the development of one link after another has been "offline." Now it is not well controlled, resulting in the entire southeast region being full of forcible seizures by various means.

From the Cao Yun Cao Gang, to the restaurants, teahouses, casinos, etc., without exception, they were parasitic and blood-sucking by this huge and almost uncontrolled chain of interests, and the public resentment and chaos brought about were very great. For example, the cottage escapees everywhere in Chizhou were born in such an environment.

To a certain extent, it is difficult for Cai Jing to control them when he speaks. Because of the relationship of mutual dependence, Cai Jing relied on this group of protégés to mess up Zhao Tingzhi's rule and kill the Zhao Party.

The Emperor had also adapted to their increasing offerings. At the beginning, Cai Jing raised them, but now he is really embarrassed to slap himself in the face and say that they are heretics when the emperor is happy.

warned the Zhu family privately several times that it was useful, but it was hard to say how useful it was.

Because to a certain extent, in fact, it is difficult for the Zhu family itself to control the offline.

Hit hard a few times!

However, it is useless to rot to a certain extent, and it is impossible to really crack down on the tiger in depth, so no matter who is sent to the central inspection team, even if it is strictly supervised to defeat two or three gangs with big grievances. The death penalty was imposed and the Ministry of Punishment was forced to approve the death penalty.

You can't do it if you want to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger like this. Everyone knows that as soon as the inspection team leaves, they will cross the sea with eight immortals to show their magical powers. Even if a person has been sentenced to death, after two or three years, he will walk on the street with a swagger.

Or change the name and identity and let someone else die in the place of these people. Or they didn't even change their names, and they found some inexplicable reasons to commute the death sentence to killing the rod and distribution from the public relations of the Criminal Department.

As long as you have money, you can't hurt people.

It's a joke to send more Nima, for example, the big road from Hangzhou to Jiangning Mansion is their circle of influence, basically from Hangzhou to Jiangning Mansion Xiangjun Prison City Camp to hang a name, stay for a trip in March, and come back on medical parole again.

In terms of attributes, this gang brother is still in prison in Jiangning Mansion, but in fact he will return to Hangzhou to continue his old business.

It doesn't matter if the gang has been defeated, change its name, register a new business name, and continue to do the same thing, basically doing the same thing.

Every time there is one more such example, there will be a large number of escapees. It's very simple, when I believed in the Strike Hard and the words of the Central Inspection Group, those people who had no resistance to stand up and participate in the "crackdown" suddenly saw that Hu Hansan, who had been sentenced to death, went around and Nima came back, and even Nima didn't even change his name, of course they had to give up their household registration, roll up and run away overnight.

There are some relatively unimportant big brothers, who have also been sentenced to death because they are too conspicuous, and they really can't get out of bureaucratic and judicial channels. That's very simple, they will make various arrangements, and there will be secret loopholes in the cell, and finally this kind of person will escape.

Since it is impossible to "set things right" through judicial channels, the whereabouts of such people are the copycats of Wang Xiuzhi and his ilk. I know that this heinous wanted criminal is there, but the general rule is "can you go to Lingzhi Mountain to catch him".

If the supervision is really strict, there will be no loopholes in the cell. What should I do if I want to be personally supervised by the central government?

It's easy to do, they will directly introduce the "Wang Xiu" into the city and rob the law field during the execution!

There are not too many such things in the Great Song Dynasty, and Du Nima has been written into a book by countless scholars and said in the tea house.

In short, it has been chaotic from top to bottom, and Cai Jing can't do without this group of people, but knowing that they will be in chaos if they eat like this, appointing their big rival Zhang Shangying to enter Hangzhou Zhizhou and take charge of the Criminal Division by the way, it can be regarded as Cai Jing's alternative crackdown on them.

The effect cannot be said to be none, but it is minimal.

This large group seems to have been slightly restrained on the bright side, but only on the bright side, and the secret chaos is still chaotic.

Zhang Shangying, a scholar who can only spray people, and has no foundation, how can he fight these black and evil cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods?

There are people who can shake them. For example, poisonous snakes like Lu Huiqing and Zhang Shuye, as long as they are put into the southeast, they can bite this family of people in a short time and regret being people. However, with a piece of water, pulling out the radish with mud, and really letting these poisonous snakes in, Cai Jing himself will be almost cold.

In this regard, whether left or right, it is extremely difficult for Cai Jing to make decisions.

Until Zhao Cheng appeared, until Uncle Zhang couldn't bear it anymore. This completely triggered a local outbreak of contradictions in the southeast ahead of schedule.

If these coolies can quickly perform a minimally invasive surgery and temporarily solve the problem in the southeast, then Cai Jing doesn't care, and will accept the pain and acquiesce.

It's a pity that it backfired, since the defeat of Wuwei Army Xishan, Cai Jing has no confidence in strong twisting, so he has to take a step back, even the eldest son is put together, and temporarily appoint Zhang Shangying to go to Chizhou to "persuade the fight".

After all, Cai Jing didn't want to completely stab the southeast problem, and he didn't want to really plunge the largest source of grain and taxes into the quagmire of civil war at a time when the finances were in full holes.

But even more disobedient, seeing that the southeast is really in chaos, because the Zhu family has begun to lose control of their respective black gloves, Wang Xiu is the first person in this group to jump. From the moment he jumped, was the other gloves about to be the same?

Now that Chizhou is in an emergency, Cai Jing doesn't even know why Zhang Shangying failed to ease the contradictions. The details of the casualties in Chizhou, the degree of impact, etc., are all blackened, just at this time, adding chaos and what are the essential problems, Wu Zhixiang, who will stab the black knife in the imperial commando (Zhao Cheng), is impeached.

In short, Cai Jingjing is wrong now, every step is wrong, whether it is Zhang Shangying falling off the chain, Cai You dropping the chain, Zhu Jia dropping the chain, or Zhao Cheng dropping the chain, in fact, it is Cai Jing's deployment and Cai Jing's pot. Du Nima is a few wolves in the Cai family's big dye vat that divide the spoils unevenly, and they are biting each other's dog brains out.

Things have come to this point, and Cai Jing has no other way, so it seems necessary to take some responsibilities and avoid suspicion and leave the phase for a period of time, so as to ease Uncle Zhang's night and Zhang Kangguo's forced palace.

Only, since the tumor in the southeast has begun to be pierced, damn these people have already made my Lao Cai pay the price, there is only one thought, no matter who it is, whether it is a black fight or a black fight, if there is a way to break these evil elements on behalf of the government, it will be considered justice.

The protégés of the party and the masses are used to betray, because they have already put the party leader in a dilemma, that is, it is politically incorrect!

The eldest son, Cai You, doesn't have much dry goods, but he is characterized by being cunning and cunning, and he will not easily do things that he is not sure of. It is abnormal for him to trust Zhao Cheng so much, which proves that Zhao Cheng really has his own uniqueness, and it is much easier to control than Zhang Shuye, Lu Huiqing and others.

Therefore, Cai Jing felt that if there was still the last glimmer of hope in Chizhou, it must be Zhao Cheng who could do it.

"Xianggong, how can you reply to Wu Zhixiang's impeachment for instructions?"

Wu Zhizhong said while observing his words, "In addition, the situation in Chizhou is not optimistic, we don't know why Zhang Shangying didn't succeed, I'm afraid we need to make preparations for the expansion of the southeast problem now?" ”

Now that he has figured out that he has to pay the price this time, Cai Jing's thoughts are the opposite.

got up, read Wu Zhixiang's documents again, threw them into the trash can and said coldly: "Reply to Wu Zhixiang's old dog: If you don't want to retire this year, give the old man some peace." If he is not convinced, he bypasses the old man and appears on the table of other ministers, or even the table of the official family, and let his whole family watch it. ”

After a pause, he smiled wryly, "Ready?" Frankly speaking, if the imperial court has nothing to do with the southeast now, if there is, the old man will not let Zhang Shangying cause trouble. Now it can only be up to them, and I hope that the auspicious people will be in heaven. Some of them just don't know how to converge. People are watching the sky, don't think that the old man really can't scrape the bones to cure the poison, I am sick, and I can come back after a while of idle recuperation, what about them? They have lost their hearts and committed monstrous crimes, and they have completely provoked cool officials like Zhang Shuye and Zhao Cheng, so either you die or I die. At this point, the previous stability maintenance conditions are gone, and they can only count on Zhao Cheng to die in Chizhou, otherwise hum, the liquidation will only be late, not absent! ”

Wu Zhizhong took a deep breath, feeling that Lao Cai was really angry and was also in a bunker, never thought that a cunning old bureaucrat like him would be forced to the day when a strong man broke his wrist. Then the problem of the southeast is really on the table, and they will not accept it by striking hard and the mud, so it will escalate into war.

To put it simply, war is the only way to force the other party to accept the will of Lao Tzu when the other party cannot be convinced.

This group that can't be dropped by the tail is forcibly seized on weekdays and says, "You, the old man of the Qinglou, have taken a fancy to it, and you will go to transfer it to my name tomorrow." If people don't agree, then fight and fight!

This group is as strong as cockroaches, and it has survived from nearly 20 years of repeated crackdowns to the present.

After listening to his baby daughter talk about the situation in Chizhou, Uncle Zhang slapped the table angrily and said, "You put down the butcher's knife and disband", they expressed dissatisfaction, so they really started fighting. The only thing that is a little embarrassing is that the thugs sent by Uncle Zhang to Chizhou to fight at night were made dumplings just after they arrived.

Now it depends on who is the biggest gang and the biggest hooligan in Chizhou, and who has the biggest fist is, of course, who has the final say.

This is the nature of war......

Gray-headed Xiaobao 2 said

There's something weird about this chapter. It's Xiaobao's spit and nonsense.

Not to mention the barbaric feudal era, in fact, even today, the era of civilization is also around us. Some of the things written by Xiaobao are archetypal, not in backward areas or in ancient times, but in provincial capitals in the 21st century.

Well, let's not talk about the details, and don't sit in the right seat. In short, the "great" anti-corruption crackdown will not be a whim, there must be a reason.