At the end of the court meeting in the Qinzheng Palace, the Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing approved Cao Lei's proposal to set up a temporary incident office, which was composed of core senior officials of the four departments of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Yushitai and the Jiankang Mansion, which was responsible for supervising the disaster relief of local officials and the handling of the turmoil in the capital.

In order to calm the mood of the hungry people and the people of the capital, Wu Lin, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was dismissed, and at the same time, the Yin of Jiankang Mansion, who was ineffective in disaster relief, was also dismissed, and Song Qing took over.

At the same time, 3,000 city patrol divisions and more than 500 Jiankang Mansion Catchers also arrived at the gate of Taixue, and their task was to enter Taixue to arrest the Taixue leaders who organized the parade after the Taixue students were disbanded.

The Empress Dowager took advantage of this incident to dismiss some of Jia Ru's cronies in Jiankang Mansion and surrounding counties, and installed officials she trusted in office.

For the first time, it broke the situation that since the new emperor ascended the throne, the political affairs hall was dominated by one family.

Earlier, Shi Zui and Lu Mengxiong and others were led by the receiver arranged by Di Bo and Gan Tang. escaped from the southwest corner of Taixue over the wall and ran towards the Xiangyang Palace.........

On the south bank of Xuanwu Lake in the inner city, there is an extremely magnificent mansion covering an area of more than 100 acres, which is the famous Jia Mansion of Jiankang, the residence of Jia Ru, the regent of Taishi.

Jia Ru is sixty years old this year, from the appearance, he is a generous elder, with a pair of slightly straight silkworm eyebrows, slender eyes, thick and full cheeks, a huge nose, a high nose bridge, like a mountain entrenched in the center of the face, the long beard of the black willow always gives people an upright image, and the eyes always reveal a gentle smile, which is easy to make people feel good and trust him.

Jia Ru was especially kind to scholars and young officials, striving for the greatest welfare for the students, and raising salaries for young officials, so he was deeply loved by young officials and scholars.

But those who know Jia Ru know that he treats young officials well only because young officials do not threaten his position, and at the same time he has earned a good reputation, and he can always find in it that it is worth cultivating low-level talents, and he has been full of supporters in the DPRK and in the local area for so many years.

But once someone threatens his interests, his generosity will be gone, and he will become ruthless, until he kills the other party, and he will not give up.

After three dynasties, several ups and downs, it stands to reason that Jia Ru should have seen through the impermanence of the world and was indifferent to fame and fortune, but in fact, Cai Jing's desire for power became more and more blazing as he got older, especially when he also met a naturally short-witted emperor, the son of heaven who could not govern, power for him, like a rejuvenating pill, when he held power, his old heart was immediately full of youth and vitality

Since becoming the first supporter of Great Xia, Jia Ru knows the truth that prosperity must decline.

Jia Ru does one thing every day, looking at everyone inside and outside the court with his eagle-like old and deep eyes, Xiangquan is like a concubine in his inner room, no one is allowed to touch it, once there is a minister who threatens his phase, he will not hesitate to eradicate it.

Correspondingly, it is to cultivate his own cronies, ability and talent are not too important, the important thing is loyalty, only in this way, when he is a hundred years old, the interests of his family and descendants can continue to be safeguarded.

The Jia family is not as good as the Xie, Lu, Zheng, and Shi thousand-year-old families in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Song family of the late Song Ci, but it has risen for a hundred years, and compared with the Song family in Fujian, the only advantage is that its roots are in Changzhou, which is closer to the power center of Southern Xia.

It turns out that Jia Ru has always regarded the Song family as a competitive opponent, since the death of Song Ci, the pillar of the Song family, Song Qing, who is now the head of the Song family, and the current squire of the Ministry of Works, is not a little worse than Lao Lao's family and others in terms of emotional intelligence.

He set his sights on Jiankang's four families: Xie, Lu, Zheng, and Shi.

In addition to observing the hundreds of officials and officials, Jia Ru also paid special attention to the movements of the Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing, and had always been in contact with Gao Feng, the head of the palace, but since Chai Xinyuan's death, the Empress Dowager has shown signs of alienating Gao Feng.

Compared with Gao Feng, the Queen Mother trusts Wang Chun more, and even Song Dan next to the Queen Mother has a tendency to catch up.

He really wanted to install his own eyeliner next to the Queen Mother, just like in the Suzong period, he knew every move and mood swing of the official family, only in this way could he accurately guess the holy will and make him evergreen.

Recently, Jia Ru has been showing favor to Song Dan, but the effect is not good.

So..... How to vote for Song Dan has become something that Jia Ru has been thinking about for a long time.

Today, I stayed in the palace until late before returning to the mansion, and I was highly nervous for several days, and Jia Ru was very tired when I returned to the mansion, but what happened in the past few days was out of his control, so he had to cheer up and deal with it.

Although he squeezed out Wang Mingzhi, the biggest opponent in the court, he injured 1,000 enemies and 800 himself. The Queen Mother used this incident to meddle in the government affairs, which made her more restrained in the handling of court politics in the future.

At this time, someone reported outside the study: "Master Li is here!" ”

Jia Ru nodded, "Let him in!" ”

Not long after, a monk dressed in a gray cloth robe walked into the study quickly, this person is actually the nine dukes of Li who attacked Gantang in the south of the city a few days ago, since that incident, the three of them have been hiding in Jiafu and have not shown up, making the search for Zhang Sanfeng and others empty.

Li Jiugong bowed down and respectfully saluted Jia Ru, "Li Jiugong sees Taishi!" ”

"Get up! No need to be polite! ”

Li Jiugong stood up and stood in front of Jia Ru with his hands down, and Jia Ru asked, "Is there any result of the investigation?" ”

Li Jiugong replied: "At first, my subordinates didn't pay attention to it, until there was a wave in Wu Lin Mansion, and my people rushed to Wu Shilang's Mansion to find that the group of people who framed Wu Shilang were all Jianghu people with a certain amount of kung fu. When they dispersed, my people followed them and found that they all left the city to the west and entered the courtyard west of the Xiangyang Palace. ”

"What do the students who took the lead in making trouble say?"

"Now the people who are following them haven't come back."

This is another family return, Jiankang Shaoyin Gao Jiren asked to see.

Li Jiugong was just about to avoid it, Jia Ru waved his hand and said, let's listen together, it should be Taixue's side that there is news.

After Gao Jiren came in, he found that there were already people inside, and he stood opposite Li Jiugong with convulsions.

Jia Ru said: "What is the situation, although it is said, Jiugong is not an outsider. ”

"Enxiang, the number is humble and incompetent, in the inner and outer halls of Taixue, none of the student leaders have been caught, and they have not returned to Taixue at all. Now we only have a dozen students arrested in front of the palace gate, and after investigation, they are all ordinary students. ”

Guanqian Street, Xingsheng Restaurant.

Peng Mingzhi hurriedly walked through the street under the protection of two guards, these two guards are Zhang Yan and Zhang Lu brothers, who had participated in the rescue of Gantang a few years ago, after the rescue operation, entrusted by the head of Qingcheng Chiyang, with Gantang to stay in Xiangyang Palace, as a guard in the mansion, to protect the safety of Gantang Mansion.

Turn the corner in front of you and enter Wuyi Lane, after coming here. A strong man stood in the way. Zhang Yan knew that trouble was coming, so he quickly caught up. And Zhang Lu was in front of Peng Mingzhi to prevent the other party from having other helpers.

When the other party has a weapon in hand, there is almost no point in running away, and it can only be to meet him.

But he hadn't experienced a fight at all in the past few years, and he had just practiced against other brothers in the mansion, learning martial arts that he hadn't been involved in before.

In a hurry, these routines cannot form a conditioned reflex at all, and without a conditioned reflex, this martial art is useless. As soon as he fought, he knew that he couldn't beat this person in martial arts, so he risked his life, and he still used the previous rules.

As soon as Zhang Yan punched, he didn't know that the other party didn't dodge or dodge, he should take a punch from himself, bully himself, and crashed into his arms at once, and the other party actually made it a common wrestling technique of the grassland.

This man is fierce, if he is in the battle array, he may be a general, but after all, he is not a martial arts master like Zheng Mengyun and Kanpu. If it was in front of Zheng Mengyun, Kenpu and others, the other party wouldn't even have a chance to shoot at close range, even if they really hugged them, they would be able to break away with some skills.

But after all, this man is only with bravery and strength, although the fighting experience is also rich, but in the past fighting, with his strength, he can often throw people away and knock them down, at this moment, the two rolled on the ground several times, Zhang Yan was originally good at close shorts, in the past few years in Ganfu, and Gan Tang practiced the deadly joint skills in the military body boxing in the later generations, so that the martial arts realm has entered a new field, which has never been encountered by the other party.

In the modern fighting system, the development of joint skills due to the cooperation of scientific means, the understanding of the key has almost reached the extreme, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is often fatal, Aikido, Karate also has many anti-joint skills, Chinese traditional grappling kung fu, all kinds of sanda self-defense techniques are also aimed at weaknesses.

Zhang Yan certainly can't reach the realm of a jiu-jitsu master, but he is sober between life and death, knowing that once he lets go, he will be dead, with the strength of the internal strength bursting out, he changed positions several times, either holding the opponent's head and neck, or hands and feet, making the action of joint skills, turning to the right, and then rolling to the left sharply, trying to break the opponent's hands and feet. ,

Perhaps only those who have really practiced these joint skills can understand how fragile a person's body is, but the big man is also extremely keen on the grasp of life and death, he was embarrassed for a while, but a strong counterattack can still force Zhang Yan away at the last moment.

Just forced to open for a moment, the two of them rolled on the ground for only a dozen seconds, but every moment was almost life and death. The food stalls originally set up by the vendors on the street, the tables, chairs and benches were beaten to pieces by the giant man who was swinging and beating around, and Zhang Yan was also punched in the leg with his left hand.

But at every moment, Zhang Yan also risked his life to break his hands and feet. At this time, he grabbed the opponent's right hand and tried to break it vigorously, but the big man's left hand also grabbed Zhang Yan hard, and suddenly, a white shadow rushed up.

That was Peng Mingzhi, who was guarded by Zhang Lu at the beginning of the fight, Zhang Lu was entangled by another tall and thin man with two knives at this time, and he couldn't get out of his body for a while, Peng Mingzhi hid next to him and looked at it a few times, and saw Zhang Yan entangled with the enemy, and it would be difficult to get out for a while, so he gritted his teeth, pulled out the hairpin on his head and pounced, and slammed the hairpin into the opponent's lower abdomen.

The giant man shouted "ah" and kicked Peng Mingzhi out, this kick was not in the right position, kicked on the shoulder, although he didn't do his best, but Peng Mingzhi also rolled out.

Zhang Yan didn't know where Peng Mingzhi was injured, he gritted his teeth and slammed his force, breaking the big man's forearm with a "click".

The sharp pain of the broken arm and the stabbing of the lower abdomen made the giant man's eyes flutter, and his body rolled again, although it was only a moment of fighting, such a close scuffle, but it consumed physical strength. This time, Zhang Yan couldn't come with him again.

The giant man stood up and just raised his head, but Zhang Yan had already grabbed a bench beside him and rushed straight up, and in his field of vision, his hands had already waved to the rearmost position.

"Die—"

Bang, the water chestnut of the bench smashed at the left head of the giant man, and for a while, almost half of the giant man's head had exploded, and his body was almost blown up by Zhang Yan's full blow, smashing the windows of a house facing the street, and his upper body shook outward, and then fell back.