When Xiao Tang also learned that Wu Song went alone to assassinate Cai Jun, the son of Cai Jing, in Hangzhou, but was caught by the official army because he couldn't escape, he also sighed in his heart that Wu Song in the Water Margin still made the chivalrous feat of eliminating evil for the people contained in many historical books such as "Lin'an County Chronicles", "West Lake Grand View", "Hangzhou Mansion Chronicles", etc., and Wu Song, who was a military general in the Hangzhou Military Department during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Although this incident is commendable, according to the original historical trajectory, Wu Song was arrested after assassinating Cai Jun and died in prison. Now Wu Song has also been arrested by officers and soldiers and put on death row, and this time I am afraid that it will be difficult to pick up another life.

Before Xiao Tang had time to convene a group of brothers to discuss, an attendant in the palace immediately came to summon Xiao Tang to face the saint the next day. Vaguely able to expect that now Zhao Ji announced his own reason, and when he saw the old Cai Jing in the morning of the next day, he was very sad to report to the official family that his son Cai Jun had been deposed by the commander of the army because he had first accused Wu Song, the supervisor of the Hangzhou Soldiers and Horses, for dereliction of duty and greed for military salaries, and the murderer Wu Song held a grudge and fled to Hangzhou to kill Cai Jun after committing a murder in Mengzhou.

Because it involves many lives including court officials and local officials, it is inevitable that the murderers will be killed by the official Zhu Bi Imperial Court. And back then, Zhao Ji personally gave instructions for sentencing to lighten the crime of Xiao Tang and Wu Song killing people on the long street of the Daimyo Mansion, but he still had some impressions of Wu Song who killed the five evil heads in the downtown area. Although it has nothing to do with Xiao Tang, the imperial history platform in the court cannot impeach and attack the important ministers of the court just because of Xiao Tang's personal relationship with the murderer Wu Song many years ago, but only according to human feelings, how much Cai Yan died in the chaotic army during the Song Xia War, and now Wu Song, who killed Cai Jun, another son of Cai Jing, has a lot to do with Xiao Tang. Then Cai Jing signaled that the official family must give him an explanation, which is also reasonable.

In fact, now Cai Jing's sons are either officials to the middle of the court, or they are transferred to important military states to hold important positions, and Cai Jing, who is a very popular minister, governs the three provinces of Shangshu, Zhongshu, and Menxia. Cai You, a favorite minister of his cronies, sang against his Lao Tzu by his side, and Zhao Ji also intended to beat Cai Jing again, but in addition to Cai Jun in this public case, Wu Song killed many people in Mengzhou and Hangzhou, including Cai Zun, Zhang Mengfang and other generals. After all, he is also an old courtier who has served him for decades before and after the saddle, and Zhao Ji is most likely out of the idea of not wanting to rule the courtiers against his purpose, so he ordered Xiao Tang, who had not been in Beijing for a long time, to set off for the south again, and he personally went to supervise the murderer Wu Song, who was sentenced to death for killing the court officials and many lives.

"Although Aiqing has made great contributions to the country, she has not been able to make friends with others in the past. Although Wu Song, a prisoner of crimes, is an old acquaintance, he will never be forgiven in the law for such heinous deeds. What Cai Aiqing said is also reasonable, and Qingquan went to Hangzhou to personally supervise the murderer Wu Songfu Fa, in the name of Zhengru. ”

Zhao Ji on the dragon chair in the vertical arch hall said to Xiao Tang, and the civil and military classes were also silent. In addition to Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Gao Yu and other treacherous ministers who had old grudges with Xiao Tang, even the courtiers who were relatively close to Xiao Tang did not have any objection to the official family's imperial decree and Cai Jing's hint that Xiao Tang personally went to supervise and execute Wu Song. Even if some of these courtiers knew that Cai Jun, who was denounced by the people as "Cai Hu" in Hangzhou, was innocent of death, and even if some of them would be in opposition to Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other powerful ministers, but the fugitive murderer dared to assassinate the court official during his tenure, such a great rebellious and unforgivable crime, but no matter who was an official in the court, he would never tolerate such rebellious crimes against the imperial power as the recklessness of the forest and the murder of the court officials by the fugitive murderer.

Some of them are Xiao Tang's thoughtful courtiers, and they will even consider teaching Xiao Tang to avoid suspicion and draw a clear line with those stubborn and unruly Jianghu horsemen, and personally supervise the death penalty of the rebellious murderer Wu Song, which is indeed the best way to prove "innocence" to the official family and the court.

“...... Weichen Xiao Tang led the order. In the Vertical Arch Hall, under the eyes of Zhao Ji and a group of civil and military officials, Xiao Tanggong took the order and said indifferently. When he raised his head, he also saw the indifference of Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Gao Yu and others, and when they looked at him, their expressions also seemed to reveal a deep meaning.

Even if he was really ruthless and willing to kill his righteous brother Wu Song, and could protect himself and continue to enjoy high-ranking officials in the court, in the final analysis, he could not change anything in the current situation against the military and political affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, so he had to go with the flow. What's more, it seems that on the road of the imperial court, it has also reached a critical time when it is necessary to make a clear choice between the two lines of officialdom and green forest, and he can no longer be a close minister of the Son of Heaven in the court and a co-owner of several mountains in the green forest.

It's just that the ministers in the court all think that Xiao Tang's sworn brother Wu Song has committed a big crime, and he has been mixed with people in the rivers and lakes in the past and is inappropriate, and he should completely draw a line with those many reckless people who violate the ban with martial arts, and even have no king's law. And the decision that Xiao Tang had made earlier in his heart was another path that was diametrically opposed to what they thought......

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Around the spacious study room in the Bianjing Xiao Mansion, there are many relatives in the mansion who are also patrolling outside the door, and no one is allowed to enter without summons. And Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, Yan Qing, Yang Xu, Shi Xiu and many other henchmen and brothers who followed Xiao Tang in Bianliang, Tokyo, and each of them also held important positions gathered in the room.

Today, I want to discuss with my brother, but together with all the most important plans of all the Juyi brothers, whether it is Bianjing, Xiao Jiaji, Mizhou City, or several cottages under Xiao Tang's command, most of the brothers present have serious expressions, waiting for Xiao Tang to get straight to the point and talk to the brothers about the important matters they are most concerned about.

"Today in the court, since the official family promised Cai Jing's intention and ordered me to go to Hangzhou in person, now the situation of the poor dagger is clear at a glance. Second Brother Wu eliminated evil for the people, killed Cai Jun's house and was sentenced to death by the court, then Cai Jing's old thief intended to teach me to personally go to supervise the death penalty, and watched the sworn brothers die in pieces, I naturally must not obey that guy's wishes, in fact, the second brother Wu even committed a murder and killed Cai Jun is just an introduction. Now with my identity in the court, I just enjoy the glory in vain, and no matter how much Tong Guan, Gao Yu and other power traitors are making trouble, I can no longer rectify the military and politics and formulate strategies, which is no different from receiving the benefits and idleness, so... It is now imperative for us to expose the matter and break away from the control of the imperial court. ”

Although all the brothers also knew very well that this day would come sooner or later, but listening to Xiao Tang's resolute tone, everyone present was also in high spirits, and many of them became more and more solemn.

And when the brothers listened attentively, they also heard Xiao Tang say: "Second Brother Wu was previously the military commander and the prisoner of the army, but he personally killed Cai Jun, the prefect of Hangzhou, as a fugitive murderer, the traitorous official." Cai Hu'Cai Jun is also the son of the prime minister of the dynasty, and the relationship between me and the second brother Wu also taught this matter The instructor's family is extremely concerned, Cai Jing's old thief is also cautious, and he also asked to say that his son Cai Jun is the prefect of the official residence to supervise some of the affairs of the Hangzhou Creation Bureau, and now he has been killed by the second brother Wu, so that the government has no chief official for the time being, and nominally sponsors Suzhou Ying Feng Bureau Zhu Mian to go to Hangzhou to temporarily manage the state affairs, and Mo Mo is also instructed by Cai Jing to beware of my secret means. This is also a coincidence, compared with Cai Hu in Hangzhou, Zhu Mian's dog official used the name of Huashigang to steal and steal, and he continued to accumulate private property for many years, and did even more evil. Cai Jing and other powerful traitors still thought that I was helpless in the imperial court, and when Zhu Mian's traitor was also in Hangzhou, he could take the opportunity to eliminate another big evil. Second Brother Wu did a cool job of killing Cai Hu, and being a brother can be concocted in the same way.

And although Cai Jing's wife has bad intentions, it is convenient for me to teach me to go to Hangzhou to prison in person, and he can also take this opportunity to save the life of Second Brother Wu....... And I, a prison official, want to openly save the prisoners who are punished and punished the law, and I can't hide the fact that I act on the two lines between the officialdom and the green forest, which is the time when my brothers and others will openly break with the imperial court! ”