Chapter 812: Mother and Son

I have to say that after this case was opened, it was far more shocking than imagined.

In fact, the case was not complicated, Zhou Feng refused to sell the land at a low price, and as a result, the official and the people in the workshop teamed up to tie up his fiancée and forced Zhou Feng to nod.

Zhou Feng was forced to be helpless, and he agreed.

But then, his fiancée had a strong temperament, thinking that she had been kidnapped, lost face, was sorry for her husband, and caused her husband to lose his land and couldn't explain to his family, so she jumped into the river and died!

When Zhou Feng saw his fiancée again, he had already turned into a cold corpse.

The wife's parents were lying on the corpse, crying non-stop, the cuckoo cried blood, and the mother-in-law also scolded Zhou Feng bitterly, because of the bad things in their family, their daughter lost her life!

Zhou Feng was scolded so much that his face turned red, and he was embarrassed. After he returned home, he directly found out the horse chopping knife he used when he was in the army, and slaughtered five people in one go to avenge his fiancée.

Naturally, he was arrested, and five lives, no matter what, could not escape.

But Zhou Feng's parents didn't believe that their son would kill people, and Zhou Feng secretly gave up Tian in order to save his wife, and the two old men didn't know.

They naturally believed that the yamen had fabricated the charges, robbed the land, and harmed their son.

The old couple kept going to the yamen to fight lawsuits, from the prefect yamen to the prefect's yamen, and they kept making trouble. Father Zhou also lost his life in the process, and the Zhou family was ruined.

Originally, Zhou Feng was supposed to be beheaded after the autumn, but because of the longevity ceremony, it was delayed for a few months, and Zhou's mother also had time to poke the case to the capital, and beat the drum, which made the world know.

Excluding some people in the middle and making suggestions, the whole case is like this, Su Shi, and other officials, including the Imperial City Division, and the people secretly sent by Wang Ning'an, are all this result, and it is not complicated at all.

If it is placed on the stage, the next thing is to investigate and deal with corrupt officials, cut off a few heads, and even the emperor himself issued an order to wash away grievances and establish a memorial arch...... Everyone was happy.

But in reality, things are far more complicated than this!

As a corrupt official in everyone's eyes, a criminal minister who caused the people's families to be ruined, Lu Yan was not greedy for a copper plate, on the contrary, he ate coarse tea and light rice, and the wife of the family had to weave cloth every day, feed chickens and ducks, no different from the hard-working people, or even more bitter, his eldest son, had no money to go to Beijing to study, but just worked as an accountant in a commercial bank, and more than half of the money he earned was used to support his two younger brothers to study.

Aside from the identity of the county, the Lu family is the epitome of many poor but struggling families.

When his situation spread, the whole officialdom was shaken.

Many officials are talking about it, a good official who is honest and self-controlled, he introduced a cement workshop, nothing more than to make up for the financial gap, to pay his subordinate soldiers, to maintain public order, to maintain the people's livelihood, the original intention is good, the heart is also good.

The only problem was that he was too impatient and pushed down, but the messenger couldn't bear the pressure, did something wrong, kidnapped Zhou Feng's fiancée, and killed people, so that he couldn't clean it up!

Just when Lu Yan was escorted to the capital, hundreds of errands and clerks in Liang County, including many ordinary people, jointly signed a letter to protect Lu Zhi County, and some people also wanted to leave for Beijing, you can beat the drum, we can also knock!

It's a big deal, and he said, let's see if Lord Lu should die!

The public opinion of the people was initially sympathetic to the Zhou family, but as the situation became more and more revealed, everyone actually felt that Lu Yan was worthy of sympathy.

Especially many people in the officialdom, as well as many local officials who have dealt with Lu Yan, they have written books one after another, or called friends to accompany them, and complained about Lu Yan.

The matter of the case has been put aside, and over the years, the local officials have suffered from the forced reform of the law, and some places have benefited, but there are still many places, such as Liang County, and there are more county seats, where young and strong laborers have been attracted by big cities, or entered factories and workshops.

Those who remained were the elderly, weak, women and children, who could not pay the Ding tax, and at the same time, a lot of land was abandoned due to a shortage of labor, and the land tax also declined.

At the same time, there are more and more local chaos, and many bandits and thieves have recognized the elderly, weak, women and children, and they cannot protect themselves, and they can only endure the losses.

They will steal, and they will rob!

What chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, grain, wagons...... Everything that can be seen is swept away overnight, and there is no place to cry!

Lu Yan is still a very capable county, in order to curb these situations, it is necessary to increase the errand service, but the errand service must be increased, and the expenditure must be increased, to put it simply, it all falls into one word: money!

How do you let him not be in a hurry, how can he not be desperate?

Everyone in the officialdom knows this truth, and everyone is aggrieved.

Originally, because from top to bottom, the law changers were dominant, and Wang Anshi had a tough style, and no one dared to say it, but with this case, everyone jumped out.

Among them, not only conservatives, nor just Wang Ningan's enemies, but even many people from the Six Arts and One Family have stood up, hoping that the imperial court can really pay attention to the locality, and not rashly push the law to change the law and care about the people's livelihood in vain!

Many people even went to Ouyang Xiu, hoping that the drunkard would come forward to intercede for Lu Yan and speak for the people.

Ouyang Xiu is also in a dilemma at the moment, what can he say, the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, as well as many generals, all stood up, hoping to severely punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and not let the meritorious soldiers chill.

Here he insisted that Lu Yan was extenuating and couldn't touch him.

If you really kill Lu Yan, it will chill the hearts of the officials in the world, and there will be no more solid ministers in the future.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Lu Yan's difficulty is that the local finances are insufficient, in a word, there is still a lack of money! But the question is, can the court come up with the money?

Sorry, can't take it out!

Don't look at the current budget of the Great Song Dynasty, but the amount of money needed is too big, the development of the Western Regions, the whole army and the military, the construction of straight roads, needless to say, but also to organize a fleet, operate the route of the Wa Kingdom and Tianzhu, thousands, tens of thousands of ships, in addition, Wang Ningan hopes to promote the development of artillery, and the military factory has begun to collect copper money to make artillery.

Everything needs to be burned!

More importantly, if the money is taken out and given to the local government now, the big boss will also fall into the hands of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, which will not produce profits, and will also affect the progress of the entire outward expansion.

Given, it is to take the money to waste.

If you don't give it, the officialdom is boiling, and everyone says that you can't do it anymore.

The opposition, which was forcefully suppressed by Wang Anshi, has found an excuse at this moment, and every day people go to the political affairs hall or the homes of the prime ministers, to cry and pray.

They all said with blood and tears, as if they had been wronged.

Some of them are true and some are false.

But on the cusp of the storm, who can tell clearly!

Ouyang Xiu regretted being made to regret it, he shouldn't have come out, isn't it good to study knowledge honestly?

The affairs of the imperial court are completely different from doing academics!

It's not good, a lifetime of fame, it's going to be lost in this matter!

A few families are happy and a few are sad.

As the initiators, the Cheng brothers were very happy.

Ercheng couldn't stop smiling, they couldn't help but praise themselves, this case is too good, and the timing of the attack is too suitable!

"The affairs of the imperial court have been suppressed, but they are only three, two, three, but when they are put on the scales, they are more than a thousand catties! I want to see how Wang Ningan and Wang Jiefu end! ”

Cheng Yi said in a low voice: "Do you want to add another fire and let Lu Yan ......" As he spoke, he scratched his hand on his neck!

Kill Lu Yan?

Cheng Hao's heart was pounding, obviously, if Lu Yan died, he would definitely cause chaos in the world, and the civil officials couldn't stand it even more, didn't Wang Ningan have two pillars!

One is the six arts, the other is the gate, just right, let them fight against each other, and see if Wang Ningan can still have a bowl of water!

Cheng Hao thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Don't take risks, the more you do at this time, the more you will be wrong." If Wang Ningan grabs the handle and says that we are making waves behind our backs, it will be troublesome. Let's use all our efforts outside, mobilize more public opinion, and constantly put pressure on Wang Ningan! Cheng Hao smiled, "After fighting for so many years, we have lost so badly, it is time to learn some lessons, let Wang Ningan worry about himself!" ”

After the two brothers finished speaking, they looked at each other and smiled, very satisfied.

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In addition to them, there is another person who is also very happy, that is the second prince Zhao Zonglin, who ignored Empress Cao's ban and came to the queen's palace again, and took the opportunity to ask for peace to tell Empress Cao about the case.

"The eldest lady is really prescient, and sure enough, something big happened, and now people outside are saying, King Xiliang, the reluctant minister, and many other law-changing factions, are all misleading the country and harming the people, and the Great Song Dynasty will be hurt by them sooner or later!"

After Zhao Zonglin finished speaking, he peeked to look at Queen Cao, but found that Queen Cao had her eyes closed, and kept twisting a string of beeswax Buddha beads in her hand.

Seeing this, Zhao Zonglin's courage was a little bigger, "Auntie, Erchen can't understand why the prince's brother is so smart, and he has to be deceived by those people, and follow them all the way to the dark, so he is not afraid that the country will be bad in his hands?" ”

As soon as Zhao Zonglin said this, suddenly, Empress Cao's eyes widened and two flames erupted! was so frightened that the second prince changed his face and was terrified.

"Big, big lady, is the child wrong?"

"Wrong? When did you dare to talk about the rights and wrongs of the prince? ”

Empress Cao despised Zhao Zonglin and said coldly: "What kind of background you are, I know it in my heart." Your mother is certainly a poor person, but she can also be hated! I pity you, raise you, and take care of you...... But, if you take this as connivance, as allowing you to do whatever you want, you are wrong! Let me ask you, did you say that next year would be the year of the great murder and prevent the prince's wedding, did you spread the news, and it was spread in my name? ”

"No, no!"

Zhao Zonglin was so frightened that he trembled, and tears came out.

"The eldest lady, the sons don't have this ability, it must be, it must be that they peeped at the eldest lady's joy and anger, and wanted to please the eldest lady, so they did it!"

Zhao Zonglin desperately explained, Empress Cao was suspicious, she waved her hand irritably, and drove Zhao Zonglin out.

Looking at Zhao Zonglin's back, Empress Cao shook her head vigorously.

In the end, the fox tail was exposed, Queen Cao took a deep breath, found the palace maid who was close to her, and asked her to invite the prince over, and said that she had something to say to the prince.

The palace maid was surprised, how long has it been, the queen has never looked for the prince, and the mother and son have not spoken, this, why has this suddenly changed?

She was full of suspicions, and she didn't dare to disobey, so she had to go down, Queen Cao took a deep breath, she kept watching, whether those people were only against the change, or even the prince was against it. When Zhao Zonglin jumped out, Queen Cao finally saw clearly, it was not biological, it was not biological!

She closed her eyes and pondered, thinking about how to face Zhao Shu.

At this time, the palace maid came back, and she was terrified, "Qi Yu Niangniang, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still in the palace, taking care of the saint, he, he can't come!" ”

Suddenly, Empress Cao's eyes widened, her fingers were forced, and a string of beeswax Buddha beads rolled down all over the ground......

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