Yongjing Chunming Gate, here is the east gate of Yongjing City, and it is also the nearest gate to Baqiao, a major garrison in Yongjing.

At the third watch, an army of more than 8,000 people quietly arrived at Chunmingmen, and the guard on duty at Chunmingmen was a lieutenant surnamed Lou, who could not have imagined how he would be sent to Chunmingmen to be on duty today.

Lou Duwei stood on the city tower, looking at the fire under the city and was stunned, it seemed that there were only more than a thousand soldiers holding torches, illuminating the city as if it were daylight, but Lou Duwei felt that there were more than 1,000 people.

In the firelight, he clearly saw the army under the city, and the person at the head was Shen Ji, the head of the first army in Yongzhou.

"Is it General Lou above? General Shen returned to Beijing and ordered you to open the city gate. A lieutenant shouted from below.

Lou Duwei was very embarrassed in his heart, he used to be Shen Ji's subordinate, and later transferred to Tian Xingwen, the general of the Nine Gates, Tian Xingwen was one of Shen Guo's uncle's henchmen, holding 30,000 heavy troops of the Nine Gates, controlling the defense of the capital, and in the capital, there were 5,000 loyal to the Empress Dowager's embroidered guards and 5,000 Yulin Army who were also loyal to the Empress Dowager.

Although Lou Duwei was very embarrassed, but Shen Ji wanted to return to the capital, and he didn't dare not open the door, not to mention that Shen Ji was still his old boss, so he had to sigh and order: "Open the city gate!" ”

The city gate slowly opened, and a group of soldiers began to march into the city, and the torches were extinguished, and Lou Duwei finally found that it was indeed not a thousand people, but more than eight thousand people, and he felt a burst of fear, and put more than eight thousand people into the city, what did it mean?

Shen Ji walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and praised him for not forgetting the old master, "You come to my side, I will make you a general!" ”

Captain Lou hurriedly knelt down on one knee, "I am willing to serve General Shen!" ”

"Guard the city gate well, and if you have any grievances, you can come to me."

Shen Ji smiled smugly, turned to leave, and Lou Duwei sighed secretly, he felt that he might have done something wrong.

．．．．．．．． The day is gradually bright, Yongzhou City has started a new day, people from all walks of life are busy, doing their own livelihood, and in Chongrenfang there is a hot current surging, when the time is right, a parade composed of 30,000 Taixue and Guozixue students walked out of Chongrenfang.

They held high all kinds of slogans and banners, 'Abolish the Queen Mother [***]", 'Push the administrative hall system', 'Oppose the king with a different surname', all kinds of slogans covered the sky, 30,000 Tai students stretched for several miles, the momentum was huge, attracting the attention of countless people along the way, young people continued to participate in their processions, and many middle and lower-level officials also spontaneously entered the procession.

The procession was in good order, and the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture and Jingcheng counties participated in maintaining order, and there were constantly patrolling around the procession with officials wearing red and black uniforms.

This was a march to denounce the Empress Dowager [***], pushing the movement against the Empress Dowager's curtain system for more than ten days to **, and the emotional Tai students kept telling the people of the capital about a series of fiascos caused by the Empress Dowager's incompetence.

The influence of the parade is getting bigger and bigger, and it gradually spreads to the whole city, and the whole city is discussing the disadvantages of the Empress Dowager's curtain system, and even the joint activities organized by the court officials to abolish the Empress Dowager's curtain system have begun to brew, and all signs show that the effect of the parade is beginning to appear.

But the accident happened at this time, not long after the 30,000 Tai students and more than 10,000 volunteers had just turned into Suzaku Street, an army of more than 10,000 people rushed out of the imperial city, they were fully armed, each holding the big stick of Jin Wuwei, rushed into the parade like a wolf and a tiger, and began to carry out a bloody suppression of the parade students.

The soldiers showed no mercy, flying sticks, tearing banners and slogans, beating tens of thousands of people into a procession, and everywhere there were students with broken legs and arms, and more than a dozen students were surrounded by soldiers, and they were beaten to death in the streets.

Even the officials who maintained order were ruthlessly attacked, and hundreds of officials were beaten to the point of crying and begging for mercy.

The weak students were far from being the opponents of the fierce soldiers, they were beaten and scattered in all directions, but when some of the students organized themselves and prepared to fight with the soldiers, a bloodier scene happened, the army no longer used sticks, but used knives to suppress, the cold light flickered, flesh and blood flew, and in an instant, more than 300 students were killed, and the blood stained Suzaku Street...... The tragedy that occurred on Suzaku Street immediately shocked Chang'an, and there was constant news that more than 500 students were killed and thousands were injured, and the culprit who caused this bloody tragedy pointed to the general Shen Ji and the Empress Dowager Shen behind the scenes.

The boiling anti-empress dowager movement came to an abrupt halt in the bloody suppression of the army, and another form of protest began, with small and medium-sized court officials taking sick leave one after another to express their protests and dissatisfaction in the form of a boycott of the dynasty.

．．．．．．．．．．． The news of the brutal suppression of the procession reached the ears of Uncle Shen Guo as soon as possible.

In the room, Uncle Shen Guo listened to Cui Yanbo's cry expressionlessly, "Xiangguo, hundreds of people have been killed, thousands of people have been broken, this is simply a massacre in broad daylight, they are ruthless, and they even aimed the butcher's knife at the innocent Tai students, please Xiangguo must severely punish the murderer and calm the angry emotions of the students, otherwise, I am afraid that they will go to the street and be slaughtered again." ”

Uncle Shen sighed softly, this ending can be said to be in his expectation, the Queen Mother finally failed to restrain herself, but still made a move, and they aimed the butcher's knife at the innocent students, which shows that the Queen Mother and Shen Ji lack enough political wisdom, and it also shows that they have nothing to do, they can only use this bloody massacre to intimidate those who oppose her.

As everyone knows, many of these young scholars are the children of officials in various places, or the children of relatives and friends, and their slaughter of scholars has offended scholars and more officials.

"Master Cui, what Shen Ji did can only be described as perverse, I didn't expect that he really dared to slaughter the scholars in the world, not only the scholars, but even the government officials also injured nearly 100 people, this matter will not end here, nor will it fulfill their wishes, I will use another way to oppress them, but there is one point, the scholars can no longer march on the streets, this is to protect their lives, do you understand?"

"The subordinates understand, and the subordinates will go to appease the students."

Cui Yanbo said goodbye and left, Uncle Shen was very irritable, he paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, the Empress Dowager Shen's suppression of the students, made him feel the toughness of the Empress Dowager, although Uncle Shen Guo wanted to regain the power that should belong to him, but Uncle Shen Guo did not dare to go too far, if the contradiction was out of control in the end, the two sides started a civil war, and the beneficiary could only be Huangfu Wujin, it was precisely because of strong external pressure that Uncle Shen Guo was so restrained.

Now Uncle Shen Guo is in a very dilemma, it is clear that the Queen Mother does not want to let go of the power, and if he stops, he is not reconciled, Uncle Shen Guo knows that there is still one move to go, but he is a little hesitant, he doesn't know how serious the consequences of doing this are.

After much thought, he decided to give it a try.

"Prepare a carriage for me, and I'll go to the palace at once!"

Uncle Shen's last move was on Emperor Huangfu Tian.

．．．．．．．．． Just when the procession was suppressed, Yu Yongqing of Chufeng Tea House and several of his men were also at the bloody scene, they witnessed the whole process of the tragedy, Yu Yongqing also saw Shen Ji who appeared in the procession on horseback, and they immediately returned to Chufeng Tea House in Pingkangfang.

Yu Yongqing has been in Yongjing for several months, he has gradually established an intelligence network covering all corners of Yongjing, their goal is not to buy officials, nor to probe the military intelligence, that is too dangerous to do, they are to collect all kinds of intelligence floating on the water, people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, changes in rice prices, oil prices, and various major events, and then analyze and dig out useful information inside.

At the same time, they also bribed several middle and low-level officials, from them to get some power struggles in the imperial court, all the information, he will send out in time, since the battlefield of Huangfu Wujin gradually transferred to Yuzhou, he sent information faster, almost every day to send information.

In order to hide people's eyes, most of his information will be written in a book, and he will be sent to Yuzhou, and only in emergencies or important information, he will use pigeon letters.

As soon as Yu Yongqing walked into the gate of the tea house, one of his subordinates stepped forward and whispered a few words to him, Yu Yongqing was stunned, and he hurriedly walked into the noble room of the tea house.

Walking into the room, I saw that the big shopkeeper was chatting with Bai Mingkai, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Bai Mingkai has also become extremely fond of tea in the past few months, and he has to send his family to buy tea every once in a while.

There is a spring in Chufeng Tea House, the water quality is very sweet, the tea house does not charge money, only provides free of charge to the old customers who have been buying tea in the tea house for many years, Bai Mingkai is to taste water as an excuse to come to the tea house to try tea.

Seeing Yu Yongqing coming in, the big shopkeeper hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "The second shopkeeper is back, so I'll go to the front to get busy." ”

He nodded to Yu Yongqing, said sorry to Bai Mingkai, and retreated.

Yu Yongqing didn't expect Bai Mingkai to come in person, which surprised him a little, he had also seen Bai Mingkai a few times, he went to the other party's mansion, did something big happen?

"Bai Shangshu, is something wrong?"

Bai Mingkai didn't answer, he glanced outside the door, and Yu Yongqing hurriedly said, "There is no problem, it is absolutely safe." ”

Bai Mingkai's mood was a little excited today, today is his baby daughter Bai Miao'er married to the Su family, but unfortunately he can't go to Jiangning Mansion, I heard that it was the Empress Dowager who witnessed the marriage in person, which made him particularly moved.

Out of a sense of gratitude to Princess Liang, he decided to come to Chufeng Tea House in person, he smiled and said: "I'll tell you an important piece of information, the Queen Mother has agreed to exchange control with Uncle Shen Guo, and exchange Hanzhong for Jinnan, that is, in the next few days, Shao Jingwen will evacuate Jinnan and go to Hanzhong to garrison,"

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(To be continued)