Text Chapter 0778 Su Shi's assassination

Xiao Xian'er, the county lord of Liaoguo, has been very entangled in the past two days, why? In order to see the intimacy between Wang Mumu and Wanyan Taoping, he couldn't help but feel jealous. Xiao Xian'er, like everyone else, didn't know the secret of Wang Mumu and Wanyan Taoping's love affair and rebirth. So, looking at the hug between the two of them, I gritted my teeth with hatred.

Xiao Xian'er thought, you Wanyan Taoping is here to kiss, and Princess Xixia and I are also here to kiss, why do you Wang Mumu only like that little barbarian of the Jurchen clan? Look at that little girl, she hasn't grown up yet, saying that she is a little girl is a little girl, saying that she is a little boy and a little boy, is it the same for both men and women? And she doesn't have the style of a noble princess at all, her bearing and demeanor, and she has nothing to offer; The demeanor is unsightly. However, how could Wang Mumu become obsessed with this little shaman? She is far worse than my Xiao Xian'er's beauty and charm, but it's strange, Wang Mumu is evil? Why can't you extricate yourself? Trapped?

Alas! Wang Mumu is lost, what should we do? Passive waiting is not the way, I have been waiting for two days, the intimacy between Wang Mumu and the little savage has no sign of diminishing, I must come up with some tricks, otherwise, before the flow of begging, I will lose, the back, and it is lost to a five-year-old savage child, alas, I should really throw myself into the sea to find a short, I am not willing!

Xiao Xian'er wanted to compete with Yan Taoping for Wang Mumu, and she dared to make a move because she still had some capital. What's the cost? This is a bit of a long story, and it starts with the two dead men under Xiao Xian'er who have been castrated by the four beautiful female graduate students in the West. These two dead soldiers, one is called Yelu Suti, and the other is called Zhao Fu. They were familiar with Su Shi and Foyin, Yelu Suti turned out to be a dead soldier who walked in the Song Dynasty in the face of a merchant in the Liao State, and Zhao Fu was the "righteous son" adopted by Su Shi. Now Yelu Suti is the head of this group of Liao dead soldiers from the south, and Zhao Fu is one of them. The two of them participated in the siege of the eldest princess at Chenqiaoyi in the Bianshui River ten years ago; They had been involved in the assassination of Wang Mumu in Bianjing four years earlier, and they had been sent to Hangzhou two years earlier to work under Huang Shiren to work with the snitch couple Swallow Brother and Bai Chrysanthemum to attack European fairies and Arabian ghost girls. Unexpectedly, stealing chickens does not lead to rice. The robbery failed, and he paid for one ear and two balls.

Now, Xiao Xian'er has been suspended by Wang Mumu and has asked for a visa in the form of a foreign student. At the same time, Xiao Xian'er was only agreed to attach two rings, so it was impossible for one of the dead soldiers of the Liao Kingdom to beg. And these Liao dead soldiers who have stayed in the Song State for a long time are easy to be thrifty and thrifty, and it is difficult to be frugal with luxury. They also like the living environment of the Song Kingdom now, and at the same time, they have become dark eunuchs, and they will not be ridiculed by their parents, wives and concubines, and friends when they go back? So, he drifted south, secretly doing some murderous and overselling things, being a flower monk for a while, a black thief for a while, and a black and white mess.

Not long ago, Yelu Suti and Zhao Fu received a list, and the task was to rob He Zhengchen, the minister of the Qincha. It turned out that He Zhengchen was ordered to do an errand, and everything was clear. Su Shi is in Hangzhou, covering the sky with one hand, and "Begging to Open the West Lake" is just a report on the start of the West Lake project. Once permitted, the project was completely freewheeling and aimlessly at will. As for the economic problem, it is a confused account, and there is no need to examine it carefully, and the problem is obvious. In particular, the amount of work is greatly exaggerated, and the Su Causeway is across the West Lake, and the ironclad evidence is like an embankment, which cannot be quibbled. Wait, wait. After He Zhengchen reprimanded Su Shi accordingly, he handed over the written materials to the scribe from Bianjing, who reported to the imperial court, and he retired and returned to his position as the governor of Hongzhou, Jiangxi.

Su Shi sent a detailed work beside He Zhengchen to report the content of He Zhengchen's recital to Su Shi. Su Shi was shocked when he heard this, if this piece of music is heard by the sky, I am afraid that he will not eat the lawsuit, and he will have to go to Lingnan to bask in the sun. In a hurry, unscrupulous means, you are dead or alive, and you have decided to use the means of thunderball. Su Shi didn't know that He Zhengchen handed over the chapter to his scribes, who reported it to the imperial court, and he went back to Hongzhou; Instead, he thought that, like the general emperor's errand, He Zhengchen must have gone to Bianjing first to restore his life, and maybe he would be ordered again in Bianjing and go south to arrest him. Therefore, Su Shi arranged for Yelu Suti, Zhao Fu and others to ambush He Zhengchen and his party on the side of the road that must be passed through to the north, waiting for an opportunity to move.

Su Shi's instructions to the two of them were to kill their sworn enemy He Zhengchen, and then kill his loyal subordinates. He Zhengchen, who took away the music that was unfavorable to him, replaced it with the music that he forged in favor of himself, and then sent it to Bianjing by He Zhengchen's men who bought it, and he was able to get through the hurdle.

Who knows, people are not as good as heaven. Su Shi's instructions were executed perfectly, Yelu Suti, Zhao Fu and others rushed out at the ambush point to surround "He Zhengchen and his party", and the group immediately raised their hands and surrendered, kowtowed and begged for mercy. It's just that there was no He Zhengchen in this group, because the day after they set off from Hangzhou, He Zhengchen and this group parted ways. This group went north to Bianjing, and He Zhengchen and others went west to Hongzhou.

Yelu Suti, Zhao Fu and others slaughtered a few diehards among the people who went north, and asked all the surrender factions to make up for these diehards, which can be regarded as the vote of their literature and history to Su Shisu. After ambushing these people, they asked them to hand over He Zhengchen's recital, replace the forged cantata, and let them go.

Yelu Suti, Zhao Fu and others hurriedly turned around and went west to Hongzhou. Because they knew that in addition to He Zhengchen, then, soon, after the remnants of the New Party in Bianjing revealed the content of the fake recital to He Zhengchen, then Su Shi would have another big crime of tampering with the recital. Therefore, hurry up and do He Zhengchen and send him to the western sky, then, there is no proof of death, and everything will be fine.

Yelu Suti and Zhao Fu and others rushed to He Zhengchen's only way back to Hongzhou (Nanchang, Jiangxi) to enter the Fuhe ferry in Xianxi, but from the north to Bianjing Road, after finishing the work, and then diverted to the southwest to Jiangxi, there are many rivers and lakes along the way, and it is not easy to ferry, so it is not possible to intercept it, and it is a step late.

When Yelu Suti, Zhao Fu and others went to Hongzhou, they sent another person to Hangzhou to report good news and bad news to Su Shi. Happily, the music has changed, the people who traveled north are very cooperative, and our plan is basically successful; The worry is that except for He Zhengchen, He Zhengchen has returned to Hongzhou, which is a big hidden danger for us! Su Shi's instructions are not to do anything, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and leave no troubles. How to do it, you have more experience and lessons than me, and you can't miss it this time like you did when you assassinated Wang Anshi ten years ago. At that time, the assassination of Wang Anshi was missed, and I was shuanggui by the imperial court on the subject of the Wutai poetry case; If I miss again this time, it will not be easy for me to get rid of it, and I will become a salted fish that cannot turn over.

Yelu Suti and Zhao Fu assured Su Shi that this time we will be bold and careful, do our best, and eliminate all clues that may point to your Lord Su, even if we are captured by mistake, we will not speak, and you Lord Su will be fine. The lesson of the mistake more than ten years ago, we still remember it vividly, the lessons of the previous car, the rut of the back car, we will be careful.

Here, the assassination case more than ten years ago mentioned by Yelu Suti and Zhao Fu refers to the poisoning, assault and assassination of Wang Anshi in Bianjing. Here's what happened:

Nineteen years ago, in August 1071, Wang Anshi, with the support of Song Shenzong, began an unprecedented reform. Among them, the "Fangtian Equalization Tax Treaty" was formulated, and the "Fangtian" was determined by the county magistrate in September every year to measure the land, and the "average tax" was based on the results of the "Fangtian" measurement, and the tax number was formulated.

The Fangtian Tax Law cleared out the land concealed by the powerful landlords, increased the state revenue, and lightened the burden on the peasants, but at the same time seriously damaged the rights and interests of vested interest groups, and was strongly opposed by the big bureaucrats and big landlords.

The cause of the assassination was Wang Anshi's attack on the corrupt generals of the army. At that time, Ma Haoxun, the deputy commander of the Central Forbidden Army (equivalent to the deputy commander of the Beijing Garrison Region), his father Ma Zhi, was a well-known landowner in Nanyang County, Henan, and he gathered a group of powerful groups to illegally occupy 70,000 mu of local land, support family soldiers, expropriate tyranny, and reckless human life, and local officials did not dare to intervene, making it impossible to change the law in the local area.

Wang Anshi asked Shang Fang to take the sword and took action in person, on the grounds that Ma Haoxun had committed a small mistake in military training, he abolished his deputy commander of the forbidden army and changed to a civilian position in the Privy Council; Then, with lightning speed, he took down the Ma Zhi group in one fell swoop and publicly executed him, as the saying goes, "the tree falls and the tree scatters", and the reform movement was quickly pushed forward in Henan.

Ma Haoxun held a grudge, in order to avenge his father, he was ready to kill Wang Anshi, he used the resources of many years of intelligence work to secretly collude with the leader of the spy organization in the northern Liao, and Yelu Suti, a big merchant of the Liao State who had been stationed in Bianjing for a long time and spying on the intelligence of the Song State. Ma Haoxun personally visited Yelu Suti in civilian clothes, prepared gold, silver and jewelry, and cried for support.

At this time, the emperor of Liao was suspicious of Wang Anshi's change, fearing that the power of the Great Song Dynasty would increase, and he thought that the change must be bankrupt at all costs, so he agreed to Ma Haoxun's request and agreed to Yelu Suti's plan to assassinate Wang Anshi. The traitor Ma Haoxun and the enemy leader Yelu Suti, after many attempts, felt that their interests were completely compatible, the cooperation was very reliable, and the enemies at home and abroad hit it off, and Wang Anshi's reform ushered in the first undercurrent.

After a feasibility analysis, the Yelu Suti and Ma Haoxun assassination groups initially planned to adopt three plans to assassinate Wang Anshi.

The first is poisoning in tea. Wang Anshi likes to drink Henan Maojian, and he must drink a pot of good tea after dinner every day, which is a habit of life. The assassination group decided to buy her personal maid Cai Yan with a lot of money, and asked her to bring the poison "black dragon bone powder" developed by the Liao State into the mansion, and use a small amount of poisoning method in multiple batches, adding a little bit to the tea each time, which is not easy for tea drinkers to notice, and finally accumulate a lot, chronic poisoning, and achieve the goal of poisoning Wang Anshi.

But this plan did not succeed, the reason is that Cai Yan did not grasp the amount of medicine, Wang Anshi had diarrhea after drinking tea once, and tossed for a long time, it was the most critical moment to change the law, Wang Anshi was suspicious of tea, he was afraid of affecting his work, so he didn't drink tea first, only drank boiled water, and every time he poured water and drank it, he didn't borrow anyone's hands. As a result, the poisoning scheme failed.

If you can't make a plan, you will have another plan. Yelu Suti devised a traffic accident plan to kill Wang Anshi in one fell swoop. Before the change of the law, the ministers of the Zhengsanpin court traveled by a guard of honor to open the way, hugging each other in front of him, so he was not majestic. After the change, strict economy, light vehicles, bodyguards, honor guards are not as good as before, Wang Anshi took the lead in riding horses, and even took a few family members to the court office on foot, which provided an opportunity for the enemy's assassination action.

In May and September 1068, the assassination group caused two car accidents against Wang Anshi, but none of them were successful. The first time was two of Jerusuthel's men, who drove a timber cart drawn by four horses according to the predetermined route, pretending that the horses were out of control, and galloped towards Wang Anshi, who was riding a horse. Unexpectedly, the situation changed, and a caravan full of vegetables suddenly ran out of the stab and blocked in front of the timber truck, causing the two cars to crash on the spot, and more than a dozen casualties, but Wang Anshi was unharmed.

Another time was that Yelu Suti used the caravan of merchants of the Liao State to suddenly pretend that the camel was out of control when passing the Yellow River Dashi Bridge, and squeezed the sedan chair that Wang Anshi was riding at that time, and as a result, Wang Anshi's four sedan chair drivers were trampled to death on the spot, and dozens of passers-by also did unjust deaths, and the sedan chair was also knocked off the bridge, which is definitely a major traffic accident in the 21st century. However, the perpetrator miscalculated, Wang Anshi was not in the sedan chair that day, and he stayed in the government office the night before because he was busy with work, and the sedan chair was just to pick him up all night to go home.

In the two traffic accident cases, dozens of people were killed and injured, and the movement was not small, and the target was suspected to be aimed at the prime minister, and Kaifeng Prefecture immediately filed a case for investigation. A lot of unfavorable evidence points to the Liao Kingdom Inn where Yelu Suti is located. Yelu Suether had to be investigated again, lose money, and quibble, feeling that this plan could not be played anymore, otherwise the entire spy organization would be exposed.

So, when the vicious assassination group failed in the second plan, it launched the third plan, that is, to use the orphans of martyrs to assassinate Wang Anshi, which involved the little boy Zhao Fu at that time.

The father of the little boy Zhao Fu was a general under Fan Zhongyan, who fought against Western Xia for a long time, repeatedly defeated strong enemies, made outstanding achievements and finally died, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Loyal and Brave Marquis" by the imperial court, but the imperial court did not pay lip service, and the family became increasingly poor. Soon his mother remarried a wealthy businessman, Zhao Fu was only 7 years old at the time, his spirit was stimulated, he became a little crazy, he was kicked out of the house, and finally begged on the streets of Bianjing, and was taken in by Su Shi as his "righteous son".

Su Shi knew Zhao Fu's father well and sympathized with the martyr's orphan, so he did his best to be his "father-in-law", treating him, writing and reading. But because Zhao Fu is extremely reluctant to read, he has a big hobby: throwing flying knives and hitting every shot. Zhao Fu didn't want to live in Sufu for a long time, and wanted to learn to do business, so he was arranged to be a helper at Yelu Suti's inn. Over the years, Su Shi often thought about Zhao Fu, gave him some silver money every year, and invited him to his home for dinner when he had the opportunity.

He said to Yelu Suti that Zhao Fu is now 17 years old, and he loves his "father-in-law" Su Shi, and now Su Shi is trying his best to oppose Wang Anshi's change, Wang Anshi is suppressing Su Shi, Wang Anshi humiliated Su Shi in the court several times, and threatened to remove him from his post and exile, the two became mortal enemies, and we can use Zhao Fu to kill Wang Anshi.

So they called Zhao Fu and said that because Su Shi opposed Wang Anshi's change, Wang Anshi was ready to suggest to the emperor that Su Shi be killed. That Zhao Fu was a rough man, with a low level of education, poor analytical skills, and some madness, so he was furious and jumped up to kill Wang Anshi. Seeing that the time had come, the enemy arranged for Zhao Fu to hide in the carriage for delivering vegetables in the evening (the carriage had been specially modified), enter the kitchen of Wang Anshi's mansion, and wait for the opportunity to assassinate him at night.

According to the deployment of Yelu Suti and Ma Haoxun, Zhao Fu carried 20 poison-soaked flying knives and successfully infiltrated Wang Anshi's mansion, but how did he know that he had fallen into the net laid by the counter-espionage intelligence department of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Wang Anshi is a person with a heart, after he encountered two extraordinarily large traffic accidents, he felt that this problem was not simple, and it was likely that the hostile forces opposed to the change of the law counterattacked, so he played Song Shenzong. Song Shenzong instructed the Special Operations Section of the Central Forbidden Army (Military Intelligence Department) and the Criminal Prison Department of Kaifeng Prefecture (Ministry of Internal Affairs) to jointly handle the case.

On the night of November 7, 1068, Zhao Fu had just jumped out of the vegetable truck, and before he had time to show his skills, a large brown net suddenly fell from the sky, and was instantly sturdy, and the surrounding ambushed agents, catchers and servants jumped up and captured Zhao Fu alive. After several rounds of torture and sudden interrogation, Zhao Fu couldn't resist it, and truthfully confessed to Yelu Suti and Ma Haoxun, the masterminds behind the scenes.

The special personnel of the Central Forbidden Army and the Kaifeng garrison quickly surrounded the Liaoguo Inn, and Yelu Suti and Ma Haoxun escaped outside Bianjing through a secret tunnel, and escaped to the northern border on two fast horses. Ma Haoxun was chased and arrested by Northern Song agents, and Yelu Suti disguised himself and fled to a Khitan farmhouse (actually a secret intelligence station of the Liao State), and then successfully escaped back to the Liao State under the cover of the Liao caravan. Song Shenzong was furious and instructed the Special Operations Section of the Central Forbidden Army and the intelligence department to get rid of Yelu Suti at all costs.

At this time, Zhao Fu's case involved Su Shi again, because Su Shi was Zhao Fu's "father-in-law", he was a brother, and Su Shi was fiercely opposed to the change.

At that time, Wang Anshi believed that Su Shi was opposed to changing the law, there was no doubt about it; But to say that he colluded with the Liao State to defect to the enemy and conspired to assassinate important ministers of the imperial court, there was a reason, there was no evidence, there was no ironclad evidence to support it, Su Shi had many Su fans, and it was inconvenient to punish him heavily. In fact, in this era, because of the Song Dynasty's stipulation that scholars and doctors would not be killed, Su Shi had implemented the crime of communicating with foreign countries and conspiracy to kill people, and he would not cut off his head, that is, the level of distribution to Lingnan. Therefore, with one look, Li Ding, Shu Yan, He Zhengchen and others "have three poles without dates", and there was the "Wutai Poetry Case", and later, Su Shi was exiled to Huanggang, Hubei Province as the deputy envoy of the regiment.

After Yelu Suti fled back to Liao, in view of his previous work performance, he was appointed as the secretary of the criminal department of Liao. But the new party of the Song State did not abandon him and always wanted to assassinate him. On the night of January 2, 1072, Yelu Suti led his family to enjoy the lanterns in the bustling night market in the capital, and was suddenly shot by an unknown crossbow, and Yelu Suti was hit by three poisonous arrows, and immediately bled to the ground and died at the age of 49. Thus, a grudge, a history, and a set of assassinations came to an end. However, this is just a general historical record, in the secret archives of the Liao State, the Yelu Suti who was shot and killed while admiring the lanterns in the night market is not the real Yelu Suti, but a deceptive scene laid by the Liao State in order to stop the Song State's unrelenting pursuit of Yelu Suti. Afterwards, the Song Kingdom was in trouble, but Yelu Suthi refused, in the original plan, let the Song people kill themselves, but who knows, the Song people killed their own families, so Yelu Suthi sneaked back to the Song Kingdom, trying to wait for an opportunity to retaliate.

After Yelu Suti sneaked back to the Song Kingdom, Wang Anshi was no longer a prime minister, and the others, as individuals, did not have any deep hatred with the New Party, so he wanted to take revenge and vent his hatred, and there was no direction for a while. He inquired that Zhao Fu because of some of his father's exploits, and his good degree of confession, the Song court did not cut off his head, and then when Zhao Xu ascended the throne and granted amnesty, he was just imprisoned in Dali Temple. When Sima Guang was in power, it was faint that Zhao Fu had become a warrior against the New Party, and he was released by the Old Party. Zhao Fu had no home, no job, no relatives and no reason, so he had to come to Su Shi's door again; At this time, coinciding with the glory of the old party, Su Shi took in this anti-new warrior along the way. However, many years of officialdom have made Su Shi more attentive, he did not let Zhao Fu show his face in his home, but found another place and hid him as a chess piece.

Later, Su Shi became the boss of Liangzhejiang Road, knowing Hangzhou, to develop real estate, to have both soft and hard hands, to add masters for Huang Shiren, and Yelu Suti also came to Hangzhou under the cover of Xiao Xian'er, and connected with Zhao Fu again. In this way, Su Shi has a hard stubble that is completely loyal to him.

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