Chapter 367: Breaking the Drum (II)

Facts have proved that without a master like Han Qi, Zhao Zongshi and his brothers can't play Zhao Zhen.\\////89 Reading Network The brothers used their strength to eat milk, and the huge formation was first frustrated by a broken drum, and then the emperor used water grinding work, and it was easily dragged to the end of the year.

The sky and the earth are the biggest in the New Year, even if no one is unwilling, the yamen is closed, and naturally they can't toss. Everyone had to change their mood and celebrate the Spring Festival of Jiayou for seven years.

But there are also people who don't have the heart to celebrate the New Year, Zhao Zongshi is one of them, first, the matter of establishing the prince has been completely put aside, at least no one will mention it for at least a whole year, put yourself in your shoes, you can experience his resentment and fear, and secondly, this Kaifeng Mansion Yin is too difficult to be......

The more the New Year, the heavier the task of Kaifeng Mansion becomes. The people of Bianjing are too playful and too good at playing, and they start setting off fireworks from Chinese New Year's Eve, and if you don't get it right, it will cause a fire. As a densely populated city with connected roofs, you have to pay attention to fire prevention at all times, right? All kinds of temple fairs are crowded, so you have to maintain order and prevent robbery and pickpocketing, right? There are also all kinds of emergencies that emerge one after another, which make the officials in the government tired and unbearable.

But this is nothing, the real test is still to come, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth day of the first month, these five nights, is the grandest carnival in the Song Dynasty and even in the world. Think about how exciting it is for millions of people to revelry day and night...... But it does not include the officials of Kaifeng Mansion.

For them, these five days and five nights were as difficult as a ghost gate. When this fire tree and silver flowers never sleep, and the red men and green women are carnivaling, it is also the time when the wild waves and lawbreakers take the opportunity to do evil.

On the one hand, the streets are crowded with people, children are taken away by accident, and women are often missing, even the daughters of princes and nobles are not spared...... On the 16th day, the princes, nobles, relatives and relatives set up curtains outside the Xuande Gate, set up wine and food, and watched the lights. As a result, the fireworks set fire to the curtain of a Jiyang County king's house, and for a while fireworks erupted, and everyone crashed and dodged, and the scene became a mess.

As a result, some bad guys took advantage of the fire to rob and robbed the county lord......

On the other hand, from the princes to the common people, all went to the streets to play, which naturally cheapened those gentlemen who stole rats and dogs, and there were hundreds of thefts in one night.

If it's just an ordinary person's house being burglarized, it's okay to say that Kaifeng Mansion will take over the case and slowly investigate it in the future. But this year, the evil door has gone wrong, and a group of thieves have come out to pick up the thieves of the officials. In the past five days, more than 100 people have been stolen, but not a single thief has been caught, only three or two thieves have been caught.

It is said that the official mission of Kaifeng Mansion was brought out by Bao Zheng, and after Ouyang Xiu and Zhao Bian, the two competent prefects, their level is quite high...... Even if you can't catch the thief, you can't let them be so arrogant. But the problem is that the original gang of fast catchers was spent by Zhao Zonghan half a month ago!

It was the morning of the suburban ceremony, Zhao Zonghan took the officials of Kaifeng Mansion and set up barricades to prevent the people from watching the ceremony, but they were cleaned up by Zhao Zongjing and Chen Ke. Zhao Zonghan's guards were knocked down, and he himself was captured, how could he swallow this breath? I couldn't find the bad luck of those two people for a while, so I could only use those things that 'ate inside and crawled out' to vent my anger.

As a result, all the poor people who let go of the barricades were beaten with sticks when they came back, and then they were kicked out of the yamen and smashed their jobs. As a result, half of the 800 servants in Kaifeng Mansion were gone, especially those big and small leaders. At that time, some officials advised that this would not work, and the security of Kaifeng Mansion still depended on these people.

Zhao Zonghan didn't care, he had a lot of bad friends...... At that time, Sanssouci Cave was destroyed, and most of the gangs were arrested and confiscated, but countless people escaped, and when the limelight passed, they came out to form gangs and do evil. After Zhao Zonghan returned to Beijing, because his brother had been regarded as the crown prince by the people, his subordinates naturally gathered a large group again, and the momentum was even stronger than before.

Zhao Zonghan thought very beautifully, if he replaced the big and small servants of Kaifeng Mansion with his own disciples, then Bianjing City would not become his own world in the future? In line with this mentality, he wantonly planted cronies in the yamen. Zhao Zongshi is also a person who has never been a pro-people official, he didn't take these 'cheap servants' in his eyes at all, he didn't know the importance of these people, but wishful thinking that it would be better to replace them with his own people.

Who knew that it would be difficult to see after just half a month, and Zhao Zongshi found that he was pitted. It is good for the old sixteenth group of shrimp soldiers and crabs to bully the common people, and let them stare at the thieves when they go to prevent thieves and catch thieves......

"What should I do now?" After several days of busyness, Zhao Zongshi was already hoarse, his eyes were bloodshot, and there was no more elegant and calm virtuous king, he glared at Zhao Zonghan and Zhao Zongqiu angrily and said: "Let you strengthen your defense, strengthen your defense, why is it that even the Dazhong Cheng family has been stolen?!" ”

Fang Cai patrolled the shop to report, saying that Tang Jie's house in the imperial history had also been stolen, and Zhao Zongshi was spinning for a while, and no matter how good his cultivation was, he had to be angry.

The two of them knew that they were at a loss, and they didn't dare to talk back, Zhao Zongqiu whispered: "Tang Jie's family is so poor that the thieves have found the wrong target this time." ”

"Did you get your head caught in the door?" Zhao Zongshi couldn't help but scold: "Even if only a penny was stolen, it was stolen from the imperial history!" Can he not blame me? ”

"If anyone's house is stolen, blame my brother!" Zhao Zongqiu's eyes widened and said, "You haven't been resented to death in those five days?" ”

"I just thought of it!" Zhao Zongshi was not interested in training him, rubbed his temples with his hands and said: "Continue to send more people to patrol, and the residences of officials above the fifth rank must be watched!" ”

"There aren't so many people...... Zhao Zonghan said, "unless all the people on the street are withdrawn." ”

"Can't be withdrawn ......" Zhao Zongshi closed his eyes and said weakly: "There are still two days left in the Lantern Festival, if this end is also messed up, and there is no need for others to impeach, I myself will have no face to be this mansion again." ”

"Where's the place to go?" Zhao Zonghan said distressedly: "Why don't you find the infantry military division to borrow troops?" ”

"Nope." Zhao Zongshi shook his head resolutely, this is the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and the mobilization of every soldier and soldier requires the military talisman of the Privy Council, and the Privy Council uses the military talisman without the emperor's nod, which is equivalent to rebellion. Therefore, if you want to use the army, you must alarm the emperor and the cardinal.

Zhao Zongshi knew that he had never called on the army in the previous years, so he didn't want to make this exception, otherwise wouldn't he seem too incompetent?

"Tell the eldest brother, let the guards of the palace change into the uniforms of Kaifeng Mansion, and come out to put on one." Zhao Zongqiu said in a flash.

"This is an idea," Zhao Zongshi really has no other way, there are dozens of guards in the Runan Palace, plus more than 100 guards in his own mansion, but he can also take care of things: "Tell Mr. Meng, my mansion is also ...... Eighty guards. ”

"There are dozens of people in my house." Zhao Zonghan also contributed and said: "There are two hundred people in total, which can solve the urgent need." ”

"Go ahead......" Zhao Zongshi didn't want to speak anymore.

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In the blink of an eye, as soon as the night falls, millions of lanterns will rush to light up, overlooking from a high place, Bianjing City is like a bright and splendid fairyland.

'Ahem......' Hearing the cough of the person inside, Zhang Dian reluctantly withdrew his gaze and closed the window.

This is in a window-facing box on the fourth floor of the north building of Fanlou, with exquisite wine and food on the table, but there is no female ji to accompany them, only the sick sons Wang Yan and Zhang Dian sit opposite each other.

Wang Yan was afraid of the wind, so he sat in the farthest corner from the window, and when the window was closed, the cough would not be so bad.

"Zhao Zongshi's mansion is now only two percent of the guards." Zhang Dian whispered: "Chen Zhongfang is scheming. ”

"yes, I also guessed that he would do it on the Metaverse." Although Wang Yan had nothing to look for, he still couldn't help but be unconvinced when he mentioned Chen Ke: "But I didn't expect him to let people steal the official eunuch's house, this hand is too ruthless?" I don't know how many officials will lower their evaluation of Zhao Zongshi, and I am afraid that there will be many people who impeach him. ”

In the eyes of these two conspirators, Chen Ke seemed to be careless in the relationship between Zhao Zongshi and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion at the beginning, but in fact he was scheming - it was to paralyze Kaifeng Mansion and his subordinates who were disguised as thieves to do it.

"There must be a lot of people fishing in troubled waters these nights, and we are going to be one of them," Zhang Dian had something in his heart, sighed a few words, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "Where is that booklet hidden, I already know?" ”

"Hmm." Wang Yan nodded: "I generally know." ”

"How do you know?" Zhang Dun was pleasantly surprised: "Didn't you send a message saying that you haven't found it a few days ago?" ”

"It was Zhao Zongshi who exposed it himself." A mocking smile hung on the corner of Wang Yan's mouth: "Xizuo found that he had to go to the library every day to read books for a while before going back to his room to sleep." ”

"Zhao Zongshi is studious and well-known." Zhang Dian said with a smile.

"In the past, when he was free, he only entered the library once every three or five days, why is he in the mood to visit every day when he is so busy with fires?" Wang Yan sneered: "Zhao Zongshi is the kind of character who has no sense of security, he is clearly frightened by the thieves for a while, and he can't sleep at all if he doesn't confirm that the booklet is still there every day." ”

"Even in the library," said Zhang, "it's not so easy to find." ”

"Hmm." Wang Yan nodded and said: "That guy is famous for being studious, and it is said that most of the money is used to buy books, plus the official family and others, his family's library building is comparable to a pavilion." Trying to find a pamphlet out of it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. ”

"How are you going to find it?" Having said that, Zhang Dian still believes that Wang Yan is omnipotent.

"I have my own orders, you just have to wait for a good show." Wang Yan didn't want to tell the truth.

"Okay." Zhang Dian smiled: "When to do it?" ”

"It's not time yet." Wang Yan shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it on the fourth watch, the guards in the house are the most tired at that time." We only have one chance, and we can't afford to miss it! ”-

(To be continued.)

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