The incident of the salt strike shocked the imperial court a little, but it would not really be regarded as a riot and rebellion. It is the first time it has appeared, but many similar things have happened, such as water conservancy, obstructing the demolition of farmland and returning to lakes, building weirs and dams, and seriously leading to the flooding of rivers and lakes. What's more, hire people to dig up the river embankment to take advantage of the water chestnut root.

However, the imperial court was very dissatisfied with the fact that such an incident happened in Hangzhou and spread to other parts of the two provinces.

However, only Jiang Jun was the one who wrote the book, and he did not see Zheng Lang's book, and the court had been watching and commenting, and no conclusion was given.

Until the strike...... The impact of the strike on the country will not be very bad, but it can continue to affect the two Zhejiang, and if it is not resolved for another month or two, no one can predict the consequences.

The imperial court finally began to negotiate.

Many ministers of the imperial court knew that it was not a salt strike or a market strike, but a product of discord and wrestling between the two sides. The two transporters must have made mistakes, Zheng Lang is not good, aggressive, and he can't run away if he makes the following mistakes. Small things make big things. Once you check the private salt, there will inevitably be a lot of things happening, and you understand, but if you want to check, Shi Jie is also the salt patrol you recommend, and you must control the degree well, otherwise you will also be responsible.

Whether it is a set in front of the face or a set behind the scenes, as an orthodox scholar of the Song Dynasty, many people have realized the meaning of taking it from the people to the people, and later Wang Anshi changed the law with many opponents, although the law was changed fiercely, resulting in many drawbacks, and Wang Anshi's surname changed the law to take the people's wealth and collect it from the country, and many ministers also opposed this practice. The salt monopoly was formed in the late Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was even more excessive and had many ills, so many ministers implicitly regarded it as a kind of deformed state politics that competed with the people for profit. It's just that the state uses too much money, and no minister dares to say that it will be suspended. Zheng Lang's wanton investigation of illegal salt is also not in line with the views of this part of the ministers. Moreover, it was the people of Hangzhou who signed to invite Zheng Lang to take office, including some of the people suppressed by Zheng Lang, and Zheng Lang's approach was not very good.

Zhao Zhen himself did not approve of collecting money for the imperial court, and he was extremely disturbed by the place, even if the officials did not embezzle half a penny from it.

More people don't understand why Zheng Lang deliberately provoked Jiang Jun.

There is no need for this, it is enough for Han Jiang to beat Jiang Yanei, why do you still fight?

However, it cannot be said.

Zheng Lang's book is very reasonable, and many ministers have read it carefully several times, and many ministers have also moved it to their own governing policies. It was impossible to do what he thought like this, so he sat and waited for Zheng Lang's book to play.

This led to inconclusive court negotiations.

Zhao Zhen was very depressed, and issued an edict to ask Zheng Lang to write a secret recital and submit it, it is difficult to say what the arrangement is, but you can say to me, will I still betray you? Why didn't you report to Beijing?

While waiting, Jiang Jun's books were presented one after another.

The so-called wicked person sues first, which is just used to describe him.

Together with the joint appeal of various pavilion households, it was also submitted to the imperial court, which was undoubtedly a sarcastic thing for Zheng Lang. But it has not been as bad as a strike, and it has not been as bad as the execution of criminals.

As soon as Jiang Junshu arrived in the capital, it caused an uproar.

The Song Dynasty's attitude towards criminal prison was cautious, Qin Hui's brother did not count, including most of the time in the Southern Song Dynasty, the entire Northern Song Dynasty, even in the Song Huizong era, the attitude towards criminal prison was meticulous, just to prevent unjust, false and wrongful cases. It is precisely this attitude that caused no large-scale cool cases to occur in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, which is a unique phenomenon in the entire history of China.

In order to achieve this, various systems were set up, and the degree of perfection far exceeded that of the later Ming and Qing dynasties, and in some aspects it was more perfect than many countries in modern history. Especially the death penalty.

Zheng Lang's precedent is very bad, very bad.

As soon as the book arrived in the capital, it immediately attracted many impeachment recitals.

At this time, Zheng Lang's performance was late.

The recital is divided into two parts, one part is a secret music, written to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen didn't mention it, Zheng Lang also had to write it, it was for the country, and for the country was also for Zhao Zhen, but Zhao Zhen had to be allowed to take a look, so it wasn't nonsense. Part of it is a public recital, handed to the middle book.

This memo is also written in great detail, including the cause of the incident, I killed someone. Not only these twenty people, but also the second group of twenty people brought it up, frightened, most of them confessed, and six people hesitated, after all, their boss was sitting on the side. asked Zheng Lang to order someone to drag him out and cut off his head.

This trick is very good, twenty-six heads are bloodily placed on the side, almost all questions must be answered, even if you ask him how many concubines he has raised, and how many sex he has done in January, he will answer. Jiang Jun and Zhang Congge objected, but someone confessed why they dared to do this, and it was the officials of the salt prison and the salt warehouse who said that the two of them would shelter. Let Zheng Lang blast them out.

You are a transiter, but when it comes to the two of you, you must be avoided.

It is also the place where the legal system of the Song Dynasty progressed, one is the division of the sting, the prison division pushes the sheath, and the law department prosecutes, each has its own division, so it is prevented from annihilation. It is not enough, and the sheath is divided into two parts: interrogation and interrogation, and it is divided into two parts: prosecution and punishment, and judgment...... There is this also. In fact, there was no peace in the Song Dynasty in later generations, not to mention Yue Fei, it was only a few cases, compared with any dynasty, large-scale unjust cases were the most "peaceful" in the Song Dynasty.

The second is to turn over the differences, do not push, when the person retracts the confession when the confession is recorded, he must be transferred to the department and not pushed, and if he does not accept the sentence and shouts injustice, he must send the official to investigate. Don't push the officials and don't interfere with the officials, and the officials of the original trial must all recuse themselves. If the original trial is wrong, the original official shall be punished, and if even the re-referral official is wrong, he shall be punished together. It's not enough, before the verdict, the higher level of justice has the right to refute it, for example, Jiang Jun can refute Zheng Lang's verdict.

The third is the recusal of judges, and if there are relatives, enemies, teachers, colleagues, peers, seniors and subordinates between judges and prisoners, including the investigators, interrogators, prosecutors, and transfer officials who handle the case, all recuse themselves.

The system is very good, but the implementation is not effective.

These three articles once made Zheng Lang very distressed, but now they are used on Jiang Jun and Zhang Congge, since the prisoner said that he was involved with them, even if he was a transfer envoy, there was no obvious evidence, and it was impossible for the two to leave evidence to actively participate in the negotiation of these people, but they also had to avoid it.

This is what happened that day, but Zheng Lang wrote the truth in the recital, not "randomly", it was to scare the prisoners, so as to suppress the turmoil as quickly as possible. In fact, the forty people selected are not only the culprits in this salt strike, but also have many bad behaviors in ordinary times. It seems to be random when it is drawn, but it is actually a mark.

The conviction was rioting and rebellion.

is dispensable, saying that the riot can be reluctant, and the rebellion has been over. However, without thunder means, it continues to expand, and the consequences are serious.

He also wrote in the recital, at the end of this year, the northwest will definitely start a military revolution next year, I dare not say for sure, I have written many times, God knows if Yuan Hao has received information, whether he will change the military operation that is about to be launched?

Once the army is used, the imperial court will urgently need a lot of money and materials, Hangzhou is very important in the past two years, a battle costs tens of millions of runs, Hangzhou can't solve it, but it can solve millions of runs, and millions of runs, and millions of runs.

In history, Zhao Zhen once because of the shortage of military spending in the northwest, and did not want to be too harsh on the people, so he borrowed money from a large household, and a large household surnamed Li near the Beijing Division asked him to borrow more than 200,000 yuan, but did not pay it back. Moreover, the income of several million yuan a year.

There is another reason that is not said, it is written in the tantric recital, there are these three reasons, even if it is not a riot, the matter must be quickly resolved with a thunderous hand.

If he pleads guilty again and removes all of his official positions, he must be dismissed, and it is not in line with the state system if he does not resign.

In order to kill these twenty-six chicks, the trouble is so.

The benefits are numerous.

Twenty-six chicks were slaughtered, all confessions were confessed, and arrest began.

While interrogating, arrest the relevant criminals.

The implication was widespread, and the interrogation lasted for six days, and more than 800 people were arrested, including civilians involved in the case.

However, on the second day, under Shi Jie's "request", he divided a command of the forbidden troops and arrested the big pavilion households and the relevant salt supervisors in Yuezhou, Mingzhou and Xiuzhou along the Qiantang River. Some of the big pavilion households were well informed and fled, and most of them were arrested on charges of rioting and rebellion. They were escorted to the boat, let them look at the heads of the twenty-six people, continue the interrogation, and then get countless confessions, and the officials and big families involved are unknown, and then they are handed back to the states one by one.

Prepare a copy of each mouth, all the governors, you can do it yourself.

Once the big pavilion households are caught, the salt fields can be divided, and Zheng Lang has already prepared the information, and according to the information provided by Zheng Lang, these concealed salt fields will be distributed to various small and medium-sized pavilion households one by one. There was no coercion from officials and big pavilion households, and many salt pans were obtained, and even usury was gone, and the active surnames of small and medium-sized pavilion households also followed, and the front was divided, and the salt field was reopened in the back.

In the city of Hangzhou, there is Wu Qinan's living account book, which looted the salt from the homes of various merchants, and the boycott ended immediately.

Kill more than one stone.

But several bigwigs in the book couldn't cry or laugh after reading it.

Some bigwigs have already guessed that Zheng Lang is learning Zheng Zhuang's strategy of raising his uncle Duan, and if he wants to break this situation, he must stand up for power, it is not enough to be locked in a prison cell, and the season is not right to kill. I had to sit back and watch the situation expand, until the market was boycotted, and then I could put on a big hat and kill people.

But how to deal with so many prisoners? There is a time difference, there is an interrogation while arresting people, and after the interrogation is over, more than 1,000 people enter the prison, is it possible that more than 1,000 people will be beheaded?

Not only that, but a new problem came, from the confessions of these prisoners, almost all the illicit salt on the shore was destroyed, but there was also a smuggled salt road on the sea, and the leader was called Fu Alang, not many people had seen it, well-informed, almost all the pavilion households related to him, and a few small officials all fled in advance. The amount of smuggled salt smuggled along this route is not as large as the number of canals, but it is not a small amount, and the trial has reached this point, and the case must be closed. But there were no clues, and Zheng Lang couldn't do anything, so he asked the court what to do?

For the sea, the court is also beyond the reach of the whip, and I don't know what to do.

The case is still expanding, and it will soon affect Jiangdong and Huaidong, and it is possible that the investigation will continue, and one-third of the officials in the entire officialdom of Liangzhejiang Road, Jiangnan East Road, and Huainan East Road will fall, and most of the officials of the salt prison will fall into the water anyway. And how to deal with it?

…… Several bigwigs in Zhongshu were dumbfounded, and Han Jiang and Lu Gongbi were also dumbfounded.

They never dreamed that the case would become so complicated. Not to mention anything else, check them one by one, all the cells are overcrowded, and they can't be closed. had to join forces to find Zheng Lang, and the official said that Zheng Lang and Fu Bi were all in Zheng's mansion and came to Zheng's house again.

The doorman of Zheng's mansion invited them in, and they saw Zheng Lang and Fu Bi playing chess.

Lu Gongbi was just about to speak, Zheng Lang said: "Don't say anything when watching chess, don't speak, and talk about it after playing chess." ”

didn't know how leisurely they came, Lu Gongbi and Han Jiang had to sit down and not speak. Looking at it, Lu Gongbi suddenly laughed.

"Why are you laughing?" Zheng Lang asked.

It's to see the two of them laughing in the stinky chess basket, it's hard to say, Lu Gongbi is hesitant. Fu Bi said: "Either you can do it for me." ”

"It's better to be respectful than to obey." Lu Gongbi took over the chess game and did not give Zheng Lang face, divided five by two in three strokes, and immediately defeated Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang looked at the chessboard blankly, and the porter came in again to report: "Last time, that little lady Wu asked to see Governor Zheng's mansion." ”

"Let her in."

The little lady of the Wu family brought it in and went down again.

Zheng Lang said: "You get up, don't say anything, after I finish two games with Lu Zhixian, I will give you an answer." ”

The little girl pursed her mouth, but thinking of the last experience, she didn't dare to make a sound, and sat obediently in the chair to watch them rearrange. After walking for more than thirty years, looking anxious, the little girl said: "Governor Zheng, this should be like this." ”

Zheng Lang lifted the chess pieces, looked at them, and after pondering for a long time, they placed them on the place where Wu Xiaoniangzi's fingers were.

Lu Gongbi was not angry, he had also heard about the Wu family, and knew that the little girl was talking to Zheng Lang, and he himself wanted to hear how Zheng Lang dealt with the Wu family.

After walking a few more steps, the little girl said again: "Left up ninety-four." ”

Zheng Lang took a small test for a while, and obediently landed the chess pieces in the upper left ninety-four position.

Fu Bi said: "Watching chess is silent. ”

"Rich brother, watching chess is silent and true gentleman, Wu Xiaoniang is just a woman, not a gentleman."

Fu Bi was stunned, then smiled, and said, "Governor Zheng, you also have shameless times. ”

"I'm not a 'gentleman' either, I don't care if I'm shameless."

“……”

Wu Xiaoniang was full of thoughts, but when she saw Zheng Lang's other side, she laughed out loud.

If you don't have a face, you are invincible, Zheng Lang is not ashamed of the little lady of the Wu family to help on the side, and Fu Bi doesn't want to see Zheng Lang killed by Lu Gongbi.

Zheng Lang is not really shameless, he doesn't want to be abused and killed by Lu Gongbi, and he also wants to see this little girl's chess skills. But he himself is not very fond of Go, so he has never been good at chess, and he doesn't care much about winning or losing. It's just that some things were not easy to discuss in the court just now, so I joined forces with Fu Bi and returned home, and after the discussion, Fu Bi proposed to play chess. After more than thirty years, the little lady of the Wu family instructed the six sons on the side, Zheng Lang raised his head and asked: "Little lady Wu, your chess skills seem to be good, who did you learn from?" ”

"My father has a hobby, and he often fights with people, and the concubine watches ...... from the sidelines"

"I see."

The little lady of the Wu family was about to kneel down again, Zheng Lang's face sank, and he said, "What did the official say just now?" ”

"Yes," he stood up again.

Fu Bi couldn't help shaking his head again, she was so puzzled, such a little girl, with a good background, chess skills, and beautiful appearance, actually didn't pity it at all. Zheng Lang didn't see it, and while playing chess, he asked Lu Gongbi: "What is the matter with the two of you?" ”

Lu Gongbi snorted: "Governor Zheng, there are too many people to commit ......"

"Move the place, some of the most evil people, confiscate their property, and use their mansions to transform them into temporary prisons for prisoners."

"But ......"

"But what?"

"Do you want to arrest again?"

"Catch, catch as much as you want."

"There are too many people."

"Isn't that what you want?"

"Xiaguan was presumptuous at that time."

"I can't blame you, things are tangled together, and I haven't handled it well, so I can only continue to go on to this point."

"But...... There are too many people to commit ......"

Fu Bi interjected on the side: "Just listen to Governor Zheng's mansion, it's to save people." ”

"Saving people?"

"Yes, the more you catch, the easier it is to save people."

Lu Gongbi and Han Jiang were puzzled at first, and then their eyes lit up.

Fu Bi said again: "And in order to destroy, it is to learn ......."

I didn't dare to say that Zheng Lang was also learning from Zhang Shun and Li Xiaobo, and if he wanted to reconcile it with gentle means, it couldn't be solved. So there was a rebellion-style urging, and all the people involved in the case were arrested from top to bottom, and there happened to be another Shi Jie who didn't know the severity of the matter, so that all the big pavilions could be eradicated.

In a few years, it will be restored again, but in a few years the phenomenon of illegal salt will be reduced, and even if it is restored, it will not be as serious as before. Laying the groundwork for another case as well. It is this matter that has just been discussed.

reminded it, it is not difficult to understand that a stone fell in the hearts of Lu Gongbi and Han Jiang. Can't really let Liang Zhe drop hundreds of thousands of heads, and when he goes home, his father can break his legs.

The porter came in again to report: "The abbot of Shousheng Temple Zhijue asks to see." ”

"Why is this great monk here, let him come in."

The great monk was brought in.

Zheng Lang said: "The official only drank a pot of tea from you, do you want something?" ”

The great monk sighed and said: "Yes, the poor monk is also vulgar, there is only one nephew in the family, before he did a bad job in the prison field, he was greedy for a hundred yuan, put him in prison, and came to ask for a favor, Zheng Shizhu wanted to drink tea, and the poor monk was ready to welcome him." ”

After saying that, he said. I'm sorry.

Zheng Lang smiled, he likes such a big monk, he doesn't fake, just say it, who has no relatives, the monks talk about it, how many monks can be empty? After laughing, he said: "The law does not blame the public, there are too many people, if your nephew only accepts a bribe of 100 yuan, it will not be very serious, wait and see." ”

"Then the poor monk thanks to Governor Zheng."

"Don't thank you, you tell your nephew, although he is a small official, his hands are not long, if he doesn't stretch out his hand, he will be caught sooner or later. Apricot, prepare tea for the great monk. ”

"Thank you, Governor Zheng."

"You're welcome, if you're polite, the official doesn't like it."

The great monk was really not very vulgar, sat down generously, and said: "The poor monk heard some rumors that Master Zheng wanted to destroy the Buddha? ”

They all sang several big plays, and it was not difficult to guess Zheng Lang's intentions, but he guessed the wrong direction, shook his head, and said: "I don't want to destroy the Buddha, on the contrary, I respect the Buddha, but I respect the real Buddha, not the evil Buddha." Master, which one are you? ”

There were eight sects in the Tang Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty, Zen Buddhism was the mainstay, and among the other sects, except for the Tiantai sect, which brought back a large number of Buddhist documents from overseas, some were active, some sects declined, and some sects had to keep pace with the times, such as the teachings of the Pure Land sect became simpler, and the teachings of the Huayan sect, the Enlightenment sect and the Vinaya sect were also improving. Zen Buddhism is divided into several schools, Weiyang Sect, Dharma Eye Sect, Cloud Gate Sect, Caodong Sect, Linji Sect, and later divided into Yang Qi and Huanglong sects in the Linji Sect, which are called the Five Families and Seven Sects.

Zen Buddhism is also changing, because scholars are dissatisfied with all kinds of Buddhism, many scholars and doctors are Buddha, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and other heavyweight scholars are very disgusted with Buddhism, so some Zen disciples deliberately absorb Confucianism, Su Dongpo to explain Confucianism, they are to explain Confucianism. The most representative surname is Qi Song, and the name is not yet visible. Therefore, Zheng Lang asked.

The great monk replied honestly: "The poor monk is a disciple of the Rinzai sect. ”

"Single-minded?"

"Yes."

"What's the point?" Xing'er asked curiously, she also believes in Buddhism and knows some, and the four words may represent many meanings.

"Straight into the single knife, stick and drink cross, dragon and dragon run, star gallop electric switch, roll Shu indulgence, kill and live freely, and suppress the emotion, do you understand?"

"The slave didn't understand."

"If you don't understand, don't study Buddhism in the future," Zheng Lang rolled his eyes and said despite the great monk, in fact, these words refer to the wit of this sect, or only your own heart, let alone another Buddha, from the altar scripture, but there is a context, but this sect picked out these eight characters as the mantra of the founding of the sect, to put it plainly, only cultivate your own heart, what Buddha and Bodhisattva, get out of the way. Gangba is so.

Then he turned to the great monk and said: "Wei Gong said: 'What the monk said, isn't it the purpose of Master Bodhidharma? The teacher said, "Yes." Gong said: "When the disciple heard that Bodhidharma had first transformed into Emperor Wu of Liang, the emperor asked Yun: "What merit do I have in building temples and monks in my life, and giving alms and fasting?" Bodhidharma said, "There is no merit. "If the disciple has not reached this principle, may the monk say it." The teacher said: 'There is no merit, do not doubt the words of the ancestors. Emperor Wu had an evil heart, did not know the correct law, built a temple to save monks, gave alms and fasted, called seeking blessings, and did not take blessings as merits. Merit is in the Dharmakaya, not in the cultivation of blessings. 'Can the Great Monk ever remember?' ”

From the altar of the question of the third.

This is a very special Buddhist scripture, the Buddhist tradition, only the Buddha's words and teachings can be called scriptures, and the remarks of disciples and Buddhists can only be called treatises, but this Buddhist canon is the remarks of Hui Neng, which shows the growth of Zen Buddhism.

It is also the only "sutra" for Buddhist disciples in China.

It means that Wei Thorn Shi asked Hui Neng, Emperor Wu of Liang built countless temples in his life, but Bodhidharma said that there was no merit, Wei Thorn Shi was puzzled, Hui Neng said that merit is not to seek blessings and cultivate blessings, but in self-cultivation, Emperor Wu of Liang built temples, and even used monks to force ministers to give alms.

This remark was very appreciated by Zheng Lang, although the first product of the altar scripture said that the Northern Sect of Zen Buddhism was too narrow in pursuit of Huineng's behavior for a piece of clothing, and even Zheng Lang was a little unconvinced.

Don't ask me why I am pouting, answer this question first.

The Great Monk Hesh.

The main thing is that some of the great monks of the temple themselves have done something wrong, so how can Zhijue answer?

"Great monk, you have also drunk tea, and your heart is also gone, and it is better to have things that you shouldn't have early. If not, bring a sentence to the other great monks of the temples, that is, the official and them will distinguish the Dharma in front of the Lingyin Temple. Remember, this official only started to read Buddhist scriptures this year, and he does not believe in Buddhism himself, but he does not oppose Buddhism. ”

"Identifying Buddha?"

"Tell them that you must win against me, or the result will be miserable."