Since Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne, there have been two rebellions, the first is the rebellion of Princess Gaoyang and Fang Yiai, but unfortunately because of Princess Gaoyang's lewdness, the guide was defeated and was strangled in the cradle by Gaozong. The second thing is relatively big, that is, in October of the fourth year of Yonghui, Chen Shuozhen launched a peasant uprising in Muzhou, proclaimed himself Emperor Wenjia, which is also the first female emperor in China, and the later Wu Zetian is already the second female emperor, of course, in terms of legitimacy, she is still the first and last.

Chen Shuozhen's peasant uprising gave the Tang Empire Emperor Emperor Gaozong a head start, and also alerted some of the scholar class, and the truth of the official forcing the people to rebel was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, although it was quickly extinguished, but the significance was far-reaching.

Zhang Yuan has fled to Taiyuan now, and he has fled to the mansion of Lin Renji, the chief historian of Taiyuan, what is he here to do?

After listening to Zhang Yuan's statement, Lin Renji also understood, and Lin Renji also pushed back the gift list handed out by Zhang Yuan.

"Brother Zi, this will not be accepted, now the thief occupies Wenshui County, I should report to Luoyang immediately, if it is delayed, I am afraid that after the matter is big, it will be out of control. The son has a brother, so he won't send it down. ”

Hearing Changshi Lin Renji say this, Zhang Yuan's fat face turned pale, he knew that this time he might not be able to pass this hurdle, and he blamed his own people.

Luoyang, Qianyuan Palace.

On this day, Emperor Gaozong was in the early dynasty, and behind the bead curtain was Empress Wu Meiniang. After the ministers shouted "Long live", the palace supervisor shouted in a loud voice: "Please play if you have something, and retreat from the court if you have nothing to do!" ”

At this time, the right minister Liu Renliang came out of the queue and played: "Weichen has a play!" ”

Emperor Gaozong was stunned for a moment, he had been more diligent in his head stroke recently, he wanted to rest in the court early, and let the queen massage well, so he asked a little impatiently: "What's the matter with Aiqing, play it quickly." ”

Liu Renliang took out the fold and said: "Before the court this morning, I received a joint 800-mile urgent petition from Taiyuan Governor Shi Lin Renji and Sima Li Xiaolian, saying that the refugees who poured into Wenshui County rebelled, more than 200,000 people, and Wenshui County has been occupied by the rebels."

After listening to what was played, the whole court was shocked, Gaozong held the music fold in his hand, trembled with anger, suddenly held his head, and shouted loudly: "I am also painful!" ”

Wu Meiniang immediately got up and asked the palace supervisor to help the emperor retreat to rest first, and passed on the imperial doctor for diagnosis and treatment.

Wu Meiniang is now a forty-five or sixteen-year-old woman, but she looks like a thirty-year-old woman, although she is slightly powdered, but she is not glamorous, she is not angry and arrogant, she sits on the side of the dragon chair, very majestic, lightly opened her lips, and said: "Wenshui is the ancestral land of this palace, I don't want to suffer this catastrophe, the county commander Zhang Yuan actually ignored the laws of the imperial court, disregarded the life and death of the people, and even deceived the monarch, covered the sky with one hand in Wenshui, and made a lot of ill-gotten wealth, so a parent official, how to become a pillar of the court and shepherd one side?" You can make Dongtai Shilang Zhang Wenqian as the minister of the Qin Mission, and Shi Peiyan as the deputy to Taiyuan Mansion to investigate the refugee rebellion, and Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, led the general manager of the Hedong Road march to Wenping! ”

Wu Meiniang quickly gave an order, and ignored the strange eyes of some ministers in the court, and retreated, because she was still Gaozong's daughter-in-law, she had to take care of her husband, and she had to help Gaozong deal with the twists and turns, and she had to manage the entire **.

Zhang Wenqian and Pei Yan went to Taiyuan first, and Li Ji dispatched troops to Taiyuan three days later.

Let's talk about Wenshui.

Since Wenshui was seized by the refugees, because there was no unified leader, there was infighting among the refugees, and the competition was not generally fierce, either for a woman or for a bag of property. This is a very sad thing, the peasant uprising is like this, it is not clear to see the shape, since the rebellion is a little more thorough, such a procrastination, coupled with the struggle for power and profit, the best time for expansion is lost. Taiyuan Zhechong Mansion has 50,000 soldiers, and has received an urgent order from the British Gong Li Ji, the chief of the march of Hedong Road, and has been ready for battle.

In the county prison, Wu Qing and Aunt Wu have been staying inside since they didn't get out of the cell, if it weren't for Aunt Xu's mother and daughter and Wang Xiu, they would really be starved to death. Fortunately, those chaotic people have completely forgotten about such a good person as Wuqing.

However, Wu Qing was very depressed, he didn't expect these refugees to rebel, and they were too easy to be impulsive, didn't they know that impulsiveness was the devil, didn't they know that rebellion was to be suppressed by the imperial court, that was to die. The Tang Army's battles in this period were still very strong, and the generals who followed Li Shimin to fight the world were not yet dead.

Wu Qing let out a long sigh, he had already seen the scene of Shura with people rolling on Wenshui City and bleeding under the city.

At this time, an angry shout came from outside.

"You spy, get in!" Two refugees pushed a middle-aged man in, who was then locked in the next cell.

Wu Qinglang said loudly: "Guys and gentlemen, why are you still arresting people here, you are all hard-working men, now that your anger has been vented, why don't you disperse?" Disperse quickly, when the officers and soldiers come, you won't be able to escape. ”

"What do you little fart know, I originally let you go, but you are still here and don't leave, I really don't know if the leaders dare not kill you." One refugee said viciously.

"Don't worry about it, let's go, I heard that there is meat to eat tonight." Another refugee urged.

Wu Qing sighed: "Why bother? ”

The middle-aged man seemed to be very interested in Wu Qing, and when the refugees were far away, he asked, "Child, why are you alone in this prison?" ”

Wu Qing turned around and saw this middle-aged man, with a calm face, a short beard on his chin, very manly, from his fine eyes, he could see a little stern, wearing a green robe, it seemed that he was still an official, and it was a miracle that this official could live, so he said: "Grass people Wu Qing, I have seen adults, there are still grass people's old women in the prison over there." ”

Grass people, grass people, I'm cǎo damn it, the official level crushes people to death, not to mention that he has no officials, he doesn't even count as no product, sad, only to bow and kowtow to these masters!

The middle-aged man smiled, then walked into the haystack and said, "Hehe, I see. Well, yes, my name is Di Renjie, I am the Fa Cao of Taiyuan Mansion, originally to investigate several cases that occurred among the refugees, but I didn't expect to encounter a rebellion by the rebels."

As soon as Wu Qing heard the words "Di Renjie", his little heart instantly beat faster, and he almost exclaimed, but fortunately, his face had become a little thicker, otherwise it would be a joke. Di Renjie, this is a man of God, a god of handling cases. Later generations once compared Di Renjie with Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty, but in the end he still felt that Di Renjie was powerful, because he dealt with 17,000 stranded criminals in only one year when he was a Dali Temple, which is a world record, and there is no one before or since.

"The grass people have seen the adults, and the prestige of the adults has spread all over the land of Bingzhou, and the people praise the adults for their milk and my Tang Dynasty." Wu Qing didn't hesitate to pat himself on the back.

"God decisive? Haha, the villagers have a good reputation, and doing things for the hometown is also what Di Mou should do. "Obviously, Di Renjie is also very conceited." Oh, your name is Wu Qing? ”

Wu Qing was stunned for a moment, and arched his hand: "It is the cheap name of the grass people." ”

"Well, some time ago, I heard that you made seven words and one poem, which made people feel refreshed, it is really a rare masterpiece since the opening of the Tang Dynasty, and your reputation as a 'prodigy' is also very loud." Di Renjie was a little interested in the little kid in front of him.

Wu Qing didn't dare to pretend to be high, let alone pretend to be B, he said modestly: "The younger generation is ashamed, but he just got it by chance, and it is not an elegant work." ”

Modesty is a very good quality in this era, and it can generally be praised by big people, like Wang Bo, who is proud of his talents, and finally degraded directly to worthlessness when Pei Xingjian was electing officials. Di Renjie was very interested in Wu Qing, a very modest and respectful little boy.

So, the two of them chatted freely in this cell, through the wooden fence. Here I want to talk about the Shuixian Prison, in this era, the cells in the general state and county are very simple, and the cells are generally separated by a few logs, and people can't get out. As for the detention of serious offenders, there are special death rows, which are very solid in terms of precautions and construction, and can be said to be airtight, and they are not dragged out until the time of the autumn.

Wu Qing and Di Renjie chatted freely, Wu Qing was attracted by Di Renjie's wisdom and rigorous style of doing things, Di Renjie was also sighed by some of Wu Qing's novel ideas, and in Di Renjie's view, Wu Qing is really a rare jade, as long as he carves it carefully, he will definitely become a pillar of the court in the future, and even a prime minister.

Especially when talking about the material selection system of the imperial court today, Wuqing even proposed miscellaneous studies, because as far as Wuqing is concerned, although miscellaneous studies are extremely unvalued by the imperial court, in fact, what really promotes the development of agriculture is not the various tax systems of the imperial court, nor the emperor's agricultural and mulberry sacrifices, but miscellaneous studies, such as water conservancy irrigation, new terraces, planting and cultivation, etc.

And what shocked Di Renjie was that Wu Qing's views on the financial and material resources of the Tang Dynasty made him feel like a sea of clouds. Of course, Wu Qing really wanted to introduce the word "economy", but after thinking about it, he still didn't want it, and there was no reason to make trouble for himself, which was more than worth the loss.

Wu Qing believed that the financial resources of the Tang Dynasty were concentrated in the hands of the Shi clan gate lords, and the imperial court only plundered the financial resources of the common people. The material resources of the Tang Dynasty can be said to be very weak, because once a natural disaster occurs in many places, thousands of ordinary people will die, many of them die because of hunger and disease, from this aspect, the material resources of the Tang Dynasty are really unbearable, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty at this time is only relative to the last years of the Sui Dynasty.

This argument shocked Di Renjie, and he couldn't help but be a little worried about the development of Wuqing, because any emperor doesn't like to hear and belittle the imperial greatness he cast, let alone be made a big deal by a milky little kid there.

Di Renjie is not a villain, so he also has a feeling of seeing the clouds and fog in his heart, and also warned Wu Qingdao: "The truth of the virtuous nephew is always refreshing, but it will not be recognized by many people after all, especially after the saint is now enshrined in Mount Tai, he thinks that the Tang Dynasty has reached the peak of the ancients, so today's words are out of your mouth and into my ears, so don't say it again in the future." ”

Wu Qing understood, so he respectfully agreed. Although Di Renjie is an outstanding representative of this era, after all, he does not have a vision beyond this era, and the limitations of history are undoubtedly revealed at this moment.