Chapter Seventy-Nine: The First Debate Tournament of the Tang Dynasty (9)
"On April 9, the eighth year of Baoda, Yin, the first debate competition of Datang officially kicked off, but the prologue began with a few drops of blood and a rage, indicating that this debate competition is destined to be an undercurrent surging, fierce conflict, and can even be said to be a life-and-death struggle." —Excerpt from Shi Yan's Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty? Lin Feng's Memorabilia" A few drops of blood, a rage, this is the prelude before the opening of this debate competition. Because Lin Feng really had nowhere to look for Jin Chuangyao early in the morning, blood kept seeping out from behind the white cloth and dripping on the ground, and anger began to ignite when Wei San saw Lin Feng.
"Brother, I shouldn't have been home last night!" Wei San's face turned red, and he slashed the air a few times with his knife, and there was still nowhere to vent his anger.
Under Lin Feng's great comfort, Wei San sat down beside Li Qiang and drove to the palace. Along the way, Wei San kept cursing and swearing, his eyes staring fiercely at the darkness around him, eager to grab an assassin and slash him a few times.
Lin Feng leaned on the wall of the car a little weakly, closing his eyes and resting. Last night was equivalent to a night of sleep, and the pain of blood loss from the wound made him really tired.
The anger began to spread when Han Xizai saw Lin Feng at the palace gate. When Han Xizai saw that Lin Feng's left arm was wrapped in a strip of white cloth and hung around his neck with a piece of white cloth, he immediately rushed over in horror and asked anxiously what was going on?
Lin Feng briefly recounted the events of last night, and Han Xizai immediately understood, and began to look for the people of the Song Party in the crowd at the palace gate. Who else can do this kind of thing except for those villains who have brought disaster to the country and the people?
Since sooner or later there will be a conflict of interest, let it be more violent! Lin Feng watched Han Xizai prepare to find someone to fight like a fighting, and his heart was also ruthless.
Subsequently, Jiang Wenwei and other upright people joined the ranks of condemnation one after another, and when Li Yu, who came to discuss politics, found out that his teacher had been stabbed, things began to get serious.
The angry Li Yu pulled Lin Feng up, didn't go to the Liangyi Palace, ran directly to the Dezheng Palace, and found Li Jingsui, who was inspecting the preparations at the scene. The angry Li Jingsui went directly to the middle of the road to intercept Li Jing, who was about to go to the court, and explained the matter.
At the critical moment on the eve of national change, assassinating Lin Feng is killing the hope and expectation of his own strong country, is it tolerable or unbearable? ! So, Li Jing, who was full of anger, shook off the large group of people who surrounded him, walked to the main hall, walked to the dragon chair and did not sit down, and scanned the civil and military ministers in the main hall with a ruthless eye, without waiting for the eunuch to speak, he directly stacked a sentence: "Retreat from the court, and those who follow the order go to the Dezheng Palace!" Then, he turned around and walked to the Tokusho Hall on the northwest side.
Today's morning dynasty is not polite! The ministers looked at each other, and those who did not receive the holy decree dispersed in a hurry like a herd of panicked deer, leaving only more than thirty people who had received the holy decree, and under the guidance of the eunuchs, some of them walked quickly to their destination in fear.
When the ministers came to the Dezheng Palace, they were even more confused, and they saw Li Jing pulling a young man in a scarlet robe but one arm was held with a white cloth, and he was asking something.
Who is this man? Most of the important officials of the court had never seen Lin Feng, and they were all consulting each other with their eyes, but they all saw the same puzzled eyes. At this time, most of the courtiers noticed the strangeness in the hall: more than a dozen large tables formed a hollow rectangular pattern in the open space on the right side of the hall, and only one chair was placed on the north side, and dozens of identical chairs were neatly placed on the other three sides.
What is this for? A lot of people are completely dizzy.
Li Jing turned around and stared coldly at the important ministers in front of him. Immediately, the crowd, which was originally a little restless, quickly quieted down, and all of them bowed their heads deeply, and they didn't dare to breathe. This Li Jing's evaluation in history is "modest and wise", but he has always been a humble gentleman in the court on weekdays, and today's performance is naturally very scary.
"Today, I convene the important ministers of the court and people with lofty ideals, with the intention of demonstrating how to change and guide my Tang Dynasty to become strong from now on. The proposals and ideas of change were all played by Lin Feng, who did not admit that someone assassinated Lin Yilang last night, but fortunately he did not succeed. The Assassin's intentions were outrageous. I swear that if I find out who instructs me, I will punish the nine tribes! Li Jing gritted his teeth and said, his eyes intentionally or unintentionally stopped on the Song Party, Li Hongji and others.
After he briefly described the scene last night, he aggrievedly stated to Li Jing that after he came to the Southern Tang Dynasty, he basically never had contact with outsiders except for knowing Li Yu, and only those who might have suffered damage in the change and had the opportunity to know the news in advance would do so. His realistic performance coupled with the blood constantly swimming out of the white cloth immediately made Li Jing confirm his statement in his heart. Those whose interests have been damaged must be those with vested interests, and I am afraid that only the so-called Song Party and its ilk are in full swing in the DPRK and China.
At this time, some ministers of the imperial court couldn't help but be curious, and secretly raised their eyes to observe Lin Feng, this is Lin Feng, who has recently been privately rumored to be a "generation of writers"? He, a six-rank official, actually proposed a policy for national reform, and he still had to be so recognized and respected by the saints?
Cha Wenzheng, who was standing in the second row of the crowd, did not change his expression, but in his heart it was like beating a drum, the assassin had been arranged by him after he returned home last night. However, according to the Assassins, he was ambushed and injured as soon as he went, and he had already missed his hand, but did not hurt anyone. Could it be that someone else arranged the Assassins? Thinking back to Li Jing's cruel words, Cha Wenhui couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, fortunately, he had already dealt with the assassin properly.
"Pass the imperial doctor and re-bandage Lin Aiqing." Li Jing commanded loudly.
Recovering his emotions slightly, Li Jing stood in front of the imperial case and said loudly to the ministers:
"Looking at the trend of all nations in history, if it can change, it will be complete, and if it does not change, it will retreat; All changes are strong, and small changes are still dead, which is the truth of the rise and fall of successive dynasties. This is the words of Kang Youwei in the late Qing Dynasty who once gave a bitter advice to Emperor Guangxu in the Wuxu Reform, which was stolen by Lin Feng as the opening words of Li Jing's opening speech.
"The general trend of the country is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. Today, our Nantang is at the crossroads of national development, and the right to decide where to go is in the hands of our group of people and the hands of thousands of people in Datang.
If we are complacent and stand still, then we can only wait to be abandoned by history and forgotten by the people, and history only gives us the only choice, which is change!
We must strengthen the country, strengthen the army, and enrich the people through reform! We must face many difficulties and pressures, move forward hard, and take our destiny into our own hands, until we leave all the countries behind and be proud of the world!
Datang's reform starts today! ”
This is the speech prepared by Lin Feng for Li Jing, concise and popular, but it is deeply liked by Li Jing and used it word for word.
The imperial court is really going to change! This message shook the minds and bodies of the ministers like a seismic shockwave. Immediately, frightened, excited, thoughtful, confused, all kinds of expressions began to appear on the faces of the ministers.
Li Jing stood on a high place with some smugness and looked at the expressions of the crowd, and he suddenly understood Lin Feng's suggestion not to let him participate in the debate competition. I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain. Only by staying out of the game can you see more clearly.