On the morning of February 27 in the second year of Jingkang, in Kaifeng Mansion, Xu Bingzhe said hatefully: "Did Mei Zhili forget all the kindness and righteousness of the official family? What an ungrateful villain. ”

On this day, Empress Zhu finally accepted the recommendation of the ministers, let the crown prince Zhao Chen supervise the country, and the queen listened to the government. And Mei Zhili also refused Xu Bingzhe's request, Mei Zhili replied: "The people are empty, and there is no way to collect, so it is difficult to obey their fate!"

Moreover, he told Xu Bingzhe that now the palace and the various internal treasury of the household department, including the Ouchi, Longde Palace, Zuozang Treasury, Jingshi Shangsi Treasury and other government treasury, have a total of 3 million gold ingots, 10 million silver ingots, 10 million silk and various kinds of silk for use, pearls, agate, jade, and other treasures "have not been seen".

But these treasury have been seized, and without an order from the Privy Council, I don't want to get out of a penny.

Xu Bingzhe saw that Mei Zhili was uncooperative, so he could only ask Dazai He Li for help, and He Li found a way to give Wang Xiaodi, the Chinese scholar, a codex, and used Wang Xiaodiyong as the "root envoy" to urge the people of Bianliang to take out the sacrifice.

The Kaifeng Prefecture ordered the magnates, wealthy households, and businessmen to all contribute to the bounty army.

Bianliang is a prosperous commercial market, and the market where commerce is concentrated is called "fang", and after three months of siege, there are still 23 squares in stable operation. On average, 450,000 ingots of gold, 900,000 ingots of silver, and 400,000 horses of silk were apportioned to each square. For the poor who have less than 10 yuan of family property, they only need to pay 100 taels of gold.

With an order, the officials of Kaifeng Mansion immediately went out to arrest people everywhere, and those who did not pay the gold and silver were all dragged to the yamen to be punished and served, and they would be released after paying the gold and silver according to the household, the head, and the official rank.

The officials of Kaifeng Prefecture attacked, but in some places, such as the former garrison of the Dumen Forbidden Army, because many of the forbidden troops used barracks to do business, they also formed a "fang market".

The current Bianliang has become two sets of government institutions in parallel. One set of the two river Xuanfu Divisions headed by the Privy Council took resisting the enemy as the first priority, and the other set was supported by the governors behind the scenes, and the Kaifeng Mansion was the executive agency to raise the reward for the redemption of the emperor. Therefore, it is known as the "dispute between the government and the court".

Since the Privy Council was mainly concerned with resisting the enemy outside the city, and the management of Bianliang City was the affairs of Kaifeng Prefecture, so at the beginning of this "rooting", the Privy Council did not expect that Xu Bingzhe and others would openly take root in the city, so that some people suffered huge losses.

Bianliang City is bankrupt, the people who hang themselves in the well are innumerable, the government officials burn the houses and drive out the people when they are rooted, often a row of dwellings are burned down, the people go to the Daxiangguo Temple to take refuge, the weather suddenly turns cold on the evening of February 28, the refugees in the Daxiangguo Temple cry hunger and cold, and more than 10,000 people freeze to death overnight.

That night, the Kaifeng officials rushed into Father Xu's house and immediately asked for a hundred gold ingots. Daddy Xu has a tea shop in the Fan Building, and a little tea, even the Emperor Taishang is full of praise for his tea-ordering skills, but the official doesn't care about this, he rushes into Daddy Xu's house and starts to move things, Daddy Xu wants to go up to stop it, but he is pushed to the ground.

When the officials saw the gold and silverware, they put them away and prepared to hand them in, and other practical things had to be taken home by themselves, taking advantage of some small advantages, and smashing the tea bricks treasured in Daddy Xu's house.

Father Xu cried loudly: "The real treasure was destroyed by the shaft." ”

The vicious servants moved together, turning over the baskets, kicking indiscriminately, and waving leather whips indoors, driving the people of the Xu family back and forth. Father Xu was frightened, and when he was about to step forward to reason with the officials, a whip had already flown in. It hit him right on the left cheek, and it immediately swollen with a bloody mark.

When there was a disturbance here, suddenly there was a noise outside the door, the door was opened, and an old man who was short and short, with fluffy hair, but was born strong and strong, with bright eyes, carried a lantern, and painted an ink apricot blossom on the lantern shell, called the apricot blossom lantern, and led the way in.

Followed by a hundred and ten ordinary people, they also carried lanterns and rushed into the door.

They are all Daddy Xu's neighbors, and some of them live farther away. They heard the noise next door and gathered around.

"What kind of person are you, dare to come here to disturb the official business of this mansion?"

"I'm a little dyer, known as Daddy He. Come here today to see how you behave. Hugh Dao ordinary people interfere with the government, you usually do some things like chickens and dogs, and there are days and days, and people's hearts are intolerable. Today, it happened that we met on a narrow road, and I wanted to settle this account with you. ”

The old man laughed and cursed, and the onlookers cheered.

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around! Come up and tie up this old splash and send it to the government for serious investigation. ”

"Whoever dares to touch a single hair of Daddy He, I will fight with him!" A sturdy man, Yue Yue took a step forward, glaring angrily. The two officers did not know the level and danced the leather whip in their hands, trying to drive him away. I saw that with a slight flip of his palms, he knocked down the two dog's heads.

Suddenly, an errand officer recognized who this sturdy man was, and shouted out in horror: "He is Xiao Guan Suo Li Bao!" The common people also shouted and cheered: "Xiao Guan Suo Li Bao, Xiao Guan Suo Li Bao!" Some people say: "He is the famous man in the city of Tokyo, who is a big name and specializes in fighting corrupt officials and corrupt officials." ”

As soon as dozens of officers heard that it was Li Bao, they turned around in fright and wanted to flee.

"Haha, haha!" Father He laughed proudly, pointed to the door and said, "You dog thieves, look at how many people are in this town, and you don't want to plunder the family today." ”

Thousands of people poured out of the door, most of them were shopkeepers, craftsmen, hawkers along the streets, shopkeepers, scholars, and students, and some of the forbidden troops patrolling the streets joined them, so that the passage of the procession was unimpeded.

They either carried lanterns or held torches high, and the area around Zhen'anfang was lit up red, and when they arrived at the door of Daddy Xu's house, everyone shouted:

"Dog thief, do you want to be the lackey of the gold thief?"

"Kill these lackeys."

The team leader of Kaifeng Mansion saw the opportunity quickly, and hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to flee in embarrassment.

Father Xu, Father He, Xiao Guan Suo Li Bao and several people discussed.

"The old man heard from those officials that it was raided on the orders of Marshal Suolu, but I am afraid that they will not give up."

"Don't be afraid, Dad, once they come, I Li Bao will beat them once."

"They still have to go elsewhere to search, can you call Xiao Guansuo?"

"Then let's go to Xuandemen to knock on the throne, now that the prince is in charge of the country, he will fight Suo Lu to the end, and he will not let them come nonsense." Storyteller Chen Fuzi said.

Many people here participated in the Xuandemen knock last year, and after that knock, the official family recalled Li Gang and the seed master Dao, so everyone felt that this method worked.

So, the next day, a group of well-dressed people came to the Drum Temple, which, although an open institution that absorbs public opinion, has long been soaked in the rotten and moldy bureaucracy of Tokyo, just like hundreds of government offices large and small.

At this time, it was already past the time to go to work, the door of the palace office was still closed, and there were few officials in the office, who were like morning stars, and they turned a deaf ear to the arrival outside the door, which had gradually increased to hundreds of people.

When the number of people had exceeded 1,000, Li Bao first lifted the drumstick and struck it on the drum for a while, and the drums were really loud, and the sound of the drums was loud, and the hearts of the people of Tokyo were struck with a sound and a mallet, and more people were summoned to participate in the rally.

Two hours later, more and more people participated, not only nearby passers-by, but also residents living in the west and north of the city. Now there are not thousands, but tens of thousands. The proportion of the neighbors of Zhen'an Fang in this team is insignificant.

Most of the people who came to Xiangcheng were ordinary city residents, including shopkeepers, workshop owners, heads of all walks of life, line elders, small traders, craftsmen, craftsmen of all kinds and even doctors, bells, vegetables, and oversellers of wine shops and restaurants, and the official people's obes, menzi, sedan chairs, small maids, fire heads, and so on.

Also in the ranks were idle petty officials, soldiers, and junior officers. Monks and monks such as the monks, although they left home, did not "go abroad". In this action, most of them are still unclean, and they care about the things that everyone cares about, and they have walked out of the temple and temple to participate.

Inviting many different classes, strata, professions, and people to gather in a unified action is by no means organized in advance, or called for temporary mobilization, let alone secretly manipulated.

No one else has the energy to bring so many people together in such a short period of time. Most of them came spontaneously, and the history records that "hundreds of thousands of people met unexpectedly" and "met unexpectedly".

If it is said that in the past, the people of Bianliang only supported the officers and soldiers to resist the war out of vague feelings of "loyalty and patriotism" or fear of uncivilized barbarism, then from this moment on, the war of resistance has become a matter of life and death for every ordinary person in Bianliang.

Everyone already knows that if you make peace with the Jin people, if you let the Jin people set foot in this city, then every household in Bianliang will fall into a situation from which they will never recover.

The guide to action for millions of people only needs a simple belief and a simple slogan. "Never bribe the enemy" is such a belief and a slogan. More than 900,000 of the 1 million Tokyo people have become the main fighters.

This is because the people have accumulated thousands of years of experience and lessons, and finally come to a painful and useful conclusion: Only by resolutely resisting the invading enemy and defeating and destroying them can they have their own way of life, and all other peace, compromise, and surrender are all dead ends.

They summed up the complex struggle simply into a conviction and a slogan, that is: Prohibition at the root and no bribery of the enemy.

The people of Tokyo used to be flashy, vulnerable, vanity and pleasure-seekers during the rising season.

But under the test of war, they hardened. The three-month siege, the bitter fighting, the lack of food, the greedy extortion of the Jin State, and the shameless roots of the Lord and the officials made them understand how the country and the nation should defend their dignity and survival when they are oppressed and violated.

At this time, the inner attendant Tong Mu came out of the palace and stood on a high platform: "The prison country is all ordered, and the officials and the people receive the order." ”

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