Chapter 43: The Lin'an Riot
In the next two days, Lin'an City really spent it in a calm and calm situation.
Before going to bed, Zhao Gou hooked a smile on the corner of his lips and said to Wang Muen: "Big companion, what kind of attitude do you say will be in the world?" What excuses will they use to prevaricate the boycott of the DPRK in the past few days? β
The fifty-four-year-old emperor knocked on the bed like a child: "Needless to say, Tang Sihui's gang is thick-skinned enough." I'm curious about how Chen Kangbo's self-proclaimed pillars of the country can hide their embarrassment? Especially Zhang Tao, that old boy wants to teach me a lesson at every turn, and uses the excuse of Jun Yao Shun to make me shameless! This time, I finally made it look like a joke! β
Wang Muen smiled and said: "The big official has suffered from the idleness of these many days, and tomorrow he will definitely get this evil breath out!" β
Qingliang Mountain, Han House.
Han Jiayan looked at the sparse lights of Lin'an City from afar, and his face was calm.
Han Jiayan's son Han Cheng, the housekeeper Han Rang stood behind him with his hands down, but his mood was not as calm as Han Jiayan.
Han Cheng clenched his hands into fists and asked, "Father, are we going to admit defeat like this?" β
Han Jiayan glanced back at his son: "Calm!" You need to have calm in big things, have you forgotten? β
"My son hasn't forgotten, but what's the use? It's time to give it a try! β
Han Jiayan sighed: "It's not time! Do you really think that this time the left and right ministers will give up their old suspicions and cooperate with us, and they will really have the power to subvert the court and establish a new master? Believe it or not, as long as we dare to show a little bit of such a rebellious idea, the first one to jump out and bite us to death must be the left and right phases, as well as those Qingliu civil officials in the Great Song Dynasty! β
"You've worked hard these days, so go to bed early. Don't worry, the two factions just want to get more benefits from me, it's not worth anything! You don't have to worry about tomorrow's early dynasty, your skin is not thick enough, how can you stand tall in the court of the Great Song Dynasty? β
Although the civil and military officials do not go to court, Lin'an City still has a man on duty at night, and he is a man who fights the watchman. Wu Yang and Yang Yizhong respectively separated a small part of the forces from the Imperial City Division and the Forbidden Army to patrol Lin'an City, all, everything is settled in dust, only tomorrow the sun rises, the city will run again, return to its original state!
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Zhao Gou slept very deeply, and when he was woken up by Wang Muen's vigorous shake, he complained sleepily: "Wang Daban'er, you are really getting older and more useless, isn't it just that tomorrow hundreds of officials will return to the court, it is worth making a fuss?" β
Wang Muen was so anxious that his fat face was deformed, he pulled the emperor out of bed, took his coat and put it on the emperor, and said in a sharp voice: "Official, quickly put on your clothes, go out with the minions to hide, Lin'an City is in chaos!" β
Wu Yang's voice sounded outside the dormitory: "Weichen Wu Yang came to escort him, can Your Majesty pack up?" Pack up and escort you to Chonghua Building first, and the queen and the ladies of the palace will also go to Chonghua Building, which is safer! β
Only then did Zhao Gou find that the fire outside the dormitory was flickering, which should be the light of the torch. Looking out from the half-opened door of the dormitory, the leader pressed the handle of the knife on his waist with one hand and held a torch with the other, who is it not Wu Yang?
There were many people standing behind Wu Yang, and they didn't know how many there were at a glance, all of them were fully armored, standing there silently, adding to the tense and solemn atmosphere!
Farther outside the dormitory, there seemed to be the sound of crying and running, could it be that the rebels had already attacked the imperial city?
Zhao Gou's palms were full of sweat, and Rao was facing the pressure of the enemy army as soon as he ascended the throne and had to flee all the way; Later, he experienced a rebellion and seized the throne, and even he, a father, had to go into exile at sea in order to avoid the light of his son. Never once did he panic like tonight!
Eighteen years, he has been the Emperor of Anle for eighteen years, and he no longer knows what it is like for the enemy army to press the territory and the rebel general to enter the city, and he doesn't want to try the taste of escape again!
Wang Muen trembled with his fat fingers, and he couldn't put his coat on the emperor several times.
Zhao Gou snatched his clothes and put them on his body: "When is it, don't pay attention to these, let's follow Song Qing and leave here first!" β
Zhao Gou's hair bun was a little loose, and his coat was not neatly dressed, which was very embarrassing, but fortunately, the light of the torches outside flickered in the wind, covering up a little of the emperor's embarrassment.
He went out and patted Wu Yang's shoulder vigorously: "Song Qing, you are here, good, very good!" I will go with you, you can lead the way! β
Wu Yang walked sideways, half a step ahead of the emperor and holding a torch to illuminate it.
"Your Majesty need not worry, the situation is not too bad now. Gong Guogong went up to the palace wall, and he was like an iron bucket in the palace city. Weichen asked Li Nanfeng to escort the queen to Chonghua Building, and several Niangniang and the king of Pu'an County sent a safe person, Your Majesty just rest assured! β
Wu Yang leaned into the emperor's ear and whispered: "The mansion of the important ministers of the court, Weichen, has been sending people to watch, and no one dares to make trouble!" β
Without the participation of important ministers in the court, but a small group of rebels could not make trouble, Zhao Gou heard that a hanging heart here finally fell back into his stomach, and the more he heard that Yang Yizhong was still in charge of the security of the palace, the more he felt at ease.
Wu Yang and his entourage escorted the emperor to Chonghua Tower, and all the way were palace people running in a panic, screaming and crying, and were chased by the forbidden army to the secluded place of the palace.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the slave is loyal, where is Your Majesty going? Bring the minions, and the minions will serve Your Majesty with their heartsβ"
"Manager Wang, save the minions, the minions are loyal, and the minions are not the same as picking up the bad eyes!"
There were constantly palace people who wanted to rush to the emperor's side, but they were all driven away by the forbidden army and personal officials. A teenage little inner supervisor approached the team in a hurry to evacuate with a small and flexible person, and a tall and strong personal servant raised his foot and kicked it, directly kicking the little inner supervisor out of a thousand feet, lying on the ground and bleeding from seven orifices, seeing that he couldn't survive!
This scene frightened the palace people who wanted to come and seek refuge, and after they were stunned for a moment, they let out a cry of unknown meaning and fled in the opposite direction to the emperor.
Chonghua Tower is a lonely palace, the hall is seven floors high, climb the Chonghua Tower to overlook the lights of Lin'an City, Zhao Gou was very fond of climbing Chonghua Tower alone at night to see the night view when he was young. Chonghua Building is built on a stone platform more than one zhang high, and there is only one stone staircase to climb the stone platform, which is indeed a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!
Zhao Gou's bedroom was the farthest away from Chonghua Tower, and when he arrived at the place, Empress Wu and a concubine were already waiting under the stone platform.
Li Nanfeng greeted him and saluted: "Your Majesty, the queen and several ladies are waiting for you." You won't go upstairs until the queen and the ladies don't go upstairs! β
Empress Wu brought the sisters in the palace over to salute: "Your Majesty, this palace (concubine) greets Your Majesty, Your Majesty is frightened!" β
Empress Wu held a sword in her hand, her eyes were full of tears, and she stood beside him in the posture of a guard. Zhao Gou vaguely remembered that when he was exiled all the way to the sea, it was Empress Wu, who was only a teenager, who guarded him day and night with a sword.
He took Empress Wu's hand and walked up the stone stairs: "I'm fine!" Let's go, go upstairs first. The matter of the guards is handed over to Song Qing and Nanfeng! β
The chaos in Lin'an City has become a pot of porridge, and there are people everywhere at night, screams and fights everywhere, and blood stains and stumps are sprinkled between the streets and alleys, turning the once prosperous and beautiful Lin'an City into a Shura field!
Lin'an City fell silent, and the honest people stayed at home, relying on the rice and grain distributed by the proprietor to live a comfortable life for a few days without having to work.
At first it was all right, but the proprietors and the leaders promised three days at the earliest, and no more than five days at most, and the matter would come to fruition, and they generously gave them ten days' worth of rice and wages.
The big guys should have a spring break, and they just happened to have fun with their parents, wives and children at home.
Poor families, although they live under the same roof every day, the huge pressure of survival makes them unwilling and unable to enjoy the taste of family affection easily.
Three days passed, five days passed, seven days passed, and the matter was not finished, but the rice was running out.
Who can tell everyone that they don't have to do anything, but just accompany their grandmother and wife and children at home, and chew and eat more than they work on weekdays. By the seventh day, the rice that had been enough for ten days was almost exhausted. It's okay that there is a little food in the house, and it can be counted for a few days, but if there is no food in stock before the silence, it will be miserable, so you can only tighten your belt.
You must know that there are not a few families who do not have food in stock.
Almost everyone in Lin'an City works, and then buys grain when they get paid, and the grain supplied to Lin'an City is transported through the Cao Bang water, because the amount of rice and grain consumed every day is huge, that is, the amount of grain stored in the grain shop will not be too much, and usually the small family has a three-to-five day grain storage even if it is a very good person to live.
In the last two days, many families have fallen into a strange circle: there is still money, but there is no food!
There is no food at home, but the rice and grain shops in Kefang City are still there, as well as those eye-catching jewelry stores, silk villages, money houses, jewelry shops, and so on.
Naturally, there are men in these shops to guard, but what is the difference between this and the stunning beauty who only wears a light veil and has no guards, walking in bright lights but few people?
It all makes people's hearts rise and their index fingers move!
It's not the green eyes in the dark of Lin'an City that really provoked the trouble!
Xiong Dashan, a boatman of the Cao Gang, followed the Cao boat to Yuhang Gate outside Lin'an City five days ago.
That shocking scene made Xiong Dashan unforgettable!
Outside the Yuhang Gate are all boats, transporting grain, vegetables, fruits, charcoal, silk, porcelain, medicinal materials, etc., all the daily needs of Lin'an City can be seen outside the Yuhang Gate.
Boats everywhere! Instead of a gangplank and a bridge, you can go from boat to boat and all the way to the pier.
The grain ship where Xiong Dashan's was quickly stuck, the ship in front could not move, and there was a steady stream of ships coming behind. The river was full of cursing and crying!
Even in February, the vegetables and fruits were rotten after a few days, and there were fish and shrimp, and boats of dead fish and shrimp were poured into the river, and the whole river was filled with the rotten smell of dead fish and shrimp!
Xiong Dashan's stomach was broken, and when he was about to arrive at Yuhangmen, he was about to collapse, and he originally planned to take the opportunity to unload the boat to go to Lin'an City to find a doctor to see a doctor and prescribe a prescription, but who knew that he was blocked in the river and couldn't move.
After suffering for a few days, Xiong Dashan couldn't stand it anymore, so he begged the fellow villagers in the same boat to send him to see the doctor. By this time, the clean drinking water on the ship had run out, and more and more people were experiencing diarrhea and even fainting.
That night, Xiong Dashan, who was unwilling to die in the river outside Lin'an City, secretly put down the officers and soldiers guarding the water gate and slipped into Lin'an City. Relying on the memories of the past, Xiong Dashan and others came all the way to a pharmacy called "Anjitang".
Xiong Dashan dragged the sick body forward and smashed the door: "Doctor, the doctor opens the door to save people, our people are sick and dying, please ask the doctor to be kind and save people!" β
There was a yawning voice from the pharmacy guy inside the door: "Lin'an City is silent and you are not allowed to go out, don't you know?" What do you knock on in the middle of the night? If you want to see a doctor, you will come back tomorrow, and the doctor will be able to go out tomorrow, and I will be the first to see you! β
Xiong Dashan and the others begged for a long time, but the people in the pharmacy only refused to open the door on the grounds that "Lin'an City is silent". At this time, a patient from another boat came with Xiong Dashan and others, and a patient in another boat convulsed and fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, it was still a teenager, his father was holding the fainting child and crying at a loss, and could only shout: "Doctor, open the door, save my son, he is sick and dying!" β
Xiong Dashan has been ill for many days, and his temper has become more and more irritable, he kicked on the door of the pharmacy, and the door collapsed: "What is silent and not silent, can someone's life matter?" Doctor, hurry up and heal and save people! Something happened to Lao Tzu to bear it! β
"Anjitang" is the pattern of the front store and the backyard, and the doctor and the owner's family live in the backyard, and they have already gotten up at this time, but they dare not open the door due to the rules of the industry.
Xiong Dashan kicked the door open, and the kind-hearted doctor didn't care, and immediately said: "Carry someone in, quickly, bring my silver needle, and I'll prick him with a needle first!" β
There were twenty or thirty people who came with Xiong Dashan, all of whom were men running boats from all over the world, and they were noisy in the small "Ji'an Hall" as if they were at the water and land docks full of people!
Soon alarmed the fangding on duty at night and the patrol forbidden army, and the two sides did not agree with each other and acted in full force, and I don't know who shouted: "Come on!" The Cao Gang has come to grab something! β
Xiong Dashan just pressed a fang ding to the ground and beat him violently, and was stunned when he heard this: "Lao Tzu is here to ask the doctor for treatment, where are you here to grab things?" What did the boys rob? β
No one paid attention to him! More people shouted: "Big guys, come out to help, someone has come to Lin'an to kill people and rob money!" β
It seems that it is just a sentence of kung fu, and countless heads have emerged in Lin'an City, which is as silent as a tomb, and countless people have rushed out of their homes with sticks and kitchen knives, and rushed into the streets and alleys, and the melee began from that moment!
Some people rushed into the silk village and lit a fire, the fire stimulated people's brains and nerves, and more people rushed into jewelry stores, jewelry stores, rice stores, grocery stores, rouge shops, and smashed items when they saw them, and put them in their arms when they saw valuable things......
Then, the robbery began, and the mob rushed into the people's homes, robbing, smashing, setting fires, and even raping and plundering, all kinds of evil! The most fortunate thing is that Wu Yang, a high-ranking civil and military official in the court, originally arranged for people to secretly keep an eye on these people, in order to arrest and control them immediately when someone moved!
At this moment, it has become their rescue, and when the rioters storm the mansions of these high-ranking officials, the people of the Imperial City Division naturally form a formation to fight the rioters!
Lin'an City has become a hell on earth, and the mansions of high-ranking officials located in Qingliang Mountain and Zixia Mountain have become safety islands in the storm, and they have not been affected by the chaos!
Tang Siwei and Chen Kangbo couldn't care about anything else, and the two of them were escorted outside the palace gate in disheveled clothes, guarded by thousands of personal officials and relatives of the Imperial City Division, and the palace became the safest place.
"Open the door, I am the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and I have 100,000 urgent things to ask to see Your Majesty!"
Although in the midst of unprecedented chaos, Tang Siwei and Chen Kangbo still maintained the prestige of the prime minister.
Yang Yizhong immediately poked his head out of the palace wall: "Late at night, the situation in Lin'an City is unclear, and the two prime ministers cannot be allowed to enter the palace." If the prime minister has anything to do to see His Majesty, Yizhong can act as a substitute! β
"There is a riot in Lin'an City, please Your Majesty transfer the soldiers and horses of the five cities and the forbidden army to suppress it!"
"The two prime ministers, please wait, Yizhong will go to Tongyu immediately!"
"When is it, you still come and go! Lin'an City is about to hit the dog brains all over the ground! Open the door right away and let us in! β
Behind him, Zhang Tao's gunpowder-filled voice sounded, but Yang Yizhong had already left the wall, and no one on top had the courage to let a few adults into the palace.
Yang Yizhong came back quickly, and he rushed down and arched his hand: "I'm sorry, my majesty, Your Majesty said that at this time of crisis, I don't want to see the disloyal and unrighteous ministers, a few adults, please go back!" β
The emperor's words were not excessive, but the riots in Lin'an City could not wait for a moment, and without the emperor's edict, they had no right to mobilize Lin'an's soldiers and horses.
Seeing that every moment, more innocent people died in Lin'an City, but the two rulers and the most powerful ministers of the Great Song Dynasty were blocked outside the palace gate, helpless!