"Kill the traitors in the country, kill the traitors in the country! Kill the traitors in the country, kill the traitors in the country..."

On the morning of the fourth day of the fifth month of the Zhenghe period of the Song Dynasty, the earth-shaking shouts rang out in Xuandemen Square outside the imperial city of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The fourth day of the fifth day of the fifth day, known as the first anti-imperialist (imperial) anti-feudal patriotic movement in Chinese history, broke out vigorously.

The momentum of this movement was not only beyond the expectations of Kaifeng Prefecture and the Imperial City Department, but also beyond the expectations of Zhang Jun, He Li, Liu Qi and others, the initiators of the movement.

These movement leaders wanted to kill the traitors, but they were not really punished, but the exaggerated tone of the literati when they submitted their memorials. These three traitors were all from Jinshi masters who sang outside Donghua Gate. They are now noble and high-ranking civil servants. They sold their country with the will of the officials. If they were really punished, then the heads of civil servants and officials would be unsafe in the future...

If Zhang Jun, He Li, and Liu Qi do such a thing, they will not become civil servants and public enemies? They will have to move their heads sooner or later!

As for killing profiteers... Zhang Jun, He Li, and Liu Qi never thought about it. Although the Song Dynasty had the tradition of "official transformation", there was also the case where the government forced merchants to go bankrupt one after another. However, the case of "killing profiteers" rarely happened.

If he could be killed, what reforms would Wang Anshi do? Find some of the richest businessmen in the Song Dynasty, and commit some crimes, and beheaded and confiscated the house.

However, such a great pleasure rarely happened in the Song Dynasty, and perhaps never happened in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Because these civil officials in the Northern Song Dynasty knew that killing chickens and retrieving eggs was not feasible. The Song Dynasty's government directly participated in production and operation activities, and the scale was still large, and they could still obtain a large amount of income from it. This determined that the Northern Song Dynasty court had to treat merchants more gently.

If you can kill a few profiteering merchants at any time, no one dares to buy (contract) official property, market, and no one believes that the various money issued by the court will be attracted.

In addition, among the four students participating in this movement, many of them came from businessmen! Most of the students from Qingcheng Academy in Kaifeng Prefecture were born from wealthy businessmen in Kaifeng Prefecture, Daming Prefecture and Yingtian Prefecture.

If the struggle rashly points to the unscrupulous business, the movement is likely to be divided.

But how could these student leaders control the old Bianliang who took the opportunity to make trouble? These old Bianliang may not think how expensive the 800,000 yuan is... In today's Kaifeng Mansion, an independent "Shikumen" house can be easily 30,000 to 40,000! 800,000 is just twenty or thirty houses.

Is it really meaningful to fight a war with the Jin Kingdom for this amount?

What really annoyed the old Bianliang people were the increasingly expensive housing prices, prices, and wage prices that kept falling.

On the one hand, income is shrinking, while on the other hand, prices are rising! Isn’t this the fault of the profiteers? It’s not that the profiteers hoarded goods and raised housing prices, and always hired poor people from other places to leave Kaifeng’s locals without food!

The angry crowd gathered more and more, and not long after, the square outside Xuande Gate was full of people. However, the people of Kaifeng Prefecture who heard the news continued to join the movement. Most of the newly joined people came from the north wing of Kaifeng Prefecture, and were all old imperial guards or children of imperial guards who were not doing well.

They were victims of the military reform of the Song Dynasty! The old imperial guards have been continuously laid off for the past ten years, and they have no longer recruited new people.

This has a huge blow to the old imperial guards' families who have been in the army for generations!

The Imperial Army soldier not only means an iron rice bowl, but also an identity and organization.

Setting up a stall, doing a small business, going out to escort the escort ship, and the official ship also carries some private goods, all of which must be covered by the imperial guards.

Kaifeng Prefecture is in charge of public security and tax collection. The soldiers in charge of the wings are usually the soldiers. How dare they fight with the imperial guards? When the matter is serious, the soldiers of the imperial guards cried outside the Donghua Gate. The great masters of the Kaifeng Prefecture can't afford to take advantage of it. It is true that the Northern Song Dynasty uses civil servants to control military affairs, but it is also a common practice for civil servants to bully the Kaifeng Imperial Guards. Because the safety of the official family is entrusted to the Kaifeng Imperial Guards!

However, the Imperial Guard has not recruited many people since ten years ago, and has changed it to a new army.

Although many children of the imperial guards applied for the new army, the new army was "in the camp for four seasons, served for five years, and returned home after five years." Although there was enough military pay to get, the new army was not an iron job and not an identity.

The soldiers of the imperial army can go to business and work as bodyguards to escort the ship. However, even the new army soldiers cannot leave the camp without authorization, so they can only receive a few dead soldiers' salary. The amount of battle is only a few dozen yuan per year, and a single son is saved without spending, and only more than two hundred yuan in five years. What can you do in Kaifeng Prefecture?

So you can imagine how miserable the old imperial guards have been in the past few years!

I don’t know how many men who grew up lived a life of no house, no money, and no wife, but just struggled to have enough time to have a full life.

Now that I see someone making trouble, I naturally rushed over and started to make a fuss. I didn’t want anything, just wanted to exhale.

Since it was just for the sake of causing trouble, there were no rules for this group of old imperial guards and the children of imperial guards. As they walked through Maqian Street, the shops and vendors along the way were all in trouble and were beaten and smashed and robbed and burned!

The entire northwest corner of the inner city of Kaifeng Prefecture quickly became a mess...

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"Your Majesty, the old imperial city is getting more and more chaotic, and there is even more chaos in Maqian Street and Panlou Street. There are also thieves taking the opportunity to rob shops and set fire to the houses..."

"Your Majesty, the four scholars were the ones who led the trouble. They wanted to submit a memorial to the Jin Dynasty and oppose the annual monies. Somehow, the more trouble it became."

"Your Majesty, now outside the Xuande Gate and Donghua Gate of the Old Imperial City are all rioters, and Yuqing Daode Palace is also surrounded by rioters... and there are also imperial guards involved in the rebellion! Please give up the imperial edict and transfer the new army outside the city into the city to suppress the enemy!"

The prime ministers and officials in the Qionglin Palace and Chongzheng Hall have arrived, and all of them have turned ashen.

Emperor Zhao Ji, the Emperor of Song Dynasty, sat on the imperial throne, and listened to the report of Quan Zhisheng Zhang, the Kaifeng Prefecture official, and Liang Fangping, the imperial city secretary.

Now Quan Zhishi Sheng Zhang is a ruthless person. He is not ruthless when rectifying the security of Kaifeng Prefecture and is famous for his death. But today he is so scared that his face turns blue.

He had personally brought people outside Xuande Gate to suppress the enemy, but he met the old imperial guards who were causing trouble and started fighting with the soldiers from Kaifeng Prefecture on the spot.

These old imperial guards also included some old and unsatisfied warriors, as well as some of the soldiers who had no future after retirement from the New Army. These families were very fierce. They picked up a bench, wooden stick, table legs and beat up the soldiers of the wing who could not hold the swords and guns.

If Sheng Zhang hadn't slipped fast, he would have been beaten to death now.

So he simply portrayed the incident as a military chaos in front of Song Daozong and proposed to mobilize troops to suppress it.

Zhao Ji had no idea, such a thing had not happened in the Song Dynasty until now!

He hurriedly looked at Deng Xunwu, the head of the Privy Council, and Tong Guan, the head of the Privy Council.

Deng Xunwu said: "Your Majesty, there are 30 new troops stationed in the Mutuogang camp. You can transfer them into Beijing to suppress them!"

When Tong Guan heard this, he quickly said, "No, the new army of Moutuogang is the one who is the local strong men in Kaifeng, and half of them are the children of the imperial guards."

"Even the children of the imperial guards are also soldiers of the court!" Deng Xunwu said, "Do you still dare to rebel?"

Tong Guan glanced at Deng Xunwu, "In the past, Wu Haogu's army also had many people from Kaifeng Imperial Army!" He then said to Zhao Ji, "The old Imperial Army is causing trouble because of hardship, and it is not about rebellion..."

"Terrible?" said the Grand Tutor Cai Jing. "Now Kaifeng is prosperous and the people are happy. How can the imperial guards feel difficult? Did the imperial guards shorten their military pay or less their rewards?"

"Your Majesty has not treated them poorly," Tong Guan said unabashedly, "but the prices in the city are high and the housing prices are high. The money earned by the soldiers of the imperial guards is not enough for the family to have enough food and clothing."

Cai Jing snorted: "Who doesn't know that these old imperial guards have no intention of joining the army and have their own business. Isn't it enough for the imperial guards to raise them for so many years? Tong Shumi, did you agree with the imperial guards when they were renovating the new army in the past?"

"It is right to renovate the new army of the imperial guards," Tong Guan shook his head and said, "But the things in Kaifeng Prefecture have been too expensive in recent years, and the housing prices are even more expensive... When our family first came back from Shuofang, they were scared!"

Cai Jing spread his hands, "The price is high because Kaifeng Prefecture gathers in Hebei. There are too many wealthy families in Hedong and the supply of canal transportation is insufficient. What can I do? There are many places with low prices elsewhere, but they are unwilling to go there."

Zhao Ji frowned, "Cai Qing, how do you think you should deal with it now? Should you transfer troops to the city?"

Cai Jing said: "Your Majesty, now we must mobilize troops into the city to suppress the riots. However, at the same time, we should also punish the Wu Haowen who was selling the country by Mei Jin to the Censorate Prison. The four students wrote a letter because he treason, and now they must arrest him.

In addition, Kaifeng Prefecture ordered several profitable merchants who raised prices to quell the public's anger."

"Okay, what should I do!" Zhao Ji paused, "Do you still have to give that annual monies?"

"No!" Cai Jing said.

"What?" Zhao Ji's heart twitched.

Cai Jing hurriedly added: "But 800,000 can be used to redeem the people of Hedong and Shuofang who were looted to the north.

In addition, you can also make a profit from mutual markets and buy cattle, horses and sheep from the golden people at a high price."

Cai Jing's mind was very active! He suddenly came up with a way to see the best of both worlds.

"Okay, Cai Qing is still polite." Zhao Ji paused, "Zhang Kegong!"

"I am here." Zhang Kegong is now the Chief Censor.

"You personally take the Censorate to get the martial arts and good articles..." Zhao Ji said, "Before, go to Xuande Gate and announce this to the scholars.

But remember, you must never hurt Wu Haowen’s hair, otherwise you will only ask!”

Of course, he pretended to be in the Censorate Prison. Not to mention that he was just stolen by orders, even if he had discussed the annual monies with the Jin Kingdom without Zhao Ji's will, he would not be punished... His brother is Wu Haogu, who dominates the country, and his younger brother is Wu Haode, the most beloved minister of the official family!

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