"The imperial court is ruthless and kills innocent people indiscriminately. Everyone, come with me."
When the rebels were helpless, Yan Mengbiao stood up at the right time and led everyone to escape to the manor. After entering the manor, Yan Mengbiao ordered the gate to be closed.
"Are you guys okay?"
Yan Mengbiao's face was full of sincerity. He looked at the rioters and saw that several of the rioters were bleeding profusely. Yan Mengbiao said urgently: "Quickly, bandage these brothers quickly, and bring the best gold gun medicine."
Yan Mengbiao treated the rebels in this way, which made the surviving rebels more respectful and grateful to him. They said that they had met a good leader and they must follow him well in the future.
Soon, Chen Longzhi arrived with his men, and Yan Mengbiao ordered his men to escort dozens of people to the village wall. He shouted loudly on the wall: "Listen, retreat ten miles, or I will kill all the hostages one by one."
While speaking, to express his determination, Yan Mengbiao swung his knife and beheaded the two tied people, and threw the heads out, where they fell under Chen Longzhi's horse's hooves.
There were dozens of people tied up on the wall of the village. They were all Wang Guangzu's family members, relatives, servants, etc. At this time, they became Yan Mengbiao's hostages.
Chen Longzhi was angry in his heart, but also felt aggrieved, because he knew that if he ignored the lives of the hostages and attacked forcefully, he would be drowned by Yan Guan's Tumo Xingzi.
And his own official position at this time was the Minister of Dali Temple, in charge of trials. If he regarded his own life as nothing, he would be criticized in the future.
In desperation, Chen Longzhi had no choice but to retreat ten miles as instructed and think of a solution after dawn.
"Brother, what should we do now?"
Liao Shiliu, Zhang Qingfu and others found Yan Mengbiao and asked where they should go from here.
Yan Mengbiao looked calm and said: "It is getting late now, and we have hostages in our hands. The officers and soldiers dare not attack the manor rashly. If there is a chance at night, we will leave quietly."
Yan Mengbiao had already planned all of this and was naturally confident. Liao Shiliu and others could only follow the instructions and go down to prepare.
After several days of confrontation at the manor, Yan Mengbiao finally waited for an opportunity. One night, he took more than a hundred young men, each carrying a baggage, and quietly escaped from the manor in the dark night. Finally, he left Renhe County and disappeared.
However, although they ran away, the problems they caused could not be ended. Officials in the court who opposed the new law took advantage of this minor chaos to begin to attack the new law.
Lin'an, Imperial Palace, Funing Hall.
The first person to submit a letter was Yushi Zhang Mingjing. Zhao Yun opened his memorial and saw more than a thousand words on it, all of which were dissatisfaction with the new law and impeachment of Chen Guiyi.
In one paragraph, he actually wrote: "Since ancient times, emperors and scholar-bureaucrats have ruled the world together. Scholar-bureaucrats are the cornerstone of the stability of the dynasty, while the people are just dispensable ants. Today, your Majesty's implementation of the new law is to kill chickens to collect eggs and feed the ants.
It seems that he is dedicated to serving the public good, but in fact he is putting the cart before the horse. If there were no scholar-officials like this chicken, and the ants and insects had no natural enemies, wouldn't it mean that they would overrun and destroy the heavenly family? I dare to ask your majesty to abolish the new law and behead Chen Guiyi, so as to calm the gentry of the world.
, In this way, the stability of the country and the country will be a great blessing."
Zhao Yun was dumbfounded, really dumbfounded. Who would have thought that a dignified censor and a scholar with a Jinshi background could actually say such a thing.
It is reasonable to compare the common people to ants and the scholar-bureaucrats to hens, and the chickens eat the ants. It is reasonable and reasonable that the scholar-bureaucrats are born to oppress and exploit the common people. This kind of comparison is really the first time that the Song Dynasty happened.
"Snapped."
Zhao Yun was so angry that he threw the memorial directly to the ground. Gao Shi and others on the side were so frightened that they did not dare to breathe.
Gao Shi took a step forward and carefully said to Zhao Yun: "Your Majesty, please calm down. It's not worth getting so angry."
Zhao Yun adjusted his breathing slightly and his mood improved quickly. He laughed at himself and said, "It seems that my Qi nourishing skills are not deep enough."
Seeing this, Gao Shi was slightly relieved, then picked up the memorial on the ground and sent it to Zhao Yun's desk again.
Zhao Yun glanced at it and said: "Gao Shi, please order ten copies of Zhang Mingjing's memorial and send it to various government offices for circulation. Since Zhang Mingjing wants to be in the limelight so much, I will let him do it."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Gao Shi agreed and went down to do it.
Then Zhao Yun continued to review the memorial, but Yuan Shao came and asked to be summoned.
Zhao Yun frowned. Zhao Yun also loved and hated the Prime Minister Zuo whom he single-handedly promoted.
"I have met your Majesty."
"No courtesy, please sit down."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Yuan Shao thanked Zhao Yun, but did not sit down. He raised his hand and said righteously: "Your Majesty, the law of farmland to household is being implemented in Renhe. No gentry in Renhe supports it, and no common people participate. It even caused controversy because of this matter.
A riot broke out, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries. I believe that the new law has many flaws and is really not suitable for further implementation. Therefore, I beg your Majesty to suspend the new law until all aspects of the new law are implemented before it is implemented."
Zhao Yun put down the memorial in his hand, leaned back on the chair, looked at Yuan Shao with a cold gaze, and said: "If I remember correctly, the career of the Qing family started as a small official in Wu County.
, as a local official, you should know the sufferings of the people better than others. The new law is ruthless to the powerful, but for the people, it is enough to make them stand up and make decisions. For the dynasty, it can also increase taxes, which is beneficial to the country.
People, the Qing family has repeatedly obstructed the new law, which is really difficult for me to understand."
Yuan Shao was silent, and then said solemnly: "Your Majesty's hard-working ministers know that governing the world is not just about hard work. Nine out of ten of the officials and students in the world come from the gentry family. The gentry is a powerful man. Your Majesty will defeat him."
To be powerful means to overthrow the officials and scholars in the world, and the world will be in chaos. At that time, the people will not be poor, but will lose their lives at any time."
Zhao Yun looked at Yuan Shao without saying anything. Yuan Shao looked at Zhao Yun sincerely, hoping that Zhao Yun would abolish the new law because of the setbacks Renhe encountered.
"Deng Guang went to Renhe, do you know this?"
Suddenly, Zhao Yun asked Yuan Shao such a question, which immediately shocked Yuan Shao, with a look of horror in his eyes.
Yuan Shao took a long time to calm down, then tremblingly said: "Your Majesty, are you monitoring the hundred officials? The hundred officials are your majesty's arms to rule the country, and they should be like one body. If your majesty cuts himself off,
Officials, this is very dangerous and will bring disaster to the common people. Please don’t do it, Your Majesty.”
The meaning of Yuan Shao's words was very serious. It almost made it clear that the emperor and officials should maintain basic trust and freedom.