Facts have proved that without the help of a master like Han Qi, Zhao Zongshi and his brothers could not defeat Zhao Zhen.////The brothers tried their best to create such a huge formation, but were first defeated by one side.
After being discouraged, the emperor used hard work to drag things out until the end of the year.
The Chinese New Year is the most important time in the world. Even if no one is willing to give in, the government offices are closed, so naturally they can’t make any fuss. Everyone has no choice but to change their mood and celebrate the Spring Festival of the seventh year of Jiayou.
But there are also people who are not in the mood to celebrate the New Year, and Zhao Zongshi is one of them. Once the matter of establishing a reserve has been completely put aside, no one will mention it again for at least a whole year. If you think about it, you can understand his anger and fear. Secondly,
Come on, it’s really hard to be the governor of Kaifeng...
The closer the New Year is to the New Year, the more arduous the tasks of Kaifeng Prefecture will be. The people in Bianjing love to play so much and are so good at playing. They start setting off fireworks and firecrackers from New Year's Eve. If they are not done correctly, it will cause a fire. As a densely populated area, the roofs are connected.
In such a big city, we must always pay attention to fire prevention, right? Various temple fairs are crowded with people, so we must maintain order and prevent robbery and pickpocketing, right? There are also various emergencies that emerge one after another, making the officials in the government exhausted and overwhelmed.
But this is nothing. The real test is yet to come. The five nights from the 15th to the 19th of the first lunar month are the largest carnival in the Song Dynasty and even in the world. Think about it, millions of people are going on day and night, unscrupulously
The carnival is so exciting... but it does not include the officials of Kaifeng Mansion.
For them, these five days and five nights are as unbearable as the gates of hell. When the sky is full of fire and flowers, and the men and women are having a carnival, it is also the time when the lawless people take advantage of the opportunity to do evil.
On the one hand, the streets are crowded with people, and children are taken away accidentally. Women often disappear. Even the female relatives of princes and nobles are not immune... On the 16th day,
The princes, nobles, relatives and their wives set up curtains in the two verandas outside Xuande Gate, placed wine and food, and watched the lights. As a result, the fireworks lit up the curtains of a prince's house in Jiyang County, and for a moment smoke and flames spread everywhere. Everyone fell down and rushed to avoid the scene.
A mess.
As a result, some bad guys took advantage of the situation and took the princess away...
On the other hand, everyone from the princes to the common people took to the streets to have fun, which naturally gave the gentlemen of Liang Shang an advantage over the thieves of rats and dogs. Hundreds of thefts occurred in one night.
If it was just an ordinary person's house that was robbed, it would be fine. The Kaifeng Mansion would take over the case and investigate it slowly in the future. But this year something went wrong. A group of thieves came out, specializing in stealing from officials. After five days, there was actually one
Hundreds of houses were robbed, but none of the big thieves were caught. Only a few thieves were caught.
It is said that the officialdom of Kaifeng Prefecture was brought out by Bao Zheng, and through Ouyang Xiu and Zhao Bian, two competent prefects, their level is quite high... Even if the robbers cannot be caught, they cannot be allowed to be so arrogant. But the problem is, originally
The gang of police officers were wiped out by Zhao Zonghan half a month ago!
It was on the morning of that suburban welcoming ceremony that Zhao Zonghan led officials from Kaifeng Prefecture and set up roadblocks to prevent the people from watching the ceremony. However, Zhao Zongjing and Chen Ke defeated them in three strikes. Zhao Zonghan's guards were knocked down and he himself was captured.
How can I swallow this breath? I can't find any bad luck with those two people at the moment, I can only vent my anger on those people who are "eating inside and outside".
As a result, all the police officers who let go of the roadblocks were given a beating when they came back, and then were kicked out of the yamen and lost their jobs. As a result, half of the 800 police officers in Kaifeng Prefecture were gone, especially the big and small bosses.
At that time, some officials advised us that this would not work. The security of Kaifeng Prefecture still relied on this group of people.
Zhao Zonghan didn't care, he had a lot of buddies... When Wuyou Cave was destroyed, most of the gang members were arrested and sent to the army, but countless people escaped, and when the limelight passed, they came out to form gangs and do evil. Zhao Zonghan
After returning to Beijing, because his brother was regarded as the prince by the people, a large group of his subordinates naturally gathered again and became even more powerful than before.
Zhao Zonghan had a beautiful thought. If he replaced all the servants of Kaifeng Mansion with his disciples, would Bianjing City become his own in the future? With this mentality, he wanted to place cronies in the Yamen. Zhao Zongshi was also a fool.
As a former official who was close to the people, he didn't take these "low servants" seriously at all. He didn't know the importance of these people. Instead, he thought that it would be better to use his own people instead.
Who would have thought that just half a month later, Zhao Zongshi found out that he had been tricked. It was a good job for the gang of soldiers and crab generals of Lao Shiliu to bully the common people, and they were stunned when they were asked to guard against thieves and catch thieves...
"What should we do now?" After working for several days, Zhao Zongshi's voice was hoarse, his eyes were bloodshot, and he no longer had the elegant and calm demeanor of a wise king. He glared at Zhao Zonghan and Zhao Zongqiu and said: "Let you strengthen your defense, strengthen your defense
,How come even Dazhong Cheng’s house was stolen?!”
Just now, the police officer came to report that the house of Tang Jie, the imperial censor, had also been robbed. Zhao Zongshi was immediately in a state of confusion, and even the best-mannered person would be furious.
The two knew they were in the wrong and did not dare to talk back. Zhao Zongqiu whispered: "Tang Jie's family is very poor. The thieves have found the wrong target this time."
"Did your head get caught in the door?" Zhao Zongshi couldn't help but scolded: "Even if only a penny was stolen, it was stolen from Yu Shi Zhongcheng's house! Can he not blame me, the governor?"
"If someone's house is robbed, blame my brother!" Zhao Zongqiu widened his eyes and said, "Then you won't be blamed to death after five days?"
"I just thought of it!" Zhao Zongshi was no longer interested in scolding him. He rubbed his temples with both hands and said, "Continue to send more manpower to patrol. The residences of officials above the fifth rank will be watched!"
"We don't have that many manpower..." Zhao Zonghan said, "Unless we pull back all the people on the street."
"We can't withdraw..." Zhao Zongshi closed his eyes and said weakly: "There are still two days of the lantern festival. If there is chaos here, without being impeached, I will have no shame in being the governor anymore."
"Then where can we find people?" Zhao Zonghan asked distressedly: "How about borrowing troops from the Infantry Division?"
"No." Zhao Zongshi shook his head decisively. This is the capital of the Song Dynasty. To mobilize every soldier, you need the military symbols of the Privy Council. And the Privy Council uses the military symbols without the emperor's nod, which is equivalent to rebellion. Therefore, if you want to use the army, you have to alert the emperor.
The Privy Council is not allowed.
Zhao Zongshi knew that the army had not been deployed in previous terms, so he did not want to break this rule, otherwise would it appear that he was too incompetent?
"Tell brother, let the guards of the palace change into the uniforms of Kaifeng Palace and come out to wear a hat." Zhao Zongqiu said with a flash of inspiration.
"This is an idea." Zhao Zongshi really had no other choice. There were dozens of guards in the Runan Palace, plus more than a hundred guards in his own house, so it would be able to do the job: "Tell Mr. Meng,
There are also...eighty guards in my house."
"There are dozens of people in my outer house." Zhao Zonghan also contributed: "There are 200 people in total, which can solve the urgent need."
"Go..." Zhao Zongshi didn't want to talk anymore.
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In the blink of an eye, at night, as soon as darkness falls, millions of lanterns rush to light up. Viewed from a high place, Bianjing City is as bright and gorgeous as a fairyland.
'Ahem...' Hearing the cough from the man inside, Zhang Dun reluctantly looked away and closed the window.
This was in a private room near the window on the fourth floor of the north building of Fan Tower. There were exquisite wines and dishes on the table, but there were no prostitutes to accompany them. Only the sick young master Wang Yu and Zhang Dun sat opposite each other.
Wang Yu was afraid of the wind, so he sat in the corner farthest from the window. After the window was closed, his coughing became less severe.
"There are only 20% of the guards left in Zhao Zongshi's house." Zhang Dun whispered: "Chen Zhongfang is very scheming."
"Yeah, I also guessed that he would take action during the Yuan Festival." Although Wang Yu had no one to spare, he still couldn't help but feel dissatisfied when he mentioned Chen Ke: "But I didn't expect that he could let people steal the houses of officials. Is this a cruel move?
I don’t know how many officials will lower their evaluation of Zhao Zongshi, and I’m afraid there are many who will impeach him.”
In the eyes of these two conspirators, Chen Ke's original attempt to alienate Zhao Zongshi and the Kaifeng Mansion police officers seemed careless, but in fact it was deliberate - in order to paralyze the Kaifeng Mansion so that his men disguised as thieves could take action.
"There must be a lot of people fishing in troubled waters these days, and we are going to be one of them." Zhang Dun had something on his mind. He sighed a few words, and then said in a voice like a mosquito: "Do you already know where the book is hidden?"
"Yeah." Wang Yu nodded: "I generally understand."
"How do you know?" Zhang Dun was immediately surprised and said: "Didn't Xizuo send a message saying that he hadn't found it a few days ago?"
"Zhao Zongshi exposed it himself." Wang Yu said with a sarcastic smile: "Xinzuo found out that he has to go to the library to read for a while every day in the past few days before going back to his room to sleep."
"Everyone knows that Zhao Zongshi is eager to learn." Zhang Dun said with a smile.
"In the past, when he was free, he only entered the library every three or five times. Why is it that now that he is so busy, he is in the mood to visit every day?" Wang Yu sneered: "Zhao Zongshi has an insecure character.
He is clearly frightened by the recent thieves, and he can't sleep at all unless he checks to make sure the book is still there every day."
"Even in the library," Zhang Dun said, "it's not that easy to find."
"Yes." Wang Yu nodded and said: "That guy is famous for his love of learning. It is said that most of his salary is used to buy books. With the gifts from the officials and others, his library is comparable to a library. I want to start from
Finding a pamphlet inside is like finding a needle in a haystack."
"How are you going to find him?" Even so, Zhang Dun still believed that Wang Yu was omnipotent.
"I have my own instructions, you just have to wait and enjoy the show." Wang Yu didn't want to tell the truth.
"Okay." Zhang Dun smiled and said, "When will we do it?"
"It's not the time yet." Wang Yu shook his head and said, "Let's wait until the fourth watch. At that time, the guards in the house are the most tired. We only have one chance, and we must not miss it!"