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The greedy child rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at the apricot tree on the street corner. He was a little regretful that those green apricots could not grow big and turn yellow. The apricots tasted yesterday and they were still very sour. Why do they still taste like this today? I hate it.
I was so angry that I poured urine on the roots of the tree. Can't this damn old apricot tree make the apricots grow faster?
Look at the locust trees on both sides of the road and take a sip of saliva. Compared with apricots, locust flowers are the real delicacy. Steam a handful of white locust flowers and brown rice together, and the sweet flavor can be spread to the street market.
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The dust raised by fast horses is always so annoying. In Daxing City in the summer, because the streets in Chang'an City were not fully paved with stone slabs before the Tang Dynasty, if it didn't rain and the dust would rise, it would always be a bit gray.
A silent young man jumped off the horse, carrying a bucket of paste in his hand. He dipped his pen in the paste, brushed twice on the wall, and then pulled out a piece of paper from the bamboo tube on the horse's back.
, posted it on the wall of the square. After looking up and down, I found that it was well posted, so I got on my horse and ran to the next place.
There are more than one or two such young men on horseback, and there are as many as three thousand who do the same thing. They are scattered everywhere in and around the capital early in the morning. They are all dead soldiers raised by Yang Guang, but now they are doing the same thing - brushing
Paste, sticker sheet.
This is new. In the capital city, apart from the government, there are notices posted at the city gate. And occasionally, the Jingzhao Palace will let the police catch the green forest thieves who commit crimes or the flower pickers who dare to attack the nobles and wealthy families. Who will see it?
Someone once posted Jin Gui's paper all over the city. There were words written on it. In the Sui Dynasty, ordinary people were almost literate. As a result, many people gathered around and could not read. A group of people looked at it eagerly, curious to death.
, and also anxious to death.
People who have something good to do immediately call out the shopkeeper of the bookstore next to him. He is the only literate person in this neighborhood. He will be invited to come forward when anyone is holding a wedding or wedding or writing something.
However, this time, the bookstore owner coughed twice, cleared his throat and was about to read aloud to show off his knowledge. Who knows, as soon as he saw clearly what was written on it, he immediately covered his mouth and turned around three steps without saying a word.
He rushed back to the bookstore in two steps, and then everyone saw people shouting at his son and his mother-in-law. They climbed up the barrier as quickly as possible and even closed the store doors, not even doing business.
Seeing the bookstore owner like this, the neighbors became even more anxious and curious.
"What exactly is written on it? Is it because the government is going to collect additional commercial taxes on various shops in the capital?" Someone whispered, with a look of worry on his face, which aroused worry and depression among a group of people.
Ordinary people in the capital are mainly engaged in various small and large businesses to make a living. They are worried for a while, but there are also different opinions, but they have no clue. Fang Zheng and Wu Hou are now reporting to the officials of their respective yamen.
I couldn't find anyone who could read or write.
A poor-looking scholar in a gray robe happened to pass by at this time. An older man came up and said hello. The young scholar was easy to talk to. Without saying a word, he came to the bottom of the list and took a look.
After taking a quick look at the neighborhood, he said to the surrounding neighbors: "More than 3,000 women and children have disappeared every day in Daxing City over the past few years. They have all been secretly kidnapped and kidnapped by a slave trading gang called Changsheng. They sold the women and children to other places. There are many
They were sold directly to the Turks and Khitans, and the Turks and Khitans liked it... My relatives, friends, and neighbors had women and children missing. Maybe it was this slave trading gang called Changsheng who secretly kidnapped them and sold them for dirty money.
Already."
Before the poor scholar finished speaking, someone grabbed the scholar and asked him who was the leader of the slave merchant group named Changsheng? His children had been missing for two years, and the scholar told him that this matter belonged to Li Chen, a famous scholar in Dongcheng.
His daughter disappeared a few days ago. Li Chen spent all his family wealth and asked talented people to search for his daughter. Finally, he found his daughter on the way to North Turkestan. Unfortunately, the opponent was too powerful and he could not rob her, so he asked a friend to borrow three
I bought my daughter back for a hundred taels of silver. Why is it so expensive? Everyone may know that Mr. Li’s daughter is a beauty, but it’s a pity that Li Chen’s daughter has been ruined by the leader of the slave merchant group. Li Chen brought his daughter back
On the second day after returning home, that is, last night, Li Chen's daughter hanged herself.
Li Chen is well-known in the capital, and many people know that Li Chen's daughter seemed to have disappeared for a while some time ago, and then there were reports that Li Chen's daughter hanged herself at night. It turned out that this was what happened.
But few people know that this person is an aide under the East Palace Prince Yang Guang.
Of course Mr. Li was very angry and sad, so he posted a notice warning the neighbors to be careful about their children and young women at home, and not to be robbed or deceived and sold to the Turks and Khitans. He himself even
Go to the Jingzhao Mansion Office to sue the slave merchant group and the master behind it, Prince Changping, and seek justice for your daughter.
As soon as the down-and-out scholar finished speaking, he handed over his hands and left. When he left, he warned the neighbors to be careful about his daughter, the boy, and the young women in his family. Looking at the neighbors who were crying and losing their children and wives, he sighed and left.
After crossing the corner, the down-and-out scholar changed his clothes, replaced the wooden hairpin on his head with a jade hairpin, took out a mustache from his sleeve and stuck it on his lips. He suddenly transformed from a down-and-out scholar into a distinguished one.
An outstanding young scholar, he turned to the next street corner and continued to explain to the neighbors who did not know the truth...
It didn't take long for the news on the notice to spread throughout Daxing City, becoming a real household name. The children who were running outside just now were immediately dragged home by their mothers and slapped several times on the buttocks before listening to their mother.
Tell him the horrific story of the children being captured by the slave merchant group of the abominable Changping Palace and sold to the Turks to be used as human skin drums. The children were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they could no longer even cry. They hid in the house while the adults chased them outside.
They didn't dare to go out.
The children who were running around in Daxing City are gone, and the young girls who like to go shopping are gone. Even some half-grown men and young women who have to come out for a living are walking in a hurry on the street, with panic on their faces, like
Like a frightened deer, he was so frightened that he ran away when he saw a stranger. Especially when the area around Changping Palace became a no-man's land, no one dared to approach.
When the sun turned to the west, people felt no different from usual. While they secretly breathed a sigh of relief, some self-righteous people wondered whether Li Chen had a grudge against the Changping Prince's Palace, so they used this method to retaliate against the Changping Prince's Palace and prepared to
Go home and let the child out for air after being locked in the house all day.
But then news spread that Li Chen really took the paper to the Jingzhao Mansion Office to sue the Changping Prince. From the east end to the west end, most of the people in Daxing City saw this man in the capital.
A middle-aged scholar with a good reputation, who seemed to have aged twenty years overnight, went to the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen with red eyes and a sad face.
In front of hundreds of people in the capital who heard the news and rushed to see the excitement, they knocked the bells and drums on both sides of the Jingzhao Mansion Office. Before the people complained, they always knocked the bells and drums to urge the lazy old man.
The rule of going to court to handle cases has been around since the Han Dynasty.
The common people have no way to sue the officials. To sue the officials, people should first accuse them of guilt. Even if they win the lawsuit, the spine and staff will not be less than eighty, and they will definitely not be less than one mile after being exiled for three thousand miles. But Li Chen is also a noble.
Although his family fortune has declined, he still has the honorary title of seventh grade.
Looking back at the large group of people in the capital behind him, Li Chen's face was filled with grief, but he was quite happy in his heart. His daughter had been sent to Luoyang overnight. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince promised that he would find a middle-class family to marry into, and all he needed to do was to marry her into a middle-class family.
After this matter was completed, he was one of the three people who had the greatest contribution among the participants in the entire plan. When the Changping Palace was submerged in the wave of the ocean of common people mentioned by Qin Anhou, it was the day he came forward under the prince's command.
when.
The governor of Jingzhao was Chen Sansi, the former governor of Yongzhou who had just taken over Wang Tong's position and had only been in office for three days. At this time, Chen Sansi regretted that he had gone to the capital so early to take office. Although he was also from a noble family, he was from the Chen family in Shandong.
He is just a middle-class family, and has no strength to confront the Changping Palace, and is not qualified to get involved in the struggle for the crown prince. In short, if this matter is not handled well at the moment, he will be dismissed from office and imprisoned, or he will die in vain in the capital.
, and it will also affect the family.
The other officials under Jingzhao Prefecture also had pale faces. Although most of them were from aristocratic families, most of them were not even as good as Chen Sansi. In front of the Changping Palace, they could only be regarded as low-ranking small families. If Jingzhao Prefecture dared to take over
According to the paper, in their opinion, Mr. Fu Yin, who is favored by His Majesty, may be fine, but they themselves and even their family may fall into a situation of eternal disaster under the revenge of Prince Changping and Prince Yin.
Chen Sansi didn't want to take it at first, but after Li Chen entered the inner hall, he took out the prince's token and a letter. He sighed, took it and read it carefully, thinking about how Wang Junlin sent someone yesterday
After receiving the letter sent to him, Chen Sansi gritted his teeth and finally accepted Li Chen's suit. He was forced to make a choice in the fight for the position of prince.
However, Chen Sansi still didn't want to offend the Changping Palace and the former crown prince too much, so she gave herself some leeway. She gritted her teeth and said to Li Chen: "Mr. Li sued the Changsheng Slave Merchant Group of the Changping Palace for kidnapping his daughter, and
I suspect that the women and children who have disappeared in the capital in recent years are the work of the Prosperous Slave Merchant Group. But there is evidence. If there is no evidence, it will be very difficult for me to do this! You must know that I have just taken office and am not familiar with the situation in the capital.
People are searching for evidence, but I don’t know when there will be any progress. Maybe no one from the Changping Palace will pay attention to me.”