The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Cao Min was traveling faster than the others in the carriage. While the students were still on their way, the Yamen of Yingtian Mansion had already received the news. Tang Jie quickly sent people to report to the prince, and at the same time mobilized people to go to the square in front of the Yamen to prevent any accidents from happening.

When Su Jin and others rushed to the square in front of the yamen, one or two hundred yamen servants and box soldiers had already been mobilized in the square, standing in rows with knives and guns in hand.

The students had never seen this kind of battle, and they were a little apprehensive in their hearts, and whispered to each other; Su Jin said to everyone: "Everyone, relax, we are here to petition, not to fight, as long as we obey the rules just now." The three chapters of the covenant mentioned are nothing to be afraid of, the yamen is the yamen of the Great Song Dynasty, so it is impossible to kill me for no reason."

Everyone listened to what he said, and panicked in their hearts for a while, Su Jin asked everyone to wait at the bottom of the steps, then walked up the steps slowly, and clasped his fists in front of several guards at the gate of the yamen: "Several poor masters, we are waiting for you!" Students of Yingtian Mansion, if you have something to ask Tang Mansion to meet with you, and please report to the messenger."

A yamen servant who was in charge of the class looked Su Jin up and down, frowned and said, "Can't you wait to study in the academy and worry about why so many people come to the yamen gate? Mr. Fu Yin is not in the mansion, please come back later. "

Su Jin smiled and said: "In this case, I will wait here. When the Tang family will come back, I will wait until when."

The team leader reprimanded: "How can there be such a reason? If the Lord Fu Zun doesn't return all night, why don't you wait all night?"

Su Jin nodded and said: "That's right, I vow to see Mr. Fu Zun."

The team leader sneered and said: "If you want to see a fart, you need to be willing to see it. Listen to my advice. Look at the gate of this yamen. There are so many soldiers and yamen servants. You have no help." What can the students of the power of the chicken do? Annoyed the lord of the government and ordered you all to suffer from flesh and blood. Why bother? Is it easy for your parents to save food and money for you to study? But they come here to make trouble .”

Su Jin laughed loudly and said: "Under the broad daylight, Song Qiankun is bright and bright, I am just here to see the Lord Fuzun, one is not to cause trouble, and the other is not to violate the rules, will the Fuzun Lord order us to be arrested? If so , Do you still want his black hat? As for how to study, we, as students, have our own discretion, so I don't need to worry about it."

The group leader glared and said: "If you don't listen to me, you will suffer in front of your eyes. If I didn't say it, you can wait as long as you like. It's just that the grandpas who hurt you will suffer with you. It turned out that I invited someone to play today, and it was you." This group of restless people made a fuss, and the lord Fu Zun hurriedly asked me to come back and watch, it's really fucking bad luck."

Su Jin sneered and said: "Just now you said that the Lord Fuzun is not in the mansion, and now he said that the Lord Fuzun called you back. Isn't this contradictory? If you want to be free, you might as well make a report." good."

The team leader spat and said, "You know how to pick words. The Lord Fuzun is in the mansion, so what? If you want to see that you have come out a long time ago, do you still need me to report it? Aren't you just to take it?" Did you come to your academy alone? I don’t understand, how dare you make a fuss about this? Those people are serious crimes. It is said that they wrote articles that slandered the Holy Majesty and the court. You dare to come and speak for such audacious people , It’s such a long time and I’m tired of it, Lord Fuzun is tolerant, if I become Lord Fuzun, I’ll arrest you and torture you without saying a word.”

Su Jin laughed and said: "This is the reason why you can only be a watchdog. With your words and deeds, you can only be this poor." After saying that, he turned around and went down the stairs. It is useless to talk to this person.

When the gang got angry, they wanted to strike, but a yamen servant behind him grabbed him and whispered in his ear: "Lord Luo, don't forget your lord's explanation. If they don't do anything, if we beat people, I'm afraid it will happen." will be punished."

The head of Luo Ban let out angrily, looked at Su Jin's back and cursed: "Straight mother, don't fall into my hands, I'll make you look good when the time comes."

Su Jin turned a deaf ear and came to the crowd at the bottom of the steps. Everyone gathered around to ask about the situation. Su Jin said: "Master Fu Yin is in the house, but he doesn't want to come out to see us, it's a bit tricky."

A student said: "There must be something strange about this matter. If the government is not guilty, why should they avoid it?"

Everyone nodded and said: "Yes, it must be so."

Su Jin smiled and said: "It would be even better if this is the case. I will wait here. When the Lord sees me, when will I leave? Don't make noise, just sit quietly and wait."

Wu Heng thought: "What's the use of just sitting? They're not going out behind closed doors, are they just deadlocked like this?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "Sitting here is a kind of protest attitude, and I believe that within an hour, this matter will spread throughout the city, and the people in the city will come to watch curiously. The more people gather, the more impact it will have. The bigger it is, the bigger it is, and it’s hard to believe that adults can sit still.”

After hearing this, everyone felt that it was reasonable, so they all sat on the ground in an open space under the steps, staring blankly at the surroundings of the yamen, silent.

A moment passed, half an hour passed, and an hour passed. As Su Jin expected, the people of Yingtian Mansion heard that the students of Yingtian Academy, which they were proud of, sat in front of the yamen to petition, and they all came to watch. It was passed on from ten to hundreds, and from hundreds to thousands. There were more and more people in the square in front of the yamen, and people were pointing and whispering.

"Second Liu, what's going on? Why are these students sitting at the gate of the yamen one by one like wooden bodhisattvas?"

"Hey, you don't know. I heard that the yamen went to Yingtian Mansion last night to take a few students, and they didn't announce what crime they committed, and they didn't publish the evidence of the crime. The other students were dissatisfied, so they came to inquire about the case. Instead, it became like this.”

"It's strange. After taking someone, you always have to announce the case. What's the matter if you don't see it?"

"That's right, and look, so many yamen conscripts are waiting here, isn't this a big deal? Come out and explain, isn't it over? These students are scholars, so it's possible that they can use knives to kill people, and I don't know if the lord is What do you think?"

"This goddamn government is bullying the weak and fearing the strong. My shop is harassed by gangsters every month. I have to pay half of the hard-earned money every month as a plate fee. I sued the government, but I didn't see a soldier from the government to manage it." , this time, he is strong against unarmed students, cao. Damn it."

"Hush... don't you want to kill yourself? You don't even look at the place when you're complaining. If you want to scold your mother, you can find a secluded place to scold. There are officers and soldiers everywhere. Aren't you looking for death?"

"..."

Everyone was discussing, and the officials and soldiers heard it clearly. Seeing that there were too many people gathered, nearly thousands of people, surrounding the square tightly, and listening to these discussions, I couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed. If there is a chaos, The more than 100 soldiers in this area could not be suppressed, so the leaders of the team hurried into the government office to report to Tang Jie.

In less than a while, several groups of people came out from the gate of the yamen. Groups of Tongzhi, Fu Cheng, Zhu Bo, etc. came out to persuade the students to go back, but how could Su Jin stop there? These people all said that they did not know Wang Anshi Waiting for someone to commit something, how can this perfunctory attitude be acceptable.

The sun was setting gradually, the earth was getting darker, and the surroundings had already been lit with lanterns and torches. Some of the students couldn't bear it anymore, so they quietly withdrew from the meditation team and fled. Su Jin didn't blame them. Some people just came to join in the fun, and they didn't need to care about it. By the time of the first watch, there were only about fifty students left in meditation.

The autumn night was slightly cool, and when the wind blew up, the thinly dressed students felt a little shivering. In addition, they were hungry and their morale was a little low.

Su Jin was planning to ask Wu Hengxin to buy some food, when he suddenly saw four fat men coming towards the east of the square, carrying two big buckets, shouting, the soldiers stepped forward to stop them, and the men said: "I'm here to deliver food." Yes, Lord Jun won’t even take care of this.”

Of course the soldiers didn't care about this matter, those young men brought the big bucket in front of the students, cupped their hands and said: "Young masters, someone ordered the villain to bring rice, dishes and meatball soup, please eat quickly, gentlemen."

Everyone looked at Su Jin suspiciously, and someone asked, "Which kind person did such a kind deed?"

The boys kept silent, Su Jin said: "Just eat, don't ask other questions, come, come, I'll have a bowl of broth first."

Everyone was so hungry that they smelled the aroma of the broth, and their stomachs were growling. They took the bowls and chopsticks to fill up the food and ate it. After a while, the food was exhausted and the soup was exhausted. In the midst of hunger, white rice, home-cooked dishes, and meatball soup were eaten. It is more refreshing than the delicacies of mountains and seas, lotus seed bird's nest, and ginseng soup.

Taking advantage of his unpreparedness, a boy who delivered food stuffed a note into Su Jin's hand, blinked and pouted towards the northeast corner, then yelled at the other three boys, picked up the empty bucket and left.

Su Jin looked in the direction of his mouth, and saw a light on the second floor window of a small two-story building, and several slender figures stood at the window and looked towards this side. They couldn't see their faces clearly at night, but Su Jin knew that it was Yan Biyun, Rouniang Huanniang, Xiaosuier and others.

He lowered his head and opened the note in his hand under the dim light, and a line of delicate handwriting came into view: the king is like a rock, the concubine is like a reed, Mo Yan success or failure, life and death depend on each other.

The mist rose in Su Jin's eyes, and he tore the paper lightly to pieces, and threw it in the air, the paper flew, and Su Jin fell all over his body.