The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 161 Development
Zongze's reporting to the official position was never an end, but a means to achieve the goal.

In fact, Zongze knows better than anyone else that expecting Kaifeng Mansion to solve the problem of Wuyou Cave is simply wishful thinking, unless the person sitting in the Yin seat of Nanya Mansion is Bao Xiaosu.

It is a pity that in the Northern Song Dynasty, there were more than 180 (183 recorded people) Kaifeng governors, and there was only such a real "Yam Luo Qingtian".

From Zongze reporting to the official, to Ergou raping a police officer on the street, riding his horse through the capital's long street, and then disappearing into Wuyou Cave.This series of events, connected in series, resulted in a sleepless night for most people in the capital.

Regardless of whether they were people involved in this series of events or people who were not involved, everyone who heard about it began to become agitated.

In the early morning of the next day, although this day was not the usual day for court meetings, Emperor Zhezong and most of the courtiers had already gathered in the Zichen Palace in unison, and there was no need for Zhezong's imperial guards to ring the Jingyang Bell to inform everyone. Have a court meeting.

According to the usual court ceremony, all the monarchs and ministers went to the palace to discuss matters.

Without waiting for Zhezong to ask about the thieves' riot in the capital's long street last night, Chen Cisheng, the supervisory censor, directly launched an attack to impeach the commander of the capital's military patrol department for neglecting his duty, which caused the thieves to cause a riot in the capital last night, which shocked the military and civilians in the capital.

To be honest, this impeachment doesn't mean anything. It's basically what the title is supposed to mean.Even if Chen Cisheng can't stand up, there are still a lot of censors and admonishers waiting to talk about this matter.

The problem is that Chen Cisheng is an old party official and one of the backbones and leaders of the old party in the government. However, the commander of the Military Inspection Department he impeached is a confidant of the new party leader Zhang Dun.

If anyone were to be impeached, no matter whether it was a pawn of the old party or someone from the new party, no one would think twice about it.

But Chen Cisheng's first appearance immediately made everyone start to murmur, especially the independent prime minister who is inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people - Zhang Dun.

After the two power transitions between the Yuanyou and Shaosheng years, the old and new parties have become completely incompatible. The phrase "human brains beaten into dog brains" is not enough to express the conflict between the two parties.

As long as either party seizes the opportunity to deal with the other party, it is really: as long as it can be punished to death, it will be punished to death.

The so-called opportunities are often trivial things that seem inconspicuous in daily life. For example, the "Wutai Poetry Case" that scared Su Shi to the point of peeing. To put it bluntly, it was just Su Shi's dissolute temper that caused him to write a few sentences casually. .

Another example is the recent large-scale plan being planned by the New Party to clean up the backbone of the old party in the DPRK and China. This political struggle incident was called the "Prison of Tongwenguan" by later generations. Its direct origin is also not big. It was just Wen Yanbo's son Wen Ji. A grumbling letter written to my friend Xing Shu when I was just mourning.

The fact that two dogs were galloping on the streets of the capital at night was not a big deal.

But it is precisely these seemingly inconspicuous things that people can easily ignore and relax their vigilance at the beginning of the incident. When political opponents seize the opportunity to launch an offensive, they will naturally be caught off guard and suffer big losses.

So as soon as Chen Cisheng showed up, the new party members immediately jumped on it and jumped out to confront Chen Cisheng one after another. Many of them didn't even know what happened last night, they just knew some hearsay rumors.

The members of the old party would not stand still and watch their generals besieged by the new party members, and immediately jumped out to confront the new party members to relieve Chen Cisheng from the pressure of being targeted.

Such a chaotic situation was not what Emperor Zhezong wanted to see, and he wanted to know the truth of the matter more than the fight between the courtiers.

It's a pity that it was just one night. Except for some lucky people, no matter how well-informed the average person was, it was difficult to get a glimpse of the whole thing.

Even the Military Inspection Department had the most clues, but they only knew that someone rushed out of the underground sewer, killed the Kaifeng Prefecture officer on the street near Qiu Sheng Garden in Bianshui River, and then seized the horse and galloped down the street, and was suspected of being killed. The body of the officer.Xie Wenguan, the prefect of Kaifeng, only knew that his family had sent a group of officers to the underground Wuyou Cave to check the incident reported by a small official named Zong about the population plundering in Wuyou Cave. The key to the problem was that the person he was waiting to go to It's not Bianshui Qiusheng Garden, but Guanyin Yuan Bridge, where Yan Shude's lair is located.

As for Xu Yanfu, another Kaifeng government official who knew the truth, he was not qualified to go to court to discuss politics.

Because of his status, Zhang Dun had the most resources, so he was able to put together all kinds of information. For example, the thief was not just one person, but rushed out of the ground together with a dozen women and children, and then killed the guards, seized the horses, and galloped away. After that, the women and children disappeared without a trace, leaving only a highly skilled thief leading six empty horses through the long street.

Cao Ping, the commander of the Divine Guard Army (one of the four armies of the Forbidden Army in the Northern Song Dynasty), Shi Che, the commander of the first army on the left wing of the Long Guard (same as above), and Yang Wen, the deputy general of the third army of the right wing of the Japanese army (same as above), all took action. Intercepted the thief, but unfortunately failed to capture him in one fell swoop.

Gao Gongji, the former capital commander of the Tianwu Army (same as above), has also joined the pursuit of the thieves, but he has not met the thieves yet, and Zhang Dun is deeply worried about this.

For matters like this where the facts are not yet clear, direct impeachment will not lead to any results. The dispute between the old and the new parties is just to express their respective positions and to put pressure on Yuji (relevant departments) to find out the truth as soon as possible.

The subtext of each is: Our old party (new party) is not easy to mess with, and some people cannot throw shit at us when they are investigating the truth.

This kind of truth-finding work is naturally not undertaken by any one department alone, but is led by Dali Temple in Zhongshu Menxia Province, and Kaifeng Prefecture Nanya, Yushitai, Dianqian Division, and Imperial City Division jointly picketed and handled the case.

Then the first step in the investigation came to light: the identity of the so-called Kaifeng Prefecture officer who was killed was false. This person was not found in the Kaifeng Prefecture Nanyamen officer list, but the Kaifeng Prefecture arrester Liang Heng's whereabouts were unknown.

So all the investigating officials had a question: what did Liang Heng do?

From this, the incident of Zongze reporting to official Wuyoudong was naturally implicated, and then Xu Yanfu was promoted to official.

Some people may say that this matter is too trivial. How come the threads were pulled out in just a few seconds, so is the protective umbrella behind Wuyou Cave so ineffective?

Of course that's not the case. The main reason is that Ergou went too far when he galloped on horseback in the middle of the night. He almost overturned the table.

Someone asked again, isn’t it just riding horses and racing at night?What the heck!

The key is that although the matter is not big, its nature is different.

For example, Wuyou Cave is like a modern gangster, kidnapping, extorting money from ordinary people, Prissy doesn't care, it's all the same, and the upper class people can only say a word.

Two dogs racing down the length of Beijing at night were like unknown people flying fighter jets over Washington DC. Although they did not cause any substantial damage, they were enough to keep a sleepy Joe awake at night.

Do you think these two things can be of the same nature?

Ergou was also greatly stimulated by the viciousness of Wei Yangyin and others. Just now, his head was hot and he did such a thing, which may only result in a few words of reprimand, or in the worst case, the death of his household registration book.

　Chapter 2.

　　
　
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