The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 162 Trouble is coming
After Ergou set off a big thunder and chased Wei Yangyin and other direct murderers underground, he immediately stopped and stopped caring about the follow-up matters related to Wuyou Cave. Of course, he couldn't control it either.

Including Chen Tong'e, Liu Bao and others, they all returned to their respective places on the night when the two dogs galloped.

As for the rescued victims, they had already been secretly placed by Taoists from Si Tiantai.The energy of Sitiantai Anyuan is very great. Most of the Taoist temples in Bianliang City are related to them, including a few Buddhist temples. It is easy to accommodate hundreds of people.

The only one who couldn't escape was Zongze, who was tricked by Ergou.After the officials who were investigating the thief's night running down the street found clues about him, he naturally endured all the pressure he shouldn't have to bear.

Of course, this was Zongze's own fault.

Originally, as a minor official from out of town, Zongze's reporting of the crime was not considered a crime.However, when Xie Wenguan, the governor of Kaifeng, told him about a thief running down the capital's long street at night, and described the thief's quick-shooting skills, Zongze missed something on his expression.

He really didn't expect Ergou to be so bold, but he was surprised when Xie Wenguan saw it.

Xie Wenguan realized that Zongze might know the thief, at least who he was.

The reason is that both the new party officials and the old party officials want to pry open Zongze's mouth and make him say what they want, but it may not necessarily be the correct result. For example, which faction does the thief walking on the night street belong to? Character, it is best to be able to climb up to a heavyweight.

As a result, a series of threats and inducements were poured out on Zongze almost continuously.

For example, new party officials relied on Zongze's resume to establish relations with him and reasoned with him. They mentioned that they knew that the former prime minister of Taiyuan Prefecture, Lu Jifu (Lu Huiqing), was a leader of the reform faction, etc., and then talked about the old party Yuanyou. What he did during the years was harmful to the country and the people, and he hinted in a roundabout way that Zongze should find a few enemies in the old party as targets.

He also promised that as long as Zongze could build momentum, not only would he himself be promoted and make a fortune, but his benefactor Lu Huiqing might also be transferred to the center and regain the position of prime minister.

It's a pity that Zongze doesn't accept this trick at all. He just wants to find out those officials who protect the Wuyoudong bandits. He is just a county lieutenant who has just been promoted. Why bother to get involved with such factions in the court? Party strife.

As for getting promoted and making a fortune, that is completely insulting Zongze’s character!If Zong Rulin only wanted to be promoted, why would he have sprayed the old party into a pile of shit during the palace examination during the Yuanyou period, and directly dropped from the first armor in his hand to the bottom of the ranking? !
In the end, the angry Zongze sprayed the leaders of the new party back.

When the new party's attempts to lure Zongze failed, the old party officials used a coercive method against him - torture.

Originally, the new party was restricting it, and it was difficult for officials of the old party to use any punishment on Zongze. However, Zongze's "ignorance" made An Dun, a representative of the new party, very dissatisfied, but he allowed the old party officials to punish Zongze. of torture.

Of course, the final result is obvious. People from the old party did not get a satisfactory answer. And because they were concerned about Zongze's origins, neither old party officials nor An Dun, the representative of the new party, dared to really harm Zongze's life. In this case, we can only let it go.

Of course, the real reason why the chief and deputy judges let Zong Ze go was that Xu Yanfu, another Kaifeng official who had exposed his flaws, spoke up.

Originally, Xu Yanfu was just imprisoned after the accident, and no one really regarded him as a target. After all, everyone was here to investigate the thieves running on Ma Chi Street. Who would want to investigate something like that in a beggar's den? Chana was just doing business.

However, as the den of thieves under Bianshui Qiu Sheng was uncovered during the investigation, dozens of corpses also included a group of fake Kaifeng government officials, some murdered missing women from good families, and even many murdered children. , things really got serious.

After all, this is a major case involving sixty or seventy lives. Who dares not to take it seriously?So Xu Yanfu also became the protagonist of the interrogation.

Xu Yanfu is a weakling, he is not as able to resist things as Zongze.With a little intimidation, most of the inside story of Wuyou Cave was revealed to Tulu. Many officials, including Cai Jing, were implicated, as well as several monks and nuns in charge of the royal temple.

This big melon made the old party officials ecstatic, because at this time Cai Jing was conducting the "Tongwen Guan Prison", interrogating and investigating Wen Jifu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and wanted to catch all the old party tycoons Liu Zhi and others.

When Xu Yanfu exposed the news, it was the ultimate backstab for Cai Jing, a cadre of the new party. The Wen Jifu incident that had made old party officials panic all day ushered in a turning point.

Needless to say, the fierce intra-party disputes that followed needless to say.

In short, the result that Zongze wanted has been achieved. Although he has received a lot of criticism for this, and has offended both the old and the new parties, it can be predicted that his official career in the future will be more bumpy than in history. For this Zongze didn't take it to heart.What really made him feel uneasy were the corpses of the victims who were taken out of the Wuyou Cave. At the same time, he also understood why Ergou wanted to ride on the Capital Changjie at night and blow up the streets. He was really angry and ruthless.

Although Zongze felt that Ergou was a bit impulsive, he recognized and appreciated Ergou's temperament more.

That is to say, Zongze himself doesn't have a suitable daughter, otherwise he would have to recruit that boy as a son-in-law.

However, this "son-in-law" whom Zongze admired has been in a bit of a mess these days.

Do you know why?

Because there is a scary guy who is lingering behind him - Gao Gongji.

Speaking of Gao Gongji, we have to start with Gao Taotao, Queen Xuanren Shenglie.Queen Mother Xuanrengao was the wife of Song Yingzong, the mother of Song Shenzong who supported Wang Anshi's reform, and the grandmother of Emperor Zhezong.

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Shenzong died of illness, and Zhezong Zhao Xu ascended the throne at the age of ten. The Empress Dowager Gao Taotao listened to the government from behind the curtain. The model was basically similar to that of Kangxi and Xiaozhuang in the braided dynasty in later generations.

The only difference from the Braid Dynasty is that there was no Dorgon in the Song Dynasty, and the Song version of Ao Bai was the nephew of Empress Dowager Gao, that is, Gao Gongji.

Empress Dowager Gao had overwhelming power over the world, and a large part of her power came from Gao Gong Ji Wu Gai Jinghua.

Gao Gongji was much more loyal than Obai. He lived a simple life, did not admire luxury, and had no ambition. He was only obsessed with practicing martial arts.After Empress Dowager Gao took over the government behind the curtain, the first thing Gao Gongji did was to help his aunt beat up all the good guys from the general families in Bianjing City.

At that time, Cao Ping's martial arts in the Cao family had not yet fully matured. Yang Zhongrong, the pillar of the Yang family, had been dead for many years. The Shi family was weak. The two brothers of the Guo family, Guo Zhongliang and Guo Zhongfan, sons of Guo Kui, were both beaten to death by Gao Gongji. It can be said that Empress Dowager Gao listened to politics behind the curtain and everything went smoothly, and no one dared to disobey her.

That is to say, Empress Dowager Gao's ambition is not big, otherwise it is not impossible to become the second Wu Zetian.

During the period when Empress Dowager Gao came to power, Gao Gongji did not accept a prominent position, but only served as the defense envoy of Yongzhou and the commander of the Tianwu Army.

It was just that after Zhezong came to power, he was very jealous of Empress Dowager Gao's oppression of him. He believed that Empress Dowager Gao and others wanted to harm him (the cause of Wen Jifu's case), so he suppressed the Gao family many times.

Gao Gongji was a person who thought about issues more directly. He believed that as long as he could prove his family's loyalty to the emperor, Emperor Zhezong should be able to let the Gao family go.

Therefore, he wanted to personally catch the thief walking on the streets of the capital at night to prove that he and the Gao family were loyal to the Song Dynasty.

　Chapter 1 arrives!

　　I have been hesitant in the past two days as to whether I should write in detail about the dispute between Zongze and the imperial party.

　　If I were to spread out my writing, I might not be able to finish it in a month.

　　After thinking about it, the main theme of this book is fantasy stories under the background of Warhammer. Writing about court battles seems a bit unprofessional.

　　Everyone initially disliked me and would be scolded if I wrote like this, so I briefly summarized it in two chapters.

　　The next story is very simple. Under the pursuit of Gao Gongji, he captures Mrs. Li and then runs home.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)