Ten thousand border troops entered the pass and headed south, and the news could not be concealed at all.
Just after the Chinese New Year, the news of the Shanxi Incident was like a cold wind blowing across the north. It quickly spread throughout Shanxi and spread eastward to the capital at the fastest speed, causing the whole capital to boil like hot water. Generally, boiling.
"Oh my God, what is Brother Cong going to do?"
The old lady pays little attention to outside affairs now. Her eldest son has been promoted to a noble rank for military merit and has been granted the title of Rongguo Duke; Even Baoyu has the official title of Zhongshusheren. He is a close official of the emperor, so Jian cannot be sealed in the emperor's heart...
Her children and grandchildren are promising, and Ningrong's Jia family is now making as much concessions as when the old man was alive. What else can she, the old feudal lord of the Jia family, be dissatisfied with?
Uh, no, I'm a little dissatisfied. It's true that each of her grandsons is more troublesome than the last. She sometimes feels that if she were timid, she would be scared to death by these grandsons...
Jia Lian was killed in the Xuan Mansion, and there were many reports of impeachment against the Jia family. It was said that they could be carried from Zhengyang Gate to Daxia Gate.
Before the wave subsided, Jia Cong set off another wave. It was really...
"Zheng'er, is this news accurate?"
Jia Zheng nodded and said solemnly: "This is what Governor Cao specifically told his son when he went to court. The military report from Datong also arrived in front of the imperial court. Feng Tang said that Brother Cong used the golden order to mobilize troops and horses, and the target was Taiyuan. My brother-in-law also went to Qinzheng Hall and couldn't get out for a while. My son didn't dare to delay, so he asked for leave from Zongxian and came back specifically to inform his mother and ask her for an idea."
It's not that Jia Zheng is timid, but that the border troops entered the pass without an order, which is a taboo of the country. If he doesn't handle it carefully, he will become the target of public criticism. The trouble will be much more serious than Jia Lian's head-cutting in Xuan Mansion.
The mother and son could not guess the reason why Jia Cong mobilized troops. Several military officials in the mansion were not in the capital, so they could only ask someone to go to Dongfu to invite Jia Jing to come to discuss the matter.
However, before Jia Jing came over, news came from the door that Daiyu had returned to Beijing and now went to the palace to pay an audience, asking Tanchun to go home first to report the news.
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In fact, the news sent back to the capital by the Dragon Guards did not say the real purpose of Jia Cong's troop deployment. Ten thousand border troops sounded like a lot, but if spread over the entire Shanxi Province, it would not make a big splash.
No one in the Qinzheng Palace thought that Jia Cong wanted to rebel, but they all rubbed their foreheads...
My head hurts, what is this kid going to do?
Zhou Jiong read the military report sent back by Feng Tang and asked doubtfully: "Has your Majesty sent a secret decree to Uncle Yongfeng?"
The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly changed his words after speaking subconsciously: "Huh? 氵...Yes..."
If I believe it, then there is something wrong!
Zhou Jiong said helplessly: "Your Majesty, please make up an edict. It is better to have a famous teacher than Yongfeng Bo to pretend to preach the imperial edict. The matter of the crown prince Rong Guo is not over yet. If such a trouble occurs again, the old ministers will not be able to suppress the criticism in the court."
"Jia Cong will not mobilize troops without reason. We will wait until the news from Taiyuan arrives."
The emperor can still be sure of this. Since Jia Cong took office, every word he said and everything he did was purposeful, and he never did anything without a reason.
There must be a reasonable reason for privately transferring border troops to enter the customs.
Moreover, if he leaves the imperial guards within the pass alone and has to sacrifice the near for the distant, there is only one possibility. He does not trust the imperial guards within the pass.
This is interesting!
What was the reason why Jia Cong didn't even believe the guards?
The emperor's mind had already turned eight times, wondering what happened in Shanxi that forced Jia Cong to mobilize troops from Datong.
Zhang Yue on the side suddenly said: "I feel that Uncle Yongfeng may need support from the capital, so he might as well transfer 10,000 people from the capital camp..."
"What? Are you still adjusting?"
Zhou Jiong was confused, and so was the emperor.
The first-class Bo Niu Jizong of the Zhenguo Mansion widened his eyes and exclaimed: "Young Master, did I hear you correctly? That guy dares to attack Taiyuan with ten thousand people. If ten thousand more people are sent there, Jia Cong, a bastard, will be damned." Dare to overthrow the whole of Shanxi!"
Zhang Yue didn't even move his eyelids and replied calmly: "How do you know that his purpose is not to overthrow Shanxi?"
Uh~
As soon as these words came out, Qinzheng Palace fell silent for an instant.
Not to mention, Jia Cong could do this!
"Your Majesty, Princess Wen'an has something urgent to ask for."
"Huh? Wen An returned to Beijing? Lin Qing?"
Lin Ruhai was also stunned, shook his head and replied: "Your Majesty, I haven't received any news either."
Both fathers were a little surprised. After Daiyu walked into the palace with a tired face and presented a secret memorial, everyone understood why Daiyu rushed back to Beijing despite the wind and snow.
The changes in Shanxi are even just superficial, and the real problem inside is the big trouble.
Like previous reforms and new policies, the real roadblock to Yuanyou's new policies emerged.
Zhang Zhengju's memorial was very thick. Not only did he review the Baoding Mansion case from the beginning, but he also speculated on the impact of the case, the identity of the people behind it, and their true purpose.
The emperor was a suspicious person. If Zhang Zhengju hadn't made it clear in his memorial that the masterminds behind this incident were local gentry families, he would have doubted his brothers.
"Zhang Shaoqing's guess is at least 80% correct. A few days ago, the imperial court implemented the policy of compulsory education, and the progress was indeed too smooth, which always made the veterans feel like they were illusory. It seems that they have already laid out the plan. Waiting here."
As the apparent leader of the reform faction, Zhou Jiong breathed a sigh of relief.
The most terrifying thing is to provoke but not to attack. Now that the opponent has taken action, he can feel relieved a little.
He thought about it for a moment and roughly understood what Zhang Zhengju and Jia Cong were trying to do by making such a big fuss.
In order to implement the New Deal, are they planning to take this opportunity to plow the entire land of Shanxi so that those who obstruct the reform can be eliminated first?
Are all young people today so cruel?
Zhou Jiong pursed his lips, glanced at the old god Zhang Yue, sighed and said: "The old minister agrees with the British Duke's suggestion that he really needs to send people to support Uncle Yongfeng. Moreover, the old minister feels that it is best for your majesty to choose someone who is mature and prudent. I will go to Shanxi to assist Uncle Yongfeng in handling matters in Shanxi. Otherwise, I will worry that all the officials and gentry in Shanxi will be killed by Uncle Yongfeng."
All the monarchs and ministers in the palace nodded in approval of this proposal. Not to mention, if there was no mature and prudent person watching, all the officials and gentry in Shanxi might have been slaughtered by Jia Cong.
This is not because Jia Cong is bloodthirsty, but...
The case in Baoding Mansion was so infuriating. With Jia Cong's jealous temper, few people involved in the case would be able to save their heads.
The emperor also understood Zhou Jiong's worries. If this matter was really made known by Jia Cong, the court would lose all face.
"What Zhou Qing said makes sense. The Shanxi side needs to send a mature and prudent person there... So, Cai Qing, you are the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, so you should be in charge of this case."
Cai Quan bowed and agreed, and was about to order a few more people to accompany him when he heard another report coming from outside the palace.
"Your Majesty, Taiyuan 800 Miles is urgent!"
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The old lady was lying on the bed, with a handkerchief on her forehead, moaning.
She's angry!
Anyone with such a noisy grandson would get angry.
"He killed more than a dozen imperial officials and more than twenty sons of ministers like this!"
The old lady couldn't help but tremble when she thought of the word "Ling Chi". My husband must have been ruthless back then, but he was far worse than this grandson.
Then Liu Kan was the prince's eldest son, an upright son of the clan, and he was just dragged to the execution ground and cut into pieces?
Of course my husband is not that cruel, right?
Daiyu stepped forward to help the old lady up, took the medicine bowl from Yuanyang's hand, and helped the old lady use the medicine.
"Grandma, don't worry about this. Your Majesty and the elders will be the ones who have a headache."
Daiyu thought of the eight hundred miles from Shanxi Province being rushed to the back of the Qinzheng Palace, where the monarchs and ministers held their foreheads helplessly.
After all calculations, no one realized that Jia Cong's sword was too fast.
This guy was probably worried that the imperial court would intervene to protect Liu Kan and others, so he beheaded them first and then executed them.
"Yu'er is right, Mr. Zhou Ge is so angry that he is jumping up and down."
Daiyu heard the sound and looked around. It turned out that her father had returned from the court.
Lin Ruhai raised his hand and rubbed his daughter's head. After asking a few questions about the old lady's condition, he sat across from Jia Jing and Jia Zheng in the hall and talked about the situation in the court.
Just as Daiyu guessed, when the news from Shanxi spread back to the capital, the biggest headache was not for the Jia family, but for Zhou Jiong, the chief minister of the cabinet.
Jia Cong went on a killing spree in Shanxi, regardless of hundreds of years of unspoken rules, and directly touched the interests of the entire circle of civil servants.
As long as this example of not being able to punish a doctor is broken, a sword of Damocles will hang over their heads from now on. Is this okay? Play him, you must play him!
If Zhou Jiong hadn't urged the emperor to make up an imperial edict, just the false imperial edict would have been enough for Jia Cong to drink a pot.
"There are people in the capital who are working together to impeach Brother Cong tomorrow. I came back early just to tell my two uncles. No words are worse than silence. Let Zhou Ge go and fight with those people on this matter..."
Jia Jing nodded when he heard this, while Jia Zhengze asked in surprise: "Why do you say that, brother-in-law? Why do we just watch others impeach Brother Cong?"
Lin Ruhai smiled strangely: "I didn't expect this at first. When I left the palace, I met Mu Congying in front of the palace gate who had just returned to Beijing from Xuan Mansion. He brought Brother Lian's confession. . I think, I am afraid that His Majesty and Mr. Zhou Ge do not mind that this matter has become a big deal. Anyway, there will not be any substantial punishment for Lian'er and Brother Cong. At most, they will just give a few words of warning."
"I understand what Ru Hai means. This is a bitter trick sung by His Majesty, Brother Lian and Brother Cong. After all, the biggest forces in Xuanda University are those families in Shanxi. Their hands are stretched too long, which offends Your Majesty. eyes."
Jia Jing secretly sighed in his heart, Brother Lian and Brother Cong were indeed the two smartest people in the Jia family.
The tacit understanding between the two brothers and the emperor was incredible. It is estimated that the emperor had already prepared two edicts, one to admonish the two of them, and the other to prepare for the official's reinstatement.
"As for Mr. Zhou Ge, if he doesn't want the great cause of the New Deal to perish, he must stand up to defend Brother Cong, and he must also endorse what Brother Cong has done. In this way, Mr. Zhou Ge will not only gain support from the generals Supporting it can also integrate the forces at odds between the DPRK, China and the Jin Party to prepare for the future.”
Lin Ruhai nodded: "Brother Jing has the same idea as me, so it's best for our family not to say anything or do anything at this time. This is Mr. Zhou Ge's opportunity, and it is also His Majesty's tacit approval."
Jia Jing nodded first, then shook his head.
He looked at Daiyu who was sitting next to the bed: "No, it would be too deliberate for our family to do nothing. Let Baoyu and Lin Yatou come forward. Brother Cong cannot be scolded in vain. Yu Mao Qingtian's Your reputation cannot be tarnished by others..."
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Zhou Jiong and others originally wanted to suppress the incident in Taiyuan Mansion to prevent the court's majesty from being damaged.
But the temperament of the current emperor is different from that of previous kings. For him, admitting his mistakes and correcting them is the best way to maintain the majesty of the court and maintain the reputation of the royal family.
Taiyuan's eight-hundred-mile emergency not only spread throughout the court, but the front page of the "Great Summer News" the next day completely printed the whole process of the Baoding Mansion case and the Taiyuan incident.
Including the fact that Jia Cong dispatched border troops to enter the customs in a fit of rage, raided Taiyuan with 800 coffins and started a killing spree, and even beheaded the prince's son, all were made public.
In addition, "The Passion of Thousands of Daughters" written by Baoyu himself was widely disseminated in the supplement of "Da Xia Bao", and in just one day, the whole capital was boiling.
The common people don't care about the unspoken rules of punishing doctors. Baoyu's writing style is really incredible. He uses the suffering women as the first perspective to write about the happiness at home when he was a child and the shock when he was kidnapped. Fear, longing for relatives when imprisoned, misery when being insulted, and confusion when being rescued.
The helplessness and grief of being unable to adapt until he saw the light of day again, and committed suicide in search of relief.
The people of Daxia are proud and kind.
In the Huanghuang Celestial Dynasty and the prosperous Zhaoyuan Dynasty, there were people who were no better than beasts and did such heinous things!
More and more officials in the DPRK are impeaching Jia Cong, but the people increasingly respect Jia Cong, believing that he is the Qingtian Grand Master who truly makes decisions for the people.
Especially those young officials had a completely different attitude from the officials in the DPRK. They believed that it was precisely because there were people in the DPRK who stood up for the beasts in Shanxi that the whole of Shanxi was dark and the beasts were rampant.
As an eyewitness to the major case in Baoding Prefecture, Daiyu directly questioned the officials of Long Jinwei, the Third Division and the Metropolitan Procuratorate at the court meeting.
Shanxi has become so corrupt. Why do the supervisory officials have no news at all?
Liu Kan and others kidnapped thousands of young children and girls for several years. How could Shanxi officials not notice? Why don't you listen and ask?
She directly caught Qiao Huaisheng, the former magistrate of Taiyuan and now the young minister of Taipu Temple, and shouted: "Qiao Shaoqing, in the winter of the third year of Yuanyou, a woman named Feng from Qingjian County sued the Taiyuan government office, saying that her daughter had been kidnapped. Taiyuan was imprisoned in Yan's Manor outside the city, why didn't you accept the petition and drove him away, leaving him without a way to seek help and freezing to death outside Taiyuan City?"
"In February of the fifth year of Yuanyou, Mr. and Mrs. Qinhuai of Wu'an County complained to the government, saying that they had found out about their daughter's whereabouts. Why didn't you want to check the Su family's village?"
"Oh, I understand. Su Benzhai was already the deputy envoy of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Punishment and Prosecution at that time. He is a high-ranking official and puts pressure on others. Don't you dare offend the Su family!"
"Qiao Shaoqing relied on the support of the big families in Shanxi to be able to guard the pastoral side of Taiyuan Mansion, and was promoted to the capital with the 'Umbrella of All Peoples'. I would like to ask Qiao Shaoqing, are you loyal to the country, your majesty, or Shanxi?" Those gentry families?"
"Qiao Shaoqing keeps saying that being an official must make decisions for the people, but who do you mean by the people? In Qiao Shaoqing's eyes, aren't those women who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and insulted the people of Daxia?"
"A person like you dare to say that Uncle Yongfeng harmed people in Shanxi? Are you worthy?"
The person who jumped the most during the previous impeachment of Jia Cong was Qiao Huaisheng, one of the people brought to the forefront by the Jin Party.
At the beginning when he took office in Taiyuan, he had difficulty making progress, but after joining the Jin Party, he didn't have to worry about his political performance at all, and everything was arranged for him.
The main plan for the two consecutive terms was to choose the best person and directly take the "Umbrella of the People" given to him by the "people of Taiyuan" to take office in Beijing.
But he was questioned by Daiyu one after another, which made him blush and speechless. Daiyu had detailed information in her hands, and every question she asked was well-founded. How could he argue with it?
In the end, he was so angry that Dai Yu shouted and fainted. The people next to him who originally supported him took a deep breath and took a step back, shrinking their necks and not daring to speak.
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