Throughout February, Black Flag Camp's actions affected every aspect of Jing Jiu Dynasty.
At the beginning, only people in the yamen were talking privately, but soon this kind of private talk became known throughout the city. Even the salesmen walking on the roadside could talk to people and say, "Listen." Did you say that? The Black Flag Battalion pulled out another evil monk from the Yamen..."
Compared with ordinary people in remote villages and towns, ordinary people near big cities have more and more convenient channels to obtain information. They are also more aware of the dangers and terror of evil monks. Two or three times a year, I heard that a certain Zhuangzi who was a little further away was attacked by evil monks and suffered heavy casualties or died outright.
Therefore, even if he has never seen an evil monk, it does not prevent the people around the city from maintaining a natural fear of these four words.
Everyone used to say: You can tell the evil monks just by looking at their appearance. They must have a ferocious face and a fishy stench...
Now it has become: evil monks, ordinary people can't see it at all, they will pretend to be ordinary people, and wait until a suitable opportunity to jump out and kill you!
And this kind of talk is very popular, not only in the market, but also in the circles of people who claim to be "upper-class" in various places, there are also similar rumors, or opinions.
This is also true!
Especially at the end of February, when military forces in various places began to screen for hidden evil cultivators, this trend was pushed to the highest level.
The common people were just watching the excitement, but the official officials of the Jingjiu Dynasty had cold sweat on their palms and backs.
Compared with the common people, evil monks, a "plague"-like thing, are the absolute enemies in official circles, and they need to be eradicated with all their strength at the slightest sign. The state of affairs, which has always been listed as the highest risk in various places, is on alert. But now it turns out that the inside of him, which he thought was clean, has actually become the best place for these evil monks to hide!
The people at the lower level were trembling and frightened, the people at the middle level were sweating coldly as they waited for blessings and misfortunes, and the top people were kneeling on the ground with their heads pounded on the ground and were scolded bloody.
There was more than one person angry, but there was only one person who roared and vented his anger in the temple: Emperor Yang Shu.
The angry Yang Shu roared at the civil and military officials below for the first time in the Wanmin Palace. Even the incense burner next to the throne was kicked away and smashed down, knocking an unlucky civil servant unconscious. This guy actually dared to stand up on duty just now to excuse the civil servants? ! It is understandable that most civil servants have no cultivation and it is difficult for evil monks to distinguish between circumstances...
What's even more irritating is that the officials actually pointed the finger at Xuanqingwei, saying that they should blame Xuanqingwei. If these problems had not been discovered earlier, it would have taken so long for the country to be infiltrated by evil monks, and why? Please Yang Shu strictly punish Xuanqing Guard for dereliction of duty! ?
If the "red" in his chest hadn't kept suppressing the anger in Yang Shu's heart, he would have no longer roared or "accidentally" kicked an incense burner away. He would have picked up the copper lampstand next to him and rushed down to kill those shameless people. His bastard brains were knocked out.
"According to you, it's the fault of whoever discovered the problem, right? Because the fault lies in not solving the problem before it arises? Right?"
"I am just discussing the matter, please don't ask your Majesty..."
Before he finished speaking, Yang Shu waved his hand and interrupted: "According to what you said, your officials did not discover Xuanqingwei's laziness before Xuanqingwei slackened. Is it also dereliction of duty? Xuanqingwei arrested him this time. Worms have merit, and even according to your statement, it can be said that it is not too late to make up for the fault. What about the slackness of your officials? Do you also want to use the current impeachment to make up for the fault? "
"Your Majesty, I don't dare. As an official, my duty is to check for omissions and supplements for Your Majesty. Therefore, I and other officials have always been diligent in their work and dare not slack off. Please..."
"That's enough! Shameless You! Shameless You! Come on! Capture these shameless bastards and send them to the prison... no, send them to the prison of the Black Flag Camp of the Xuanqing Guard!"
Yang Shu was not a well-behaved emperor, let alone a broad-minded emperor. Didn't he suffer less from these officials when he was a prince? From time to time, they would label him as "ignorant" or "a disgrace to the royal family". He remembered all this account.
Could it be that these officials have forgotten? No, they didn't forget, they were just sure that the emperor didn't dare to do anything to them. After all, as an official, it’s hard to believe that he can still be “criminalized for his words”?
Unfortunately, Yang Shu was not a normal emperor.
In Yang Shu's view, these officials did not properly address the negligence within the civil servants, and actually wanted to put all the blame on Xuan Qingwei. It's really shameless to the extreme.
In fact, these seemingly shameless words are not uncommon in temples. Some people use this method to erase other people's achievements and their own mistakes in all matters big and small. Of course, the people who use it the most are naturally the people in the civil service group. After winning the last war against the barbarians, some officials came out and said that the Ministry of War deliberately delayed the war in order to use military funds privately, or directly impeached Zuo Yuliang for his delay in returning for rebellion...
Yang Shu had always tolerated it before. The main reason for ascending to the throne is that I don't want to cause any unpleasantness with the ministers in the temple, so at most I can just stay silent and ignore these shameless remarks.
But this time things are different.
The first is that the situation in the temple has fundamentally changed. Ye Lansheng, the left prime minister who once dominated the temple, had his head removed, and even the position of head of the civil service was vacant. Right Chancellor Cao Guobang still sided with Yang Shu, causing the entire civil servant group to split into several small circles. Although it is not that they are scattered, it no longer has the close and huge strength of the past.
Secondly, the war against the barbarians was the work of the late emperor. Yang Shu did not participate in it, and his sense of identification was not strong. But now the Black Flag Camp is regarded by Yang Shu as a knife in his hand, and the commander of the Black Flag Camp is the person he puts in his pocket. Now someone actually jumps out to confuse right and wrong? Is this not taking him seriously? Or do you think that the emperor is just a human-shaped seal, and that’s what you say?
So even though there was "Chi" on his chest to "remind" Yang Shu, Yang Shu didn't think this matter needed to be "taken care of slowly." He didn't have the patience, and he didn't think he should give face to these guys who didn't know how to advance or retreat.
So Yang Shu forcefully carried the "reminder" of "Chi" and roared at the guards in front of the palace to take down all the more than ten civil servants who yelled the most fiercely, and then handed them over to the Black Flag Camp of Xuanqing Guards.
On the one hand, Yang Shu was expressing his dissatisfaction, and on the other hand, he was also expressing his stance to Xuan Qingwei, saying that he would not be deceived and ignore Xuan Qingwei's contribution.
Finally, Yang Shu still has a little selfishness... He wants to try to see if "Chi" really cannot be violated at all.
Now it seems that although punishing those people directly goes against "Chi"'s concept of "a wise king", "Chi" did not stop him too firmly. In the end, although Yang Shu suffered some hardships, his goal was achieved.
