Chapter 12: Make a big deal out of it
"Layue day, Layue day, Beishan fox hunting fairy."
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"The fox fairy got angry and burned half of the sky."
This is a story about hunting fox fairies, about someone who went to the North Mountain to hunt, dug the fox fairy's cave, and burned the tree hole where he was hiding, but in the end the fox fairy escaped, and the angry fox fairy was angry and set fire to half of the North Mountain.
I don't know when, such a fairly smooth ballad, began to spread in the capital, at the beginning, just a few yellow-mouthed children in the south of the city were clamoring about this matter, but after a long time, it began to spread slowly, one is because these children in the capital are too boring, lack of entertainment, such a smooth and story-based ballad, naturally liked by others.
Originally, this was just a commonplace thing, and no one would care about such a nursery rhyme, but after a certain night, the streets and alleys of the capital were posted with big-character posters by unknown people.
The content of the big-character poster is not something unsightly, but a catchy poem.
"Sell charcoal, cut down and burn charcoal in the north mountains.
His face was full of dust and smoke, and his temples were pale and his fingers were black.
The poor shirt is single, and the heart is worried and wishes for the cold.
Yesterday, South Street sold charcoal, and when it was returned, I saw the messenger coming.
Send men with torches, and burn my house and destroy my coals.
Bowed and asked where Shangguan came from, and said that he was from Jingzhao Mansion.
Because it is the Son of Heaven who hunts the North Mountain, he burns the old man and curls up.
The Son of Heaven is holy and virtuous, and the old man freezes to death in the North Mountain! ”
This is all the content of the "big-character poster", Li Xin secretly ran out of Datong Square in the early morning and posted it along the street, a total of about forty or fifty copies, in the early morning, most of the people patrolling the street found a place to sleep, plus he was very careful, so no one found him.
The reason why he did this was also something that could not be done, after all, he was just a small people, and he had no other channel to express his opinions except in this way.
However, Li Xin can be regarded as the first in this world, and after him, the common people have one more channel to complain about public opinion, that is, to post big-character posters on the street.
Because these big-character posters mentioned the Son of Heaven, they soon alarmed Jingzhao Mansion, Jingzhao Yin Li Ye of Jingzhao Mansion, when he got one of the big-character posters, his beard trembled with anger, and Jing Zhaoyin, who was over half a hundred years old, asked his soldiers to go to check and take people, and slapped the table in Jingzhao Mansion angrily.
In this big-character poster, Jingzhao Mansion was clearly brought in, and he did not shy away from sarcastically saying that if this matter really stabbed His Majesty, no matter what, Jingzhao Mansion would not be able to escape a punishment, and if the matter became big, they might lose their official positions.
In the side hall of Jingzhao Mansion, Li Ye, who was dressed in a crimson official uniform, roared angrily at the two Jingzhao Shaoyin in green official uniforms: "What's going on, when will my Jingzhao Mansion send someone to Beishan to burn down a house that sells charcoal?!" ”
Li Ye didn't know about the Jingzhao Mansion sending someone to burn the house in Beishan in advance, he was the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion, and his status was equivalent to the number one leader of the capital city government, and he usually wouldn't ask about the miscellaneous matters in Jingzhao Mansion.
Jing Zhao Yin's position, although it is only an official from the third grade, but it is a real power yamen, Jing Zhao Mansion not only manages the capital but also the counties of Gyeonggi, and even has the power to directly sentence to death, as Jing Zhao Mansion Yin Li Ye, in the capital can be regarded as a big man with a head and a face, not to mention burning a charcoal seller's house, Jing Zhao Mansion accidentally killed a dozen people, Li Ye can also be settled, but this matter is just on the head of the Son of Heaven!
Li Ye knew very well in his heart that it was true that the Son of Heaven was going to Beishan to hunt in the near future, but the Son of Heaven never asked Jingzhao Mansion to clean up Beishan, and even the defense work of the Son of Heaven was also done by Yulinwei's people, and it had nothing to do with their Jingzhao Mansion!
In other words, if this matter spreads to the top, the Son of Heaven will think that it is Jingzhao Mansion who is doing evil in his name!
The foreheads of the two young Yin who were scolded by Li Ye were sweating, and one of them, Chen Qin, who was thirty or forty years old, hesitated, gritted his teeth and took a step forward, lowered his head and hugged his fists and said: "Fu Jun, the lower officials know something about this matter, a few days ago...... At the house of the brother of the prince, someone came to the government to say hello and asked the lower official to help them do something, but the lower official felt that it was not a big deal, so he asked his subordinates to do it. ”
Yin Li Ye of Jingzhao Mansion and Li Shen, Marquis of Pingnan, are cousins, to be exact, Li Ye is Li Shen's cousin.
This is a relationship that Li Xin didn't know about in advance, he implicated Jingzhao Mansion, just hoped to pull Pingnanhou Mansion in through Jingzhao Mansion, which can be regarded as a crooked attack.
Li Ye's face was pale.
"What do they tell you to do? Let you burn down the house of an old man who sells charcoal? ”
Chen Qin hesitated, walked in front of Li Ye, bowed his head in front of this mansion monarch, and said in a low voice: "Pingnan Hou Mansion, it seems that there is an unpopular ...... Relative, living in the house in Beishan, Pingnan Hou Mansion means to let the lower official help drive this relative out of the capital, the lower official thought that this is not a big deal, so let the people below do it......"
Li Ye grabbed Chen Qin's collar and roared: "Then you will use Your Majesty's name to set fire to other people's houses!" ”
This lord of the mansion, his face turned red with anger, he kicked Chen Qin's thigh, and said in a low voice: "The generals of the Pingnan Hou Mansion, if not a thousand, but also eight hundred, want you to stand up for others?" ”
Speaking of this, the Mansion Monarch was panting, and after taking a few breaths of hard breath, he spoke sharply to the two young Yin.
"Now, this matter is spread all over the street by people with intentions, you two will deal with it now, if this matter reaches His Majesty's ears, the government will directly tie up the two of you and hand it over to Your Majesty to deal with!"
Another young Yin Sun Hanwen couldn't help muttering in his heart.
This thing...... It's all about Lao Tzu......
However, the two of them still did not dare to slack off on the orders of the lord of the mansion, so in the seventeenth year of Chengde, the people of Jingzhao Mansion were exhausted, and the first thing they did was not to arrest the person who posted the big-character posters, but to search for these big-character posters scattered in the streets and alleys, and even inquire from door to door, with the obvious intention of taking back all these scattered big-character posters.
Just when the people of Jingzhao Mansion were busy, in a private room on the top floor of the proud building by the Qinhuai River, a young man dressed in purple was sitting lazily by the window, looking at the people of Jingzhao Mansion downstairs, collecting big-character posters in the streets and alleys.
Cui Jiuniang, who was handsome, was kneeling next to the young son, pouring tea for this noble son.
The young man took his eyes back from the street, turned his head and squinted at a big-character poster in his hand, and said with a smile: "The poor shirt is single, and I am worried about the cold weather, not to mention anything else, just like that, the writing is good." ”
Cui Jiuniang added a piece of animal charcoal to the stove next to her, and whispered to the young man: "The people from the Pingnan Hou Mansion came to greet the slave family, and let the slave family cut off business contacts with that Li Xin, as far as the slave family knows, that Li Xin lives in Beishan. ”
The young man looked at the big-character poster in his hand with a smile.
"In other words, this thing is from the handwriting of that Li Xin."
Jiu Niang nodded lightly: "Most likely, the people of the Li family want to drive him out of the capital, and he wants to make a big deal about this matter, and it is best to make trouble to His Majesty." ”
"Although I have some ideas, I don't know how to live or die."
The young man said indifferently: "Whether it is Pingnanhou Mansion or Jingzhao Mansion, you can pinch him to death ten times or even dozens of times casually, but he is lucky, this thing is in my hands." ”
As he spoke, he looked at the big-character poster in his hand and smiled slightly.
"In my hands, this matter is considered a big trouble."