Chapter 1159: The Great Earthquake
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At the court meeting on this day, Wang Zhongling suddenly played, saying that Bai Shizhong was seriously ill and it was difficult for him to take office in Tianfu, so he entrusted himself to ask the emperor for a minister. (Please search, the novel is better and faster!)
Zhao Kai immediately approved.
And the Zhishi in the middle of the white period officially kicked off the prelude to this political movement.
Cai Jing, who had been sick at home, suddenly returned to the court, and on that day he and his henchmen held 34 concerts in a row, impeaching Liang Shicheng, Li Bangyan, Li Yan, Zhang Bangchang, Wu Min and other 782 people, and branding these people as traitors.
Most of the people in Gayin usually do a lot of evil, and they don't need to look for any evidence of crime, it can be said that they can come easily, but because they held heavy power at the beginning, others dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
So Cai Jing easily listed their crimes, which is the same as when he defeated Wang Huang, what old accounts have been turned over, if not, then find them from your fathers and ancestors, in short, there is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of people with hearts.
This is really a stone that stirs up a thousand waves!
The ministers, although they already knew that Zhao Kai was going to make a move on them, but they didn't expect Cai Jing to take refuge in Zhao Kai, and snipe them as an executioner, they didn't expect Zhao Kai to be so ruthless, you must know that Yuan You's party membership incident, but there are only more than 300 main suspects, and at the beginning, the number of people is close to 800, and they will pay it back later.
This immediately caught them off guard, and their minds were in turmoil, and the court immediately fell into a panic.
Li Bangyan and Bai Shizhong's henchmen would sit still and wait to die, and they also began to fight the trapped beasts, desperately attacking Cai Jing and his party, and pulled Bai Shizhong's family in, clearly trying to pull Li Qi into the water.
If Li Qi has an evenly matched opponent in the DPRK, it is estimated that Li Qi can still make a fuss, but it is a pity that Li Qi's position in the DPRK and China is now as solid as a rock, except for them. No one wants to get involved in any struggle over Richie, and whoever troubles Richie now will only add to his own death.
Zhao Kai ignored Li Qi very calmly, as for the Bai family, he still matched all Bai Shizhong's relatives in the court, and several of Bai Shizhong's sons who were officials in the court were also driven out of the court and the opposition.
Although the Bai family also suffered a very heavy blow because of this, compared to Li Bangyan, they were undoubtedly lucky.
However, Cai Jing had already asked the Great Song Times Weekly to write all the evidence of his crimes. And he went out at once, and told the people. And Qin Hui organized the Tai Academy to play and impeach these people.
In addition, the Wang family, the Zheng family and other families that leaned on Zhao Kai's side also continued to criticize the former ministers of Song Huizong.
Cai Jing impeached the mastermind, and Qin Hui was responsible for eradicating the roots in the back, and all the people who had a relationship with the traitorous party were brought in. In just two days, the number of people involved has exceeded 1,000. And it has expanded from Beijing to prefectures and counties, because people like Li Bangyan, Li Yan and others have arranged their own people in various states and counties to collect money for themselves, although there was a big movement in Jiangnan at the beginning. Many people have been eliminated, but their minions are still everywhere.
However, Zhao Kai obviously wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots this time, and would rather kill the wrong. Don't let it go.
Li Qi also secretly instructed the forbidden army in the capital, obviously to strengthen patrols, and secretly to supervise those ministers. Don't give them a chance to escape.
Seeing that this matter is getting bigger and bigger, everyone's mentality has changed dramatically, some people are directly frightened into a stroke, collapsed on the bed, on the seventh day, the officials involved, large and small, have broken through to more than 2,000 people, like Qin Hui, Zheng Yifu Their concerts, that are all presented one by one, because the number of people is too much.
Qin Hui released gossip among the people again, saying that if the DPRK and China degraded so many people at once, they would definitely have to find someone to replace them, and the good days of this poor family were finally coming.
As soon as this news was released, it was simply out of control, and those poor scholars in the people began to organize and write articles to attack these traitors, and they all understood that the more people they punished this time, the more opportunities they had, and they would definitely die in death.
Readers are also interest-oriented.
It was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, there was Cai Jing's party in the court, plus the Wang family and the Zheng family, which were the scholars who stayed in the capital, and the people and scholars, and more importantly, the forbidden army and the emperor were secretly supporting them, and the alliance that the old party of Song Huizong and the prince had managed to organize soon collapsed and fell apart.
There is a way that when disaster comes, they fly separately.
Gradually, many people began to look for Li Qi, Cai Jing, Wang Zhongling, and even Qin Hui, who they looked down on before, for help, they didn't ask for too much, they just hoped that they could survive and not kill them or belittle them.
It's a pity that Zhao Kai has made up his mind that he must take this opportunity to wipe out these old fritters and make the Song Dynasty look new, and there is no room for negotiation in this matter.
In fact, every newly appointed emperor will do this, but the difference in scale is just a difference.
However, at a time when the situation between the DPRK and China was changing dramatically, the military and political reform secretly organized by Li Qi also quietly attacked.
The army of the Song Dynasty was cowardly, and the lack of horses was one reason, and another reason was the military and political **, the ministers of the DPRK and the central government secretly traded with the military leaders of various places, what embezzlement of military salaries, or embezzlement of military materials, these were really common in the Song Dynasty, you must know that the military expenditure of the Song Dynasty was more than four times that of all the surrounding countries combined!
Where did all this money go, it didn't just go to the pockets of those generals and ministers, and most of these generals had a close relationship with the ministers of the DPRK and China, so they must not be kept.
Gao Yu's abdication is equivalent to abandoning his chess pieces.
There is no way to do this, he is too busy to take care of himself, where can he take care of others, it is important to save his life, and Brother Yu is born with a character of Mingzhe to protect himself.
The forbidden army led by Yue Fei did not return to Beijing directly, but divided into several roads, and quietly went to the locations of several major garrisons in the Song Dynasty. It has nothing to do with us, so why should I go to death?
Yue Fei and the others easily controlled all the troops in these places.
The generals who had been powerful in the local area have now finally tasted the consequences.
After nearly a month, the campaign is finally coming to an end, and the number of officials involved, excluding the military, has reached more than 3,000 people, not including their families.
One can imagine how many people are involved.
Cai Jing's move can also be described as a thunderbolt, and the opponent has no power to fight back at all. It can be seen that it is reasonable for Su Shi and the others to lose to him.
Zhao Kai didn't give them any more thoughts, and immediately issued an order to give death to Liang Shicheng, Li Yan, these eunuchs and officials with serious crimes, a total of more than 80 people, which shocked the government and the opposition again, what not to kill the doctor, Zhao Kai completely ignored it, he wanted to express an attitude. The purpose is to warn the people behind that if anyone dares to be like them again, this is the consequence, and don't believe in what doesn't kill the doctor. Therefore, it is not reliable to take risks.
In the Song Dynasty, it was the first time that such a large-scale beheading of ministers appeared.
Now Zhao Kai's imperial prestige has been fully revealed. No one dares to underestimate this emperor who is only thirty years old.
Subsequently, Zhao Kai exiled all the remaining thousands of people to the Southeast Army, that is, to those islands off Fuzhou. Let them help with the construction of the island, which may be the so-called waste utilization.
Zhao Kai didn't even want to waste a little time on them, so he hurriedly let them go, as for their family property, of course, all of them were confiscated and confiscated to fill the treasury.
Inside and outside the capital, there is a whimper.
In the past, this situation often occurred, but it was generally born in the common people, and now the cry comes from the mansion compound that was high and invincible in the past.
It can be said that it is to see the sun through the dark clouds and return the people to a bright future.
When the people saw this, they were really happy, you people usually know how to bully us, but now you have tasted the consequences, many people don't do anything, so they go to the door of those degraded ministers to see the jokes.
What kind of scolding, throwing stones, it's not a problem.
But in the back, the people now that their neighbors are also constantly implicated, among which there is no shortage of innocent people, and for a while people are panicked.
Such a big change will always involve some innocent people, which is inevitable, although Zhao Kai has tried his best to avoid it.
Even those officials who were not involved seemed to be living in a nightmare all day long, and many officials were afraid that they would be implicated, so they hurriedly handed in their resignations, hoping to return to their hometowns.
Zhao Kai approved it all, with your guts, what's the use of me keeping you, and wasting my money, it's better to get out as soon as possible.
When everyone thought that this matter was over, a new round of turmoil would come again, and after eradicating these henchmen of Li Bangyan, Bai Shizhong, and Liang Shicheng, Zhao Kai began to attack Cai Jing and his party.
In fact, he didn't make a move, after Cai Jing organized his henchmen to drive away Li Bangyan's henchmen and others, his party all confessed to their guilt and knelt outside the main hall, all of them were honest.
Of course, this was arranged a long time ago, Cai Jing also knew that Zhao Kai would definitely not be able to tolerate his henchmen, and he would definitely remove all the chess pieces he had arranged in the court, and at the same time knew that if he didn't agree, he would probably die even worse, so when he summoned all his henchmen to the mansion in front of him, he solemnly told them about the current situation, the emperor is going to do something to us, if we choose to surrender, the emperor will open up to us, on the contrary, can you win the forbidden army in the capital?
As for what official position, wealth, and status, don't count on it, now it is important to save your life, even if you can't save your own life, you can save your family's life, even if I'm Cai Jing, I can't protect the Cai family.
After hearing this, his henchmen also understood that the general trend had gone, and instead of struggling, it was better to seek a glimmer of life, so when fighting against Li Bangyan and other remnant forces, they all tried their best, hoping that Zhao Kai could see their appearance and give them a more lenient punishment.
However, on the day the campaign ended, Zhu Mian and his son hanged themselves that night.
Their father and son wreaked havoc in Jiangnan at the beginning, hurting the people with labor and money, and mutilating many people, but without killing them, they could not calm the anger of the people in Jiangnan.
Cai Jing has a very good relationship with Zhu Mian's father and son, he did not lie to Zhu Mian, and told him bluntly, you will not escape death, the emperor must kill you, no one can protect you, if you agree to surrender, the emperor will exempt your family from the crime, and if you hang yourself, you can still keep the whole body.
When he said this, Cai Jing was also in tears.
This is the brutality of the political struggle.
At this time, Zhu Mian's father and son looked more like a man, and they didn't even complain at that time, but just knelt at Cai Jing's feet, hoping that Cai Jing could take care of his children. Cai Jing tearfully agreed.
After Zhu Mian's death, the six notorious thieves of the Song Dynasty in history, Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, and Li Yan, have already died, leaving Cai Jing, an old man who is about to be buried in the ground.
And Cai You's words, he was originally optimistic, and he thought that Zhao Kai would spare him, but when he saw the fate of Zhu Mian and others, he knew that he was in a catastrophe, but he was naturally afraid of death, so he ran to beg Cai Jing, but if Cai Jing could protect him, he would have been protected a long time ago, Cai You lay on Cai Jing's lap and cried, and left.
On the same day, the holy decree came down, and Cai You's family went to Yongzhou.
Later, it was said that when Cai You and his family were crossing the Yangtze River, there was an accident, the boat was destroyed and people died, whether it was really an accident or man-made, no one knows.
However, most of the culprits have been punished, but Zhang Bangchang and Nie Hao, who are extremely evil, have not been mentioned by Zhao Kai, which makes the ministers of the DPRK and China confused.
An even more sinister act of revenge is on the horizon. (To be continued!)