Wang Zeng ordered his family to move a few tables and chairs out of the mansion and put them in front of his house. instructed the scribes who came forward with paper and pens, and asked them to record in detail the names and backgrounds of everyone, the resumes of their positions in the three divisions, and the reasons why they were unwilling to be laid off.

Hundreds of people were crowded here, and they could not be organized, so they could only let each person come forward and narrate it himself, and the scribe copied it.

Liu Xin also stepped forward with the people, casually compiled his resume, used Liu Sanshui's name, and asked the scribe to write it down. Seeing that the scribe just followed the record he recounted, Liu Xin sighed in his heart, and among the people who wrote it down, he didn't know how many of them were true and how many were false, and he didn't know how many of them were real officials of the three divisions.

It took more than an hour of noisy and noisy work before it was finally over.

The king ordered his servants to receive a thick letter and said aloud to the people: "Tomorrow morning, I will surely judge for you." You have your mind on it, go home early. Such a crowd is not the weather that should be in the peaceful world. ”

Everyone shouted thanks together and resigned Wang Zeng.

After leaving Wang Zeng's mansion, the three officials were full of momentum, and they only felt that with the prime minister, this job would be saved after all. There was talk and laughter along the way, and the atmosphere was suddenly much more relaxed.

Look at the two or three hundred steps out of the house, some public officials began to disperse and go home, and shouted goodbye in a loud voice.

At this moment, someone shouted loudly: "This time there was an accident, all the blame is on Han Yi in the imperial history, he slandered, and the imperial court wanted to lay off our three officials." Now that we have the prince as our guarantor, I think it's okay. It's just that Han Yi's traitorous minister is trying to make this happen, if he doesn't teach him a lesson, how can he get out of his heart! ”

Before the words fell, some people applauded.

An obese man said in a loud voice: "Han Yi, an old dog, wanted to have nothing when he entered Beijing to take the exam, but today he has a beautiful house, a beautiful wife and a beautiful concubine, and a rich family, so he has forgotten the suffering of us poor people!" How can you still have half a conscience in your heart when you come up with such an idea? Let's go and scold together, take a sip, and let out the evil anger in the chest! ”

Liu Xin secretly said in his heart that it was not good. If the matter ends here, it will not be a big deal, after all, it is just a petition in front of the Prime Minister's Palace, and nothing particularly out of the ordinary has been done. If you go to Han Yi's mansion again, it won't be such a petition, at that time, it will be impossible for the official to gather to insult the imperial history.

What is the identity of the imperial history? Even the prime minister of the dynasty has to be polite, that is the real face of the court.

Just when a group of people were hesitating, someone suddenly shouted at the top of their voices: "This time there was an accident, and it was said that the clerk there was caught for personal gain." Those officials did something wrong, but there was nothing wrong with them, and they didn't take official things from their families, they just took tea to exchange tea. Han Zong, the judge of salt and iron, grabbed it and insisted on putting those little officials who ate with food to death! Han Laogou is even more borrowed to play, and he can't tolerate us! What kind of redundant officials are just to see us unpleasant! This father and son of the Han family are so tiger-hearted, how can they swallow this breath! ”

"Go to the Han family and let them know that we are not easy to mess with!"

"Let's go together, this is the voice of the people, and the official family will also face us!"

Some people shouted, others pouted everywhere, and the team that was about to disperse at the beginning slowly gathered again.

Liu Xin said to Lin Taiping, who had been following him: "Rushing into the imperial history, the sin is not small, and the court will definitely not take it lightly." Since the prince has promised to speak for us, it is better not to go to the trouble and go home as soon as possible. ”

Lin Taiping smiled bitterly: "Brother, where can I still control myself at this time?" If you just don't go, can you still get yourself out when things get into trouble? You work in the editing institute and don't know what we people are up to. We little officials are all looking at each other, who dares to leave halfway, in the future, the prefect will let you walk around without eating! ”

"Then did your prefect come today?"

"Brother is so stupid, why did the prefect come?" Lin Taiping shook his head with a smile. "Layoffs, and you can't cut their heads! You didn't see that Zhu Zheng, Zhou Gui and Li Fengji, who were leading today, were all backwards. No one with the slightest status will come, let alone those leaders! ”

The front and back rows are the lowest-ranking officials, who purely run errands. Confucius, Expert, and Collusion Officials are high-ranking officials, and their actual power is greater than that of many officials.

Liu Xin didn't say anything more, just sighed in his heart. Some of these officials who came today are blindly obedient, and a large part of them are afraid that they have been bewitched and coerced by their superiors, and they are making a fuss for those really powerful officials.

The scattered team gathered again, led by a few people at the head, and advanced all the way to Han Yi's house in the inner city.

At this time, among Han Yi's sons, only Han Zongzhong Jinshi, and the eldest son Han Gangen sprouted out, because he was anxious and harsh, his official reputation was not very good, and the Han family was not a wealthy family.

When the team arrived at the gate of the Han Mansion, there was no one who even went up to knock on the door this time, and someone cursed loudly from afar.

The people in the Han Mansion had already gotten the news, and when they saw that this group of disaster stars had come to their door, the foul language had already been passed on, and they had learned from Lu Yijian's house, closed the door, and came to ignore it.

When hundreds of officials arrived at the door, they saw that there was no one, and they scolded more and more ugly, an old dog on the left and a little wolf cub on the right, and scolded the ancestors of Han Yi's family for eight generations.

Liu Xin frowned when he heard this, and he couldn't wait to plug his ears. Inside the door is the imperial history of the dynasty, the highest official of the national supervision system personally removed by the emperor, who was insulted like this, and the official can no longer step down.

The fat man, who had always been particularly active, scolded so much that his voice was already hoarse. I don't know what deep hatred he has with the Han family, so he still can't understand his hatred after such insults, so he suddenly bent down and picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground, and used his strength to raise his hand and smash it into the Han mansion.

"Straight lady thief, this old dog family learned to be a shrunken turtle, do you think it's okay like this? Just pick up the rubble and smash it at his house, let him know that we are awesome! ”

The fat man clapped his hands and shouted at the people around him.

With a beginning, there are people who follow suit. A group of public officials scattered one after another, picking up bricks and stones on the ground around them and throwing them into the Han Mansion, scolding while smashing, and their words became more and more dirty.

After about half an hour of commotion, the leaders who had been in the front row glanced at each other and nodded.

An inconspicuous official walked away from these people and quietly slipped to the outskirts of the crowd. Seeing that the people around him were not paying attention, he suddenly shouted loudly: "The people from Kaifeng Mansion are here!" We are out of the evil spirit in our chests today, so let's disperse as soon as possible, go back to our respective homes, and don't be arrested by the people in the government! ”

As soon as the words fell, several leaders in the middle of the crowd said together: "The people of Kaifeng Mansion are vicious, there is no reason to be arrested by them to suffer in vain, and they are scattered!" Scattered! ”

As he spoke, he split up and ran around.

The leader fled suddenly, and the momentum of the entire public servant team dispersed at once, and almost in the blink of an eye, they scattered one after another.

Lin Taiping looked around blankly and asked Liu Xin beside him: "Why did everyone disperse all of a sudden?" Brother, why don't you run? Aren't you afraid of being caught by the people of Kaifeng Mansion? ”

Liu Xin patted the young man on the shoulder: "Kaifeng Mansion wants to arrest people, and it has already come to arrest people, where will you wait until this time?" Go home early, and remember, don't follow others in this kind of thing in the future. ”

Lin Taiping still couldn't figure it out, shook his head, said goodbye to Liu Xin, and went back to his residence in the outer city alone.

Liu Xin looked at the residence of Cheng Han Yi in the imperial history in front of him, sighed, and went back to the editing office with the soldiers of the Xiang army who were mixed in the team.

Wang Gongchen, Wang Bin and others were still in the editing institute and did not leave, and when they saw Liu Xin coming back, Hula came up and asked in a gossipy voice: "Chongzhi, what is the situation outside?" How did we hear that hundreds of officials surrounded the Prime Minister's Mansion and things were out of control, but really? ”

Liu Xin said: "Not only did they besiege the Prime Minister's Mansion, but they also went to Hanzhong's Mansion to insult and throw bricks and stones into the mansion." There must be a hidden story in this matter, where is the deputy envoy? ”

Wang Gongchen said: "In the hut over there, I don't know what to talk about with Gao Chengduan, and I haven't come out for more than an hour." If you are in a hurry, you can go and talk to you. ”

Liu Xin said goodbye to everyone, followed the instructions to the outside of Xu Ping's hut, and said in a deep voice: "Deputy envoy, subordinate Liu Xin, has come back, and I have something to report." ”

"Come in."

Hearing Xu Ping's answer, Liu Xin pushed open the door and entered the hut.

I saw Xu Ping and Gao Chengduan sitting on a table, and there was a thick stack of paper on the table, and I didn't know what to remember.

Liu Xin saluted: "Deputy envoy, I didn't bother, right?" Now there is time, and there is something strange about the affairs of the three officials today. ”

"Come over here and talk slowly." Xu Ping greeted Liu Xin, and instructed Gao Chengduan: "You go out first, don't tell anyone about what you talked about today, I'll look for you again if you have something." ”

Gao Cheng saluted Xu Ping and Liu Xin, turned around and walked out of the room.

Xu Ping instructed the miscellaneous officials outside the door to serve tea, and said to Liu Xin: "Say, after a busy day, I found something strange." ”

Liu Xin took a sip of tea, smoothed out what happened today, and told Xu Ping from beginning to end.

"Deputy envoy, hundreds of public officials today, all of them are lowest-level officials. I asked Lin Taiping, and he said that the prefect above told these people to come, otherwise they would not be able to stay in this yamen in the future. The three divisions laid off people, how could they not cut the heads of those officials who knew Confucius, why did they bother to bother? ”

Liu Xin thought about this matter all the way, but he couldn't figure it out. He could already confirm that today's incident must have been deliberately done by someone, and there were even people who mixed it in to deliberately lead to the final result, but he couldn't figure out why. There is such a sensational event that has caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, what are the people behind the planning? (To be continued.) )