The personnel of the three divisions are still being adjusted, and Kou Ying seems to have recognized Xu Ping, and even the candidates for the deputy envoys of each division have discussed with him.

With Wang Weizheng replacing Wang Yan as the deputy envoy of the household department, Zhang Cun as the judge of the degree branch, and almost all the civilian officials Xu Ping knew in Guangnan West Road before were transferred to the Third Division if they had the right qualifications. Originally, Zhang Pin had also been transferred from Guangnan West Road to leave his post, but unfortunately he was too old and old, so he had to apply for Zhishi.

After Lu Yijian collided with Xu Ping once because of Xu Shen's coinage, he once again showed goodwill, and transferred Xu Ping's father-in-law Lin Wensi back to Beijing in the name of Zhongshu, changed to Beijing official, and served as a doctor of "Spring and Autumn" in Guozijian.

It is difficult to say who Lu Yijian has an enmity with, he is a typical bureaucrat who appeared in a special era, he cares very much about his status and power, and a group of people have gathered around him over time. As long as it does not affect Lu Yijian's status, he will not take the initiative to attack someone or a certain force in the court, this is the case for Xu Ping, and the same is true for Li Di at the beginning.

However, Li Di is different from Lu Yijian, he has political ideals, and he is not used to the step-by-step bureaucratic style, and he is even more unaccustomed to the practice of caring too much about his own position of power. Li Di's temper is stubborn, his temperament is rough, and he has a background of being an emperor, and his qualifications are much older than Lu Yijian, so the conflict between the two slowly became intense.

Xu Ping's age is too young and his qualifications are too shallow, even with Kou Ying's wholehearted help, he will at most toss in the three divisions, and he will not pose any threat to Lu Yijian. The three divisions were originally the department with the strongest bureaucratic atmosphere in the Great Song Dynasty, and Lu Yijian and Xu Ping had disputes over individual matters, and the two cooperated in the general direction.

Lu Yijian is at the cusp of this era, not because of how his people are, but because the huge bureaucratic machine represented by him has become a target, and has been set on fire by waves of outstanding political figures, but in the end it has not fallen. Lu Yijian's biggest mistake was that he was too stubborn, and no one could knock him down when he was alive, and he would naturally be counted behind him.

However, when the contradiction between Lu Yijian and Li Di slowly became prominent, Xu Ping's life became easier all of a sudden.

In the afternoon of this day, Xu Ping was discussing other personnel with Kou Ying in the Third Director's Hall, Zhang Cun hurriedly ran in from outside, gasped and said: "Big deal, there is a civil change on the side of the Bianhe River in Kaifeng Mansion!" ”

Kou Ying stood up suddenly: "What's the matter?" As soon as Cheng Tianqiu changed his knowledge of Kaifeng Mansion, there was a civil uprising, what did he do to cause such a big mess? At the feet of the Son of Heaven, there was a civil unrest! ”

Zhang Cundao: "The matter has little to do with Cheng Bachelor, and it is still a matter of improper handling of the cold charcoal price." Since we set the market price of charcoal together with Kaifeng Prefecture at 100 wen per person, the merchants of those charcoal shops pretended to accept it, but secretly instructed people to buy out the charcoal sold by the charcoal stores every day and retail it in the market for 40 wen a catty. Yesterday, a peddler selling charcoal came to the vicinity of Caihe and seduced a woman with a basket of charcoal, but was blocked by the woman's husband. The man was a coolie on the dock, and he was picking ice on the river with men, and after catching the traitor, a group of coolies rushed up and beat the vendor to death on the spot. ”

Xu Ping said: "Doesn't coolies also have teeth? Why didn't the head of the line stop it, and people were killed. ”

"At this time, the coolies have no food and clothing, and the teeth of the tooth line are all clever people, where will they cause trouble?"

Kou Yang himself was the prefect of Kaifeng, and after hearing this, he frowned and said: "The left and right are just a life lawsuit, that is, the coolies are excusable, the capital crime is exempted, and it is just a sentence of exile to the army, how can it still cause a civil uprising?" ”

Zhang Cun sighed: "Because the coolies found out that this vendor was hired by the charcoal shop to sell charcoal. At this time, the poor people can't afford to use charcoal, so it's not just a hot pot sprinkled with oil, and it will be fried at once! ”

Although the three people present are all middle-level and high-level officials, and there is charcoal in the job allowance, they are not people who do not know the hardships of the people's livelihood.

If it is just a woman from a good family, she will be punished by law if she is killed. Now that the lawlessness of the charcoal industry is involved, the nature of the whole thing has changed. The poor people have a lot of complaints about the cold and nowhere to bake the fire, and many families even tear down the beams of their homes to bake the fire, and spread such a thing in the sun, which is not a raging feeling.

At the feet of the Son of Heaven in Kaifeng City, what he wants is to sing and dance to decorate the façade of the prosperous world, what if this kind of thing happens? In order to show that the emperor cares about the people's suffering, this case should be mixed in at least. As soon as the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory intervened, they were originally eating by impeaching officials, but they were afraid that a large number of officials from top to bottom would be unlucky. Now in the imperial history, Kong Daofu is anxious again, and he has never dealt with Zhongshumen, and he doesn't know how many people he has to clean up through this matter.

Xu Ping and Kou Ying glanced at each other, and they both understood in their hearts that now that the third division had just begun to rectify, it was better not to get involved here. As for the middle book, people have Zaifu as a big backer, and they can stand up with Yushitai.

The two chatted for a while, and the palace attendants came over, and it was rumored that Kou Ying immediately entered the palace to discuss matters.

It's not easy to guess about political affairs, and after Kou Ying left, Xu Ping talked to Zhang Cun about some gossip.

Zhang Cun was fifty years old, Jingde was a second-year jinshi, in addition to getting acquainted with him as a judge of the Guangnan West Road Transfer Division, he also traveled to various places as an official. Before being pulled by Xu Ping to serve as a judge of the Du Branch, he was serving as a judge of the herds.

Like Xu Ping, Zhang Cun also has many daughters in his family, the youngest is only about ten years old, and the topic of conversation between the two naturally focuses on parenting.

Xu Ping's family is Lin Su Niang in charge of the children, Xu Ping plays the role of a loving father, Pan Pan has a strange temperament, and the husband and wife often have headaches. Several daughters in Zhang Cun's family are well-read, which makes Xu Ping very envious.

Especially Zhang Cun's third daughter had just decided to marry at the beginning of the year, and her in-laws were colleagues at the time, Sima Guang, the son of Sima Chi, another herd judge, Xu Ping was still a little envious. No matter what you think of Sima Guang, he was a well-known figure in later generations, and when he was alive, he was also a very popular minister, and he was loyal to his wife and did not accept concubines. As a father, choosing a son-in-law is naturally like this, and it is impossible to choose a romantic and talented son for his daughter.

As for Zhang Cun's other colleague at that time, Pang Ji, he had been transferred to Lingnan to take over the ministry of Xu Ping's sugar business, and his eldest son Pang Yuanlu is now entrusted to Zhang Cun and Sima Chi to take care of him.

If it weren't for this era, it would be difficult for Xu Ping to sort out the intricate relationships between these famous figures in later generations. However, compared with the other two colleagues, Zhang Cun's sense of existence was weaker in later generations, and he did not have as many daughters as his sons.

Next to the Yan'an Bridge in front of Xiangguo Temple, there are many official and private freight yards, and there are many corresponding coolies.

The north wind was not as strong as it had been a few days ago, but it still carried knives in the wind, and it hurt to blow on people's bodies.

Cheng Lin was surrounded by a servant, and confronted a group of coolies with a black face.

Gently wiping the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead, Cheng Lin said in a deep voice: "You only hand over the prisoners who beat people to death, and I won't embarrass you." If I take someone to commit a crime, I will act in a public manner, Cheng is not the first time to know Kaifeng Mansion, is it possible that there are still people who don't believe me? ”

A coolie shouted loudly: "The voice of the government official is clear, and the people of Kaifeng naturally remember!" But this time the incident is very special, and we have to hand it over, and first arrest the eight kings who make money in the charcoal line! ”

"One thing is one thing, one thing at a time! You gathered here, attracting the people of the capital to watch, what kind of system! Hand over the people and I'll take them back, and other things will naturally be judged fairly! ”

On the opposite side of Yan'an Bridge is Xiangguo Temple, one of the most prosperous places in the capital, a large number of people gather to make trouble, and there are already detectives who go around here every day to report to the palace. Cheng Lin knew that he had to calm things down as soon as possible, and he had to try to avoid violent bloodshed, Kaifeng was not an ordinary state and county, and someone would kill him if he was caught.

Where are the coolies on the other side willing to listen to Cheng Lin's empty words, they must first arrest the people in the charcoal line before they are handed over. For these coolies, life is precarious, and they don't care much about being punished. But in the same way, their lives are not valuable, and they don't care about the Kaifeng Mansion officials with knives and guns, and they are in a hurry.

Cheng Lin was also a little helpless, he really didn't want to just agree to the coolie's request and go to seal the charcoal store to get people. The various markets in the capital are naturally conducive to the government's control of private business activities, but they are also in the same spirit, and if there is no strong evidence, they will go to the charcoal store to get people, causing the banks to boycott the market, and Cheng Lin can't eat and walk around.

Staring at the leading coolie opposite, Cheng Lin said word by word: "I am the prefect of Kaifeng, how many cases of wealthy and giant families have I handled, and you don't believe me?" ”

Coolie said: "We naturally believe in the Fu Gong, but does the Fu Gong in Kaifeng City have the final say?" Since the heavy snowfall, the weather is cold every day, but the price of charcoal is higher day by day, even the palace charcoal out to sell can not suppress the price of charcoal, how can we believe? ”

Cheng Lin's eyes became sharp, and she was calculating the pros and cons in her heart.

If the charcoal industry is sealed by violence, a large amount of charcoal in stock is found and there is evidence that the charcoal company manipulates the price of charcoal, but once there is a mistake, it may cause the banks to strike the market. Relatively speaking, although the coolies gathered here are not good-looking, they are famous in the end. Moreover, there was no one behind the coolies, and there were still a lot of people from outside the city waiting to come into the city to work.

After thinking about it, I think it's best to solve this group of coolies first. As for the cheats they said about the charcoal market, they chose to arrest people and deal with them quickly, as long as they did it quickly enough, they couldn't cause anything.

made up his mind, and just as Cheng Lin was about to give the order to arrest the coolies, a small official from Kaifeng Mansion came panting and said loudly: "The prefect, the big thing is not good, there is a fire in Tanxing!" (To be continued.) )