Chapter 742: A huge case

The weather gradually became hotter, but it became cooler at night, but the number of mosquitoes gradually increased. In a blink of an eye, the early March was over. Yang Zhen, the assistant, was now full of pleasure. In more than ten days, more than 200 officials were abolished. Bianjing was not counted. Even the prefectures and the provinces outside were eyeing each other. Now all officials are in danger and are working diligently.

Yang Zhen's investigation in Jingzhou received strong support from King Pingxi, which is what the entire Bianjing capital knew. Now that the emperor and King Pingxi were behind him, Yang Zhen was at ease in doing things. If Wang Anshi was there, he would have been attacked by the crowd. But at this time, everyone was silent.

In exchange of interests, Yang Zhen submitted a memorial, begging the palace to plan to raise the exhibition of the 1000 countries in Quanzhou.

Zhao Ji read the memorial and asked only one question: "Can I go?"

Yang Zhen didn't even think about it and replied bluntly: "No."

Zhao Ji immediately showed a lack of interest and said, "Why is this?"

Yang Zhen said with a sigh: "My parents are here, so I don't travel far away. What's more, Your Majesty? Your Majesty is the parents of the world and is responsible for the country. How can you travel easily? The so-called exhibition of all countries is just a grand event to show our kindness to all countries after the Song Dynasty clarifies the maritime affairs. Why do you have to leave? Just send an imperial envoy to appease the vassal. The old minister secretly thinks that King Pingxi has a noble status and has dealt with various countries. He is quite familiar with Quanzhou. Why don't Your Majesty give a decree to ask King Pingxi to go to Quanzhou and summon him to ask the vassal kings and envoys of various countries?"

Zhao Ji pondered for a moment and said, "I will issue an order to let Quanzhou prepare for the preparations. When everything is ready, I will issue an order to King Pingxi." Zhao Ji was silent for a moment and continued, "I heard that the foreign court is now in chaos and cannot live in peace everywhere. Yang Aiqing, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food. You are not too young, so why bother making such a big noise."

Yang Zhense said: "Your Majesty is such a bad word."

Zhao Ji didn't expect Yang Zhen to contradict him, and his face became very ugly. He heard Yang Zhen continue, "My Song Dynasty is too generous to the scholars and officials. It is a good thing to be generous to scholars, but everything cannot be overcorrected and it makes people unscrupulous. Did Your Majesty remember the criticism of the scholar in the palace that time?"

Zhao Ji's face became worse and he kept silent.

Yang Zhen continued: "In fact, it is not because Your Majesty is not wise, and Your Majesty is not stupid. Although the people in the world are far apart, they are far away from the world. How the people in the world view Your Majesty is not because of His Majesty's virtue, but because of the officials."

"Seeing the Master?" Zhao Ji couldn't help but murmur.

Yang Zhen said: "If all the officials in the world are loyal to their duties, your Majesty's love for the people can be demonstrated. Taiyuan collapsed, Taiyuan Governor Taiyuan and Taiyuan Prefect violated the law. Your Majesty was worried when he was far away in Bianjing, but the people of Taiyuan could not feel it. They only knew that the officials sent by Your Majesty ignored their lives and death, but instead became accomplices of the Zheng family and a tyrant who harmed the people. If Your Majesty had not regarded King Pingxi as the imperial envoy, I was afraid that the people of Taiyuan would have already gritted their teeth when they mentioned Your Majesty."

Yang Zhen really dared to say it, but Zhao Ji was so smart that he couldn't help but be moved when he thought of the scholar's words that hurt him deeply last time. He sat down and said, "Yang Aiqing is right, I understand now."

Zhao Ji was a little excited at this time. Yang Zhen did not speak nonsense. Although he casually pointed out the taboos of Taiyuan and the imperial guards a few days ago. At first, Zhao Ji frowned secretly when he heard it, but now he was angry and happy. Why? It's very simple, because Zhao Ji was really sad and had a great loss of face. The scholar's words were always hidden in his heart, heavy, which made him feel uncomfortable. Yang Zhen pointed out that this was not because His Majesty was not wise, not because His Majesty was foolish, but because the officials at the bottom of the country had committed favoritism and fraud, and deceived His Majesty.

Zhao Ji was in a good mood. Nothing wrong. I was not bad. There was a disaster in various places. I was not as heartbroken as ever? I urged the imperial envoy to provide relief. I have not had any less literature in the prisons in various places? All this is wrong with the officials. They made me take the blame. I was kind-hearted and despised by the people of the world. It is not my fault. It is really because some people are using my sign and are unruly and unlawful, which leads to what they are today.

Zhao Ji was very happy and immediately said, "Yang Aiqing said it well. The court should purify it. According to my opinion, this is not enough now. The capital needs to be purged, and the road governments in various places cannot ignore it. Yang Aiqing will do this matter. I can trust that any official who has committed mistakes cannot be spared easily. If there is a Taiyuan Governor in this world, there will be ten Taiyuan Governors, and one Taiyuan Governor. Will the other priests be clean?" He continued excitedly: "Don't worry, if anything happens, anyone dares to make trouble. I will stand up for you."

Yang Zhen thought to himself that the words that the King of Pingxi scholars said were so effective. He was overjoyed. With the firm support from the palace, what he wanted to do was much simpler. He hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise."

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "The King of Pingxi often said to me, "How can the family cry all the way? I think about this sentence now, but it is not wrong. It is better to deal with several officials than to harm the people and neglect their duties."

Yang Zhen said yes and greeted Zhao Ji for a while before coming from the palace. He felt relieved. The King of Pingxi could not stay in Bianjing forever. Now with the support of His Majesty, he would not have to repeat it. He got to Zhengde Gate and got into the sedan chair and ordered someone to go directly to the gate. Although it was not far from here, it took half an hour due to the twists and turns of the road. Yang Zhen took advantage of this time to take a break. He was so busy that he was too sleepy these days.

The sedan chair was shaking, and the people inside leaned against the sedan chair and pretended to sleep. Suddenly, a sharp gong sounded, followed by a roar: "Bare this bastard to death!"

Yang Zhen woke up in shock. Before he could find out what was going on, he opened the curtain of the sedan chair and found that many strong men in short clothing rushed towards him. The two sedan chairmen were startled and were knocked over first. The rest of the people pulled Yang Zhen out. Yang Zhen couldn't even see anyone, so he was hit a few times. He was stunned. The door ordered that someone dared to beat him in the street. Is there any other way to do this?

Fortunately, the sedan chair owners also knew that the relationship was important and did not dare to run away. Instead, they rushed into the crowd and shouted: "Do you know who you are hitting? Master... Master... Ouch."

Yang Zhen was so shocked that he was about to die at the hands of a group of seemingly rascal people.

After a while, the whole person was covered in bruises. A few teeth fell off, their eyes were black and bruised, and their bodies were covered with bruises. They didn't care about their gentleness. After all, they were still old fry and protected the vital points with their hands. At this moment, someone shouted: "The servant is here, the servant is here."

Fortunately, Jingzhao Mansion has been working diligently recently and sent all the servants out to patrol day and night. There is such a big noise here. More than a dozen servants immediately came from all directions. Some of the people who beat people were watching. When they saw the black-clothed servant coming with a knife and a ruler, they shouted. After hearing this, the people did not stay. The birds and beasts disperse and suddenly mingled into the crowd and disappeared.

When the officer approached, he was so scared that he was beaten to death. The one who was beaten was not someone else, but the current prime minister. So he called the doctor and carried Yang Zhen to Jingzhao Mansion, and then chased the murderer.

Yang Zhen didn't say anything. When he arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, he directly treated his injuries. He asked the sedan chair owner to go to the provincial government first to inform them and asked them to take office normally. Then he saw the prefect and judge of Jingzhao Mansion who rushed over.

Judge Zhou, who was on duty, was really scared away from his three souls and seven spirits. Today he was on duty. He was dissatisfied with no case to make him busy. Unexpectedly, he encountered such a huge case and ordered someone to be beaten in the street. Is that so much? At that time, the first one will be Jingzhao Mansion, which is him Judge Zhou.

Judge Zhou obediently asked for the crime, and the prefect smiled bitterly and said a lot, but thought to himself that one of the doors ordered not to bring more people to the streets. There were not only one or two people in Bianjing who wanted to beat you, Lord Yang, but today it made us embarrassed.

Yang Zhen's face was serious. Although he had applied medicine, his whole body still had a severe pain. He even sat down and felt sore back. After all, he was old and suddenly beaten to death. But at this time, he realized something. A stinky stone like Yang Zhen could be the position of a minister of the Ministry of Rites. It was impossible to say that without a little political wisdom, and it was precisely because of this that he breathed a sigh of relief. Yang Zhen realized that an opportunity had come.

He pursed his lips and said seriously: "It's not your fault for this matter, but someone at the foot of the emperor dares to show off his evil spirit to me. It can be seen that the public security in Bianjing is so deteriorating. From now on, all the servants in Jingzhao Mansion will be dispersed and inquire about me. Who instigated me and who did it, no one would escape. I will give you three days. If there is no news after three days..."

"I understand, understand... the lower official understand..." The prefect also complained in his heart. This matter was too big. Lord Yang suppressed his prefect, so he could only suppress the judge. If the judge suppressed the head, no matter what, he must seize the real murderer.

Yang Zhenhe nodded and then rested here for a while, but the news was like wings, which immediately caused an uproar in the entire Bianjing.

Some people applauded, thinking that it was a big deal to relieve their hatred, and some people realized that something was going to happen, so it would definitely not be small. Some people watched the fire from the other side of the river, with an indifferent attitude, and of course some were anxious, but there were very few such people.

The palace had already received news, and His Majesty Long Yan was furious. Yang Zhen had just left the palace. Now that such a big thing happened, is it so great? It is simply outrageous. Naturally, he issued an order to investigate and order the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple to assist.

However, when King Pingxi heard the news, Liu Sheng was the first to report the news. When Liu Sheng heard the news, he immediately felt that this matter must have something to do with Shen Ao, so he immediately went to inform him.

Chen Ao couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Have you found out?"

Liu Sheng said: "Not yet, but looking at this, the whole of Bianjing is so disturbing, it will be a matter of time before it is found out. Lord Yang is really, he offended so many people and has been beaten now. I just hope he can restrain himself in the future. At such an old age, what can I do with people?"

Even Liu Sheng felt that Yang Zhen was foolish, Chen Ao couldn't help laughing and said, "In my opinion, this person may not be able to find out, please wait and see." After that, he said, "Go and prepare a gift to Yang's mansion. Didn't Zhenzhen have a good relationship with Mrs. Yang? Let Zhenzhen go on behalf of our palace."

Liu Shengdao: "The prince won't go?"

Chen Ao shook his head, thought for a while, sat comfortably on the chair and said, "It's not the time for your prince to take action, so good steel should be used on the blade."

Liu Sheng looked suspicious and went immediately.

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Chapter completed!