Turbulent Times Chapter 179: Public opinion war (middle)

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The greedy child rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at the apricot tree on the corner of the street. He felt a little regretful that those green apricots could not grow up and turn yellow. I tasted the apricot yesterday and it was still very sour. Why is it still the same today? smell. Resentfully poured urine on the root of the tree, this **** old apricot tree, can't the apricots grow faster!

Look at the pagoda trees on both sides of the road and take a sip of water. Compared with apricots, pagoda flowers are the real delicacy. Put a handful of white pagoda flowers and brown rice together and steam them. Come to the market.

The dust raised by fast horses is always so annoying. In Daxing City in summer, the streets in Chang’an City were all paved with stone slabs because it was not as big as the Tang Dynasty. .

A silent young man jumped down from his horse, holding a bucket of paste in his hand, dipped a brush into the paste, brushed it on the wall twice, and then took it out from the bamboo tube on the horse's back. A piece of paper was pasted on the wall of the workshop. After looking up and down, he found that it was well pasted, so he got on his horse and ran to the next place.

There are more than one or two young men on horseback like this, there are as many as three thousand who do the same thing, and they are scattered around the capital early in the morning. They are all dead men raised by Yang Guang, but now they are doing the same thing ——Brush paste, sticker sheet.

This is new, in addition to the government in the capital, there are notices posted at the gate of the city. Furthermore, occasionally, the Jingzhao Mansion will ask the police to post pictures of green forest robbers or flower pickers who dare to attack nobles and wealthy families. Who has ever seen someone paste gold and precious papers all over the city. There were characters written on it. In the Sui Dynasty, few ordinary people could read and write. As a result, many people surrounded by them could not read. A group of people watched eagerly, curious and anxious to death.

The people who had something good to do immediately called out the shopkeeper of the bookstore next door. He was the only one who could read in this neighborhood, and he would be invited to come forward if anyone had a wedding or a wedding or wrote something.

However, this time, the shopkeeper of the bookstore coughed twice, cleared his throat and prepared to read aloud, so as to show off his knowledge, who knows, as soon as he saw clearly what was written on it, he immediately covered his mouth and said nothing, Turning around and rushing back to the bookstore in three steps and two steps, everyone saw people yelling for their son and mother-in-law to get on the baffle as quickly as possible, even closing the doors of the shop, not even doing business.

Seeing the appearance of the shopkeeper of the bookstore, the neighbors became even more anxious and curious.

"What on earth is written on it? Could it be that the government is going to impose additional business taxes on various shops in the capital?" Someone said in a low voice, with a look of worry on his face, which aroused a group of people's worries and depression.

Ordinary people in the capital mainly do all kinds of businesses for a living. While they are worried for a while, there are also different opinions, but they have no clue. For the record, I couldn't find anyone who could read and write.

A humble scholar in a gray robe who looked a bit down and out happened to pass by here at this time, an older man stepped forward to greet him with fists in his arms, and the young scholar was easy to talk, so he came to the list without saying a word Below, he took a glance and said to the neighbors around him: "In the past few years, more than 3,000 women and children have been missing every day in Daxing City. They were all secretly kidnapped and hijacked by a slave trading gang called Changsheng. They sold the women and children to other places. Many of them were directly sold to the Turks and Khitans, and the Turks and the Khitans liked it... There are relatives, friends, neighbors and villagers who have lost women and children. Maybe it was this slave trading gang called Changsheng who secretly hijacked them and sold them. It's black-hearted money."

Before the down-and-out scholar finished speaking, someone grabbed the scholar and asked who is the leader of the slave merchant group named Changsheng? His family's children have been missing for two years. The scholar told him that the matter is that the daughter of Li Chen, a celebrity in Dongcheng, disappeared a few days ago. On the way to North Turkic, I found my daughter, but unfortunately, the other party was powerful, and he was unable to **** her away, so I asked a friend to borrow three hundred taels of silver to buy her back. Why is it so expensive? Everyone probably knows that Mr. Li’s daughter is a beautiful woman, but It's a pity that Li Chen's daughter was ruined by the leader of the slave merchant group. The next day after Li Chen brought her daughter home, that is, last night, Li Chen's daughter hanged herself.

Li Chen is well-known in the capital, and many people know that Li Chen's daughter really disappeared for a while, and then it was reported that Li Chen's daughter hanged herself at night. File matter. But few people know that this person is an aide under the command of Prince Yang Guang of the Eastern Palace.

Of course, Mr. Li was very angry and sad, so he put up a notice to warn the neighbors to be careful about their children and the young woman in the family, and not to be robbed or tricked into selling them to Turks and Khitans. He himself even went to the Jingzhao government office to sue the slave merchant group and its master behind the scenes, Changping Palace, to seek justice for his daughter.

As soon as the down-and-out scholar finished speaking, he cupped his hands and left. When he left, he warned the neighbors to be careful of his daughter and the young woman at home. Seeing the neighbor crying and losing his child and wife, he left with a sigh.

Passing the corner of the street, the down-and-out scholar changed his clothes, replaced the wooden hairpin on his head with a jade hairpin, took out a pinch of mustache from his sleeve, and stuck it to his lips. A young scholar with a good temperament, he turned to the next street corner and continued to explain to the neighbors who didn't know the truth...

It didn't take long for the news on the notice to spread throughout Daxing City, and it became a household name. The children who were running outside just now were immediately dragged home by their mothers, and their buttocks were slapped several times. Only then did he hear his mother tell him about the horrible tragedy that the child was captured and sold to the Turkic people as a human skin drum by the slave merchant group of the hateful Changping Prince’s Mansion. The frightened children’s faces were pale, and they couldn’t even cry. They hid in the house, my lord. Pushed out, dare not go out.

The children who used to run around in Daxing City disappeared, and the young girls who liked to go shopping disappeared. Even some half-children and young women who had to come out to make a living, also hurried on the street, with a look on their faces. Panic, like a frightened deer, ran away in fright when seeing strangers, especially the surrounding area of ​​Changping Palace became a no-man's land for a while, no one dared to approach.

When the sun is westward, people feel that it is no different from usual, and secretly relieved. At the same time, some self-righteous people wondered whether Li Chen had a grudge against the Changping Palace, so they used this method to revenge Changping. Wangfu, ready to go home and release the child who has been locked in the house for a day to get some air.

But then news spread that Li Chen really went to the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen to sue the Changping Prince Mansion with the pleading paper. From the east end to the west end, most of the people in Daxing City saw this. A middle-aged scholar with a good reputation in the capital, who seemed to have aged twenty years overnight, went to the Jingzhao government office with red eyes and a sad face.

In front of hundreds of people in the capital rushing to watch the excitement after hearing the wind, they rang the bells and drums on both sides of the Jingzhao government office. Before filing a complaint, the people always have to ring the bell and drum to urge the lazy old man to rise up to handle the case. This rule has been around since the Han Dynasty.

The common people have no way to sue the officials. If the people sue the officials, they will be guilty first. He is also an aristocrat. Although his family fortune has declined, he still has a seventh-rank honor on him.

Looking back at the large group of people in the capital behind him, Li Chen's face was full of grief, but he was quite happy in his heart. His daughter had been sent to Luoyang overnight, and His Royal Highness promised him that he would find a middle-class family to marry, and As long as he completes this matter, he will be one of the three people who have contributed the most to the participants in the whole plan, and when the Changping Palace was submerged in what Qin Anhou said was the tide of the people's ocean, he was the one who came out under the command of the prince when the day.

Yin of Jingzhao Mansion just took over Wang Tong's position, and Chen Sansi, the former governor of Yongzhou who took office only three days ago, at this time Chen Sansi regretted that he ran to the capital early to take office. The Shandong Chen family is only a middle-ranking family, and they have no strength to fight against the Changping Palace, and they are not qualified to get involved in the battle for the crown prince. In short, this matter cannot be handled well at the moment. He will be dismissed from office and imprisoned at least, or die in vain Not to mention the capital, it will also implicate the family.

The other officials under Jingzhao Mansion are also pale. Although most of them are from aristocratic families, most of them are not as good as Chen Sansi. If they dared to accept the paper of pleadings, in their opinion, the Lord Fu Yin who was valued by His Majesty might be fine, but they themselves, and even their family, may fall into a place of eternal doom under the revenge of Changping Palace and Prince Yin.

Chen Sansi didn't want to pick it up at first, but after Li Chen entered the inner hall, he took out the crown prince's token and a letter. Chen Sansi gritted his teeth for the letter sent to him by someone sent by Junlin, and finally accepted Li Chen's case, which was forced to make a choice in the competition for the crown prince.

However, Chen Sansi still didn't want to offend the Changping Palace and the former prince too hard, so he left some leeway for himself, gritted his teeth and said to Li Chen: "Mr. Daughter, I also suspect that the women and children who disappeared in the capital these years were the work of the Changsheng Slave Merchant Group, but there is evidence. If there is no evidence, it will be difficult for me to do this! You must know that I have just taken office and I am not familiar with the situation in the capital. , The people sent to search for evidence, I don’t know when there will be progress, maybe people in the Changping Palace will not talk to me.”