The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Such a shocking case occurred in the capital, and everyone in the government and the public was shocked. In the capital guarded by hundreds of thousands of troops, someone would openly break into the houses at night and settle the case of dozens of lives. The Kaifeng Mansion's face is full of responsibilities.

What made the Governor of Kaifeng panic even more was that this house turned out to be the private house of Xia Song, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council. Xia Song's only daughter was in the house on the day of the accident. Fortunately, this woman was smart, so she opened the back door and escaped until the officers and soldiers arrived. to come out of hiding.

Xia Song's anger intensified, and it became clear that Su Jin did it. Xia Song didn't believe Xia Siling's statement at all. Everyone was killed and Xia Siling was left alone. Who is it not Su Jin?Robbers entered the house so many guards with martial arts skills couldn't escape, how could Xia Siling, a weak woman, escape?

Xia Song tried every means to coax Xia Siling to tell the truth, but Xia Siling insisted that a gang of masked gangsters had entered the house, and she escaped under the desperate cover of several guards. A group of masked gangsters were extremely ferocious; some said that one of the gangsters was able to run like a civet cat on the ridge of the house as if walking on the ground, which was miraculous; Xia Song was so angry that he ordered the people to beat him up. He was almost punished for the crime of bewitching and fooling.

Even so, Xia Song has a new understanding of Su Jin's strength. Xia Song knows the strength of the people in the Yuzhang Tower best. Several witnesses said that only six or seven people entered the Yuzhang Tower, which means that with this With the strength of six or seven people, they killed more than 20 nurses, which is unbelievable. [

Xia Song thought about retaliating secretly, but he thought that since Su Jin dared to be so arrogant, he must have taken precautions. If his hands and feet were not clean, he would be bitten back. On Su Jin's head, if some evidence can be obtained to prove that Su Jin is behind the scenes, the two cases of Liu Binhua and Yuzhanglou will be closed together.

Xia Song personally participated in the inspection site. He found that more than a dozen people had strange injuries. They seemed to be hit on the head and face by hidden weapons like raindrops. Their faces were covered with iron sand, and their scalps were numb. What kind of strange weapons are these? People are confused.

Kaifeng Mansion's experienced fighters immediately concluded that it was firearms. Only powerful firearms, using gunpowder to stimulate iron sand, could injure people like this, so they pointed their fingers at the Shenhuo Battalion of the Ministry of War.

Commander Qin of the Shenhuo Battalion did not dare to hide anything from Xia Song's inquiry, so he directly told about Zhao Dehai and Fang Chengzhong's purchase of firearms.

Ying Tianfu Quanzhi is Wen Yanbo, a capable official who was recently transferred from the deputy envoy of Hedong. Quoted above, this made him a little restless.

To be honest, even if there are firearms in the case, it does not mean that Su Jin and Fu Bi who bought the firearms privately did it. Gunpowder has been circulated among the people for a long time, and there are so many fireworks workshops everywhere, anyone can easily make simple firecrackers Firearms come.

What's more, counting on such firearms to kill people is simply a joke. The bamboo barrel guns of the Shenhuo Camp have long been cited as a joke in the court. If the gunpowder is filled with too much gunpowder, it will injure its own soldiers. , and can't reach far. To put it an exaggeration, you can't even kill a chicken, let alone kill someone.

The evidence obtained from the investigation shows that even if it is a firearm, it is by no means the damage that the firearms of the Shenhuo Camp can cause. The iron sand produced by this kind of firearm is densely packed in thousands. Although it is not clear how far it was shot, but It is conceivable that so much iron sand needs to be driven into the meat, which requires a large amount of gunpowder to be filled, and the firearms of Shenhuoying can't meet this at all.

In view of this, Wen Yanbo decided to report this matter to the emperor as soon as possible. If Xia Song single-mindedly put this big case on Su Jin and others, it would cause an uproar. If something went wrong, he would not be able to get rid of it.

So when Xia Song summoned Zhao Fang to inquire, Wen Yanbo hurriedly informed the prime minister Lu Yijian and the third envoy Yan Shu of the matter respectively. Wen Yanbo believed that these two people could still control the situation. Strictly investigate to the end when you speak, and then you can do it to yourself if something goes wrong.

Lu Yijian was quite surprised, he didn't know why Xia Song did this?To say that Su Jin really made Lu Yijian very dissatisfied, and a group of people including Du Yan didn't like this kid, but the real reason was because this kid was very close to Yan Shu, and he faintly became an important help for Yan Shu to win the position In fact, attacking Su Jin was actually attacking Yan Shu; the methods used by Lu Yijian and Du Yan were nothing more than picking on errands, or giving him a hot errand to wait for him to make mistakes before arresting him, just like the Song and Liao negotiations last time. Hold on to the pigtails.

It is obviously inappropriate for Xia Song to check the firearms on Su Jin and the others through the scene with such fanfare, and it will annoy Yan Shu.

Everyone knew that Su Jin and Xia Song had never even met face to face, so how could they be so stupid to go to Xia Song's other courtyard to kill people, and those who killed were all important nursing courtyards.

As Lu Yijian expected, Yan Shu was angry; from Yan Shu's point of view, Su Jin and Xia Song never met, and Xia Song must have been instigated to do so, saying that Su Jin was found in the investigation, but the goal was obviously aimed at himself Rao Yan Shu has a good temper, so he couldn't help it this time.

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Early morning on the tenth day of March.

The ministers had finished saluting, and before Zhao Zhen's buttocks could sit still, Yan Shu was the first to go out and play: "My minister, Yan Shu, asked His Majesty to know that a major case in Beijing was under investigation yesterday, but the Deputy Privy Envoy, Mrs. Xia, acted Inappropriate, Yuezu intervened in the investigation of the Kaifeng government without mentioning it. The direction of this investigation alone is absurd. He even compared the purchase of Shenhuo camp firearms designed by Su Jinfubi and others in order to deter Liao envoys with the robbery of his private house. The connection between the invasion and murder is simply ridiculous; if Master Xia is so suspicious, wouldn’t all the fireworks workshops in the world be suspected? What’s more, it involves court officials.”

Zhao Zhen's expression changed, and he asked, "What's going on? How did the investigation find Fu Bi Su Jin's head, Deputy Envoy Xia, tell me."

Xia Song did not show any weakness, and argued: "Qizuo the emperor, the big case in Beijing, although it is the private residence of the minister, if it is not investigated clearly, it will be a big worry in the capital. Today is my summer residence, and tomorrow it will be Lu. The house, or the house of Master Yan, is more likely to be the royal palace; and the gangsters hold firearms, which are so powerful that the minister thought that no matter how to investigate this matter thoroughly; although gunpowder and other things are widely spread among the people, they really know how to make them. I am afraid that there are very few such firearms, so I naturally have to check from the Shenhuo camp who understands firearms. I did not expect to find out that Su Jinfubi and others had bought the discarded firearms of the Shenhuo camp a few days ago, so I have been following this road. The investigation of clues is not just aimed at Su Jin and others as Yan Sansi said, the minister is right about the matter and not about the person." [

Xia Song's high-sounding words were impeccable, but Yan Shu wanted to refute but never did.

Zhao Zhen frowned and said, "Then what did Xia Aiqing find out?"

Xia Song said: "Last night, I asked Zhao Dehai and Fang Chengzhong, the two deputy commanders of the Ma Jun, who were ordered by Su Jin to purchase the firearms. They all said that the firearms for the Shenhuo Camp were purchased by Su Jin's order, and that they had used some of them, and the rest were in Sujin. Jinshou..."

Zhao Zhen said: "But based on this, you conclude that Su Jin is related to your Xia family's big case?"

Xia Song thought for a while and said, "At least it is suspected. Why didn't you turn in the remaining gunpowder and firearms? Why did you keep them at home? I will continue to investigate."

Zhao Zhen laughed and said: "Absurd, are you so serious? Let me tell you, there are also firearms in my palace. Qin Meng from the Shenhuo Camp gave me several firearms a year ago to let me try the power of firearms. Now that firearm is still placed in my imperial study, according to what you say, isn't I also suspected?"

Xia Song quickly knelt down and said: "I dare not, why did the emperor say that, I just want to investigate the case, there is no other meaning."

Zhao Zhen said with a gentle face: "Get up, I know you are worried about the public security in Gyeonggi, but don't be suspicious, I know about Su Jin's purchase of firearms, and Su Jin bought the pile of junk from Shenhuoying with his own money. Why do you want him to return it? Besides, it seems inappropriate for you to randomly suspect court officials just because the thief used a firearm; I know you have no selfish intentions, but your actions will indeed harm the unity among the officials."

Xia Song blinked and said: "I ask you to ask Su Jin face to face, let him explain the matter clearly, so as to prove his innocence and avoid any suspicion. Wouldn't it be better to clarify the matter than to cover it up?" Zhen thought for a while and said, "That's fine, but if the matter is cleared up, you should stop meddling in the matter. In fact, you are not as good as Wen Yanbo, the official of Kaifeng Prefecture, in investigating the case. Let them investigate in the future; as the owner of the case, you can supervise Ask, but don't interfere."

Xia Song nodded and said, "Observe the order."

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and said, "It is said that Su Jin will come to court."

The servant hurriedly sent someone out of the palace to look for Su Jin. They all knew that Su Jin could not be brought with him in the History Museum, so the servant went directly to Su Jin's residence in Deshengqiaonan, but Su Jin was not in the house at all.

When the emperor came to invite, Xiao Sui'er didn't dare to neglect her, so she hurriedly went out to search with her servants. After running for almost half an hour, she finally found Su Jin in the peach garden in the backyard of Xiangguo Temple, who was drinking tea and admiring the flowers with several elders.

After the servant explained the situation, Su Jin was furious, and threw the teacup in his hand on the stone table and smashed it to pieces. Wang Anshi and others present were stunned. go.

Along the way, Su Jin was furious. She never thought that Xia Song would dare to openly doubt herself. This was a blatant provocation. She and him had only been playing tricks in secret, and the entanglement between them had never been put on the table. Although it was a bit harsh, so far, the two sides have only been evened; although Liu Binhua was lured and killed by himself, Rou Niang is still in a coma and has not woken up, and her life and death are still uncertain; The means are more violent.

Today Su Jin really couldn't get rid of Wang Anshi's face, so he came out to relax with them who had just passed the test, but unexpectedly this mad dog dared to openly attack the court.Su Jin secretly made up his mind that he would never show him any kindness today.

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