Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Even if the imperial court compromised at this time and allowed him to return to his original position, there must be a thorn in the hearts of the emperor and all the officials. In the future, they will have their own hardships when they settle accounts after the fall.

At this time, Li Gang was in a very embarrassing situation, so he had to evade and say that he did not dare to enter the palace rashly.

However, several batches of servants successively came to the palace to deliver the decree, and the content of the decree was the same, which was to urge Li Gang to enter the palace as soon as possible.

The Chinese envoy Zhu Gongzhi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, saying that Li Xianggong, if you don't enter the palace again, it will be a big deal if you really cause a civil uprising.

Seeing this, Li Gang knew that the scapegoat would not be thrown away, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and get on the horse and enter the palace.

When Li Gang arrived outside the Donghua Gate, he was surrounded by crowds outside the gate, and cheers erupted from the Tai students and the onlookers.

Li Gang comforted everyone with a strong smile, and finally squeezed through the crowd and entered the Donghua Gate.

The Chinese envoy Zhu Gongzhi was about to follow Li Gang into the palace, but unfortunately he was stopped by the gathered crowd and was brutally beaten by the crowd.

It originally came from the time when Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji became emperor, he began to reuse eunuchs a lot, destroying the political tradition of the Song Dynasty that eunuchs could not interfere in politics.

With the support of the emperor, the eunuchs in the palace gradually became domineering. Many eunuchs seized houses and land by force, plundered and plundered the people, and committed all kinds of evil.

In the Huizong Dynasty, when the common people were oppressed by the eunuchs, they had nowhere to sue and nowhere to redress their grievances.

Because if all officials want to make a fortune, almost all must have a good relationship with the eunuchs in power.

After Cai Jing, the prime minister of power, was dismissed back then, it was only thanks to the good words of the great eunuch Tong Guan that he regained his position as prime minister.The subsequent prime ministers Wang Fu, Li Bangyan and others were also disciples of the great eunuch Liang Shicheng.

With the favor of Emperor Huizong, all ministers bowed their heads to the eunuchs, and which of the other officials would dare to be an enemy of the eunuch group?

Therefore, it can be said that the people of the Song Dynasty had long-standing resentment towards the eunuchs.

Before the Jin soldiers invaded the south, Tan Zhen who offended the Jin country was an eunuch.

After the Jin soldiers invaded the south, Tong Guan who lost Yanjing and fled Taiyuan was an eunuch.

When the Jin soldiers approached the Yellow River, Liang Fangping, the culprit who lost the Yellow River defense line, was still an eunuch.

Is there really no one in Song Dynasty?Why are military and political affairs in the hands of eunuchs?

The common people believed that the eunuchs were to blame for the Jin army's invasion of Bianliang City in Tokyo and the suffering of the people in the city.

However, after the Supreme Emperor abdicated and the new emperor ascended the throne, he still used eunuchs as servants.

When the city defense was deployed in Bianliang City, Tokyo, because there were not enough guards, the imperial court ordered all officials and soldiers to go up to the city wall to serve as defenders, but appointed servants to take charge of the command.

After the two countries negotiated peace and the conditions were agreed, the Jin army still harassed the capital from time to time, shooting bows and crossbows on the city wall.

At this time, these internal servants ordered the guards not to fight back. The reason was that we had made peace with the Jin army and we should not attack each other.

A sergeant in the Song army was very angry after hearing this, saying that since the attack has been negotiated and the attack is not allowed, then what is the matter with the Jin army attacking us?

After finishing speaking, the sergeant shot the Jin army with stone cannons and killed several Jin men.

The inner servant guarding the city became furious, thinking that the sergeant had disobeyed the military order and disrupted the peace talks of the imperial court, so he ordered the sergeant to be beheaded as a public display.

Seeing that his companion was killed, the rest of the soldiers in the army dared not speak out, so some people spread rumors in the city, and some servants wanted to open the city gate to the Jin army as internal support.

After these things spread, the seeds of hatred for eunuchs were planted in the hearts of the people in Bianliang City.

Now outside the Donghua Gate is the time when the crowd is furious, after seeing Zhu Gongzhi and other eunuchs, everyone was extremely jealous, rushed forward to defeat Zhu Gongzhi, and tore him to pieces in an instant.

Of course, among the people gathered outside the Donghua Gate, there were many rogues who watched the excitement and tried to fish in troubled waters.

Under the instigation of people with good intentions, the people who petitioned began to turn into blind mobs.

Not long after, another eunuch who didn't know how to live or die came.

The eunuch was originally sent by Emperor Zhao Huan to summon Li Gang, but instead of summoning Li Gang, he ran outside the Donghua Gate to do his best, reprimanding the gathered people and saying, "Hurry up and leave soon, be careful of you guys." head.

The crowd was furious and rushed forward to beat the eunuch who had committed suicide to death.

Someone found the imperial decree summoning Li Gang from the eunuch's arms, and shouted to everyone, saying that the eunuch concealed the edict and did not pass it on. They must be committing crimes.

So these red-eyed soldiers and civilians chanted the slogan "Kill the national thieves", killed all the eunuchs they could catch, a total of more than [-] people, and put their heads on bamboo poles to show the public, saying that That's what happens to traitors.

The tens of thousands of people outside the Donghua Gate have become fanatical thugs. At this time, some people who are dissatisfied with the eunuch falsely spread the imperial decree, shouting in the crowd that the emperor said that the murderer of the eunuch is not guilty.

When everyone heard it, it was like adding fuel to the fire, and they quickly blew up the pot.

Red-eyed mobs invaded the houses of the eunuchs in the city, killed everyone they encountered, and looted everything they found.

They also found a large number of weapons in the courtyards of the servants, and sent them to the Department of Operations as evidence that the servants wanted to rebel.

In order to survive, the servants in the city fled and hid everywhere in the city. The lucky ones fled into the palace, and they all hid themselves and never dared to show their faces again.

Many rogues settled down and took advantage of this opportunity to make a small fortune.

Of course, Zhang San and Li Si in Beicheng, a gang of rogues who settled down, would not join in the fun.They have long been reborn and have become the backbone of the intelligence of the officials of Ximen Qing in Bianliang City, Tokyo. Naturally, they disdain low-end illegal and criminal activities such as robbery.

Lu Xiaoyi's subordinates calmly observed what happened in the city, and continuously passed the collected information to Yanggu County and Liangshanbo.

Against the backdrop of chaos in the city, Li Gang entered the palace.

Chapter 9 Wanyan Zongwang is about to retire from the army

After seeing Emperor Zhao Huan, Li Gang fell to the ground, weeping uncontrollably, pleading guilty to the emperor for making troubles caused by the Tai students, and begging the emperor to execute himself.

Emperor Zhao Huan seemed to be infected as well, and he couldn't make a sound, and he wanted to clear up his suspicions with Li Gang.

After wiping away his tears, Emperor Zhao Huan sent a decree to restore Li Gang Shangshu Youcheng's position, and at the same time replaced Shangshu Zuocheng Cai Mao as the envoy to raise the city wall.

Li Gang was trembling and asked to resign repeatedly, but Emperor Zhao Huan disagreed.So Li Gang had to accept the order.

After Emperor Zhao Huan reappointed Li Gang, he ordered him to go out to appease the people and stabilize the situation in the city.

Li Gang hurriedly boarded the tower and announced the emperor's will to the people, asking everyone to disperse immediately and return home.

Then, Li Gang ordered people to search and arrest more than [-] mobs who took the lead in making troubles and looting and killing eunuchs in various places in the city.

Li Gang executed all these mobs immediately and left their dead bodies outside, only then did he control the situation in the capital.

Didn't the mob in the city threaten the emperor and demand that Li Gang be reused?

Now they support and love Li Gang, in order to get rid of the suspicion that he was coercing the people, just after he was reinstated, he raised his butcher knife to the mob in the city.

At this time, in Bianliang City, Tokyo, changing the minister to suppress the people would cause even greater troubles. Only Li Gang could make the gathered people speechless.

Fighting poison with poison is really wonderful!

The rabble-rousing mob lost their title of righteousness, and immediately scattered like birds and beasts.