Unparalleled Concubine

Originally, this was just a common thing, no one would care about such a nursery rhyme, but after a certain night, in the streets and alleys of the capital, posters were put up by unknown people.

The content of the big-character poster is not something unsightly, but a rather catchy poem.

"The charcoal seller cuts firewood and burns charcoal in the North Mountain.

His face was dusty and smoky, and his temples were grey and black with ten fingers.

Poor shirt is single, worrying about charcoal and wishing it will be cold.

Yesterday I went to sell charcoal on South Street, and when I returned it, I saw someone arrive.

Send people with torches to burn my house and destroy my charcoal.

I asked Shangguan where he came from, and he said he was from Jingzhao Mansion.

Because the emperor hunted Beishan, he burned the place where the old man huddled.

The emperor's sage and morality are revealed to the world, and the old man froze to death in Beishan! "

This is all the content of the "big-character poster". It was Li Xin who sneaked out of Datongfang in the early morning and posted it along the street. A total of about forty or fifty copies were posted. He went, and he was very careful, so no one saw him.

There is no other way for him to do this. After all, he is just a commoner. Apart from this method, he has no other channels to express his opinions.

However, Li Xin can be regarded as a pioneer in this world. After him, ordinary people also have one more channel to express public opinion, and that is to post big-character posters on the street.

Because the Son of Heaven was mentioned in these big-character posters, Jingzhao Mansion was quickly alarmed. When Jingzhao Yin Li Ye of Jingzhao Mansion got one of the big-character posters, his beard trembled with anger. While asking the soldiers under his command to investigate and take people, Jing Zhaoyin angrily slapped the table in Jingzhao Mansion.

In this big-character poster, the Jingzhao Mansion was clearly brought in, and it was unabashedly satirized today. If this matter really got to His Majesty, no matter what, the Jingzhao Mansion would not be able to escape. Be warned, if things get serious, they might lose their jobs because of it.

In the side hall of Jingzhao Mansion, Li Ye, dressed in crimson official uniform, yelled angrily at the two Jingzhao Shaoyin in green official uniform: "What's going on? When will my Jingzhao Mansion send someone to Beishan?" , burned down the house of a charcoal seller?!"

Li Ye was completely unaware of the fact that the Jingzhao Mansion sent someone to burn down the house in Beishan. He is the governor of the Jingzhao Mansion, and his status is equivalent to the head of the capital city government. of.

Although the position of Jingzhaoyin is only a third-rank official, it is a government office with real power. Jingzhaofu not only manages the capital city but also the counties of Gyeonggi Province, and even has the power to directly sentence the death penalty. As Jingzhaofu Yin Li Ye, who can be regarded as a prominent figure in the capital, let alone burn down a charcoal seller's house, Jingzhao Mansion accidentally killed more than a dozen people, Li Ye can settle it, but This matter happened to be on the head of the emperor!

Li Ye knew very well that it was true that the emperor was going to Beishan to hunt in the near future, but the emperor never asked Jingzhao Mansion to clean up Beishan, and even the emperor's defense work was done by the people of Habayashi Guard, who had nothing to do with Jingzhao Mansion relation!

That is to say, if this matter spreads to the higher authorities, the emperor will think that Jingzhao Mansion is doing evil in his name!

The two young Yins were sweating on their foreheads when they were scolded by Li Ye. One of them, Chen Qin, who was 40 years old, hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth and took a step forward, lowered his head and cupped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, I know something about this matter. A few days... from Fu Jun's brother's house, someone came to the Fu Ya to say hello and asked the subordinate to help them with something, the subordinate thought it was not a big deal, so he asked his subordinates to do it."

Li Ye, Yin of the Jingzhao Mansion, and Li Shen, Marquis of Pingnan, are cousins. To be precise, Li Ye is Li Shen's cousin.

This was a relationship that Li Xin didn't know about in advance. He involved the Jingzhao Mansion, but only hoped to bring in the Pingnanhou Mansion through the Jingzhao Mansion.

Li Ye's face was livid.

"What did they ask you to do? Tell you to burn down the house of an old charcoal seller?"

Chen Qin hesitated for a while, walked up to Li Ye, bowed his head in front of the mansion, and said in a low voice: "Pingnan Hou's mansion, it seems that an unwelcome... relative, the one who lives in Beishan Inside the house, the Pingnan Hou Mansion wanted the officials to help drive this relative out of the capital, and the officials thought it was not a big deal, so they let the people below do it..."

Li Ye grabbed Chen Qin by the collar and growled, "Then you use your Majesty's name to set fire to other people's houses!"

The lord of the palace turned red from anger, kicked Chen Qin's thigh, and said in a low voice: "The generals of Pingnanhou's mansion have eight hundred if not one thousand, I want you to stand up for them ?”

Speaking of this, the Lord Mansion was out of breath, and after taking a few breaths, he sternly spoke to the two Shao Yins.

"Now, this matter has been spread all over the street, you two should deal with it now. If this matter reaches His Majesty's ears, this government will directly tie you two up and hand it over to His Majesty!"

The other Shao Yin, Sun Hanwen, couldn't help muttering in his heart.

This matter... none of my business...

However, the two of them did not dare to neglect the order of the Lord Fu Jun. Therefore, in the twelfth lunar month of the 17th year of Chengde, Jingzhao Mansion was fully staffed. The first thing they did was not to arrest the person who put up the big-character poster. , but went to the streets and alleys to search for these scattered big-character posters, and even asked door to door. The intention was obvious, that is, to take back all these big-character posters that had been spread.

Just when the people in Jingzhao Mansion were busy, in a private room on the top floor of Deyi Building by the Qinhuai River, a young man in a purple cloak was lazily sitting by the window, looking at the people downstairs. People in Jingzhao Mansion searched for big-character posters in the streets and alleys.

Cui Jiuniang, who was graceful and graceful, was kneeling beside the young master, pouring tea for the noble son.

The young man looked back from the street, squinted his eyes and glanced at a big-character poster in his hand, and said with a smile: "Poor clothes are bare, worrying about charcoal and cheap, wishing the weather is cold, nothing else , Just such a sentence, the literary talent is not bad."

Cui Jiuniang put a piece of animal charcoal into the stove next to him, and said softly to the young master: "The people from Pingnanhou's Mansion came to say hello to my family, and asked my family to cut off the business relationship with that Li Xin. As far as my family knows, that Li Xin lives in Beishan."

The young gentleman looked at the big-character poster in his hand with a half-smile.

"In other words, this thing was written by that Li Xin."

Jiu Niang nodded slightly: "Probably yes, the Li family wanted to drive him out of the capital, so he wanted to make a big fuss about it, and it's best to bring it up to His Majesty."

"Although it has some ideas, it is too reckless."

The young son said indifferently: "Whether it is Pingnanhou's Mansion or Jingzhao Mansion, he can be crushed to death ten times or even dozens of times, but he is lucky, this thing is in my hands."

As he spoke, he looked at the big-character poster in his hand and smiled slightly.

"If it's in my hands, it's a big deal."

Chapter 13 Don't Underestimate the Ancients

Things got serious as Li Xin expected, but Li Xin was also a little surprised when the officers and soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion began to search like wolves and tigers on the street.

He didn't expect this incident to become such a big mess.

Every emperor has his own eyes and ears. Li Xin's original purpose was to alert the eyes and ears of these emperors. The man restrained himself a little, and stopped attacking him so brazenly.

According to the memory of this unlucky child, more than 30 years ago, when the Dajin ruled the world, Li Zhijie, the first Marquis of the Pingnan Houfu, helped the Dajin pacify southern Xinjiang with his own efforts. Here, the Marquis of Pingnan is still leading the troops of the imperial court in southern Xinjiang. In the past two years, southern Xinjiang has not been peaceful, and Marquis of Pingnan Li Shen is still fighting the rebellion in southern Xinjiang. Facing such a powerful general, don't say If a house is burned down, even if Pingnanhou's mansion kills people, many people are killed, the court will not do anything to Pingnanhou's mansion.

Therefore, Li Xin knew very well that this incident could not have too much impact on the Pingnanhou Mansion, at most it would just let the people in the Pingnanhou Mansion live in peace and stop disturbing him.

But now, there are people coming and going on the streets of the capital, and there are officers and soldiers from Jingzhao Mansion everywhere. These people are confiscating the big-character posters written by Li Xin in the streets and alleys, and some ordinary people are still circulating this matter in the streets and alleys. The soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion directly arrested them and brought them into the yamen.

Li Xin hid in his yard, not daring to go out.

However, the officers and soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion still knocked on the gate of his courtyard.

At this time, there are no rules for the soldiers of the government. It is useless to hide. If you don't open the door, these officials will break in. At that time, they will be more suspicious and interrogate more.

Li Xin lowered his head slightly, and opened the courtyard door. There were two tall policemen at the door. Seeing Li Xin opened the door, the two policemen shouted in a low voice: "Young man, someone posted anti-poetry on the street last night. How can you Have you ever hidden it?"

Li Xin shook his head: "The grandfather at home is sick, and the villain has not gone out for several days."

In the past few days, the charcoal seller was still taking medicine every day, so the strong smell of medicine in the small yard proved that Li Xin was not lying.

The two policemen nodded, then looked at Li Xin suspiciously, and then took out a portrait from his arms. The portrait showed a young man, who looked a little like Li Xin.

The yamen of this era has its own sketch artist. The messenger sent by the Jingzhao Mansion to burn down the house has seen Li Xin, and naturally drew a portrait of Li Xin when he went back. There are some characteristics underneath, such as height, Looks, accent, etc.

It's just that the dictation will naturally not be too similar, so this portrait is only three-point similar to Li Xin himself.