Chapter 65 Section five
Han Wei sat in the hall and drank tea slowly, concealing his anxiety.Zhongshu ordered one after another, asking Kaifeng Mansion to go to Baishuitan to arrest people, he suppressed these things, his confidant servant had already gone to Shi Mansion to report the news, Shi Yue hoped that he would wait for a while.However, it didn't take long in the end - when he heard the hurried footsteps outside the door, he knew that someone from Zhongshu Sheng was coming again.
Han Wei did not expect that the people who came would be the two most popular people in front of the emperor besides Wang Anshi and Shi Yue: Deng Wan and Zeng Bu.He saw that Deng Wan was proud and full of energy, but Zeng Bu was hesitant and absent-minded.There was an imperceptible sneer on Han Wei's face.The Han family is a well-known family—it’s just Zeng Bu, his brother Zeng Gong is quite famous, but Deng Wan is a complete nouveau riche and a shameless villain—Han Wei naturally looks down on Deng Wan.But on the surface, he seemed very enthusiastic, saying: "Zixuan, Wenyue, come to my little Kaifeng mansion, what are you doing?"
Deng Wan laughed and said, "Brother Chiguo, the two of us are ordered by imperial order to assist you in handling the Baishuitan case."
Zeng Bu just cupped his hands and gave a wry smile.
Han Wei is clear in his heart, he knows that although both of them are the backbone of the new party, Deng Wan is eager to please Wang Anshi, while Zeng Bu has a close personal relationship with Shi Yue, so it is difficult to be two-faced.While thinking secretly in his heart, while smiling all over his face, he said: "With the help of the two of you, it's really a lot easier for me."
Deng Wan said with a smile: "This is a case that His Majesty cares about. Do you dare to do your best as a courtier? Brother Chiguo, did you mention the crime?"
Han Wei cursed secretly in his heart, but smiled on his face: "Have a cup of tea first and then discuss business matters."
Deng Wan said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "This matter cannot be delayed. If the prisoner leaves, how can I report to the emperor?"
Han Wei pretended to smile and said, "Where can these sour talents go?"
Zeng Bu thought about it, and immediately knew Han Wei's intentions. He gave Han Wei a meaningful look, and said with a smile, "Wen Yue, brother Chi Guo is right, let's have a cup of tea first."
Deng Wan is also the first in the provincial test, and she is also very clever, so she doesn't know the tricks of the two of them?He wholeheartedly wanted to make this case a good one, so as to gain Wang Anshi's attention and the emperor's appreciation. Now that the censor Zhongcheng Yang Hui had offended Wang Anshi and was dismissed, his position was vacant...but he didn't want to offend Han Wei either. unusual.He rolled his eyes and said half-jokingly: "Since that's the case, Zixuan and Brother Chiguo drink tea first, but I'm busy, so let me order soldiers to arrest people."
Han Wei and Zeng Bu's eyes met, and they both felt that Deng Wan was really a man who would never leave a way out—don't say that Baishuitan is popular all over the world, how can Shi Yue alone be easy to provoke?After the two greeted Deng Wan's ancestors in their hearts, they reluctantly followed Deng Wan and ordered someone to drive to Baishuitan—after all, he couldn't be allowed to go alone, otherwise it would be hard to say.
Deng Wan rode on a tall horse, commenting on the scenery around Baishuitan with Han Wei and Zeng Bu from time to time along the way.Unlike Han Wei and Zeng Bu, it was his first time to visit Baishuitan. It was the first time he had seen the concrete and gravel roads and red brick and tile houses here, and he couldn't help but be amazed.It's just that he was too unbearable, Han Wei deliberately ignored him, only talked to Zeng Bu, but left him alone.But Deng Wan didn't care, brazenly making excuses for nothing, and flirting with Han Wei.
Not long after, they arrived in front of the mountain gate.Deng Wan rode on the horse, looked at the couplets on the stone square, and said arrogantly: "Why do you care about everything? You don't even know if you are not in the position, and you don't know how to govern. If you lose the stone, you will still govern!"
Han Wei sneered and said, "It seems that Mr. Deng has a lot of experience."
Deng Wan laughed and said, "I dare not take it."
Seeing that he was so shameless, Han Wei couldn't help but sneered: "Master said: It's hard to do what he said. I don't know why? Mr. Deng must have taught me." This is also Li's words, he is scolding Deng Wan is not ashamed.
Deng Wan felt great hatred in her heart, but she didn't dare to argue with Han Wei. She thought to herself, "As long as I can be the censor Zhongcheng one day, and correct all the officials, I will settle today's account with you, Han Wei." So she pretended not to hear, Laughing freely, talking about him from left to right.
Zeng Bu was really happy to hear Han Wei taunting Deng Wan.But he and Deng Wan are always members of the New Party faction, so it's not easy to show it too clearly.Holding back a smile, he drove forward and said, "This is the name of the college written by the emperor himself. It's not very respectful for us to go in on horseback. Why don't we dismount?" .
Han Wei and Deng Wan quickly agreed, got off their horses, and walked towards Baishuitan College with nine turns and thirteen turns.Sang Chongguo already knew about such a group of people walking towards Baishuitan swaggeringly, and brought some teachers and students to Mingli Academy to meet them.Seeing everyone approaching, Sang Chongguo hurriedly took a step forward, clasped his fists and said, "Master Han and Master Zeng have come from afar, but I have not been able to meet them from afar. I beg for forgiveness." He didn't know Deng Wan, so he didn't say hello.
Han Wei forced a smile and said, "Mr. Sang, I am on official business under the emperor's order. I invite thirteen authors and editors of "Bai Shui Tan Academic Journal" Li Zhiping and editors to accompany me to Kaifeng Mansion. This is Mr. Deng , together with Mr. Zeng, assist this officer in handling this case."
When Sang Chongguo heard that it was Deng Wan, he felt contemptuous in his heart, so he cupped his hands in an understatement, and greeted in a polite voice: "Master Deng, you are polite."
Seeing him like this, Deng Wan's face suddenly turned ugly, and she cursed bitterly in her heart: "How dare you despise me like this, I will let you know how powerful I am, don't think that I dare not offend Shi Yue." Her mouth was cold He snorted coldly, and said, "Young Master Sang, you don't need to be too polite, please invite these people out. If you let the yamen servants go in and arrest people, it will make people jump around, and Mr. Yu Shi will not look good."
Sang Chongguo said with a dry smile: "Master Deng ordered, dare not follow." He took the list in Han Wei's hand and shouted: "Duan Zijie, come, go and find these classmates." Deng Wan said in a bureaucratic tone: "Slow--let a few yamen servants go with this man, so that you won't be too busy alone."
Sang Chongguo cursed secretly in his heart, but he agreed in his mouth: "Master Deng is very worried. It's windy outside, gentlemen, come in first and have a cup of tea?"
Deng Wan coldly refused, "Forget it, let's just wait here."
After waiting for a cup of tea, Duan Zijie came back with a few yamen servants with puzzled faces, and said from a long distance, "Professor Sang, for some reason, none of these students have ever been in school."
"What? Where did they go?" Sang Chongguo pretended to be surprised.
"I heard that they packed their bags the night before yesterday and said they were going home to visit their relatives, but they suddenly disappeared yesterday." Duan Zijie is quite talented in acting.
Han Wei and Zeng Bu let out a sigh of relief when they heard the words, and they felt a lot more relaxed.Deng Wan sneered, "You can't run away from the temple if you run away from the monk. Mr. Sang, I'm going to offend you. Come and search the school for me."
A group of yamen servants hurriedly agreed, but Han Wei shouted sharply: "Slow down!"
Deng Wan turned her face and asked, "Brother Chiguo, what else can I order?"
Han Wei ignored him, and said to the officials with a sneer, "Baishuitan is a school approved by the emperor himself. It gathers the students of the Song Dynasty. Many of them are famous. If any guy is blind If you dare to act recklessly and mess up the academy, the government will definitely not spare him!"
Those yamen servants were all stunned for a moment. The first thing they do when they work in the yamen is to be able to read words and expressions. They naturally understood the meaning of Han Wei's words, and they immediately agreed to search the school. After finishing things hastily, everyone is afraid that they will be found by him. In the future, Mr. Han will wear small shoes for him.Even so, it finally alarmed all the teachers and students in the school, and thousands of students began to whisper to each other and ask each other...
Hearing Han Wei's words, Deng Wan knew that those students would definitely not be caught today. He patiently waited for the yamen servant's report, but he found nothing.But he refused to let it go, just stared at Sang Chongguo, and said in a cold voice: "Mr. Sang, since you can't find the student, please give me the student's file."
Sang Chongguo shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Lord Deng doesn't know something. Most of these students were transferred to school halfway. The college was too busy at that time, and there was no time to compile files for them."
Deng Wan was furious and shouted: "It's clearly a sophistry! Sang Chongguo, you must know how to protect the criminal and commit the same crime as the criminal!"
Sang Chongguo sneered and said: "Master Deng, don't spout blood, and don't talk nonsense without evidence."
When Deng Wan saw that Sang Chongguo dared to contradict him, she was really angry from the bottom of her heart, and the evil turned to the guts. She immediately shouted: "Come on, since the students have escaped, take back the editor who was on the list! And this Sang Chongguo, he is the editor-in-chief and the mastermind, he must be involved, arrest me!"
Han Wei and Zeng Bu didn't expect Deng Wan to be so reckless, and they were not afraid to turn against Shi Yue at all-you must know that by doing so, they would offend Shi Yue to the death.The two of them turned their minds, but they remained silent, watching Deng Wan's actions with cold eyes.
Sang Chongguo was also very stubborn, sneered, and said lightly: "Please go ahead." He didn't even look at Deng Wan.
But how did Duan Zijie and the other students agree?Seeing that Deng Wan dared to arrest Sang Chongguo, Duan Zijie drew his knife out of its sheath in a "swipe" manner, and shouted sharply: "You dare!" The other onlookers didn't know the reason, but when they saw a few sentences that didn't match, Deng Wan wanted to arrest him. Sang Chongguo was aroused by righteous indignation and hatred, and cursed one after another, and some people came up to reason with Deng Wan.
Deng Wan knew what was going on today, if she didn't do it, she would never stop, if she didn't turn the case into an iron case and take Shi Yue down, there would be endless troubles in the future; but as long as the case is settled, Wang Anshi will naturally protect himself from promotion , Shi Yue and so on.After making up his mind, he gritted his teeth and said with a smirk: "It's true that you have no law, you dare to resist arrest with a knife, come on, take it together, if you dare to resist, you will be killed on the spot!"
Han Wei and Zeng Bu never expected that there would be a student who dared to resist arrest with a knife. They were afraid that the incident would get out of hand and they would not be able to explain themselves, so they quickly shouted: "Put down the knife quickly, and the officer will uphold justice!"
Sang Chongguo was also taken aback by Duan Zijie, and dared to stare and shout: "Duan Zijie, put down the knife!"
Although Duan Zijie knew that he was acting impulsively, he was still depressed, and wished he could chop off Deng Wan's head!But he didn't dare not listen to Sang Chongguo's words, and threw the knife to the ground angrily, but still glared at Deng Wan angrily.Seeing him put down the knife, the yamen servants rushed over together and tied up Sang Chongguo and Duan Zijie.
Deng Wan's face became more ferocious, and she said, "There are still many editors of the Ming Li Juan, and they are all arrested, so don't let any one go."
Cheng Yi and the others heard the wind and happened to hear Deng Wan's words. Cheng Yi quickly walked up to Deng Wan and said with a sneer, "I edited and reviewed those articles, and it's none of other people's business. Cheng is here, Sir, don't bother looking for it." Cheng Yi was only a commoner at the time, so Deng Wan didn't recognize him, so when he saw him coming to the door, she gave a smirk and said, "Okay, just know the current affairs. Tied up!"
Seeing that Deng Wan was so rampant, Sun Jue was trembling with anger, and also stepped forward, sneering, "Deng Wen made an appointment with a big official authority! Mr. Sun is also involved in this matter, and Mr. Labor will be tied up together."
Sun Jue was the number one master in managing "Spring and Autumn" at that time. He had been an official in the court for many years, and his disciples were all over the court and the public. , just arched his hands, and said: "Master Sun, I have offended you! Give Master Sun a horse, and please go back to Kaifeng Mansion."
Cheng Hao, Shao Yong and others were about to come out to go to the disaster together, when they suddenly felt someone pulling their sleeves, and when they looked back, it was Pan Zhaolin.Pan Zhaolin said in a low voice: "Master Shi heard the news about the case, and he will come here immediately. I will inform the gentlemen first, don't be impulsive, with Mr. Shi here, Mr. Sang and the others will be fine. Baishuitan is now Let a few gentlemen take charge of the overall situation, if they all go, there will be no leader in the crowd, and the consequences will be dire." Both of them were people who knew the general situation, and their hearts froze, they quietly retracted their outstretched feet, and watched the changes quietly.
Seeing that Deng Wan even dared to arrest Sun Jue, Han Wei and Zeng Bu were really frantic.Looking at the students in Baishuitan, there are already more and more gatherings, and the crowd is excited, if this continues, there will be a big change in sight, so he hurriedly stepped forward, snorted, and said: "Master Deng, have you caught enough? We've caught enough and we can go home." The tone was already very blunt.
After all, Han Wei was the presiding judge, and Deng Wan didn't want to refute his face, so he said unwillingly: "Then I will follow Master Han. The thirteen scholars who ran away will eventually fall on the head of Sang Chongguo to find them." Yes. Go home first!"
However, it is not so easy to go.
Sang Chongguo has always presided over the school affairs for Shi Yue, and at the same time he is also a professor of Mingli and Gewu, teaching "Stone Science". He is considerate, not only deeply loved by the students, but also liked by the professors, and his prestige in Baishuitan is definitely not inferior to that of Shi Yue; Cheng Yi and Sun Jue are famous masters of learning, and they are respected by the students, and there are many students——At this time The three of them were taken away by Deng Wan, and they stabbed a hornet's nest in Baishuitan College!Thousands of students sent messages to each other and swarmed in - the students of Mingli Institute who have a tradition of fighting, and they also took simple weapons: cooking cakes, slingshots and the like - surrounded Mingli Institute to the school gate three layers in and three layers outside layer.Even the villagers of Baishuitan came here after hearing the news. The villagers are simple, and Sangchong Kingdom is very kind to them on weekdays. The improvement of their lives is also because of Shiyue and Sangchong Kingdom. Chongguo was "wronged" by others - in their view, this is for sure - how can there be no reason not to help?
Thousands of people shouted and questioned: "Why are you arresting Professor Sang?" "Let Mr. Sang go!" Wan, you despicable and shameless villain, quickly let Young Master Sang go." The commotion shook the sky for a while.
How often has Deng Wan seen such a formation?Angry and afraid, panicked in his heart, he said sternly: "Rebellion, rebellion! Is there any law for the king?" Even Han Wei and Zeng Bu didn't expect such a situation, but they said they would release Sang Chongguo Waiting for someone, but the face of the government can't come down——Unless Deng Wan wants to let go, the two will never open this mouth, otherwise Deng Wan will read a book when they go back. The trouble is a trivial matter. .Han Wei cursed inwardly: "The matter you Deng Wan provoked is none of my business? I'll just wait until I get home and write bullets to impeach you." Zeng Bu also had a blank face, thinking: "Anyway, the target is not the right one. Look at me, how majestic were you Deng Wan just now? Now you continue to be majestic!"
For Deng Wan to be appreciated by Wang Anshi, she is naturally not an incompetent person.Knowing that Han Wei and Zeng Bu were waiting to see his joke, he drove up to Sang Chongguo and said sharply, "Sang Chongguo, are you trying to instigate these students to rebel?"
Sang Chongguo gave Deng Wan a cold look, then suddenly smiled and said, "At first, I only heard that Mr. Deng likes to be a good official, shameless and honest, but I didn't expect that he is also a good hand when he spouts blood."
Deng Wan became furious, hating her heart, but at this moment she was unwilling to intensify the conflict to the point of irreversibility, so she could only hold back her anger and said, "Sang Chongguo, students from Baishuitan gathered a crowd to attack the court officials, not because they want to rebel but What do you want to do? You can suppress them now, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless! When the time comes, your Sang family will be full, and you will all die."
What he said was not all threatening words. If there was a bloody conflict between the two sides, the Baishuitan students would not be able to escape the charge of rebellion anyway. It's just that Deng Wan mishandled it and provoked a civil uprising. Even if he didn't die, he would run away The fate of being dismissed from office and exiled.Of course, if the worst happens, he probably won't wait until the day when he is dismissed from office and exiled, and nine out of ten will die in Baishuitan on the spot. Deng Wan has a bright future, so he doesn't want to hang up here .
Sang Chongguo is also unwilling to push these future elites of the Song Dynasty to the point of no return because of himself.He sneered at the moment: "Master Deng, if you ask me to persuade the students like this, I'm afraid it will backfire."
Deng Wan waved her hand and said, "Untie him!"
Several yamen servants came up and untied Sang Chongguo. Sang Chongguo gave Deng Wan a contemptuous look, walked up to the students, and said loudly: "Now that the Holy Son of Heaven is here, a few villains can't frame us. Everyone go back! Go to class as usual! How decent is it to form a pile like this?"
But the students were unwilling to move. One student yelled: "Don't let Professor Sang go, we won't go back!"
Sang Chongguo followed the prestige and shouted angrily: "Yuan Jingwen, you are so courageous, do you want to rebel? Are there any school rules in Baishuitan? How dare you not listen to the teacher? Everyone, go back to me, you want the world Do people say Baishuitan is a lawless mob?"
The student named Yuan Jingwen immediately silenced. Seeing that Sang Chongguo was angry, no one dared to speak out, but no one was willing to move his footsteps.Sang Chongguo knew that most of these students were between seventeen and eighteen years old and in their twenties, and it was difficult to persuade them to disperse for a while, so he turned to Deng Wan and said, "Master Deng, let's go. Let me walk ahead, no one dares to stop me."
Deng Wan sneered, "I hope so, let's go!"
At the moment, Deng Wan escorted Sang Chongguo and slowly left Baishuitan.Wherever Sang Chongguo went, those students did not dare to stop them, and they barely let go, but thousands of people followed closely behind the team.Han Wei looked at Zeng Bu emotionally, thinking that he had somehow played a dishonorable role here, and couldn't help scolding Deng Wan in his heart.When the team reached the gate of Baishuitan, a few students who were more vulnerable could not help but burst into tears. The grief and indignation suddenly broke out. Many people burst into tears together, pointing at Deng Wan and yelling.
Hearing these cries, Cheng Yi felt very impatient, and couldn't help shouting sharply: "Why are you crying! How can a man of seven feet look like a woman!"
Sang Chongguo couldn't help suppressing his anger. He stopped and said loudly to the students: "Men can bleed, but don't shed tears. When the students of the Eastern Han Dynasty were killed by traitors, they were killed or expelled. Have you ever heard of anyone who cried? What happened to Fan Pang is an honor rather than a disgrace, everyone must not disgrace our Baishuitan Academy."
Several students stopped their tears when they heard Cheng Yi and Sang Chongguo's reprimand, and said loudly with sobs: "Everyone, the two gentlemen are right. Don't cry. Is there no law in Song Dynasty?" What's there to cry about?" Only then did everyone stop crying.
Sang Chongguo took a step forward and said to Cheng Hao: "Mr. Cheng, Zi Minghe is not here, so please host Baishuitan." After a pause, he raised his voice and said, "Today, my students from Baishuitan dare to take a step out of the mountain gate. , I ask Mr. Cheng to expel him, and he will never be allowed to enter the gate of Baishuitan College."
Cheng Hao squeezed out a smile, and said loudly: "Don't worry, Changqing! You can go to Kaifeng mansion now, comparable to Fan Pang in the Eastern Han Dynasty. From today on, Changqing's name will be famous all over the world, but unfortunately I am not qualified to sit in the prison of Kaifeng mansion. "
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