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Chapter 19 Beating the Drums and Claiming Injustice

Speaking of the military system of the Song Dynasty, it is definitely inseparable from the famous Three-Yard Imperial Guard system. However, there were not Three-Yards at this time, only Two-Yard. To put it more accurately, it is a sensitive period when the Song Dynasty transitioned from Two-Yard to Three-Yard.

Before Guo Wei, there was no Palace Front Division in the world, there was only one Guard Division, and he was the head of Guard Division before.

After Guo Wei put on his yellow robe, he felt that the power of the Guards was too great, so he set up a new Palace Front Division outside the Guards Division, hoping that the imperial guards of the two departments could check and balance each other, so that it would not be so easy for the powerful ministers to rebel.

As we all know, before Zhao Kuangyin became the emperor, he was the inspector of the front of the palace, which was the boss of the front of the palace. Therefore, after he became emperor, the matter in the front of the palace was clear, and everything was full of Zhao Kuangyin's brothers from top to bottom, but the guards were different. This was simply the most unstable bomb for him to be the emperor.

In particular, the boss of the Guards Department is Li Chongjin, who was the world's number one soldier last month, and Guo Wei's nephew.

Even Chai Rong was afraid of him at that time. If Chai Rong had not transferred him to Yangzhou to fight the Southern Tang Dynasty before his death, there would be no way for him to be the one named Zhao in the world.

At that time, even Chai Rong's throne was "given" by Li Chongjin. Zhao Kuangyin started from the day he followed Guo Wei as a personal soldier. He had only been sixteen years old for a total of sixteen years. He was only thirty-three years old this year. How can you not be guilty if you let him face Li Chongjin's guards?

So for Zhao Kuangyin, Li Chongjin must be killed, otherwise he would have to suffer from insomnia every day. But before he took action against Li Chongjin, the guards must be controlled by him, so he directly divided him into two and expanded, wanting to completely control him, and at the same time, dividing the imperial guards into three, and the three seemed to be more reliable than the previous two heroes' battle for hegemony.

This is the background of the split of the Guards Department. Sun Yue knew very well that there was no friendship to talk about such a major event that concerns the stability of the throne and the century-old military system of the country. Whoever dares to make trouble in this will have to be dismissed.

Not to mention that Wang Yansheng was just a confidant of Zhao Kuangyin, even his own son Sun Yue would dare to take a try.

This is his confidence.

Sun Chunming understood what official battles were better than Sun Yue, so when Sun Yue said that, he immediately understood what was going on. He whispered a few words to Lao Fang, and Lao Fang was completely confused, "You... weren't you kidding?"

"There is no other way, let's die and fight with all your back."

Lao Fang also nodded cautiously and found Lao Qian and said, "Brother, I don't make things difficult for you, but give me some face. I'll let you smash the store. If necessary, you can just put a torch and burn the house, but don't hurt people. Let their family clean up and leave Kaifeng and hide outside. How about it?"

Lao Qian smiled. He could not only make a deal, but also not hurt his brothers' kindness. The most important thing is that he knew the abilities of Lao Fang and his group of people. If he really started, the number of people in his hands might not be enough for others to kill. He naturally refused to do so when everyone was happy.

So, under the gritting eyes of more than 40 brothers of Lao Fang, Sun Yue's family was smashed by these imperial guards and did not dare to set fire. After all, the houses in the Northern Song Dynasty were made of wooden items, so it would not be surprising that the whole street would burn when the fire was lit.

After the house was smashed and the soldiers left, Sun Chunming came to the brothers, raised his hands and bowed deeply, and said, "Sun has a heartless request. I would like to ask you brothers to send my father and son to Kaifeng Prefecture, and beat, whistle, injustice, and drum."

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The palace.

"Master, no, Master, the father and son have something to do."

"Hmm? Did the imperial guards not do anything well even after they went?"

"That's not. The imperial guards smashed all the shops of their father and son. But they are now heading to the government office, and I'm afraid they are going to sue the master."

"Ah? Hahaha! What do I think of it? It turns out that there is only such a skill. Why don't you panic? I'll tell you that even Lord Xing Cao would nod and bow when he saw my cousin, otherwise he would suck him with his mouth and leave. Let's go and meet him. We have to give him some face to the Kaifeng Mansion."

"You are mighty, Master."

As the saying goes, the yamen faces south, don’t come in if you have any money, especially in such troubled times during the Five Dynasties, even if you kill someone, someone may not be in charge. It is actually difficult to say how useful the government is, but one thing is certain. It is absolutely a dream to find Zhao Guangyi in ordinary civil lawsuits.

Bao Qingtian tried the case, which was compiled into a play for the people. If the county magistrate among the village was a clean official, he might indeed be in charge of some judicial affairs and occasionally make decisions for the people. However, if an official as big as the prefect of Kaifeng is crazy, he will only pay attention to the destruction between you and the people.

So Sun Yue didn't plan to go through any normal criminal proceedings. When he arrived at the Kaifeng government office, he went straight to the injustice.

A team of yamen runners came over and said, "Hey, hey, what are you doing? Is this where you come?"

Sun Yue calmly said, "Uncle Fang, take it."

The yamen runner was stunned and almost thought he had heard it wrong. What did he mean? Take it down?

Before they could react, they saw Lao Fang and others rushing forward and without saying a word, they took off the arms of the officers. Sun Chunming and Sun Yue were not vague and rushed towards the position where the drums of grievances were heard.

This injustice drum is not a casual blow. Ordinary criminal cases are handled by the Criminal Catholics. Even if he cannot handle them, it will be under the jurisdiction of Dali Temple. This injustice drum is something that can only be beaten by a great grievance.

To understand simply, this thing is somewhat similar to the complaints in the opera, and is countless times more intense than the petitions in later generations. No matter what the complaint is, it is a case that goes straight to the sky. At least the Zheng Cao will definitely be dismissed, so this thing has far more symbolic significance than its substantive significance. There are yamen runners guarding it on weekdays and are not allowed to knock it at all.

And this time, Sun Yue and the others came here with the intention of burning their boats.

The yamen runner was shocked and exclaimed: "The unruly people rebel! The unruly people rebel!"

In the diagonal thorn, a huge group of yamen runners came out, rushing towards them with water and fire sticks in their hands. Lao Fang took the lead with a thick stick in his hand, and directly knocked down the two of them when he was round and fought with these yamen runners. Sun Chunming and Sun Yue also took the opportunity to get closer.

Seeing that Sun Chunming and Sun Yue were approaching the drum of injustice, all the officials were anxious and rushed toward this side as if they were rushing. Lao Fang and others were about to stop him. Sun Yue brought the iron ring on his thumb and rushed straight into the sky, shouting: "This is a gift from the official family. I will take it to beat the drum of injustice today, so who dares to stop me!"

Those yamen runners were a little stupid when they saw this. In feudal society, it was no small matter to involve the government. They stopped one after another. Look at me and I don’t know what to do.

After a moment of dazed moment, Sun Chunming and Sun Yue had already reached the edge of the drum. Sun Chunming picked up Sun Yue high, Sun Yue took off the drum hammer with both hands, used all his strength to hit the dusty drum and pounded it hard.
Chapter completed!
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