The Yuzhou also sailed without any damage under the escort of many warships, and the bandits attacking the fleet were quickly wiped out. During the incident, all the thieves attacking the Yuzhou were destroyed. More than ten bandits were captured at the scene and more than 60 bodies were salvaged. The camp ordered the prefectures and counties along the river to search for the two sides of the strait, arrest the remnants of the net and search for the bodies.

That night, the fog on the river was moored in Chizhou. Due to the attack on the imperial boat just now, the emperor did not go ashore and remained on the imperial boat. The prefect of Chizhou requested an interview but was refused. In order to find out the truth of the incident, Wang Yinglin was ordered to personally examine the captured bandits, and Xie Fangde also received the order to assist.

The bandits wanted to hide in the river mouth during this operation. When the fleet passed by, they crashed into the escort warship with ships and took the imperial boat straight away. After the attacking fleet was blocked, the bandits who were dressed up as merchant ships immediately created chaos and pretended to avoid approaching the imperial boat. After being blocked, they quickly sent a water ghost to dive to attack the imperial boat.

From the location of choice, timing of launch and the means used, we can see that this is by no means an accident, but a carefully planned and purpose-built assassination operation. From the ability to dispatch more than ten ships of all sizes and sizes at a time and to mobilize hundreds of dead soldiers who are good at water wars, it can also be said that the operation has been planned for a long time, and the organizers are definitely not ordinary people, otherwise they would not be able to buy such dead soldiers and use so many ships.

It can be determined by these cases that it is a rebellion case. Now it is necessary to verify which force organizes and plans it. As the minister of the escort, Wang Yinglin knew that he had a great responsibility in it, and he could not escape the blame for such a thing. Xie Fangde was also nervous. As soon as the fleet left the Huguang territory, an assassination happened, and he took the imperial boat back to Beijing. If someone thought too much, his situation would be extremely bad.

Therefore, both of them must find out the truth as soon as possible, and that night they moved to the shore and worked with Yousi and the relevant personnel in the imperial court to interrogate overnight. Both of them were ruthless, although the captured thief claimed that they were just thieves on the river, and when they saw that the imperial ship was tall and thought it was an official ship, carrying property. Then they took the risk and wanted to dive on the fog on the river to rob property.

But how could Wang Yinglin and the others be willing to believe it and ordered torture. Under the severe punishment, several more people could survive, and soon some people admitted it. They were tourists from the Qi family in Jingjiang Prefecture, South Road, Guangxi. They were originally river bandits on the river. Due to the strict clearance of the court, they could not gain a foothold, so they joined the Qi family as shopkeepers. This time they were ordered by the owner's family to act, and they would not know if they asked again.

Jingjiang was the capital of Huguang Division, the Pacification Division and Guangxi South Road. Xie Fangde knew this person. The Qi family could be called a large family in Jingzhou. His ancestors were the prefect and his father was the head of the fifth rank of the Ministry of Revenue. However, he had retired and returned home before the fall of Jiangnan. He was also considered a family of officials. At present, the head of the Qi family was named Qixian. He also passed the provincial examination and the provincial examination, but he failed to go to Beijing to take the scientific examination due to war.

However, the Qi family was rich and had fields and shops in the prefectures and counties around Jingjiang Prefecture. After entering the Yuan Dynasty, he had no hope of imperial examinations, so he became a wealthy man in his hometown and educated his children in the clan to study. Because he was fame and fond of friendship, he often recited poems and sang with the gentry, old officials, and left behind, and had some reputation in the surrounding prefectures and counties.

After the imperial court recovered Huguang, because the Qi family had no bad records and had no crime of colluding with the Mongol Yuan, it was not affected by the "repression of rebellion". It was verified that Qi Xian had passed the state examination and admitted his fame, but he was not enlisted as an official. Xie Fangde had also had dates with him and participated in a poetry meeting organized by him, but he had no close friends.

The shopkeeper pointed out that the person captured was the chief manager of the Hao family, and all of them obeyed him in this trip. Wang Yinglin and the others did not dare to neglect and immediately interrogated him. At first, he still refused to admit his identity, but after being pointed out and severely punished, he had to explain the purpose of the trip. What was surprising was that the target of their assassination was not the emperor, but Xie Fangde and himself. After asking more details, they found out the whole story, which made the two of them feel even more heavy.

It turned out that when Jingjiang Prefecture was occupied by the Mongol Yuan, the taxes were much lighter than those of the Song Dynasty, and Ali Hague was considered to be honest and honest. He did not make any difficulties for the gentry of the former dynasty of Guangnan, and even protected them. Therefore, the Qi family did not suffer any difficulties. After the imperial court recovered Huguang, Qixian believed that the taxes collected by the imperial court were higher than those of the Mongol Yuan, so he was dissatisfied.

In addition, the imperial court held a tuition for the previous year, and the Qi family's children also participated in the imperial examination. Two of them passed the provincial examination and the provincial examination, but they both failed the provincial examination. When Qi Xian talked to other gentry, he learned that the children of their clan had also failed, so he believed that the court was intending to suppress the scholars of Huguang. Immediately afterwards, the imperial court issued a decree to implement the tax payment of gentry as a gentry. Xie Fangde, as the pacifier of Huguang, implemented it very harshly, making them resentful and resentful.

After the recovery of Jingxiang, the imperial edict came to transfer Xie Fangde back to Beijing to serve. These gentry thought that the current government was controlled by the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and that the young emperor was bewitched by them and suppressed the scholars of Huguang and abolished the privilege of reducing taxes by the gentry. This time Xie Fangde was very capable in the Northern Expedition, and he would inevitably be valued after returning to Beijing, so the people of Huguang would have no chance to make a comeback.

Under the new and old hatreds, these gentry planned to get rid of Xie Fangde and avoid future troubles. So the gentry elected Qi Xian as the leader, and everyone paid money and privately bought out the desperate people in the world, preparing to carry out assassination. At first, they found out in advance that Xie Fangde would leave his post before the army and support the army in Ezhou and return to Beijing by boat.

So they discussed taking action in Ezhou, which would not only eliminate Xie Fangde and shock his successors. However, Xie Fangde, by chance, got on the imperial boat and passed through the army, making it impossible for them to start. So they followed the fleet down the river to look for opportunities. At this time, they learned that Wang Yinglin was also on the ship, and he was also from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so they planned to get rid of him together.

They also understood the crime of attacking the imperial boat, so they followed the opportunity all the way. They found that even if the fleet was moored and replenished supplies, they did not find that Xie Fangde and Wang Yinglin were alone. Seeing that the fleet was about to enter the territory of Jiangdong, they took the initiative and then the little emperor became their target, believing that as long as the emperor was killed, no one would support the scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they would be able to turn over.

So a group of gentry who talked about war on paper and a group of people who wanted money and lifelessness took advantage of the heavy fog on the river and the slow ship sailing, and the result was like an egg hitting a stone. A long-planned action was like a small stone thrown into the river, without even a splash of water...

After the interrogation, Wang Yinglin and Xie Fangde did not dare to be negligent. The next morning he went to the imperial boat to report and submitted a confession. Zhao Bing was not only silent after seeing it, but also found it very funny. These gentry really dared to think and do it, but they could not escape the saying "The scholar rebelled for ten years but failed." But the nature of this matter was very serious. Even if he was a partner, assassinating important officials of the court and tying officials in the border areas was a serious crime.

Zhao Bing immediately issued an order, ordering the Huguang Pacification Envoy to work with Jingjiang Prefecture to immediately arrest the chief criminal Qi Xian and the participants, interrogate them on the spot, and report the situation to the camp quickly. Then, he comforted the king and Xie and asked them to go to rest first and do not think too much.

After seeing off the two, Zhao Bing looked at the confession again and felt that this matter was not that simple. It was said that "regional discrimination" had existed since ancient times. The regional separation in the Song Dynasty was very clear, and the flow of people was small, mainly mainly by officials. Once this small-scale regional flow represented by literati was gathered in the court, there would inevitably be regional discrimination. People from the south and the north, people from the capital, outsiders from the outside, and each of them was playing games.

Regional discrimination comes from economic and political status. If the north develops well, it is confident that it will discriminate against the south. According to legend, Song Taizu once erected a monument, "The descendants of later generations are useless to be prime ministers, and the inner commanders use the southern people as prime ministers, and kill the censors, but they are not my descendants." The "Daoshan Qinghua" written in the Song Dynasty also records that Taizu once said: "The southern people are not used to be prime ministers... The southern people are supplemented by me in this Tang Dynasty.

The policy of "not using the Southern People to be Prime Minister" was well implemented in the early Song Dynasty. However, during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong, it changed. Emperor Zhenzong of Song once wanted to appoint Wang Qinruo, a soldier in Linjiang, Jiangxi, as prime minister, but was opposed by Wang Dan, a native of Shen County, Daming Prefecture, at that time. Wang Dan brought out Song Taizu's last words, "Use the Southern People to be Prime Minister, kill the censors, not my descendants." to shock Emperor Zhenzong, but the pragmatic Zhenzong could not restrain his last words. After Wang Dan's death, Wang Qinruo ascended to the position of prime minister.

From then on, southerners could also live in high places, but they still did not completely abandon the prejudice of northern bureaucrats against southern scholars. Even Yan Shu, a well-known writer in history, was deeply discriminated against by regional people. Kou Zhun clearly stated that "the southerners are especially rude" during his time as the ruling minister. That is to say, southerners like to be treacherous and sloppy, and they can't compare to the honest meaning of northerners.

Yan Shu, a native of Fuzhou, Jiangxi, was summoned to the court as a prodigy and was given the same Jinshi. At this time, Kou Zhun, who was in the position of prime minister, felt very unhappy. He said tactfully: "Shu, a native of Jiangnan." It means that Yan Shu was a southerner and did not deserve such high-standard promotion. Yan Shu was quite good because he was from Jiangxi. In ancient times, Jiangxi was not an administrative division that had a very presence. The central and public rumors about him were only scattered and not too large.
Chapter completed!