In the fifth year of Zhenghe in the Song Dynasty, the fourth day of the fifth month, early in the morning.

As soon as the Nanxun Gate in the outer city of Kaifeng Prefecture opened, the soldiers guarding the gate were stunned. In the past, it was the time when the merchants selling pigs and sheep drove the pigs and sheep into the city to slaughter. Outside the Nanxun Gate should be filled with smelly pigs and sheep. But today is unknown, the pigs and sheep are gone. Instead, thousands of young men in Confucian uniforms or robes squeezed on the official road outside the city gate.

What's going on? These scholars and young military officers waited outside Nanxun Gate early in the morning to open the door? What day is it today? A grand court meeting? I haven't heard of it... Also, where have the pigs and sheep gone? Why are there no trace? Could it be that Kaifeng Prefecture is going to have a collective vegetarian meal today?

When Ding Zheng, the soldiers guarding the gate, were stunned, the scholars and young martial officials outside the gate walked towards Nanxun Gate.

There are tax cards on Nanxun Gate, and pigs and sheep entering the city must count the taxes. So there are also fences blocking the road within the city gate. The scholar and Xiao Wuchen were blocked by the fence, and the soldiers guarding the gate didn't know whether they should move the fence away. So many scholars and Xiao Wuchen had to enter the city at the same time, so this matter was wrong no matter how you look at it!

"Come on the fence quickly and let us wait to enter the city!"

Immediately, a handsome young scholar started to shout, and it seemed that he was the leader.

"This scholar," a politician in his forties, a tall and stout prison official immediately asked with a smile on his face, "What are you going to do when you are entering the city together?"

The young scholar who took the lead was Zhang Jun, the leader of the Imperial Academy.

"We are the four scholars of the prison gate. Today we enter the city to submit a memorial to the palace and ask for the punishment of the traitors!"

"Traitor?" The prison gate was stunned, "Who is the traitor?"

"Wu Haowen, Lu Yihao and Zhang Bangchang are the traitors!" Zhang Jun said, "These three returned to Beijing yesterday and brought back the promise of stolen the country. They will give the Beilu 800,000 yuan every year!"

"Eight hundred thousand?" The prison gate sighed, "This dynasty cannot use troops after all... Even if you cheer up for a moment, you will be useless after all."

The official in charge of the gate was originally a warrior in front of the imperial court, or a warrior in Fang Nu. When he was young, he followed Taiwei Gao to the west and earned a property in Kaifeng Mansion, and was also able to be an official. Later, the warrior in front of the gate gradually became abolished, and he was older and had no intention of joining the army, so he sought an in charge of the prison.

Now when I saw these young scholars and martial officials, I immediately remembered that I was also full of energy back then, and I felt moved.

"Where is the word for the sect?" Zhang Jun said, "Since the current government is in power, our Song Dynasty has been growing more and more powerful, and even military affairs are chasing the Han and Tang Dynasties. As long as the government is not deceived by treacherous ministers, why worry about the injustice of the Northern Capitols and the unjust Zhou Dynasty?"

The prison gate shook his head: "Since the Song Dynasty's national strength is growing more and more powerful, how could the officials be deceived by treacherous ministers? Could it be that the Song Dynasty's national strength is growing more and more powerful under the rule of treacherous ministers?"

Zhang Jun, who has always been eloquent, was actually asked by a vulgar prison gate and didn't know how to answer for a while.

In the Song Dynasty, the king must be stupid! He didn't go to court to follow the government, and he wasn't stupid? As for the ministers... there were many traitors! Otherwise, why did only a dozen of the four hundred prefectures in the Song Dynasty have developed well, and most of the places are becoming increasingly depressed? Isn't it because there are too many traitors and too few honest officials?

However, the prosperity of the Song Dynasty was certain! Although most places were in a state of depression, the income of the imperial court was supported by more than a dozen prosperous state prefecture troops, which not only did not decrease, but continued to grow.

Moreover, the military strength of the imperial court was far greater than the previous ones for more than a hundred years. Although Yan Yun was still unable to recover, the Western thieves, Hehuang and Jiaozhi were all beaten to obey.

Among them, the battle to destroy Jiaozhi was really shocking. During the Xining period, there were so many soldiers and horses that were not defeated. This time, the court sent out a total of thousands of people, and the navy of the Shanghai Road Maritime Control Department, and they destroyed Jiaozhi in a few seconds...

"Move it away, move it away quickly!"

"Do you want to stop our four students from submitting memorials?"

"Move it away quickly!"

Zhang Jun was speechless for a moment, but the scholars behind him were impatient and shouted loudly.

The prison gate did not dare to stop it, and quickly ordered his subordinates to move the fence and put a large group of scholars and martial officials into Kaifeng Prefecture.

The morning market in Kaifeng Prefecture City has begun. On both sides of Nanxunmen Street, there are various breakfast stalls. Some low-level officials living in Kaifeng Prefecture City are eating breakfast while preparing to go to the yamen to serve. There are also some scholars in Kaifeng Prefecture City, most of whom are prefecture students and elementary school students, and are also carrying schoolbags to school.

When I saw a large group of scholars and young martial officials coming, I felt something was going to happen! Someone immediately asked a loud question.

"Where are scholars from you?"

"Taixue, martial arts, Qingcheng Academy and Songyang Academy..."

"What are you doing when you enter the city early in the morning?"

"Fukou wrote a memorial to ask for the killing of the traitors!"

"Who is the traitor?"

"Wu Haowen, Lu Yihao and Zhang Bangchang are the traitors!"

Now there are newspapers in Kaifeng Prefecture City, not week-long newspapers, but evolved into daily newspapers. The court is a large sieve with air leakage on all sides, and no news can be saved.

Therefore, the treason alliance brought back by Wu Haowen, Lu Yihao and Zhang Bangchang has now become a big deal.

When the scholars who submitted memorials in Fuque mentioned the names of the three, everyone knew what was going on.

"Go and have a look!"

"Go and see how scholars impeach traitors!"

"These three traitors are so hateful..."

"All the world is ruined by these traitors!"

Those who watch the fun are not afraid of big things, let alone Kaifeng Prefecture in the Song Dynasty.

The little officials, students passing by on the streets of Nanxunmen, some idle men who had nothing to do, and even some gangsters all came to their senses. While making a fuss, they joined the crowd of people who submitted memorials to Fuque and all rushed to the inner city.

The crowd of people who wrote the book was like snowballs, growing bigger and bigger. At the beginning, there were only three or four thousand people. When they entered the inner city and went to the imperial road, the number of people had exceeded 10,000!

On both sides of Yu Street, there are the most prosperous and most concentrated areas in Kaifeng Prefecture. Of course, there are more people watching the fun. The crowd rolls forward, and there are still people joining along the way, and soon there are crowds of people. Everyone is full of righteous indignation and hates the traitors to death.

Of course, traitors are hateful! However, for the people of Kaifeng Prefecture, there is an existence that is more hateful than traitors, that is, the unscrupulous businessman.

In recent years, the prices and housing prices in Kaifeng Prefecture have been rising steadily! However, the income of ordinary people has been stagnant for a long time - this situation is related to the economic structure of Kaifeng Prefecture. Kaifeng Prefecture is generally not a production-oriented city, but is different from Tianjin, Jingdong, Shanghai, Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou.

Kaifeng Prefecture does not have a huge handicraft industry that can provide workers with sufficient employment opportunities. There were some, but with the rise of commercial cities along the eastern coast, Kaifeng Prefecture's handicraft industry has moved out to coastal markets with low-cost and convenient transportation.

The economy of Kaifeng Prefecture has become a situation supported by real estate, finance and service industries. However, these three industries can only provide relatively high income for a few people. Most people can only earn meager income from it.

Now is the 12th century, not the 21st century when manufacturing industry declines. The wages of skilled workers are very high! In Tianjin, a family workshop with two or three looms or spinning wheels can weave two or three pieces of cloth or one or two kilograms of yarn in a day. There is no problem to earn more than a dozen knots a month, which is equivalent to the monthly salary of a ninth-rank official of the Song Dynasty.

As for workers in the shipbuilding, printing, printing and dyeing, winemaking, wood, iron, lacquerware, porcelain and other industries, there is no problem in a month. The sailors in the sea-run industry will not have less than fifteen yuan per month as long as they go to sea, and they can also bring some "private goods" (taxes still have to be added) to make money. If you travel to the far sea, such as going to Nanyang, you will have no problem in earning back thousands of yuan!

The living costs of these high-income coastal markets are significantly lower than those of Kaifeng Prefecture. Because there is low logistics costs in terms of transportation there, and the land is not as tight as Kaifeng Prefecture, housing prices are not high. In fact, the land in Kaifeng Prefecture is not tight, but due to the difficulty of grain transfer, Kaifeng Prefecture cannot concentrate too much population, so the expansion of the city is severely restricted, which has caused high housing prices in the city.

At the same time, the inability to transport grain and raw materials into Kaifeng Prefecture at a lower cost is also an important reason why Kaifeng Prefecture cannot lead the Song Dynasty into the threshold of capitalism.

This richest city in the world is actually a city with space for development locked.

The population of coastal markets can almost "infinitely grow", so there is no problem of high housing prices... At least in the next few hundred years, there will be no unbearable high prices.

Therefore, Kaifeng citizens are now facing the pressure of high prices, high housing prices and low incomes, and their lives are very difficult.

Why not leave?

Those who have a skill, if they don’t leave by themselves, others will come to invite them. Those who have not left yet are either not skilled enough or are reluctant to leave Kaifeng Mansion, where they have lived for generations.

In addition, some people leave, and some people come. In recent years, wars have started in Hedong, but many people have flocked to Kaifeng Prefecture. The old Bianliang people are rushing to do these new Bianliang!

So Kaifeng Prefecture's population has been growing, and prices and housing prices seem to have not fallen.

Some of the increasingly poor old Bianliang people have no place to vent their resentment, just waiting for a boiling opportunity!

Today, we happened to take advantage of opposing traitors and everyone made a fuss together!

So when the team who wrote the letter squeezed outside the Xuande Gate of the Imperial City, there were probably 100,000 people.

At this time, the scholars who submitted memorials were no longer mainstream, and the majority of Kaifeng citizens who followed suit were the ones. Therefore, the slogan changed, and it was no longer "killing the traitors", but "killing the traitors and killing the tyrants."

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