Late Tang

"I will send you off for thousands of miles, but I will have to say goodbye. Let's just say goodbye, and see you someday!" Yu Yu stood outside the gate of the east city with his face still flushed and drunk, smiling and waving to everyone.Compared with the desolation when I left Qingzhou, today's scene is much more lively.Not only many officials in purple robes, scarlet robes and green robes crowded out of the city to see them off, even the people of Penglai City came here in crows.

In late autumn and November, the willow trees by the river suffered disaster for a while. Those officials pulled two branches, and they broke one branch.Those civil servants also wrote a poem on the spot, while the military officials who didn't have this literary talent mostly said a few routine auspicious words, such as smooth sailing and promotion every step of the way.Wait until the civil and military officials say goodbye one by one with "extreme reluctance".

At this time, the impatient gentry who had been waiting for a long time came up. These gentry from various counties and townships in Dengzhou were followed by a few young and strong, holding huge Wanmin umbrellas.This Wanmin umbrella is as high as a canopy, with a red cloth head and small red and yellow cloth strips tied all over the side.For a time, Wanmin Umbrellas were moving everywhere in the east of the city, there were thousands of them.Among them, the person who gave the most was neither the common people nor the country gentry, but Feng Yanqing. I don't know what this guy's intention is, but he actually gave away one million Wanmin umbrellas.

Yu Yu didn't know that there would be such an event beforehand, looking at the forest-like Wanmin Umbrella, his face was full of sarcasm.According to legend, during the Qin and Han dynasties, when officials left their posts and the common people resigned to those good officials, the local gentry would raise a sum of money with the common people to ask someone to engrave the achievements of the officials on stone tablets and stand them on the road the officials passed by when they left.After a long time, it became a kind of ritual. The common people did not expect that even corrupt officials would have to see the stele of virtue and government erected when they were about to leave. .So in the Tang Dynasty, the government ordered that no political stele be erected, otherwise the stele erected would not only be demolished, but also the person responsible would be punished with a hundred boards.If you really love the people like a child, and the common people cry to the ground to erect a monument, then there is another relief measure, and the local government can report to the Ministry of Rites for approval to erect a monument.

It is a bit boring for those who want to flatter Yu Jian to erect a monument after leaving.Therefore, no monument will be erected, but the Manmin Umbrella can be given away. "Wanmin Umbrella" means that this outgoing official usually protects the common people like a giant umbrella, and is a good official who loves the people like a son.Generally, when county magistrates and governors leave their posts, the common people will give them Wanmin umbrellas. At first, they will give one, and the small cloth strips on it represent the common people.Because a strip of cloth represents a common people, the umbrella is called Wanmin Umbrella.But today, Dengzhou officials and squires broke this routine again. They sent a former pensioner Sima off and sent thousands of Wanmin umbrellas at a time.

Feng Yanqing gave away a hundred of them alone, and Yu Yu was taken aback by this action.Even Cui Yunqing's face is very ugly, Yu Yu is just a Sima with a job, he is the governor, and now Yu Yu has received thousands of Wanmin umbrellas after leaving office.In Cui's view, this move was due to the opponent's ulterior motives. Among them, Yu Yu, a freelance Sima, received thousands of umbrellas from the people.Do you think it's because Yu Yu just turned over and joined in the show?Regardless of whether it was created by Yu Yu himself or not, as long as the matter gets out, it will definitely have a bad reputation for Yu Yu.Second, Yu Yu is just a Sima, and Cui Yunqing is the Chief Inspector. Now a Sima accepts thousands of umbrellas. If he leaves office in the future, if he doesn’t receive so many umbrellas, wouldn’t it be said that he was the governor? Is it not as good as a Sima?

Kill two birds with one stone, with a small Wanmin Umbrella, Feng Yanqing directly murdered two main opponents.

"Let's go!" Yu Yu didn't bother to say anything more, and if he stayed here, he still didn't know what Feng Yanqing was going to come up with.It was still the two old men who followed Yu Yu back then, but this time there were twenty more guards.

However, Yu Yu wanted to leave as quickly as possible, but the people outside Dengzhou City didn't seem to want him to leave so quickly.Just as Yu Jin was about to get into the carriage, hundreds of people stopped in front of his carriage and refused to let him go.Those people didn't know whether they really didn't want him to leave, or they were just here for a show, or they were directly assigned secretly. In short, hundreds of people stood in front of him at once, and they just refused to let Yu Keng go.This scene is extremely chaotic.The officials behind also gave presents and chanted farewell readings, and even the willow trees by the river were bare.The country gentry also gave away thousands of Wanmin umbrellas. It is said that at this point, it is due to leave.

At this time, Li Jing had to squeeze a group of brothers from Zuo Yidu to the front, and squeezed a passage for Yu Jian to let him leave.Yu Jian also got out of the carriage amidst the shouts of those people, changed to a horse, and kept waving goodbye to those people.

Seeing that the passage was about to be finished, a person suddenly squeezed out from behind the wall of Zuo Yidu soldiers, and rushed straight in front of Yu Jin.

Li Jing's scalp was numb at that time, and he thought that an assassin had appeared in his heart, so he ran over quickly.But when I ran to the front, I found that it didn't seem to be the case at all.I saw the man running up to Yu Cang's horse, but it was not an assassin, but he hugged Yu Cang's leg to prevent him from leaving.He said something about being an upright official, but Li Jing looked at the man carefully, only to find that the man was dressed in short brown clothes, and his face was also like a gray farmer's attire.But he inadvertently discovered that the farmer in sackcloth and short brown was actually wearing a pair of silk-topped boots.Listening to the man's words, it didn't sound like an ordinary farmer's tone at all.

Just when Li Jing was guessing whether the real identity of this person was an assassin or an actor, that person suddenly tore off the boot on Yu Jian's left foot.Although at first glance, the man seemed to have torn it off by accident, but Li Jing could see clearly that this man definitely did it on purpose. To be precise, he ran for Yu Yu's boots.

what on earth is it?

Just when Li Jing was very puzzled, the man who tore off Yu Jian's boots excitedly ran back into the crowd with his boots in his arms.There was a burst of cheers from the crowd, and immediately several people took out a wooden box and opened it, took the boot and put it in very solemnly.

That group of people had premeditated, not only arranged for someone to block the way, but also arranged for someone to take off their boots, and even prepared a wooden box.A series of actions, arranged seamlessly.Soon, the group of people rushed to the gate of the city with boxes of boots in their hands.Someone lifted out a ladder, and then nailed up the box containing the boots and hung it on the east gate.

With one bare foot, Yu Jian seemed to be a little numb to this, but he kept pushing the carriage on the road, and he didn't even have time to change his boots.Looking at the carriage rolling away and Yu Yu's bare foot dangling in the air, Li Jing felt dumbfounded.

"What the hell is going on?"

Lin Wei and Zhang Hong quietly squeezed to Li Jing's side, just in time to hear him cursing in a low voice, Zhang Hong hurriedly explained: "Just now I took off my boots, and the boots I took off are called Yiai boots. There is also the original head. During the reign of Emperor Xianzong, when Cui Rong was the governor of Huazhou, he did many good deeds. When he left office, the people were reluctant to let him go and blocked the road. Unexpectedly, they pulled it off with too much force. His official boots are regarded as treasures by the common people, and they are called "beloved boots". "

This was originally just an accident, who would have thought that it would later become a widely circulated story.Later, when some prestigious officials left their posts, some people would take the initiative to take off their boots.If an official is stripped of his boots, he should not be angry, but happy, because only when an official with a good official voice leaves office, people will come to take off his boots.However, from Cui Rong to the present, there are not many officials whose boots have been taken off. "

What Zhang Hong said in the last sentence is that it does not conform to the original meaning of taking off his boots.Of course Li Jing understood what he wanted to say behind his back, Yu Yu was completely plotted against today.

This trick is ruthless, first Wanmin Umbrella, and then another one blocking the way and taking off his boots.Needless to say, there must be Feng Yanqing's shadow in this matter, maybe even Song Wen might be involved later.This is to praise and kill Yu Yu, if you can't kill with a stick, come and kill with praise.But the more this is the case, the more it means that Feng Yanqing needs to be removed early.

"How are you preparing?" Li Jing asked Lin Wei softly.

"Feng Yanqing lives in Dongcheng. When he returns to the city, he will go directly along the East-West Main Street. The street is full of vendors and people who set up stalls during the day. It is very difficult to do anything." Lin Wei said, they had calculated thousands of times, It didn't even count that Yu Yu would leave today.It turned out that Li Jing thought that Yu Yu would leave tomorrow, so today's banquet will probably end after dark.At that time, when Feng Yanqing returned home at night, there was no one on the street.

"We have to do it today. Although no one knows about Zhang Daxin's death, it can't be covered up for a few days. Besides, Feng Liang actually poisoned the wine just now, and wanted to poison the governor. We can't wait any longer, lest the night will be long and dreamy. This way, won't Feng Yanqing have other arrangements?" Li Jing didn't dare to procrastinate any longer, as the matter has come to a critical moment.

"Feng Yanqing usually seldom goes out at night, and is basically in the mansion. However, there are exceptions. I found out that Feng Yanqing has a villa manor in Danya Mountain, the water city in the north of the city, not far from King Zhao's manor. There It lived with Feng Yanqing's mother, one of his concubines from Xinluo and the youngest son born to her concubine from Xinluo, but he rarely went there, most of the time he went there during the day, only occasionally Go and stay for a night or two."

"Is there any rule for him to go to Danya Mountain to live away?" Li Jing asked with a heartbeat. Danya Mountain is not in Penglai City, but in the north facing the sea surrounded by the navy water village in the north of the city.Although Penglai City is very close to the Shanzhai, there is still a distance of about ten miles between them.If Feng Yanqing went to Danya, then this section of the road would be the best place to stop him. "

"When he is on the first lunar month of every month, he will go to Danya Mountain to visit his mother at night, and then spend the night with the concubine Xinluo." Zhang Hong said suddenly.

"How do you know?" Li Jing asked in surprise.Zhang Hong chuckled a few times, and heard a brother say that after drinking, he is a native of Penglai, and he used to help the Feng family pick up and deliver things to other residences, and he had met Feng Yanqing's concubine of Xinluo.That person never forgets, I heard the last time I made a slip of the tongue after drinking. "

"Is this reliable?" Lin Wei asked, because today happened to be Wangri.The first day of the first lunar month is Shuo Ri, and Wang Ri is the fifteenth day.Their luck is very good, but they just don't know if the news that Feng Yanqing will go to live in Danya Mountain every night is not accurate.

"It doesn't matter that much." Li Jing clenched his fists and said firmly: "Immediately arrange for Xiao Shitou to take seven or eight brothers to bring the prepared weapons to the road from Penglai City to Danya, and let the second brother also Follow along, find the location of the ambush, and we will go there as soon as we find a suitable time."

Several people nodded in agreement together, and dispersed separately.