Many sedan chairs have already been stopped outside the Tongzhi Hall.

The last time Yang Tongzhi was in trouble, the old fox suddenly realized something was wrong. The conflict between him and County Magistrate Zhu had become public. It is said that in the court, some people have even begun to impeach him.

At this time, he was in a turmoil and now he is simply sick and is waiting for the court to punish him.

But who would have thought that a major epidemic would reveal signs at this time?

This kind of epidemic cannot be avoided by being sick. Yang Tongzhi clearly remembers that the plague in heaven was raging fifteen years ago, and 100,000 died, sweeping across the south of the Yangtze River. Afterwards, the court settled the accounts after the autumn. dozens of officials in prefectures and counties in Jiangnan were scouted and exterminated the clan. In the autumn, there were countless officials who were beheaded and deposed.

To put it bluntly, the court must give an explanation to the people after so many people have died. Since this is the case, someone must take the blame. Such severe punishment is just to calm the public's anger. There is no reason to say.

The officials from all over the Jinling Mansion became nervous. The county magistrates from each county rushed to the Tongzhi Hall overnight and gathered in the hall.

Yang Tongzhi was about to go to the front hall to get promoted, but a civil servant came to report: "Sir, someone is coming from the capital."

"Beijing?" Yang Tongzhi was stunned for a moment. A disaster occurred here at the forefront. In a blink of an eye, someone came to Beijing?

Which god is this?

Whenever it involves Beijing, Yang Tongzhi naturally did not dare to neglect and hurriedly said, "Who is it?"

"It's said it's Beihai County Prince's Mansion."

Yang Tongzhi frowned and his expression was a little nervous.

Prince Beihai, who is a royal relative, is said to have a close relationship with His Highness Zhao. He immediately cheered up and said, "Come in quickly."

After a while, a person who looked like a scholar came in. It seemed that this person was not an official, but his every move was in front of Yang Tongzhi, and he looked higher than his head. He bowed slightly, and he bowed to Yang Tongzhi.

Yang Tongzhi did not dare to neglect him, and bowed deeply to him and said, "I dare to ask who is?"

"Don't ask more." This man was very rude: "I was ordered by the Prince of Beihai. I came to Jinling for a business. I only found out this morning that there was a plague in Jinling. I heard that... In addition to Jiangning County, there are also people in Xuanwu, Qixia, and Pukou counties. Now people are in panic, right?"

Yang Tong Magistrate said anxiously: "Yes, yes, yes, the lower officials are preparing to summon officials from all counties to prepare for the prevention of plague."

The man had no expression on his face, and he just looked at Yang Tongzhi coldly: "Can Tianwen be stopped by human power?"

Yang Tongzhi was silent.

More than ten years ago, the plague in Jiangnan was rampant, and all states and prefectures did countless work, but what's the use? When the plague was apart, the doctors could not come up with any effective method. What the government could do was that a plague occurred in a village, and a village was blocked. When a plague occurred in a county, a county was blocked, but even so, it was still hard to guard against.

The man sneered: "You are now the head of a palace. Now you have a heavenly plague. Is this heavenly plague a natural disaster, or is it?"

Yang Tongzhi hurriedly said: "It's a natural disaster, it's a natural disaster."

Of course it must be a natural disaster. If so, then who caused it?

The man's eyes were like candlelight, and he only smiled faintly and said, "Since it is a natural disaster, why would God get angry and bring down this huge disaster?"

Yang Tongzhi was stunned.

He could not answer this question.

The man said again: "You are about to die, do you still want to pretend to be deaf and dumb? The disasters in the world are all warnings from heaven. Throughout history, many emperors have issued edicts to blame themselves because of disasters. Now the plague of heaven suddenly comes out. This is the negligence of the ruler!"

"Sir, I mean..." Yang Tongzhi stretched out his finger and poked the beam of the house in panic: "It's Your Majesty..."

"Stop!" The man was furious and said with a grim smile: "Your Majesty is young, what does it have to do with him? I'll ask you, who is the ruling person now?"

Yang Tongzhi looked sad: "It's the Empress Dowager..."

The man smiled and said, "What did the Empress Dowager do that triggered God's warning?"

"This..." Yang Tongzhi became more and more frightened. He suddenly realized that he had been in an extremely complicated situation. He shuddered: "But..."

"No need, but, let me tell you, just a few months ago, there was a lifelong member of Jinling Mansion who wrote an article "The Goddess of Luo River". He pretended to be the Goddess of Luo River. Although the Empress Dowager was precious, he was just a woman after all, but he pretended to be a god. I think it was because of this that the genius got angry. Could it be that Lord Tongzhi had never read Dong Gong's "Three Strategies for Heaven and Man"?"

Yang Tongzhi was about to lose his feet, his knees were a little weak, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

Gong Dong was Dong Zhongshu during the reign of Emperor Wu. His three strategies for heaven and man were the most central idea of ​​"heaven and man in response, and the power of the king was divinely granted". While affirming the power of the king, the emperor was the son of heaven, he proposed the "disaster and heavenly punishment theory". Therefore, it was proposed that if the ruler was unjust, the country would definitely have great disasters, and God would use celestial phenomena and disasters to warn.

This man looked at Yang Tongzhi, who was so shocked that he almost lost his soul, and said, "Now Yang Tongzhi is bound to die. This plague cannot be controlled at all, and it cannot be controlled. What does it mean? Yang Tongzhi, don't say that your official position is not guaranteed, the court will surely teach you to pieces to pieces in order to quell the public's anger. Now, although Your Highness, the prince of the prince is in the capital, I... can take on the prince of Beihai to find a way out for you. All this disaster will be put on Chen Kaizhi. Only in this way can the prince of Beihai and even the prince of Zhao, protect you from peace."

However, Yang Tongzhi had no idea of ​​getting an amnesty at all, but instead was like a sieve. He knew very well that these people wanted to use the attack on Chen Kaizhi to shake the position of the empress dowager.

"Where to go, choose your own choice, the student said goodbye." The man didn't say anything more, but just bowed to him calmly and left.

However, Yang Tongzhi was blind and could no longer hold on to the ground. He sat down on the ground until a civil servant came to urge him. Seeing that the adults were like this, he hurriedly said carefully: "Sir... the county magistrates outside have been waiting for a long time."

Yang Tongzhi reacted, hurriedly stood up, walked to the front hall uneasily to the seat. Looking at the county magistrates of each county, he felt confused, but he suddenly slapped the table: "The plague of heaven harms the people, this is a punishment from heaven, and it is a warning from heaven. I heard that there is a lifelong member named Chen Kaizhi who is actually engaged in ghosts and gods, and he is intimidating the public. This plague of heaven must have caused this person. Therefore, in addition to the strict defense of each county, this official immediately issued a detention card to capture Chen Kaizhi to obey the will of heaven!"

The chief officials of the counties in the hall were stunned.

They are different from ordinary people. After all, they are all officials in charge of the ruling party. After hearing Yang Tongzhi's tone, they know that things are not simple. The empress dowager regarded himself as the God of Luo River, which is well-known. Some local officials even wanted to build the temple of Luo River in order to please him. But Yang Tongzhi said that Chen Kai's evil words confusing the public, so he directly denied the empress dowager?

In the face of a major disaster, I suddenly asked such a sensitive question, this...

"Mr. Yang." County Magistrate Zhu suddenly stood up and said sternly: "Can a co-prime master decide the destiny?"

Yang Tongzhi had long expected that County Magistrate Zhu would do this, so he said with a stern face: "This Chen Kaizhi is a citizen under your rule. I ordered you to take people quickly, otherwise, I won't blame me for being ruthless."

The magistrate Zhu naturally knew that Yang Tongzhi actually wanted to make a fuss about this disaster, so he couldn't help but laugh: "For such a big thing, please come up with the decree, or ask the magistrate to make the decision."
Chapter completed!