At noon the next day, the Beijing News published a second rebuttal article, strongly refuting the other four crimes.
The other four crimes were embezzlement of salt taxes from Jinghu and Hu Roads, nepotism, massacre of innocent people in Xixia, and evasion of imperial officials.
The focus here is on the salt tax case and nepotism. The massacre of innocent people in Xixia and the evasion of court officials are generally not of interest to the people, but the whisperers still refuted it in the first and second articles respectively.
There is no such thing as massacre of innocent people in Xixia. They were scattered and placed in the counties of Sichuan Road, Xihe Road, Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road. The herdsmen were placed in Hexi Road, a total of more than 700,000 people.
, involving more than 240 counties, each county resettled more than 3,000 people. Detailed records were kept by the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Envoy Department and the county officials, allowing them to gradually integrate into the Han people, and the Dangxiang people disappeared from then on.
The second point is to use the imperial magistrates as an excuse, which refers to Sichuan Road. According to the agreement signed by both parties, the Xuanfu envoys of Sichuan and Shaanxi controlled the counties of Sichuan Road, while the imperial court controlled the states, but without counties as the basis, the states were of course floating in the air.
It is normal for the government to feel that it is being ignored, but this is how the agreement between the two parties was signed. It is written in black and white. What crime did King Yong have? In the final rebuttal, he asked, did the court want to tear up the agreement and deliberately made a fuss about this matter? "
These two points are explained clearly. The so-called seven deadly sins give people the feeling that they want to inflict crimes without any excuse.
As for the salt tax case and nepotism, these two crimes are not worth refuting. The Lin'an court has never collected the salt tax from Jinghu Road.
During the southern invasion, the Jinghu Road and Jinghu Road were always in war, and both areas were occupied by private salt traders.
It was not until the second half of last year that the Western Army killed more than 380 private salt dealers with thunderous means and confiscated all their property. Only then did official salt from Sichuan and Shaanxi appear in the markets of Jinghu Road. The official salt from Sichuan and Shaanxi cost 70 yuan.
The court price of salt is 200 Wen per pound, so it can be sold on Jinghu Road.
It was a slap in the face, and the people of Lin'an suddenly discovered that the price of salt in Sichuan and Shaanxi was only 30% of the court salt price. This suddenly became another hot topic.
But the real slap in the face was the last crime, King Yong's nepotism. King Yong's relatives were all killed by the Jin soldiers, and they didn't even have any distant relatives. How can we talk about nepotism?
But when it came to Jingzhao accepting the officials who had defected to Lin'an, only three officials were not hired. Among them was Huang Yougong, who was disqualified for visiting a brothel in violation of regulations. He then held a grudge and tried to set fire to Prince Yong's mansion but failed overnight.
abscond.
As soon as this news came out, the Lin'an government and the public were in an uproar. At this time, all the so-called seven deadly sins had been completely refuted by the Beijing News. Everyone naturally believed that Huang Yougong traveled to Beijing to find a job, and he was resentful after failing to find a job.
In revenge, he concocted the so-called Seven Deadly Sins of King Yong.
In just one afternoon, Huang Yougong's reputation was completely ruined.
In the afternoon, Jia Yingfang came to the Liuzhu teahouse again, where dozens of teagoers were noisy.
A skinny old man shouted: "I think what the "Express" said makes sense. King Yong wants to seize the land and force his subordinates to come forward. So what if he is in Lin'an? It makes perfect sense!"
Someone retorted: "If King Yong really ordered his men to seize land, would Huang Yougong know about it?"
"Huang Yougong doesn't know, but the court must know, and someone will tell him!"
"Haha! It turns out that the real person behind the Seven Deadly Sins is the imperial court, and Huang Yougong is just a scapegoat they pushed out!"
"That's not what I meant, don't talk nonsense!" The old man's face turned red.
"Who is this person?" Jia Yingfang asked the shopkeeper Dong Qun in a low voice.
Dong Qun sneered, "This man is one of the four chief stewards of Uncle Wei Tong. His surname is Qiu. When he reported the Seven Deadly Sins on the first day, he was very energetic. Now he insists on seizing the land. I guess he
Want to spread rumors."
"Let me refute him and see how he spreads rumors!"
Jia Yingfang stepped forward, clasped her fists and smiled: "Manager Qiu, do you want to hear my explanation to you?"
The old man surnamed Qiu stared at Jia Yingfang fiercely, "What do you want to say?"
"I just want to tell you that the new city expanded by Jingzhao is ten miles wide from east to west and five miles long from north to south. It adds up to nearly 40,000 acres of land, of which only 3,000 acres are private fields, and the remaining 37,000 acres are private fields.
It's official land. If King Yong wanted to make a fortune from expanding the city, wouldn't it be better for him to buy official land directly? It's still cheap, but he has to pay a high price to occupy private farmland and ruin his reputation. If he was really that stupid, would he have achieved what he does today?"
There was a sudden burst of laughter in the teahouse. The old man surnamed Qiu was speechless and had to walk away angrily. Jia Yingfang's words quickly spread throughout Lin'an. Huang Yougong's last struggle was also drowned in a sea of ridicule.
middle.
In the backyard of the teahouse, Dong Qun asked Jia Yingfang to sit down, poured him a cup of hot tea, and said with a smile: "What the gentleman said yesterday, Qin Hui wants to check the spear whisperer, which may be detrimental to him. I have already reported it to Zheng Dongzhu, and Zheng Dongzhu said,
You can reply to Wang Bo in this way, saying that there is no such person as the Spear Whisperer, this person is fictional, and the two corresponding articles gathered the opinions of many people and were written by Hu Yun."
"Dong Yuhou means that Hu Yun can be regarded as a spear whisperer?"
"You can put it this way! He is the special envoy of King Yong. It is his responsibility to defend King Yong, and he knows the situation best."
Jia Yingfang nodded, "I understand. I'll go back and report. I'm sorry Qin Hui doesn't dare to touch Hu Yun."
Jia Yingfang had just returned to the county government office when she met Wang Bo running out of the county government office. Fortunately, Jia Yingfang hid quickly and the two almost collided head on.
"Mr. County, why is it so urgent?"
When Wang Bo saw the government officials on his left and right, he quickly pulled Jia Yingfang aside and whispered: "I just got the news from Ma Dutou that Huang Yougong is dead!"
"ah!"
Jia Yingfang was really shocked, "When did it happen? Where did you find it?"
"That's what happened just now. He hung himself from a tree in the woods outside the city."
"Did he hang himself?"
Wang Bo shook his head, "The reporter saw several men in black dragging Huang Yougong into the woods from a carriage."
Wang Bo suddenly remembered something and said quickly: "I am about to go to Qin Xianggong's house. How did you find out? Who is the spear whisperer?"
"We found out that the spear whisperer was not a real person, but a fictitious person. The article in the Beijing News was discussed by many people and then written by Hu Yun."
Wang Bo was stunned, "Hu Yun, the special envoy of King Yong?"
Jia Yingfang nodded.
"It's indeed him!"
Wang Bo quickly said: "I will go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to report it now."
He got on his horse and ran towards the Qin Mansion with a few followers.
Jia Yingfang thought for a while, then turned back to Liuweiju Teahouse. He wanted to tell Dong Qun about Huang Yougong's murder.
In Xiangyang Pavilion, Qin Hui urgently reported to the emperor the murder of Huang Yougong.
Zhao Gou immediately understood that this was Qin Hui's best strategy that didn't work, so he used the worst strategy. The lie of the Seven Deadly Sins was completely exposed, so he could only kill Huang Yougong to frame Chen Qing, and at the same time silence him.
Qin Hui gave the choice to Zhao Gou. If it was announced that Huang Yougong committed suicide out of fear of crime, then the incident would be regarded as an admission of defeat and the Wen attack was over. However, if it was announced that Huang Yougong was killed, it would obviously be to frame King Yong and promote him.
The battlefield is heightened.
It is very likely that Jingzhao will also join the war. This is what Zhao Gou is most worried about. He is worried that Chen Qing will directly drive out the Sichuan Luzhou official appointed by the imperial court in a rage. Although he has been ousted, once he is driven out,
After coming out, where would the court's face be? He was more worried that Chen Qing would make some substantive actions, such as annexing the entire Jinghu South Road.
"Who is that spear whisperer?" Zhao Gou glanced at the newspaper and asked again.
"Wei Chen received the news from King Yong's special envoy Hu Yun."
"Is it him? No wonder!"
Zhao Gou nodded and walked a few steps: "Let the county government spread the news! Huang Yougong hanged himself. Don't say any reason. Do you understand?"
Zhao Gou was full of compromise. Not only did he compromise with Jin Bing, he also had to compromise with the powerful Chen Qing.
But Zhao Gou still left a little clue. Whether Huang Yougong committed suicide out of fear of crime or fear of retaliation, he did not say, leaving it to people to guess.