Beijing.

Xiang Yi didn't sleep well for several days. He often dreamed of some messy scenes, just like the sudden riot in Lingshui County on the way to Beijing in early spring. Atrocities were everywhere, and half of the county was burned down. , everyone is shouting that the common people and the common people can stand together.

In the chaotic dream, someone drew a long line in the middle of the road. After drawing this stroke, the road actually split into two halves. The common people and the common people each occupied one side, and no one could cross the line.

Xiang Yi didn't know where she was, she just felt the noise in her ears, as if asking her to decide which side to stand on...

Xiang Yi couldn't help but clasp her hands when she woke up from such a dream. Pray that nothing happens.

The past few days have been relatively peaceful, but the sky seems to have opened a fire hole and is about to completely ignite the world.

Yang Zhen's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and she couldn't bear the hot weather, but she didn't dare to use a lot of ice. Seeing how uncomfortable she was, Xiang Yi moved her to a yard surrounded by green trees at the back, which was shady and cool. Some.

Today is an auspicious day, and even the prince chose today to go to Yaowang Temple outside the city to pray for the emperor.

The emperor has been in a coma for many days. Whether he survives it or not, as the prince, he must pray for blessings.

Xiang Yi also chose today to clean up the yard behind and accompany Yang Zhen there in person.

Before the two of them sat down, Tan Jian suddenly came quickly.

Upon seeing Tan Jian's expression, both Xiang Yi and Yang Zhen were stunned.

Xiang Yi immediately had a bad feeling.

"What's wrong?" she asked urgently.

She saw that Tan Jian didn't dare to say anything and ordered all the maids and servants to get down before she spoke.

"Something happened! A group of gangsters came out of nowhere and wanted to assassinate His Highness the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince's carriage was rushed away, and His Highness...his whereabouts are unknown."

The news came from two sources, and one was from the Tan family in the court. On the other side is Yang Zhen’s natal family.

Don't dare to spread such things randomly. It can be seen that the prince was indeed attacked by rogue bandits, and his prayers failed, but he disappeared.

In the hot air, Xiang Yi suddenly felt breathless and his eyes kept shaking.

The emperor is in a coma and the prince is missing. Who should be in charge of the court? !

Yang Zhen was very surprised, "How come there are such powerful bandits in the capital?! This is wrong. The East Palace is out of the capital. How big of a battle there must be. How can the various places dare to let such powerful bandits in?!"

She is a military general. He comes from a family background and knows a lot about the defense of the capital.

Tan Jian said he didn't know, "It's because something happened that I thought of arresting someone... But no one really knows where His Royal Highness is."

Xiang Yi didn't speak for a while.

Rogue bandits will not appear suddenly. Someone must have carefully planned and harbored them outside Beijing for a long time.

Those people who are plotting to kill the prince at this time are afraid that they will take over the government.

I just don't know if they want to kill the prince directly, but the prince's current situation is that he is missing...

But no matter what, the prince has not returned to Beijing or to the court. The turmoil in the government and the opposition will only return suddenly. All around.

...

Xiang Yi's concerns are indeed correct.

In the next two days, the whereabouts of the prince were still unknown, and the voices from the government and the public became confused.

The imperial court caught some of the bandits who assassinated the prince. These people actually claimed that the imperial court was exhausted, so disasters occurred frequently. Only by changing the dynasty could the people live a good life.

Naturally, these people were not from aristocratic families, they were all reckless people. They wanted to assassinate the prince and change the dynasty, so they carried out the assassination. As for where the prince was now, they did not know. They only said:

"He must be in heaven." I can’t stand it any longer. Take the lives of the Dog Emperor and his son and let us ordinary people stand up!”

Such remarks spread very quickly. In just one or two days, they spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital, and they seemed to have been carried on for a while. It's like a strong wind.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

The words of these bandits aroused the anger in people's hearts.

Everyone knew that the prince had the world at heart, and even if he was fighting against the intricately connected aristocratic families, he would still fight for the interests of the common people.

But these bandits, who came from common people, wanted to kill the prince and take his life.

Many members of the family immediately started making trouble.

"The prince always thinks about these common people and untouchables, but they end up like this. If he still protects them and does not punish them severely and let them see the consequences, are these common people really going to kill the rebels and bring down us common people? Kill them all too?!"

The children of the aristocratic family who had never really accepted the common people suddenly seemed to have found a place to stand.

They jumped out one after another to accuse the common people, repaying kindness with evil, without conscience, and with ulterior motives.

But how could the common people be willing to bear such a bad reputation? He questioned how those bandits entered the capital and asked on the other side.

"People are common people, thieves are thieves, what does it have to do with the common people? If your family wants to take advantage of the opportunity to suppress, you might as well say it bluntly, why make these excuses?!"

The emperor was in a coma, the prince was missing, and several ministers in the East Palace were missing. The injured were injured, and some were trying their best to find the whereabouts of the prince. No one came to try to calm the conflict between the two clans.

Other court officials were either silent or had their own opinions.

No one was able to resolve the matter, but within a few days, the quarrel between the two parties became more and more intense.

The rift between the two clans finally turned over after years of hiding in each other's water!

Tan Jian sent messages to the clan members for Tan Ting for several days, asking the Tan clan members not to get involved in this matter.

But even if the Tan family doesn't interfere, other families don't think so.

Before the Yellow River overflowed, in order to bridge the relationship between the two clans, the East Palace took measures to allow the aristocratic clan to provide conveniences to the common people, such as allowing students from poor families to come to the aristocratic clan to study, and allowing scholars, craftsmen, and farmers from poor families to join the aristocratic clan.

Only by slowly establishing a harmonious and mutually supportive relationship between the two races can the relationship truly be eased.

However, as soon as the assassination of the prince came out, the relationship between the two clans deteriorated rapidly, and many aristocratic clans directly kicked out the poor children who had taken refuge with their families.

Most of these people from humble families had no way out outside, so they took refuge in aristocratic families. Directly driving people out like this almost cut off their way out.

That's all. Xiang Yi actually heard the news that some noble families no longer hired tenants to do work for them. Unless these tenants were willing to sell themselves into slavery and remain slaves of the noble families for generations to come, they would otherwise starve to death on the streets. ...

Such things are like opening a boil, exposing everything in the most disgusting and ugliest way.

Even Tan Jian and Yang Zhen found it unreasonable after hearing this, but it was a fact that people from the secular clan drove the common people out of their own territories.

Those people acted so fast, as if they had been instructed, which was staggering.

And how could a humble family of common people take the blame, swallow the bitter pill, and bow to the world?

At first, there were students from poor families in Boyun Academy, who gathered together those who were bullied by the family.

There is no one in charge of the government, only a prince who has never been in charge of the affairs of the country temporarily supervises the country.

These students from poor families wanted to write a letter to the people to sue the noble families, and at the same time they shouted and marched in the capital, shouting for the poor families of the common people and resolutely fighting against the noble families to the end.

For some reason, the officials from all over the Gyeonggi Province stood by and watched. Only a few state and county officials advised them not to cause trouble at this time, but they could not stop the momentum of these passionate young people.

Neither of the two tribes refused to give in, and the situation everywhere became more and more intense.

Even He Guanfu and the others, who had been leading the trouble, felt that something was wrong with the rapid and violent momentum. They came to the Tan family and wanted to find Tan Ting, but unfortunately Tan Ting was outside and not at home at all.

Xiang Yi suddenly thought of his younger brother Xiang Yu.

She went to Boyun Academy in person the next day. When she found Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu had not slept all night. Together with his like-minded classmates from poor families, they discussed how to expand from Gyeonggi and let everyone All the common people from poor families joined them to fight for the poor families and fight against the common people.

The eyes of these young people all seemed to be on fire, and they were very energetic even though they had not slept all night.

When Xiang Yi saw them, he felt bad. When Xiang Yu was called out to talk, he went straight to the meeting.

"Brother Yu also wants to 'fight' with them?"

The young man exuded steaming heat. He said that it was natural, "Sister, you may not know, but we found out a lot of people who didn't deal with my father in the past few days. Each of those people is the last straw for my father. They are almost all members of the Shi clan!" The

young man clenched his hands tightly. "The Shi clan has been trying to harm us for a long time. How can we be willing to be harmed by them?"

Yi was not surprised by his words, but she couldn't help but ask Xiang Yu.

"Brother Yu, have you ever thought that this is just the idea of ​​some members of the family with ulterior motives, and you are so noisy now without anyone stopping you, maybe you are playing into their hands?"

She said, calling her brother, "Calm down. Come down and think about it."

Xiang Yu hasn't slept well for more than a day.

Conflict broke out between the two races, and they started to confront each other. He and his classmates from the humble family were angry and passionate, and vowed to earn benefits for the common people.

But no one had ever told him that what they did might be what some people expected...

Xiang Yu was stunned for a moment, "Is what the eldest sister said true?"

Xiang Yi saw him I could still hear the words and breathed a sigh of relief.

She couldn't help but said, "Your classmates don't know what a big family is like, don't you know? Families like the Tan family of Qingkan, the Qi family of Haidong, and the Li family of Huaining, have never oppressed the common people? This is not the case for aristocratic families. They are all bad people, but some people are plotting it secretly for their own benefit. You have to think clearly to separate the family from those with ulterior motives..."

But before she could finish her words, something suddenly appeared. A young man jumped out.

They were all Xiang Yu's classmates and had just heard Xiang Yi's words.

But they were not as capable of thinking as Xiang Yu, and instead they identified Xiang Yi at once.

They asked Xiang Yu.

"I remember that your sister is the clan wife of the Qingkan Tan family, right? Sure enough, it was the married daughter who threw the water. She only focused on the wealthy family and ignored the interests of the common people!"

They said and kicked Xiang Yi away.

"You can go to your family, but Xiang Yu is a serious student from a poor family. You still want to harm him! Let's go, let's go! You are no longer welcome here!"

They actually wanted to push Xiang Yi, but Xiang Yu pushed them away. The eldest sister stood behind him.

He was a little anxious, "What are you doing? Even if the family is guilty, what crime does my sister have? I don't allow you to talk about her like this!"

The boy's height had already grown much taller than Xiang Yiliang at some point. Xiang Yi looked up Looking at his back, for a moment it seemed as if he saw the back of his father who used to protect them behind him.

Her nose felt sore, and she saw the anger in the eyes of those poor scholars gradually transferred from her to Xiang Yu, who faced them alone.

I'm just afraid that Xiang Yu will have a big conflict with them again.

She didn't want to cause trouble at this juncture, so she quickly patted Xiang Yu.

"Brother, it's okay..."

she said, giving the young scholars a serious look.

"I am from the common people, and I have been a common people all my life. I don't want to speak for the common people, but the court is complicated and complicated, and some people do have evil intentions. You should think clearly and think twice before doing anything!"

Xiang Yi has tried his best to give some advice. , but these poor scholars didn't seem to hear it at all and just hummed twice.

Xiang Yi could only give Xiang Yu another nod.

"A Yu, be careful not to get carried away."

After she finished speaking, she knew that she was no longer welcome here. If she took Xiang Yu away forcibly, she would be afraid of causing trouble, so she had no choice but to leave with help.

Outside of Boyun Academy, everything was in chaos, as if the hot weather had burned everyone's heart.

On the way back to Beijing, she also noticed a lot of noise and noise. The people who usually sold melons and tea on the roadside were gone, and everyone seemed to be agitated.

She was also a little uneasy, wondering whether the old man could return to Beijing at this juncture.

However, she met the Li family's carriage on the road.

The person in the carriage was none other than Miao, the eldest wife of the Li family in Huaining. Miao seemed to be frightened for some reason, and her expression was a little off. She was stunned for a long time before she recognized Xiang Yi.

Miao said that because he had caught the wind and cold, he was afraid that the disease would affect his children at home, so he went to Zhuangzi for a while.

Xiang Yi saw that she looked very bad and her eyes seemed to be panic, so he specially invited her to talk under the thatched pavilion on the roadside.

Before she asked how Miao's condition was, she heard Miao ask her.

"Are you okay in the Tan family? Your uncle is not at home, do your people give you any trouble?"

She asked, and Xiang Yi was not too surprised.

She heard that many families had sent their wives and concubines from the common people to other places, or brought their sisters and daughters who were married to the common people back to their families.

When the conflicts between the common people come to this point, these things are almost inevitable.

Xiang Yi said he was fine.

"The people of the Tan family still respect the uncle, and no one came to make trouble."

However, after Xiang Yi said this, he immediately thought of Tan Chaoxuan and his wife. They did not make any move, which was a bit strange...

But she also remembered that the Miao family was not from a wealthy family, but was just a girl from a little-known family in the southwest. Because Li Chengxu, the eldest son of the Li family in Huaining, was saved from the tiger's mouth, she married into the Li family and became the clan's wife.

She couldn't help but ask Miao.

"Sister is in trouble?"

But Miao didn't answer her. Instead, she hesitated for a long time, as if she didn't know what she was thinking of, and suddenly asked Xiang Yi.

"If, if the Tan family no longer respects your eldest son, and they think that your origin makes your eldest son unworthy of being the eldest son, what will you... do?"

She said, seeming to feel that she The question was really unpleasant, so he hurriedly made up for it, "Yizhen, I, I didn't mean to think that you had a bad background?"

Xiang Yi knew it and gave her a comforting look.

But she didn't answer Miao's question for a while.

...

After bidding farewell to the Miao family and returning to the capital, the Tan family was still as peaceful as the previous few days.

But in just one day, the situation between the two tribes changed again.

In one place, the common people formed an insurrectionary army and wanted to conquer the aristocratic families. They first attacked the gathering place of the local aristocratic families, robbed the gold and silver and distributed them to the people, calling on more people to join them.

They want to clean up the sinful family and strive for more benefits for the common people.

Even if he is labeled as a rebel, he will not hesitate!

This is how the first rebel army appeared.

As soon as this incident came out, the entire capital was in an uproar.

Xiang Yi felt that his heart had hit rock bottom.

This is probably what those in the world who harbor evil intentions want to see most.