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These two articles by King Luo Bin caused Zhou Ming a lot of harm. However, how these two articles passed the numerous reviews, were engraving and printed, and appeared in the "Collected Works of Zihua" published by Zihua Bookstore, then they were not from King Luo Bin. Problem.

It's a mole inside Zihua Bookstore!

Because as early as the founding of Zihua Bookstore, Zhou Ming had formulated the three no-publishing rules, namely: no publishing related to pornography and gangsters, no publishing related to officials and politics, and no publishing related to national policies.

The purpose of formulating these "Three Nos on Publishing" was to avoid touching the sensitive and fragile nerves of the ruling class, which regarded Zihua Bookstore as an obstacle and wanted to get rid of it quickly.

This is why Zihua Bookstore has remained standing and its influence has continued to expand over the past 20 years since its establishment. However, similar bookstores and bookstores have not lasted long and have collapsed for countless reasons.

But this time, the insider in Zihua Bookstore seriously violated these three rules and even cheated his "boss"!

Zhou Ming is also a little puzzled: These inner ghosts, together with King Luo Bin, are willing to offend Wu Mei to death, are they not afraid of confiscating their homes and annihilating their clans?

However, Zhou Ming has no control over the life and death of these moles, and he is the worst off now! He's most likely to be the first to lose his head!

Fortunately, during the half-month period when the jailer was allowed to visit the prison, Zhou Ming made some preparations. The two revolvers were secretly put in his pockets and were not taken away by the jailer (mainly because of this). After the two pistols were dismantled into parts and brought into the cell one by one, the jailer didn't know what they were used for. In addition, the cells in the sky jail where felons were held were made of fine iron, making it difficult for ordinary people to escape even if they had wings. But before, Zhou Ming did not bring these two pistols into the palace because the palace was strictly searched. Every time he entered the palace, he had to be searched three times, and he was not allowed to carry metal objects.)

In addition, not far outside the prison, Zhou Ming also deployed a team of 200 elite Tian family soldiers, all equipped with bolt-action hand-operated breech-loading guns and revolvers. They can kill with just one order. Get into the jail and rescue him.

It's just that Zhou Ming is still unsure about the timing of the launch. Now he has been transferred to the death row with stricter security. The news cannot be spread for a while, and he has injuries on his buttocks. He can only wait for the opportunity and make further observations...

Zhou Ming had been waiting for three days, completely unaware that the sky was already boiling outside.

In King Luo Bin's "Essay on Discussing Wu", there is a nonsense sentence: "Wu Mei, the Demon Queen, imprisoned celebrities, tortured her, and forced her to write "Feminist Odysses" to rectify her name." This not only caused great trouble to Zhou Ming, but also to Wu Mei. Brings great passivity.

Because this sentence in the statement is, to a certain extent, very close to the truth. Zhou Ming was indeed tortured with a cane and imprisoned. He did not appear in public for more than half a month while writing "Feminist Powers". He did this out of necessity, just to save his life from Demon Queen Wu Mei and survive.

People also ask themselves: If they were themselves, could they persevere and survive a hundred kinds of torture? Tian Zihua couldn't bear it, lost some integrity, and wrote an article against his will, which is reasonable. Mr. Zihua is also a human being, not an invulnerable or omnipotent god.

As a result, in just three days, public opinion changed drastically. Countless readers and fans of Mr. Zihua created a sound and movement that even the ruling class was horrified and frightened by.

The situation on the first day is as follows:

"Mr. Zihua, I wrongly blamed you! It turns out you had no choice but to do it!"

"Mr. Zihua, is it true that you are really in that prison now, suffering all kinds of torture and suffering, with no chance of saving your life, and your life and death all depend on your mood after being poisoned?"

"That's it, that's it! Mr. Zihua was forced. It was the Demon Queen Wu Mei who forced Mr. Zihua to do what was against his will and reason!"

"Rescue Mr. Zihua! Demon Queen Wu Mei can kill anyone she wants, but she must not kill Mr. Zihua!"

The next day, people rushed to tell each other, contacted each other all night long, thought of ways and countermeasures, and tried their best to rescue Mr. Zihua.

Some people have very extreme ideas, and want to prepare swords and weapons, go directly to the prison, and rescue Mr. Zihua; others advocate a joint letter asking Wu Mei to release Zihua! Thousands of people signed together, and hundreds of thousands of people shouted together. I don’t believe that Demon Queen Wu Mei will not let her go!

But there were so many opinions that it was difficult to unify. The scholars rebelled, and it took ten years. When these discussions and arguments became more and more intense, a young scholar named Li Yuanfang rose up and said, "Please, please stop arguing. I, Yuan Fang, will go and kneel down in front of the Daming Palace right now. I will kneel and die in front of the Demon Queen without eating, drinking or speaking! If she wants to kill Mr. Zihua, she must first step over my corpse!"

"Brother Yuanfang said that well! Let's go and sit down on our knees to see if the Demon Queen dares to kill us!"

"I'll go too! If we can rescue Mr. Zihua, what if his head falls off?"

"Go together! Go together!"

On the third day, a scene that shocked everyone in the palace appeared on the wide field at the entrance of Xuanwu Gate of Daming Palace: At the entrance of Xuanwu Gate, a large group of literati in blue clothes and white hats were sitting on their knees. The number exceeded 10,000. These literati In their hands, they all held a piece of "Song of Righteousness" written by Mr. Hua, and they recited it in unison, which shocked the whole city!

"The heaven and earth have righteousness, which is mixed and endowed with manifolds. Below are the rivers and mountains, and above are the sun and stars. People call it Haoran, and it is so abundant that it blocks the sky... Wu Mei, our Haoran righteousness is here! Come and kill us!" "

"Wu Mei, can you kill Mr. Zihua and all the scholars in the world?"

"Wu Mei, you have killed countless people over the years, and you have slaughtered all loyal and righteous men! You don't think that the whole world obeys you, do you? It's ridiculous! There are tens of thousands of heads here who don't obey you. Come! Your butcher knife Just cut it down!"

"Mr. Zihua is the celebrity I admire most. I am so lucky to die with him in this life!"

"Qingzhou Lu Wencai came to help. Boss, I've been working hard in prison. I wish I could bear it with you!"

"Tang Junming from Qingzhou came to help. Boss, brothers once said that we share blessings and share hardships! If you encounter such difficulties, brothers will bear them too!"

"Wang Ping from Yangzhou came to help..."

"Hongzhou Liu Anzhi..."

"Shuzhou..."

More and more literati came from all over the imperial capital to support him. These literati, speaking with different accents, came from all corners of the country and ten states in the world. Come and sit quietly outside Xuanwu Gate, the number of people is getting bigger and bigger.

Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand...

In just one day, the number of people sitting in the meditation exceeded 30,000. Even in the imperial capital, thousands of female compatriots who admired Mr. Zihua's virtue and talent also appeared in the crowd, weeping and begging the Queen Mother Wu Mei to let Mr. Zihua go. Spare his life.

"Bastard, bastard! Do you really think that the Ai family dare not kill you? Order General Zhang Xuanyu of the Jinwu Guard to lead the Royal Forest Army to suppress the rebellion!"

Seeing this scene outside the palace, Wu Mei was furious and had a murderous intention. She wanted to kill all these protesters and opponents!

"The Queen Mother must not do this!"

Several officials around Wu Mei hurriedly dissuaded her, and one of them named Di Renjie knelt down and said, "Queen Mother, if you kill these literati and celebrities today, tomorrow the world will be turned against you!"

"Yes, empress dowager, these literati and celebrities are the future pillars of the Great Zhou. If they are killed, the imperial court will have no talents to use, and they will be cut off from the world's literati. I, the great Zhou Guozuo, will not last more than a hundred years! Doesn't the empress do not hear that the Eastern Jin Dynasty is destroyed, Is there a lesson from "Ninety-nine Businessmen"?

The Eastern Jin Dynasty that the official said was a short-lived dynasty in history. This dynasty, Guozuo, was less than a hundred years old, because the emperor Sima of this dynasty used conspiracy to usurp the upper hand and won the country. At the same time, Emperor Wen of Jin killed Kang Shuye, a hermit who was famous all over the world at that time, causing scholars all over the world to live in seclusion, and the talents were cut off.

"this……"

Wu Mei took half a step back, with a trace of panic on her face. She knew the story of the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the nine random merchants. She also knew the reason for the rapid demise of the Sima family who won the country. The explanation is "losing morality". To explain it in three words, it is "losing the support of the people".

The "people's heart" here does not refer to the hearts of the people at the lowest level. These people are just ants who only want to survive and eat. The human heart of the class is equivalent to uninstalling the operating system on the computer, and throwing away the steering wheel and engine when driving. Sooner or later, it will collapse and perish!

Wu Mei, on the other hand, does not rely on "morality" to reach the top. Morality has long since been thrown away by her! If she loses people's hearts again, even if she ascends to the throne and becomes the empress, there will be a lot of criticism from all over the world, no one will work for her and keep this country that has been usurped with great difficulty.

"Queen Mother, Tian Zihua's fame and talent are ten times better than Kang Shuye's! If you kill him, the world's literati will turn against you! Then join Xu Jingye and others' rebellion army, and those who are ready to move will also catch him. When the time comes, when the flag is raised, the Turks, Turpans and other enemy countries will also invade, the border is in a hurry, and the flames of war are everywhere! Queen Mother, you can kill anyone you want, but Dutian Zihua alone must not be killed!"

Di Renjie solemnly persuaded him again.

"this……"

Wu Mei took two steps back, her face turned pale, and she was so depressed that she almost vomited blood!

But it is impossible not to regress, because it is true that as Di Renjie said, in the past two or three days, she has received many urgent military reports. Waiting for the city, coming directly to Luoyang, which is not far from the emperor; second, the clans of Langya King Li Chong of Bozhou, Yue King Li Zhen of Yuzhou and other ex-vassal clans have also rebelled one after another recently, and there are many responders!

In addition, there was an urgent report from the Liangzhou border: Tufan Lun Zanqin and the Turkic King Ashina Gu jointly sent 500,000 troops. After sweeping through the countries in the Western Region, they were storming Yumen Pass. If reinforcements did not arrive, it would take three months at most. It’s just that all the lands in the Western Regions will be lost. After the fall of Yumen Pass, Liangzhou, the homeland of the Great Zhou Dynasty, will also face the front lines of the troops of the two countries!

The situation Wu Mei is facing now can be described in eight words as "fire on all sides, internal and external troubles"!

At this juncture, if we kill celebrity Tian Zihua again, it will be like pouring another bottle of gasoline on the fire...

Lai Junchen, a confidant, also stepped forward and whispered to persuade: "Queen Mother, there is a lot of opposition in the world... The current plan is to pardon Tian Zihua's death penalty and let him be released from prison, so as to calm the hearts of the people in the world first!"

Wu Mei thought gloomily for a while, then gritted her teeth and said, "Send the order: Pardon Tian Zihua for the death penalty and release him from prison immediately! Order him to come to Xuanwu Gate quickly and clean up this mess!"

"No, Queen Mother!"

…

Half a day later.

In Xuanwumen Square, cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami came, but it was Mr. Zihua who had disappeared for many days, with a somewhat pale face, walking with a limp, being supported by others, like a triumphant general, Appearing in the sight of everyone, he was welcomed like a hero. Countless people put him in the center, hugged and shook hands with him warmly, and some people burst into tears and shouted excitedly: "We won! We won!"

Zhou Ming kept stretching out his hand to press down on them, telling them not to get too excited, and ordered someone to bring a large bucket of food broth, and eat and talk with them. After expressing gratitude to countless people, and making various goodbye promises, people's emotions finally fell back. Come down and leave slowly. In the evening, after Zhou Ming and the last group of people left, the empty Xuanwu gate left only countless stinky household garbage.

…

Early the next morning.

Zhou Ming, who ordered people to pack his luggage overnight and prepare to take his family back to his hometown in Qingzhou, unexpectedly received an imperial edict.

The imperial decree said: "The Empress Dowager has a decree... Ren Tian Zihua will be the general of Wuwei, lead the army of 50,000 people from the inner government, send troops to the Western Regions, and break the siege of Yumen Pass! The military situation is urgent, take office immediately, and there is no delay!"

What?

Zhou Ming was surprised when he received this imperial edict.

Wu Mei suddenly appointed herself as the general. What did she want to do? What conspiracy is there?

Zhou Ming immediately thought of refusing, but the imperial decree was worded harshly, and there were explanations in it, saying that he "knows the military well and understands the situation in the Western Regions. At this time, the Western Regions are in crisis, and the imperial court is in the midst of employing people. He should make an exception and promote someone who knows the soldiers"... ...Zhou Ming meets these requirements in all aspects and is the best candidate to lead the army.

In fact, the selection of Zhou Ming as the general to send troops to the Western Regions was a decision made by Wu Mei after a long discussion with the ministers last night. It is recognized by everyone that Tian Zihua knows the soldiers, because Tian Zihua has persuaded Wu countless times before. Mei, advised her not to deal with those famous generals, and made a prophecy, what would happen if there were no such famous generals, what would happen in the surrounding area?

However, Wu Mei just didn't listen. Now the entire Western Region was in danger of falling, and the imperial court couldn't find any decent generals, so at the last moment, they turned their minds on him.

In addition, Wu Mei's move also has another purpose, which is to suppress Zhou Ming's reputation! If he agrees to hang the seal to go out, 50,000 horses will definitely not be an opponent of 500,000 Turkic and Tupan allied forces.

Of course, Zhou Ming can disobey the order and disrespect, which gives the court an excuse. However, the petition turmoil yesterday has just passed, and the court will not do anything to him for the time being. But when all the troubles are settled and Wu Mei thinks about it, I will still go back and take care of him!

Because the breath in her heart will never be swallowed!

"Zihua accepts the order! He will definitely take office as soon as possible and lead the army on the expedition!"

To the eunuch Xuanzhi's surprise, this Mr. Zihua, who was making a fuss at the gate of the palace yesterday, just thought for a moment before nodding his head.

Holding the imperial decree in his hand, Zhou Ming planned to follow suit, agreeing to be the general, and then let those who have not planned to let him off until now, fall into a big tussle!

He sneered in his heart and said, "You think that I will be fooled by you, and you can't see through this little conspiracy that even idiots would not be fooled by? However, it's good to play with you, let the world see it, you What an idiot!"

Because, as long as he leaves the imperial capital and kills those five martial arts masters who are still following him, even if there are ten more Wu Meis in this world, he will not be afraid at all!

…

Inside Liang Wangfu.

"What? Then Tian Zihua accepted the imperial decree and agreed to lead troops to the Western Regions? Good, good! Tian Zihua, I will give you all the worst troops, the worst equipment, and the least food and grass supplies! I want to see you How will you die without a burial place on the battlefield!"

Still lying on the bed recuperating, Wu Sansi, Minister of the Ministry of War, who had completely lost his male function, sat up when he got the news, a flash of hatred flashed in his eyes, he gritted his teeth, and said in a shrill voice.

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