The chief envoy is called the ambassador in charge of all martial arts affairs in the world. It is a new yamen established by the imperial court in the past two years, and the chief administrator is at the rank of the fourth grade, which can already be regarded as a high-grade official.

The dynasty has been in power for a hundred years, driving out the Tartars externally, and punishing the national thieves internally. Now a hundred years of the country, it is the heyday of the dynasty.

The Son of Heaven talks about the good world above the temple, but his heart is gloomy. The gloomy one is the Jianghu sect in this country.

In the previous dynasty, a foreign clan ruled the world, and the position was not right, and it was unpopular with the people. There are many people in the world who have learned martial arts in order to overthrow foreign rule and restore the orthodox dynasty of the Han people.

Later, the world was in turmoil, and there were more and more people who learned martial arts to protect themselves. By the time the dynasty was established, the world's rivers and lakes had become a climate.

Since ancient times, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the management and control of the countryside by the dynasty was at most at the county level. If you want to extend the tentacles of the imperial court to the townships and establish official offices in the townships, the money and food spent are not half a star. Even in today's official system, the Son of Heaven feels that there are too many officials. It has already formed a burden on the imperial finances.

If the imperial power goes to the countryside, the number of officials to feed will more than double. Therefore, local autonomy is a tradition that has been formed for thousands of years in the dynasty and even the entire nation.

And the imperial power does not go to the countryside, but most of the locations of the Jianghu sect are in the countryside and mountains. Most of the managers of these Jianghu sects also became squires and sages, and they themselves became the administrators of local self-government.

Taking the Qingcheng faction as an example, Yu Canghai is not only the head of the Qingcheng faction, but also the squire of Yu's hometown at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain. At the same time, it also has an extraordinary appeal in Shili Eight Villages.

Every year in the county town, when they come to collect the imperial grain, they have to communicate with Yu Canghai, and let Yu Canghai organize people to pay grain and taxes door to door.

Because the county seat and the yamen did not have so many manpower, they went to the countryside from village to village, and collected from the peasants and households. There are so many people in the county seat, and if you want to pay the imperial grain on time, and if you want the countryside to go out on time, you have to rely on the squire.

The gentry assumed the actual management of the government's rule in the villages. At the same time, the squires and sages also undertook important affairs such as building bridges and paving roads in the countryside, establishing Yizhuang, and building ancestral halls.

The gentry class is an important class that maintains the rule of the country, and if the country does not reach the moment of erosion, it will generally not easily move the gentry class on a large scale.

And a large part of the actual managers of those sects in the martial arts overlap with the squire class.

In addition, the imperial court's understanding of the martial arts of the rivers and lakes is not deep enough. As a result, the country's jurisdiction over the rivers and lakes was extremely loose.

If someone in the countryside kills someone and no one reports to the official, the government will not take care of it.

The fight between the Jianghu sects was bloody, and the two factions fought each other, and hundreds of people might be killed or injured in the fight. It's just that no one reported to the official, so the government didn't bother to take care of it. After all, if the deaths and injuries of 100 people are under his own jurisdiction, then do you want to wear this black gauze hat on your head in the year-end evaluation? Anyway, if no one reports the crime, nothing will happen, and the big thing will be turned into a small matter.

Because of the squire class as an umbrella, and the connivance of the officials who turned a blind eye.

Therefore, the Jianghu sect has gradually grown into a powerful force in the country.

And all this was clearly written in a political essay by Lin Pingzhi three years ago.

At the same time, Lin Pingzhi also described the disadvantages of the martial arts sect to monopolize various industries and produce disadvantages to the dynasty. These include a reduction in taxes, a large number of casualties due to unprovoked fighting, and so on.

One of the most critical points is what Lin Pingzhi wrote in his policy theory, that many of the operations of the Jianghu sect itself are tax evasion. Missed taxes can be as high as one million taels of silver per year. Moreover, because of the struggle in the rivers and lakes, a large number of male soldiers have decreased, which has led to a decrease in the number of local people who have been sent out to serve.

These are all major events that shake the foundation of the country. If the Son of Heaven doesn't know, it's okay, and if he knows, he will be furious. Resolve to eradicate ills.

The Son of Heaven ordered the Jinyiwei of the East and West Factories to manage the affairs of the rivers and lakes, but the Jinyiwei was okay to deal with the officials, but it was not enough to deal with the people in the rivers and lakes.

Pulling the banner and pulling the tiger's skin, Jinyiwei can intimidate officials, but it can't scare people in the rivers and lakes. It's all mixed on the road, and each of them is hob meat, who is afraid of whom.

In the end, the people in the rivers and lakes are looking at the real kung fu under their hands, and they dare to go to Liangshan without three, two, three?

The so-called good hands in Jinyiwei are also dealing with people with average level, and they really have a fight with those masters, and they even lose their lives in less than three moves.

The Songshan faction even dared to kill Liu Zhengfeng, who had won the post of general, and ordinary people in the rivers and lakes did not dare to kill a few Jinyi guards? Anyway, there are many means on the rivers and lakes to make you die without seeing your body. A group of court eagle dogs died when they died.

Jinyiwei was sent out by the Son of Heaven in less than two months, and he was disgraced, and even the commander ate a lot of hanging. Pulling the banner and pulling the tiger skin is not easy to use here for people in the rivers and lakes. What is emphasized here is the simplest and crude primitive rule, and the one with a big fist makes sense.

Unless the Son of Heaven can make up his mind to mobilize a large army and encircle and suppress 100,000 people in the whole world. Otherwise, petty fights won't work at all. However, mobilizing a large army to encircle and suppress 100,000 people in the rivers and lakes is to provoke a popular uprising. When the time comes, the government will force the people to rebel, I am afraid that it is not to change the sun and the moon to a new day.

At this time, Lin Pingzhi, who had already won the favor of the Son of Heaven, said that he could help the emperor share his worries. So he went to the study to talk all night, and on the second day, Lin Pingzhi got the official position of chief ambassador, and the Son of Heaven set up a middle factory outside the east and west factories. Lin Pingzhi is the factory supervisor.

This factory directly obeys the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, and is in charge of martial arts affairs.

Everyone in the court wanted to see what benefits this young minister who was favored by the emperor could get, but it turned out to be very dumbfounded. The Son of Heaven did not send troops to Lin Pingzhi from the East and West Second Factory at all.

Lin Pingzhi has become a bare-bones general, with a name but no one under his hands. The East and West No. 2 factories are waiting to see the joke.

However, not transferring people from other yamen also cut off the possibility of other yamen going to the middle factory. Lin Pingzhi directly selected a group of eunuchs from the harem eunuchs who were unwilling and did not belong to any interest group. A group of young but talented eunuchs were selected to come out.

Seeing that Lin Pingzhi was ready to rely on a group of eunuchs to act as thugs to manage the martial arts people, even the cabinet ministers who had always supported the Son of Heaven couldn't stand it.

Yang Cheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, found Lin Pingzhi and asked: "Rely on a group of eunuchs to balance the murderers of the martial arts in the rivers and lakes? ”

Yang Cheng was very optimistic about these people selected by Lin Pingzhi. Because none of these eunuchs can fight at all. In the final analysis, it depends on force.

But Lin Pingzhi said with confidence: "Rest assured, it will only take one year for the middle factory to cultivate a group of masters who can compete with martial arts people!"

Lin Pingzhi has this confidence, because others don't know, but he himself knows. In his own hands, he has a set of peerless "Evil Sword Technique" that can turn eunuchs into martial arts masters!