In the winter of the court, the time of the court was pushed back half an hour compared with the summer, and a line of purple-clothed and vermilion-robed and lightly furrowed nobles of the court took ox carts or small sedan chairs, braving the light snow to rush to the forbidden place.

The vermilion palace wall has faded from the brightness of the early whitewash because of the age, and it is a thick feeling of time that has precipitated, and now it looks more and more majestic in this fine snow in the sky.

"Ling Zun didn't enter Beijing this year, I heard that he was sick, I don't know if he got better?" Ji Yan came not early or late, and as soon as he got off the ox cart, he met Yuwen Du, who was riding a small donkey in the wind and snow, and the latter is now serving as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and everything in the Yuwen family in Chang'an is left to him to decide.

"Uncle Ji Shi. Yuwen Du bowed, "My father suffered from a lot of old diseases in his early years, and now he missed the saint's birthday because of this, so he ordered his little nephew to deal with it." ”

"Zihuan Zhilan Yushu can also be on his own now. Seeing his humble words, Ji Yan couldn't help but smile in admiration.

"Uncle Shi has won awards. When Yuwen Du heard Ji Yan praise him, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Uncle Shi is now leading the Ministry of Industry, I don't know if there is still a shortage of miscellaneous manpower?"

"What? Do you want to come to the Ministry of Industry?" Ji Yan laughed when he heard it, and he didn't know that Yuwendu really wanted to come to the Ministry of Industry, you must know that Yuwendu was the first of the second class in the fourteenth year of Shengping, first sent to Yuzhou as the magistrate, and for three consecutive years the evaluation was the first one, and then transferred to Beijing as a member of the Ministry of Officials, and then three years of evaluation was also a first, and then transferred to the Ministry of Rites as a waiter.

He has been an official for seven years, from the local to the central, from the local civil affairs to the official assessment and then to the ceremonial patriarchy.

Now that Yuwendu proposed to go to the Ministry of Works, Ji Yan naturally thought he was joking.

The two exchanged a few words, then heard the sound of three whips, and sure enough, they straightened their sleeves, hung their hands and stood solemnly, and at the same time took off the wat board pinned to their waists and held it in their hands, and a group of mermaids rushed in and stepped into the Qiankun Palace.

The saint sat upright on the dragon chair, his expression calm, as if none of the problems that had bothered him before were there.

I don't know who started first, but the officials below seemed to have enough savings this time, and the court quarreled with me every word.

The sage listened absentmindedly, and it seemed to him that these people were arguing about the question of who the two princes should appoint, so one hand fell on his lap, and the other hand propped up the chair, and tapped casually and casually.

"The minister is going to play!" When the sage wanted to end the court meeting for a few days directly, a middle-aged man in a dark crimson official uniform stood up, and everyone couldn't help but quiet down when they heard his voice, and followed the prestige, but saw that the second person was tall, with a short mustache on his face, a square face and a wide mouth, and heroic eyebrows, but he was Shi Jin, a servant of the Criminal Department.

"What do you say?" The sage saw his serious expression, and thought in his heart for a while that this person seemed to be the second class in the first year of Shengping, but it was rare to listen to him in Su Ri, but he only heard that the case was innocent, and he was also a clean and honest person, if he had something to do, it was probably a serious matter.

"The minister asked for a thorough investigation of the Ji family, the minister met an old man and a lady on the way home yesterday, the old man was more than fifty years old, the little lady was only twelve or thirteen years old, the two of them cried bitterly when they saw the minister, Chen Shu was a letter, but it was the Ji family and the Northern Wei Tuoba clan secretly colluded, so the Ji family was stationed in the frontier for hundreds of years, and the Northern Wei Dynasty became more and more powerful. Shi Jin said sharply.

"The Ji family has been the humerus of the country for a hundred years, and please ask the sage to see it!" Yuwendu immediately came out.

"Shengshang, the people of Jinzhou have relied on the border pass for many years, with countless casualties, and supported the Ji family to garrison the border pass with their blood and bones, and did not change their will for a hundred years, but the Northern Wei Dynasty looted every year, with countless deaths and injuries, and there was no one in the family. "Shi Jin was born in poverty, his hometown is a small village near Jinzhou, he grew up listening to the story of the Ji family when he was a child, and after entering the dynasty, he came into contact with the Ji family and had a very good image of the Ji family, but now he sees the old man and the weak and helpless little lady, and then sees the tear-stained Chen Qing table with countless bloody handprints, how deep the reverence was back then, and how deep the resentment is now, especially when it comes to the tragic situation, he cries in court," Ten years ago, Major General Ji broke the enemy with 10,000 horses and 100,000 horses; eight years ago, Major General Ji went deep into the Beloti grassland and almost smashed the Northern Wei Dynasty's royal court and went to Beijing; General Ji even broke the 300,000 troops of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so why didn't he completely kill the Northern Wei Dynasty, but let it recuperate, so that to this day, he can still coerce our emperor and force my princess to marry? If not, what is the purpose of collaborating with the enemy?"

"The battlefield situation is changing instantly, can it be influenced by a momentary wish?" Qi Rui, the soldier on the side, took a step forward when he heard this, he was also from a poor family, but he was from Youzhou, he was only awarded the Jinshi at the age of twenty-five, and he was the last in the second class, and then it was the first year of Shengping, the first emperor Yan Jia, and the Salu Dynasty went east. Qi Rui was the Taishou of Suye County in Youzhou, the county lieutenant abandoned the city and fled, Qi Rui was ordered to lead the local scholars to guard the city tower in person, and implicated the army of the eastern wing of Salu in Suye County, and he was greatly rewarded for this, and later entered the center and was directly transferred to the military department.

"Ji thief misleads the country! Ji thief misleads the country!" Another person also reprimanded when he heard this, and everyone followed the prestige, but saw that the person who spoke was short, with a round face, and a sparse beard on his chin, but it was Cheng Jiang Fang in the imperial history of the Imperial History Tower, standing in front of him with a calm expression and a straight back, and a purple official uniform made him look super easy, but it was Lin Qing, the imperial historian, at this time the two were close to each other, this tall, short, fat and thin looked at the eyes of people It felt extremely funny, but at this time the court was serious, and no one dared to laugh out loud.

"Holy Lord, the minister received a letter from Cao Xiahou Mao, the army of the horse farm, the Ji family secretly raised hundreds of thousands of horses in Dingbei Town, and there were only tens of thousands of horses on the face, if it wasn't for the cavalry, why did you need so many horses?" Jiang Fang was small and fat, so he couldn't say a few words and was out of breath, and his voice was sharp, the sage couldn't help frowning when he heard it, Jiang Fang was overjoyed when he saw it, and he was busy and continued, " Fortunately, the saint is the true dragon son of heaven, and he is blessed by God, and the thief has been perverse for many years, and the heavens have punished him so that everything is not going well in the Jinju horse farm, and the horses are sick, and his wolf heart is only revealed to the world. ”

"Holy Lord, Jiang Yushi's words are wrong. "If you want to say that the Ji family is rebelling, Yuwen Du doesn't believe it, the most important thing for the Ji family is to be upright, they care more about the responsibility on their shoulders than anyone else, if the world is in turmoil, they take advantage of the situation and get up, but what Jiang Fang said is that he has been in business for a long time and is afraid that there will be several generations of disobedience, it is really a joke, not to mention that the Xiahou family and the Ji family have been in trouble for a long time, and the matter of the horse farm is still a pool of muddy water," As far as the minister knows, raising a good horse requires at least about 240 mu of pasture, and tens of thousands of horses need at least 2.4 million mu of pasture, but according to local chronicles, the pasture in Dingbei Town is only 2.8 million mu, and there is a long mountainous area, how can so many horses be raised? If it is hidden here, and the daily consumption of herbivore is unusual, how can it be hidden for decades?"

"Ji Thief has been running Jinju for many years, and his power is intertwined, how can he not cover the sky with one hand?" Jiang Fang sneered.

"If the Ji family really covers the sky with one hand, I don't know how this person who is looking for Shangshi Shilang and Jiang Zhongcheng can sneak through the Ji family's interception and come all the way to Chang'an City, and they can still find the two of them with a good hand, and they actually let the two of them make trouble at the same time?" Yuwen Du stood in front of him slowly, his tone was soothing, but he said a thousand words.

"The matter involved rebellion, and asked the sage to allow Ji Shangshu to find out the truth. Jiang Fang was pushed back by Yuwen Du's words, and was about to roll up his sleeves and step forward to reprimand, but he heard Lin Qing, who was standing in front of him, come out of the queue lightly and ask the sage for advice.

"Saint, my Ji family's family style is upright, everything must be said to people, my Ji family's son-in-law and the Northern Wei Dynasty have formed a feud and do not share the sky, and now someone slanders my Ji family and the Northern Wei Dynasty colluded!" Ji Yan immediately took off his hat and knelt down when he heard this, and said that the emotional part was also full of tears, "Now that my brother has passed away for more than a month, the sage has appointed the name of Wen Xianggong, but Jiang Zhongcheng is a thief...... The minister asked the Holy Decree and Punishment Department, the Military Department and the Imperial Historical Observatory to jointly try the case to prove the innocence of my Ji family. ”

Before the last dynasty, because of the planning of the Pingling Emperor, he was also confident, so he did not pay attention to the other party's initial criticism, but they did not expect that it was the rebellion of the Samji family! The saint is a soft-hearted person, but he is not a really benevolent person, from his wife who has been cold for many years, it can be seen that even if everyone is a saint on weekdays is a paper tiger, but he is a saint after all, the suspicion hidden in the emperor's blood is only hidden under his soft appearance, which time is not bloody when the rebels are involved in the affairs of the past dynasties? Ji Yan's heart has sunk, this is someone who wants to kill the Ji family completely.

Ji Yan has lived in the capital for a long time, the saint is also familiar with him, Su Rili only feels that this Shangshu is silent and does not say much, but the Ministry of Industry has been thriving in recent years, and it is quite beneficial to agricultural affairs, he feels that Ji Yan is reliable, and now he sees the other party's tears mottled, and he choked up in the depths of his feelings, and his heart is also a little unbearable, but he always remembers the emperor's deathbed confession, this thousands of miles of rivers and mountains only belong to his Ying family, if there is a person who dares to covet it, he would rather kill by mistake than let go, and the unbearable in his heart for a while is pressed, only thinking about putting people under house arrest first, and then ordering people to investigate thoroughly。

The idea has been decided, he plans to send someone to lead the forbidden army to guard the Ji family, originally wanted Ling Yun to lead the troops directly, but he thought that he had only recommended Ji Rin a few days ago, and the two were afraid that they would have a relationship, if it was found out that the Ji family had no intention of rebelling in the future, it was inevitable that the two of them would have a relationship, so they pressed this thought, and looked at the many ministers in the court for a while, and they didn't know which one to send to lead the troops around the Ji family.

Everyone saw that the saint was silent, even though there were still thousands of words, but they couldn't say anything at this moment, and for a while, they only heard the silence of the court, and only heard Ji Yan's silent breath.

"That being the case, it is just as Ji Qing said. After a long time, the sage seemed to have found a good idea, "It's just that the Ji family is now suspicious, so they will order the forbidden army to surround it, except for daily purchases, and they can't easily enter and exit, so Yuwen Shilang and Jiangzhong Cheng will lead the forbidden army to do it!"