The Empress Dowager has always exercised the authority of the emperor, including sitting on the throne in the early dynasty, the five-foot land that makes the world and envy and awe.

Under the throne down a dozen steps, there are standing Manchu civil and military forces. There were two men standing on the steps, it was Prince Gong Li Rui and Prince Xian Li Yunzhe.

The two princes are in the position between the civil and military officials and the queen mother, after all, they are royal statuses, so they can naturally stand in this position.

As always, the two princes rarely took the initiative to take a stand.

At this time, the civil and military officials were all very quiet, and there was no such lively scene of ministers admonishing in the past, because last night's incident was very big, and it involved not only those few students, but the state religion and the imperial court.

Last night's party was convened by Princess Li Ziyan, and during the party, the students of the State Religion and the Martial Arts Academy appeared, and in the end, only the students of the National Religion were injured and even died, and the Martial Arts Academy was not damaged at all.

Although Princess Li Ziyan practices in the state religion, she still represents the imperial court.

But how did those cultivators appear in the upper capital? When they go in and out of the upper capital, there are cultivators who are suitable for the cultivation of everyone who enters the city, and generally some cultivators will be paid special attention.

But last night, more than a dozen cultivators of the Twilight Realm appeared in the entire Shangjing City at once, what a terrifying thing, and after the assassination of the Harmony cultivators, they disappeared without a trace, and the imperial court couldn't find any clues.

More than a dozen sunrises, this is not something that ordinary forces can get together.

"Queen Mother, the minister thinks that this matter is likely to be related to the demon clan. ”

A middle-aged man wearing a second-grade civil official uniform stepped out of the ranks and said with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister. This is the real Zhao Qing of today's official department!

"Yes, the national religion has won a big victory in Hanwei Mountain, and the demon clan must have a grudge, so the dishes will attack the geniuses of our country's religion. ”

After Zhao Qing finished speaking, he began to meet with many courtiers, regardless of whether what Zhao Qing said could stand up to scrutiny, but the demon clan was indeed a very suspicious object.

"No, Queen Mother, the minister thinks that this matter may be the work of the group of chaotic people in the south, although the turmoil/chaos in the south is caused by famine, but the minister found that many southern nobles and the remnants of the previous dynasty seem to be actively or passively involved in it,"

At this time, it was the Imperial Doctor Gao Jin who stepped forward to speak, the man who only had three products, but was powerful.

"Yes, although the demon clan has an enmity with us, they will not cultivate more than a dozen Terrans in the twilight realm, one is that the cost of time and materials is too high, and second, they are also afraid of backlashing against themselves, so the group of people in the south has the most to do with it!"

Yu Shi Gaojin said that it was late, and naturally there were many people who echoed it, and Yu Shi Gaojin's son and daughter were attacked together last night, so his words were obviously more credible.

Zhao Qing and Gao Jin were still kneeling on top of the court, but the officials were discussing, and one side had to say that it was the so-called demon clan, because those who were attacked were all students of the state religion.

The other side firmly believes that the unrest forces in the south are dead.

At present, both sides are not inferior to each other, because apart from these two forces, no one can do such a big deal.

Above the court, there were only a few officials who did not participate in the Taoist controversy, and one was Ning Qing, the prime minister of the dynasty.

Prime Minister Ning Qing's hair is snow-white, even his eyebrows are a little white, the wrinkles on his face are obvious, and he looks very old, but his body is still straight, without the rickets that an old man should have, and he has the majesty of the head of a hundred officials.

When the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs saw the figure in the front, he revealed a trace of awe, but this awe was far less than the awe of the Queen Mother, and he was afraid of the Queen Mother.

Prime Minister Ning Qing stood in the forefront of the civil and military officials, at this time, he closed his eyes like the Queen Mother, and seemed to be unable to hear the arguments of the ministers.

Behind the prime minister, on the left side, is a middle-aged man, with a hint of snow white in his hair, but on the whole, the prime minister has a little less twilight.

He is the current governor Liu Zhiran, a second-class minister, known as the consul of the deputy prime minister, and his power is only under the prime minister Ning Qing.

The civil and military officials are divided into two columns, and Liu Zhiran stands in the queue of civil officials, except for the prime minister, he is the head of the civil officials.

But he also let the officials argue, anyway, he didn't care.

The other queue is naturally the military attache queue, led by not one person, but two people, who are the two governors on the left and right of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, namely Sun Lie, the left governor, and Shen Ruohu, the right governor.

At present, the military attache does not have officials from the first rank to the first rank, so the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is currently the two governors on the left and right.

But this led to the fact that the military attache did not have a person to carry the crown, and his performance above the court was not as wonderful as that of the civil officials, but this was also the result that Tai Hui wanted.

The military attache has no one who can compete with the prime minister, so the prime minister is nominally the head of the military attache queue, but the two governors on the left and right actually report to Taihu Lake, and the prime minister is only nominally in command of the metropolitan governor's mansion.

If the Metropolitan Governor is really set up, it will be at least from the setting of the first product, and it may even be the first product, and at that time, it will be very difficult for the prime minister to nominally command the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

However, in this case, it is not the power of the prime minister, but the power of the queen mother, so the position of the governor cannot be granted, but can only be granted virtually, for example, after the left and right governors return to heaven for a hundred years, they will be granted, which is virtual.

The two governors on the left and right rarely spoke at the court, and rarely participated in court battles except for war, so the two governors on the left and right were still silent and silent.

"Liu Zhiran, what do you think about this matter?"

The woman on the throne, that is, the queen mother, finally spoke, and the civil and military officials finally stopped arguing, and said half a sentence without opening up.

Everyone is looking at Liu Zhiran now, wanting to see what the deputy minister thinks of this matter.

"Queen Mother, I think we are too concerned about this matter itself, although it was attacked as a national student, but in history, there are countless cases of our human genius being assassinated by various forces. ”

As soon as Liu Zhiran spoke, the Queen Mother finally opened her eyes.

Liu Zhiran continued: What the minister said may make some colleagues unhappy, but as far as the actual loss last night is concerned, the state religion and even the imperial court or the human race are negligible, so there is no need to discuss this matter itself, we have to jump out of this matter and look at the deeper issues. “

Liu Zhiran's clear voice resounded throughout the court, and many cultural relics were thoughtful.

"Go on. “

The Queen Mother said nonchalantly.

"Back to the Queen Mother, we don't have much loss in ourselves, but the dozen or so people who appeared last night are worth playing, how did they come to Beijing, why don't we know them, why can't we find any trace of them? What kind of institutions or systems should we set up to prevent this kind of thing from happening?

The minister thinks that this matter is what we should consider, and there is no point in discussing various conspiracy theories between the martial arts academy and the state religion or the demon race and the human race and the state religion. “

Liu Zhiran's voice fell, and all the civil and military officials sighed at the high position of the deputy minister!