Letting Yoo Ji-eun come in and reply didn't mean that he would come up with an answer immediately. After all, even Dongchang can't be so omniscient, just let him command Dongchang Fanzi, and even Jinyiwei's subordinates, to find out the Liaodong General Soldier Lord Cao, and which important minister in the court has the same spirit, and has a common purpose in this matter, of course, the origin and background of the Shifengkou guard must also be found out, the inner court can make all kinds of compromises to the outer court, and even turn a blind eye, let the ministers fool, but they can't be ignorant of what is going on under the table, if even Zuihou gives up the right to know, It's tantamount to kicking yourself out, and you won't be a member of the game at all in the future, and if you want to take power again, I'm afraid it's hard to climb to the sky.

I found a henchman to go to Dongchang to pass the word, the rhythm of the palace returned to normal, Xu Xun will still read the cabinet's votes every day, after more than a year of actual combat practice, now many things, she can gradually see the way, at least when pointing to the bolt, she also has some bottom in her heart, not completely learn together, progress together. - However, every day just looking at the music in various places, she is eager for someone to hurry up and take away the emperor's seal, she is simply in power and is not able to eat and sleep well, as long as she thinks that every edict issued by her hand may determine the life and death and fate of tens of millions of people, Xu Xun really feels that her hands are very heavy, and she can be regarded as understanding that the Empress Dowager Weishenme is not in charge of the government, this kind of psychological pressure is not something that a sick old man can bear.

The vastness of the territory of the Israeli Dynasty, from the time of Xu Xunguan to the present few years, there is hardly a year without disaster, either the south or the north, in short, the so-called wind and rain are smooth and the whole country is ripe, only exists in the legend of the United States. The most ridiculous thing is that last autumn, on the one hand, the locust plague in Liangguang was almost wiped out, and the victims were all easy to eat, and on the other hand, the two lakes were ripe, and as a result, the grain was cheap and injured the peasants, and the local officials were not well coordinated, and they were forced to use heavy labor, and they directly forced the two mountains, and more than half of the county governance was beaten down, and the army had to be mobilized to kill them, not even a single hair is damaged - Xu Xun basically deals with these bad things every day, is there still a taste of this life?

After reading it for a long time, I know that the good things written in this recital can't be taken seriously, and the bad things can't be taken seriously. -- Spring and Autumn penmanship, the good deeds of inviting meritorious achievements for oneself are naturally written for the sake of promotion, which is needless to say, and then if you go to a well-known poor county or a disaster county, take advantage of the wind and rain, exaggerate the disaster to deceive the imperial court into providing compensation, and fill your own pockets at all levels, in fact, it is not uncommon. This kind of thing is too common, so ordinary that the officials are not ashamed at all, but treat it as an ordinary officialdom method, as long as it is not distorted to the point that people and gods are angry, even if it is found to be untrue, relying on the backer to pull back and forth, most of the parties involved are also the result of leveling and demotion, and few are the same as Emperor Gao, who were taken to peel the skin and grass.

In the past, I heard about Emperor Gao's various deeds, and I felt that his character was too harsh, but now that Xu Xun is in charge, he knows Emperor Gao's mood. However, I believe that if Emperor Gao is alive, the first person to kill is his own children and grandchildren - usually Xu Xun is really bored, and he will take the secret line secret reports set up by Jinyiwei near the palaces of various feudal princes, which is definitely more exciting than the average novel. She didn't know that there were some fierce vassal kings who could really do anything. The most excessive even have people who love cannibalism, and if the people who walk through the palace are whiter and fatter, they may be caught and eaten. Therefore, the edge of the palace is generally inaccessible, although it is in the prosperous place of the city, but it is like a remote country, and almost no one disturbs it.

The affairs of the court can't be managed casually, but the vassal king can manage it, right? However, Xu Xun just asked the Empress Dowager, and was directly stopped by the old man, "How can you cut off your arm when this is due to the power of the clan?" ”

It means that now our family's property is managed by housekeepers, and we need the support of our brothers in the clan, and it is too late to win over relatives, and if we offend the clan, the ministers should be even more happy.

Is the Empress Dowager right? is also reasonable, Xu Xun, as an agent, what can he do? Fortunately, the cannibal one did too much, after all, he was still condemned and expelled from the country, and the people were also killed, and the rest of the vassal kings were more tricky bullies and bullies, and the things that the great yamen of the Xiyang family did in their hometown were similar, and they were not to the extent that he couldn't get over it in his heart.

Under this premise, such as Shi Fengkou, there is actually nothing special to say, if you want to say, you can find a few letters every day and sigh with the bolt. Xu Xun was particularly concerned about this matter, because now that the pressure of the national dynasty in Datong was already very great, if there was another turmoil on the border with Tatar, he felt that the trouble would be even greater.

Although she has read a lot of books, she is not the kind of person who quotes scriptures - just to say a simple truth, when she was a child at her grandmother's house in Tangshan, Nanjing, her grandmother's village and the neighboring two villages competed for water, and in terms of population, their village was more than the remaining two villages combined, but even so, every time there was a group fight, it was necessary to make sure that the two villages did not join forces before they would fight. And afterwards, it is inevitable to walk around with the village that is watching from the wall, and connect with the feelings, after all, no one can stand the provocation and harassment of the two villages together. Warat and Tatar are two villages with the same roots, although there are disputes between them, but if the country weakens and becomes the object of bullying, then these two wolves will definitely turn their heads and pull some meat back first.

In this matter, she felt that it was necessary to severely punish the guards of Shifengkou, and to rebuild Shifengkou, and to show force at the right time, so that the Tatars would know awe—but it was better that such ideas came from the mouths of others, and if they came from her mouths, even if there were those who agreed with such views, they would have taken a unified position against her 'rash and jerky' decision on various grounds.

Xu Xun is not most afraid of this...... She was no longer sure if the army around Shifengkou would be able to defeat the Tatars. It is said that the fortress of the pass will be built very strongly, and the attacking army and the defender must reach at least four to one or five to one before they can be exchanged. More than 100 people knocked down the Shifeng Pass, either the pass was not guarded at all, there were about 20 soldiers, or the defenders were about to collapse at the first touch, and they no longer had the ability to fight. - Xu Xun didn't know which of the two answers was more terrifying, but she didn't like either of them.

Of course, only Liu Zhien can answer these kinds of questions for her, and before Dongchang has an answer, no matter how much worry is in vain, Xu Xun can only put her mind more on the only area where she is allowed to play a role: the son-in-law selection activity held for Yuanyuan is about to kick off.

Because Ah Huang's husband is also Xu Xun's operation, and the selection is quite good, so the queen mother means to follow Ah Huang's rules to do it, and she also directly sent the chamberlain to the field to select, and simply passed the registration in the capital. Everything has a precedent to follow, and there is nothing to worry about, Xu Xun promoted the decent servant in the Qingning Palace, and asked him to go to Hebei to pick people, but after a month's effort, he picked more than three candidates with clean family affairs and both talent and appearance, and they were all included in the palace to learn the palace etiquette and palace rules.

Of course, during this period, Dongchang was not idle, and Liu Zhien probably sent the complete report to Xu Xun's desk at this time, and said apologetically, "Liaodong is remote, there are no horses at Shifengkou, and the slaves and maids can only be started by the princes of the capital, and it is inevitable that it will be delayed for some time, and I ask the mother to forgive me." ”

What he meant was that Dongchang was to supervise and listen to the conversations of the Beijing officials to investigate their contact with Shifengkou, which was a huge workload, and there was often a risk of mistakes and omissions, but it was better than sending someone to Shifengkou to inquire about the news, after all, the arrogance of Dongchang now was not comparable to that at all, and if he directly sent someone to arrest the Shifengkou guard for questioning, it was easy to provoke a backlash from the entire class. ――Of course, it also reflects the energy of Dongchang in the capital from another side.

"This man was born in a small ...... started as a big soldier, because he was smart and clever, he learned to read and write, accumulated merit, and was promoted to the rank of an official, and he also climbed up step by step to the position of a hundred households, and guarded Shifengkou for two years. Xu Xun lengthened his voice, "Moreover, his name is not at all among the people recommended by the Liaodong General Army to be punished this time, but it is his immediate boss, and the two of them are at fault." If this is done, there is nothing to do with him. ”

"After all, he is a subordinate of Du Du, and if he can command it or not, he will naturally be held responsible." Liu Zhien explained to Xu Xun, "It's just that the chief soldier is respectful, and he won't go beyond the rank to talk about his faults." ”

Xu Xun didn't understand this truth, but in this way, she had to consider who was in the way of the eyes of the general soldiers, she waved her hand a little irritably, "You just tell me the conclusion directly, what is going on in Shifengkou, and how did it become what it is like now." ”

"The matter of Shifengkou, the previous return is indeed true." Liu Zhien said, "It is true that more than 100 barbarians have come in, and Shifengkou has indeed been lost, but that is because Jing'an Fort was raining at that time, and half of the fort wall collapsed. Who knew that the Tatars had received the faith......"

Xu Xun breathed a sigh of relief, but relieved himself - this kind of negligence is not too terrible, and it is also human nature, after all, it is generally a matter of autumn after the grass valley, and the Tatars are also busy grazing in the spring, so it is not a big sin to lose their vigilance a little at this time.

"Then what's the purpose of the general soldier's play?" She asked, "Since this is the case, if it is reported truthfully, it will be nothing more than a crime of negligence, and he is here to provoke and cover it up, what does this mean?" ”

"The Tatars have not dared to attack for many years, after all, more than 100 people have died this time, and if they report it truthfully, I am afraid that the government and the opposition will be shaken. If it is reported truthfully, the commander of Jing'anbao is afraid that he will be held responsible, and that is the son-in-law of the British prince-"

"But I remember that Cao Yi was also from Jiangmen, and he competed with Zhang Fu in the past, and the two families were very discordant." Xu Xun interrupted Liu Zhien's speech in surprise.

"That's right, it was the Ma Commander of Jing'an Fort who directly entered Beijing to report the news and sent money to Lord Dongyang, and this matter was suppressed by Lord Dongyang. In the past, Lord Dongyang planned the northern affairs, and Cao Yi borrowed his help, so he went to Liaodong to be the chief soldier. Liu Zhien said calmly, "The relationship between the two has always been very close. ”

Twists and turns, I didn't expect Zuihou to actually go around to the minister, Xu Xun's brows furrowed even tighter, just played for a long time, but still shook his head and sighed a few times, "Forget it, since this is a non-war crime, then there is no need to find out the root cause." ”

Although General Cao may have seen the face of Lord Dongyang and did not directly reveal the truth, he was not willing to mention the matter at all, so he made such a suspicious letter, which still made the commander of the capital suffer. Tactfully is still the son-in-law of the Zhang family, but he is the chief soldier, this is a matter involving hundreds of lives, and it is already a matter of affection to conceal the next part, and no one has the courage to ask him to completely conceal it and not report it. As for Lord Dongyang's bribery, this is not news, the main Shifengkou was broken not because the border army ate empty quotas and the team of more than 100 people became only more than 20 people, nor that the soldiers could not engage in battle, so it was not worth making a fuss about this matter, and it was because of this that Lord Dongyang would eat this money. In this case, Xu Xun has also lost the motivation to continue to get to the bottom of it...... It's not uncommon to have any mess or something in it, it's disgusting and used to it, and I guess I forgot about it when I turned my head.

"Niangniang sees thousands of miles." Liu Zhien casually said a few flattering words, and then asked, "In the past month, Bixia has also sent someone to ask about Shifengkou a few times, and the slave maid will also go to the Qianqing Palace to ask for ...... in a while."

"Oh." Xu Xun didn't expect that Xuan'er still remembered things, she thought for a while, and then said, "You just tell the truth, the child is older, and there are some things that he should know - sooner or later he has to learn, otherwise, how should he deal with the ministers?" ”

Liu Zhien also seemed to agree, he nodded, and then talked about the side matter, "This incident inspired the slave maid, should the Jinyi guards in the border areas also be rectified......

The author has something to say: this Dongyang took bribes, and the funny Tatar 'family visit' ran through the pass, and it was discovered that it was only discovered in the next fort city that it really happened|

But it's definitely different from what is written in the text~

I came back late today, so I've been waiting for a long time