Fish begins to rot from the head!

Because the State of Qi has always been under the rule of the Gao royal family, a mentally ill family, the ruling characteristics of the State of Qi are tyranny, fornication, torture and killing, and usurpation of power!

Qi even has more than half of the time to be lawless, the society is dark and chaotic, and the royal family is constantly staging all kinds of ugly dramas of wife-snatching, incest, and adultery!

Therefore, the national strength of the Qi State is also declining, and the Gao Dynasty has become a dirty, deaf, and shameless beast dynasty!

Especially since He Shikai was reused by Gao Zhan and took control of the power of the imperial court, the national policy and administrative system of Qi have been seriously damaged, the officials are mediocre, corrupt and bribed, and they have been fighting for many years, the people are complaining, and the people are not living!

Although Zu Yan's character is not very good, he is very talented, so when he overthrew Hu Luguang, successfully won Gao Wei's trust, and came to power, the first thing was to select celebrities and wise men to serve as officials at all levels, and then reduce redundancy, purge the rule of officials, and let the operation of the court return to normal.

Zu Yan, who succeeded in the first battle of the ruling imperial court, became more confident and proud, so he began to show his strength in the imperial court, preparing to realize the ambition of Kuang Fu Sheji and rejuvenating the army and strengthening the country in his heart!

In terms of government affairs, Zu Yan continued to increase the government affairs that were beneficial to the people of the society, reduced those extravagant and wasteful, and extravagant measures, and also eliminated those officials who were on a vegetarian diet, so that more talented officials could take office!

In terms of army reform, Zu Yan removed the post of governor of Gyeonggi Metropolitan City, unified the military command of the capital city under the leading general, and let the household registration of the people under his jurisdiction be assigned to the county, strengthening the control of the Gyeonggi important land and maintaining the rule of the imperial power!

In the reform of the imperial court official system, Zu Yan also showed his superb means, in the name of following the ancestral system, he eliminated many official positions established because of the emperor's whims, and many officials who got more special benefits because of the emperor's sycophants! The titles of Governor of the Guards and other titles were all in accordance with the previous regulations, and the system of exercising the rights of civil and military officials was also abolished in accordance with the old regulations.

For the palace, Zu Yan even degraded many eunuchs who formed gangs and factions, as well as their henchmen, and eliminated all kinds of alien and chaotic parties in the palace, so that the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace were more loyal to the court!

Zu Yan's series of governance methods have given the government of Qi a new look, but the favorable measures he implemented were supposed to stabilize the Qi country, enhance national strength, and strengthen the rule of imperial power, but they were very inconsistent with the kind of policy that Lu Lingxuan and Mu Tipo hoped for, and even damaged the interests of the party headed by Lu Lingxuan!

Because after Lu Lingxuan fell and became the uncrowned lord of the harem, she was ambitious and obsessed with power, and she began to control Emperor Gao Wei and interfere in court politics, so most of the traitors in the court gathered under her door and let her drive!

These traitorous villains who relied on flattery and sycophancy to ascend to the throne were only able to specialize in court politics, defile the palace, take bribes, and have extravagant pleasures after receiving all kinds of privileges from Emperor Gao Wei!

The life they are living in poverty and luxury, and in extravagance, is based on all kinds of oppression and exploitation carried out by the people of Qi Province by using the power in their hands! So in order to maintain such a life, Lu Lingxuan and the others are even more crazy to deceive their subordinates, attack dissidents, and seize more rights. 118

But their behavior has made the politics of Qi increasingly corrupt and the national strength declining! Therefore, now Zu Yan's various reforms in the Qi Dynasty's government can reverse the decline of the Qi State, but they have seriously damaged Lu Lingxuan's interests!

There are only eternal interests, no eternal friends!

So due to the conflict of interests, Zu Yan and Lu Lingxuan, the best combination of Hu Luguang and the Hu Luguang family, who had brought down the prominent family of Qi State, began to have internal contradictions, and with the intensification of contradictions, Zu Yan, who was good at scheming and party struggle, also began to point the finger at Lu Lingxuan!

Just when cracks began to appear between the two forces of Zu Yan and Lu Lingxuan, and turned against each other, from cooperation to confrontation, another force in the palace of Qi State, the once glorious Empress Dowager Hu, was not willing to be lonely, and now she is also preparing to plot a comeback!

At the beginning, Gao Wei's biological mother, Empress Dowager Hu, was dissolute and lewd by nature, and when Gao Zhan was in power, she hooked up with He Shikai, a minister, and became an adulterer! Later, after Gao Zhan's death, Empress Dowager Hu, who was in the year of the tiger and wolf, couldn't bear the emptiness and loneliness, so she hid the monk in the harem and fornicated with herself, but was discovered by Gao Wei!

Gao Wei was angry and imprisoned Empress Dowager Hu in the North Palace, which not only made Gao Wei lose his former respect and trust for his mother, but also made Empress Dowager Hu, who lost Gao Wei's sacred heart, lose the right to speak in the harem!

So Gao Wei's nurse Lu Lingxuan took advantage of Gao Wei's obedience to her, took the opportunity to seize the supreme power of the harem, and flattered the lord everywhere, flattered Gao Wei in every possible way, lured Gao Wei to indulge in fornication, and ignored the government and politics, so that she could form a gang and form a party for personal gain, forming a back party headed by her!

Therefore, in order to please her own son Gao Wei and make a comeback, Empress Dowager Hu, who knew that her son was a womanizer, decided to use a beauty trick, first brought her brother Hu Changren's daughter into the palace to live after careful makeup, and then let Gao Wei have the opportunity to meet her!

Sure enough, after the lustful Gao Wei met this cousin of his own, he fell in love at first sight, loved it at first sight, loved it very much, and after being pampered, he accepted his cousin as Zhaoyi, so that Hu Zhaoyi, who was favored by Gao Wei, had a status in the palace step by step, second only to Queen Hu, the daughter of Hu Luguang, who was still the queen at the time!

Now that Hu Luguang was suddenly killed, his daughter Empress Hu was also abolished by Gao Wei and demoted to a concubine, and the position of Empress Qi became vacant! Empress Dowager Hu wanted to seize this opportunity and let Gao Wei make her niece Hu Zhaoyi the queen!

But at this time, Gao Wei was still very disgusted with his mother, and he didn't want to obey the requirements of the Empress Dowager Hu, which made the Empress Dowager Hu feel a little powerless, so the Empress Dowager Hu put down her body, asked Lu Lingxuan with humble and lowly words and generous gifts, and became sisters with her, wanting to use Gao Wei's favor to her and make a comeback.

And at this time, Lu Lingxuan originally had his own ideas, wanting Gao Wei to set up her goddaughter Mrs. Mu to ascend to the queen's throne, but at this time, it was Hu Zhaoyi who was most favored by Gao Wei, knowing that Gao Wei couldn't open his lustful temperament when he saw a beautiful woman, and Lu Lingxuan didn't want to forcibly change Gao Wei's mind and lose Gao Wei's favor, so he had no choice but to agree to Empress Dowager Hu's request, and played to Gao Wei together with Zu Yan, who was still in a period of friendship and cooperation, and asked Hu Zhaoyi to be established as the queen of Qi!

Above the court of Qi State, all kinds of forces are fighting openly and secretly, fighting for power and profit, some for the country, some for themselves, but these forces are very loyal to the Gao royal family, and everyone dare not offend Gao Wei, which also makes Gao Wei Although he is mediocre and ignores the government, he can still firmly control the power of life and death of the ministers in the court, and the current talented and virtuous Zu Yan is still a big celebrity around Gao Wei!

So now Chen is preparing to launch the second phase of the Northern Expedition, when he sent troops to Huaibei, because of Zu Yan's excellent governing ability, the political situation of Qi State could be quickly stabilized after killing Hu Luguang, the pillar of the country, and in the face of Chen Guo's military action to attack Huaibei, the Qi court also quickly responded, and quickly sent a large army into Xuzhou to reinforce Huaibei!

And this time, the general who led the army south to reinforce Huaibei was a great achievement!