Just as Yan Kui and others in Xiaoguan were making every effort to plan for the soon-to-be-formed frontier town envoy Yamen, a major event also happened in Mingjing of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Amano 7th year, May 23rd

When the general of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the king of Li, Ji Linbing, accompanied the princess to worship the Buddha outside Beijing, he was besieged and killed by hundreds of assassins, and the accompanying guards suffered heavy losses.

In order to save the princess, King Li himself was hit by two assassins, one in the right arm and the other in the abdomen, and was deeply wounded.

Later, because King Li was assassinated and injured, the angry royalist officials pointed the finger at Ning Decai and Ning Dewu brothers, and bluntly said that they sent dead soldiers to assassinate Ji Linbing with the intention of rebellion.

There is a reason why the royalists said this, since the defeat of the Jin and Zhou wars, the battle between the Hou Party represented by the Ning brothers and the Royalist Party led by Ji Linbing in the Western Zhou Dynasty has become more and more intense.

Especially recently, the Ning brothers wanted to meddle in the military on the grounds that Ji Linbing was defeated in the Jin and Zhou wars, and tried in vain to snatch military power from the royalists, which was fiercely opposed by Ji Linbing and others.

After a battle between the two sides, Ji Linbing relied on his years of accumulation and prestige in the military to smash the Hou Party's plan to seize military power.

In this case, the Ning brothers were annoyed and angry, and it was not impossible to send assassins to assassinate Ji Linbing, which was doubtful.

So, under the instruction of Ji Linbing, the royalist officials jointly wrote a memo and handed it to Emperor Amano in the palace, asking him to immediately order the arrest of the Ning family and let the three law divisions interrogate.

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The Ning brothers naturally didn't do it, not because they were thieves, but because there were many filthy disputes between the two parties, and they couldn't stand up to investigation at all.

So, the Ning brothers asked the Hou Dang friends to fight back against the royalists, saying that the assassination of King Li was a self-directed and self-acting bitter ploy, in order to frame the blame for the Ning family.

Immediately afterwards, the Ning brothers were not insured, and they entered the palace overnight to meet the Empress Dowager Ning and asked her to open her eyes for the queen party.

Empress Dowager Ning is a female generation after all, and she still thinks about her mother's family in her heart, and thinks that the party is powerful, and the little emperor is about to be in power, so she must not use a foreign family.

So, the Empress Dowager Ning stepped forward and said that one of the Ning brothers was the prime minister of the dynasty and the other was the military giant General Zuo, and their status was precious, and they had no evidence to support them, so they could not easily file a case for investigation.

Who knew that the royalists had long expected that the Ning family brothers would invite the Empress Dowager Ning to come out, and immediately brought a bunch of evidence, although it was not enough to directly convict the Ning family brothers, the degree of filing the case was definitely enough.

After that, the injured King Li also swaggered into the city from the city gate, walked around the crowded places in the capital, showed his injuries to the people of the capital, and then slowly returned to the house to recuperate.

In order to prevent the Empress Dowager Ning from intervening again, the royalist officials directly thought that the Empress Dowager Ning and the Ning family were relatives, and it was not appropriate to intervene in the matter, and they should be avoided to prevent them from shielding their relatives.

Empress Dowager Ning was so angry that she fell ill, and she was nothing in front of the officials, so when she returned to the dormitory, she smashed all the bottles and cans in the palace.

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The royalists had no chance to go crazy with the Empress Dowager Ning, and they who were bent on putting the Ning brothers to death had no room for relaxation with the Empress Dowager Ning.

On the grounds that Emperor Amano was sixteen years old and had reached the age of adult, they semi-forcibly asked Emperor Amano to officially take charge of the government, and asked him to personally preside over the trial of the case of the Ning brothers who sent someone to assassinate King Li.

The Ning brothers refused to sit still, but unfortunately they reacted too slowly and lagged behind the royalists in everything, resulting in the current situation being too passive and extremely difficult to turn around.

In the end, the Ning brothers, who were afraid of completely pushing Emperor Amano to the side of the royalists, had no choice but to ask Emperor Amano to come to the court.

The seventh year of Amano, the first day of the seventh month

The sixteen-year-old Emperor Amano was officially under the mountain of the Western Zhou Dynasty's civil and military officials, and the Empress Dowager Ning, who had been in power for seven years, was forced to return to the harem.

And lost the support of Empress Dowager Ning, the Hou Party had no biggest backer, not to mention the heavy losses, and more importantly, on the second day of Emperor Amano's pro-government, he ordered the three law divisions to try the case of King Li's assassination.

Although the Ning brothers, who are the main suspects in this case, have not been taken into custody, they still have to wait for interrogation at any time and go to the court to answer their suspicions, which is undoubtedly a great shame for the Ning brothers who have been galloping in the DPRK for several years.

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Prime Minister's Mansion, Study

Ning Dewu smashed a teacup viciously, his face full of resentment: "Feed the unfamiliar wolf cubs, I'm his own uncle, and he treats us like this." ”

The obese Ning Decai's face was not good-looking, and he said gloomily: "How about my uncle, his surname is Ji, our surname is Ning, this little rabbit cub doesn't treat us as his own at all." ”

"Big brother, what should we do now, do we really want to go to the Three Law Division Hall to inquire? If this is the case, it is a trivial matter for us to lose face, and it is a big trouble for the people below to disperse. ”

After scolding Emperor Tianye a few more times, Ning Dewu stopped the ceasefire slightly, turned his head to look at his eldest brother, and asked.

Empress Dowager Ning is now retired to the harem, although the Ning family and the Houdang have lost their biggest backer, but there are still Ning Decai, the prime minister, and Ning Dewu's Zuo General are supported here, and the vitality of the Houdang has not been lost, and there is still a chance to turn defeat into victory.

Therefore, there are still many officials who are still closely following the Ning family brothers, and they expect the Ning family brothers to stabilize the overall situation.

At this time, the Ning brothers must not go to the Three Law Division, otherwise if there is any mistake, it will definitely cause chaos in the hearts of the Hou Party army, and then the royalist Party will take advantage of the situation to attack, and the Hou Party's already unstable military spirit may collapse directly.

Don't think how loyal these officials will be, most of these people are wall grass, and they have a future with you, so what do you let them do, they are very obedient.

But if it is not beneficial or even dangerous to follow you, they will avoid you like a flood beast, and if they don't do it, they will bite back and take your flesh and blood to invite the new master.

The Ning family brothers knew the virtues of this group of officials under their command, and they didn't dare to bet that if the party really broke up, then their Ning family really had no chance of turning the tables at all.

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Thinking of this, Ning Decai's eyes turned red, and a cold light appeared: "Since they are unkind first, let's be unrighteous and then write a letter and send it to the state to let Mozagu send troops." ”

Mozagu, a hegemon-level figure in the Rongdi tribe of the grassland, has 200,000 iron horsemen under his command, and the Ning family has always had secret contact with the other party.

"This ........."

Ning Dewu heard his eldest brother talk about Mozagu, and he was a little hesitant in his heart, but looking at Ning Decai's cold expression, he didn't say anything after all, and turned around and walked out of the study.

The next day, the three law divisions summoned the Ning family brothers, Ning Decai did not come out of illness, Ning Dewu wore armor and crossed the knife, and arrived in the hall alone with hundreds of personal guards, during which he faced the interrogation of the officials of the three law divisions, his attitude was unruly, his words were heartfelt, and he did not cooperate with the officials at all.

Seeing this, the royalists and neutral officials were furious and shouted loudly, but Ning Dewu fought back on the spot by relying on his identity as General Zuo.

In addition, there are also some friends of the Hou Party in the Three Law Divisions, they are helping Ning Dewu to mess around, and at the end of the day, the Three Law Divisions have spoken in vain, and they have not gotten any useful information, so they hate to let Ning Dewu leave and prepare for a retrial the next day.

Ning Dewu didn't care at all, he had already made up his mind to play a scoundrel to the end, and when he arrived at the hall the next day, he still acted like yesterday, so angry that the officials except for the three law divisions and the queen party left leisurely.

For several days, under Ning Dewu's dead face, the progress of the trial of the Three Law Divisions had not made any progress, and in desperation, he had to report to Emperor Tianye, wanting him to come forward and beat Ning Dewu.

The assassination of King Li was the first major event since Emperor Amano took office, and the little emperor attached great importance to it, and he was very anxious when he saw that there had been no progress in the three law divisions for many days.

It was because he heard that the officials of the Three Law Division asked him for help, and Emperor Amano didn't think about it, so he immediately summoned Ning Dewu into the palace, and asked him to cooperate with the Three Law Division to interrogate the case.

What happened to the people before, after leaving the palace, he continued to be a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and he was so angry that the three law divisions stabbed the matter to Emperor Amano again.

The little emperor was furious when he heard this, and told the truth, no matter how the Ning family brothers said that they were his own uncle, he didn't want to do anything to the Ning family, at most he cut some powers, collected them in his own hands, and paved the way for himself to control the government.

Emperor Amano thought that he was very tolerant of the Ning family, but he never thought that his two uncles would dare to be so arrogant, and he simply didn't take him seriously.

The young Emperor Amano felt that his imperial dignity had been offended, and his heart was extremely angry, and he wanted to immediately issue an order to rebuke the Ning brothers, but he first received an urgent report from the Ministry of War.

The ancient department of Rong Di Mozha raised more than 100,000 troops to invade the state, harassed the border, and dozens of county towns in the state were in an emergency.

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The little emperor was startled, and hurriedly summoned the ministers to come over to discuss, but he didn't want the general Ji Linbing to recuperate from his injuries and the prime minister Ning De to die before he became ill.

The little emperor chased after him and asked countless questions, but no one came up with a specific charter.

The military general pushed the matter to the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War pushed it to the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Households shouted that there was no money, and let the local governments resist on their own, and several people from the Yamen were noisy and shouted, and the hall was used as a vegetable market.

Most of the officials who have nothing to do with military use of troops watch from the sidelines, quietly watching the play, and a few of them are public-minded and want to come up with some ideas, but they are weak and useless in talking.

Everyone made a fuss for a long time, and there was no determination in this matter, and the tired little emperor had to order it to be postponed.

In the following days, after countless arguments, the imperial court finally made a charter for this matter, and the little emperor breathed a long sigh of relief in the palace, but did not find it at all.

No one ever mentioned the interrogation of the Ning brothers by the Three Law Divisions, as if it was over, and the main general sent to deal with the border invasion of Rong Di was the die-hard loyalty of King Li.

After that, after Suo Ya led the troops to Bingzhou, Mozagu quickly retreated, Suo Ya made great contributions, was awarded the title of earl, served as the general of the border town, and held tens of thousands of military power, and the assassination of King Li was never mentioned again.

In August, Empress Dowager Ning, who was forced to retire, was silent for more than half a month, and on the grounds that the emperor was still young, she went out to assist the government again.

Emperor Amano, who had been in power for just one month, was used by the two parties, and after playing a circle, he was robbed of most of his administrative powers.........