"If the father has no other instructions, the sons will go back to prepare first!" Zhao Ting asked.

Zhao Junsheng walked up to Zhao Ting with a straight face, "I still have a word to explain to you, there are some things you can know, if you dare to spread it everywhere, I will never go around you, go!" ”

Of course, Zhao Ting knew that what his father was talking about was a matter that the true functions of the Houguan were not known to outsiders, and that the Houguan Department shouldered the duty of secretly supervising hundreds of officials in the world, and had the right to send secret agents to infiltrate some ministers and officials to investigate and monitor their every move, and once this matter spread throughout the government and the opposition, it would inevitably cause an uproar, and when the time came, the people of the government and the opposition would be panicked, and it would inevitably cause tension and even antagonism in the relationship between the monarch and the minister, which would be extremely unfavorable to the rule and long-term peace and stability of the Daqian Dynasty.

Zhao Ting still doesn't think that his existence is more important than the safety of the entire Daqian world, although he is arrogant, but he is not stupid, once he spreads the news, causing turmoil in the court of the Daqian Dynasty, the father in front of him is only afraid that he will swallow him alive.

"Son-in-law, remember, son-in-law retires!"

Zhao Junsheng watched his son Zhao Ting walk out of the Qinzheng Palace, turned around and waved to several eunuchs and palace maids in the hall: "You wait to go out first, you don't need to wait here for the time being!" ”

The eunuchs and palace ladies quickly withdrew after saluting, and the door of the main hall was closed.

Zhao Junsheng picked up the teacup on the imperial case and drank a sip of water, and the shadow of the member of the Offering Pavilion came out from behind a pillar and saluted: "Meet Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng drank tea and looked at the shadow, frowning: "Are you injured?" ”

Shadow said: "After last night, there was a man in black who walked out of the wall from the eaves of Jingwangfu, the minister was worried that this person was leaving after doing something unfavorable to Jingwangfu, so he immediately stepped forward to intercept, this person is good at using short swords, his body is very fast, he is good at close fighting, I fought more than 30 rounds, his left arm was stabbed by the minister, the left rib of the minister was separated by his short sword, the man in black left quickly after getting rid of the minister, the minister was also worried about the Jingwang Mansion accident, so he had to give up the pursuit, turned around and entered the Jingwang Mansion to check, but no one in the Jingwang Mansion had an accident, Everything works! ”

Zhao Junsheng was surprised after hearing this: "Oh? When will there be a master in Chang'an City who can fight you for more than 30 rounds and stab you? What do you think of this person's martial arts? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this person's martial arts should not be under the minister!"

This incident made Zhao Junsheng very surprised: "As far as I know, in this world, except for the five great grandmasters, there are only a handful of people who can reach your level in martial arts, and now a person with such a high level of martial arts has suddenly appeared, but the Offering Pavilion has not received the slightest news before, how did this person appear, and who will it be?" ”

Of the five great masters in the world, three are in Qianguo, and the other two are in Liu Song. Of the three masters in Qianguo, one is in the opposition, and one of them is a Buddhist man, whose Dharma name is Zhiling; One is Niu Dali, the leader of the Dragon Guard, who has the power of the overlord to lift the top, the courage to sweep thousands of armies, and the degree of physical strength is invulnerable; The third is Zhao Junsheng's righteous son Wei Jing, who is now in the Worship Pavilion and a part-time commander of the imperial guards.

The Enshrined Pavilion is an organization that guards the royal family and secretly monitors the people in the world, and is only responsible to the emperor personally, without an official organization, and is not known to the outside world.

Two grandmasters in Liu Song, one of them is the Taoist priest Lei Zhen of Luofu Mountain, who is said to be the descendant of the Taoist Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the world calls him Lei Zhenren; The other is the old eunuch of the Liu Song royal family, Guan Canghai.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has seen Wang Tanzhi's corpse, after fighting with the man in black last night, the minister felt that the sword moves of the man in black were somewhat familiar, and then finally made the minister remember that the sword wound on Wang Tanzhi's corpse should be from the hand of the man in black!"

Zhao Junsheng was a little unsettled now: "When did King Jing have such a strong martial artist by his side?" ”

I can't help Zhao Junsheng attach so much importance to it, King Jing Zhao Ting has made a lot of small moves in the past half a year, and the most critical part of the record of him has been torn out, except for King Jing Zhao Ting himself, the dead Wang Tanzhi and the secret agents placed by Zhao Ting's side, no one knows what he has done for most of the year.

The Shadow didn't answer, it wasn't his business, and it wasn't his business.

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and asked, "Which court ministers and officials has King Jing had contact with these days?" ”

"Since the dismissal of several ministers controlled by King Jing, King Jing has not been in contact with other ministers in the future, from the current situation, the forces that King Jing secretly operates have been destroyed, even if there are still fish that have slipped through the net, there should only be small fish and small shrimp, but this incident, these small fish and shrimp should not dare to come forward again, and King Jing will definitely not easily contact them again!"

Zhao Junsheng touched his chin and instructed the shadow: "You don't have to worry about King Jing's contact with the court officials, you can check this man in black for me, and see when such a person appeared in my big Qian, what is the identity of this person, and why did he appear next to King Jing!" ”

"No!"

The Shangyuan Festival has arrived, this is the most lively festival of the year, both Qianguo and Liu Songguo hold lantern festivals on this day, and it is a three-day all-night carnival.

On this day, the emperor and the ministers and the common people celebrate together, especially at night when the lantern festival is held, almost every household has to go to the street to play, the street is crowded with people, everywhere are all kinds of lanterns, lantern riddles and other folk skills performances, attracting bursts of cheers like a tsunami.

After the Shangyuan Festival, both the court and the people quickly returned to normal, the work that should be done, and the pension that should be old.

On the eighteenth day of the first month, at the court meeting.

Pei Jin stood up and saluted and said: "Your Majesty, there is not much time left before the beginning of spring, since November last year, the imperial court has ordered that all county and county officials must organize labor to dredge rivers, ditches, repair water diversion and irrigation facilities, strengthen embankments, etc., but we don't know what the specific situation is, so we send people to inspect various places, and if they encounter poor implementation during the inspection, they will be punished!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "I have already considered this matter, where is Li Shan? ”

A minister in his fifties stood up and saluted: "With you as the ambassador of the Qincha, I will give the Qincha Protector 1,000 soldiers and horses to inspect the dredging of rivers and ditches, water conservancy and irrigation facilities, and the reinforcement of embankments in various parts of our country!" Zhao Ting, King of Jing, you will be the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission to assist Li Shan! ”

Both of them stood up and saluted and agreed: "Obey the order!" ”

The official of Honglu Temple stood up and reported: "Your Majesty, at the end of last year, when the Persian envoy Yaztize came to meet His Majesty, he proposed the idea of the two countries jointly sending 100,000 troops to attack the Bada people. Does Your Majesty want to see Yaztize? ”

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a while, and said: "During this period of time, I have also been thinking about this matter, and decided not to send additional troops to the west of the Green Ridge for the time being, at present, the strategic focus of our dynasty is still on the strategy of the Southern Dynasty, as for the matter of the Bada people, our dynasty has sent more than 20,000 people led by Kuhehan to the west of the Green Ridge, which has caused a lot of pressure on the Bada people in the past year!" ”

Minister Kang Ying stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, at present, our dynasty and the Bada people are still in a state of war, and our Korean caravan cannot enter the territory controlled by the Bada people west of the Green Ridge, and the northern Silk Road has not been fully explored, so in the past year, our foreign trade has been greatly affected!" ”

"However, the Sogdian merchants under the rule of the Bada were able to enter the territory of our dynasty to engage in trade and trade, and there was no trace of our caravan on the Silk Road after passing through the green mountains, but there were caravans of Sogdian merchants everywhere, and they were now doing their own business, and I could earn five times or even ten times the profit by transporting goods to Bada for ten cents, and I could make a lot of money back and forth! In the last year alone, we have lost 36 million yuan in trade and trade taxes, and in the long run, our losses will become even greater, and all the money will be earned by Sogdian merchants! ”

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said: "It's really not okay to go on like this, what are the plans of the household department?" How do I stop my loss? ”

Kang Ying bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that our dynasty should take countermeasures, since the people of the dynasty do not allow our caravan to enter its territory, our dynasty must also prohibit the merchants from entering the territory of our dynasty, prohibit the merchants from selling Western goods into the territory of our dynasty, and only allow our goods to flow into the West!" As far as the minister knows, the Tocharian merchants are barbaric and do not produce, and rely entirely on enslaving the Tocharian tribes, and the Tocharian tribes are almost entirely supported by commerce, if I impose commercial sanctions on the merchants of the Tocharian tribes, and do not allow them to sell Western goods to our territory, nor do they allow them to purchase our goods, it will not be long before the Sogdian merchants will not be able to hold on, they will not have the money to supply the Bada people, and the Bada people will have no money to buy food and other daily necessities. ”

Liang Lin stood up and saluted Zhao Junsheng, and asked Kang Ying: "Master Kang, if you do this, I will not allow Sogdian merchants to purchase the goods produced by the DPRK, so that the quantity of goods from our DPRK entering the West will be much less, and the losses will be greater and more heavy, after all, the Bada people control the Silk Road in the Tocharian area, and the Sogdian merchants are the backbone of purchasing the goods of our dynasty, only a small number of Persian merchants and Roman merchants can pass through Tocharian to come to our Daqian, and our merchants will not be able to enter the territory of the Bada people. And you will not allow the Sogdian merchants to enter the territory of our dynasty, will not the goods produced by our dynasty be piled up in large quantities? How do those factories and workshops survive? How do craftsmen survive? ”

Kang Ying said: "Xia Guan also knows that what Liang Gong said is right, but if I don't take countermeasures against the people, won't I let them take advantage of them in vain?" How can my Daqian Dynasty allow people to be bullied? ”