When Pei Ju and Chen Yan said that the nickname given to Ji was "Ren" at the court meeting, the ministers were in an uproar. Because the word "benevolence" has not been used by an emperor since ancient times, it is not that it cannot be used, but it is not that it is not suitable to use it, or it is not worthy of using this nickname. But now, Pei Ju and Chen Yan have given Ji the nickname "Renzong", do you think the ministers can not be in an uproar?

In fact, what Ji did after he ascended the throne and became emperor, counting the various behaviors when he was still a prince, can indeed be called benevolence and filial piety. And since he ascended the throne and became the emperor, in addition to imprisoning Ji Qian and punishing Cui Jingsheng, the leader of the rebellion, there has been no bloody killing, and the punishment of Cui Jingsheng is Ji Qingchen's meaning, which cannot be counted as Ji.

Therefore, Ji's nickname can barely be worthy of the word "benevolence". However, this is to say that Ji will maintain this character like this.

But now that he died young, it was only a short year since he ascended the throne and became emperor, not to mention the evaluation of merits and demerits in martial arts, it is a bit inappropriate to use the word "benevolence" to evaluate him in his one-year imperial career.

Therefore, as soon as Pei Ju and Chen Yan's words came out, they were opposed by many ministers such as Ye Qingzhi and Liu Pingyuan. The reason for everyone's opposition is above, because Ji's ascension to the throne is too short, only a year in power, and it is difficult to use the word "benevolence" to evaluate his merits and demerits.

For a time, the two sides of the Taiji Hall were inextricably linked.

Pei Ju is the prime minister of Dayan, and Chen Yan is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so naturally some ministers support them. And Ye Qingzhi is the governor of the government, the deputy prime minister, and Liu Pingyuan is the privy councillor, and there is no shortage of henchmen around the two.

In this way, the first topic of the court meeting alone fell into a quarrel.

Ji Qingchen on the dragon chair stared coldly at the quarrel in front of him, and he didn't say anything. Previously, as the king of parliament, he could single-handedly deny the opinions of the ministers, which was a manifestation of his power as a king. But now that he is His Majesty the Emperor of Dayan, his words and deeds will affect the political affairs of Dayan, and he can no longer decide right and wrong with one word as before. He needs to listen to the opinions of all parties, and then comprehensively judge the advantages and disadvantages, and then choose the best solution from them.

The two sides quarreled like this for half an hour, and neither could refute the other.

At this time, the ministers noticed Ji Qingchen who was silent on the dragon chair. Only then did I remember that Ji Qingchen was in power now, instead of Ji who could spray foaming stars on his face but still had to listen carefully to the ministers counting his own. Therefore, the ministers were clever, and they hurriedly closed their quarrelsome mouths, and lowered their eyes and did not dare to look at Ji Qingchen anymore.

"Keep arguing!" Ji Qingchen said coldly, "Why aren't you noisy?" ”

"Please atone for your sins—" Pei Ju was the first to kneel down and plead guilty.

"Please atone for your sins, Your Majesty—" With Pei Ju taking the lead, the ministers also knelt down and asked for sin.

"You're discussing government affairs, what are your charges?" Ji Qingchen sneered coldly, "You continue to argue? ”

was reprimanded by Ji Qingchen like this, and the ministers all lowered their heads, and they didn't dare to come out, and even the imperial historians who liked to count Luo Ji when Ji was the emperor also closed their mouths, and they didn't dare to stand up like before and count Luo Ji Qingchen like counting Luo Ji. Because when he was still a prince, Ji Qingchen was already very strong, and his methods were already very ruthless, and now that he has become the king of a country, how can it be worse than before? Everyone counted Ji because Ji didn't punish them, but now they don't dare to count Ji Qingchen, for fear of being cut off by Ji Qingchen.

"At the moment of the great enemy, it is time for all the ministers to work together to defend against foreign enemies, but look at what you are doing? quarreled endlessly over a temple number, and regarded the court meeting as a vegetable market, and delayed the court meeting for half an hour for such a problem. Don't you know the priorities of what is before you? Ji Qingchen scolded coldly.

Seeing that the ministers bowed their heads, they didn't dare to speak again.

Coldly glanced at Pei Ju and Ye Qingzhi, who were kneeling in front of everyone, Ji Qingchen opened his mouth and said, "Prime Minister, do you have a charter for the funeral of the fourth brother?" ”

"Weichen has drawn up a specific charter with Chen Shangshu, and I invite Your Majesty to take a look." Pei Ju was shocked when he heard this, he knew that now Ji Qingchen was going to make a decision, so he handed the music to an inner attendant, and the inner servant put the music in front of Ji Qingchen. After reading the above content in a hurry, Ji Qingchen said lightly, "Yes, just do what is written above!" ”

Seeing that Pei Ju was about to speak, he continued, "As for the fourth brother's temple number, give him the word 'benevolence'!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty—" Pei Ju heard Ji Qingchen say this, his whole body was shocked, and he said in a choked tone. He is Ji's confidant minister, and he is deeply valued by Ji, and is relied on by Ji as his humerus. Now that Ji died young, he wanted to do something for Ji, so he took a "Ren" temple number to Ji. As soon as he said it just now, he was opposed by the ministers, which made him unexpected, seeing that this temple number was about to be beaten, but he was forced back by Ji Qingchen, how could this not move Pei Ju.

"Ye is in power, has the political hall returned to normal work?" Ji Qingchen continued to ask Ye Qingzhi.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, it has returned to normal!" Ye Qingzhi replied.

"Yes! Let's move on to the next one! Ji Qingchen said lightly.

With Ji Qingchen opening his mouth, everyone naturally stopped dwelling on the issue of the temple number, and began to discuss the next article, about the date of the registration ceremony, the ceremony of canonizing the queen and the princeling, and so on.

It lasted until noon, when the pilgrimage ended!

And it took Ji Qingchen ten days to finish the things discussed at the court meeting.

At this time, the battle report of Meng Li came from the southern occupation line, and Ji Qingchen was overjoyed when he saw that the battle report said that Meng Liqin led the army to annihilate 100,000 soldiers in Lingnan.

Originally, Meng Li only had a total of 130,000 or 40,000 cavalry in his hands, plus the foot soldiers of Jinzhou City, it was not too easy to annihilate 100,000 back soldiers. Ke Mengli used water to attack, let 100,000 soldiers enter Yiyang City, and then flood Yiyang City. In this way, the 100,000 backswainers of the eight clans of Lingnan were completely annihilated.

After a great victory on the battlefield on the southern front, the threat of the Lingnan Yi clan had been lifted, Ji Qingchen immediately ordered Meng Li's 100,000 iron cavalry to return to Shijun Lincheng, and ordered Tu Anjia to lead 100,000 foot soldiers south to Yizhou, and named Li You as the governor of southern Xinjiang, guarding the Dayan gate of Yizhou, and letting Tu Anjia assist him as a deputy general.

And with the great victory on the southern front and the solution of the threat of the Lingnan Yi tribe, Ji Qingchen was not afraid of the Xishu army, he knew that Xishu would not send troops to Dayan again after hearing the news, so he ordered Mu Zhan to stay in Xishu, appointed as the governor of Xijiang, and sent the remaining 100,000 new soldiers to Xizhou, so that Li Fang assisted Mu Zhan to guard the western gateway of Dayan, and let Li Changzheng 100,000 iron horsemen return to Shijunlin City.

In this way, with the 200,000 iron horses of Meng Li and Li Changzheng, plus Zhou Shun's 100,000 iron horses, Ji Qingchen has 300,000 elite iron horses in his hands, plus 240,000 in the Northern Capital, the number of elite iron horses in his hands has reached 540,000, which is not far from the 600,000 iron horses leaving the country.

In addition, he also has 200,000 new army iron cavalry as cannon fodder.

At this time, his strength was already comparable to Mu Feng's. Therefore, Ji Qingchen decided to drive the expedition in person.

The reason why he made such a decision was not that he liked to fight on the battlefield, he was not his father, and he didn't like to be a horse god king. Besides, he has just ascended the throne and become the emperor, and the situation is still unstable, so it is not suitable to recruit in person.

But it can't be helped!

Mu Feng's teacher, Li Qingyi's disciple, was a disciple of the army, especially good at cavalry warfare. With the abilities of Ji Hongchang and Liu Donglou, there is no chance of victory against Shangmu Feng, and Bai Xiangcheng is not mature enough to command the battle of 600,000 troops. Therefore, in a battle related to the life and death of Dayan, Ji Qingchen could only be allowed to conquer himself.

After making the decision to recruit in person, Ji Qingchen also deployed the personnel who stayed behind in King's Landing.

He let Bai Jin sit in King's Landing City and assist Pei Ju to stabilize the situation in King's Landing, and named Pei Ju as the crown prince and Chen Yan as the prince and young master, which determined the absolute status of Pei Ju and Chen Yan, and asked the two to assist the prince Ji Changkong, who stayed in King's Landing City, to deal with government affairs.

Wu has Bai Jin in charge, Pei Ju and Chen Yan.

Even if the crown prince Ji Changkong is only four years old, Ji Qingchen is not afraid that there will be great changes in King's Landing after his personal conquest.

Because of the two positions of the crown prince and the young master, Pei Ju and Chen Yan clearly understood the status of the two in Ji Qingchen's heart, and at the same time, this position is equivalent to Ji Qingchen once again promising their power position when the next emperor is born, what are they not satisfied with? What else is there to help Ji Changkong with all his heart. Because the crown prince and the young master mean that once Ji Changkong ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, they will be the emperor's teachers and teachers, which is a very glorious position.

However, the premise is that they can live until Ji Qingchen dies, and Ji Changkong ascends the throne and becomes the emperor.

As for the people who went out with Ji Qingchen, Ye Qingzhi, the governor of the political affairs, and Tang Jian, the secretary of the household, the two of them were appointed by Ji Qingchen as the grain and grass supervisor, and the Privy Council envoy and the military department Shangshu Liu Pingyuan, such a big war must have him to be the military affairs of Ji Qingchen. In terms of generals, there are Meng Li and Li Changzheng, and Zhou Shun is still left in Beirong by Ji Qingchen, Beirong is Ji Qingchen's lair, and there must be no mistakes.

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The night before the pro-conquest, Ji Qingchen met Guo Xiang once in the "Inner Factory" prison. This was the first time he saw Guo Xiang after he ascended the throne and became emperor. Because Guo Xiang and Ji Qingchen's brother-sister relationship has not been treated "specially" by the "inner factory", Ji Qingchen has not changed much when he saw her, except for losing a lot of weight.

The two looked at each other for a long time before Guo Xiang spoke, "My brother has never had the idea of betraying you. ”

"I know." Ji Qingchen said.

"But he committed suicide anyway." Guo Xiang sighed.

"Because he needs to kill himself to prove to me that he didn't have a heart to betray me." Ji Qingchen said in a calm tone.

"Don't you want to know why my brother didn't want to betray you, but still attacked you?" Guo Xiang asked.

This time, Ji Qingchen didn't speak, just was silent.

"It's not because of Jiang Rou, because she's not qualified enough for her brother to betray you." Guo Xiang said.

"I know." Ji Qingchen replied. Just when Guo Xiang was a little surprised when he heard Ji Qingchen say this, he heard Ji Qingchen continue, "He was forced to betray me in the end because of you." ”

"You, how do you know?" Guo Xiang asked in surprise.

"I didn't know it before, but I only found out in the past few days." Ji Qingchen sighed and said, "In the first place, I shouldn't have let you leave the country, but if you leave the country, you won't be Jiang Rouce and become Empress Dowager Xiao's person, and Guo Quan won't die for you." ”

At this time, after the death of the Empress Dowager Xiao, Ji Qingchen learned from the secret guard sent by Dayan to leave the country, when Guo Xiang went to leave the country to go to the capital to see Shu'er, Jiang Rouce became a pawn deployed by the Empress Dowager Xiao beside Ji Qingchen, so she joined forces with Jiang Rou, and won over Princess Meng, forcing Guo Quan to betray Ji Qingchen.

And in order to completely decide the brotherhood between Guo Quan and Ji Qingchen, Guo Xiang did not hesitate to put aphrodisiacs in Guo Quan's meals, and Jiang Rou did not hesitate to sacrifice her body.

And Guo Quanzhi knew what was the reason why Ji Qingchen had arrested Jiang Rou many times without killing him, so after doing such a rebellious thing, he also knew that his sister Guo Xiang had been a secret guard who had left the country, so he was forced to become the puppet of Guo Xiang, Jiang Rou and Princess Meng.

"Hehe, I didn't expect Zhang Rang's 'inner factory' to be so strong." Guo Xiang was also surprised by Zhang Rang's ability, after becoming the pawn of the Empress Dowager Xiao, the secret guard of the "iron suit" in leaving the country was exposed, and when they launched an assassination operation against Ji Qingchen, the country was also clearing the secret guard of the "iron suit" in the country. But Guo Xiang didn't expect that in just a few months, Zhang Rang's "inner factory" had infiltrated the high-ranking officials and eunuchs who had left the country and went to the capital.

"He and Guo Quan have never let me down." Ji Qingchen sighed and said.

Just when he knew that Guo Quan's was forced to betray him, he knew how Guo Quan's feelings at that time. As a person persuaded by Guo, he was used by his sister and forced by his sister to do something that violated his morality, and his heart must have been as painful as ten thousand arrows piercing his heart at that time.

"However, I still want to know that I treated you well in the first place, but why did you betray me?" Ji Qingchen asked.

"Do you still know this person Guo Dalu?" Guo Xiang asked.

"Yes." Ji Qingchen nodded slightly, "He died because of some secrets of Dali Temple." ”

"No, he didn't die because of the secret of Dali Temple, but was killed by him." Guo Xiang said indignantly.

"Killed by me?" Ji Qingchen was surprised, his memory had never killed such a person?

"Yes, one night when you were still Dayan's proton and were still away from the country as a hostage, a group of black-clothed people went to assassinate you, were you killed?" Guo Xiang's tone was full of anger, "At that time, you were already a disciple of Li Qingyi, the god of the ** god, and you had already learned the 'Ten Styles of Breaking Blood', and you used the 'Ten Styles of Breaking Blood' to kill him." ”

Silence, because after Guo Xiang said this, Ji Qingchen, who didn't know what to say, could only be silent.

When he left the country as a hostage, he suffered more than one assassination, at first he had no power to protect himself, so he could only use the guards around him, and when he apprenticed to Li Qingyi and learned the 'Ten Styles of Breaking Blood' knife technique, he no longer needed the guards around him to shoot, and he could solve the assassins who came to assassinate him alone.

It's just that how could he have imagined that one of the assassins he killed at that time would be the uncle of the lifesaver he met in the future.

"Because Empress Dowager Xiao told you the truth, you think I am your enemy, so you betrayed me?" Ji Qingchen took a deep breath and asked.

"Well, because you didn't just kill him, you hid the truth from us. Of course, betraying you is not only this-" Guo Xiang shook his head, was silent for a long time, hesitated for a moment, and still spoke, "Also, there is also, I found that you only have Shu'er in your eyes, and I can't get something, so I want to destroy her with my own hands." ”

"Hey-" Ji Qingchen sighed, and it took a long time before he got up and said to Guo Xiang, "You go!" As long as you remain incognito in the future, I will not pursue your charges again. But if I go to leave the country again, the Empress Dowager Xiao is already dead. ”

With that, he strode out of the prison.

The starry sky outside the prison was clear, and Ji Qingchen was silent for a long time walking quietly in the silent night. Zhang Rang and Li Ke, who followed behind him, could only follow closely.

After a long time, Ji Qingchen turned back to Zhang Rang and said, "Go to Taici Nunnery!" Li Ke didn't follow, just let Wei Zhongxian follow. ”

"No!" Zhang Rang and Li Ke received the order.