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Since Yang Tiandong's death, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet has been vacant, in fact, it is not that Mu Zhixun has forgotten about this, but because he does not want to set up another first assistant at all, for him, it is not a good thing for those civilian groups to have their own leaders.

Therefore, not only did he not set up the first assistant, but also set up several more secondary assistants, the purpose of which was to make those who talked eloquently and thought that they were talented in the world all shut up and were completely dominated by him at will.

In this way, Daning's cabinet was reduced from an administrative body that could influence the emperor's decision-making to the emperor's personal tools.

Now, those upright officials in the past died of illness, Zhishi's Zhishi, and the few remaining ministers were also swept away after the Chongyangmen cane punishment, and today's Xiaohe Hall is already a world of flattering villains.

"I ...... Decided on the Northern Expedition. This is the first sentence that Mu Zhixun said this morning.

As soon as the words fell, the ministers looked at each other, the matter of the war is a major matter for any imperial court, but what these ministers are concerned about now is not the right or wrong of this matter, they just want to know the purpose of Mu Zhixun's decision.

"I have been in Dabao for almost a year, but the mountains and rivers in front of me are all fragmented, and now there is a rebellious Lu Ziyu and Hu Lu in the north, and a traitor Luo Wenzhao in the south to support Mu Zhice to openly claim the emperor and set up another court. My World...... Do you not allow others to sleep soundly! After saying this, Mu Zhice's hand slapped heavily on the top handle of the chair, and his resentment was overflowing, "I think that at the beginning, the name of the country was taken from the Daitian Hunt, and the meaning of restoring the mountains and rivers of my Daning in the past, and now the imperial court has newly recruited hundreds of thousands of soldiers, which is a good time to wipe out the thieves in the world in one fell swoop." ”

"Your Majesty Shengming, Your Majesty's heart is eternal." After listening to Mu Zhixun's words, none of the ministers raised any objections, and they all knelt down and kowtowed.

Mu Zhixun nodded with satisfaction, this is the relationship between monarchs and ministers as he understands them.

"Zheng Guan!" Mu Zhice shouted his name loudly, and to this day, he is still very satisfied with Zheng Guan's trick of defeating Mu Zhice and Lu Ziyu in the north, "Can Qing recover the twenty-one states in the north for me and Daning?" ”

"Minister...... Never give up! Zheng Guan bowed forward and knelt on one knee, as the most prestigious veteran of the Daning Dynasty, his confidence and calmness were still the same.

"Okay, three days later, I'll be at the north gate for you!"

The drowsy day was dim, and the whistling wind and dust blew unprecedentedly to make people's faces hurt, this is not the common weather in Gyeonggi, which makes people feel very uncomfortable, crowded groups of soldiers stand outside the north gate, unfamiliar faces are full of confusion and helplessness, they are all newly recruited soldiers after Mu Zhixun ascended the throne.

Mu Zhixun, dressed in a dragon robe and wearing a crown, stood in front of the city gate, he took a bottle of wine from the tray raised by the attendant, and handed it to Zheng Guan with great expectations, his face was solemn but silent.

"I'm going...... will live up to the emperor's order. Zheng Guan's slightly hoarse voice sounded very thick, and he drank the bottle of wine in one gulp.

Mu Zhixun nodded with satisfaction, and the wine in the wine bottle in his hand was all scattered on the ground by him.

The mighty team began its journey to the north, the military flag with the word "Ning" written on a red background and the handsome flag with the word "Zheng" written on a black background rolled in the wind, on horseback, the sixty-year-old Zheng Guan squinted, and the wind wrinkles on his face seemed to be more obvious.

But in addition to the arrogance that should be there when he set out on the expedition, there seemed to be some other emotions on his slightly reddened face, which seemed to be a kind of resentment.

Carefully calculated, this should be the third time he commanded a large-scale war, Chengping nineteen years of the Dongyuan Rebellion, he led 100,000 troops to break Hua Chenghei and the 200,000 coalition troops of the Ming Xinjiang State, night attack on the water village, fire to the camp, a generation of famous generals Hua Chengsi was beaten by him to the falling flowers, in addition to the attack on the Ming Xinjiang country, a Ming Xinjiang defender named Bian Qixian made him suffer a little, that war can be described as a bamboo.

The Hua family was destroyed, the Ming Xinjiang was called a minister, and the southeast of the court has not been raised again until today, isn't this kind of credit as Lu Tianyuan and Qin Zhenkui back then?

At least Zheng Guan felt that Jing Zong's heart was not like this.

In today's Daning Dynasty, Zheng Guan can be regarded as the most qualified veteran left by the Chengping Dynasty, but the Zheng family is actually not a general, his grandfather and father are both Legalists, in their hearts, right is right, wrong is wrong, right will be immortal, wrong will be engraved on the pillar of sin, everyone must strictly abide by the rules and regulations on the "Ning Criminal System", which ...... It is the belief of the Zheng family.

In this way, the upright Zheng family finally sat at the top of the entire judicial system of the Daning Dynasty when Zheng Guan's father, Zheng Tingyu, entered the office, Dali Siqing, and he had the right to review all large and small cases throughout the country and the Criminal Department.

There is generally a statue of the pig in the courtyard of the criminal department and Dali Temple, according to legend, it is a kind of divine beast in the heavenly realm, which can understand human nature, know people's words, distinguish between right and wrong, know good and evil, and have a horn on the top of his head, whether it is an official or a prisoner, he can identify it, and use a single horn to attack those who do evil.

To this day, Zheng Guan still remembers how many people knelt down in front of his house when he was a child and cried or wept in gratitude, if you ask a few old people of the Zhaozong Dynasty in the Gyeonggi area now, then they must have heard of the name "Zheng Qingtian".

But Zheng Guan didn't want his father to be such a person.

When he witnessed his brother hang himself, how he longed for his father to be a lowly and lowly greedy eunuch.

Zheng Guan originally had a twin brother, named Zheng Canghai, they looked very similar, even the temperament is very similar, the relationship between the two brothers is very deep, Songzen Yuexia, the scene of them reciting "Ning Xingtong" together is still vivid.

But when he was fourteen years old, he no longer had a brother.

The Lantern Festival is an annual event in Daning, whether it is a wealthy family or a cloth lintel, young men and women from all families will go out to enjoy the moon and watch the lanterns on this night, which is a rare paradise for young people in the era of strict etiquette.

If there is a little difference between Zheng Canghai and Zheng Guan, it is that Zheng Canghai is relatively cheerful and lively, and Zheng Guan wants to be a little more rigid about loneliness, on the day of the Lantern Festival, Zheng Guan studied at home as usual, and Zheng Canghai, who couldn't help it, was asked out of the house by the sons of other families, if everything could be done again, Zheng Guan would not let his younger brother go out of the house half a step that night no matter what.

The bright fireworks splendidly lit the night sky of the entire Yunjing City, the river passing through the bridge was full of flashing lotus river lights, and the red men and green women hugged each other, indulging in the sea of alcohol and ambiguity, but the tragedy often happened without warning.

On an arched bridge, Zheng Canghai, who was holding a wine jug, was chasing and playing with other women, and accidentally pushed a woman off the bridge, and the waves stirred up in the water interrupted the joyful atmosphere around him, and also splashed Zheng Canghai, who was drunk, and he immediately jumped into the water desperately, when Nai was in winter, the cotton clothes were heavy, and the river was too harsh, he still couldn't save the woman, if it wasn't for the hand of the people who traveled with him, even he himself would have drowned in this biting cold current.

"The second son of Zheng Qingtian's family has killed someone."

That night, this sentence spread throughout Yunjing City, and naturally it also reached the ears of Zheng Tingyu and Zheng Guan.

After Zheng Tingyu heard this, his face twitched slightly, and after a few silences, he slowly said four words: "Murder pays for life." ”

At that time, Zheng Tingyu's judgment on the case was difficult for even Zhaozong to influence, and he was ...... in Zheng's mansion His word is the decree.

“…… It's up to you. Zheng Tingyu ordered someone to take a piece of white silk and handed it to Zheng Canghai, who was shocked and soaking wet.

Zheng Canghai's empty, confused and desperate and helpless eyes, Zheng Guan will never forget for the rest of his life.

"Master, even if you want to kill people according to Daning's laws...... Then Canghai should also be sent to the Criminal Department for interrogation before making a conclusion. Zheng Guan's mother pleaded silently, even if she had the idea of exchanging her life for her life at this moment, but in front of her iron-faced and selfless husband, she knew...... All in vain.

"Humph! The officials of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are my colleagues and subordinates for many years, and they are asked to interrogate Canghai...... The results are predictable. Zheng Tingyu waved his sleeves with some dissatisfaction.

"Father! The person who was pushed into the water by the sea was just a woman from an ordinary family, and as long as she gave enough money, they would not pursue it. Zheng Guan knelt on the ground with a thirsty face, he pulled the hem of Zheng Tingyu's clothes, and his knees kept polishing on the ground.

"Bastard thing!" Zheng Tingyu was obviously angry by Zheng Guan's words, he turned around and slapped Zheng Guan fiercely, "My Zheng family has been enforcing the law for a hundred years, and there has never been a bend of the law for personal gain. Where have you read all these years! actually said such bastard words, are you worthy of the lintel of the Zheng family, the ancestors of the Zheng family?! ”

Zheng Tingyu was almost roaring.

The long white silk was hung on the beam, and the last thing Zheng Canghai said before kicking away the stool under his feet was "Dad, the mother and child are not filial, and the afterlife is ...... I will repay you again for your kindness, brother, I am gone......"

Without the support of the stool, the center of gravity of Zheng Canghai's body fell on Bai Aya, and it didn't take long for his legs to start kicking like crazy, which was a person's natural instinct to survive.

This scene directly made Zheng Guan's mother cry and faint, and the extremely sad Zheng Guan couldn't stand this indifference, he ran towards his brother like crazy, he wanted to save his brother.

"Stop this beast!"

Zheng Tingyu's words completely shattered the last ray of hope in Zheng Guan's heart.

That day, he was pressed to the ground by the housekeepers, and he could only watch his younger brother struggle from hesitation at the beginning to motionlessness later.

There is no more than this.

Since then, few people have seen Zheng Guan smile, although he still recites and reads through those laws every day, but he has long hated these in his heart, he has become silent in the face of his father, and now Zheng Tingyu is only a symbolic father in Zheng Guan's eyes.

He began to become disgusted with all rigid rules, "The rules are made by people, and since they are made by people, why can't they be changed?" He often asks this question in his mind.

Later, Zhaozong summoned the princes and sons into the palace as the prince's companions, and Zheng Tingyu took this opportunity to send Zheng Guan into the palace, hoping that after changing places, he could slowly eliminate the depression in Zheng Guan's heart.

Above the shocking hall, Zheng Tingyu has long been regarded by the world, including Zheng Guan, as a cold pig like a statue, it can be seen that he is not a cold stone sculpture who is accustomed to the joy and sorrow of the world, he is a living person, and his heart is ...... It's also meaty.

In the second year of Zheng Guan's entry into the palace as an accompaniment, Zheng Tingyu died, and he died in the hall of the Dali Temple trial, committing suicide by taking poison.

And Zheng Guan didn't have any excessive mood swings after learning the news, he only said softly, "He should have experienced what it was like." ”

Although Zheng Guan resisted those rigid but authoritative laws in his heart, he had to admit that it was a principle that the whole world should follow, but after entering the palace, he found that "Ning Xingtong" seemed to be limited to places other than the North and South Palaces.

During the days when he was in the palace to accompany the study, he saw with his own eyes that the prince could quarrel with the master, or he could wantonly insult and beat them, and he also heard that many ladies in the palace poisoned each other and regarded the lives of the eunuchs and palace maids as if they were mustard, but no one cared about them, and no one asked.

Zheng Guan reluctantly found that the people of the world were like classics, and even the lives of their relatives were more important than the lives of their relatives, and "Ning Xingtong" was just a joke in the eyes of people in the palace.

But they are not without fear, those concubines in the harem are most afraid of the queen of Cining Palace, and the people in the East Palace are afraid of the prince, that is, Jingzong when he was a child.

And the master of everyone in the North and South Palaces is Zhaozong, an old emperor who is silent.

All the people in the North and South Palaces liked to inquire about Zhaozong's preferences, but Zheng Guan was not very interested in this, because he felt that the old emperor and his father were the same kind of people, and besides, Zhaozong was not his direct master, and there was no intersection with his life, his master was the crown prince, that is, the later Jingzong.

To say that Zheng Guan's feelings for this master, resentment may be greater than gratitude, because no matter how well he does, how much he will slip around, Jingzong doesn't seem to have much interest in him, on the contrary, the escort named Qin Zhenshu is quite popular with Jingzong.

Zheng Guan didn't know which point he was better than himself, he was not as good as himself in terms of martial arts, he was not as good as himself in terms of appearance and talent, after thinking about it, Zheng Guan felt that Qin Zhenkui was better than himself except for dead study, and everything else was not as good as himself.

But Jingzong likes to stay with this nerd, Jingzong will tell Qin Zhenkui if he has something interesting, and if there is anything delicious, he will most of them be rewarded to Qin Zhenkui, and sometimes Zheng Guan even feels that he is a redundant companion.

From childhood to adulthood, Qin Zhenkui has been pressing him a lot, and it has been the case until now, in the second year of Chengping, Jingzong personally conquered the southern border, and it was Qin Zhenkui who followed him instead of Zheng Guan, after quelling the rebellion, Qin Zhenkui was directly appointed as the envoy of the Zhennan Army Festival, and was awarded the title of Duke of the country, and Zheng Guan at that time was just a deputy commander of the front of the palace, without any title, and he was also an accompaniment, his family background was much more prominent than Qin Zhenkui, but because of Jingzong's preference, he was not as good as Qin Zhenkui from childhood to adulthood.

The resentment against Jingzong in his heart was so extreme that he would later come up with a plan to wash the Mu royal family with blood.

Although the plan failed, but he finally had the opportunity to show his skills because of the blessing of misfortune, he did prove himself, broke the east distance, drank the Maqu River, and let the southern Ming Xinjiang be a vassal, he thought that with his military exploits this time, although he may not be able to be crowned as a king with a different surname like the king of Beiyang, at least he can have the title of a prince like Qin Zhenkui.

But he didn't get any titles, he was only promoted by one level from the deputy commander to the commander of the capital, although the commander of the capital is the supreme commander of the Imperial Forest Army, but in Yunjing, it is difficult for him to have his own world under Jingzong's nose.

Not having a title means that his children and grandchildren will be crushed to the ground by a small copy of "Ning Xing Tong" like his younger brother, and he ...... It is impossible to accept such a reality.

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