In order to govern the vast territory, there are four Beijing divisions, namely Xijing Chang'an, Tokyo Bianliang, Nanjing Jinling, and Beijing Yanping.

It's just that for one hundred and twenty years, the Son of Heaven has stayed in Yanping, and the three provinces and six departments that are in serious operation are all located here, and the rest of the three capitals only occasionally go to inspect them, so if the world only mentions the word Beijing, it refers to Yanping.

Yanping City is magnificent and extraordinary, there are one hundred and nine square districts, dotted all over the place, the city is about ten miles long, about eight miles wide, the permanent population is more than one million, it is the most glorious city in the world.

The central forbidden army of the Great Qi Dynasty is collectively known as the Sixteen Guards, which are stationed in the land of Gyeonggi, and the Yuancong Forbidden Army, which is directly under the control of the emperor and is responsible for the palace guards, has a military camp in the north of the imperial city, because it has four "armies", also known as the Yuancong Fourth Army.

The time has passed, the eaves of Chang'an City under the sun are stacked and row upon row, and the imperial palace in the north of the city, as the most majestic building complex of Yanping City, is even more splendid.

After the end of the court meeting held in the Hanyuan Palace, the prime minister Xu Minglang had just entered Zhongshu Province, and before he had time to open the table and pile up a mountain of official document folds, he was summoned by a hurried eunuch, and the emperor asked him to go to the Chongwen Hall immediately with the governor.

Chongwen Hall is the place where the emperor deals with state affairs on a daily basis, as the prime minister of the dynasty, the head of a hundred officials, Xu Minglang has to go every three or five times, sometimes the diligent emperor encounters problems, and it is not uncommon to run several times a day.

"The court meeting has just ended, and His Majesty is in such a hurry to summon the old man, it must be a major event that is not suitable for announcement in the court......" Xu Minglang, who had already passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, couldn't help but feel moved when he thought of this.

The emperor is still young, although he has been in power for many years, but as the former auxiliary minister, the prince and master of the East Palace, Xu Minglang is naturally close to the emperor, and the trust he receives is not comparable to other ministers.

Until now, whenever the emperor encounters a major event, he will still consult him before making a decision.

"Is it Daizhou's business?" Walking up the stairs in front of the Chongwen Palace, Xu Minglang, who was involved in the governor's affairs, took the deputy prime minister, and before he saw the palace door, Xu Minglang heard a cry.

When I looked up, I saw two eunuchs dragging a weeping official down, and the young official was wearing a light crimson official robe and a ten-iron gold and jade belt around his waist, which was obviously a five-grade one.

When the other party saw Xu Minglang, he broke free from the eunuch, crawled to the front with a rolling belt, almost hugged his legs, and begged: "Adults save me, adults save me!"

Xu Minglang knew this young official, in fact, the relationship was not bad, the other party was promoted and reused by him, and he had the friendship of half a teacher, although he was an official in the local state capital, he did not forget to send a special person during the New Year's holidays, and greeted him with rich gifts.

The other party was rated as superior in the examination examination, and he returned to Beijing two days ago to report on his work, and if nothing else, he would be promoted. This person went to visit Xu Minglang when he first arrived in Yanping, although Xu Minglang didn't have time to see him at that time, but he still accepted the other party's filial piety and knew the general situation of the other party.

"What's going on?" Xu Minglang asked quietly.

When the two eunuchs saw the prime minister talking to each other, although they had the emperor's order, they did not urge and dissuade them, and stood aside and waited patiently.

"Your Majesty asked about the government, and the answer of the lower official could not satisfy Your Majesty, so he sent down the wrath of thunder and sent the lower official to the Criminal Department for investigation...... Adults save me!"

Xu Minglang frowned: "What did Your Majesty ask you?"

"It's all, it's all a trivial matter in the state and county, the lower officials didn't expect His Majesty to know the situation in Chuzhou so thoroughly, and even the brawl case of the government was clear, the lower officials, the lower officials said according to the closing documents that the fight was that Diao people broke into the mansion of the big family and stole it, so they were disabled by the guards of the courtyard, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect Your Majesty to know everything......"

Speaking of this, the young official was so aggrieved that he wanted to cry out again, "My lord, that case, it was just that a few farmers were injured, and no one was killed, Your Majesty, how could Your Majesty know!"

Hearing this, Xu Minglang already knew what was going on, and couldn't help but snort coldly, feeling extremely disappointed in the young official.

The dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, the prosperity of the world has reached the extreme, and no more benefits can be born, and the local clans or large landowners, in order to grab more wealth, are now wantonly carrying out land annexation, and the means used are gradually violent.

Needless to say, the theft of the people is fake, and the big clan took advantage of the evil and injured the farmer, which is the truth. The young officials were honored by the big landlords and concealed the truth, but they were unexpectedly discovered by the emperor.

"Stupid! stupid!" Xu Minglang flicked his sleeves, unwilling to say another word, and left the place, and there was no such person as a young official in his heart.

"My lord, my lord, help me......" the young official shouted to himself.

"Stop shouting, no one can save you. Governor Liu Muzhi glanced at the other party with disdain.

Xu Minglang can go simply, as the other party's deputy, he must share the worries of the main official, and some things have to be explained clearly to the young official, "In front of Your Majesty, you dare to perfunctory responsibility? Haven't you heard that Your Majesty has a copy of "Fang Wu Zhi" in his hands? It's really stupid!"

Hearing the words "Fang Wuzhi," the young official froze there as if he had been struck by lightning, and could no longer move.

It is rumored that His Majesty has a copy of "Fang Wu Zhi" in his hands, from the three provinces and six departments in the center to the local state and county officials, no matter how big or small, they are all in that book, and they are updated every day, constantly adding new content.

Therefore, whenever His Majesty asks about politics, whether it is a central minister or a local official, they are trembling and dare not hide anything, because His Majesty often knows more than them!

When young officials heard this rumor in the past, they just laughed it off and didn't take it seriously, because there are so many things in the world that are like the mud and sand of the Yellow River, how much can a book record? How much manpower and material resources are needed to know everything about the world?

And now, the young officials suddenly realized that the "Chronicles of Fang Wu" is definitely not just a book, but may be a study room, or even a study building! Among the officials in the prefectures and counties of the world, there must be many eyes directly under the emperor!

The young official, who realized the horror of the emperor, lost his soul and let the eunuch carry him away, and never cried again. He knew that even if he was half a protégé of the prime minister, he would never come out again.

Xu Minglang and Liu Muzhi entered the Chongwen Palace, saluted respectfully towards the imperial case in the hall, and waited until the empty and wide hall echoed the emperor's faint "flat body" before they stood up and looked at the emperor.

The Emperor who sat behind the Imperial Desk was young, not yet a year old, but he was a wise lord who could make people ignore his age. And once this kind of wisdom reaches a certain level, the courtiers will ignore even the emperor's appearance, and only have the majesty of the other party in their hearts.

For the people and ordinary officials of Daqi, the Son of Heaven is naturally high in the clouds and cannot be looked at directly, like a god, but for Xu Minglang, the emperor does not have much mystery in his heart.

After more than 20 years of getting along, no matter how majestic the figure is, it will seem ordinary.

At this time, Xu Minglang's eyes swept over a thick book in the emperor's hand, although he couldn't see the cover, but he knew that it was the "Fang Wu Zhi" that made the ministers frightened.

Xu Minglang's face was solemn, but his mood was not heavy. For most of his life, he had seen all kinds of methods, and he also knew a lot about the student in front of him who was taught by himself.

The so-called "Fang Wuzhi" is not as terrible as the rumors outside, if the things in the world, if it is really all on it, how dare he Xu Minglang collude with the Hu people and suppress the Zhao family by any means?

The fact is that every time the emperor asks people about government affairs, he will first spend a lot of effort to understand all the situations in the other party's office, and do everything possible to find out the mistakes and omissions, and then give them a head start when asking about politics.

If there were no mistakes, the emperor would ask the matter in as much detail as possible, showing his courtiers that he knew everything.

In this way, when the courtiers were frightened, the emperor flipped through this "Fang Wu Zhi" to make a show, after a long time, there were many examples, and the "murderous name" of "Fang Wu Zhi" spread, and the ministers naturally did not dare to deceive the emperor again.

Of course, Xu Minglang also knows that "Fang Wuzhi" is not completely in vain, and there are indeed real things in it. Otherwise, there would not be the same situation as the young officials we had just met.

Xu Minglang knew that the emperor supervised the world and made the officials awe-inspired, so he never discussed the fiction and reality of "Fang Wu Zhi" with others, but cooperated with the other party as much as possible to make the murderous reputation of "Fang Wu Zhi" more deterrent.

This is his duty as a courtier, and it is also a means to make the emperor trust and value him more.

"Two Aiqing, this is an urgent secret fold on the Zhenguo Gong, it has just been delivered, you can take a look. The emperor handed a copy of the memo to the eunuchs who accompanied him, and asked him to take it to Xu Minglang and Liu Muzhi.

Hearing the words Zhenguo Gong's secret fold, Xu Minglang's heart tightened, and he had a bad premonition at the moment.

Before he received the news of Daizhou, Zhao Xuanji took the lead in the excerpt, and he did not go through the secret fold of Zhongshu Province, and the meaning of this made him have to think about it a lot.

After reading the excerpt, Xu Minglang had already scolded the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the paradigm up and down in his heart. He didn't expect that such a simple thing would be messed up by the other party, which is simply stupid and incorrigible!

The Zhao family is the first nobleman of the generals, and Zhao Xuanji is the first person in the military, Xu Minglang wants to realize the plan of "collecting the world's military power in the center, and replacing the military generals with civilian officials to control the military affairs of the dynasty", it is inevitable that he will clash with the Zhao family, and it will be a matter of time or time.

The Zhao clan has a deep-rooted influence in the military, and if they see that the situation is already very critical, they jump out and lead the generals to fight head-on with the civilian officials, Xu Minglang is also deeply afraid.

And this situation will appear sooner or later as the civilian officials suppress Jiangmen.

That's why Xu Minglang laid out early. He wants to hit the other party hard before the Zhao clan reacts, so that the Zhao clan's strength will be greatly damaged and he will be too busy to take care of himself, so that the military will lose the leader, and the rest will be much easier.

But he didn't expect that he would degrade himself to the noble and join forces with Beihu to deal with the Zhao family, and the original plan to be nine out of ten would fail! And it failed so completely that even Fan Zhongming fell into the hands of the Zhao family!

It's unbelievable!

Paradigm: These guys are damned!