Coming out of the white wind outlet, the civil officials all drooped their heads, like quails, without any energy.

Kong Yanhua was beaten unconscious by Zhao Ning, and his whole face became a blur of flesh and blood, even if he could recover with pills, he would not want to see anyone for ten days and a half months.

Without Kong Yanhua, the leader, the errand of the civilian officials to approve military merits can only be put on hold temporarily, if they continue to run errands, with Zhao Ning watching from the side, they must seek truth from facts.

This is certainly not up to them.

What happened today was quickly written down by the civil officials, and a special person was sent back to Yanping City overnight to ask the court to deal with it. That's an afterword.

When Zhao Ning left Baifengkou, Yang Jiani walked in front of him, first looked him up and down for a while with those big obsidian-like eyes, and then patted Zhao Ning's shoulder with his hand, gave him a thumbs up and praised:

"Well done!"

Zhao Ning saw that her expression was vivid and thoughtful, not at all the same as in her usual life, tepid, and dead, she also pretended to arch her hand, and said with a smile: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”

Unexpectedly, Yang Jiani's words changed sharply, and she was dissatisfied: "But you made a big mistake and made this matter very imperfect!"

Zhao Ning was surprised: "What's wrong?"

Yang Jiani was serious: "Such a good errand, when you went into battle, you didn't even take me with you! In the battle of Fengming Mountain, you and I have always fought side by side, which is really unrighteous." ”

Zhao Ning smiled dumbly, but Yang Jiani would have such an idea, and it was natural for her. After all, the Yang family's demotion is what the civil officials just did a year ago, and with her black and white nature, she is willing to hate the civil officials.

"Next time, definitely. Zhao Ning made a half-truthful promise.

"What next time, such a good opportunity now, how can there be any reason to let it go? Go, go to my tent, let's take a good look at it, what reason should we find, continue to beat this group of civil officials!"

Yang Jiani waved her white hand, and acted resolutely, "You have a lot of ghost ideas, and now you can use them, as long as you can let me vent my evil anger, I will wait for you to reach the late stage of the Yuan Shen Realm, and then I will learn from you." ”

"Really, you're so generous?"

"What's really not true, I, Yang Jiani, have made a promise, when did I go back on my word?" Yang Jiani slapped her towering breasts with a muffled sound, and glanced at Zhao Ning by the way, despising him for underestimating his unwise behavior.

The two walked side by side, and along the way, Yang Jiani was already full of interest and impatience, discussing various conspiracies and tricks with Zhao Ning.

Looking at her gearing up and eager to try, it was difficult for Zhao Ning to associate the lively and agile young woman in front of her with Yang Jiani, who was cold and arrogant on the hunting ground and taciturn on the grassland battlefield for the first time.

It was also at this time that Zhao Ning finally realized rationally that Yang Jiani was actually only seventeen or eighteen years old.

It was a brilliant age, as long as the psyche was not too traumatic, even if he focused on his cultivation and didn't care much about the outside world, how could he be completely lifeless?

In the past, the reason why Zhao Ning saw Yang Jiani, who had a face that no one should enter, was just because the two of them were not familiar with each other and had no friendship with each other.

This also proves from the side that Yang Jiani has begun to treat him as a real friend.

......

When Yang Jiani took Zhao Ning's idea for her, went to those civil officials who had approved military merits, and admitted that she and her subordinates had killed the enemy in blood, otherwise they would be annoyed and angry, and cut out a fair knife with a Zhang Ermo knife, Zhao Ning and Zhao Xuanji sat together.

"Kong Yanhua is so seriously injured, Xu Minglang's old horseman will definitely not give up, how are you going to deal with it?"

When Zhao Xuanji asked this question, he didn't mean to worry, he believed that Zhao Ning must have a plan in his heart before doing things.

"Not only Kong Yanhua, no matter which civilian official comes in the future, if he dares to deny the exploits of the Yanmen Army, I will take action. ”

Zhao Ning's attitude was clear, "Even if Xu Minglang comes, even if he goes to the court to face His Majesty and makes a big scene, I will not allow them to deprive the soldiers of their merits in bloody battles." ”

Zhao Xuanji said solemnly: "In this way, the consequences will be very serious." ”

Zhao Ning smiled and didn't care: "How serious can it be? I have the record of the first merit in two wars, even if I act arrogantly and domineeringly, after all, it is reasonable, could it be that the war has just ended victoriously, and Your Majesty will put me in prison for this?"

"If he really unloads the mill and kills the donkey like this, won't the people of the people in the door be in chaos, and what will the people of the world think?

"Up to now, which family still doesn't know that His Majesty is seizing the power of the family and struggling to cultivate the Han family?

"Therefore, the most serious punishment is not to reward my personal military merits, and then remove me from office. ”

Zhao Xuanji sighed, and did not evaluate the emperor's actions, but just said to Zhao Ning: "If you are really dismissed from office, the impact on your personal career will be too great." ”

A few years later, Zhao Ning can enter the Yanmen Army again, but his rank will not be improved, and he will still only be a fifth or sixth grade - maybe he will have to start all over again.

"This time I have to come out of this, as the person with the greatest military achievements in this battle, only I can be a little more unscrupulous, others act without regard to the rules, and the end will be miserable. ”

Zhao Ning was still indifferent, "As for being dismissed from office, that's exactly what I want." ”

Zhao Xuanji was slightly stunned, "You have long planned to leave the Yanmen Army?"

"After this war, my prestige in the Yanmen Army has been established, and even if I come back a few years later, my position is still unbreakable. Staying in the Yanmen Army would be fine, but it would bind me and prevent me from going where I was supposed to go. ”

"What are you going to do next?"

"Go for something more important. ”

"More important than career?"

"Compared to that, the career is not worth mentioning. ”

......

In the Chongwen Palace, the emperor was reviewing the folds, and Zhao Yujie, who was dressed up, was waiting on the side.

The excerpts that the emperor has reviewed, she will place them in different categories, and where the emperor wants to see the excerpts first, she can also pull them out immediately, and the two cooperate very well.

In fact, there are special officials to do this kind of thing, and there is no need for a concubine to interfere at all. The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, which is also the ancestral system of the Great Qi.

But now, for some reason, that precedent may be about to be broken. After recognizing Zhao Yujie's ability, the emperor was no longer afraid to let her see the specific content of the folds, and occasionally asked her for her opinion.

When Xu Minglang came in, after Zhao Yujie retreated into the tent, the emperor put down the fold in his hand, glanced at Xu Minglang, and was very clear about his intention.

Zhao Ning beat up the officials who approved the military merits in public, and he was not even spared from the governor's affairs, and he also let out the words, whoever dared to question the military exploits of the Yanmen Army, he would fight against whoever proved it. ”

Xu Minglang saluted and said with an ugly expression, "Your Majesty, the Zhao family is undisciplined and disregards the monarch, should you call the Metropolitan Governor back and reprimand him in person?"

If Zhao Ning hadn't made this scene, even if Zhao's attitude was a little softer, Xu Minglang would have been able to delay the evaluation and distribution of military merits, and turn it into a case, so as to release a signal to the Yanmen Army:

Either the military merits will drag on for three and a half years, and the date of issuance will not even be visible, or some of the military merits will be reduced and the majority will be given to the Ministry of Ansming. Zhao chooses it himself.

As the chief general of the Yanmen Army and the governor of the capital, if they do not solve the problem of the soldiers' military merits, they will lose the support of the soldiers and give An Siming a chance.

And as long as Xu Minglang has a firm stance and the emperor secretly supports it, even if Zhao Xuanji persecuts this matter in person and makes a fuss in the court, it will be useless, and in the end he can only obediently comply.

Now that Zhao Ning is so unreasonable, he has put on an unscrupulous attitude of unscrupulous means and reckless consequences, and he must also safeguard the military merits and interests of the officers and men of the Yanmen Army, which has already united the hearts of the Yanmen soldiers and pushed the civilian officials to the opposite side.

If the military merits are delayed, the Yanmen army will only resentfully the civilian officials who have approved the military merits, and even the imperial court, and will not complain about the Zhao family, and will even be especially grateful to Zhao Ning for their actions, so as to be more committed to the Zhao family.

In any case, now that the civil and military disputes are so fierce, the officers and men of the three armed forces are all hostile to civilian officials from the bottom of their hearts, and they will naturally lean towards the Zhao family.

At this point, things are already very difficult to handle, the Zhao family is so tough, Xu Minglang has no better way to deal with it, so he can only let the emperor come forward.

The Emperor snorted coldly.

Zhao Xuanji withdrew and replaced the troops who were about to break the enemy during the war, and after the war, he let Zhao Ning behave so recklessly, how could he tolerate it? In his opinion, the Zhao family had been the first family of Jiangmen for too long, and they were already unruly and unruly, and their tails could not be lost.

"The generals of the Yanmen Army beat up the officials who approved their military merits in public, obstructed the imperial court from doing errands, and the military discipline was lax, and they were unable to control it, so they must be severely punished: order the military merits to be reduced by two percent!" the emperor said the first edict.

Xu Minglang was overjoyed when he heard this, what Zhao Ning did was nothing more than to unite the army, and now the emperor used this as an excuse to reduce the achievements of the Yanmen army, so that the interests of the soldiers would be damaged, and the Yanmen army would resent Zhao Ning and the Zhao family.

However, the reduction of military merit by 20% is far less than expected.

According to Xu Minglang's plan, Zhao Xuanji's military exploits, he originally wanted to use the excuse that Beihu was not difficult to fight, and the excessive losses of the Yanmen army were a manifestation of the disadvantage of the battle.

Not only that, but he will also give the remaining half of his military exploits to An Siming's department.

But now it doesn't work, just Zhao Ning's reason, you can't deduct more military merits, if you go too far, your mind will be too obvious, and it will only backfire.

"Zhao Ning acted perversely, disrespected his superiors, ordered the dismissal of a person from his official position, stripped of his existing official qualities, and was not allowed to be hired for five years!" This was the emperor's second edict.

Xu Minglang nodded secretly.

Zhao Ning is the most outstanding son of the Zhao family, the hope of the future and the head of the family, now let him become a white body, and let him not be out of office for five years, which not only severely frustrated Zhao Ning's arrogance, but also dealt a big blow to the Zhao family.

This move has the magic of taking a salary from the bottom of the kettle, and if it can be matched with the corresponding measures, it will play a greater role.

This corresponding measure, the emperor immediately gave it: "Order Sun Meng to enter Beijing." ”

Sun Meng, the head of the Sun family, is the leader of the mountain forces that oppose the Zhao family inside the Jiangmen.

Xu Minglang knew very well that the reason why Sun Meng was able to set up another mountain inside Jiangmen to compete with the Zhao family was also due to the emperor's secret support.

Otherwise, why would the Sun family, who was only the third in the gate, fight against the Zhao family?

The Zhao family is the first family in the military, or a relative, and now Zhao Qiyue is the queen, and it is not easy to collect the military power of the Zhao family, so the emperor has already started the layout.

The emperor is now summoning Sun Meng to Beijing, and it is obvious that he has further considered Zhao Xuanji's position as the governor of the capital.

Just when Xu Minglang thought that the emperor's measures against the Zhao family had come to an end, the emperor said the fourth edict:

"At present, Yang Jiani, a disciple of the Yang clan who is serving in the Yanmen Army, has been dismissed from office, and her achievements with the Yang cultivators in this battle have been put aside for the time being. ”

Xu Minglang's heart was full of joy and secretly praised him.

This is to create the illusion that Yang Jiani and others were involved by Zhao Ning and Zhao, to provoke the relationship between Zhao and Yang, and to alienate Yang from Zhao.