In the twelfth year of Qianfu, early autumn.

Yanlai Building.

"The emperor is really vicious, if I didn't have a chance to meet, I would definitely spit in his face and ask him if he kicked the donkey in the head!"

Wei Wuxian scolded and scolded as he kept pouring himself wine.

Speaking of this, he glared at Zhao Ning and said: "I have been idle in Yanping for half a year, and when I go on a business trip, I sit in the yamen for a whole day, and when I go on a business trip, I drink alcohol except for drinking, what is the difference between such a day and a pig?"

Zhao Ning was nagged by him for half an hour, and no matter how good his patience was, his ears would be calloused, so he could only keep pouring him wine.

After Wei Wuxian achieved the Wang Ji Realm, he fought in the Western Regions and won successive victories, and within half a year, the rebellious states of the Western Regions were destroyed by him and three were subdued by him. The thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, which have rebelled more than 20 times one after another over the years, were beaten by Wei Wuxian, and the situation was immediately stabilized.

Wei Wuxian's strength is not actually his personal combat strength, but his deep scheming and wisdom. When he didn't achieve the Wang Ji Realm, he relied on this to achieve quite a good result, and now after years of battlefield training, his cultivation has reached the Wang Ji Realm, so you can imagine how big his role on the battlefield will be.

Seeing that Wei Wuxian was about to take advantage of the situation to make great progress, establish extraordinary achievements, and hope to completely pacify the countries of the Western Regions, the emperor suddenly issued an edict, promoted him to an official, and let him return to Yanping to become a soldier in the military department! Nominally, he said that talents are rare and can play a greater role in the center, but in fact he has become an idler.

Of course, Wei Wuxian understood the intention of this arrangement of the imperial court. He did not leave from the Western Regions, and the defense in the Western Regions made the new army have no chance to make contributions. Now that the situation in the Western Regions has been stabilized, there will be no big mess if he is not there.

With such an encounter, one can imagine how much resentment Wei Wuxian has towards the imperial court.

Putting down the wine glass, Wei Wuxian suddenly restrained his anger and lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "It stands to reason that with the military exploits I have established in the Western Regions, I will be summoned by the Son of Heaven after returning to the court, but do you know who I saw in the Chongwen Palace?"

Zhao Ning said lightly: "Chongwen Hall Bachelor?"

"Isn't it Zhao Yujie, this stinky mother-in-law!"

Wei Wuxian slapped his thigh violently, "This slut looks like a dog now, sitting high in the position of the emperor's old son, and pretending to praise me, I didn't know it was her when she changed her appearance?" At that time, I looked at her like a monkey jumping up and down!"

Zhao Ning didn't say much.

Concubine Li is Zhao Yujie's business, and Zhao Ning has no reason to hide it from Wei Wuxian, especially when the other party returns to the dynasty from the Western Regions.

"This stinky woman is now in power, and she is doing nonsense, and my father said that this time I returned to the court, it was this mother-in-law who made a hindrance. He also asked me not to complain to the emperor after I arrived in the capital, and if the emperor summoned me, my attitude must be better...... It's a pity that the emperor didn't summon me, as if I was sick and dying. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Wuxian shook his head and sighed.

"Wei Gong is right. Although we know that this is not the case, we have to regard the fault as Zhao Yujie's, otherwise, the family will only have the road of rebellion. Zhao Ning drank a glass of wine.

Wei Wuxian smiled bitterly, "Rebellion...... If it had been ten years ago, the family had rebelled, and it might have happened. But now, the power of the Hanmen officials is too great, the new army of the Hanmen has also become the climate, and it is impossible for the family to form a solid alliance and completely twist into a rope, so it is impossible for the rebellion to succeed. ”

He sighed: "People are swords, I am fish and meat, the family is really going to decline, the world in the future is really the world of the cold family, and the world of imperial power!"

Zhao Ning was silent.

Whether it is the gate lord of the scholar clan or the big family, after all, it can't fight the imperial power - it may have won before, but now it is different from the past, after the real rise of the cold family, the family can only go to the end in the end. In the future, there may still be famous families in the world, but they are only famous families, and there will never be a situation where the family and the imperial power share the world.

In recent years, there have been incessant wars in the Western Regions and Liaodong, and the Great Qi has basically maintained a situation in which there are more victories and fewer losses, and the new army of the defense envoys has been trained, and the soldiers and men are all elite; the local regimental training envoys have also continued to lead the new army under their command to strangle the displaced people and bandits who have gathered in the mountains and forests, and their combat strength has also been formed.

The overall strength of the cultivators in the army has been enhanced on a large scale, and there are a lot more powerhouses in the Yuanshen Realm than in previous years, and the masters who have achieved the Wang Ji Realm in the cold gate can no longer be counted on one hand - the best among the children of the family have also improved their cultivation strength in the tempering of the war, but the army under his command is getting smaller and smaller.

Therefore, compared with the official generals of the cold gate, the Jiangmen forces are still at a disadvantage.

But for the Great Qi army as a whole, the progress in combat power is obvious. Now the Qi army is no longer seven years of Qianfu, the Qi army that has been slack, not refined in the tactics of the soldiers, the source of soldiers is not good, and the military camp is empty.

Throw it aside

Not to mention this, Zhao Ning's conversation with Wei Wuxian will inevitably go to the next step when it goes on here.

Wei Wuxian looked at Zhao Ning and said, "Recently, the rumors of the 'abolished queen' have become more and more intense, according to the law of the appearance of the Magistrate's House and the Cabinet, the imperial court will effectively implement this matter after the momentum is completed."

"The emperor abolished the queen, this kind of thing has not happened before, but the previous queen was abolished, and the queen who replaced her must be from a family. But now, the emperor Lao'er wants to use Zhao Yujie, a cheap maid who is not from a family, to sit on the queen's throne!

"This is not a simple abolition of the empress, but a blatant abolition of the pattern of the family and the imperial power in the same world, which violates the interests of all the families! This is the poor dagger, it is the emperor Lao'er who is waging war against all the big families!"

After a pause, Wei Wuxian said with a fierce look in his eyes: "This shows that in the eyes of Emperor Lao'er, this is the time to have a showdown with the big clans!

"It is conceivable that once Zhao Yujie becomes the queen, the 'Two Saints Dynasty' will become a foregone conclusion!

"The emperor Lao'er continued to recuperate in the deep palace, making a cowardly and incompetent appearance, and he couldn't fight for power, so that outsiders would think that he and Zhao Yujie were opposites, and let Zhao Yujie use more cruel and vicious means to suppress the officials of the family unscrupulously in front of others under the guise of excluding dissidents!

"Once the family collectively resists, and the progress goes smoothly, causing the situation to get out of control, the emperor Lao'er will appear immediately, and there is a foreshadowing of the confrontation with Zhao Yujie for power, he can push all the faults on Zhao Yujie, and throwing Zhao Yujie out can have the effect of taking the blame;

"If Zhao Yujie can stabilize the overall situation, then the emperor Lao'er will continue to be invisible until there is no more family in Daqi!"

After saying this, Wei Wuxian took a few sips of vigorous breath and drank a full pot of wine before calming himself down a little.

Zhao Ning was also drinking, but only one glass.

Song Zhi's strategy of "changing the day" was indeed carried out in an orderly manner.

Let Zhao Yujie become a marionette and create a situation of "two saints coming to court", which is even more a stroke of genius. Is there any powerful minister who can play such a big role as Zhao Yujie?

It's just that Zhao Yujie is really willing to become a puppet?

No one knows Zhao Yujie better than Zhao Ning, who is a man of two lives.

Song Zhi's approach, if he himself lived a long life, if he didn't live long, Zhao Yujie was still energetic when he died, would there be a female emperor in Daqi in the future?

If the situation continues to develop like this, is it possible for Zhao Yujie to really become a generation of empresses?

It seemed that seeing the question that Zhao Ning was thinking about, Wei Wuxian, who was eating nonsense, wiped his mouth, changed his words, and took the initiative to tell an anecdote: "A few days before you came back, there was a case in Shimen County. ”

Shimen County is a county under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture, and the amethyst mine that the Zhao family obtained from the Liu family is there.

Wei Wuxian continued: "There is an octogenarian woman who has been a fruit farmer for generations and has made a living by selling pears. But just seven years ago, in the name of leveling the land, the Shimen County Ya suddenly cut down all her family's 100 acres of fruit trees, and there was no compensation for her family. ”

Zhao Ning listened quietly.

Wei Wuxian continued: "In the next seven years, this octogenarian woman has been constantly asking the yamen for explanations, and has entered Beijing many times to voice grievances. The old woman was old and frail, and once when she went to Beijing to complain about her grievances, Shimen County sent officials to give her 800 taels of silver on the grounds of supporting the elderly, and asked her to go back to see a doctor.

"The old woman thought that this was the government's compensation for her, so she asked her son to collect the money, signed and drew on the receipt and detained, but as soon as they went back, they were sentenced to prison by the Shimen County Government on charges of extortion, picking quarrels and provoking trouble!"

Zhao Ning frowned slightly.

Wei Wuxian sighed: "Things have developed to this point, the fate of this old woman's mother and son is doomed, and there will be no chance of turning over in this life."

But a few months ago, the political enemies of Shimen County Commander learned about this and poked him out. Later, the government confirmed the fact that the Shimen County Government destroyed the old woman's fields, asked the county government to restore the fruit trees, and declared the old woman's mother and son not guilty. ”

At this point, Wei Wuxian stopped and drank a glass of stuffy wine.

"It's over?" asked Zhao Ning.

Wei Wuxian smiled bitterly, "I know what you want to say, why did Shimen County encroach on the old woman's good land seven years ago, did those officials who made mistakes pay the price, and did the government compensate the old woman...... The answer, of course, is no.

"When have you and I ever seen a court official who was severely punished by the law for committing a mistake against the people?

"After the incident, Shimen County ordered many parties to move around and bribe

Many Shangguan, although this matter has been rumored, the Shimen County Order, including the person who framed the old woman's mother and son, has not been punished. On the contrary, he was the political enemy of Shimen County Order, and in the end the struggle failed, and he suffered. ”

Zhao Ning didn't speak, just looked at Wei Wuxian.

He knew it wasn't over yet.

If this matter was just the way it was, Wei Wuxian wouldn't have to take it out and say it, let alone say it at this time.

Wei Wuxian's expression became complicated, "But just a few days ago, the Shimen County Commander was dismissed from office. Yin Shengtang of Jingzhao Mansion tried the case, not only sent this county order to prison, but also those officials who were the tigers in the first place were all punished according to the provisions of the law!

At this time, the people in the market knew that Shimen County had invaded the old woman's fruit field for no reason, and planned to build a courtyard to bribe his superiors, but unfortunately the other party was dismissed not long after, and the matter was over. So for seven years the place was desolate. ”

Zhao Ning was quite surprised, "Who traced this case to the end?"

There are very few officials who make decisions for the people, and those who are willing to punish officials according to the law for the sake of the people are even rarer.

Wei Wuxian took a deep breath and spit out three words that surprised Zhao Ning: "Zhao Yujie!"

Zhao Ning withdrew his gaze from Wei Wuxian.

He didn't ask why this was happening, he didn't ask what it was, and he was lost in thought.

Wei Wuxian picked up the wine glass, brought it to his lips and put it down, he returned to Beijing early, and he had been idle for half a year, and he paid attention to the wind direction and the big and small affairs of the government and the opposition on weekdays, so he knew a lot of things.

After Zhao Yujie held the power of the court, on the one hand, he wantonly suppressed the family, and on the other hand, he supported the poor officials. The current Jingzhao Mansion Yin is Zhao Yujie's person, and he is a rare capable official, named Zhang Renjie.

This Zhang Renjie, together with another poor official, is called Shuangjie.

In the past two years, Zhao Yujie has been in power for the government and the opposition, and even the prime minister can only be an echo worm, and the power of the dynasty is firmly held by her, relying not only on the support of the emperor Lao'er, but also on the ruthlessness and the party.

You can't stand on your feet by being ruthless alone.

In today's court situation, there are many checks and balances, and the balance has not been broken. What's more, Zhao Yujie is just a harem woman, she came to be a minister, don't say that the family is dissatisfied, and the officials of the poor family may not all obey.

She is smart and smart, and outside the family and the poor family, she has opened up a new world. This heaven and earth are the people.

Her minions, who will intrigue and vicious calculations, are used to deal with the family, while more mediocre qualifications or capable officials with good conduct are used to make decisions for the people, so that she can gain the support of the people.

In this world, is there anything more satisfying for the people than punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials? Is there anything more satisfying for the people than upholding justice for the people?

Therefore, in the past few years, although the upper echelons of the imperial dynasty have not lost their heads and bloodshed because of the struggle for power, all kinds of major events have occurred, and they have been recorded by historians, but in the middle and lower echelons of the dynasty, the rule of officials is actually improving, and the prosperous era is still moving forward, and many people have received tangible benefits.

The latter has no malice or rejection towards Zhao Yujie, the "inner minister".

A lot of people are quite supportive.

At present, when the people of Yanping City talked about the matter of "Two Saints Coming to the Dynasty" after tea and dinner, they did not mean to denounce Zhao Yujie, and they had the mentality of watching the excitement, but they did not mean to object.

What really criticized Zhao Yujie was the elite class whose interests were violated by her, as well as the scholars and scholars who were born and had a good status and adhered to the way of etiquette and law.

Whether it is the people in the market or the countryside, their experiences and deeds will not be seen in the history books, but their backing in the hearts of the people at the moment determines the fate of the upper class to a large extent.

It is precisely by steadily advancing the political achievements of the prosperous era and the relative support of the common people that Zhao Yujie was able to win over such talented and ambitious officials as Zhang Renjie and Di Khanzhi, and it is precisely because of these that her position has been relatively stable and growing in the fierce power struggle.

Compared with Xu Minglang, the prime minister who only knows the upper class of the powerful and does not know the lower class people, Zhao Yujie is much smarter.

Zhao Ning wanted to understand this, and a murderous aura condensed between his eyebrows.

"Zhao Yujie, a stinky woman, has become a big trouble after all. Wei Wuxian took a sip of the wine in his glass, "Now that she and the emperor are plotting to abolish it, if they really let them do it, what can our sister do?"

In the past, when he was on an errand in the Governor's Mansion of the Patrol City, Zhao Qiyue sent food to Zhao Ning and Wei Wuxian, although her food may not be delicious, but this friendship made Wei Wuxian remember it in his heart.

"Henchmen?" Zhao Ning suddenly laughed, "She can't become a confidant." ”

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