The emperor has always been gentle, and he rarely says such heavy words, Jing Xinmo was startled, and hurriedly bowed down, "Why did Your Majesty say this?"

"Your Majesty is a rare Ming monarch and benevolent monarch in ancient times, and it is under Your Majesty's diligent governance that the prosperity of the Great Qi Dynasty has reached an unprecedented new height!

This answer was expected by Song Zhi, but he was not in a hurry to let Jing Xinmo get up, although he was not angry with Jing Xinmo, "Shengshi? Of course I want Daqi to have a real peaceful and prosperous world."

"It's a pity, even when I am diligent in government, the dynasty is not peaceful, and the remote places are just that, and now the chaos is happening at my feet!

Jing Xinmo, who was prostrating on the ground, heard this, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Song Zhi made it clear the reason for this, he would have a word to deal with it. The question of whose problem is the one is in the community, and the answer could not be more obvious.

He hurriedly said: "Of course, this is not Your Majesty's fault, but the responsibility of the courtiers! It is those families who are hungry for profit, who only think about fighting for power and profit, and who govern the world well regardless of the king's worries, and it is they who have lost their courtiers!"

"It is they who have disregarded the law and morality and harmed the society of the country, and they are the ones who need to be held responsible! Your Majesty, the old slave asks for his life, so he will go and tie up those ministers of the family into the palace and let them apologize!"

Listening to Jing Xinmo's generous statement, Song Zhi's expression softened slightly. As for the words of the ministers of the family, Jing Xinmo only said that it would make the emperor feel better, and it was not possible to implement it.

Song Zhi let Jing Xin grind up and sighed, "It's natural for the big companion to think like this, but I'm afraid that people in the world won't see it this way." ”

Jing Xinmo hurriedly said: "Everyone in the world knows that Your Majesty is benevolent, and will never criticize Your Majesty, if Your Majesty does not believe it, you can summon the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and ask them face to face."

"Not only that, but Flying Fish can also collect market discussions for His Majesty. The old slave promised that the people must be grateful to His Majesty and willing to die for the monarch's father!"

Jing Xinmo said firmly, and Song Zhi finally had a faint smile on his face. Although these words are suspected of flattery, in Song Zhi's opinion, they are not far from ten.

Under the peaceful and prosperous times, the people have enough food and clothing, the market is prosperous, the countryside is peaceful, and the rule of the imperial officials is still clear, and it is rare to hear that an official has killed someone, which people will not be grateful to the emperor?

Moreover, Song Zhi has been working political affairs all these years, and has never slacked off, nor has he spent a lot of money and people's power because of personal preferences, and he thinks that he has not done anything bad. If the people are not grateful for the emperor's grace, then their conscience is afraid that it will really be eaten by dogs.

Under the resolute flattery of the old eunuch and the self-hypnosis of Song Zhi's self-feeling, his psychology was comforted, and the process of self-reflection ended, and he turned to think about what he should do in the current turmoil.

"Judging from the current situation, Zhao's situation is quite bad. It seems that the thunderous blow of the Zhao clan against the Liu clan last time made the door feel a great threat. Otherwise, the men would not have worked together so much right now to make such a big scene. ”

Song Zhi tapped his fingers lightly on the desk, and said calmly, "If the Zhao family doesn't have a perfect plan to deal with it, I'm afraid that this catastrophe will be difficult to overcome." ”

Jing Xinmo pondered on the side and said: "Looking at the Zhao family's means to bring down the Liu family, you can see that the other party is not without any thoughts, and this time it should not be defenseless...... After experiencing the incident of Daizhou, and facing the continuous oppression of the gate by the gate, it is natural for the Zhao family to fight back angrily, otherwise it is impossible to say.

"It's just that the Zhao family is the general of the door, and when it comes to conspiracy and calculation, it is worse than the civil officials of the door. This time, the door is a multi-party team, with a careful layout and quick action, and it is reasonable that the Zhao family can't cope with it.

"If the Zhao family really can't deal with it, then it will indeed be very difficult to pass this hurdle. ”

Song Zhi hummed lightly, and suddenly said another thing that seemed unrelated, "Last time, according to the intention of discussing with my partner, I asked the prime minister to allocate money and grain from the treasury by expanding the team of scribes of "Fang Wuzhi", so as to solve the problem of insufficient food and salary for Feiyuwei.

"Although the prime minister agreed, in terms of the amount of money, he did not give much, and it did not meet my expectations at all. It seems that the Prime Minister has sensed the existence of Flying Fish and is deliberately controlling it. ”

Jing Xinmo's eyes sank a little, and his duck-like voice was filled with anger, "Your Majesty, with all due respect to the old slave, Prime Minister Xu has served as the prime minister for many years, and he was an auxiliary minister before, but now he is too powerful, and the constraints on His Majesty are too great." ”

Song Zhi nodded imperceptibly, but did not continue the topic.

He pondered for a moment, and then suddenly said, "The Flying Fish Guard I sent to Beihu has been writing the Fang Wu Zhi for a long time, and I have also found out a lot of news.

"But based on the information they sent back, Beihu doesn't have much to pay attention to, everything is the same as before. The Tian Yuan Royal Court was not so strong, at least not much stronger than the other three royal courts, it did not have the strength to threaten the Great Qi at all, and there was no possibility of unifying the grassland.

"However, the matter of them secretly dealing with the Zhao clan in Yanmen Pass has gradually spread now, and all the tribes and tribes have said that it is just the move of the Tianyuan Royal Court to avenge the ancestor Zuo Xian King.

"Before that, the Khan of the Tianyuan Royal Court had repeatedly said after being drunk that he must avenge his ancestors and make the people of the Zhao clan pay the price to comfort the ancestors' spirits in the sky so as to find the blessing of their ancestors. ”

Speaking of this, Song Zhi fell silent again, without a single word of comment.

Jing Xinmo did not answer rashly.

After a long time, Song Zhi paid attention: "Let's take a look first." Let's see if the Zhao family can cope with the current situation. ”

......

When Zhao Ning returned to Zhao's Zhuangzi, he learned from Zhao Zhengxiang that the official messenger of Jingzhao Mansion had just come and had taken away the family members of the murder home in the name of interrogation.

Jingzhao Mansion's movements were fast, which was what Zhao Ning expected. At that time, Zhao Zhengxiang and others did not stop them, if they clashed head-on with the officials of Jingzhao Mansion, it would undoubtedly be a trick.

Zhao Ning did not stay in Zhuangzi for long, inquired about the situation, and after instructing Zhao Zhongxiang to act according to the second plan, he left Zhuangzi and rushed back to Yanping City.

The Governor's Mansion is still lively, and there are many people from the dock in front of the door, as well as good deeds nearby. Zhao Ning didn't go to the main hall, Du Wei Shi Xuan was still there to try the case, and he also needed to avoid it.

However, after Zheng Yuqing, Chen Yi, Wang Liushi and others were taken to the Governor's Mansion, the situation has changed a lot, and the case is gradually becoming clearer and developing in the direction of the Zhao family.

Now it depends on how long Wang Shu can hold out, when he is desperate, and tell the truth in front of Zheng Yuqing.

This is a difficult problem for Wang Shu. After all, as long as he confesses, he will be convicted of being a murderer. Not to mention that he has to die, the money he obtained before must also be confiscated, and he has to worry about the Zheng family's revenge on Wang Liu's family.

Zhao Ning stepped into the threshold of the class room and saw Wei Wuxian sitting in front of the table, burying his head in dealing with a slick pork leg.

Now that it's noon, it's time for lunch, Zhao Ning didn't have much appetite, but seeing that Wei Wuxian was so devotion to eating, he ordered someone to bring him food too.

"How's the situation?" Wei Wuxian asked angrily as he saw Zhao Ning enter the door and sit down, looking up in his busy schedule, unable to see half of his face

A little worried, and even quite relaxed.

"It's not much like we expected, and the layout is very thorough. ”

Zhao Ning said, "Jingzhao Mansion's movements are really fast, looking at their appearance, they are holding back a lot of energy, and they want to take advantage of this opportunity to be ashamed and press our Duwei Mansion back again." ”

Wei Wuxian snorted, lowered his head and continued to fight, informing Zhao Ning of the latest situation of the matter while eating:

"The people who are staring at the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion have come back many times, and now the momentum over there can only be described as boiling and reversing the sky. At present, there have been more than 20 cases.

"What took the medicine from your pharmacy, the person who was not too sick died of illness, Jingzhao Mansion put the case in the first instance, and many people said that their family had also taken the medicine from your store before, and the good people were gone.

"In order to expand the scale, your shop bought nearby shops cheaply, set fire to other people's shops, and burned people to death. Immediately, someone jumped out and accused you of taking advantage of the evil deeds of your competitors and destroying them.

"There are also the family members of the concubines of your Zhuangzi clan, saying that you robbed the people's daughters, and many people were blown up at this time, accusing your Zhuangzi people of often harming other people's daughters, and they are not responsible for Yunyun when they are done. ”

After saying this, Wei Wuxian also finished eating the pig's legs, and even gnawed the pig's feet cleanly, not to mention, the bones were knocked into scum and sucked up the bone marrow inside, and then he wiped his mouth and said with satisfaction:

"All in all, your situation now is no different from the previous Liu. The people on the outskirts of Jingzhao Mansion are already clamoring to go to your house together and burn you all to death.

"Alas, I thought before that many generals would be framed by Mendi, at least the Wei clan couldn't escape, but now it seems that Mendi is only concentrating on dealing with you this time, and is determined to follow in the footsteps of the Liu clan. ”

Zhao Ning's food was served, he picked up his chopsticks and paused, and asked with his rice bowl: "There are so many onlookers outside Jingzhao Mansion, no one remembers the Zhao family's righteous act of exposing Liu's crimes before, and say a few words for us?"

Wei Wuxian spread his hands, "I didn't hear it anyway. Before, I thought that I could borrow the power of the people, but now it seems that there is no hope. ”

Saying that, he chuckled twice, and comforted Zhao Ning: "The family and the powerful have overturned, isn't this a big excitement that the common people like to see?

"Maybe someone spoke for you, but it should be flooded soon, and there won't be much movement, so I haven't heard anything like that. ”

Zhao Ning nodded, didn't say much, and began to eat with vegetables.

Seeing that Zhao Ning didn't speak, Wei Wuxian thought about it, and suddenly sighed, quite a little nostalgic, "The world is going down, and people's hearts are not ancient."

"I heard from the elders of the family that when Daqi was not so prosperous and strong, and it was not too full and warm, everyone was very simple, and they were generally jealous and hateful, and their grievances were clear.

"Even if there is no overnight food at home, and someone in front of the door is hungry and faint, they will immediately carry it in the door to help. Now everyone's first reaction is to report to the official, or to wake up the other party and drive people away, and they will never care.

"Brother Ning, tell me, now that life is better, why are people's hearts broken?"

Zhao Ning glanced up at him and was silent for a moment, "Because the world is no longer fair." ”

Wei Wuxian was stunned, "What's the explanation?"

Zhao Ning said while eating: "The world is unfair, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the people are still too busy to take care of themselves, how can they still have the heart to help others? ”

Wei Wuxian was speechless, and was stunned for a moment.

Just then, someone broke through the door.