This decree promulgated by Emperor Jingchang was naturally not a whim, but after some careful consideration.

Today's Great Jin Dynasty, although nominally the world of the Yu family, is actually completely controlled by the Yu family, but the land of Liangzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Yingzhou. And several other families, nominally paying tribute to the Yu family, in fact, each of them divided one side, like a country within a country.

At the same time, these families also relied on their own power to install spokespersons in the court to serve their own interests, and openly and covertly set up various obstacles to the implementation of the emperor's decrees.

This situation is unacceptable for any emperor who wishes to make a difference. However, this pattern did not take shape overnight, and began to take shape tens of thousands of years ago.

Emperor Jingchang naturally could not use violent means to conquer the other seven great families - the collapse of the Great Qin Zhan family of the previous dynasty is still vivid, and the Yu family, as the beneficiary of the last reduction of the domain, will naturally not repeat the mistakes of the past.

Since this is the case, then the Yu family can only use their power as an emperor to eat away at their interests from the hands of several other families bit by bit, in order to continuously strengthen themselves, in order to one day be able to achieve true unification of the world.

The assassination of the three princes this time was naturally a godsend for Emperor Jingchang. The decree he promulgated made the Beigong family feel uncomfortable and painful enough, but it was impossible for them to rebel at the risk of being wiped out because of these losses - after all, the disaster was caused by the Beigong family itself, and it was already good that the other families did not fall into the ground, and it was impossible for them to help.

What's more, the Puzhou Fu family, which has the best relationship with the Beigong family in the family, is the mother family of the assassinated third prince, and the revelation of the truth has doomed the Beigong family to completely lose this long-time ally.

Therefore, Beigong Yixiao could only watch Emperor Jingchang uproot his power in the court and the locality, but there was nothing he could do.

And the most important point is that the protector of the Beigong family and the biggest secret of the Beigong family for 10,000 years, the giant dragon Baichen, has disappeared.

The disappearance of the giant dragon Baichen is like sucking away the backbone of the Beigong family, making the Beigong family lose the last bit of courage to argue with the royal family.

Beigong Yixiao should be glad now, in order to keep the secret of his Demon Emperor's ring, Shi Zhiyi did not make the news of Bai Chen's death public, otherwise with Emperor Jingchang's character and temper, I am afraid that he will be much more ruthless than now.

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The assassination of the three princes by the Beigong family was like a meteorite thrown into the Ning Yu River, setting off a monstrous wave in every corner of the Great Jin Dynasty, and even more so in the court.

Except for some officials of the Yu family, who have crossed the sea to show their magical powers, trying to get a piece of the vacancy left by the Beigong family, in fact, this matter has no personal interests with most officials.

However, this assassination brought to the surface another major event related to the future of every official, that is, Lichu.

Emperor Jingchang is fifty-six this year, and he is in his prime, so it stands to reason that he is not in a hurry to establish a prince. But since the Beigong family has set a precedent with such strong means, these ordinary officials naturally have to think more about their future.

Emperor Jingchang has three sons, the eldest prince Yu Zhongcheng was born to Empress Daxi, the second prince Yu Zhongjing was born to the noble concubine Beigong Yan, and the third prince Yu Zhongqian was born to the noble concubine Fu Qinghan. Now that the second prince Yu Zhongjing has been demoted to a commoner, if he wants to resurrect, it will be even more difficult, then the future emperor's throne must belong to the eldest prince and one of the three princes.

The Great Jin Dynasty did not have a rule for establishing a successor, although most of the time the emperor did so, such as the current Emperor Jingchang is the eldest of the four brothers. But there are always four or five generations of exceptions, and it is not the eldest son who finally ascends to the throne.

However, these exceptions are all due to the problems of the eldest son himself, and at present, it seems that the possibility of Yu Zhongcheng, the eldest prince who is slightly older, more familiar to officials and born to Empress Daxi, will eventually ascend the throne is obviously countless times higher than that of Yu Zhongqian, the third prince who has just become an adult.

But these thoughts of the officials have nothing to do with Shi Zhiyi. Whether Yu Zhongqian is the emperor or not, it will not affect the friendship between the two of them.

At the end of the banquet that day, Yu Zhongqian sent Shi Zhiyi out and told him: "Xiaoyi, this time, you have completely offended the Beigong family, and now that you are alone in Kyoto, you must be extra careful in everything." ”

"I will, Brother Zhongqian, don't worry. However, the current situation of the Beigong family is probably difficult to protect itself, and it should no longer have the leisure to erect one more enemy for itself. ”

"Well, be careful in the near future, there will be a lot of things in the palace recently, and when I have time, I will go out to find you. ”

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Kyoto is located at the junction of Liangzhou, Yangzhou and Yingzhou, and belongs to the hinterland of the imperial Yu family, but as the central city of the human race for tens of thousands of years, it is not the exclusive territory of the Yu family.

Just as the Eight Great Families all had their own spheres of influence, Kyoto also had such divisions of spheres of influence. However, this division is not reflected in the monopoly of land, but in the industry.

In a city, the people are in daily contact with nothing more than clothing, food, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death, and in a giant city like Kyoto, there will be some more industries such as green houses, jewelry, casinos, auction houses, etc., which serve the ordinary people.

The vast majority of these industries are controlled by a certain family, such as the royal family, which occupies several of the most profitable industries such as grain, jewelry, water transportation, and land transportation, while the Daxi family's sphere of influence is concentrated in casinos and pharmacies, and the Hokamiya family controls and manages the entire Kyoto Fengyue place, etc.

But among the eight major families, not all of them can get a share of this super market with tens of millions of people, such as the Jian family on Wulai Island and the Shi family in Yunqi City.

Kirai Island is isolated from the sea, separated from the mainland by a strait hundreds of miles wide, and the distance from Kyoto is as far as 10,000 miles. For thousands of years, the Jian family of Wulai Island has always adhered to the concept of monopolizing one island and protecting oneself alone, and the connection with other major families is not close.

There were often conflicts between the Luqiu family in Hailing Prefecture and the Jian family on Wulai Island because of the division of the fishing area, which also cut off the channel for the Jian family's power to penetrate into the mainland to a certain extent. Therefore, although the Jane family has some sporadic business in Kyoto, it does not have any monopoly in any industry.

The rise of the Shi family in Yunqi City is only a matter of nearly a thousand years. The division of spheres of influence in all walks of life in Kyoto, except for the Yu family, the Daxi family, the Beigong family, and the Fanzhou Xu family, which jointly annexed the territory that originally belonged to the Zhan family, the imperial family of the previous dynasty, when the dynasty changed 600 years ago, most of the others were formed thousands of years ago, and it was difficult for a new family to find a foothold in this complex but heavily walled market.