After the subordinates put on a black coat for Li Siming, the groom brought his war horse for Li Siming. This war horse was followed by Li Siming when he followed Xingheng on the border, and after so many years, this war horse has always been loyal to its owner. Since becoming the chief referee of the Ministry of Justice, Li Siyu has rarely ridden a horse, but everyone in Star City knows that as long as he sees Li Siyu riding his own war horse, it must mean that something urgent is about to happen.

In fact, there was no need for Li Siyu to ride a war horse when he went to the palace tonight, and he hadn't thought of swaggering through the market like this before. However, after knowing that Qian Ying was coming, he thought of the possibility that someone was going to intercept him, so he wanted to cooperate with Qian Ying and catch everyone in it.

Now, the night is deep, and the southern city of Nancheng, located to the south of the palace, is now no longer noisy and the lights have dimmed. There was no one on the streets, and by this time almost everyone had returned to their homes, and most of them had fallen asleep. Of course, there will also be some people who sell supper and come out to eat supper wandering outside, but generally speaking, night snack shops will not be set up on both sides of the road, one is that the rent here is too expensive, and the other is that the Prime Minister's Office is a little strict in this aspect of management, although there is no clear regulation, but this is already a kind of convention.

Therefore, Li Siming rode a horse and walked on the street without any obstacles, ordinary people didn't know that he was still riding a horse out of the house so late, and those who he was waiting for naturally knew that he had gone out. Therefore, Li Siming has been paying attention to the movements around him, especially those dark corners, the kind of corners that are very easy to hide. Li Siming also knew that many people were very aware of his cultivation, just ask which of the four bigwigs in the three departments of the First Mansion is not a phantom-level monk, and they are all phantom-level cultivators whose cultivation is not low, the strongest of them is Prime Minister Xingzheng, and he even raised one foot above the peak of the phantom-level. As for Li Siming, since he can be recognized by Li Xinda to inherit the title of the Li family, the minimum requirements are all illusion-level peak cultivation, which is almost impossible. Many people know that Li Siming is a phantom-level peak cultivator, if he wants to assassinate him, he will inevitably send a monk who is even stronger than him, although there are very few phantom-level peak monks who will become killers, but it is not nothing, and they are all decisive people to kill, and it is definitely not something that a person like Li Siming, who has been away from fighting for many years, can resist.

Maybe those killers would look down on people like Li Siming who only have cultivation but no combat experience, but Li Siming just expected them to have such a mentality, so he cooperated with Qian Ying to lure them out and clear the scourge for the empire.

Of course, all this is Li Siming and Qian Ying's speculation based on the premise that someone will not be able to hold it back tonight, if someone really dares to do something to the important ministers of the court under the emperor's nose, then it is better to kill it, not only to kill the chickens and monkeys, but also to clear the order in the secret of Star City. If no one does anything to him tonight...... It's good to be on guard, and if no one does it, it can actually be regarded as a kind of proof, those who know about the emperor's plan have already acquiesced in this plan, even if this plan will seriously damage their interests, they don't dare to argue with the emperor.

In fact, the aristocratic system of the empire should be like this, the emperor should always retain the highest right to speak, the nobles everywhere should be dependent on the imperial power, the emperor's word is better than everything, even the nobles who accept the title of prince should be like this. But since the emperor established three hereditary marquis on the border a thousand years ago, this pattern has been broken. Although it is not clearly stated, in fact, the three border families have gradually mastered the three border cities in the past thousand years, and faintly use these three cities as bargaining chips to play games with successive emperors. However, every emperor did not dare to really do something to the three families on the border, or they did not have a legitimate reason to do anything to these three families, you know, these three families have been guarding the border for nearly a thousand years, and the prestige of each city lord in the army stationed on the border is very high, if there is no reason to do anything to them, the court is afraid that it will cause a mutiny in the army. After entering the Chaotic Dragon Era, the confrontation between the Star Emperor and the Dragon King Empire has formed a pattern, in this context, what the Star Emperor needs is the unity of the whole people, and at this time, the Star Emperor cannot afford to fight and dare not fight a civil war.

It was precisely with all aspects taken into account that starting from His Majesty Xingyao, the imperial court formulated a gradual plan for the resumption of power over the three border families. Originally, according to the plan, it required the efforts of the three generations of emperors, Xingyao, Xingheng, and Xinglie, to gradually bring the administrative power of the three border cities under the direct jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Office. According to the current situation of the empire, when the Prime Minister's Mansion is returned to the border city, the three families may still be able to retain most of the rights to the title or even the fief, but the entire defense line will not be under their control.

In fact, this plan has been implemented many years ago, and it can be traced back to the time when His Majesty Xingyao was in power several decades ago, when His Majesty Xingyao personally appointed the four city lords of Mingde City, and sent his own brother Xingmang to Mingde City to control the city lords, crown the king of Mingde, and fief the entire Dongrong Province. The practice of the past few decades has proved that although the matter of sealing the border to a prince is a great danger first, His Majesty Xingyao's decision is correct, and His Royal Highness Xingmang has indeed done his duty and contributed his own strength to the construction and defense of the imperial frontier, of course, this is also the reason why military power has always been in the hands of the Central Military Department.

Knowing that he was thinking too much, Li Siming retracted his thoughts and focused on the way forward.

After all this time, he has been walking smoothly, and no one has come to stop him. He was very curious, what those nobles were thinking now, it was clear that this matter had seriously damaged their interests, if they didn't make a move...... I am afraid that the entire aristocratic system of the empire will gradually collapse.

Thinking of this, the corners of Li Siming's mouth inadvertently raised a smile.

It seems so...... It's also very interesting.,The aristocratic system that has maintained the existence of the empire for nearly 10,000 years has collapsed through its own hands.,No matter how you look at it.,It's a very fulfilling thing.。

At this moment, Li Siming tightened his horse's head and stopped his horse. He stretched out his finger and gently wiped it on his face, and sure enough, there was an extra touch of blood on his fingertips.

Li Siming chuckled lightly and continued to ride forward. It turned out that it was not that no one came to hinder him from entering the palace, but ...... No one will ever live in front of him......

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