The stars are changing, the years are flying, and decades are passing by in a snap of a finger......

In the thirty-sixth year of Dayue Yuexing, autumn, Luoyang City, Imperial Palace.

In this majestic and magnificent palace city, the northwest corner is particularly ordinary and tranquil.

There is no daunting palace here, only a forest, a few pavilions, and a half-acre pond.

At this time, there is an autumn wind, blowing the dead leaves on the trees in the forest, with the clouds rolling in the sky, it is also quite poetic.

And what is more poetic is that in the pavilion facing the forest, two old men in wide robes and white hair are making tea and chatting, and from time to time they put the black and white two sons on the chessboard in front of them, which seems to be so leisurely and leisurely.

This situation, this scene, this person, is enough to enter the poem and paint.

But as long as you know the identities of the two old men in the pavilion, you don't dare to have any poetic thoughts.

Because of the two of them, one is the current emperor Sun Ning, and the one sitting opposite him is pondering is the Wuyi Si Zheng, Guo Chong, who is the most talked about by countless people in Luoyang and even the whole world.

With the identities of the two of them, it seems that they should not be leisurely brewing tea and playing against each other at this time, but in fact, this has become a common practice between their kings and ministers for decades. And many major events of the imperial court have also been given one by one in such a leisurely tea talk.

However, today, the pair of monarchs and ministers did not set any national policy here that affected thousands of people, but after some small talk, they suddenly sighed with emotion.

"Guo Chong, you also have seventy-seven, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, we're all old......

"Old, the old guys have almost gone all these years...... Shen Zhou went eight years ago, Chen Qingyun even earlier, ten years ago, and your younger brother Guo Han, who ...... fifteen years ago."

Hearing the emperor mention these courtiers and opponents who had come all the way, Guo Chong's expression couldn't help but feel a little more emotion and memories. But then, he thought of something again, and his face changed slightly.

Although he quickly recovered again, he was still seen by Sun Ning at a glance: "Remembering Yan Hu and Li Wannian?"

"Your Majesty Forgives ...... Sins"

"We're all old, what's wrong with thinking of the old people? They did go the wrong way at the beginning, but the credit of the past cannot be erased after all. They will be written in the history books, and future generations will talk about them, and I will think of them one day......

Sun Ning waved his hand and sighed lightly: "I think that after the original determination of the world, I really want the world to be peaceful from now on, and I want to share the wealth with these meritorious people, so that I can wait for the monarchs and ministers to be the heroes and virtuous ministers who can be passed on to future generations to set an example."

"But some people will eventually change with the change of time, maybe they can be loyal to the country in the troubled times, fearless, but in the era of Chengping, after they have all kinds of greedy demands, they are no longer the same people.

"Yan Hu has made great achievements for me in the first place, and he is the Yuan Cong hero who has been with me for the longest time, if he hadn't made a big mistake, I would definitely let him shine to the end.

"But he is too greedy, not only for money, but also for power. And he made mistakes again and again, and in order to cover up his mistakes, he even did not hesitate to bury the lives of thousands of soldiers. A thief like him who has brought disaster to the country and the people, even if he made great contributions at the beginning, I would not spare him!

"Leaving him a grandson to inherit the bloodline is already my greatest grace to him."

"What Your Majesty said is that Yanhu is indeed to blame." Guo Chong nodded, "So the ministers never think that the officials who have been questioned and killed by the imperial court over the years have been wronged.

"Take that Li Wannian as an example, His Majesty gave him a grace that was enough to make his courtiers jealous, he was a general, and he could be crowned a prince of the country, what a grace it was.

"But he has always had two ambitions, always looking for an opportunity to return to Chang'an and be the warlord rebel of the separatist side. In the end, he tried to collude with the ghosts who had long since become a climate, and wanted to mess up my northern frontier again, which is really not a pity!"

Sun Ning remembered the turmoil a few decades ago, and also sighed for a long time: "If the prince hadn't been in Youzhou at the beginning and led the troops to quell the chaos in time, this chaos of internal and external collusion might really cause even greater turmoil."

"That's why I was able to do that

He was ruthless, killing more than 4,000 people and implicating 20,000 people...... In this way, the Qingzhang Juntian case, which was more widely implicated and took 12 years, killed more people than this case, right?"

"What Your Majesty said is true, but the Qingzhang Juntian case is not aimed at one family, but involves dozens of state capitals, hundreds of cities, and thousands of wealthy families in the world."

"Yes, I didn't expect that it was just a Qingzhang Juntian, who wanted the people to live a better life and not be oppressed and swallowed by the intertwined local forces, so there was such a big chaos.

"It was not surprising that those so-called wealthy clans who held great power in the localities and owned large tracts of land tried to resist, but later, even those officials in the DPRK and China actually jumped out one by one without fear of death, trying to use various methods to put pressure on me, so that I could take back my life and return to my old appearance.

"They're blind, and they don't want to know how I got over the last ten years. It is because of their existence that the people in this world are miserable and in a mess...... This gave the ghost Rong people and gave the rebels of the Pingtian Army an opportunity to take advantage of.

"I think that in Sichuan and Shu and in Jiangnan, I did the same thing, and then I had the basic soldiers and horses that worked all day long. But these two Huai and two lakes, the wealthy landlords in all parts of the Central Plains, are still trying to carry things as usual, but what do they regard me and the court of the world as?"

Guo Chong smiled and bowed his head, in the chaos that caused a huge turmoil at the beginning, as the chief officer of the Wuyi Division and as the emperor's minions, he really didn't kill on a big scale.

In the court alone, more than 30 people were killed by him, and as for those below the fifth grade, there were countless deaths. This gave him Guo Chong the nickname of King Guo Yan.

"Your Majesty, in fact, this is also reasonable, maybe those magistrates are not so closely related to the interests of the local wealthy families, but who makes their own backgrounds not too similar?

"So at that time, they were protecting the wealthy families everywhere, and in the final analysis, they were protecting their own families. In addition, in the early years, the court's eclecticism in employing people has already violated their fundamental interests, and these selfish and greedy people will naturally be reckless and desperate.

"However, they underestimated the determination of His Majesty and the imperial court, and also overestimated their own influence in the local area, so they were defeated. And this is a great thing for us to transcend the world. Because only by digging up their silverfish poisonous sores can I Dayue be able to truly prosper and maintain long-term peace!"

"The last two episodes of the book are published in succession..."