The Wuyang Imperial Court is located in the Central Plains, with thousands of households and extraordinary spirit.

As a dynasty that established the country with martial arts, there are rules for preparing for the early dynasty to talk about the world's affairs, and the country has never changed for two hundred years, so the empire can continue to expand, with a big country, the southeast is the sea, and the territory of Wuyang can only expand to the north and west, until it was attacked by the ghost demon clan in the west, and the Wuyang Dynasty stopped expanding.

Today's court is very lively, the Central Plains three continents of the big and small officials all go to the court, early in the morning outside the gate of the noon, all the officials look solemn, because the prince disappeared in the desert of the northwest county, caused a shock to the government and the field, everyone is sad to die, although the prince is cowardly, but benevolent and generous, since he was canonized as the prince, he is polite to everyone, this time he disappeared in the desert, which makes people sigh.

Under the watchful eye of the supervising imperial historian Tang Jinyan, the prime minister and the prince led the ministers into the court, and no one dared to talk to each other.

The ministers entered the main hall and stood in their places, and behind each courtier there was a small eunuch to serve.

The main hall has eighteen load-bearing pillars, each pillar is carved with a golden dragon, the main hall is ninety zhang horizontally and vertically, nine zhang high, the dragon chair is in the middle, has the momentum of the peak, impartial, means the respect of the ninety-five.

The servant girl carried the incense burner to open the way, and the emperor followed behind, and the servant girl behind her held two honor fans, making the emperor more majestic.

After the emperor sat down, the personal eunuch shouted to the courtiers: "Go to court!" ”

The ministers bowed and shouted long live, but no one knelt, and everyone sat down after the emperor spoke.

Emperor Xu Qilin is the lord of Zhongxing, has been reigning for 20 years, repairing water conservancy, helping people's livelihood, expanding territory, and continuing to march westward, when he was blocked by the continuous snow-capped mountains, he built a city under the snow-capped mountains and immigrated.

Unexpectedly, the Ghost Fang Demon Clan continued to invade, several crusades, each time the whole army was wiped out, the entire court panicked, the Ghost Fang Demon Clan's combat effectiveness is so strong, if you intend to invade, no one in Wuyang can stop it.

After observing for a few years, the Wuyang Imperial Court found that the Ghost Fang Demon Clan was only harassing the border, robbing people and food, and had no intention of invading on a large scale, Qin Tianjian calculated that the Ghost Fang was a demon clan, and the Wuyang Dynasty was guarded by the gods, and they could not survive in the land of Wuyang.

However, in recent years, the ghost fang demon clan has become more and more excessive, although it has not entered the Central Plains, but the people of Wuyang from the northwest to the southwest are always slaughtered, Xu Qilin is angry, and is ready to fight the whole country with the ghost party, let the prince go to the west, everyone thinks that there are two reasons, first, to see the real ability of the ghost fang demon clan, and second, to train the prince.

It's just that Xu Lin hasn't reached the border yet, and he lost 100,000 troops in the desert, which is too nonsense.

Of course, the ministers didn't know what the emperor was really thinking, but everyone knew that the emperor was in a bad mood.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, the little eunuch looked at the emperor and then at the ministers, and shouted: "If there is something to do, there is nothing to retreat from!" ”

Taiwei Zhou Gongwei stood up, stood the jade tooth on his chest, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was killed in the Bergier Desert, and Weichen found out that the Ghost Fang Demon Clan did not have military operations, and there should be internal thieves making trouble!" ”

Zhou Gongwei is nearly seventy years old, he is a veteran of the two dynasties, when Xu Qilin was the prince, Zhou Gongwei was the captain, Xu Qilin's combat skills were taught by Zhou Gongwei, above the court, he spoke, and he was full of words.

Just like now, Zhou Gongwei is the person who is most unaccustomed to Xu Lin being the prince, but after Xu Lin's accident, he was the first to take the initiative to investigate.

After Zhou Gongwei finished speaking, the entire court fell into an eerie silence, Xu Qilin was on top of the dragon chair, his eyes swept coldly at the ministers, and said: "The Imperial Commander's Mansion, the Servant of the Criminal Department, and the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate." ”

With Xu Qilin's voice, the spokesmen of the Three Law Divisions came out.

Xu Qilin said: "The case of the prince being killed in the Bergil Desert and the destruction of the 100,000 army, you come to find the answer!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Xu Qilin got up and was just about to leave, when suddenly there was an urgent sound of eight hundred miles outside the door, Xu Qilin turned around, and like the ministers, he looked at this dusty soldier with solemn eyes.

The soldier knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the last general is the messenger of the Western Army, who found the remains of my 100,000 troops in the desert a few days ago, but did not find the remains of His Royal Highness the Prince, and the marshal guessed that the prince may be alive!" ”

Hearing this, the prime minister hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Are you saying that the crown prince may be alive, not that the body was taken away?" ”

"Back to the Prime Minister, the Western Army found traces of the prince's activities, and he went in the direction of the Ghost Fang Demon Clan!"

The prime minister's face was solemn and said, "How could this kid go in the direction of the ghost side?" ”

Tai Lieutenant's face turned cold, "How come?" He lost my 100,000 army in Wuyang, and he knew that he couldn't survive when he came back, so he might have defected to the ghost side. ”

Prime Minister Yang Yi is the crown prince and Xu Lin's teacher, because of this relationship, he and Zhou Gongwei are not in agreement, listening to Zhou Gongwei's words, Yang Yi's face was gloomy, and he said: "Lord Taiwei, you say so, do you have real evidence?" ”

"Prime Minister, the general said that he saw the footprints of His Royal Highness the Prince, you said, why did he go to the Demon Clan alone?" Zhou Gongwei's tone was very kind, but the content of his words was very polite.

Yang Yi flicked his sleeves angrily, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was raised by the old ministers, he is kind and generous, he cares about the people of Limin, and he is definitely not the one who will defect to the enemy camp." The 100,000 soldiers and horses he brought were forbidden troops by the imperial court, so couldn't he go to the Western Army for help? ”

Zhou Gongwei snorted lightly and said, "Soldier! ”

"In!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is on the southwest border, where the Western Route Army is stationed?"

The eight-hundred-mile expedited general kept kneeling, and after hearing the question, he replied: "The direction His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is going in Shuofang City at the foot of the Qinglong Snow Mountain!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the courtiers in the palace immediately began to whisper, Shuofang City is the first city in Wuyang to expand to the foot of the Qinglong Snow Mountain in the west, and the immigrants have been in the wilderness for ten years, but they were slaughtered by the Demon Clan, and now it is a ghost city, there are only criminals and homeless people there, poor mountains and bad waters, and it is a location that cannot be affected by the religion at all.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went to Shuofang City, could it be that he was going to unite criminals to defect to the Ghost Fang Demon Clan?

Yang Yi had nothing to say, and bowed to Xu Qilin and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister feels that there must be a hidden secret in it!" ”

The emperor has been observing these courtiers, the courtiers quarrel with each other is what he likes to see, the emperor's art is one of the king's skills: the minister and the king are in danger, the more the courtiers quarrel, the more he sleeps steadily.

Zhou Gongwei also said: "Your Majesty, tell the world that the crown prince defected and sent heavy troops to guard the western front of the dynasty!" The prince is too familiar with the three counties of the Central Plains! ”

Xu Qilin didn't say a word, motionless, no one knew what he was thinking, and suddenly got up and brushed his sleeves away, leaving a full hall of courtiers who didn't know what to do. ”

The ministers breathed a sigh of relief, it's good to be a petty official, and if there are any turbulent waves in the world, they don't have to stand in front of themselves.

When the ministers withdrew, the great eunuch Liu Gongjin said again: "My Majesty, Your Majesty has an edict to investigate the case of His Royal Highness the Prince, and it is urgent to set off for Shuofang City tonight to find His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"No!" The adults of the three divisions responded in unison.

The Imperial Palace, the Criminal Department, and the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate are the three major secret service organizations of the empire, and everyone is a top master, they immediately began to code people, and the great eunuch Liu Gongjin followed quickly, and whispered: "Three adults, please stay, Your Majesty still has a secret decree." After entering Shuofang City, open it again! ”

As he spoke, Liu Gongjin took the tray from the little eunuch behind him, handed the three bags to the three adults, and said, "Three adults, the secret decree is related to the national policy, please pay attention to it." ”

The three adults didn't say anything more, picked up their secret decrees, left the court, and went out of the palace gate, and the three of them did not communicate at all, like strangers who had never known each other.

Many courtiers saw this scene, pointing and pointing, rumors that the three law divisions have always been at odds, it seems to be true, if it weren't for the supervision of the imperial history to star, the three law divisions would have people's brains out of dog brains.

Above the court, everyone is not afraid of the captain or the prime minister, but when they see the leaders of the three law divisions like a mouse seeing a cat, they can't avoid it.

And at this moment, a team of centaurs walked in from the side door of the noon gate, walking like flying, everyone looked at it, and all of them panicked, the center of this team of centaurs is the queen.

After the beginning of spring, the queen mother personally led the troops to the northeast to preside over the training of the Northeast Army, because she was not only the queen, but also the only grandson of Nangong Zhan, the founder of the Northeast Army.

No one in the Northeast Army is convinced, only the Nangong family, Xu Qilin has no choice but to let the queen Nangong Yuting take charge of the troops and select generals from within the Northeast Army who can afford to carry the beam.

Now Nangong Yuting has not completed the task, and everyone knows that the queen mother rushed back for the prince's affairs.

Nangong Yuting happened to have a face-to-face with Tingwei Fuqing, and Tingwei Fuqing hurriedly bowed down and said, "Weichen has seen the queen's mother!" ”

Nangong Yuting walked with the wind, walked in front of the Tingwei Mansion and shouted: "What do you see?" On your knees! ”

Tingwei Fuqing was so frightened that he trembled all over his body and obediently knelt on the ground.

This scene frightened some officials who saw the queen for the first time, they only knew the fierceness of the three law divisions, even if the official position was not high, but the three princes and nine secretaries were afraid of them, because this secret service might arrange a secret agent for them at any time!

It was really surprising to think that these three law-enforcers who killed people without blinking would behave like raccoon dogs in front of the queen.

A young courtofficial looked at the queen's back from a distance, and said to an old minister beside him: "The queen is so young, even the people of the three law divisions are so afraid of her." ”

The old minister pinched his beard and muttered: "That's natural, without the Nangong family, there would be no Wuyang Dynasty, two hundred years ago, if it weren't for the talented people of the Nangong family who all died on the battlefield, this world surnamed Xu or surnamed Nangong, it's hard to say......"