Zhongyao Prefecture is the most vast and fertile state in Bactria. If the cities in the world are ranked according to their scale and prosperity, the top ten are seven out of the middle.

The imperial capital of Great Xia is called Great Xia, and it is a city named after a country, and it is the first time that Great Xia has been encountered. Daxia City has also changed its name many times, at the beginning of the establishment of Daxia, Emperor Taizu took the meaning of the country Tai Min'an and named it Tai'an City. Later, a warrior who was proficient in luck admonished that although Tai'an was good, the pattern was slightly limited, and he was afraid that it would restrain the future prosperity of the Great Xia Dynasty, and then Tai'an City was renamed Huangyan City, which means that the Great Xia Dynasty was endless.

But there was once a former emperor who was good at writing and ink, and even several scholars with half-national literary movements in the Guozijian at that time were ashamed of themselves, and felt that the name of Huangyan was too tacky. It is inconsistent with the national fortune inherited by Daxia for more than 1,000 years, so Chrysostom Yuyan renamed it Tianzhucheng, which means that the national fortune of Daxia and the Chai Emperor are granted by God.

After that, the renaming of the imperial capital became the key for the successive new emperors of Great Xia to prove that they were the masters of Zhongxing. At the beginning of the first year of the new emperor, the imperial capital will also be renamed. Some people who advocate water virtue call it Xuanyuan City, some pious Zen practitioners name it Po Sa City, and some people who emphasize martial arts and light literature are even more important to break the army. Although they are all famous, no one dares to say that the emperor's move is a loss of national identity.

And this frequent renaming of hundreds of years is also the time when the national strength of Great Xia is the weakest, until ten Jiazi ago, Emperor Chengwu, who turned the tide, calmed the chaos, renamed the imperial capital to Great Xia and left the ancestral system, and the descendants of the Chai family were not allowed to change the name of the imperial capital. The Great Xia City has been used to this day.

The prosperity of Great Xia City is not something that can be described in a few words. There was once a painter in the martial arts realm, who wanted to bring the market life of Daxia City into Danqing, and the painter sat in the clouds and splashed ink for more than three months, painting a 133-zhang long scroll. When he finished writing, the painter vomited blood on the scroll, and admitted that this scroll was only the tip of the iceberg of the cityscape of Daxia, and it was difficult for him to show the whole picture in his life. Another poet known for his prolific poetry, nicknamed the poet farmer, once said that he would write a poem every day to describe the prosperity of the city of Great Xia. But when this person was over 100 years old and drove away, he still had no end of poetry.

At the end of the year, the prosperous scenery of Daxia City is better than usual. In addition to the missions sent by the major power sects or local officials inside and outside Great Xia, there are also travelers and tourists from all over the world, who want to see the prestigious Imperial City of Great Xia with their own eyes.

Every year, the six departments of the imperial court will argue at this time who is the busiest yamen at the end of the year. The ceremonial department was busy settling the visiting missions, counting the gift lists, checking gifts, arranging the year-end ceremony on Chinese New Year's Eve, and many other procedures. The people of the Ministry of Rites are eager to cultivate the so-called martial arts body, the Taoist one-qi three-clear or the Buddhist retribution body.

The Criminal Department is to let His Majesty feel that the people under his jurisdiction live and work in peace and contentment when the court opens in the coming year, and there are few traitors and criminals.

In contrast, the household department and the official department are busy closing the door. The country of Great Xia is rich and the people are strong, and the treasury is full, so the people in the household department naturally do not need to worry about the finances in the coming year. It's just that at the end of the year, the people of the other yamen in the household department move around frequently, and they all hope to add more numbers to the budget of their yamen for the next year. And at this time, the Shangshu of the household department and a few waiters will lead the officials above the fourth grade to directly say that they are sick, and the people who stay in the yamen to do things are only from the fourth grade, if they meet people from the military department and the Ministry of Industry to visit, especially when they hear that a certain waiter came in person, they can not parry, they can only cover their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs in the latrine, and the visitors leave impatiently.

The Ministry of Officials, which is responsible for the evaluation of officials and the preparation of the waiting list of vacant officials in the coming year, has also become the first choice for various yamen and officials to visit and move around, and who does not want to evaluate their officials at the end of the year as good or excellent. If you make some mistakes at the end of the year because of slackness or negligence, you will rack your brains to find a way, hoping that the people in the ministry can change the malfeasance in their own assessment into one. Therefore, at the end of each year, there are more carriages and horses in front of the official department than in front of several state guesthouses under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites.

If you have to ask which yamen is busier than the six departments, maybe only Jingzhao Mansion and Jingtian Division.

The former is responsible for the security of the capital city of Great Xia, and the peace of the city at the feet of the Son of Heaven is even more related to the national body and the face of the heavenly family, which may be the most difficult parent official in the whole world. On weekdays, the people of Jingzhao Mansion can not offend other yamen and courtiers, what should be managed, what should not be managed, what others let you manage, but you can't really care about the end pretending to be confused, reporting a subordinate official incompetent, what others say you don't care, in fact, they don't want to care, in the end they still want you to take care of it, and the credit must be recorded in the name of others, all of this is very particular. Especially at the end of the year, the flow of people in and out of Daxia City is more than ten times that of weekdays, and Jingzhao Mansion has limited manpower, so the people who don't love the New Year the most in the world are the errand people in this yamen.

The Pure Heaven Division is a special yamen that directly obeys the orders of the Great Xia Dang family. The so-called special is that everyone knows the existence and function of this yamen, but few people have really seen the person in office. Because this is an espionage agency cultivated and controlled by the Great Xia royal family. Each of them is a person who is endowed with abilities or has cultivated well.

The Pure Heaven Division is divided into Fly Catcher and Sticky Flyflyer. The latter is mainly responsible for the collection and transmission of intelligence in various places, while the former is responsible for tracking, arrest and assassination. The reason why the Pure Heavens are busy at the end of the year is because they are busy every day of the year for 360 days. Inside and outside the Great Xia Dynasty, how many swords hang above the head of the current emperor, how many people make it difficult for the king of a country to sleep, and how many forces make the Chai clan like a fish in the throat, every move of these forces must be well understood. And this sticky fly girl is the emperor's eyes everywhere, and they have to stare intently at the wind and grass everywhere. And how many things that care about the dignity of the royal family and the face of the heavenly family can't be done on the bright side, and the flycatcher will secretly solve problems for today's son.

The height of the temple and the distance of the rivers and lakes are to speculate on the hearts of the people, to control the hearts of the people, to control the hearts of the people, to control the hearts of the people, to guard against the hearts of the people, and to play the game is still the hearts of the people. Whether it is the emperor or the general, the prince or the prince, the martial arts of the rivers and lakes, or the reckless mountains and rivers, the sun shines on the place is nothing more than the word people's hearts, and there are still only people's hearts where the dirt is hidden.

Although the successive emperors of Great Xia were all martial arts cultivators, most of them were based on strengthening their bodies and prolonging their lives, and they did not pursue much strong combat power, and there were few people who broke through the Six Realms in the past dynasties. After all, people's own energy is limited, and when he was a prince, he had to plan and calculate for the future yellow robe, and he had to learn the art of governing the country and controlling authority. After becoming a treasure, he has to worry about national affairs. No matter how energetic you are, there is a time when you run out.

More importantly, the way of the emperor is not in martial arts cultivation, but in vertical and horizontal cultivation. Use power to control people's hearts, and let many martial artists in the Martial Realm and even the Xuan Realm use them for their own use, since some people are willing to become the sword and axe in their hands, why do they need to forge themselves into knives. If someone is willing to stain blood on his own hands, why should he draw a sword himself? The Emperor's sword is a shock because it never needs to be unsheathed.

Ziwei Palace is the current Great Xia Palace. Wenqu Zhai is the imperial study room where today's Zichai Dingquan daily approves the chapter and receives the courtiers. At this moment, in Wenqu Zhai, a middle-aged man with a forty-year-old appearance, wide cheeks, and dragon eyebrows is sitting behind a yew cloud dragon pattern table that is nine feet long and five feet wide. The man was dressed in a regular dress embroidered with the shape of a five-clawed dragon, and was flipping through a stack of neatly written papers.

On the side of the man, an old man with a white face and beardless hair hanging down his waist, wearing a red python robe, stood with his head down. The old man's eyes were slightly closed, as if he were asleep.

The middle-aged man slapped a stack of papers in his hand on the table, and the old man in the python robe shuddered when he heard the sound, and hurriedly opened his eyes, "The slave should die." The old man still hung his head, but his eyes were slightly open, and his voice was shrill and sharp.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man laughed like a child who had played a prank on someone else, "I disturbed your dreams, you won't complain about me in your heart, right?" The middle-aged man stared at the old man with blazing eyes.

"The old slave doesn't dare, it's the old slave who has lost his manners. The old man remained motionless, not even blinking his eyes, like a talking puppet.

"Have you seen it all?" Chai Dingquan no longer found fault with the old man, but asked without a beginning or an end.

"Looked. The old man still hung his head, and his voice was as sharp as a mandrill.

"What do you think?" the middle-aged man leaned heavily on the white fur soft pillow behind him.

"A mere Li family will not hurt the muscles and bones of Yunyin Villa, but is more like a gecko with a broken tail. Such a small family's handwriting is somewhat unworthy of the Yuwen family's appetite. It should be the calculation of the person surnamed Cao of the Yuwen family, and the Yuwen family just thinks that talking is better than nothing, so if there is such an opportunity, why not do it if the Yun family is disgusted, so they will push the boat down the river. But the old slave always felt that the thunder was loud and the rain was small, which was disappointing. The old man's tone changed from the previous Gujing Wubo, but there was really some disappointment.

The middle-aged man grinned, "This Yuwen family is really interesting, first took in a Yunyin Villa abandoned slave, as a baby-like pet, and now go to dig the corner, the letter said that Yun Jinchuan's son has been in love with Li Hanren's daughter for a long time, but was snatched away by Yuwen Xing, Yuwen family not only likes to pick others to pick the rest, but also likes to take away from other people's bowls that have not yet been eaten, what kind of quirk is this?"

"People who have no talent and no virtue, leaving them on the side can only make them more ambitious and talented, and the Yuwen family is self-defeating wisdom. Because of the personal enmity of the retainers, they are still complacent, which is extremely ridiculous. The mockery in the old man's words was undisguised.

"Yun Jinhe is in retreat?"

The old man pondered for a moment and said, "There are seven points of credibility. Over the years, Yun Jinhe has devoted all his strength to the Yun family to seek a cure for his son's hidden disease, which is indeed true. Since the Yun family's father and son went out of the village to seek medical treatment a few months ago, Yun Jinhe's retreat should have something to do with this matter. It's just that Yun Xuelan has clearly left Yunyin Villa, and judging by the results of his fight with Yuwenxing, he should resume his cultivation. And Yun Jinhe is still in retreat, which is a little strange. It's a pity that Yunyin Villa has sealed the Zhuangzi since the Yun father and son returned to the village, and the news is only in and out, and our people have not taken the risk of spreading the things in the village in order to avoid exposure. ”

"Yun Jinhe is an infatuated species, and he has been because of that woman all these years. Hey, I often think of the past, and I can't help but feel a little self-blame, generations of people of the Chai family have always owed the Yun family as if they had fate, and this has been the case for generations, accumulating to my generation, and I don't know how much I owe to my sons. But the more I owed, the more I felt weak, and over time I had become a demon. The more weak the heart, the more I want to cut off this demon, and I will ...... I'm afraid that my ancestors will treat Yunyin Mountain Villa so contradictory because of these reasons. The middle-aged emperor's expression was a little lonely, and he kneaded his temples with his fingers.

"Your Majesty, don't forget, you are a minister of the Junyun family. When Your Majesty is not Your Majesty, there is the gift of kings and ministers first, and then there is brotherhood. When Your Majesty becomes Your Majesty, there will only be monarchs and ministers. ”

"That kid from the Yun family can cultivate?"

"Sixteen-year-old Xia Wu Realm, this life is also a kiln realm, and there will be flaws in the broken mirror reunion. Your Majesty don't have to worry too much. ”

"What about the kid surnamed Song?"

"It can be used by His Majesty. ”

"If he is really willing to serve me, I will not dare to use him. In public and private, if he betrays Yun Jinhe, then use it and abandon it. ”

"Would you like to send someone to contact you?"

"Don't worry, the situation in Yunyin Mountain Villa is unclear now, wait a minute. If the kid surnamed Yun returns to Yunyin Mountain Villa alive, naturally many people will not be able to sit still. When they come to me, when will I lower my posture and go to find someone else?" Chai Dingquan said angrily.

"Then does Your Majesty want that kid from the Yun family to go back alive?"

Hearing this, the middle-aged man sat up straight and bit the old man in the python robe. The old man felt the power of the dragon today, and the anger in the dragon's eyes at this moment was not disguised. The red-robed man's head hung even lower, but he did not kneel.

"It is always me and the Chai family who owe them to the Yun family. Why should you be too desperate to be a man? If you die a woman, you still have to let Yun Jinhe lose his son in middle age? No matter how many things you do without roots, you have nothing to fear, and I still have to accumulate yin virtue for my children and grandchildren. ”

"Your Majesty does not want the kindness of a woman. The old man was still a little unwilling.

"I won't do it myself, but I won't protect him, and along the way, how can I count the number of people who want his life? ”

The old man wanted to say something, but he swallowed the words when he felt the emperor's eyes. The old man wanted to kill Yun Xuelan and had no personal grudge or grudge, but he had been a eunuch for more than 100 years, and his temperament was ruthless and obedient, so he was obsessed with killing.

The glory of the three dynasties is difficult to settle the humiliation of being disabled. Under the python robe, there is already a femme fatale.

The disability can be healed, and the shame is difficult to go. Snakes and scorpions can be controlled, and people's hearts are unpredictable.