At the end of the palace banquet, with a shout, the two vermilion lacquer copper nail doors opened, and everyone was a layman, dozens of officials, and the stars held the moon and gathered around the minister, and the people went out noisily.

The officials were noisy, but the guards were all silent and solemn.

Cui Zhaoquan, the secretary of the military department, was sensitive to this, and at a glance, he knew that the number of guards had increased, and many samurai could be seen patrolling along the way, and their bodies were full of slaughter.

The entire palace seemed to be isolated from the New Year's celebrations all at once, making a few dignitaries secretly frowning.

"The border is rubbing again, although the world has been safe, but it still makes people worry. ”

"Yes, the emperor is still in the prime of life, and sweeping is enough, but now he is ...... There are some hidden dangers. ”

"One word: calm and quiet. ”

Of course, they also understand this truth, and even know what this person has not said: Although the Lord is already old and does not like to conquer, as long as he waits for the new emperor to succeed to the throne, the injustice can naturally be swept away, and there is no need to worry too much, and he can afford to wait.

I hope so.

Southern Xinjiang

In a mountain on the border of Dazheng, although the winter does not cover the mountain with heavy snow, it is also depressed a lot, at a glance, there is almost no vitality, the leaves are withered and yellow, and the wind blows, and it is sprinkled in pieces.

Approaching the outer mountain, at the end of a path that had been stepped out by the hunters who had gone up the mountain, the branches of the trees shook slightly, and one man after another came out, their faces were red from the cold, and their thin faces were haggard, but when their eyes fell on the city that could be faintly seen in the distance, a green light like ghost fire appeared in their eyes.

"Chief!"

"King!"

"This is Guard City!"

Different titles, the same person, the crowd was divided, and a tall man about forty years old came out.

This man was fierce-looking, and the emaciation caused by hunger not only did not make him less ferocious, but made him more of a ruthlessness peculiar to the king of hungry wolves.

He stared at the city in front of him, and said to his men: "The weather is getting colder and colder now, colder than in previous years, and there is a disaster, there is no food, if we let it go, we women and children will be frozen to death and starved to death!

"We originally wanted the Dazheng court to be the master and give some grain, but the Dazheng court not only didn't give a grain of grain, but also took away my daughter, in order to survive, we can only rob it!"

"In front is Da Zheng's border city Wei'an City, warriors, for women, for children, this battle, no matter what, we will win, and the victory belongs to us!"

"If we take the city, and we take the goods and food, we will live. ”

With the leader's words, the clansmen, who were already desperate in their hearts, were aroused.

They looked at the city in the distance, and they all knew that as long as they could rush in, they could get enough food to keep the woman and child alive who were about to freeze to death and starve to death!

"Victory is ours!"

"Victory!

Early morning in the capital

There were soldiers standing at important street corners, and thousands of people were rushing towards the imperial city one after another.

After a quiet night, the imperial city ushered in the office officials, because it was not the day of the court meeting, and the people who would come to the imperial city were all people who worked in the outer palace yamen.

When Zheng Taizu built the capital here, he promulgated a decree that the inner palace was the residence of the emperor's female dependents and palace maids, and the outer palace was the office of the hundred officials and the core yamen.

The boundaries between each other are clear, and if it is not ordered by the emperor, it is not allowed to cross the boundary easily.

Although up to now, the core yamen in the outer palace has left some ministers stationed, which is more of a symbolic meaning, and the office extending outside the palace has become the main office, but the cabinet is an exception.

The cabinet is located in the outer palace of the imperial city, from the Donghua Gate past, across a river, you can see a row of buildings, red walls and green tiles, there is a dwarf tree planted in front of the door, it is still evergreen in winter, it is very elegant, the last one of the buildings is the cabinet.

The first, second, and third rank officials, if they can enter the cabinet, they can have access to the high-level of the entire Dazheng government affairs, and other people are all minor officials.

And because the things that these cabinet elders have to do are all major events related to the world, in order not to leak the news in advance, in order to keep it confidential, and to communicate with the emperor in a timely manner, therefore, other yamen can move out, but the cabinet cannot succeed.

At this time, the palace gate was wide open, and the snow exuded coldness in the cold wind in the early morning, and the morning glow was not enough to melt the snow.

After crossing the stone bridge on the river, which is quite atmospheric and exquisite, we will arrive at an open area, and there are roads nearby, extending in all directions, and some palace maids and eunuchs who are allowed to come to the front to do things have already started their day's work, and they are still busy bees, hurrying to come and go.

Because they can see officials coming in and out every day, these palace maids and eunuchs have long been surprised, but today seems to be different from the past.

"Who is that?" A palace maid who happened to come to the front with something in her hand saw a young man in a national uniform walking over from afar, and her demeanor made her stunned.

"Shhhhhh The female officer who took her away, seeing that she was lost at just one glance, immediately shook her head and reminded: "Don't look at it, don't forget what our identity is." ”

But such an outstanding character, even if a woman wants to match, it will never be the turn of a palace maid like them, with such a background and demeanor, the nobles of the capital are afraid that they will go crazy, and they will all consume their blessings at a glance.

Su Ziji walked all the way towards the cabinet, and he could also feel that he had come all the way, attracting many people to look at him secretly, but he had long been accustomed to this kind of high-profile situation, so he continued to move forward as if these people did not exist

After another turn, I suddenly saw a person walking in front of me, and the figure made Su Ziji look a little familiar.

And the man probably saw the few little eunuchs in front of him and couldn't help but look behind him, so he also stopped, looked behind, and saw Su Ziji.

"Minister Cui Zhaoquan, I have seen the acting prince. "This official is not young, but he waited for Su Ziji to walk over and bow deeply to Su Ziji.

It's none other than Cui Zhaoquan, who once went to the southwest and had a grudge with Su Ziji.

At the beginning, Cui Zhaoquan, in order to solve the great trouble in the southwest, wanted to send Su Zizhi to death, but fortunately was stopped by Zhao Gonggong, who knew Su Zizhi's identity, and later found that Su Zizhi was more talented than he imagined, although Cui Zhaoquan had the intention to repair the relationship between the two, but with Su Zizhi was only to maintain a well water and not violate the river water to the extent that they nodded to each other, until Su Zizhi re-naturalized not long ago, and restored the identity of the prince's son, Cui Zhaoquan, who had all kinds of speculations about Zhao Gonggong's too much maintenance of Su Zi's nationality, finally understood the reason.

At this moment, the gift he made to Su Ziji was real, and it was also of some reparation.