It is about three feet three inches long, the sharp blade sparkles in the moonlight, the blade is engraved with the pattern of a scholar dancing drunkenly, the hilt is black brown, made of wood, the tip is connected to a piece of auspicious cloud-shaped bronze, and the back of the bronze is connected to the sword spike, a beautiful yellow sword spike.

This is his natal sword Chao Huaxi picking up the sword, from the rust at the beginning to the current sharpening of iron like mud is like being reborn, Shen Fei knows that compared with two years ago, he has been reborn, just like the Chao Huaxi sword in his hand, the dirt of the past is gone.

He clenched the hilt of the sword, the two fingers of his left hand rubbed the sword body inch by inch, and his right wrist suddenly exerted force, only to hear the sound of "Zheng", the sword roared, and the cold wind blowing from the north suddenly stopped, and then, Shen Fei's right hand and left leg were raised at the same time, dancing a golden rooster independence!

"Born in troubled times, the smoke of gunpowder rises, and the scourge of the common people is several autumns; the smiling face is pale, and the homeland is destroyed and there is no place to return. Our generation of young people is always frivolous, our generation is in turmoil in the world, our generation is walking in the distance, and our generation is out of the world. Shen Fei felt something, said a long song, and sang and danced with the sword, in addition to a way to go and go and the way of the circle taught by the cloth, he has never learned any sword moves, at this moment the situation is born from the heart, move with the heart, the long sword is everywhere, chic, like a dance, if someone sees it, just like a fallen leaf moving with the wind, it will be amazing.

When the sword style was over, Shen Fei waved his hand suddenly, and the long sword flew out and turned into a streamer, and then divided into countless fine particles from the streamer, becoming countless points of light hitting the courtyard wall, nailing into the wall, and when the light dissipated, you can see the soft petals turning into blades as sharp as sword blades into the wall.

- The supreme way of the sword, everything can be a blade!

The top-notch swordsmanship that Lao Xia had displayed countless times was inadvertently used by Shen Fei, indicating that his strength had taken another big step forward.

In the case that the realm has not been improved, Shen Fei's strength has continued to rise, and it is hard to imagine what kind of amazing performance he will have after the realm of enlightenment soars.

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At the same time, in the inner courtyard of the deep palace, the dark brown door opened a crack, and the golden vanzai wearing a golden obscene robe walked out of the room, and through the crack in the door, you could see that Concubine Rong was sleeping soundly.

His Majesty walked into the courtyard, put his hands behind his back, and looked into the sky with bright eyes, full of complicated light, a dark shadow knelt on one knee and knelt behind him: "His Royal Highness Lie is suspecting Concubine Rong, Liu Yi and I fell out with him because of this, and now the whole case is dominated by His Royal Highness." ”

"Lie'er's brain really doesn't turn. ”

The man in black was silent, and his task was only to report the news he had received to His Majesty.

"But from this point of view, Lie'er is indeed a selfless person, he only has official affairs in his heart, no personal feelings, and he is indeed usable. In this way, on the one hand, you continue to observe Lie'er to see what he will do next, and on the other hand, you will send additional men to monitor the movements of the princes and ministers. ”

"Please rest assured, the slave will not miss every detail. The moonlight cold*** shone on the face of the black shadow, reflecting a familiar face-Dongfang Changqing! He lowered his head, looking deferential, like a loyal dog in front of His Majesty.

"Go, keep an eye on them, and report to me at any time. ”

Standing under the tall plane tree, His Majesty's straight figure is like the decadent rickets of the usual people, the plane tree is bare, the huge and tough branches stretch out in all directions, the tips are upward at the same time, like a pair of miserable white palms vying to pull the moon high above; 。

The old emperor's gaze was strange, and a grim smile appeared on his old face, until Dongfang Changqing retreated, still standing in place for a long time. Enlarged the space a hundred times, and his vision enveloped the entire courtyard, and he found that the place where he and Concubine Rong were at this moment was shaped like the head of a monster, and the position where he was standing now was just like the eyes of a monster. White flags and bells hung around the courtyard, and the cold wind seemed to blow from hell.

The people in the royal family are either crazy or demonic.

- So, what is the Buddha who is in the company of the royal family!

In the murky sky, the palace was shrouded in nightmares, like a sealed beast, and the golden Buddha was standing beside it, caressing the beast's head lovingly.

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On the same night, Chu Xie stood at the entrance of the cemetery on the outskirts of the Imperial City, carrying a heavy sword on his shoulder. With his injuries healed and his belligerent desire resurged, he didn't play enough and rushed for a second fight. With his keen perception of aura, he knew that the White Bone Ancestor must be inside.

Walking in, the cold wind instantly surged ten times over, wailing and roaring, and white miserable bones and arms rose from the dirt.

"Chu Xie. The voice of the White Bone Ancestor came from all directions, "You are really stubborn, you don't know whether you are alive or dead. ”

"Uncle Ben is going to fight you again. Chu Xie took off his heavy sword and pointed forward, the yin wind gathered, forming a materialized creature, and two green flames burned into eyes.

"Dare to disturb the purity of this seat again and again, are you really not afraid of death? In addition to anger, the voice of the White Bone Ancestor was mixed with helplessness.

"If you can't beat it, you can run, what are you afraid of. Chu Xie was very relaxed, hippie with a smile, "If you can't find a suitable opponent, Uncle Ben will fight you until he defeats you." ”

"It's a fool's dream, in another twenty years you may have the strength to fight with this seat. ”

"It won't take twenty years, Uncle Ben is the type that gets stronger and stronger the more he fights. ”

"Since you don't want to die, this seat will fulfill you, and I will send you to the underworld to be reincarnated tonight. ”

"Come on, come on, who's afraid of whom!"

——From this night on, the martial idiot Chu Xie finally found an interesting opponent who could play with him all the time!

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The sky was bright, Tuoba Lie had already led people into the palace, and once again investigated the crime scene, this time he personally went into battle to check, and really found something - there was a slight depression in the door frame!

It looked like a deformation caused by years, but as a warrior, Tuoba Lie could tell that it was a handprint left by a powerful warrior. That's right, no matter how careful you are, you must always leave corresponding traces before and during the process.

Tuoba Lie instructed his subordinates to model the mudra (the process is to cover the mudra with wet and soft clay and remove it after it is dried, thus forming a palm shape), because the handprint is not obvious, so the palm shape formed by modeling is not clear, but it does look like a palm in the past, and several fingers are half thick and not thin, saying that it comes from a thin man or a powerful woman.

This was a major discovery, and Tuoba Lie was overjoyed, and on the one hand, he took the model into his arms, and on the other hand, ordered his men to make ten copies of it, preserving the evidence.

After that, Tuoba Lie led his men to re-examine the autopsy, and the prince's body was put into the coffin yesterday, waiting to be buried at a later date. Tuoba Lie reopened the coffin and conducted an autopsy without His Majesty's permission, unlike yesterday's autopsy by the coroner, Tuoba Lie dissected the corpse's stomach and carried out a comprehensive examination, and found that while the bones of the seventeenth brother's whole body were twisted, the internal organs were shaken to pieces, which is reasonable, and it is worth noting that the damage to the meridians of the seventeenth brother is not normal. It stands to reason that when the body is distorted, the meridians will be elongated until they break, but the seventeenth brother is not, his meridians have exploded, and the wound is very obvious, so it can be speculated that he should have been severely injured, killed by one blow and died of blood, and then suffered a brutal torture corpse, forming the current appearance

An important discovery, a minor discovery, Tuoba Lie made two major discoveries, and hurried to report to his father.

Happily found the Hall of Light, but was stopped outside the palace by the eunuch, who said that the early dynasty had not yet ended, and the Hall of Light was not allowed to enter.

Tuoba Lie raised his head to look at the time, it was close to noon at this moment, and it stands to reason that the early dynasty should have ended a long time ago, so he asked the eunuch the reason, and the latter replied: "It is the newly appointed Chang'an City Yin who is admonishing His Majesty, and proposing a number of reform measures has been strongly opposed and obstructed by the princes, thus delaying the time. ”

Tuoba Lie nodded, pondered for a moment, turned around and walked down the steps, and muttered: "What a Chu embroidery, steal the limelight from me three or four times, with you." ”

If you want to say that the people of the imperial capital in recent times, Tuoba Lie, who has recently returned to the dynasty, can only be ranked second, and Chu Xiu deserves to be ranked first, because he dared to face the saint as a cloth cloth and became the governor of Chang'an City; because he dared to block the prince's carriage in front of the Zhengde Gate, not only was he not punished, but was rewarded; and today, this powerless Confucian jumped out again, completely changed the direction of the court discussion that should have been launched against the death of the seventeenth prince, and turned it into a collective condemnation of him by all the princes present, for no other reason, but because the ten-point reform plan he proposed in the court was too unacceptable！

He believed that the empire needed to be governed by Confucianism and the rule of law. The details are as follows:

1. The empire needs to rule the world with Confucianism, re-establish the imperial examination system, and abolish the "Nine Grades of Righteous Law". The so-called "Nine Grades of Zhongzheng Law" is a political system proposed by Sima Shi when he was in power, and it is continued by His Majesty today, and the main content is: in each state and county, select "virtuous and insightful" officials to serve as "Zhongzheng", as the central official of the second grade, and the Zhongzheng visits and evaluates the people in the states and counties according to the family background, behavior, and township quality, and divides them into upper, upper, middle, lower, middle, lower, etc., which are first included in the record by the small Zhongzheng, and then reported to the big Zhongzheng, and finally transferred to Situ as the basis for the official department.

The Jiupin Zhongzheng system is the foundation of the imperial administrative system, but all imperial officials are recommended and selected according to the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, which has caused the current situation. That is: the selection of imperial officials is based on morality, not ability, and there is no specific basis for consideration of the level of morality, therefore, almost all the officials of all sizes come from the imperial capital's official eunuchs, without exception, the officials are complicit, cover each other, connive at each other, and oppress the people together, and a large number of gentry and landlords who have a relationship with the eunuchs are derived, and the imperial decree is difficult to get out of the palace, and the majesty of His Majesty exists in name only.

In order to change the status quo, it is necessary to emulate the Han Dynasty, depose the hundred schools, respect Confucianism, restore the imperial examination system, and select talents by examination.

Second, the empire needs to carry out tax reform. The current tax burden of the empire is mainly divided into two parts, one is the land tax, that is, the tax levied according to the land, and the other is the commercial tax, that is, the tax burden formed by commercial circulation, which can also be called tolls. are no longer fit for the situation.

Let's talk about Tian Fu first, after His Majesty overthrew the tyranny of the Sima clan, he reduced Tian Fu by half, in order to show the emperor's grace and sympathize with the suffering of the people. However, the reduction of land endowment did not really make the life of the poor people easier, but made some land-owning landlords and gentry rich, resulting in a serious imbalance between the power of the landlord class and the peasant class, and making the oppression of the peasant class by the landlord class more and more serious.

For example, originally one acre of land needed to pay three yuan tax, but now one and a half dollars or even less is paid for one acre of land, and the reduced tax revenue is not used to increase the income of the peasants, but is all put into the pockets of the landlords, so that the landlords can recruit troops and horses in the local area, establish armed forces, and force the peasants to exchange more labor for remuneration, but on the contrary, it increases the burden of the broad masses of the people, forming a strong landlord class, coupled with the current system of electing officials, so that the landlords and gentry conspire with each other, deceive the superiors and subordinates, and fish and meat in the township.

Not only that, since the reign of His Majesty, the wind and rain have been smooth, the country and the people are safe, and a lot of the land that was abandoned in the past has been reclaimed as agricultural land, and these lands have been monopolized by the landlords, which has further enriched the landlords' money bags, and the treasury is empty, and the people are hungry. The reform method is to recalculate the land, redistribute the land, and appropriately raise the tax per mu.

Speaking of business endowment, commercial endowment is the tax burden paid by business people passing through a specific area, which seems to be reasonable, but in fact does not conform to the current situation. Stimulated by His Majesty's mercantile policy, it was the merchants who went hand in hand with the landlord class and reaped a great deal of benefits. They traded with both foreign and internal trade, and they had to pay very little tolls to make huge profits, and they had built a business empire that could not be underestimated, and they had the wealth of the country, and with them a variety of profit models, of which trade was only a part, and the taxes levied on them were very few compared to the abundance of profits. The reform method is that in addition to tolls, the government should also collect two types of taxes: business tax and trade tax, and as long as there is a buying and selling relationship, the tax should be collected.

In addition, the large number of gentry and landlords had seriously affected the rule of the imperial power, resulting in serious inequality against the common people, and the empire needed to fight for a part of the property tax to fill the treasury.

3. Clearly divide the provinces and establish effective administrative institutions.

The empire was now mainly roughly divided into southern, northern, and border borders, and was administered on a city-by-city basis, so that the cities developed unevenly, constrained each other, competed with each other, and were not well planned. Chu Xiu believed that the regions should be redivided by county, county, and province, and the official order of the imperial officials should be effectively planned, so that the imperial capital could plan the future development of various regions in a unified manner.