The news of the death of the old emperor spread like the wind all over the world. Next is the crown prince ascending the throne, inheriting the unification, respecting his biological mother as the queen mother, and changing the name of the year to Jianing.

And because the new emperor was young and could not handle the government in person, the four ministers of the cabinet headed by the first assistant Han Fang were the ministers who took care of their lives, and the queen mother listened to the government and jointly controlled the court situation.

It's just that today's world is no longer the world it once was, with the death of the old emperor and the reign of the young master, the general trend of the world at this time is like the sea before the storm, on the surface it is not prosperous, but in fact it is already an undercurrent.

As the so-called people's hearts are like water, the people are like smoke, and people with discerning eyes know that in today's world, the hearts of the people have long been shaken, and there is only a thunder on the ground, and the last fig leaf of this so-called peaceful world is removed, which is the real troubled times.

This truth is understood by the so-called discerning people, and the nobles and princes who are in the bureau also understand it.

The key is who is the thunderbolt.

Who is the sword that broke through the illusion of peace at the end of the Great Qi Dynasty.

In whose hands will this sword be held?

However, none of this has anything to do with Xu Beiyou, who is just a passer-by, who can only watch, can't say, and can't do anything.

After leaving Wei, he went south along the East China Sea and landed in Jiangdu.

At this time, Jiangdu is the second largest city after the imperial capital, and it is also the center of gravity of the entire Jiangnan and even the southeast. Although this statement is slightly exaggerated, it can also be seen that Jiangdu is in an important position among the world.

Today's Jiangdu is also very different, now sitting here is a palm seal official, with the power to control the land of several states in the south of the Yangtze River, and its subordinate jurisdiction is located in addition to Jiangdu, including Jiangzhou, Huzhou, Nanzhou, Qizhou and other places.

According to the law system of the Great Qi, the camp seal officer and the non-official position, set up because of the matter, the matter is withdrawn, began in the year when the Emperor Taizu of the Great Qi set up the three major camp seal officials when the southern expedition to Shuzhou, there is the right to control the local three divisions and the forbidden army governor, the overall power of local government affairs and the army, after the establishment of the Great Qi state, the camp seal officer was all abolished, and when the rebellion of the three feudatories during the Chengping period, it was re-established again, and then abolished after the war.

In the following 100 years, the Great Qi Imperial Court successively set up nearly ten palm seal officials, and the camps were no longer limited to the earliest Jiangling, Jiange, and Shaanzhong three major camps, and in the Tianhong period, the people in various places were in turmoil, and there were strong enemies such as sea bandits, northwest grasslands, southern Xinjiang barbarians, and northeast Houjian, so Tianhong Emperor Xiao Zaihou set up Jiangdu Xingying Palm Seal Officer, Northern Capital Xingying Palm Seal Officer, Zhongdu Xingying Palm Seal Officer, Jincheng Xingying palm seal officer and other four palm seal officials, and Jiangdu Xingying palm seal official is the most powerful, the highest status, looking at the entire court situation, it is also pivotal, its candidate is the court official, out of the head of the military and government, the people of the time called "the first important task of the marshal".

Today's Jiangdu Xingying palm seal official surname Wu, named Wu Huan, born in Qizhou Wu, is a generation of official eunuchs, his great-grandfather official to the East Pavilion University scholar, worship the prime minister into the cabinet, his grandfather official to Jiangzhou political envoy, his father has served as the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Rites, Zuodu Imperial History and other positions, his uncle and brother also have large and small official positions, in his generation, with his highest official position, sitting in Jiangnan, feudal officials.

On the occasion of the new monarch's accession to the throne, there was another civil unrest in Jiangnan, which made the Jiangdu camp seal official who was sitting in Jiangnan anxious, and convened his subordinates in the official residence to discuss the matter of quelling the rebellion.

Because this civil unrest involved the two major camps of Jiangdu Xingying and Jincheng Xingying, there were two voices this time, one faction was headed by the political envoy of Huzhou, and he advocated to negotiate with Jincheng Xingying to resolve the matter, after all, everyone was on an errand for the imperial court, and there was no need to divide too much of each other. The other faction is headed by the political envoy of Jiangzhou, because Qizhou has been removed from the jurisdiction of Jiangdu Xingying in the twelfth year of Tianhong, so he thinks that there is no need to inform Jincheng Xingying, and directly solve the civil unrest by Jiangdu Xingying, and then write to participate in Jincheng Xingying's dereliction of responsibility, it is best to revoke this Jincheng Xingying, which is ranked last in the four major Xingying, and put Shuzhou under the jurisdiction of Jiangdu Xingying, so as to make up for the vacancy of losing Qizhou.

The two factions were at loggerheads, one faction reprimanded the other for not giving priority to state affairs, and the other faction retorted that this was to complete the battle in one battle, and there must be no such thing as multiple orders. At this time, the surname of the Jiangzhou political envoy is surnamed Wei, the descendant of Lai Guogong, and the Huzhou political envoy is surnamed Zhuge and the descendants of the Duke of Eguo, all of whom are generations of ministers. The two have the same official positions and family backgrounds, so they don't give in to each other, which makes the atmosphere drop to a freezing point.

In the lobby at this time, there is a map of the situation of the entire southeast half of the wall, which replaces the original unicorn pattern, and draws lines symbolizing the offensive with a red pen on the map, and then circles Nanzhou again.

Wu He sat behind the big case in the middle, after all, he was an official for many years, and he was good at cultivating his energy, but at this time, he closed his eyes and recuperated and ignored the chaos in front of him.

On the left and right sides of the big case are two rows of seats, and the people sitting on them are all Xuan robes and green robes - the Great Qi court advocates black, so high-ranking officials above the third rank can wear dark official clothes, and six grades and above can wear blue official clothes.

As the feudal official who commands several states in the south of the Yangtze River, the Jiangdu Xingying Seal Officer is naturally one of the first ranks, second only to the central cabinet ministers, in addition, the political envoys of the states, the envoys of the inspectors, and the commanders are also from the second and third grades, and then down are the prefects of the prefectures, garrisons, etc., between the fourth and fifth grades. If an assassin could assassinate all the dozens of people in the lobby, the entire Jiangnan would immediately be in chaos, and then the whole world would be in chaos.

Xu Beiyou sat on an idle chair at the end of the right side, quietly looking at the people in the lobby.

But no one in the hall saw the young man, and in their eyes, there was only an empty chair that happened to be unattended, and there was nothing surprising about it.

Xu Beiyou looked at the face of the palm seal official who was closing his eyes and recuperating, elegant and graceful, although he was already at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, he was still a rare beautiful man, which made Xu Beiyou can't help but think of the woman with the same surname as this feudal official.

If he remembers correctly, Wu Yu's father was an official in Qizhou.

When he came to Jiangdu this time, he originally wanted to find traces of the Sword Sect, but unfortunately he didn't find it.

In the Ganquan Palace, the imperial capital of Chengping's twenty-four years, Xu Beiyou dreamed of his life under Qiu Si's prayer wheel, first appeared in the Ganquan Palace, the imperial capital of Tianhong's thirteenth year, and then wandered all the way to this place, from beginning to end, he could only be a passer-by outsider, and could not affect the insiders.

The last person who had such a magical experience was Xiao Yu, the emperor of the Great Qi Taizu, inferred from the fragment of words left by Xiao Yu himself, he was actually attached to Xiao Yu after the year of Jiazi, seeing what he saw, feeling what he felt, he couldn't move as freely as Xu Beiyou now, so Xu Beiyou gave birth to a bold idea, the reason why he is like a wandering "lonely soul and wild ghost" is because there is no Xu Beiyou in the world at this time?