Minister

162【Ten Years of Jiankang】

In Yecheng, a distant border, the city walls are condensed with frost that will not melt.The update is the fastest and the eye is fast. This place is neither protected by the King of Qin, nor owned by the Monan Dynasty. The residents who live here are also local aborigines. Everyone only knows that they have lived on this ice field for generations, and they don’t care about them and their lives. Where do cattle and sheep come from.But after hundreds of years of peace, there is a young Monan nobleman who is as boring as his noble relatives who live in the north.In this place without spring, he wanted to hunt on a whim, but what he hunted was not wild beasts, but—this unknown small town became his target.

This entertaining killing should have been fleeting, but coincidentally, one of Hu Runzhi's guards knew about it. He led the cavalry on his own initiative and reversed the killing.What's even more coincidental is that this matter caught the attention of the eunuch who supervised the factory. Such a small war was compiled into a case file and sent to the capital, and then Eunuch Huang found a suitable time to submit it to the emperor.

All of this did not attract any attention, including Zhou Wenyuan. At the moment, everyone was paying attention to Guo Taifu.

After all, he is a veteran of the two powerful dynasties. Even if Guo Taifu wanted to retire, the people behind him would not allow such a thing to happen.Facing the aggressive cabinet, officials headed by the Ministry of Officials fought desperately.Liu Min knew that there is no reason for the end of the egg under the collapse of the nest. As Taifu Guo's student, he naturally couldn't get rid of the responsibility.Before the debate began, he submitted a memorial to retreat to Nanzhili. Although Song Chuiping of the cabinet had always followed Zhou Wenyuan, he dared to approve his request at this moment.Zhou Wenyuan knew that Taifu Guo had many students, and it was impossible to kill them all, so being able to avoid a powerful character like Liu Min was not necessarily a bad thing, so he took Song Chuiping's move as a tacit approval.But others are not so lucky, Zhou Ge's talents that have been suffocated for half his life now have a stage to show off.

In less than half a month, almost all the officials had new faces except Shangshu Xun Bingchao. Out of gratitude to Eunuch Huang, Jiang Shouping jumped a few steps and became the servant of the official department.

After that came the final blow, Zhou Wenyuan prepared the impeachment memorial, and when he was full of confidence, unexpected news came suddenly—Guo Taifu was ill.

Yes, Taifu Guo is ill.

The news came with a lot of meaning.

For ordinary people, it is normal for Taifu Guo to be ill after going through so many turmoil at such an old age.

But Wei Chi understood that this illness was too coincidental.According to Chen Xing's behavior, since he wanted to drive away Taifu Guo at all costs, he would never allow Zhou Wenyuan to be the second one to crush him.Since Chen Xing couldn't bear to wait for Guo Taifu to become old, and Zhou Wenyuan was younger than Guo Taifu, it was even less likely that Chen Xing would want to torture himself with a younger one.

Zhou Wenyuan naturally knew the reason. He understood that this was one of his few opportunities. Guo Taifu no longer had the ability to resist. What he had to do was to use his power to fight against the imperial power and decide who was the leader of the dynasty. .

While Chen Xing was watching the situation, Eunuch Huang secretly came to see Elder Zhou Ge, and he brought a case file, which described the story of Ye Cheng.

Zhou Wenyuan smiled, he knew that he had already won.

Guo Taifu's illness bought him time, but Xiang Fang from Zhili in the far south got the watermarked version of the case file too late, which finally made Taifu's disease a real disease, no matter how difficult it was.

Wei Chi still reads the case files in Dali Temple, but he has changed from an apprentice to a master.In the past, Zhang Jingzhong was in charge of seven, and he was in charge of five. Now there is a newcomer, Wei Chi is in charge of seven, and the new Youcheng Jiang Bixian is in charge of five.Jiang Youcheng is a bit old, it seems that he has a good friendship with Zhou Ge, and he always seems cautious when getting along with Wei Chi.

At this moment, Li Pan seemed unusually detached from the world.He belongs to the emperor, he already knew the answer to the riddle.

There is only one purpose for Chen Po to implement the New Deal, and that is to make money. He wants to use the stable tax revenue to pay for huge military expenditures.After three years of accumulation, Jiangnan has indeed brought amazing wealth to Chen Zhen's dynasty. As the creator of this wealth, Li Pan naturally knows the huge amount.In comparison, it took ten years to accumulate the Northern Expedition last time, but this time, the time was so short that Chen Yan couldn't believe it.When Eunuch Huang handed over the file appropriately, Chen Xing felt that the time had come.This clean-up of the ruling and opposition forces will determine who will be in line with the emperor's wishes and who will be the important favorites in the future. The time has come for all the courtiers to express their opinions.

The faction is not that important now, whether they support the Tai Tuo or Elder Zhou Ge is not the key, the key is whether they support Chen Xing and whether they understand the reasons behind all Chen Xing's actions.

Everyone knew that Guo Taifu was seriously ill, but they didn't know that this serious illness was because in the last game, he misunderstood Chen Xing's meaning and insisted that the Northern Expedition not be allowed.Speaking of this, even if he is a veteran minister with power, he can only be "seriously ill".

But there are also people who don't think so. Wang Yunyi didn't know that Mr. Zhou Ge had received Huang Gonggong's suggestion in advance. He thought that Guo Taifu would not agree to the Northern Expedition based on his original intention, and he could probably guess Chen Xing's intention.After all, it was a teacher-student relationship, and he was more or less aware of Chen Xing's overjoyed temper. He was not sure what Zhou Wenyuan thought, but he felt that Guo Taifu's resistance to Chen Xing was out of morality.

No one with any sense would agree to the Northern Expedition. Unfortunately, this is an era of meritorious deeds, and not many people in the era of meritorious deeds still retain their reason.

The public's speculation about the emperor's intentions is over. Guo Taifu returned home with his life, and his followers ended up even more miserable. They each received their own crimes, either lost their heads or went to jail.Xiang Fang, who lived far away in Southern Zhili, sighed and could only wait for the punishment of fate.

Wei Chi secretly admired Chen Xing's means—the undead Guo Taifu and Xiang Fang were still powerful weapons to contain Zhou Wenyuan and Huang Gui, and Zhou Da's dream of becoming an extreme minister was actually far away.

Thinking about it, it was Jiang Youcheng that Wei Chi wanted to get rid of more at the moment, and You Cheng was very cautious, and he was always on guard, which made Wei Chi feel uncomfortable.Thinking of Jiang Da's age, he managed to win a fifth-rank official by wooing eunuchs, it was really hard for Wei Chi to hate him.Wei Chi could only hide if he didn't want to be provoked, and devoted himself to learning every day, hoping that Jiang Da would give up when he was tired.

Just when Wei Chi was having a headache, Zhang Da came back and the official was reinstated.

Almost at the same time, those ministers who were transferred and those who were convicted were almost all restored to their posts.After a month of turmoil, everything returned to tranquility, like a farce.

Wei Chi was puzzled, and many of them were also puzzled.

But Wang Yunyi, who was far away from home, smiled. He knew that the good show was about to begin.

This move is really too insidious. Those who came back were different from before. Not only did they come back, but they were also full of hatred.In addition to those who came back, naturally there were also those who went back. Jiang Dazhi and his like who returned to their original positions could not say that they were grateful to Mr. Zhou Ge, and only Mr. Zhou Ge knew what it was like.

Chen Xing had expected that Zhou Wenyuan would not support the Northern Expedition wholeheartedly, so he wanted to cut off his retreat.If Zhou Ge couldn't get on the emperor's boat at this moment, then he would have no boat to get on.

Wei Chi is a doctor of the fifth grade, he can't tell which ship he is on at the moment, since he escaped from the incident with King Yan, Wei Chi is considered to be a non-partisan, and now Liu Min has gone to Nanzhili, let alone being wooed by anyone question.Wei Chi was happy to have a leisurely time, and he went to Populus euphratica to drink tea every day, and Populus euphratica was also happy to be leisurely. Although Shen Yang didn't hold his job, it seemed that he wanted to give him a good bench to sit on, so he took up a seat. Work, white-collar salary, showing off to Wei Chi all day long.

The youngest brother of Populus euphratica wanted to have a wedding before Lixia, and Wei Chi undertook all the wedding invitations and words.Qi Yuan helped him grind the ink, and Wei Chi wrote one by one.

"How old is the groom?" Qi Yuan probably knew Hu Yanglin.

"This year..." Wei Chi calculated: "It's twenty!"

"Then General Hu is your Geng this year?"

"When I met him, he was 25 years old. Calculated in this way, he will be 29 this year... What's wrong?" Wei Chi wrote with sore hands, and put down his pen to rest.

"Why is his younger brother married, but he is not married yet?" Qi Yuan asked with a smile.

"..." Wei Chi thought for a long time: "Well, the eyes are actually higher than the top!"

Qi Yuan didn't believe it: "Look at him, he's quite honest."

"Is he honest?" Wei Chi angrily said, "Since he returned to the capital and entered Beizhen Fusi, the threshold of the house that seeks him as a matchmaker has almost broken the threshold! Those girls are not lacking in the daughters of wealthy families or scholars. He's picky! He's dishonest!"

"Then he's not young anymore, hasn't he found a sweet one yet?"

"It's true...what should he choose? I can't tell you...I really don't know which one he likes." Wei Chi felt that Hu Yanglin was really strange at the moment.

"It looks like, if he knows it's a girl, he might have to fall in love with it." Seeing Wei Chi's serious thinking, Qi Yuan couldn't help laughing at her.

"Look..." Wei Chi felt goosebumps when he thought about this: "In his eyes, he is a man, and he said before that even if he was looking for a man, he would think he was looking for his younger brother." Daughter-in-law, hum!"

sister-in-law?Qi Yuan laughed until her stomach ached.

"Be careful! Don't make the wedding invitation dirty!" Wei Chi hurriedly rescued his calligraphy.

Qi Yuan still couldn't help laughing, Wei Chi simply put down the pen, put his finger to his mouth and let out a breath: "Laughing! Laughing!" Then he scratched towards the itchy spot.Qi Yuan hid while begging for mercy: "Stop laughing, stop laughing, it's wrong!"

Qi Yuan is the most ticklish, and this quarrel is considered to be on point.Seeing that she was about to burst into laughter, Wei Chi stopped: "Hmph!"

"It's strange to say that this Hu Dahe has been together for so long, but he didn't realize it was a girl." Qi Yuan wiped away her tears.

"Who knows what's going on with them? Why? You have to be noticed?" Wei Chi straightened his collar pretending to be reserved.

"Have you never been discovered since you were young?"

"..." Wei Chi thought for a while: "Speaking of which, there is one, but she is far away from Monan."

"Monan?"

"A scary girl... She has very good medical skills, and you can see it right away," Wei Chi couldn't help laughing when he thought of that, "But she has extremely lofty ambitions, so she doesn't bother to expose it."

I don’t know that, what are you doing at this moment?

King Monan has been dead for four years, and this land has already had a new owner. Although Saul Hahan is the eldest princess, she is not ready to divide the power of Wotulei in the years of war.However, although Wo Tuo Lei was seriously ill, he lived in the frontier for a long time, and the nobles in the capital were alienated from him. The remnants who had experienced the baptism of war and the killing of Wang Yunyi still needed someone like Saul Hahan to clean up the mess.Those who have experienced that war will know how difficult it will be to rebuild the capital.Whether it is the ruined palace walls or the empty residential market, it has brought endless distress to her rebuilders.Many nobles who have been slaughtered are unwilling to return to the capital, and even commoners hope that the eldest princess can re-elect the capital.But Saul Hahan still decided to use the old capital as the new city.When Wo Tuo Lei worked hard to go to the various borders of Monan to clean up the remnants of the Alyn Forest, under the supervision of the capital city Saul Hahan, he gradually regained his vitality.

It took three full years to rebuild the capital, and the new capital was renamed Kuranguna, which means a place of dedication and new life.

In the new capital city of Wotolei, he was crowned king, and at the same time, Saul Hahan was crowned as the female prince.This means that Saul Hahan's status in the regime is officially recognized. From this moment on, she is no longer a vanity enshrined, and she begins to control the promotion of national officials and financial power.

The new king of Monan has been energetic, he is no longer limited to contending with the king of Qin in the north, and his existing territory and status can finally achieve his ambitions.Four years is not too long, but it is enough for him to stabilize the government and strengthen the army.With the strong support of Saul Hahan, his cavalry not only cut off the remaining royalists, but also wiped out various small tribes on the edge of the territory, and his prestige was at the height of the day.

As the royal family of the Central Plains closest to the enemy, King Qin will of course dutifully report the situation in Monan to Chen Peng.Chen Xing dismissed this, but King Qin understood his self-confidence—although Monan's recovery came quickly, it was still far behind Daqi.

There are more than [-] cavalry in Monan, and Da Qi has more than [-] million troops, including not only cavalry, but also infantry, artillery, engineers and so on.The cavalry in Monan is still supplied by their respective landowners, and their equipment varies from good to bad. Da Qi has long been in a unified formation, and there are also more well-equipped troops such as Wang Jiajun and Hu Jiajun.From the perspective of city defense, the last Northern Expedition gave Daqi's military department a good opportunity to rebuild the frontier fortress, and the sufficient financial supply made the newly built fortifications better than before.For Monan, the loss caused by the Northern Expedition was huge. After a few years of rest, it barely reached the previous level, and a few outlying lines of defense have not had time to rebuild in the future.

What's more, after Chen Po's Northern Expedition, he reorganized his finances. After the implementation of the New Deal, the taxes in Jiangnan alone were enough to support the country's military expenditures.

He cut off the threat of King Yan, weakened Wang Yunyi's military power, and ruled out dissidents in the court, waiting for such a situation.

So when the capital trembled because of Chen Yan's capriciousness, King Qin Saibei sighed in distress—he still remembered that a few years ago, the aide of King Yan asked Wei Chi to tell him that as long as he was safe, he would be safe. It seems that he is not safe anymore, and he doesn't know what his future is.Ever since King Yan was demoted, King Qin had anticipated the situation today.Without the restraint of King Yan and Wang Yunyi, whether it is Taifu or Xiang Fang, for Chen Xing, cutting them off just needs patience.

What the current Chen Yan lacks is only a general, who can replace Wang Yunyi's expedition.

The north without Wotulei does not need two guards. It is not difficult to imagine that Hu Runzhi is the successor trained by Chen Peng.The King of Qin, Chen Su, had been friends with this man for nearly ten years, but he still couldn't figure out what he was thinking...

"My lord, General Hu asked you to go hunting today..." His subordinates were coming in to report, but Hu Runzhiben rushed in right after him: "My lord, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I got a good Saker falcon today."

"How could it be accidental?" Chen Su was used to his faux pas.

"My lord has a good eye. I got it by chance. I got it by chance today."

"From the concubine?"

"Your Highness is brilliant." Hu Runzhi made no secret of it.

Chen Su, the imperial concubine Hu in the capital, has seen it before. This woman grew up in the frontier, so she is naturally not stunning. She can be a noble concubine, of course, it is due to General Hu's credit.Hu Runzhi, at first sight he will feel that he is extremely honest and honest, but after a long time with him, he will find out that he has a different kind of weirdness and cunning.Not only did he not think that it was Concubine Hu Gui who got his credit, but he showed everywhere that he got his sister's credit. In this era where everyone is scrambling to put aside the status of foreign relatives, it cannot but be said to be strange.

Chen Xing is very good at reading. He can see the extraordinary military talent hidden behind this seemingly honest man, but the brief contact did not let him understand his cunning.

"It's really a good Saker, but it's a pity that it's getting late today, why don't we meet again tomorrow?" Chen Su pointed to the sun that was about to set.

"Hey!" Hu Runzhi pulled out the horse on his own: "Today, I just follow the mood, so I will accompany the prince to hunt in the suburbs."

Anyway, this wasn't the first time something like this happened, and Chen Su followed his good intentions.The evening at Yulongguan is lonely and desolate, with thick clouds in the sky, frost on the ground, and occasionally one or two dwarf trees on the frozen loess.The walls of Yulongguan are as high as Fengyi's, but the view outside the city is too disappointing.

In addition to one or two long-term attendants, King Qin also had a eunuch from Dongchang, which was different from others, and this position was changed every year.The surname Feng who came this time was very quick to handle things, but without Chen Su and Hu Runzhi's knowledge, he drafted the matter of Ye Cheng into a case file and handed it to Huang Gui.

After walking for two or three miles, we got farther away from the city wall, and finally saw a thin hare squatting in the grass.

"You are all waiting here, my lord, just watch!" Hu Runzhi stepped forward alone, and when he got close, he threw the Saker out.

It was indeed a bird of prey. The falcon flew across the plain, and when it caught up to the hare, it suddenly folded its wings. A raptor came down and grabbed the rabbit's tail with one claw. The rabbit instinctively wanted to turn around and resist. , but fell into Saker's trick, and was grabbed by the head by the other claw. Saker flapped its wings and easily soared into the air. When the two claws closed, the rabbit was rolled into a ball.

"Good!" Everyone applauded.

Hu Runzhi was also very proud, and blew his whistle to call the Saker back.

Suddenly, the Saker changed direction and rushed towards Chen Su.Chen Su didn't have time to react, and almost fell off the horse.

"My lord!" Seeing that the falcon was entangled with his lord, Eunuch Feng hurriedly charged up.

Hu Runzhi didn't expect that the Saker falcon would go crazy, so he quickly set up an arrow to shoot.

In a panic, Chen Su saw Hu Runzhi hiding a sly smile at the corner of his mouth—the flying arrow left the string, and the Saker was shot straight.

"Hurry up and protect the prince! Quickly protect the prince!" The long followers also surrounded him.

Chen Su raised the reins coldly: "Look at Eunuch Feng."

The arrow not only shot through Saker Falcon, but also passed through Saker Falcon's body and nailed Eunuch Feng.

Hu Runzhi also ran over yelling: "Eunuch Feng! Eunuch!?"

The arrow was nailed to the shoulder, and the injury was severe. Don't think it belonged to Dongchang. Even if it was replaced with iron, it might not be able to bear it. Eunuch Feng's face was pale and he couldn't say a word.

"Quick! Send Eunuch back to heal!" Hu Runzhi sincerely held Eunuch Feng's hand, and did not let go until Eunuch Feng nodded his head with difficulty.

As the sun went down, the unlucky Dongchang eunuch was transported away.The eunuchs who held this position have gone through so many wars and no one was injured. Now that the two countries have ceased fighting, this father-in-law was seriously injured, and it was caused by himself... What an unlucky thing...

"Hu Runzhi..." Before entering the city, Chen Su finally couldn't help stopping him: "Wait a minute."

Hu Runzhi smiled sincerely: "My lord, please tell me."