Under the dim light, the palace people coming and going were cleaning up the mess on the ground of the bedroom. The ground was covered with broken vase tiles, and there were light golden broken veils falling on the tiles.

There are traces of swords on the surrounding walls.A strong smell of blood could still be smelled in the air. It was the blood from the assassins' bodies that had dripped on the ground and hadn't been washed away.

Xie Xun was sitting on the couch in a white coat, his face was pale, and the temperature of his body was also dropping rapidly, as cold as when he just came out of ice water in the twelfth lunar month.

Originally, after the original owner kicked the assassin last time, the vitality of his body had not been fully commanded, and when he had just responded to the assassination, he had to hold on to block the assassin's attack several times, so after sitting down now, his heart beat faster. It became more and more intense, and the pain in the chest became more and more obvious.

This body is still too weak after all.

Xie Xun clutched his chest, his brows were furrowed because of the severe pain. The surrounding palace people gently cleaned up the mess on the ground, and they didn't dare to make a sound to disturb him.

The candlelight flickered, and the time passed by every minute and every second. The moon jumped out of the clouds and hung high above the sky, casting a layer of silver light on the restored peaceful palace.

Xie Xun let out a breath, calmly took out a snow-white handkerchief from the dark compartment of the dragon couch, covered his lips and coughed twice.

The smell of blood filled the whole mouth, Xie Xun squeezed the handkerchief into a ball and put it aside, the snow-white handkerchief was faintly red.

Seeing this, the palace people next to him hurriedly brought tea cups to offer.

After rinsing his mouth with tea, Xie Xun felt that the smell of blood in his mouth was much less, and his frowning brows relaxed a little. He was putting down the teacup when footsteps came from outside the palace door.

From far to near.

"Your Majesty." The white-faced eunuch hurriedly pushed open the palace door and walked in. Behind him was a young eunuch who was holding a tray in his hand. On top of the tray was a white jade bowl. The brown liquid medicine contained in it.

"Your Majesty, the small one has already boiled the medicine you asked for." After Liu Kang finished speaking, he paused and said, "The little one and Xiao Linzi watched the medicine brewing all the time. Except for the imperial doctor who handled it, these medicinal materials No one has touched it."

"Bring it up." After Xie Xun finished speaking, he raised his eyes again, and looked at the little eunuch who was following Liu Kang. It was the little eunuch left behind from the day of the assassination. Unexpectedly, Liu Kang said that he would take him to train him. Some days, these days really brought him by my side.

I just don’t know what Liu Kang has taught this little eunuch. The little eunuch’s eyes are not at all like the fear before, but more like the eyes of fanatic believers seeing faith... fiery?

Xie Xun thought a little uncertainly, smelling the strong smell of medicine on the tip of his nose, and turned his head to see that Liu Kang had brought the medicine in front of him.

The prescription was prescribed by Xie Xun himself. He had experienced a world in which he knew something about medical skills because of the identity of the original owner, so when he smelled it, he knew that the bowl of medicine had not been tampered with. Hand and foot.

It seems that, as Liu Kang said, the two are guarding closely.

Xie Xun lowered his eyes, took the medicine bowl and brought it to his mouth, then swallowed it in one breath.

The medicine is extremely bitter and has a strong smell. Liu Kangshou was so suffocated when he boiled the medicine. Seeing the young emperor swallowing it in one go, he didn't even move his brows, and immediately showed a look of reverence and distress. .

"Your Majesty drank it all in one breath, really amazing." Liu Kang took the bowl and exaggeratedly exclaimed.

"The little one tasted it when I tested the temperature before, and my tongue almost didn't feel the bitterness."

These words are very familiar. In the memory of the original owner when he was a child, Liu Kang would come to this scene every time before and after drinking the medicine.

Xie Xun twitched the corners of his mouth, drew his attention from his memory, and returned the bowl to Liu Kang, "I am no longer a child, you don't need to coax me like this anymore."

Liu Kang patted his mouth with a smile, "I'm so used to talking, I forgot that His Majesty has grown up."

Xie Xun waved his hand to make them retreat. After being tortured by this assassination until midnight, he felt that he was exhausted.

Although it was expected that the family would counterattack when they decided to place them in the court, they did not expect the family's actions to be so fast. In just one afternoon, three or four batches of assassins came.

Xie Xun's eyes were cold. There were as many loopholes in this palace as a sieve. As for the imperial guards, they could not be counted on. The power of the aristocratic family had infiltrated the palace for many years. On the surface, the imperial guards seemed to have no problems, but in fact their defense was not good at all. .

As soon as something happened to him, the news would reach the ears of the nobles of the family immediately.

What can be relied on now is the Black Eagle Guard and the 50 troops stationed on the frontier.

It's just that the army can't come back for a while, and the big families have private soldiers. These few assassinations can only be regarded as small troubles. If the families are really desperate to fight back against him, I'm afraid the two thousand Black Eagle Guards can't protect him. He is fine.

Thinking so, Xie Xun showed no fear at all. If he wanted to pull out these long-established families, he would have to go through this hard battle sooner or later.

In the final analysis, this body is still limited. If it is a healthy body, even if it does not have the cultivation level of the previous life, relying on its own fighting skills alone, these assassins will not be able to get close.

It's a pity that this body is weak enough to kick the assassin with all his strength, and he has to cultivate for several months.

The next day, the morning light was faint.

Xie Xun went to the morning court as usual, because he abolished many ministers when he "raged" yesterday, perhaps because he was afraid that he would splash blood on the Qiankun Palace again, and the opposition from the morning court subsided a lot.

Even if he proposed to try out the imperial examination method, there were only three people who opposed it.

The three of them were neutral, and the reason for their opposition was not because the imperial examination law harmed the interests of the aristocrats, but because they were really afraid of the instability of the country.

From ancient times to the present, the road to reform and reform has never been smooth and smooth. Most reforms or reforms in a general direction will bring about a scene of corpses and blood flowing into rivers. In more serious cases, even the country is defeated.

But today's young emperor, after changing the laws of Beiyan, still wants to mobilize the power that the aristocratic family has controlled for hundreds of years, and provoke the aristocratic family to compete with the common people. This is undoubtedly an extremely risky thing.

The aristocratic families are wolf-hearted, but who can guarantee that the upstart folks supported will not become the next aristocratic family?

Therefore, the three of them exchanged in low voices, and sent one of them to step forward as a representative, bowing to each other and saying, "Your Majesty, please think about it again. Whether it is the establishment of the National Academy or the implementation of the imperial examination law, we should not rush it for a while."

"As for His Majesty's request for the collection of labor yesterday, the imperial court is now heavily taxed, and some people are already suffering. If the strong laborers of their families are confiscated again, and the fields are left uncultivated, then those people will not be able to pay taxes and eat. , I’m afraid I’ll be driven to a dead end.”

"The common people are the foundation of the stability of the country. Even if this minister's words will offend His Majesty, the three ministers still have to advise, Your Majesty think twice."

As soon as the voice fell, the three fell to the ground.

"In this case, Your Majesty might as well consider paying taxes with your work?" A young voice suddenly came from outside the door, and then Wang Muzhi, who was dressed in a blue robe, walked in.

"Wang Muzhi, I have met His Majesty."

A minister frowned and asked, "It's early morning, why did Mr. Wang Liulang break in? Although your majesty is close to your royal family, you can't allow you to be so presumptuous."

"My elder brother disappeared in danger on the way back, and his life and death are unknown. After discussion between my father and the elders of the Wang family, I will temporarily take the position of the head of the Wang family. Since I have taken over the position of my elder brother, why is it presumptuous to appear here?" Wang Muzhi looked calm. He opened his mouth to refute, but a look of pain flashed in his eyes.

Those one hundred dead men had already rushed to the place where his eldest brother disappeared overnight, but no news has been sent back so far.

The minister who questioned originally stopped talking for a moment. This is the abdication of the official position within the aristocratic family. Every patriarch of a big aristocratic family has a position with considerable power in the court. Substitution will follow.

The three kneeling on the ground frowned and stared at Wang Muzhi for a long time. After a while, one of them said, "But I don't know Wang Liulang... No, Patriarch Wang, what do you mean by working to pay taxes?"

Wang Muzhi bowed to Xie Xun again, "Speaking of which, this method was also discussed with His Majesty before. The meaning of deduction of tax by work is for those families who have been recruited for labor. Lower the working hours, and then set a fixed total working hours to offset the amount of tax proportionally. This not only achieves the purpose of recruiting labor, but also reduces the complaints of the people. On the contrary, in order to offset the tax, some difficult families will voluntarily sign up .”

"This method..." The three ministers were startled, thoughtful. "It's not impossible."

Wang Mu knew it well, this method was not his idea, but something he had experienced in his previous life, and it was proposed by the new king. According to this method, it was also a collection of labor. The people are called the King of Mercy.

Seeing that the three were silent, he glanced at the rest of His Highness's ministers, raised his head deliberately to show a proud look, "Furthermore, Your Majesty's building the National Academy is also a good thing to open up the wisdom of the people and cultivate talents. I think this plan is useless." If anything goes wrong, if it is implemented well, it will be an act of good fortune for thousands of years."

The three ministers looked at each other, then kowtowed to Xie Xun and said, "It turns out that His Majesty has plans in mind, but the ministers are worried too much."

The three of them were talking, but they couldn't help but think about what happened yesterday, and their eyes fell on a place in front of the hall. Although the blood there had been cleaned up, the three of them couldn't help but feel a little bit of interest in their eyes.

The injustice of that colleague's death, since His Majesty already had a plan in mind, then what happened yesterday must have deliberately caused chaos, and strangled the chaos to death before the policy was implemented.

The so-called fishing law enforcement, the three ministers looked at Wang Muzhi and sighed again.

This Wang Liulang, it has always been said that he is as noble and pure as the bright moon and the breeze, but he did not expect that he is also ruthless inside.

Thinking about it, how could someone like Mrs. Wang raise a pure and kind person.

However, Wang Muzhi, who was speculated to have a dark heart, was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.

Talking about discussing with His Majesty, he hasn't even seen anyone in the past few days, so how should he explain it later?

Mr. Wang Liulang was depressed.

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