"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
In the court hall, all the officials knelt down in front of Jiang Beiran and shouted.
"Stay flat."
Hearing the emperor's voice, all the officials slowly stood up and looked towards the emperor, and at this look, many sharp-eyed officials were stunned.
"Eldest Princess (Princess Mingyue)!?"
Blinked hard twice, and after reading it several times, the ministers were sure that they were not mistaken, the one standing behind the emperor was the princess of the former dynasty!
'Why is the eldest princess here? ''How did the eldest princess become a court lady? ''What is the emperor's intention of bringing her to court? 'Wait and so on, the ministers couldn't help thinking about it, but on the surface, they all stood up straight, without squinting, and there was no look of surprise at all.
When the court is full of loyal and patriotic ministers, the court meeting becomes extremely lively. After all, loyal ministers are one of their characteristics. Even in the face of the emperor, they dare to advise anything, and they will die at every turn.
As for the things these ministers advised, as long as he didn't skip the option, Jiang Bei would basically reply, "Just do what Ai Qing said." "Ai Qing has worked hard." "Ai Qing has done a good job."
After all, as a leader, what he has to do is to hand over all kinds of troubles to capable people, instead of doing everything by him.
So when he had a group of trustworthy ministers, what Jiang Beiran needed to do was to listen to how things were going and to praise some ministers with outstanding achievements.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Anmin Order of Wuling County has already begun to be implemented, and all town government offices have posted announcements. I believe that the people in exile will return soon."
Just as Jiang Beiran was about to open his mouth to praise, he saw two options pop up.
[Option 1: "Ai Qing has worked hard" Completion reward: Chain Armor Pill Code (mysterious top grade)]
[Option 2: "Oh? Wuling County? Is what Aiqing said true?" Completion reward: random basic skill point +1]
Looking at option two, Jiang Beiran remembered that he had been to Wuling County, where corrupt officials were rampant, prostitution was rampant, and there were all kinds of temples everywhere. There were more than 800 ancestral halls for King Jinyang Liu Yueli alone.
In Sheng Kingdom, there are many kings with different surnames, and many of these kings are not conferred by the emperor, but nepotism of many decent sects.
For example, a child from an ordinary family was found to have a talent for cultivation and went to the sect. Afterwards, this child relied on his outstanding talent to be promoted all the way in the sect and became a middle-level leader in the sect.
At this time, he must benefit his family.
Practitioners look down on the imperial court, but as ordinary people, they still love to be an official. The sect will naturally not refuse such a small request as a rookie in the sect.
'Your father wants to be an official? What's the point of being an official, just give him a king. '
How can a decent sect that doesn't pay much attention to the emperor care about a king? Going through the process casually, many times there is a new king somewhere without the emperor knowing.
And this Jinyang King Liu Yue is such an existence.
As for why the officials of Wuling County built so many ancestral halls for Jinyang Wang Linyue? Is it respect for King Jinyang from the heart? Of course not, the officials just want to exploit the people wantonly through frequent sacrifices.
After exploiting the money of these common people, the officials will also take part of it to honor the King of Jinyang, and then with the acquiescence of the King of Jinyang, they will be even more unscrupulous. Ordinary people pay, do not pay? That is disrespecting King Jinyang, a crime of disrespect, kill!
After recalling Wuling County, Jiang Beiran chose the second and asked, "Oh? Wuling County? Is what Aiqing said true?"
[Optional task completed, reward: forging +1]
The official was taken aback after hearing this, the emperor clearly gave all affirmative sentences just now, how come he has become interrogative sentences
This made him understand that the emperor was definitely not asking blindly, so he quickly knelt down and said, "I deserve death for my crimes."
Jiang Beiran frowned, and said, "Your life is enough to die once. Tell me, what's going on in Wuling County."
The official didn't even dare to raise his head, so he just replied: "Officials in Wuling County ignore the imperial court because they are protected by King Jinyang, and they rarely obey the orders issued by the imperial court in recent years."
"Then why did you hide this matter just now?" Jiang Beiran asked in a neutral tone.
The official kneeling on the ground was silent for a long time, and finally replied as if he had made a decision: "Reporting to Your Majesty, Wuling County has too many sect forces involved, and I am worried..."
"Worried that not only will I not be able to control them, but I will be harmed by them?"
Hearing the emperor's very flat tone, the official couldn't help but tremble.
Seeing that the minister didn't answer, Jiang Beiran knew that he had guessed right, but this Wuling County can make this stern minister who is about to die at every turn not dare to impeach, which shows that the problem is really big.
Five fingers tapped on the dragon case for a while, and Jiang Beiran said, "Do you know what crime you committed?"
The official below was silent for a moment, and replied: "Return to Your Majesty, I am sincere, just for..."
"What I'm asking is what crime did you commit!"
Hearing the emperor's accentuated tone, the trembling official replied in a trembling voice: "Wei... what my minister committed was the crime of deceiving the emperor."
"Very good." Jiang Beiran nodded, then glanced around at the other ministers and said, "Is there anyone else who, like Minister Ning, hides it for the good of the court and for the good of me?"
All the ministers hurriedly knelt down together after hearing this, their hearts were filled with admiration for the emperor besides fear.
They didn't expect the emperor to catch the only problematic one among the many reports with such precision, which showed that the emperor knew far more than they imagined.
In just two months, the new emperor brought them too many surprises.
A large number of treacherous and corrupt officials were dismissed by means of thunder, and the structure of the imperial court was restructured, and the centralization of power was strengthened.
With such a method, many old officials were amazed, and it was hard to believe that the emperor had never been in contact with court affairs before.
But it is also because the emperor's methods are too tough, and he is fearless. It doesn't matter who the officials who come to the court, as long as they are incompetent, they will all be beaten back, so they dare not poke this matter. break.
Because regardless of the "Zongmen King", it is already an unspoken rule in the court, after all, there are too many bloody examples in front of them.
"It is impossible for the imperial court to defeat the sect."
This concept is deeply imprinted in each of their minds.
So they didn't want this young and energetic new emperor to fight against the sect. Firstly, the good situation fell short, and secondly, they didn't want to lose this long-awaited Mingjun.
Looking down, Jiang Bei smiled and said, "They all kneeled? Could it be that they all concealed things?"
At this time, the Taiwei standing in the front shouted: "I implore Your Majesty to think twice!"
As soon as someone took the lead, other ministers also shouted: "Your Majesty, please think twice!"
Seeing so many loyal ministers and good ministers "remonstrate to the death", Jiang Beiran also understood for a while that it was impossible to erase their fear of the sect in their hearts. Although they deceived the emperor, in a sense, He could also think they were protecting him in this way.
After all, these ministers still don't know where they came from, so it can be said that it is reasonable to deal with them in this way.
"Let's retreat." Jiang Beiran glanced at Wang Shougui next to him and said.
Wang Shougui was taken aback for a moment, and then quickly raised his voice and shouted, "Back ~ Chao!!!"
Under the surprised eyes of all the ministers, Jiang Beiran left Xuanting Hall straight away.
Although the ministers were a little confused, they immediately shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
After standing up again, all the ministers looked at each other with doubts on their faces.
Only Shi Lang Ning heaved a long sigh of relief. Since the emperor did not punish him, but directly announced his withdrawal from the imperial court, at least his little life should be saved.
Leaving Xuan Ting Hall all the way to the outskirts of the palace, but the ministers still dare not share what happened just now, because the emperor's sudden appearance in front of them for the first time was too impressive.
So it wasn't until they left the imperial city that the ministers gathered together in twos and threes to discuss what happened today in their own way.
Walking on the way to the Jingxin Hall, Jiang Beiran looked at Deng Xianghan behind him and asked, "Have you ever seen this scene today?"
Deng Xianghan hesitated for a moment, finally nodded and said: "I have never seen it, but I have heard of it."
"Has the imperial court ever contended with the sect?"
"Yes." Deng Xianghan nodded, "But the end result is not very good."
"How is it not good, tell me in detail."
The story is not long, and Deng Xianghan finished talking shortly after the group walked back to the study. Simply put, Deng Bo wanted to show off when he first came to the throne.
Because like Jiang Beiran, before he ascended the throne, the big bosses of the righteous and the evil also said that they would follow him.
This made Deng Bo full of confidence when doing things.
Soon, Deng Bo, who had just ascended the throne, encountered the first very unsatisfactory thing, that is, the taxes in one area were always unable to be collected, which made him very uncomfortable.
After some investigation, he found out that the area was under the jurisdiction of a sect-appointed king. At that time, Deng Bo believed that he had Guan Shi'an as his backer. What "Zongmen king" couldn't be controlled by him
So he asked Da Si Nong to send people to forcefully collect taxes from that land, but all the people sent by the court disappeared.
Deng Bo, who was furious, immediately repaired a letter and sent it to Guan Shi'an.
However, this letter seems to have disappeared into the sea, and there has been no reply for a long time.
It wasn't until Deng Bo collided with the sect again that he didn't believe in evil, and he finally received Guan Shi'an's reply.
The meaning of the letter is simple, it means that you should take care of those people who are not covered by the king, and those who are surrounded by the king, you should just turn a blind eye.
Hearing this, Jiang Beiran was not surprised at all, and even felt that this was something Guan Shi'an would do.
Because through several conversations, Jiang Beiran knew that Guan Shi'an really felt that being an emperor was a joke.
'I hope that the current Sect Master Guan has a little bit of this awareness after being influenced by Yin Jianghong, otherwise it will be really difficult. '
Because according to what Deng Xianghan said, this Guan Shi'an is very much like the kind of parent who said to the teacher at the beginning of school, "Teacher, if my child is disobedient, you can beat him to death. It doesn't matter."
As a result, the teacher just made his son stand for a class, and the parent ran to the school to scold the teacher.
"The two old men are not worrying..."
After listening to the "story", Jiang Beiran looked at Mu Yao who wanted to speak repeatedly and said, "What do you want to say?"
"No wonder Daddy always says that the Zongmen is too corrupt! Listen to this matter, you can't even stop the Zongmen from oppressing the common people. How dare you pretend to be upright? You really laughed out loud!"
"So what's your opinion?"
"Look for my dad! He will definitely clean up those sects."
"It's really smart to let the leader of the demon sect clean up the decent sect. Then do you think Sect Master Guan will stand up for the decent sect? Or will he stand up for the decent sect?"
Kong Qianqian who was also listening at the side couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, what's the difference between these two sentences?"
Jiang Beiran took a look at her and said, "Hey, Qianqian, you'd better peel an orange for me."
"Follow the order." Kong Qianqian ran away after finishing speaking.
On the other side, Mu Yao, who already understood Jiang Beiran's meaning, said: "So if that Sect Master Guan can't realize the seriousness of this problem, there is no other way?"
But Jiang Beiran fell into silence and did not answer her question.
Jiang Beiran felt that the reason why Guan Shi'an would write such a letter to Deng Bo at that time was that he really had no idea about the emperor and ordinary people, and secondly, he was only Xuanhuang at that time, not as good as he is now. strong deterrent.
Then when encountering such a problem, he would naturally not turn against other sects for a small court.
Now that Guan Shi'an has been influenced by Yin Jianghong for so long, his concept of the imperial court should have changed slightly. In addition, he is already Xuanzong, and his courage should be far greater than before.
'But I always feel that it won't go so smoothly...'
Sighing, Jiang Bei retreated from the screen, came to the courtyard on his own, and let out the Xie carving Yin Jianghong gave him.
Because he still has one more thing to do before going to Guan Shi'an, that is, the [Tell Yin Jianghong about this conversation afterwards] option that was triggered yesterday has not been completed yet.
In less than a stick of incense, Yin Jianghong had already appeared at the door of the study, but Jiang Beiran was not too surprised.
Although he had clearly written this matter in the letter, Jiang Beiran felt that Yin Jianghong should be eavesdropping on the two choices yesterday, so he would have a lot to talk to himself about. talked about.
In the courtyard, looking at Jiang Beiran who came out, Yin Jianghong said, "You did a good job. You have obtained the key information so quickly. You are really excellent."
Jiang Beiran replied with a smile: "It's not that I'm good, but that the princess is the most likely to tell the whole story if I ask about it."