Since last year, the death of He Chong is not the first death of a minister.

As early as last year, Xie Pei and Zhong Ya passed away one after another, although neither of them worked in Xingtai, but their respective deaths also brought different troubles to Xingtai.

First of all, Xie Yi's death made Xie Yi, the general of Detongguan Town, have to go to Ding Wei, and his ministry is temporarily replaced by Li Bing, the governor of Hedong. However, after determining that a general attack on the country will be launched in May this year, there is no time to take care of too many favors, Xie Yi has been mourning for a few months, and not long before Xingtai has issued an edict to seize the affection, and he went to Xingyang to lead the soldiers of the Yuzhou military government to wait for the opportunity to enter.

Before Zhong Ya's death, he was still in the position of Zhongshu Ling, presiding over the affairs of Jiankang Xingtai. Although in recent years, Taicheng has become more and more elevated, but Xingtai is far away in Luoyang, and it is also a cumbersome affair, and if the details of Jiangdong's government affairs and official governance cannot be taken into account in a timely manner, it is also necessary to temporarily build a healthy Taicheng.

In the past few years, Zhong Ya has cooperated very well with Xingtai, and his people are not arbitrary, and the previous rulers such as Yu Liang, Chu Yu, Zhuge Hui and others are not the same, and there is not so much resistance to Shen's Nanren taking charge of state affairs, of course, this is also determined by the general trend, but Zhong Ya himself can judge the situation and sit in Jiangdong.

In the past few years, Shen Zhezi has also inherited this favor, because he is also sad about Zhong Ya's death, and he is more sad than Liu Chao, and he gives a very high posthumous gift.

After Zhong Ya's death, Jiangdong did not have a person who presided over the town, although there was still Guozhang Wei Chong. But Wei Chongqi is a person, so flashy, empty, and just a guest, and he really can't count on real affairs.

With the death of Zhong Ya, it can also be said that the influence of the old people in the current situation of Zhongxing has completely come to an end, and now both inside and outside the north and south, all those in their positions are those who have been in the ministry with the strong rise of the Shen family over the years. As for the people who talked about the old years, whether it was the old people of Yuefu or the old Qingxu of the Yuan Emperor's lineage, although it cannot be said that they are gone, they are also incalculable.

In fact, after Zhong Ya's death, especially during the period of New Year's Eve, there was a trend of discussion and respect in both Xingtai and Jiangdong, and this time even religious figures from the Heavenly Master Dao participated. There is no shortage of voices in the government and the opposition, and there is a heated discussion that the general should go further.

Even Xingtai Xie Shang and others discussed the specifications of Jiuxi, and even suggested that they hoped that the prince Shen Yu would return to Jiankang Yunyun first.

Shen Zhezi is not greedy for the throne, and he also knows in his heart that this is a necessary way, and if he does not take it when he should take it, the road will only get narrower and narrower in the future. But he didn't lose his weight because of this, a similar topic had actually been carried out a few years ago, and Shen Zhezi already had a quite mature idea at that time.

Now that the old thing is brought up again, his attitude is still the same, that is, the bottom line must not be lost. Before that, if he overstepped it, it would be to rebel against the rebellion, which would not only be detrimental to the establishment of the current new order, but would also become a laughing stock after thousands of generations, which was a very bad example.

"Before you die, don't talk about it!"

Recently, Shen Zhezi has also repeatedly expressed his stance to his cronies, and his demeanor is not lacking in seriousness, lest they be clever and mistakenly think that they are obsessed with the imminent situation, and they want to engage in some tricks of three things and three concessions. Before he completely kills the kingdom of Qian, he will never think of being greedy for position and unrighteousness.

After stopping this demonic wind, Shen Zhezi did not continue to carry someone to replace Zhong Ya in Taicheng, on the one hand, there was no suitable candidate, and on the other hand, there was no need for this.

Zhong Ya was able to be in this position, mainly to give the north and south the current a buffer and time to accept. In the past few years, the authority of Xingtai has become more and more solid, and it is already redundant to establish a so-called Taicheng in Jiangdong to govern.

Moreover, people's minds always change due to circumstances, and the new candidates have not experienced the tragedy of the various political battles in Jiangdong earlier and the great harm brought to the world, so they will not have Zhong Ya's courtesy. Once the big position is suddenly obtained, it is inevitable that the imagination will come to mind, which is to set up trouble for the line.

Even after Zhong Ya's death, Shen Zhezi felt that there was no need to keep Taicheng, because he appointed Wang Shu to return to Jiankang as Guangluxun, preside over the emperor's relocation of the capital, and officially move the imperial system to Luoyang. This process is very long, and it may not be completed in one or two years, but the official office of Taicheng Palace and Temple has been gradually abolished, and various functions have been put into the line, which has already begun to be carried out.

As for Jiankang's government affairs, his father Shen Chong needed to avoid suspicion, so Shen Zhezi appointed his second uncle Shen Ke as Jing Zhaoyin. This appointment is a little unreasonable, because Shen Ke has been in charge of the Shen family's business affairs in the past years, although there are also officials and lords, but they are all some false positions, and the sudden increase in the first county is too guarded, and the span is a bit large.

And this appointment is Shen Zhezi's side response to the previous trend of respecting people. Since then, Jiangdong has become the Shen family's own land, which needs to be absolutely controlled. Of course, after appointing Wei Chong as the assassin of Yangzhou, it was to add another layer of wrapping this intention so as not to appear aggressive.

Generally speaking, with the father staying in Jiangdong, coupled with the past years of operation, even if the situation in Jiangdong has changed, it is still developing in a good way, and it will not bring actual interference to Xingtai.

Having said that, sometimes Shen Zhezi has to believe in some metaphysics. First of all, his ability to come to this world is the greatest mystery, of course, this is not enough to shake his materialistic views that he has cultivated for many years, obsessed with ghost and god affairs.

Another point of mystery is that although the old and the new are frequently changed in the north and south now, their Shen family, as a prosperous family, has rarely had mourning in recent years. Of course, there are normal births, old age, sickness and death, but there are not many of them, and the real backbone people such as the cousins of my father's generation are not strong and sick at all.

This phenomenon sometimes really makes Shen Zhezi have to sigh, maybe there is really some destiny in the dark.

This kind of luck, in fact, also exists in the Karma Kingdom, such as Shi Le is only from a poor family in the Karma Hu, the lowly of the lowly, and even once became a slave, and it is very different that he has become the overlord of the north through self-struggle, and his successor Shi Hu, aside from the cruelty and beastly character, is actually quite good, at least to be able to maintain the Karma Kingdom for a long period of time, which is enough to boast.

If the luck brought by this kind of destiny can be divided a little, Shen Zhezi hopes to be able to take care of another deceased, that is, Shanyao.

The mountain is far away, the law enforcement is fierce, and there are many people under the rule of the entire Xingtai who want him to die well, but this does not include Shen Zhezi. Shen Zhezi really hoped in his heart that Shan Yao could live a long life and continue to help him rectify the rule of officials and clean up the trend.

Although Shanyao's law enforcement is fierce, it can always be upright and impartial, which is far beyond Li Hong's, so much so that after his death at the beginning of the year, more than two months have passed, and Shen Zhezi has not been able to find a fully qualified replacement.

Of course, this is not to say that in the past few years, there have been no law enforcement talents in Xingtai, on the contrary, there are many more, and there are even many people in the museum who flaunt their criminal names. In the past year, Shan Yao has been riddled with old and sick, and the specific law enforcement and supervision affairs have been carried out by his subordinate Bian Zhang and others, and they are rarely biased.

But a character like Shan Yao still needs a certain amount of luck to get it. He was born in a famous family, but he did not have the flashy and frivolous vices of famous Chinese and Korean families, because when he was enforcing the law, he had a kind of grandeur in addition to the fierceness. As a law enforcer, it is quite offensive, infamy is inevitable, Shan Yao can put aside the old reputation of the family, and stick to the law, which is an innate endowment.

The two cool officials in Xingtai, compared with Shanyao, Li Hong is much more flexible and will not completely disregard human feelings, which is also one of the reasons why his reputation is not as good as Shanyao, and he loves feathers and loses feathers.

There is no shortage of criminal talents among the Han scholars, and there is no reputation tie, so it is definitely easier to use than Shanyao, but because of this, it is easy to lose the bottom line, the punishment is overflowing, and the true meaning of law enforcers is lost, and even this is used as a means of flattery. This is also one of the reasons why the cool officials have lacked a good reputation throughout the ages.

Shen Zhezi once wanted to recall Wang Meng back to the Xingtai to sharpen his cultivation, but he also understood that Wang Meng's talent did not stop at this, and the use of great talents was a limitation. What's more, Wang Meng's subordinates also performed well in the war in northern Shaanxi, and it is not appropriate to withdraw it.

Recently, in addition to supervising the dispatch of people and things on all sides, Shen Zhezi has also taken the time to read, reading some ancient books of Shen and Han, including the laws of the Qin and Han dynasties, and personally writing annotations, combining his own understanding and integrating some legal spirits of later generations, hoping to sort out a set of criminal laws suitable for the current era.

In the future, he plans to set up a special judicial discipline in the academy to cultivate a group of talents who are not only specialized in law and order, but also have the spirit of exploration and promotion in this way, so as to form a school with its roots and can be passed on to the future, and continue to provide a steady stream of special talents who can truly take the maintenance of basic social order as their own responsibility.

After all, it is not only the authority that needs to be dialogued, but more importantly, the universal social order, which itself is a social discipline that needs to be filled with a hundred flowers and a wide range of speculations, rather than being limited to one of the hundred worlds.

Compared with Shan Yao's death, He Chong's death in Xingtai did not cause too many waves. He Chong was the former Sizhou Assassin History, and his people were not lacking in repetition with Zhong Ya in terms of reign and significance, and because they were too close to Xingtai, their sense of existence was completely covered up by Xingtai's frequent big moves, so that over the years, many officials who had been in charge of Xingtai for a long time did not know that there was still a Sizhou Assassin in Luoyang.

Lonely in life, lonely in death, this is not a kind of luck, especially compared to Zhuge Hui who was rebellious and Chu Yu who died in anger, although He Chong's ending was calmer, at least it was not eliminated by the world with its indifference and cruelty, it was not a comfort.

After worshipping He Chong and arranging for his heir He Fang to return to his hometown for burial, Shen Zhezi hurriedly said goodbye. Xingtai still has a lot of business to deal with, and he really doesn't have much time to deal with people.