The Yanzhou case occurred, and there were constant turmoil in Beijing.

The major earthquakes in the officialdom of Yanzhou and Danzhou, which were caused by corruption in Yanzhou, also began one after another. All these have made the capital turbulent, and the magistrates will always have some attachment among the officials in the capital and communicate with each other.

As a result, there were inextricable links between the Beijing officials and the local officials, and even if they were not greedy for ink, these connected officials were worried that they would draw fire on them because of their close contacts. At such an urgent juncture, they have to work up and down, ask for help from all sides, and strive to clear themselves.

And those ministers who were not involved in the corruption case in the three northwestern states took the opportunity to target the positions vacant by the turmoil in the northwest officialdom, which is all fat, who doesn't want to take a bite. You have resources in your hands, and people are talking to you, aren't they?

If you install your own henchmen in important positions, you can use them as Austrian aid to strengthen your strength, and even if you win some lowly or not very important positions, you can also reward them to relatives and friends or give them to relatives and friends of cronies and henchmen, and indirectly expand your authority.

Those who took advantage of the fire to rob and were anxious to clear it made the bottomless water of this altar even more turbid, and at the same time, a series of problems that arose after the flood receded also made the court anxious.

Because of the raging floods, part of the river was blocked.

Even if the dredging could begin immediately, it would take two months for the river to be re-routed, and during this time, transportation would be impassable, and if grain and grass were to be transported to Kyoto by land, the loss was huge and negligible, and the efficiency was not optimistic.

At this time, it was already autumn, and in the winter part of the river was to be frozen, and the imperial court had to deliver this autumn's grain to the capital before that, if it was delayed. This will lead to a shortage of grain reserves in Kyoto, which is a great threat to the capital from a security point of view, and from an economic point of view, it will make prices in Kyoto remain high and cause a very unstable situation.

Although Wu Zetian was bitter about the bad behavior of the officials of the three northwestern prefectures colluding up and down, and being unofficial and not greedy, with her tough character of not rubbing sand in her eyes, she would never give up on this, she also knew better that the top priority for the imperial court at the moment was to solve the luck.

In order to concentrate on solving the current predicament, Wu Zetian had to close the Yanzhou case as soon as possible. So that the hundred officials of the imperial court concentrated their energies on the issue of Cao Yun. Wu Zetian dealt with it quickly, and in just three days, he sentenced 29 corrupt officials to hanging, 42 people were transferred, and dozens of officials were dismissed or demoted. The entire Yanzhou officialdom was empty. The matter of cleaning up the moths can be done slowly by the three law divisions, and the large-scale verdict is a signal: the Yanzhou corruption case has come to an end.

Wu Zetian summoned all the prime ministers and officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households. Concentrate on discussing how to solve the current difficulties encountered in the capital. For a few days. The officials expressed their opinions, but they were unable to come up with a perfect solution.

Wu Zetian was impatient, she glanced at An Lingyu, the head of the household who had always frowned and pretended to think deeply, but couldn't take out a decent note, and said coldly: "An Shangshu has been thinking hard for many days. Is there a solution? Could it be that the household department has no claim on this? ”

An Shangshu listened to the empress's words with anger, and his heart trembled.

In the case of Yanzhou, although there were such and such problems, the main cause was grain. As the head of the household, it is really difficult to escape the blame for such a big case under his nose, if it were not for the "lucky" big problem in Caoyun, the imperial court is at the time of employing people, and he will inevitably be implicated.

Now that the emperor is furious, if he does not make a decision, the consequences will be worrying. An Shangshu plucked up his courage and said the method offered by Liu Nanquan in Duzhilang when he was discussing with several subordinate officials in the ministry: "Bixia, the minister thinks that the danger of this winter is easy to solve, and the danger of ten thousand years is gone!" The flood in Luoyang, once in ten years, the power of heaven and earth, there is no way to cure it. The capital city of the country, the center of the world, should not stand in a place of distress. ”

Wu Zetian frowned and asked, "What does An Qing mean?" ”

An Shangshu gritted his teeth and said, "The minister thinks that the court should be returned to Chang'an!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was suddenly silent.

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Luobinfang is located in the northwest corner of Luoyang, across the Luo River, opposite the Chongqing Gate of the palace city, at this moment there are countless craftsmen in front of the Chongqing Gate rushing to repair the Chongqing Gate and a section of the city wall that collapsed in the flood.

On this side of the river is the village where Shen Mu lives. There is also a fang wall outside the walls of the village, both of which have been washed away by the flood and have not yet had time to be built. Therefore, when Shen Mu sat in the courtyard, he could see the slightly turbid Luohe River rolling away.

In the courtyard and in the hall, a group of domestic servants are sweating profusely, and the house is full of thick silt, and if you want to clean this manor as new, it will never take three or two days to do it, and now it has been seven days, and only a small area has been cleared.

Shen Mu was sitting under a big tree at the moment, there was a leisurely chair under the tree, and there was a stone table next to it, this place had been cleared, the ground was exposed, and a few tenacious grasses were wrapped in mud and were slowly recovering their vitality. There was a large tree next to it, and there were obvious signs of being flooded at the fork of the branches.

Lan Jinhai stood beside him, dressed in a Confucian shirt, looking gentle and elegant. Lan Jinhai stared at the cornices and arches in the opposite Miyagi complex, with the clear blue sky as the background, and said thoughtfully: "Will the emperor still be in Chang'an as the suzerain wishes?" ”

Shen Mu took the teacup from the low table beside him, took a shallow sip, and said lightly: "Do your best, listen to the destiny of heaven, I am only forty percent sure!" ”

Lan Jinhai's eyes flashed with surprise, Shen Mu glanced at him, and said, "What, do you think it's impossible to succeed?" ”

Lan Jinhai shook his head again and again, and said, "No, my subordinates think that it is unimaginable to influence the decision of an emperor, and it is such a major matter as moving the capital." The subordinates are worried that just because the flood has cut off the water transportation and affected the grain storage in Kyoto this winter, the emperor will intend to move the capital? Although Luoyang is in danger of flooding, Guanzhong is also in danger of drought, and it is not a perfect place. ”

Shen Mu said: "Of course, it's not because of this one thing, not just because of the problems shown by the appearance of this one or several things, but some of the truths revealed in it." ”

Shen Mu said leisurely: "From the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the present, if we take a closer look at the locations of the capitals selected by various dynasties, we can find that there are traces of them. Pan Geng moved to Yin. It is because the land is rich and it is easy to raise grain and grass. The other is to move the capital to facilitate him to weaken the strength of the nobles in the old capital, and the third is to stay away from the alien territories with different intentions and stabilize his rule.

King Zhou Ping moved the capital to Luoyi because the Dog Rong Rebellion made Hoyang dilapidated, and the Dog Rong was still eyeing the side, so it was safe to move the capital. Emperor Wei Xiaowen moved the capital, firstly, to stay away from the threat of nomadism in the north; The second is to move the capital from Pingcheng to Luoyang. Agriculture is thriving, and transportation is convenient. It is also possible to get rid of the intertwined shili net of the northern Xianbei aristocracy in order to make a smooth change

Based on the past and the present, the emperor chooses the capital, and the problems considered can never escape from the four aspects. One is geography, the second is economic, the third is military, and the fourth is politics. Geographically, although there are droughts in Guanzhong from time to time. However, the flood was even more harmful to the capital. Now if this flood is bigger and floods Luoyang City, you can imagine the consequences, although there are advantages here, you can only barely draw with Chang'an when it comes to advantages.

Speaking of the economy, it has been going on since the Warring States period to the present day. Shandong, Guanzhong, are the most developed areas of Shinong industry and commerce, what the future, there is no way to know, now to talk about. Only these two places. Among the three taels, there are Khitan in the northeast of the mountain, Turkic in the west, and only Chang'an and Luoyang are suitable for the national capital.

Militarily, with the military strength of our dynasty, there is little difference between establishing the capital in Chang'an or Luoyang. Then the main determinant is only politics. Guanzhong is the foundation of the founding of our dynasty, after three dynasties of operation, the current emperor moved the capital to Luoyang only ten years, the center of gravity of the dynasty is still in Guanzhong.

If there is a loss in the pass, the dynasty is in danger, you see that although the empress moved the capital to Luoyang, she always values Guanzhong, and the national government and military customs occupy three percent, but whoever is the Chang'an order must be the emperor's confidant, you can know how the emperor attaches importance to Guanzhong today. As a result, although the emperor does not know about our existence, the elders of the major families often come and go to Chang'an, she is clear, do you say she is at ease?

Now, there are such big corruption cases in Yan, Lu, and Dan prefectures, these three states are all in Guannei Dao, the emperor has moved the capital to Luoyang for only ten years, and the rule of Guanzhong officials has been corrupted, and the foundation has become like this, do you think the emperor can rest assured?

weishenme This time there was such a big problem with the officials in Guanzhong, but the emperor did not send officials to fill their vacant positions, and refused to conduct a general election of officials by the officials as he did in southern Xinjiang last time, but he considered them one by one, considered them again and again, and worked tirelessly to personally select people for every important position?

Hehe, some people still think that this time they can get their hands up and down and get an official position, but they don't want to think about it, they are only staring at a few positions, and the woman sitting on the emperor's throne from the perspective of the emperor, how can what they think and think be as they wish? Guanzhong is so important, but there is such a big problem, how can the emperor be no more cautious.

Again, the current emperor has set up a crown prince, and one day he will return to Li, but now the military power is firmly in the hands of the Wu family, and the two Zhang have recently risen, and they are also frequently deployed, and they have placed cronies in the court and the army, but the Li family, except for a few Geng Zhong old ministers, has almost no strength.

The Wu clan has been operating in Luoyang for so many years, and the strength of the bright side is much higher than that of the Li clan, and the shili in the dark does not know how big it is, can the emperor not consider how to stabilize the inheritance? At the beginning, the empress set the capital of Luoyang because Chang'an was the foundation of the Li family. At this time, at that time, since she is determined to return to Li and Chang'an, it is a good way.

In this way, she just took this opportunity to adjust the strength of the Wu and Li families to achieve balance. Of course, the truth is so, we just take advantage of the situation to propose, and the emperor will only think of these questions in his heart when he listens to it, and as for how she chooses, it is not up to us to influence. ”

Lan Jinhai said convincingly: "The sect master's words made his subordinates suddenly open. In this way, the emperor did have a good reason to move the capital. Hehe, Yang Fan just moved the 'Succession Hall' to Luoyang, and the sect master made a move to "draw salary from the bottom of the kettle", but he took the initiative and manipulated it again. ”

Speaking of this, Lan Jinhai couldn't help but laugh: "The three states in the northwest, this is a great blow to us, the sect master can turn the disadvantage into an advantage, and use his strength to fight, but use this matter for my use, prompting the emperor to move the capital to Chang'an, we have a favorable location in Chang'an, hehe, under the elimination of the other, what else can the Yin Sect use to compete with me?" ”

Shen Mu smiled slightly, squinted his eyes at the white clouds in the clear blue sky, and said with emotion: "It's too early to say whether the victory or defeat will be successful." Yang Fan has a day in hand, what is this time now? It is the imperial power that he can call at any time, the power of heaven is unpredictable, I don't dare to despise this little Erlang at all now, the future is terrifying! ”

At this time, a family member quietly walked over, came to Shen Mu's side, leaned over and whispered, "Childe, Qinghe Cui Lin asks to see." ”

Shen Mu smiled faintly and said to Lan Jinhai: "Look, the person who came to the door to interrogate has come!" ”

Shen Mu looked back and said to the family: "Please see you in Cui Gongzi's study!" ”

Shen Mu said, stood up, and walked away.

There was a rocking chair under the tree, squeaking and shaking......

P: It's the end of the month, and I'm looking for a monthly pass and a recommended ticket!. (To be continued......)