The imperial court is made up of people, the emperor's orders are promoted by officials at all levels, and the army is also made up of people, if there is no one, even the emperor, there is no way.

The emperor nominally rules the world, and hundreds of thousands of officials and soldiers are loyal to the emperor, but what about the reality?

If the law is changed, how many people will support it?

Zhang Menghui, but he is not an official, just the emperor's cloth friend, Pengzhu will definitely be, but who else is besides him?

The emperor couldn't think of it.

The hall fell into a deathly silence, and Gonggong Mu looked at the emperor worriedly, the emperor frowned and thought, now he understands why Zhang Meng doesn't talk about it now and asks him to think about it for three days, obviously he has realized this problem.

Changing the law is a dangerous and thorny road, the government and the opposition, the Shilin, the royal family, the scholar family, and the Shu clan will all be involved, and if you are not careful, the world will be in chaos.

Is this a matter of determination? The Emperor hesitated.

Mu Gonggong knew in his heart that the emperor did not have the authority of the first emperor, and the authority of the first emperor was based on the victory of the war against Xianbei, but the current emperor, who has only been on the throne for two years, before succeeding to the throne, there is still the king of Qi competing for the throne, and the prestige is far less than that of the first emperor.

"Your Majesty," Mu Gonggong said cautiously, the emperor turned to look at him, Mu Gonggong said while observing the emperor's expression: "For the outside of the Saiwai, the old slave has some ideas, Cao Cheqi and Pan Taishi advocate continuing to attack, this is not advisable, but it can be withdrawn like this, the old slave feels a little unwilling, the old slave feels that it is possible to let the King of Taiyuan garrison Baishan, convene the Hus outside the Saiwai in Baishan, announce the will of the imperial court, and order them to stop the war and listen to the will of the imperial court." ”

The emperor nodded casually, obviously his thinking was still changing, and when he suddenly heard this, he didn't react for a while, and after a while, he came to his senses.

"Well, that's a good idea. The emperor's eyes lit up, to be honest, he withdrew like this, and he also felt a little sorry in his heart, the court worked hard and risked to harvest such a little thing, which was too uneconomical.

The emperor returned to the bookcase, picked up the pen and annotated on a notebook, Mu Gonggong and Lin Gonggong quietly withdrew, at the door, just as Huang Gonggong was about to meet Huang Gonggong with two little eunuchs holding food boxes to enter, Huang Gonggong respectfully let aside.

Gonggong Mu stopped and asked about the emperor's diet and daily life, Gonggong Huang replied quietly in a low voice, Gonggong Mu didn't say anything after hearing it, just sighed lowly.

Out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Gonggong Lin saw that there was no one left and right, Gonggong Lin quietly stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Godfather, what's wrong?"

Gonggong Mu raised his head and sighed softly again: "The emperor is already thirty-two this year, alas, he doesn't have a son yet." ”

Gonggong Lin was slightly stunned, and then sighed, the emperor has no children, which is the biggest concern of the imperial court.

"What's the matter?" Father-in-law Mu asked, if it was okay, Father-in-law Lin would not go so far with him, and he would usually leave when he left the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"There's something," Gonggong Lin stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Didn't Liu Han go to Jiangnan to investigate the infiltration of the Hundred Workshops and Yangzhou's internal guards? ”

Mu Gonggong's expression changed slightly: "He was attacked, he escaped, the fisherman and Jueming couldn't help him, who in Yangzhou has such a big ability? Could it be that those two made a move?"

Of the eight great grandmasters in the world, the Great Jin Dynasty has six of them, the palace has three of them, Xianbei and Tubo each have one, and the remaining three are the Taishang Elders of the Taiping Dao, and the other is the head of the Immortal Sect; these two people have not appeared in the rivers and lakes in the past ten years, and the only one who is not sure is the mysterious great grandmaster.

"Probably not. Gonggong Lin frowned slightly, the Immortal Sect and the Taiping Dao were both among the top two sects in the rivers and lakes, whether it was their Supreme Elder or the head of the sect, appearing in the rivers and lakes would cause shock.

Father-in-law Mu's brows tightened, and Father-in-law Lin asked tentatively, "Do you want to send a demon slaying team over?"

Father-in-law Mu thought for a moment and shook his head: "Don't be busy for the time being, take a look again, Liu Han, Liu Han, authorize Liu Han to rectify the internal guards in Yangzhou, hum, this Gu Shuo, actually let people touch his own home, damn it! ”

Internal guard monitoring of the world, that's just a rumor, there are so many people, the monitoring of the internal guard is assigned according to the heavenly stems and the earthly branches, the first is the Tianzi target, the second is the ground target, the Tianzi target is a comprehensive monitoring, including the key targets of the royal family, important generals of the army, important targets in the gate valve, all in this class, the target of the word is including the county king, the minister of the court, the second-class gate valve, the second-class general, etc. Hundreds of workshops are classified as the target of the local brand, and among the merchants in the world monitored by internal guards, Baigongfang is the first.

"Yes. Gonggong Lin replied, hesitating slightly: "Godfather, Liu Han only brought two people to Yangzhou, plus the two people provided by the palace, there are only five people in total, and the strength of these hundred workshops exceeds the original estimate,....

"He can handle it. Mu Gonggong's tone was very resolute: "You don't have to worry about him, this person is not that simple, hehe, Xiao Linzi, a top-grade grandmaster, there are dozens of martial arts masters under his command, and people who have controlled dozens of small countries in the Western Regions, how can it be so easy." ”

The internal guard investigated Liu Han, and the internal guard of Liangzhou sent people to the Western Regions, died nine lives, returned from the Western Regions, got Liu Han's first-hand information, and had a further understanding of Liu Han.

"But," Father-in-law Mu hesitated, Father-in-law Lin looked at him, Father-in-law Mu hesitated, and only sighed after half a sound: "Forget it, this time is a test for him, if he can come back alive, I will ask Your Majesty to give him the golden order." ”

Lin Gonggong looked up at Mu Gonggong in surprise, this golden order is not trivial, it is the supreme token of the internal guard, the holder of the golden order is also known as the palm order, in the internal guard, except for Lin Gonggong, everyone else can be cut first and then played, locally, for officials and generals below the sixth grade, they can also be cut first and then played.

The commander of the order, generally held by a person above the master of the internal guard, the previous order envoy died in an operation five years ago, and the palace also checked, but no clues were found, and this position has been vacant for several years.

The power of the commander is too great, let alone Gonggong Lin, even Gonggong Mu has no power to give it to anyone, it must be agreed by the emperor, and the emperor can only give it after the emperor personally summons him to agree.

The internal guard commander represents the highest right of action of the internal guard, walks in the dark for the emperor, and is also the sworn enemy of all the secret forces that oppose the emperor, once it is known, the safety of the commander will be seriously threatened, so the identity of the commander is secret, even if only a few people in the palace know.

"Godfather, this, Liu Han is from the Western Regions, and we don't know much about him. Gonggong Lin reminded cautiously.

"Of course, we have to look at it again. Father-in-law Mu looked thoughtful: "Is the ghost there?"

"Here, let him go?" Gonggong Lin was a little puzzled, this ghost was his personal bodyguard, and he rarely left his side, except for the battle of luck some time ago.

Mu Gongcheng nodded, then shook his head again, as if vetoing one of his own ideas, and muttered: "Jiangnan erosion, alas, over the years, the internal guard and the tiger have been weakened too much, that's it, who else is there in Jiangnan?" ”

"There is another way, which my son began to deploy a few years ago. Gonggong Lin replied quietly, feeling relieved.

Tell him, staring at Liu Han. Father-in-law Mu commanded, and Father-in-law Lin hurriedly agreed.

The yellow sand gradually fell, the vultures fell from the sky, the sound of fighting gradually subsided, the wounded horses neighed, and the smell of blood drifted away with the wind.

The black cloaks searched among the corpses, looking through the black comrades, Qiu Ge sat on horseback, the white robe on his body was stained with red blood, the spear was stuck in the ground, the spear head was shiny, and the red spear tassel swayed gently with the wind.

His gaze fell on a corpse in golden armor not far away, the corpse's blood had dried up, its gaze was dull and lifeless, and a large hole had been pierced in its chest.

The adjutant general came to report that he had counted the results of the battle, destroyed 4,300 enemies, and lost 520.

Qiu Ge frowned slightly, obviously a little dissatisfied with this number, and sighed softly.

"Report it!"

The main man quickly wrote the report, Qiu Ge glanced slightly, put his name on the pen, and the two black panthers turned over and got on their horses, each with two empty horses, and galloped away.

Qiu Ge turned over and dismounted, pacing slowly among the corpses, breathing in the faint smell of bloody grass.

Compared with the glorious victories of the Black Panther in the past, this victory was nothing, but this victory opened the Tubo attack on Liangzhou of the Great Jin Dynasty, and only wiped out 4,000 Tubo troops, and he also lost more than 500 people, which made Qiu Ge a little dissatisfied.

Turn around and look at Huangsha Pass, the peaks overlap, you can't see the wall, only layers of mountains.

Looking at the depths of the grassland, there are still wisps of pale yellow in the sky in the distance, which are the fleeing Tibetans.

The Tibetans began to attack Huangsha Pass two days ago, and Qiu Ge was ordered to rush from Xiaoguan yesterday to reinforce them, and he left the pass in the early hours of this morning and launched an attack on the Tibetans.

Seeing that the battlefield was almost cleared, Qiu Ge ordered the whole team to be assembled and returned to Huangsha Pass with troops and thousands of war horses.

Duanmuzheng's alarm has been divided into two routes with an expedited report of 800 miles, all the way to Chang'an, and all the way to the imperial capital.

The king of Qin sat in Chang'an, the situation in Yongbei was not serious, the imperial court decisively sent troops outside the fortress, and quickly solved the civil strife of the Xiongnu in Baishan, which shocked the Hu people in the grassland, although the western Xianbei and the central Xianbei were still gathering troops, but the two sides did not dare to provoke easily.

The imperial court now has two large armies outside the Saiwai, Taiyuan Wang Yanqin led the border army of Bingzhou to dominate Baishan, Fang Jin led 30,000 troops out of Yongbei, and Taiyuan Wang Yanqin echoed from afar, the imperial court ordered Duan Chang to send someone to warn the Yuwen Department of Xianbei in the east, not to allow him to participate in the dispute between the central Xianbei and the western Xianbei, otherwise the court will not be spared.

This series of three moves, so that the Xianbei people did not dare to act rashly, the court ordered Taiyuan Wang Yanqin to convene a meeting of the Xianbei tribes in Baishan, Xianbei people left and right, although they did not want to, but still had to go to Baishan.

The situation in the desert eased, but at this time, the Tubo people came again.

For the King of Qin, the Tubo people came at a bad time.

A little earlier, there is still about half of the grain and grass in Yongzhou, Liangzhou, and now the grain depots and armories near Yongnan and Chang'an are almost empty, the new ordnance is being prepared, the grain is still in the imperial capital, the army is in Yongbei, and there are only thousands of county soldiers left in Chang'an, and the whole Yongzhou is extremely empty.

(End of chapter)