Thinking of the world and the world, I was alone and cried.

The sky is high and the earth is wide, and human beings have become the masters of the earth for only a thousand years, and for thousands of years, all things have retreated, and human beings have monopolized Kyushu, survived and multiplied, and reached prosperity. This is inevitable, and there are two reasons why humanity stands out from the crowd.

The first is unity, human beings believe in the strong, the world is united at the feet of the strong, the strong raise their arms and shout, thousands of responses; the second is intelligence, human beings have extraordinary wisdom, but they can do things that spirit animals cannot do for thousands of years; the third is compromise, the strong human beings compromise with each other, and the strong and the weak also have compromises, and it will not be like other races, a strong male occupies all the females, and there is no difference in the offspring, which is unchanged and loses its vitality.

Three reasons lead to the supremacy of human beings over all races, of which unity is the foundation, no matter how high or low, people are always human beings, and other races are regarded as aliens and have exclusivity.

The romantic characters of the ages have exhausted their life's efforts, and what they pursue is nothing more than two words: "prosperity!" to help the human race multiply and grow with their own strength, which is remembered by history, and that's all.

History is always written by the victors, and history can only remember the victors, for the sake of victory, all forces have gathered, gambling with their lives to pursue the supreme position, and now it seems that after the arrival of Shen Fei and Tuoba Lie, the gathering of forces has been completed.

With the safe arrival of Linglong's mother and daughter, a piece of paper was played to His Majesty, and the next day it was approved, and the list of members of the reform team was determined. The An family, which has always been mediocre and prosperous thanks to the Tuoba Phoenix, has risen strongly, and many members of the clan have entered the list of reform teams and have been placed in important positions in charge of the lifeblood of the empire. This action is like a stone thrown into a calm lake, which can be described as a stone that stirs up a thousand waves.

In order to appease the dissatisfaction of the ministers, Tuoba Lie incarnated as an executioner, and killed many people with a knife in his hand, according to Shen Fei's instructions, the officers and soldiers recorded the minister's words and deeds in recent times, and anyone who was dissatisfied with Tuoba Lie was beheaded, even as simple as beheading, and it would also harm his family and punish the nine clans.

In Shen Fei's view, the unstable heart of the world needs a strong ruler to lead, and the prince of Lie can only rule with an iron fist to block the mouths of the ministers.

The An family is the biggest beneficiary, and some small clans related to Tuoba Lie or the An family are the second beneficiaries, and these people know that the ministers of the court and the central government now regard them as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, and without Tuoba Lie's protection, they will die without a place to be buried, so they obey Tuoba Lie's words. At this point, a new force was formed, completely breaking the original power structure of the imperial capital.

There are two core figures in this side of the force, namely Tuoba Lie and Tuoba Phoenix, both of whom are members of the royal family, a group of staunch followers, mainly Tuoba Phoenix's kinship, the An clan, and even military power in their hands, Tuoba Lie is now the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, and most importantly, people with supernatural abilities support this force behind their backs.

In other words, this force is the spokesperson of the Taoist Sect in the human kingdom!

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The Liewang Mansion became lively after An Linglong and An Er's safe arrival, and there were almost no equal husband and wife relationships in the upper echelons of the empire like Tuoba Lie and An Linglong, and the atmosphere created when the two were together was also unique.

Tuoba Lie, who has been living a lonely life outside all the year round, faces their mother and son, and it is difficult to self-control to show his fatherly side, killing decisively externally, loving his children internally, and living a double-sided life.

At the same time, Shen Fei and Nalan Ruoxue's lives were no different from the original, the Buddha did not continue to trouble them, and the two spent a time of affection.

Happiness is always short-lived, the court situation cannot be consistent, with the passage of time, a bad idea gradually spreads between Tuoba Lie and the eldest prince, the two princes who now have an advantage, that is, it is getting closer and closer to Tuoba really lifting the ban.

In fact, a month has just passed, and there is still a long way to go from the one-year period, but in the eyes of the two princes, Tuoba Zhen is an existence that cannot be ignored, so he is very attentive, and he lives like a year, and soon the two of them think of together-wouldn't it be a good thing to get rid of him when he is most depressed! In any case, the enemy in front of him is much more lovely than Tuoba Zhen.

The question is how to get rid of the other party!

When Tuoba Lie shared his mind with Shen Fei, he was stopped by Shen Fei for a very simple reason: "Tuoba Zhen has a special status, and the role of being alive is greater than that of being dead. ”

Why do you say this, there are four reasons: first, Tuoba is really the only prince who even the old emperor has to be afraid of, he has pressure to exist in the old emperor, and he is actually the most unreliable in his heart is the old emperor, so he needs to rely on other people to check and balance, as His Royal Highness who personally sent Tuoba Zhen to prison, your existence is particularly important in the eyes of the old emperor. Second, if you want to say who is most afraid of Tuoba Zhen, the eldest prince should be the first to bear the brunt, the eldest prince is the only one who has fought with the real prince, and he knows deeply that this person's means are powerful, and no one wants to get rid of the other party more than the eldest prince, so keep Tuoba Zhen there, just sit back and wait for the eldest prince to solve it, and you can sit back and enjoy the results. Third, Tuoba Zhen is now the object of support of the ministers after all, and the old emperor cannot make a decision on whether to execute him, and if he does it in private, it will cause serious dissatisfaction among the ministers and cause big trouble. Fourth, Tuoba Zhen has strange powers, and the truth of the power he holds is unknown, in fact, it is not as simple as imagined to assassinate him.

To sum up the above four points, the old emperor and the eldest prince are more afraid and jealous of Tuoba Zhen than Your Royal Highness, and they also want him to die, Your Highness doesn't need to take action in person, just wait and see what happens.

After hearing this, Tuoba Lie nodded again and again, calling Shen Fei Xiao Zhuge a little Zhuge who strategized and was unparalleled in the world. He was also fortunate to have listened to Shen Fei's advice, because just three days later, a terrible thing happened in the Shanlou where the Ten Princes were imprisoned.

The official description is that a thief took advantage of the night god to enter the good building, tried to steal items, was caught by the ten princes who had not yet fallen asleep, broke his hands and feet, gouged out his eyes, pulled out his tongue, cut off his ears, and actually relied on a pair of fleshy palms to cut the thief into a human stick, and when the soldiers found out, that person was even still angry and could struggle in a pool of blood, and the ten princes were like no one, lying in the house and continuing to sleep.

It is said that when the old emperor heard the news, he sighed and shook his head again and again, while the princes and ministers seemed to have been given a shot in the arm, and the previous decadence and confusion were instantly alleviated a lot, and they seemed to have made up their minds one by one to wait for the prince to return and lead them to a happy and beautiful tomorrow.

Naturally, the official description cannot be taken seriously, and any thief would sneak into a heavily guarded place to steal! That person is said to be a fierce general under the Great Prince, and when he heard the Great Prince's distress, he volunteered to assassinate the other party, but he did not expect that he was not an opponent at all, and was tortured inhumanly and was brutally killed. And because of this move, the eldest prince stole chickens and rice, which made the hearts of the ministers who had been messed up re-stabilized.

Only Shen Fei understands that the most critical node is in the hands of His Majesty, imprisonment for one year is just an official statement, and the old emperor has the final say on how long he will be imprisoned, year after year, tomorrow and tomorrow, he has no temper, no matter how big you can endure, in the long run, you will eventually be worn away from your temperament and edges, and become a mortal, sooner or later, one day you will step down from the altar, and the ministers will eventually lose their patience.

After that, a period of time passed, and during this time, the old emperor had been asking Tuoba Lie to finalize the reform measures, and Tuoba Lie had been dragging it out on the grounds that it still needed to be revised according to Shen Fei's instructions, and he never came up with a specific plan.

Shen Fei didn't let Tuoba Lie come up with a specific plan, because he knew very well how terrible the power of the gentry was, that was a group of people who really held the real power of the place, with unimaginable abilities and means, if he offended them too early, he was afraid that he would completely arouse the rebellion of the ministers, and there would be no place to die!

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After coming to the imperial capital for about two months of nervous days, I finally got a rare rest. Shen Fei left Nalan Ruoxue to wander the streets alone, the imperial capital implemented a strict curfew system, and implemented a strict military control system, even so, it could not stop the greed of merchants, and there was an endless stream of shops doing business on the narrow streets.

The reason why commerce is so prosperous is that the people who live in the imperial capital have money, and they have almost endless money, and as long as they can satisfy their desires and make them feel comfortable, they can achieve wealth that they could never dream of.

In fact, the imperial capital is the most prosperous place, but its prosperity is all hidden under the low-key and ordinary decoration, because the imperial law does not allow the existence of this prosperity.

There is no brothel in the imperial capital, there is none, correspondingly, the imperial capital is a teahouse, the teahouse is not a simple place to drink tea, there is a stage in it, there are all kinds of artists on the stage every day, and the performances are all real materials, and they are by no means attracted by revealing clothes.

There is a place to drink tea, naturally someone has to make tea and make tea, responsible for making tea are buds to be released, the little girl who has not been in the world, are the owners of the teahouse from all over the country to collect, are not broken heart of the place, if the person who drinks the tea is in love, will find her to buy tea, this time the girl will say a price, the price is ridiculously high, naturally not the price of tea but the price of the girl, if the guest thinks it is appropriate, then agree to come down, after paying the money, the teahouse will order someone to carry the sedan chair to send the girl to the house, and then will never come back, the money paid by the guest is to buy the body, if you like it, stay in the house to be a concubine, I don't like to lift pants to make her a maid, they are all bitter children collected from poor families all over the world, and they are bought to at least have food and clothing, and they will never dare to have the slightest disobedience.

This is the most popular transaction in the imperial capital, not once or twice, but directly spent enough money for life, the reason why this is so, in addition to the fact that the people living in the imperial capital are high-ranking officials and dignitaries who are extremely wealthy, but also because the laws of the empire strictly prohibit prostitution, strictly prohibit the existence of brothels and other places, once officials are found to have this problem, they will be dismissed, so prostitution is upgraded one step and becomes a concubine.

According to the laws of the empire, a man can only have one wife in his life, but there is no limit to how many concubines and maids in the same room want, as long as they can afford it, even if they commit a crime in the future and can't afford it, they can also be sold for some silver.

There are too many teahouses in the imperial capital, there are too many to count, as the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, Tuoba Lie's commander will go door to door every month to look at the doors of each teahouse, and later find out that they are asking for protection money. The yamen of Chang'an City exists in name only, and social security is presided over by the Praetorian Guards, so it is natural to pay protection money for doing these illegal businesses, and Tuoba Lie can only turn a blind eye to this.

Shen Fei didn't know this, he was swaying on the street, and he was about to be dazzled by the large and small teahouses, but suddenly met a young man. The young man was tall and handsome, well-dressed, and stood two steps away and smiled at himself: "Brother, do you want to stimulate the excitement." ”

"Exciting?" Shen Fei raised his eyebrows, and then said, "Okay!"

So he went with him so easily, only to know that the so-called stimulation was actually a black market trading place, and there were some things that could not be bought on the market, similar to Cuilanxuan in Ruyang City, but the scale was much smaller, Shen Fei felt bored, and it didn't take long for him to withdraw. The handsome young guy actually waited at the door, and when he saw himself coming out, he approached again and said, "What, isn't this place fun, I have other interesting places to introduce to Childe." ”

Shen Fei looked at him with a smile and said, "There are so many people on the street, why do you just take care of me." ”

The man said: "There are a lot of people on the street, but there are not many people like Childe who are well-dressed and go out alone, without his subordinates. ”

"I see, you think I'm out looking for excitement alone, so I can't bring more of my men. ”

"Isn't it, Childe. ”

"In that case, it's okay, this ingot of silver is for you, and you take me to the most interesting place in the imperial capital. Remember, it's the most fun, don't take me to the ordinary realm anymore, you can't get into the eyes. Shen Fei had money, and when he took out a piece of silver at random, he saw the handsome guy drooling, and immediately said: "Don't worry, don't worry, that place will definitely satisfy you." ”

That person probably did this, specifically luring some adolescent nobles who were not deeply involved in the world and were ignorant and curious to go to some forbidden places where they should not go, and reap certain benefits from it, but he didn't know that Shen Fei was not ambiguous when it came to the experience of the rivers and lakes.