After offending the ship owner, Li Xuandu was immediately put on his shoes.

When Li Xuandu returned to Taiping Inn, he found that he had only left him the most remote room, without a fire, and was particularly cold. Li Xuandu didn't say much about this, let alone raise objections.

After all, when you reach such a state, it is only ordinary to avoid cold and heat, and it is not necessary to have charcoal or fire. Li Xuan sat cross-legged on the bed, replacing sleep with breathing and entering into meditation, and recovering the injuries suffered in today's battle.

In the other room with the A-level Tianzi, Qian Yurong sat opposite the old man surnamed Zhang.

The manager Zhang was worried and said, "I just used some money and asked the owner of this inn. The Mr. Qingshan, who had lame legs, we met, seemed to be of a big background. Someone saw him walking with the Qingluan Guards, and those Qingluan Guards were very respectful to this lame Mr.."

This is not the first time that the old man surnamed Zhang has gone to Qizhou, nor is he the first time he has settled in this Taiping Inn. Naturally, he is very familiar with the inn shopkeeper and knows a little about some unknown transactions of the inn.

Qian Yurong was slightly surprised: "Qingluanwei?"

The old man surnamed Zhang looked solemn, glanced at the door behind him, and whispered: "The official clothes and Wenluan sword on his body cannot be faked, which reminded me of a big man in Qizhou."

Qian Yurong asked, "Who?"

The old man deliberately lowered his voice: "This person is the chief aide of the Governor of Qizhou, known as 'Mr. Chu' or 'Shima Chu'. The Governor of Qizhou obeyed his words and was also called Shadow Governor. He has great power and many people have to follow his path, but for some reason he appeared in Guide Mansion."

Qian Yurong frowned and said, "How could that accountant named Li recognize this person?"

"I don't know this." The old man shook his head and said, "But since this person is from our family, it is hard to say what kind of relationship has to do with the Governor's Office in Qizhou."

Qian Yurong sighed lightly, her eyes dim.

When Li Xuan was in meditation, he was also thinking about the affairs of Chu Yunshen and the Governor of Qizhou.

Although the temple is so high and far away, the temple cannot ignore the world, and the world cannot avoid the world. How did Qingluan Guard come from? It is not that the people in the Jianghu are dependent on the court and are willing to act as the hawks of the court. There are even the Jianghu sects who will take the initiative to cooperate with the court and send their disciples to serve the court. Now that the court is weak, the Qingluan Guard is no longer the same as before. When the court was in its prime, the Thirteenth Taibao of Qingluan Guard could even overwhelm the world. Now, the upper and lower levels of the Jianghu are very different, and the upper levels of the Jianghu are not

It is not a powerful place, but a wealthy person, a person with a lot of people, a sword and a gun, a sword and a gun, a reputation, and a person who can make a high reputation. As soon as the court center is weak, it will either be dominated by one side, such as the five sects in the northwest, or it will be pointed at the court, such as the righteous sects headed by Zhengyi and Qingwei sects. The bottom of the rivers and lakes and the scattered people, whether for glory or wealth, or for self-protection, have all been attached to the ranks of the court, which has led to the governors and governors in various places, becoming more and more powerful.

It was not that the court did not want to change this situation, but as the four ministers died on almost false charges in the second year of Tianbao, people's hearts had dispersed. The governors and governors from all over the country had different dreams, as if dragons and snakes from all over the country began to look up and spy on the scarred real dragon of the Great Wei court. The five sects in the northwest were even more like an evil dragon, wanting to hate purple and seize the red.

Under such circumstances, the boundaries between the rivers and the palace are not as clear as before.

This is why Li Xuandu said that Empress Dowager Xie exchanged power for power.

Since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, Emperor Shizong has taken over the throne as a foreign vassal. He was extremely intelligent and skilled in power and was the most powerful emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty. At the age of twenty, he defeated the elders of the three dynasties, and then gathered power to break the triangle pattern of all officials, eunuchs and emperors since Emperor Yingzong. He strictly governed one monarch alone, and set up a cabinet as a servant, and set up a hundred officials as enemies, fight whenever they say they want to fight, and kill when they want to kill. He authorized the eunuchs and ruled the world with family slaves. He regarded the two capitals and 19 states of the Great Wei family as the private property of the Xu family.

For more than twenty years, Emperor Shizong favored Shenxiao Sect and suppressed Zhengyi Sect for more than twenty years. He did not attend court, and was named Xuan Xiu, secretly governing himself. He used slander ministers outside and official slaves inside, and devoted himself to plundering the world's wealth. The power of the Great Wei Kingdom began to decline from prosperity.

Therefore, some people say that if the Great Wei falls, it will begin with Shizong and actually belong to Shenzong.

When the late emperor ascended the throne, he valued the four ministers headed by Zhang Suqing, and made progress and eliminated the accumulated problems. First, he reformed the administration of officials, then implemented the new policy, and then drove out the external enemy. He had already had a bit of a revival. However, with the late emperor's death in Yanbo Hall, the four ministers were executed, and the powerful royal family headed by Empress Dowager Xie and King Jin took rebellious actions. Not only did the new policy be destroyed, Liangzhou, Qinzhou, Shuzhou and other places fell into the enemy, but the court was once again trapped in party struggles, putting party struggles above state affairs, which worsened the situation in the court, even worse than during the reign of Shizong and Shenzong.

If it were said that during the reign of Emperor Shizong, the treasury was empty and the party was constantly fighting, now, there would be a lot of vassal states and foreign enemies. Although the governors in various places did not have the name of vassal kings, they had the reality of vassal kings and protected themselves in conjunction with each other. Even the court did not dare to act lightly, and they were even more powerless.

Such an imperial court and such a world are really something that Li Xuan doesn't want to see.

On the second day, the group was still resting in Guide Mansion. Li Xuan did not leave the inn, but continued to recover from his injuries. It was not until the third day that the group left the inn and set out for Qizhou.

After Li Xuandu got on the boat, he did not continue to lie in the cabin, standing on the bow of the boat, and looking at the scenery along the way.

Qizhou is named after the Qi State in ancient times. It is located on the eastern coast of Jiangbei, located in the lower reaches of the Changhe River, the central and northern section of the Grand Canal, and the west borders Zhili, Yanzhou, Zhongzhou, Luzhou, Chuzhou and other places from north to south. The famous Dongyue is in Qizhou and is also the highest peak of Qizhou. The east of Qizhou is the East Sea, opposite Liaozhou to the north and across the sea to the east and across the sea to the overseas Fenglinzhou.

Qizhou is also the birthplace of Confucianism. Confucian saints and sub-sages were both born in Qizhou, so there is also a Confucian academy in Qizhou called "Sheji Academy", which is as famous as the Wanxiang Academy in Zhongzhou and the Tianxin Academy in Xiaozhou. In addition to the three university palaces, there are four major academies, all of which are famous all over the world. However, among these seven schools, because the Sheji Academy occupies the geographical advantage of the hometowns of the saints and the sub-sages, it is known as the ancestral home of Confucianism, but it is the other schools that cannot be compared.

Because of this, the situation in Qizhou is becoming more and more complicated. There is the Governor's Office of Qizhou, the Donghua Sect, the Sheji Academy, and the Hongyang General Hall of Qingyang Sect. In addition, although the giant Qingwei Sect is not in Qizhou, it lies above the East China Sea and is only half a step away from Qizhou. With so many forces intertwined, you can imagine how chaotic Qizhou is now.

The destination of the Qian family caravan is Dongchang Prefecture. After Li Xuandu gets off the ship in Dongchang Prefecture, he has to pass through the six palaces to reach Donghua Sect. This journey is probably not easy to walk.

Because these six prefectures are the most fierce battle between Qingyang Sect and the Governor of Qizhou, the three major Qingyang Sects are now entrenched in Qizhou, Chuzhou, Zhongzhou, Luzhou, Jinzhou, Qinzhou and other places. Other states are still safe because they are far away from the imperial capital, and Qizhou is already under the eyes of the imperial capital, so that the current war in Qizhou is caused.

However, there are rumors that the Qingyang Cult and the Great Zhou in the northwest are in contact with each other. Moreover, the more deserted the people, the more displaced people, and the more people will enter the church. As the saying goes, "Those who live for the people, and those who leave for the bandits", the governor of Qizhou is also unable to defeat the suppression, and surrender immediately. Once the army passes, he rebels immediately. The reason for this is that the people have no food and do not rebel, they will be starved to death. Rebellion may have a glimmer of hope. But what the court lacks the most is money and grain. It is necessary to collect the power of several states to move them together, and there is no surplus grain to provide relief to the victims.

The court has no money and the people have no money. Where did the money go? Of course, in the hands of all powerful people and local tyrants, the people rebelled to steal money and food from them to survive. But does the court dare to extend his hand to these powerful people? In today's court, if a person who has been sick for a long time and cannot afford to get up, he may be able to survive again. Once he stretched out his hand, he would be turned upside down immediately.
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