The wedding banquet in the royal palace lasted from the 12th day of the first lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, and then continued from the 10th day of the first lunar month, which lasted until the 16th day of the first lunar month.

These Tianwang Mansions are crowded with people coming and going, and the gifts they receive are piled up in mountains.

Under the bustle, there is also undercurrent.

He has only been in this world for two years, but he feels a sense of vicissitudes.

The Shangyuan poetry meeting in Yongyue Pavilion is still the same. Li Xingzhou had captured the hearts of poetry at the poetry meeting and killed Li Huan's sharp spirit, so he specially brought poetry with him, Jiao and Qiu'er, Yue'er.

However, the Yongyue Pavilion Poetry Conference is not as good as before, and there are few people coming, no longer as lively events last year.

The reason is very simple. Because Chen Yu contradicted the emperor one after another, many people dared not to go in with him, and naturally no one dared to interfere with the poetry fair he hosted. This is the change brought about by the honor and favor of the court.

In the Yongyue Pavilion, there were only a few dozen people who came together.

In fact, more than a dozen people are from the royal palace...

The poetry festival, which was filled with traffic last year, suddenly became deserted because Chen Yu contradicted the emperor.

A large clan or even a dynasty will require generations of accumulation, but if you want to be corrupt, it will be enough for just a few years.

Although the decline of the Chen family is the rise and fall of the great clan, it is just a matter of the family.

On a larger level, there are greater conflicts in the court. Generally speaking, people always have internal and external troubles, which is the worst case, but the reality is that as long as there are external troubles, internal troubles are often accompanied by them.

This is because under external high pressure, internal decision-making conflicts often lead to worsening vicious cycles.

The dispute between the court finally came to an end. The matter was decided by the emperor. Yang Hongzhao was the commander and went north in three directions. The imperial guards Shenwu, Lingjie, and Wulie had a total of 150,000 troops, Guanbei Army and Yang's army had a total of 50,000 troops.

Yang Hongzhao, the middle army, led 100,000 imperial guards, walked on Guanbei Road, and went north from Zhending.

Leading the left army, Yang Wenguang, the main force of the Yang family army and the imperial guards, left Taiyuan and went north at the Sanjie District.

The right-road army Wei Chaoren led the main force of Guanbei Army and the imperial guards, accompanied the middle army to the east to cover the main force's actions. In addition to the 200,000 main army, more than 100,000 labor service was also needed to cooperate with the auxiliary troops in transporting and supplying supplies from Guanbei Road, Jingbei Road, Jingxi Road, Shuzhong and other places.

This can be said to be the largest military use of this dynasty.

These arrangements were made by the emperor. Because the ministers were removed, the ministers were also silent and no one dared to oppose the emperor's decision. When Li Xingzhou went to court, he could only listen and not speak.

Many ministers were resentful of General Tomb’s experience, so when the emperor asked, they were all like “the emperor could be the master”, “the emperor was wise and powerful”, and “the emperor made a decision by himself”.

It seems to be obedient, but it is actually a silent struggle.

Those who were even more radical, such as Zhao Guanghua, the commander of the Guards and the Cavalry Office, and several other officials of the Privy Council, directly submitted memorials to resign.

The emperor was furious and agreed to their resignation on the spot. After the Privy Council plus the three yamen, more than a dozen people resigned. The key was when the court was preparing to send troops.

The Privy Council is a key department in charge of the world's military affairs. He had no choice but to use Tong Guan and others who were demoted before, and then promote new people. However, the Privy Council is not other places, not everyone can be competent, and there are very few people with experience in war.

The court was tense and the emperor could not give in because it was related to the majesty of the Tian family and the authority of the Tian family rule.

The officials who resigned did not give in because they felt that Zhong Daoyu was wronged. They insisted on their original intentions and believed that this was good to the emperor and for the country.

Both sides refused to give in, so they both held on.

Li Xingzhou sighed in his heart, but in the court, he was not easy to speak. Zhong Daoyu was indeed wronged, and the emperor could not give in.

At this moment, the Wu family in Shu, Tian family in the west of Jing and others came to Beijing, placing their connections with the royal family, expressing their willingness to pay money to share the worries of the royal family.

The emperor was naturally very happy and scolded the ministers in the court on the spot, saying, "As some people who are civil servants, they are not as good as those in the opposition who care about the country and the country and know how to share my worries."

The emperor said this and the Privy Council. The three yamen and more than a dozen people were angry. As soon as the words came out, they even angered other ministers. They were important officials of the court and had done things for the emperor for so many years, but in the end they were not as good as outsiders who had just arrived because of a few dollars?

So no one spoke, and some people even complained about illness and refused to attend court.

When Li Xingzhou saw this situation, he felt something was going to happen because he still knew the current emperor. Generally speaking, as the supreme superior, he was qualified and even excellent in some aspects, but people would have weaknesses.

Moreover, he knew that things could not be that simple. There was no reason for these big families from all over the country to assist the court for no reason. Most families put family interests first, but the rise and fall of the country was far behind.

Sure enough, conditions soon surfaced, and a large number of people from various aristocratic families, about 150, were added to various official positions, of varying sizes.

This is the conditions for their support to the court. Many of the conditions seemed reasonable to Li Xingzhou, and the emperor had no other choice. After all, in times of crisis.

But even he seemed to be very excessive. For example, the head of the legitimate son of the Wu family, a large clan in Shu, directly added the Chengdu Prefecture Road Transportation Envoy!

The country of Tianfu in Chengdu is not like the Central Government, but the famous Shangfu, the Chengdu Road Transport Authority, from a third-rank official, a person with no achievements, no fame, and no official status, is directly added to a third-rank official!

It is basically no different from selling official positions and titles, which naturally causes an uproar.

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In fact, many people also understand that the emperor is for war, and even De Gong told him privately, but the problem is that the emperor.

The emperor is a strong, decisive and decisive person.

These are good in most cases, but at this time, they become the biggest weakness.

If a weaker emperor says a few soft words to appease the ministers, the matter will be over. What the ministers want is the emperor's attention, because the emperor will use new people at will, and his qualifications will be the same as those of them who have worked for several years, more than ten years, or even decades. Of course, they feel unbalanced, so just comfort them.

But the emperor is a strong emperor and he will not compromise.

This matter became more and more serious. Some old ministers and upright factions in the court, compared with the large number of officials led by He Zhao, Mao Luan and Xue Fang, were directly incompatible with the newly promoted officials and the aristocratic families.

They collectively wrote letters to impeach, and at the same time they did not engage in conjunction with these people in their actions, such as not saying hello to the court, and even going around when they saw each other when they walked far away.

It gradually even developed to discussing issues in the court. If you say yes here, you must say no. If you reject it, you will have to sing the opposite tune.

By the end of the first lunar month, this situation reached its peak.

This is the real internal and external troubles. The court is in a strife, the old-fashioned and upright court officials are incompatible with the new and aristocratic schools. The Privy Council has shortage of talents. The older generation of Privy Council officials left angrily because of the mafia being beaten up. The newly promoted person has no experience in facing war.

The Jin Kingdom in the north was eyeing him, and the fast horses in the northwest Xixia had returned, bringing back important news. As Zhong Daoyu had expected, the Western Xia encircled the grand town of Jingguo from three sides.

The Jinsu army, Heqing army in Hequ, and Yongle City garrison, as well as the brave army of the left wing, were like ambushing on ten sides, with dozens of times the strength of the Tang Longzhong Town. After more than ten days of besieging, Tang Longzhong Town led the army and civilians to break through.

The breakthrough was successful, but the river was blocked behind him. The Xixia army chased him up. After the bloody battle, only more than a thousand people crossed the river and continued to flee south to Cizhou.

The military and civilians in the hall were beating were confused and did not react at all. Thousands of people were killed or injured, and they also lost the most important defense area for Xixia.

Since then, the land Jingguo, which is facing north, has lost control with Yan'an Prefecture, Danzhou, Cizhou and Taiyuan Prefecture as the front lines.

This large area of ​​land is larger than that of Jingxi Road!

The court was noisy and uneasy, and he didn't dare to release the news so early, because he was afraid of affecting the morale of the Northern Expedition.

Jingguo didn't have time to struggle or do anything, and was instantly pushed into a terrible quagmire by the wheel of history.

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Li Xingzhou is still enjoying his newlywed life, and to be honest, he is helpless in the disputes in the court.

Furthermore, because the Imperial Army is now the fourth army, Shenwu, Lingjie, Wulie, and the new army. Although the number of new troops is far less than that of the other three armies, it is also an independent army. Moreover, this time the whole country went on an expedition because the number of new troops is too small and it is newly formed, so it stayed in the capital to protect Kyoto.

So when many ministers quarreled, he became idle because he didn't have to consider the troubles of sending troops. It was not that he had nothing to do with him, but that pointing at others' army was the most taboo for generals. Generals were the soul of soldiers, and every general wanted to take action and only obey his own orders.

A Jiao is considered to be a martyr who is wise and has a taste. He is with him every day. He wants to bring Shiyu in, but even A Jiao has agreed, but Shiyu is beaten to death.

In short, life is like this, it is impossible to obey you in every way.

In the past few days, he was writing his grand plan for five steps and began to plan the road construction route.

Based on these situations in the Celestial Empire, he planned the first road to be built as a main road from Beijing to Jingxi Road.

Then he began to plan how to deal with Xixia. Compared to the north where the ministers in the court were concerned about, Li Xingzhou cared more about Xixia because Xixia occupied the Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road.

Xixia is also a commercial country with many merchants, which shows that even the cold-forged armor and cold-forged sword of Iron Harrier can flow into the market.

According to the feedback from major merchants doing business with the royal palace, luxury goods such as perfumes and general wine are also the most popular in Xixia.

This was the opportunity. Li Xingzhou personally framed the piece of paper he wrote down "orchid" and hung it in his house. However, inspired by Gillian, he finally remembered what was later. Now the "orchid" has become "orchid Clivia Tulip".

Yes, this is the way to deal with Xixia. Can a flower destroy a country?

Perhaps people of this era would never have thought of it, but Li Xingzhou knew that this was possible, and it was possible to destroy a country by relying on flowers.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be a flower. It needs a talent and a product that can attract attention.

The Western Xia is different from the Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom. It is located in the Hexi Corridor and controls the Silk Road. It does not have enough population to support a strong national defense force. He can only form an alliance with Jing Kingdom and submit to the Liao Kingdom to gain peace and become a trade country.

Because of this, Li Xingzhou has a way to deal with it more easily.

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Life is leisurely, Gillian is like a green apple, and Shiyu is like a red apple, and she tastes whatever she wants.

Before I knew it, it was the end of the month, and the accounts, personnel changes and other places were summarized, and the poems became busy.

The royal palace has a regulation that all accounts and personnel changes must be organized by poetry and language at the end of the month, and then all managers will check it together. For this reason, Li Xingzhou also asked the craftsmen of the royal palace to make a round conference table and become a round table.

There are benefits to using a round table, which involves psychological knowledge. In short, the benefits are not comparable to traditional conference methods, so I will not elaborate on them one by one.

In short, Li Xingzhou also went to listen to it this time. Everything was boring, but everyone was very motivated. Shiyu took the lead, Yan Bai supervised, Qi Fang, Gu Feng, Yan Kun, Zhurong, and Zhao Si all participated, and Yan Gu and Yan Shen went to the new guards leader after the new army.

But in fact, only poetry can be understood, Yan Bian, Yan Kun, Qi Fang, Zhao Si and others, and the others attended the meeting only followed the regulations.

Li Xingzhou was drowsy when she heard it while listening.

Until Shiyu showed him the result in the end, he didn't look at it carefully, just flipped through two pages, and asked, "Who is this Fang Xin? Why did I hear about it?"

Yan Kun, who was fatter than before, stood up and bowed: "Prince, this house is the account room newly collected by Tingyulou. More than ten days ago, I saw him fainting from hunger on the street outside Tingyulou, penniless, thin clothes, and almost frozen to death, and he didn't beg for it. So I felt that this person had backbone.

He asked someone to give him something to eat, but the servant said a few words to him and thought he was very talkative. After deep questions, he actually read a book, so he invited him into the house.

As a result, it was found that the man named Fang Xin not only spoke very well, but also wrote very well and learned the art of planning. There were too many customers and the accountants were too busy, so he took him in the store to help keep the accounts.

As a result, a few days later, the store’s accountant was ashamed of himself and said that he could not compare with Fang Xin. If Fang Xin wanted to get Fang Xin to do the accountant, he would help him, so I agreed."

When Li Xingzhou heard this, he suddenly felt novel. There is someone as good as math?

I also remember the name Xin in my heart. If I have time, I will see what kind of person this Xin is.

However, compared to these, Li Xingzhou cared more about an application submitted by Zhao Si. He wanted to apply for more funds from the royal palace for the development of new shells!

Li Xingzhou was almost stunned by him!

The plan proposed by Zhao Si is to add gunpowder to the shell, then fill it with fragments, and explode after being fired. Isn’t this TM a flowering bullet?

Moreover, the solution he provided was to detonate with inertia! This idea was directly one generation ahead of the flowering shells at the beginning. Although Zhao Si was dull in life, he was simply a genius in invention and creation.

Li Xingzhou had a plan to develop flowering shells, but he could not do everything by himself. More importantly, it was to inspire the creativity of the craftsmen in the royal palace.

The plan proposed by Zhao Si made him very pleased and happy, and he agreed on the spot...
Chapter completed!