The moon sets and the crows cry and frost is everywhere. In early autumn and September, it is already a reflection of the north. When we look north, it is said that snow has begun to fall.

Zhou Wei visited the prefect Wei Chaoren in Yanshan Prefecture, and then continued to head north under the guidance of the guards.

The imperial edict was very special. The emperor did not let the Yellow Sect take over, but sent him, a Hanlin bachelor who had just entered the Hanlin Academy.

Generally, when the emperor uploads an eunuch, he will ask the yellow eunuch to go. This is to prevent officials from getting involved in power struggles. For their own interests, officials may have selfish intentions and even tamper with the content.

The power of eunuchs comes from the emperor's favor and has no foundation. If it were not as stupid as the two emperors Huan Ling in the late Han Dynasty, the emperor would basically lose power once he replaced the eunuchs around him. If he provoked too much, he would be very likely to be liquidated and end up miserably.

So there is only one thing that eunuchs want to live a good life, that is, hold the emperor's thighs tightly, help with whatever he wants, and sometimes he has to take the blame. Many ministers have their own family backgrounds, relatives and friends behind them, and they are not always united with the emperor's interests, and often even go against them.

Therefore, the emperor certainly felt more at ease with his eunuchs to do this, and he had always been like this before.

But this time it wasn't. The emperor asked him, a newly-entered Hanlin Academy, to pass the imperial edict.

The imperial edict was also written by Zhou Wei. The Hanlin Academy's main job is to write imperial edicts for the emperor and discuss the wording. After all, the emperor's casual words can affect the entire country. If there is a lack of meaning or ambiguous expression or deviation, it will affect the world's major events.

But this time the emperor did not use the works of the old men and experienced Hanlin Bachelors, but chose the imperial edict he had drawn up and asked him to pass it on himself.

Zhou Wei was ranked first in the imperial examination, and then he came step by step with the local magistrate, judge, and prefecture. He was also a poor family. Thanks to the teacher's support, and he also understood the worldly ways. He was not a nerd who just studied, so he has reached this point today.

He naturally understood the emperor's meaning and wrote such an imperial edict. The emperor should have seen that he knew the holy heart and came from a poor family. He had no one behind him and was not involved, so he made an exception and asked him to pass the imperial edict north.

This is an errand that the emperor personally gave. If he could do it well, he might be able to win the holy favor in the future, so he was both happy and excited and cautious.

Zhou Wei has a very good impression of the crown prince Li Xingzhou and highly respects it. Or most of them, poor children, highly respect the crown prince.

The reason is different from the generals. The generals worship the crown prince because of their great military achievements, while they are because of His Highness's actions.

Although the situation is not obvious at present, the scholars in the world see what His Highness does.

And it is also about his father-in-law Wang Tong.

Wang Tong is the son of Wang Yue. As a matter of Pingzhang, Wang Yue is the prime minister of a country. His style and work are praised by the world. He has a high prestige in the officialdom, but many people are dissatisfied with his son Wang Tong.

This person does not have much ability, but he is in the position of a magistrate of a great prefecture like Ningjiang Prefecture.

It’s just that people love Mingde Duke (Wang Yue) and agree with his prestige, so they didn’t resist too much. Later, Wang Tong’s daughter, Li Xingzhou’s wife outside the city, people thought that Wang Tong was even more successful now, and even a pig was afraid of being ranked third.

The father is the prime minister and the son-in-law is the crown prince, and his future is promising.

As a result, the next move of the crown prince surprised everyone. Before going to war, he took his father-in-law from the position of Jiangzhou prefecture with a bright future and arranged it to the Hanlin Academy for him, and ignored the pressure from Prime Minister Wang Yue.

Enrolling in the Hanlin Academy is a great blessing for ordinary officials without any background, but for people like Wang Tong with a broad background and a promising future, it is a possibility that he will be able to join the Second Mansion and Third Department!

From then on, the five key points of the Jingguo court actually had real power, including the Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council, the Salt and Iron Department, the Duzhi Department, and the Ministry of Revenue Department. He had no chance to take over.

Apart from these two prefectures and three departments, the Kaiyuan Prefecture, with the greatest real power, is generally the crown prince who is most trusted by the emperor. Now it is He Zhao. After the army of the crown prince returns, he is likely to become Li Xingzhou.

This move is truly unexpected. To destroy relatives for justice? To be selfless? To be the only one who is talented? Or is Wang Tong's daughter not serving the crown prince well? All kinds of rumors and statements have exploded among scholars, and each has its own opinions and cannot be unified.

But no matter which way, this move made them extremely excited. Although Jing State had an imperial examination, Jing State had also produced high officials in poor families, and even became the prime minister, 90% of the upper-level channels were still among the nobles.

Even if they are young, the poor children who have no background and no family, it is difficult for them to climb up.

Before, whether the crown prince suppressed local tyrants or treated his father-in-law selflessly, he sent a signal that the competition between them and scholars with backgrounds and connections will become more and more fair.

Although it is impossible to achieve absolute fairness, every point they have more opportunities.

Therefore, the crown prince Li Xingzhou is very famous among the lower-class scholars, especially in the past two years, and he won consecutive battles, suppressed the rebels, and destroyed the Northern Han (the rebels in the Taihang Mountains are not very strong and can even be called bandits, but the imperial court hailed them as remnants of the Northern Han Dynasty in order to demonstrate their achievements, so that they could be praised as the remnants of the Northern Han Dynasty, which could be praised as the contribution of destroying the country), conquered the Liao Kingdom, and defeated the Jin army.

What has been done in the past five or six years has pushed the reputation of the crown prince to a terrifying height among the people. In many places, they even worshipped Li Xingzhou instead of worshipping the land.

Zhou Wei was nervous and excited, and could not wait to meet the legendary crown prince.

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But as he slowly moved north, he became more and more surprised. On September 16, when they passed Shanhaiguan, Zhou Wei was filled with a thrill of his heart. The majesty of the world's No. 1 level shocked him. Although he had heard of it for a long time, he had never seen it before.

Standing at the top of the city, I couldn't help but write a poem.

Such a majestic pass, after several generations of construction of the Central Plains dynasty, Jingguo sighed for more than a hundred years, and was so angry that he was now taken back by the crown prince. Standing on the top of the city and stepping on the bricks and stones left by his ancestors for thousands of years, he even wanted to cry.

However, the itinerary could not be delayed, so they continued northward, passed through villages and villages, and finally arrived at the important town of Ningyuan.

What surprised him was that the Jing army flag was flying at the top of Ningyuan's city. The information he received was still the army sent into the court to confront Ningyuan. Unexpectedly, when he arrived in Ningyuan, the city had been taken down.

After being overjoyed, I felt that the Emperor's grandson had a lot of martial virtues and that Wu Qu's reputation as descending to the earth is truly worthy of his name.

In Ningyuan, the soldiers continued to lead him north and passed through many villages and towns. At first, he was nervous and afraid of meeting the Jin army, but as a result, he was unhindered all the way. When he arrived in Jinzhou, he found that the high city wall was also the Jing army flag!

Zhou Wei's chin almost fell off, Jinzhou!

Although he had never been to the north, he still had some knowledge. Taking Jinzhou would not mean that he would completely open up the western Liaoning Corridor and all the important towns in the south of the Jin army would be lost!

Standing under the city for a while, the followers took him into the city, and Zhou Wei was like a dream.
Chapter completed!