That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 1158 Xu Beiyou is no longer in the world

The news of the old emperor's death spread across the world like the wind.The next step is for the crown prince to ascend the throne, inherit the great line, honor his biological mother as the empress dowager, and change her reign name to Jianing.

Because the new emperor was too young to handle the affairs of the court in person, the four ministers of the cabinet headed by the chief assistant Han Fang were the ministers of Gu Ming, and the empress dowager listened to the government behind the curtain to jointly control the court.

It’s just that the world today is no longer the world it used to be. With the death of the old emperor, the reign of the young master, and the rooster’s dawn, the general trend of the world at this time is like the sea before the storm. turbulent.

As the saying goes, people's hearts are like water, and people's movements are like smoke. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the world today is already shaken by people's hearts. It is only a matter of a thunderbolt, and the last fig leaf of this so-called peaceful world will be removed, and the real chaos will come.

The so-called discerning people understand this truth, and so do the nobles of Tianhuang and the princes in the game.

The key is, who is that thunder.

Who is the sharp sword that cuts through the last illusion of peace in the Great Qi Dynasty.

In whose hand will this sword be held.

But these have nothing to do with Xu Beiyou who wanders in this world. He is just a passerby, who can only watch, but can't speak, let alone do anything.

After he left the state of Wei, he went south along the East China Sea and landed in Jiangdu.

At this time, Jiangdu is the second largest city after the imperial capital, and it is also the center of gravity of the entire Jiangnan and even the southeast. As the saying goes, Jiangdu is flat, Jiangnan is flat, and Jiangnan is flat, the world is flat.Although this statement is slightly exaggerated, it can also be seen that Jiangdu holds an important position in the world.

Today's Jiangdu is also very different. The person in charge of this place now is a printing official who has the power to control several states in the south of the Yangtze River. His jurisdiction is outside Jiangdu, including Jiangzhou, Huzhou, Nanzhou, and Qizhou. and so on.

According to the law system of the Daqi, the official position of the camp seal officer is not a non-established official position. It is set up due to the situation, and it will be withdrawn immediately after the event. The power of the governor of the imperial army, in charge of local government affairs and military power, after the founding of the Qi State, all the camp seal officers were abolished, and they were re-established during the San Francisco Rebellion in the Taiping period, and abolished after the war.

In the ensuing hundred years, the Daqi court successively set up nearly ten palm seal officials, and their camps were no longer limited to the earliest three camps of Jiangling, Jiange, and Shanzhong. Chaos arose everywhere, and powerful enemies such as sea bandits, northwest grasslands, southern border barbarians, and northeast post-constructions were all stalking. Therefore, Emperor Tianhong Xiao Zaihou set up Jiangdu Yingying, Beidu Yingying, Zhongdu Yingying, and Jindu. Among the four major seal officials, including the city camp seal officer, the Jiangdu line camp seal officer is the most important and has the highest status. Looking at the entire court situation, it is also very important. The candidates are selected as prominent officials of the court, and when they leave, they are the head of a party's military administration. People call it "the first important task of Wenshuai".

The official surname of today's Jiangdu Xingying is Wu, and his name is Wu Gao. He was born in the Wu family of Qizhou. He is a family of officials and eunuchs. , his father successively served as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Minister of Rites, and Yushi of Zuodu. His uncles and brothers also held various official positions. In his generation, he had the highest official position.

At the time when the new king came to the throne, civil unrest broke out again in the south of the Yangtze River. This made the Jiangdu line camp palm seal official who was in the south of the Yangtze River very anxious. He summoned his subordinates in the official residence to discuss the matter of countering the rebellion.

Because the civil unrest involved Jiangdu Camp and Jincheng Camp, there were two voices this time. One was headed by the Huzhou Chief Envoy, who advocated to negotiate with the Jincheng Camp to resolve the matter. After all, everyone They are all on errands for the court, so there is no need to separate too many from each other.The other faction is headed by the chief envoy of Jiangzhou, because Qizhou was removed from the jurisdiction of Jiangdu Yingying in the 12th year of Tianhong, so he thinks that there is no need to inform Jincheng Yingying, and Jiangdu Yingying will directly solve the problem. After the civil unrest, and then write a letter to participate in the Jincheng camp, it is best to revoke the Jincheng camp, which ranks at the bottom of the four major camps, and place Shuzhou under the jurisdiction of the Jiangdu camp to make up for the loss of Qi. state vacancies.

The two factions were at loggerheads, one reprimanded the other party for not putting state affairs first, while the other retorted that this was for the sake of accomplishing their own merits in one battle, and there must be no such thing as ordering multiple sects.It is not an ordinary person to be an official in Jiangzhou, a rich place. At this time, the surname of the Jiangzhou chief envoy was Wei, a descendant of Lai Guogong, while the Huzhou chief envoy was surnamed Zhuge, E The descendants of the duke of the state are all descendants of the dukes for generations.The two have the same official position and family background, so they are even more unwilling to give in to each other, which makes the atmosphere drop to freezing point.

In the lobby at this time, there was a situation map of the entire southeast half wall, which replaced the original unicorn pattern. Lines symbolizing the offensive were drawn on the map with a Chinese ink brush, and then Nanzhou was circled.

Wu Gao sat behind the big case in the middle, after all, he was an official for many years, and he was very good at nourishing his energy. At this time, he closed his eyes to rest his mind, and ignored the chaos in front of him.

There are two rows of seats on the left and right sides of the big case, and the people sitting on them are all black robes and green robes - the Daqi court advocates black, so senior officials above the third rank can wear black official uniforms, and those above the sixth rank can wear blue public service.

Jiangdu Xingying's seal officer, as the feudal official who commanded several states in the south of the Yangtze River, was naturally a top-ranking official, second only to the cabinet ministers of the central government. The second-rank and third-rank officials, and then the magistrates, guards, etc. of each prefecture, between the fourth and fifth ranks.If an assassin could kill all the dozens of people in the hall, the entire Jiangnan would be in chaos immediately, and then the whole world would be in chaos.

Xu Beiyou sat on an unoccupied chair at the end on the right, quietly watching the crowds in the lobby.

But none of the people in the hall saw the figure of this young man. In their eyes, there was only an empty chair that happened to be unoccupied, and there was nothing strange about it.

Xu Beiyou looked at the face of the palm print official who was closing his eyes and resting his mind. He was elegant and graceful. Although he was already at the age of knowing his destiny, he was still a rare handsome man.

If he remembered correctly, Wu Yu's father was an official in Qizhou.

When he came to Jiangdu this time, he wanted to find traces of Jianzong, but it was a pity that things were different and he never found them.

In Ganquan Palace, the imperial capital in the 24th year of Taiping, Xu Beiyou dreamed his life under Qiusi's prayer wheel. He first appeared in Ganquan Palace, the imperial capital in Tianhong's 13th year, and then wandered here all the way. But from the beginning to the end, he can only be one The passers-by and spectators who are outside the game cannot affect the people inside the game.

The last person who had such a miraculous experience was Xiao Yu, Emperor Taizu of the Great Qi. According to the fragments of words left by Xiao Yu himself, he was actually possessed by Xiao Yu after the first year of his life. He felt that he couldn't move freely like Xu Beiyou is now, so Xu Beiyou came up with a bold idea. Is the reason why he looks like a "lonely ghost" wandering around because there is no Xu Beiyou in the world at this time?

(End of this chapter)