Sign In a Lu Bu Fengxian at the Beginning

After half an hour.

The sound of soldiers came to an abrupt end.

The blood knife gate has returned to calm.

The entire Blood Sword Sect, from the elders in charge to the ordinary disciples, all fell into a pool of blood.

The blood sword gate, the martial art of the Big Dipper on Mount Tai, was killed by Cao Zhengchun with the factory guards.

I have to say, if the news spreads.

That would definitely shock the entire Jianghu.

You must know that the Blood Sword Gate is not an ordinary force on the rivers and lakes, but the Taishan Beidou on the rivers and lakes.

It can be said that on the rivers and lakes, Wuliangshan and Xuedaomen are the two leading leaders in the rivers and lakes.

The blood sword gate was wiped out by the imperial court, and its influence on the rivers and lakes was by no means comparable to those of the Shenquan gate who were wiped out by the imperial court.

Cao Zhengchun glanced at the corpses all over the floor, then turned and left with a blank expression.

This is the fate of being an enemy of the imperial court.

Even the Taishan Beidou on the rivers and lakes cannot escape such an end.

Hundreds of factory guards also followed Cao Zhengchun and left silently, leaving only the corpses on the ground.

The blood knife sect of 'Boundless North, South Blood Knife' on the rivers and lakes just disappeared and became a cloud of the past.

...

Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Zhou Chen walked out of the hall and looked up at the somewhat gray sky.

"Your Majesty, it's cold outside..."

Cao Shaoqin followed behind Zhou Chen and said respectfully.

"It's okay, I'm going, you don't have to follow me."

Zhou Chen ignored Cao Shaoqin's words and walked step by step along the steps of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Since Zhou Chen's body fully recovered, he has been pressed by various things, and his nerves have always been in a tense state.

It is rare that there are no messy things to deal with today, Zhou Chen wants to go out and think about some things.

The Hall of Mental Cultivation is the place where the emperor rests and handles government affairs, so here is a post at three steps and a post at five steps. The imperial guards are very closely guarded. Every few steps Zhou Chen takes, he can see teams of guards patrolling.

Those guards with three steps and one post, five steps and one post, all held their heads high when they saw the emperor Zhou Chen coming.

"The Great Zhou Empire has accumulated too many evils."

"This downhill road has slipped to the bottom of the valley. So many worms have been swept away in this courtroom. What about the place?"

"If you want to rejuvenate Dazhou and change Dazhou's decadence, it seems that I still have a long way to go."

Zhou Chen walked slowly, thinking to himself.

Although Zhou Chen first eliminated the relatives of the queen Wu Ying and the general Wu Jinquan.

Then, Zhou Chen cleaned up the power of the four great aristocratic families in the court, and won important positions in the court, such as the prime minister and the minister of the household.

Most of the powers in the center of the imperial court were taken back.

Let the imperial power no longer be restrained by any.

But Zhou Chen knew that if he wanted to ZTE Dazhou and change Dazhou's current decadent situation, these were far from enough.

Take Da Zhou's various places as an example, the degree of erosion, some news from the East Factory, Zhou Chen can see the whole picture.

This is not even a matter of the Quartet border.

Adding these things together, it will not be easier to deal with than cleaning the center of the court.

It is even possible that it is more difficult than cleaning the center of the court.

However, fortunately, Zhou Chen has already taken the first step, cleaning up the courtroom and taking control of the power of the courtroom.

This lays a solid foundation for what follows.

"time."

"As long as you give me enough time, these problems are not problems for me."

Zhou Chen thought secretly in his heart.

Whether it's local corruption or border issues, in Zhou Chen's opinion, as long as he is given some time, he can solve it.

Now he has decided to start to arrange to solve the problem of the border.

Once the border issues are resolved, Da Zhou's basic plate will be stabilized.

Just when Zhou Chen was walking slowly and thinking about this, Cao Shaoqin walked over quickly.

"Your Majesty, Master Fang has returned from the land of the four northern states."

"General Zhang also came back with Shenwuwei."

After Cao Shaoqin came over, he bowed and said.

"Oh!"

"Fang Xuanling and Zhang Liao are back."

When Zhou Chen heard the words, he immediately stopped and continued to move forward.

"Go, go back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

Zhou Chen turned around and returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Shenwuwei's anti-rebel army and Fang Xuanling, the disaster relief commissioner, came back, and Zhou Chen had to listen to their report in person.

Not long after Zhou Chen returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Fang Xuanling, Zhang Liao, and Wei Xu walked in.

Lu Bu went to Shu, and Wei Xuzai was the commander of the rebel army of Shenwuwei in Beiying.

"Chen Fang Xuanling."

"Last General Zhang Liao."

"The last general Wei Xu."

"I have seen Your Majesty."

After entering the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Fang Xuanling, Zhang Liao, and Wei Xu saluted Zhou Chen in unison.

"Hahaha, my three heroes are back."

"It's all free!"

Zhou Chen laughed and said, looking at the three people's faces with a dusty look.

Obviously, Fang Xuanling and the others went straight into the palace without cleaning up once they returned to Luoyang.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Fang Xuanling, Zhang Liao, and Wei Xu stood up.

"How about the losses of the North and South Shenwu Guards against the rebel army?"

After Fang Xuanling and the others stood up, Zhou Chen did not ask Fang Xuanling first, but looked at Zhang Liao and Wei Xu first, and asked about the loss of Shenwuwei.

In Zhou Chen's view, the army is the foundation and support of everything.

As long as there is a large army, then all is not a problem.

Therefore, Zhou Chen was the first to care about the counter-insurgency army.

"Report to Your Majesty, Nanying Shenwuwei killed and injured more than 28,000 people."

Zhang Liao bowed and said.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, more than 76,000 people were killed or injured by Beiying Shenwuwei."

Wei Xu also bowed and reported a number.

When Zhou Chen heard the two numbers reported by Zhang Liao and Wei Xu, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared.

"How do you say, 200,000 troops of rebels, only less than 100,000 returned?"

Zhou Chen's brows furrowed together.

Zhou Chen knew that it was impossible for the army to suppress the rebellion without killing people, without casualties.

But what Zhou Chen didn't expect was that Shen Wuwei's casualties were so great.

Of the 200,000 counter-insurgent troops, less than 100,000 returned, and more than half of the troops were killed or injured.

This casualty is no small thing.

In particular, the Beiying Shenwu Guards, a 100,000-strong army to suppress the rebellion, killed and wounded more than 76,000 soldiers and horses, and less than 30,000 returned.

It can be said that the 100,000-strong Beiying Shenwuwei army was almost crippled.

Zhang Liao and Wei Xu were silent, and Fang Xuanling was also silent.

The 200,000 counter-insurgent army returned less than 100,000.

This is indeed a heavy loss.

After all, Shenwuwei is not an ordinary army, it is the capital of Dazhou to deter the world.

This loss of so many Shenwu guards and horses is no small matter for Da Zhou.

Zhou Chen's face was a little tense.

The twelve guards of Shenwu only had a total of 360,000 soldiers and horses, and now there are more than 100,000 casualties, plus the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the one guard who followed the Taishi and wiped out the entire army.

The Twelve Guards of Shenwu almost hurt the basic vitality.

After a moment of silence, Zhou Chen raised his eyes to look at Zhang Liao and Wei Xu; "These soldiers and soldiers who died in battle for Da Zhou should be counted as soon as possible, and none of you should be left behind."

"I will inform the Minister of War and the Minister of Household, and take good care of these soldiers who died in the battle for Da Zhou."

"You two should also inform the generals at all levels in the army not to deduct the slightest pension from the soldiers who died in battle."

"If I find out that someone in the army has deducted the pensions of the soldiers who died in battle, even if they were born and died for Da Zhou, I will not spare them."

Zhou Chen said with a stern expression.

Zhou Chen didn't want to see that these Shenwu Guards who died in battle for Da Zhou shed blood for Da Zhou, and made their families cry again for Da Zhou.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhang Liao and Wei Xu immediately bowed when they heard the words.

"Okay, now you all start to talk about the specific details of counterinsurgency and disaster relief."

"Fang Xuanling, let's start with you, how is the situation in the four northern states?"

After Zhou Chen was concerned about the situation of the army, he began to ask about other things.

Fang Xuanling heard Zhou Chen's question, and immediately stood up and reported the situation of disaster relief in the four northern states in the past few months, as well as the current resettlement situation in the four northern states.

After Fang Xuanling reported the disaster relief situation.

Zhang Liao and Wei Xu also began to report on the specific circumstances of their suppression of the rebellion and the annihilation of the Zheng family of Rongyang.

...

More than an hour later.

Fang Xuanling, Zhang Liao, and Wei Xu all reported their affairs one by one.

Zhou Chen looked up at the three of them and said, "This time, you all have done a lot of credit for fighting disasters and quelling rebellions and killing the thieves."

"In this way, you will be able to stand in the court and in the army in the future."

Although Fang Xuanling and the other three were forcibly placed in the court and the army by the emperor Zhou Chen, they still had to show merit in order to gain a foothold.

Otherwise, even if Zhou Chen, the emperor, pressed him, some people would inevitably be dissatisfied.

After all, they all squeezed into the ministers and generals from an unknown white body.

It would be strange if no one disagreed with this!

Now with these achievements, Fang Xuanling and the others will have the capital to stand on.

No one will be dissatisfied anymore.

"You must be tired all the way, you should go down and rest first!"

Zhou Chen waved his hand and said.

The three of them went back to Luoyang without a break, and went straight to the palace to face the saint.

Now that Zhou Chen has also listened to the report of Fang Xuanling and the three of them, let Fang Xuanling and the three of them go back to have a good rest first.

Looking at the state of the three of them should also be very tired.

"My minister retire."

Fang Xuanling, Zhang Liao and Wei Xu bowed to take orders.

Then, the three of them withdrew from the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

After Fang Xuanling and the three of them left, Zhou Chen pondered the things that Fang Xuanling and the three of them reported just now.

The place where the family is arrogant.

Corruption of officials is rampant, and people's lives are sloppy.

The people deducted a lot of miscellaneous taxes, suffered unspeakably, and were oppressed.

Zhou Chen didn't expect that the local situation was even more eroded than he imagined.

It's not that Zhou Chen has not received a memorial from Fang Xuanling to report the situation around the north. Zhou Chen knows that the situation in the place is very corrupt.

But now after listening to Fang Xuanling's personal report, Zhou Chen realized that the local situation was much more corrupt than he expected.

It can be said that some shocking is not an exaggeration.

"The situation in the surrounding areas in the north is like this, so the other places in Dazhou should not be much different."

Zhou Chen's eyes flickered as he thought.

...

Cining Palace.

Zhang Guojiu looked at the queen mother with snot and tears and cried, "Sister, you have to help eldest brother and Zhang family!"

"Now the eldest brother has nothing, and the Zhang family has nothing."

"If you don't help the eldest brother and the Zhang family, the eldest brother and the Zhang family will starve to death on the streets."

Uncle Zhang Guo looked pitifully at the Queen Mother.

Although Zhou Chen opened his mouth to spare Zhang Guojiu and the Zhang family's death penalty, the death penalty could be forgiven, and the living crime was unavoidable.

All the assets and other things of the Zhang family were confiscated, and all the identities of the Zhang family were deprived.

It can be said that although Zhang Guojiu and Zhang family were lucky to survive, they went directly from heaven to hell.

To put it badly, they are now estimated to be inferior to some ordinary people.

"Humph."

"If I had known today, why was it in the first place."

"Ai's family really didn't expect that even you guys would be so daring."

"Zhi'er doesn't know life and death, don't you even know life and death?"

"If His Majesty hadn't looked at Aijia's face and spared your life, do you know what would have happened to you?"

The empress dowager looked at Zhang Guojiu in disgust.

The queen mother has lost the son of Zhou Zhi, the king of Shu, and the queen mother is really afraid that even the only remaining elder brother and family members will be lost.

Fortunately, Zhou Chen looked at her face and let the Zhang family go.

Otherwise, the queen mother really can't imagine what to do in the future.

"Sister! I was also deceived by Zhi'er."

"It was Zhi'er who told me that His Majesty is not my nephew, so I just believed it."

"Especially the one who has no life, is even more hateful, and rhetoric..."

Before Zhang Guojiu finished speaking, he saw that the Queen Mother's face was not right, and he immediately got stuck and lost his voice~www.wuxiahere.com~ What did you just say? "

"Zhi'er told you that His Majesty is not your nephew?"

The empress dowager's face changed, staring straight at Zhang Guojiu.

Zhang Guojiu nodded hard.

"Did you explain all this in prison?"

The queen mother asked.

Zhang Guojiu bit his head and nodded again.

The empress dowager's face changed and collapsed.

Upon seeing this, Uncle Zhang Guo whispered; "Sister, shouldn't I explain this?"

The Queen Mother glanced at Uncle Zhang Guo, and waved her hand without saying anything.

The old palace maid standing next to her immediately came over with a few land deeds.

"This is a little property that Ai's family has prepared for you. From now on, you can be ordinary people in peace!"

"If something happens to you again, Aijia won't be able to save you."

The queen mother didn't want to say anything more, she just waved her hand and let Zhang Guoji leave.

That's all she can do for Uncle Zhang Guo and the Zhang family.

Uncle Zhang Guo pursed his lips and wanted to say something, but seeing the empress dowager's gesture of directly waving his hand to let him leave, Uncle Zhang Guo swallowed the words again.

After receiving a few land deeds from the old palace maid, Uncle Zhang Guo left the Cining Palace.

After Uncle Zhang Guo left, the Queen Mother had already looked a little better, but turned pale again.

The queen mother got up and went back to the couch.

There was only a faint sigh left in the Cining Palace.