The night is as dark as ink, without stars or moon.

In the howling cold wind, the sound of intensive horse hooves sounded like thunder.

Due to the terrain restrictions in the city, the army could not form a formation and could only form separate formations and disperse.

The defenders in the same city started fighting in the streets. Now there are not only soldiers and horses from the Dianqian Division and the city defense battalion in the city, but also the Divine Guards.

Moreover, since the last rebellion of King Yan forced the palace, Gu Yankai, under the instruction of Emperor Xining, reorganized the Dianqian Division. The ordnance of the Dianqian Division and the city defense camp was also replaced, which not only increased the defense of the inner city.

, and also added manpower and sentries on the imperial city towers, equipped with a large number of divine arm crossbows.

The Song Dynasty was able to compete with Xixia and Liao for many years. Although they lost more than they won, they still clung to their territory, making the Liao people dare not go south. Xixia could only look at Guanzhong from a distance but could not make any progress. It relied on nothing more than two sharp weapons.

One is the unrivaled foot armor in the world, and the other is the unique divine arm crossbow, which far exceeds ordinary crossbows in both range and power.

The British Duke was a veteran in the army and had led troops for many years. He had already thought out the countermeasures in advance before entering the city.

All the generals under their command dispersed and started fighting in the streets and alleys with the soldiers and horses from the city who came for reinforcements. Gu Er and Wang Zhong were entrusted with important tasks, taking General Xiao Zheng and other young generals with them, each with a hundred men.

Qingqi, constantly roaming to support.

"I am the Marquis of Ningyuan, Gu Tingye. We have found out the cause of death of the official, the queen, and all the great ministers. Tonight, we are only here to protect the Qing Emperor and eliminate the traitors! Brothers in front of the palace and the city defense camp, don't let those traitors fool you.

Blinded!"

First use force to intimidate, and then win over and divide. What Empress Dowager Cao relies on is just the prestige left by the late emperor. Although the tiger is dead, its power still exists, but love is limited after all. In the face of life and death, in the face of interests,

In front of us, there are only a few people who can stick to their original aspirations as always.

The battle lasted all night, and both sides suffered heavy losses. The British Duke and Gu Er finally gained the upper hand. The guards of each gate were either killed or surrendered, and the soldiers and horses in the outer and inner cities were successively collected.

After surrendering, the defenders of each gate also turned into soldiers and horses of King Qin's army.

The people hid in their homes and closed their doors and windows for fear of being implicated.

I don't know when the sky has turned white. After a night of fighting, everyone's faces also showed a bit of fatigue.

If the emperor and the empress were not dead, I am afraid that everyone would have broken into the palace at all costs last night, but now the emperor and the empress have been killed long ago. Now the palace is ruled by the Empress Dowager Cao, and the imperial city is much more heavily guarded than before.

times.

In order to reduce their own losses, the British public and others chose to fight slowly and calmly. They first pacified the inner and outer cities to eliminate their worries, and then used a large army to surround the imperial city. With an absolute advantage, they marched to the city to avoid as much as possible.

Something unexpected happened.

The imperial city is not big. The total number of defenders at Donghua Gate, Xihua Gate and Nanxun Gate is less than three thousand. Moreover, the imperial city is not monolithic. There are many walls around the corners. The palace has long been in disrepair.

, the maids in the palace often sneaked out of the palace through these nooks and crannies.

At this time, the person standing on the city wall of Nanxun Gate was none other than Empress Dowager Cao's biological brother and the newly appointed commander of the Divine Guard Army, Cao Wenxuan.

"What are you doing here? Are you planning to rebel?" Cao Wenxuan looked at the army below the city, feeling both angry and worried.

The British Duke ignored Cao Wenxuan who was jumping up and down on the city wall, and turned to look at Gu Er next to him. Gu Er immediately rode forward and said loudly: "Brothers from the front office, I am Ningyuan Hou Gu Tingye. The official and the queen are here

The palace has been harmed by traitors in the court. We are raising troops today just to protect the Qing monarch. We will eliminate the traitors and restore the purity of the court..."

"Straight bitch!"

"court death!"

Cao Wenxuan, who was on the tower, didn't give Gu Er a chance to instigate rebellion. He quickly grabbed the divine arm crossbow from his crossbowman's hand, pointed it at Gu Er and shot an arrow at it.

"Shoot these rebels to death!"

"Shoot them!"

An arrow shot out, but Gu Er dodged it. Cao Wenxuan felt furious and roared hysterically, but as he roared, Cao Wenxuan's voice suddenly stopped.

I saw an arrow with its tail still trembling, inserted into Cao Wenxuan's neck like lightning, and the shoulder armor surrounding his neck was like tofu.

"Those who surrender will be spared death; those who resist will be killed without mercy!"

"Crossbowmen prepare!"

Boom, boom, boom!

The dull sound of war drums echoed through the sky.

The British man with white beard and hair pulled out the long sword from his waist, waved his hand, and the soldiers hiding behind the shield pushed a manhole to the front.

Wang Zhong also climbed up the well railing early, holding a three-stone bow gifted by Gu Er in his hand. Cao Wenxuan was killed by his arrow just now.

The defenders on the city have divine arm crossbows, but the troops brought by the British Duke and others are also the Tokyo Forbidden Army, and they are also equipped with divine arm crossbows. Moreover, the reason why the British Duke delayed the attack on the imperial city until now is because

Just to wait for the reserve soldiers and horses to transport the manhole fence into the city.

The crossbowmen on the well railings also use divine arm crossbows, and the walls of the imperial city are not particularly high, so the well railings.

"shoot!"

The British Duke gave an order and waved his flag, and the crossbowmen who were hiding behind the guardrails on the well railing stood up to fight back.

Wang Zhong's archery skills were so precise that he could hit wherever he pointed. In less than ten breaths, he shot out a pot of arrows. On top of the city tower, fifteen defenders carrying divine arm crossbows were killed by him.

Under the arrow.

There were also a group of crossbowmen to help, and in an instant, they had a suppressive effect on the defenders on the tower.

Anyone who dared to take the initiative among the crossbowmen on the city would be severely attacked. However, within a short time, they were suppressed and could only hide behind the city wall.

In addition, Cao Wenxuan was shot to death,

"Siege the city!"

The sound of drums became more intense,

The British Duke gave the order again, pushing the ladder, and the infantry of the siege truck began to move forward.

"kill!"

In just half an hour, Nanxun Gate was breached, and the army invaded the imperial city.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Another half hour later, in the Daqing Palace, Queen Mother Cao, dressed in imperial robes, sat on the dragon chair, next to Zhao Ceyong in dragon robes.

Looking at the ferocious sergeant, the young Zhao Ceyong's face was full of fear, but Empress Dowager Cao was calm and unafraid, ignoring the people rushing into the palace, and gently stroking the armrests of the dragon chair with her palms, as if she was feeling something.

.

"The eldest lady is so excited. She has reached this point and she can still be so calm and composed."

In front of Empress Dowager Cao were a dozen maids and more than twenty confidants.

"Rebellious ministers and traitors!" Empress Dowager Cao looked at Gu Er who was speaking with an angry look on her face.

"Rebellious ministers and traitors?" Gu Er sneered and said, "Don't you feel embarrassed when you say this?"

"snort!"

Empress Dowager Cao's sharp gaze swept over everyone one by one.

The British Duke glared at Gu Er: "Zhong Huai!"

Gu Er immediately held up his hands and leaned back slightly.

However, Wang Zhong stepped forward and said: "It is a state law. The eldest lady rebelled, killed the officials and the queen, and also killed many other important officials in the court such as Han Daxiangong. The crime is unpardonable. If the eldest lady doesn't want to face herself,

If so, I don’t mind helping the eldest lady look decent."

"Prince Hou, how dare you!" Empress Dowager Cao stood up, pointed at Wang Zhong and angrily shouted: "The Ai family is the empress dowager of the current dynasty, how dare you do this?"

Wang Zhongdao: "The emperor breaks the law and is guilty of the same crime as the common people! What's more, you are only the Queen Mother!"

"Rebellious ministers and traitors!"

"Rebellious ministers and traitors!"

Empress Dowager Cao pointed at Wang Zhong and cursed loudly, but after only a few words, Wang Zhong immediately drew his bow and set an arrow. There was a muffled sound, and the arrow pierced the chest of a chamberlain who was standing in front of Empress Dowager Cao, hitting Cao Cao in the middle.

The Queen Mother's chest was directly driven away by the huge force.

But it was not over yet, because Wang Zhong shot three arrows in a row. One arrow penetrated the throat and the other penetrated the lower abdomen, nailing Cao Tianhou to the dragon chair.

Zhao Ceyong, who was next to him, couldn't breathe and fainted from fright.

"You..." The British public and others looked at Wang Zhong in shock. The boss, whose mouth was open, was obviously shocked by Wang Zhong's sudden move.

"Everyone!" Wang Zhong turned to face everyone and said loudly: "The matter has come to this, we have no choice. If the Queen Mother is left behind, how will we deal with ourselves in the future?"

Wang Zhong's words directly touched the hearts of everyone in the palace.

"The Queen Mother knew that her crime was so heinous that she committed suicide out of fear of it!"

"The plan for now is to quickly find the sixth prince, support him on the throne, appease people's hearts, and stabilize the court."

As soon as Wang Zhong said these words, everyone's eyes lit up!

"What Academician Wang said is absolutely true. The plan for now is to find the Sixth Prince as soon as possible!"

Compared to Conglong Zhigong, a mere Empress Dowager Cao is nothing. If she dies, she will die.

Half a day later, all the corpses and blood were swept out of the palace. The distinguished military attachés, headed by Duke Ying, and the civil servants, headed by Wang Zhong, supported the sixth prince, Zhao Cexun, to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in the Daqing Palace.

In the afternoon of that day, the imperial edict written by Wang Zhong and sealed by the British Duke spread throughout Tokyo. The edict stated that the Empress Dowager Cao and the Cao family rebelled, killed the emperor and the empress, and also murdered the Grand Prime Minister Han Zhang and many other important officials.

, the detailed story of the destruction of his entire family.

Among the military attachés, the British Duke was granted the title of Taiwei, leading the Privy Envoy, and was in charge of the Imperial Guards in Tokyo. General Zheng was granted the title of Zhu Guo, and led the Privy Deputy Envoy. The other distinguished generals were promoted, and Gu Er was also reinstated. He held the post of commander and envoy in front of the palace, responsible for guarding the imperial city and suppressing the remnants of the rebels.

Among the civil servants, Grand Xianggong Han was killed, two of the six ministers suddenly disappeared, and two more had long been connected with the Queen Mother Cao. Among the civil servants, there were not a few who turned to the Queen Mother.

After searching through the remaining people, the one who was finally promoted to the position was the 70-year-old Minister Wu of the Ministry of Industry, while Wang Zhong became the deputy of the old Minister Zheng and the deputy prime minister of the dynasty.

Mr. Wu, the old minister, is old and dim. He is said to be the Prime Minister, but in fact he is just a mascot. He also knows that he is just pushed out and placed in front of the stage and does not interfere in political affairs.

Even Sheng Hong, a veteran who had always had both sides of the fence in the officialdom, was promoted and took the job of right minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Not to mention Changbai, who was appointed deputy envoy of salt and iron, and was temporarily in charge of all salt affairs. Rulan's husband Wen Yanjing was appointed as a general judge and sent to other places.

The news that Empress Dowager Cao had murdered Zhao Zongquan and Empress Shen had just been released, and it immediately caused an uproar in the court. At first, everyone was still suspicious, but when the survivor Shen Congxing and several officials who had taken refuge with Empress Dowager Cao came forward to testify, the capital There was an uproar.

Fortunately, the British Duke, General Zheng and others were in charge, and the Queen Mother's rebellion case was resolved within ten days. There were hundreds of officials involved in the case, and even the Duke of Qi was involved.

Although the young prince Qi Heng did not know the inside story, he had always been a supporter of the Empress Dowager Cao and was a mainstay in the forces of the Empress Dowager Cao. He was inevitably implicated and was sent to Lingzhou in the northwest to make a small of general judgment.

The nearly 100 officials involved in the case were not spared. Fortunately, most of them were not deeply involved and were either punished or demoted. Only a dozen of them were dismissed from office, and seven or eight of the officials most involved in the case had their homes confiscated and exiled. , Thorn with the Frontier.

Just after the first month of the year, the court slowly returned to stability. Under Wang Zhong's suggestion, because the emperor was too young, in order to prevent excessive concentration of power, the position of prime minister and assistant was changed to an election system, every three years. They have to be re-elected for a maximum of three consecutive terms, which is nine years. The requirements for candidates are also extremely strict. The first is official rank, at least from the second grade.

Wang Zhong's suggestion was somewhat controversial when it was first introduced, but as time went by, officials realized the benefits and formally implemented it not long after.

In the third year of Taiping, Wu Lao Shangshu resigned from the post of prime minister and assistant, and Wang Zhong took over, starting the reform path of boiling frogs with slow fire.

Wang Zhong knows very well that in today's world, all classes have been solidified. If he rashly carries out reforms, before he succeeds, he will probably become a thorn in the eyes of all the privileged classes, a thorn in their flesh, and they will wish to get rid of him.

Therefore, Wang Zhong was not impatient, but worked steadily. First, he established a Military Aircraft Department under the Privy Council, and then a Military Affairs Supervisor under the Imperial College to train military attachés for the court. At the same time, he established military academies in various prefectures. The Academy was affiliated with the Supervisor of Military Affairs. It recruited children from good families in various states and prefectures. They were taught reading and literacy first, and then martial arts and military arts. They were graded at different levels, and the power of military examinations was delegated to the Supervisor of Military Affairs. However, in just a few years, He sent hundreds of grassroots officers to the imperial court.

The second thing Wang Zhong did was to increase the rights of the six ministries. The responsibilities of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Industry remained unchanged, and only the rights and benefits were increased. The Ministry of Revenue gradually took over the financial power from the Third Division, and the Ministry of War was responsible for the military attaches.

In terms of his life, appointment and dismissal, the rank of the six ministers was also mentioned as the second rank, and the ministers on the left and right were all the third rank.

The Jianyuan and Yushitai were merged into the Duchayuan. The highest official of the Duchayuan was the Zuodu Yushi, and his deputy was the Youdu Yushi, with the second rank of Zheng and the second rank of Cong respectively.

In the seventh year of Taiping (the seventh year of Taiping), the fourth year after Wang Zhong took over as Prime Minister, he began to change the imperial court's chaotic rank, official, and dispatch system, that is, it adopted the official system of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

As for the people, the imperial court vigorously encouraged people to engage in business, promoted potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes brought back from overseas throughout the country, encouraged innovation, and vigorously developed production without temporarily encroaching on the power of existing classes, and introduced various new agricultural tools and cultivation methods.

The methods and concepts have spread all over the world.

In the same year, under the leadership of Wang Zhong, the "One Whip" law began to be implemented all over the world, that is, the land tax, corvee and other miscellaneous levies in various states and counties were combined into one, and the silver taels were collected together and paid per mu.

In the tenth year of Taiping, Wang Zhong was elected prime minister for the third time. Three years after the One Whip Law was implemented in the world, Wang Zhong once again implemented the policy of dividing the land into acres, returning fire to the public, and the officials and gentry to pay the grain together.

Although there were many voices of opposition in the court, Wang Zhong had been in power for many years at this time, and his prestige had already reached its peak. He also had the full support of Gu Er, the Privy Councilor in charge of all the Imperial Guards in Tokyo, and after Xiao Duan annexed the Imperial City Division.

The intelligence agencies that developed continued to implement this method, although there were some ups and downs.

In the twelfth year of Taiping, Wang Zhong resigned from the position of prime minister and was granted the title of Grand Master and received the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments. However, no one wanted to overthrow the various policies that Wang Zhong implemented, and no one thought of helping the people who had already fallen into decline.

The mascot emperor returned to power because they had already tasted the benefits of the election system and they did not want to have someone who could determine their life or death with one word and sit on their heads to shit and piss.

In addition, the six departments, five temples and three law departments each performed their own duties. In terms of the army, with the implementation of the Military Academy, the filling of the treasury, and the reforms implemented by Gu Er in the army, the national power of the Song Dynasty became stronger and stronger, even in

Xixia took advantage of the situation and achieved victory several times.

It seems that without the emperor, the court would be better off!

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"call!"

On the sofa in the living room, Wang Zhong woke up with half his body sunk into the soft leather sofa. Looking at the familiar environment around him, he couldn't help but sigh.

The past few decades of the "Knowledge" dungeon are much more interesting than all the previous dungeon worlds.

With the power of one person, he changed the direction of the entire world and advanced a country with a feudal autocratic monarchy to a stage similar to a constitutional monarchy. Although Wang Zhong did not know where the world would go in the future, and whether one day the imperial power would once again be superior to all living beings.

But at least now, Wang Zhong has a lot of sense of accomplishment in his heart.

The replica world lasts for decades, but the reality lasts only a moment.

Wang Zhong stood up, drank a glass of water, sat back on the sofa, and then called up the system.

【Copy Settlement······

Copy evaluation: First, the task is being settled, please wait...]

[Task reward: Main mission: 40 potential points, 40 skill points, 400 points.

Additional bonus: system space volume x2.

Is it to extract memories, shield emotions, and form a memory light ball?】

Without hesitation, Wang Zhong chose No again. The line "Knowing No" is indeed wonderful, but the difference between ancient times and modern times is too big, whether it is the way of life or speech and behavior, Wang Zhong chose No.

The familiar feeling, the memories in the mind are gradually stripped away, and the familiar faces gradually become blurred...

Call up the personal information panel again:

[Host: Wang Zhong

Yangshou:26/64

Status: strong

Body:108~238

Strength:89~208

Speed:92~212

God:148

Skills: Slightly

Kung Fu: Qi Training Technique (Level 7)

(Note: Kung Fu can consume skill points to improve)

Potential points: 70

Skill points: 190

System points: 1870

Memory ball:x5

System space x1 (1024m3)]
Chapter completed!