It is not so easy to be selected if you are qualified and capable of replacing this Lan Lord as the candidate for the Central Government Supervisor.

And even if you choose, you still have to go all the way from the capital to the capital to Zhongjing. If something happens on the way, it will be a lot of fun!

In short, as soon as this incident happened, the court was in a state of turmoil, not to mention Zhongjing, which was even more anxious and chaotic.

Originally, the demon disaster spread around Zhongjing, but it was still far from Zhongjing. But now within 100 miles of Zhongjing, traces of monsters have begun to appear.

Countless people fled to the nearest city with their families.

In just over ten days, Zhongjing City has added more than 100,000 people, which has increased the logistics and food pressure.

Originally, the military and political leaders should have arrived, and the military and political forces were arrested, and the government issued a decree to calm the food prices and crack down on hoarding. Even military control is required when necessary.

But at this time, the civil servants were not in charge of the army. Whether it was Zheng Xiaoming, the chief general or Wu Chuncheng, the military supervisor, could only watch the situation deteriorate.

As the population leaves the countryside in large numbers, panic spreads and resentment boils. More and more monsters begin to appear, and even monsters begin to appear in villages 10 or 20 miles around Zhongjing.

According to the experience of the Great Chu court in dealing with the demon disasters over hundreds of years, the first step to suppressing the demon disasters is to prevent such things.

If you don’t give resentment and panic chances to spread, there will be no more monsters flooding.

Once the number of monsters increases and becomes a whole, it becomes a climate, and it will not be easy to suppress the demon disaster at that time!

The court had no choice but to order Zheng Xiaoming to lead some mountain mausoleum guards to take the initiative to clean up monsters on all sides, reduce the number of monsters, delay the time of the formation of the demon disaster, and delay the time for the new supervisor to take office.

Zheng Xiaoming could only lead the army to fight, and in three days he killed tens of thousands of monsters, and almost wiped out the monsters within fifty miles around Zhongjing City.

However, there are more and more monsters fifty miles away from Zhongjing City.

Even the new governor Xue Xiangguang was besieged by a demonic disaster in Zhonggao County.

The new governor Xue Xiangguang was an old minister who retired in Nanjing. He made outstanding contributions and was very famous.

Nanjing is much closer to Zhongjing than Shangjing, and it is even more convenient along the way. Clippers can usually reach it in two days.

But I didn't expect that the Supervisor Xue was not lucky, so he was surrounded halfway through the road, and it is said that the situation in Zhonggao County is in danger.

If two supervisors died in a row, it would be a big joke.

The court had no choice but to send Shanling Guards to save people.

However, the imperial cabinet could not be transferred to Shanling Guards. Only the current emperor could issue this order.

Unfortunately, the emperor hesitated at this time, because the Shanling Guards could be regarded as royal private troops and had nothing to do with the outside dynasty.

There was no such precedent in the past when the Shanling Guards were dispatched due to the affairs of the outer court, so the emperor hesitated for it.

Don’t think this is not a big deal. Many things are afraid of having an beginning.

Isn't there a broken window effect?

When all windows are intact, everyone will protect them. However, as long as the windows are broken for the first time and no one will repair them, all windows in the entire building will soon be broken.

And this kind of thing is the same. When there is the first time, there will be a second time. In the future, the imperial cabinet may erode step by step, and dig out the control of the Shanling Guard from the emperor bit by bit.

This kind of thing has not been once or twice in the history of the Great Chu!

It is not a matter of one day or two that the evolution of the Great Chu into the current political landscape.

When Taizu was the first emperor, the emperor was still arbitrary and thunderous. Killing civil officials was like killing a chicken.

However, in the struggle between the civil servant group and the emperor from generation to generation, the emperor's authority was gradually pried away by the civil servant group.

That is why the emperor set up the literati supervisor as the "inner dynasty" to check and balance the "outer dynasty" of the imperial cabinet.

Now the Shanling Guard is the most important and one of the greatest forces in the hands of the emperor. It is impossible for civil servants to get involved...

Although the Great Chu used eunuchs and nobles to balance the huge civil servant group, to be honest, they could only barely compete.

There are hundreds of thousands of civil servants in the imperial court, including the Grand Secretary of the imperial cabinet, the six ministries and nine ministers, the central institutions of the imperial court, and even local prefectures and counties.

Even the local gentry were all alliances and reserve troops of the civil service group.

Such a powerful force, even if the imperial power embraced the eunuchs and nobles, it would only retreat step by step, barely stabilizing its position.

In short, if the mountain guards are taken away by civil servants, even if they are just a possible slit, the emperor will not be far away.

But even if the emperor is unwilling, there is no way. After all, the world is still the world of Great Chu and the emperor. He cannot sit still and watch the overall situation collapse, nor can he sit still and see the second supervisor Xue Xiangguang die in battle. The situation in Zhongjing is completely deteriorating.

Therefore, under the unimaginable circumstances, and with the requests of several Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the emperor could only agree to the dispatch of the Shanling Guard to go to Zhonggao County to rescue Xue Xiangguang.

So, a few days later, when the emperor ordered the emperor to send it to Zheng Xiaoming, he asked Zheng Xiaoming to personally lead the Shanling Guard to save people.

This was somewhat beyond the expectations of the imperial cabinet. They originally wanted to ask the emperor to dispatch the Shanling Guards, but they had never thought of asking Zheng Xiaoming to lead the troops there in person.

Nothing else, Zheng Xiaoming is also the general officer of Zhongjing. The head coach of this war is good? Although it is nominal, he cannot directly send the head coach out to work!

However, in order to ensure the control of the Shanling Guard, the emperor was not allowed to be controlled by the civil servants once, so he had to let Zheng Xiaoming take action himself.

In addition, the emperor also issued a secret edict to Zheng Xiaoming, allowing Zheng Xiaoming to act cheaply.

To put it bluntly, if those civil officials have bad intentions and want to use some means to control the Shanling Guard and create a certain fact, Zheng Xiaoming can directly overturn the table.

Of course, this secret decree is optional. First of all, the civil servant group may not necessarily do this... Secondly, if you really want to do this, it is not certain whether Zheng Xiaoming, the Marquis of Xiayang, will obey orders or not.

Not every nobleman has the courage to directly oppose the civil servant group!

Who knows that the emperor asked you to do work at this time and after the matter was done, you would take the blame?

There are too many such things in the workplace, and there are also many in the court...

The most famous one is of course the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty. Emperor Jing killed Chao Cuo. He clearly helped the emperor reduce the vassals, but once the seven kingdoms threatened, he killed Chao Cuo to take the blame!

Therefore, with such great courage, there are not many nobles and lords who have completely turned against the civil service group!
Chapter completed!