Although the Northern Holy Dynasty could not lose in this battle, they did not win either.

At least, now they only dare to retreat and rest.

As for the Holy Dynasty, Jiang Ming's army suffered serious losses, and he could not say that he won against his conscience. Both sides had a tacit understanding and did not mention the result of this battle. In later history books, this battle was called

Conduct the Battle of Sanchuan!

Jiang Ming returned to Chang'an, and Xu Chang'an didn't know what was waiting for him. But Xu Chang'an knew one thing. As long as he could think about it himself and get out of it, no one would blame him for his defeat this time. Even if it were any general

Come here, unless the senior Shennong Medical Mai, who is a military doctor, will follow the army as a military doctor, there will be no explanation.

As for the political enemies targeting Jiang Ming in the court, Xu Changan was not worried.

Not to mention that King Jin is still alive, even his senior brother's knife can make the officials who only know to open their mouths to talk about major affairs in the world but are too lazy to come out and see the sufferings of the people.

Jiang Ming, King Jin, Chu Shilian and others may argue with them and explain the truth. But Qi Fengjia was too lazy to argue with these insects, and he didn't need to talk to these people about the principles of Confucius Temple.

Officials really know the general trend of the world, they really know the sufferings of people's livelihood, they really know how difficult things in the world are, and they will not make things difficult for Jiang Ming, and they will not think of ways to climb up, using their own influence to the King of Jin in secret.

Let's go against each other.

Even with the reforms of Xu Chang'an, Xun Fa and others, even the King of Jin has always supported the reforms, but this is still a dynasty with mixed forces in the aristocratic families. Although most of the officials of the six ministries were promoted from the bottom of the King of Jin and Xu Chang'an.

The poor family, or the children of aristocratic families who have lost their families, such as Chu Shilian, and some small officials promoted by Xue Wu and King Jin.

But in general, the Holy Dynasty is still a court where most of its rights are controlled by aristocratic families.

As for the reason why Xuanyuan Chunhui and Xuanyuan Rende fought for the position of the Holy Emperor, they did not jump out. Xuanyuan Rende's petty temperament also scared them. Xu Changan helped the Holy Dynasty do so many things, Xuanyuan Ren

De is still targeting him everywhere, even thinking about assassinating him. People who can become a family are not stupid, and they understand the principle of being prepared for danger in times of peace. Instead of letting Xuanyuan Rende be the Holy Emperor, it is better to let Xuanyuan Chunhui, the little kid, become the Holy Emperor.

At the position. At least Xuanyuan Chunhui must be controlled by the King of Jin. The Zhao family behind King of Jin is not simple! Moreover, King of Jin will not shoot himself in the foot or attack them.

They guessed well, but the King of Jin didn't know how to move them, but he just couldn't move them now. Few of them were in the court, but many small officials had close ties with them.

Even many redundant officials.

Even though Xun Fa’s reform had removed a group of redundant officials, he knew that doing things should be done step by step. He had to first remove most of the redundant officials, regulate business, rectify the law, stabilize the situation, and then stabilize the situation step by step.

Come.

The steps should not be too big. Even if there is rectification, Xun Fa encountered some non-compliant money shops and some black industries before.

In a real aristocratic family, outsiders don’t even know what business they do, how to make money, or how powerful they have.

Take the Zhao family behind King Jin for example. If Qi Fengjia hadn't been to help his junior brother, King Jin would have probably not want to reveal his strength.

Even if you look at a person, you can’t just look at the surface, let alone a big family like King Jin.

Most of the officials who dared to make trouble for Jiang Ming in the court stood behind them. They were not actually trying to target Jiang Ming, and their main target was King Jin.

The Zhao family's marriage to Xuanyuan Chutian was the most successful investment. Even the Zhao family itself did not expect that the Xuanyuan family's bloodline was actually Ji Xuanyuan's bloodline in ancient times.

When it comes to orthodoxy, who can compare with the Xuanyuan family?

But the other major families could not watch the Zhao family grow bigger, so they could only come and cause trouble.

For the big families, they can tolerate the appearance of demons, they can tolerate the people being poor, and tolerate a little girl of unknown origin to be the Holy Emperor. But they cannot tolerate the Zhao family developing better than them.

As for the Han and Chu families in Yuezhou, these big families didn't take them seriously at all. To them, local tyrants like the Han and Chu families were just local bumpkins.

They were not afraid of the so-called six major sects at all. Only the power behind the six major sects would make them tremble a little. After all, King Jin was the master who could be transferred to the Shake Star Realm.

The three major families of Xie Chen, who are as famous as the Zhao family, naturally have this kind of strength.

At this time, King Jin was sitting in the yard, with a sad face.

Over the years, he has kept his low profile just to stabilize the other major families. But now it seems that Xie Chen and Wang San's family can't sit still.

Qi Fengjia came to King Jin with a wine pot, took a sip, swallowed the wine, and then spat and said, "If you don't say it, I don't know that these big families are so powerful!"

"This group of bastards, my junior brother uses his life to stop the demon clan from coming out. They have the strength and just watch it, without any humanity. And you, the same is true for your Zhao family!"

King Jin sighed and said, "I have no choice. I want to help Xu Chang'an. But Xu Ningqing took over the Jiange because of our four families. At that time, Zhao Xie and Chen Wang's four families agreed to let Xu Ningqing take charge of the service.

Jiange asked the attendant Jiange to set rules that practitioners should not interfere in the affairs of the court because Xu Ningqing wanted to give the Xuanyuan family a chance to rise on his own. He was conditional on the fact that the Shake Star Realm did not come out and the four major families did not need to take action.

To win opportunities for the Xuanyuan family, Xu Ningqing, in fact, has a more poisonous vision than any of us."

"He, I have long seen that the Xuanyuan family's bloodline is extraordinary. I hope that a fierce man from the Xuanyuan family can overthrow the Xuanyuan family. That's why I chose to sign a treaty with our four major families."

Qi Fengjia narrowed his eyes. He didn't expect that the real holy dynasty would look like this.

"Then they agree with Xun Fa's reform?" Qi Fengjia was a little puzzled.

"The reform of Xunfa is beneficial to them. Xunfa attacked some evil forces in society and regulated the entire market. This is equivalent to putting the part of the benefits they had previously lost by default into their pockets."

After King Jin said that, he stared at Qi Fengjia with his eyes tightly, took a deep breath and said, "Don't think that the big family is dirty behind their backs and does shameful things. The four big families are doing regular business.

They are actually affecting the whole world at any time. Even if the price of the wine you drink or whether to sell it to you can decide."

"If any family has problems, the entire Holy Dynasty will suffer huge losses or even regress. Although I am a member of the Zhao family, I don't know how many generations the Zhao family has been involved in the court. According to Di Jun

After cutting off history, the first dynasty, the Qin Dynasty, was also related to our Zhao family.”

Qi Fengjia became more and more frightened as he heard this. If Jiang Ming had not been targeted this time, and even some small officials would not have been afraid of his sword, he would have really not known these things.

"Then they are watching the demon clan plunder the world? Also, they also made the offering pavilion of the Holy Dynasty?" Qi Fengjia thought about it and said hurriedly.

Think about it, if it weren't for the worship pavilion they created, how could this group of people be without any sense of responsibility, just like the old man.

"The worship pavilion was not created by the four major families. This is Xu Ningqing's idea. Xu Ningqing is not simple. Everything he has done to overthrow the control of the four major families. However, the worship pavilion is one.

When established, except for a few people, the rest were sent by four major families. How could the four major families allow the Holy Dynasty to establish its own power? And this power may even become an obstacle for them."

Qi Fengjia handed the wine pot to King Jin, but King Jin didn't care, so he took it directly and took a big sip.

"The four major families naturally know what Xu Ningqing thinks, but they need Xu Ningqing again. After all, only Xu Ningqing can balance the six major sects. In fact, to put it bluntly, even if Lingyin Temple, Reclining Buddha Temple and Qinglian Sword Sect are gone now, it is still

The six major sects. They want to obtain benefits in the secular world, so they don’t want the six major sects to get involved. If there is a conflict of interest with the six major sects, they will not feel good.”

"This is just a group of lazy guys who want benefits but don't do anything!" Qi Fengjia naturally understood when he heard this.

These four major families are definitely not afraid of the six major sects, but they don’t want to work hard! No matter what is imprisoned in the Shushan Sword Prison or the thing at the foot of the Iron Sword Mountain, they don’t want to work hard.

As for the Reclining Buddha Temple and Lingyin Temple, they don’t want to touch it. After all, these two temples are suppressing demons. To be precise, they should be the Arhat Hall and the Bodhi Cave.

As for the Qinglian Sword Sect, although it is weak, it has its foundation! After all, there have been many fierce people in the past, and they must also be given some respect.

The same is true for the view of immortality. The mystery of the "Lingfei Sutra" is enough to make them afraid.

"That's why they exchanged with Xu Ningqing and asked him to make trouble. As long as these six major sects do not cause trouble for them," King Jin added.

"And, do you know why no one came out to help when Xu Ningqing and Xu Changan suffered hardships?" Before Qi Fengjia could answer, King Jin continued: "They are just to torture Xu Ningqing, waiting for Xu Ningqing to bow their heads and admit their mistakes.

! Otherwise, Zhan Xu might not be able to open the seal!"

"Even, Xu Chang'an died several times. Xu Ningqing thought that he could even send his brothers to come, but this could not be done. Moreover, whether it is Manxue Mountain or Fengwu Mountain, in fact, many problems only require a single Star Shaking Realm.

, it can be solved. But because Xu Chang'an is there, they chose to stand by and watch. The purpose is to punish Xu Ningqing."

"And I'm not afraid to tell you that the fairy music was created by Xie Tiannan. This little guy is not important, but he actually has the blood of the Xie family, but he was driven out and became an abandoned son. If it weren't for Xu Chang'an now too

Too powerful, I'm afraid these families will still have to hide in the dark." Anyway, because of Jiang Ming's affairs, the struggle between the four major families was about to be put on the open, so King Jin simply told Qi Fengjia everything.

"What do they want?" Qi Fengjia really didn't understand the thoughts of the so-called four major families.

Although King Jin is one of the four major families, he sees all the things that have happened over the years. He also sees the efforts of Xu Ningqing and Xuanyuan Chutian. He meets the young master again, and he slowly

Something changed.

"The purpose of "the ancient heavenly court is similar to that of controlling the entire human race and even the entire world. However, their means are much more wise than that of the ancient heavenly court. The ancient heavenly court uses faith and strength; while they use money and strength.

They monopolized the market and occupied a large amount of silver and labor opportunities. It is no exaggeration to say that their current strength, as long as they think, will be out of food in Chang'an within three days."

"You haven't seen that there are some paper-making fields and some weaving workshops in Jingmen Prefecture. The common people have to work eight or nine hours a day (more than sixteen hours), and their monthly rewards are not much.

There is no way, in order to survive, they can only be used as cattle and horses. The people with land are most comfortable, but they still have to pay some harvests. These harvests are not given to the court, but to these four major families, called living taxes.

.”

The more Qi Fengjia heard it, the more he felt something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What does it mean?"

"Living on their territory, you have to pay taxes. There are even road taxes and purchase taxes. The four major families try their best to make money."

"What if they don't hand over? What can they do?" Qi Fengjia asked with some dissatisfaction.

King Jin picked up the wine pot and took a sip of wine and said, "If the person who does not pay taxes has the strength of yours and Xu Chang'an's strength, they naturally dare not do anything. Even ordinary people will not do anything.

. However, the people who do not pay taxes cannot survive. Even if they have money, they cannot survive. No one will exchange goods with the people who resist them, and no one will sell them. Even the wells cannot be used.

There is no water to drink.”

"These beasts are all human races, so it's not easy to survive together. They still bully the common people like this." Qi Fengjia snatched the wine pot from King Jin's hand and drank it hard.

In his opinion, the behavior of these four major families is even more excessive than that of the ancient heaven!

"There is no way, they monopolized business. This business that scholars, farmers, industrial and commercial are the most looked down upon by others. Moreover, there are many of the four major families now. Although they are not your opponent to Xu Changan,

These powers are also rampant enough.”

"And these four major families also have a title."

King Jin paused and then said the four words: "Capital Family!"
To be continued...