In mid-June, an army under the banner of Dashun was slowly moving forward on the mountain road among the continuous mountains in the northern border.

In the middle of the team, a group of guards surrounded two horse-riding people, one was Tan Zong and the other was a middle-aged man. Both of them were wearing helmets and armor and were dressed in military uniforms.

Before the Chinese New Year last year, no one expected that Tan Zong, who made great contributions in Huguang, would be forced to leave the capital and go to the northern border, which was really shocking.

It was almost the end of the year when Tan Zong returned to the capital. Due to Tan Zong's outstanding performance in Huguang, Emperor Ping of Qing asked the prince to personally lead the cabinet and the six ministers to go outside the city to welcome Tan Zong, which was extremely glorious.

Emperor Ping of Qing originally planned to commend Tan Zong and those who had made contributions to pacifying Huguang before the New Year. The Ministry of Personnel had listed the commendation memorials based on the merits of those personnel. It would be possible to officially announce the memorials to the public only when Emperor Ping of Qing used a jade seal to mark the memorials in the Golden Palace.

As for the greed of disaster relief money and grain in Huguang area, Tan Zong had already found out after the Merit of Deity was wiped out. The officials of the Huguang prefectures did not have the idea of ​​this money and grain at the beginning, but the Merit of Deity offered a price twice the market price to purchase grain. So they couldn't help but tempted and had bad thoughts, and finally took action on the disaster relief food and wanted to make a big profit.

The officials of the prefecture just greed for 30% of the disaster relief grain and sold it to the meritorious teachings in private. In their opinion, the remaining 70% of the disaster relief grain was completely enough to help the victims.

But who would have thought that when the grain was transported out of the prefecture, it was then greedy by the officials in various counties below and sold to meritorious teachings, and then imitated by the officials in the township. As long as they were handled, everyone wanted to get a share of the pie. Anyway, the people above were greedy, and if something happened, someone would naturally bear it.

In this way, disaster relief grain was greedy and was naturally very small to the hands of the victims. This is why so much food in the hands of the Meritary Teaching can be provided to the victims who entered the religion, they were all bought from the corrupt officials in Huguang.

Among those greedy officials, some have died from the chaos of the merit teaching, some have escaped at the fortitude, some have defected to the merit teaching, and some have fought resolutely with the merit teaching.

For those who escaped and defected to the meritorious religion at the last minute, Emperor Qingping used bloody means, and the people who were still alive were killed. The dead were not only going to dig out the corpse from the coffin, but also to be killed.

As for those officials who fought firmly with the merit teachings, Emperor Qingping adopted a tolerant attitude. Some were dismissed from office and returned to their hometowns, while some were scolded and transferred to other places to serve.

As for those officials who fought desperately with the Merit and Deeds, although they also greedy for disaster relief, Emperor Qingping transferred their names from the list of corrupt officials provided by Tan Zong and commended them. The reason was very simple, because these officials were loyal to the court, Emperor Qingping would naturally give mercy outside the law.

After experiencing the chaos of merit and the bloody punishment of Emperor Qingping, there were a large number of vacancies in the Huguang area, which made various factions in the capital compete for another time. Everyone wanted to arrange their own people to work in Huguang. You should know that Huguang is the richest place in Dashun, in addition to the wealthiest place since Jiangnan, where working here can not only make up for qualifications, but also make a lot of money secretly.

In this battlefield without gunpowder, although Tan Zong did not participate, he became the biggest winner, because the two most important official positions in Huguang area were given to Zhang Yuzhi and Li Yannian, the "best friends" who followed Tan Zong from the official post in the capital. One became the prefect of Wuchang Prefecture, and the other became the prefect of Changsha Prefecture.

Not only Zhang Yuzhi and Li Yannian, but also those officials who followed Tan Zong from the official post in the capital were valued by Emperor Qingping and were entrusted with important tasks and served as local officials with real power.

In the court, due to the emergence of Tan Zong's sudden force under the support of Emperor Ping of Qing, there was already a saying of "Tan Party". Although the officials of the "Tan Party" did not serve in the capital, because they had real power in the local area, they became the most "low-key" real power faction in the court.

As the saying goes, there are unexpected situations in the world. When the Ministry of Personnel’s commendation of Tan Zong and meritorious personnel reported to Emperor Ping of Qing, the censor of the Censorate, Zhong, who was named “dirty to deal with ghosts”, impeached Tan Zong and the troops who entered Huguang to suppress the rebellion and killed innocent people. The military discipline was corrupt, and the Emperor Qing Ping requested Emperor Ping to punish Tan Zong and those soldiers in accordance with the Dashun Law.

In his memorial, Zhong Zheng listed an example of an indiscriminate killing innocent people in Huguang. This example is Liuzhen. After a bloody battle, Liuzhen was almost razed to the ground by the city defense forces in Guangdong and Guangxi, and became a ruin. There were very few people who survived by chance.

Zhong Zheng's speech immediately caused a sensation in the court. No one expected that he would jump out at this time to stir up the festive atmosphere. A minister immediately accused Zhong Zheng, believing that death and injury were inevitable during the fierce battle between the two armies. How could he punish Tan Zong and those meritorious personnel?

However, Zhong Zheng was determined to eat the weight and actually brought out the Dashun Law, which stipulates that those who kill civilians without permission will be punished severely.

In order to show that he was right, Zhong Zheng asked Qiu Yong, the Minister of Justice in public, and asked him if Dashun had this law. Although Qiu Yong did not want to get involved in this matter, he had to answer Zhong Zheng's question in full view of the public and showed to Emperor Ping of Qing that the Dashun law did have this clause.

Afterwards, Zhong Zhengyi sternly accused Tan Zong of not restraining his troops, causing the tragic death of innocent people, which violated Dashun's criminal law and asked him to be investigated by the Ministry of Justice.

Before Tan Zong could speak out, the military generals in the court were in a turmoil and started arguing with Zhong Zheng in the court. After all, it is inevitable that the marching and war will hurt innocent people. If Zhong Zheng said, then in the future, everyone will be timid in the war, and if they are not careful, they will be convicted.

Zhong Zheng debated with the generals unwillingly, and the argument was irrelevant. If someone hadn't stopped him, some of the hot-tempered generals were ready to beat Zhong Zheng.

Faced with the farce in front of him, Emperor Qingping ended the court meeting, glared at Zhong Zheng coldly and then left. All the civil and military officials in the court felt that Emperor Qingping was dissatisfied with Zhong Zheng.

Originally, there was another court meeting before the Spring Festival. Emperor Ping of Qing did not want Zhong Zheng to target Tan Zong again in the court, so he issued an order to stop the court meeting and asked the censor to do work for Zhong Zheng, asking him to give up impeaching Tan Zong. Unfortunately, Zhong Zheng was rejected by the inability to enter the court.

According to news from the palace, when he learned that Zhong Zheng was determined to impeach Tan Zong, Emperor Qingping was so angry that he threw the teacup in his hand, scolding Zhong Zheng for being betrayed the emperor and wanted to dismiss his official position and let him go back to his hometown to farm.

Although Emperor Qingping was extremely angry, he was a virtuous king known for his kindness. After being angry, he did not dismiss Zhong Zheng's official position. He just asked him to rest at home and could not attend court without an imperial edict. He wanted to use this to stop his idea of ​​impeaching Tan Zong.

Unexpectedly, when the court started after the New Year, Zhong Zheng, who could not attend court, actually knelt outside the Meridian Gate with the Dashun Rules in his hand, asking Emperor Qingping to punish Tan Zong's crimes according to the Dashun Rules.

Perhaps influenced by Zhong Zheng and with various purposes, some ministers also began to impeach Tan Zong to kill innocent people under Huguang's indulgence. Especially the young censors who target Zhong Zheng, who joined Zhong Zheng's camp, knelt behind Zhong Zheng, and asked Emperor Qingping to punish Tan Zong on the grounds of maintaining the Dashun Law.

Seeing that the matter was getting worse and worse, in order to calm the storm, Tan Zong took the blame for Zhong Zheng's testimony in the court, expelled the official army that participated in the suppression of the rebellion in Huguang, indicating that those official army were acting according to his orders. After all, there were indeed people in Huguang who died in the battle between the official army and the merit religion.

With Tan Zong's statement, the consequences of Zhong Zheng's impeachment of Tan Zong gradually became clear. Emperor Ping of Qing had to deal with him accordingly. After being promoted to Tan Zong as the fifth-rank inspector of the Supervision Office, he transferred him from the capital and appointed him as a general of the Northern Frontier Frontier Frontier Defense Force to guard the border, which was considered a punishment for him. At the same time, he was transferred from the capital, a place of right and wrong.

Before going to the northern border, Tan Zong returned to Jiangnan, met Su Jin, Shi Shi and others, arranged the family affairs, and solemnly promised in front of his sister who was brought to Yangzhou City by Shi Shi that once he came back from the border, he would officially win over the family with Su Jin, Shi Shi and other women.

If he unfortunately died in battle, I hope that Su Jin and Shi Shi and other women will marry, and he will bless them in the dark.

Tan Zong's deep affectionate words touched Su Jin, Shi Shi and other women, making their eyes rosy and moved, and they all had the idea of ​​not marrying Tan Zong in this life.

The people of the people were resentful about Tan Zong's demotion to the border and felt wronged for him. After all, it is inevitable that people will die during the war. Moreover, it is the officials who killed people, not Tan Zong. Why should Tan Zong take this responsibility? His affairs in Dongting Lake and Liu Town have become another legend, which makes the people talk about.

Although Tan Zong went to the northern border, the "Tan Party" led by him emerged under the special care of Emperor Ping of Qing and became an important political force in the officialdom of Dashun, and also made the careers of women such as Su Jin and Shi Shi prosper.

After returning from Jiangnan, Tan Zong entered the palace to meet Emperor Ping of Qing and set off for the northern border. The prince went to see him off in person, but Zhao Yunan, who had already returned from Mount Wutai, did not show up. It was really interesting. After all, Zhao Yunan and Tan Zong had a very shallow relationship, and Tan Zong was his quasi-American uniform, so he should have come to see him off.

In the eyes of outsiders, after returning from Mount Wutai, Zhao Yunan lived a low-key life. It can be said that he was leaving behind a door to thank guests. His home was deserted and seemed to have disappeared from the officialdom of the capital.

However, since Zhao Yunan came back, the prince and him have been moving more and more diligently, and often invited him to visit the prince's mansion, and the relationship between the two has become better and better.

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