Luo'an Jing, the capital of Qin, was already shrouded in the white snow. Snowflakes were floating in the sky, but people were still coming and going on the streets, and there were endless people and cars.

The Tianmendao Rebellion in the southeast affected many people. As the Tianmendao was becoming stronger and stronger in the south, many merchants and gentry in the southeast had already moved their families to the capital.

But this did not increase the population burden in the capital.

The people who retreated from the southeast to the capital were mainly wealthy merchants and the families of some officials. Although the war in the southeast of the Jianghuai Road and Donghai Road were in full swing, there were no signs of a large number of refugees fleeing to the capital. Instead, many people joined the rebels of Tianmen Road.

For the court, the Qingtian King of Hebei is a headache, but the pacification of Tianmen Road in the southeast is the top priority. Although the various ministries and officials are in a difficult position, they still transported the collected materials to the southeast as much as possible under the urgency of Lei Guheng's repeated memorials.

On the road from the capital to the southeast front, the recent material transportation seemed to have increased a lot. From food and equipment, the long team seemed to have no interruptions, which was very different from before. People along the way felt very strange. Many people heard that the treasury was empty and the court could no longer provide silver to support the war in the southeast. However, after the prince supervised the country, various signs showed that the court seemed to have begun to have strength again.

Of course, ordinary people don’t know the truth about this strange situation, but the dignitaries and nobles in the capital know it very well.

The fundamental reason for this abnormal phenomenon is, after all, due to party struggles.

After the emperor left the capital, the power of the empire temporarily fell into the hands of the prince. After the prince came to power, the princeling immediately launched an attack on the Qi royal party.

The memorials impeached the officials of the Qi Wang Party were like snowflakes. The yamen of the Ministry of Justice headed by Qiu Jungao became the sharpest knife of the prince. This knife was flying in the capital, and countless officials of the Qi Wang Party were broken under this knife.

The Ministry of Justice fully developed their torture ability for the fallen Qi Wang Party officials. As long as they were arrested, the final result was almost all of them confiscated their families.

In the midst of bloody storm, a large number of property of the Qi Wang Party officials were confiscated and confiscated. This huge wealth was really amazing. The prince was extremely strict about the family search.

For a long time, whenever a house is confiscated, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Revenue is usually dispatched jointly by officials from the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice is responsible for arresting people, and the Ministry of Revenue is responsible for counting property and filling it with the national treasury. There is no shortage of this. The property obtained from the house is confiscated into his personal pocket. This has become a practice. Being able to pay 50% of the national treasury is already a loyal duty.

The Minister of Revenue Ma Hong followed the north tour, and the matter of raiding the house could only fall on the head of Lang Wuxu, the Minister of Revenue. Lang Wuxu was originally the core of the Qi King Party, but under the supervision of the prince, he personally ordered the Ministry of Revenue officials to go to the Qi King Party official's mansion to search the house. Sometimes he had to take action to confiscate the confiscated property, not only the property in the capital, but also the property of the criminals' hometown, but also the property of the criminals, to be confiscated.

The prince knew the practice of raiding houses, but this time he issued a clear order. However, when the house was raided, those who were greedy for money and property were killed without mercy. At the beginning, many officials were just talking about the princes. However, when the house was raided twice, the raided houses were cut off by several officials, including the princeling officials, and everyone knew that the prince was here to be the real one.

The confiscated property was filled into the treasury, and to a certain extent, it really solved the problem of empty treasury. Fighting on the front line, whether it is food, supplies, or military pay, requires a large amount of expenses. In the two wars in the southeast and Hebei, the prince undoubtedly first went southeast and then Hebei. The confiscated property was collected. In addition to the military pay sent to the front line to the soldiers, most of them were used to purchase grain, grass and make equipment.

Although the national treasury does not have food stored, it does not mean that the empire has no food. Luo'an Jingcheng is located on Yuling Road. Yuling Road is the richest place in the empire, and there is also the beautiful Jinling Road next to it. This is where wealthy merchants gather. There is really a lot of grain stored in the warehouses of the rich merchants and gentry. If the imperial court has silver, it is really not difficult to purchase food.

As one of the four generals of the empire, Lei Guheng had been through many battles and had half a lifetime of military service. His ability to command military operations was definitely a top figure in the world, but a clever woman could not cook without rice. Without food, grass and equipment as logistical support, the combat effectiveness of the army was beyond the reach of the army. Without military pay, the morale would naturally be in a slump.

Previously, Lei Guheng was under the pressure of the Tianmen Road, and the entire front line had been shrinking backward continuously. At the most dangerous time, the front line was only two hundred miles away from Yuling Road where the capital was located.

Because of this, a large number of gentry and tycoons retreated to the capital, and even after retreating to the capital, they were not at ease. If they followed the situation on the southeast battlefield, Tianmen Road might not be able to advance to the capital of Kyoto.

However, the prince used the confiscated wealth to quickly transfer to the front line. Lei Guheng and the Southeast officers and soldiers with logistics support immediately had a great morale, and the entire show was approaching much further.

However, in the deep winter, many places were blocked by snow. Although Tianmen Road did not continue to advance, the momentum of the counterattack of officers and soldiers was also curbed. The two sides were still in a stalemate, and even the whole winter would be spent in a stalemate.

Although the prince used the confiscated property to temporarily stabilize the situation in the southeast, for the Qi Wang Party, Qiu Jungao became a thorn in their eyes, and all the people in the Qi Wang Party wanted to kill him quickly.

To this end, the people of the Qi royal party worked hard to counterattack in the dilemma, and even hired assassins to assassinate Qiu Jungao. As long as Qiu Jungao died, the position of the Minister of Justice would be vacant. Although the prince was the governor of the country, the appointment and removal of officials of the Six Ministry of Ministers was not within his power, and he had to ask the emperor for instructions.

In the view of the Qi Wang Party, killing Qiu Jungao is just a matter of destroying the prince's murder knife. Once this knife is damaged, the difficulties faced by the Qi Wang Party will be greatly changed. Moreover, the new candidate for the Minister of Justice is not the final decision of the Prince. At that time, the Qi Wang Party can completely compete with the Prince in the vacancy of the Minister of Justice.

But such a plan has also become a bubble because of the successive failures of the assassination.

As the Minister of Justice, Qiu Jungao's hands were covered with blood, and there were even more enemies. There were countless enemies who wanted to kill him and then go faster. Qiu Jungao knew this very well, so naturally he could not give his opponent a chance.

When he entered and left, he had at least eight guards around him, and he rarely went to places with crowds and eyes. Qiu Jungao rarely visited the Lefang Teahouse, which many people often visited. Even if he went there, he would make careful arrangements in advance.

As the criminal yamen of the empire, the Ministry of Justice is bound to have some powerful people, and they are naturally alert to following these methods of lurking, so it is not easy to assassinate Qiu Jungao.

When Qiu Jungao assisted the princely party in a large-scale purge of the Qi royal party, Qiu Jungao became the most critical figure of the princely party, and his safety was naturally taken more seriously.

Several officials of the Qi Wang Party who failed to assassinate failed, not only failed to achieve their wish, but Qiu Jungao followed the clues and took the opportunity to kill him with a backhand, thus arresting a group of Qi Wang Party officials.

Less than three months after the emperor left the capital, the Qi King Party was defeated and had no strength to fight back at all under the continuous destruction and defeat of the princelings.

The Qi King Party, which was transformed from the Han King Party, was once considered a glorious moment. When the Han King was in the early days, the Han King Party had Huang Ju as the core, and had many party members in the court and the opposition. The Han King Party was both civil and military, Huang Ju had many cunning and had many cunning positions, and the Han King Party headed by the Han King and Huang Ju had a strong cohesion, and the princelings were once overwhelmed.

But today, under the fierce attack of the princelings, everyone in the Qi King Party finally understood that the King of Qi was not the King of Han. Not only was the King of Qi not as powerful as the King of Han’s political talent, but he also had no pillars like Huang Ju around him. When the princelings were defeated and fought, the people of the Qi King Party were hoping to turn the world around, but in fact, the King of Qi was not able to counterattack the princeling’s fierce attack at all.

Therefore, after losing troops and losing generals, many officials of the Qi Wang Party began to resign voluntarily, hoping to resign from their official positions and stay away from the court. Although they lost their official positions, they were better off even losing their lives.

What's more, they began to contact the princely party in private, spending a lot of money, hoping to turn to the prince's disciple, and the capital was in chaos for a while.

The pressure on King Qi is getting heavier and heavier.

Of course he knew that the Qi Wang Party had fallen apart and was panicked. At the beginning, officials of the Qi Wang Party came to the Qi Wang Mansion every day to find countermeasures that the Qi Wang discussed.

However, amid the repeated disputes among the officials, facing the prince's offensive, the Qi Wang Party was helpless.

Since Wu Tangchun, the young minister of Taipu Temple, was captured from the Qi Palace by the Ministry of Justice in full view of everyone, fewer and fewer officials came to the Qi Palace. The Qi Palace understood that the officials obviously felt that the Qi Palace was no longer reliable, and they would even keenly realize that the prince's thundering methods might not be to deal with the entire Qi Palace. The main goal was probably to King Qi.

Many officials of the Qi King Party want to transfer to the prince's disciples, which makes them even more unwilling to have any involvement with the Qi King, and it is even more impossible for them to visit the Qi King's Mansion.

When the emperor had not visited the north, the princelings and the Qi King Party competed in confrontation, which seemed to be of equal strength. But now people suddenly realized that the strength of these two parties was not on the same level. The Qi King Party is now like a sheep, while the princelings is a tiger. The princelings are devouring the sheep bit by bit with great interest.

The glory of the Qi Wang Party is gone forever. Few officials of the Qi Wang Party are willing to admit that they are the Qi Wang Party. Even if they lose everything, they must break away from their relationship with the Qi Wang Party.

King Yingren of Qi knew everything that happened, but he was helpless.

He knew that with his current strength, he was no match for the prince at all, but he was not willing to let it go. The official from the Ministry of Justice sent a man to arrest people and did not take his dignified prince seriously at all. After that, he was nothing more than the prince's support, which made the King of Qi feel a deep shame.

He stayed silent, but his resentment was getting deeper and deeper. At this point, he did not hope to defeat the prince, but he gritted his teeth and tried to defeat Qiu Jungao at all costs.

He is the prince, the empire's dignified king of Qi, and the auxiliary country.

But he was ridiculed by the Ministry of Justice, and this tone made him feel unbearable.

How can you be worthy of the noble blood flowing on your body if you don’t defeat Qiu Jungao? King Qi always thought so in his heart, so he waited for the opportunity and must find an opportunity to kill Qiu Jungao.
Chapter completed!