At the beginning of May, green spring scenery can be seen everywhere in Luoyang Ziwei City.

Like an overturned palette, the cold and solemn tone of the palaces in Ouchi was relieved a little.

However, just after retreating from the Zichen Palace, the officials passing by were in a hurry and had serious faces.

No one pays attention to this warm spring feeling.

The post-battle decision-making meeting in the morning was held after the court meeting.

The location is still at Zichen Hall.

The so-called court ministers, to put it simply, are civil servants of the fifth rank or above from the divine capital who go to court to attend meetings of Her Majesty the Queen.

One session is held every day or every other day.

There are more people, more formal and extensive discussions.

The current post-battle decision-making meeting is a small circle formed by Her Majesty the Queen and the prime ministers after the court meetings are over and the officials and ceremonial guards have retired.

Certain courtiers with authority on corresponding matters can also participate.

Used to discuss real military and national affairs.

The advantages are small number of people, flexibility and confidentiality.

It is different from the political hall meeting where the prime minister makes decisions and presides over it.

Because it is in front of the imperial court, once decisions are made on many military and state affairs, they can be implemented immediately, eliminating many tedious steps and responding quickly.

After the Qian Dynasty was renamed Zhou Dynasty and the imperial title was proclaimed, the empress Wei Zhao held post-battle decision-making meetings from time to time.

I quite prefer this decision-making model with centralized power.

It also gradually evolved into a court practice.

All civil and military officials are also proud to be retained by Her Majesty the Queen after attending court and participate in post-battle decision-making meetings.

Well, it can be understood as having a small meeting for big things and a big meeting for small things.

Zichen Palace.

Today, there are only eleven court officials and ministers left behind by the Queen.

The successor of King Wei of Wei was Wei Sixing, King of Liang.

In Feng Pavilion, there were Di Fuzi, Yushi Zhongcheng, and Shen Xisheng, who was involved in political affairs.

The minister of Fengge, Wei Zhenzai, the official of Tongfengge Luantai, and the imperial censor Yao Gongyu...

The empress Wei Zhao sits at the top of the palace, wearing an imperial uniform with lifelike dragons and phoenixes embroidered with gold threads, and wearing a crown with twelve jade beads made of white jade.

This emperor's uniform is white with light gold.

Da Zhou is the virtue of gold, and the virtue of gold is white. The emperor's uniform naturally follows this color, and white gold is reserved for the royal family of Wei Zhou.

Wei Zhao's eyelids were drooped and he leaned lazily on the back of the dragon chair. Four female officials in colorful clothes stood in front of him.

Four other female officials in colorful clothes were serving tea given by the royal family to more than ten ministers in purple clothes in the hall.

In particular, Confucius Di, whom Her Majesty the Queen calls the "oldest man of the country," is specially given a seat.

In the interval before the decision-making meeting started after the battle, an old woman in dragon robe sitting high on a dragon chair was playing with a round and green emerald Maitreya Buddha in her hand.

Her eyelids were lowered, staring at the sky outside the door of Zichen Palace.

This Zichen Palace is located on the central axis of the palace, facing south and facing Yingtianmen, in the direction of Duanmen.

And outside the gates of these two palaces, there are hundreds of squares and millions of people in the entire city of Luoyang.

However, at this time, a Panlong bronze pillar, which was of great significance, was rising from the ground in the square between Yingtianmen and Duanmen.

The eyes of the old woman in the dragon robe are reflecting the clear blue sky and the copper pillar base of a coiled dragon with "human ants" clinging to it under the sky.

The cold wind from Luoshui blew into the palace through the open double-leaf palace doors, ruffling the hems of the court robes of the group of people with the highest imperial power and central authority in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Two female officials in colorful clothes came forward and wanted to open the door.

"Keep the door open."

Empress Wei Zhaoyu opened her mouth with a kiss.

The female officials in colorful clothes stood in front of the palace gate with their heads bowed.

"Now that it's quiet, let's talk about the mutiny of the garrison soldiers in Guizhou. What do you think we should do?"

Empress Wei Zhao withdrew her gaze,

Compared with the recent visit to the court, the ministers cited scriptures during the court meeting, which was more upright and awe-inspiring.

The current imperial meeting no longer contains so much nonsense.

Even the pros and cons tore off the tenderness of a gentle gentleman.

"Saint, the Guizhou garrison is fierce and arrogant, audacious, kills and defeats superiors, and leaves the country without authorization. It is simply lawless. This is a rebellion, and there are traitors to deceive them!"

Wei Wang Wei's heir took the lead and spoke righteously and sternly:

"The saint responded to the order of Xia Guan, and Jiangnan and Lingnan sent troops to the nearest area to suppress the rebels and serve as a warning to others."

Xia Guan is also the Ministry of War. Since ancient times, troops were often dispatched during the summer slack time, so they were given this name.

Master Di shook his head:

"I heard that the garrison did not want to rebel, but was bullied. The fault lies with the governor of Guizhou, Shi Lan Changhao. He failed in his duty first and provoked a mutiny. Then he failed to observe the situation and retreated into the city. He did not stop him and allowed the garrison to leave the country."

Wei Jisi squinted:

"Who did Mr. Di listen to? He was so presumptuous. Faced with the domineering rebels, Lan Changshi, a weak scholar, avoided the sharp edge and stayed in the city. Why not? At least he saved the capital of Guizhou."

Master Di didn't look at him. Shen Xisheng stepped forward and lowered his head to report:

"Saint, according to the memorial of Ouyang Lianghan, the governor of Jiangzhou, Guizhou's 1,500 garrison soldiers were actually forced to mutiny.

"When he was sent to the western frontier of Lingnan to suppress the rebellion, he was supposed to be a hero who defended the Zhou Dynasty from enemies, but he was left to guard the border.

"Forget about guarding the border. After one period, it was extended another period, three years and three years. Most of the soldiers have been guarding the border for six years. Seeing the end of the period of guarding, they are about to return home. However, Lan Changhao is selfish and privately

The series connection led to another delay.

"The actions of Guizhou Hall and the military commander of Jiangnan Province went too far. They broke the trust of the soldiers guarding the border. Seeing that their return date was far away and there was no hope of returning home, the soldiers in a foreign land were instigated and provoked to mutiny and return north."

There was silence in the hall for a while.

"I have heard some of the reasons for the postponement of the Guizhou garrison."

Liang Wang Wei Sixing suddenly spoke in a calm tone:

"Lan Changshi has discussed this kind of military aircraft with Zhu Lingxu, Wang Lengran, and other professional generals from several Zhechong mansions in Jiangnan Province.

“This matter was also reported to the imperial court, and the extension was granted only after discussion and approval by the officials in charge of the DPRK and China.

"Moreover, the extension for one year, neither long nor short, is fine in my opinion. The process followed in this matter is normal, reasonable and compliant."

“Isn’t it right that the process is reasonable and compliant?”

Shen Xisheng refuted sternly:

"Besides, it is not yet known whether there is dereliction of duty, abuse of power, etc. and remains to be investigated."

He turned his head and bowed his hands to the old woman in dragon robe at the top:

"The saint, Ouyang Lianghan, the governor of Jiangzhou, wrote a letter, saying that there were benefits involved, and asked the court to thoroughly investigate the matter, and to execute the main culprit, Shi Lan Changhao, the governor of Guizhou, and severely punish the accomplices, Zhu Lingxu, the governor of Hongzhou, and Wang Lengran, the governor of Jiangzhou.

"There are also several high-level generals of the Zhechong Mansion who were involved in the incident and were overlooked. They must return the Qiankun Qingming to appease the northern garrison soldiers and prevent the situation from expanding."

All the princes looked at him sideways when he heard this.

The empress was looking down at a memorial in her hand without saying a word.

"This Ouyang Changshi's idea is too extreme."

Wei Sixing sighed:

"If we conduct a thorough investigation according to his standards, wouldn't it mean that a series of guilty persons would be imprisoned, and I'm afraid there won't even be room for them in prison, right?

"Sage, I feel that we should carefully discuss how to deal with the mutinous garrison at the moment, instead of wasting energy on accountability and blame-shifting and afterthoughts.

"Why was it that when the extension decision was passed by Xia Guan, no one was there to stop it, but now everyone is jumping out to grab their pigtails..."

Shen Xisheng sneered: "If I remember correctly, Ouyang Lianghan once wrote a letter firmly opposing the postponement. I don't know if His Royal Highness, Prince Liang, is busy with things and small criticisms cannot be heard."

Wei Sixing's originally indifferent expression changed.

After just a moment, he didn't look away and kept smiling:

"This is indeed an upright gentleman recognized by the world. Everything is right. It seems that everyone can stop doing this in the future and be treated the same as Duke Dee. Add another chair to this hall and invite him to come and sit. What? If you ask him everything, he will definitely be more useful than everyone else."

Shen Xi nodded sarcastically: "Well, His Highness Prince Liang finally said something fair. There is indeed someone in front of His Majesty who should move his useless ass."

Wei Sixing narrowed his eyes for a moment, but Wei Jisi suddenly interrupted:

"Why did Xiao Wang hear people say that Ouyang Lianghan, Wang Lengran, and Lan Changhao had a personal rift and broke up on bad terms?

"Ouyang Lianghan is afraid that it is not because of this that he opposes everything and embarrasses Wang Lengran and Lan Changhao. I didn't expect that a gentleman can also hold grudges."
To be continued...