Ordinary People in the Jianghu Court

Do you think that the emperor sitting at the top of the court really has everyone surrendering to him? The power in his hands is watched by countless people. As an emperor, you can control the world if you have the ability. If you don't, you will be played by others. Above the court, the civil servant group deceived the superiors and controlled the richest Jiangnan area. The treasury ran a deficit every year, and they were all extremely rich. On the border, the imperial guards have become tenant farmers who cannot fight. The new troops recruited are gradually becoming the personal soldiers of their respective generals. In the border towns, warlords were greedily eating away at the imperial court's snobbery. The new emperor had an idea and inserted his own sharp sword in the rivers and lakes of Jiangnan and the border troops in the border towns. But it's hard to say whether your blade is sharp or the local snobbery is thick. You can only know by comparing.