Chapter 142 – The Emotional Eunuch’s Emotionless Arrow

Seeing Fan Xian walk in with a sullen face, the disoriented Hong Zhu climbed up from the ground and knelt in front of him, head lowered, not saying a word.

At this time, there was no one else around this room in the East Palace, only the standing Fan Xian and the kneeling Hong Zhu, and the ghostly light from outside filtered in, striking the shadows of the two on the wall, which looked a bit bizarre.

Fan Xian stared at Hong Zhu’s disoriented face, his hand hanging down the edge of his sleeve clenched into a fist, and then slowly loosened it, and said with some fatigue, “This matter, I need an explanation.”

Hong Zhu raised his head to look at him, his eyes full of apologies and deep remorse, but he just lowered his head to kowtow again, and did not explain anything.

Yes, Hong Zhu was Fan Xian’s greatest help in the palace. The reason why Fan Xian dared to rely on two hundred people to break into the harem and take control of the Hall of Containing Light in one fell swoop was that he had a complete grasp of the situation in the harem, and an understanding of the distribution of the guards in the palace and the details of the lives of the various nobles.

And all of this is in these two days, Hong Zhu willing to take the risk of passing the information to the outside of the palace. This little eunuch who had risen straight to the top was originally transferred into the Hall of Containing Light, but then after the Crown Prince returned to the Eastern Palace, he was very reluctant to go back.

Since the Empress Dowager was interested in the Crown Prince’s succession, she naturally would not stop him from this small request. So Hong Zhu became the most peculiar person in the palace, he had once held the imperial study, once served the empress dowager in the Hall of Containing Light, once in the East Palace with the empress for two months.

Surprisingly, all the nobles appreciated him and loved him, and Fan Xian was no exception.

Only no one ever knew that Hong Zhu was Fan Xian’s eyes in the palace. The reason why those guards who were on duty along the way from the palace gate to the Hall of Containing Light were strangely poisoned and could not be forewarned was all due to this eunuch.

Fan Xian can succeed in the palace, Hong Zhu is a great credit, but at this time Fan Xian, looking at his eyes is not very gentle, need to give him an explanation.

The Crown Prince and Empress were in the middle of the Eastern Palace, under Hong Zhu’s watchful eye, how were they able to react to such a thunderous raid on the Palace, thus escaping before Fan Xian’s sword arrived?

Fan Xian’s fists clenched up, a somber voice seeping out from between his teeth as he said with a cold smile, “You’re the one who tipped them off?”

Hong Zhu didn’t dare to look into Fan Xian’s cold eyes and nodded heavily.

Fan Xian sucked in a breath of cold air, looked at him incredulously, and said, “Do you realize what you’re doing? We’re revolting, not playing house!”

For fear that the people next to him in the Eastern Palace would hear him, his voice did not raise, but the emotions within were gradually becoming manic.

“What’s wrong with you? Softhearted?” Fan Xian’s brow furrowed extremely tightly, and he said grimly in a strangely fast and unimaginable speech, “Your soft-heartedness will jeopardize the entire Kingdom of Qing!”

He spat on the ground at his feet and cursed hatefully, “I’ve worked so hard to get into the palace, but you’ve played such a trick, it’s fine that you don’t want to live, but what about these people in the palace? You’re forcing me to get ready to run away before dawn!”

Fan Xian was in a rare state of anger, because he couldn’t figure out how a plan that was so well thought out and mobilized the nails that he had spent countless hours of his life hiding in the palace had made such a big leak for reasons he couldn’t figure out!

Why? Why! Fan Xian stared at Hong Zhu’s face, a sinister fire flashing in his eyes.

“The Crown Prince is extremely kind to his slave.” Hong Zhu knelt in front of Fan Xian and suddenly burst into tears, which flowed down from the corners of his eyes and along his young face into his clothes, “The Empress is very pitiful. I thought and thought, but in the end, I couldn’t hold back.”

Hong Zhu cried out, snot and tears streaking across his face, “Your Excellency kill me, I don’t want to live either. Xiu’er was killed by myself, and I don’t know how many more people I’ll have to kill …… it’s all my sin …… my sin.”

Fan Xian sucked in a mouthful of cool air, and although he had already cursed earlier, he simply hadn’t thought that the reason Hong Zhu let the crown prince and the queen go was really …… soft-hearted!

“What’s going on over at Guangxin Palace?”

“I don’t know.”

The corner of Fan Xian’s eye twitched, his heart felt a chill, and looking at the eunuch kneeling in front of him, he suddenly opened his mouth and said, “Stand up.”

Hong Zhu knelt on the ground, not daring to get up.

“Stand up!” Fan Xian lowered his voice and growled. Hong Zhu scowled and stood up, but suddenly felt a pain in his crotch and couldn’t help but cry out in pain. Fan Xian slowly withdrew his hand, his face carrying emotions that were complicated to the extreme as he looked at Hong Zhu without saying a word, and after a few moments just shook his head and sighed.

Hong Zhu’s face turned pale and he looked at Fan Xian in horror, but then he thought that since he had secretly notified the Empress and the Crown Prince of his escape before the incident, he was only afraid that this life was already gone, and since things had already come to a head, then why be afraid of anything anymore.

So he stood up straight and looked at Fan Xian without saying a word, only the strong sense of apology in his eyes lingered.

Out of his expectation, Fan Xian did not say anything, nor did he take out his sword to cut off his head under the incomparable anger, Fan Xian just sighed, waved his hand, and walked towards the outside of the East Palace alone, his back looking a bit lonely and despondent.

Hong Zhu looked at Fan Xian’s back in a daze, and for some reason cried again.

Fan Xian walked out of the main gate of the East Palace, and could no longer hear Hong Zhu’s cries, so his irritation was reduced for no reason, but his heart was a bit empty.

He waved his hand to call his subordinates, so that he will be the East Palace and Guangxin Palace of all the palace maids and eunuchs escorted to the cold Palace at the Chen Gallery of the collective custody of the area, and then walked into the darkness of the palace alone.

Hong Zhu’s temporary weakness brought irreparable damage to his plan. For a split second, the angry Fan Xian did have the urge to kill, only for that impulse to immediately disappear without a trace as he heard the word Xiu’er.

When he was in Hangzhou, he had thought about what kind of impact the death of that courtesan would have on Hong Zhu’s state of mind, because it was clear to him from the very beginning that Hong Zhu was not an ordinary eunuch, he was a eunuch with feelings and righteousness, or else Fan Xian wouldn’t have dared to entrust so many great things to him.

But Fan Xian did not expect Hong Zhu to be as sentimental as he was, and to be soft-hearted in such a big event as the palace change.

From this, it could be seen that the Crown Prince was really a generous and affectionate person. And carrying a secret Hongzhu, in the Prince was expelled from the Southern Zhao months, and the poor Queen, in the East Palace, perhaps born some different feelings.

Hongzhu is a sentimental eunuch, to Fan Xian sentimental, that is why he will risk a great risk to set off the palace chaos, to help him into the palace, he is sentimental to the crown prince, to the empress sentimental, that is why he will let go at the last moment. People are inherently complex creatures, especially a eunuch like Hong Zhu who is more of a scholar than a reader.

“Perhaps it’s because I’m too heartless to imagine that people can actually be so sentient.”

He thought in his heart, involuntarily associating himself with Xu Maocai in the Jiaozhou Maritime Division, and a self-deprecating smile floated up at the corner of his lips.

Xu Mocai and Hong Zhu were the two deepest nails he had ever planted in the Qing court, but it so happened that in the midst of this great chaos in the court that had shocked the world, these two nails had both possessed their own ideas, bringing great evil to Fan Xian’s plans.

But without Xu Mocai, Fan Xian would not have been able to get out of the deep sea under the Dadong Mountains, and without Hong Zhu, Fan Xian would not even have been able to enter the harem, so he knew that he had no qualifications to blame these cronies for anything.

He couldn’t bear to kill Hongzhu, couldn’t bear to blame Hongzhu, and just thought somewhat helplessly that in the aspect of moving people with emotions, the Crown Prince had already practiced to be stronger than himself – the Crown Prince occasionally had true feelings, while he himself was hypocritical to the end in this life.

The forbidden army has already cleared the harem with the help of the Ministry of Supervision, and the guards have all been captured, so they should not be able to make any more waves. Fan Xian sullen face back to the Hall of Containing Light, and did not go in to see the Empress Dowager, to comfort the family members of the old three, but only to the guard outside the palace Jing Ge whispered a few words of command.

Jing Ge’s face was slightly different, he didn’t seem to think that Lord Tiji was actually thinking about the problem of defeat at this time of great victory, but he didn’t ask anything, he stretched out his right palm and pressed the silver mask on his face tightly, he kneeled down on one knee and received the order, and then he took some of the black cavalry experts among the 200 people who had entered the palace, and went out of the palace.

The security control of the Hall of Contained Light was turned over to the forbidden army from this moment onwards.

The two masterminds of the first palace rebellion in the history of the Kingdom of Qing finally met on the high walls of the Imperial City about half an hour after the smoldering arrow had shot up into the sky.

Fan Xian made a silent salute to the fully armored Grand Prince, who had a heavy face, and even though he was armored, he still returned the salute solemnly. The night wind suddenly arrived, blowing the big red cape on the great prince hunting, blowing Fan Xian body that piece of black Supervisory Yuan official uniform such as pulp washing general hard.

The forbidden army generals on nervous patrol on the imperial city looked at this scene, couldn’t help but fold their hearts, and suddenly welled up with indescribable confidence. In the first year of the Qingli calendar, the eldest prince led the troops to the west, the prestige is gradually rising, undefeated, and Fan Xian after taking charge of the Supervisory Yuan, is just like a Chen Pingping second, just than the old dean of the Chen to be more bright and shiny much more.

So the two emperors, like their body robes, hot red, cold pure black, light and darkness join hands, how many people in this world can resist.

Fan Xian and the Grand Prince straightened up, and without saying anything, they came to the outside of the corner tower, gazing at the calm square at the foot of the high imperial city, the faint sounds of killing coming from the distance, and a few fireheads in the farther distance that attracted a lot of attention.

The two do not need to say anything, to be precise, since the outbreak of the matter of the Great Eastern Mountain, the two have not seen each other at all, said, but they have single-handedly contributed to today’s palace riot.

This relies on their trust and confidence in each other, a tacit understanding that is not based on interests, but on history. These two sons of the emperor in the family, are insulted and neglected part of their mother elders, once fought side by side, today the two sons of the generation also finally began to fight side by side.

Forbidden army three thousand, at this time one thousand people in the palace, one thousand people in the city, there are one thousand people brigade has galloped away, to the depth of the Kyoto breakthrough, be sure to before dawn, control the whole Kyoto. A thousand people to control Kyoto is indeed too difficult, but if you add the thousand or so officials of the Supervisory Yuan that Fan Xian deliberately left outside the palace as helpers, it will be much smoother.

“Before dawn, they must be captured.” The Grand Imperial Prince spoke indifferently, the them in this statement naturally referring to the Crown Prince’s mother and son as well as Eldest Princess Li Yunrui, and amongst the one thousand forbidden troops in charge of sweeping the area, there were at least three cavalry squads that were following the line of the Laundry Place place there, desperately trying to claim and apprehend those who had escaped out of the palace.

Fan Xian was silent, the first time he learned that the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess had escaped from the palace, he had already given the order, and the secret agents and swordsmen of the Supervisory Yuan were also making efforts in Kyoto at this time. Just that he knew in his heart, just as when he was hiding in the vast sea of mansions in Kyoto, it was extremely difficult for the Eldest Princess to catch herself, it was also extremely difficult for him to catch the other party.

This sort of thing needed to rely on luck. And what was extremely unfavorable to Fan Xian and the Grand Imperial Prince was that they only had these three hours before dawn.

“All is well in the Hall of Containing Light.” Fan Xian didn’t take this question from the Grand Prince, his eyes looking at the soldiers below the Imperial City as he turned to say, “Nothing is wrong with the Empress Dowager.”

The Grand Prince’s brows wrinkled between them, and he did not say anything.

Because the Grand Prince had always been a rough but lenient and filial person, it was impossible for him to do the things that Fan Xian could do, that is, even when he heard the name of the Empress Dowager, his mood lowered by a point and he was a bit uncomfortable.

Fan Xian smiled as he looked at him, seemingly seeing through that shadow in his heart, and spoke, “The struggle for imperial power has always been a matter of death for you and death for me, we are only carrying out His Majesty’s last decree, and the history books will give you your due.”

“I don’t care about that.” The Grand Prince shook his head, facing the night breeze from high above the city, and said softly, “There is no need to say any more, since Father has ordered you to handle this matter with full authority in his posthumous edict, I believe that you will be able to handle it well, I have confidence in you.”

If he didn’t have confidence, the always dutiful Grand Prince, of course, wouldn’t dare to risk Cai Ren Ning’s life and raise an army to rebel.

“But can you give me confidence?”

Fan Xian sighed as he looked at the soldiers of the forbidden army that looked a bit sparse compared to the expansive imperial city. At this time, before and after the imperial city, there were only a thousand soldiers, how could it not give a strong psychological support strength.

The Grand Prince understood what he was worried about, and said after a moment of silence, “Father went to Dadong Mountain and took away a genus of the forbidden army, and lost a part of them this night, but don’t worry, used to defend the city, it’s always a pair of three, especially in a place like the Imperial City, and a pair of four is also possible.”

“But the Imperial City is extremely large, and it’s a difficult task to fully take care of it.” Fan Xian lowered his head and calculated, “If we really let the Eldest Princess and the Crown Prince escape from Kyoto and meet with the Kyoto Guard Division, how many troops and horses can the old Qin family transfer into the capital?”

“Ten thousand men from the Kyoto Guard Division.” Since the Grand Prince had risen up, of course he was very clear about the military forces inside and outside of Kyoto, “You and I will combine our forces for a total of 5,000 men, we should be able to hold it off.”

“My men cannot be used to guard the palace.” Fan Xian shook his head and raised his right arm to point at the dark sea of Kyoto residences, saying, “They only have power in there.”

He turned his head to look at the side of the Grand Prince’s face and said with slight worry, “And you forgot one thing, Lao Er is not in the palace, he’s quick, he’s only afraid that he’s already sneaked out of the city. Ye Chong’s men, don’t you have to think about it? Not to mention that the army in the hands of the old Qin family is not just a division of the Kyoto Guard.”

The corner of the Grand Prince’s eye twitched, if it was really Ye Qin’s two families joining forces to attack, even if another three thousand forbidden troops suddenly turned up in the palace at this time, he had little confidence.

“Moreover, the palace is an isolated palace, unlike the Great County which has food and grass in storage, if the palace is surrounded by a large army, how many days can you and I support it?”

The Grand Prince turned around horribly, staring into Fan Xian’s eyes, saying, “What exactly are you trying to say? Of course I know that the palace is not easy to defend, but why do we have to defend the palace and not the city?”

“Defend the city? The thirteen city gate divisions are not in our hands right now, and we simply don’t know which of those nine city gates will be gently knocked open …… by the Eldest Princess just like I knocked on the door of the harem.”

“Don’t hide it from me.” The Grand Prince said, “You can’t possibly abandon the City Gate Division and leave it alone, your people have already gone to the City Gate Division, and the nails that the Eldest Princess buried in the City Gate Division last night have already been killed by you.”

Fan Xian laughed mockingly and said, “The Supervisory Court is not a god, it is impossible to dig out all of the Elder Princess’s nails, and we must plan for the worst, if the Empress Dowager’s decree fails to subdue that Commander Zhang of the City Gate Division, you and I will have to be ready to be trapped by the army in the palace.”

“I just want to know how many days the Qin family’s army will be able to enter the capital. Ye Chong led the decree to return to Dingzhou, even if he stops halfway, but it will always take some time to reach the capital.”

“If we only count the Kyoto Guard Division, it will arrive in a day.” Fan Xian said calmly, “The Qin family’s army will probably arrive in four days. Ye returned to Kyoto in roughly the same amount of time.”

The Grand Prince did not ask Fan Xian why he knew the old Qin family’s deployment so well, for he believed that the Supervisory Court must have nails in the Qin family’s army, just as it did in the forbidden army, and that the earlier purge would not have been so easy if Fan Xian had not named the target beforehand.

“You can control the City Gate Division.” The Grand Prince looked into Fan Xian’s eyes and suddenly spoke back, “If you couldn’t, you wouldn’t dare to do anything at all. That’s why I’m wondering what your considerations are for saying these things to me now.”

Fan Xian fell silent.

“Earlier, Jing Ge led your courtyard order and came to me to transfer two hundred horses, then left the palace in an unknown direction.” The Grand Prince looked at him coldly and said, “Don’t tell me that you don’t have any ideas.”

Fan Xian suddenly laughed and said, “Actually, I was going to say …… let s run away.”

There was a muffled snap! The extremely angry Grand Prince slapped his palm on top of the bricks of the Imperial City and lowered his voice to say angrily, “Run away? You’re crazy!”

Fan Xian said with a bitter smile, “I do seem to be mad …… Where can I escape to? It’s just a joke, don’t get so excited, okay?”

“What’s the point of joking at this time?”

“Everyone’s so tense, what’s wrong with me making a joke to lighten the mood?”

Fan Xian’s words were not just a joke. If it were before, when the situation was reversed, he would have run away for his own safety. Because this conversation made it very clear that if the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess slipped out of Kyoto, the seemingly great situation at the moment would be ruined.

The Grand Prince suddenly sighed, patted his shoulder heavily, and said, “You haven’t led an army and haven’t seen what a real battlefield looks like, so it’s not surprising that you have such thoughts.”

As if to add some confidence to Fan Xian, the Grand Prince said in a deep voice, “With the help of your men and keeping the City Gate Division under control, even with 4,000 men, I’ll be able to hold Kyoto for ten days!”

Below the Imperial City, the officials of the Supervisory Court escorted a train of carriages close to the palace gates. The Grand Prince squinted his eyes to see, watching those ministers who had been tortured by the Crown Prince to make extremely miserable confessions marching down the carriage, saying, “With this group of ministers here, how can you and I escape? How can we bear to escape?”

Fan Xian was silent, nodded, and said, “According to your words, we will hold a great court meeting today, read the posthumous edict, and abolish the crown prince.”

The Grand Prince frowned and said, “Summon the four directions and order the four large armies to return to help with all guns blazing.”

“The three large armies are far away from the border, they simply cannot return to the capital within ten days. And the nearest Yanjing camp, if you and I pass the diatribe back to the army ……,” Fan Xian’s heart chilled slightly, “…… I’m only afraid that you and I might become the sinner of Qing.”

Fan Xian is worried about not someone else, it is the unfathomable little emperor of Northern Qi, nowadays this world information transmission is too slow, but Fan Xian is clear, the great governor of the northern expedition battalion was killed by himself, five thousand pro soldiers battalion under the Dadong Mountain do not know whether to die or not, if at this time the imperial city is in great chaos, he used the name of the Supervisor of the state, mobilized the army based in Yanjing back to the journey, I’m afraid that will fall in the calculations of the little emperor of Northern Qi.

I’m afraid that the Yanjing camp failed to return to the capital in time to deter the Ye Qin two families, and the male soldiers in the north will have to go south!

After so many years of experience, Fan Xian knew clearly that the Little Emperor of Northern Qi was the most powerful character in the world, and since he had secretly communicated with the Princess and was involved in the inner workings of the Great Eastern Mountains, he would never let go of such a great opportunity.

Therefore, the Yanjing camp must not be moved!

The Grand Prince’s face was also heavy, knowing that Fan Xian’s worries were extremely justified, “Ten days …… we can only hold out for ten days at the most, if we can’t mobilize our troops to return to the capital to attend to the king ……”

He suddenly smiled and looked at Fan Xian, “It seems you have a point, our best option is indeed to escape earlier this night.”

At these words, Fan Xian was stunned, and then the two of them looked at each other and laughed out loud for no reason.

Laughter from the imperial city spread far away, startled below the palace gate at the Shu Hu two university professors looked up, vaguely distinguishable is the great prince and Fan Xian, two university professors can not help but a little peace of mind, thinking that this two at this time can still laugh so happy, it seems that the momentum is set.

Just all people do not know, Fan Xian and the great prince’s laughter in how much helplessness and bitterness, just two people have a very tacit understanding of not mentioning the withdrawal of the Palace. Yes, the time shifted, the two of them since they have stood on top of the imperial city, then there is no reason to run again.

“Today, the Great Unification is set, the posthumous edict is passed on the streets and lanes of Kyoto, the hearts of the people are stabilized, and the decree is invented in the various states.” After the laughter stopped, Fan Xian looked at the Grand Prince and said with a smile, “Use the Empress Dowager’s decree to stabilize the City Gate Department before taking control. You said that you can hold back the army for ten days, so I will give you ten days.”

“Definitely can hold back ten days.” The Grand Prince gripped the sword by his waist, his face resolute, only in his heart he was thinking, the palace will eventually break after ten days of siege, why does Fan Xian value this time so much?

“This ten days, you must fight it out for me.”

Fan Xian gently coughed twice, took out a pill with some pungent smell from his pocket and ate it, said with a calm face, “Although I have not been in charge of the army, but I also know that the most important thing in the army is the generals at all levels, just imagine, if the marshal from the marshal to the benefit of the generals and then to the school officer …… all die, this rebel army will become What will this rebel army become?”

“A scattered sand, defeated without attack.” The eldest prince frowned slightly, looking at Fan Xian, thinking that if the rebel army’s generals were to die strangely within ten days, this Kyoto would naturally be able to be defended, but …… even if the Supervisory Yuan was more proficient in assassination, and you were more proficient in poisons, you wouldn’t have been able to accomplish such a heaven-defying thing amidst the thousands of troops and horses.

Fan Xian did not answer his doubts, and continued calmly, “If even the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess suddenly die, what else do you think is the reason for this rebel army to exist?”

The Grand Prince looked at him with a puzzled expression, thinking that Fan Xian couldn’t be sick, could he?

Fan Xian smiled and said, “The reason why I didn’t run and was willing to defend this lone city hard with you is not because I have such great courage, but because I’ve never lost my faith, only after this incident. I’m afraid I don’t have many good days left.”

The Grand Prince didn’t listen, and naturally, he wasn’t sure what Fan Xian meant by that. If Fan Xian really offered up a heavy sniper-killer, who knew how history, in the future, would go.

Right at this moment, there was a sudden cacophony under the palace gates, and a group of cavalrymen arrived in a cloud of dust, seemingly capturing a person. The eldest prince fixed his eyes and looked, only to see that the person who was captured was a woman, just too far away to see her face clearly, but she seemed to be wearing an ordinary courtesan’s costume.

Fan Xian squinted his eyes and said quietly, “Our luck has been as good as ever, look, the Empress has been captured by us, are the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess still far away?”

After saying these words, he turned around and walked down the imperial city, going down the wide stone steps, preparing to greet those old ministers who had suffered, preparing for tomorrow’s great court meeting, secretly pondering what kind of crime should be arranged for the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess, and at the same time, preparing to comfort, that poor, foolish, and extremely bad-luck Empress Dowager.

“Should we put the Empress and Hong Zhu together?” An odd thought suddenly welled up in Fan Xian’s heart, secretly thinking that he was actually quite sentimental.

As he walked up the stone steps, his cough grew worse and worse, and it seemed that the pills he had taken earlier with their pungent medicinal odor hadn’t done much good. He leaned against the wall next to the stone steps, slowed down his mind, felt another pill from his bosom and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed hard twice, and swallowed it into his stomach.

The pungent smell was that of ephedra leaves. This kind of pill was the second time in the world that someone had taken it since Fan Xian and the masters and brothers of the three divisions had developed it, because the medicinal power of this kind of pill was too overbearing, and the Ephedra Leaf was similar to a stimulant, which could very easily cause one’s mind to become in a trance, and one’s true qi to become disorganized.

The first time someone took this kind of pill was also Fan Xian, and that was still a few years ago by the western mountain wall in Northern Qi, before facing the joint attack of Wolf Peach and Daoist He.

Fan Xian took a few hard breaths to calm his mind. After escaping from the Great Eastern Mountain, he had been grazed by Ye Liuyun’s sword intent while being chased by Yan Xiaoyi for hundreds of miles, and finally, he had taken an arrow to the side of his heart, which had injured him extremely badly and prevented him from getting good healing, so his entire body was at the end of its strength.

Although he had rested for a few days in Miss Sun’s boudoir, his realm today was actually still only 80% of his peak. In order to break out of the palace, he had no choice but to take this extremely harmful drug again to ensure that his strong strength could be fully utilized.

The first time he took this drug, it was for Sean, for the secret of the temple in the old man’s mouth. The second time he took this drug, it was for the sake of the Sudden Palace, for the sake of this great kingdom of Qing. There are many things in the world that are more important than health, and Fan Xian, whose face was a little white, thought as he traveled down the road.

Kyoto was in chaos, compared to the Ministry of Justice and Kyoto Prefecture’s victory without a fight, the attack on the Princess’s residence was a bitter battle from the start. The clumps of flames that Fan Xian and the Grand Prince saw at the city’s top were the poisonous ploy that the Supervisory Committee had no choice but to use when they attacked.

Luckily, the Eldest Princess was not in the palace, and Yuan Hongdao, the chief strategist of Xinyang who was supposed to preside over the defense, seemed to have been scared out of his wits by the attack, so the masters and courtesans in the Beifu Palace, after costing the Supervisory Yuan dozens of corpses, were finally shot by crossbows and arrows to become hedgehogs, and were turned into zombies by the poisons.

The officials of the Procuratorate attacked in, and the leading one of the chief officials, Mu Feng’er, had a deep cut on his left arm, and blood was flowing, but on his face was an expression of diffident indifference, and he viciously put his short sword across Yuan Hongdao’s neck.

He was Mu Tie’s nephew, Fan Xian’s direct lineage in one place, and in a fight like this where you die, he couldn’t possibly be the slightest bit soft.

What made him strange was that the schemer from the Elder Princess’s residence who was under his control didn’t have too much fear, instead he was in a state of panic.

Yuan Hongdao looked at Mu Feng’er and said anxiously, “I have something big to report to Tanya Gong!”