Fairy, please let me explain

Chapter 726 The Prelude to the War

Overcast, light rain.

According to the Great Yan procession system, the emperor's official trip was a very troublesome matter.

Even without counting the imperial guards, there were already over ten thousand people including the imperial guides, imperial drivers, court musicians, and various flags and formations that displayed the emperor's majesty.

Once you start a journey, it often stretches for several miles.

In addition, coordination and cooperation is required among various court departments, the palace and the Dayan Imperial Guards, and finally it must be submitted to the Zongzheng, who is in charge of the royal family, for review.

It takes at least ten days to complete the whole process.

But this is the treatment that ordinary emperors receive.

As the "leader of the revival" of Great Yan, if the party of generals and ministers is eliminated, Li Yaoxuan's control over the court will even exceed that of the former Great Yan Taizu. Being so powerful, there is no need to respect this etiquette.

In the autumn of the forty-seventh year of Jiajing,
At the request of Emperor Li Yaoxuan,
After simply organizing a ceremonial guard of less than 500 people, the Great Yan Emperor went northward under the escort of the Second Prince.
Huanglonglin is located a hundred miles northwest of Di'an City.

This is the endless maple forest, which has been used as the royal hunting ground of the Great Yan family since the founding of the Great Yan Kingdom.

In addition to more than a thousand forest rangers who manage the area all year round, there is also a large number of golden-armored imperial guards stationed there all year round to drive away those poachers who value money over their lives.

The morning light is not yet gone, the sky is slightly bright,
The maple forest, dyed red by late autumn, creates a quiet and secluded atmosphere in the misty rain.

On the distant skyline, the emperor’s procession was coming in a grand manner.

above the sky,

Countless scouts riding on flying birds were hovering in the sky, monitoring the area within a hundred miles.

Ground official road,

Tens of thousands of heavily armored infantrymen formed a battle formation and marched in neat rows to guard the huge palace in the center that was towed by a nine-headed giant dragon.

The land palace of the Great Yan Emperor is nine stories high, symbolizing the Nine Cauldrons. The surface decoration is gilded, dark and elegant, and looks heavy and majestic.

On the top of the palace, a huge yellow umbrella blocked the drizzle along the way, and the colorful clouds and golden branches and jade leaves outlined on it ended at the emperor.

And below it,

The three most powerful men in Da Yan sat around a bronze stove carved with a Pi Xiu.

The middle-aged man with graying hair had an elegant demeanor. He knelt upright with his eyes closed and rested.

The skinny old man in the imperial robe half-closed his eyes and sipped the fragrant tea in the cup.

The last sturdy old man seemed a little idle, with his hands spread out beside the bronze stove, trying to dispel the autumn chill that could not penetrate his body at all.

The horses' hooves trampled on the ground in silence.

Since leaving Di'an,
Oh no,

It should be said that no one has said a single word since the three of them got together last night.

Until we were completely close to the Royal Dragon Forest,
Ran Jianli seemed to be unable to hold back his laughter and said in a rough voice:

"I remember the last time I came to the Imperial Dragon Forest was when the late emperor was in power. At that time, Your Majesty was just an insignificant prince. Time flies, and decades have passed in a flash. We have all grown old."

Li Yaoxuan placed the porcelain cup on the low table in front of him and responded:
"Master, the Prime Minister's face doesn't look old at all."

Xu Yinhe opened his eyes and said calmly:
"Your Majesty, do you only judge people by appearance?"

Li Yaoxuan's old face had a fake smile on its face, and his cloudy eyes made it hard to tell what he was thinking:
"Some people can't be seen from the surface."

Having said that, I will just stop here.

Li Yaoxuan turned to look at Ran Jianli and said softly:

"There have been many rumors on my desk recently. It is said that the incident that caused the collapse of Zhenxi Prefecture was led by the clan alliance. I wonder what you, as the leader of the clan alliance, think about this matter?"

Ran Jianli grinned when he heard this, withdrew his hands from the fire, propped up his knees and placed his arms on them, and said with a smile:
"If Your Majesty had reviewed the memorial, you would have known that Ran had already petitioned to send outer disciples to investigate the matter when the matter reached Emperor An."

The so-called outer disciples are the army of the clan alliance. The actions of the Qin family's hidden sects have angered many high-level members of the clan alliance.

Some of the alliance's top leaders were angry because they were deceived, and some people knew some of the inside story, but the execution was carried out without their approval.

But in the final analysis, what made the top leaders of the sect alliance angry was not the hidden sects' plan for the Western Desert, but the fact that these insects from the hidden sects not only ate all the food without taking them with them, but also failed, allowing the Prime Minister's Mansion to reap the benefits.

Hearing the words of the national teacher, Li Yaoxuan's eyes revealed a hint of just the right amount of surprise, and said:

"It turns out that the Imperial Master has already submitted a secret memorial, but I have not seen it. I think some treacherous villain has deceived me."

The whisper was gentle, but the murderous intent was cold.

Xu Yinhe ignored the two people in front of him and sat there with his eyes lowered, saying nothing.

With the current administrative efficiency of the Great Yan court, a major event like the Western Desert Incident would be determined in one day at most, and the corresponding policies would be distributed to the grassroots level within three days.

Whether it is to send troops to provide disaster relief or to keep the troops in place and wait and see, there will always be government orders issued. However, after such a long period of fermentation, the frequency of the Western Desert Incident being mentioned in the court has finally begun to increase.

This was indeed the result of deliberate suppression by the prime minister's party in the court.

Because it would take time for Xiangfu to swallow up Zhenxifu,
Therefore, the prime minister's party will try every means to delay in the court.

But at this moment when the relationship was about to fall out, the concerns that everyone had in their hearts were gradually disappearing, and even with Xu Yinhe's power, he could no longer suppress the voices in the court.

After all, no one wants to see the Xiangguo Mansion smoothly integrated into Zhenxi Prefecture.

The Western Desert Incident was the fuse that ignited the powder keg.
The royal party demanded a thorough investigation of its causes and consequences.

The clan alliance, led by the national teacher, wanted to assist the royal party in conducting a thorough investigation.

Unlike before,
In the past, after everyone submitted a petition, they would first exchange interests in the court, discuss a result, and then work together to solve the problem.

Now, while the various parties in the court are accusing each other of being parasites that are eating away at the country, they have already privately dispatched troops to the west.

No matter the royal family or clan alliance.

The two families had already deployed over 100,000 troops on the border of Xize Continent, and regardless of the garrisons blocking the roads, they forced their way into Xize Continent one after another.

The royal family wanted to get a piece of the pie, or to stop the prime minister's residence from taking over Zhenxi Prefecture alone.

Zongmeng is simpler.
The hidden sect has already compromised with the existing sect alliance.

They sent troops to defend and take over the foundation of the hidden sect in Xizezhou that had been run for decades from the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After a long silence,
Xu Yinhe just whispered a name:
"Jin Yue."

Ran Jianli raised his eyebrows: "What?"

Xu Yinhe calmly glanced at the two of them and glanced at the mighty army formation beside the emperor's palace:
"A seventh-rank minor official, Xi Zezhou, the county magistrate of Suxi County, was killed by a group of elite soldiers who came from nowhere and his entire family was exterminated. Along with him, the Zhenxi Army stationed in Suxi County also died."

Xu Yinhe received this internal reference two days ago.

However, it was not the Zhenxi Army stationed in Suxi County, but the Black Scale Army directly under the Prime Minister's Office, and the number of troops was not just one, but two.

They used the city defense formation to guard the main road into Xize Island, but they only held out for less than half a day before being wiped off the map.

Ran Jianli narrowed his eyes, thinking:
"Who did it?"

"I don't know."

Xu Yinhe retracted his gaze and shook his head expressionlessly:

"But it is foreseeable that Nishize Island will be in chaos for a long time."

The words fell silent.

Although it was not said out loud, the three of them had their minds as clear as a mirror. The grand sedan chair and the emperor's palace drove into the Huanglonglin hunting ground in the solemn silence.

The civil war of the Great Yan Dynasty.
A corner of the curtain has already been opened at the Western Desert border, thousands of miles away from Di'an.

(End of this chapter)