The next morning, it was as cold as ever, and praying for the sky in winter, the cold wind blew.

On the surface, the Qitian Empire seemed to have returned to peace. After the Northern Expedition, all the remaining forces in the Northern King's Mansion were cleared, and the clouds of the war seemed to have dispersed, and everything returned to the right.

But Huang Yuanwu of the imperial capital was already surrounded by enemies. He racked his brains to solve the problem in front of him, but the node of this problem was not him.

He ascended the throne of Qitian, but he felt like an exquisite item that had been put on the shelf, enshrined in Qitian's imperial capital, and lost his original freedom.

Due to the series of measures taken by Emperor Yuanwu, the imperial capital has returned to its former appearance. The heavy snow on the road blocking has not yet dissipated, but the life inside the imperial capital has restored order.

Things seemed to be going on in an orderly manner. The defense chief of the imperial capital was Ding Jiang, who was responsible for the defense of the entire imperial capital. Huang Yuanwu assigned him 20,000 old officers and soldiers from the Eastern Prince's Mansion to be in charge of the security of the entire imperial capital area.

At the beginning, everything was very normal. After Huang Yuanwu ascended the throne, all the soldiers of the Dongwang Mansion were very excited. As the founding fathers of Huang Yuanwu, they would inevitably be granted a new feudal. Joining the army to fight was to increase their ranks, and everyone wanted to make their lives better. The Dongwang Mansion army had strict military disciplines, clear rewards and punishments, and the troops were very strong in combat and cohesive. This was the foundation that the Dongwang Mansion had always stood firm.

But all of this has changed since Huang Yanghui came to the imperial capital.

There is no news that will not be leaked. Although Huang Yuanwu never talked about the East Prince Mansion, the soldiers below will still guess and guess by themselves. Among them, there are many people with many years of experience in the army. Soon, the news that the East Prince Mansion was about to leave by Huang Yanghui spread throughout the army.

The consequences of this are heavy. First of all, the morale of the soldiers began to decline. This situation first occurred among the soldiers who stayed in the imperial capital. However, the general Ding Jiang really had no choice but to do this general sluggish morale.

If he had countless ways to boost morale in front of the two armies, but now he was defending the city and the news was accurate, the Eastern Palace and the Emperor Capital were in harmony, and these soldiers who remained in the imperial capital would probably not be able to go home. If Emperor Yuanwu and his younger brother had a falling out, the imperial capital's troops would probably move towards the Eastern Palace. At that time, they might be forced to kill people in their hometown. No one would accept this situation.

Rumors were everywhere in the army. As the main general, Ding Jiang naturally would not allow such things to continue to spread, but he could block the mouths of the crowd, but could not block the truth. Although no one in the imperial army had discussed the matter of the Eastern Prince's Mansion again, the morale continued to be sluggish, and there was a tendency to be intensified.

He had met Huang Yuanwu more than once and sought a solution, but Huang Yuanwu did not mention this matter at all. Looking at Huang Yuanwu's cold eyes, Ding Jiang gave up. Huang Yuanwu, who became the emperor, could never become the little prince he used to be. This was the result of him and his soldiers, and they must also accept this reality.

Fortunately, although the morale is sluggish, there is no private escape by troops. The combat effectiveness and integrity of the imperial army are still there, which means that there is still time to give Huang Yuanwu a breather.

The five passes connected to the direction of the Dongwang Mansion have been arranged by Huang Yuanwu to have soldiers in charge of the defense of these passes, which is Liu Yi, who returned from other provinces not long ago. There are not many people around Huang Yuanwu. Liu Yi is considered to be one of the best civil and military officials, and he may be the only one who can handle the relationship between the Dongwang Mansion and the imperial capital well.

No one wants to see such a situation. However, compared to the lower-level soldiers who are homesick and afraid of opposing their hometown, these senior officials in charge of the troops think clearly; they clearly understand that under such circumstances, Huang Yanghui proposed such conditions with Huang Yuanwu, there must be a cause, and this happened too quickly, and if something abnormal, there will be a demon. This is very abnormal.

The four brothers in the East Prince's Mansion had a good relationship, and there had never been any disputes over interests, let alone conflicts. When the old prince was there, he also trained Huang Yuanwu as the future successor of the East Prince's Mansion. For this, everyone from the East Prince's Mansion, from the generals to the people, was aware of that Huang Yanghui had no foundation to seize the East Prince's Mansion.

Some things are obvious and do not require too in-depth analysis. Some problems must have been made within the Dongwang Mansion. However, now, no one knows where this problem lies.

At this time, more than April had passed since Huang Yuchen left Pingjin City and went to Chihong Sect. When he left, he was still late autumn, and now it was a plan for the middle of winter, and everything was frozen. In four months, too many things had happened.

In order to maintain the morale of the army, Huang Yuanwu adopted some strategies and enfeoffed many old generals of the Eastern Prince's Mansion. They claimed new official positions and obtained their own fiefs near the imperial capital. In addition to three main cities, there are countless villages and small towns on the vast imperial capital plain, and the total population is also huge in number. In fact, in terms of comprehensive strength, the imperial capital plain is not worse than the Eastern Prince's Mansion, but no one wants his family to embark on the road of confrontation.

Huang Yuanwu's strategy played some role. More than 100,000 troops, not all the soldiers who came out of the Eastern Prince's Mansion had family members in their hometowns. During the years of war, many people had become accustomed to wandering outside, and there was no property in the Eastern Prince's Mansion. Huang Yuanwu also seized this point and allowed these people in the army to have their own positions near the imperial capital. From then on, they could take root in the imperial capital, which to a certain extent alleviated the clouds that had been shrouded in the army.

Most generals of the old army of the Dongwang Mansion supported Huang Yuanwu's strategy. If they did not want to be defeated in an all-round way, they must settle down as soon as possible. The Dongwang Mansion was not his enemy. They stabilized to prevent possible attacks from other directions. Because Huang Yuanwu has been ascending the throne for a long time, and the imperial edict has been issued to the world, but so far, no local official has come to Beijing to meet the saints. In fact, to a certain extent, the Qitian Empire has been divided and the disintegration of people has long been a thing of the past.

Now, on the surface, Qitian is still a vast empire, but as an emperor, Huang Yuanwu can only control the resources near the imperial capital. The land in other parts of the empire belongs to him in name, but in fact he has already been in harmony with the imperial capital. They are all watching the situation and secretly accumulating their own strength. Not only these officials in charge of the provinces, but the royal family who were supported by the Qitian Empire also took advantage of this opportunity to make trouble, and there are many of them who have the ambition to restore the country.

Although Huang Yuanwu did not get the exact information or information, he could guess all of these.

At that time, Huang Yuanwu and Yu Sheng talked about this matter. In Yu Sheng's opinion, these provincial officials and forces are not worth mentioning. As long as Huang Yuanwu ascended the throne, as long as there was a local force coming to Beijing to meet the saint, the rest of the people would not be able to sit still, and they were not united. In the end, this balance would definitely be broken. Three hundred years of praying for heaven cannot be divided.

Huang Yuanwu and Yu Sheng had very consistent ideas. He asked Yu Sheng to take charge of the Dongwang Mansion at that time, and it was precisely because of this. Dongwang Mansion was the foundation of his Huang Yuanwu. As long as the Dongwang Mansion was fine, there would be no problem with Qi Tian's situation. I just didn't expect that such a thing would happen later.

When Huang Yanghui came to the imperial capital and Huang Yuanwu to raise these questions, Huang Yuanwu had already seen something wrong. With his understanding of his third brother, he would not do such a thing even if he killed him. There must be a reason. But Huang Yanghui performed very normally, which made Huang Yuanwu suspicious. Therefore, when he left, Huang Yuanwu did not stop him, nor did he send anyone to the Eastern Palace to check the situation. Things had already happened there, and the best way now is not to alert the enemy.

Compared to Huang Yuchen, Huang Yuanwu is considered an old world. After he ascended the throne, he learned a lot of secrets of the Qitian Empire. It is precisely because he knew these secrets that he did not take any action on the current affairs of the Eastern Palace.

Perhaps because of each other's tacit understanding, this strange calm arose. The troops of the Dongwang Mansion were still gathered near Pingjin City, but there was no action. Huang Yuanwu sent people to guard the Wudao Pass and did not arrange for anyone to return to the Dongwang Mansion.

Huang Yuanwu could guess that there must be a problem behind this, but he could not determine what force was acting. Huang Yanghui could come to the imperial capital, which means that the Eastern Palace is actually under their control. You must not take extreme actions at this time, otherwise, no matter what, the injured will be the Eastern Palace rather than the enemy.

The situation was chaotic, which made Emperor Yuanwu unable to sleep all night. Although he did not make any big moves, he still arranged for the scouts to continue to inspect the imperial capital, including the movements of the Eastern Prince's Mansion. At this moment, he knew everything.

However, all this seemed to be like the white snow, frozen by the cold winter, and no one moved, and everything seemed to have really returned to peace.

Dongwang Mansion, Pingjin City, and in the dungeon.

Yu Sheng has been imprisoned here for a long time, but as a former top general of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, he received a lot of preferential treatment in the dungeon. The power of Tianqing City did not appear in Pingjin City. Now the general in charge of Pingjin City is Liu Yuan.

The news that a large number of soldiers from the enclave entered the territory of the Eastern Prince's Mansion was completely in love with the rest of his life. Not only he knew, but all the soldiers knew that except for Pingjin City, all other cities were already under the control of the enclave soldiers. The troops stationed near Pingjin City were just used to confuse the spies sent by Emperor Yuanwu.

The Yu Sheng leaned against the cold wall of his cell. His hair was messy, his face was pale, and he was indescribably decadent.
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