After the palace attendants who followed the lead came to their designated positions and took their seats, everyone sat upright and waited for Yun Zhen's arrival without smiling.

After everyone was seated, it took a while before someone announced, "The Cloud Emperor has arrived—"

Everyone stood up in response, all quietly waiting for Yun Zhen's arrival.

And Yun Zhen didn't put on too much pomp. He didn't let the guests wait long, and after the waiter announced in advance and everyone got up to greet him, he appeared in front of everyone's eyes almost pinching the ground. Then, under the "gaze" of everyone's slightly lowered gaze, he walked to the other end of the field, stepped step by step on the center of the mesa that was three steps higher than the flat ground where everyone was, and occupied roughly one-third of the entire field, and then sat down at the front of the only low table placed on the mesa. Then, behind him quickly gathered a group of attendants with various objects in their hands, ready to serve all the needs that Yun Zhen might have on such an occasion.

"Sit-" another announcement of the chamberlain fell.

Only then did everyone sit down in turn, starting from the closest direction next to Yun Zhen, first in the first row, and then in the second row. No one dared to mess up the order of sitting.

Gao Ran's location is at the second table in the second row to the right of Yun Zhen, An Yujie is at the second table in the first row to the left of Yun Zhen, the first table next to her is Yu Ying, the prime minister of the dynasty, and Gao Lan, the head of the Gao family, is sitting at the first table in the first row on the right side of Yun Zhen, next to her is Fu Tong, the head of the Fu family, Gao Qi and Gao Yu are sitting next to Gao Ran, Gao Qi is at the first table, Gao Yu was at the third table, and after them were the two sons of the Gao family, then You Song and Fu Wenhan, then the two young ladies of the Fu family, and then Fu Wenxuan and the other two sons of the Fu family.

The An family who came this time was the only one who supported An Yujie, so except for her sitting in the first row, the rest sat in the second row behind her. The Dong family, on the other hand, only sent a side branch son who was painless and had no real power to come and sit in the second row on the left side of Yun Zhen, next to the An family.

Those imperial relatives and other important ministers of the imperial court, according to their intimacy with Yun Zhen and the size of the real power in their hands, sat in the remaining positions of the first row on the left and right: the left was the pro, the right was Shu; the higher the seat, the greater the real power.

Obviously, even if the real power in the hands of those people did pose a certain threat to Yun Zhen, it was far less than the four people sitting at the first two tables on the left and right in the first row. Otherwise, Yun Zhen would not have arranged it like this, and those who sat behind those four would not have no objection to this. - If their strength was really strong enough to openly argue with the four people sitting in front of them, it was probably impossible for them to accept Yun Zhen's arrangement in silence. Otherwise, it would be tantamount to accepting that he had belittled them?—— who would be willing to endure such a big loss of momentum from the very beginning, if it is not true to the facts?"

Anyway, Gao Ran didn't believe that just because Yun Zhen was already the Cloud Emperor, he could make everyone who met for the first time be willing to sell him such a big face at the price of self-depreciation - especially at this time, Yun Zhen had not yet established a prestige in their hearts that could never be offended.

"Come to think of it, those people must still be afraid of the power and influence in the hands of the four people who are in front of them, right?

"The other three are easy to understand, but does this Yu Ying have such a big power? If it is really the power in his hands, then how can the former emperor dare to keep him? Aren't you afraid that he will take advantage of Yun Zhen's fledgling to empty him as soon as possible, take away their Yun clan's country, and completely turn Yun Zhen into his puppet? Is it impossible......? No matter how generous the emperor is, it is impossible for him to take such a big risk with his own country...... Unless ......"

Gao Ran then turned his attention to Yun Jie, who was indeed a little too low-key compared to those imperial relatives sitting in the first row opposite, and was sitting behind Yu Ying at this time, and also glanced at Yu Qiwen who was sitting next to him by the way. - After him, the rest of the An family, who were also sitting in the second row.

"Could it be that this was specially arranged by the first emperor? Let Yun Zhen sit on the throne, but for the sake of Yun Jie's life, he handed over part of the military power (it should be half) to Yun Jie? That's why the two brothers are so united to the outside world?—— at least for now, it is true. But in order not to provoke criticism and shake the country, even if Yun Jie holds part of the military power, he must conceal this matter, and he can only be the shadow behind Yun Zhen and not appear in front of others?

"Hmm...... Otherwise, how could he be so sensitive to the real reason for my refusal to repent of my marriage that day?—— unless my influence on Yun Jie would directly affect and even shake the Yun family!"

Anyway, Gao Ran would never be naïve to think that Yu Qiwen would care so much about her marriage contract with Yun Jie because she didn't want Yun Zhen and Yun Jie to turn against each other. - He is willing to risk his life to hide this matter from Yun Zhen!

Gao Ran's gaze wandered back and forth between Yun Jie and Yu Qiwen for a while, until the two of them were almost simultaneously aware of Gao Ran's gaze and immediately looked back, she naturally looked away again, without the slightest haste or panic, so she did not provoke the slightest notice from others.

However, the moment he lowered his eyes, Gao Ran suddenly remembered that the seating order of these people in front of him, especially the leaders of these foreign forces sitting in the first row, didn't it just coincide with the approximate order of power that they had presented after the silent battle after they arrived in Beijing?

"Heh, the order of the position of Dare Qing is still temporarily arranged according to the results of their 'competition' with each other after they arrived in Beijing for the battle for accommodation?

"Will this Yun Zhen's heart be too wide......?! He wasn't afraid that any of them would deliberately keep a low profile, hide their true strength, and deliberately learn from those forces that were weaker and still a step late, so that they had to switch to the inns of Cloud Pavilion and Heavenly Pavilion, and deliberately took the initiative to stay in those two inns, so as to admit to other forces-'I am weak'?"

Thinking of this, Gao Ran unconsciously raised his eyes and glanced at Yun Zhen, who was sitting alone on the stage not far away, and thought to himself: "Although it is true that there are few people who will take the initiative to admit that they are inferior to other forces like this, but if there is really a force like this, and his actual strength is quite strong—if there is such a force, if there really is, and they really do it, then wouldn't Yun Zhen have neglected them, but left an extremely dangerous hidden danger for his momentary laziness?"

Although she came here this time, she was just here to join in the fun and watch the drama on the side, but after all, she has not been able to completely get rid of the Yun family, and it is really difficult to guarantee that if she is not careful, she will be involved by the Yun family...... Therefore, even if it was just for self-preservation, Gao Ran secretly glanced at the people sitting in the first row on the left and right sides again, and carefully checked whether their order was consistent with the ranking of their strength that she had privately investigated.

Then, she recalled the specific list of the forces that had finally stayed in the inns of the Cloud Pavilion and the Heavenly Pavilion, and checked it again.

It turned out that in the first row, there was indeed one person who arrived in the capital one step later, but he took the initiative to stay at the Tiange Inn, but his actual strength was the second among the several major forces that came to Beijing - second only to the Fu family. And the position that Yun Zhen arranged for him was next to Fu Tong......

"It's okay...... It seems that Yun Zhen has investigated them......"

Slightly relieved, the corners of Gao Ran's mouth were slightly upturned. - Yun Zhen's arrangement, it is naturally not difficult for her to understand the intention of this: even if that person deliberately came one step later, he also took the initiative to show weakness to everyone and took the initiative to go to the Tiange Inn to stay, but after all, he was still arranged by Yun Zhen in a position second to Fu Tong. Presumably, such an arrangement will also make that person understand Yun Zhen's hint to him: how many catties and taels he has, Yun Zhen knows it clearly.

In this way, presumably that person would not dare to make a move before the Fu family.

"That's a really high trick. Silently, it gave them the most powerful warning, so that as soon as they came here, just by seeing the order of their positions, they already knew the possible difference in their true strength between them. Moreover, he can also be truly convinced of the accuracy of the information that Yun Zhen has. Then, whether it was out of fear of Yun Zhen's possible strength, or out of fear of the possible threat of other competitors to them, they would not be the first to act rashly. Otherwise, whoever acts first will be the target of the undoubted public, and will completely fulfill others and sacrifice himself......

"It seems that letting them settle the problem of food and lodging by themselves after coming to Beijing is not only conducive to their own general understanding of each other's bottom line, but also conducive to onlookers like Yun Zhen to see the possible connections between the various forces in private, as well as the ill intentions they may have. - That's a great idea for everyone to get something out of their way...... It seems that most of this arrangement should be the unspoken rules that have long been tacitly precipitated by the games between their parties for many years, rather than deliberately arranged by Yun Zhen. — because it was an idea that would be beneficial to all of them, and neither of them would be able to gain the upper hand by simply using this rule. ”

After the feast, Gao Ran was only immersed in chewing and slowly tasting the various delicacies that she kept sending into her mouth. But her enjoyment, in the eyes of others, seemed to be like she had been—the only one of all the people present who really just came to eat!

Although they didn't comment on it in order to maintain decency, the impression that "Miss Sophomore is stupid and rude" has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

However, for those who know the matter, it is not a good thing for Gao Ran to deliberately leave such an impression on everyone: for Gao Ran herself, she can indeed avoid attracting unnecessary attention and the endless troubles that come with it; for Gao Lan and Gao Qi, although they do feel that she has lost the face of the Gao family in this way, compared to Gao Ran's possible threat to them, she has made them feel a lot more at ease. - At least, Gao Ran had already used her actions to convince them that she really had no intention of seizing power - for this reason, she even did not hesitate to damage her image in front of all the powerful people, and the Fu family, the two Yun brothers, Yu Ying and Yu Qiwen, An Yujie, and Gao Yu sitting next to her, could see that Gao Ran really had no intention of favoring any of the parties present, and was really just here to watch, so he let her go.

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