Whenever and wherever there are, there will be strife where there are people.

In the palace, it is a struggle for imperial power;

In the DPRK, it is a partisan dispute;

In the army, it is a battle for killing;

In the opposition, it is a dispute between the rivers and lakes;

It is nothing more than the old man Jin Yong's martial arts often said that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and no one can stay out of the world.

At the same time as the Great Song Dynasty army was expanding externally, there was already a sabre-rattling undercurrent in Bianjing City.

Since the canonization of Zhao Bin, the king of Chu, as the crown prince, the weather vane on the court has begun to slowly shift. Originally, it was the momentum of the Jin King Chai Shuxia who had a slight upper hand, but because of the canonization of the prince, he was gradually suppressed by Jiang Fu, Yue Lin and others.

But as one of the ministers who are also in charge of the country, Chai Shuxia will naturally not sit still, and has always fought with Jiang Fu in the court to suppress each other.

And Chai Shuxia, who was defeated in the battle for the crown, then fought back again.

After the crown prince was canonized, Chai Shuxia took the initiative to advise the seriously ill Ye Yu, claiming that the prince was young and did not know about government affairs, and if he and Jiang Fu encountered a military affairs that were difficult to decide, someone had to be able to come forward to decide the overall situation.

This proposal is reasonable, and after several discussions, it is unanimously agreed that in today's harem, only the Empress Dowager Chai Wanyue can preside over the overall situation.

The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, which has been a royal taboo since ancient times, so even if the current queen Su Yueyun is the lord of the six palaces, she is only in charge of the harem.

As Ye Yu's mother, who is outside the court and harem, she is also the most qualified and weighty candidate at present.

In fact, in addition to the Empress Dowager Chai Wanyue, it should have been the most suitable Empress Zhao Yan.

It's a pity that since moving the capital to Bianjing, Zhao Yan has become a monk in a Taoist robe, and decided to guard the imperial tomb of Gongxian County for the rest of his life, and never ask about the affairs of the court. Even when Ye Yu was seriously ill, Zhao Yan only sent his attendants into the palace to visit him once, and he himself did not take another step out of the imperial tomb.

The reason for this seems unusual, but it is actually reasonable.

A father watched his children die one by one, and he, the emperor as a father, could only let the white-haired people send the black-haired people. This is nothing for young people, since ancient times, it is not uncommon to abandon children and kill children, but the most unsightly thing for people to reach old age is to lose their children when they are old.

In just a few years, the crown prince, King Qing, and King Gong were killed in the conspiracy.

Although Ye Yu, the youngest son, succeeded in ascending the throne in the end, the old Zhao family was finally not extinct, and showed the courage that the descendants of the Zhao family did not have, but the scene of indirectly killing his brother made him, a father, already feel cold, and even more physically and mentally exhausted.

Therefore, Zhao Yan was already exhausted, and with Ye Yu, an excellent child, he believed that the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty did not need him to take care of them.

However, the main reason why Zhao Yan was disheartened and chose to become a monk and confined to the imperial tomb was actually because the current Empress Dowager Chai Wanyue had been resentful for many years.

Zhao Yan has tried to alleviate the grievances between the two for many years more than once, but in the end he still failed to get the other party's forgiveness.

He knew that the guilt of his life was difficult to compensate, and he was tired of power, so he finally chose to ban himself forever from the imperial tomb.

And from the beginning of Chai Shuxia's suggestion that someone should sit in the court, so that the queen mother took over smoothly, this is actually a trick that Chai Shuxia invisibly made.

Jiang Fu has the crown prince as the flag on his side, and he has the queen mother Chai Wanyue on his side, which undoubtedly increases the bargaining chip for his Jin Wang party.

Even in a sense, the regent of the Empress Dowager Chai Wanyue faintly tilted the scales a little.

Because the crown prince can be abolished and canonized, how can he ever hear that the queen mother can easily abolish it?

Therefore, Chai Wanyue's weight is not heavy, and Chai Wanyue and his Chai Shuxia are brothers and sisters, and it is a family affair behind closed doors, which invisibly increases the pressure on Jiang Fu and others who are surrounded by the prince.

The balance of forces, there will be endless disputes, you fight for power above the court, and finally after you blush and have a thick neck, you will hand over the matter to the Empress Dowager Chai Wanyue to deal with.

Today's Chai Wanyue lives in Wanyue Palace, and due to the change of identity, she naturally can't show people in the costume of the former Fire Lotus Sect Master, so she took off the dark mask of the past, and used a light veil to cover her face and a bead curtain to meet the ministers.

The Empress Dowager Chai Wanyue was concerned about the condition of the emperor's son Ye Yu, and she was naturally absent-minded about the disputes and impeachments between the two sides above the court.

So Chai Shuxia took the opportunity to express his body heart, claiming that everything could be handled by his brother, and the queen mother's sister could take care of the emperor's nephew's dragon body with peace of mind, anyway, we are a family.

The elder brother has already opened his mouth like this, and Chai Wanyue is indeed concerned about the emperor's condition, so she simply took the opportunity to be a shopkeeper and handed over all affairs to her brother to deal with cheaply.

In this way, it gave Chai Shuxia room to play, and the black materials collected for so long, whether they were real black or bleached materials, anyway, they collapsed several civil officials and ministers around Jiang Fu.

For this matter, Jiang Fu personally asked to see the Queen Mother, but did not get any response.

In just one month, Chai Shuxia and Kong Defang and others in the court prepared black materials that were endless, and they pointed the finger at Jiang Fu's civilian clique in the DPRK.

Chai Shuxia's behavior has a faint tendency to cover the sky with one hand, but in this court dispute, in addition to the confrontation between the two parties, naturally some courtiers have chosen a neutral attitude.

They are unwilling to rely on the party led by Jiang Fu to jointly resist Chai Shuxia's one-handed covering. is also unwilling to stand on Chai Shuxia's side and compete with the prince's Wenchen team.

Among them are Wu Qingzhong, Meng Tong, Pan Zhisuo and others, these people are small groups of their own and are unwilling to help any party.

And these two parties are not willing to force these people, after all, these are the close ministers of His Majesty today, and if His Majesty fails to drive the Crane Immortal for a day, then these people are their taboo in the court.

In the face of Chai Shuxia, Kong Defang and others' crazy suppression, Jiang Fu and Yue Lin and others will naturally not sit still, since the current queen mother is partial to her brother Jin Wang, then they will go to Funing Palace collectively, just ask His Majesty to uphold justice.

Outside Funing Palace, Jiang Fu led a group of ministers to wait outside, waiting for the terminally ill Ye Yu to summon him.

But after waiting for a long time, and not seeing Ye Yu's oral summons, Jiang Fu felt a little uneasy in his heart, so after a few words of instructions with several ministers behind him, he had to climb the stairs and prepare to enter the palace to face the saint.

"Your Majesty's bedroom is forbidden and you are not allowed to enter without being summoned!" Jiang Fu was just about to step into Funing Palace, but was blocked by a guard outside the palace.

"This official is the first assistant of the dynasty, and there has been a special edict from His Majesty......"

"You are not allowed to enter the palace without being summoned, Lord Jiang, please go back!"

Jiang Fu was about to open his mouth to explain that he had the privilege of being given by His Majesty to 'enter the palace without being summoned', but he never thought that as soon as his words came out, he was blocked back by the guards guarding the palace gate.