In the palace, the Queen Mother was trying to find a way to send brocade books into the monarch's bedroom. Outside the palace, Old Man Xiao also started his own performance. After he first communicated with the Ye family, he deliberately made a big fire in the mansion, and asked the people in the mansion to spread the news. For a while, many people in Zhongjing City knew that General Xiao's godgranddaughter was missing.

In the end, the old man simply led people to search door to door in Zhongjing City, making people turn their backs. He didn't dare to search the palace, he could always go to those adults' homes! But those people knew that he was old and qualified, and even if he didn't have an official position now, they didn't dare to do anything to him, so they could only complain secretly.

But it's useless to complain, the old man who should search still has to search. If you don't let him in, he will dare to sit in front of your house and cry loudly, and you will make his granddaughter bully him for his old age, and he will pretend to die in front of your door. What can adults do? You can only obediently put people in. In this way, although I didn't find the brocade book, I even found a lot of Rao handles, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain.

Just when the old man's side was in trouble, the third prince gradually lowered his vigilance. He resumed the purge of the ministers of the DPRK and China, and as long as they were not on his side, they were all sent to prison on many trumped-up charges. However, his actions were relatively secretive, and he did not let everyone see the flaws for a while. But those old ministers who have been officials in the court for decades are not easy to deceive.

At the same time as the three princes acted, some old ministers in the court also began to act secretly under the instruction of General Xiao. They each used their own connections, gathering the Beijing guards guarding Zhongjing and the Yulin guards in the palace to be secretly on standby, once the three princes made a move, they would react as soon as possible to protect the safety of the monarch.

It's just that among the Jingwei Army and Yulin Guard, there are many people who have been bought by the Three Princes, so they can only secretly unite trustworthy people. However, even if this is the case, the manpower that can be assembled in the end will not be enough. Old Man Xiao thought of the 20,000 horses stationed outside Zhongjing City, if this army could be mobilized, then they would have a greater chance of defeating the Third Prince.

However, these 20,000 horses are equivalent to the reserve troops of the Xia Kingdom, and no one can mobilize them without the king's order. Even if the third prince is the king's own son, as long as there is no order, he is not qualified to order them. This is also the fundamental reason why the actions of the three princes will become more and more public.

Most of Zhongjing's troops were taken to the border city by Xiao Xuanyi, and the Jingwei and Yulinwei were controlled by him again. Everything seemed to be slowly moving towards his plan. As long as he controls the ministers who oppose him, and then finds an opportunity to kill the monarch and forge an edict, he can justifiably ascend to the throne of the monarch.

As for the second prince, I'm afraid he hasn't thought so much about it. When he becomes the monarch of the Xia Kingdom, it is not up to him to deal with other people at that time.

On the other side, the brocade book in the palace also began to act. Recently, the imperial doctors have been guarding the king's dormitory, almost not leaving. The Queen Mother would go to see the unconscious monarch every time, and she found that the imperial doctors would feed the monarch ginseng soup on time, and felt that this might be an opportunity.

So at noon, the Queen Mother came to the king's dormitory when she stepped on the monarch to take ginseng soup. As in the past, the subordinates of the Third Prince, who were guarding the door today, still let people in without hindrance.