The people in the city do not open the door, and the people in the city do not dare to force the attack, both sides abide by the tacit understanding, whoever comes first and breaks the rules first is destined to fall into disadvantage.

The Empress Dowager didn't have much to do about this situation for a while, to say that they held the Imperial Division and were in charge of the defenders of the entire Chu State, it could be said that they were nine out of ten in this situation today.

However, after all, he slipped away and controlled the Imperial City, which has always been under the responsibility of the Imperial City Guard, although the Imperial City Guard Division is nominally the same defender, but it is not under the control of the Imperial Division.

has always been directly dispatched by the emperor and empress, and the current chief official is Xu Tingwei, who went to invite Ye Yunyi before. When the Empress Dowager and her entourage rushed to the palace, Xu Tingwei had already taken precautions to protect the palace.

In addition, the Emperor of Chu is dead, with the advance instructions of the empress, and the decision of the three elders of the Taige coincides, so they unanimously shut the empress dowager outside.

Prince Ping saw that if this stalemate continued, it would be even more unfavorable to them. Not only what will the people of Chu think of him, but also whether other countries will take the opportunity to attack, after all, they just want to regain or maintain their usual privileged position, not like winning a dead country.

He had no choice but to dismount and walk to the queen mother's sedan chair in person, and personally ask the queen mother to see what to do next.

For Prince Ping to ask the Empress Dowager, Xie Shuran and they didn't think so, they only saw Prince Ping talking by the sedan chair on the city wall, too far away, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

"Queen Mother, this Xie Shuran doesn't know what to do, and those sour literati are also complicit with him, even the defender of the city is standing with them, and when I enter the city, I have to let them fall to the ground, now you see, what should we do"? Prince Ping, who usually shows off his martial arts, asked cautiously in front of the sedan chair.

A gentle voice came from inside the palanquin, "They don't let you in because you have bad intentions, you put the knife on someone else's neck, and then let others say that you are good to him, do you think it's possible, don't fight and kill all day long, if you want to kill you, roll me to the border, and you give me honesty in the imperial city."

The voice of the Queen Mother does not look like an old man at all, in terms of age, the Queen Mother is afraid that she is in her fifties, but due to good maintenance, her voice is still gentle and soft.

"Aren't I fighting for the imperial sister-in-law, I will definitely restrain in the future." The reason why Prince Ping listened to the Empress Dowager was because when Taizu ascended the throne, he was about to kill several of his brothers, and it was the Empress Dowager who prayed to Gaozu that Prince Ping was young and would not be a threat, so Gaozu let Prince Ping go.

It was also the queen mother who raised her, and her sister-in-law was more like her mother. Therefore, Prince Ping is usually unruly, but he only listens to the words of the Queen Mother.

"Forget it, they don't go in, there is a reason for it, I'll go in alone, see how the emperor is hurt, I haven't seen him for a long time, I don't believe they dare to stop me from an old woman to see her son", said the queen mother opened the curtain and walked out.

I saw a woman dressed in plain clothes, with a kind face, a small mole on her eyebrows and eyes, and a little gray hair, with a demure and elegant temperament, and walked out with a string of Buddhist beads in her hand. Even if there are a few wrinkles on her face now, it can still be seen that her demeanor when she was young must be overwhelming.

"No, sister-in-law, if you go alone, we don't know anything about the situation in the palace, and I am afraid that something will happen."

"I've lived here for decades, and no one knows the palace of Da Chu better than me, and I said that I will go by myself, that is, I will go by myself, do you have to disobey my words."

"Imperial sister-in-law, I listen to you, but as long as you have three long and two short in it, even if I am infamous for eternity, I will break in and protect you." Seeing that he couldn't stop it, Prince Ping had no choice but to agree.

The queen mother slowly approached the city gate, followed by only a maid in the same plain clothes, when she approached the gate, she stood there quietly, Xie Shuran on the city wall They noticed the situation, and after a closer look, they knew that it was the queen mother.

At that time, the Empress Dowager's faction and the Secret Pavilion competed for the ownership of the throne, and were forced not to participate in political affairs, in order to compromise, the Empress Dowager volunteered to practice in Jining Temple. When leaving the imperial city, Xie Shuran was fortunate to see the scene when the peerless queen mother left the imperial city, but it was a pity that she represented the old nobles who were not allowed by the people of Chu State.

Now that the world has changed, the petty official who stood on the side of the road and watched the Empress Dowager leave the palace is now the patriarch of Taige, and the Empress Dowager, who overwhelmed the entire Chu State with her ability and beauty, is now a gray-haired lady.

In the northwest of the Imperial City, on the Min Mountain where the Dark Pavilion is located, on the high astrological tower, where there is usually no people, four figures quietly watched this dispute in the Imperial City.

Ye Yunyi stood on the top of the Star Tower, followed by Tianshu and the envoys of the two secret guards. The mountains behind him are covered with white mist, as if they are isolated from everything under the mountain. Ye Yunyi, who took off his court clothes, was dressed in white, and the ribbon tied in a bun swayed in the wind, like an immortal.

The four of them were silent, silently staring at the black-pressed imperial city not far ahead.

"Pavilion master, do we need to make a move, I'm afraid that the defenders of the imperial city alone won't be able to stop the queen mother and them", the two envoys behind him broke the silence and asked their doubts.

"It's not time yet, the "pusher" behind it hasn't come out yet, and the two of them alone won't really do it", Ye Yunyi's idle voice swayed away with the breeze.

"Tianshu, who do you think will be the manipulator behind this, who can actually be under our noses, first the Chu Emperor fell from the horse, then the booby trap me, the prince of Yefu, and then the commotion of the old school, and also affected the tricky Empress Dowager", Ye Yunyi asked.

"Presumably the Pavilion Master already has the answer, so why bother asking me?" Tianshu replied.

"It seems that you have learned the most essential thing about the Chu State in the past few years, so let me change the question, if the Qing noble faction and the old faction led by Taige really fight today, who has a better chance of winning"?

"The Qing faction has no real power, but it has the authority on the surface, and they have the final say in speech and orthodoxy; The old faction has the defenders, and the queen mother's hole card, it seems that the victory is in hand, but in fact it is vulnerable, the old faction is already in the past tense, and it has long lost the hearts of the people of Chu State, if they live their peace and stability, then the Chu State will act as if nothing has happened, since they have jumped out now, it is just a death struggle anyway."

"Yes, the descendants of the heroes who opened up the territory for the Chu State back then have already ruined the merits of their ancestors, but they are still sitting on the merits of their ancestors and are complacent.

For the struggle between the two factions, Ye Yunyi didn't look at it at all, but they were all chess pieces on the surface, and the people behind the scenes who stirred up the situation in Chu State were slow to do it, and Ye Yunyi was also waiting, and when the situation was completely chaotic, it could no longer be chaotic, and it would be solved directly.

Just when Ye Yunyi and the others were watching the situation in the Chu Palace, the big commander of the Dark Pavilion received a secret letter from the border army, and the secret guard who accepted this secret letter saw the content, and his eyes widened directly, the content of the letter was very important, and he needed to report it to the head of the Dark Pavilion as soon as possible to get an idea.

So I took the letter directly and walked up the steps leading to the stargazing platform overhead. came behind Ye Yunyi and the four of them, and handed the letter to Tianshu.

Tianshu took it and looked at it, and then prepared to hand the letter to Ye Yunyi.

"Is the hand behind the scenes here, and finally can't help but do it, I don't know who will lead them this time", Ye Yunyi said.

"Wei Yingluo, the princess of Yan Kingdom, secretly sneaked into the imperial city, and is now stationed in the manor of Uncle Chu's family, followed by two military captains, and her whereabouts are secretive, deliberately avoiding our eyes and ears on the surface." Tianshu reported the contents of the letter to Ye Yunyi.

The secret power of the Chu State is the secret pavilion, and the Liao State is the military guard, but the Yan State does not have the secret power in the full sense, because almost every emperor of the Yan State is belligerent and relatively strong, and directly serves as the supreme leader in the army, and has to be trained in the army before ascending the throne.

Therefore, all the forces of the Yan State are under the sole control of the army, and the secret forces are also people in the army, and there is no special secret agency set up separately.

And Wei Yingluo, the princess of Yan Kingdom, is the sister of the current Emperor of Yan Kingdom, who has been talented since she was a child, but she rarely appears in front of the world, and she is deeply trusted by Emperor Yan and is in charge of all secret institutions in the army.

According to the information Ye Yunyi had before, it was the Yan State that stirred up the Chu State, but he didn't expect that it would be Wei Yingluo. Now that she has appeared directly in the capital of Chu State, I am afraid that she will eat Chu State.