The doors and windows of the main hall of the apse of the Egong Palace were closed, and the Hou Yufang and Mrs. Yi looked at each other, quite a bit of tension.

"Bang-" With a bang, E Yu Fang was patient and angry, and kicked the Ding furnace in it over, but fortunately it was full of incense ashes that had been burned out last night, just choking.

"The king forgives the sin, the concubine only knows that the elder brother went back to take care of the funeral for the younger sister, but the father committed suicide in shame, but he doesn't know about other matters. Please forgive me!" Although the air was filled with incense ash and choked her mouth and nose, Mrs. Yi didn't care about it at all, and only blindly kowtowed and begged for mercy.

After sending this fire, and thinking that Mrs. Yi's father and sister were all killed, and his feelings were pitiful, E Yufang couldn't help but be a little soft-hearted, and sighed and said, "Your brother is really too bold and reckless, he dared to ambush the second prince and return his body to the Rushui Palace. Is this a naked rebellion, or a declaration of war on the Zhou royal family? With today's strong nature, how can you give up?"

"Give back the water?" Madame Yi was taken aback and whispered, "Brother still saved face for the Zhou royal family. According to the concubine, such a fierce and vicious person should be spread to all directions to show his guilt!"

"Shut up!" The anger that E Yufang had just calmed down was stirred up again: "Don't you think it's a big disaster? My Hubei country swallowed up the Fan country, and another victory took the Tonglu Mountain, and followed the Zaojin Road, and the Zhou royal family has long been in the throat. Now the widow's uncle has killed the second prince again, wait, the West Sixth Division will soon wave its division south! But am I ready?"

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Mrs. Yi calmed down. She slowly picked up the incense tripod lying on the carpet, and Ying Ying bowed and said, "Is the reason why the king is angry because my brother got rid of the second prince's chess piece due to personal grudges, or because he provoked the crusade of the Zhou royal family?"

"What do you mean?" Feeling that Madame had a voice outside her words, E Yufang frowned.

Mrs. Yi smiled, "If you are upset about losing a chess piece, you don't have to. Ji Shang's father and his people are obedient and flamboyant, and they have already lost the hearts of the people in the Central Plains and Jing Han, if the king wants to achieve his great things, there are good chess pieces to be found, so why stick to such a stinky chess game?"

E Yufang's eyes flashed: "You mean to move things in advance, but do I have the strength to do this?"

"Your Majesty, since the incident of the Ejiao Rat Gu, my Efu and the Zhou royal family have actually become hidden enemies, and the reason why they have been hidden for so many years is because the Son of Heaven has not been in power, and in me it is because I want to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity. And now that the son is already in power, he is building rivers and canals, and implementing a new policy, if he waits a few more years, he will have full wings, and the internal and external affairs will be straightened out, will he not have a chance?"

"You don't have a point." E Yufang nodded lightly, thoughtfully, and seemed to have concerns: "However, if the Sixth Division of the West attacks us from north to south, and we have the two countries of Chu in the rear, what can we do about it?" Five

"Your Excellency, don't worry about it." Mrs. Yi cheered up and said, "Now that all the tribes of the Yi people have the same hatred and hatred, they are angry with Changhong, and they are determined to deal with Wang Shi to the end. If the West Sixth Division goes south, it will pass through the territory of our Yi people, the mountains and rivers in the north and south of Huaishui are dense forests, and the rivers and lakes are as dense as spider webs. As for Suiguo, the new Suihou is just the rest of his life after the catastrophe of the First World War in Tonglu Mountain, and the vitality of Suiguo has not yet recovered. As for the State of Chu, the suspicion between the State of Chu and the Zhou royal family is deeper than that of my Hubei State, and it will never help Zhou Tianzi. In this case, does the king still have any concerns?"

With his hands behind his back, E Yufang paced silently in the room, as if he was thinking repeatedly: To be against or not to be opposed? After all, he is a powerful person who has been in the Jiang and Han dynasties for many years, and his judgment of the current situation is not as optimistic as Mrs. Yi, but an indisputable fact is in front of him: Tonglu Mountain is the focus of contention between the Zhou royal family and the Hubei country, and if he refuses to let go, then he must bear the consequences of meeting with the Zhou royal family. Sooner or later, it will always come! And Huaiqing's behavior is just to advance the conflict that will come sooner or later.

Immediately raised the flag of rebellion, it seems that he is really not ready for anything. Although there is Huaiyi and Dongyi, what are the thoughts of the surrounding Jianghan vassal states? Will it stand still? Although the strength of the country is strong, I am afraid that it is difficult to defeat the hands with two fists. There are also weapons, grain, and grass, how much is stored? Once the war starts, the cost can be enormous. The battle of Tonglu Mountain can deplete most of the national treasury, and now it ......

The footsteps were settled, and he made up his mind: he had to prepare for a hasty war, but he couldn't be the side that provoked the war, and the safe way was-

Preparing for war on the one hand, and making all kinds of compromises to eliminate the war on the other hand, this is the perfect strategy.

Zhou Li's Wang Jihu was three hundred miles away from Guguan before receiving a secret report from the red-armored knight of Wangcheng who had left Rushui Palace. Just glanced at it, and felt that the sky was spinning, almost dizzy, stomped on the carriage board, and the eight-horse king car quickly stopped.

The two prime ministers summoned Bohu and Rongyi to hurry up to the king's car and asked with concern what was going on. The curtain of the car was lifted, revealing Ji Hu's slightly pale face, and his tone was sad: "The two Aiqing, Yi rebelled, set up an ambush and killed the second brother Shang's father, and the body has been sent to the Rushui Palace. What should I do?"

The two phases were shocked, not only because of the audacity of the Yiren tribe, but also because of Ji Hu's performance. Since the beginning of his pro-government, this young emperor has been known for his fortitude and determination, when has he shown such a hesitant and helpless appearance?

In fact, in Ji Hu's heart, his feelings for his second brother are very complicated. Because of Ji Jiang and E Yao, two women who are deeply hated, he is far from being as affectionate as his third brother Ji Ci and fourth brother Ji Huang's father, but he is very jealous. In the rat Gu incident, Ehou Yufang colluded with the Lynx, intending to use Shang's father to replace him, and since then he has also developed a little disgust for Shang's father.

But when I really received the news of Shang's father's death, the blood-related family affection in my heart came up again. After all, King Xianyi did not have many children under his knees, and since Zhongji's death, he valued and cherished his younger siblings more. What's more, Shang's father died unexpectedly, and Ji Hu felt that it had something to do with him. Thinking that Shang's father has been sluggish since he was a child, no one has to discipline him, and he has sent Jing Han from afar, surrounded by female cadres, how can he not embark on a crooked path? This time, I wanted to recall him back to the royal capital, and spend a few years in the circle to sharpen his temperament, and then strictly discipline him, or he could correct his behavior. Don't want to......

The incident happened suddenly, and the next course of action must be discussed immediately. The mighty Son of Heaven's honor guard stopped, and in the temporarily erected royal tent, Ji Hu Junchen all looked solemn.

Yi people rebelled and openly killed their cousins, is it tolerable or unbearable? There is no doubt about sending troops to conscript. What the monarch and ministers were arguing about was nothing more than one thing—did the Ehou Yufang have anything to do with it? Do you want to do it together?