The next morning, as cold as ever, praying for the sky in winter, the cold wind was blowing.

On the surface, the Qitian Empire seems to have returned to calm, and after the battle of the Northern Expedition, all the remnants of the Northern Prince's Mansion have been purged, and the clouds of war seem to have dispersed, and everything has returned to normal.

But Huang Yuanwu of the imperial capital is already embattled, and he racks his brains to solve the problem in front of him, but the node of this problem is not him.

He ascended to the throne of Qitian, but he felt like a beautiful object that had been put on the throne, enshrined in the imperial capital of Qitian, and lost his original freedom.

Because of a series of measures by Huang Yuanwu, the imperial capital has returned to its former state, and the heavy snow that closed the road has not yet dispersed, but the life inside the imperial capital has returned to order.

Things seem to be going on in an orderly manner, the defense chief of the imperial capital is Ding Jiang, he is responsible for the security of the entire imperial capital, and Huang Yuanwu allocated 20,000 officers and soldiers of the old department of the Eastern Wangfu to him to be in charge of the security of the entire imperial capital area.

At the beginning, everything was very normal, after Huang Yuanwu ascended the throne, all the soldiers of the Eastern Wangfu were very excited, as the founding fathers of Huang Yuanwu, they would inevitably be newly divided, and they joined the army to fight in order to increase their official ranks, and everyone wanted to make their lives better. The military discipline of the Dongwangfu army is strict, the rewards and punishments are clear, and the combat effectiveness of the troops is very strong and cohesive, which is the foundation of the Dongwangfu has always been standing.

But all this, since Huang Yanghui came to the imperial capital, has changed.

There is no news that will not leak, although Huang Yuanwu has never said anything about the East Palace, but the following soldiers will still figure out and guess by themselves, many of them are experienced in the army for many years, and soon, the news that the East Wangfu was going to leave by Huang Yanghui spread throughout the army.

The consequences of this are heavy, first of all, the morale of the sergeants began to become low, this situation first happened among the sergeants who stayed in the imperial capital, and for this general morale depression, the main general Ding Jiang really had nothing to do.

If he was in front of the two armies, he had countless ways to boost morale, but now he was defending the city, and the news was accurate, the Eastern Wangfu and the imperial capital looked like they were separated, and these soldiers who stayed in the imperial capital would probably not be able to return home. If Emperor Yuanwu and his younger brother fall out one day, the troops of the imperial capital are likely to march in the direction of the East Palace, and at that time, they may be forced to kill the people in their hometown, such a situation that no one wants to accept.

Rumors are rife in the army, as the main general, Ding Jiang naturally will not let such a thing continue to spread, but he can block everyone's mouth, but he can't block the truth, although no one in the imperial capital army is no longer discussing the affairs of the East Palace, but the situation of continued low morale continues, and there is a tendency to intensify.

He had gone to meet Huang Yuanwu more than once to seek a solution, but Huang Yuanwu didn't say a word about this matter, looking at Huang Yuanwu's indifferent eyes, Ding Jiang still gave up, and became the emperor's Huang Yuanwu, who could never become the little prince again, this was the result of him and his subordinate sergeants, and they must also accept this reality.

Fortunately, although the morale was low, there was no case of the sergeants of the troops fleeing privately, and the combat effectiveness and integrity of the imperial capital army

It's still there, that is, there is still time for Huang Yuanwu to breathe.

The five passes that link the direction of the East Wangfu have been arranged by Huang Yuanwu as a sergeant, and the general who is responsible for the defense of these passes is Liu Yi, who returned from other provinces not long ago, and there are not many people available around Huang Yuanwu, Liu Yi is considered to be one of both civil and military, and he may be the only one who can handle the relationship between the East Wangfu and the imperial capital very well.

No one wants to see such a situation. However, compared with the low-level sergeants who are homesick and afraid of antagonizing their hometown, these high-level people in charge of the army think more clearly; they clearly understand that Huang Yanghui and Huang Yuanwu put forward such conditions under such circumstances, and there must be a reason for this, and this thing happened too quickly, and there must be a demon when something goes wrong, which is very abnormal.

The relationship between the four brothers of Dongwangfu is very good, and there has never been a dispute over interests, let alone a conflict. When the old prince was there, he also cultivated Huang Yuanwu as the future successor of the East Prince's Mansion, and for this point, the entire East Prince's Mansion from the generals to the people knew that Huang Yanghui wanted to seize the East Prince's Mansion, and there was no foundation at all.

Some things are obvious, and they don't need to be analyzed too deeply, there must be some kind of problem inside the Dongwang Mansion, but now, no one knows where the problem is.

At this time, more than four months have passed since Huang Yuchen left Pingjin City to go to the Red Rainbow Sect, and it was still late autumn when he left, and now it was the middle of winter, and everything was frozen. In four months, so much has happened.

In order to keep the morale of the army from declining, Huang Yuanwu adopted some tactics and divided many of the old generals of the Eastern Palace, who claimed new official positions and obtained their own fiefs near the imperial capital. In addition to the three main cities on the vast Imperial Capital Plain, there are countless villages and small towns, and the total population is also one million.

Huang Yuanwu's strategy played some role, hundreds of thousands of troops, and not all the soldiers who came out of the East Wangfu have families in their hometowns, in the years of war, there are many people who have been used to wandering outside, and there is no property in the East Palace, Huang Yuanwu also grasped this point, so that these people in the army have their own positions near the imperial capital, and can take root in the imperial capital from now on, which to a certain extent alleviates the dark clouds that have been shrouded in the army.

For this strategy of Huang Yuanwu, most of the generals of the old army of Dongwangfu are supportive, if they do not want to be completely defeated, they must be stabilized as soon as possible, the direction of Dongwangfu is not their enemy, they stabilize to prevent possible attacks from other directions. Because Huang Yuanwu has been on the throne for a long time, the edict has long been promulgated in the world, but until now, no local officials have entered Beijing to face the saint, in fact, to a certain extent, the Qitian Empire has been divided, and the people's hearts have been scattered for a long time.

Now on the bright side, Qitian is still a large empire with a vast territory, but as the emperor, Huang Yuanwu can only control the resources near the imperial capital, and the land in other parts of the empire is nominally owned by him, but in fact, he has already been separated from the imperial capital, and they are all watching the situation and secretly accumulating their own strength. It's not just these provincial officials who are in charge of the army

At this time, those royal families who were supported by the Prayer Heaven Empire and turned their backs on the country also took advantage of this opportunity to make waves, and many of them had the ambition to restore the country.

Although Huang Yuanwu did not get the exact information and information, he was completely able to guess it.

At that time, Huang Yuanwu and Yu Sheng talked about this matter, in Yu Sheng's opinion, the officials and forces of these provinces are not worth mentioning, Huang Yuanwu ascended the throne, as long as there is a local force into Beijing to face the saint, the rest of the people will not be able to sit still, and they are not united, in the end, this balance will be broken, three hundred years of praying to the sky, not to say that the split can be divided.

Huang Yuanwu and Yu Sheng's thoughts were very consistent, and he let Yu Sheng take charge of the East Wangfu at that time, and it was precisely because of this thought. The East Palace, which is the foundation of his Emperor Yuanwu, as long as the East Palace, there is no problem with the situation in the heavens. It's just that no one thought that such a thing would happen later.

When Huang Yanghui came to the imperial capital and Huang Yuanwu raised these questions, Huang Yuanwu had already seen that something was wrong, with his understanding of his third brother, he would not do such a thing if he was killed, there must be a reason. But Huang Yanghui's behavior was very normal, which couldn't help but make Huang Yuanwu suspicious. Therefore, when he left, Huang Yuanwu did not stop him, nor did he send someone to the East Palace, the matter over there had come out, and the best way now was not to startle the snake.

Compared to Huang Yuchen, Huang Yuanwu is an old Jianghu, and after he ascended the throne, he knew a lot of secrets of the Qitian Empire, and it was precisely because he knew these secrets that he had no action on the current affairs of the East Palace.

It may be that under each other's tacit understanding, this strange calm was produced, the troops of the East Prince's Mansion were still gathered near Pingjin City, but there was no action, Huang Yuanwu sent people to garrison the Five Passes, and no one was arranged to return to the East Prince's Mansion.

Huang Yuanwu can guess that there must be something wrong behind this, but he can't be sure what kind of force is moving, Huang Yanghui can come to the imperial capital, it means that the East Wangfu is actually under their control, and there must be no radical actions at this time, otherwise no matter what, it will be the East Wangfu that is injured and not the enemy.

The situation was chaotic, making Huang Yuanwu sleepless all night, although he did not make any big moves, but he still refused to wait for the continuous patrol near the imperial capital, including the movements of the Eastern Palace, and he knew everything at this moment.

But all this seems to be like this white snow, frozen in the cold winter, and everyone does not move, as if everything has really returned to calm.

Dongwangfu, Pingjin City, in the dungeon.

The rest of his life has been imprisoned here for a long time, but as the top general of the Eastern Palace, he has received a lot of preferential treatment in the dungeon, and the forces of Tianqing City have not appeared in Pingjin City, and now the general in charge of Pingjin City is Liu Yuan.

The news that a large number of sergeants from the enclave entered the territory of Dongwangfu was completely affectionate for the rest of his life, not only he knew it, but all the soldiers knew that except for Pingjin City, all the other cities were already under the control of the enclave sergeants, and these troops stationed near Pingjin City were just used to confuse the eyes sent by Huang Yuanwu.

The rest of his life leaned against the cold wall of his cell, his hair was messy, his face was pale, and his whole person was indescribably decadent.