"The palace doesn't have guards all the time, and there are places the imperial army can not enter. This year, there is good news on the front lines of Jiangnan in the East Sea. I heard that the flatterers of the Ministry of Rites already sent a request, imploring the Emperor to offer a sacrifice to the Heavens, to boost morale and to pray for the country's fate. There will be many chances," Grand Scholar Fang replied lightly, "As for the Emperor's anger afterward..."

When he said this, his voice stopped. He laughed low and raised his narrow and slightly drooping eyelids: "Then we have to make him 'unable to get angry'. What, do you think that if Li Min no longer exists, the Emperor will let us go easily? You have heard what the Crown Prince said today in the morning. As a little child, what does the Crown Prince know about national affairs? Who taught him those words? He is only eleven years old, but whenever he opens his mouth it is always 'no emotions involved in laws' and 'eliminate party and factions'. Scolding in the middle of the court, he might as well have pointed to our noses and said that we are all villains. Being indecisive at this moment, do you want to wait for the Crown Prince to ascend the throne and give us three meters of white silk*?"

*白绫”, white silk, often used in ancient times when the Emperor bestowed it on the guilty minister to commit suicide.

His statement was not at all ambiguous, it was outrageous and immoral.

Grand Scholar Fang was worthy of being an old minister who had entrusted Emperor Yuan He to the throne. He was bold, his guts were large, wanting to go big as soon as he made a move, speaking straightforwardly, "If the Emperor acts out of place, then get rid of the Emperor, if the Crown Prince does not obey, then use his elder brother who had lost his mother as a puppet."

The Marquis of Peace was stunned for a long time, then stuttered to ask another fatal question: "Then...would Gu Yun let this slide?"

"The Foreign Affairs Mission is still on its way, and it has been arranged," said Grand Scholar Fang with a low smile. "The front line, the preying enemy, the envoy, why, with such a favorable time and place, do you not remember what happened twenty years ago?"

A storm was brewing in the center, but Yan Wang, the one at the center of it all still seemed to be unaware, and still arrived on time every day, sparing no effort to promote his new policy.

He even happily received a letter from Gu Yun.

Gu Yun sent the letter directly to his home. It was entirely a private letter. When Huo Dan handed it to him, Chang Geng’s eyes suddenly lit up, making Commander Huo blush as red as a tomato.