"Emperor, it's time for the meal!"
Zhu Houzhao raised his head and looked at the sky outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Night had already fallen quietly.
"Alright, pass it on!"
"Yes, sir!"
The eunuch spread the news. Soon, the eunuchs of the Imperial Catering Supervisor and a group of palace maids rushed into the Palace of Heavenly Purity and quickly served delicious dishes.
"Emperor, we will take our leave!"
Yu Huatian took in the alluring fragrance and bowed to Zhu Houzhao in unison.
....
After leaving the palace, Yu Huatian met up with his subordinates waiting outside the palace gates.
Ma Jinliang and Tan Lu Zi looked at Yu Huatian excitedly and said,"Governor, His Majesty has given us the Shang Fang Sword and the imperial edict, allowing us to act as we please. My West Branch has finally made it!”
The people of the West Chamber were all Yu Huatian's trusted aides. When the former emperor opened the West Chamber, these people had been loyal to Yu Huatian and had been hiding in the shadows.
Now that the emperor was in trouble and the West Hall was out, the East Hall, the Jinyiwei and the Six Fan School no longer had the final say in the court.
"The emperor is very kind. The first case of our West Branch has to be handled beautifully.”
Nodding slightly, Yu Huatian boarded the carriage and said,"Let's go to the imperial prison. I want to see if those palace maids and eunuchs really don't know!”
"Yes, sir! Supervisor!"
Ma Jinliang and the other three bosses of the West Battalion were excited. Ever since Yu Huatian took over the West Battalion, they had been hiding. Now, they could finally show their teeth and show their skills.
He no longer had to be suppressed by the people of the East Chamber, the Jinyiwei, and the Six Fan School like before. Sometimes, when the West Chamber was mentioned, the people of the imperial court would act as if they had never heard of it.
With the imperial edict and the Shang Fang Sword from the Emperor, everyone in the court would tremble under the might of the West Hall.
Yu Huatian sat steadily on the carriage. He knew the grievances of the heads of the West Hall under his command. Ever since the late Emperor founded the West Hall, although they had never been wronged, the West Hall had indeed had a hard time. Even the declining Brocade Guard could look down on them.
However, Yu Huatian did not care. As long as he was loyal to the Emperor, he was confident that he could keep them under control and not let them make any mistakes, even if they had great ambitions and aspirations.
Besides, West Hall had been in hiding for so many years, it was indeed time to be high-profile.
Yu Huatian gently caressed Shang Fangjian, who was sitting on the carriage. His calm and wise eyes also began to glow with a fiery light.
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Dragon Guarding Mountain Villa.
After Zhu Budian returned, he immediately retrieved all the information from the West Military Hall.
"Strange, why is there so little information about the West Hall?”
Zhu Bujue kept repeating the same thing. The Dragon Guarding Mountain Villa only had a few pieces of information about the West Hall. For example, the supervisor of the West Hall was named Yu Huatian, and the three heads under him were Ma Jinliang, Tan Luzi, and Ji Xueyong.
However, there was no record of their lives, family background, and so on.
"Could it be that Imperial Brother intentionally concealed the existence of the West Hall and ordered people to erase their past?”Zhu Budui's eyes flickered. This was not unheard of. Many death warriors and intelligence agents had their lives erased to prevent exposure.
However, this was not right. The West Hall was an organization of the imperial court and had a first-grade admiral.
Even if Yu Huatian and the other people from the West Hall were orphans and men of sacrifice personally trained by the late emperor, at most, there would be no records of their relatives, three clans, and so on. It was impossible that there would not be any records of their experiences.
"I was careless!"
Zhu Buguang crushed the file in his hand into powder. Other than the late Emperor intentionally hiding it, the Dragon Guarding Mountain Villa did not have much information about the West Hall. In his opinion, this was also the reason why he had underestimated the West Hall all these years.
That was why he was so passive now.
"West Hall!"
Zhu Budian quickly calmed himself down and sent an order to the huge intelligence network of the Guarding Dragon Mountain Villa. He ordered people to arrange for intelligence personnel to infiltrate the West Hall.
After dealing with this matter, Zhu Budian continued to look through the past few decades of the imperial palace. He had met with the late emperor and Zhu Houzhao before, or he might have been involved with some forces.
However, no matter how hard he tried, the intelligence network of the Dragon Guarding Mountain Villa still did not provide the answer he wanted.
"For the past twenty years, my Guarding Dragon Mountain Villa has recorded all the big and small things in the Great Ming Dynasty, but we have not found anything about the four Profound Finger Masters in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.”
"How many tricks did Imperial Brother leave behind for me, the nephew of the Emperor, back then?”
Zhu Bujue's eyes were malicious. Five Profound Finger Masters were an extremely powerful force. Even the East Military Hall, which was about to annex the Jinyiwei, could not take out so many Profound Finger Masters.
But today, he actually 'saw' five Profound Finger Sect Masters in Zhu Houzhao's Palace of Heavenly Purity.
This matter made him uneasy.
"Investigate!"
"At all costs!"
Zhu Budian gave two orders in succession. He wanted to see how many backup plans his royal brother had arranged for Zhu Houzhao and how much power he had hidden.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Zhu Budian seemed to have sensed something unbelievable. He rushed out of the main hall of the Guarding Dragon Mountain Villa like a ghost and leaped onto the highest hall of the Guarding Dragon Mountain Villa. He looked in the direction of the Imperial Palace in disbelief.
"That is…"
"Why is there such a phenomenon in the inner palace?”
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