The same thing, done by different people, produced completely different results!
During the two months when the other two Imperial Guard Commanders of Princess Changle's Mansion took turns on duty, they could still rely on Ye Zhen's lingering prestige at first. Later, however, they were completely helpless.
They could not bring themselves to offend anyone, so they had no choice but to let them all in.
Especially the commanders of the other two guard divisions—they all moved in imperial capital circles, and offending anyone was a bad idea.
Besides, if they let one person through but turned another away, they would only be making trouble for themselves. In the end, they simply let everyone pass, leaving Princess Changle endlessly vexed.
Yet less than half a day after Ye Zhen took up the post of Guard Colonel of Princess Changle's Mansion, word had spread throughout the circles of Luoyi's noble young masters.
Before Ye Zhen had even made any substantial move, the number of martial artists visiting Princess Changle's Mansion under all sorts of pretexts had dropped by nearly half, greatly easing the pressure on the guards at the mansion gates.
The next day, Ye Zhen merely stood at the entrance of Princess Changle's Mansion for a while. Then he directly appointed Gu Tieqi as the Military Sima in charge of military discipline within the mansion's Guard Camp, replaced the rotating guards with the five hundred Imperial Guards directly under his command, and the entire entrance to the Princess's Mansion was immediately cleared out.
Not only did those young masters of kings and marquises vanish, even the servants and guards they had sent to gather information disappeared without a trace.
The main reason was that Marquis Tian Jiang Tian Jiao's affair had caused far too great a stir, and the consequences