"They really are pigheaded teammates!" Li Chen let out a long sigh upon learning all this, yet a satisfied look appeared on his face.
"But this is just as well. Only by growing powerful can Prince Yong blaze a trail for the king and serve as a proper pawn."
"If Prince Yong were easily suppressed, I'd have to go to great lengths to play that pigheaded teammate myself and drag Bamboo Province down!"
Li Chen went on to review the relevant intelligence and found that Lord Yong's defeat was hardly unjust. After all, he was merely a Great Qian civil official, and the cultivation provisions and forces at his disposal were nowhere near those of the local magnates and vassal princes.
Prince Yong had focused on winning over those magnates and had even extended his influence into the local garrison. The court's rightful authority alone could no longer keep the situation under control.
Just then, Li Chen suddenly sensed someone contacting Hu Ze's Avatar urgently through a divine communication art.
He split off a portion of his attention to examine the message and discovered that Eunuch Yu of the Directorate of Ceremonial had sent it personally. "Something has happened in the Sacred Capital. His Majesty's condition has worsened, and he has lost consciousness!"
"Isn't this a little too much of a coincidence? Trouble had barely broken out in Bamboo Province, and he obligingly fell ill all on his own?"
Eunuch Yu was someone Fairy Zhang Hua had supported. Over the years, he had risen to become the seal-bearing eunuch, the most powerful figure in the inner court. Not only was this source reliable, but it was also ahead of every other intelligence channel.
Li Chen immediately realized that someone wanted the Great Qian Emperor dead!
That person was not necessarily