"The Ministry of Punishment has issued an order! Dispatch the Eight Gates Capital Troops to Prince Huai Ping's Estate to arrest the suspect, Prince Huai Ping!"
A voice rang out through the Capital City.
In an instant, the Eight Gates Capital Troops were stunned. They guarded Great Wei's Capital City and rarely received deployment orders.
Whenever such an order came, it meant something earthshaking had happened. But however great the matter might be, they had never imagined that the Ministry of Punishment would directly order them to arrest a commandery prince.
Shocked though they were, the Eight Gates Capital Troops assembled everyone at the greatest possible speed.
They were government troops! They were soldiers!
When an order came, they obeyed.
Li Yuan and Feng Jianhua raced between the eight gates, conveying the news.
Had anyone else come, the Eight Gates Capital Troops might have hesitated. But as vice ministers, they delivered the orders in person to avoid unnecessary trouble.
"Lord Li, who exactly issued this order? Minister Zhang would never do something like this!"
Someone stopped Li Yuan, unable to resist asking who had ordered the deployment of the Eight Gates Capital Troops.
"Xu Qingxiao."
Li Yuan answered.
"Xu Qingxiao? How could it be him? Does the minister know? And Lord Li, don't you have a grudge against Xu Qingxiao? Why are you delivering his orders yourself?"
The man was puzzled. A month ago, Xu Qingxiao had subjected Li Yuan to twenty strokes of the rod, and Li Yuan had hated him to death. Why was he helping deliver Xu Qingxiao's orders today?
"Who told you I have a grudge against Xu Qingxiao? And even if I do, so what? At the end of the day, he belongs to our Ministry of Punishment. We can fight among ourselves however we