"Your Majesty!"
"He has arrived. He has just entered Zhaoyang Hall!"
Old Eunuch Xu hurried in and spoke in a low voice.
Cao Mao's eyes lit up.
He was finally here.
Chen Qian.
Over these past days, Cao Mao had been studying the lives of his great-grandfather, Sima Yi, Sima Shi, and others.
Now that Cao Mao wanted to become a mighty minister and reduce the current Grand General to a figurehead, he naturally had to emulate these powerful ministers of the past, drawing ample experience and lessons from their deeds.
In Cao Mao's plan to become a powerful minister, Chen Qian was an indispensable link.
He did not want to meet Chen Qian through Wang Xiang.
He had to become the point where all those lines converged.
Chen Qian was ambitious too, but he cared little for his clan, only for his personal position. Cao Mao liked a sharp blade like that very much.
He had long since instructed the eunuchs in the Imperial Palace to keep watch at all times and inform him promptly whenever Chen Qian entered the palace to visit the Empress Dowager.
Now, all the eunuchs throughout the Imperial Palace looked to Cao Mao as their leader.
Things were no longer as they once were.
If Zhong Hui wanted to replace the palace eunuchs around him, it would be utterly useless unless he replaced every eunuch in the entire Imperial Palace.
Cao Mao had become thoroughly familiar with them, even with the Imperial Guards and Armored Guards.
He could finally plot in secret with his subordinates, and he could finally take the initiative to accomplish great things.
Today, he was going to intercept Chen Qian.
Cao Mao looked at Old Eunuch Xu beside him and demanded loudly, "What do you mean, you don't know? How