The arrogant imperial concubine arrives, the favorite of the regent

The sun was shining brightly, the air was filled with a depressing atmosphere, and the hot wind made people's hearts even hotter.

A team was resting beside a bamboo forest on an official road in the mountains.

A man in a warrior's robe looked around and then walked towards a bamboo forest where a man wearing a veiled hat stood.

"Your Majesty."

"Yes." Ye Xiaohan half turned around, retracted his sight from the dense bamboo forest, glanced around, and glanced at his subordinates. "Rest here for a quarter of an hour, and then set off immediately."

"Yes." Wei Song nodded in response.

"Has the news been sent back to the capital?" Ye Xiaohan asked in a cold voice.

"Your Highness, I sent someone to deliver the message last night, but it will take at least two days for the Emperor in the capital to receive the message."

Ye Xiaohan nodded slightly, "New spies from Nantai and the Dongyang Empire have infiltrated, but he is still unaware of it."

He pulled the corner of his mouth slightly and laughed sarcastically, "I really don't know how he can be the emperor."

Originally, Ye Xiaohan wanted to find out the origin and purpose of a group of mysterious people, and then release a message to the emperor to take people to investigate. But now he has only led people to the first place, and has released the message in advance.

Firstly, it has been confirmed that visitors from other countries have arrived quietly. This matter is too serious to be delayed any longer and the court must be informed in a timely manner.

Secondly, the current situation seems to be quite serious, so it would be best for them to send the news back to the capital while conducting the investigation.

Of course, they would not pass on the news too quickly, just to allow for a time difference so that when they were investigating the case in front, the court officials behind them could not catch up with them. A time difference of more than two days was enough to facilitate their actions.

Ye Xiaohan just said "Your Majesty" and didn't say anything more.

Wei Song lowered his head and said nothing more. How did Emperor Haolian become the emperor? He used all means and harmed his brothers to get the throne.

He had been with the prince for many years and knew the emperor best. If the emperor had not taken various measures to seize the throne immediately after the death of the previous emperor, it would be hard to say who would be the emperor now.

In addition, the late emperor had several princes with outstanding abilities. If they had not been secretly targeted by the current emperor, they would also be able to compete for the position of crown prince.

The prince was the late emperor's favorite prince, and he once had a bright future. Unfortunately, because he was too young at the time and was being targeted by various forces, the late emperor passed away suddenly and was unable to leave more means of protection for the prince in time. Otherwise, the prince would not have struggled so hard from a little prince to his current position as the regent with omnipotent power.

Ye Xiaohan strode to the center of the gathered guards and took a look at their expressions. The battle inside and outside the cave did not cause any casualties among his personnel. Some guards were only slightly injured at most and were not seriously injured.

This result is what the Night King is happy to see. Although the Night King is cold and merciless to outsiders, he treats his subordinates seriously. He is cruel and brutal, but not so cruel that he is indifferent to the lives of his own people.

When the guards saw the prince coming, they quickly bowed and greeted him.

Ye Xiaohan waved his hand lightly, indicating that everyone didn't need to be polite. Then he took out the map in his arms, pointed at it and spoke.

"We have already reached our first destination, Huangchuan County. We will travel a little further today and reach our next destination, Ningkun County, tonight. When we get there, we will have to speed up."

The first group of mysterious people have been dealt with by them, and it won’t be long before people who are ambushing in other places will guess that something has happened here.

He pointed his finger at the upper right corner of the map and said, "The last one is Yanggu County. It is close to the northern border, so we need to pay more attention to it."

Everyone responded seriously, their eyes full of loyalty.

Ye Xiaohan put the map away and looked at a corner again.

A man in black suddenly appeared. This man was Ying Yi.

"Your Majesty, I have already sent someone to deliver your letter to the capital overnight. When there is a reply from the capital, I will inform you in time."

Ye Xiaohan's eyes flickered slightly, and he waved his hand. After Ying Yi left, Ye Xiaohan thought of someone in his mind...

That person was Yun Mujiu.

Ye Xiaohan thought in his heart that according to the current schedule, he might not be able to return to the capital until some time later. Yun Mujiu was going to attend a wedding banquet hosted by someone else, so he would not be able to make it in time.

He had no interest in the banquet held at Princess Gaoyang's residence, but because Yun Mujiu was going, he wanted to go with Yun Mujiu. Unfortunately, it was too late now.

Yesterday evening, the guards of the Night King's Palace intercepted a group of people at the back of the cave. After a fight, they finally captured those people.

When they started fighting, Youming Jiuchong also appeared in time with his men.

When Youming Jiuchong saw the men in black, he knew that they had escaped from the dark room. When he led his men to fight with the leader, a small group of people hiding in the stone room escaped through the secret passage.

Ye Xiaohan used the same old trick again and had those people's jaws removed, and then tortured them again.

Before he finished his tricks, those guys came out.

However, they were only the lowest-ranking guards and could not know much about the news from the upper echelons. Even when questioned harshly, the information they could reveal was limited.

Their leader was the man in black who died suddenly. The only one who knew some information was the leader, but because the leader was poisoned, he had no way to reveal some key information he knew to the outside world.

In the end, Youming Jiuchong learned some information from the few people who survived.

Before that, he had found some clues when he led people to search the room of the stone gate. There were some tools in the room, which were the tools needed to mine the veins.

The few survivors confessed everything they knew. Their leader was from southern Thailand, and their hometowns were also the southern Thai death squads.

Along with them came two people sent by the Eastern Empire. However, those two people were just like them, serving as guards at the lowest level, and they did not receive any special treatment. In other words, those two people sent by the Eastern Empire were ordinary people, but their backgrounds and identities were nothing special except that they were from the Eastern Empire.

Apart from that, this group of deadpools only knew that they were sent to Zhongyue to replace a group of secret agents who had died before.

However, they were also somewhat puzzled. Secret agents usually ambush in and around the capital, so why did they go to the counties in the north of the capital to do some secret work? Moreover, during this period, they did not find out any particularly useful information, as if their secret work was just a gimmick.

When Youming Jiuchong heard this, his expression was cold, without any surprise or doubt, only a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

In fact, he had already anticipated this result...