The Prime Minister's delicate wife can control her husband

"His Highness is still alive?" Yan Lang murmured to himself, and then summoned Falcon to deliver the message to the capital.

The next day, Park Jong-won of the Prime Minister's Office received the letter. After reading the contents of the letter, he sighed and said, "Master Jin, follow me into the palace."

The two men entered the hall. Song Xiaosheng asked the Wei Lin army to stand guard in the inner courtyard, and the three of them went to meet the emperor together.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, if you have something to say, why don't you speak to His Majesty in person? Do you look down on me from the bottom of your heart?" Yang Guofu asked the emperor while supporting him from behind the screen.

"Haha, since this concerns the late emperor's will, please be cautious, Prime Minister." Park Jong-won said with a smile, but Song Xiaosheng had already stood in front of him, separating the emperor and Yang Guofu.

"Your Majesty, please~" Yang Guofu lowered his head and stared at the three men fiercely, thinking about his next plan in his mind.

The four of them arrived at the courtyard where no one was watching. Park Jong-won prostrated himself on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, please sentence me to death."

"Master Park, why do you say that?"

Although the Emperor of Great Zhou is young, he can now see the situation clearly. Only the Prime Minister and his faction are truly willing to help Great Zhou and assist in stabilizing his throne, unlike Yang Guofu who has placed him under house arrest.

"Your Majesty, please punish me for not fulfilling the late emperor's last wish and recovering the three rivers and four counties!"

"Lord Park, didn't I secretly promise to send troops to Dawu in five years? What do you mean by doing this now?" Zhou Yi asked.

"The situation now is different from the past. Do you remember His Highness Zhou Tong?" Park Jong-won asked with his head lowered and eyebrows raised, and took the opportunity to look at the expression of Song Xiaosheng next to him.

"Of course I remember. Isn't he my biological elder brother? If he hadn't died in the battlefield five years ago, I think the throne would be his now." Zhou Yi replied with a little sadness.

"Why did you suddenly mention this matter about my elder brother?" Zhou Yi asked.

Park Jong-won's eyes narrowed, "No, it's just that when I saw His Majesty's appearance just now, I remembered the scene when he taught me when he was your age. It's been more than five years since we last met."

"Alas! I didn't expect that I have been sitting in his position for five years. If he were still here, I could be a cool prince. But now the emperor is not like an emperor, and the princes are not like princes. In the palace, except for Lord Song who treats me as an emperor, everyone else treats me as a puppet of folk performances. Now even the little maids in the palace dare to order me around."

After hearing Zhou Yi's words, Park Jong-won originally wanted to tell him about Zhou Tong slowly as planned, but seeing Zhou Yi's look, he suppressed the idea.

"Your Majesty, please accept my condolences! I have a plan to help Your Majesty gain some support in the palace," Park Jong-won added.

"Prime Minister, please speak quickly." Zhou Yi, who had little power in the palace, felt like he had grabbed a life-saving straw.

"The Yonghe Palace is full of princes' sons. Your Majesty can go to the Yonghe Palace to make friends with them."

After hearing Park Jong-won's words, Zhou Yi thought about it in his heart and said, "Prime Minister, you want me to make friends with the princes of vassal kings? This is against the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects. Moreover, the princes who come to Yonghe Palace are all illegitimate children of vassal kings. They have humble status and can speak in their own fiefdoms. What's the difference between making friends with them and making friends with babies?"

"Alas! Even if they are illegitimate children, they are still a hundred times and a thousand times freer than you are in the palace. You only need to issue a secret decree to the seven of them and ask their father to lead the army to attack Yang Guofu."

After hearing Park Jong-won's words, Zhou Yi seemed to have an epiphany immediately, "Thank you, Mr. Xie."

"In a few days I will stand up in the court and ask to teach the prince. I hope the emperor will agree then."

"I will definitely agree to the Prime Minister's request, please rest assured."

After the four of them talked for a quarter of an hour, Zhou Yi saw Park Jong-won off and the other two off. When leaving Zhou Yi's palace, Song Xiaosheng stopped Park Jong-won.

"Prime Minister, I feel like there's something else you said just now?"

With his many years of experience in the court, Song Xiaosheng realized that Park Jong-won suddenly brought up Zhou Tong for another reason. "Your Excellency might as well speak frankly. We, the Song family, have been loyal for generations, so you can rest assured of my position."

Park Jong-won hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's go to the side hall of the Marquis and have a chat."

"A secret letter from Zuiyanlou reported that Zhou Tong is still alive. He has changed his name to Yao Wu and is the consort of Princess Dawu."

"Is it true or false?" Song Xiaosheng asked, unable to tell the truth from the false.

"Really!" Park Jong-won then handed Zhou Tong the jade pendant that symbolized his identity. "Your Majesty, you will know after you take a look. The guards of the Grand Prince at that time were all soldiers brought by the old Marquis. Only you know whether these jade pendants are authentic."

Song Xiaosheng touched the jade pendant and repeatedly felt the dark carving on the back. His expression suddenly became old, and he said in a very reluctant tone: "How is it possible? Many people saw His Highness being pierced through the body by a spear and died."

"Are you saying someone forged the jade pendant?" Park Jong-won asked for confirmation.

"It's hard to judge, but this jade pendant is only worn by His Majesty's guards. I hope the situation is not too complicated. I'm afraid His Majesty can't bear such a blow."

"I understand! I understand that some people don't want to get off once they sit in some positions, so I was also worried just now. If this is true, how will the general decide?"

"Protecting His Majesty is what I promised to do according to the late emperor's will. As long as Zhou Yi is on the throne, I will keep him safe." Song Xiaosheng replied.

"My Lord, I think so too. The main thing now is to stabilize the Great Zhou. A country cannot have two masters. Besides, Zhou Tong is the consort of Da Wu. I don't want our Great Zhou to become the betrothal gift of Da Wu."

......

"Why did your Excellency call us here in such a hurry?" the Minister of War asked Yang Guofu outside the palace.

"Come in, let's discuss it later!"

When they saw that Yang Guofu's face looked a little strange, they all glanced at each other.

"Let's go in first. I don't believe Yang Guofu dares to do anything to us," said one of the ministers.

When Yang Guofu saw the two of them, he took a deep breath and asked, "Do you remember what happened to His Highness Zhou Tong five years ago?"

"Your Highness?" One of the ministers tried to recall, and the other minister replied, "Wasn't Your Highness killed by Dawu's men? Why is the Prime Minister bringing up this topic again today?"

Yang Guofu took out a cut secret letter from his sleeve and said, "My people in Dawu wrote to report that the great prince of our Dazhou is not dead?"

"What??!" The two looked incredulous. "Impossible! The Prime Minister must have seen it wrong. Didn't Jing Yang and the other guards who came back say that the prince died from multiple gunshot wounds? How could it be possible!"

"Yes! My Lord, he can't be alive. The night before the battle, I tampered with the carriage of His Highness according to Your Excellency's request. How could His Highness make it out of the battlefield? If he is still alive, Dawu can use it to exchange for more cities."

After hearing what they said, Yang Guofu closed his eyes and thought for a while, "Maybe my people really saw it wrong, you guys go down!"

"Yes!"

"It's been so long, but you still remember that incident. Only dead people can't speak." Yang Guofu stared at their backs and asked someone to tell Shi Lushan: "Find a way to deal with the Minister of War within one day."

Then he started tasting tea and asked someone to invite Park Jong-won to his house to reminisce about the past.

As soon as Park Jong-won left the inner courtyard of the imperial palace, he was stopped by people from Geumji Tower.

"Tell Yang Guofu that we are not afraid of his threats." Song Xiaosheng said and ordered the Wei Lin army to prepare for the attack.

"Sir, you misunderstood." The eunuch next to him gave a look and told the people from Jinzhi Tower to retreat.

"Haha! It seems that Eunuch Cao has a close personal relationship with Yang Guofu. Even the leader of Lanyu Tower has to listen to you." Song Xiaosheng never thought that the eunuch Cao, the chief eunuch most valued by the late emperor, was from Jinzhi Tower.

"Lord Song, you are joking. How can a eunuch like me have such great abilities? It is only because of the grace of the late emperor that I have my current position. Besides, I came here today to pass on a message to Lord Park. Prime Minister Yang invited Lord Park to his house to reminisce about the past."

After hearing what Eunuch Cao said, Song Xiaosheng and Park Jong-won looked at each other. Park Jong-won shook his head slightly to hint Song Xiaosheng not to believe him. He was worried that it was Yang Guofu's plot to sow discord.

"You two adults don't have to be surprised. Prime Minister Yang specifically instructed that we should only talk about state affairs today and not about personal grudges. If Lord Song is willing, we can go to the brothel to listen to music and drink tea at the mansion."

"No need!" Song Xiaosheng replied. He was worried that Yang Guofu would attack the inner courtyard directly after he left the palace. "Let the Prime Minister take me there."

"Okay! My Lord, then please ask the Prime Minister to go." Eunuch Cao waved his hand and the people from Jinzhi Tower disappeared immediately. The two of them got on a carriage and came to a mansion outside the palace.

When he dismounted, Yang Guofu was already standing at the door to greet him. "Thank you, Prime Minister Park, for your honor and for making my humble home shine."

"Is this room still kept?" asked Park Jong-won.

"This is the memory of our decades of being classmates. How can I bear to tear it down?" Yang Guofu drank the ginseng tea in front of him. "It's non-toxic! Drink it without worry."

Park Jong-won picked up the teacup and drank it. "It still tastes the same as it did back then, but it's a pity that you and I are no longer the same as we were back then. What do you want me to do today?"

"Withdraw your people first, and then I will tell you!" Yang Guofu said calmly.

"You retreat first."

"Okay! I'll listen to what my senior brother says." Yang Guofu clapped his hands, and the sound of retreating footsteps was heard in the backyard.

Park Jong-won knocked on the table a few times, and a rustling sound was heard on the tiles above Yang Guofu's head.

"Hahaha! Senior brother is really powerful. There are so many secret guards in the capital. I really underestimated your ability." Yang Guofu didn't expect that there would be followers of Zuiyanlou in the territory of the capital where all the people were from his own people.

"He entered the court three years earlier than you, so he must have some basic skills. Junior brother is really amazing. He has been an official for less than 20 years, but he can make things happen in the court. It's a pity that he is just a puppet of Dawu."

"You!" After hearing Park Jong-won's last words, Yang Guofu angrily slammed the table, "Who did you say that?"

"Why did you call me here today? Just to have some tea and reminisce about the past," Park Jong-won asked.

"Let me show you a letter from Dawu. What's in the letter will definitely surprise you." Yang Guofu said mysteriously.

"No need to read it, let's write it down together and verify its authenticity."

After they finished writing on the paper, they exchanged them, and it turned out that they were both thousand-year-old foxes.

One of them was named Zhou Tong and the other was named Your Highness.

The two of them smiled when they saw the name on the paper, "That's right!"

"It's strange. The people I sent saw Zhou Tong being killed with their own eyes. How could he be alive?" Yang Guofu said.

"Hmph! You really are collaborating with the enemy. That incident back then really had something to do with you," Park Jong-won responded.

"I just have a deal with Da Wu, not a common enemy. No matter if you or I sit in that position, the end result will be his death!" Yang Guofu said, steadying his tone.

"Humph! Then why did you want to exterminate the entire Bian Sai family?"

"Kill...kill the people at the border?" Yang Guofu asked with a puzzled look on his face, "Who? Aren't those counties at the border your Zuiyanlou's territory? Why should I send people to lie dormant there for so long to take action?"

"You have killed countless people. I will convict you when I find evidence. Now I am worried about another thing. What if Zhou Tong's death is fake? What should I do then?"

"Then just kill him again. Now I need you to help me get rid of another person." Yang Guofu asked in a pleading tone.

"Who?" Park Jong-won felt that there was a real culprit behind the incident.

"The Prime Minister of Dawu - Wang Pu. I had the closest correspondence with him at that time. At first, he was just a fifth-rank official of Dawu, but now he is the Prime Minister of Dawu. It was he who schemed against me at every step that led to the current situation."

"Prime Minister Wang Pu? Why have I never heard of this person?"

"His real name is Wang An. He was the top scholar in the same year as you. The emperor had great admiration for him back then. I don't know why he resolutely resigned from his post. It was not until later that I learned that he was from Dawu and only came to Dazhou to see if there were any wise officials who could serve as generals."

"Now that you mention it, I have an impression of him. I didn't expect that he was from Dawu. I took the palace examination with him back then, and I admired his answers a little. As a result, they have influenced my ideas about the court now. He is a talent. How did you know him?"

"I was very envious of you when you won the second place in the imperial examination, so he came here to teach me. From then on, I was a member of his ship. It was also his idea to kill Zhou Tong that year."

"Why should I agree to you?"

"I'm worried that Zhou Tong's fake death is related to Wang Pu." Yang Guofu's eyes suddenly turned cold and he said, "Just think about it, Your Highness has been in Dawu for so many years, why didn't our people notice it, or wait until the people over there deliberately released the news in recent days? Although I don't know how to march and fight, I calculated that if Dazhou doesn't fight in five years, we will be burdened with huge corvee labor. At that time, the only way is to start a war between Dawu and Daqi, and put our national destiny on the line. When the two armies fight and Your Highness of Dazhou appears in the enemy army, how should I choose then, fight or not? At that time, I'm afraid only Zhou Tong knows what to do."

"Fight! We will label Zhou Yi as a brother-killer; if we don't fight, our Great Zhou will fail after five years of preparation. I didn't realize how cunning Wang Pu is." Park Jong-won said, stroking his beard.

After some hesitation, he agreed to Yang Guofu's request, "But you must also show sincerity and send away all the people in the palace and the southern counties."

"the same as you!"

The two men reached an agreement. Song Xiaosheng, who was guarding the palace, saw the people on the outer three floors leaving the palace, and unconsciously summoned all the Wei Lin troops to gather on the inner three floors to prepare to defend to the death.

"Sir, are you really cooperating with him?" asked Yang Guofu's servant.

"How could that be? I just don't want to be treated as a puppet anymore. Send out orders to select inexperienced people from the northern counties to go to Balang County to cooperate with Zuiyanlou's people to lure out Chen Yanjun and the big fish behind him. Once Zuiyanlou's people succeed, we can get his token and start the massacre plan."

......

"How could it be?" Yan Lang and Song Fengren received the secret letter from the capital. Yan Lang murmured, "Is it really just a cooperation?", and then looked at the box that his teacher handed to Song Fengren.

The two opened the box and found a hidden layer in it, with a letter and two jade tokens inside. "The Purple Jade Token of Zuiyan Tower is handed over to Yan Sheng and Song Yingran. Master: Park Jong-won."