Traveling through the emperor, overthrowing the empress dowager at the beginning

This was not the first time Ye Chen left the palace.

He sat in the carriage, listening to the sounds coming from the street outside the carriage, but he had already gotten used to it.

"Your Majesty, why do you suddenly want to meet those generals?"

Shen Qiu asked with some confusion at this moment.

"I also suddenly wanted to go and take a look."

Ye Chen said lightly.

He went on a secret visit to see what kind of personalities these generals had behind the scenes.

But he didn't need to explain these to Shen Qiu.

But Shen Qiu didn't react much after hearing what he said.

Ye Chen is the emperor. It is naturally up to Ye Chen to decide when he wants to visit the generals coming from the border and how he wants to visit them.

And when the carriage approached the post station where the generals lived.

The noise on the street suddenly became much quieter.

Ye Chen lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked outside, only to see a three-story building surrounded by soldiers.

With the city defense troops there, these border generals could not bring too many troops into the capital, but the private soldiers they brought alone totaled nearly a hundred people.

The post station that was originally used to receive generals and officials from various places was surrounded by these generals' private soldiers.

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes.

"Your Majesty, we're here. Shall we go into the post station now?"

"No need, I'll just take a walk outside first."

Ye Chen got off the carriage and walked towards the post station.

Shen Qiu followed closely behind him, and at this time, in the lobby of the post station, eighteen generals from the northwest were sitting around two tables.

There was wine and food on the table.

In addition to bowls and chopsticks, there were also knives for cutting meat in front of the eighteen people.

The other people in the lobby of the inn deliberately stayed away from these eighteen people.

"Those intellectuals eat like women."

Linley skillfully picked up the knife and began to cut the meat. As he did so, he looked with disdain at the scholars sitting nearby.

These scholars were officials who came to the capital from other places. Some of them held high positions, but they were all civil servants. Their behavior when eating and drinking was naturally very different from that of generals like Lin Lei.

"Oh, aren't all these civil servants like this? Not to mention these civil servants, I saw today that the officials in Beijing are also very weak. I can beat ten of them with one hand!"

Wang An sneered.

"General Lin, General Wang, the Emperor summoned us here and secretly transferred our troops. What do you think he wants to do?"

Ma Ting, the oldest of the eighteen, frowned and said, "I've heard for a long time that the Emperor and the Prime Minister are at odds, and Kou Yu has even arrived outside the capital with 30,000 soldiers."

"The Emperor has summoned all our soldiers now. Does he intend to use us as pawns?"

Hearing this, the other generals also fell into deep thought.

They are not stupid.

Even though they were military generals, they had the support of aristocratic families behind them, and they had all been educated since childhood.

"Hey! Who cares? That bastard Kou Yu has been calling the shots on the Northwest Border for years, and I've had enough of him. This time, if His Majesty the Emperor lets me be the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Border Army and lets me lead some soldiers to fight for His Majesty, I won't hesitate!"

Han Sui slammed the table. Among all the generals, he was the youngest, but also the one who most wanted to achieve great things.

After hearing his words, a gleam of light flashed in the eyes of several generals.

You have to know that each of them has been commanding heavy troops on the border for generations.

He has been working on the border for a long time and has his own followers and his own territory.

Even if there really was an imperial decree to call them back, they could have claimed illness as an excuse to shirk responsibility, and Ye Chen could not do anything to them.

But if they could gain greater power and help the family expand its territory, that would naturally be what they want most.

This is also the real reason why they followed Ye Chen's will and came here.

"Haha, the emperor said he wants to test us, but I don't know what kind of test it will be. If it's a competition of archery and horsemanship, everyone, fists and feet will have no eyes. If I seriously injure you, please forgive me."

Among the eighteen people, a burly figure stood up and was the first to clasp his fists and apologize.

The other people present also stood up at this moment, some clasped their fists to apologize, some offered drinks to toast each other, and said that if they hurt you in the future, don't blame me, we will still be acquaintances and friends in the future.

In short, no matter what happens during the assessment, it will not affect their friendship.

What these eighteen people didn’t know was.

At this time, Ye Chen was sitting in front of the door of the inn's kitchen, listening to everything these eighteen people said.

Ye Chen held his chin in his hand and thought.

"It seems that the relationship between the generals of the Northwest Frontier Army is quite complicated."

It was not difficult for Ye Chen to see at this time that the relationship between these eighteen border army generals was unusual.

This is more than just a regular colleague.

It is very likely that the families behind these people have long been intertwined and colluding with each other.

It's like a huge community of interests.

Ye Chen deeply understood that the existence of this kind of community was definitely not a good thing for him as the emperor.

He cannot allow this community of interests to grow any stronger.

But now, he still has to use these guys.

"I wonder if all of Dayu's border troops are like this."

Ye Chen suddenly felt a little heavy.

In the struggle with the powerful ministers, he gradually discovered that the whole Dayu was really seriously ill.

There are problems everywhere.

Although strong medicine is needed to treat serious illnesses, Dayu was not yet terminally ill at this time.

Ye Chen could only boil the frog in warm water, taking it step by step, and then scraping the bone to cure the poison when the time was right.

"Qiu'er, come with me to meet these people."

Ye Chen thought he had understood the situation of these border army generals, so he planned to walk out of the kitchen and have a good chat with them.

Suddenly, a crisp sound was heard from the lobby.

"Snapped!"

"Damn it, you lowly people, you dare to block my way, you are looking for death!"

"Ouch, ouch! I am the governor of Jiangxia County in Jingzhou!"

"I don't care who you are!"

"Canglang!"

As soon as I heard the sound of swords being drawn.

Ye Chen already realized that the situation was not good.

He kicked the door open and strode into the lobby of the inn, where he saw a scene that made him angry.