The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

"Okay, all of you shut up."

On the throne, the emperor scolded in a deep voice.

Fei Wan quickly turned around and knelt before the emperor: "I have done something wrong, Your Majesty, please punish me. But I really didn't mean to barge into the meeting place. Your Majesty, you know that I am..."

She looked at the emperor with tears in her eyes.

The aggrieved look softened the emperor's heart.

"Zhao Qing, get up and go back to your own palace. I won't blame you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Fei Wan stood up, took two steps back, turned around and left.

With his back to the emperor, he glared at Lu Guinian fiercely and walked out with a cold face.

Her expression was clearly seen by the other two ministers.

So within two days, Lu Guinian offended the favored Concubine Zhao and was hated by her. Rumors that he would be retaliated against at any time in the future spread throughout the court and the country.

Even the emperor heard about it.

Privately, he even laughed with Cao Bin: "With Zhao Qing's personality, who could she possibly hold a grudge against? It's clear that people outside have a deep misunderstanding of her. It's all because of Lu Guinian's ignorance that he always makes me worry."

Cao Bin still admires Lu Guinian for saving the capital.

Although he was also publicly criticized by Lu Guinian.

But privately, he did not take the opportunity to deal with Lu Guinian.

He immediately smiled apologetically: "Your Majesty is wise and magnanimous, so he can tolerate Lord Lu's bad temper."

This sentence made the emperor laugh and scold him: "Don't criticize the court officials!"

But he put aside some of his dissatisfaction with Lu Guinian.

This is all for later.

It was only when Fei Wan left the Imperial Court that he finally completed his main task for the day.

As for the secondary task - the emperor asked her to personally take charge of the palace ban, he gave it to the subordinates to do, and she just had to say it.

So after returning to Chunxi Palace, he summoned the heads of the Imperial Household Department and the Palace Administration Department and instructed them to block all the channels for secret communication between the inside and outside of the palace.

"Your Majesty, all the palace gates are locked and unlocked on time, and the palace servants' access to and from the inner court is strictly controlled. Not everyone can leave. So, there is no channel for communication between the inside and the outside...I'm afraid?"

The eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department was in a bit of a dilemma.

Fei Wan's face darkened. "I'm afraid not? Are you asking me this? Do you need me to check for you?"

"Slave dare not!"

"I don't care if you dare or not, I just want results. Find the channel and seal it off. This is what His Majesty has instructed. If you can't do it, then someone else will do it. All you have to do is come before the Emperor and explain why you can't do it."

“…My Lady, this…”

"Alright, I'm exhausted today. You can all go down. I'll give you all one day tomorrow. The day after tomorrow morning, come back here and report back to me. If you can't come, or if you come but still give a perfunctory reply, I will request an imperial decree to have the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Palace Administration replaced."

Fei Wan was not polite and showed her toughness in front of the palace people for the first time.

The two leaders looked at each other, neither daring to confront the other directly, and each bowed and left.

After discussing it outside, both of them were smart and quickly figured out that it was because of Lan Zhaoyi's frame-up of Concubine Shun that made His Majesty want to clean up the palace.

"Brother Li, where do you plan to start your investigation?"

"Stop trying to pry into my true feelings. Neither you nor I can escape this. This is the first time that Concubine Zhao is working alone, so she must put on a good show for His Majesty. If we do things perfunctorily, I'm afraid we'll really be fired, and we'll have to suffer in the future!"

"It's just that... the hidden lines of communication between the inside and outside of this palace... there are people behind them. We..."

"Who is greater than Your Majesty?"

The two men discussed it quietly and both knew that they could not escape this mission and had to do the work in earnest.

So the investigation and disposal began that very evening, without waiting for the next day.

In principle, the palace does not allow concubines and palace maids to communicate or pass things with outsiders at will. The rules are very strict.

These are strict palace rules that were set when Taizu founded the country.

But even in the time of Taizu, there were people in the palace who could communicate with the inside and outside and provide convenience to those in need.

In this dynasty, in addition to the open "letter room" for concubines to deliver family letters, more than ten secret channels of various sizes have been developed.

Whenever the concubines had any private messages to pass on, or if outsiders passed them on, they would look for these secret channels.

There were also palace servants who stole valuables from the palace and sold them away.

Some people embroidered things or made exquisite items, took them outside the palace to sell, and shared the profits with those who helped deliver the items.

In addition, any fashionable goodies and interesting folk toys from outside would also be sold to the palace through these channels.

In short, this business of internal and external communication is very prosperous.

Each of the dozen or so covert channels had a leader who organized the helpers in various places. Most of them were eunuchs and guards at the gates, as well as palace servants who could easily move around the palaces.

This business is not easy to do and is extremely risky, so each line has a backer behind it.

Therefore, Fei Wan asked two managers to investigate this matter, which affected the interests of many people.

Although the two managers hold high positions and have great power, they are only palace servants after all. No matter how prominent they are, their influence is limited.

They didn't want to offend too many people, so when doing things, they held high the banner of Concubine Zhao and emphasized everywhere that it was Concubine Zhao's orders.

For a time, most of the people who were found out, those who were not found out, and those behind the scenes secretly hated Fei Wan.

It’s Feiwan’s fault that he blocked everyone’s path to wealth.

She usually liked to collude with the concubines outside the palace, and was secretly very dissatisfied.

If these channels are cut off, it will be inconvenient to do things in the future!

Even Concubine Kang sighed privately: "It will be difficult to get the new plays and novels outside the palace in time. But Sister Zhao is just following orders, so it's not her fault. The palace is in chaos, and it's time to take care of it."

She was being reasonable.

Those who are unreasonable can only blame Fei Wan.

But is Feiwan afraid?

Of course not.

Whenever you do something, some people will benefit and some will suffer, some will praise and some will criticize. Should you not do it just because you're afraid of being criticized?

She had worked hard to earn a good reputation in the past just to use it to consume her reputation in the future.

The access control of the Daliang Palace must be strictly enforced. There must be no more random communication between the inside and outside, and there must not be any more spies like Concubine Si who collude with foreign enemies.

For this purpose, it doesn’t matter if she damages her good reputation a little!

"Derong, do you know why I called you here?"

When the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Palace Administration Office were working together to strictly check the access control, Fei Wan brought the leader of one of the communication channels, a young eunuch named Derong, to Chunxi Palace.

Derong bowed his head and said cautiously, "...I don't know. Please tell me clearly, Your Majesty."

Fei Wan smiled: "Before I became a concubine, I asked you to buy things from outside the palace. Do you remember?"

In order to confuse the emperor's dance costume, he bought similar clothes from outside the palace and modified them himself.

Derong lowered his head and didn't dare to answer.

Fei Wan continued, "Later, I sent a lot of letters through you, and I also received letters back. You have a good reputation and always get it done. You don't open the letters or peek at them casually. I am very satisfied with you."

All messages to Ma Xiaofeng and others outside were communicated through this little eunuch.

But Fei Wan's words only made Derong more nervous.

"Your Majesty...I don't know what you are talking about. I don't understand!"

Fei Wan laughed.

You are very tight-lipped.

That would be even better.

"Derong, I have something to ask you to do."