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Jiang Wansang was a little worried that the collapse of Pei Zhanzhou's personality would cause some negative impact, so she would go to Pei Zhanzhou every now and then, asking him about his recent situation in various ways.

Pei Zhanzhou didn't quite understand what she meant.

I just mentioned her past with Su Huanyu, and she suddenly became so concerned about me. Could it be that she was worried that he would mind it?

She was worrying too much.

Although he didn't know what secrets Jiang Wansang was hiding, nor why she had changed so much, he was sure that she would never be as foolish and easy to exploit as before, and would never have any other thoughts about Su Huanyu.

Because he knew Jiang Wansang would never really want to eat shit...

Pei Zhanzhou pretended not to notice Jiang Wansang's "concern" for him. He was very happy that she would run to him from time to time, and even looked forward to her appearance.

However, through common observations, Jiang Wansang discovered that Pei Zhanzhou's personality did not collapse, he just behaved differently in front of her and in front of others. After that, he no longer went to the National Master's Mansion often.

Instead, the focus was placed on the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Just as they had expected, Jiang Gaoyuan did choose to join Su Huanyu.

Although the two sides had no apparent contact, the Crown Prince and the Third Prince's men were also actively contacting Jiang Gaoyuan, acting as if they didn't care at all about his previous "wide-ranging" behavior.

The Crown Prince and the Third Prince had the same idea.

A wise bird chooses the right tree to roost in. Jiang Gaoyuan's previous behavior was just to find a better way out for himself, which they could all understand.

As long as he chooses to be loyal to me in the future, those things can be forgiven.

But what they didn't expect was that Jiang Gaoyuan had already reached some kind of consensus with Su Huanyu in secret, and the reason why he had not replied to them was also Su Huanyu's intention.

What Su Huanyu is best at is showing weakness and seeking shelter.

He had been hiding behind the prince these years, looking like he was being marginalized everywhere. But in fact, it was the prince who blocked all the harm for him, allowing him to safely accumulate his strength.

Now he obviously wants to use the same method to train Jiang Gaoyuan into the same way.

It’s just that the “future father-in-law and son-in-law” have not yet decided whether to choose the crown prince or the third prince.

With Jiang Gaoyuan's temperament as an old fox, even if he was forced to choose one of the three princes, he would never make a decision so quickly.

The reason why he chose Su Huanyu so decisively was because of Meng Lianshu's persuasion.

However, Jiang Wansang still couldn't find out what arguments Meng Lianshu used to convince him.

She only found out that on the third day that Jiang Gaoyuan was confined at home by the emperor, Meng Lianshu, who was imprisoned in a small Buddhist temple, sneaked out in the middle of the night to see Jiang Gaoyuan.

No one knew what the couple talked about in the house. All they knew was that Meng Lianshu secretly returned to the small Buddhist temple in the second half of the night, as if she had never come out. Then Jiang Gaoyuan disguised himself and secretly went to the Seventh Prince's Mansion.

Jiang Wansang had long thought of dealing with Su Huanyu, the son of destiny, so she asked Jiang Er to place spies in the Seventh Prince's Mansion a long time ago, and only then did she know that the two had joined forces.

But Jiang Wansang had just developed her own power not long ago, so the information she could find was limited. It was not until Pei Zhanzhou sent her the news that she learned that on the day Jiang Gaoyuan secretly went to the Seventh Prince's Mansion to deliver the message, the palace's Wan Zhaoyi also appeared in the Seventh Prince's Mansion.

As a palace concubine, and a small Zhaoyi at that, she would normally have no chance to leave the palace until her death, but Wan Zhaoyi came out alone.

This is enough to show that she has definitely not just been a vegetarian and Buddhist for many years, not caring about worldly affairs.

No one knew what the three of them talked about, but the next day Jiang Gaoyuan accepted the overtures of the Crown Prince and the Third Prince, but he did not give his answer directly, as if he was hesitating about who to choose.

Jiang Wansang supported his chin, tapping his fingers on the table intermittently, his mind rapidly thinking over all the information he had obtained so far.

After a long pause, she suddenly asked Pei Zhanzhou, who was also sitting next to her, thinking, "How much do you know about Wan Zhaoyi?"

Wan Zhaoyi in the book is a resourceful and intelligent person, but her presence has always been weak.

In the early stage, she seemed like a background board to embellish the tragic life of the male protagonist Su Huanyu, but in the later stage, she seemed like a tool who specially gave Su Huanyu the golden finger.

She planned for many years to build Changyue Temple, paving the way for Su Huanyu's fight for the throne. After her careful planning, she became Jiang Zihan's backer after she married into the family, allowing the heroine to feel the treatment of being the group's favorite after getting married.

Wan Zhaoyi is like a tool who is used wherever needed, and her image in the book is very one-sided.

Pei Zhanzhou had been sending people to investigate Su Huanyu and Wan Zhaoyi because of Jiang Wansang's reminder, so he knew a lot.

"Wan Zhaoyi's brother was once the General of Zhenyuan, but he fled the battlefield during a battle with Beisheng and was sentenced to death along with his entire family. By then, Wan Zhaoyi had already entered the palace and given birth to the prince, Su Huanyu, so she was spared from being implicated and was only demoted to a concubine."

"From then on, Wan Zhaoyi took the initiative to always accompany the green lamp and ancient Buddha, even ignoring Su Huanyu. She seemed to blame the emperor for this, but the emperor was not angry. He even ordered that no one in the harem should go to the Buddhist temple to disturb Wan Zhaoyi. Even the empress was not allowed to set foot in the temple at will."

Therefore, Wan Zhaoyi did not look like she had lost the emperor's favor because of her mother's family, nor did it look like Su Huanyu was also disliked by the emperor.

No wonder Pei Zhanzhou said before that the emperor’s lack of attention to Su Huanyu was actually another form of protection.

Jiang Wansang suddenly thought of a key point, "Did General Zhenyuan really desert the battlefield back then?"

It is impossible for someone who has reached the position of general to make such a mistake.

Pei Zhanzhou gave her an admiring look. "Even before the current emperor ascended the throne, he always advocated that military power should be centralized in the hands of the royal family. And back then, General Zhenyuan commanded the largest army in the Southern Su Kingdom."

Therefore, whether to desert from the battlefield or to confiscate the property and exterminate the clan is all up to the emperor.

This is the same as when the Dongrong Kingdom invaded and the emperor asked the seventeen-year-old Pei Zhanzhou to make a bet with the military officers in the court and lead the army to the battlefield.

Transfer the military power to Pei Zhanzhou. If he loses, he will take the opportunity to take it back. If he wins, he will have even more reason not to return the military power.

The appointment of Pei Zhanzhou as the national teacher was also to allow him to legitimately control the military power.

I didn’t expect that the current emperor is someone who likes to keep power in his own hands.

Jiang Wansang was a man of quick thinking. After Pei Zhanzhou's reminder, he instantly understood many things that had never been mentioned in the book.

"Back then, when General Zhenyuan's property was confiscated, Concubine Wan played a significant role, right?"

Otherwise, how could the emperor belittle her on the surface but actually protect her, and even favor Prince Su Huanyu?

Pei Zhanzhou nodded, "The evidence that reported General Zhenyuan's desertion was produced by Consort Wan."

However, most of the people who knew about this matter were dead at that time. If he hadn't found Chang Yueguan, he might not have found out.