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Chapter 235 Urgent Report
On the first day of February in the fourth year of Suihe, He Tingquan, then 37 years old, was appointed as the Chief Clerk of Jingji Guard.

On the third day after He Tingquan took office, the General of the Jinyiwei of Jingjiwei was dismissed for dereliction of duty, and the vacancy was filled by Xu Youxing, the General of the Imperial Guards.

For a time, the whole Jingjiwei was shaken, and everyone felt that the good days of the past would never return.

The fall of the Jinyiwei general made Gu Dang realize for the first time that the emperor had a secret guard whose strength should not be underestimated. Otherwise, the evidence would not have appeared in He Tingquan's hands so easily, and he would have nailed their people to death directly, leaving them without any chance of fighting back.

Gu Shihai carried out a purge of his own people.

Tao Yuan's secret agents were affected to varying degrees.

For a while, the two sides were secretly competing with each other.

As a result, the detectives of Jingzhao Prefecture welcomed the busiest month in history - today a Jinyiwei died in his own home, and tomorrow a headless body was found in a brothel.

Bizarre and horrific murders occur almost every day, and the murderers' methods are more efficient and clean than each other, making it impossible to investigate.

During this period, the person Ye Qinghuai was most concerned about was Tao Yuan. Shen Guidi went out of the palace once in the morning and once in the evening every day to pass messages between the emperor and the Eagle Guards.

The Eagle Guards are now like Ye Qinghuai's eyes, and Ye Qinghuai will never allow them to die here.

"Hasn't he seen Eagle Head yet today?" Ye Qinghuai asked her as he flipped through the message Shen Guidi brought back.

"Your Majesty, I saw it today."

Ye Qinghuai raised his head and looked at Shen Guidi, and asked, "How is he?"

Shen Guidi was startled for a moment, then looked up and saw the worry in Ye Qinghuai's eyes, and replied, "He is still the same, Your Majesty, don't worry. It's just that there are spies near the pawnshop, and he doesn't go there often recently."

Ye Qinghuai nodded and said, "You should be careful too."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I always change my appearance when I go there." There was some pride in the little girl's voice.

Ye Qinghuai silently read the Eagle Guard's report for a while, then remembered something and asked, "Has Eagle Head mentioned Lu Yanchen to you recently?"

Shen Guixi shook his head.

Ye Qinghuai frowned. After Lu Yanchen led the army to the west alone, he had been exchanging letters with her through the post road of the army. Generally, he would write to her every six or seven days to report the situation on the front line or the local people's livelihood issues. Even if there was nothing, he would still say hello to Ye Qinghuai. Now, ten days have passed and she has not received a letter from him. Ye Qinghuai thought that maybe he had some important news that was not convenient to take the post road, so he would ask someone to pass the message to Tao Yuan, but now it seems that it is not the case.

"Most of the Eagle Guards have returned to Beijing now, right? Are there any Eagle Guards left with Lu Yanchen?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

"There should be another group of people in the north. I wonder if there are any people in General Lu's place."

"I understand. Go ahead."

After Shen Guidi left, Ye Qinghuai burned the paper in his hand on the candle.

She looked at the map of the north on the wall, her eyes unconsciously fell on the vast ocean, and her right eye suddenly twitched.
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The fifth day of February is a day of rest once every five days.

But there were a lot of memorials today, and Ye Qinghuai sat at his desk early in the morning and started reviewing them.

Since He Tingquan was transferred to Jingjiwei, the number of memorials to the Ministry of War has increased. Some people reported on each other, some complained about their grievances, and some asked to resign. Ye Qinghuai already had experience in dealing with this, and it was nothing more than delaying tactics and using both kindness and force.

As the sun was setting, Ye Qinghuai had finally finished reviewing the two piles of memorials on her desk. She was just about to have someone bring her some food when she suddenly heard a eunuch outside the door announce: Li Jianyun, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, was outside asking to see her.

Ye Qinghuai's heart skipped a beat.

She had an inexplicable aversion to Li Jianyun. In her impression, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War always brought bad news when he asked for an audience outside the palace.

As expected, Li Jianyun half-knelt on the ground as soon as he entered the room and said, "Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Yingzhou, eight hundred miles away. The Western Army in the north has rebelled in Qing County, and the Qing County garrison has been completely wiped out. The Qing County garrison requests the allocation of Yingzhou troops for reinforcement!"

After saying this, he lowered his head and raised the report in his hand high above his head. Ye Qinghuai suddenly felt no longer hungry.

Not only was I not hungry, I even started sweating.

After a long while, she finally found her voice: "...What?"

Li Jianyun paused for a moment, took two steps forward, lowered his head and placed the report in his hand on Ye Qinghuai's desk.

Ye Qinghuai frowned and picked up the urgent letter from eight hundred miles away.

The report was written by Qing County Magistrate Tan Chunhui himself. It was several pages long and detailed. Ye Qinghuai quickly flipped through it. In short, the Western Army led by Lu Yanchen joined forces with local rebels in Qing County to kill the local garrison and control the Qing County granary. Tan Chunhui escaped by chance and sent an urgent report to the court, requesting the mobilization of the Yingzhou Army to reinforce Qing County and suppress the banditry.

The signature was stamped with the county magistrate’s seal and the date was three days ago—the second day of the second month.

Ye Qinghuai's gaze remained on the date for a long time, his tightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed, and his expression became more profound.

"When was this urgent message delivered?" she suddenly asked after a while.

Li Jianyun paused for a moment and replied, "Your Majesty, I just got it half an hour ago."

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"He Qingchang gave it to you?"

"Yes."

"Where are his own people?"

"Lord He is still handling official business in the Ministry of War." Li Jianyun kept his head down.

"Isn't today a day off? He Qingchang has been in the Ministry of War all day?" Ye Qinghuai asked casually, seemingly nonchalantly.

Li Jianyun replied: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has been busy recently. Lord He came to the Ministry of War at noon today and has been handling official business."

Ye Qinghuai stared at him in silence for a long while before saying, "You can go back. I understand."

As soon as she said this, Li Jianyun, who had been keeping his head down, suddenly raised his head and looked at her in surprise. The emperor's reaction to this expedited military report from 800 miles away seemed a little too calm.

Ye Qinghuai didn't care and asked, "Why? Is there anything else you want to say to me?"

Li Jianyun withdrew his gaze, shook his head, saluted, and walked out.

After the door was closed, Ye Qinghuai's gaze fell back on the military newspaper in her hand. As she looked at the title of the military newspaper, her face darkened and her brows furrowed.

Tan Chunhui's report was not written to the Ministry of War, but to the Cabinet.

But she did not get this report from the cabinet.

What Ye Qinghuai cares more about is time.

It is two thousand miles from Qing County to Shengjing by official road, and if the express train is eight hundred miles, one can travel eight hundred to one thousand two hundred miles a day. Logically, this military report written on the second day of February should have arrived in Shengjing yesterday and reached the hands of the cabinet.

However, such a major event as the military rebellion had not been reported to her by anyone in the past day and night. In the end, it was hurriedly brought to the palace by an assistant minister of the Ministry of War who had nothing to do with the cabinet.

What kind of place is this Qing County? It actually made Chen Yuansi and Gu Shihai, two political enemies, reach a tacit agreement for the first time in history and keep it secret.

Ye Qing pondered for a while, and finally called Li Baoquan in: "Li Baoquan, go to Taiqing Pavilion and bring me the family history of Deng Shangyuan, the governor of Yingzhou, and Tan Chunhui, the governor of Qing County."

Happy New Year to everyone~