Wars without gunpowder sometimes prove to be more harsh and torturous than those with smoke-filled battlefields; lights in the Chenyuan Hall began burning from dusk to deep into the night, unceasingly.
Ju Nanyi took several steps back, allowing Zheng Congyuan to completely replace the guards in the palace. Prime Minister Lin stepped up from his previous position as Regent Minister, sharing part of the power once held by Ju Nanyi, and the imperial officials seemed to sense that some things were different from the past.
The undercurrents of conflict between the great Aristocratic Families have always been surging; if Ju Nanyi could not benefit, neither would Zheng Congyuan, so Ju Nanyi was not afraid.
It seemed that the imperial court also felt this undercurrent, but it was only a feeling, because on the surface, the structure of Prime Minister Ju being second only to one and above tens of thousands had not changed.
