According to Fu Shen’s account, the emperor’s informant was a high-ranking officer in the Northern Yan army. The Tongzhou military had long separated from the Northern Yan cavalry and was closely connected to the Northern Yan western defense line in the Yuanzhou area.
However, Yan Xiaohan did not need to know too precisely, and he could not intervene in matters within the Northern Yan army.
But if Fu Shen could not handle that person, for both public and private reasons, Yan Xiaohan would have to step in and deliver another blow.”
There was no need to investigate further; it was clear that Qin was trying her best to harm Fu Shen, wanting her own son to inherit the title and fearing Fu Shen would obstruct this, so she preemptively wanted to make Fu Shen “cut off his lineage.”
A selfish and vicious woman who played a backstage intrigue and almost became the beginning of a power shift in the Northern Yan military, stirring up court dynamics.
However, what initially angered Yan Xiaohan was not her spreading rumors about Fu Shen being a “broken sleeve” leading to today’s calamity, but remembering Fu Shen’s words in the cave: “I don’t have a mother either.”
Having no mother was one thing, but to be manipulated by such an unloving and vicious stepmother – how did he survive all these years?
Yan Xiaohan calmed down in the Flying Dragon Guard courtyard, called a subordinate, and instructed: “Jing Ning Marquis has a brother named Fu Ya, who is said to frequently engage in cockfighting and dog-racing. The Emperor has never liked the Ying Guo Mansion being too ostentatious. Since the Marquis has promised me, we should not mistreat his brother.”
The subordinate, a shrewd man, understood immediately: “This subordinate understands. May I ask if the master wants him to become useless immediately or to slowly weaken him with medicine?”
“No rush,” Yan Xiaohan coldly laughed, “Take it slow.”
