Chapter 686: Visitors From the Emperor Zong's Mansion

Wu Mei led the team to Raofeng City for rescue. After the troops left, Chen Fang wandered to the castle to find Gong Xiaobai.

The troops were going on an expedition, and Gong Xiaobai, as the city lord, did not come out to see him off. Chen Fang felt it was strange, not to mention other people, but Meimei was his aunt.

When he came to the castle, Chen Fang learned from the guard that Gong Xiaobai was entertaining an adult from the Zonghuang Mansion who had just come here not long ago. After hearing this, Chen Fang went to Xiaobai's usual office. The conversation suddenly didn't want to go in again.

Chen Fang actually came here just to ask Xiaobai why he didn't go to see him off, but if he didn't go because he had guests to entertain, then there was nothing wrong with him, so he planned to leave.

Just when Chen Fang was about to leave the door of the conference room, the voice inside became louder. Originally, Chen Fang didn't intend to listen, but the words he overheard made him change his mind, so he secretly stood at the door and listened.

"Zongbo, don't drag me anymore. I'm going to see my aunt. You must know that this time, my aunt is going to take risks for me. It's fine if you don't let me participate in the rescue. I know it will be a burden if I go, but why do you still go?" Stop me from sending my aunt off."

Gong Xiaobai's angry voice rang out, and just as he finished speaking, a staid and old voice came out, "Your Highness, stop making trouble, it's already too late to go now, they should have already left."

"I'm really mad at you. If you hadn't stopped me, I would have delivered it to someone when my aunt left." Gong Xiaobai said angrily.

"Your Highness, please pay attention to your identity. You are the prince of the royal family, and you are the master of this unyielding city."

"Although she, Wu Youmei, is your aunt, but now she is working under your command, then you can no longer treat her as your relative or elder. Don't always talk about your aunt and aunt, what a shame."

"As a prince and a city lord, you don't need to do everything yourself and send your subordinates to do everything. You must not get too close to your subordinates, so that you can reflect the majesty of being a prince and city lord. Otherwise, you will only make your subordinates arrogant and arrogant. Sometimes it may lead to the situation that the people below only listen to her but not you, and you will be made a puppet by her."

"The reason I stopped you from sending her off is to let people know that she, Wu Youmei, is just a subordinate of His Highness." The old man's voice said in a teaching tone.

"Uncle Zong, let me declare first that my aunt is my relative and not a subordinate, and my aunt is not the kind of person you said at all. She is a puppet and a puppet. You are too alarmist." Gong Xiaobai retorted anxiously.

"Your Highness, knowing people and faces but not their hearts, even those who are closest to them will be selfish and have other hearts."

"Although Wu Yumei is your aunt, she is also a member of the Wu family, and she is very likely to inherit the position of the head of the Wu family in the future."

"Those aristocratic families are different from the royal family. Our royal family is for the rise and fall of the human race, but they only want to make their own family strong. The family affection they show is often just a way to confuse people. You must not trust it, or you will be swayed by them."

"In the past few days I have been here, I found through observation that she and people close to her are in control of all matters in Indomitable City, and all decisions are made by her. His Highness just stamps and signs every day to confirm, which shows that she is already in the air. Your rights are gone." The old voice warned.

"That's not true. That's because I don't know how to govern Unyielding City at all. My aunt and sister Jimo are helping to formulate various policies, and then hold a high-level meeting to discuss them. After I agree, they are released and implemented. " Gong Xiaobai hastily explained.

"Your Highness, you are too naive."

"As your elder, I advise you to send someone to take over all the affairs she is responsible for during the period when she and her subordinates leave Unyielding City, and take the rights into your own hands."

"If there are not enough people, the few people I brought are all brothers from your clan. It is completely trustworthy, and you can completely entrust things to them."

The old man's voice first said some words of advice in the tone that I was thinking about you, and then said the real purpose.

Gong Xiaobai is a little white, but he is not really stupid, "Uncle Zong, I won't listen to you about this matter. Indomitable City is a little nervous because of the tight manpower, but there are people in every position, and it is temporarily inconvenient to change. You can come to Unyielding City." I am very happy, please leave if you have nothing to do, I still have a lot of things to do."

Gong Xiaobai didn't want to get entangled with him on this issue, and there was a meaning of seeing off guests in his words.

"Hey, if you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer in front of your eyes."

"Your Highness, the old man is thinking about you, that's all, the old man is leaving first."

"However, in order to prevent the Unyielding City built by His Highness from falling into other people's hands, I will report the matter of the Unyielding City to the Zonghuang Mansion and let the Palace Master make a decision." Said the old voice.

"Decision, what decision?"

"The Emperor Zong's Mansion only manages the affairs of the children of the royal family, and does not participate in other aspects. It also cannot control me and Unyielding City. What's the use of reporting it?" Gong Xiaobai said strangely.

"Your Highness, you don't know something. Now it's not like before. In order to protect and grow this family business in the troubled times ahead, Renhuang and Palace Master Gongnan Yufu decided to let all the children of the royal family participate in all aspects of the imperial court's rule. , become the mainstay, so that there will be no mistakes in the future."

Let the children of the royal family infiltrate into various departments inside and outside the imperial court. To put it bluntly, it is to fully centralize power in the hands of the royal family. It was Gong Nanyu's proposal to Gong Zhenglang, and Gong Zhenglang agreed.

And because of this, Gongnan Yu has an extra power in his hands. As long as there are sufficient reasons, he can replace or arrange some royal children to enter as appropriate without affecting the operation of the original department.

"What, when did this happen, why don't I know?" Gong Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise.

"Your Highness, the decision was made just when the army was going out and the Human Sovereign was about to attend the Five Sovereigns' Meeting."

"Because of the rush, I haven't had time to notify His Highness in the future. I just happened to inform His Highness together this time."

"..."

"That's it." Gong Xiaobai's tone was distressed.

"Zongbo, if you have nothing to do, go down first."

"Your Highness, the old man is gone."

Then there was the sound of the seat moving, and several footsteps approached the door.

Chen Fang heard a few steps and rushed to a nearby room to avoid people finding out that he was eavesdropping just now.

Then there were footsteps outside the corridor, and after a while, no sound could be heard before Chen Fang came out and entered Xiaobai's office.

At this time, Gong Xiaobai was sitting at the desk with his hands on his head and a distressed expression on his face.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Fang asked knowingly.

"Uncle, this is troublesome. Uncle Zong brought people here to take over some affairs of Unyielding City." Gong Xiaobai got up and said depressedly.

"What's the trouble? No matter what you say in Unyielding City, you have the final say. If they want to arrange someone, they need your approval. You just refuse." Chen Fang said indifferently.

Gong Xiaobai sighed, if only the matter could be resolved so easily, if the imperial court orders me to arrange for those brothers and sisters to join the administration of Unyielding City, I can't refuse, after all, this is giving The royal family centralized power and increased control, and it was a strategy set by his father. As a prince, if he refused, wouldn't he be too ignorant.