Chapter 202

Qun

At this moment, he was excited to the extreme.

With Cao Zhengchun dead,

Zhu Wushi had one less major enemy.

Next,

as long as he dealt with the Western Depot,

he could complete his revenge.

That's right.

In the Great Ming,

besides the Eastern Depot,

there was also the Western Depot.

The Western Depot was a department established in recent years.

At the beginning of its establishment, the division of labor between the Eastern and Western Depots was different.

The Eastern Depot was responsible for monitoring officials,

while the Western Depot was responsible for strengthening the security of the inner palace.

The power held by the two was vastly different.

Clearly, Cao Zhengchun of the Eastern Depot was more favored by the Emperor,

so his power was greater.

But the Western Depot's Superintendent, Yu Huatian,

was an extremely restless character.

His personal martial arts realm was superb,

and he was meticulous and extremely intelligent.

He used the favor of the imperial concubines in the palace as a foundation to obtain large amounts of money,

gathering various talents for his own use.

In these two years,

his strength had expanded rapidly.

Not only did he ensure the safety of the inner palace,

but he also projected the majesty of the imperial dynasty.

With a wave of his arm, he could surround and kill knights from a thousand miles away!

Any Jianghu expert who dared to be disrespectful to the Great Ming would surely be hunted down by him.

Within a month at most,

the heads of Jianghu experts disrespectful to the Great Ming would appear on Yu Huatian's desk.

Subsequently, Yu Huatian would write it into a memorial and present it to the Emperor.

After several tough battles,

people in the Jianghu would change color at the mention of the Western Depot.

It was precisely because Yu Huatian was decisive and ruthless in his actions

that he gradually entered the Emperor's eyes.

The power the Emperor gave to the Western Depot also gradually increased.

Cao Zhengchun and Zhu Wushi both began to pay attention to this recently risen Western Depot Superintendent.

However, fortunately,

the Western Depot had only been established for a short time,

and its foundation could not be compared with the Dragon-Protecting Villa and the Eastern Depot.

Zhu Wushi believed

that the Western Depot alone was absolutely no match for him.

The only thing to be careful about was

not to let Yu Huatian absorb the experts of the Eastern Depot into the Western Depot.

Otherwise,

it would be like raising a tiger that would eventually cause trouble.

After thinking it over,

a murderous intent flashed in Zhu Wushi's eyes.

He said in a deep voice: "Haitang, go and check where Yu Huatian is now.

If he is in the palace,

then invite him to meet me on my behalf.

If he is outside,

then we will clear away the last tumor beside the Emperor."

Duan Tianya and Guihai Yidao nodded heavily,

clearly deeply brainwashed by "righteousness."

Cheng Shifei, meanwhile, leaned against a pillar to the side,

continuously pondering Ye Yu's words.

Shangguan Haitang cupped her hands and went out for a moment,

and soon returned with a strange expression.

"Foster father,

our people say

that half an hour ago,

Yu Huatian took hundreds of experts and set off toward outside the city.

I heard he seems to be going to the desert."

"The desert, the northwest region.

What is he going there for at this time?"

Zhu Wushi frowned slightly.

On the official road a hundred miles outside the capital,

a team of hundreds of people moved at a steady pace.

When the surrounding commoners saw the attire of this group,

they immediately knelt on the ground.

Jianghu experts, for their part, avoided them like scorpions,

each wishing they could run away.

There was no other reason,

because this was the Western Depot's team.

In the middle of these hundreds of people,

there was a magnificent carriage.

The Western Depot Superintendent, Yu Huatian, sat in this carriage.

The Great Head of the Depot, Ma Jinliang, thought it over and over,

but couldn't figure it out.

So he leaned toward the carriage and asked in a low voice: "Superintendent,

why, upon receiving the news that Cao Zhengchun was killed by Ye Yu,

are we heading toward the desert?

Shouldn't we be surrounding and killing Ye Yu and absorbing the remnants of the Eastern Depot

to strengthen our Western Depot?"

The curtain of the carriage was not lifted,

and a light, dismissive voice came from inside.