It was truly a perfect storm of favorable timing, location, and people – the opportunity was just right!

Gu Shaoyu once deeply feared Princess Yu Rong.

He never looked down on Princess Meatball, despite her eccentric and licentious behavior.

However, as a princess of a country, she abandoned her marriage at the age of seventeen, did as she pleased, and kept a courtyard full of male concubines. Her temperament was extraordinary.

To outsiders, she seemed like a wild horse in heat, openly seducing men everywhere, even to the point of being indiscriminate in her pursuit of both meat and vegetables.

Her lovers were all over the world.

It was common practice to gift a new pleasure boat or build a horse farm to please a beautiful woman (or man).

It was said to be a way to please the beauty, but it could also be considered another form of military garrisoning and horse breeding, since the horse farm not only had many horses, but they were all good horses, warhorses.

Some of these male concubines secretly kept families. When Princess Meatball heard about this, she beat them severely but did not kill them, saying it was out of pity.

However, it wouldn't be wrong to say that these male favorites were advisors or right-hand men.

She opened dozens of horse farms for her lovers across the country, with hundreds of fine horses in every place, whether in Kyoto, Jiangnan, or the northern border.

Where did she get the money?

When Xie Anfeng and Gu Shaoyu had a secret meeting with Emperor Hui, Xie Anfeng asked: "The Wei family has rebellious intentions. Their wealth and power are beyond description. So who controls all this power?"

Wei Anyuan, the military governor of the Northwest Frontier, was the most powerful bargaining chip for the Duke of Cheng'en, but Wei Anyuan was the face of the Wei family and an important minister of the court, so the trump card would not be in his hands.

The dead Wei Anlu was a good-for-nothing.

Given that the Duke of Cheng'en was already advanced in years and wanted to erect a memorial archway commemorating "serving the people wholeheartedly and being incorruptible," it was impossible for him to have hidden a large amount of gold and silver treasures in his mansion as leverage against him.

Gu Shaoyu had guessed it was Wei Shixun, but after the Imperial City Guard conducted various investigations into the Wei family, it turned out not to be him.

Based on years of intelligence gathering and analysis, Gu Shaoyu made a conjecture: "I suspect that the Phoenix Token of the Wei family is in the hands of Princess Yurong!"

Emperor Hui dispatched the Imperial City Guard to conduct reconnaissance in all directions.

However, the Imperial City Guard sent out its strongest personnel to spy for many years, but they still couldn't find any flaws in Princess Yu Rong's persona.

And this princess has easily revealed the secrets that the Wei family has been building up for many years!