Chapter 161 It’s a waste of being so handsome

After just two days of rest in the mansion, Huo Gannian received eleven orders from the Eastern Palace, all urging him to rush to encircle and suppress the Yu family.

Seeing that Yun Chen had slept for two nights and finally made up for the sleep he lost during the "Civil and Military Questions in the Palace", Huo Gannian agreed to pack up and set off.

In just half a day, the Huo Mansion had gathered hundreds of guards. All the personnel, horses, and supplies were ready, and the team was doing the final roll call and lining up at the gate of the mansion.

Because this was Huo Gannian's first overseas assignment after being promoted to Grand Commander, he had to mobilize 3,000 infantrymen from the Xuanjia Army Infantry Battalion, which was closest to the Yu Family's territory, and lead the troops to encircle and suppress the enemy.

In addition, seeing the Lion Flag, which had not appeared in more than ten years, being raised high again, the whole mansion was very excited. People from all the courtyards came out to see it off, attracting people to watch and stop, and the scene was very lively.

Before leaving, Yun Chen rode his horse behind Huo Gannian, his eyes noticed Huo Luyu who was at the end of the crowd.

She leaned against the door like a willow, looking at Yun Chen's arm with a lost look.

Yun Chen still wore ordinary arm guards on his arms, and did not use the short-pile ones with Qilin rising cloud patterns.

Yun Chen did not wear the gift from Huo Luyu.

Yun Chen looked at Huo Luyu with some guilt, but the latter had already covered his face and hurried away.

Xiaoyue glared at Yunchen fiercely and hurried to chase Huo Luyu.

"If I show up, I'm afraid it will hurt Lu Yu even more." Huo Gannian said to Yun Chen.

How could he, with his insight, not know how Huo Luyu fell in love with Yun Chen.

Mr. Huo tried to stop her again and again, but Huo Yuyu was a fierce person in her heart and would rather die than marry someone else.

Huo Gannian never thought in his life that one day he would have to "compete" with his own sister for the same woman.

It's really ridiculous and helpless.

But who is to blame? If there is anyone to blame, it can only be blamed on bad marriage.

Yun Chen sighed, "After the encirclement and suppression, I will go and confess to the Second Young Lady in person. It's best for me to handle this myself."

Soon, the team under the Lion Flag began to march eastward, running 600 miles every day, only resting for two hours at night before continuing on their journey.

The journey, which originally took more than forty days, took only half a month to reach the outskirts of Yangji City where Yuyangji was located.

Yangji City is the only large city in the territory of Nan State named after a person. It is a unique honor that the Yu family obtained by spending millions of gold and bribing officials at all levels.

They even went so far as to erect a "Pillar of Heaven" in the center of the city as a symbol, with a large round copper ball on each side.

Looking closely, it is densely covered with the glorious history of the Yu family.

From a distance, the whole building looks like a... well...

Forget it, I won’t mention it anymore. It’s too disgusting to watch.

It’s a pity that the city still exists and its landmarks are still standing, but the glory of the Yu family is no longer what it used to be.

The first thing the princess did after becoming regent was to verify the detailed accounts based on the general ledger obtained from the Yu family, collect evidence based on bribery transactions, purge the court inside and outside, investigate the Yu family's followers one by one, and punish them one by one according to the law.

Since there is the crime of accepting bribes, there is naturally also the crime of offering bribes.

If we look closely at the charges of bribing, threatening, and exploiting court officials, Yu Yangji should be sentenced to death, and his close associates would also be implicated.

Ever since the account books were snatched away by Jiang Ming, Yu Yangji knew that something was wrong. On the surface, he tried to appease the Yu family, as Prime Minister Ni Kun was still there, and Li Ding, the Yu family's biggest backer, was still there, but in fact, he had already made up his mind to run away.

The spies of the Huo Gang said that when the news of the Xuandu Palace Incident came from Kyoto, Yu Yangji immediately left his entire family, young and old, and fled overnight with only two beloved male favorites and a few capable guards.

By the time Huo Gannian mobilized 3,000 infantrymen and rushed to the magnificent Yu family's lair, Yu Yangji had already disappeared without a trace, leaving only the handsome and elegant young men of the Yu family looking at each other in bewilderment, at a loss.

Huo Gannian was dressed in military uniform, riding a tall wolf-slaying colt, standing in front of the Jade Mansion with a stern face.

The guards and three thousand Xuanjia Army infantrymen lined up behind them, on high alert.

Seeing this, a young man from the Yu family who looked to be in his twenties and quite outstanding in appearance walked up to Huo Gannian boldly and said with a smile:

"I've heard that Commander Huo is coming, but unfortunately my master is not here. I am the sixth shopkeeper of the Yu family. If Commander Huo doesn't mind, please come with me into the mansion for tea. How about that?"

As the Sixth Shopkeeper spoke, he secretly touched Huo Gannian's boots with his hand, a suggestive and seductive smile on his face.

Over the years, some rumors about Huo Gannian and Yun Chen's "Long Yang" affair have been spread. People even jokingly say that "the richest man loves Rabbit God", and they are surprised that the two most powerful chaebols in Nan Country both like Long Yang.

Guessing that since Huo Gannian also likes men, it is impossible for him to be indifferent to the nearly one thousand handsome men in the Yu Mansion, the Sixth Shopkeeper boldly seduced them, hoping that Yu Yangji was not around and Huo Gannian would not take their lives.

But it was obvious that the six shopkeepers had miscalculated.

Huo Gannian just looked at the Sixth Shopkeeper with disgust and cold eyes, then pulled the reins, took a step back, and let out a soft "huh".

The wolf-slaying colt immediately raised its front hooves and kicked the sixth shopkeeper hard in the face.

The latter screamed and fell to the ground with his hands covering his face with blood.

Huo Gannian then pulled the reins vigorously, spurred his horse forward, broke through the gate of the Jade Mansion, and shouted:

"All officers, listen to my orders! Clear out everyone in the Jade Mansion. If you encounter resistance, execute them first and report later!"

Three thousand soldiers then rushed into the Jade Palace.

For a moment, the only sounds were the howling of ghosts and wolves, and people begging for mercy. The guards inside and outside the Jade Mansion offered almost no resistance and were all captured.

Except for the nosebleed of the Sixth Shopkeeper who was kicked down by Tulangju at the beginning, not a drop of blood was shed in the entire Yu Mansion.

There were thousands of people in the mansion, but not a single one of them had any bones. All of them just cried and begged for mercy, which made everyone in the Huo Gang very uncomfortable.

Huo Gannian rode his horse in a circle, without even drawing his sword, and came out slowly, looking rather bored.

Ye Yan smacked his teeth and said regretfully:

"What a waste Young Master rushed in so handsomely just now."

Hua Jue held his guard knife in his hand and cursed:

"I'm already in a fighting stance, why is there no one who can fight?"

Bu Yan looked around. Apart from some of the lowest-ranking maids, almost all the others were pretty boys. He could imagine how Yu Yangji had spent his time in this den of prostitution. He couldn't help but dry heave twice.

"If we convict these bastards and throw them in jail, I'm afraid they'll just contaminate the rats in the cell. We might as well just sell ourselves to them as rabbit gods, and have them serve those fat, big-eared Longyang pigs!"

Hua absolutely disagreed: "Then should we punish them or reward them?"

Bu Yan retched again, looked around, and asked in confusion:

"Where's Achen?"

Ye Yan said, "Young Master was the first to rush in, and Achen was the second. I saw Achen heading towards the small island to the west."

They looked at each other and hurriedly rode their horses towards the small island in the west.