Han Jian originally planned to tell Gu Weipan the news that the queen was not in Jiangdu when he got married to Gu Xiner. However, because the war was imminent, Han Jian was busy transferring grain to the city and never told Gu Weipan in detail.

Taking advantage of this time Gu Weipan's arrival because of "using land for grain", Han Jian wanted to inform Gu Weipan of the exact matter.

When Han Jian met this father-in-law in the main hall of the East Prince's Mansion, Gu Weipan still looked inhumane. Even though Han Jian is now his son-in-law, he did not give Han Jian a good face.

"Your Majesty is really not in Jiangdu?" Gu Weipan stood up suddenly after hearing Han Jian say something, with a little anger in his tone, "Where is Your Majesty now?"

"Teacher Gu, if I know where Your Majesty is, can you not tell you? The key is that I don't know now, so I can only hide it all the time and try to send someone to find it. It's not too ostentatious.Teacher Gu should understand my difficulties."

Gu Weipan paced back and forth in anger, and after a while, he said, "How many people know about this?"

"No one should know except for me and several princesses. Gu Taifu said last time that Mr. Lin might have noticed it, and he might be considered one."

Gu Weipan thought about it, shook his head slightly and said, "No wonder that the past few days, Shangshu Lin is also ill. I also think that he may have complained about you because of the injury. Now it seems that he has indeed noticed something. What are your plans?"

"Does the Grand Tutor Gu mean to be about His Majesty's disappearance or to Secretary Lin?" Han Jian asked.

"Your Majesty has been missing for nearly a month, and you have plans to put it into practice. Now I ask you how to deal with Shangshu Lin? With your personality... don't do anything that is angry with the heavens and people are resentful." Gu Weipan thought of Han Jian's ruthlessness and decisiveness in investigating the case before, and said in fear.

"Don't worry, if you don't deceive me, I won't deceive others. As long as Lin Shangshu is aware of the knowledge and tactful person, how can I make things difficult for him?"

Gu Weipan looked at Han Jian with suspicious eyes before sitting down.

He was not without doubt about the disappearance of the queen, but now it has only been confirmed.

After all, the Eastern Prince's Mansion was operating normally before the Empress arrived. When the Empress arrived, it disappeared again. Except for the members of the Luoyang faction who came with the Empress, there was no big deal. However, the Empress did not show up for a long time and there would be many suspicions outside, which was not conducive to the stability of the morale of the Jiangdu army.

"I won't mention this in advance, what's the matter of borrowing grain?" Gu Weipan said in a deep voice.

Han Jian said without any concealment: "The matter of borrowing food is a false thing."

"Don't hide this. The meeting with the Qi Dynasty envoy is now known to everyone in the world. After that, the Qi Dynasty envoy hurriedly left Jiangdu. If there was no grain loan, why did you post a notice?" Gu Weipan said a little annoyed. In his opinion, Han Jian was not going to tell the truth this time.

Han Jian said: "Isn't it surprising that Taifu Gu is so happy that Qi Chao agreed to borrow food?"

"You exchange land for grain, and you still use the cities on the south side of the Wei Dynasty. Those cities are barriers to resist the invasion of Qi Dynasty. With such conditions, how could the Qi Dynasty not agree to borrow grain?"

"If Taifu Gu is from the Qi Dynasty, do you think I, Wei Dynasty, would exchange the city for them so easily?"

Han Jian’s question made Gu Weipan silent for a while.

He also made a fuss. It was indeed reasonable to think about this before. Now the price of grain in Jiangdu is rising, which means that Jiangdu is short of food and military supplies. Now, in order to fight with Yang Yu and the Beiwang Army, Jiangdu is forced to agree to some conditions to exchange grain with Southern Qi.

But after Han Jian said this, what was originally reasonable seems to be a bit unreasonable.

"What's going on?" Gu Weipan asked.

"Change grain is just a pretext. In fact, the envoys of Qi returned without success. The food that was about to arrive in Jiangdu was just the military ration allocated from Jiangdu, which temporarily alleviated the dilemma of Jiangdu's food." Han Jian said.

Gu Weipan pondered for a while and said, "What's the point? Isn't this self-deception?"

Han Jian immediately analyzed the reasons for the rise in grain prices in Jiangdu for Gu Weipan, and said: "The high price of grain is not a shortage of food. Jiangdu has been in good weather in recent years, and there is no trouble for war. The people are rich and there is also a surplus of food. But in the past few months, some people in Jiangdu have hoarded grain, bought low and sold high, just to make money from war. Gu Taifu doesn't think that my move will cause the price of grain to fall and benefit the people?"

Gu Weipan is not from the Ministry of Revenue and has never been a family. He is good at assessing and reviewing officials, and has certain research on prisons, but he knows nothing about managing money and grain. His position as prime minister is entirely because of his high moral character, not because he is a candidate who can lead the family in an all-round way.

"In this way, there is some reason." Gu Weipan thought for a long time before he put it in his words.

"The war is imminent and the dilemma is at the moment, and it is most important that Jiangdu joins the same goal. I tell you the truth, hoping that Taifu Gu can calm people's hearts in the court." Han Jian said sincerely.

"Yes." Gu Weipan's old face turned dark and he nodded slightly.

The anger in his heart had disappeared before he came. Since the Eastern Prince's Mansion did not exchange the city for food with the Southern Qi, he did not have to bear the charge for "traitoring the country". This is what he cares about.

Han Jian then stated his pros and cons to Gu Weipan, and repeated what he said to Han Song again to Gu Weipan.

After saying that, Han Jian said, "Teacher Gu, this matter is of great importance, and you must not let go of any news. If someone knows it, then all his previous efforts will be wasted, and Jiang Du is likely to be in trouble without fighting."

"How can I not know how to judge?" Gu Weipan said with an airs, "If I can help, I will naturally help you. You should also find someone to find His Majesty!"

“This is nature.”

After saying that, Han Jian personally sent Gu Weipan out. After seeing him off, Han Jian couldn't help but say, "Old guy, don't give me any face."

Despite the resentful words, Han Jian couldn't help but smile. With Gu Weipan, the old stubborn, helping him, he didn't have to worry more about the court.

Sure enough, not long after Gu Weipan went, Han Jian listened to the people below and said that the ministers who were causing trouble in the mansion had all dispersed.

When the news was heard back, Han Jian was discussing things with Han Song and Han Cui.

Han Cui smiled and said, "It's better for the in-laws to have a way. Tell me about the people in the court, who are on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and you have to make trouble if you don't go back and have a good New Year. How good is it to be so happy?"

Han Songshi sighed: "If the Wei Dynasty did not have such a group of upright ministers, all of whom were like Jianer, would the court not be confused?"

Han Jian smiled and said, "Er Niang, you are just calling me. When will I be willing to do anything?"

After Han Jian finished speaking, even he himself felt that he was unbelievable. He had done a lot of willful and arbitrary things these days, that is, his concubines could tolerate him everywhere. If the people in the court could tolerate him, it would be strange. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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