Chapter 300 Just around the corner (second update)
Su Rong came to Beijing originally to cooperate with Yan Huisheng and help him break the situation. Now this direction is going exactly as she wanted, so she is very satisfied.
Su Xingze looked at her, "Wouldn't this speed up the process?"
"Yes, it's just around the corner."
Su Xingze sighed, "Looking at the current situation, I'm afraid you will be going to Nanchu in less than half a year?"
Su Rong understood that he couldn't bear to leave her. She smiled, "Brother, I'm not running away to the outer world. Although Nanchu is far away from Daliang, it's only a month or two journey away. It's not like I'll see you again in this life."
It’s gone.”
Su Xingze glared at her, "Although I say so, it's not easy to see."
Su Rong also understood this and quickly poured him a cup of jujube tea, "I can't leave now, so don't be reluctant to leave me now. You won't be able to bear it anymore when I leave."
Su Xingze had no choice but to take the jujube tea and stopped talking about the topic.
Su Rong asked Su Xingze, "How is Zhou Gu recovering from his injury?"
Su Xingze turned his head and looked at her, "It's almost done. I should be able to go out in a few days."
Su Rong nodded.
Seeing that she only asked this question, Su Xingze stopped asking and said to her: "After you left the capital last night, Zhou Gu sent Midnight to ask for the token of Princess Sheng'an and sealed the city gate.
He also ordered Midnight that anyone who leaves the city without His Majesty's warrant will be stopped."
Su Rong paused and looked at him, "I heard about this. King Ruian left the capital with the request of His Highness the Crown Prince. So it was Zhou Gu?"
"Well, he was afraid that if you left the capital late at night for important matters, and someone in the capital would be following you and it would be detrimental to you, he simply stopped him." Su Xingze felt that it was necessary to tell Su Rong about this matter.
Su Rong nodded.
Su Xingze asked again: "Your Majesty stayed in your palace to talk for a long time. What did he say to you?"
Su Rong briefly stated the emperor's words.
Su Xingze frowned, "What do you mean, Your Majesty? Doesn't he agree with your engagement with Ye Guixue?"
"It's not necessarily that he doesn't agree, he is testing me." Su Rong said: "How can a person who can sit on that chair be a simple person? Otherwise, why was he the only one among the many princes of the late emperor to sit in that position?
Otherwise, the prince would not have been suppressed for so many years, and he would not dare to break the situation easily, and the Duke Protector's Office would keep a low profile and not show off in everything."
She laughed and said, "His Majesty from Daliang, in my opinion, is really deep-minded, good at leveraging strengths, and is very proficient in the use of imperial skills. He is also able to take advantage of the situation and assess the situation."
Su Xingze looked at him, "What should I say?"
He has not met the emperor yet.
Su Rongdao: "The current situation is that all the adult princes, except the prince, are involved in major cases. The treasury is empty. Gui Xue has also brought the order of the King of Southern Chu, asking Daliang to recognize me first, and then my life experience will be made public.
, go to Nanchu openly. In this way, the emperor will face huge pressure. Even if he wants to suppress the prince again, he can only give up. If the Protector's Palace becomes strong, he can only let it happen. And obviously I have no choice but to let it go.
His heart goes to the East Palace, and the Su family and the East Palace have long been tied together. Therefore, even if he doesn't want to, he can only adapt to the current situation, delegate power to the prince, and even give me a token that feels like I am here in person."
Su Xingze nodded.
Su Rong added: "He probably felt that my mother's bloodline was not enough to tie me to the boat Daliang, so he wanted to add Zhou Gu as a weight. After all, the current Southern Chu vassal state has not been around for many years.
I have seen Daliang in my eyes. It would be best if Zhou Gu can control Nanchu and make Nanchu a true vassal state back when Taizu founded the dynasty."
Su Xingze's expression changed, "Your Majesty wants Zhou Gu to be your royal husband?"
"That's what you meant, probably because you wanted to test my thoughts." Su Rong said, "I decisively rejected it."
Su Xingze wanted to say that what if Zhou Gu really wanted to be your prince's wife? But he thought that she and Ye Guixue were getting along really well now. She dragged Ye Guixue to leave the capital late last night, and Ye Guixue did it without saying a word.
After letting him toss about it night after night, no matter what the future holds, now he shouldn't stand in Zhou Gu's shoes and mess with her plans and thoughts.
So, Su Xingze put down the tea cup, stood up, and stopped talking, "You're tired too, go and have a rest! After all, we're really going to have to fight a tough battle next."
Su Rong nodded, "Okay."
Su Xingze held the umbrella and left. Su Rong sat in front of the stove without moving, looking at the extremely bright fire for a long time, then put down the teacup, got up and went back to the house.
The Minister of Dali Temple, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and the Yamen of the Jingfu are having a hard time these days. The place where prisoners are detained and interrogated has become a decoration. Whether it is the Protector's Palace or the Ruian Prince's Palace, they are all because of cases in which prisoners died in prison earlier.
So much so that they didn't believe they could take good care of people, and even His Majesty did not put the people awaiting trial in prison, but directly detained them in the palace, which made them really panic these days.
They don't know when the knife above their heads will fall. They spend these days strictly checking the people in charge, and then wait for the emperor's knife to fall.
Sure enough, on this day, King Ruian, with the emperor's order, escorted the monks from the Great Buddha Temple to the Prison of the Ministry of Punishment and conveyed the emperor's oral instructions.
The Minister of Punishment immediately tensed up his nerves and handed over to King Ruian, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely take good care of the criminal."
King Ruian said politely: "Old Shangshu's promise to me will not work. It depends on whether there are any omissions in the Ministry of Justice under your charge. If something happens and affects my investigation, I will not tell you in front of His Majesty.
Affection."
The Minister of Punishment repeatedly said: "This is natural."
King Ruian left the Ministry of Punishment and returned to Prince Ruian's Mansion.
When Xie Lin heard that King Ruian had returned to the palace, he immediately went to him and asked, "Father, how is the investigation of the case?"
King Ruian briefly told the story, and then sighed, "This case won't be closed for a while, and the investigation will continue."
Xie Lin opened his eyes wide, "There is gold hidden on the Yingzui Cliff on the mountain behind the Great Buddha Temple? Where are the gold hidden now?"
"It will be transported back to Beijing soon."
Xie Lin said: "Father, according to the eldest princess's confession, the reason why she agreed to cooperate with Li's natal father and second uncle was because she was given one million taels of silver every year. Do you think it is possible that that place is Li's natal home?
The place where father and second uncle hide their gold? After all, when I checked the concubine’s natal home, I didn’t find anything valuable in the house. Otherwise, where did the silver they promised to the eldest princess come from?”
King Ruian nodded, "It's possible."
Xie Lindao: "It seems we have to start with Li Bin's family. Unfortunately, her father and second uncle are dead, and Zhao Fei and Zhao Lao'er who were involved with them were also killed. Now, although we have found the Great Buddha Temple and found a
Puhui, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to find him for a while.”
King Ruian rubbed his eyebrows and said, "I will rest for half a day today. I will go find Miss Su Qi tomorrow and discuss with her how to investigate next."
Xie Lin sighed, "Father, you are dragging her into the water."
King Ruian glared at him, "Innocent, do you think it was me who pulled her into the water? She obviously has her heart set on the East Palace. After coming to Beijing, she wanted to deliberately disrupt the situation between Beijing, China and the DPRK and help the prince break the situation. Haven't you noticed that since she came?
After Beijing, in just a short period of time, the prince is no longer trapped, and now the situation is favorable? "
Xie Lin thought for a while, scratched his head, "It's true."
King Ruian looked at him, "You still have more to learn. From tomorrow onwards, you will stay with her and study hard. She is worthy of being taught by Xie Yuan. She doesn't act according to common sense. Only in this way can we defeat the prince.
I have been trapped in the court situation for a long time."
After he finished speaking, he sighed softly, "Once the Princess of Nanchu returns to Nanchu smoothly, with the support of the King of Nanchu and the Ye family, the Nangong family will really be no match for her."
