Is the person who sent him the letter an enemy or a friend?
Qin Jiyan looked at the letter and showed a rare hesitation. The butler did not dare to urge him. He slowed down his breathing and stood there waiting for Qin Jiyan's order.
After a long while, Qin Jiyan finally said, "Go down." Being able to deliver the letter to him, whether he was a friend or an enemy, proved that the other party was not a small person. If he checked easily, not only would he not be able to find out any counterattack, but he would also alert the enemy.
"No." The chief steward stepped back and turned around to arrange the matters Qin Jiyan had told him.
Inside the room, Qin Jiyan took out the thin piece of paper and read it again. There wasn't much on the letter, but every word weighed as much as a thousand pounds.
The letter was about Lao Tan, and this Lao Tan was not the same person as the Lao Tan they found out.
Lao Tan is a twin. There is a custom in the village where he lives that twins cannot meet and only one can stay. So Lao Tan, who sang a stick of incense late, became the abandoned one.
Lao Tan was thrown into the mountains, but because of his father's reluctance, he quietly ran into the mountains to find him, and then fostered him in the home of a childless hunter.
The hunter was alone and happily adopted Lao Tan. He also kept Lao Tan in the mountains as promised and would not let him go down the mountain or let anyone in the village see him.
When Lao Tan grew up, he became an excellent hunter under the guidance of Orion, and he also learned about his life experience. Lao Tan
Tan does not resent his parents, after all, they did not give up on him, but Lao Tan resents his brother who was born to his compatriots because that person took away his chance of life.
Although Lao Tan hated him, he did not take revenge until Lao Tan's parents died of illness seven years ago. Lao Tan's brother sold out all the family money and land in order to treat his parents' illness and organize funeral arrangements.
With no money and no land, the villagers thought he would rent fields, but unexpectedly the family suddenly decided to go out to make a living, so the whole family rented a bullock cart and left.
However, Lao Tan's brother and his family were not in the capital at all, but Lao Tan came to the capital as his brother and made a living in the capital.
No one in the village knew that Lao Tan existed. Lao Tan looked exactly like his brother. As long as he didn't return to the village, no one would discover Lao Tan's true identity.
So when Qin Jiyan's subordinates took Lao Tan's portrait to the village and asked, the people in the village regarded Lao Tan as someone who had always lived in their village.
If the content of this letter is true, then there is something very wrong with Lao Tan, and there is no evidence that Lao Tan did not leave the village fifteen years ago.
"Fifteen years ago!" Qin Jiyan squeezed the trust in his hand tightly, and when he opened it again, the originally intact paper fell into pieces and scattered all over the floor when the wind blew.
Get up, walk to the window, and look out the window...
Qin Jiyan stood there for half an hour, until the secret guard came in and said, "Your Highness, a letter from Mr. Jiao."
"Leave it alone." Qin Jiyan did not look back, his mood had not calmed down yet.
The secret guard held down the letter with a paperweight, took a step back and said, "Your Highness, Mr. Jing Yan is still in the Gu family and has never left."
These words finally caught Qin Jiyan's attention, "I heard that Donglin Academy will have a quiz in two days, and no one can be absent?"
Qin Jiyan turned around, with a deep voice that could not be denied. The secret guard nodded without thinking, "Yes."
In two days at Donglin Academy, there will be a quiz that Gu Chengyi cannot miss, and the news will reach Gu Chengyi's ears tomorrow.
Now that Gu Chengyi is gone, does Jing Yan still have a reason to live in the Gu family?
After successfully getting rid of the annoying Jing Yan, Qin Jiyan was in a better mood and finally turned around to read the letter sent by Jiao Xiangdi.
During this period of time, Jiao Xiangdi was tightly controlled by Mr. Jiao and had no freedom to go out, not even the freedom to send letters.
Although Mr. Jiao is authoritarian, he has to say that he is also protecting Jiao Xiangdi, otherwise what happened to Feng Sijin will definitely happen again to Jiao Xiangdi.
If something really happened, Jiao Xiangdi might not be as lucky as Feng Sijin to meet Gu Qiancheng.
Jiao Xiangdi definitely took a risk by delivering the letter to Qin Jiyan, and it was certainly not a trivial matter.
Jiao Xiangdi sent a message to Qin Jiyan specifically to tell Qin Jiyan that King Zhou and King Zhao had instructed officials from their factions to recommend Qin Jiyan to the emperor to handle the affairs of Northern Qi.
To paraphrase the words of King Zhao and King Zhou, Qin Jiyan doesn't want to go to war with Northern Qi, right? Then he should calm down Northern Qi's anger and stop Northern Qi from causing trouble.
The nobles of Northern Qi were beaten to death by the common people of Da Qin. If Bei Qi didn't give a satisfactory explanation for this matter, Northern Qi would have to fight with Da Qin just to make a fuss. Then Da Qin wouldn't be able to stop fighting if it wanted to.
It goes without saying that this is a difficult task. Da Qin officials have been communicating with Bei Qi for several months to no avail. Bei Qi insists that this is Da Qin's fault and wants Da Qin to apologize.
The apology that Northern Qi wanted was not just a small amount of money. Northern Qi wanted 200,000 taels of silver and 50,000 taels of cattle and sheep each.
This is definitely blackmail, and this is why many people in Da Qin say they want to fight. The conditions proposed by Northern Qi are too harsh, and they don't take Da Qin seriously at all.
Da Qin had been arguing for a long time about whether to fight or not, and the same was true within Northern Qi. Some people in Northern Qi advocated negotiation. If cattle, sheep and silver could be obtained through negotiation, why go to war?
You must know that the population of Northern Qi is smaller than that of Da Qin. Every casualty of a soldier is a huge loss to Northern Qi.
However, negotiation is not that easy. The lion of Northern Qi said loudly that Da Qin would not give it even if it could afford it. Are the lives of Northern Qi nobles more valuable than Da Qin people?
The death of a nobleman requires Da Qin to accompany him with so much money. Northern Qi bullied people too much, and the great country could not afford to lose this person. Da Qin would rather fight than pay this compensation.
Things were at a stalemate, and as a last resort, Northern Qi would not send troops easily, but only clamored for justice from Da Qin.
Originally, the old emperor was tired of wrangling with Beiqi recently and decided to fight with Beiqi to scare them away. However, Qin Jiyan took action and gave up the old emperor's idea of attacking Beiqi.
If the war is over, then we must continue to send people to talk to Beiqi. Originally, it was not Qin Jiyan's turn to do such a thankless task, but who asked Qin Jiyan to publicly stop the war? King Zhao and King Zhou saw the opportunity
Coming...
Qin Jiyan prevented them from gaining military merits and making war fortune, so they would instigate the courtiers and ask the old emperor to send Qin Jiyan to deal with the matter. When the time comes...
No matter how much money and cattle and sheep Qin Jiyan paid to Northern Qi, they could attack Qin Jiyan on this matter and say that Qin Jiyan had lost the face of Great Qin.
This job had only disadvantages but no benefits. After Jiao Xiangdi learned about it, he immediately sent the news to Qin Jiyan, so that Qin Jiyan had time to make plans and quickly find a scapegoat to take over the job...
Of course, the fact that Jiao Xiangdi was able to pass the letter to Qin Jiyan so smoothly was definitely due to Mr. Jiao. Without Mr. Jiao's permission, Jiao Xiangdi wouldn't have been able to deliver the letter even by a single hair.
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Qin Jiyan looked at the letter and smiled silently: This is the best news I received today!