In the past two days, Guo Rong has been organizing the wedding of the third prince, both inside and outside. After spending another day with the palace today, he was dragged to the camp by Zhao Mingting. He was already very sleepy and tired, and his thinking was also tired. He was far from normal. He was very keen and didn't know why Zhao Mingting suddenly pulled him to break into the camp.
After looking through the documents for half an hour, he couldn't see any flaws. Guo Rong's eyelids were trembling. Li Zhigao asked thoughtfully if he could rest here at the military office first and wait for the appointment of the chief minister Shen Yang tomorrow. , let’s talk about military affairs again?
How could Guo Rong want to spend the night here?
Seeing that Zhao Mingting didn't see any flaws, he said that the Marquis Mansion would still have something to handle for him the next day, thinking of leaving camp overnight and returning to the city.
Zhao Mingting's eyes were still full of suspicion, thinking that the beggar who overheard his conversation with Wang Wenqian yesterday was obviously a spy from the Third Prince. Then the Taowu Jitunying Military Office suddenly strengthened the security around the perimeter and ordered the staff of the Fang Division to There was no way to sneak into the secret room, which showed that Wang Wenqian's reminder was not out of thin air to divert their attention from Chuzhou, but Guo Rong had already said what he said, and as an invited guest, he had no excuse to delay his stay.
Zhao Mingting finally reluctantly led his troops and galloped out of the camp with Guo Rong.
Watching the suspension bridge slowly retracting behind him, Zhao Mingting turned around to see Li Zhigao. Han Qian and others were still standing on the gate tower, while his men were unluckily taking off their dirty oilcloth robes and throwing them aside.
"Let's go, Mr. Zhao." Seeing Zhao Mingting still hesitating, Guo Rong yawned and urged.
"No, we have to enter the camp to see the real situation." Zhao Mingting suddenly had a thought and wanted to understand where the flaw was, and said to Guo Rong, "Shen Yang has been in and out of the camp all day, nothing unusual, but yesterday when he arrived at the Hou Mansion During the banquet, can you see that Li Zhigao and the others are a little nervous and uneasy?"
Hearing what Zhao Mingting said, Guo Rong also suddenly woke up. He secretly felt that if the camp was as close to defense as it was just now, then everyone who frequented the camp should not have been allowed to easily enter the Hou Mansion for a banquet yesterday. right.
Li Zhigao's many pretense just now was really taking advantage of their fear of the epidemic to lead them by the nose?
"Li Yuhou..." Seeing Li Zhigao, Han Qian and the others were about to go down to the camp building, Guo Rong hurriedly shouted, asking them to lower the suspension bridge.
"In the middle of the night, Mr. Guo left the camp gate and came in again. Is he not here to entertain us?" Li Zhigao asked in a deep voice with a dark face.
"Li Yuhou, please open the camp gate. A certain family wants to enter the camp to take a look." Guo Rong said.
"Why, on what grounds?" Since Li Zhigao had already sent Guo Rong, Zhao Mingting and others out, how could he open the carriage door and lower the drawbridge to let them in? He said coldly, "Master Guo, you have to monitor punishments and rewards, and report violations." Wu Zhiquan has no name and no purpose. He came to camp during the midnight curfew. Zhigao has endured the boredom in his heart to accompany you until now, but Mr. Guo is still not satisfied and wants to tease Zhigao and many soldiers like this. No matter how hard it is for Zhigao to obey his orders, if Zhigao is guilty of any crime, Lord Guo, please inform His Highness tomorrow to investigate the crime, or report to Your Majesty, and Zhigao will bear the responsibility. It is already late today, please return to the city, Lord Guo."
In order to prevent the generals from taking over their power, Emperor Tianyou gave each army the power to supervise the military and envoys, and even directly controlled some of the troops. However, Guo Rong wanted to enter again after leaving the camp during the curfew. Li Zhigao openly refused, and this matter became a big deal. Before God Bless the Emperor, it would also turn into a confusing lawsuit.
Seeing Li Zhigao, Han Qian and others leaving the camp building without any scruples, Guo Rong also looked at Zhao Mingting awkwardly and asked: "Master Tian, can you delay it for one more day? I will leave tomorrow and find Shen Yang again." Enter the camp?"
"His Majesty has already asked once. Unless the ban is categorically dismissed, Mr. Tian does not want to delay and be scolded." Zhao Mingting said with a frown.
The two ministers in the province are both highly respected people, but they only want to be peace officers. Unless they are extremely determined, they should not be expected to disobey the will of the Emperor You.
Guo Rong lowered his voice and said: "At present, it seems that there is something fishy about Taowu Ji, but we haven't figured out what the situation is. Maybe it's not appropriate to stir up the matter too much?"
In Guo Rong's view, His Majesty has long been dissatisfied with Anning Palace. His Majesty made the third prince take over the Dragon Bird Army and recruit the hungry people. It was His Majesty who overcame all odds to make it happen. No matter what they did at this time, they could not let Anning Palace If we openly confront His Majesty, the fishermen in Chuzhou will most likely benefit.
"During this period, there are rumors inside and outside the palace that the third prince is smart and studious, and he looks a bit like His Majesty before he went into hibernation. Have you never thought that His Majesty would most likely prefer the third prince to replace him instead of the one from Chuzhou?" Zhao Mingting He stared at Guo Rong with sinister eyes and asked.
The look in Zhao Mingting's eyes made Guo Rong quite uncomfortable, so he just asked: "In Mr. Zhao's opinion, should we go see Mr. Niu now?"
Even if they really wanted to ask their servant Nakata Zhiwen to come forward and delay the sealing of the official memorial, they would still have to go to the Deputy Privy Councilor Niu Gengru for instructions. They were not qualified to go directly to Tian Zhiwen's door.
"No. However, I would like to ask you to come back tomorrow if you can. Even if you can't make it in time, the situation here must be confirmed first before making other arrangements." Zhao Mingting said.
Seeing Zhao Mingting's eyes reflecting the cold light under the dim light of the torch, Guo Rong felt a slight chill in his heart. He knew that in Jinling City, Zhao Mingting was the direct descendant of Xu Mingzhen and Anning Palace. The power he holds is much greater than others imagine.
Han Qian and Li Zhigao walked down the camp building, but did not leave immediately. Instead, they stood behind the camp gate and stared at everything on the other side of the boundary ditch through the gap in the wooden gate.
It took a long time before I saw Zhao Mingting, and Guo Rong left surrounded by more than a hundred people.
"We have done our best, and now we can only obey fate." Li Zhigao looked at Han Qian calmly and said.
Han Qian nodded. In fact, he could still thank Li Mingting for being so eager to drag Guo Rong over to break into the camp late at night. Only in the dead of night could they make these crude disguises and lead them by the nose. Then we came back, and during the day, they had no reason to lock up 30,000 to 40,000 people in the camp and did not release them. It was really clear what the situation was in the camp.
They have achieved this step now, but if his father's appointment to be sent to Xuzhou was intercepted by the Anning Palace, they would have no choice but to make new plans for the follow-up.
Zhao Mingting and Guo Rong entered the city, and the people from the Privy Council's Office also evacuated from Longhua Port. Naturally, Chai Jian also withdrew his people back to the city.
Li Zhigao stayed in the camp and took charge of the army. Han Qian also waited until dawn before returning to the city with Yao Xishui and Zhao Ting'er with some men.
Yao Xishui did not go back to Wanhong Mansion directly, but took Han Qian and the others to Chun Shisanniang's apartment first.
This is also a secret stronghold of Wanhonglou.
Chun Shisanniang was very beautiful, but in her early years, she fell into prostitution in another courthouse, and then redeemed her life and bought a house, where she socialized with the city's dignitaries. In these years, no one knew about Chun Shisanniang's involvement with Wanhonglou.
It was only after Li Chong and others used Chun Shisanniang to blackmail Feng Yi and Kong Xirong that he learned that Chun Shisanniang was from Wanhonglou.
"Ningxiang Building has been targeted by Zhao Mingting. Mr. Han openly molested Miss Wang the day before yesterday. Did we buy the shop from somewhere and do other things?" Chun Shisanniang invited Yao Xishui, and Han Qian sat down in the elegant room.
Asked about follow-up arrangements.
"No, let's just take over Ningxiang Tower." Han Qian didn't think there was any problem with being targeted by Zhao Mingting. The construction of secret power itself had to be carried out in an intertwined way, "even if Zhao Mingting targeted Ningxiang Tower," he said.
Xianglou, can he still prevent the female relatives from various houses from coming to buy rouge and gouache?"
"What if I'm just the Thirteenth Mother?" Yao Xishui asked.
In the past, Chun Shisanniang's identity was not exposed, but if she were to take charge of Ningxiang Tower again, everyone would know that she was the Third Prince's person.
In addition, Chun Shisanniang's past involvement with Kong Xirong's father, Kong Zhou, is also widely known, and they obviously cannot expect Chun Shisanniang's line to force people like Kong Zhou to jump on their pirate ship. The situation is likely to be
Beyond their control, it becomes more complicated.
Han Qian pondered for a while and said, "Thirteenth Niang will advance this matter secretly first, and don't be in a hurry to come forward directly."
Han Qian didn't think Zhao Mingting could keep Chun Shisanniang's identity hidden for long if he continued to investigate from Ningxianglou Rouge Shop, but he directly pushed her into the open. Kong Zhou didn't want to be branded as the third prince, so he would definitely
With countermeasures, the whole situation will indeed become very chaotic.
However, Chun Shisanniang is secretly presiding over Ningxiang Tower. Even if she falls into Zhao Mingting's sight, it doesn't matter. But as long as Kong Zhou doesn't alert the snake, stir up the situation into chaos, and even mislead An Ning.
The palace made a judgment on Kong Zhou, Feng Wenlan and others, and the situation became more favorable to this side.
Yao Xishui thought that this might be the only way to push things forward first, and then he would have to wait and see the reaction from Anning Palace to decide how to proceed.
Leaving the three carefully selected healthy women to be trained by Chun Shisanniang, Han Qian sent Yao Xishui back to Wanhong Mansion before going to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion to meet the third prince.
As soon as he and Zhao Ting'er, who was dressed in men's clothing, dismounted in front of the Linjiang Hou Mansion, Feng Yi and Kong Xirong ran out in a hurry: "Han Qian, your father was sent to Xuzhou to serve as a governor.
He didn't tell us anything about it, which is very uninteresting."
In the view of Feng Yi and Kong Xirong, Han Daoxun's ability to be sent to Xuzhou as governor was naturally the result of the Han family's behind-the-scenes operations. They also naturally believed that Han Qian had known about this for a long time, and they blamed Han Qian for not being fair enough.
"Xuzhou is a savage land. It's not as prosperous as Jinling. I can't even hope to go there." Hearing Feng Yi and Kong Xirong come running over and yelling, Han Qian breathed a sigh of relief.
Knowing that it was done, he just said it indifferently.
