Little Dandy, He's a Little Good

Although the emperor sent blessings to watch over him, the crown prince's blessings still had no effect.

For three full days, Yu Jingdu's illness didn't improve, and he was still hanging on his breath.

On this day, the emperor came to Fu'an Palace as usual after he came down from court.

The palace servants were holding cloth towels to help Yu Jingdu clean his hands and face, when the emperor saw this, he said, "Come on."

As he spoke, he took the cloth towel from the palace man and patiently helped Yu Jingdu wipe his hands and face.

He has been the emperor for so many years, and it is probably the first time he has done such a thing, so Lai Funa behind him looks like he has seen a ghost.

However, the emperor became addicted to being a loving father, and he wished he could make up for everything he owed to his son in the past few days, so that no matter what happened in the future, he would at least feel less guilty.

"The red plums are not fresh anymore, why haven't you replaced them?" The emperor looked at the red plums in the glazed vase, and said with a little displeasure, "His Royal Highness is sick now, how can you neglect him like this? "

The palace people complained endlessly in their hearts, thinking that this flower was ordered not to be changed by His Highness's followers, how could they dare to make their own decisions?

But the people of Fu'an Palace were able to enter the inner hall to serve, all of them knew their proportions, even if they were misunderstood by the emperor, there was absolutely no reason to fight in person, so the palace people could only go outside to fold fresh plum blossoms while apologizing.

"Forget it, I'll go in person." The emperor walked out of the palace gate after saying that, and personally picked two plum blossoms in the yard.

The palace people looked at their noses and noses and their hearts, neither dared to stop them, nor dared to say anything more.

In the Jiang family's Zhuangzi.

After Rong Zhuo received the letter today, he opened it and saw that it was another letter written by Qingshi in advance.

Several days have passed, Qingshi still hasn't woken up?

Rong Zhuo put the letter into the drawer, and handed the letter he wrote last night to the guard who sent the letter.

Although he knew that Qingshi couldn't read these letters now, he still replied to the other party every day, without any slack.

It seemed that as long as his letter passed, it meant that Qingshi would definitely see it.

After the guards left, Rong Zhuo went to find Jiang Jiyan.

However, there seemed to be a visitor in Jiang Jiyan's study today. The person guarding the door didn't let him in, and even went in to make an announcement.

After a while, the guard came out and signaled Rong Zhuo to go in.

When Rong Zhuo entered the study, he was taken aback immediately, because he found that there was not only Jiang Jiyan in the study, but also one more person——Li Feng.

He has met Li Feng face to face, but he is not familiar with him, he only knows that the other party is the King of Banquet, and he is also very familiar with Qingshi.

"Li Feng went to Yuzhou a few days ago to work for His Royal Highness the Banquet King, and he just came back now." Jiang Jiyan said.

Rong Zhuo came here to ask Jiang Jiyan about Qingshi's situation, but when he saw Li Feng here, he said, "I don't have any business, you guys talk first, I'll come back later."

"Young Master Rong." Jiang Jiyan said: "Li Feng is not an outsider, you have something to say but it doesn't matter."

Rong Zhuo glanced at Li Feng, thought for a while before opening his mouth and said, "Qingshi hasn't heard from him for the past few days, and the person who sent the letter didn't tell me about his situation. He just told me not to worry. But I'm still a little worried... "

"He is currently in the palace of His Royal Highness Yan Wang, I'm afraid I can't take you to see him." Jiang Jiyan said.

"That's it... I understand." Rong Zhuo nodded in disappointment, turned around and wanted to go out.

But Jiang Jiyan stopped him and said, "You also know about the affairs of Yuzhou, don't you want to hear it together?"

As soon as his words fell, Li Feng and Rong Zhuo were a little surprised.

"Now that you have set foot on His Royal Highness's boat, there are some things you can know." Jiang Jiyan said: "Besides, now that you are in my residence, there is no need to guard against you."

Rong Zhuo was actually a little curious about the affairs of Yuzhou, so he stopped being reserved when he heard the words, and walked to the side and sat down politely.

Anyway, the Duan family's caravan helped with Yuzhou's affairs, and he considered himself not an outsider, let alone betraying His Royal Highness the Banquet King.

"This case of embezzlement of money and food for disaster relief, the facts of the case are basically clear. Some people in the capital teamed up with the officials of the household department to tamper with the money and food out of the warehouse. The actual money and food out of the warehouse were far more than the allocated amount. Arrived in Yuzhou Over there, they teamed up with people from Yuzhou to tamper with the money and food that was put into the warehouse, and the actual amount put into the warehouse was far less than the amount recorded, and the difference between the two sides was directly reported as a loss."

Rong Zhuo was at a loss when he heard it, and asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"

Hearing this, Jiang Jiyan picked up the teapot and placed several tea bowls on the table.

"Take two bowls of water and remember one bowl. When you get to the place, two bowls will become four bowls. Two bowls will be put in, and the remaining two bowls will be stolen." Jiang Jiyan demonstrated to him while talking.

Rong Zhuo understood after his explanation.

The money and food allocated in this dynasty has a method of measurement, silver taels are based on boxes, and grain is based on sacks, and the people who allocate them have tampered with the boxes and sacks, which will lead to more money and food out of the warehouse than the recorded money and food.

The analogy of this matter with modern things is that, under normal circumstances, a stack of RMB is 100, but someone deliberately made a stack of RMB 200.Taking out one hundred stacks in this way seems to be [-] million, but it is actually [-] million.

After arriving in Yuzhou, they dismantled the 100 stacks into 50 stacks, so that the [-] stacks put into the warehouse were nominally [-] million, but actually only [-].

In such a conversion, it is equivalent to paying 200 million and taking in 50. In the middle, you can get 150 million in ink.

Of course, the proportion of their hands and feet on disaster relief funds and food may not be so exaggerated, but even if there is a discount, only [-] to [-]% of it will be taken, which is not a small amount of money in front of the huge amount.

"This time, because Yuzhou is far away from the capital, the imperial court didn't allocate much food, and most of them were borrowed from the nearby area, but a lot of money was allocated. But because of the large amount of silver allocated, it was more convenient for them to do their tricks." Li Feng said.

"Isn't this too exaggerated?" Rong Zhuo said, "Could it be that there is so much money missing in the treasury, and no one notices it?"

"If you don't play tricks, you can see it of course." Jiang Jiyan said: "It's different if you do tricks, so you know why your father got involved, right? Because this matter requires the cooperation of more than one person, it is possible to be a god." Unknowingly."

But in this world, how can there be no one who doesn't know it?

As long as you do something bad, there will be a day when you will show your feet.

"Actually, these are not the most important things I found this time." Li Feng said, "Guess what happened after Qian Liang arrived in Yuzhou?"

"Could it be that the food was resold?" Rong Zhuo asked.

"No." Li Feng said: "Those money and food were greedy for ink, did they raise soldiers and horses?"

Jiang Jiyan was taken aback, "Yuzhou Camp? Don't they have military pay?"

"No, it's a private barracks." Li Feng said: "The private barracks has nearly 3 people, almost catching up with more than half of the Yuzhou camp."

"Turning private soldiers?" Jiang Jiyan said: "This is a serious crime, does anyone want to rebel?"

"I see that it may not be a rebellion, maybe it's just to leave a way out for myself." Li Feng said.

Rong Zhuo thought for a while and asked, "Then why is it Yuzhou?"

"Do you believe that no book can be written without coincidence?" Li Feng said: "When this person chose the place to station troops, he probably thought that Yuzhou's geographical location is suitable and it is convenient to go to all places. I didn't expect that Yuzhou was hit by a disaster this year, so it just happened to happen. "

"No wonder you have to take such a big risk to get money and food for disaster relief." Rong Zhuo said: "It must take a lot of money to raise so many soldiers and horses. The underground auction house that the prince set up before was given to you. He has no money, so I can only think about it." There are other ways, so I came up with the idea of ​​disaster relief money and food!"

Jiang Jiyan and Li Feng didn't expect him to mention the prince directly, and they didn't shy away from it at all.

"It's too rampant!" Rong Zhuo said angrily.

"This is not the most troublesome thing." Li Feng said: "The most troublesome thing is that we didn't find any evidence that the private soldier was related to that person, but found evidence against His Highness."

Before Yu Jingdu fell into a coma, he had heard the spies talk about the private barracks, but he was afraid of scaring the snake, so he didn't say anything.But before he fell into a coma, he had specifically told Jiang Jiyan that if he wanted to bite the prince, he had to have enough evidence in this matter to prove that the private barracks belonged to the prince.

Otherwise, never mention this matter, so as not to cause complications.

"What is the evidence against His Royal Highness Yan Wang?" Rong Zhuo asked.

"In the private barracks, there are two generals from the frontier army." Li Feng said: "And these two people were acquainted with His Highness before."

In other words, once things break out, not only will the prince not be able to get rid of, but Jingdu will also be implicated.

After all, there are your people in important positions in the private barracks, how can this be explained clearly?

"The prince is too cheap, isn't it?" Rong Zhuo said angrily.

After thinking about it carefully, he realized that the original book did not involve the plot of the private barracks at all.

The only thing involved in Yuzhou in the book, except for the disaster, is that Yan Wang went there to suppress the bandits.

Could it be that the plot line was disrupted by him?What happened to the private soldiers?

Or is it that the prince's mismanagement finally led to the mutiny of private soldiers and turned into a local banditry?

If this is the case, then it is reasonable that there are no private soldiers in the original book.

"Then what should we do now?" Rong Zhuo asked.

"Let's be on the safe side, let's put aside the matter of private soldiers first." Jiang Jiyan said: "The most urgent thing is to pull out the nails of the household department first. As for the crown prince... wait for His Highness to wake up... wait for His Highness to think of a way."

According to the rules, Li Feng and the others cannot directly submit the evidence they found.

Because the emperor sent an imperial envoy, he did this on his own initiative, and he would also make enemies for the banquet king.

So Yu Jingdu thought of a way before he fell into a coma, and asked Jiang Jiyan to check all the officials who went to Yuzhou with him this time from head to toe.At that time, choose someone with a strong handle to directly instigate rebellion, and let him report another investigation result to the emperor in his own name.

At that time, Jiang Jiyan doesn't even have to show up, and this matter will not have anything to do with Yu Jingdu.

In the eyes of outsiders, they would only think that this person has a sense of justice, so he took the initiative to reveal the truth.

"The only regret is that there is no way to expose the matter of the private barracks." Rong Zhuo said: "Otherwise, even if it is not found out that it was the crown prince's work, the prince's vitality will be seriously injured if he takes the pot there."

He didn't seem to give up after speaking, and asked the two of them: "His Royal Highness Yan Wang is so powerful, can he not think of a way?"

Jiang Jiyan and Li Feng looked at each other, thinking to themselves, who would have thought that there would be frontier soldiers in the private barracks?

Now that Yu Jingdu was in a coma, they couldn't figure out the seriousness, and they didn't dare to mess around.

Otherwise, if Yu Jingdu is involved at this time, something serious might happen.

"By the way, aren't there assassins from Qizhou?" Rong Zhuo asked, "They can't be used either? They were sent by the crown prince to kill us."

"There is no evidence, the prince can be said to be someone sent by His Royal Highness the Banquet King." Jiang Jiyan said: "If things go well, it's okay to pull them out and let your father take the opportunity to bite the prince again, but in the current situation, this Most of the moves are useless, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to pick them out.”

If Yu Jingdu was awake about this matter, he might have a way to win in danger.

But Yu Jingdu was in a coma, how could Jiang Jiyan dare to make his own claim at such a juncture?

The bad thing about this matter is that no one expected the prince to sell such a move in the private barracks.

Obviously, the other party had expected this day long ago, and even found a way out for himself.

"Actually, I..." Rong Zhuo hesitated to speak.

He did think of a way, but this way was a bit risky and would mess him up completely.

But when he thought about it again, even Jiang Jiyan and Li Feng couldn't think of a way. His idea was probably just a whimsical idea.

What's more, he hasn't met the Banquet King yet, so the other party may not be able to see him...

After a few days, the imperial envoy from Yuzhou also came back.

Jiang Jiyan followed the previous plan to instigate people, and successfully confessed the prince's minions in the household department, as well as the people in Yuzhou who colluded with the prince.

It's a pity that the prince's affairs are as clean as ever. Although he has lost several people, he has not been stained with right and wrong.

Of all the people involved in the case, none came out to bite the prince.

"Fortunately, there is no danger this time." After the court went down that day, the prince's servant rejoiced.

"So many people should not have been recruited in the first place. Now that the nails in the household department have been pulled out, it will not be so easy to install them in the future." The prince said: "I never thought that he would instigate against our people. I underestimated him, he could fight me even if he was hanging half alive."

"Although it's a pity to lose someone, but the matter in Yuzhou this time is thanks to the crown prince's mastery of chess." The doorman said: "Otherwise, if the private barracks is exposed, it will be troublesome."

"At this point in the matter, he may not have been aware of the private barracks, maybe it's just that there is no strong evidence." The prince said: "Once he finds the evidence, he will definitely put me to death as soon as possible."

"When that day really comes, it will be all right to bite him again. Who will make their frontier soldiers unable to withstand the temptation and betray him so easily?" The doorman said, "When the time comes, there will be his people in the private barracks, Let's see if His Majesty doubts him or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The prince sneered, feeling a little pleased in his heart.

"Your Highness, the Rong family and the Duan family have returned to the capital." A spy came to report.

The prince's complexion changed, "Come back in such a hurry?"

"Maybe it's because I'm worried about Rong Qinghuai's accident, come back and have a look." The doorman has arrived.

"The assassin who was sent out has never returned." The prince said.

"They don't have any identification marks on them, and if they are caught, no one can prove that they belong to us." The doorman said: "Besides, Young Master Rong is a young boy, and he can't make any trouble when he comes back."

"Do you want to dispose of it?" the spy asked.

"How to deal with it? Extinguish the family?" The prince laughed back in anger, "Are you afraid that the father will not suspect Gu? Now that Yu Jingdu is unconscious, if something happens to the Rong family, who else can be suspected?"

It was also expected that the crown prince would be scruples, so Yu Jingdu ordered Jiang Jiyan in advance to let Rong Zhuo and the others come back once things were done.

After leaving the capital for too long, both Rong Zhuo and Duan Zheng were suffocated.

Especially Duan Zheng, who took Rong Zhuo with him that day, and invited Song Ming'an and his gang to the restaurant.

It's been a long time since everyone has seen each other, so it's natural to gossip first when they meet.

During the dinner, only Rong Zhuo was absent-minded, because he was worried about Qingshi's body.

Counting the days, Qingshi has been in a coma for less than half a month.

In the past, Rong Zhuo didn't dare to come carelessly in Zhuangzi, but now that he returned to the capital, he was a little ready to move.

He even thought that it would be great if Jiang Jiyan could take him to see Qingshi.

If he is afraid of being suspicious, he can even disguise himself.

"Is there nothing else except the affairs of the imperial court?" Duan Zheng interrupted everyone.

"Will you listen to those in the palace?" Song Ming'an asked.

Duan Zheng immediately became interested when he heard the words.

"The matter between the crown prince and the banquet king..." Song Ming'an said mysteriously: "I didn't know that you just returned to the capital. Half a month ago, the crown prince's coronation ceremony, the banquet king suddenly became seriously ill for some reason, and he didn't attend the crown prince's coronation ceremony. "

Rong Zhuo was startled when he heard the words, and immediately withdrew his mind and looked at Song Mingan, "The Banyan King is seriously ill?"

"Yes, I almost lost my life." Song Ming'an said, "I heard that His Majesty was furious that night and punished the Queen."

Rong Zhuo frowned, thinking to himself, why is this Banquet King sick?

And it's still so heavy... For some reason, he always felt that something was weird.

"Why punish the queen?" Duan Zheng asked puzzled.

"Then I don't know, I just heard that His Majesty asked the empress to wait outside to think about it in front of many palace people. Think about it, it was a snowy day, she must be tired and ashamed." Song Ming Ando.

"Do you know what disease Yan Wang has?" Rong Zhuo asked.

"It's said that it's an old disease left on the battlefield, coughing up blood at every turn, and you can't get angry easily." Song Ming'an said: "He's been in a coma for half a month, and he hasn't woken up yet!"

Rong Zhuo's complexion completely changed this time.

Old illness, coughing up blood, not being easily angered, half a month in a coma...

So His Royal Highness Yan Wang has the same disease as Qingshi?

Is this old disease still contagious?

Thousands of thoughts seemed to rush out of Rong Zhuo's mind, and Song Ming'an could hardly hear what he said for a moment.

"And His Majesty not only punished the Queen, but also asked the Crown Prince to go to the Buddha Hall to pray for His Royal Highness the Banquet King for three days." Song Ming'an said: "That's His Royal Highness, asking him to go to the Buddha's place to chant scriptures for three days is uncomfortable enough just thinking about it." .”

Duan Zheng didn't notice Rong Zhuo's abnormality at all, and asked enthusiastically: "Why did you ask the prince to pray for him?"

"I don't know, I'm not there." Song Ming'an said, "But think about it, His Majesty just punished the queen the night before, and punished the prince to go to the Buddhist hall to copy scriptures and pray for blessings the next day. Isn't it a little bit of a problem? ?”

You must know that although the prince of a country is punished like this, although it doesn't look serious, it will definitely arouse speculation in the court.

If the emperor hadn't been in a hurry, how could he easily punish the two most distinguished people in the palace besides him?

So Song Mingan felt that there must be something wrong here.

"Is it possible that the Queen's illness was poisoned by the Queen, and His Majesty became angry. After the Crown Prince knew about it, he wanted to intercede, but His Majesty became even more angry and punished him?" Duan Zheng inferred.

The other dude who was silent all the time said: "Poisoning is definitely not an option, it's too easy to reveal the truth, and the king of banquets is an old disease, not poisoning."

"That's true..." Duan Zheng was moved by his persuasion without any position.

"What are you thinking about?" Song Mingan reached out and patted Rong Zhuo's dazed head lightly.

"Nothing." Rong Zhuo said absently.

He didn't want to spoil everyone's interest, but because the more he thought about it, the more strange it became.

How could Qingshi suffer from the same disease as His Royal Highness Yan Wang?

Taking a step back, even if the two of them had the same disease, they still fell ill at the same time, so there was no need for Yu Jingdu to hide such a big matter from him before.Yu Jingdu knew that Rong Zhuo was worried about him, if he told him about it, wouldn't it just be able to appease Rong Zhuo?

After all, no matter what, as long as someone does it together, it will become less scary.

Yu Jingdu told him so many things about Yan Wang, why didn't he mention the other party's illness?

Rong Zhuo thought about it, and finally a very outrageous idea slowly popped up in his mind...

He couldn't help but think of the hasty side with the Banquet King a long time ago.

At that time, he and the gang of dandies were waiting in the teahouse to see the King of Banquet, but what he waited for was a man wearing a black mask.

When Rong Zhuo thought of that black mask, he also thought of Qingshi's white mask.

The face under the two masks, one black and one white, gradually merged together unconsciously...

Rong Zhuo quickly remembered the scene when he soaked in the hot spring with Qingshi for the first time.

At that time, Yu Jingdu refused to take off his clothes desperately, but later, under Rong Zhuo's insistence, he barely exposed the injury.

Because he had no doubts about his identity at the time, Rong Zhuo could only misunderstand those injuries as being left by the guests of Xun Huan Lou, and even condemned those people.

Now that I think about it, those large and small wounds are more like they were left on the battlefield.

And what Qingshi said that day when he taught him how to wrestle a horse:

"As long as a person rides a horse, it is inevitable that there will be times when the horse falls, and accidents will always occur when you don't expect it."

"If you want to ensure your own safety, you don't want to keep yourself from falling off the horse for the rest of your life, but you have to learn to fall off in the safest way when you encounter danger."

At that time, he didn't think there was anything wrong with Qingshi's words, but now that he thinks about it, he realizes the problem, because the sense of crisis in those words is too strong, it's like a person who has gone through a risk and is trying to save another person who is about to fall into danger. People plan.

What's more, Qingshi not only taught him horseback riding, but also taught him archery...

"Not everyone is suitable to be a teacher. It's normal for them to teach you."

I didn't think there was anything to say at the time, but now that I think about it, it is full of flaws.

Even the guards can't teach him things, why can Qingshi teach him so easily?

Doesn't this mean that Qingshi is more powerful than the guard?

The reason why Rong Zhuo has never had any doubts about Jing Du is because he has received very positive answers from Sister Hua and Jiang Jiyan.For this reason, he would even take the initiative to make up for Yu Jingdu every time he noticed a flaw.

But once he questioned Qingshi's identity, all the unreasonable things he had forcibly rationalized appeared one after another, and all of them showed that there was a problem with Qingshi's identity!

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