Today's saint is a person with a great sense of time.

Take this sacrifice as an example, if it is replaced by another emperor, he will be trapped in the palace wall all year round, and he can't wait to take this opportunity to relax. Today's saint set the itinerary very tightly, starting from the capital on May 12, arriving at Mount Tai on the 14th, worshipping the sky on the 15th, and returning to Beijing on the 16th.

Zhou Shu only knew that the king of Ji'an was going to rebel, and he didn't know when and where the king of Ji'an was going to move, where he was going to transfer troops, and who he was complicit with. The investigation takes time, and it is only ten days from the time he determines that the king of Ji'an is going to rebel to the time when the emperor leaves Beijing, which is really too hasty.

This is the first time that the Holy One has worshiped heaven in the twenty years since he ascended the throne, and it is of great significance, and it is impossible to cancel it. So he sent a secret letter to the capital and asked Xiao Zheng if he could find a way to persuade the Holy Admiral to postpone the date of the sacrifice to the heavens, even if it was only for two or three days.

Although he trusts Xiao Zheng very much, it is difficult to say such words as "my father wants to rebel", not to mention that if it is written on the letter, there is a risk of leakage at any time.

Xiao Zheng didn't understand why he and the civilians wanted to interfere in the affairs of the Holy Sacrifice to the Heavens, and he couldn't think of any reason why he had to ask the Holy General to postpone the Sacrifice to the Heavens, of course, he replied to him and said that he couldn't, and even asked him if there was something wrong with his brain, half ridiculously and half worriedly.

However, Xiao Zheng also inadvertently provided him with a lot of information in the letter, such as the saint came to worship the heavens with 5,000 Praetorian Guards accompanying him, and what were the courtiers and nobles who accompanied him......

Counting the days, the saint should leave Beijing tomorrow, but the things that Zhou Shu found out here are extremely limited.

First, King Ji'an acted carefully and cautiously, and he had more than ten or twenty years of planning. Presumably, the layout has already stopped, and it will be difficult to touch his details for a while;

Second, Zhou Shu was afraid that he would startle the snake, and he was afraid that the news would leak out and cause a lot of killings, so the people sent out to investigate were all selected and selected, and there were only six or seven people who could use it. The small number of people, the vague orders given, and the lack of a clear goal, made it difficult to investigate.

Zhou Shu's brows tightened, "There are only three days left......

"If your father is going to do it on the way up the saint, there will be no three days." Jian Ying pointed out a cruel truth.

Zhou Shu closed his eyes. Didn't speak.

"What has my father been doing all these days?" Jian Ying asked.

"I went out to meet friends twice a few days ago. In the past few days, I have simply closed the door and closed myself in the study to read. Lian Yan Chengdu is very honest, he only walks around the palace every day, and he doesn't have any contact with any suspicious people. Zhou Shu said with some frustration.

Jian Ying narrowed her eyes. "What about the prefect?"

She discussed it with Zhou Shu in detail. Did the king of Ji'an have any accomplices? If so, who or whom. The first thing they thought of was the Fang Governor's Mansion, after all, the timing of his transfer to Jinan Mansion was too coincidental, and he had a close relationship with the King of Ji'an. It's hard not to doubt him.

The prefect of Fang did not have a part-time job, he was a pure civilian official, he had no military power in his hands, and all he could mobilize was a miscellaneous army of less than 1,000 people in the government and Nalala, and it was okay to suppress a bandit or something, and he was desperate with the Praetorian Guards armed to the teeth, 100% cannon fodder.

If you don't have military power, you are also a parent official of a government, and there are many things you can do, at least it will be very convenient to get his support to act in Jinan Mansion.

"Ascending to court to try cases during the day and staying in the back office at night, except for being more diligent than usual, there is nothing unusual." Because the saint is coming, the officials of Jinan Mansion have become self-disciplined and diligent, and the business of restaurants and fireworks venues has become a lot colder, and it is not surprising that Fang Hongsheng is more diligent.

Zhou Shu paused for a moment, and then said, "Supervision, grain storage, rivers, water transportation, etc., the garrisons in Shandong and even the provinces have not moved, and the weapons hidden in the secret room of the water prison are still there, and no one ......has moved them."

He once suspected that he had misjudged himself, and that King Ji'an had no intention of rebelling at all. But it's because everything is so normal that it doesn't feel normal.

Nowadays, the saint is diligent and pragmatic, and it is not easy to do such a time-wasting and cost-effective thing as sacrificing to the heavens, and there may not be a second time before he dies and abdicates. Even if there is a second time, I don't know which year and month, King Ji'an is over fifty years old, and he can't wait to get the next time.

Moreover, he believed that the Holy Lord's decision to come to worship the heavens was also controlled by the King of Ji'an, and he secretly did not know how much money he spent to do how much he did to facilitate this trip, and there was no reason to bother to create opportunities.

The risk of attacking the capital is too great, and there are too many variables, otherwise the king of Ji'an would have rebelled a long time ago, so why wait until today? The reason why he has been dormant for twenty years is because King Ji'an does not simply want revenge, and usurping the throne is the real goal.

Only when he becomes the emperor can he achieve the old concubine's wish, rehabilitate the Dingguo Mansion, fulfill his promise for the first emperor, and posthumously crown the old concubine as the queen. The most important thing is that the king of Ji'an wants to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors and correct his name.

Zhou Shu empathized more than once, if he was the king of Ji'an, what would he do?

This is the territory he has controlled for twenty years, and it is easy to create chaos, take the opportunity of chaos to kill the saint, and then kill all the rebelling forbidden troops on the grounds of King Qin's escort, and control the courtiers and nobles who accompany him.

Although the secret letter of the first emperor shows his reluctance to let him recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, in turn, it is also ironclad evidence that can prove that he is the flesh and blood of the first emperor. Because of the case of the rebellion of the Dingguo Mansion, it is not a secret that the first emperor promised to make Liu Baolan the successor, and with his ability, it is not difficult to find a few people to prove this matter.

Empress Yao has nothing to do, and the current saint and his brothers who have been crowned kings are all concubines. Only he occupies the word "嫡", has the merit of King Qin's escort, and has a good relationship with the Manchu Dynasty headed by Master Jian, and it is a matter of course to take over the throne by falsely passing on the holy decree.

If anyone opposes his accession to the throne, he is a traitor and rebel against the party, and he is famous, which can not only suppress Liwei, but also block the mouth of the world.

So, where do the troops come from?

The imperial court had strict control over the army, and it was unlikely that the garrisons in Shandong and the neighboring provinces would be used by the king of Ji'an. The old lady's maiden family was in charge of the navy, and after the incident, the main generals were executed, and the navy was also scattered and incorporated into other armies. Even if the old lady escaped with a talisman in her hand and passed it to King Ji'an, she wouldn't be able to use it at this time.

Most likely, the king of Ji'an raised an army by himself.

To contend with the Praetorian Guard, at least a comparable number of men and horses must be available. With so many people and horses, it always costs a lot of food and grass to feed, and there must be a place to practice, and the key is not to be discovered, which is no less difficult than hiding from the world.

Zhou Shu asked people to search all the valleys and wilderness around Jinan Prefecture that could be Tibetan, but so far nothing has been found. Unable to find the source of troops, he did not dare to act rashly, lest he make a wrong step, not only could not stop King Ji'an, but leaked the news and invited death in advance.

Jian Ying didn't know anything about marching and fighting, and she couldn't go out at will, so she couldn't help him in this regard, so she could only sigh with him, "Alas, you said that your father is half a buried person, even if he becomes the emperor, he won't be able to be the emperor for a few days, what is the tossing and tearing like this?" ”

"yes." Zhou Shu smiled bitterly, suddenly stunned, but his eyes slowly lit up, "Lady, we seem to have ignored a person......"

――(To be continued......)