Xiao Ding watched his subordinates and guards clean up the mansion at the mansion given to him by the emperor. Suddenly, a guard came to report that he had found a letter from the king of Jiaozhou in the room of Shangshu Huan Yuanqing of the former military department.

Xiao Ding was curious, and said in his heart, who is the king of Jiaozhou? Is there anything wrong with his letter to Huan Yuanqing?

So Xiao Ding said, "Go and bring the letter to me and I'll look at it." ”

The guard said yes and left, and after a while, he came with a wooden box. handed the wooden box to Xiao Ding and said, "General Tian, the letters are all here!" Please take a look! ”

Xiao Ding took the wooden box, opened the lid, and saw that there was a stack of letters inside. The top one, the envelope, looks gorgeous, and is made of colored cardboard. It is glued with a colorful cloth pattern.

You must know that the papermaking technology of this era is very limited, and the paper with good quality and beauty is very valuable. Even the commonly used rice paper is unaffordable for ordinary people, let alone this gorgeous high-grade paper.

Xiao Ding saw that this envelope was written, "Heng Yuanqing of the Ministry of War personally opened" a few big characters, and the cashier was written with "Jiaozhou Wang Yuanyan Shousu" a few small characters.

Xiao Ding picked up the letter, took out the letter inside, and asked the guard, "Who is this King of Jiaozhou?" ”

The guard was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "General Tian, haven't you heard of the king of Jiaozhou?" This king of Jiaozhou is the younger brother of the current emperor, named Song Yuanyan, who was appointed by the emperor to Jiaozhou to be the prince, and asked him to cooperate with the governor of Jiaozhou to guard the southern border of my Great Song Kingdom. ”

"The southern border? Which country is next to the southern border of my Great Song Kingdom? "Xiao Ding is really not familiar with the geography of this era.

"It's the Dali Kingdom and the Great Southern Barbarian Kingdom in the southwest! There is also a large Tobo country on the other side of Xijiangzhou. The guard replied.

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Xiao Ding nodded, opened the letter, and saw that the font inside was strong and powerful, and the force penetrated the back of the paper.

There are many traditional characters in the letter that Xiao Ding doesn't recognize, but he can understand the meaning of the context.

The general meaning of the letter is that I sent a generous gift to Evergrande people with the letter this time, just to make friends with Evergrande people. I hope to be able to communicate more in the future. At the same time, because Jiaozhou is located in southern Xinjiang, it is close to the Great Southern Barbarian State and the Dali State. The fishermen of my Great Song Kingdom go out to sea to fish, and they often encounter pirate attacks from the Great Southern Barbarian State, so I hope that the Evergrande people can write to the emperor and ask the emperor to continue to expand the army in the Xujiaozhou region to defend the border and fight the pirates of the Great Southern Barbarian State. The last signature of the letter is still a few small words "Jiaozhou Wang Yuan Yan respectfully".

At first glance, there is nothing different about this letter, it is just an ordinary letter. Song Yuanyan, the king of Jiaozhou, felt that there were pirates from neighboring countries in the southern Xinjiang waters, and hoped that the military department Shangshu would come to help the emperor and ask Xu Jiaozhou to expand his army. That's all.

But as soon as Xiao Ding's mind turned, he immediately thought of a suspicious point, that the king of Jiaozhou wanted the emperor to promise him to expand the army, why didn't he directly write to the emperor to explain the reason? Why did he go around in a circle and find the secretary of the military department to speak out for him? What exactly did he mean?

Of course, Xiao Ding couldn't guess the details. He looked at the other letters in the wooden box, all of which were private messages between Heng Yuanqing and some officials, or letters from subordinates reporting on official affairs. There were no more letters that made him suspicious.

Xiao Ding was a little curious, why did the guard be suspicious when he saw these letters when he was packing up his things and reported them to him? Then he asked, "These are just ordinary letters, why do you tell me?" ”

"Oh, maybe I'm wrong, I saw a letter from the king of Jiaozhou, so I came to report it." The guard scratched his hair and said.

"Why do you come to tell you a letter from the king of Jiaozhou?" Xiao Ding continued to ask.

"General Tian, you may not know, the guards in our palace are secretly rumoring that the king of Jiaozhou has been actively stockpiling grain and expanding his troops in the past two years, and it is possible that he will rebel!" The guard said matter-of-factly.

"Rebellion?" Xiao Ding was startled, his steps slipped, and he almost didn't fall.

"Yes, General Tian, don't talk nonsense about this, these are all things we heard behind our backs, and we don't know if it's true or not. Don't tell King Mu that I said it, otherwise King Mu will blame me, and I can't afford to be guilty! The guard said cautiously.

"Okay, I won't tell King Mu that you said it!" Xiao Ding nodded in response.

But I was secretly thinking in my heart, if this matter is true, it is not a trivial matter, according to the normal procedure, this matter must be told to the emperor to know, but Xiao Ding knows that King Mu is the prince, tell King Mu about this, and let King Mu Song Yinzi go to tell the emperor, it will be better than telling the emperor directly. After all, the king of Jiaozhou is also the emperor's younger brother.

If the king of Jiaozhou did not have the intention of rebellion and went directly to the emperor to report it, wouldn't it become a false accusation of the royal family?

Therefore, Xiao Ding still decided to tell King Mu Song Yinzi about this matter first. Then let the emperor check it himself.

At noon, Song Yinzi came over in person, and after meeting Xiaoding, the two went to the restaurant for lunch together.

Song Yinzi is very familiar with Zhongzhou City, and there are several well-known restaurants he knows.

So it didn't take long for Xiao Ding to follow Song Yinzi to a restaurant called "Xianren One Step". This restaurant is famous for its good at making river fresh. The signature dishes include Qingjiang Jinxiu grilled fish, special golden fried eel, braised mandarin duck river shrimp, stir-fried potato powder river snail, snow clam abalone sauce shrimp balls, stone-roasted taro puffer fish, etc., more than a dozen special signature dishes.

Zhongzhou City is close to the Yangtze River, and it is not surprising that there are restaurants in the city that are good at making river fresh. Every day, the "Xianren One Step" restaurant can collect the freshest ingredients from fishermen inside and outside the city, so the "Xianren One Step" restaurant is also a household name in the aristocratic circle.

asked for a pot of wine, a copy of each of the signature dishes, and the two chatted while eating and drinking.

Xiao Ding told Song Yinzi about the morning. Song Yinzi was also stunned and said: "I have also heard rumors in the market that my fourth uncle is expanding his army with grain, and he has the intention of rebellion. But I told my father, but my father didn't believe me, and scolded me again, saying that I should not listen to rumors and spread falsehoods. It hurt the feelings between their brothers. ”

When Xiao Ding heard this, he thought to himself that he was fortunate that he didn't go directly to the emperor to report this, and if he did, the emperor would not believe it.

"It seems that Your Majesty still trusts your Fourth Uncle Wang very much!" Xiao Ding said.

"Yes, I once heard my father say that my grandfather once wanted to make my fourth uncle the crown prince, but later because Prime Minister Zhao Cheng and several other ministers strongly recommended my father, my grandfather later made my father the crown prince and succeeded him on the throne." Song Yinzi recalled.

"Prime Minister Zhao? Who is Prime Minister Zhao? Xiao Ding wondered, and said that this minister could change the emperor's mind!

"That day in the court, I persuaded my father and the emperor not to let you be a high-ranking official, the white-bearded old man, his name is Zhao Shisun, and he is a veteran of the Three Dynasties. He assisted my great-grandfather, my grandfather, and my father. He's in his nineties this year. Song Yinzi said.

"Oh, I see!" Xiao Ding finally knew who the white-bearded old man who prevented the emperor from sealing his high-ranking officials that day was. Then he then asked, "And who is the other old man who opposes my official position?" ”

"The other one is Taiwei Gao Geyu, who is in charge of all the military affairs of our Great Song Kingdom." Song Yinzi said.

Ball? Little Ding Wan'er, my heart said that this name is really interesting! He knows that in history, there was a captain named Gao Yu who was good at kicking and jujuing, and today he traveled to this different world and met a captain named Gao Geyu, who seems to have the potential of a minister!