Chapter Seventy-Six: Guts
This morning, Liu Shangyi came over with a brass pipe.
When Yan Qingge saw it, he knew that there was news coming, but he didn't know which side it was.
"Auntie, whose letter is it?"
Yan Qingge looked at her coming over with a brass pipe, and had already guessed that this letter was for herself.
"Miss, it's from the prince."
Yan Qingge listened to it and hurriedly took it.
A thin piece of letterhead, just a few words, Yan Qingge looked a little strange.
Seeing her puzzled look, Liu Shangyi was a little puzzled: "What's wrong with you?" Is there something wrong with this letter? ”
Yan Qingge, read the letter twice repeatedly, shook his head and said, "There is no problem, but the letter from the prince this time is very strange. ”
Liu Shangyi was confused, Yan Qingge watched it twice, and suddenly understood, so he put away the letterhead, clapped his hands and said: "This prince writes a letter and plays anagrams with me, just like that, I don't want to write some normal words." ”
"Haha, Lord Wang, this is a test for you!" Liu Shangyi also smiled when she heard this.
Yan Qingge breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Yes, it's to test me." ”
Murong Yixuan is on the border, and his secret guard in the capital will definitely be closely monitored by the crown prince.
If the prince would not have done this kind of thing in the past, but now he and the three princes are on the border and the other in Jiangnan, the departure of these two people has made the prince stab in the back, and both of them have been sent by the emperor on errands, but he, the prince, has nothing to do in the capital, which is a bit ironic.
Therefore, it is better for Murong Yixuan to have fewer people in the capital, so as not to be targeted by the prince and cause trouble.
Therefore, he let Yan Qingge take action.
These people on the left and right will not be targeted by the prince, and even if they are nailed, they can't find out who is the leader.
She read the letter and felt that it was not a small trouble!
Murong Yixuan also sent a simple map on the stationery, and after Liu Shangyi left, she carefully began to study this simple map.
The map is very simple, typical of a marching map.
What she wanted to check was the situation of the materials and horses sent to the post station in the past few years.
Murong Yixuan actually found the post station.
For some reason, Yan Qingge had a bad feeling.
It's about border transportation, could it be that Murong Yixuan is suspicious of shipping and transshipment?
He would never tell her about it unless he had to, and he could use the people he had at his disposal, but he took the big risk of sending a message back to ask her to assist in the investigation, which only proved that his situation at the border was obviously not good.
Thinking of this, Yan Qingge felt that his hairs were about to stand on end.
The post station uses war horses, which can adapt to long-distance running, because of its particularity, it doesn't matter how many horses run to death, so the replacement of horses on the transportation line of each post station is very frequent.
However, in contrast, another task passed back by Murong Yixuan is relatively easy, that is, the purchase price of grain and grass this year in the main grain-producing areas around the capital.
When Yan Qingge saw this, he knew that Murong Yixuan had probably retrieved data from a few years.
It's just that this year is a bit special.
What was he looking for on this?
Is it a military salary?
Still is.....
The amount and method of grain and grass procurement in each place each year are determined by the output and a certain price of the year.
Looks like the situation at the border is not good!
Yan Qingge suddenly felt that she should go somewhere.
At noon that day, she took Cardamom out of the house and went to the pigeon loft in Beijing.
"Master, you are in such a hurry to take stock, the situation reported from all over the place, is there any trouble on the regent's side?"
Yan Qingge didn't answer directly, but said: "If you are troublesome, you will not know until the future, but this year, the water monster in Jiangnan is especially serious, and once it gets into trouble, we won't talk about our losses."
The prince is at the border, if the third prince can't handle the situation in Jiangnan well, he has to go to Jiangnan immediately when he comes back from the border, so won't this hot potato smash the prince's hands? ”
"You mean that His Majesty is very likely to send the regent to Jiangnan?"
"The crown prince and the third prince rarely even go out of the capital, let them go to Jiangnan to face this kind of thing, nine times out of ten they will smash the pot, and when the time comes, they will not handle it well, either they will send out a few elders of the royal family, or only the regent will go, and there is no other choice."
Yan Qingge knew very well in his heart that although the emperor attached great importance to the border affairs, but now the affairs in Jiangnan are even more tricky, and the border war is not an immediate matter, but the problems in Jiangnan are really in front of him.
That's why she's coming.
The use of carrier pigeons in Muwangfu is too eye-catching, and she is afraid that all the news will have to be changed here to make it less eye-catching.
"By the way, is there any news from Jiangnan today?"
The subordinate who was in charge of the pigeon loft brought several carrier pigeons from the direction of Jiangnan today, and Cardamom carefully checked the marks left by the subordinates and found today's information from them.
Yan Qingge took it in her hand and looked at it carefully, and the situation was really similar to what she thought.
The three princes are now in a dilemma, adding fuel to the fire.
"I'm afraid our third prince will have to cry first."
In the process of disaster relief, fraud will definitely be discovered, and once the third prince wants to investigate this matter thoroughly, it is equivalent to turning the officialdom in Jiangnan upside down, the problem is that he does not have the guts, nor has he been authorized by the emperor, and at the same time, there is no guarantee that he is really willing to offend so many people.
So now he is tied up, on the one hand, he can't offend the local officials, on the other hand, the emperor's will is also really there, and he can't meet the victims in person.
This is a dilemma, and even in the matter of disaster relief, the third prince is really a second-class dealer!
In this case, how can he handle things well?
"From now on, every day's information will be put here, send someone to take everything away regularly, and if I don't come out, I will ask them to put these things in a box and send them in, as for what method is used, I don't care."
Yan Qingge didn't want the people around him to be targeted because of this, so the transmission of this information also needed to take more thought, and he could only take the road of entrainment.
"Yes, my subordinates know, so should we do it over there?"
"You can let some shops put some cheap rice and grain up, but it is estimated that it will not have much effect, the price should rise or have to rise, if you want to stabilize the local agricultural grain prices, then you can only ask the government to open a warehouse to release grain, this is the most important thing, but I don't think the third prince may have this determination."
Yan Qingge knew very well in his heart that with only the inventory of a few shops, it was impossible to stabilize the price of rice and grain in Jiangnan, which was gradually starting to rise.
It is true that Jiangnan is a large output province, but natural disasters and man-made disasters gather, and there are no people who will hoard and suffer from catastrophes, whether it is the land of fish and rice, or anywhere else.
Natural disasters are true, but man-made disasters are probably not uncommon.