Yang Hong took just seven days to uproot all of Song Jia's cadres, Gu Chen formally submitted his resignation to the emperor, and handed over the defense of the capital to Yang Hong.

So, after the handover, Gu Chen generously returned to his home to be his Gu family and his landlord, and then guarded Qin Niang's birth with peace of mind.

In a blink of an eye, Qin Niang was about to give birth.

On this day, Gu Qing hurriedly entered the door, and said with a slight anxiety in his tone: "Master, the improved plan of the firearm has been stolen. ”

Gu Chen's hand that was peeling the nuts for Qin Niang slammed suddenly, and asked in surprise, "What did you say?" ”

Gu Qing glanced at his face before he spoke again: "There is news from the iron shop, saying that the blueprints for the improvement of firearms have been stolen, and the thief we have been arresting before also has eyebrows, just last night, the thief took advantage of Cheng Tieniu's inattention and stole the drawings in a grand manner." ”

Qin Niang on the side was so shocked that she even forgot to chew the nuts in her mouth, and it took a while before she asked, "Who is that person?" Can you hide it like this? ”

At first, they tried their best to make this guy show a flaw, and the more they tried to catch him, the more he could endure it, so that he didn't move at all.

They all thought that this thief had washed his hands at this point.

After all, now the people who can do things are already dead, the prisoners are prisoners, the overall situation has been decided, the third prince is currently the only candidate for the crown prince, and there will be no more branches, she doesn't understand, why are there still people stealing the improved map of this firearm at this time.

"Young Mrs. Hui, it is Cheng Tieniu's apprentice Da Niu, everyone also thinks that the forces hiding in the shadows have been uprooted, even if there were ghosts in the iron shop, but the master has fallen, and the slave should not make another second, so everyone relaxed their vigilance, but they didn't expect that his apprentice would be so unrelenting, and took the opportunity to steal the drawings while everyone was studying new styles in the ironsmith workshop."

After speaking, the cold sweat on Gu Qing's forehead was almost dripping, and he carefully observed Gu Chen's face, for fear that Gu Chen would accuse them of dereliction of duty.

"Didn't catch anyone?" Gu Chen asked.

Hearing this, Gu Qing knelt down on one knee directly, and said in a slightly panicked tone: "The subordinates were derelict in their duties, and when they found out, the person had already run far away, and besides, that guy seemed to be disfigured, so he didn't chase after him." ”

As soon as the words fell, Gu Qing only felt that the temperature in this room had dropped a few points suddenly, and his back couldn't help but burst into a layer of cold sweat, even if he lowered his head, he could feel that Gu Chen's gaze on him was as cold as a knife.

"However, the subordinates have already sent additional personnel to the major exit arteries to investigate, as long as there is a suspect, they will definitely be arrested." Gu Qing didn't dare to say that he would definitely be able to arrest people back, but he did send someone to investigate at the major checkpoints as soon as he got the news, and he didn't even let go of the trailhead.

Moreover, he calculated that the other party would be disguised, so he ordered that regardless of men, women, and children, as long as there was anything suspicious, they would all be detained.

"No one is caught, so what are you doing here? Why don't you get out of here and get someone! Gu Chen reprimanded with the anger in his heart.

What kind of mediocrity did he raise? There are so many people who can't even catch a single fine work, and they are embarrassed to come to him to beg for scolding.

"Yes, the subordinates retired." After Gu Qing got up, he didn't dare to look at Gu Chen's face, and disappeared quickly.

Gu Chen's face was very ugly, if the improvement map of the firearm was obtained by someone with ulterior intentions, it would definitely not be a good thing for Donglin.

Moreover, he had been suspecting that the person who stole the map had a huge financial backing behind him, and even had an iron mine that they didn't know about, but he hadn't found out the reason for it these days.

is to interrogate Song Xi, Song Xi just said that he handed over all the assets in his hands to Xiaoyu, but Xiaoyu's power has basically been swept away by them, but they know very well that they don't see any mines in it at all.

In other words, this child named Xiaoyu, the real owner may not be the eleventh prince or the former king of the tomb at all, and it is even more unlikely to be Song Xi, so who will it be?

"Gu Chen, you say, could it be a spy from another country?" Qin Niang asked worriedly.

Gu Chen shook his head, if it was just these people in the royal family who wanted to compete for the throne, but if it was really a spy of the enemy country, then things might be worse than they imagined.

"Gu Bai!" Gu Chen called outside.

Gu Bai's figure flashed in the next moment, and he clasped his fists at Gu Chen and asked, "What does the master command?" ”

"Send a message to Huaizhou and ask our people what has happened to King Huai recently." Gu Chen said in a deep voice.

He almost forgot that among this wave of careerists, only this King Huai, that is, the former crown prince, is still alive and well, although he was exiled to Huaizhou, but the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, who knows what he will do.

How can a lady of heaven who fell from the clouds to the mortal world be willing to succumb to others for the rest of his life?

Gu Chen almost subconsciously thought of such a person.

"Yes." Gu Bai responded and retreated.

Although Gu Chen has been in business for many years, the intelligence network in his hand is also very large, and there are his people in the entire Donglin Kingdom, although Huaizhou is a little remote, but since Song Yu was demoted there, he also arranged for people to go over, just to keep an eye on Song Huai.

The emperor didn't want to kill him because of the old feelings of the first empress, but such a person alive is undoubtedly the biggest hidden danger in the Donglin country, they are not the emperor, they can't kill him at will, but they can't let him sit in Huaizhou, and then have a chance to make a comeback.

"I heard that the border pass was victorious, Miao Jiang was defeated, and I will come to Beijing to seek peace in the near future?" Qin Niang cared about another thing.

These Miao Jiang people have always been insidious and cunning, and they sent people to sue for peace before, and they also specially sent the Miao Jiang Holy Maiden into the palace, looking at An An's share, but it didn't take long for them to unite with Xishu and start to besiege Donglin again, if it weren't for Song Yu personally fighting them over there for a few months, I'm afraid they don't know what to do now.

This time they are defeated, and they are coming to sue for peace, who knows if they will repeat it?

After all, sending a saint or something, it's really nothing, a saint is just a saint, and it's not the daughter of their King Miao Jiang, where does it have such a big marriage effect?

"Yes, the Third Highness almost hit their lair when he was at the border pass before, even if the Third Highness returned to Beijing, he would have made a good follow-up strategic deployment, so the defeat of Miao Jiang was already a foregone conclusion, if it weren't for the fact that the border pass was thousands of miles away from the capital, I am afraid that this good news would have arrived long ago." Gu Chen said, "But it's not so simple for them to seek peace this time, if they don't let some blood go, and want Donglin to spare them, how can it be?" ”

Gu Chen said and sneered.

When Miao Jiang's people came to negotiate peace before, it was Song Huai who was in charge, and Song Huai didn't know if he had privately discussed the conditions with Miao Jiang, so Miao Jiang's people were put back almost without any blood.

Now that they have been defeated for the second time, and it is Song Yu who is in charge, if they are still let go so easily, then in the future, won't those neighboring countries want to invade Donglin and invade Donglin?

How can there be such a cheap thing in this world?

Some people will never remember the lessons that did not pay the price, and if they don't use Miao Jiang to kill chickens and monkeys, wouldn't those neighboring small countries be in constant turmoil?

With years of war in the east, this national strength can no longer support a few more years of war, and if these neighboring countries are not deterred, the war will be endless.

No matter how powerful a country is, prolonged war is not conducive to the development of its people.

"These Miao Jiang people are used to being insidious and ruthless, last time they came to Beijing poisoned, causing epidemics, this time they came, they must be more careful, after all, a country that has been crushed and not too fatal, can do everything." Qin Niang thought that a small country like Miaojiang, even if it was defeated, would be difficult to govern.

They are good at poisoning, and they know how to take a cup, and it is not easy to send anyone to govern there.

If they are not convinced, it is very likely that they will bite Donglin back, and then it will be troublesome to stir up internal unrest in Donglin Country.

They are like this, to put it bluntly, dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, and it is impossible for Donglin to slaughter all the Miao Jiang people in any case, but the Miao Jiang people do not mind using one life for ten lives to weaken the national strength of Donglin.

Donglinguo has always governed the country with benevolence and righteousness, and paid attention to reputation, even if they took Miao Jiang into their own territory, they could not do a large-scale massacre of them, but the Miao Jiang people did not talk about this, for them, as long as they could stir up chaos within the enemy country, they would kill a few groups of people.

"Okay, don't worry so much, I believe that the Third Highness should be able to handle it, let's just wait for the child to be born at home with peace of mind, and when the child is older, we will take the child out for a trip together." Gu Chen said, reaching out to cover her bulging belly, his face glowing softly.

Qin Niang nodded, and pillowed her head on his shoulder, the candidate they personally selected for the monarch would not even be unable to cope with these things.

However, they never expected that the big bull who stole the picture would dare to take the initiative to contact them.

Qin Garden.

"Master, my subordinates think that this should be a trap, or let my subordinates pretend to be you to meet him." Gu Qing stood aside and proposed with a twisted eyebrow.

Early in the morning, the big cow who stole the drawings asked a little beggar to send him a letter, saying that he wanted to get the drawings back and asked Gu Chen to talk to him in person.

Gu Qing thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to come over and report it.

It's just that he feels that there must be fraud in this, if he lets Gu Chen go in person, what if he falls into the trap of the other party.

If that big bull didn't have a helper, there was no reason why he had so many people looking for so many people after he escaped from the iron shop.