Early the next morning, Guo Rong came to Han Qian to discuss how to determine the details of the wedding with Shu Honglu Temple and Zongzheng Temple next, Han Qian smiled and said: "I don't know how to learn, I have a vulgar temperament, and I have long been famous in Jinling, and I don't know anything about many etiquettes. ”

Han Qian will not spend the limited time in Shu on red tape, and Guo Rongneng can be appointed as a deputy envoy, which means that he is better at this aspect, so Han Qian simply pushed these affairs on his head.

Seeing Han Qian say this, Guo Rong was also a hard-working and resentful man, and when he was about to return to his residence to think about these things carefully, he turned around and heard Han Qian ask behind him:

"Many people say that after the third prince marries the lord of Qingyang, His Majesty will abolish the heir and re-establish it, what does Lord Guo think of this?"

Guo Rong knew that Han Qian would have to ask this question, but when he really heard it, he couldn't help but be stunned, his body turned stiffly, and he looked at Han Qian's burning eyes as if he were piercing his heart, and he didn't know how to answer this question when he opened his mouth.

In any case, he was labeled as the Anning Palace, and it can also be said that he should be the kind of person who is the most unworthy of the three princes to ascend the throne, and once the three princes ascend the throne, even if he can save a remnant of his life, he will be swept into the waste heap in the unknown corner.

If he didn't want His Majesty to abolish the eldest prince and set up three princes, what kind of changes and turmoil would happen to Dachu, Guo Rong would not be difficult to imagine.

Han Qian's question, how did he answer?

"Everything is at the discretion of His Majesty's Sacred Heart, Guo Rong is just His Majesty's minion, where is he qualified to put his beak in such matters?" Guo Rong hung his head slightly, and after a long time he said this, he made another wave and turned to leave.

"Keep an eye on this thief carefully, and he won't have a chance to get in the way." Feng Yi said puzzled.

In Feng Yi's opinion, Guo Rong is now like a tiger with teeth removed, but it is still in their hands, and he only needs to send someone to keep an eye on Guo Rong and not call him a bad thing, where do you need to test his attitude so seriously?

"Then it's up to you to keep an eye on Guo Rong." Han Qian said with a smile to Feng Yi.

The human heart is the most difficult to figure out, throughout the ages, screening opponents, blood clans and relatives are estranged, probably the most direct and simple factional division, but if it is really so simple, where in the world will there be father and son fratricidal?

Guo Rong was in a miserable situation since childhood, although he was born in Guangling, the land of fish and rice, but his parents, brothers and sisters were starved to death, and he was orphaned and then exiled to the countryside, and was included in the Guangling Jiedu Embassy as a slave and eunuch, and then merged into Huainan with the Guangling Jiedu Envoy and served under the command of Emperor Tianyou.

Measured by this, Guo Rongbiao's standard is the descendant of Anning Palace.

As long as it is a human being, it has its particularity, and Guo Rong is no exception.

Guo Rong served in the palace in his early years, and he had a good reputation, and he also had a relationship with his father Han Daoxun.

Although Guo Rong was able to go to the side of the three princes, it was largely due to the factors of Anning Palace to monitor the three princes, but in the end, this vacancy fell to Guo Rong's head, and Han Qian believed that Emperor Tianyou must have weighed it.

In fact, Guo Rong has been monitoring this side for Anning Palace in the past few years, but he is gentle in his methods, and he has no intention of persecuting the three princes, which is also a factor that they have been able to accomplish many things in the past few years.

Guo Rong has also been thrown in this awkward position because of his ineffective work, and it is rare to gain the trust of Anning Palace.

Han Qian's question just now, in addition to wanting to test his true thoughts in his heart, was also to further confirm that he really knew very little about the plot of Anning Palace.

Yang Qin and Zhou Chu stayed outside the city yesterday, and only came in to Jinhua Building before noon to meet Han Qian and report on the situation of the brigade stationed in the designated military camp of Honglu Temple yesterday.

Whether it was the guards who followed Han Qian into the city, or the brigade stationed in the designated camp, they were all strictly controlled by the Shu army

Secret surveillance, this is also the meaning of the question.

In addition to the bridal gifts of the Chu State and the goods carried by Han Qian privately, the four sailing ships also carried thousands of Qianyang cloths, as well as a batch of tea medicine, ironware, Yandang Spring spirits and other goods that were special products of Xuzhou, and they had to find corresponding merchants in Shudu to sell them.

After having such a foundation, as long as Chu and Shu formally conclude the alliance, the bulk materials produced in Xuzhou can be transported into Sichuan and Shu through the Yangtze River waterway as quickly as possible.

For Han Qian, this can be regarded as a balance between public and private.

These things, Guo Ke, Xi Fa'er, and even Yang Qin are all handy, but Han Qian handed over the troops outside the city to Yang Qin to command, Xi Fa'er and Kong Xirong guarded him, but Guo was responsible for leading Jinyunlou to infiltrate the people of Shu to search for information, and handed over the disposal of bulk goods and contact with Shu merchants to Zhou to take people to hand over.

Zhou was born as a township soldier, caught thieves and guarded the township to get merit, and had to be appointed as a small official, and then step by step promoted to the county lieutenant, in addition to relying on his martial arts, training township soldiers and even defending the city have a set of means, but at this time he is nearly forty years old and businessmen to deal with traffic, it is indeed a little difficult for him.

However, as a subordinate officer, the whole family was not sent to Jinling for trial, so he was spared death, and no matter how embarrassing the situation was by Han Qian's side, he could be regarded as a stand-alone, could it be that he could still hold the authority of the county lieutenant in the past and not put down his body?

Yesterday, I rented a warehouse outside Nancheng and moved the goods into the warehouse overnight, and Zhou and Yang Qin rushed over to see Han Qian at this time, their eyes were red and swollen, presumably they counted the goods overnight, and they didn't sleep much.

Of course, Han Qian's designation of Zhou to be responsible for these things was not to deliberately embarrass him, but to further sculpt him from the aspects that Zhou was not good at.

Otherwise, Zhou Chu's experience accumulated during his tenure as the lieutenant of Wuling County would not be enough to integrate into Xuzhou.

Talking about things here, Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, sent someone to invite Han Qian to his mansion for luncheon.

There were very few generals and ministers of Shu who supported the alliance with Chu to resist Liang, and the marriage of the county lord of Qingyang into the state of Chu involved the delicate relationship between the prince and the marquis of Changxiang, so except for the officials of Honglu Temple and Zongzheng Temple who were ordered to discuss the matter of marriage and reception, no one would take the initiative to go to Jinhualou Nanyuan to pick up Han Qian and their closeness.

Han Qian immediately invited Guo Rong and several officials sent by Honglu Temple and Zongzheng Temple to discuss the matter, and took Xi Ying, Yang Qin, Zhou Chu, Xi Fa'er, Guo Ke, Feng Yi, Kong Xirong and others to the Changxiang Marquis Mansion for a banquet.

Changxiang Hou Mansion and Jinhua Building are separated by an alley, covering an area is also very wide, the pavilions and lofts in the house are very numerous, and the cold-resistant flowers collected from all over the Changxiang Hou are planted more, so that in the cold winter season, the Hou Mansion is full of flowers, strange and fragrant.

If it weren't for Han Qian's early confirmation that the Marquis of Changxiang was not simple, just looking at the situation in the Hou Mansion, most of them would mistakenly think that he was a noble son who was immersed in the rich township.

The marquis of Changxiang, Wang Yongping, did not interact with the generals of the court, and the few people invited to accompany the banquet were all Confucian scholars who were known as scholars in Shu, and they did not see the figure of the county lord of Qingyang, Han Qian thought that after returning to the Shu capital, the county lord of Qingyang did not want to ask others to make irresponsible remarks, so it was probably inconvenient for women to disguise themselves as men and contact them with these Shu envoys.

They all seemed to have to be reminded by Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, except for the envoys of many teaching workshops to find the luthier and kabuki to perform to help the fun, no one stood up to fight for poetry and lyrics during the banquet.

To tell the truth, if you don't look at the flowers in the garden, just look at the people who go to the banquet, the cold situation in the Changxiang Marquis Mansion is even bleaker than when the third prince Yang Yuanpu just left the palace and went to the palace - the third prince still had the Xinchang Marquis Mansion and Shen Yang and Han Qian, the attendants designated by Emperor Tianyou, and read with them.

After the banquet, the scholars and Confucian scholars who accompanied the table retired and left, Guo Rong and the officials of Honglu Temple and Zongzheng Temple went back to Jinhualou Nanyuan to discuss things, and Han Qian and the others continued to stay in the Changxiang Hou Mansion to enjoy the beautiful gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.

There was the sound of a harp in the garden.

"Does this sound familiar?" Feng Yi hesitated

Han Qian said in his ear.

"Why, do you think there is an old man hiding in the Changxiang Marquis, can you hear who it is?" Han Qian was half a step behind and asked Feng Yi in a suppressed voice.

"It doesn't have to be the same person, sometimes there are similarities in plucking techniques," Feng Yi said suspiciously, "I thought it was Su Hongyu at first glance, but it's not the same person." ”

Xi Ying followed closely behind Han Qian, and was secretly shocked when he heard Feng Yi's words, which actually confirmed all Han Qian's speculations about the Marquis of Changxiang and the Lord of Qingyang during this time.

Su Hongyu, Yao Xishui and the people who played the piano in the garden, as well as Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, and the county lord of Qingyang, were all from the same family.

"You're a thief's ear!" Han Qian scolded Feng Yi with a smile.

"What's wrong?" Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong didn't know what medicine Han Qian was selling, so he stopped by the small pool in front and asked.

"This piano sounds wonderful, and I think it's a cut better than the luthier at the banquet just now." Han Qian praised quietly.

"Then please come with me to meet this luthier." Where did Changxiang Hou think that Feng Yi's ears were so thief, so he smiled mysteriously.

Changxiang Hou Wang Yong led the way in front, Han Qian and the others then followed the sound of the piano to the depths of the garden, bypassing a rockery, the courtyard suddenly opened up, but saw a wooden pavilion built between the flower ponds, and a pair of flower-like jade people were sitting in the wooden pavilion playing the piano.

Seeing Changxiang Hou Wang Yong and Han Qian coming over, the two of them stood up and walked over.

Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, took the soft little hand of the beautiful woman who played the piano and introduced it to Han Qian: "Wan'er is the concubine of Benhou......"

"The Liang family has seen Lord Han." The beautiful woman is the same age as Xi Ying, she is exquisite, her beautiful eyes are like a little paint, deep and moving, and she worships Han Qianyingying.

"Concubine Hou is very polite." Han Qian waved his hand and saluted, Liang Wan is a rare beauty in the world, but compared to the girl behind her, she is still slightly inferior.

Han Qian also saw the county lord of Qingyang change back into women's clothes for the first time today, and he never thought that she would show her true face, snow fat jade skin, beautiful facial features, and unearthly temperament, it really set off other women to lose their faces, no wonder at a young age, her name spread out of Shudi.

Han Qian's eyes only stopped for a moment on Qingyang's face, then he took it back, suppressed the slight panic in his heart, and followed the Changxiang Marquis to the wooden pavilion.

The wooden pavilion was small, everyone else was waiting in the garden, and Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, only let Liang Wan and Qingyang serve tea on the side.

Han Qian looked at the fish pond in front of the wooden pavilion, with a slightly drunken feeling, and asked Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, in a confused manner:

"I have a fact that I don't understand, and I have to ask Master Hou."

"If Lord Han has any confusion, please tell me." Changxiang Hou Wang Yong said.

Han Qian said: "I heard that the Marquis of Qingjiang had a banquet one day, and the concubine danced to cheer up, and he had a famous general who drank a lot of wine and praised the beauty of the concubine a few more words, but the Marquis of Qingjiang not only did not think it was angry, but even sent the concubine to the general's house after the banquet as a reward, which shows that the Marquis of Qingjiang is really an open-minded person who is willing to make friends." And Hou Ye is not in love with the authority of the stack, every day Buddha makes words, and the guests and friends come and go in the house, it is useless to talk about Confucianism, if Hou Ye is just secretly planning to marry the lord of Qingyang County to my lord, I hope that this idle day can continue in the future, and there is really no need for the Hou of Qingjiang to make a big fuss, and repeatedly arrange for me to make things difficult for someone Han? Or rather, what other things did Hou Ye do behind his back fell into the eyes of Qingjiang Hou? ”

Hearing Han Qian say this, Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong was also slightly surprised, and he couldn't figure out for a while whether Han Qian had gone through the two incidents yesterday and confirmed that Qingyang's marriage to Chu was his plot, or whether he had already determined this matter, and only delayed it until this matter was revealed?

Of course, the meaning of Han Qian's words is also clear, that is, to tell Changxiang Hou Wang Yong directly, sample, don't pretend in front of me, you kid must have some horse's feet exposed for Qingjiang Hou to see.

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