Three days later, the Jamin caravan set out on the road with Tamara.

The target of their trip was St. Petersburg, the capital of the Rus' country. There, Tamara will go through the formalities of Duke Tamara's succession, and then travel to France with the Jamin caravan.

At the same time that Jia Min was heading to St. Petersburg, Feng Ziying also set off from the imperial capital.

On this trip, he led 200 craftsmen recruited from the craftsmen trained by Fang Xiucai. The first step is to rush to Bukui, and then from Bukui to Pingyuan City.

In order to buy time, he chose the waterway. Board the ship from Tianjinwei, land at Niuzhuang in Liaonan, and then take the overland route to Bukui.

This route is the same route taken when the government corps first drove to Bukui.

The imperial capital in the summer of Jimao seems to be much calmer than last year.

At this time last year, it was the time when the imperial court used troops against North Wendura and returned defeated.

A year has passed, and the shadow of that fiasco seems to be gradually passing.

The things that made people feel so heartbroken at that time seem to have become distant memories.

Last winter, with the victory in the battle to retake South Windura, the crushing defeat was briefly mentioned.

That mention was accompanied by some blood-boiling names.

For example, Jia Min, Princess Chang'an, Wang Ziteng, Feng Ziying, Chen Yejun, Wei Ruolan, etc.

Of course, the most talked about is the group behind these names

- Bu Kwai Regiment.

With the abolition of the government corps, the stories of those government corps have gradually been forgotten.

There doesn't seem to be much to talk about this summer, and it seems to be calm in the court.

There were no major moves in the imperial court, and there were no sensational personnel changes.

However, there is still some news.

There are two main ones that have become more popular recently.

One is that some time ago, Yuanheng Tianzi suddenly fainted during the early dynasty.

Although the imperial doctor was quickly cured, the emperor did not go to court for three consecutive days.

After the emperor restored the previous dynasty, the time of the early dynasty seemed to be less than the original.

So there are some rumors that the emperor's dragon body is not safe and so on.

Of course, people who eat whole grains will inevitably get sick. Although the emperor is the true dragon emperor, every emperor in history also died in the end.

Everyone is inevitably killed, even if they shout long live every day, this fate is inevitable.

In fact, everyone understands this truth, but no one says it.

Even the ordinary people in the imperial capital know that every word they say may be heard by the spies who are secretly hiding at any time.

If someone with a heart is asked to worry about it, then there will be no good life.

The so-called people with a heart, everyone in the imperial capital knows that it is the brocade army that makes people talk about it.

Another thing that has been talked about a lot is that there is some unrest in the south.

In Guangxi, there was a bandit of thousands of people, occupying the mountains as kings.

However, this matter does not seem to be a big deal.

Although it is a peaceful and prosperous era now, it is normal for some bandits to appear anywhere.

In the past, at the foot of a son of heaven like Changping, there were also Lu Bawang bandits.

In the end, it seems that no bandit can make the climate.

Now, the imperial court has asked the three feudatories to send people to encircle and suppress this bandit, and people believe that once the army arrives, it will not be long before the bandits will collapse.

Under the jurisdiction of the three feudal domains, he was in charge of thirty percent of the army of the imperial court, and it was not a trivial matter to encircle and suppress bandits of several thousand people?

However, there are also those who disagree.

It's too strange to say that this group of bandits appeared.

I've never heard of it before, and the local government has never found anything out of trouble. It is not easy for bandits of several thousand people to gather together, and it is not something that can be gathered together in a day or two.

Besides, where did their food, their money, their equipment, and so on come from? It takes a lot of money to feed such a bandit.

Of course, as soon as there is a discussion here, someone kindly reminds: Don't talk about the country, be careful that the wall has ears.

What needs to be guarded against is naturally the Jinyi Army.

In the imperial capital, the Jinyi Army is almost ubiquitous.

The Jinyi army guerrilla Xie Kun is now one of the most powerful figures in the imperial capital.

Although he is only a guerrilla of the third grade, even those who are of the first and second grades are treated politely when they see him.

Not only because he is now in charge of the Jinyi Army, but also because he can directly face the saint. You can follow the will of God and run errands in secret.

In case of emergency, there is also the right to cut first and then play.

It can be said that over the years, Xie Kun has always been a powerful figure.

As long as he wants to do whomever he wants, there is nothing he can't do.

This is true even for princes and nobles, civil and military officials. No one has ever dared to challenge Xie Kun's authority.

It is precisely because of this that over the years, Xie Kun's mood has always been good, and his life has been very moist.

However, in recent days, he has been in a bit of a bad mood. Not only is it not smooth, but it is even a little bad.

What made him even more angry was that it was an inconspicuous little person who challenged his authority.

How small is it? It turned out to be a minion, an out-and-out minion. A slave who drove a carriage, almost seventy years old.

This minion is Jiao Da, the servant in Ning Guofu.

Now, Jiao Da is locked up in the prison of the Jinyi Army.

He was caught half a month ago.

At that time, he was walking on Ningrong Street and met Zhang Cai, the housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, so Zhang Cai invited him to the tavern to have a drink.

In the past few days, Jiao Da has been very happy. He had already told Grandma Rong that he wanted to retire in the countryside and would not stay in the house.

Although Grandma Rong tried her best to keep him, and said that she would not send him on errands in the future, and asked him to retire in the house, Jiao Da still had to return to the countryside.

Grandma Rong was helpless, so she went to tell the old lady, and the old lady asked Jiao Da for questioning and kept him.

Later, when he saw that Jiao Da insisted on leaving, he reluctantly agreed. asked someone to reward Jiao Daqian, and asked Qin Keqing to allocate ten acres of land in the countryside to Jiao Da, and then agreed to let him go back to the countryside.

Jiao Daben didn't want to have a drink with Zhang Cai, but Zhang Cai dragged him hard, so he had no choice but to go.

The two drank for a long time, and Jiao Da drank too much, so he fell asleep on the side of the road.

When he woke up, he was in the prison of the Jinyi Army.

Later, someone came to interrogate him, asking about what happened twenty years ago. It's about Prince Yiyong and his granddaughter.

A few decades ago, Prince Yiyong was a well-known figure in the imperial court.

He was the elder brother of the former emperor, who was the crown prince at the time, but later gradually fell out of favor because of the competition with the former emperor for the throne and was deposed as the crown prince.

Later, it was the former emperor who was made the crown prince and inherited the throne.

After Prince Yiyong was deposed, he was assigned to Si/Chuan. It was not until the death of the first emperor that the current Yuanheng Emperor ascended the throne and was recalled to the imperial capital.

After Prince Yiyong was recalled, he died less than two years later.

Prince Chengyi, the son of Prince Yiyong, later offended the present day for unknown reasons and was beheaded all over the house.

Prince Yiyong had a very good personal relationship with Ning Guogong at the beginning, and when he was sent to Sichuan, Ning Guofu also sent him money to let him get through the difficult days.

Just one day before Prince Yiyong's son, Prince Chengyi's family, was copied, Jiao Da brought back a baby girl from Prince Chengyi's mansion.

This baby girl is Qin Keqing.

Qin Keqing is the little county lord of Prince Sincerity.

There are only three people in the entire Jia Mansion who know this secret: Jiao Da, Mama Lai, and the old lady.

Jiao Da and Mama Lai are slaves, and they naturally don't dare to make their own decisions about such a big thing, and it is the old lady who makes the decisions.

This is a big thing, even Jia Jing, Jia Yu, and Jia Zheng don't know.

Just when Jiao Da thought that he could bring this secret to the grave, this incident more than 20 years ago was found out.

In the past half a month, Jiao Da has been tortured almost every day, but he firmly denies it. Never admit that he once brought back a baby girl from Prince Chengyi.

Now, he was dying, and he felt that he was coming to the end of his life.

At this moment, the door of the cell opened, and several Jinyi soldiers moved in a chair, and a man in his forties sat on the chair.

The one standing next to him was Zhang Wen, who had been interrogating him all these days.

"Jiao Da, have you figured it out? Or don't say? ”

Zhang Wen said pleasantly.

"Jiao Da, recruit it, it's okay to recruit it, give you food, give you drink, raise it, let you go back and go to the countryside to retire. You're so old, why bother to suffer for yourself? ”

Jiao Da just didn't squeak.

"Do you know who this lord is? This is Lord Xie of the Jinyi Army. Lord Xie came in person, but he gave you enough face, as long as you recruited, not only did he let you go, but Lord Xie would reward you. ”

"Zhang Wen, how many times has Lao Tzu told you, I have never carried any baby girl to Jiafu. Nor do I recognize any sincere princes. What else do you want me to say? ”

Xie Kun coughed.

"Jiao Da, you should know my Xie Kun's name, as long as it is in my hands, there is no one who will not recruit, you should still recruit, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin."

"Xie Kun? Haven't heard of it. Return your name? Do you know what a daimyo is? Back then, Ning Guogong and Rongguo Gong were called daimyos. ”

Xie Kun was not angry, but smiled slightly.

"Jiao Da, a good man is a good man, why don't you even dare to admit this little thing?"

"Do you know what it means to be a hero? When Lao Tzu followed Ning Guogong to fight on the battlefield, where were you? When Lao Tzu carried Ning Guogong out of the pile of dead, where were you? You are just rats hiding in a hole in the ground, and you can calculate people behind your back, and you deserve to be a good man with me? ”

"Jiao Da, it's not worth your denial like this. You have made such a great contribution, how did Jiafu treat you? Are they so old, and they still ask you to work, and now you are still covering them up? ”

"That's what Lao Tzu himself is willing to do, and he can't be idle. Grandma Rong and the old lady are good to me, where can I frame them now? Although Lao Tzu is just a slave, he will not do anything to lose his conscience. ”

"Jiao Da, it seems that you are really stubborn, don't you think about your children and grandchildren? If we wanted to, we could clean them up right away. ”

"Xie Kun and Zhang Wen, be a man and leave a way back for yourself. People are doing it, the sky is watching, and if you do too many bad things, you will be punished sooner or later. ”

"Hahaha, retribution? Who dares to retribution? Who can retribution? Is it you, or Jiafu? Tell you Jiao Da, don't dream, I'm not even afraid of Jiafu, I will be afraid of you a few words? ”

"Xie Kun, don't get complacent too early. There are no people in Jia Mansion now. But as soon as that person comes back, you're scared. ”

"That person? Who? ”

Xie Kun's heart was inexplicably a little nervous.