On the afternoon of this day, Caozhou Thorn Shi Kong Dezhen's chapter together with the excavated stone plaque passed into Beijing, Fan Zhen received the chapter and hurriedly entered the palace to meet the audience, when Guo Rong was in the Zide Hall to meet with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, to discuss the second daughter of the king of Nawei to continue the letter of ceremony and levy matters, this is the fourth of the six rites of the marriage procedure, even the emperor is no exception, but it is handled by the officials of the Ministry of Rites. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Official! Fan Xianggong has an urgent matter to see! The inner chamberlain ordered Yang Sicheng to come in and say.

"Let him go to the side hall and wait!" Guo Rong replied, the side hall he said is the Jinxiang Palace, and the ministers are generally there, and the Zide Hall is the queen's bedroom, because of the absence of the queen, it is necessary to prepare for the marriage Du Guifei and Qin Guifei with the palace people to make some preparations.

Waiting from the inner attendant to take the royal chariot to the outside of the Jinxiang Palace, Guo Rong climbed up the high steps, entered the side hall through the back side door, and saw Fan Zhen, Dou Yi, Wang Pu, and Wei Renpu standing at the door of the hall facing the outside and muttering something.

"The official family has arrived!" The attendants in the entourage sang a promise, and Fan Zhen and Dou Yi hurriedly turned around and stepped forward to salute.

"A few Qing families don't have to be polite, sit down!" Guo Rong waved his hand, sat down after the first case, saw that a small wooden box had been placed on the table, so he took it and opened it, picked up the chapter and saw a black stone tablet at the bottom, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he barely finished reading Kong Dezhen's chapter, and there was a comment on it.

"Unwarranted words are false, should be appeased?" Guo Rong looked at Fan Qian's instructions expressionlessly, in fact, he was already angry in his heart, he could still be calm when he first received Chen Sirang's report, and felt that it was not appropriate to believe Fang Shi's words, but now there is another one, and he suddenly feels that his throne has been seriously challenged.

Fan Zhen's instructions were questioned by Guo Rong, and the four people sitting on the left and right looked at each other and didn't know how to speak, so Wang Pu got up and said, "Your Majesty!" The woe is not in the northwest, but in the forbidden army! At the beginning of the year, Lee In-so spread rumors and caused trouble, and then some people confused the public. After the Huainan War, some soldiers of the forbidden army said: Although the cloud rewards the merits, it stops at moving the town, and the reward is too light, and the attempt to rumor causes material discussion is not allowed. Those two things and the methods of these two stone tablets are as clear as they are, and the minister thinks that this is because people with ulterior motives want to spoil the smooth progress of the court's Northern Expedition, so the minister suggested that the forbidden army be rectified again. ”

"Huh? The whole army? The Northern Expedition is imminent, I'm afraid it's too late! Guo Rong shook his head when he heard this. Two of the three rumors that happened this year are related to Zhang Yue, and it is said that Zhang Yue should be summoned back to Beijing, even if these things are not his mastermind, they are always somewhat related.

And what Wang Pu said was after the Huainan War, on the day he returned to Tokyo, there were soldiers of the forbidden army complaining indiscriminately, Guo Rong suspected that Zhang Yongde connived at the soldiers, so he transferred him to the north. Now that Wang Pu's meaning is clear, he didn't suspect Zhang Yue at all, but thought that the trouble was in the forbidden army.

"If you don't reorganize the army, I'm afraid that one day you will have elbows and armpits, and it will be too late!" Wang Pu bowed solemnly again, and landed loudly, he said this not without purpose, but because he was aware of the factional problem of the forbidden army.

In fact, based on the three rumor incidents, the biggest suspect Wang Pu has vaguely speculated. Because Guo Rong returned to Beijing after the southern expedition this year, the forbidden army complained that the reward was too light, and then Zhang Yongde was transferred, and Zhao Kuangyin actually led the front of the palace to command the envoy, and he was in charge of the front of the palace.

At this moment, Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sent someone to send Zhao Kuangyin a letter and 3,000 taels of silver, asking him to speak well in front of Guo Rong, so as to reduce the amount of war reparations that should be paid by the Southern Tang Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin originally agreed, but he was afraid that Guo Rong would be suspicious, so he followed Zhao Pu's suggestion and presented the property to the palace.

Guo Rong happily accepted it, and did not doubt him, but praised him greatly. There is another small thing, Wang Pu also noticed that when Zhao Kuangyin went out to Huainan, he had harvested a large number of books, and deliberately used several large carriages to transport them back to Beijing in a high-profile manner.

Guo Rong didn't believe it when he heard it, but he still sent someone to check the private goods that Zhao Kuangyin brought back to Beijing, but found that it was thousands of books, and he couldn't help but be surprised, so he summoned Zhao Kuangyin into the palace and asked: Qing Fang is a general, opening up the frontier, and being a strong soldier, what is the use of books?

Zhao Kuangyin replied respectfully: The minister has no plot to praise the saints, indiscriminately send his appointment, and he is often afraid of not dying, so he gathers books, wants to hear widely, and increases Chile to assist the country!

Guo Rong was very happy when he heard this, and even said that Zhao Kuangyin was loyal and brave, so he didn't suspect him at all about the three rumors this year, but he no longer trusted the imperial princes Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin so much.

"Wenbo is saying too much, isn't it?" Guo Rong was very annoyed when he heard this, and unconsciously raised his voice, and asked: "Qing is worried about this, which army does he think did it?" ”

"No matter which army it is, it is not appropriate to make a big move, but if the army is fully reorganized, who will dare to disobey?" Wang Pu raised his head and asked Guo Rong's sharp gaze, of course he was not good at talking about the suspect, because he knew that even if he said it, Guo Rong would not believe it, but thought that he was making false accusations.

When Wei Renpu heard this, he also got up and said, "Your Majesty! The minister thought that what Wen Bo said was reasonable, and the forbidden army should be assembled as soon as possible, so that the generals can still be in charge of the troops when they are mobilized, and there will be no problem that the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers, and it is still too late to deal with it as soon as possible. ”

Fan Zhen also said: "This strategy is very good, it does not target anyone, but also avoids the expansion of the situation, and at the same time further strengthens the control of the forbidden army. ”

These events show that the generals of the forbidden army and the important ministers of the court are competing for military power, and what Wang Pu said is indeed the best way at the moment, Guo Rong pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "Then so be it!" The Privy Council immediately formulated a plan for the reorganization of the army, and summoned Fu Yanlin, Chen Sirang, and Zhang Yongde of Heyin to return to Beijing, and as for Zhang Yuanzhen of Hebei, he sent people to pacify him. ”

A few days later, Fu Yanlin and Chen Sirang returned to Beijing together, and Guo Rong summoned them one by one separately and inquired in detail about the details of the stone plaques dug up in Heyin, but naturally failed to ask any doubts.

Fu Yanlin has been in Tokyo for a long time, and he has always been low-key in doing things for people, and he rarely takes up temporary errands, he is Zhang Yue's father-in-law, the sixth brother of Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, and more of Wei Wangfu's agent in Tokyo, and there is a little bit of hostage, if you want to seek a higher position for Zhang Yue, you only need to open your mouth to do it, there is no need to do this kind of thing.

And Guo Rong will continue to marry the second daughter of King Wei, the marriage relationship will be more stable, and even the position of the crown prince will be canonized, and Fu Yanlin and Zhang Yue, the son-in-law of Weng, will not need to move stones and smack their feet by this means. Thinking of this, the little doubt in Guo Rong's heart at the beginning disappeared, and after reassuring Fu Yanlin with good words, he sent him back to Heyin.

Someone set up a bureau for himself, Zhang Yongde was bitter in his heart and couldn't say it, so he immediately entered the palace to ask for a meeting on the day he returned to Beijing, but he stood outside the Xuanyou Gate for more than an hour, Guo Rong simply deliberately snubbed him and delayed summoning him into the palace.