Han Jian originally planned to inform Gu Weipan of the news that the empress was not in Jiangdu when he married Gu Xin'er, but because the war was imminent, Han Jian was busy transferring food into the city, so he never told Gu Weipan in detail.

Taking advantage of Gu Weipan's coming this time because of "exchanging land for food", Han Jian had to inform Gu Weipan of the exact matter.

Han Jian met this old man in the main hall of the East Palace, Gu Weipan still looked unkind, even if Han Jian was now his son-in-law, he didn't give Han Jian a good face.

"Is Your Majesty really not in Jiangdu?" After listening to Han Jian's words, Gu Weipan suddenly stood up, with a little annoyance in his tone, "Then where is Your Majesty now?" ”

"Mrs. Gu, if I know where His Majesty is, can I not sue you? The point is that I don't know now, so I can only keep concealing it, and then try to send someone to find it, and I can't be too public. Mrs. Gu should understand my hardships. ”

Gu Wei paced back and forth angrily, and after a while, he said again: "How many people still know about this matter?" ”

"Except for me and a few princesses of the county, no one should know. Mrs. Gu said last time that maybe Lin Shangshu would notice it, and he might be counted as one. ”

Gu Weipan thought for a while, shook his head slightly, and said, "No wonder these days, Lin Shangshu is also calling sick." The old man also thought that he might be angry with you because of the injury, but now it seems that he may have noticed something. What are your plans? ”

"Did Mrs. Gu say about His Majesty's disappearance, or about Lin Shangshu?" Han Jian asked.

"It's been nearly a month since Your Majesty went missing, and your plan has already been implemented. Now I ask you what to do with Lin Shangshu? With your character...... Don't do anything angry. Gu Weipan thought of Han Jian's ruthlessness and decisiveness when he investigated the case before, and said with palpitations.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Gu, people don't bully me, I don't deceive people, as long as Lin Shangshu is knowledgeable and knows how to consider the overall situation, how can I be embarrassed by him?"

Gu Weipan glanced at Han Jian with a suspicious gaze before sitting down.

The disappearance of the empress was not without suspicion, and now it was only confirmed.

After all, the East Palace's Mansion was also functioning normally before the arrival of the Empress, and the Empress arrived and disappeared again. Except for the ministers of the Luoyang faction who came with the empress, they will hold on to this. It's not a big deal. But the empress has not shown up for a long time, and there will be many suspicions outside, which is not conducive to the stability of Jiangdu's army.

"I don't mention this beforehand, but about borrowing grain. How exactly? Gu Weipan said in a deep voice.

Han Jian did not hide it: "The matter of borrowing grain." It's just nothing. ”

"Something like that. Don't hide it. The matter of your meeting with the envoys of the Qi Dynasty is now known to the whole world, and then the envoys of the Qi Dynasty left Jiangdu in a hurry. If there is no borrowed food. Why do you want to publish it? Gu Weipan said with some annoyance, in his opinion, this time Han Jian was not ready to tell the truth.

Han Jian said: "Isn't it strange that Mrs. Gu is so happy to agree to borrow grain?" ”

"You exchange land for food, and you still use the cities where my Wei Dynasty hangs the defense line in the south, and those cities are all barriers against the invasion of the Qi Dynasty. With such conditions, how could the Qi Dynasty not agree to borrow grain? ”

"Then if Taifu Gu is from the Qi Dynasty, do you think that my Wei Dynasty will exchange the city for them so lightly?"

Han Jian's question made Gu Weipan silent for a long time.

He also muttered, and it was indeed reasonable to think about this before. Nowadays, the price of grain in Jiangdu is constantly rising, which means that Jiangdu is short of grain and military supplies. Now in order to fight with Yang Yu and the Northern Wang Army, Jiangdu was forced to agree to some conditions to exchange grain with Southern Qi, which is also reasonable.

But hearing Han Jian say this, what was originally reasonable seemed to be a little unreasonable.

"What's going on?" Gu Weipan asked.

"The exchange of food is just a cover. In fact, the envoys of the Qi Dynasty returned in vain, and the grain that was about to arrive in Jiangdu was only the military rations transferred from Jiangdu, temporarily alleviating the predicament of Jiangdu's grain. Han Jian said.

Gu Weipan pondered for a long time and said, "In this way, what helps?" Isn't this self-deception? ”

Han Jian immediately analyzed the reason for the rise in grain prices in Jiangdu to Gu Weipan, and said: "The high price of grain is not due to the shortage of food. Jiangdu has been in good weather in recent years, and there is no war trouble, the people are rich, and there is a surplus of food. But in the past few months, some people in Jiangdu have hoarded grain, bought low and sold high, just to prepare for war profits, don't you think that my move will make food prices fall and benefit the people? ”

Gu Weipan is not from the household department, he has never been a household, he is good at official assessment and evaluation, and he also has a certain amount of research on prisons, but he doesn't know anything about managing money and food. His position as the prime minister is also completely because of his high morality, not because he is a candidate who can be in charge of the family in an all-round way.

"In that case, there is some truth to it." Gu Weipan thought for a long time before he held back a sentence.

"The war is imminent, and at present, the most important thing is that Jiangdu works together. I tell you the truth, I hope that Mrs. Gu can appease the people at the court. Han Jian said sincerely.

"Hmm." Gu Weipan's old face darkened and nodded slightly.

The anger in his heart before he came had disappeared, and since the Dongwang Mansion did not use the city to exchange grain with Nanqi, he did not need to bear the charge of "betraying the country", which was what he cared about.

Han Jian then stated his interests to Gu Weipan, and repeated what he said to Han Songshi to Gu Weipan.

After finishing speaking, Han Jian said: "Mrs. Gu, this matter is very important, and you must not leak the slightest rumor." If anyone knows, then the previous achievements will be wasted, and Jiangdu is likely to be in chaos without a fight. ”

"The old man still doesn't know how to score inches?" Gu Weipan put on a stand and said, "If the old man can help, he will naturally help you." You also hurry up to find someone and find your majesty! ”

"It's nature."

After speaking, Han Jian personally sent Gu Weipan out. After sending him away, Han Jian couldn't help but say to himself: "Old guy, don't give any face." ”

Although he seemed to be very resentful, Han Jian couldn't help but smile, with the help of Gu Weipan, an old stubborn, he didn't have to worry much about the court.

Sure enough, not long after Gu Weipan went, Han Jian listened to the report of the people below, saying that the ministers who were making trouble in the mansion had dispersed.

When the news came back, Han Jian was discussing things with Han Song and Han Cui.

Han Cuishi smiled when he heard this: "There is still a way for the in-laws, you can talk about the people in the imperial court, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, if you don't go back to celebrate the New Year, you have to make trouble." How nice is it to be happy like this? ”

Han Songshi sighed: "If the Wei Dynasty didn't have such a group of upright ministers, all of them were arbitrary courtiers like Jian'er, wouldn't the court be chaotic?" ”

Han Jian smiled: "Erniang, you are down to me." When did I do whatever I wanted? ”

After Han Jian finished speaking, even he felt that he couldn't be trusted. He has also done a lot of willful and reckless things these days, that is, these aunts of his can tolerate him everywhere. If it was the people in the court, it would be strange if they could endure him. (To be continued......)