After Ling Han brushed his sleeves away from the Chengtian Palace, he went straight to the Hongwen Pavilion, and asked the old servant to stare at Tao Huaping without waiting to sit down. Although the old servant had the name of the commander of Fengyitai and supported Fan Jiujin behind his back, in fact, he didn't care about Fengyitai's affairs at all, and basically followed Ling Han all day long, hiding in the shadows to guard.

Seeing this, Gu Fengxun raised his chin to Fang Yinyi, who was busy with the case, and the latter went to the side room with a bunch of files very discerningly.

"What happened to the court today, making Your Majesty so angry?"

Gu Fengxun made a cup of tea with his own hands, put it in front of Ling Han, and asked with a smile. He asked knowingly, as soon as Ling Han came, he sent the old servant to stare at Tao Huaping, and it was obvious that it was this Tao Siqing who annoyed Ling Han. As for the reason...... In addition to the idea of the Western Chu harem, what else can Tao Huaping manage, except for Ling Han, what Tao Huaping can manage now is the Jin Palace. But King Jin is still young, and besides, Tao Huaping will not make Ling Han so angry if he takes care of King Jin's affairs. After a few exclusions, the answer is not about to come out.

When Ling Han saw Gu Fengxun, the anger in his heart had already disappeared a lot, and at this time, looking at his smiling appearance, he felt more and more comfortable, took the tea and drank two sips, and then exhaled a breath, and felt that the residual anger in his heart also dissipated.

"Gu Qing, what you said about the leakage of military secrets, does it have anything to do with Tao Siqing?" Because of annoyance with Tao Huaping, Ling Han even changed his uncle, whom he used to call in private.

Gu Fengxun was surprised and said, "How could Your Majesty have such a thought?" ”

Ling Han was silent for a moment before he said: "When Lao Wan found out that Tao Siqing had secretly hidden the portrait of Princess Yongning, I suspected that he had a connection with Princess Yongning, but there was no progress later, and Princess Yongning fled again, so I put this matter down. Today, Tao Siqing suddenly played, not only suggesting that I reconcile with Qin, but also that I marry Qin......"

When he said this, Gu Fengxun understood, and said: "Tao Siqing has always cared about His Majesty's harem, and hopes that His Majesty can open up branches and leaves for Xichu, but it's just ...... How could he suddenly think of marrying the Qin State? ”

is still the same sentence, Xichu is not without noble women, there are famous flowers in the old mansion of Lin Ge, not to mention other courtiers, there are daughters of appropriate age in the family, and the Tonghua beauty, who stayed in Beijing for several months under the pretext of visiting his aunt, until Ling Han later emptied the beauties that Tao Siqing chose for him, or gave or given, and the Tonghua beauty returned to Tonghua Prefecture with a dead heart.

There are so many suitable candidates, Tao Siqing should have been picky, how could he hit the head of the princess of Qin State, this is a problem. The Qin State is not as easy to get along with as the Yue Kingdom at the beginning, and it really made the princess of the Qin State come to Xichu, which is definitely not as easy to send as Princess Han.

Ling Leng snorted and said, "I suspect that someone instigated him, otherwise, how could he think of going there." ”

Gu Fengxun thought for a while and said, "Then how could Your Majesty suspect that the matter of the leakage of secrets had something to do with him?" It is said that Tao Sizheng did not have the opportunity to come into contact with the military defense map......"

Speaking of this, he said in a pause, no, Tao Huaping has a chance, as Zongzheng Siqing, there are many internal affairs in this palace that have to be handled through his hands, Tao Huaping definitely has manpower in the palace, and the original military defense map was hidden in Hongwen Pavilion before, it was collected by Ling Han himself, if it is not impossible to say that someone stole the military defense map at that time.

If it is said that Tao Huaping eavesdropped on the military defense arrangement, and then informed Princess Yongning, Princess Yongning brought the military defense arrangement of Western Chu to Chu State, and then Chu State began to harass the border of Western Chu, and then suddenly made a big attack, connecting the two passes of Western Chu in one fell swoop, this line can be completely connected, it makes sense, and the time is quite consistent.

Thinking of this, Gu Fengxun's tone changed, and he was puzzled: "If you are instigated, why is it a marriage with Qin?" ”

He couldn't see any benefit to Princess Yongning from Ling Han's marriage to the Qin State. Or rather, it was not Princess Yongning who instigated Tao Huaping. So, who is it good to marry Qin?

Ling Han grimaced and said, "I also want to know." That's why I asked the old servant to keep an eye on Tao Huaping in person, this time, I must find out something.

Gu Fengxun lowered his head and thought for a long time, then suddenly got up and took out the secret letter sent by Fan Jiujin when he was tracking Princess Yongning from the shelf of the file, and the secret letter had the route of Princess Yongning's escape, because this route was particularly strange at that time, so Gu Fengxun did not destroy the secret letter, but kept it.

Seeing that he was concentrating on studying the route, Ling Han poked his head out curiously and asked, "What's the matter, what do you see?" ”

Gu Fengxun stretched out his finger and drew a circle in one of them, and said, "Is this Hu County?" ”

Ling Han hurriedly took the map of West Chuzhou County, compared it with each other, and sure enough, it was Hu County.

"I remember...... Tao Siqing's daughter married into the Zheng family in Hu County. ”

After comparing the location of Hu County, Ling Han's face was ugly and terrifying. Hu County is not a big place, and the most famous is that there is a Zheng family, the reason why this Zheng family is famous is because the ancestor of his family is the founding hero of Western Chu, that is, the first generation of Zheng Hou. Zheng Hou's Zheng originally came from this Zheng family. It's just that at the beginning of the founding of Western Chu, he fought with the Chu State, fought with the Yue State, and did not go too peaceful with the Qin State, it can be said that at that time, the whole world was in chaos, and the men of the Zheng family followed the first generation of Zheng Hou to fight in the west, and within thirty years, the direct descendants all died, leaving only two collateral lines and a daughter from the descendants.

Later, the inheritance of the Marquis of Zheng became a big problem, whether it was passed on to the Zheng family's collateral lineage, or to the husband married by the daughter of the Zheng family, which was very troublesome. Passed to the Zheng family's side lineage, the two side lines are both literati background, not familiar with martial arts, Zheng Hou is in charge of the military power of Western Chu, once the title falls into the hands of the literati, this military power will inevitably fall. And the husband married by the daughter of the Zheng family is the number one general under the first generation of Zheng Hou, and his prestige in the army is incomparable. But after all, the title of Marquis Zheng is in the name of Zheng, and if it is passed on to a foreign surname, it is unreasonable in terms of etiquette.

Things froze like this, and in the end, it was the Zheng family who took the initiative to back down, anyway, they were literati, and they could neither keep their military power, nor were they interested in military power. In the end, the title of Marquis Zheng was given by the aunt of the Zheng family, who is now the great-grandfather of Marquis Zheng.

The concession of the Zheng family did not suffer any big losses, on the contrary, it also got a good reputation, and these two branches did produce a few talents, and later came out one after another, and the highest official position was once a Siqing, so these two Zheng family side lines gradually became a big family in Hu County, because the two clans lived in the east of Hu County, and one lived in the south of Hu County, so when outsiders mentioned these two branches, in order to distinguish them, they called them Dong Zheng and South Zheng.

Ling Han knew that Tao Huaping's daughter married into the Zheng family, but he didn't know whether it was Dongzheng or Nanzheng, and that daughter, who was still doubtful in terms of identity, was very likely to be the one that Princess Yongning said was miscarried, but in fact she was born and handed over to Tao Huaping's concubine to raise.

At this time, looking at Princess Yongning's escape route, she couldn't help but suspect that she had gone to see the daughter of the Tao family whose name was Tao Wanru.

"Let Fan Jiujin go and check whether the daughter of the Tao family has ever returned to her parents' house during that time." Gu Fengxun gave a suggestion.

It is also common for a daughter to get married and return to her parents' house, if the contact between Princess Yongning and Tao Huaping is carried out through this Tao family's daughter, then it is no wonder that the old servant did not find out anything at the beginning. Who would doubt that the daughter who went back to her parents' house to visit her father?

Ling Han's eyes lit up, and then he decisively ordered someone to summon Fan Jiujin into the palace.

After saying this, the topic returned to repairing with Qin, Gu Fengxun reminded Ling Han that the current situation was different, the courtiers would no longer be easily suppressed by him, and to refuse this proposal, Ling Han had to prepare a reason that was enough to convince most people after all.

Ling Han smiled and said, "I have already made up my mind, so it's okay." ”

Gu Fengxun looked at him, with a bit of a sense of getting to the bottom of it.

Ling Han thought about it, so he didn't hide it from him, and said: "Reconciliation with Qin is not a long-term plan, but if it is only expedient, it is not impossible, but if I take the initiative to reconcile with Qin, it is absolutely impossible, but if Qin wants to reconcile with Western Chu, there is still a need to discuss." It is enough for me to prevaricate the courtiers, and there is no need to find other reasons. ”

Gu Fengxun: "......"