The people in the courtyard, even Yin Ru, didn't believe that the prince would rebel, because thinking about it with his toes, he knew that the gain of rebellion outweighed the loss.
But that is indeed the legend outside.
Bai Shan asked: "Do the people know everything?"
"No," the guard replied, "It's the news from the capital and Henan Province that the crown prince is leading an army to the capital, and someone in the capital has written to His Majesty, saying that the crown prince has no orders to assemble an army with the intention of rebelling."
He looked at Princess Mingda, bowed slightly and said: "The court is a bit chaotic at the moment, Guo Zhan wrote a letter begging the princess to return to Beijing."
Bai Shan breathed a sigh of relief, "So the folks don't want to hear about it?"
"yes."
Bai Shan then said to Princess Mingda: "I don't know if this matter is true or not, even if the prince really took the army to the capital, I'm afraid it's because of other things, not for rebellion, the princess doesn't have to have any intentions."
He said: "If we can guess it, His Majesty should be able to guess it too."
Mingda also regained his composure, but he was still anxious, "But what can the prince brother need to bring the army into Beijing?"
She doesn't think this is a fake, the imperial court has post stations, there are soldiers who notified, and whether there is a large army entering the capital, can't the court officials find out
What she was worried about was that the crown prince had difficulties and could not speak out. If there were loud opposition from the court, it would be bad for the emperor to suspect him.
Zhou Man thought for a while and said, "For safety?"
Everyone looked at Zhou Man together.
Zhou Man took it for granted: "Bringing a large army into the capital is not for the purpose of rebellion. You can't be the king of Qin, right? So it can only be for your own safety. Could it be that someone wants to kill the prince on the way? The prince's manpower is not enough, so he asked the garrison for help. people?"
It is impossible for the king of Qin to be the king of Qin. Yin Li is in the capital, and the imperial army is in the hands of the emperor. Unless Yin Li himself rebels, there is no need to send troops to the king of Qin from outside.
The prince had a bad premonition in his heart, "No, His Royal Highness wrote to say that he has returned to the capital. According to their pace, he should be in the capital at this time, why is he still outside?"
Mingda cheered up, "Yes, brother Prince must be in danger!"
She immediately used her brains and said: "Come on, I want to give my father a discount."
What the guard said was correct, the matter did not spread, not only was it peaceful outside, but even the governor of Qingzhou knew nothing about it, he was looking at the official document handed over by Bai Shan and meditating.
"Beihai County has made a lot of moves recently. Looking at the treatment Bai Shan gave to the servants, and the long-term workers he recruited recently, how much money did his saltworks make?"
"My lord, do you want to send someone to check the accounts?"
Although the salt field belongs to Beihai County, there is also a tax to pay for buying and selling, commonly known as salt tax.
It's just that the salt tax is also collected by Beihai County, and it will be remitted to the account at the end of the year, and it will be handed over to the Governor's Mansion after leaving enough for the county's expenses.
Inspector Guo came to his senses, "This kid is smart enough, he is planning to spend all the salt tax, won't he hand in a penny to me?"
The confidant's eyes widened, "Isn't it, this, isn't this too much?"
Governor Guo frowned and thought for a while, then decided to wait and see, "It won't be long, wait until he reports in October."
In October, the county government will hand over a certain amount of tax revenue to the governor's office, and the governor's office will also hand it over to the state treasury after the statistics are collected. Generally, in order to celebrate a good year, the governor's offices of each state will hand over all accounts and things to the state treasury before handing over in November.
After the Ministry of Households calculates again, it can be said that the end of the year is the busiest time for government offices at all levels.
And now the autumn harvest is over, even the autumn tax is mostly over, and October is not far away.
The place was peaceful, even the 2000 Yanzhou troops who were guarding the crown prince and following him into Beijing were in peace and harmony, and no rumors were heard at all.
They are all elites selected from the Yanzhou garrison. Their kung fu and fighting are first-rate. Can't get close.
This time it was General Wen's eldest son, General Wen Xiao, who led the army to follow the prince to Beijing.
He was probably also afraid that there would be assassins in the army, so the soldiers surrounding the Prince's carriage were all trusted confidants of him and the Wen family, and they would never betray.
After two assassinations, the team became much quieter. Looking at the calm, it seemed that the opponent was at the end of his rope.
But no matter whether it was the prince and his party or General Wen, they did not let down their vigilance.
General Wen didn't know who was going to kill the prince, and he didn't want to know, as his father said, as long as they knew it was the prince, and the prince had a military talisman, then they just had to obey orders.
Leave everything else alone.
Their journey was smooth, and the disputes between the court and China did not affect the local area. They didn't think much about seeing a large army guarding the prince's entry into Beijing.
There are only 2,000 people, and the prince's platoon should be there.
So they collected food and grass from the passing county government and state government all the way, and went to the capital smoothly.
There are many people, so the speed is a bit slow.
But the capital is not as quiet as other places. Five days ago, there was a local post report saying that the crown prince was leading an army of 20,000 to the capital.
There was an uproar in the court, and some people believed it, but there were also many people who doubted it, so everyone proposed to send someone to check.
But the person sent out has never returned, and seems to have disappeared.
As a result, the discussion in the court became louder, and the rumors that the prince led troops into Beijing to force the palace became rampant.
Even Wei Zhi, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but went to the palace to meet the emperor, but the emperor didn't see him, and didn't give any advice on how to deal with it, only heard that several sets of cups were smashed in the Tai Chi Hall.
Today, someone has finally written a letter questioning the prince's intention to lead troops into Beijing. His suggestion is to send a large army from Hebei Road to keep the prince out of Hebei Road, so that he cannot enter Guanlong.
The emperor did not agree, but angrily said: "Let him come, I want to see what he wants to do."
Then walk away.
Back in the bedroom behind the Tai Chi Hall, the emperor angrily picked up a cup, and when he raised his hand to smash it, he glanced at it. Gu Zhong immediately bowed and said in a low voice: "The cheap one, I have changed to the cheap one these two days."
The emperor smashed it out with a blank expression, and there was a crisp "pop", not to mention, it was quite comfortable to listen to, and it would have been even more comfortable if it hadn't been for his own cup.
Gu Zhong dispatched all the people who were serving inside and outside the palace, Yin Li came into the palace after a while, and said back: "Your Majesty, Qin Shu has already waited in Zhengzhou with the forbidden army, the crown prince will be able to meet him as soon as he arrives."
The emperor asked: "How is Luozhou?"
"There is no change in Luozhou."
The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Yin Li: "Go to the other palace and bring back Prince Gong's family, and tell him that I miss him, and that I will celebrate the Double Ninth Festival with him."
Prince Gong has been staying in the capital since he went to Beijing to lose weight and take care of his body in the spring of this year. Apart from other palaces, he would occasionally visit the palace to see my empress. The whole family enjoyed themselves happily.