After the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that day, the story that the eldest prince of the Southern Kingdom was rejected for marrying him made a fuss in the capital. Many people who didn't believe it also believed it after seeing Chu Guang frequently appearing in the place where the Su family members were.

Chu Guang was even more high-profile, fearing that others would not know what he was thinking about Su Juan. Whenever Su Juan appeared, he would arrive and provide sumptuous food, aged wine, and all kinds of jewelry.

Almost everyone in the capital paid attention to this matter, and even sat down in the teahouse to talk about it for a long time.

At this time, the Su family had just returned from the Duke's Mansion, so they went to the backyard to find Shen Ruhui. Before they even drank a sip of tea, they asked, "How was it?"

Shen Ruhui: "As you expected, Nanguo sent a delegation to Beijing. In fact, they also arranged for other people to pretend to be a caravan and come to Beijing to discuss business. Recently, they have secretly contacted people from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry. I have successively visited all the major information trading places in Beijing, and today I went to Ruyilou, where I spent a lot of money to buy information about our military camp personnel."

"I followed your wishes and spread some false news mixed with truth."

These actions of the Southern Kingdom should not be difficult to detect as long as the DPRK and the Central Government are on alert. However, due to Chu Guang's recent high-profile actions, most people have focused their attention on Chu Guang and the Su family members. They actually relaxed their guard against the Southern Dynasty envoys and no one noticed. Notice the strange movement of this caravan.

The eldest prince of the Southern Kingdom was clearly using the marriage proposal to conceal the real purpose behind his marriage. With such scheming, he would not have noticed it if Su Juan had not reminded him a few days ago.

Su Juan nodded slightly, "Thank you for visiting Ruyi Tower more during this time, so that people can pay more attention to the trends in the South."

When the Southern Kingdom started the war, the first one to attack was the Chu Kingdom, which was rich in money. After looting money and wealth, they expanded their army and food, went north to destroy the Jin Dynasty, and attacked the imperial city.

Although the Southern Kingdom was indeed stronger than the Great Jin in terms of troops and horses, the Great Jin was not a vegetarian after all, but at that time, the Southern Kingdom fought all the way, and it was indeed too smooth.

I'm afraid that there was civil strife in the DPRK at that time, and the border defense map had been leaked to Chu Guang.

Now it seems that Chu Guang is really ambitious. No one can imagine that he is already preparing to attack other countries in the future before he succeeds to the throne.

Rather than letting him think of other ways, it is better to use the trick and let him think that his plan has succeeded, giving him some irrelevant true news and mixing in some false news.

Half truths and half lies can deceive people, so that if war breaks out in the future, they will be able to deal with it.

Su Juan's plan was not told to Shen Ruhui, but Shen Ruhui was able to guess her plan.

He has been getting along with Su Juan for more than half a year. In the past six months, he has gradually learned that the famous Ruyi Building in Dajin is actually engaged in intelligence trading behind the scenes and was established by Su Juan. However, he still has some doubts. Intelligence can be collected, but How does she know about things that haven't happened yet?

There are too many mysteries about Su Juan that people cannot solve.

Shen Ruhui gave the mailbox in his hand to Su Juan, "There is news from Xuzhou today, I will get it for you as soon as possible."

Su Juan took the mailbox and opened it quickly. Since Miaoqing left, no news has come back. She was afraid that something happened over there in Xuzhou.

After seeing the content on the note, her expression suddenly changed, "Something happened."

Shen Ruhui's eyes were puzzled. He took the note in Su Juan's hand and looked at it. His pupils shrank slightly and said, "Who is so brave and dares to rob the relief money!"

It was written on the note that Jiang Shilang and his team escorting the silver to Xuzhou encountered a mob on the way to Xuzhou, killing half of them. Jiang Shilang was seriously injured and fell into a coma. Liu Miaoqing and more than a dozen people were missing. A total of 30 disaster relief funds were lost. Whereabouts unknown.

"When such a big thing happens, Beijing will have to send more manpower to Xuzhou." Shen Ruhui said and looked at Su Juan.The Su family members frowned, "How could the ordinary mob have the guts to rob the imperial court's disaster relief money and yet hide their traces quietly? Someone must be behind this matter."

Moreover, the team escorting the silver coins and Jiang Shilang were not on the same path. Only Jiang Shilang and some people in charge of the matter in the Ministry of War, as well as the people escorting the silver coins, knew about this matter. I am afraid that someone among them leaked the news.

Shen Ruhui said in a deep voice, "Presumably the urgent report from Xuzhou should be sent to Beijing at this time. If the Ministry of Revenue wants to send someone to Xuzhou again tomorrow, I hope the girl can invite her to go."

Su Juan understood what Shen Ruhui meant. Even if it wasn't for this matter, she would still be worried about such a big thing as Miao Qing's disappearance. She would definitely go to Xuzhou.

The next day, the urgent report from Xuzhou arrived in Beijing. The old emperor lost his temper. After the court meeting dispersed, he summoned the three ministers of Xinghu Bing and Zhongshu Ling to discuss the matter.

The Ministry of Household Affairs re-appropriated 20 silver taels, and the military camp assigned personnel to escort them to Xuzhou.

The Minister of War was trembling and his hands were shaking. Such a big event had never happened in the past ten years. The emperor would definitely blame him for this dereliction of duty.

Mo Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue took the opportunity to recommend the Su family members and hinted, "Your Majesty, she knows all the affairs of the Ministry of Households. She was also the one to assist Jiang Shilang in all the affairs when he was in the Ministry of Households. Why don't we let her do it this time?" Are you going to Xuzhou to take over as Minister Jiang?"

Normally, the old emperor would not let the Su family leave the capital, but this time it concerns the victims of the disaster in Xuzhou, a total of 30 disaster relief funds, and the missing people.
The old emperor nodded, "Okay, let her go."

The old emperor immediately issued two edicts, ordering the people of the Ministry of Punishment to investigate the case of the theft of disaster relief money. Su Juan of the Ministry of Hubu was promoted to the rank of Doctor of the Ministry of Hubu, the fifth rank, and rushed to Xuzhou with him to take over the post of Minister Jiang of the Ministry of Hubu and assist him. Local governments manage disasters.

After everyone left, the old emperor's eyes fell on the Minister of the Ministry of War, who had been silent all the time. The Minister of the Ministry of War shivered.
After receiving the order, the Su family hurriedly packed their bags.

"While I'm away from the capital, you have to keep an eye on King Han and Prince Jing's palace, and also keep an eye on those in the Southern Kingdom."

Shen Ruhui nodded, "Don't worry, girl."

Su Juan handed him the token in her hand again, "You take care of the affairs of Ruyi Building first. When necessary, you can order the people in the building from various places to do their work."

Shen Ruhui was slightly startled. He didn't expect that Su Juan would hand everything over to him. He immediately clutched the token and said, "Okay, girl, be careful when you go to Xuzhou."

When Liu Xuan and Song Qianhang came to see her off, they saw her talking to Shen Ruhui.

Seeing the two people coming together, Su Juan was surprised, "When did these two people get so close?" 】

"Why are you here?"

Song Qianhang was the first to speak, "The news about Xuzhou has spread, so naturally I will come to see you off."

Liu Xuan didn't say anything if he was concerned, and only gave a few words to the Su family, "There must be a mastermind behind what happened in Xuzhou. When you go to Xuzhou, you have to be careful and don't panic when something happens."

Shen Ruhui watched from the side, with a subtle look in his eyes when he looked at Liu Xuan.

Su Juan nodded, "I know."


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