A few days passed in the blink of an eye.
A middle-aged man in his early thirties appeared in Jiankang City. After he arrived in Jiankang, he found Jiankang's Di News Bureau. Through Di News Bureau, he quickly spread the news to the palace.
Not long after the news reached the palace, two eunuchs found him. After verifying his identity, they took him directly into the palace.
In the afternoon, he was taken to the Manna Palace and met His Majesty the Emperor.
After seeing the emperor, he knelt on the ground respectfully, kowtowed and said: "Luo Yong, the secretary of the Di's Reporting Department, kowtow to your majesty..."
The emperor nodded and waved for him to stand up and answer. After Luo Yong stood up, the emperor asked: "You came back from Xuzhou?"
"yes."
Luo Yong bowed his head respectfully and said: "The villain was ordered by Shen Sizheng to break out of Xuzhou and come to see His Majesty..."
The emperor frowned and said, "Since you are the secretary of the Di's Reporting Department, you are a seventh-rank official of the imperial court. Seeing that you will declare yourself a minister to me."
Luo Yong was startled, then knelt on the ground again, lowered his head and kowtowed: "Xiao...wei...weichen is from a poor family and doesn't understand the rules. I hope your majesty will forgive me..."
The emperor waved his hand, shook his head and said, "I want you to get up and reply."
"Wei Chen obeys your orders."
He scrambled up from the ground and stood with his hands down.
The emperor looked at him, then suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile: "I remembered it. Shen Qi mentioned you in front of me. He said that in the past two years, whether he went to the Huaihe Navy Camp or to the main Li Huai'an, you helped him a lot."
"This is a minor matter, not worth mentioning."
The emperor nodded and said, "What did Shen Qing say? Is there any letter sent back?"
Luo Yong did not dare to neglect, and quickly took out the letter written by Shen Yi from his arms, holding it in both hands. Without the emperor needing to speak, Gao Ming immediately stepped forward, took the letter, and brought it back to the emperor.
The emperor was not in a hurry to open the letter. He just looked at Luo Yong and asked, "Does Shen Qing have anything else to say?"
Luo Yong looked around, then lowered his head and said nothing.
The emperor smiled hoarsely: "It seems that the Di newspaper department has done a good job. You are quite alert."
As he said that, he waved his hand, and Eunuch Gao glanced at the palace people around him, and the palace people waiting in the Manna Palace retreated one after another.
Luo Yong then lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, Shen Sizheng and the Huai'an Army are now in Xuzhou City. There is currently sufficient food and grass, and Xuzhou City is also in order. If you want to defend it, there will be no problem in defending it until the end of the year."
"However, the Di Reporting Department received news a few days ago that the false emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty was seriously ill and dying. Si Zheng has no information and cannot be sure of the authenticity of the news, so he sent a minister back to Jiankang to confirm whether this matter is true."
The emperor nodded thoughtfully, but he did not reply. Instead, he opened the secret letter written by Shen Yi to him.
The first half of the content of the letter was similar to what Luo Yong said, while the second half contained some of Shen Yi's views on the situation.
"If the Northern Qi Dynasty has no heir, and if the false emperor passes away, the Hu Dynasty will inevitably be in chaos. At that time, my king can take advantage of the situation and go north to recover the two provinces of Henan and Shandong..."
"With the restoration of the Central Plains, our country's people's livelihood and national strength will immediately be different. Even if the chaos in the Northern Dynasty has ended, our country will only need to digest these two provinces, and then no one can stop the drive of the barbarians from the north."
"If the false emperor pretends to be ill and pretends to die, then our Huai'an army will not move. In half a year, it will consume a lot of Qi people's vitality. Next year, the imperial court can also send large troops north to attack Hu Qi to achieve a great cause."
"What the truth is, I don't know since I am in Xuzhou."
"Your Majesty has made a decisive decision, and I respectfully request the Holy Judgment."
The emperor quickly read the secret report and put it aside. Then he looked at Luo Yong and said with a smile: "Shen Qi has also learned how to flatter others."
"Tell me carefully what is going on in Xuzhou City now."
Luo Yong bowed his head respectfully and talked about what happened in Xuzhou City.
He was from the Di Newspaper Division and personally participated in the plan to destroy Xuzhou City, so he naturally knew how Xuzhou City was destroyed.
Immediately, he told the emperor the whole story.
After he finished speaking, the emperor clapped his hands and sighed: "This Lin Sheng has really made a great contribution."
"When he returns to Jiankang, I will reward him well."
Having said this, the emperor looked at Luo Yong again and said with a smile: "And you, Luo Yong, it is not easy for you to return to Jiankang from the siege of Qi people. I will also reward you highly."
Luo Yong lowered his head and thanked him respectfully.
The emperor touched his chin and asked suddenly.
"When did Lin Sheng go to Northern Qi?"
Luo Yong was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, this matter was arranged by Shen Si Zheng, and Wei Chen didn't know about it either. Wei Chen only knew that Lin Siwu was originally one of the eight team leaders of the Di Reporting Department, and then suddenly he Disappeared without a trace."
The emperor smiled and said: "You estimate the time."
Luo Yong thought for a while, and then whispered: "Siwu Lin probably went to the north at the beginning of the eleventh year of Hongde's year."
The emperor lowered his head and counted the days, and said softly: "It's been two and a half years."
After saying this, he smiled at Luo Yong and said: "Okay, your journey back to Jiankang has been quite hard. Go back and rest first. The reward I will give you will be prepared later. .”
Luo Yong knelt on the ground and kowtowed respectfully to express his thanks.
After kowtowing, he hesitated and asked, "Do you want to give a reply to Shen Sizheng? We should send him back to Xuzhou as soon as possible."
The emperor shook his head and said with a smile: "Everything that cannot be taken risks has been done by the Di Reporter. Don't worry, the order I gave Shen Qing will let the inner guards find a way to send it into Xuzhou City."
Luo Yong was relieved, kowtowed, and left respectfully.
His Majesty the Emperor was sitting on the throne, looking at Luo Yong's retreating figure, and suddenly asked.
"Gao Ming, the first half of the eleventh year of Hong De..."
"Is Shen Qi still in the southeast?"
"yes."
Gao Ming lowered his head and said: "At that time, the suppression of Japanese pirates in the southeast had not yet ended, and the city shipping department had not been built yet."
His Majesty the Emperor clapped his hands and praised, "My Shen Aiqing is really capable."
He smiled at Gao Ming and asked, "Do you think that at that time, even after today's Xuzhou Incident, Shen Qi just acted casually without thinking too much?"
"I think it's probably the latter."
He whispered: "People's hearts are like smoke and unpredictable. No one can predict what the situation will be like in a few years. At that time, Shen Sizheng probably just asked the Di News Agency to stay in Buzi, Northern Qi, for future use."
The emperor touched his chin and nodded: "Speaking of it, he seems to have mentioned these things to me, but I casually agreed at the time. Later, there were too many things and I forgot about them."
At this point, the emperor looked at Gao Ming and said calmly: "Go and inform the inner guards that all news about Yandu will be sent to you in two copies, one to the palace, and the other to Xuzhou."
"If it is too difficult to enter Xuzhou, contact Shen Yi and ask him to help."
Gao Ming immediately lowered his head: "I obey my command."
The emperor thought for a while and continued: "Send 20,000 imperial troops to station in Huai'an Mansion and be ready to go north to support Xuzhou City at any time."
"also…"
When the emperor said this, he touched his chin, thought for a while, and asked: "Can I send my gold medal to Xuzhou City?"
Hearing this, Eunuch Gao lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, this..."
"This slave must ask Lu Weishuai first."
"good."
The emperor nodded and said: "If you can send it in, then give him my sign and allow him to mobilize the Huaihe Navy at an opportunity."
Having said this, the emperor narrowed his eyes, with a slightly murderous look in his eyes.
If the Huaihe Navy is disobedient at this time, the imperial court can take advantage of this opportunity to remove the Zhao clan in one fell swoop.
Anyway, the Zhengnan Army in the north was restrained by Shen Yi and had no time to look south. Even if there was some trouble among the Huaihe Navy, the Forbidden Army would have enough time to suppress it.
After saying these words, the emperor sat back in his seat and closed his eyes.
"Also, call Zhao Changping into the palace."
"I want to settle a score with him..."
