I embezzled 100,000 taels at the beginning, and the empress begged me to be more greedy

Amidst his cries of injustice, Wang Yingjie was directly taken away by the Qianqi Division.

Even the soldiers of the Six Garrison Army who had followed him for many years and had made many military achievements did not dare to plead for mercy in front of the Thousand Cavalry Division at this moment.

Looking at Wang Yingjie's embarrassed figure, Jiang Zuo couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Why did the emperor's edict come at such a coincidence?"

Jiang Zuo was extremely confused.

He had just been confronting the Six Garrison Army, and less than half a minute later, the Thousand Cavalry Division appeared.

All these coincidences seemed as if the empress was watching in secret.

"Could it be that the Empress is in Anding County?"

Jiang Zuo suddenly had a terrible idea in his mind.

With some uneasiness and doubt, Jiang Zuo rode back to the city wall and began to command the Anding Army to clean up the scene.

dusk.

The sunset is like blood.

The battlefield inside and outside the city has almost been cleaned up.

The county town of Anding, which had experienced such a great war, was filled with sorrow.

In this defensive battle, the Anding Army had a lot of new recruits, and due to their lack of battlefield experience, most of these new recruits suffered heavy casualties.

Among the more than 9,000 Anding troops, more than 2,000 were killed or wounded, the highest casualties in recent years.

Even though more Mobei barbarians were killed, Jiang Zuo did not feel the joy after a great victory at this moment, but instead was filled with worries.

"Master Jiang, the generals of the Six Towns Army asked you if you need reinforcements. They can station 5,000 troops in Anding County to defend against another attack by the Mobei people."

Yang Feng came to Jiang Zuo to report.

"unnecessary."

Jiang Zuo shook his head decisively, but then said, "Thank them for their reinforcements. Also, have them guard the border well and not let the Mobei people go south so easily."

The Six Garrison Army was half responsible for the barbarians from Mobei being able to attack Anding County.

It is absolutely impossible that the Six Garrison Army did not notice such a large-scale gathering of Northern Barbarians.

Even so, they still allowed the Northern Barbarian Army to attack Anding County. There must be someone who was passively avoiding the war.

If the current empress knew about this, Wang Yingjie's fate would be the same as that of most people in the Six Garrison Army.

"Also, send envoys to Mobei now. I want to negotiate with the northern barbarian tribes and agree to..."

Jiang Zuo said this and turned around, only to find a familiar figure in the distance.

"Si Yue?"

Jiang Zuo was confused. He saw a man whispering two words in Siyue's ear, and Siyue nodded slightly, as if she gave the man a few more instructions.

Their words and actions were clearly exchanges between servants, except that the man did not look like a follower. Instead, he had an extremely respectful attitude, leaning forward and bowing, as if he was reporting something to Siyue.

"It's a bit strange..."

Considering the strange things that happened in the past few days, Jiang Zuo had a very bad guess in his heart.

"Could it be... Siyue was also sent by the Empress to monitor me?"

Thinking of this, Jiang Zuo kept recalling the various scenes of his meeting with Yu Siyue.

"She is the daughter of a cloth merchant in Guanzhong, or she has some other identity..."

Jiang Zuo was unable to judge, so he could only finish the task at hand and go to the Anding County Government Office.

At this time, Master Guo had just finished his work and happened to run into Jiang Zuo, so he asked, "Master Jiang, if the barbarians invade like this, then can we still hold the product exhibition in a few days?"

Jiang Zuo nodded and said, "It will be held, and there will be no postponement. But when the time comes, I will invite the northern barbarian leaders to come, and I will also carefully count the actual casualties this time, and issue the pensions..."

Compared with the pension, Jiang Zuo was more heartbroken about the sacrifice of many soldiers.

Master Guo nodded and said, "Yes, sir."

"By the way, Master Guo, where is the account book for the business dealings with Miss Chen?"

Jiang Zuo asked again.

Hearing that Chen Qingyun had done a lot of business with Anding County in recent days, Jiang Zuo wanted to check it out.

"I will go and look for it now... Sir, what do you want this account for? Do you want to calculate the betrothal gift?"

"Go, go, go."

A moment later, Master Guo brought the accounts and handed them to Jiang Zuo.

Jiang Zuo did a quick calculation and found that the number was huge.

Jiang Zuo was certainly happy to have made a lot of money, but he was also confused and asked, "Miss Chen Siyue, is she really the daughter of Guanzhong Chen Chong?"

In fact, Master Guo didn't have an accurate answer in his mind. He could only think for a moment and then replied, "It should be. What's the matter, Lord Jiang? Are you doubting that Miss Chen is not the daughter of Chen Chong? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether she is the daughter of Chen Chong or not. As long as you like her, just propose marriage."

"no no……"

Jiang Zuo is not thinking about such love matters now.

After a moment, he asked again: "How old is the current empress this year?"

"How big is that place?" asked Master Guo.

"Age!" Jiang Zuo rolled his eyes.

Master Guo said: "This, I really don't know how old His Majesty is. Maybe not many people know it."

"He should be around forty or fifty years old. After all, he has been on the throne for so many years..."

Jiang Zuo speculated.

"perhaps."

Master Guo nodded.

With some doubts, Jiang Zuo returned to the mansion.

He came to the door of Chen Siyue's room and was about to knock, but his hand suddenly stopped, feeling quite conflicted.

After much thought, Jiang Zuo finally returned to his room.

Staying in the room was another struggle.

"What exactly is Siyue's identity..."

Jiang Zuo's cautious character began to torture his heart at this moment.

Although he loves Miss Siyue very much, he doesn't want to be deceived and become a tool...

After thinking about it again, Jiang Zuo opened the door.

Jiang Zuo had just opened the door a crack when he saw Miss Chen and Qiuyue returning to the Jiang Mansion.

They came to the door of the wing room, and then saw Qiuyue handing Miss Chen a few letters. Miss Chen looked around, as if she was worried that there were people nearby, and then returned to the wing room.

"Why do I feel like they are being sneaky today?"

Jiang Zuo began to become suspicious.

I opened the door, but didn't want to go out.

Less than a moment later, Chen Qingyun walked out of the room and left the mansion.

After confirming that Chen Qingyun had left, Jiang Zuo walked out of the room and came to Miss Siyue's room.

The door was unlocked.

"I'm sorry, Miss Siyue. I don't want to do such shameful things. I just want to find out your identity. I am extremely guilty..."

After some mental struggle, Jiang Zuo opened the door stealthily and then tiptoed into the room.

The room is filled with a faint fragrance.

Although Chen Qingyun had only lived here for a short time, everything in the room was neat and elegant.

Jiang Zuo's attention was quickly attracted by a locked box.

"what is this?"

He remembered that there was no such thing in this room originally.

"Could this be an important item in Miss Siyue's collection?"

Jiang Zuo looked at her for a moment and decided not to touch Siyue’s personal belongings.

After a quick search, I felt there were no important clues, so I prepared to leave.

But at this moment, footsteps were heard outside the door...