Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

After discussing with Mr. Tongying, everyone began to divide the work and cooperate.

Mr. Ying sent two groups of people to the country of Muse in the west and the country of Cangyan in the north to contact the secret agents who had been planted there long ago, to find out whether these two countries had any secret moves behind the scenes.

Xiao Zuochen asked Yun Feng, Yun Lou and others to go to Miaojiang to investigate and find the whereabouts of Yun Wei, Yun Qiao and Yun Bai.

After Yunqian learned about it, she also took the initiative to ask to go together.

"I'm familiar with Miaojiang. With me here, you can avoid taking detours."

"But..."

Yun Feng hesitated. Yun Qian had originally escaped from the Saint Maiden Palace, and she didn't want to return to Miaojiang. Now, for their sake, he had to let her go back and take risks again, and Yun Feng felt a little guilty.

"But what? What's there to be afraid of with you guys here~"

Yun Qian's words gave Yun Feng great encouragement, and he nodded in response.

"I'm sure nothing will happen to you."

"You will be fine. Remember, we are only here to find out their location. Don't act rashly. You can't beat Yun Wei. If Yun Qiao and Yun Bai have also been controlled, you must run away quickly."

"Don't worry, Master. We still cherish our lives~"

"Okay, let's go~"

After Yun Feng left, Xiao Zuochen went to the brothel in person.

"Hey~ Let me see which family this noble young man belongs to~"

As soon as Xiao Zuochen entered the brothel, a woman in a light gauze came close to him. Chu Yao slid sideways and flashed in front of Xiao Zuochen, but before the woman could get close, she was stopped by the brothel's housekeeper. The woman was puzzled, but she saw the housekeeper directly saluted Xiao Zuochen and Chu Yao.

"Master, Master Chu, you two are here~ I am new here and I am not very sensible, please forgive me~"

After the butler performed the greetings, he turned sideways and made a "please" gesture.

Xiao Zuochen and Chu Yao walked upstairs without saying a word. When passing by the woman, Xiao Zuochen glanced at her. After knowing his identity, the woman was only slightly surprised, but not panicked. Xiao Zuochen retracted his gaze and coughed lightly. Chu Yao reached out to help him immediately, but was stopped by Xiao Zuochen. The woman behind them saw the interaction between the two of them and her eyes widened a little. She felt as if she had discovered something.

"...That's probably what happened."

Chu Yao was afraid that Xiao Zuochen's cough would get worse, so he took the initiative to tell the housekeeper and important members of the flower house about Baili Qing, and then looked at Xiao Zuochen. Xiao Zuochen put down the pear soup in his hand and went straight to the point.

"Mr. Ying has already started contacting secret agents to find out about the enemy's situation. What you can do now is to find out the Miao spies and enemy spies hiding in Tai'an. There is still a month left, and you need to use all your means to investigate. But don't act immediately after you find them, just observe secretly first. We will use these secret agents to pass false intelligence to the enemy."

After hearing this, the butler hesitated, as if he wanted to say something.

"Just say whatever you want to say."

"Master, we have been investigating the hidden agents, but the enemy's spies are also very smart. We have only destroyed a few small bases, and we have only found one of their lair a few years ago. Now there is only one month left. If there are no clues, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to make new progress..."

As the butler spoke, he lowered his head, fearing that his master would say they were not doing their job well.

"Well, I understand your difficulties. Just like our secret agents can take root in the enemy country because our people are powerful. Similarly, the enemy country will also have such capable people taking root in our territory. This is a very normal thing. I will not blame you if you can't find them. You can do the same as before, but you need to expand the scope and don't miss any corners. As for clues, wait for Mr. Ying to send back relevant news, and someone will notify you. You don't need to be too nervous, just do your best."

"Yes!"

After Hualou was well arranged, Xiao Zuochen sent someone to deliver a letter to Xiao Zuoming, which mentioned that Miaojiang was colluding with the enemy and that there were spies from the enemy in Tai'an, but did not mention the source of the news. Xiao Zuochen also reminded Xiao Zuoming that since he had just started to shock the court, there would definitely be people playing tricks in secret, and the people in the court should not be completely trusted.

But what no one expected was that Xiao Zuoming actually issued an order to hold a beauty contest three days later on the day he received the news. All the ministers were caught off guard, and Xiao Zuochen was even more dumbfounded.

"What is he going to do?"

Chu Yao was also stunned. Five days after the selection, Xiao Zuoming wrote again. The letter mainly talked about the daughters of the important officials, who did not want to be selected, who did not want to sleep with the emperor after being selected, and who secretly took contraceptive pills after sleeping with the emperor.

"Since he was away delivering letters and flowers, he has been working really hard these past two days~"

Chu Yao stared and couldn't help but exclaimed. Xiao Zuochen crumpled the letter paper and threw it aside in annoyance.

"I didn't expect that he would test those ministers in this way! But some of them are innocent!"

Chu Yao shook his head, picked up the paper ball from the ground, opened it, and tried his best to smooth out the paper on top.

“But I think he was right to do so.”

Xiao Zuochen was a little shocked and looked up at Chu Yao. Chu Yao explained.

"Putting aside the reasons for the selection, normally an emperor would select a beauty every few years, right? Each selection depends on the emperor and the empress dowager's ideas, right? No one would ask the beauty's wishes, including the beauty's family, who would not care about their daughter's wishes.

Isn't this the same for those 'innocent' people? No one asked for their opinions either, so why is this the only time you're angry? "

Chu Yao's words stunned Xiao Zuochen. He stared at Chu Yao for a long time before speaking.

"You're right. I was wrong. This is the way the world works."

"I know you don't want to implicate innocent people, but we can't save all the innocent people in this world. Xiao Zuoming did find some suspicious people through the selection this time. Some of the concubines may have lovers outside, so they don't want to enter the palace. But some may be instructed by their families."

"That's right. We will also investigate those who were not selected to find out whether they were deliberately not selected or whether they were really not chosen!"