I'm shocked! After breaking off the engagement, the emperor's uncle wants to have a fake m

The woman grabbed her daughter's hand and turned back, asking cautiously, "Sir, I don't mean to eavesdrop, but may I ask, is the Miss Mu you mentioned the eldest daughter of the Duke of Fuguo's family?"

Ah Shang was stunned, "Madam, do you know Miss Mu?"

The woman, who had already stepped out of the door, stepped back in, took a few quick steps, and knelt down in front of Prince Ling, "Please, sir, let me go see her... I have a lot of things to tell her..."

Prince Ling saw that the woman was not too old, and should be about the same age as Madam Mu and Gu. Could she be someone who served Gu in the past? But why was she in Huang County?

Or was there another hidden story behind Gu's death? And she knew the truth?

"Since you want to see her, I can take you to see her. Although this place is not far from Kyoto, the women from the same village have already returned home, so naturally someone in the village will ask about it. Is there anyone in your family who needs to be informed? You can ask them to help pass on a message."

The woman looked at her daughter.

The woman said hurriedly, "After my mother was abducted to the mountain, my father died of illness not long after. Apart from me and my mother, there is no one else in the family to worry about..."

When the woman heard this, she was stunned at first, then she bit her lip and started crying.

"mother……"

The next morning, Prince Ling returned to Kyoto with a large group of carriages and horses, escorting the bandits and the confiscated gold, silver and grain.

Three hundred dan of grain weighs thirty thousand jin.

As for the empty Qinglong Village, he also left his own people there, disguised as bandits, waiting for the future.

Ten thousand taels of gold and silver and hundreds of dan of grain were transferred into the national treasury through the Ministry of Revenue.

Prince Ling had court robes prepared in his carriage, and he changed into them as soon as he entered the capital. He ordered Ah Shang to take the mother and daughter back to the palace and inform Mu Qingyan.

After handing over the matter to the Ministry of Revenue, he directly led the Minister of Revenue Liang Xu into the palace.

After Emperor Jianning summoned him, Liang Xucai finished his ceremony and immediately could not wait to congratulate Emperor Jianning.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

Emperor Jianning was very happy to see Prince Ling looking so energetic.

"Brother Ling has recovered, you should congratulate me!"

Liang Xu said, "Hey, Your Majesty's recovery is one good news, and I want to congratulate you on another good news!"

"Oh? What else is there to be happy about?"

Liang Xu presented a pile of memorials in his hand. Eunuch Wang Quan took them and handed them respectfully to Emperor Jianning.

When Emperor Jianning opened it, his puzzled eyes suddenly lit up. The more he read, the more delighted he was. But after his delight, he became angry. Later, he even threw the memorial directly on the imperial desk.

"Lord Liang, you must keep a close eye on the food that Prince Ling brought back from the Qinglong Camp. If there's one grain missing, I'll hold you responsible!"

"Yes!"

The imperial court provided disaster relief every year, but every year there were starving people everywhere. Qinglong Village killed people, set fires, robbed homes, and brought disaster to the village. They even dared to rob the imperial court's disaster relief grain, which was tantamount to challenging the imperial power. The county magistrate of Huang County submitted petitions many times to request the imperial court to send troops to eliminate the rebellion, but none of these petitions were delivered to your majesty's desk.

If it weren't for Prince Ling's secret action this time, executing first and reporting later, who knows how many more people would have suffered the harm of Qinglong Village!

"I still have something to say to Prince Ling, please leave first."

"I obey your order. I will take my leave..."

After Liang Xu left, Emperor Jianning also dismissed Wang Quan.

There were only two brothers left in the imperial study.

Unlike his previous anger, Emperor Jianning was very excited, "Aye, you are finally well... Since you were injured and poisoned, you and I have not seen each other for many years..."

"I was able to recover thanks to Miss Mu's amazing healing skills... Without her, I'm afraid..."

Emperor Jianning waved his hands hurriedly, "I won't say anything unlucky. Anyway, I'm very happy that you're fine! Anyway, the marriage has been granted, and that girl will be one of our own from now on! When you two get married, I will give her more dowry and let her become your princess in glory!"

There is a big age gap between the two brothers. Emperor Jianning is old enough to be Prince Ling's father. He has two princes who are older than Prince Ling.

Prince Ling laughed, "Brother, I still owe her one thousand taels of gold..."

"Oh?"

"This is the condition she agreed to save my brother."

Emperor Jianning smacked his lips, and was relieved. "That's the girl's temper! However, putting what you want out in the open is much better than being a sly person. Such people are open-minded and don't have so many twists and turns."

He changed the subject and asked, "Is there any other hidden secret about Qinglong Village?"

"When we raided the village, we found a secret passage inside. We still don't know where it leads to, but I guess it's most likely to Youzhou..."

"Prince Yong's fiefdom..."

Prince Ling continued, "I have already sent people to explore the exit of the secret passage, but the suppression of the stronghold cannot be concealed. My Royal Brother, why don't you guess, how will the Queen Mother react if she learns of this?"

Minglong Mountain is a rolling hill range surrounded by towering cliffs, which can be considered a natural barrier in Kyoto.

But if it was really King Yong who was behind this, he would have opened a secret passage from Youzhou directly to Qinglong Village outside Huang County. Once Huang County was captured, he could go straight to Huanglong. I'm afraid he had been planning this since the day he granted Youzhou...

Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine who deliberately blocked the memorial submitted by the magistrate of Huang County to the imperial court requesting the dispatch of troops to suppress the bandits.

The time when the imperial court sent out disaster relief grain and who leaked it.

"I knew they would never give up, but I never thought they would be so audacious! The Queen Mother won over the court officials and formed a clique to pave the way for Prince Yong... I'm afraid your poisoning was also the work of them..."

"One more thing."

He pulled out a long cloth bag from his wide sleeves and handed it to Emperor Jianning.

"This is Gu, the wife of Yuan Xiao, the governor of Jiuzhou Canal Transport. She came all the way from Huaiyang to send them here. As soon as they entered the capital, their carriage collided with the carriage of the wife of the second son of Xiangning Marquis. The second son's wife immediately reported to Jingzhao Prefecture to come and fetch them. It happened that on that day, the Queen Mother summoned Miss Mu to the palace, and she ran into them when she was leaving the palace. She realized that something was wrong, so she stopped the Jingzhao Prefecture officials and sent the person directly to my brother's house."

Emperor Jianning opened it hastily and became more and more frightened the more he read.

"According to Madam Yuan, the Huaiyang Governor invited Mr. Yuan to his house for a banquet on the pretext of celebrating his mother's birthday, but he never came back. But everyone who went there said they saw Mr. Yuan leave with their own eyes. I have sent someone to check it out. If the position of the Governor of Jiuzhou falls into the hands of someone else, it will be bad. But the person behind the scenes must have something on Mr. Yuan, so he didn't dare to touch Mr. Yuan easily, and just detained him."

While Prince Ling was speaking, Emperor Jianning had already taken a rough look at all the evidence.