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Zhao Liangchen finished his speech and then proposed, "Your Majesty, this matter should be done sooner rather than later. Lu Sheng must set out early before the New Year so that he can return with the goods after the New Year. However, you also know that he has been a playboy for many years and has not done anything serious. I am afraid that if we send him to do such a big thing, he will mess it up. So I would like to ask Your Majesty to send a reliable person to go with him. With someone to guide him, he will not make any mistakes."

The emperor understood that Zhao Liangchen was afraid that he did not trust the Wuning Marquisate, so he asked him to find someone to follow Qi Lusheng so that he could monitor him more easily.

He pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement: "Okay, Qi Lusheng is going out for the first time, I'm afraid there are some things I can't handle well. You go back and wait, I will arrange for someone to go to Wuning Marquis Mansion to find him."

Didn’t Zhao Liangchen just say that no one can be trusted? Zhao Liangchen is planning to find Zhao Liangsi to check and balance him, so it’s nothing to find someone to keep an eye on Wu An Ning Mansion.

Moreover, all of this is out in the open, and everyone knows it, which makes them more open and honest, avoiding suspicion and misunderstanding behind the scenes.

The next day after Zhao Liangchen left the palace, a eunuch secretly entered the Wuning Marquis' Mansion with a secret decree.

Over the years, the emperor has been secretly cultivating his own network of contacts. There are many people in the court who support him, but the people he can contact are very few, and they are either court officials or eunuchs.

This time he was sending people out to do business, so naturally he couldn't send officials. He could only find someone from among the eunuchs. There were not many people he could trust, especially Zhao Liangchen's attitude towards the eunuch Li Quan, who was in charge of the seal, last time, which made him pay attention to the eunuchs around him.

He found that Zhao Liangchen would be wary of many people. When the eunuch Li Quan, who was in charge of the seal, was around, he would not talk about serious matters, but when the personal eunuch Liu Jin was around, he would not shy away from it.

Although he didn't know why, the emperor subconsciously felt that Zhao Liangchen knew something, so he deliberately alienated Li Quan and trusted Liu Jin more. The eunuch sent this time was Liu Jin's apprentice, and no one would investigate if a eunuch disappeared from the palace.

The next day, Qi Lusheng took the eunuch and a team of guards and left Shangjing City and headed south.

Zhao Liangchen also returned to the Zhao Mansion with the finished map.

When Zhao Jian saw the corner of the map that Zhao Liangchen had taken off the carriage, he asked in confusion, "What is this?"

Zhao Liangchen: "A corner of the map."

Zhao Jian's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Zhao Liangchen in shock: "Are you crazy? Are you trying to send our whole family to death?"

Zhao Liangchen: "No, father, please listen to your son's explanation."

Zhao Jian clutched his chest, gasping in fear. "No matter what the reason, you can't take the map home."

Zhao Liangchen: "This is not for you. I want you to send it to the Prince of Liang's Mansion as a New Year's gift."

Zhao Jian looked at Zhao Liangchen fiercely and looked at him warily: "King Liang, what do you mean?"

Zhao Liangchen: "Father, now is the time to send New Year's gifts. You must have sent New Year's gifts to King Liang every year before, but it probably fell on deaf ears and had no response.

King Liang is so rich that he has everything he needs. The gifts given to him by other officials must be more precious than yours. Nowadays, there are many officials in King Liang's faction who are more capable and have higher status than you. It will be difficult for you to stand out from them and be valued by King Liang.

Gifts should be given to the heart. What King Liang cares about most is his kingdom, but the current situation makes it impossible to take it over in a short time, and he must be very anxious and dissatisfied.

If you hand over this shrunken kingdom to him now and wish him to rule the world soon, he will definitely be happy.

Just think about it, whenever King Liang looks at this map, he will definitely think of you. How could you not be reused?"

Zhao Jian was very surprised by Zhao Liangchen's words. He hadn't thought that Zhao Liangchen had known about King Liang's intentions for a long time. However, he was also very tempted, but he still had some concerns. He paced back and forth: "No, this is really too risky. If someone finds out, it will ruin King Liang's plan and make him bear the crime of treason."

Zhao Liangchen tried to comfort him, "Father, that's not the case. This map was divided into many pieces when it was made. If you take out a piece from it, who can tell what it is?

Let's hide this map among the other New Year gifts and send it to Prince Liang's mansion. That's Prince Liang's territory, so even if someone else sees it, who would betray Prince Liang and sell him out?

Zhao Jian was persuaded, or it could be said that he was too eager to show off in front of King Liang.

Because King Liang had never used him since the incident with the disaster relief silver, he was afraid that King Liang would abandon him.

"You can stay in the mansion today. I will ask your mother to prepare the New Year gifts. You can accompany me to the Liang Palace to deliver the gifts tomorrow morning."

Zhao Liangchen didn't want to live here and decisively refused: "Father, I have to go out of the city to the military camp soon. I will come with you tomorrow morning."

Zhao Jian didn't force him and nodded, "Okay, go ahead."

Zhao Liangchen left Zhao Jian's study and walked to the gate of the courtyard, where he saw Zhao Gupan wandering back and forth not far away.

Seeing him come out, Zhao Gupan's eyes lit up obviously, and she called out in a delicate voice, "Big Brother."

Zhao Liangchen walked up to her and asked softly, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Zhao Gupan nodded, then she looked around and said with some embarrassment and anxiety, "Brother, I have something to talk to you about. It's not convenient to talk here. Can you come with me to my yard to talk?"

Zhao Liangchen nodded: "Okay, let's go."

He followed Zhao Gupan to her yard. As soon as she entered the house, Zhao Gupan's eyes instantly turned red. She looked at Zhao Liangchen with tears in her eyes: "Brother, please help me. My father wants to marry me to the Prince Zhan's Mansion as a concubine."

Zhao Liangchen thought to himself, as expected, he had long guessed that Zhao Gupan was looking for him for this matter.

In his previous life, Zhao Gupan also begged him to get rid of this marriage, and he helped her and tried his best to persuade Zhao Jian to let Zhao Gupan marry a colleague in the imperial guards.

But in the end, Zhao Gupan and her husband betrayed him at the same time, and her husband even opened the city gate when King Liang's army was at the gates.

After being reborn, he did not cause trouble to the imperial guard, nor did he do anything to Zhao Gupan, but that did not mean he had no resentment at all.

But his revenge was not simply to kill them or make them live a life worse than death, but to use them to do things for him.

Since Zhao Jian was able to use them to help King Liang in his previous life, he can also use them to help himself now.

For example, now, Zhao Jian wants to use Zhao Gupan to get close to Prince Zhan, so that Prince Zhan and even the royal family will support Prince Liang. Then he can also use Zhao Gupan to make Prince Zhan support the emperor.

But he wouldn't ask directly. He frowned slightly and asked with feigned concern, "Zhan Wangfu? Whose concubine? Although you are a concubine, your father's official position is not low. It is completely possible for you to be the legal wife of the concubine's son in Zhan Wangfu."

There are quite a few male masters in Prince Zhan's Mansion. Because the old prince is lustful, he has many wives and concubines, so he has many children. He has more than a dozen sons and dozens of grandsons. Together with his daughters, granddaughters, and concubines, the entire Prince Zhan's Mansion is already overcrowded.

Zhao Gupan suddenly covered her face and started crying: "Wuwuwu..."

In the past, he always felt distressed when he saw Zhao Gupan crying and would try to comfort her, but now when he sees Zhao Gupan crying again, he feels inexplicably upset.

He still likes smart and tough women like Su Qin, who stay calm no matter what happens and try their best to solve the problem.

But he still had to patiently coax Zhao Gupan: "Don't cry first, explain the situation clearly first. If you don't tell me, how can I help you?"

Zhao Gupan raised her head and choked with tears, "Father, father wants to marry me to the old prince as a concubine."

Zhao Liangchen was shocked and angry: "The old prince is so old, how could you marry him as a concubine?"

The old prince is the uncle of Prince Liang, which means he is two generations older than the emperor and is the younger brother of the emperor's grandfather. He is over sixty years old this year. A girl would definitely not want to be a concubine of such an old man.

Zhao Gupan cried and begged, "Brother, please help me persuade my father. I don't want to be the old prince's concubine. If he wants me to be his concubine, I might as well die..."

Zhao Gupan kept crying, and Zhao Liangchen paced back and forth anxiously. Suddenly, he stopped and looked at Zhao Gupan: "Big sister, what kind of life do you want to live in the future?"