frightfiction Chapter 443: Using his secret letter delivery system as a post station, right?
Chapter 443: Using his secret letter delivery system as a post station, right?
The couple here were talking about serious matters.
The capital city thousands of miles away.
In the study of Deqing Grand Secretary's Mansion, someone was saying the same thing.
The third prince held a letter in his hand with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.
He slammed the letter in his hand onto the table. "How did the news about the pirates reach Father's ears? Didn't I already instruct him not to send any memorials related to the pirates to Father? How did the news still leak out?"
Grand Duke Deqing held his teacup, expressionless. "Your Majesty is the ruler of the world. Naturally, he must have secret channels that we don't know about what's going on. These pirates have become increasingly rampant in recent years. It's only natural that truth will come out. Why should you be angry? This is definitely a good thing."
"How can it be a good thing? What if he betrays us?" The third prince was anxious.
Lord Deqing gently placed the teacup on the small table beside him and said coldly, "What do you know? We've already made a lot of money from the pirates over the years, and those pirates are extremely vicious. If we continue to support them, I'm afraid they will become too powerful to be eliminated. Now is the perfect opportunity, with the help of Your Majesty, to wipe them out. This way, we can have one less worry."
"As for your concern about being exposed, we didn't show up in person. We just had people contact them and support them behind the scenes. How would they know it was us?"
After hearing this, the third prince felt relieved and sat back in his seat steadily.
But she still muttered a few words: "I'm just afraid that if someone leaks the news, it will implicate me and my great-aunt."
Deqing's leader lowered his head, hiding the disdain in his eyes, and said patiently, "Keep your composure and don't believe everything you hear. I have spies watching over there. When the time comes, someone will naturally step in to silence them."
Without even glancing at the Third Prince's expression, he spoke of something else: "That pirate has unexpectedly fallen into the hands of the Fu family kid again. Could it be that the fourth son of the Fu family is at odds with us?"
The Third Prince waved his hand nonchalantly, "He's already lost the emperor's favor and has been exiled to South Vietnam. It's easy to leave, but it's hard to return to the capital. With us here, how can we expect him to return?"
"When I ascend to the throne, that will be the day their entire family dies. What's there to worry about with such a small figure?"
Deqing's wife, however, looked serious and thought for a long time before saying, "That being said, it's a bit of a coincidence that the Fu family kid went to South Vietnam this time. We can't afford any mistakes in South Vietnam, so we'd better be careful."
"That third son of the Fu family, isn't he also a member of the Fu family? He's always wanted to show off in front of you. Let him find out whether the fourth son of the Fu family went to South Vietnam by coincidence or for some other reason."
Although the Third Prince felt that Lady Deqing was being too cautious, he had long been accustomed to listening to Lady Deqing and agreed impatiently.
He had no other thoughts in his mind, so he bowed to the Deqing leader and said goodbye.
After the third prince left, the son of Grand Duke Deqing, Marquis Jingning, came out.
He narrowed his eyes, looking in the direction the Third Prince had left, and couldn't help but say, "This Third Prince is too stupid. Mother, do we really want to support someone like him to take the throne?"
Grand Empress Deqing also watched the Third Prince leave through the gate. After a long pause, she slowly said, "What do you know? The dumber they are, the easier it is to control them. Otherwise, if someone smart and capable were to take the throne, they might just turn around and take care of us."
"It would be better to help such a fool get promoted so that we can feel at ease, right?"
Marquis Jingning's eyes lit up, and he smiled like Lady Deqing, "Mother is quite right."
Royal study room.
While reviewing the memorials, the emperor asked the empty room, "Did the third son go to the Deqing Grand Duke's Mansion again?"
Although no one was seen, someone answered, "Yes, after receiving a letter, he went to the Deqing Grand Duke's Mansion. He stayed there for half an hour and then left. He then went to Deyue Tower and asked someone to find the new Ningping Marquis's half-brother to drink with him."
The emperor paused with his red brush before continuing to ask as if nothing had happened, "Did that letter come from Canggou?"
"Yes."
The emperor sneered, "Wei Yong is really going backwards. When we asked him to eliminate the bandits, he was too eager for merit and too reckless to listen to advice. If Fu Zhiyi hadn't saved him, he would have lost his life in Canggou."
"Now look what's happening. Someone has even passed the letter out!"
The room was quiet and silent.
After a long while, the emperor finished reviewing the pile of memorials in his hand. He casually put his red brush on the pen holder, rubbed his eyebrows, and asked, "Is there any news from Nanyue?"
"The news from five days ago said that Lord Fu and his entourage had successfully arrived in South Vietnam. I think new news has been sent back in the past two days."
The emperor said nothing.
About a quarter of an hour later, the voice sounded again: "Your Majesty, the letter from Nanyue has arrived."
"Send it over quickly."
Soon, an ordinary-looking eunuch walked out from behind an inconspicuous screen, holding a wooden box in his hand.
The wooden box was placed in front of the emperor.
This wooden box was set up by the emperor as a way for secret guards and imperial envoys from all over the country to submit memorials individually.
Once the message was placed in this wooden box, it was locked. Only the emperor had the key to open the box and get the message.
If it is damaged by external force, the mechanism inside the wooden box will directly destroy the letters inside.
The wooden box was intact. The emperor took out a small key from the lower drawer, inserted it into the keyhole, and carefully turned it open.
There are several stacks of letters inside.
The emperor immediately had a strangely familiar bad premonition.
Sure enough, after picking up all the letters, there was a note at the bottom, written in Lu Zhenzhen's familiar ink-like handwriting.
What's the difference?
The emperor picked up the bottom piece of paper, looked at it carefully for half a day, and concluded that Mo Tuan was seriously doing dog crawling this time.
After carefully examining it for a long time, Lu Zhenzhen came to the conclusion that she asked him to pass on the other letters.
The emperor was almost laughing out of anger, there were several letters inside.
Some were for the Lan family, some were for the Fu family, some were for the old Ningping Marquis, some were for his own Changle family, and of course some were for himself.
What’s going on? Are you using his secret letter delivery system as a post station?
And the most important thing is that the money given to others, except for the old Ning Pinghou, is more generous than that given to him. This is intolerable.
Everyone knows that emperors have no moral standards and no sense of public morality.
Think of it and do it.
The emperor, so angry that he laughed, simply placed all the letters in front of him and opened them one by one.
Of course, I don’t know if they forgot or did it on purpose, but the envelope was not sealed and was just left there carelessly.
The emperor didn't even have to go to the trouble of asking his eunuchs to carefully open the package.