I dare not

The Kingdom of Hao only has a grand court meeting every half a ten-day period. On weekdays, the affairs are discussed in the political affairs hall. Sometimes the emperor comes, and sometimes he doesn't.

Gu Qiao still acted in a low-key manner, and kept a proper distance from the third prince, and had no other communication outside of official business.

Except for eye contact.

The prime minister and the officials are all good people, and they can read various meanings from the eye contact between these two people.

When Gu Qiao spoke, His Highness's eyes were glued to him, and no matter what Gu Qiao said, His Highness would nod in agreement, which was admiration and love.

When the Third Highness wanted to say something, he would take a look at Gu Qiao first. If Gu Qiao showed a disapproving expression, the Third Highness would not say anything. This was an undisguised unconditional trust in Gu Qiao.

Gu Qiao usually followed the emperor, and he would also accompany the emperor when he was in the imperial study.

Apart from Gu Qiao, the admonisher next to His Majesty the Emperor also has a supplementary title named Tang Zhimin.Tang Zhimin was an old minister, much older than Gu Qiao, he had been an admonisher for decades, but he didn't anger the emperor but was very much loved, he was a godlike figure.

Tang Buque was one of the rare officials in the court who had been an official for many years, but the new He faction did not stand on either side, and always remained neutral.He never participated in official exchanges between the court and China, never clinged to any dignitaries, and never established personal relationships with any court officials.Even at such an old age, I still have no wife and no children, and my only hobby is writing.

Gu Qiao observed secretly, and found that this Tang Buque was not clinging to the powerful, but the emperor himself.His understanding of the emperor is simply at its peak, he can accurately comprehend the meaning behind every sentence of the emperor, and then say what the emperor wants to say in the name of satire.

Every time she saw the emperor's inadvertent appreciation for him, Gu Qiao's admiration for Tang Buque increased.

What should I do if I have a colleague who has outstanding professional ability and is deeply loved by His Majesty?

Of course, they tried every means to pull him into their own camp!

However, this Tang Buque was really reckless, and none of the prime ministers who wanted to win him over got what they wanted.

He Fangzhi personally gave him the priceless original Wang Xizhi, but he returned it intact. Afterwards, he wrote a poem praising the lotus to express his yearning for a clean and upright style.

This matter reached the emperor's ears, and the emperor evaluated him in four words: integrity and honesty.

Gu Qiao felt it was nonsense.

He Fang knew that the shameful thing of being rejected by personally giving a gift would be announced to the world?He definitely didn't say it himself!Who said that?

And who spread the poems of the lotus flower?Could it be Lotus itself?

Doesn't this prove that Tang Zhimin is not a person who has no desires or desires?

What he wants is simple, is fame.

Half a month later, Sanhe Bookstore released the new book "A Generation of Advisers" by the best-selling author Ye Guiren

The book portrays an image of an admonisher who helps the government, advises the emperor, hates evil like hatred, and defies power. He has extraordinary courage and wisdom, turns the tide, and saves the government several times.

Haoguo's literature is prosperous, and there are not a few officialdom novels, but this is the first one about admonishing officials.It is very dangerous for Gein to write about the emperor's mistakes.

But Ye Guiren handled it very skillfully. He wrote about a good emperor who was diligent in serving the people and accepting advice humbly.

As soon as this book was published, it aroused strong repercussions in the court and among the people. Not only officials rushed to circulate it, but even storytellers in teahouses began to tell stories about this generation of admonishing officials.

Many people know that Ye Guiren is Gu Qiao, and the admonitor surnamed Tang in the book is very close to Tang Zhimin in terms of age, appearance and personality. With Gu Qiao's own acquiescence, the admonisher written in this book is Tang Bu. Que's news spread like wildfire.

Yuwang Mansion, a small building near the lake.

King Yu nestled comfortably in the wheelchair, and said slowly: "Gu Shiyi's move is well suited to its intended purpose, and now, Tang Zhimin has no choice but to accept your kindness."

After working closely with King Yu during this period of time, Gu Qiao is now a frequent visitor to King Yu's mansion. He is still sitting on the low bench by the window, with a slight smile on his lips: "It's better for your highness to create momentum. Otherwise, how could such an unremarkable remark cause such waves.”

The book itself that was rushed out in half a month was not a masterpiece, and Gu Qiao was very busy during this period, so he only made an outline, and the rest were written by a few trusted friends as gunmen.

Zhang Qi is one of them.

Gu Qiao first drew all his classmates' friends to the front of the Third Highness, and thus developed a group of young civil servants who became the loyal supporters of the Third Highness.

From time to time, everyone went to the lakeside small building of Prince Yu's Mansion for a meeting, and His Highness would occasionally come over to meet with the future team members and discuss their next steps.

It was Xiang Zenan who called Gu Qiao here today. Gu Qiao chatted with King Yu for a while, and then someone else came.

When Xiang Zenan arrived, he handed the book to Gu Qiao: "This is the book Wu Heng brought back from his hometown, take a look."

Gu Qiao flipped through this thick manuscript, the yellowed pages were curled up, and the strange yet familiar handwriting seemed to still have the warmth of her father.The scope of the mine was drawn by my father himself, and the location of the Da Ci'en Temple is clearly within the gold mine.

Gu Qiao remembered that Gu Zhiwei had a habit of making a booklet every time he surveyed a mine, and there were already many copies at home.And this last book, what kind of mood did my father entrust it to the Wu family?

Did he already have the determination to die?

Gu Qiao took a deep breath, held back her tears and said, "It's the same as I thought."

Seeing that he was sad, Xiang Zenan gently held his hand comfortingly.Gu Qiao froze, glanced at King Yu guiltily, and pulled her hand out of the third prince's palm.

King Yu was pretending to be blind anyway, he cleared his throat and said, "The Shaofu Supervisor didn't find anything about the Lianzhou Gold Mine in the files."

The third child nodded, "If it's really a forged survey map, why are they put in the library?"

King Yu was silent.

Gu Qiao closed the book and said bitterly: "Forging blueprints and concealing reserves, when they do these things, I'm afraid the person they want to get rid of the most is my father!"

The truth that was about to come out was right in front of his eyes, and the third prince felt a little sad, "If someone really did such a thing, no matter what, you must give your father justice."

"Only my father's manuscript is not enough. Now we have to make two preparations. On the one hand, we need to send people to Lianzhou to secretly investigate the actual amount of gold mining; The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Shaofu Supervisor, where there is a problem, can only be understood by looking at the drawings."

"Well," the third child said immediately, "I will send a few people to investigate the gold mine."

King Yu put down the cup in his hand, and pulled a colored rope by the window.

Gu Qiao had always thought that the rope was for decoration, but as soon as King Yu pulled the rope, a servant girl came up from downstairs.

King Yu told the servant girl, "Go and call the red talisman."

Gu Qiao thought, the name Hongfu sounds familiar... Hey, isn't it the number one singer in Beijing five years ago and the owner of Qingfeng Building in Lianzhou?

So it turned out that it was this King Yu who was pouring wine into Lianzhou before?

Gu Qiao immediately sat up straight and stared at King Yu, the youngest was puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"When I was in Lianzhou..." Gu Qiao remembered that Qingfeng Tower is a place of fireworks. Although it is not a serious mistake for officials to visit brothels, it is not good to say it directly in front of His Highness, so she immediately changed her words: " fine."

The third child squinted his eyes to express his doubts. Gu Qiao changed the topic and said, "Li Detang has been the supervisor of the Shaofu for more than ten years. It is impossible for him not to know about such a big matter. We can start with him."

King Yu said: "I have already sent people to check Li Detang's residence, but they did not find any clues of the blueprint."

Gu Qiao thought for a while, "Li Detang's son Li Xiaodong has a good relationship with Ouyang Zhiwen, so I can get close to Li Xiaodong through Ouyang Zhiwen to inquire about the news."

Not long after the youngest returned to Beijing, he still didn't know all the people in the court, and he couldn't tell whose son's name and who he was friends with, so he could only nod his head and said, "Okay, I'll send a few more people to protect you .”

Not long after, the red talisman arrived. After bowing to the two Highnesses, she blessed Gu Qiao and said tenderly, "Young Master Gu, we meet again."

Sure enough, it was the girl Hongfu whom she had met in Qingfeng Building before, Gu Qiao also said: "Sister Hongfu, long time no see."

The red talisman ignored the murderous look in His Highness the Third Highness's eyes, and only said to Gu Qiao, "I knew that His Highness King Yu could see Young Master Gu here, and my servants come here every day."

Gu Qiao couldn't cope with the enthusiasm of girls, so she looked at King Yu begging for help.Yu Wang looked like I couldn't see anyway, leaning lazily on the back of the wheelchair, and waited for Hongfu to tease enough before opening his mouth slowly: "Red Talisman."

Hong Fu immediately put away his joke and knelt down in front of King Yu.

Gu Qiao was taken aback, the atmosphere of the red talisman seemed to dissipate all of a sudden, and she became serious.

Yu Wang told her to organize the manpower and assist the third person to secretly investigate the Lianzhou gold mine, and she agreed one by one, and also reported several other things to Yu Wang, as if she was a capable general under Yu Wang.

Only then did Gu Qiao come to his senses, and it turned out that the red talisman was actually a subordinate of King Yu.He wanted to turn around and ask Old San Yu Wang what surprise he didn't know, but he saw Old San squinting his eyes and squinting at him.

Gu Qiao: "..."

In the end, it was Yu Wang who showed Gu Qiao his cards.

It turns out that Qingfenglou is the property of King Yu. On the surface, it is a place of Fengyue, but in fact it is an intelligence organization controlled by King Yu.In addition to making money, the most important thing is to inquire about news and investigate various things for King Yu.

Hongfu is the person who speaks on the bright side of Qingfenglou, and she only obeys King Yu's orders.

When the third child was trapped in Lianzhou, Qingfenglou in Lianzhou happened to be closed due to famine and banditry. Hong Fu rushed to reopen it immediately, but it was still a step too late.

Hongfu took the order, Xiang Zenan stared at Gu Qiao, gritted his teeth and said, "Young Master Gu? Sister Hongfu?"

Gu Qiao was inexplicably guilty and didn't dare to look him in the eyes, so he stood up and said, "I'll go to Ouyang Zhiwen first and ask Li Xiaodong out."

Say goodbye to Yu Wang and run away.

After Gu Qiao left, King Yu chuckled, "It seems that Gu Shiyi hasn't connected with you yet."

Xiang Zenan lay reclined on the low bed, ignoring the elder brother's ridicule.

After the Lantern Festival banquet, Xiang Zenan thought that the two had confirmed their intentions, but Gu Qiao never gave him a further chance.

In the palace, the two cooperated tacitly in political affairs, and could understand each other's meaning with just a single expression, but every day when they went down to Gu Qiao, he ran faster than a rabbit, and he failed to block him several times, which made Xiang Ze Nandu wanted to change into night clothes to sneak attack him.

King Yu was amused when he saw Xiang Zenan's stupid expression of being trapped by love, and snorted coldly, "What are you worrying about now? When you take that position in the future, there will be as many Gu Qiaos as you want."

Xiang Zenan sat up abruptly, "It's not like that!"

Yu Wang sneered again and again, "What is that like? Do you still want to be a couple forever?"

Xiang Zenan asked back: "Is it not possible?"

"Gu Qiao may be fine with others, but not with you, the third prince."

Xiang Zenan never imagined the possibility of Gu Qiao being with other people at all, and immediately became furious when he heard this, "I, Xiang Zenan, only love him in my life, why not?"

"Don't forget what you are going to do! Which ninety-five supreme being can only love one person in his life? Even if you want to, you are not allowed to think about it in this world!"

"If you can't even do this, what's the use of the Nine-Five Supreme!"

"What's the use?" Yu Wang looked at him through the white gauze, and said sadly, "Don't forget how my leg was broken! Don't forget how my mother died! Don't forget me What is the purpose of pretending to be blind for so many years!"

These words shocked Xiang Zenan. He opened his mouth, clenched his fists and then released them, and finally said in a low voice, "I have my own rules of conduct. Big Brother believes in me."

King Yu didn't speak anymore, just nestled in the thick animal skin, holding the cup and looking out the window.