Xiangshui County is located in the northernmost county of Shangzhou. On the last day of the first lunar month, Che Mingde and Yang Dian stood at the dock of Xiangshui County waiting for the ninth prince's fleet to come.
In the afternoon, it was reported that the fleet was about to arrive in front of him, so Yang Dian brought everyone to wait, but after a long time, he saw a fleet of more than a dozen large ships slowly coming.
This time, in addition to some entourages of the Ninth Prince's Mansion, there were also a thousand imperial guards. During the Chinese New Year, the Ninth Prince was officially named King Yong and obtained the right to open the palace.
Che Mingde also learned about this news later. The title of King Yong is really arousing imagination, because when His Majesty had not yet succeeded to the throne, he was King Yong. Now he had a crown prince, but he gave this title to the ninth prince, which is really hard to find out.
As the ship arrived at the dock and stopped, everyone saw the boy standing at the bow of the boat. He had a figure no different from that of an adult, but his face looked slightly immature, but under the foil of Taiwei Liang, he had a teenage smell of a mature boy.
After putting down the boat board, the young man walked down first. Yang Dian, the governor of Shangzhou, also led thousands of waiting officials and saluted respectfully: "Yang Dian, the governor of Shangzhou, led all the officials of Shangzhou to pay homage to His Highness Yong."
"The Yangzhou masters don't need to be polite. The fleet went upstream and wasted a lot of time. It's not too late now. I came here specially this time and brought some supplies. Many of them were of good grain, some of which were left to Shangzhou, and the rest were sent to Tangzhou. I hope that after the beginning of spring this year, Tangzhou can restore its former vitality." The Ninth Prince did not be polite and directly talked about things.
Yang Dian had long heard of the Ninth Prince. When he saw this, he did not care whether he acted or not, at least it did bring benefits to the southeastern states. So he immediately said: "We and the people of Tangzhou will remember your good deeds in mind. The subordinates immediately ordered people to do it."
"Your Highness is working hard all the way, and your Highness has never had a good rest at night. The governor of Yangzhou will not have to mobilize the troops in a while. You can pick some officials and your Highness will be welcome to have a dinner party. Let your Highness rest earlier." Liang Changmao spoke again at this time.
"Yes, Grandmaster, I have prepared my carriage and temporary residential courtyard." Yang Dian immediately said.
Perhaps it was really hard to deal with all the way. Neither Liang Changmao nor the ninth prince exchanged much greetings with other officials. He just took the form and got into the car. Even Che Mingde had no chance to speak.
However, after the arranged residence, Che Mingde finally got news that the Taiwei would take time to meet after dinner. For the ninth prince's dinner, Che Mingde's official rank was too low and he was still not qualified to sit together. After all, this is the rule in the officialdom.
After dinner, Che Mingde waited for a while, and finally Xiang Fei came over and told Che Mingde that the Grand Marshal asked him to come over.
When Che Mingde followed Xiang Fei to Liang Changmao's room, Che Mingde discovered that in addition to the Taiwei, the ninth prince was also here, and his spirit was not as tired as a journey.
"The official has met Your Highness..."
"There is no one here in Mingde, so don't be polite to me, come and sit down." The ninth prince immediately showed a very easy-going look without waiting for Che Mingde to finish speaking.
Che Mingde and the Ninth Prince had only met once, but the Ninth Prince was particularly kind to him, and I don’t know if it was because of Liang Changmao.
Che Mingde didn't dare to be careless. Before he could sit down, he took out the letter that Zhang Feng asked him to hand over from his arms, and then handed it to the two of them directly: "Your Highness, this is a letter that Lord Zhang asked me to hand over to His Highness and the Grand Marshal, saying that there is something important."
Hearing this, the Ninth Prince immediately opened the letter and looked at it. After a while, he showed a look of surprise on his face, and then he gave the letter to Liang Changmao again.
After reading it, Liang Changmao frowned slightly. Obviously, the things written in the letter made both of them feel troublesome.
"What special things Zhang Fengke said before Mingde came again?" Liang Changmao asked.
"It's not special. I just asked me to send the letter to you. I can't pass it on, I can only hand it over to you." Che Mingde said recalling.
"You can see too." Liang Changmao saw him say this and gave the letter to Che Mingde, which obviously also trusted him.
When Che Mingde got the letter, he saw that there was not much content in it, but it was really shocking. The letter actually mentioned that the number of armies obtained by the Zhennan Army and the southeastern states was extremely short of, with at least 30,000 to 50,000 people missing their whereabouts. Moreover, it can be clearly stated in the investigation that the military supplies did arrive at the Zhennan Army, but were quickly sent away, but they were not to the aristocratic families in the southeastern states, nor to other aristocratic families. The strangest thing was not to be sent to the Bai Kingdom or Kun Kingdom. If you lose so many things, you can imagine the responsibility.
After reading it, Che Mingde's face also changed, and he couldn't believe it and said, "How is this possible? The people shipped to the southeast are all made by people in the Zhennan Army in the southeastern states. There are also some children from other aristocratic families in various states who followed suit. All of these were found out, why are there still missing? Why are they missing? Didn't go to Baiguo and Kunguo, could they be sent to Changlong Kingdom black market? If so, who has such great ability to do this?"
"Your Majesty once sent someone to send a letter to His Highness on the way. Although it was not mentioned explicitly, it had already made a reminder. The tiger talisman that mobilized the Zhennan Army. At that time, I realized that there might be changes in going south. I thought that some of the southeastern families were unwilling to succumb to their own little thoughts, but I didn't expect that it was this." Liang Changmao also sighed.
"How can Zhennan Army believe this?" Che Mingde was a little surprised.
"Since Zhang Feng can be found in the Zhennan Army, there are naturally trustworthy people, but it is indeed dangerous. Moreover, several aristocratic families in the southeast have decided to migrate to the suburbs of Beijing. If they know that it is impossible not to say it, what they are most afraid of now is that the batch of things did not go to Changlong Kingdom, but went to other places, with tens of thousands of people armed. What are they going to do?" Liang Changmao punched the table with a strong punch.
Chapter completed!