Episode 4

Wuhou De was preparing to lead an army of 200,000 troops on an expedition, and sent a letter to the emperor requesting for grain and grass support.But this battle wiped out the treasury that the emperor had managed for decades, which made the emperor very emotional.The emperor showed the memorial to Xiao Dingquan, and blamed the prince for not having the fifth prince share the country's worries on the grounds that the fifth prince had donated all his salary to the national treasury.Xiao Dingquan applied to lift the ban and risked being impeached again by Yushitai. He wanted to supervise the grain and grass of the Ministry of Revenue and increase the amount of land and taxes. The emperor agreed when he saw that Xiao Dingquan was so determined.

Xiao Dingquan had not seen Gu Fengen for three years and missed him very much. He lamented that although he was supervising the grain harvest, he could not experience the hardships of the border with Gu Fengen.At this time, outside the city of Changzhou, Wuhou de Gu Silin was asking his son Gu Fengen to stay in Changzhou and take care of the Gu family's army's rear. He did not trust Li Mingan to hold it, so he wanted Gu Fengen to stay in a corner with Li Mingan's 30,000 troops in Changzhou.But it must not conflict with it.Even at the border, Gu Silin still cared about the affairs of the capital. He learned from secret reports that the fifth prince Xiao Dingkai had made suggestions to raise military supplies, and was praised by the civil and military people in the city. The limelight was approaching the prince, but he openly used paintings to make money, secretly formed a secret alliance with the Yushitai, and speculated that Xiao Dingkai wanted to compete with him.Prince Xiao Dingquan also knew that Xiao Dingquan had a spy from Xiao Dingkai in his harem.

However, Xiao Dingquan could not be informed of this matter to prevent him from being distracted when preparing food and fodder, so he only reminded Gu Fengen of this disaster.During this expedition, Gu Silin also knew that he might have to die in battle to show his courage, but he promised Gu Fengen that he would come back as safely as possible to see his unborn grandson Ruer, but he still blamed himself for harming Gu Fengen and Gu Chengen, leaving Gu FengenHe chose a busy military career.Because he broke Lu Wenxi's vase last time, the Sixth Prince came to Lu Wenxi's side courtyard to pay for her new vase. Lu Wenxi thought that the Little Sixth Prince was very well-behaved and sensible, so he was willing to let the Little Sixth Prince have a glass of water before leaving.Later, the sixth prince came to his third brother Xiao Dingquan's study as usual for class. He strangely wanted to replace the brass ruler with a wooden ruler because he felt that the brass ruler was too painful to hit.This can't help but remind Xiao Dingquan of the scene where he used a brass ruler to punish Lu Wenxi when she was asked to write.

When Xiao Dingquan was teaching Prince Xiao Liu how to write, Prince Xiao Liu accidentally revealed that Gu Cairen could also write "Golden Cross Knife", which made Xiao Dingquan discover that Prince Xiao Liu had met Gu Cairen.Afterwards, Prince Xiaoliu told Xiao Dingquan the details of the two intrusions into Gu Cairen's yard. Xiao Dingquan pretended to interrogate Prince Xiaoliu seriously, but Prince Xiaoliu couldn't help laughing when he praised Gu Cairen for his virtue and virtue.But the next second, he learned from the sixth prince that Lu Wenxi had never mentioned Xiao Dingquan. Xiao Dingquan's expression suddenly turned sour, scaring the sixth prince to tears.Xiao Dingquan didn't mean to blame Prince Xiaoliu. He picked up the little boy and wiped his tears, feeling that he had pampered Prince Xiaoliu to the point of being lawless.The relationship between Prince Xiaoliu and Xiao Dingquan reminded Wang Weng of the way Gu Fengen broke into the East Mansion, and he guessed that Hebohou and Wuhou De were on the front line.

Xiao Dingquan knew that He Bohou was staying in Changzhou and was worried about his uncle's safety. At this time, He Bohou was also looking at the border in Changzhou and worried about his father.The soldiers of the Marquis of Hebo rushed to ask for help from the Marquis of Hebo. They said that there was a dispute between our sergeants and Li's troops outside the east city gate over the grain matter, and asked the Marquis of Hebo to deal with it.In order to avoid conflict, Hebohou killed the horse with a sharp knife and took the head of the deputy general Xiang Shang who was robbing rice to plead guilty to Master Li, implying that Li did not want to disturb the morale of the army when the army was fighting.Li Ming'an agreed to let the matter go, but he didn't expect that three years of experience would make Gu Fengen have the general style of Gu Silin.Because the grain had arrived in Changzhou, Gu Fengen secretly trusted Prince Xiao Dingquan and told Xiao Dingquan that King Zhao Xiao Dingkai had planted spies in the harem. Xiao Dingquan suddenly figured everything out. It turned out that Gu Cairen was the person sent by King Zhao.Xiao Dingquan was very disappointed and rushed to Lu Wenxi's side courtyard angrily.Lu Wenxi did not expect that Xiao Dingquan would suddenly come to see her, nor did he realize the reason behind Xiao Dingquan tearing up the prescription expressionlessly.Xiao Dingquan forced Lu Wenxi to go to bed. Lu Wenxi saw that his condition was not right and wanted to struggle. Xiao Dingquan said that he had not seen him for three years, and Lu Wenxi relented.The moment Xiao Dingquan kissed Lu Wenxi, he still shed tears.