Chapter 340 Dilemma

When Yiyun returned to the courtyard, Yin Tao saw her in her room and immediately followed Yiyun into her room.

"What did the princess say to you?"

Yiyun glanced at her and said, "Didn't I tell you that?"

Yin Tao raised her eyebrows: "How do you know what the princess said to me? You want to cheat me? No way!"

"The princess told me."

Yiyun sighed: "What do you think we should do?"

Yin Tao looked suspicious: "What did the princess tell you?"

Yiyun said unhappily, "What can I say? Of course you ask us what we have done for the Queen? And what other spies we have."

Yin Tao's heart skipped a beat: "You said everything?"

She quickly glanced at the wooden hairpin on Evian's bun.

Still here.

"How dare I say that. But if we don't do something, do you think the Queen will keep us? If the Queen thinks we are useless, it will be easy for her to kill us. Moreover, Prince Yong's Mansion will not let us go, so won't we die here quietly?"

Yin Tao was so frightened that her face turned pale: "She also told you various ways to die?"

Yiyun nodded with a worried look on his face, "How scary."

Gu Huan didn't tell her that the method to deal with Yin Tao was different, but she could judge it based on Yin Tao's words and expressions.

At this moment, Yiyun was even more certain that she should trust Gu Huan instead of the Queen.

Gu Huan is a scheming person, and in order to surrender herself, she found out about her father in advance.

And what about the queen? Before she decided to come to Juzhou, she asked the Queen to save her father, and the Queen agreed immediately. However, she has been here for so long, and the Queen has not said a word about saving people, and her father is still suffering.

Evian already knows who is more reliable and who is more useful.

As for whether she could survive by relying on Gu Huan, it was not important to her.

As long as she could save her father, she would not mind dying.

Yin Tao paced back and forth in the room anxiously: "What should I do? The princess is not a pushover either."

Yiyun asked tentatively: "Do you want to escape or continue to help the queen?"

"Escape? How? The whole world belongs to the king. Where can we escape to?"

Yin Tao said hurriedly, and suddenly paused: "Escape? It's not impossible, if we escape to other countries, can we? But we are trapped here, and we can't even get out of the gate."

Yiyun suddenly thought of a way to leave the house without being noticed.

"My father has an old acquaintance who seems to be living in Juzhou. I want to find him and see if he is willing to help us. He is a businessman and often goes to other small countries."

A glimmer of hope flashed in Yin Tao's eyes: "Then go and ask the princess to let you go out and find someone?"

Yiyun nodded: "I'll try it now."

When Gu Huan heard what Yiyun had asked someone to take her away, she went along with it and allowed her to go out.

Yiyun left the house that day.

Akabane's men followed secretly.

…

Li returned to Bazhou from Juzhou and has been depressed ever since.

After her husband Qian Junheng returned home, he rarely ran to her yard.

Li was overjoyed and quickly asked someone to serve snacks and tea, and asked him politely if he wanted to stay for dinner.

Qian Junheng waved his hand impatiently: "I have something to do later. Did you see anything in Juzhou today?"

Although Li was very disappointed, it was rare that he came in person and was willing to tell him that he had something to do and could not have dinner. At least there was some hope.

She knew very well that her husband had different political views from her father. Her father was a royalist and stood on the side of the emperor, while her husband wanted to take a shortcut and curry favor with the queen and the prince.

She was stuck in the middle, neither of them being accepted by the public.

If she helps her husband, her family will ignore her even more, and she won't be liked by her husband, so she will be doomed in the end.

If she helps her father and her family can't help her husband, she will be doomed as well.

As Li thought about it, she became overwhelmed with sadness.

She pondered his question and cautiously asked, "What does my husband want to know?"

Qian Junheng frowned, with a useless look on his face: "Prince Yong is recruiting soldiers. Have you seen that there are more soldiers in the city?"

Li considered and said, "I saw it, and it is heavily guarded."

Qian Junheng really looked down on Li's petty-mindedness. A bastard's daughter is a bastard's daughter and has limited knowledge.

His tone wasn't so good again.

"Didn't you find anything else?"

Li wanted to tell him what Gu Huan said, but was afraid of being scolded. While she was hesitating, Qian Junheng lost his patience, stood up and left.

Li hurriedly chased after him: "Husband, Princess Yong said to go with the flow, husband, you should think twice before acting."

Qian Junheng paused, then turned around and hurried back: "Did you see Princess Yong?"

Li was overjoyed and nodded quickly: "Yes, not only did she see it, she also gave me a set of brocade worth three thousand gold coins as a gift for my mother."

"Three thousand gold?" Qian Junheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

He nodded slowly: "I heard that this Princess Yong is very powerful, especially in business. The Mu family has fought for generations and can't save any money. Several cities in southern Xinjiang are dilapidated and the people live a hard life. Even if he is crowned as queen, all the tax revenue goes to the Mu family army, which is just a drop in the bucket. Do you know why?"

Li was rarely questioned by him, so she quickly showed her eagerness to learn: "How can I understand these? Can my husband teach me?"

Qian Hengjun answered patiently, "That's because the court has always deducted half of the military pay for the Mu family army, and the other pensions were all intercepted by the Jiang family and the Yuan family. The Mu family is a bunch of fools, clamoring to be loyal to the emperor, but they don't think about it. If the emperor really values ​​the Mu family, how could he turn a blind eye? How many people in the Mu family army have died in the past fifty years? How much silver is the pension? I'm afraid it's enough to buy Daliang."

"However, since Prince Yong married this princess, his ability to make money has improved."

Qian Junheng stroked his chin and thought.

Li was extremely excited. Today was the day her husband spoke to her the most in the past two years.

Although she didn't quite understand what he meant, it was enough that he was willing to talk to her.

All of this was caused by Gu Huan's words. Li followed up and said, "So, your husband should listen to what Princess Yong said?"

"Tsk, how can I listen to a mere woman? What does it mean to go with the flow? Who will be the future emperor? I will naturally go with the flow. Wang Heng is a fool. He was born into a literary family, so he is always pretentious. When it comes to strategy, he knows nothing!"

Qian Junheng whispered, "You continue to maintain your relationship with Princess Yong. I will tell you when it is useful."

Li smiled and nodded: "I will obey you."

Qian Junheng thought for a moment and said, "Oh yeah, the court has issued an order to re-pay the additional taxes that were exempted from us before, and we also need to pay the taxes that were withheld before. Think about how to get Princess Yong to help us out."

Li's smile froze. This...she didn't understand.

How could she get Princess Yong to give money to help Bazhou pay taxes?

This is a huge sum of money!

She knew that her husband was worried about this matter all day long. After all, if he wanted to pay the back taxes, the people would have to pay double the taxes. He would have to stop being an official or he would be beaten to death.

"Why do we have to pay the additional taxes? Didn't His Majesty exempt us from half of the additional taxes because we were affected by the war in southern Xinjiang and the people were suffering?"

"You stupid woman, the prince is in power now! You have to pay your debts, don't you understand? The queen also wants to use this to control us."

Qian Junheng frowned and thought for a while: "Just tell Princess Yong that since she wants us to make way for the Mu family army, then just pay the money."

He sneered again: "As for whether to give way or not, that's a matter for the future."

Li felt a chill all over her body. "Wouldn't that be deceiving her? If Prince Yong knew about this, would he let us go?"

Qian Junheng's face darkened. "You are indeed a concubine's daughter, you know nothing! I don't know how your father had the nerve to marry you to me as my legal wife! If you can't handle this matter well, you can go back to the Li family. What use are you to?"

Li stared at her husband who left in anger, and was stunned for a long while.

This...what should she do?