Ever since the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that day, the news that the Southern Kingdom's eldest prince's marriage proposal was rejected had caused a sensation in the capital. Many people who did not believe it began to believe it after seeing Chu Guang frequently appearing where Su Juan was.

Chu Guang became even more high-profile, fearing that others would not know his feelings for Su Juan. As long as Su Juan appeared, he would rush there, providing sumptuous food, aged wine, and all kinds of jewelry.

Almost everyone in Beijing focused their attention on this matter, and they would talk about it for a long time even when they sat down in a teahouse.

At this time, Su Juan had just returned from the Duke's Mansion and went to the backyard to find Shen Ruhui. Before she even drank a sip of tea, she asked, "How is it?"

Shen Ruhui: "As you expected, the Southern Kingdom sent an envoy to Beijing, but actually arranged other people to disguise as a merchant caravan to negotiate business in Beijing. Recently, they have secretly contacted people from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works, and have been running around all the major news trading places in Beijing. Today, they also went to Ruyi Tower and spent a lot of money to buy news about our military camp personnel."

"I followed your instructions and spread some false but true news."

Normally, these actions of the Southern Kingdom would have been easily discovered as long as the court was on guard. However, due to Chu Guang's recent high-profile actions, most people's attention was focused on Chu Guang and Su Juan, and they relaxed their vigilance against the Southern Kingdom's delegation. No one noticed the unusual movements of this caravan.

The eldest prince of the Southern Kingdom was clearly using the marriage proposal to cover up the real purpose behind it. He would not have noticed such a scheme if Su Juan had not reminded him a few days ago.

Su Juan nodded slightly, "Thank you for going to Ruyi Tower more often during this period of time and asking people to pay more attention to the developments in the South Country."

When the Southern Kingdom provoked the war, the first country it attacked was the wealthy Chu Kingdom. After looting a large amount of money and expanding its military supplies and fodder, it marched northward to destroy the Jin Dynasty and directly attacked the imperial city.

Although the Southern Kingdom was indeed stronger than the Great Jin in terms of military strength, the Great Jin was no pushover after all. But the Southern Kingdom had indeed had too many smooth sailings along the way.

I'm afraid that there was civil strife in the court at that time, and the border defense map had already been leaked to Chu Guang.

Now it seems that Chu Guang is really ambitious. No one would have thought that he is already preparing to attack other countries in the future before he even ascends the throne.

Instead of letting him think of other ways, it is better to play along with him and let him think that his plan has succeeded. Give him some insignificant true news and mix it with some false news.

It is half true and half false to deceive people, so that if war breaks out in the future, they will be able to respond.

Su Juan did not tell Shen Ruhui about her plan, but Shen Ruhui could guess her plan.

He has been with Su Juan for more than half a year. During this period, he gradually learned that the famous Ruyi Tower in Dajin was actually engaged in intelligence trading. It was established by Su Juan. But he still has some doubts. Intelligence can be collected, but how does she know things that have not happened yet?

There are too many mysteries surrounding Su Juan that are hard to unravel.

Shen Ruhui handed the letter box beside him to Su Juan, "There was news from Xuzhou today, and I brought it to you as soon as possible."

Su Juan took the mailbox and opened it quickly. Since Miao Qing left, there has been no news. She was afraid that something had happened in Xuzhou.

After seeing the contents of the note, her expression suddenly changed, "Something happened."

Shen Ruhui looked puzzled. He took the note from Su Juan and read it with his pupils shrinking. "Who is so bold as to rob relief money?"

The note said that Minister Jiang and his team escorting silver to Xuzhou encountered a mob on the way to Xuzhou, and half of them were killed or injured. Minister Jiang was seriously injured and unconscious, and more than a dozen people including Liu Miaoqing were missing. The whereabouts of the entire 300,000 disaster relief silver were unknown.

"With such a big thing happening, the capital will have to send more people to Xuzhou." Shen Ruhui said, looking at Su Juan.

&t;div tentadv>Su Juan frowned, "How could ordinary rioters have the guts to rob the imperial court's disaster relief funds, and hide their tracks quietly? There must be someone behind this."

Moreover, the team escorting the silver and Minister Jiang and his men did not take the same route. Only Minister Jiang and some people in the Ministry of War who were responsible for this matter, as well as the people escorting the silver, knew about this. I'm afraid someone among them leaked the news.

Shen Ruhui said in a deep voice, "I think the urgent report from Xuzhou should have been delivered to the capital by now. If the Ministry of Revenue wants to send someone to Xuzhou tomorrow, I hope you can ask to go there on your own initiative."

Su Juan understood what Shen Ruhui meant. Even if it wasn't for this matter, she would still be worried about Miao Qing's disappearance and would definitely go to Xuzhou.

The next day, an urgent report from Xuzhou arrived in Beijing. The old emperor got very angry. After the court meeting, he summoned the three ministers of punishment, household and military, as well as the minister of the Secretariat to discuss the matter.

The Ministry of Revenue allocated another 200,000 silver taels, and the military camp assigned personnel to escort it to Xuzhou.

The Minister of War was trembling and his hands were shaking. Such a big thing had not happened in the past ten years. The emperor would definitely blame him for his dereliction of duty this time.

Minister Mo of the Ministry of Revenue took the opportunity to recommend Su Juan, hinting, "Your Majesty, she knows all the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue. She also assisted Minister Jiang in all matters when he was in the Ministry of Revenue. Why not let her go to Xuzhou with you this time to replace Minister Jiang?"

Under normal circumstances, the old emperor would not have allowed Su Juan to leave Beijing, but this time it was about the disaster victims in Xuzhou, a full 300,000 silver coins for disaster relief, and those who were missing.

The old emperor nodded, "Okay, let her go."

The old emperor immediately issued two edicts, ordering the Ministry of Justice to investigate the case of the theft of disaster relief silver with all their might. Su Juan, the Minister of Revenue, was promoted to Langzhong of the Ministry of Revenue, a fifth-rank official, and rushed to Xuzhou to take over all duties of Jiang Shilang of the Ministry of Revenue, assisting local authorities in dealing with the disaster.

After everyone left, the old emperor looked at the Minister of War who had remained silent. The Minister of War trembled.

After receiving the imperial edict, Su Juan hurriedly packed her bags.

"During the time I'm away from the capital, you need to have people keep a close eye on Prince Han and Prince Jing's palaces, and also keep a close eye on the Southern Kingdom."

Shen Ruhui nodded, "Don't worry, young lady."

Su Juan handed the token in her hand to him again, "You take care of the affairs of Ruyi Tower first. When necessary, you can order the people in the various towers to do things."

Shen Ruhui was slightly startled. She didn't expect Su Juan to leave everything to her. She immediately clenched the token tightly and said, "Okay, young lady, be careful when you go to Xuzhou."

When Liu Xuan and Song Qianhang came to see someone off, they saw her talking to Shen Ruhui.

Seeing the two of them coming together, Su Juan was surprised. When did these two become so close?

"Why are you here?"

Song Qianhang spoke first, "The news about Xuzhou has spread, so I naturally have to come and see you off."

Liu Xuan didn't say anything out of concern, but just told Su Juan a few words, "There must be a mastermind behind the Xuzhou incident. You must be careful when you go to Xuzhou, and don't panic when something happens."

Shen Ruhui was watching from the side, and his eyes were subtle when he looked at Liu Xuan.

Su Juan nodded, "I know."