The wind was a bit cold and the road was desolate. Bao Qing and the Thirteenth Prince walked at the back of the team. The Thirteenth Prince on horseback looked a little lonely. "Whatever you want to know, just ask!" "Prince, can you tell me what you are doing in Yizhou?" Bao Qing asked. "Go to see my king's daughter." The Thirteenth Prince looked in the direction of Yizhou silently, reined in his horse and stopped. "Your Majesty dug a tunnel with the help of Mrs. Yelu just to secretly go to Yizhou to find your daughter? Didn't the officials agree that Your Majesty should visit relatives? Why did Your Majesty do this?" "Haha" The Thirteenth Prince suddenly laughed. Get up, and then become a little sad and sarcastic. "I wonder why the prince is laughing?" Bao Qing was a little confused. "I am laughing at Master Bao, the imperial envoy who has done something very wrong! The officials? Huh, if the officials sincerely let me go see my daughter, they wouldn't have caused so many things, and they wouldn't have sent you, Master Bao, to investigate the case. Aren't the officials afraid that this king will threaten his throne? If he insists on rebelling, if he really wanted to be the emperor, he would have agreed to the late emperor's decree." The Thirteenth Prince said a little excitedly. When Bao Qing heard this, the Thirteenth Prince's words confirmed what Fan Zhongyan said in his letter. "Back then, Empress Dowager Liu regarded me as a thorn in the side of the king and always made things difficult. It was this woman who also caused trouble for my daughter to marry into the Liao Kingdom. She tried every means to demoralize me and force me to do something extraordinary. What happened is that one day I will be eradicated. Later, this woman finally died. I thought that the officials in the capital would be kind and virtuous and would let me go. Unexpectedly, like the Queen Mother Liu, she still refused to let me go. King." The Thirteenth Prince became more and more excited as he spoke. "Your Majesty, maybe this is not meant by the official family, but by the subordinates below." Bao Qing said. After hearing this, the Thirteenth Prince's expression softened a little, and his face gradually became solemn: "Are you talking about that Lu Yijian? Although the officials from the Conglong regard me as a thorn in their side, but without his official nodding, these officials Do you dare to do this? I admire Mr. Bao very much now. Mr. Bao is a smart man and should know a lot. Don¡¯t you feel resentful at all when Mr. Bao is treated as an abandoned pawn? " " Don¡¯t complain, I, Bao Qing, knew my situation when I arrived in Bazhou, but there is no need for the prince to bother to instigate. As long as the prince answers the following questions seriously, I, Bao Qing, will do what I say, not only will the princess and the prince be satisfied. When we meet, we will let you two go," Bao Qing said calmly. "Okay! It's settled!" "Why did Hong Ba assassinate me? And what happened to Bazhou Yingxiao?" "The reason why Hong Ba did this was actually to allow me to leave Bazhou calmly. . As early as a few years ago, I discovered that someone was deliberately spreading the news that I was planning to rebel. Maybe I didn¡¯t find out who did it for a long time.¡± The Thirteenth Prince paused and showed a look. The look of realization. "At that time, a terrible thought appeared in my mind. Perhaps the thief who slandered me for treason was simply a fiction, and it happened to be the current official. Thinking of this, I asked Hong Ba to secretly arrange the rear in Bazhou. Lu. In the early years, my daughter was treated kindly by Yelv Zongzhen, the current emperor of Liao Kingdom, for helping him suppress the rebellion. At the same time, the current Queen Xiao of Liao Kingdom also respected my daughter. The king missed his daughter day and night, so he applied to the court for family visits every year, but he never received a reply. But this year, an imperial edict was issued suddenly, allowing the king to visit his relatives. After hearing this, Hong Ba wrote to the king overnight, saying that the official family might want to visit. It would have been impossible to do this otherwise. After thinking about it, I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to visit my relatives and escape to the Liao Kingdom to meet my daughter, never to return to the Song Dynasty again. " Bao Qing nodded. It seems that these words can be believed. So he asked: "Then Mrs. Yelu is here to help you escape to the Liao Kingdom?" "Mrs. Yelu was entrusted by Empress Xiao of the Liao Kingdom to do this. Also, when Wu Jun, the manager of Naha Prefecture, was assassinated, I also asked Hong Ba denied it. At the same time, he told the king that it was only because of the imperial court's intention that such a drama was caused. If the imperial court sent an imperial envoy for this matter, it would probably be done by the imperial court itself. Because the biggest suspect in Wu Jun's assassination is Hong Ba himself, the first person the imperial envoy will investigate is Hong Ba. If he is not careful, Hong Ba may be detained by the imperial envoy, and he will have no choice but to rebel. There are two options: waiting for death. Therefore, Hong Ba thought of stabbing the imperial envoy to death on the road first, thereby delaying time and allowing the king to enter the Liao Kingdom as soon as possible. Of course, Hong Ba also hid his family. I got up, and I was planning to leave with this prince." The Thirteenth Prince said with some heartache. Bao Qing had some enlightenment in his heart, and it seemed that his earlier inference was correct. The death of Wu Jun, the governor of Naha Prefecture, was a conspiracy hatched by the imperial court itself. The purpose is to get a reason to send an imperial envoy.?If I'm a little careless, I might actually get the idea. If he had immediately thought of a way to arrest Hong Ba as the murderer of Wu Jun as soon as he arrived in Bazhou, he would probably have rebelled immediately. The more Bao Qing thought about it, the angrier he became. The imperial court wanted to force the Thirteenth Prince to rebel, so that the imperial court could suppress the rebellion openly without having to bear the infamy of killing his clan members. I'm afraid that if that time comes, I won't have much chance of survival, and I might just be killed by the rebels. But there is still a question, and that is the Liao people. Could it be said that the Liao people really surrounded Cao Qi like this? Did the food needed by this army really cost nothing? "I don't know much about the Liao army, but this matter is a bit strange. The Liao people seem to be waiting for something!" said the Thirteenth Prince. "Indeed, General Cao has been besieged for almost half a month. Doesn't the Liao army's 30,000 troops need food? Your lord, are they your people in Baozhou?" Bao Qing asked. "No, the general manager of Baozhou Camp is called Wang Zhan. He was directly appointed by the imperial court three or four years ago. Wang Zhan had worked in the Ministry of Industry for several years before." The Thirteenth Prince replied. When the Ministry of Works was mentioned, Bao Qing was a little shocked. Because the murder case of Li Hai, the damn minister of the Ministry of Industry, has not been investigated yet. "Could it be that Li Hai, the former minister of the Ministry of Industry, recommended him?" Bao Qing asked anxiously. "It's not clear, but Li Hai is very powerful in the Ministry of Industry, and his sister Li Guifei is also favored by the officials, so many officials in the Ministry of Industry have some kind of relationship with him." There must be something behind Li Hai's death. Someone, it should be Le Hai's master who took refuge with him, did it. Then if Wang Zhan of Baozhou Camp was recommended by Li Hai, then there would be a big problem. It shows that Wang Zhan is also a subordinate of the person behind Li Hai. "Perhaps your prince doesn't know that in addition to the food road in Yizhou, the Liao army that besieged General Cao also had a second food road, which was in the direction of Baozhou. At first, I thought that the Baozhou side was from the prince's people." " Master Bao means that Baozhou is constantly providing food and fodder to the Liao army?" Bao Qing nodded and said, "I still can't figure out who is here! I'm afraid something big is going to happen." "Then why don't you cut off the Baozhou grain road? Are you leading thousands of troops here to save General Cao? Order him to attack the Baozhou grain road. Master Bao only needs to seize the Yizhou grain road, and the 30,000 Liao troops will inevitably retreat," said the Thirteenth Prince. "I have sent an order to Hong Ba for the prince, asking him to lead his headquarters to Yizhou to rendezvous, and let Li Qingli take over the two reinforcements. Then go and cut off the Baozhou grain road." Bao Qing said. "What? You've already given the order? I'm afraid Hong Ba won't listen to Master Bao, and Li Qing will die." The Thirteenth Prince was a little surprised. "Is that dragon's birth jade pendant a keepsake? I saw Hong Ba also had one on him. A military general wearing a full body of armor actually went into battle with a jade pendant. Can anyone doubt it? There was a dragon-shaped pattern engraved on the lower edge of the jade pendant. I looked at it carefully. There was some seal on it, which should be the seal used for writing letters. So, I asked Cao Yun to write a letter with a dragon-shaped seal on it, and asked Li Qing to take it to see Hong Ba. Can Hong Ba be mobilized? " "This!" The Thirteenth Prince was shocked and kept looking at Bao Qing. It seemed that he was not unjustly caught by Master Bao. "Hong Ba is afraid that that woman's handwriting will make Hong Ba suspicious!" "I asked Li Qing not to talk too much. Then Hong Ba would not be able to figure out the details. I also explained in the letter that the princess and his own son are with the prince. " "Your move is really poisonous. Master Bao's implicit intention is to tell Hong Ba that I, the princess, and Hong Ba's son are all in your hands. It doesn't matter even if Hong Ba sees through it, he must consider it. The safety of his own son, the king, and the princess is like this, right?" The Thirteenth Prince asked. Bao Qing nodded and did not deny it.