In late June, the heat was raging the earth. Cao Zhenchun slowly walked past the Chugong Hall. The floor tiles under his feet were scorching hot. Not far from his sight, two figures were talking under the eaves of the palace. He stood there quietly and closed his eyes. The cicadas on the trees were chirping happily.

"…Supermaster, the war has just passed, and such a waste of money is inappropriate. Although the Jin Dynasty was also severely damaged, it is still difficult for me, the Wu Dynasty to bear..."

"I am not asking them to work in vain. In this way, refugees will not have a livelihood, and will not starve to death on the streets and cause trouble."

"Supervisor, Lord Chen of the Ministry of Revenue has made arrangements, but the sudden recruitment of the people is really.... It's really..."

"What's the matter... No matter what, this tower must be repaired. The local governor of the site has been demarcated. Just let the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works go to do it. Qin Hui, as the Chief Censor, just talk, don't worry too much."

"….yes!"

The faint conversation was mixed with a hint of dispute, and the two figures separated. One of them flipped into the Chugong Hall, and the other stood there. Cao Zhenchun listened for a while, closed his cuffs, and walked towards the man.

He bowed to the person, "Master Qin... Why did he have a dispute with the Supervisor?"

"It turned out to be Eunuch Cao, Qin is polite." The figure suddenly came back to his senses and quickly bowed to the old eunuch. Then, he sighed and said to the other party, "The main thing in the construction of the Tower of Tongtian is known to everyone. This is a waste of money and money."

Step by step, Cao Zhenchun nodded, then Orchid pointed and smiled on his face, "Mr. Qin, the Lord Supervisor wants to build a tower... You just take more responsibility. Anyway, you and I are all under the Lord Supervisor. Sometimes if you say too much, you will alienate your relationship, right?"

In fact, the matter of the Admiral's intention to build a tower was not mentioned in the court, but Cao Zhenchun still knew something. After all, no matter how disturbed the Bianliang City was, it was inseparable from his sight.

Recently, there were more craftsmen outside the city and refugees. He knew it very early. However, the admiral on the other side did not reveal any information about how to build this tower and how big it was. Even Cao Shaoqing, who was always with the admiral, was arranged to go to other things. Then, last night, after receiving the news from Dongchang Hai Dafu, his doubts were solved a little.

He was thinking, and Qin Hui said with a hand in his hand: "Qin, who is said to be the one who is the master, understands, but do you know how big the tower he built?" He was excited and put his hand in front and gestured between the two, "It's more than a hundred feet straight... Now all cities in the north are repairing, so there are not so many bricks and stones available, and it will disrupt the steps to safeguard the people. Although providing work to craftsmen and refugees, the court treasury expenditure is also a huge expense. What is the significance of building this tower? Qin thought about it for a few days and couldn't guess."

The two walked past a palace gate, and the trees on both sides of the road were full of cicadas. The conversation gradually stopped in silence. The breeze blew down the leaves and was stepped on by foot. This afternoon became quiet...

"Eunuch Cao is going back, and Qin has to go back to the yamen to handle official duties..." The elegant and upright figure walked to an open stone steps of the palace gate, turned around and bowed, "In Qin's impression, the supervisor has always been pragmatic, paying attention to the word "law" and "reason". There were already many officials in the court who began to tend to the supervisor, so don't ruin the attack because of what he did this time."

Cao Zhenchun folded his hands in front of his abdomen, looked at the other person for a moment, then nodded, turned around and went back, kicking his robe with his toes, walking faster and faster, and his originally smiling face gradually became expressionless.

In half a cup of tea, he had already returned to the harem. In the imperial study, he found the "Bai Ning" who was paving a piece of white paper and painting something.

When he entered the door, he bowed carefully and said, "Super the Lord."

"Jin Hui just left, you come again, and be a lobbyist for him?" "Bai Ning" took the brush and wrote and painted, raised his head and looked at the old eunuch standing below, lowered his head and said lightly: "If it's about building a tower, there's no need to say, just step back."

Cao Zhenchun pursed his lips tightly and did not dare to speak. He stood for a while before talking about other things, "…. The supervisor had his own idea of ​​the supervisor, so I naturally did not dare to speak to outsiders. I came over and talked about Yan Qing's business."

The pen stopped for a moment, and 'Bai Ning' raised his gaze, "What do he want to do?"

The room suddenly became quiet.

The figure below quickly said, "It's nothing... He probably wants to meet the governor."

"Bai Ning" behind the desk then buried her head and continued to outline the graphics on the white paper, saying, "I am too busy. When I have free time, goodbye. If you have nothing to do, you can go down as well."

"yes."

Cao Zhenchun bowed and retreated from the imperial study room. The moment he closed the door, he suddenly accelerated and walked towards his palace. He stepped over the moon gate, and the nearby servant immediately followed.

“… As Hai Dafu expected, no wonder Xiao Chenzi brought someone to pass the message in before and said a lot of inexplicable words. Now it seems that the reason is that he found it…”

When his feet pressed off a leaf, his figure stopped and ordered the closest servant behind him, "Tell me the message to Cao Shaoqing..." Halfway through his words, he suddenly waved his hand, "Forget it... he might have known it a long time ago, and it's right, how can there be no truth in the people around him who always accompany the governor?"

...So, where is the real supervisor? Why put another person like this in front? Could it be...

In Cao Zhenchun's mind, it is not difficult to guess some clues in fact, but he is unwilling to say it out loud.

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In a wing room in the imperial city, a small figure came out from inside, sobbing and wiping tears, walking and turning, looking a little awkward.

He ran to the harem crying.

The afternoon sun shines on the flowerbed in the back garden of Cining Palace. Flowers are competing for beauty, butterflies flying around flashing their wings, reflecting the sunshine, becoming as dazzling as five-colored glass.

The maid in the pavilion gently shook the feather fan.

A woman in palace clothes lie on her side and sleeps lazyly. Under her thin red long skirt, her bare feet rubbed on the soft collapse. There was a little cozy next to her, and her golden phoenix hairpin hung on the pendant and swayed gently with the soft wind coming from the fan.

The closest servants and palace maids in the hall were arranged to stand in the corridor of the garden, without giving instructions not to approach. Soon after, at the end of the corridor, the little palace maid named bell walked over and walked over and knelt in front of the woman with a thud.

Hearing the sound, Zheng Wan opened her eyes slightly and made a gesture to the side.

After the maid holding the fan left the pavilion, she asked, "What's the matter with me?"

"Reporting to the Queen Mother, the guard said... he didn't know either, but the two Cao Qianhu in the palace might have suspected that it was fake... fake... Admiral." Lingling sucked her nose and wiped the tears that were wiping out again.

Seeing her pitiful appearance, Zheng Wan sighed, stood up and wiped away tears on the face of the bell with her handkerchief, "I'm sorry... As the lord of the harem, I actually want my personal maid to bribe those inferior things with my body... In the future, I will definitely compensate you well."

"I'm not wronged." Lingling raised her face to stop her tears, but she couldn't stop her. She took a deep breath, "As long as she can avenge the Empress Dowager... Even if Lingling dies, she will not regret it."

"Good child... Mother, she must be very pleased if she has a loyal person like you." Zheng Wan caressed the bun on the bell's head lovingly.

Lingdang bit her lip tightly and nodded: "Don't worry, Empress Dowager, Lingdang will be more careful. Will you go to Yuqianhu next? Or let Lingdang go quietly alone."

The garden was quiet, and a lost butterfly flew over and fell on the soft side. The colorful wings flapped gently, and stepped onto the soft figure for a moment. He shook his head: "We have suffered a loss once, and there is no next time. Yu Qianhu needs to contact us, but Bai Ning's affairs must also be confirmed. No matter whether the person standing in the court is true or false, everything he does is angry and resentful. Let's watch while testing Yu Huatian."

His bare feet stepped on the cool floor, and his graceful figure squatted down, gently stroked the bell's cheeks with his palms, and said softly in her ear: "Bell is also suffering. Today you go down and have a good rest. Don't worry, let's take your time."

"Um!"

The little palace maid nodded in understanding, and then was helped up, "Ling Dang listens to everything from the Queen Mother."

"good!"

Zheng Wan gently rubbed the other person's hand before returning to step on. She closed her eyes slightly and looked at the small figure who was leaving, and then threw the handkerchief out of the pavilion.

“It’s so dirty….”

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The dusk was about to fall to the top of the mountain, and suddenly the heavy rain came to dilute the hot air.

The raindrops hit the soil with crackling sound.

The three figures finally walked to the gate of Bianliang City in a miserable way. The three of them were covered in mud, like wild boars rolling in the mud pond. "It's really not easy to come to Bianliang." The bald Li San wiped away the mud and water stains on his face, and his eyes were staring at the towering city tower." If it weren't for this heavy rain, the three of us would have been taken as coolies." The fat man sighed and immediately said to the woman behind him: "My sister Juan, you suffer a little. When you enter the city, your brother will open a good room for you, the best one, take a good bath, and then buy beautiful clothes."

The woman pinched her wet long skirt and nodded softly.

The three of them were the three fat men who had been rushed to the craftsman camp before. Fortunately, the heavy rain allowed the three to take the opportunity to dig a small hole from the wooden railing behind the tent that could lie on their side before they barely escaped.

The three of them went forward towards the city gate that had not yet been closed. When they arrived at the door, Wang Wei, a handsome fat man with a pride on his face, looked at the soldiers on duty in a straw raincoat, and his calves trembled again.

But in the end, the soldiers entered the city smoothly without even looking at them.
Chapter completed!