My father ordered me to kill the emperor, but His Majesty bestowed a princess upon me instead.

There are two books in the third box.

One of them is the clothing register that Lan Yue mentioned.

One of them is a copy of the old Southwest Army casualty register.

The two books are printed on different papers.

The former used blue hemp paper from the Imperial Clothing Bureau in the fourteenth year of the Chengxi reign.

The latter used coarse mulberry paper, which was common in the Southwest Army.

Madam Wang packed them in the same box.

It's not for convenience.

This is to allow the two identities to be combined at any time.

Bai Zhi unfolded the booklet page by page.

Lan Yue preserved the original roster, which contained 327 people.

The wardrobe book in Madam Wang's hand also contained 327 new identities.

However, upon actual comparison, forty-one misalignments were found.

Originally named the thirty-sixth person, corresponding to the thirty-seventh person in clothing.

Originally named the Fifty-Second Person, corresponding to the Clothing Name Fifty-Fourth.

It's as if someone deliberately removed some pages and then rebound the rest.

"Forty-one people are missing."

Bai Zhi said.

"Which side is less?"

"Both sides are lacking."

"What do you mean?"

"The original roster is missing forty-one rescued individuals."

"The changing clothes register is also missing forty-one new identities."

"But the missing ones are not from the same batch."

"Someone replaced 82 people with the original mutual verification method."

"Forty-one pairs of real names were removed."

"Forty-one pairs of kana were stuffed in."

This is why Lady Wang pursued Lan Yue for nine years.

The pages in Lan Yue's hand had indentations left by Bai Song on the edge.

Without the original book, she could only use a fake one to deceive people who didn't know anything about accounting.

Now both volumes have fallen into Bai Zhi's hands.

All forty-one name changes have been revealed.

"Who are these forty-one pairs of fake identities?"

First, check the nearest place where Bai Zhi is located.

Changed name: Zhang Hui.

The original name should be: Sun Youfu.

In the Kelan Monthly Book, Sun Youfu corresponds to Chen Mao.

The name Zhang Hui was not even in the original register.

She then flipped through the old casualty records of the Southwest Army.

He died in battle in the eleventh year of Chengxi.

The forty-one false identities all came from the old Southwest Death Army.

Those who were truly saved by the late Empress were removed from the mutual witness register by Lady Wang.

Then stuff the Southwest Death Army in there.

Therefore, fake armies are not a recent phenomenon.

They would be portrayed as people who were personally protected by the late Empress in the fourteenth year of Chengxi's reign.

The order to clear up old accounts will provide Shen Lie's former army with a legitimate identity.

"That's ruthless."

Bai Zhi said.

She rarely evaluates an account in this way.

The fact that she mentioned poison indicates that this debt was indeed not just about money.

I turned to the last page of forty-one fake identities.

There are only military ranks.

In the thirteenth year of Chengxi, he disappeared outside Qingxia.

No body was found.

The changing roster corresponds to:

Is Lin Ping'an still alive?

"The register of miscellaneous servants in the capital's inner treasury needs to be checked upon returning to the capital."

Bai Zhi said, "But if this person is here, he might be one of the earliest members of the Southwest Army to infiltrate the capital."

Not all of them will survive.

Even half of it would be enough to bury in the palace gates, the inner treasury, the Ministry of War, and the postal stations for many years.

Wang's idea to send the Southwest Army into the capital is not something he has only recently come up with.

It started eleven years ago.

I suddenly remembered what Wang Song had said in the inner prison.

In the fourteenth year of Chengxi, the supply of provisions to the southwest was cut off.

The late empress wanted to open the imperial tent to provide relief for the army.

Wang Song and others, however, transferred the disaster relief grain from Jiangbei to the southwest.

This incident caused Shen Lie to incur a blood debt.

This also gave the Wang family the opportunity to extend their reach into the Southwest Army.

Food can buy life.

The father took the four thousand bushels of grain.

Wang then took away the names of forty-one dead people from the southwest.

Ah Liu squatted down beside the box.

"Young master, what if these people really do go to the capital?"

"check."

"How do I check?"

"Check the injuries first."

In the casualty logbook of the old Southwest Army, everyone has scars.

Bai Zhi has begun copying the wound locations, ages, and old camp numbers of the forty-one people.

I said, "Make four copies."

"One portion from the capital."

"One portion from Yong'an."

"One portion from Qingzhou."

"We'll keep one copy."

Ah Liu asked, "How will it be sent to the capital?"

"Ge Tong has a military post station."

"But the military post station has just been used to issue a false order."

"Therefore, send a letter tomorrow."

"Send a secret letter."

"A letter sent via official channels."

"Have Gu Shisan deliver this letter to the southwest front, and then forward it to Beijing."

"You used General Shen's secret code to send messages and investigate General Shen's former troops?"

"Is there a problem?"

"no."

He said, "He's quite daring."

"I've always been afraid of dying."

"Being afraid of death is not the same as being cowardly."

These words were spoken by Xiao Lingyi.

When the military doctor set her bones, she only let out a muffled groan.

If Physician Song were here, he would probably say that pain means the person is still alive.

The military doctor's hands were very steady.

"key."

"no."

"The box will break your leg."

"But you say you don't have the key."

"That's precisely why we took it."

"Where are you planning to drive?"

"southwest."

"Does Shen Lie have the key?"

I took out the tiger seal thin iron.

Bai Zhi glanced at it.

"Combined command box".

The two thin iron pieces of tiger seal can be joined together and fit into the double slots.

In other words, this box can only be opened with a complete set of instructions.

The other half of the tiger seal was also at the old post station.

Like me, she wanted to meet her other half.

"What's in the box?"

"The Shen family's accounts."

Which stroke?

"The one your mother didn't sign."

Explain yourself.

"July 19th, the fourteenth year of Chengxi".

"Gu Qinghe discovered that the 6,000 shi of grain came from the epidemic-affected granary in Jiangbei."

"She told Shen Lie to return the grain rations."

Shen Lie agreed to refund half.

"The following day, a mutiny broke out in the Southwest Vanguard Battalion."

On the third day, Shen Lie took away four thousand shi (a unit of grain).

"You already know."

"continue."

"Gu Qinghe wrote a military rations transfer order."

"The four thousand shi of grain will be changed to 'grain borrowed from the southwest'."

"Repayment is due within three years."

"She wants to be able to pay this debt someday."

"Shen Lie signed it."

"She didn't."

"She wrote the transfer order, why won't you sign it?"

"Because she later discovered that the four thousand bushels of grain were not just for the relief army."

"They also raised forty-one people that the Wang family sent to the southwest."

"Those forty-one people were not soldiers."

"It's a line."

"Clothing, medicine, door, food, water."

"Half of the five members of the Qingzhanghui were trained in the Southwest Army."

Gu Shisan's face darkened.

"nonsense."

"Is this nonsense? Let Shen Lie open the box."

Madam Wang said, "Gu Qinghe refuses to sign."

"She intends to hand over forty-one people to the late Empress."

Shen Lie refused.

"He refused to hand over the military roster to the capital."

"So they completely turned against each other."

"And then?"

"Later, the late empress died."

"The imperial tent has been sealed off."

"Bai Song was written to die."

"Lan Yue has gone missing."

"Gu Qinghe has also gone missing."

Shen Lie told the public that she died of the epidemic.

I asked, "Who took her away from the old post station?"

"I."

Ah Liu moved a little closer to me.

Even if she loses a leg, I might not necessarily benefit from it.

More importantly, the debt is still there after the settlement.

I asked, "Why?"

"Wang Song gave the order."

"Should we rescue them, or arrest them?"

"Yes, we have them all."

Speak like a human.

"Shen Lie locked her up in the old post station."

"Wang Song was afraid she would reveal the identities of the forty-one people."

"Then I was allowed to take her away under the pretext of transferring a witness."

"I gave her a dream-locking drug."

"Send it to Qingzhou first."

"Send it to Yong'an again."

"Eleven years?"

"I'm not always the one who delivers the medicine."

Who delivered it?

"Yanghe Pharmacy".

"Who issued the long-term medication order?"

"There is not a single general order."

"The first year, I was afraid she would wake up and run away."

"The following year, I was afraid she would wake up and bring up the past."

"In the third year, we stopped the medication because we were worried her body couldn't handle it."

"Later everyone said, 'Let's wait a little longer.'"

"When?"

"Wait until someone can open the stone door."

"Six real cards?"

"right."

"Why is there only one in her possession?"

There were originally three.

"The other two were taken away."

"Who took it?"

"One of them is Wang Song."

"one--"

"It's in Shen Lie's hands."

My father also has a genuine card.

If the late empress wanted to control the military grain supplies in the southwest, she could not bypass Shen Lie.

But my father didn't use that card to open the door for eleven years.

They didn't tell me my mother was alive either.

I asked, "Does he know she's in Yong'an?"

"Do you know or not?"

"I didn't know at first."

"I found out later."

"when?"

Three years ago.

"Who told him?"

Pei Shen.

It just makes me want to drag him out of the palace and ask him to speak like a human being.

My father knew three years ago that my mother might be alive.

But she still told me that she had already died of the epidemic.

Gu Shisan suddenly said, "General Shen sent people to look for us."

"How many times have you looked for it?"

"twice."

"Did you find it?"

"no."

"Then why didn't you tell me?"

Gu Shisan fell silent.

"Because he was afraid I would come looking for him."

"They're afraid I'll find out about the grain rations for the fourteenth year of Chengxi's reign."

"He was also afraid I would find out why his mother had fallen out with him."

Lady Wang said, "He's even more afraid that you won't go to the capital."

If I had known my mother was alive.

She knew that her father opposed continuing to use the disaster relief grain from Jiangbei to support the army.

I know she was imprisoned because of this debt.

Will I still bring a knife into the capital?

The father was unwilling to gamble.

So he wrote about his mother dying.

Then I'll write about regicide as the only thing I should do.

Before fulfilling the true father's command, a false past was created first.

Bai Zhi pushed the transcribed list of forty-one people in front of me.

"Seal".

The recipient is Xiao Jingheng.

The deputy examiner wrote Xiao Lingyi's name.

But this letter must ultimately be examined separately by her and the emperor.

Recipient: Xiao Lingyi

Deputy examiner: Physician Song.

The postscript consisted of only one sentence:

Do not open the stone gate for now.

Ask her if she remembers the name Gu Qinghe.

Liang Su and Gu Xingzhi jointly verified it.

Ge Tong, Bai Zhi, and Gui Mingcang, three people who had returned to their registered residence, were jointly sealed up.

After I finished signing, I looked at Madam Wang.

You said a lot.

"But there's one thing I didn't say."

"What?"

"Why did you insist on making me come to Qingxia?"

"To open an account?"

"You don't necessarily need me to open the account."

"Are you forcing me to do this because of your mother?"

"She's in my hands now, not yours."

"So you want me to recruit nameless soldiers?"

"You're not surprised I won't accept it."

"So that Shen Lie can see you."

"He himself cannot come to the capital."

"You won't go to the southwest either."

"Only Qingxia."

"It's a place you're all willing to go to."

"You arranged for him to meet with his son?"

"no."

She said, "I'm just asking you all to stand in front of the same tent."

"Shen Lie wants you to kill Xiao Jingheng."

"Xiao Jingheng wants you to investigate Shen Lie."

Gu Qinghe wants you to not listen to anyone.

"Then who do you want me to listen to?"

"Listen to yourself."

Because bad people love to persuade others to be themselves.

"You look a lot like your mother."

She said, "Back then, she also thought that as long as the account could be exposed to the light of day, people would stop."

"And then?"

"Later she discovered that the tent had been exposed to the light."

"Someone has to be willing to take up the knife first."

Footsteps could be heard outside the door.

Ge Tong delivered an urgent letter from Yong'an that had just arrived.

The Princess's residence is adorned with two crimson moons below.

The calligraphy was written by Xiao Lingyi herself.

Upon hearing the name Gu Qinghe, the woman inside the door knocked three times.

She calls herself Zhaoyue.

Shen An.

It is permissible to see Shen Lie.

Ah Liu also joined in to watch.

"How did Your Highness know you were going alone?"

"She doesn't know."

"Then why write it?"

"Because she understands me."

Ah Liu nodded.

"That's true."

"Whenever the young master encounters danger, he likes to follow the other party's rules."

"To make myself seem smart."

I looked at him.

"You're out of meat tonight."

Ah Liu immediately shut up.