Chapter 45: Separation
readx; Yin Zhen called Jiang Lingxi out for a walk, even if she didn't say anything all the way, Jiang Lingxi could guess a thing or two from her frowning. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Counting the time, Dongming's envoy should have arrived in Pixi, and under the guise of holding negotiations on the issue of piracy in the southwest, he induced him to use higher material conditions and political status to do the opposite.
After Ning Hong's royal family ordered goods from Dongming merchants, at the beginning of March, the tribute sent by Pixi to Ning Hong was really lower, Yin Zhen was chilled by Ning Hong, and she was inclined to accept the olive branch thrown by Dongming, but her father and emperor were still a little hesitant out of historical considerations, so the father and daughter had a disagreement.
What they didn't know was that when Zhu Yunwen and Huang Zicheng arrived in Ninghong, they immediately changed from being businessmen to undesirable people who were ostracized by Dongming officialdom.
Out of revenge against the Dongming court, Huang Zicheng brought a secret to the Ninghong royal family related to the country: Dongming intends to befriend Pixi, and Pixi seems to have an ambiguous attitude, in fact, in addition to the past envoys sent by Dongming, there is currently a more important guest in Pixi's palace, this person has a great relationship with the emperor in Dongming, and when he arrived in Pixi, he quickly became good friends with his eldest princess Yin Zhen, which shows Dongming's determination and Pixi's actual tendencies.
Due to the previous careful foreshadowing, even if Emperor Ning Hong specially sent spies to verify the details, the results obtained were no different from what Huang Zicheng said.
Just when Emperor Ning Hong was suspicious of Pixi's position, Yin Zhen read Jiang Lingxi's plan for the development prospects of Pixi, and really appreciated it, and after consulting with Emperor Pixi, he decided to start the regularization of maritime shipping first. Originally, this was nothing, but the subtlety was that among all the personnel in charge of shipping, the pirates who were originally active in that area alone accounted for nearly seventy percent. In other words, Pixi recruited almost all of Dongming's pirates in the waters around that area!
Not only that, according to the investigation of Ning Hong's spies in Pixi, Pixi's next step is to use part of the labor force along the coast of Dongming to further expand the follow-up market for peanuts, a specialty of his country, and the various technologies involved are of course also from the eldest princess Yin Zhen's distinguished guest, Jiang Lingxi, who has a close relationship with Emperor Dongming.
Emperor Ning Hong was furious, thinking that Pixi was unjust, and the suppression of it was increasingly strengthened, while Pixi thought that Ning Hong was unrighteous first, and naturally resented, so that both sides firmly believed that they were firmly on the moral high ground, and the envoy of the Eastern Ming Dynasty echoed Huang Zicheng from afar, and was constantly stirred up in the middle, and the contradictions accumulated by the two countries over the centuries finally intensified, until mid-July, a trivial fuse became the last straw that crushed the camel, and Ning Hong and Pixi broke completely.
On July 12, all the convoys stationed in Pixi were withdrawn from Ning Hong, and that night, the Dongming troops secretly stationed in the southwest set foot on Pixi's territory one after another.
At the beginning of August, when the dust gradually settled, Jiang Lingxi sent a letter to the little emperor, saying that he would continue to stay in the southwest for a period of time, on the one hand, to monitor Ning Hong's movements, and more importantly, she would personally sit in charge and follow up on the implementation of the previously designed plan.
Huang Zicheng really fulfilled the flag he had set at the beginning, not only did he rebel against Pixi without bloodshed, but also recruited the pirates without spending a single soldier under Jiang Lingxi's follow-up planning. Everything is on the right track, it is the beginning of November, and it has been a full year since Jiang Lingxi and the others set off from the Dongming Palace.
The early winter in the southwest is not as cold as the imperial capital, and the air still retains a lot of freshness of the autumn breeze, on a beach somewhere in the border of Jianzhou, Jiang Lingxi, Yun Ze, Zhu Yunwen and Huang Zicheng walked side by side, while enjoying the sea view, while feeling the power of time, today's southwest is no longer the people who were harassed by pirates at the beginning, and the people began to look forward to the visible tomorrow, becoming full and busy.
Jiang Lingxi was in a very good mood, trotted against the wind for a while, turned around and said to the three people behind him: "From today onwards, please call me the chief designer of the southwest coast!" ”
Huang Zicheng rolled his eyes, "If it weren't for the good foreshadowing of the old man in the early stage, all this could only happen in your daydreams." ”
"I'm not going to bury your credit!" Jiang Lingxi smiled, waited for them to walk in, went over and grabbed Huang Zicheng's arm and said, "Say it, Uncle Shuai, what reward do you want when you go back, I will write a letter for you to tell the little emperor and tell him to prepare in advance!" ”
said, his eyes took Zhu Yunwen, "And you!" ”
Seeing that the other party didn't have the heart to twist slightly, he thought that he was going to figure out how to open his mouth, and was about to say that you should take it easy, restore the throne or something, and simply don't think about it, but Zhu Yunwen looked at Huang Zicheng with some surprise, "Didn't you tell her?" ”
Jiang Lingxi's gaze immediately followed, "What? ”
Huang Zicheng sighed lightly, his face showed some reluctance, he almost didn't dare to look at Jiang Lingxi's eyes, and said quietly: "We, we don't plan to go back." ”
"Why?!" Jiang Lingxi immediately exclaimed.
After getting along for such a long time, she has long had feelings for them, especially admiring Huang Zicheng's talent, through the planning of Dongming and Pixi Coast, she also gradually found the state of working hard for a goal in her previous life, looking at the real achievements in front of her, she couldn't help but be possessed by Mary Sue, looking forward to admiring Zhu Yunwen's face after going back, while joining forces with Huang Zicheng to dominate the imperial capital, but he said that they didn't plan to go back.
"Was it intended from the beginning?" Thinking back to Huang Zicheng's various performances along the way, especially the excessive eagerness to trap Zhao Jing, she should have been aware of it.
Huang Zicheng nodded, in view of Yun Ze's presence, it was inconvenient to say it too thoroughly, so he only smiled at Jiang Lingxi: "This is a joint decision made by us after careful consideration, I think you should be able to understand our situation." ”
Intellectually, of course, Jiang Lingxi knew that their identities were embarrassing, and it was always a hidden danger to hang out under the nose of the little emperor, on the other hand, whether it was the fiasco in Daming or the success in Dongming, it was a tough battle for them both physically and mentally, and they did need a period of recuperation. However...... "understanding is understanding, and in the face of sudden separation, I am still very reluctant." ”
Huang Zicheng saw her head drooping down, a little unbearable, and said with relief: "After all, we are in the same world, and we will have a chance to meet again in the future." ”
Zhu Yunwen also gave her a buddy-style shoulder and patted her gently, "It's just a farewell, why are you so heavy?" Let's go, drink and go! ”