Xu Xiang sat down, clasped his fist at him and said, "Previously, Yuan Gongzi asked Miss Ling'er to come to the rescue, but she was highly poisoned, and Xu was really a little upset. Fortunately, Miss Ling'er was fine later, and I was a little relieved. When Yuan Gongzi came to pick up Miss Ling'er, I was not in the house, which was really rude. ”

"It's okay, Xu Gongzi doesn't have to care, the Nine Secluded Palaces are also bold and reckless, daring to commit murder in Ningdu City, Yuan naturally can't stand it."

"Anyway, Yuan Gongzi has a life-saving grace for Zaixia, I don't know when you have time, please go to Xu's Mansion again, and let Xu express his gratitude." Xu Xiang insisted on thanking him.

"I don't need to say more. Xu Gongzi, your chess skills are good! Can you play two sets? ”

Where did Xu Xiang dare to go down with him, his half-hung level, that is, the bystander Qing, just saw that point.

"How dare you play this little bit of chess with Yuan Gongzi." Xu Xiang hurriedly refused.

Xuanyuan Ding only said that he was modest, and insisted on pulling him to play chess, and in desperation, Xu Xiang had no choice but to bite the bullet.

Fortunately, Xuanyuanding's chess skills are really average, the two of them are half a catty, you come and go, and you can't tell the winner from the loser.

"I heard that Xu Gongzi placed the hooligans of Jinchang and Camellia Oil in the Yellow River Beach? Halfway down, Xuanyuan Ding found a topic and said.

"I just can't see others suffering. Just like Yuan Gongzi, he can't see the killers of the Nine Shadows Hall committing murder on the street. ”

"Xu Gongzi has placed so many people, there must not be enough food, right? Do you want me to send you some food? Xuanyuan Ding asked casually.

Xu Xiang was stunned, why did so many people want to send their own food recently?

There's a situation here!

"Thank you Yuan Gongzi for your kindness, but there is no shortage of food now." Xu Xiang said.

"Oh." Xuanyuan Ding said with some loss, and then sighed and said: "Originally, the King of Zhongshan planned to send these hooligans back to Jinchang and Camellia Oil City, but he is a decisive person, and the decisions he makes are generally not swayable. I'm curious, how did Gongzi Xu manage to get him to agree to hand over the exile to you? ”

"Without him, Interest."

"The King of Zhongshan doesn't lack anything, you exchange your interests with him, what can make him tempted in this world? Please also ask Xu Gongzi to satisfy my curiosity. Xuanyuan said with some disbelief.

"Grain. If I said that these homeless people could give him 100,000 stone of grain every year, he would not have to drive them away. Xu Xiang replied truthfully.

Xuanyuan Ding shook his head, "These homeless people can get him 100,000 stone of grain every year?" Xu Gongzi don't lie to me that I don't understand the people's livelihood, even if there are 200,000 more people, I won't be able to get so much food out in a year! ”

"Of course I have my way." Xu Xiang showed a mysterious smile, but he didn't say anything about the hybrid rice.

Now that he has asked people to collect all kinds of high-quality rice seeds, he can try to carry out hybrid experiments after the beginning of spring next year, and he is confident that even if he cannot reach the yield of Yuan Lao's experiment in later generations, he is still confident that he can do it to increase the yield of grain.

Xuanyuan Ding didn't continue to ask, he knew that even if he asked Xu Xiang, he wouldn't necessarily say, so he asked, "What does Xu Gongzi think of Zhongshan Kingdom?" ”

"I'm a little businessman, how dare I express my opinion on Zhongshan Kingdom." Hearing Xuanyuan Ding's question, Xu Xiang had already guessed that the identity of this Yuan Gongzi might not be so simple, and it was very likely that he was a member of the Ningdu family who had a certain amount of power, and maybe he was still the opposite of Zhongshan Kingdom.

"Have you ever heard that the Witch Night Kingdom and Beiyi have invaded my Great Xia at the same time recently?"

"I've heard a little."

"Did you say that the Zhongshan Congress was breached?" Xuanyuan Ding asked again.

"No, it won't." Xu Xiang said firmly, if Zhongshan Kingdom is so easy to be attacked, where can Wuye Kingdom and Beiyi endure until now?

"Why?"

Xu Xiang remembered that Qin Zhiwei went to Lushui Town again, it can be seen that the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow has already made a move, they will never allow Great Xia to be destroyed by other countries, although Great Xia is divided into seven, but the Xuanyuan clan is also a nominal royal family, and no country dares to say that it wants to expel the Xuanyuan clan, so the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow ignores it.

But the invasion of Wuye and Beiyi is different.

"These two countries attacked Great Xia just to come over and get something to go back. This year, not only Great Xia, but also Wuye Kingdom and Beiyi have also suffered natural disasters, they have no food for the winter, which will definitely cause instability in the country, and attacking Great Xia is nothing more than to divert domestic contradictions. I can guarantee that once they get the benefits they expected, they will naturally retreat. Xu Xiang talked eloquently and analyzed.

A smile appeared on the corner of Xuanyuanding's mouth and said, "You can see it very thoroughly." ”

"Yuan Gongzi thinks the same way?"

"Well, it's just that the King of Zhongshan didn't see it, and he wanted to use his troops to forcibly drag the two countries down. But where will people give them a chance to drag it on, maybe in a few days, there will be new actions. ”

When it came to the King of Zhongshan, Xu Xiang didn't continue.

If such a topic continues, it may lead to great disaster, and now that his foundation is not stable, no one dares to offend.

Seeing that Xu Xiang was not interested in talking to him about national affairs, Xuanyuan definitely understood that he had said too much, which might have aroused Xu Xiang's vigilance, so he did not continue to dwell on this issue.

The two continued to play chess, chatting about some things in Ningdu City, as well as some things in the wind and snow.

After a few games of chess, Xu Xiang lost more and won less, after all, he hadn't touched Go for a long time, and he didn't have Xuanyuan to be so serious.

Seeing that it was not too early, Xu Xiang said goodbye and left, and before leaving, he specially instructed Xuanyuan to find time to bring Zhai Ling'er to Xu's Mansion as a guest, and the latter agreed to him.

After Xu Xiang left, Xuanyuanding's gaze became a little serious, and he muttered, "He is really not an ordinary businessman. ”

"Brother Huang, I think he's just an ordinary person." The little fat man Yuan Yuan said with a smile, this little fat man is Xuanyuan Qian, the younger brother of Xuanyuan Ding's mother, and it was a coincidence that he met Xu Xiang.

"Oh? Why? Xuanyuan Ding asked with interest.

Then Xuanyuan Qian said when Xu Xiang twisted at the door of the Qinglou and didn't dare to come in, and after listening, the brothers laughed loudly.

"The last time I went to Xu's Mansion to pick up Ling'er, I saw Xu Changsha's wife, who was also beautiful and moving, and her temperament was beyond that of ordinary women, so she was not a person to be messed with. Presumably he was afraid that he would be discovered when he came to the Qinglou! ”

"Your Majesty, I have specially investigated Xu Changsha in the past two days and found that he and the eldest princess have intersected. And meeting the King of Zhongshan and saving these homeless people is also the King of Zhongshan that the eldest princess took him to. From this point of view, his identity is very suspicious, do you think he will be the commander of the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow? Zhai Ling'er interjected at this time and said.

"What did you say?" Xuanyuan was stunned, "He still knows the eldest sister?" ”

"Well, Luo Min also often goes in and out of his mansion, not only that, but the Lin family and the Xiao family are related to him."

"Ling'er, you go back and continue to check on him, I want to know everything related to him!" Xuanyuan said with a solemn face.

The time entered December, and it was rainy weather every day, during this time, Xu Xiang was basically nested in the house, taking care of the greenhouse vegetables in the backyard.

At the same time, he also instructed Yang Dianfeng and others to start digging red clay, preparing to burn red bricks and build houses.

Of course, he also began to develop cement, which was indispensable for building houses in the future.

The main raw materials of cement are limestone and clay, which are crushed, batched, and ground into raw meal, and then fed into the cement kiln to calcine the mature material, and then the clinker is finely ground with an appropriate amount of gypsum.

To this end, he also made a special trip to the Yellow River beach and asked people to build two open-air large stockyards, one for firing red bricks and the other for producing cement.

What he didn't know was that at least five forces were now staring at him, and the spies recorded his every word and deed and reported it to their masters behind the scenes.

In the past, although Xu Xiang brought the displaced people into the Yellow River beach, after all, it was all happening outside the city, so naturally no one cared about these displaced people and a businessman.

But since Mingxiao was deflated in the Xu Mansion, the various forces staring at Mingxiao began to pay attention to this small businessman.

The weather was cold, and sometimes the drizzle was mixed with some snow particles, and many wealthy families and nobles discovered the smokeless charcoal in Ningdu City.

Ningdu, which had been dull for half a month, began to be lively again because of this little charcoal.

On this day, it was snowing in the sky, Xu Xiang was at home, the temperature outside had reached a few degrees below zero, and he was so cold that he didn't even bother to open the door.

Ningdu is close to the north, and the weather is colder than the south, whether it is him in his previous life or in this world, he is a person from the south.

It was difficult for the southerners to endure the winter in the north, because they were ready to push out the hot pot, so he went on a special trip to gnaw on the chicken. Because it was raining heavily when I came back, it was raining a little, and people also caught a cold.

"Yawn!" Xu Xiang was roasting charcoal fire in the room, sneezed, and wiped his snot away with a hand towel, "Damn!" It's too cold, isn't it? I don't know what happened to Lao Yang? ”

The red bricks and cement on the other side of the Yellow River beach cannot be produced on a large scale, and now they still live in wooden houses, and they have a city wall to block the wind and feel the cold, so Yang Dianfeng and the displaced people outside the city can be imagined.

"Come, drink this bowl of ginger soup to nourish your stomach." Jiang Shenyu handed over a bowl of hot soup.

"Can I not drink it?" Xu Xiang looked at the ginger soup and asked a little reluctantly, he didn't like ginger, Ao Cheng's soup was even more hot in his throat, and it was difficult to drink.

"No! Must drink! Jiang Shenyu said in a tone that could not be refused.

In desperation, Xu Xiang had no choice but to look at him with resentful eyes and pick up the bowl.

"Young Master...... Someone is looking for you! He just finished drinking and put down the bowl, Liu Sancai walked into the room and said.

"Oh! Who? Xu Xiang asked, no one has come to look for him for a long time, and Xiao Xueying, who used to like to come over to visit (rub rice), has not been here much, probably because the weather suddenly became very cold, if it weren't for something important, no one would want to go out.