"I said, young lady, did you send me a spy?"

"What do you say? Silly brother! ”

"Otherwise, how would you know so much about me? Including my whereabouts! ”

"For many years before you came, our Ba family's eyeliner has been all over the counties of Daqin, and it is not aimed at you, and naturally it is impossible to completely avoid you, so I accidentally got some things about you, don't care!"

"I didn't care, but I had to! I dug up a nest of Bajia 'hamster team' in the hunting mountains of Laiwu's hometown to steal my saltpeter mine, but your 'pet'? ”

"No, no, no! Younger brother! It was a business spy team sent by one of my cousins to suppress me, and even I was spying on it, and now it has been sanctioned by the Ba family. The 'little hamsters' you let them go are gone! ”

"Humph! Not an example! Looking for me in such a hurry, what do you want to cooperate with? ”

"Giggle...... You can't do the most profitable gunpowder business, and you don't cooperate with others to do herbal medicine, so you can only do it by picking up some unprofitable business. You promised my sister that cosmetics will be produced and the set will be sold......"

"Hey—is there anything more profitable in the world than your Ba family's Dan sand mine? I've been too busy during this time, and when the affairs of Lingqu settle down, I will start the production of our cosmetics cooperation. I'll start by listing some herbs, spices, flowers, and trees, and you can send someone to find them, buy some, and prepare them! ”

"For cosmetics?"

"Yes!"

"That's good! You write it out...... Some of them have to be pictures! I'll send someone to do it! ”

Yun Xiaoshui listed cloves, herbs, musk, quasi-purple rivets, Hu Tong tears, Angelica dahurica, white bark, Xinyi, tonka, fragrant aconite, jasmine, etc., a few with shape drawings, and also pointed out the main production areas. For example, jasmine, mainly in Fujian, is a tea tree, but at that time tea had not yet been developed, and it was just a fragrant flower tree.

After sending Ba Ying away, Yun Xiaoshui had no intention of returning to the master's mansion, and continued to stay in the mountain villa in the northern suburbs of the capital. It turned out that Yun Xiaoshui also bought a piece of mountain land in the northern suburbs of the capital to build a villa, and dug a cave leading to a deep valley, where he could hunt and play in the dense forests of the valley.

Of course, this is not like the real "Peach Blossom Spring" in the deep mountains of his hometown Laiwu County, which is a place outside the world that belongs to him, and this is just a place for him to play, not to him.

"The three holes of the cunning rabbit, I Yun Xiaoshui also have two!" When the villa was about to be completed, Yun Xiaoshui also said self-deprecatingly.

Once, when he met the first emperor in the last court, the first emperor split his head and covered his face and asked: "Xiao Aiqing!" The 100,000 immigrants have come to report that all of them are in place, so that the garrison army and the people have gathered and settled down! When are you leaving? When will the construction start? When will it be completed? ”

"Your Majesty! How long do you want to complete all the extensions to the Ling Channel? Yun Xiaoshui asked the First Emperor with a smile.

"I mean that the opening of the North Canal is a maximum of one year, it is much shorter than the South Canal, and the expansion of the South Canal takes half a year, and it takes a year and a half, which is enough! At that time, it was only three years for Shi Lu to dig the whole canal. ”

"No, no......" Yun Xiaoshui shook his head like a rattle.

Feng Quji, Zhang Han and others hurriedly came to help Yun Xiaoshui ask the First Emperor for some more time, "Your Majesty! Widening is not much faster than a new one, and adding a north canal? It's still three years away! ”

Li Si, Zhao Gao and others quit and explained that the north canal is not much long, the south canal is only widened a little, and the amount of labor is definitely less than the amount of labor when the new south canal is opened, and it is much less! So it doesn't take long, more than a year and a half!

The two factions were about to form their own camps, and they quarreled in front of the First Emperor, and some officials had already begun to choose sides. Yun Xiaoshui smiled and immediately announced loudly: "Don't fight!" Your Majesty! Wechen guarantees half a year to deliver! ”

"Wow-"

"It's not that the old man heard it wrong, right? Brother Nian, you are young, you can hear clearly, what did the little national teacher shout just now? ”

"It's either that the little national teacher is crazy, or I'm stupid!"

"Half a year! Yun Xiaoshui is going to ask the heavenly soldiers to help him open a canal in the future! ”

……

The First Emperor stood up again, and as before, craned his neck and said, "Don't make any noise! Xiao Aiqing, are you sure you will have half a year to complete the task? Not any longer? ”

"Your Majesty! Wechen is not joking! Half a year is enough! There is no joke in the court! ”

Before the First Emperor could speak again, Zhao Gao howled, "Make a military order!" Wang Chong also howled, and echoed casually, "Establish a military order!" ”

The First Emperor said with an unhappy face: "What a military order!" Xiao Aiqing said that if it can be completed, it should be completed! ”

"Your Majesty! Not to mention that the little adult of the national teacher is young and frivolous, just above this court, such a major state event, His Majesty said the time, and he dared to change, this is not a joke, it is a light king! ”

"Holy! Why are you Zhao Gao? It's much more sinful than telling a joke! Yun Xiaoshui glared at Zhao Gao angrily, hating him to the point that the roots of his teeth itched.

"How is this military order legislated? Isn't it Lord Zhao, how many of you are idle? Why don't we bet? ”

"The military order is to reward you for completing the task, and if you fail to complete the task, punish you is the business of the imperial court! What are we betting on you? Zhao Gao was immediately a little flustered!

Yun Xiaoshui is the best at climbing along the pole, and he chased after him: "You guys? Aren't you the only one who wants to see my jokes? Then bet on it! You can't be without this guts, right? That's a good fart! ”

Zhao Gao was red-faced by Yun Xiaoshui's words, Li Si still didn't say anything, and Wang Chong said recklessly: "Bet on it!" Afraid of a bird! What to bet on? ”

Yun Xiaoshui thought to herself: "It's definitely not okay to gamble on your life!" I can't kill these guys yet! Then he said to the First Emperor, "Your Majesty! Please come and be a notary, Weichen and the three of them, Lord Zhao, Lord Li, General Wang, if anyone else wants to join the gambling game, you can also bet big, of course, in addition to gambling on your life! Hehehe......"

When the First Emperor saw that Yun Xiaoshui was confident, he said, "Then you should bet on gold!" 30,000 taels of gold ...... on both sides"

"Huh? Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Lao Chen didn't participate...... "Li Si panicked, although he didn't believe that Zhao Gao could lose, even if he lost his own 10,000 taels of gold, he could afford it, but he felt aggrieved and panicked, and he was tricked without speaking, and he was completely caught by Yun Xiaoshui! In other words, Zhao Gao's words were a bit of a loophole, and he was caught by Yun Xiaoshui and circled in a big circle, and Zhao Gao was not the only one in the circle.

"Isn't that what Zhao Aiqing said? Xiao Aiqing just responded to the battle, can you still retreat now? The First Emperor's words made Li Si open his mouth again and have nothing to say. In this way, under the witness of the first emperor, Yun Xiaoshui opened a big gamble with Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Wang Chong's gang.

If Yun Xiaoshui fails to complete the expansion project of the Lingqu within half a year, Yun Xiaoshui will not only be punished by the first emperor, but also give 30,000 taels of gold to Zhao Gao and the others, and the three will each get 10,000 taels of gold. On the contrary, if Yun Xiaoshui completes the construction in half a year, then Zhao Gao and the three of them will take out 10,000 taels and hand over 30,000 taels of gold to Yun Xiaoshui.

Feng Qujian and the others looked worried, but they were also helpless, looking at Yun Xiaoshui's breezy expression, they had to pretend that Yun Xiaoshui was light.

In the next dynasty, Yun Xiaoshui asked the first emperor for a canonization decree.

"Oh? Xiao Aiqing, this is to let me seal your official for you? ”