and told the prince and concubine about the infertility, Zong Botai expected that King Xian would definitely not make trouble, and even moved the idea of replacing the prince. This time it was not Zong Botai's calculation, but long-term observation was expected.

King Xian didn't want the Jin bloodline to inherit the throne of Xian in the future, and at the same time, Bailiyan was a little worried about it.

The prince's more than ten concubines are infertile, only Xihuan gave birth to two princes, no matter how stupid he is, the clear-eyed person also knows that he has been poisoned, but he doesn't know what means he used. At the same time, no one dared to say that they were afraid of the Jin people.

Therefore, King Xian has been prepared in his heart, even if there is no ironclad evidence to find out the "real evidence" this time, compared to Xihuan, King Xian trusts Bailiyan more, which will only intensify King Xian's determination to remove the crown prince.

In this way, it proves that "the golden crow drags the sky, the yin is full of yang, and the cow and horse wind are said." No matter who becomes the crown prince and ascends the throne in the future, I am afraid it will be a bloody storm.

As expected, on the fifth day after the first feast of the first lunar month, Jiang Hao deliberately picked a day when the wind and the sun were beautiful and the king of Xian's temperament was calm, and reported the matter of cottonseed oil to the king of salt, and in the end he only got a sentence from the king of salt:

"Is the news true?"

"Back to the king, Yongxing Hou can testify that the oil squeezed by this cottonseed can cause lifelong infertility if eaten for several months."

"Why is only Yongxing Hou knowing?"

Yongxing Hou said that this oil is extremely rare, and neither Lang Zhongguan nor the oil mill Caidong have ever seen it, so no one knows about it. And the minister guessed ......"

"Guess what, say."

"Your Majesty, don't tell the Marquis of Yongxing what the minister said."

Jiang Hao was very careful, for fear of being known by Bailiyan. King Xian was also very curious, what trick Jiang Hao had in the hands of Baili Yan, and he was so afraid, so he casually promised:

"Say, if the widow doesn't tell Yongxing Hou, it is."

"No. King, didn't you see that the Yongxing Hou family was born to daughters. ”

King Xian was suddenly puzzled, and asked rhetorically:

"What do you mean?"

"If it weren't for the fact that Yongxing Hou was poisoned by the Jin people back then, how could he not have given birth to a son, seven wives gave birth to eight daughters, this is a lesson from the past......"

King Xian laughed when he heard the news:

"Hehaha...... Yes, yes, it's better to have a daughter......"

Jiang Hao felt that only Bai Liyan knew the inside story, and he must have suffered a lot from it, otherwise it would be impossible for seven ladies to have eight children, even if a blind cat meets a dead mouse, how can he catch a son.

So in the middle of the night, Jiang Hao was ordered to secretly come to the Yongxing Marquis Mansion and secretly meet Bailiyan:

"Lord Jiang came to visit late at night, but the king ordered it?"

"Exactly. The king ordered me to pass a message to the Marquis of Yongxing, and the king of the prince knew about it, so that the Marquis of Yongxing could celebrate the New Year with peace of mind. ”

"Oh......" Bai Liyan sighed lightly, and was convinced. Then he said: "Please tell the king that this marquis will live up to the king's entrustment." ”

After sending Jiang Hao away, Bai Liyan came to the pond in the courtyard, looked up at the starry sky with his hands behind him, and felt unprecedented brightness in his heart.

Looking back on the past 25 years, I have been working hard step by step, walking on thin ice, and I am confused about the future. Now with the help of Zong Botai, it is like lighting a light in the darkness, illuminating the dark path ahead of him, even if it is a vague phantom, but it is better than a person groping in the darkness and struggling to move forward.

A few days later, the Lingling was immersed in the joy of the New Year and a piece of peace, Bailiyan customized some firecrackers in advance, and also tried to produce a batch of fireworks, which were set off in the palace on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, causing a sensation in the city.

During the first month, Zhao Xun received a large amount of wine, meat, and military funds, as well as 500,000 pieces of gold and silver, and 30,000 inches of silver, which were used to reward the three armies and boost morale.

Nuo Yiyan secretly arrived in Yucheng, the capital of Zhiguo, before the tenth day of the first month, and King Zhi hosted a banquet to entertain Nuo Yiyan, confirmed the terms of the secret treaty, and when the cabinet discussed, the problem was stuck on Gongliangwen.

Gongliangwen resolutely did not agree to give up the four counties to lend the road to the Xian army, and even more did not agree to send the navy to Yongxing City to pick up the goods.

Of course, these loyalties are all efforts on the surface, and Gongliang Wen is eager to accept them all.

Because the surrender of the four counties was originally a trap set by the Tao Yi party to the Xian State, and at the same time, this huge transaction, the Xian State gave up a big profit, and the Tao family sought great benefits from it, and the Tao party naturally wanted to make every effort to promote the implementation of the secret agreement, so the internal dynasty was deadlocked for more than ten days, and finally the secret agreement was implemented under the pressure of King Zhi.

Nuo Yiyan left Yucheng at the end of the first month, and secretly returned to Chenling in early February, saying that it was a secret, but in fact it was not possible.

After all, it has disappeared for more than two months, and everyone will have some ideas, but the key is that this secret agreement is not known to the outside world, so Nuo Yiyan returned to Chenling and reappeared not long after, and the "secret" spy center centered on the Prince's Mansion was once again put into busy operation.

On the fourth day after Nuo Yiyan returned to Chenling, Tao Yong and Gongliangxiu set off to return to Zhiguo. Before leaving, Gongliangxiu purchased two sets of movable type copperplates and supporting tools from Bai Liyan, each with 6,000 gold and silver treasures for large movable type and 11,000 gold and silver treasures for small movable type.

Gongliangxiu is very puzzled, why the larger the consumables, the cheaper, he actually doesn't know, the smaller the word, the more difficult it is to engrave, the small font takes twice as much time as the large font, and the molding rate is lower.

At the same time, the king of Song arrived in the Jin state in early February, and the king of Jin and the king of Song drove away from Pingtang, and took a boat from the Menghan River to the west into the upper reaches of the Jin section of the Wangqin River, preparing to go down the river and go straight to the east of the river to stop at Yin Yangcheng.

In February, all localities were preparing for spring ploughing, and thanks to the extensive base cultivated in the past ten years, Bai Liyan handed over the inconsequential official duties to the lower-level subordinate officials after the selection and adjustment, and secretly met with Duan Songzhi, the head of the Ligong faction.

Duan Songzhi is the new head, the previous head Yu was burned in the main hall at the end of the autumn, and he died of depression after retreating to Liang State for two years.

Duan Songzhi's position as the new head is actually not solid, and he is the old head of the old man in the late autumn, and he can only be regarded as a temporary agent. The heads of the past generations have to go through technical and merit assessments, so as to serve the public.

But after the destruction of the headquarters of the Gong Gong faction, the technical competition was impossible, because the Gong Gong faction had been displaced and sick and died in the past few years, and many people had been scattered, and the life was extremely difficult, and the veteran with the same qualifications as Duan Songzhi was actually not convinced.

Bailiyan took Duan Songzhi to visit various workshops in Yongxing City, and the six prototypes of wooden lathes built by Cheng Jiyuan's left door have been formed and can operate, and Duan Songzhi is extremely satisfied with this.

Then he visited Yongxing Xicheng non-stop, Xicheng's 1,000 catties, 5,000 catties of blast furnace as the core secret of Yongxing, after the construction of the city, all the stokers, feeders are strictly forbidden to leave the city, only a few people know.

Cheng Jiyuan, Xiong Tuo, Liu Zao and his son, and Yang Dun, an industrial official, also knew that after the city was founded in 637, the secret master rushed to Yongxing to check, but it was far less shocking than what he saw with his own eyes.

So in mid-February, Duan Songzhi couldn't resist the temptation of Yongxing City and decided to consider relocation, but before the relocation, he did not forget to blackmail Xianguo and ask for 200,000 inches of silver, as well as the process formula of glass and heat-resistant bricks.