Chapter 654: [Hoarding Private Soldiers]

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Hoarding private soldiers is a suspicious thing for a person with the status of the prince.

Hearing what Concubine Yin said, Su Mi and Xiao Chen's faces suddenly turned pale.

Li Chengqian was also stunned, he bought prisoners of war just as slaves to dig coal in the coal mines, how did it get into the mouth of Concubine Yin, he was about to rebel? This mouth is talking nonsense!

The queen looked at Li Chengqian in a bit of a panic, her eyes full of anxiety.

She looked at Su Mi and Xiao Chen's faces, and knew that Li Chengqian really bought prisoners of war, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, this was poked out by Concubine Yin, no matter whether Li Chengqian bought prisoners of war not to rebel, but for anything else, Li Chengqian will be skinned by Lao Li this time!

It's just that she is a little strange, why is her son just stunned for a while, and then he doesn't panic?

Even if he had a clear conscience and did not do anything to rebel, but the question of prisoners of war was very troublesome to explain, why was he not nervous at all?

At this time, the queen was nervous, but she didn't dare to stand up and speak first, which would provoke Lao Li's anger, she needed to stand up again at a critical time, whether it was at a turning point, or when she finally saved her son's life.

The leather whip in his hand trembled slightly, and it seemed to be stained with the blood of the Yin Concubine! After Lao Li listened to Concubine Yin's words, his body did not move, and he asked in a deep voice, "Cheng Qian, is there such a thing?" ”

Everyone felt the pressure from Lao Li's voice.

Li Chengqian replied in a steady voice: "No." Father! The sons have never rebelled and rebelled! ”

Lao Li opened his mouth in a word, that is, he asked if there was such a thing, and he did not say anything here. But Li Chengqian was able to know that this was asking whether there was a rebellion, not whether he had bought prisoners of war. So he hurriedly denied it!

"You are telling a lie, you obviously bought prisoners of war from several generals. Hoarded on the Black Gold Mountain! Concubine Yin stretched out her bloody fingers and shouted.

"Smack! ――”

Lao Li casually whipped her on her, causing Concubine Yin to scream again, and then she was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak anymore!

"Did you buy prisoners of war?" Lao Li withdrew his whip and asked Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian's voice was still steady: "Father, the son is not a prisoner of war, he is a slave!" ”

"Huh! - Concubine Yin sneered, feeling ridiculous at Li Chengqian's childish behavior of stealing concepts. She suddenly thought of Lao Li's whip and quickly shut her mouth!

Lao Li turned his head. Looking at Li Chengqian, his eagle-like eyes were full of sharpness, and he asked, "Why do you want to buy it?" ”

"Because they want to dig coal, they all put it on the Black Gold Mountain to dig coal!" Li Chengqian still replied unhurriedly.

He explained: "The cement factory needs fire to burn cement, so I found a coal mine, and at the beginning I used the left and right guards of the East Palace to dig coal, but this drudgery can't always be done by the left and right guards, so I began to buy slaves in Chang'an." But there has been a shortage of manpower. And there are too many people from all sides who ask me for cement, and cement is now in short supply, so I can only find slaves to dig coal. Recently, I heard that there were a lot of slaves in Songzhou, so I bought them back to dig coal. The soldiers of the left and right guards stood there, not afraid that these slaves would cause trouble. ”

Speaking of cement, Lao Li has some impressions.

"Your Majesty. Even if you kill my concubine, you have to say it! Concubine Yin spoke again, "He's making excuses." Whoever rebelled didn't find a nice excuse before, he bought slaves. It's a rebellion! ”

Lao Li didn't smoke the concubine this time, he took a step in the direction of Li Chengqian, just a small step made people feel endless pressure.

He asked, "Are you really just digging coal?" ”

Li Chengqian responded: "Yes! ”

When Lao Li wanted to continue to question him, Li Chengqian said first: "Father, maybe you will continue to be suspicious, but my situation has not been clarified to you, in fact, my slave of the Black Gold Mountain is not mine alone. Originally, I was going to buy them all, but someone cheated me! ”

Lao Li was thinking heavily about Li Chengqian's purchase of so many prisoners of war, and when he heard him say this, he couldn't help but be stunned, thinking in his heart Who would pit him?

What does he do?

Li Chengqian's words suddenly turned the originally dull atmosphere of rebellion into the incident of being trapped.

"What is being pitted, tell me clearly!" Lao Li shouted.

"It's Uncle Li Jing." Li Chengqian shrugged his shoulders and said.

Lao Li furrowed his eyebrows, could it be that Li Chengqian had already colluded with Li Jing? "What did he do to you?"

"He cheated on the number of my prisoners of war!" Li Chengqian smiled bitterly.

Lao Li's chin raised slightly, and asked, "Why?" ”

"Speaking of which, if you don't talk about cement, I told Uncle Li the other day that cement can build a stronger house, and even if the experiment fails, the people under his gunpowder bureau don't have to collapse like a wooden house. So Uncle Li went to the cement factory to ask for cement, which was really easy to use, so he wanted to use cement more for his subordinates' buildings, but he said that the price of my cement was too high, and asked me to reduce the price, which made a fuss for several days, but I wanted manpower and material resources, and the price could not be reduced. Li Chengqian said this, his face was angry.

Lao Li did not react.

The queen's eyes showed a look of thought at this time.

Li Chengqian continued: "Recently, we need manpower to dig coal, and it just so happens that the prisoners of war who came down from Songzhou can be used to dig coal, so I asked Lao Zeng to contact those generals, and the result is good, a general named Xi Junmai sold the prisoners of war to me very happily, and he also had to contact other generals to sell the prisoners of war, because I heard that they also have a headache for these prisoners of war, and they can't farm and only eat grain, so they are willing to give it to me!" But I didn't expect Uncle Li to stick a rod sideways! ”

Everyone was curious, how did Li Jing stick a rod in his hands?

Xiao Chen and Su Mi glanced at each other, they didn't know what was going on, what was going on?

"You have all guessed it, Uncle Li asked him to reduce the price of cement, so he used his identity to tell the generals who were going to sell prisoners of war to me, saying that prisoners of war could not be sold to me. I don't know if Xi Jun sold his true righteousness and credibility, or if he was deliberately let go by Uncle Li, his family's prisoners of war are still sold to me, and the prisoners of war of other generals are gone! He said that Uncle Li had something to pass on to me, as long as the cement price was lowered for him, he would let people go to me! ”

Li Chengqian's face suddenly changed from bitter gourd face to anger: "How is this possible, this is all cement that I have produced with a lot of manpower and material resources, how can it be exploited by Uncle Li, an old lady?" ”

Li Jingde looks up to the public, if he heard that Li Chengqian was said to be an old lady, I don't know what his expression would be!

…… (To be continued.) )