Chapter 25: Actually being ridiculed
"I know one, but do you know how to ride a horse?"
Lin Qingwan shook his head, "No." ”
Ruoying took the horse, and Xiao Muning took Lin Qingwan to ride straight out of the city.
Lin Qingwan rode a horse for the first time in his life, excited and a little nervous at the same time, Xiao Muning looked at the little person in his arms and smiled dumbly, "Is it the first time to ride a horse?" ”
Lin Qingwan held the saddle tightly, and his palms were sweaty before he left the city, "Well, Lord Wang, slow down!" ”
Xiao Muning pulled the reins and slowed down, "That's right! Do you need a guy in the store? ”
"Of course you need to, does the prince have a recommendation?"
Lin Qingwan originally planned to post a notice on the bulletin board in the city to recruit, but he was afraid that the applicants would be uneven and the efficiency would be extremely slow, so he delayed the process.
"In a while, you go with me to the barracks, and I'll take you to meet a few people, and you can see if there is anything useful. There are some discharged soldiers in our barracks who will return to their hometowns after receiving their pensions in the near future. They all came down from the battlefield, and some of them were injured, but after all, after so many years of being born and dying with me, I always felt a little unbearable for them to go back to start their own lives from scratch. If they are willing, they will follow you in the future, and forget about my thoughts! Xiao Muning said with a serious expression.
Lin Qingwan nodded, but he didn't expect Xiao Muning to be quite emotional, "Is there anyone who is young and smart?" ”
Open the door to do business, sales run hall is very important!
"Yes, I'll call them all out when the time comes, you see."
Lin Qingwan thought for a while, "Then is this a great favor for me to do the prince!" ”
"You want to ask me for a favor again!"
"The courtiers don't dare, the prince has also helped me a lot!"
Not far from the city, there is a clean and independent yard, surrounded by regular fields with some vegetables, and an old farmer is weeding in the field.
"If only you knew!"
Xiao Muning hugged Lin Qingwan and dismounted, "It's here, it's here!" ”
Lin Qingwan stood on the ground and looked around, shouting in the air, "Hello! Do you have milk and taro at home? ”
The old farmer got up from the field and turned around and pointed in the direction, "Yes, it's taro over there, let's go see it yourself!" ”
Girl?
Lin Qingwan was surprised, looked down at himself, and then glanced back at Xiao Muning, only to see a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, "I'll just say it!" You still don't believe it! ”
"Is it that obvious?"
Xiao Muning nodded silently.
Lin Qingwan looked depressed, cautiously stepped on the soft soil and walked over, directly reached out and pulled out a large taro, and weighed it in his hand, "The taro in this field grows so well!" ”
The old farmer came out of the field and said, "The cows are in my backyard, I'll take you to see them." ”
There are more than a dozen cows in the clean barn, all of them sturdy, "Uncle, do you want to sell your vegetables in the market?" At what price? ”
"My son goes into the city early every morning, and if the girl buys it, I can ask my son to send it to you." The old farmer put the hay next to him into the trough and quoted the price separately.
"Uncle, I want a barrel of milk every day from five days onwards, five such big taro! Delivered to this address! It's a deposit! ”
The old farmer only took the address, not the deposit, "I can trust the girl's person, just check the goods every day and then give it, this taro is considered to be given to you!" ”
Lin Qingwan hugged the taro and said happily. "Thank you, uncle!"
On the way to the barracks, Lin Qingwan hugged the taro and was in a good mood, "Lord Wang, you have done me such a great favor and added vegetables to you at night." ”
"What dish?"
"Have you ever eaten taro?"
Xiao Muning shook his head, let alone eating, he had never heard of it, "This taro can still pull out silk!" ”
Lin Qingwan suddenly said worriedly, "Of course! Ah! This one taro is not enough! Buy a few more on the way back later, and give them to Wakaying and Zizhu to try as well. ”
It's okay not to talk about this, but it gives Xiao Muning a chance to turn over old accounts, "This king doesn't even have some special treatment with you, right?" Last time, you gave them a piece of goat milk soap, and I haven't settled accounts with you yet! Now I'm thinking about cooking for them again! ”
Lin Qingwan felt that Xiao Muning was a little inexplicable, "Last time I made a peach blossom shaped goat milk soap for you, and no one else had it!" And some of them are also stained with the light of the king! ”
"Then you should just do it to me! Don't let them get bare."
"Lord Wang, don't be so stingy! And good things have to be shared by everyone to have fun! Right! Rajah! ”
Xiao Muning looked ahead and resolutely refused, "No." ”
The soldiers standing guard at the gate of the barracks saw them from a distance and opened the barracks gate early. Xiao Muning rode his horse all the way into the barracks unimpeded.
Lin Qingwan got off the horse, hugged the taro and felt very curious to see the surroundings, it turned out that this was the ancient military camp! It's pretty much the same as it was on TV.
Xiao Muning asked Ruoying to stay and walk around with her, and entered the camp by herself to convene the generals to discuss the matter.
"County Lord, this taro subordinate will help you take it!" Wakakage said that she was going to step forward and take it.
"No, I'll just take it! Is there anything fun in the barracks? ”
Ruoying hesitated a little, how could there be a fun place in the military camp, "Then the subordinates will take the county lord to the teaching field!" ”
The teaching ground in the barracks is very large, there are many weapons displayed on both sides of the teaching field, and there are soldiers practicing in the middle.
You must know that the military camp never lets outsiders in, not to mention that Ruoying still looks respectful to this little white face, and they can't help but speculate in their hearts and observe secretly.
Lin Qingwan stood next to her and watched the excitement for a while, interested in the bow and arrow on the weapon rack, she put the taro aside, picked up a bow and tried to pull it, her forearm strength was insufficient, and she blushed and pulled it away a little, which caused a burst of ridicule from the soldiers present.
Lin Qingwan looked at them for a moment, and said to Ruoying, "They're laughing at me!" ”
Wakaying replied bluntly, "Well, the county lord is right. ”
The head of the sect on the high platform also saw it, and held back a smile and scolded angrily, "What are you laughing at!" One by one, they thought they were so capable, and they were embarrassed to laugh at others. Give me another hour of practice! ”
Lin Qingwan handed the bow to Ruoying, pointed to the target in the distance and asked, "You pull one for me to see, can you give you an arrow to hit that bull's-eye?" ”
Ruoying took the bow and arrow, and pulled it away very easily, "My subordinates can't, but the prince's riding and archery is very powerful, and it is the best in our camp!" ”
Lin Qingwan nodded, and picked up the taro again, she hasn't really seen Xiao Muning's martial arts yet, but she should really have two brushes to become a coach!
To say that women love to spread gossip is biased. Where there are many men, this gossip spreads faster, and after a while, the people in the entire military camp know that their King Ning entered the military camp with a soft and weak white-faced scholar with a taro in his hand, and the two still rode together, and their demeanor was very intimate, and Ruoying was also respectful to him. Could it be that their prince has any special fetishes! What should the county lord do?
When Lin Qingwan came to the camp, Xiao Muning had already called all the wounded soldiers who were about to be discharged and stood in front of him in a line.
Xiao Muning got up and gave up his main seat to Lin Qingwan to sit, stood to the side, and pointed to a few pieces of paper on the table, "Look at it, everyone is here!" ”
Lin Qingwan was not polite, glanced at everyone roughly, sat down and looked at the information on it.
The people standing below were secretly surprised, who is this! What a big face!
After a while, Lin Qingwan took a seat with his name, and looked at their injuries again, they were all young people who were not very old, with good facial features and full of heroism, but it was a pity that some of them were not good at walking and had broken tendons.
She looked a little regretful, if this was in her time, such people would have military merits, and some could also enjoy social security, but it was a pity that this was ancient.
Xiao Muning observed her expression and asked worriedly, "Isn't it useful?" ”
"I think it's all good! I just don't know if they want to! ”
Lin Qingwan got up and clenched his fists, "Hello everyone, under Lin Qingwan." I had a big plan a few days ago, and I would like to ask you to help me. I wonder what you think? ”
Only then did everyone suddenly realize that she was the future Princess Ning, no wonder the prince was like this, "The subordinates have seen His Royal Highness the county lord, but they don't know what the county lord is planning!" ”
"I don't want to hide it from you, I want to engage in business and grasp the economic lifeline of Dayu country. If you work together with me, I will pay for food and housing, and I will also teach you the essentials of doing business, and then the industry will be spread all over the country, integrated into the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation. ”
In this era, businessmen are not valued, and perhaps everyone's thinking is a little heavy on agriculture and suppressing business, and those present are a little embarrassed when they hear this.
Lin Qingwan can understand, didn't there was such a period of time in the ancient times of her era?
"You should know where the food, horses, armor, grain and grass, and your military pay come from!"
She paused and continued, "If a country has no money, what will it fight with, and what will the people live on. If this era wants to develop, then merchants are a very necessary group of people, and it is precisely because of them that the circulation of money can be promoted, goods can be promoted and sold, and vegetables and cloths can be bought in the market at any time. Only when the state collects taxes can the treasury be filled, and when the country has money, can it strengthen the army and protect the people. Think about it, and see if I'm right? ”
After Lin Qingwan said this, she picked up the teapot at hand and poured herself a cup, only then did she realize that it was really not easy for Xiao Muning to readily accept her idea of doing business before!