The story of the king alone and rescuing the princess among the bandits soon spread throughout the Datong Mansion.

This has even become a favorite story in the streets and alleys after tea and dinner.

As for the salt dealer in the story, Zhu Gui deliberately changed it to the word bandit.

After all, the group of salt dealers is too large, although the two sides have conflicting interests, and Zhu Gui also has the intention to use the refined salt provided by the system to completely control the industry, but now is not the best time.

He is a newcomer, and if he acts rashly, it is very likely that he will be the one who will be in danger next time.

As for Xu Yingxu's actions, Zhu Gui didn't have anything.

No matter how Zhu Gui is also a prince, the majesty of the Ming royal family is still not to be offended.

However, the biggest benefit of this incident is that on the one hand, it has dealt a blow to the arrogance of the salt dealers.

On the other hand, what he didn't expect was the subtle change in his relationship with Xu Miaoqing.

Originally, in order to keep the secret of the system, and Zhu Gui was indeed not very interested in Xu Miaoqing's temper, so he planned to live apart forever.

But after this heroic rescue operation, Xu Miaoqing's attitude towards him seems to have changed.

After returning that day, Zhu Gui went to bed early after the doctor and everyone took turns to say goodbye.

The next morning, as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a pretty face staring at him motionless less than ten centimeters from his face.

almost scared Zhu Gui out of bed.

He thought it was the people he killed yesterday who had come to him for his life.

"Am I that scary?"

Xu Miaoqing bit her lip, and a trace of gloom flashed between her eyebrows.

"Y-You got up so early?"

Zhu Gui didn't dare to dwell on this proposition, so he quickly got up and wanted to get dressed.

Unexpectedly, his actions made Xu Miaoqing a little panicked.

"Hey, your injuries aren't completely healed, the doctor told you to rest in bed for a few days, you can't get out of bed."

Where can Zhu Gui take care of those, he said as he got dressed: "This king knows his body better than those doctors. ”

As he spoke, he was about to go out, but was stopped by Xu Miaoqing.

"The doctor said you need to get some rest."

Xu Miaoqing glared at Zhu Gui and said word by word, she was like a female beast protecting her cubs at this time, exuding a dangerous aura.

Zhu Gui was a little speechless: "This king wants to go out to make money, when he leaves Nanjing, there is only one carriage by his side, and this king doesn't want to be laughed at by others in the future." ”

He's not telling a lie, and he does have a lot to do today.

Especially when it comes to selling salt, it seems that we have to adjust our strategy a little.

If those salt dealers unite and want to get him, then with his current strength, even if he has a gun in time, there is no need to parry it.

So first of all, we must appease those salt dealers, and then expand our own forces.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to have armies.

But some private soldiers can be privately funded.

And in order to save money, Zhu Gui's palace currently has no private soldiers.

The people who were responsible for protecting him were the people brought by Xu Yingxu.

But if this cheap second brother-in-law leaves, he will have to consider his own safety.

His words made Xu Miaoqing a little surprised, and she looked at the man in front of her again, which seemed to be very inconsistent with the rumors she heard about him.

"No, if something happens to you, others will say that Miss Ben Kefu will spread the word!"

Xu Miaoqing bit her lip and said, obviously she wanted to care, but the words she said were still so ugly.

The corners of Zhu Gui's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly: "Let the kitchen prepare some blood-replenishing things for this king, this king is a man, and his body is not so squeamish." ”

He could only reason with the eldest lady bitterly

Xu Miaoqing thought for a while, took out the stack of silver tickets she had given to Zhu'er from her arms, and said angrily: "Then, this is what I took from you before, and I will return it to you now." ”

Zhu Gui took it, it took him a lot of time and effort to earn it during this time, and he almost lost his breath when he saw it swept away.

He checked it and found that Xu Miaoqing didn't spend much at all.

Then he glanced at Xu Miaoqing, who was frowning, frowned slightly, groaned, and stuffed half of it into Xu Miaoqing's hand.

At the moment when the hands of the two touched, Xu Miaoqing's body stiffened,

A trace of unnaturalness flashed in Zhu Gui's eyes, but his face sneered and said: "You are the princess, this money will be used as your room expenses, lest outsiders say that this king treats the princess harshly, so that the princess has to be a thief." ”

After Zhu Gui finished speaking, he took the silver ticket and passed sideways past Xu Miaoqing, who was standing in place.

"You ......"

Xu Miaoqing gambled in her heart, her willow eyebrows were upside down, and when she raised her head, she found that Zhu Gui was gone.

Zhu Gui finally slipped out of the room, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Then he came to the meeting room and immediately had all the salt merchants in Datong Mansion called.

Half an hour later, more than 20 people had gathered in the living room.

Most of them were officials of the salt road of the Ming Dynasty, and a few of them were designated salt merchants in cooperation with the imperial court.

Zhu Gui sat in the first place, glanced at everyone and said, "Everyone should know that they have heard about yesterday's incident, right?" ”

"I heard that His Royal Highness is really brave, and he saved the princess from that group of outlaws by himself."

"That's right, now the storytellers in the tavern are telling the story of the prince, and the people are full of praise for the prince."

Everyone flew up with a burst of sycophants.

"Well, I'm not here to tell you this, but to tell you some details of that time, that is, the people who kidnapped the princess were not robbers at all, but a group of salt dealers."

Zhu Gui waved his hand to stop everyone's praise and continued.

Everyone's faces changed all at once.

"Then His Highness called us here to crack down on the salt dealers in Datong Mansion? Isn't General Xu in charge of this? ”

An official asked, getting up.

The others also looked at His Royal Highness the Acting King in amazement, obviously not knowing what kind of medicine was being sold in his gourd.

"I called you here today to solve two things, one is the supply and pricing of local refined salt."

"The other is the problem of local salt dealers."

Zhu Gui said lightly.

When the people heard this, they immediately whispered.

Tatong Province is not a place where salt is produced, and before that, all the local salt was transported from the coastal states.

And they, the salt officials and salt merchants, are in charge of this.

The previous king didn't know where to get a large amount of refined salt, which made them very distressed.

It's just that because of the identity of the other party, they didn't say anything.

I didn't expect this acting king to talk about this issue first, does the other party really want to meddle in this issue?