"Since it's okay, then the concubine will go back first." Saying that, Xia Jing stood up, tidied up her skirt, and smiled lightly: "Thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, since we have received the holy decree from the emperor, then we are reluctant in our hearts, and we should do superficial work, In the evening, Zeng Yan was instructed to prepare and prepare, and everyone celebrated." ”

Mr. Zhang nodded with satisfaction: "The princess is right, we should celebrate, so that the father-in-law who passed the decree can inform the emperor of our loyalty and patriotism when he returns." ”

Xia Jing: "Well, this time it's going to be hard, sir, the book written to the emperor should tell us more about our difficulties, we have suffered in the past without money and things, and these must be known to the emperor and courtiers." Otherwise, they would have thought that we had picked up a bargain and would not have been able to go to Lingnan. ”

"Thank you princess for reminding me, the old man must do his best to complain to the emperor." Mr. Zhang laughed.

"It's too much, Mr. can just stop in moderation."

"What the princess said is that she is old and ill-conceived."

Xia Jing saw that everything was explained clearly, so she didn't stop the carriage anymore.

Saying that the celebration is only in name, in front of the father-in-law, it is impossible for the palace of King Qian to show his wealth.

Celebration is their attitude towards the court, and as for the quality, it is also to show the court their loyalty.

Even if the palace was poor, it supported the emperor's decision.

As night falls, in front of the campfire where the camp is stationed.

When the father-in-law sat down at the table, he noticed the meal on the table, and for a while, it was difficult to describe it, and there were mixed tastes.

The dignified Prince of Yu Dynasty, the best food turned out to be the ordinary food of ordinary families, King Qian, who was disgusted by the delicacies in the palace before, He could bear this suffering?

The whole dinner time was not long, and King Qian never disliked the food on the table throughout the whole process, especially Princess Qian, who was sitting next to her, and she looked like she was eating seriously, as if there were not vulgar things on the table, but even the palace did not have delicious food.

Because my father-in-law is in the palace, I have never seen a noble person who eats so satisfied.

Eating rough cakes in his mouth, and his throat was stuck if he didn't pay attention to it, after his father-in-law choked for the Nth time, his heart was already full of tears, when is such a day now?

At the same time, he was a little panicked, the world was about to be in chaos, and as a father-in-law who specialized in waiting for people, he fled south all the way, which made him have a personal experience.

The next day, the team that sent off the edict was sent away, and the team of King Qian's Mansion did not delay any longer, and went all the way to Jingzhou.

Now they have the emperor's decree in their hands, and they will go to Lingnan in a justified way, all the way to change the low-key of the past, and advance to Jingzhou with great fanfare.

On the way, whenever she encounters a lonely young man, Xia Jing will ask Li Chengmu to recruit them, as long as they are willing to follow them to Lingnan, Xia Jing will take care of food and personal safety.

On this day, when he was resting in the evening, Anu came over again, "Princess, the prince asked you to come over, saying that there is something to discuss." ”

Xia Jing put down the account book and frowned slightly, "I know, this concubine will clean up and go over." ”

Li Chengmu guessed, "Mother, my father doesn't know what is the matter with you?" It can't be for food and grass, right? ”

Xia Jing pushed the account book in front of him, raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Don't worry about him, now we are recruiting more and more people, and our daily expenses are also increasing exponentially, and the money and food are a little beyond our means." If we count the expenses into the house, not only your father and the king, but also your other brothers will have opinions. ”

Li Chengmu pushed the ledger away and scratched his head in annoyance, "What should I do?" Although the drought in Jingzhou is not serious now, the crop harvest has been reduced, and it is difficult to buy grain. ”

In the past, in the capital, as the fifth master of the palace, his daily task was basically to ignore the things outside the window, and only read the sage books.

Now that he was caught by his mother to deal with the chores, he wanted to say that she looked up to him too much.

"If it's hard to buy food, go and borrow it, I believe that Jingzhou Thorn Shi doesn't want King Qian to pass by the place under his jurisdiction and be hungry."

"Borrow?" Li Chengmu was stunned, lending this grain to them passing by is equivalent to borrowing but not repaying, and Jingzhou Thorn History will be willing to borrow it?

Xia Jing nodded: "Well, send someone to try it tomorrow." ”

"Okay then, my father may be in a hurry, you can go quickly, I won't delay your time."

"Okay, then I'll go and go back."

Anu walked in front and led Xia Jing to the main tent.

Xia Jing stared at his back and asked with a smile: "Before you came to me, who went to find the prince?" ”

Anu glanced back at her and replied as she walked, "General Yuan." ”

There's nothing to say about it.

"Oh~"

Xia Jing had a bottom in her heart, and she could probably guess why Yuan Shen was looking for the prince.

Master Ledger.

Anu made a report and invited Xia Jing in.

In the tent, there are several tables, and King Qian, the boss, the second and the two gentlemen are all there.

"Yo, the battle is quite big, what big thing is this going to discuss?"

Xia Jing walked to the only vacant seat and sat down, only to look at the others in surprise.

This can't be a Hongmen feast, right?

The eldest Li Chengshang and the second Li Chengzhan both got up and saluted Xia Jing.

The two gentlemen saluted, and then said with a smile: "The most important thing is that the prince got a jar of grape wine from the Western Regions today, and he wants to share it with everyone." ”

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, a hundred didn't believe it, but she didn't debunk it, if you say it's drinking, you drink the bar, there is wine today and drunk today.

In a few moments, servants came in with their meals.

When the meal was put on the table, Xia Jing unexpectedly found that there was a meat dish and a fish.

"Now we have entered the boundary of Jingzhou, Jingzhou is not as good as the Gyeonggi area, they have a developed water system here, and today the guards caught a lot of fish, and they also caught a few wild animals in the mountains." Mr. Zhang greeted Xia Jing: "Princess, you can taste it well, it should taste good." ”

"Everyone has a heart, and the concubine will definitely try it today."

Speaking of which, during the time of mouth ulcers, she was tortured enough, and she lost at least a few pounds.

King Qian only glanced at her, didn't say anything, picked up the chopsticks and ate a piece of meat first, and the others did not move.

Xia Jing stared at the meat dishes and fish on the table, a little hesitant, saying that she came to this other world, she had never eaten much meat dishes, except for chicken soup, this meat dishes and fish were her first contact with meat dishes.

Smelling the smell of the dishes, Xia Jing knew that the taste of these two dishes should not be very good.

After a meal, Xia Jing only ate two bites of meat dishes and didn't clip them anymore.

It's not that she's a picky eater, in fact, she's really easy to feed, but she can't get into her mouth for food that smells too much.

But as long as the food goes into her mouth, she will not spit it out, and will definitely eat it in her stomach.

She believes that there will be no waste of the rest of the food, and there are still many people below who can't see meat dishes.

Li Chengshang saw that the meat dishes that the maid had removed from Xia Jing's table had not been touched much.

He opened his mouth and said, "Today's meat is not to the appetite of the concubine? ”

Xia Jing smiled, "It's okay, you like to eat more." ”

King Qian pursed his lips and muttered, "Squeamish! ”

However, his voice was too small for others to hear, and Xia Jing was too lazy to bother with him.

After the maids served tea to everyone, Mr. Zhang opened his mouth to get to the point.

"Today, Zeng Yan found the old man, saying that there is not much grain and grass left in the team, except for the Hou Mansion that follows behind, our team has more than 2,000 people, and we consume a lot of grain and grass every day.

But it is a bit unrealistic to want to buy grain in the towns they pass by, as if they have discussed, and they restrict the purchase from the outside world. This has led to a situation where we have money but we can't buy food and grass. The prince has a headache about this matter, I don't know what you think, princess? ”

Xia Jing didn't answer this, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "For this matter, Mr. Zhang shouldn't ask what the concubine thinks, but what do you think yourself?" ”

She didn't believe they didn't have a way to deal with it, she just wanted to ask for her opinion before implementing it, and finally see which one was more suitable and convenient.

Mr. Zhang glanced at everyone in the tent, his face hesitant.

Xia Jing smiled, "Let's talk about it, no one will laugh at you even if the method is not appropriate." ”

Mr. Zhang stroked his beard and laughed at himself, "In front of the princess, I don't know when I started to be less confident. ”

Xia Jing said with a solemn face: "This is not a good phenomenon, sir, don't be arrogant, for strategists, self-confidence is very important." ”

Mr. Zhang opened his mouth and finally said what they had come up with.

There are two ways to do this, and every time you pass through a town, you try to buy food with money.

Secondly, it is to borrow grain from Jingzhou Thorn History, although this method is damaged, but the effect is not bad.

Whether it was to show the people of the world that he was loyal to the imperial court, or simply didn't want King Qian to have an accident in his jurisdiction, he had to grit his teeth and swallow blood.

lent King Qian the incomparably precious and life-saving food in troubled times.

Of course, if you want to have enough food for the team, you would be wrong.

Jingzhou Thorn History can't be so stupid.

The food he gave was just to keep King Qian's team from starving to death, but when he entered the Jingzhou territory with a body of fat, he would definitely be skinny when he went out.

Therefore, the grain is borrowed, but the rest of the lack has to be raised by oneself.

This method is very similar to Xia Jing.

King Qian sat on the top and saw that Mr. Zhang had been talking for a long time, and the most important point had not yet been raised.

He said with a calm face and couldn't wait: "Xia, you also heard what Mr. said just now, the current team is really difficult, there are a lot of young adults you recruited, right?" ”

Xia Jing smiled and took the initiative to report the number, "At present, there are just a thousand strong men." ”

King Qian raised his eyebrows in surprise, he didn't expect her to recruit so many young adults in a short period of time.

"There are a lot of people, the team is now in difficulty, and it is difficult to move forward, do you think your team should be cut or disbanded?"

Xia Jing restrained the smile on her face, looked at him indifferently, and asked rhetorically, "Do you think this is possible?" ”

King Qian also proposed, "It is okay not to disband, or to annex it to the guard camp." ”

"You're not beautiful, but you think it's beautiful!" Xia Jing unceremoniously slammed back.

If you want to pick her fruit, it depends on whether she agrees or not!

Seeing her attitude, King Qian suddenly became angry, "Xia, don't-"

Xia Jing glanced at him, "Don't let you me, if you want to raid my private room, there is no way!" ”

"When did this king raid your private house? These people were just picked up by you on the road, how can they have anything to do with private houses? ”

Xia Jing slammed back with confidence, "These people are supported by the concubine with private money, then they belong to the concubine's private room!" The men of your Li royal family have grown their skills, and they all have the idea of thinking about their daughter-in-law's private room! ”

King Qian was embarrassed and angry, and really wanted to press this woman on the spot and rub it a few times!

Mr. Zhang was afraid that King Qian would annoy the princess again, so he coughed lightly to attract everyone's attention.

Only then did he smile and ask Xia Jing: "Princess, you should be short of food and grass now, your team is not merged, so how do you plan to feed these thousand people in the next journey?" They are all young adults, and their appetite should be not small! ”

"You can think of borrowing food from Jingzhou Thorn History, why can't Concubine Ben borrow it?"

King Qian's anger just now had not yet dissipated, and when he heard this, he almost choked to death with his own saliva.

The second master, Li Chengzhan, couldn't help laughing, "Mother, my father's people have already borrowed it once, and they also pick wool, Yuan Thorn History, he will let us pick up two?" ”

"He can lend it to the prince, why can't he lend it to the concubine?"

Xia Jing's words are quite arrogant, completely unreasonable and want to stir up the momentum of three points of reason.

Li Chengzhan swallowed his mouth, "I mourn for Yuan Tingshi!" ”

Mr. Yan spoke at this time, "Even if there are two ways to buy and borrow, the food is still not enough for the team to consume, I wonder if the princess has any other good way to raise grain and grass?" ”

Xia Jing thought for a while, raised her eyes to look at everyone and smiled: "I really have a way to do this today." ”

Mr. Yan asked excitedly, "What way?" ”

"That is, we all work together to collect information on bandits and go up the mountain to suppress bandits together."

"Bandits?!"

This idea was a bit of a surprise.

Mr. Zhang stroked his mustache, and his eyes flashed, "The princess probably understands what she means, we have no food to suppress the bandits, so that we can not only solve the food problem, but also train the troops."

Especially the princess's 1,000 strong men, if you go all the way to the bandits, and when you reach Lingnan, your 1,000 strong men can basically go into battle to kill the enemy. ”

"That's a wonderful move! It's a win-win-win- Mr. Yan clapped his hands excitedly, "Such a wonderful idea, why didn't I think of it?" ”

Mr. Zhang smiled and bowed his hand to Xia Jing, "This shows that the princess is skilled, which makes us admire!" ”

Xia Jing raised her hand and pressed it, "Mr. False praise, the next collection of bandit information will be handed over to the two gentlemen." ”

"Don't worry, princess, this little matter will be handed over to us."

Xia Jing nodded with satisfaction, in fact, she wanted to rob the family more.

This world is not so much the royal family in charge of the world, but the family rules the world.

The royal family is renewed, and at most a few hundred years will change dynasties, but the family has been passed down from generation to generation.

The Maison is deeply entrenched in this world, and it is easy to shake it.

Seeing that his princess and the two gentlemen were talking happily, King Qian was in a very complicated mood, in the face of state and family affairs, he, the person in charge of the house, was like a bystander, and he couldn't integrate into them when he was inserted in the middle.

Are you angry?

The other two who accompanied him, Li Chengshang and Li Chengzhan were in a rather unpleasant mood.

In fact, in the past few days, they also want to take in some strong men to strengthen their strength.

It's just that the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is very skinny.

Some of them were recruited, but they didn't have the money to feed them.

In the end, in order to save expenses, some personnel had to be laid off, and the remaining dozens of strong men had to be supported by their daughters-in-law with dowry silver.

You say it's aggrieved as a man!

2-in-1 chapter

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