In the face of the people in the palace, Tong Song couldn't tell the truth, but he said angrily: "Some time ago, our Tong family's caravan encountered bandits in this area, and in the past few days, I took advantage of the good to take my family out to take revenge, and prepared to raid the nest of the bandits nearby." ”

Li Chengmu was surprised that the Tong family would come forward to suppress the bandits, and said lightly, "Do you have a goal?" ”

Tong Song smiled, pointed to the front and said, "It is said that there is a group of bandits on the mountain in front, and I am about to take my family to break into the cottage." Oh, by the way, where did you come from? ”

Looking up, the road was full of their carriages, and there were deep grooves on the road where the wheels were pressed, where did they get so many supplies?

Could it be that they had just come out of the bandits' den?

Li Chengmu followed the direction he pointed, raised his eyebrows, and laughed: "Haha. By bandits' den, don't you mean the mountain facing the sea in front of you? ”

Seeing Li Chengmu's reaction, Tong Song had a bad premonition in his heart, and then looked at the carriages in front of him, each of which was full.

In order to confirm the guess in his heart, he asked: "Fifth Master, you haven't already exterminated the bandits in front, you just came out of the bandits' den?" ”

When Li Chengmu heard this, he wanted to laugh again, but this time he couldn't help it, stepped forward and patted Tong Song on the shoulder, "Your Tong family is the first family in Lingnan to voluntarily come out to suppress bandits, and your ideological consciousness is good, your thinking is worthy of praise." But you don't seem to have had as much luck as I am, and you can see the supplies on these wagons behind me, so to speak, all of them were found in the bandits' dens. ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help laughing again, "Haha, Brother Tong, you're a step late!" ”

Tong Song's face was not very good, and then he looked at the endless supplies, and his heart was dripping blood. These materials were supposed to be his, but they were taken first by Li Chengmu, saying that you are angry?

Now think about the empty cottage in front of me, maybe it was all copied by Li Chengmu's team.

Fortunately, at this time, Tong Song's sanity was still there, and he knew how to measure himself, and he didn't say anything out of place.

Li Chengmu noticed Tong Song's unhappy look, and felt that what he said just now was a little gloating.

Afterwards, in order to remedy, he said: "The west of Nanhai County has been cleared by me with a team of recruits, if you really want to find the bandits for revenge, you can go to the east, I haven't had time to sweep the east yet." ”

The endless supplies on the road are really eye-catching, if Tong Song hadn't met Li Chengmu, if he had reached the bandits' den in front of him, maybe he would have returned with the team.

But when he met Li Chengmu, who returned with supplies, the man's unyielding temperament in his heart was aroused.

"Thank you Fifth Master for mentioning something, I'll take my brothers over, and we'll get back together."

Li Chengmu arched his hand and made a gesture of please.

Seeing the Tong family's team leave, Li Chengmu wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed, fortunately, the Xiyi people in the team were not discovered by them.

It's not that he's afraid of being discovered by them, but Li Chengmu doesn't want to make trouble. The Tong family has their own fleet to go to sea, and he is not sure if the Tong family knows these Xiyi people?

I can't trust the Tong family, who knows if they will report to the Xiyi people after they know the truth.

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On this side of Fucheng, Xia Jing has been busy with the affairs of the iron workshop during this time, and after the workshop is built, she will try to smelt steel and forge the weapons and armor needed by the guard battalion.

At this time, she received a letter from Li Chengmu, and along with the letter, she also sent a flintlock pistol.

This made Xia Jing a little surprised.

In the last days, guns and other weapons are dealt with almost every day, and it can be said that guns and other weapons are as important as their right and left hands.

In the last days you can be without a partner and children, but you must not be without weapons.

No weapon means that life will end soon, so she has the deepest relationship with guns and other weapons, and the few guns that are commonly used can be disassembled and assembled with her eyes closed.

While Xia Jing looked at this flintlock pistol, she had doubts in her heart, what stage is the technology in this world today?

Just when she thought it was an era of cold weapons, a flintlock pistol suddenly appeared.

Or is this era in the Age of Discovery?

She shook her head, put aside the cranky thoughts in her head, and after reading the contents of the letter, Xia Jing's eyes looked strange and went through it again.

That's right, this era feels more like stepping into the Age of Discovery.

After returning from the iron workshop, Xia Jing replied to Li Chengmu with a letter as soon as possible.

As for Thaksin's question, what to do with the Xiyi people?

Her opinion is that since they are all captives, there is no distinction between high and low, they are treated equally, fair and just, whether it is bandits or Xiyi people, they will go to the mine to mine for her.

Just a few days ago, Li Dingguo presented an iron mine, which is located in the Nanling Mountain Range, near Jigong Mountain.

Let these captives go to mining, in the remote Nanling Mountains, and they are not afraid that they will not be able to bear the hardships and escape.

There are basically no secrets in the palace, as long as ordinary things happen, it won't be long before everyone in the palace knows what they should know.

Xia Jing got an iron mine, and within a few days, the house knew all about it.

No, she had just solved the miner's problem, and King Qian had someone order her to go to the study.

"Let me come here, what's going on here?" As soon as I entered the study, I opened my mouth impatiently.

From the backyard to the front yard, the distance is not short, and it is really hot in this big summer!

Li Chengshang looked at King Qian.

King Qian was forced to reluctantly speak: "Come and sit, I heard that you got a mine?" ”

Xia Jing didn't want to hide it, but since King Qian asked, she generously admitted, "Yes, the windfall of the bandits last time." ”

King Qian asked again, "I heard that you have set up a blacksmith workshop?" ”

Xia Jing thought that when he asked about the mine, others would follow and give some opinions, but he didn't expect him to change the topic and ask about the iron workshop again.

She nodded: "It's an iron workshop, mainly to help my own guard battalion make weapons and armor, after all, this kind of ordnance is not very convenient to order outside." ”

King Qian touched the top of his head, which continued to decrease his hair, "According to this king's understanding, the output of this mine is very large, but I wonder if the ore produced by the princess can be directly supplied to this king?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at the people present, and readily agreed, "Yes, as long as the silver is in place, everything is easy to say." ”

Seeing that Xia Jing readily agreed, King Qian was very satisfied with her attitude, so he talked about another thing.

"Now that the weather is hot, I think the princess's ice shop business should be very hot, right?"

"Yes, good business."

When King Qian heard that the business was good, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook, "Since the princess has no intention of expanding her business, why don't you let the other houses go to various places to develop the market of this ice shop, and the four components of profit are given to you, what do you think?" ”

Xia Jing looked at him in surprise when she heard this, "Who did you hear that I have no intention of expanding my business territory?" ”

"This" King Qian glanced at his son, frowned slightly and asked, "Do you have the idea of opening a few more shops?" ”

Xia Jing replied simply: "Of course." ”

Li Chengshang opened his mouth to persuade: "Mother, a person's energy is limited, you alone want to spread the ice all over the Yu Dynasty, this thing is a bit difficult to achieve, it is better to teach the method to everyone, everyone in the family does not flow into the fields of outsiders, how good it is for everyone to help you make money together." ”

During this time, he was really driven crazy by the 3,000 recruits under his command, and when he didn't have troops, he dreamed of troops, but now he has troops in his hands but finds that he can't afford to raise them, what kind of experience is this?

It's better not to have it at first.

Xia Jing turned her head to look at the titular eldest son, and smiled politely at him: "Thank you for your concern, I didn't know that the boss was so concerned about me, as long as I have the ambition to make money, I can order the people below to do it with my limited energy, this kind of problem is not a concern in my opinion." ”

I just didn't say it explicitly, Li Chengshang was worried about his stepmother's assets, and he was too shameless.

Li Chengshang felt that his face was a little hot, but he forcibly endured his shame and tried his best to persuade: "As the saying goes, marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog, the mother concubine is already a member of our Li royal family, isn't it a good story to lead everyone to make money together and have strong strength?" Why would you say no? ”

Xia Jing really wanted to laugh out loud when she heard this, what kind of chicken or dog, she directly admitted that she spied on other people's ways to make money.

Sure enough, it's a scholar, don't be embarrassed, the unspeakable words can be said in their opinion.

She looked at King Qian with a smile, "Don't tell the old lady the truth, what is marrying a chicken with a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog, making the old lady unhappy, let your father and the king follow the old lady, do you believe it or not?" ”

"Ahem!" When King Qian heard this, he almost choked to death with his own saliva, "Princess, please be careful!" ”

Dare to say any nonsense, how could he, as the prince of the prince, follow the woman?

Xia Jing straightened her back and said, "I'm not joking, I don't believe you can try it." Also, I'm already instructing my men to go to the main cities to open shops, and in the future, don't worry about it, it's also in vain to worry about it. ”

Li Chengshang was stunned, "Why haven't you heard about it when you opened a shop?" Since you have opened a shop, why didn't you say it earlier? ”

Xia Jing didn't think about it and said: "First of all, no one has stipulated that the old lady has to report to your junior when she opens a shop. And the last time you spied on the old lady's ice-making method, the old lady clearly refused, because you were unwilling. ”

When King Qian heard that she called herself an old lady again, he knew that she was angry again.

He hurriedly interrupted and stirred up the mud: "Since you have carried out this thing, forget it." Princess, this king wants to ask you something, since iron ore has been found in the Nanling Mountains, do you think there will be other minerals in the Nanling Mountains? ”

Xia Jing thought for a while and nodded: "There are generally many minerals in the mountains, if you want to look for minerals, you can send someone out to explore, and you will naturally know." ”

If the two are parallel time and space, and in the last time and space, the Nanling Mountain Range is the famous hometown of non-ferrous metals, and this time and space may also be similar.

"You're right, you have to send someone to investigate." King Qian agreed.

Xia Jing knew that they were fine, so she found a reason to leave the study in the front yard.

King Qian waited for the footsteps outside to go away, and then he said to Li Chengshang with a straight face: "Now that you have grown up, you have lived for half your life and even remembered the things of your mother's concubine, as the boss, you should be more responsible." You see Xiao Wu he recruited 5,000 soldiers, and this king has never seen him worry about food and grass, and he will not even want to return home in the future when he trains troops outside. ”

Li Chengshang was a little unconvinced, and muttered: "He is a person with a mother, no matter how bad he is, he has a mother to help, who do we have to help, everything is on our own." ”

King Qian looked at Li Chengshang in shock, this time he didn't care about his face, and scolded: "What a mess, boss, don't forget, the person you have lived for half your life is a few years older than your mother, and she can earn money to help Xiao Wu alone, why can't you support the big house?" ”

In the end, he looked a little contemptuous, "Don't tell this king, you are not even as good as a woman!" ”

If it weren't for the fact that the world is a little chaotic now, he would have separated his sons a long time ago, and how could he still tolerate jumping in front of him.

Li Chengshang was aggrieved, "What does my father want me to do?" When we came to Lingnan, our big house was almost nothing, how could we raise soldiers without money and food? ”

King Qian saw that he was still wronged, so he was angry, "If you don't have the ability to raise soldiers, hand over those 3,000 soldiers to the garrison or a few of your brothers." Although the Li royal family is now in decline, the innate blood in the Li family's blood cannot be lost. Don't even be soft in your bones, you want to rely on women for everything, if you think so, cut off this thought for me as soon as possible.

If your daughter-in-law thinks like this, blowing the pillow wind on you affects your judgment, then Benwang doesn't mind finding something for her to do. ”

Now Li Chengshang was silent.

He was really unwilling to let him hand over the soldiers he had worked so hard for several months into the hands of others.

But he, a literati who spends all day with books, asked him to manage the general affairs, which he felt was too cheesy and too worthy.

As for whether he has the ability to manage the affairs well, Li Chengshang has not thought about it.

"Father, this matter can't be slowed down any longer, I will think of a way again, and I finally gathered three thousand soldiers, and I am reluctant to let go."

King Qian sighed and put on a stern face, "Since you don't want to give up now, then work hard." Now the output of the salt fields in our Qianwang Mansion is considerable, and the Xia family is now running a business, I heard that the profit is not bad, and your fourth brother is also running a business. Or if you are really short of money, you can pull up a few caravans and learn from them to run a business together? ”

Li Chengshang doesn't understand the Tao here, but this matter can be dealt with first, and then ask the shopkeeper of the big house to see if this business can be done?

Li Chengshang hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll go back and discuss this matter with Hua, and I'll reply to you tomorrow." ”

King Qian waved his hand indifferently, "You can do this by yourself, if you figure it out and want to run a business, you can go to the shopkeeper of the salt shop to talk, what the process is is for the time being." ”

Speaking of this, King Qian remembered the fact that Washington's house was raided, and advised: "There is also the matter of the Hua family, now that I am in prison, it is basically impossible to come out safely without incident." The new emperor does not cut off his head or sentence, it is possible that he does not want to exterminate the Chinese people.

The new emperor may have to do it for the sake of money or to consolidate the imperial power. After this limelight, the entire Hua family may be exiled, and you husband and wife must have a bottom in their hearts. ”

(End of chapter)