Chapter 167 Borrowing a boat

I don't know what the reaction of the other rooms in the house was when they received the list, but King Qian was really shocked when he received the list.

"Overseas is a cornucopia in the eyes of the princess, otherwise how could she harvest a lot every time she goes to sea!"

King Qian handed the list to Mr. Zhang, "Look at it, with these materials on the list, you can ensure that Xiaowu's private soldiers don't have to worry about money and food for a year, and overseas is simply the logistics yamen for the princess to raise soldiers!" ”

Mr. Zhang took the list and checked it, and only a few military supplies such as cloth, medicinal materials, and food were transported back from overseas about a dozen ships, which are necessary materials that money cannot buy in these troubled times.

The rest were gold, silver, jewelry, and captives.

In fact, there is basically no shortage of prisoners in Lingnan now, because of the infrastructure, the prisoners who were brought back from the defeat of Annam last time are completely enough.

There was probably only a few masters in the mines where there were no prisoners.

And Xia Jing quietly filled this personnel gap, with this group of prisoners, there will be no shortage of miners in her iron ore for at least a few years.

Thinking of this, Mr. Zhang sighed with emotion: "The princess is far-sighted, and she plans everything clearly and clearly, which makes Weichen admire!" ”

At least do everything a few steps faster than their side.

King Qian actually admired Xia Jing in his heart, but he wouldn't show it on his face.

At this time, this topic was obviously not suitable to continue, so he changed the topic and said: "Overseas is full of gold, do you think we can go to sea once?" ”

Sure enough, King Qian saw the abundance of overseas materials, and he was moved!

In these years, natural disasters and man-made disasters cannot be relied on by the imperial court, and he always has to find a guarantee for his army.

"If the prince wants to let the army below go to sea, then there are too many preparations in the early stage, first of all, we don't have sea ships, if you want to learn from the princess to rent from the family, then the problem is, we don't have soldiers who are suitable for life at sea."

Mr. Zhang was quite helpless, and at this time, he realized that the princess really took ten steps to see one step, and when others wanted to follow her steps, they found that many things were not ready.

King Qian said a little unconvinced: "Our team has tens of thousands of people, many of whom are native to Lingnan, this king doesn't believe it, can't pick a few thousand people who are familiar with water?" ”

Mr. Zhang: "It's easy to pick out a few thousand out of tens of thousands who are familiar with water, but if you want them to go to sea to fight, you have to go through targeted training. ”

If you don't train, you pull out and fight the pirates, then it's tantamount to giving away people's heads.

Of course, what Mr. Zhang didn't know was that Xia Jing's first time at sea was to successfully capture the pirate's island with her lonely bravery.

King Qian said irritably, "Then let them train!" ”

King Qian's words, the military camp on the outskirts of the city became busy, screened, and competed in physical fitness, and finally successfully selected 5,000 elites with good water quality.

Looking at the five thousand elite training in the camp next door, Feng Tu said to Li Chengmu: "The princess guessed correctly, we successfully got countless money and food from overseas and came back, and their camps finally couldn't hold back. ”

Li Chengmu touched his chin and asked, "You say, if my father borrows a sea ship from me, do I borrow it or not?" ”

"This." Feng Tu put himself in the middle of it, if his father asked him to borrow a boat, he seemed to be unable to refuse, "My father's order is hard to disobey, if the prince borrows a boat from you, you don't seem to be able to refuse." ”

Li Chengmu didn't care much, although the sea boat was valuable, it was easy to get, and besides, it was his father who borrowed the boat, and it was always unreasonable not to borrow it.

Feng Tu retracted his gaze and asked about another thing he cared about, "Fifth Master, I heard that the princess is building a new type of warship, but is it true?" ”

Li Chengmu shook his head: "I don't know much about this, and my mother didn't mention it to me." ”

Xia Jing mentioned this to him, and he also knew the progress of the project, but it was just such a top-secret event as a new type of warship, and he couldn't tell it widely, so he had to keep it secret!

In the past few months, several iron ore mines have been discovered in Nanling, and the reserves are amazing.

In this case, Lingnan's steel production is a bit overcapacity, so Xia Jing decided to let the blacksmith workshop build steel warships in advance.

On this day, Xia Jing came back from the grange outside the city, and was invited to the study in the front yard by Zeng Yan as soon as she entered the house.

"You're looking for me for something? Don't even give me time to go back to the yard to wash up first? ”

Xia Jing was furious when she stepped into the study, mainly when she came back from outside the city, not only covered in hot sweat, but also covered in dust.

"Princess, forgive me, the prince really has something urgent to discuss with you, if you have any offense, I hope you don't remember the villain, forgive me, forgive me." Mr. Zhang smiled and played a round game.

Xia Jing found a place to sit down, and Anu handed over a cup of warm tea at the right time.

Mr. Zhang smiled and asked, "The princess is going to the grange outside the city to see the harvest?" ”

Xia Jing nodded: "Yes!" ”

The autumn harvest is coming to an end, and since the heavy rain that day, the weather is basically fine, which is convenient for the people of the autumn harvest to dry the grain.

"How's the harvest?"

Xia Jing glanced at him and said lightly: "There isn't much, it shouldn't be a problem to eat enough for your team for a year!" ”

"Good yield!" Mr. Zhang smiled with satisfaction, "This year's Lingnan can be regarded as a smooth weather, it is really God's appreciation to eat!" ”

Xia Jing agrees with this, compared to the Central Plains, Lingnan can really be called a paradise.

"I heard that several state capitals in the Central Plains have had floods, and the people who want to come to the Central Plains this winter are not having a good time."

Hearing this, the relaxed look on Mr. Zhang's face disappeared for a moment.

When he thought of this, he frowned, "We can't worry about the king in this southern barbarian land, I'm really ashamed, ashamed of my father!" ”

Xia Jing listened to his high-sounding loyal words, and sneered in her heart, if she wanted to say that she was ashamed of the right person, she felt that she was ashamed of the people, as for the king, he himself made a mess of the Dayu Dynasty, and don't blame others for not doing their best.

Nowadays, local officials in the Dayu Dynasty support their own troops and do not take the court in their eyes, but the new emperor is bewitched by the ministers in the court and does not know the true face of people.

is busy in the palace every day, in Xia Jing's opinion, he is twice as successful with half the effort, purely busy!

In the end, the Dayu Dynasty was still so poor that only big pants remained.

Thousands of holes!

The people have no means of making a living!

The civil and military officials of the court only know that the party is the same and the struggle is continuous, and the last bit of gas of the Dayu Dynasty will be consumed faster.

Xia Jing: "Call me over to talk about something!" ”

Mr. Zhang coughed lightly and looked at King Qian, it was better for the prince to say this matter himself.

King Qian fixed his mind, "During this period of time, the camp has been in emergency training, and now it is only about water practice, so this king wants to borrow ten sea ships from you for actual combat training at sea, I don't know what you think?" ”

Xia Jing straightened her skirt, listened to his words, raised her head to look at King Qian, and said with a smile: "It's just ten ships, what a big deal." ”

When King Qian heard this, he was a little stunned by surprise, he was stunned, and asked again in disbelief, "The princess agreed?" ”

Xia Jing couldn't help but smile, nodded with a smile, "Of course, it's just a secondment, what a big deal!" ”

Mr. Zhang was overjoyed, stood up and bowed to Xia Jing, "The princess understands the general idea and is a model for us." ”

Seeing Mr. Zhang so solemn, Xia Jing couldn't help laughing: "Haha, you don't have to stop, I charter the ship, you pay the rent, fair trade, mutual benefit, we have both money and goods, you don't have to make it like I have received my favor." ”

King Qian: "."

Mr. Zhang: "."

After doing it for a long time, it turned out that they were self-inflicted!

From the very beginning the woman had guessed that they would ask her to borrow a boat, and all this was just to tease them.

Damn it!

King Qian's fleet went to sea as scheduled, but he couldn't be happy!

He is still angry in his heart, he borrowed something from his princess and even had to pay rent, what kind of rule is this?

He urgently needed a sailor to win a big battle now, and it was best to get rid of a big pirate den and get a dozen or twenty ships back.

Then in the next few days, he will not have to reach out to the princess to borrow a boat!

And in this way, he proves to everyone that his abilities are not bad!

Perhaps the people below were aware of King Qian's thoughts, so some impure people admonished him, saying that the princess, a woman in the back house, actually interfered in foreign affairs and led the army, which was really unruly.

Even Xia Jing's opening a shop and setting up a factory to compete with the people for profits has become an excuse for them to attack.

Although King Qian had a lot of dissatisfaction with Xia Jing, he was dissatisfied with it, but he did not allow outsiders to be dissatisfied with Xia Jing.

What a contradictory person.

Just when the people below were silent and dissatisfied with King Qian, King Qian struck out in a thunderbolt, scattered the duties of two leading birds, and demoted their whole family to Siling County on the border of Annam.

After degrading the two early birds, the government finally quieted down.

Who dares to talk too much, I'm afraid it's going to die!

The reaction of the Lingnan public was the most fierce reaction from Aunt Sun in the palace.

"Xia's slut, isn't it just relying on his youth to do whatever he wants in front of the prince?"

"The Xia slut is worthy of being an old vixen for many years, and she has reached the age of old age and decrepitude, and she can still hook the prince into a daze and obey her words!"

"Wait for the prince to be hooked by the fox spirit outside one day, and then see how I clean up your Xia family!"

"Aunt be cautious!"

Hearing this, Aunt Sun turned around and saw his son walking in from outside.

Seeing him glaring angrily, he knew that he must have heard what he was muttering just now.

"This is my own courtyard, why should I be cautious!"

"Humph!"

Li Chengli snorted coldly, "If you are not afraid that the princess will know, and you are not afraid that your father will know, if you do it, one day no one will tolerate you and abandon you outside the palace!" ”

Aunt Sun had a weak heart, but she still said stiffly: "I have the grace of inheritance in the palace, I don't believe that the prince will be so ruthless!" ”

Li Chengli faced a very unreasonable woman, he didn't want to be reasonable, he only told her: "There is a limit to the patience of the father and the mother, don't test their bottom line again and again." ”

Saying that, Li Chengli turned around and walked out.

It's just that when he stepped out of the threshold, he stopped and turned back and warned: "In a few days, the little son of Jingzhou Thorn will come back to Lingnan, don't make trouble these days, if you really let your father or mother catch your handle, then you will lose not only your face, but also the face of the entire palace!" ”

Whether it is the father or the mother, they must not want to show the unbearable side of the palace in front of outsiders.

If Aunt Sun has been stubborn, then both the father and the mother will take action against her!

And the most important point, no matter who makes the move, Aunt Sun can't afford this consequence!

Aunt Sun was stunned, "Yuan Xiaogongzi is idle, what are you doing in Lingnan?" ”

Li Chengli didn't bother to explain to her, Yuzhu and Yuan Xiaogongzi's relationship is not a secret in the palace, who doesn't know?

Pretending to be an idiot little woman here is disgusting!

Aunt Sun looked at her son who left without looking back, and her heart throbbed.

Since when did her son no longer like to chat with her and tell her about the little things in life?

Lingnan has received the news, and Jingzhou Thorn Mansion.

As soon as Yuan Rongcheng came back from outside, he received news from the housekeeper that his father was looking for him.

"What's the matter with the old man looking for Ben Gongzi?" He asked the little guy who had come to pass the message.

The little guy shook his head: "The specific situation is not clear, but it is true that the master is looking for you." ”

"Got it, I'll be over later!"

Yuan Rongcheng threw the leather whip in his hand to the little guy beside him, and then entered the bathroom.

After he washed up, he changed his clothes and went to Yuan Rujiang's study.

As soon as he entered the door, he found that his father's face was not quite right, "Dad, are you looking for me to come over for something?" ”

"Before, I told you that I helped you talk about a family in Lingnan, and now the woman is worried about your personality, you take advantage of this time to go to Lingnan to meet your future daughter-in-law!"

Yuan Rongcheng listened to his words and nodded in response.

He hesitated for a moment, but still asked with concern, "It's not difficult, but why is Dad's face so ugly?" ”

Yuan Rujiang listened to his son's words of concern and sighed, "The rebels occupying Qingzhou and Yanzhou have begun to move again, probably because the autumn harvest is over, and they want to expand their territory." ”

Yuan Rongcheng was a little surprised, and after pondering for a moment, he asked: "But the emperor wants us to send troops to Jingzhou to quell the rebellion?" ”

Yuan Rujiang looked at his youngest son seriously, he was really smart, and he had his own unique views on the current situation.

However, this matter is not notified to one state and one government, and with so many state capitals, it is not an easy matter to assemble.

When the soldiers and horses of the state capitals are gathered together, I don't know what year and month it will take?

"You don't have to worry about this, you prepare first, and you will leave for Lingnan in two days, to be able to marry the Qian Palace, the benefits to our Yuan family outweigh the disadvantages, you kid must grasp it well!"

"Got it."

Yuan Rongcheng thinks that as long as he works hard, there is no girl he can't handle, as long as he goes out, even a chaste martyr has to kneel and lick him.

Besides, he is not as unobtrusive as his second brother, and there should be quite a lot of girls who want to marry him.

Wait for Yuan Rongcheng to leave the study.

Yuan Rujiang was still not very relieved, so he called the housekeeper, "Rongcheng will set off to Lingnan in two days, the mountains and rivers are long, and the road is not easy, you can help him prepare more emergency supplies and gifts for the masters of King Qian's Mansion." You must be careful, don't fall into the Yuan family's etiquette. ”

The housekeeper agreed, "The old slave will definitely arrange it properly, please rest assured." ”

To deal with marriage, housekeepers are still more experienced.

After all, there are many descendants from all sides of the Yuan family.

The weddings of the juniors of the Yuan family were basically planned and hosted by him, so he signed the wedding of the palace without thinking about it.

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