After listening to Mu Zixuan's answer, Lu Chen smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth.

He likes a good wife and mother like Mu Zixuan, who can handle the big things in front of right and wrong, and will not be jealous.

If you want to say beautiful, Mu Zixuan only has a score of 93, which is still worse than Chu Yuqin, but Lu Chen's liking for her is not based on the system score.

As long as it is a woman he likes, it is very important in his heart, and it is not something that can be influenced by a mere system score.

Lu Chen said at this time: "Okay, I'll let Nanyan take over the treasury for the time being, and when I find a suitable candidate, I'll replace her." ”

As the words fell, Lu Chen stretched out his other hand and leaned sideways to wrap his arms around Mu Zixuan's willow waist.

Although Mu Zixuan was pregnant, it did not prevent the two of them from hugging and hugging.

Mu Zixuan thought of something at this time, so she asked: "By the way, Lord Wang, will the construction of the straight road start in the spring next year, I heard that you have made a lot of cement." ”

Lu Chen said, "Hmm. ”

Mu Zixuan pondered for a moment and said: "Then a lot of food will be needed next year, now that Great Xia and Great Wu are at war, the price of grain in Great Xia is soaring." ”

Hearing Mu Zixuan's words, Lu Chen was stunned for a moment, and he handed over the purchase of grain to Mu Zixuan, so he didn't know the situation of the grain price in Great Xia.

However, hearing what Mu Zixuan said, Lu Chen probably guessed that the current grain prices in Great Xia must be very exaggerated.

Mu Zixuan continued: "Moreover, the price of grain is controlled by the Jiangnan family, and the price of white rice in Great Xia has risen to nearly six taels of silver per stone. ”

Hearing Mu Zixuan's words, Lu Chen was stunned, although he was not responsible for buying grain, but he probably also knew that the price of rice in the capital in the past, the price of rice in the capital used to fluctuate between 0.5 and 0.6 taels.

If the price of a stone of white rice has risen to six taels, it is equivalent to saying that the price of grain has increased tenfold.

"Six...... Six taels? ”

"So expensive?"

Mu Zixuan said: "If the war between Daxia and Dawu continues, I am afraid that the food will rise, and before the Dawu army reaches the capital, I am afraid that the people will ......."

Mu Zixuan instantly realized that she was talking too much, so she immediately shut up and didn't continue.

Seeing that Mu Zixuan suddenly shut up, Lu Chen said with a smile: "Concubine Ai, you don't have to be so taboo in front of me, just say whatever comes to mind." ”

"And you're right, if food prices continue to rise, the common people may indeed rebel, but there is still surplus food in the people's homes, and it is not a big problem to last another half a year or a year, and I estimate that the war is about to end."

As long as a war breaks out, the price of food will inevitably rise, even if Great Xia takes the initiative to launch a foreign war, it is the same, it is impossible to say that as soon as the war is launched, as soon as the food rises, the common people will rebel, it is impossible to be so fast.

If the common people want to rebel, basically only when they are about to survive, and the war has only begun for a few months, and it is impossible for the common people of Daxia to survive soon.

However, Lu Chen guessed that the war was probably going to end, although the war would lead to an increase in food prices, but the war between Great Xia and Dawu had just begun, and it was about to enter the confrontation stage, and the price of food in Great Xia should not rise so exaggeratedly.

The price of white rice has increased tenfold all of a sudden, which shows that the Jiangnan family is putting pressure on Emperor Xia?

On the one hand, he manipulated food prices to exert pressure, and on the other hand, he exerted pressure through external wars, and Emperor Xia was likely to be unable to resist compromise.

I just don't know what the result of the compromise will be.

His father is young and strong, and it is definitely impossible to abdicate the throne, but it is possible to establish a crown prince.

It's just that once Emperor Xia compromises with the Jiangnan family and wants to make the eighth prince the crown prince, the other factions in the capital will not be happy, and then Great Xia will set off a round of bloody political struggle.

Thinking of this, the corners of Lu Chen's mouth rose slightly, fortunately he was assigned to Beijun, what happened in the capital has nothing to do with him, and he can develop with peace of mind.

Let's fight, let's fight, it's better to fight to the death, and then he will be able to pick up the cheap.

At this time, Lu Chen said: "Concubine Ai, in a few days, I will allocate 70,000 taels of silver to the county guard's mansion, and let Li Rui send all the officials' money, and by the way, let him repair my council palace." ”

Although Li Rui only asked for 50,000 taels of silver, and it was obvious that he still exaggerated what he wanted, Lu Chen didn't plan to dwell on this, but he gave Li Rui an extra 20,000 taels of silver.

Give some sweetness to the officials of Beijun first, because he will make a big move next, and Lu Chen still understands the truth of adding sugar to the stick.

Mu Zixuan said: "The concubine body knows, and the concubine body will let people transfer 70,000 taels of silver from the treasury to the county guard mansion later." ”

Lu Chen thought for a while, and then said, "As for the problem of food......

Speaking of this, Lu Chen wanted to speak and stopped.

The price of grain is indeed a big problem, the price of grain in Great Xia is all manipulated, and the most affected is Beijun, Beijun is already poor, and the grain in Beiwangfu is basically bought.

If you buy a stone of rice for six or seven taels of silver, Lu Chen feels that there is something wrong with his brain.

However, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn have not been promoted, and it takes time for crops to be promoted, not that you can harvest them immediately after planting.

Moreover, the first batch of crops will have to be planted, at least after a few years, Beijun can really solve the problem of food and clothing, in the past few years, Beijun's grain still has to rely on buying from outside.

Lu Chen thought for a while and said to Mu Zixuan: "The palace will suspend the purchase of grain first, and I will ask the king to see what the current grain prices of other dynasties are, and then we will use Tingyulou to buy grain from other dynasties." ”

Mu Zixuan asked, "Lord Wang, won't this expose the relationship between Tingyulou and the palace?" ”

Lu Chen said lightly: "Just make fake accounts, and when the time comes, I will hear Yulou claim that the price of the grain they sell to the Northern Wangfu is about the same as that of Great Xia." ”

"Tingyulou is originally a business institution, so it has to play a little bit of its role."

Although the main role of Tingyulou is to collect intelligence, but its role on the surface is to do business, there is no thing that Tingyulou does not sell, Beijun lacks food, Tingyulou resells grain to Beijun to make the difference, this is a very normal business behavior.

Mu Zixuan said: "The concubine understands. ”

After staying warm with Mu Zixuan for a while, Lu Chen left the main hall and went to the study.

As soon as he arrived at the study, he said to the brocade guard: "Go and call the lord of the royal building, this king has something to look for her." ”

Wang Tianci has rarely been in the Beiwang Mansion for half a month, and I don't know if it was because she was too bad last time, which scared her, and she was so scared that she didn't dare to come back.

But after all, she is his own slave girl, if she doesn't come back, he just has someone to call, as long as she doesn't leave Yancheng, she must come to the Beiwang Mansion to report the information to him.

Lu Chen waited in the study for a while, and the voice of the king sounded outside the study, "Lord Wang, the slave family is here." ”

Lu Chen sat at his desk, writing the reform plan of Beijun with a brush, and said, "Come in." ”

Wang then pushed the door open and entered the room.

Seeing that Lu Chen was busy, Wang Tianci breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Lu Chen was looking for himself to satisfy his other ideas.

Thinking about it, there are so many women in the inner courtyard of the Beiwang Mansion, even if she doesn't come back, Lu Chen will not be idle, and she doesn't need to satisfy Lu Chen at all.

And Lu Chen didn't need to deliberately let Jin Yiwei go to find himself for that kind of thing, he was looking for himself, and there was a high probability that he had something serious.

Wang Tianci took the initiative to ask, "Lord Wang, what is the matter with your slave family?" ”

Lu Chen opened his mouth and said: "I want to know that the price of grain in that dynasty or country has been relatively low recently, and the Northern Wangfu plans to hoard some grain. ”

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Wang Tianci instantly understood what Lu Chen meant, she was engaged in intelligence work, and she knew very well that the recent rise in food prices in Great Xia was a bit terrifying, and she had already helped Lu Chen find out that the price of food in that dynasty was relatively low.

Wang Qian immediately said: "Lord Wang, the slave family has already inquired for you, for now, the grain price of the Dayue Dynasty is relatively low, but the main grain crop of the Dayue Dynasty is wheat. ”

The Daxia people prefer rice, while the Dayue people are in the northwest all year round, they prefer pasta, and most of their grain is also wheat.

Don't look at Beijun is farther north than Dayue, but these people in Beijun have only moved from Daxia in recent years, so the staple food of most of the people is still white porridge.

After hearing Wang Tian's words, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said: "Wheat is fine, as long as the price is relatively low." ”

Habits can be changed, in the summer rice price rose to six taels and one stone today, it would be good to fill the stomach, and still use to distinguish between pasta and rice.

"Okay, I'll let the caravan hurry up and purchase food." ”

Speaking of this, Wang Tianci glanced at what was written on Lu Chen's desk, and then asked tentatively: "Lord Wang, you should have nothing else to do, if it's okay, the slave family will be busy first." ”

Lu Chen put down the brush in his hand, smiled slightly, and then looked into Wang Tianci's eyes and asked, "Has Lord Wang been busy lately?" Busy that I haven't seen back to Beiwangfu for half a month? Why did this king hear that the lord of the building had not left Yancheng? ”

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Wang Tianci chuckled in his heart.

Lu Chen treats her differently from those women in the palace, Lu Chen usually calls himself "I" when he talks to her about business, and he doesn't say "this king,"

During this period of time, I don't know if Lu Chen likes to play identity play or what, every time he does something bad to her, he doesn't call himself "I", but calls himself "this king".

As long as she heard Lu Chen call herself "this king" in front of her, and then call her "Wang Lou Master", it means that Lu Chen wants to do bad things to her.

Wang Tianci hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, the slave family is also to help the prince collect more information about other dynasties as soon as possible, so he didn't return to the palace, and the slave family has absolutely no other meaning." ”

Lu Chen said lightly: "Really? The owner of the Wang Mansion should not have forgotten what other responsibilities he has, right? ”

Hearing Lu Chen's question, Wang Tianci knew that she couldn't run away today, she glanced at Lu Chen resentfully, and then said: "Lord Wang, the slave family has injured his body in martial arts recently, and I hope that Lord Wang will not be so fierce today." ”

Speaking of this, Wang Tianci twisted Xiao Man's waist and came directly to Lu Chen's side.

Seeing Wang's bewitching posture, Lu Chen didn't say a word, got up and pressed her on the desk to clean up.

If he left Yancheng, it was okay to go out on a mission, but Wang Qian stayed in Yancheng for half a month and did not leave Yancheng.

In Yancheng for half a month, he didn't return to the palace, this was completely not in his eyes, and he had to be punished.

……

Chu Qingli was already completely familiar with the life of the palace during this time.

And gradually, she didn't want to leave the Beiwang Mansion anymore.

Originally, she came to persuade her sister to leave the Beiwang Mansion with her, and then live a two-person life with her sister, but she herself had the idea of staying.

This made Chu Qingli a little unacceptable, she always felt that she was bewitched by some mysterious power.

Otherwise, how could she have such a thought.

Chu Qingli patrolled while analyzing what power he might have been bewitched.

After a while, she patrolled to the door of the study.

Before she could get close to the study, she heard some oooh ahh

Chu Qingli was still pondering why he wanted to stay, but after hearing those voices, Chu Qingli's willow eyebrows furrowed slightly, and his face suddenly became extremely cold.

That womanizer is doing bad things again.

I really don't know how he has such abundant energy every day, since she came to the Beiwang Mansion, she hasn't seen that bad thing stop for a day.

But after her observation, every woman in the palace had no problem, not only was there no problem, but after doing bad things with that villain, she was radiant the next day and seemed to become more beautiful.

Although she didn't understand what the specific principle was, and she didn't know what it was, she knew very well that Lu Chen's cultivation was absolutely impossible to be a magic skill like Hehuan Gong.

If Lu Chen was cultivating demonic skills, according to Lu Chen's ability, these women in the inner courtyard of the palace would have become dry corpses long ago.

Chu Qingli's mind was stunned at this time.

After she came to the palace, she always heard that Lu Chen was a person with immortal fate.

If the kind of exercises that Lu Chen cultivated were immortal methods that were only good for people and had no harm, then it would seem to be able to explain the problems of Lu Chen and his wives and concubines.

Thinking like this, Chu Qingli suddenly had an association in his mind.

If Lu Chen really has an immortal fate, then he should get more than one kind of immortal art, he has done so many bad things to his women, and he has not seen his wife and concubine have a grudge against him.

And Lu Chen's women seem to like Lu Chen very much, as if they were hypnotized.

Is it possible that the immortal inheritance that Lu Chen obtained has an immortal technique that can be hypnotized, so that he can stay willingly?

The case has been solved!

The reason why she wants to stay must be because of that womanizer!

In fact, Chu Qingli only speculated about Lu Chen with the greatest malice, but her intuition was a little too accurate, allowing her to guess part of the reason for her psychological changes.

Lu Chen obviously doesn't know hypnosis, the reason why Chu Qingli thinks so is mainly because of her experience in the rivers and lakes, as a killer, she knows very well that there are exercises in the rivers and lakes that can hypnotize people, but she doesn't know it.

Chu Qingli thought at this time, it must have been that womanizer who had unknowingly used some hypnotic technique on him, otherwise how could he think of staying.

She said that his woman was tossed by him every day, how could she have no resentment towards him at all, it turned out that she used such an unsightly method!

No, she must let her sister see the evil side of this man clearly!

Of course, the most important thing is to take your sister out of the sea of suffering and fly away with your sister.

Thinking of this, Chu Qingli glanced at the study, and was already thinking about how to relieve Lu Chen's hypnotism.

(End of chapter)