Inside the palace wall, Li Yuheng quickly stopped Li Junche, "Second brother, I heard that my second brother and sister have had contact with people from the Snow Country. Can you tell me any useful news? The success rate of negotiations in the Snow Country will be higher."
Li Yuheng cherished his life and didn't mind lowering his status to ask for help at this time.
Li Junche stood there upright, "It's just three Snow Country businessmen. Can my princess have any useful information? Brother, you better be prepared. You have also seen the portraits of Snow Country people. They are not small in physique."
Li Yuheng stood there and looked at Li Junche's back as he left ruthlessly, then turned his head to look at the minister of the Ministry of War who was waiting in the distance.
Seeing this, the other party hurriedly came over, "Your Majesty, since King Che proposed to mobilize troops to Yuebei City, this may be an opportunity for us. General Wan's side is still vacant. Isn't it that we can take this opportunity to ask the court for troops and strive for more troops?" Many soldiers and horses.”
Li Yuheng frowned and said thoughtfully: "Li Junche's plan to go to Linyue Kingdom has been stopped. More troops and horses will be deployed to garrison Yuebei City. Can father agree?"
The main reason is that Wan's prestige and ability are there, and King Heng has never led an army, so it is not easy to gain the emperor's trust.
The Secretary of the Ministry of War explained: "Your Majesty is going to the Snow Kingdom, and there is already a crisis. It is for your safety to send more troops to Yuebei City. At this moment, the Emperor's love for his son is the strongest. This opportunity cannot be missed, but it is delivered to your door." opportunity.”
After Li Yuheng thought for a moment, "I will think about it again."
When Li Junche returned to the palace, Lu Hongan had already left with the secret guards who went to rescue Lu Yebai and the others.
He sat in Wen Jinhe's room and looked at the displays in the room, feeling a little more worried.
Snow Country is thousands of miles away from Nancheng, and there are eighteen cities in the middle, so there shouldn't be any danger.
However, the garrison troops in the northern cities are weak, their weapons have not been updated for many years, and there are not many grain reserves. In the event of a war, they may be easily defeated by the opponent.
Presumably it was the anthracite coal in Nancheng that attracted those three people there.
The snowfield glaciers are covered with snow all year round. Even if the people of the Snow Country are not naturally afraid of the cold, life may not be particularly easy.
When Man Qiu came in, she saw her prince in a daze, thinking about his princess.
Man Qiu: "Your Majesty."
Li Junche raised his head and looked at her, "Is something wrong?"
Since Wen Jinhe went to Nancheng, Man Qiu's burden suddenly became heavier, especially during the day, when he could hardly see anyone, and he ran around outside all day for fear of delaying his princess's business.
Man Qiu said slowly: "Previously, Linyue Kingdom raised taxes on the goods sold by the eight imperial merchants, and Kyoto even stipulated that they were not allowed to use them. Recently, many merchants from Kyoto came to purchase, saying that the previous decrees issued by the imperial court were invalidated. ”
The caravan that led Hong'an back set out from Kyoto after the purchase ban was repealed.
Li Junche frowned. How could the decree issued by Linyue Kingdom suddenly be invalidated in order to prevent all the money from being lost to his own princess?
Wen Mingting should be more ruthless than Wen Yanru.
"It doesn't matter, as long as there is money to be made, don't worry about their purpose." Li Junche said to Man Qiu.
Except for telescopes, the eight imperial merchants' belongings were all daily necessities and were of no use in marching or fighting.
Moreover, telescopes are usually sold in shops. As long as the other party wants to, they can easily buy them, and they are no longer considered prohibited items.
Man Qiu nodded and left. Now that the princess in Nancheng was in a hurry to spend money, it would be a good idea to seize this opportunity to make a fortune.
As for why Wen Mingting suddenly liberalized trade, it was actually because the merchants of Linyue Kingdom could not bear the excessive taxes and were looking for trouble with the court.
Wen Mingting had just ascended the throne and the national treasury was not rich.
Officials in the DPRK and China suggested that on the condition of lowering taxes on silver, merchants could donate silver to the court in exchange for profits.
Wen Mingting agreed without much thought to the good thing of getting millions of taels of silver at once.
The most important thing at the moment is to unite with the Snow Kingdom to attack Beidi. The money will return to his pocket after the Beidi Kingdom is defeated.
The city wall in the south city is built to a height of fifty meters. Standing on the edge, you can't get any sunlight and your whole body is in the shadow.
Standing on the hillside outside the city, you can see a huge thing standing there, which is more majestic than the city wall of the capital.
Wen Jinhe stood on the edge of the dam across the river. Thousands of people were working by the river.
More than half of the dam across the river has been built. After finishing the Nancheng side, Song Zhiyuan will take people to Huyue City.
After these five months, the people in the thirteen northern cities all knew that Nancheng was the fiefdom of Princess Che.
Princess Che spent a lot of manpower and money to improve the quality of life of the people in Nancheng.
The bright-minded person immediately moved his family to Nancheng.
During this period of time, I was working for the princess, and since my family had a lot of labor, I also saved some money. It was still possible to buy a small house and register my household registration.
Especially the construction of the cross-river dam, many people personally participated in it and watched it. It is so solid that there will be no problems for at least two to three hundred years.
Princess Che also specially left a ditch to divert the water from across the river to the fields. This way, during severe drought, she would not be afraid of the crops drying up and losing the harvest.
In Mu Mingqian's absence, Song Zhiyuan was in charge of all government affairs.
After learning that more and more people were moving to Nancheng from other cities in recent days, he reported the matter to Wen Jinhe.
Considering the size of Nancheng, Wen Jinhe first told him, "Once the number of residents reaches three million, settlement will be prohibited."
Nancheng is her fiefdom, and she has the right to make decisions.
And if you include the floating population, the number will be more than three million.
There can't be too many people and no place to stay.
Wen Jinhe frowned and looked towards the north, "Mu Mingqian has been away for more than half a month. I wonder how the situation is in the Snow Country?"
If this man really died there, he really wouldn't be able to explain it to that old man, Prime Minister Mu.
His father is so cunning and cunning, so his son should be no less good.
Mu Mingqian, who was wrapped in a goose feather coat, was currently buried in a snowdrift, with only a pair of telescope lenses exposed, observing the people of the snow country living in groups in the distance.
In the snowdrift, the soldier said hoarsely: "Sir, if we continue like this, we will freeze."
The snow chunks above his head fell into Mu Mingqian's just-opened mouth, freezing him so much that his cheeks trembled, "Wait a minute, we will move when they take over. Didn't they say that the temperature of the fire is higher? Let's go there." , and then transfer to Guse City."
People from the Snow Country are really not afraid of the cold. They don't stay indoors even when it snows, they hang out all day long.
If a war really breaks out, which army outside the snowfield glacier will dare to come in?
The combat effectiveness must have dropped rapidly, and he might freeze to death here before the fight even started.
