After losing the vest at the beginning, the female general was forced to marry the scheming prince

Chapter 144 Sui Lijing's Helplessness
King Jing ordered Jia Yi who was standing beside him in a cold tone: "Take Master Su to rest first."

Jia Yi is not masked now, but the exposed face is extremely ordinary, even if you look at it a few times, you can't remember what he looks like.

I don't know if this is his original appearance, or the mask that Qu Chu and the others wore before.

Su Yingxue didn't say much, and followed Jiayi away with a bad face.

……

King Jing asked Sui Lijing: "You sent a letter to Mantuo Villa before, why did you come here now?"

Sui Lijing briefly talked about the Mantuo Villa.

"Youdi, Zhuangzhu Su is really not a simple person. If she is not willing, she can't be forced. Why don't you forget it!"

The last sentence is to persuade King Jing to stop thinking about Mantuo Villa.

King Jing sullenly said, "Then what if we kill her?"

For some reason, Sui Lijing felt extremely uncomfortable when he heard King Jing said that he wanted to kill Su Yingxue.It felt like something important was gone.

Sui Lijing tried his best to ignore this feeling, and said in a flat tone as much as possible:

"It's easy for you to kill Su Zhuangzhu alone, but if you want to avoid future troubles, you must destroy the entire Manduo Villa. Otherwise, we have no way to deal with Manduo Villa's revenge."

King Jing was just talking, he really didn't dare to kill Su Yingxue now.

Now is not the time.

He himself is still being watched by the emperor, and the troubles on his body have not been resolved.

King Jing and Sui Lijing talked about serious business.

"Lijing, raising an army is a huge expense. Now that Fang Haichang's line is broken, we have no source of money, so we have to think of other ways."

This is also the reason why King Jing came to Mantuo Villa.

When he got the news that Ning You went to Jianghuai in the north, he knew that the matter of salt tax and silver might not be hidden, so he wanted Mantuo Villa to be his new money bag, but it was a pity that he met Su Yingxue, a hard stump.

Speaking of business, Sui Lijing also looked serious.

"Although Changqing is colder, it is rich in products. Their antlers and ginseng are very valuable. There are also tigers, foxes, bears and other animals. If they can be caught, they can be exchanged for a lot of money.

How about I order someone to go to Changqing Kingdom and bring back some supplies? "

King Jing thought for a while and rejected Sui Lijing's proposal.

"It will take a lot of people to do things like this, and the money will not come quickly. It is not a long-term solution."

Sui Lijing racked his brains to think of other ways, but King Jing had already expressed his opinion.

"Lijing, you cut 30% of the military expenditure from the Coast Guard and give it to me."

Sui Lijing was startled.

"Youdi, the military expenditure allocated by the imperial court is not very much in the first place. If the military expenditure is reduced by 30%, the life of the soldiers will be difficult."

King Jing took a deep look at Sui Lijing, "Then what do you think we should do? We have an army of 5 people under our command. Could it be that you let them starve to death?"

Sui Lijing was silent for a while before he said: "Even if the military expenditure is reduced by 30%, it is not enough. And it is not a long-term solution. The court will know eventually."

King Jing's words were very indifferent:

"You should think of a way with the equipment. In this case, the court will not be able to find out in a short time. Also, see if you can collect some protection money from the shipping merchants along the coast."

Sui Lijing didn't know how to reply King Jing's words.

Originally they were officers and soldiers, and their responsibility was to protect the lives and property of the common people.If protection fees are charged, how is it different from robbers?

None of the methods King Jing said was what he was willing to do, but even if he didn't want to, he could only do it.

He has his mission and responsibility.

He could only be silent.

King Jing didn't consider Sui Lijing's inner thoughts, and was still immersed in his own thoughts.

"This time it's really a bad start. Nearly half of the grain we bought went to Ningyou Beiduan. I really underestimated him before, but I didn't expect him to have some abilities."

No wonder King Jing has such a big temper.

Originally, he had thrown Duke Huai out because he wanted to hide the purchase of grain from the past, but how could he have been discovered by the emperor.

Not only that, but a lot of them were confiscated.

Fortunately, the medicinal materials were purchased in advance, and only a small part was confiscated, otherwise the loss would be immeasurable.

Sui Lijing knew a little about the emperor, but he knew nothing about Ning Youbei.

He didn't regard Ning Youbei as an opponent before, but after Jiang Huai's incident, he wanted to re-examine King Chu.

There is also General Qu, who used to think she was a reckless person, but after this incident, I realized that General Qu is a person with both wisdom and courage.

Now listening to King Jing talking about Ning Youbei, Sui Lijing said:

"Youdi, we underestimated the King of Chu before, but we didn't expect him to hide his abilities all the time. Now he has the help of General Qu, and he will be our formidable enemy."

Although King Jing was annoyed, he did not refute this.

Seeing that King Jing listened to his own words, Sui Lijing stopped talking about this topic, but changed the topic.

"Fortunately, you let the governor of Jianghuai transfer in advance, otherwise he knows a lot of things, and it will be very detrimental to you if you tell them."

For example, the governor of Jianghuai knew about King Jing's private raising of the army, and the governor of Jianghuai also took the money from Fang Haichang.

Hearing what Sui Lijing said, not only was King Jing not happy, but his face became gloomy.

Seeing this, Sui Lijing was stunned and said, "Did something happen?"

After a while, King Jing said:
"Governor Jianghuai didn't ask him to transfer. I originally sent someone there, but he hid himself first, and his whereabouts have not been found yet."

King Jing didn't speak very clearly, but Sui Lijing understood.

King Jing sent someone to Governor Jianghuai not to save him, but to silence him.Governor Jianghuai should have noticed it and hid first.

"Then will he be found by the court?"

"I don't know, you ask the people below to continue to investigate his news, and if they find out, kill him."

Sui Lijing had no choice but to remain silent.

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the other side

Jiayi brought Su Yingxue to a courtyard of Prince Jing's Mansion, and asked respectfully and distantly, "Master Su, what do you think of this place?"

Su Yingxue nodded coldly.

Jiayi called two maidservants over: "You are good at serving Zhuzhuang Master Su, and you will agree to whatever she asks."

The two maidservants responded quickly.

……

When there was only one person, Su Yingxue took a small glass bottle and put it on the table, rolled up the sleeve of her left hand, took a small knife and cut a small cut on her left arm, and the blood that flowed out dripped into the glass bottle.

When the little glazed bottle was half full, Su Yingxue stopped the bleeding.

Su Yingxue took another pill from her body and threw it into the glass bottle. The pill quickly absorbed Su Yingxue's blood and swelled into a new dark red pill.

Su Yingxue shook the glass bottle until the pill had completely absorbed the blood, then poured the pill into a small jade box and packed it.

This is King Jing's antidote.

(End of this chapter)