More children, more blessings, starting from marrying a wife to fight for world hegemony

Chapter 178 Must let my sister clearly see the evil side of this man

After hearing Mu Zixuan's answer, Lu Chen smiled slightly.

He just likes a good wife and mother like Mu Zixuan, who can tell right from wrong and won't be jealous.

In terms of beauty, Mu Zixuan only has a score of 93, which is still worse than Chu Yuqin, but Lu Chen's love for her is not based on the system's score.

As long as it is a woman he likes, it is very important in his heart, and it cannot be controlled by a mere system rating.

Lu Chen said at this time: "Alright then, I'll let Nanyan take over the treasury for now, and I'll replace her after I find a suitable candidate."

After finishing the words, Lu Chen stretched out his other hand, and hugged Mu Zixuan's willow waist sideways.

Although Mu Zixuan was pregnant, it didn't prevent the two of them from hugging each other.

What did Mu Zixuan think of at this time, so she asked: "By the way, my lord, is the construction of the straight road going to start next spring? I heard that you have asked people to make a lot of cement."

Lu Chen said, "Yes."

Mu Zixuan pondered for a moment and said, "Then next year, we will need a lot of food. Now Daxia and Dawu are at war, and the price of food in Daxia is skyrocketing."

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

But after hearing what Mu Zixuan said, Lu Chen probably guessed that the current food price in Daxia must be very exaggerated.

Mu Zixuan continued: "Furthermore, grain prices are controlled by the Jiangnan family. The price of white rice in Daxia has risen to nearly six taels of silver per stone."

Hearing Mu Zixuan's words, Lu Chen was stunned. Although he was not in charge of buying grain, he probably knew the price of rice in the capital before. The price of rice in the capital used to be between [-] and [-] fluctuation.

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

"Six... six taels?"

"So expensive?"

Mu Zixuan said: "If the war between Daxia and Dawu continues, the food supply may continue to increase. Before the Dawu army reaches the capital, the people will probably..."

Mu Zixuan instantly realized that she was talking too much, so she immediately shut up and did not continue.

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

"And you're right, if food prices continue to rise, the common people may indeed rebel, but the common people still have surplus food in their homes, so it won't be a big problem to last another six months or a year, and I think the war will soon be over. "

As long as a war breaks out, the price of food will inevitably rise, even if Daxia initiates a foreign war on its own initiative. It is impossible to say that the common people will rebel as soon as the war starts and the price of food rises. It is impossible so quickly.

The common people want to rebel, basically only when they are about to survive. The war has only just started for a few months, and it is impossible for the common people in Daxia to survive soon.

However, Lu Chen guessed that the war is likely to be over. Although the war will lead to an increase in food prices, the war between Daxia and Dawu has just begun, and it is about to enter the stage of confrontation. The price of food in Daxia should not be so exaggerated. .

The price of white rice suddenly increased tenfold. This clearly shows that the Jiangnan family is putting pressure on Emperor Xia?
On the one hand, manipulating food prices to exert pressure, and on the other hand, exerting pressure through external wars. The Emperor Xia will most likely be unable to withstand it and will compromise.

Just don't know what the outcome of the compromise will be.

As my father is young and strong, it is definitely impossible to abdicate, but it is possible to establish a crown prince.

It's just that once Emperor Xia compromised with the Jiangnan family and wanted to make the eighth prince the crown prince, other factions in the capital would not be happy. At that time, there would be another bloody political struggle in Daxia.

Thinking of this, the corners of Lu Chen's mouth turned up slightly. Fortunately, he was entrusted to Beijun, and what happened in the capital has nothing to do with him, so he can develop with peace of mind.

Let's fight, let's fight, it's better to fight to the death, then he will be able to take advantage of it.

At this time, Lu Chen said: "My concubine, send 7 taels of silver to the governor's mansion in a few days, and ask Li Rui to pay all the salaries of the officials, and let him repair my political hall by the way."

Although Li Rui only asked for 5 taels of silver, and it was obvious that he exaggerated what he asked for, Lu Chen didn't intend to get entangled in this, instead he gave Li Rui an extra 2 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 reason for adding sugar to the stick.

Mu Zixuan said: "The concubine knows about it. After a while, the concubine will have someone transfer 7 taels of silver from the warehouse to the sheriff's mansion."

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

Having said that, Lu Chen hesitated to speak.

Food prices are indeed a big problem. The food prices in Daxia are all manipulated, and the most affected is Beijun. Beijun is already poor, and the food in Beiwangfu is basically bought.

If you buy a stone of rice with six or seven taels of silver, Lu Chen will feel that there is something wrong with his mind.

However, crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn have not been promoted. The promotion of crops takes time, and it does not mean that you can harvest immediately after planting.

Moreover, the first batch of crops will still be planted, and it will take at least a few years before Beijun can truly solve the problem of food and clothing. In the past few years, Beijun's food will still have to be bought from outside.

After thinking for a while, Lu Chen said to Mu Zixuan: "Wangfu temporarily suspends the purchase of grain. I'll ask Wang Qingci to see how the grain prices of other dynasties are. Then we will use Tingyu Tower to buy grain from other dynasties. "

Mu Zixuan asked: "My lord, won't this expose the relationship between Tingyulou and the palace?"

Lu Chen said indifferently: "It's fine to make false accounts. When the time comes, Yulou claims that the price of grain they sell to Beiwangfu is about the same as that of Daxia."

"Tingyulou is originally a business institution, so it must play a role."

Although the main function of Tingyulou is to collect information, its obvious function is to do business. At present, there is nothing that Tingyulou does not sell. There is a shortage of food in Beijun. It is very normal for Tingyulou to resell food to Beijun business conduct.

Mu Zixuan said: "I understand."

After warming 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 guard in brocade: "Go and call the Lord Wang, I have something to look for her."

Wang Qingci seldom been in Beiwang Mansion for half a month, and she didn't know if it was because she was so disturbed last time that she was frightened, and she was so frightened that she didn't dare to come back.

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

Lu Chen waited in the study for a while, when Wang Qingci's voice sounded outside the study, "Your Majesty, the servant is here."

Sitting at the desk, Lu Chen wrote Beijun's reform plan with a brush, and said, "Come in."

Wang Qingci immediately opened the door and entered the room.

Seeing that Lu Chen was busy, Wang Qingci breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Lu Chen was looking for him to satisfy his other thoughts.

Thinking about it, there are so many women in the inner courtyard of Beiwang Mansion, even if he doesn't come back, Lu Chen will not be idle, and there is no need for her to satisfy Lu Chen.

And there's no need for Lu Chen to ask Jin Yiwei to find him for that kind of thing. There is a high probability that he has something serious to do when he finds himself.

Wang Qingci took the initiative to ask, "My lord, what do you want to do with my servant?"

Lu Chen said, "I would like to know which dynasty or country has relatively low food prices recently, and the Northern Palace plans to stockpile some food."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Wang Qingci instantly understood what Lu Chen meant. She was engaged in intelligence work, and she knew very well that the price of food in Daxia had risen a bit scary recently, and she had already helped Lu Chen find out. Food prices were relatively low in that dynasty.

Wang Qingci immediately said: "Your Majesty, my family has already made inquiries for you. For now, the price of food in the Dayue Dynasty is relatively low, but the main food crop in the Dayue Dynasty is wheat."

Daxia people like rice, while Dayue people live in the Northwest all the year round, they prefer pasta, and most of their food is wheat.

Although Beijun is farther north than Dayue, the people in Beijun have only moved here from Daxia in recent years, so most of the people's staple food is porridge.

After hearing Wang Qingci's words, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said: "Wheat is also fine, as long as the price is lower."

Habits can be changed. Today, when the price of rice in Daxia has risen to six taels and one stone, it is not bad to be able to fill your stomach. Do you still need to distinguish between pasta and rice?

Wang Qingci said: "That's fine, I'll let the caravan hurry up to buy food."

Speaking of this, Wang Qingci glanced at the things written on Lu Chen's desk, and then asked tentatively: "My lord, you should have nothing else to do. If you have nothing to do, I will go to the servant's house first."

Lu Chen put down the writing brush in his hand, smiled slightly, then looked into Wang Qingci's eyes and asked, "Is the Lord Wang very busy recently? I have been busy for half a month and haven't seen you back to the North Palace? Why did I hear that the Lord Wang Have you never left Yancheng?"

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Wang Qingci's heart skipped a beat.

Lu Chen treats her differently from those women in the palace. When Lu Chen talks about business with her, he always calls himself "I" instead of "my lord."

Since this period of time, I don't know if Lu Chen likes to play role-playing or something, but every time he does something bad to her, instead of calling himself "I", he calls himself "my lord".

As long as you hear Lu Chen calling himself "My King" in front of her, and then calling her "Lord Wang", it means that Lu Chen wants to do bad things to her.

Wang Qingci quickly said: "My lord, the slave family also wanted to help the prince collect more information about other dynasties as soon as possible, so they didn't go back to the palace. The slave family has absolutely no other intentions."

Lu Chen said indifferently: "Is that so? The Lord Wang should not have forgotten what responsibility he still has?"

Hearing Lu Chen's question, Wang Qingci knew that she would not be able to run away today, she glanced at Lu Chen resentfully, and then said: "My lord, my family has recently injured themselves in martial arts, I hope your lord will not be so aggressive today. "

Having said that, Wang Qingci twisted her waist and came directly to Lu Chen's side.

Seeing Wang Qingci's enchanting figure, Lu Chen stood up and pressed her on the desk without saying a word.

If he left Yancheng, it would be fine to go out to perform the mission, but Wang Qingci stayed in Yancheng for half a month and did not leave Yancheng.

He didn't return to the palace for half a month in Yancheng. This is because he didn't take him seriously as the master at all, and he must be punished.

……

Chu Qingli has been completely familiar with the life in the palace during this period of time.

And gradually she didn't want to leave the North Palace.

Originally, she came to persuade her sister to leave Beiwang Mansion with her, and then live a 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 an idea.

Chu Qingli was patrolling while analyzing what kind of power she might have been bewitched by.

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

Before she got close to the study, she heard some oh-oh-ahhh sounds.

Chu Qingli was still pondering why she wanted to stay, but after hearing those voices, Chu Qingli frowned slightly, and her face suddenly became extremely cold.

That womanizer is at it again.

I really don't know how he has such a lot of energy every day. After she came to Beiwang Mansion, she never saw that bad thing stop for a day.

But after her observation, all the women in the palace had no problems. Not only were there no problems, but after doing bad things with that villain, they looked radiant the next day and seemed to become even more beautiful.

Although she didn't understand what the specific principle was or how it happened, she knew very well that what Lu Chen practiced was absolutely impossible to be some kind of magic skill like Hehuan Kung Fu.

If Lu Chen practiced magic skills, according to Lu Chen's ability, these women in the inner courtyard of the palace might have turned into mummies long ago.

Chu Qingli was startled at this moment.

Ever since she came to the palace, she had always heard that Lu Chen was a person destined for immortality.

If the kind of kung fu practiced by Lu Chen is only good for people and has no harm, then it seems to be able to explain the problem of Lu Chen and his wives and concubines.

Thinking of this, Chu Qingli suddenly had an association in her mind.

If Lu Chen really had a fairy fate, then he should have obtained more than one kind of fairy art. He has done so many bad things to his women, and he has never seen his wives and concubines complaining about him.

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

Is there a possibility that there is a kind of hypnotic magic in the immortal inheritance that Lu Chen got, so that he can stay willingly?
Case 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 too accurate, allowing her to guess part of the reason for her psychological change by accident.

Lu Chen obviously doesn't know how to hypnotize people. The reason why Chu Qingli thinks this way is mainly due to her experience in the Jianghu. As a killer, she knows very well that there are techniques that can hypnotize people in the Jianghu, but she doesn't know it.

At this moment, Chu Qingli thought that the lustful man must have used some kind of hypnotic technique on him without anyone noticing, otherwise how could he want to stay.

She said that his woman was tossed by him every day, how could she not have any resentment towards him at all, it turned out that she used such a shameful method!
No, she must let her sister see clearly the evil side of this man!
Of course, the most important thing is to take my sister out of the sea of ​​suffering, and fly away with my sister.

Thinking of this, Chu Qingli glanced at the study room, already thinking about how to undo Lu Chen's hypnosis.

(End of this chapter)