Concubine to divorce

Chapter 160 Discussion on Building a City
Bing Lanyue looked at the backs of Cheng Maohua and Zhang Xu, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and thought, it's time to support a group of people in the court.

The status of the Zhang family and the Cheng family in the court is not considered high, but Ke Sheng is on good terms with him. Without the support of their respective families, they probably would not have come to him on their own initiative.

There are people in the court who are good at handling things.

Of course, there is another sentence: the county magistrate is not as good as the current one.The official positions in their family are not big, but they can win in various places, and these official families in the capital are all related to each other by marriage, and they have a lot of power. The help is great.

While Bing Lanyue was counting, a man dressed as a warrior galloped up and stopped until the entrance of Hongchen Inn.

The man glanced drunk, then glanced at Bing Lanyue, immediately got off his horse and said, "Elder Sister, there is an urgent matter in the south."

"What's urgent?" Bing Lanyue asked.

The man looked around, and Bing Lanyue immediately understood, and said, "Go inside and talk."

"Yes!" The man walked in hurriedly, Ruzui was still guarding the door, watching the surroundings, and she saw that there seemed to be nothing unusual in the surroundings.

The Hongchen Inn is surrounded by stakes placed by Ruzui and Huofeng. After the assassination incident last night, Ruzui and Huofeng discussed whether to let Bing Lanyue live in the palace. In a large place, there are many Imperial Forest Army and Habayashi Guards, and there are Huofeng's men, so it will be safe.

But Bing Lanyue didn't want to, so they were busy from last night to morning, and finally deployed all the troops around the West Market.

All the hidden piles have received news of safety.

"What are you so anxious about?" Bing Lanyue asked.

The man took out a wooden box from his bosom, which was sealed with wax paint, Bing Lanyue nodded and said: "Okay, go down and rest first."

Unexpectedly, the person who came said: "The big sister replied immediately after reading the letter. Boss Duolu is waiting in Fu Guogong's fief."

Bing Lanyue quickly opened the wooden box, glanced at it quickly, and couldn't help but be surprised.

It turned out that the letter said that Fu Guogong did not return to the fief, but disappeared.Cutoff is trying its best to track down the news.

Jun Moli is not in the fief. Didn't he leave more than half a month ago?How could it be not in the fiefdom?Why did Duoliu suddenly go to Fu Guogong's fiefdom? Could it be that he has something to say and has to find evidence?

"Okay, just wait." Bing Lanyue went upstairs to write a reply.

When Bing Lanyue wrote back, she was still thinking about this strange thing, because usually the Longmen Escort Bureaus in various places use carrier pigeons for communication, but this time, they actually sent someone.

Bing Lanyue called Huo Feng in and asked, "Huo Feng, what kind of things does the Longmen Escort usually use people instead of pigeons to send messages?"

Huofeng thought about it for a while, and then said: "Master, generally speaking, you don't use people to rush for eight hundred miles, unless there are important things and you don't want others to find out. .”

Only then did Ice Blue Moon understand.

He wrote a new copy, put it in a wooden box, and handed it to Huofeng to seal it with wax paint.

In her reply letter, she had only one sentence: the general will be away, and the military order will not be accepted.

Duan Liu was originally the secret guard of the General's Mansion, and he traced the news all the way to the fief of Duke Fu. It can be seen that he must have some important clues, and no matter whether it is sent by carrier pigeons or people, there is a danger of being intercepted, so the Be vague in the letter.

Bing Lanyue's reply letter is to give Duu Liu the greatest power, a message of disobedience of foreign military orders to Duu Liu's hands, Duu Liu will definitely understand and know what to do.

After Huofeng sealed it with sealing paint, she said: "Master, Duolu is a cautious person, so there must be some important discovery, you..."

"I know." Ice Blue Moon interrupted.

Huofeng was born in Jun's house, and she followed him because Jun Moli transferred her to him. Whether she is loyal to Jun's family or herself, Bing Lanyue doesn't know.

When she found out that everyone was likely to kill herself, she had better believe in the dead flow than Huofeng, so instead of handing over the secret letter to Huofeng, she put it away and prepared to burn it later .

"Give the box to the brother downstairs, and then you can go back to the house to rest. After all, your injury is not completely healed, and the weather is hot, so don't be too busy."

"Yes." Huofeng withdrew with the wooden box.

Bing Lanyue closed her eyes and thought about it carefully. Jun Moli's fief is thousands of miles away from the capital. Even if it is eight hundred miles in an urgent manner, it will take three or four days to travel.

It took ten days to stop the flow, and it took ten days to lose the news, and then we arrived at Jun Moli's fief. Is it so simple just because Jun Moli didn't return to the fief?

Bing Lanyue touched her nose, and a cloud of shadows lingered in her heart for a while.

"Master, Your Majesty and Prince Yi are here." Meng Xia's voice sounded at the door, interrupting Bing Lanyue's meditation.

Bing Lanyue's stomach was already growling with hunger, and when she heard it, she immediately put aside the doubts in her heart.The sky and the earth are not as big as eating.

"Yeah, got it, let's serve wine and food." Bing Lanyue burned the secret letter in her arms and went downstairs.

The gates were closed, even the windows were closed. The emperor and King Yi sat in a corner, talking and laughing, with no abnormal expression on their faces. Bing Lanyue breathed a sigh of relief seeing this sober.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness Prince Yi, you are finally here, the little girl is almost starving to death." Bing Lanyue laughed, rushed to the table and sat down, impatiently stuffing something into her belly.

"Oh, there is something wrong with the court today." Xuanyuan Jin pursed his lips.

Bing Lanyue stuffed her mouth with food, stretched her neck, swallowed it with difficulty, and said, "Your Majesty, King Yi told you, right?"

Xuanyuan Jin nodded and said, "Yes, you want to build a city?"

Bing Lanyue smiled mischievously: "In the capital, I don't feel safe. I know that even if I buy the land, I can't build the city privately."

Xuanyuan Jin thought for a while, and then asked: "It was really a person from Yulinwei who brought someone to Yiwang's mansion to assassinate last night?"

Bing Lanyue curled her lips and said: "Yeah, that's why I said, I don't feel safe. The city I want is not big, and twenty li is enough."

is very small.Xuanyuan Jin nodded, and said: "About 300 million taels of silver is needed, which is not a small amount. What's more, around the capital, the Ministry of Industry has ordered them to pay attention to the floods in the mountains and rivers, and the Ministry of Households. What money, so..."

Bing Lanyue looked at King Yi, and King Yi accepted the words: "Your Majesty, I can donate 100 million taels of silver here, and Lan Xianglou can only give so much money."

Ice Blue Moon shrugged her shoulders and said, "Then I'll do the rest."

King Yi and the emperor looked at her with monster eyes at the same time, thinking, the empire has less than 1000 million taels of financial revenue every year, and Bing Lanyue alone can spend 200 million taels of silver?

Bing Lanyue grinned, and said: "Hey, isn't the purchase of Gao Gaojiu restricted now? But there is no restriction on the black market, and the price on the black market is very high. Only Gaogao Liquor can have a net profit of 50 taels of silver. Escort bureaus, inns, no matter what, they can take out 100 million taels of silver, and the remaining 50 taels are not urgently needed. It only takes three months to earn 50 taels of high-grade wine on the black market."

Blatant tax evasion, even in front of the emperor of the empire, King Yi felt that Bing Lanyue was too bold.

It's aboveboard!
Xuanyuan Jin said helplessly: "It seems that you can not only provide national policies for the empire, but also earn money. My entire empire only has an income of 1000 million taels a year. However, you spend such a large amount of money to build a city. Wouldn't it be a bit extravagant?"

Bing Lanyue shook her head fiercely and said: "I spend my own money, what's so extravagant?"

Xuanyuan Jin shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Okay, you can make troubles as you like, but Lanyue, you can't be there every day. After the city is built, you can use it as a palace."

Bing Lanyue raised her eyebrows and said unhappily: "Your Majesty, do you really want me to stay in the capital until I die of old age?"

Xuanyuan Jin said seriously: "Yes!"

King Yi saw that the atmosphere was tense, so he couldn't help interrupting: "Your Majesty, do you want Dali Temple to intervene in what happened last night?"

Xuanyuan Jin waved his hand: "Uncle Emperor, I will definitely give you an account of what happened last night. I have already issued a secret order. Yin Jiutian, the commander of the soldiers and horses of the Nine City, found some ropes on the wall of the South City. Several corpses of men in black were found outside the city, the murderer used a sword, and the corpses were killed on the spot without any precautions."

"Obviously he was silenced." Bing Lanyue said first.

"Well, yes, it was silenced." Xuanyuan Jin gave Bing Lanyue a strange look.

Ice Blue Moon didn't know why, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xuanyuan Jin shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's nothing, it's just a little strange."

"What's strange?"

"Oh, it's nothing." Xuanyuan Jin was evasive, with evasive eyes.

King Yi sat on the side silently, seeing that the emperor didn't want to entangle with this issue any longer, he interrupted and said, "Your Majesty, naturally the dragon guards will investigate the matter of the assassin."

"Hahahaha, yes." Xuanyuan Jin smiled and said, "Drink, drink."

Bing Lanyue rolled her eyes, there was nothing she couldn't say, she thought of the news she had just received, and while eating the vegetables, she was thinking about the news from Duoliu.

"Lan Yue, what are you thinking?" Xuanyuan Jin asked.

Bing Lanyue shook her head and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just thought of building a city, and there is no best place to build a city yet."

"It's a big deal, I'll ask the officials of the Ministry of Industry to look around and choose a better place." Xuanyuan Jin raised his glass and clinked glasses with King Yi.

King Yi drank it all in one gulp, and said, "Your Majesty, there are only three of you now, don't you have anything to tell me?"

(End of this chapter)