Princess Qi had a sinister look on her face, and her eyes were filled with resentment and mockery.
"I thought that little Princess Li was so courageous. She had to obey the call to go to the imperial capital. Someone come and inform my father. I don't want to see her arrive at the imperial capital alive."
This was the plan she and Sun Guogong had made long ago. Princess Xiaoli would die, Tian Xiang would die, and the pair of twins born to Tian Xiang would be left alone.
Eunuch Huang, like Princess Qi, received the news that Princess Xiao Li was leaving for the imperial capital at the same time. He gave a high-five, excited and excited.
"Okay, as soon as Princess Xiao Li leaves the Northland, the management of the Northland will inevitably be loose. Hurry up and gather the people and set off to the mines."
He has long been eyeing a gold mine, and now he can start construction.
The godsons below also looked happy. They had cut off their descendants and their ties to the world.
But the greed in their hearts was not over at all, so they went out one after another and called young men everywhere. They didn't say what they were going to do, they just said they were going to do hard work.
However, this action was quickly reported to Hua Jin.
She sat in the large and stable carriage, looked at Tian Xiang who was lying on the couch, still in confinement, and said with a smile:
"I guess there are many people who want our lives along the way. No one wants us alive."
Tian Xiang looked weak, because she had not yet recovered her strength after giving birth. She looked down at the two children beside her, and then looked at Hua Jin apologetically.
"I'm sorry, it's my concubine who has caused trouble for you."
"It's not about being implicated or not. If you're not here, they might not be willing to let me go?"
Hua Jin looked indifferent and patted the sturdy carriage beside her.
"Just in time, I'm tired of staying here in Beidi, so I'm going to visit Guqizhou."
With that said, she jumped out of Tianxiang's carriage and walked towards her own carriage. Wu Tian followed her and reported in a low voice the detailed movements of Eunuch Huang in Beidi to Hua Jin.
Hua Jin nodded slightly, with a happy smile on his face.
"The Ministry of Industry controls the vast majority of the labor force in the North. If Eunuch Huang wants to find coolies to mine in the North, it is destined to be a tragedy."
As she said that, she turned back to look at Wu Tian, with a bright light in her eyes.
"Let him pay to find people, and the Ministry of Industry will cooperate, and all the mines dug out will be transported to the treasury of Prince Li's Mansion."
This is Hua Jin's usual method. After all, she is quite stingy. Although Prince Li's Mansion is now extremely wealthy under her leadership, she is still very happy to save a little labor cost.
All the coolies from the Ministry of Works signed labor contracts with Prince Li's Mansion. Some people paid wages to the coolies from the Ministry of Works, and all the mines they dug were moved into the treasury of Prince Li's Mansion.
Why is this bad?
Wu Tian pursed his lips and smiled, responded, turned around and told the officials from the Ministry of Works to make arrangements and send someone to Eunuch Huang.
This is reflected in the fact that when Huang Eunuch's godsons first started looking for coolies outside the southern city, no one was willing to do it. Even when they wanted to find a strong man with nothing to do outside the southern city, they couldn't find one.
Eunuch Huang was very angry and couldn't help scolding his godsons for being useless. Everyone was standing in a row in front of Eunuch Huang to be scolded, but one godson happily ran into the inn and shouted:
"Godfather, we have someone. Someone came to see my son and said that they have a whole village of coolies who can work for us, but the salary they want is a bit high."
When recruiting coolies from outside, of course the godsons would not blatantly say that they were going to secretly dig King Xiao Li's gold mine.
This is against the law in the Northland.
All they said was that they had work to do.
Upon hearing this, Eunuch Huang stood up from his chair excitedly, raised his hands,
"Quick, how much money should be paid? It's a gold mine. As long as it's excavated, are you afraid that you won't have money to pay them?"
"No, godfather, they need to pay a part of the deposit first, and they are paid on a daily basis. For a day's work, they will be given a day's salary."
The godson said and wiped the sweat from his forehead. There were no such arrogant coolies in the entire Tianjing Kingdom. In Tianjing Kingdom, working as a coolie was a very humble profession.
It is common for many people to even hire coolies and not pay them after the work is done.
Eunuch Huang walked around the room angrily, and wanted to speak several times, but he swallowed the words as they reached his lips, because there was no other way, digging a mine requires a lot of labor.
But in Beidi and Guqi Prefecture, for some reason, it is easy to find a few laborers, but it is quite difficult to find a large number of laborers.
If you want to recruit people from other places, it will take a lot of time to come and go.
After a long time, Eunuch Huang gritted his teeth and said,
"Okay, you can sell all the valuable things you have on you that can be sold, and give them part of the deposit first. In addition, our family still has many properties in the imperial capital, so sell some of them to give the coolies a daily salary."
The godsons felt a lot of reluctance and began to dig out their belongings.
Someone whispered,
"These things of mine were all given as rewards by the nobles of the imperial capital, and to just pawn them off like this makes me feel really sad."
Beside him, someone persuaded him with resignation,
"We have to do whatever our godfather tells us to do. As long as the gold can be dug out, why do we still have to worry about such a small amount of money?"
As soon as these words came out, no one complained. They emptied out all the valuables they had on them, collected a sum of money, hired about a hundred coolies, and set off towards a gold mine deep in the north.
As Prince Li's carriage advanced, eagles and owls were circling high in the sky, and a group of Shence troops lay on the opposite hillside.
A soldier crawled to Li Yunqing's side and whispered:
"Your Majesty, Duke Sun is preparing to take action. He is setting an ambush for our princess along the way."
"Okay, then let's fight all the way through!"
Li Yunqing narrowed his long and narrow eyes, filled with bloodthirsty excitement. He turned around and led the Shence Army to deal with Sun Guogong's people.
Now Sun Guogong is searching Hushan County, and only a part of the troops are left in Guqi Prefecture. This is used to plan to kill Hua Jin and Tianxiang.
However, Hua Jin and Tian Xiang did not encounter any danger all the way outside the capital of Guqi Prefecture.
Outside the capital, the convoy of Prince Li's Mansion stopped. Wu Tian, wearing a battle armor, rode a horse to Hua Jin's car window and said respectfully:
"Your Majesty, the guards in the capital have been replaced by Sun Guogong's soldiers. They have invited your Majesty to enter the city."
With her slender fingers, she lifted a corner of the curtain, revealing a bit of her curved red lips.
Hua Jin sneered softly,
"Finally we are here. The journey was uneventful. I thought it would be smooth sailing all the way to the imperial capital."
As he spoke, Sun Fu led a group of capital generals out of the city and stood in front of Prince Li's palace motorcade with a smile on his face, welcoming Hua Jin as she got off the bus.
Hua Jin was not polite to them. After she got out of the car gracefully, Tian Xiang also got out of the car with Zhu Er, holding their two children in their arms.
She came to Hua Jin's side, and Sun Fu just finished saluting Hua Jin.
After Sun Fu finished his salute, he glanced at Tian Xiang. His waist was straight and he didn't even look at Tian Xiang, but looked directly at the child in Tian Xiang's hand.
Say nothing.
The generals of the capital who were following him also had a look of neglect on their faces, as if they didn't know Tian Xiang at all, and they didn't know that the person Tian Xiang was holding in his hands was the young prince of King Qi.
Obviously, they were venting their anger on behalf of Princess Qi. Hua Jin said at that time that she would ask Feng Tianxiang to be Princess Qi's concubine. If the generals in the capital did not recognize Tianxiang's identity, or even the identity of Xiao Qi Wang, Tianxiang would not
How can we get them?
For a moment, the atmosphere at the gate of the capital city became awkward and tense.
Tian Xiang felt a little uneasy in her heart, but she remained calm on the surface. She held the little prince in her arms and looked at Hua Jin.
The military generals in the capital did not recognize her identity as the concubine of King Qi, and it was impossible not to recognize her identity as Princess Huajin Xiaoli.
Hua Jin looked dignified and said:
"What? Steward Sun is going to keep me and your concubine, Prince Qi, standing here blowing the cold wind?"
Sun Fu immediately raised his hand towards Hua Jin,
"I don't dare, I don't dare, my dear Princess Li, please invite me."
A group of generals then made way for Hua Jin and Tianxiang to lead the convoy into the city.
As soon as he entered the city gate, Sun Fu winked at the generals around him, and then someone stepped forward and motioned Hua Jin to go in the direction of Sun Guogong's mansion.
Tian Xiang followed Hua Jin and whispered:
"Your Majesty, this is not the way to Prince Qi's Mansion."
Hua Jin stopped and looked at Sun Fu with a half-smile,
"This concubine came with the concubine of King Qi this time. She did not arrive at King Qi's territory, but she did not go to the master's house as a guest. Instead, she went to your Duke Sun Guo's house."
Without waiting for Sun Fu to answer, she turned to look at Tian Xiang,
"It's better for the concubine to walk in front. I don't know the way to Prince Qi's Mansion either."
She actually knew about it. She lived in the capital for a while last time, but at that time, no one knew Hua Jin's true identity.
Tianxiang stepped forward, Sun Fu's face froze, and he said with a smile:
"The concubine has not returned to the palace for a long time. Now that King Qi is gone, the palace of Prince Qi is short of people to sweep and is already covered with dust. Moreover, Princess Qi lives in the Duke of Sun State's residence. The concubine also happened to go to the Duke of Sun State's residence and took the young prince to pay her respects to Princess Qi.
, let the young prince also meet his legitimate mother."
As he spoke, the generals behind him stepped forward one after another, as if they were carrying Tianxiang and Huajin forward.
Hua Jin's face was stern, she turned around, slapped Sun Fu, and said angrily:
"You are such an unruly person. I am also Prince Xiao Li's official concubine after all. What do you want to do with these foreign men and get so close to me?"
Before she finished speaking, Su Niang came forward and gave Sun Fu a hard push, forcing him, a man who had practiced martial arts, to take two steps back.
Just listen to Su Niang frown and say coldly:
"What is the identity of Princess Xiao Li, what is the identity of you bitch? Now that Princess Xiao Li is passing by Guqi Prefecture, the owner of this fiefdom should fulfill his duties as a landlord. When will it be your turn for Sun Guogong Palace to overstep its authority to receive a princess?
Yes? Where does the logic come from?"
As she spoke, a group of Prince Li's guards in armor, leading a group of Prince Qi's troops, came forward with a bang, half-surrounded Hua Jin and Tianxiang, and blocked Sun Fun's efforts.
A group of generals approached.
Sun Fu couldn't say anything. After all, Hua Jin was a member of the royal family. He could ignore Tianxiang, but he couldn't offend Hua Jin.
In this way, they originally planned to take Hua Jin and Tianxiang to Sun Guogong's Mansion and wait for an opportunity to kill the two women, but they had to let Hua Jin and Tianxiang return to Qi Prince's Mansion.
Due to the death of King Qi, the Princess of Qi was either in the imperial capital or staying in Sun Guogong's Mansion. Therefore, few people took care of the entire Prince Qi's Mansion. In addition, the treasury of Prince Qi's Mansion was exhausted by Sun Guogong. Nowadays, many of the servants of Prince Qi's Mansion have been dismissed.
When Hua Jin and Tian Xiang returned to Prince Qi's Mansion, the yard here was covered with grass.
Sun Fu and other generals followed Hua Jin and Tianxiang. Originally, they wanted to get closer to Hua Jin and Tianxiang, but unexpectedly, they were pushed back by Wu Tian and other guards of Prince Li's Mansion.
In the end, I could only follow Princess Li at the back of the ceremony.
Sun Fu grabbed a general and whispered:
"This won't work. We can't let them become guests."
"Now that they have entered Prince Qi's Mansion, what can we do? We can't pull Princess Xiao Li out."
Another general looked around, came over, made a gesture like slitting his throat with his hands, and said a few words:
"Solve it tonight, otherwise the night will be long and full of dreams."
Sun Fu nodded invisibly and said no more. He pursed his lips and followed Princess Xiao Li's guard of honor. After queuing for a long time, he finally entered Prince Qi's Mansion.
Because of Princess Qi's absence, Prince Qi's mansion was in such a state of desolation that Tian Xiang started cleaning it up as soon as he came back.
Of course she has no one, and all the manpower she deploys is borrowed from Hua Jin.
Even the King of Qi's army actually obeyed Hua Jin's orders. If the King of Qi's army was needed to add incense, he would have to go to Hua Jin for instructions.
By the time the queue reached Sun Wu and other generals, King Qi's army had already surrounded King Qi's mansion, and even the dog cave was sealed.
Looking at the Qi King's army blocking them, Sun Fu said with a smile:
"Brothers, we are from Duke Sun's Mansion. We are responsible for receiving Princess Xiao Li this time. If you don't let us in, I'm afraid it won't work."
"You are just soldiers of Sun Guogong's mansion. This capital originally belonged to His Highness King Qi. Now that the young prince is about to succeed, we are loyal to King Qi. We will do whatever the young prince tells us to do."
These King Qi's troops are actually not the original batch of useless King Qi's troops. Instead, Hua Jin borrowed the establishment of King Qi's army, selected a group of people from the city guard army, and stuffed them into King Qi's army.
In the military establishment.
Therefore, their energy and spirit are different from those of the former Qi King's army.
Duke Sun Guo choked for a moment and only asked:
"If you do this, how can we communicate with Sun Guo when we go back?"
"That's your business, what does it have to do with us?"
King Qi's army at the door spoke rudely, and a man who came up wanted to chase Sun Fu and others away, saying only:
"Foreign ministers must follow the rules of foreign ministers. What's more, you are still just soldiers. If you want to see Princess Li and the concubine of Prince Qi, it is not your turn. Your master, Duke Sun, will come."
Sun Guogong and others were so angry that they could only turn around and leave.
Someone cursed in a low voice as they walked away:
"They are just two little girls, I don't know what they are so arrogant about. The entire capital is now under our control. Let's give them a try tonight."
These words caused a general to laugh,
"Anyway, she is going to die. I think that Little Princess Li is indeed as beautiful as the legend. No wonder she can make Little Prince Li so confused that she even wants Princess Biyue."
The rest of the people also let out a kind of lewd laughter, and everyone was gearing up to enjoy a gluttonous feast tonight.
Behind a group of people, in an inconspicuous corner of the capital, Li Yunqing slowly raised his face, his expression cold.