The voice was magnetic, and the pronunciation of the words was deliberately blurred, as if he was speaking with his ears in his mouth.
Hua Yanxi was a little confused and asked vaguely: "What did you say?"
Ye Yibai only thought it was funny and repeated it again.
Hua Yanxi finally heard it clearly this time, straightened up suddenly, and looked at him with wide eyes: "Jinshan?"
She wondered if she had heard wrongly.
The mines have always belonged to the imperial court, and the silver and gold mines were heavily guarded by the imperial court. The annual mining volume was determined and controlled by the imperial court. Ye Yibai had no real power, so how could there be such a thing.
Unless the court didn't discover it.
"How could you? Didn't you just wake up not long ago?" Hua Yanxi was full of doubts: "You must not have lied to me, right?"
"If you don't believe it, I'll take you to see it for yourself later. The court doesn't know about the gold mine, but my people discovered it accidentally." Naturally, Ye Yibai would not tell Hua Yanxi.
The first thing he did after meeting Jiang Huai was to ask Jiang Huai to take a reliable person to find the gold mine and hide it carefully to avoid being discovered.
In his previous life, he also accidentally discovered that someone had hidden a gold mine. The place was very hidden, and some people deliberately concealed it. By the time he took it over, a lot of gold had already been mined.
Originally, I was just hoping to see if it was still there, but I didn't expect to find an intact golden mountain.
To be cautious, he only sent people to guard and did not start digging. If Hua Yanxi needed it, that would be the best.
Hua Yanxi frowned: "Secretly hiding gold mines is a serious crime. Even if your father knows and won't do anything to you, it is related to the state, and it is not a small matter for the courtiers to find out."
Ye Yibai approached her again and whispered: "Are you worried about me or scared?"
"Why should I be afraid?"
"Secretly digging gold mines is a crime of confiscating the family and exterminating the clan. If I am really discovered, you are my princess, and you are not allowed to go to hell with me?" Ye Yi curled her lips.
Hua Yanxi stretched out her hand and pushed him: "Sit tight for me, just talk and don't get so close."
However, Ye Yibai deliberately squeezed together with Hua Yanxi and whispered: "Yan Yan, why are you not vigilant at all? What we are talking about now is a very serious and serious matter. If someone hears it,
What should I do if I get out?"
"Then stop talking, I don't want to hear it." Hua Yanxi said quickly.
"Aren't you short of money?" Ye Yibai raised his eyebrows.
"No, but I have no use for that golden mountain of yours. What I do is a legitimate business. When the time comes, I will have so much extra money to build the canal. What do you want your father to think of me? You may think that I am a profiteer. You will
You won’t say no to dying with me, since I can’t run away anyway.”
Looking at Hua Yanxi's expression, Ye Yibai found it ridiculous. He stretched out his hand and scratched the tip of her nose, full of doting: "Stupid, since I said I wanted to give it to you, I naturally want to give it to you. Don't worry, that Jinshan
Leave it to you and leave this matter to me."
Hua Yanxi covered her nose and lowered her eyes: "Don't do anything."
"You have often touched me before, and I have never rejected you."
"How is that possible? I have always behaved myself."
Ye Yibai raised his eyebrows: "I was so stupid before, and I don't remember what happened before. Who knows if what you said is true, maybe you will covet me then and try to trick me while I am ignorant."
"Shut up, you, the more you talk, the more nonsense you get." Hua Yanxi frowned.
Seeing that she was really angry, Ye Yibai didn't dare to tease her anymore and sat back to his original position calmly.
This girl will hit people when she's angry, so she can't keep teasing her.
Arriving at the upper reaches of the Huai River, just outside the city, Hua Yanxi saw that the city gate was closed, and a group of people were crowded outside the city gate. They all looked tired and looked at the closed city gate from time to time.
The weather was cold, so dozens of these people huddled together to keep warm, and some leaned in the arms of their family members, as if they had caught the cold.
"What's going on? Didn't Ye Juechen already give an order to the officials here to accept the people who came from the lower reaches to seek refuge?" Hua Yanxi frowned.
"Madam, I'm going to ask you now." The guard immediately headed towards the city gate.
Soon after, the city gate opened, and a group of soldiers came out, holding swords, as if they were facing some savage beast.
Soon, Hua Yanxi's carriage entered the city gate under the cover of guards.
The people who had been waiting outside the door for a long time got up and wanted to enter the city, but were blocked by the soldiers guarding the city.
"Let us in, let us in." The people crowded towards the city gate that was about to close, but they did not dare to face the soldiers' swords.
Finally, the city gate closed again.
Hua Yanxi and Ye Yibai got off the carriage and said to the leader: "Why don't you let them enter the city?"
"Your Excellency, you don't know. This city is already full of refugees. We really can't let them go anymore. If more people come out, it will definitely cause panic. We also have to be responsible for the people in the city."
"There should be more than one city of yours in the upper reaches of the Huai River. What about the other cities?"
The man made a grimace: "The people in those cities immediately closed the city gates when they discovered that refugees had entered the city, so the people all came to us."
Hua Yanxi pondered for a moment: "Even if we can't let them into the city, we can't let them stay outside like this. The weather is cold and they will catch a cold at night."
The open space outside the city gate was not small, so Hua Yanxi immediately ordered the guards to set up a temporary residence outside the city gate. Even if it was just a straw shed, it could barely block the cold wind.
He also sent people to set up several large pots at the city gate to prepare porridge to appease the people.
When they arrived at the government office, Mr. Fu Yin went out to greet them personally. When he learned that the people in front of him were the fifth prince and his wife, he immediately saluted.
"Okay, it's time now, don't play nonsense. How do you deal with the refugees in the city?" Hua Yanxi asked.
Mr. Fu Yin said: "Some people were placed in the school first, some were temporarily rented in several inns, and some were living in temporary sheds."
Hua Yanxi nodded. It seemed that the situation was indeed as he said. It wasn't that they didn't want to take care of it, but that they couldn't.
How is it possible for a city to accommodate hundreds of thousands of additional refugees?
"Have everything we prepared arrived?"
Mr. Fu Yin said quickly: "It's here, it's here, now everyone is being carried behind the government office."
Hua Yanxi nodded: "Okay, you can write a book now and ask all the people in charge of affairs in those cities to call me here."
Lord Fu Yin looked troubled when he heard this and said: "If the fifth prince and concubine has any orders, I just do my best to do it. You can let me pass the message. I'm afraid that those few people won't come."
To say that he speaks softly would be an understatement.