In order to promote the popularization of crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, Zhu Gui ordered that as long as he was a landowner in Yunzhou City, he did not need to pay a penny for the purchase in the first year. He only had to sign a contract and receive three points of the next year's harvest on behalf of the palace.
As soon as these words came out, Yunzhou City exploded.
Landowners who originally had a wait-and-see attitude towards this matter rushed to submit their names and land acres to the Daiwangfu caravan.
After Zhu Gui drew up the contract and asked his subordinates to distribute it, he then went into the warehouse to redeem several large bags of seeds.
"Why is the house so noisy recently?" Xu Miaoqing asked casually while sitting in front of the dressing table.
"Princess, the prince recently distributed seeds to the landlords. Those people rushed to the palace to get them because they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to get them, so they were a little noisy." Azhu said while combing Xu Miaoqing's long hair.
"Who knows what he is up to? Tell him to keep his voice down so as not to disturb the princess."
For some reason, Xu Miaoqing felt an unknown fire rising in her heart.
Since the wedding night, Zhu Gui has never been to the main room again. Even if she sees her, she avoids her like a tiger, and she feels angry and unable to vent her anger.
He does some messy things every day without even looking at himself.
Are those things better than a newlywed wife?
Ah Zhu shrank her neck behind her, not daring to answer.
I can only spread the word honestly.
When he heard Ah Zhu tremblingly recounting the princess's words, Zhu Gui laughed and shook his head.
He hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time since the refined salt was put on the market, let alone deliberately avoiding Xu Miaoqing. He had simply forgotten about the newly married princess.
This lady is not a good person. After pondering for a moment, Zhu Gui said: "Tell the princess that I am very busy. If she is really bored, I can allow her to go out to play."
Hearing this, Ah Zhu's face lit up and he happily went back to report.
However......
"What!" Xu Miaoqing slammed the table angrily, "Did he really say that?"
"Yes..." Ah Zhu lowered his head and muttered, a little confused.
Isn't it nice to be able to go out and play? She has not seen the outside world since she came to the palace for half a month.
"Okay! Since there is no place for me in this palace, I can't leave him now!"
Although the idiot said he could go out for a walk if he was bored, didn't he mean that he was bothering him in the palace?
Xu Miaoqing rushed into the room to clean up her belongings, followed by Ah Zhu, "Princess...what are you doing?"
"Don't call me princess, Zhu Gui thinks that this lady wants to be such a bad princess!" Xu Miaoqing sneered while packing her things.
"This?" Azhu was a little at a loss.
Immediately he gritted his teeth and said, "Wherever Miss goes, Pearl will go."
After saying that, he immediately ran to pack his things.
While packing her clothes, Xu Miaoqing thought that leaving the palace would require a lot of money, so she secretly went to Zhu Gui's study.
"No entry is allowed without the prince's order." The guard at the door stopped Xu Miaoqing.
"I am the princess of the Dai Wangfu. Where can't I go? Get out of the way!" Xu Miaoqing clenched her pink fists tightly in her sleeves. She was born into a family of generals, and she could knock down even a mere guard.
"The prince said -" Before the guard could finish his words, Xu Miaoqing slapped him on the neck.
The guard fainted. Xu Miaoqing entered the study and saw a wooden box on the desk.
When she opened it, she found a stack of banknotes inside. Her eyes lit up and she stuffed them all into her arms without any ceremony.
In the evening, Zhu Gui returned to the study after receiving guests and saw the unconscious guard on the ground.
"Not good!" He rushed into the room with a panic in his heart. All the banknotes for the refined salt sold in the past few days disappeared from the case.
He hurriedly woke up the guard. As soon as the guard opened his eyes, he said: "My lord, it was the princess who knocked out the subordinate."
"princess?"
Zhu Gui narrowed his eyes and hurriedly ran to the main room, only to see Xu Miaoqing's clothes all disappeared.
His face darkened. This girl just left. She actually took away all the money he earned during this period.
Your Xu family is not short of money! I am!
Seeing the ugly expression on their prince's face, no one dared to touch their brows at this time.
"Come here, send someone to find the princess!"
Zhu Gui gritted his teeth and walked into the study with a painful look on his face.
However, at dusk, Ah Zhu ran into the study with a bloody face.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, please save your princess!" Azhu knelt on the ground and cried.
"Speak slowly." Zhu Gui frowned.
After a while, he learned the whole story.
It turned out that Xu Miaoqing and Ah Zhu encountered a group of robbers not far after leaving the city. Those people seemed to be coming for Xu Miaoqing, so she secretly handed the banknote to Ah Zhu so that he could escape and report the news.
As soon as Ah Zhu finished speaking, someone handed over an envelope.
"Your Majesty, a boy at the door brought this to you. He said he wanted your Majesty to sign it personally."
Zhu Gui took it and opened it, and her face instantly darkened.
The letter said: To save Xu Miaoqing, the king needs to personally deliver a hundred thousand taels of silver notes to Luoyun Cave at noon tomorrow. If a second person comes with him, the princess will be killed.
Zhu Gui sneered when he saw the words "need to deliver the banknote personally on behalf of the king".
No need to guess that this group of people are definitely local salt dealers.
The fine salt he sold some time ago was only slightly lower in quality than refined salt, but the price was about the same as coarse salt. Now the interests of salt dealers in Yunzhou City have been greatly affected, and the prices of coarse salt and salt have fallen again and again.
"These salt dealers usually use salt to raise the price of salt, which once made the common people unable to afford salt. Now they dare to bring their ideas to bear on me. I'm really tired of living."
Zhu Gui snorted and turned back to the warehouse.
This incident started because of him, and he must save Xu Miaoqing. Moreover, this group of people was obviously targeting him. As he expected, the salt dealer probably wanted to get rid of him by getting the banknote.
Zhu Gui clicked on the mall to exchange 200 experience points for a pistol, and arrived at Luoyun Cave on time the next day.
As soon as he entered the cave, he felt a murderous aura. Zhu Gui clenched his pistol. Suddenly, footsteps came from the dark cave. The next moment, he was surrounded by more than a dozen robbers.
Zhu Gui secretly thought that something was wrong. He did not expect that there were more than ten kidnappers, but he only had ten bullets in his pistol.
A man slowly walked out of the cave, holding the dying Xu Miaoqing in his hand.
"The relationship between the acting king and the princess is really good. You are brave enough to come here alone without fear of danger." The leader of the robbers laughed loudly.
Zhu Gui said coldly, "Let her go, and I may spare your lives."
"Hahaha!"
The kidnapper seemed to have heard something ridiculous. He approached Zhu Gui and raised his knife, "The king is still confused about the situation? Hurry up and hand over the banknote!"
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and the leader of the robbers fell to the ground, with a bloody hole appearing on his forehead!
Seeing this, the other robbers' eyes widened with horror on their faces.
What kind of hidden weapon is this?
It’s so fast that people can’t react!
Zhu Gui turned around, looked at everyone, and said coldly: "Who wants to die? I will help him!?"
Everyone looked at each other.
Suddenly, a person stood up and shouted: "Brothers, don't be afraid, there is only one person who can act as king!"
"Kidnapping the princess is already a capital crime for us. Only by killing the king can we have a chance of survival! Kill!"
With that said, the man took the lead and rushed towards Zhu Gui.
Zhu Gui's eyes turned cold, and he raised his hand and shot.
However, there were too many people rushing over.
After all the bullets were fired, more than a dozen people were still alive.
Buying another pistol, Zhu Gui quickly shot at the remaining robbers.
Seeing that Zhu Gui's hidden weapons seemed to be endless, the red-eyed robber just now panicked.
Upon seeing this, the other kidnappers immediately ran towards the cave. When one of them passed by Xu Miaoqing, who was almost unconscious, a fierce light suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he took out a knife and chopped him down hard.