Chapter 166 Raging Rage
At night, Yuan Zhao stood in front of the window, quietly looking at the bustling Anyang outside. That night, the lights outside Anyang had never been extinguished, as if they were about to compete with the stars in the sky.
Here, Yuan Zhao did not feel the depression after the war, but instead had an indescribably vigorous spirit.
The next day, Xia Qingqing came forward to receive Prince Xia Shu; but Xia Qingqing only showed up once and left in a hurry. Xia Shu is not Xia Xu, Xia Qingqing and Xia Xu are both the queen's children; but Xia Shu is born of a "beauty", and his status is naturally inferior.
After Xia Qingqing left, Li Xian officially appeared.
After seeing Li Xian, the prince's anger exploded, "Li Xian, what did you say about the last letter!"
Yuan Zhao sighed slightly in the back. You shouldn't ask this question, His Royal Highness; what you should do at this time is to say hello with a hidden smile.
But as for Li Xian, Li Xian looked very serious, "Your Highness, I read it, and the contents of the letter are somehow different from what I wrote at first! I checked the way the letter was folded and the way it was sealed, including The letter paper, etc., have not changed. But the content of the letter has been partially replaced."
The prince's eyes suddenly turned cold! Turning his head slightly, he squinted at Yuan Zhao.
Yuan Zhao's heart skipped a beat; how could this be?
As for Li Xian, watching the performance of the two of them, he sneered in his heart, I don't believe that you really never opened the letter, that letter was opened by you!
Next to him, Xu Ren nodded slightly, the young master's words are very good.
Yuan Zhao suddenly took a step forward, "My dear brother, is it convenient to take out the letter and have a look at it?"
"Of course, in this matter, we must find out who did it secretly!" Li Xian's words made the crown prince's suspicion more and more intense.
The letter was fetched soon, and it seemed to have remained the same as when it was just opened.
The prince looked at the envelope carefully, and there was no problem with the envelope; but there was something wrong with the letter - in fact, everyone didn't see what the inside of the letter looked like at the beginning.
Yuan Zhao was puzzled, and took it to check it. He didn't want the envelope and letter paper to fall into Yuan Zhao's hands, and they suddenly turned into fly ash!
Yuan Zhao was stunned immediately, but Yuan Zhao was not the prince, but clapped his hands casually, "My dear brother, you are so boring, is it interesting to write a fake letter?"
"Hehe..." Li Xian gave a hearty smile without explaining, "His Royal Highness, please take a seat. In order to entertain His Highness, Li Xian specially bought a lot of seafood from the Sea Clan. I hope His Highness will not dislike you."
The prince is confused now, and there are countless depressions; the current prince doesn't know who to trust at all. Did Li Xian move his hands and feet? Or did the Yuan family tamper with it?
If it was the Yuan family, it would be difficult to justify it, because Yuan Yong once said that this letter cannot be sent, and it is best to lose it. For the first time, His Royal Highness was worried about his IQ.
Sitting down in a daze, I was quickly attracted by the fresh seafood. The prince is naturally rich and well-clothed, but how many people can taste seafood.
The lust of tongue is intoxicating, jar after jar of wine, table after table of raw seafood, His Royal Highness, who is anxious about IQ, is fascinated. I don't know how much I ate, but in the end I couldn't eat or drink, so I was carried back by the guards.
From the afternoon of this day, Yuan Zhao took his own people around the city of Anyang. The development model of Anyang made Yuan Zhao feel the crisis. Maybe he didn't know enough, but Yuan Zhao could feel that an unprecedented social situation seemed to be sprouting; but now he couldn't tell why.
In the evening, Yuan Zhao saw the school bus, saw a large locomotive carrying children, and carefully sent each child home; he also saw countless female workers laughing and leaving the textile factory in the distance.
At this moment, Yuan Zhao saw a happy and positive Anyang.
At this moment, someone's conversation attracted Yuan Zhao's attention. Listen, listen, Yuan Zhao's complexion changed drastically! It turned out that these people were the people who had just been evacuated from Luliang County, and Anyang had fully realized the promised treatment, which made them very happy.
Watching these people walk away, Yuan Zhao suddenly sighed, "Brother, good trick! This side is entertaining the prince with great fanfare, but the other side is evacuating the entire Luliang County. Hehe, I don’t know how many people are still in Luliang County now. ?”
After returning to the residence, Yuan Zhao hesitated for a while, and finally did not tell the prince these things, but sent the people around him to deliver the letter to the south at full speed. But Yuan Zhao didn't know that he, the guard, was thrown into the sea just after he left Anyang.
On the second day, that is, the eleventh day when the prince and his party came to Anyang, Li Xian had a new trick, inviting His Royal Highness and Yuan Zhao to watch the artillery show together!
Li Xian has decided to start the arms trade, and artillery technology is easy to imitate, so Li Xian no longer keeps it secret. But the matter of guns was never mentioned.
Needless to say, after personally operating the cannon, both the crown prince and Yuan Zhao were stunned by this powerful weapon of war; they also finally understood why Anyang was able to quickly resolve the Zhongshan County rebellion.
On the twelfth day, Li Xian led everyone to visit the locomotive—just the warehouse part. It was the first time to observe this kind of "battlefield locomotive" that has become famous in the Great Xia Kingdom up close, which made the two of them amazed again and again. Although there is an engine, the outside world still has not produced a locomotive. There are many reasons, such as insufficient foundation, cost problems, and the problem of gathering spirit arrays.
On the thirteenth day, Li Xian started negotiations with the crown prince and Yuan Zhao. The artillery is good, right? If the artillery and the locomotive are matched, it is a perfect match. Do you want it? Then negotiate.
This talk lasted for two days. Yuan Zhao bought 5 locomotives, and the prince bought 10 locomotives, as well as corresponding artillery and shells. What is the price? A locomotive + a cannon (105 mm) + 20 shells requires 500 taels of gold, no bargaining.
So far, the prince has stayed in Anyang for 15 days.
After the negotiation, at the dinner party on the fifteenth day, Yuan Zhao said to Li Xian: "My dear brother, I heard that you still have a kind of iron-clad ship?"
Li Xian smiled slightly, "Ironclad ships are expensive, and there are only three in Anyang now. If you want to buy an ironclad ship, you can buy an ironclad ship for 5 million taels of gold. If you want a series of services including after-sales and naval training, 8 million taels gold."
Yuan Zhao was dumbfounded, "My dear brother, isn't your price too fake?"
Li Xian smiled and stopped explaining. Five million taels of gold is still cheap. Do you know how the Sea Clan buys it, they buy it directly with spirit stones!
The price of 5 million taels of gold scared the prince and Yuan Zhao from speaking again. On the sixteenth day, the prince finally... did not leave. Because locomotives, including His Royal Highness's previous caravan, must be driven by someone, Anyang urgently trained the drivers of the prince and Yuan Zhao. This delay is another three days.
When the prince officially set off to go south, he had already stayed in Anyang for 19 days! But the caravan was slow, and His Royal Highness still wanted to declare his majesty, so he went south slowly all the way.
When the prince entered Luliang County, it was already the 21st day.
But after leaving the boundary of Anyang and entering the boundary of Luliang County, it was suddenly deserted, and no one could be seen along the way.
"The situation is wrong!" The prince instinctively felt something was wrong.
Yuan Zhao didn't speak.
Yue Qingfeng said: "Your Highness, ten miles ahead, there is Qingniu Town, which is a very prosperous town in the north of Luliang County. Maybe everyone has gone there."
However, when he arrived at Qingniu Town, the prince was completely dumbfounded! The entire Qingniu Town was empty, only three to five hundred families and more than three thousand people remained.
After asking a few people, the prince's complexion turned pale, and then turned livid!
Pulling out the sword with a swish, he raised his head to the sky and screamed, "Li Xian, I will never die with you alone!"
This is the second time, this is already the second time Li Xian has played tricks on her! It is tolerable or unbearable!