Chapter 232 It’s Time to Incorporate the Northland Into the North Country

After taking down Lin Wanyun, Lu Chen felt refreshed. Although he hadn't slept for a night, he was not sleepy at all because of his Grandmaster's physique.

Lu Chen sat at the table in the hall, eating breakfast and humming a little tune.

At this time, Mu Zixuan was feeding the child not far away. Seeing that Lu Chen was so happy this morning, Mu Zixuan asked curiously: "Prince, did you encounter something happy just now?"

Lu Chen put down the bowl in his hand and asked: "How did you tell?"

Mu Zixuan chuckled, and then said: "After the prince came back, he kept humming a little tune. His mood was written on his face, and I could naturally see it."

Lu Chen smiled and said: "Really, it seems that I can't hide things at all."

At this time, Lu Chen suddenly thought of something, and then said: "By the way, I got a method of making salt not long ago. It happens that the east of the North Country is close to the sea. You can recruit some workers to make salt in the east."

Hearing this, Mu Zixuan was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Prince Master, does the palace also need to dry salt? Isn't it inappropriate to let me take charge of this matter? "

Lu Chen said doubtfully: "My beloved concubine, you should have heard about it a long time ago. The court has abolished the official salt industry, and we, the princes, can also make salt privately."

Mu Zixuan said: "That's not what I mean. What I mean is that the ownership of the salt business rights is of great importance and should be handed over to the small court of the North Country."

Although the current Beiwang Mansion and the small court of the North Country have some powers that are not completely separated, such as the money earned by the Beiwang Mansion will be allocated to the treasury of the North Country from time to time, but people also know that as the regime of the North Country gradually stabilizes, the small court of the North Country and the Beiwang Mansion must be divided to a certain extent, such as the harem cannot interfere in politics. Things like this will be raised sooner or later.

Although the Daxia court has already liberalized the salt business rights, if the remote places like the North Country liberalize the salt business rights, the price of salt will rise one day. The people are already very poor. If the price of salt rises too much, the people will not be able to eat salt at that time.

The salt business rights must be managed in a unified way. The salt business rights represent politics. Mu Zixuan knows that she is just Lu Chen's princess, a woman, and the harem cannot interfere in politics at will.

Salt production is not an economic issue, but a political issue.

If Lu Chen insists on letting her intervene in the management of salt production, it means that Lu Chen intends to liberalize the salt business rights, because once the business rights are liberalized, it doesn't matter who makes salt, and there is no saying that she interferes in politics. However, once the salt business rights are liberalized, it is easy for the price of salt to rise wildly.

After hearing what Mu Zixuan said, Lu Chen instantly understood what she meant. He then said, "There is no need to let officials do the salt drying. Just let the people in the palace dry the salt. Moreover, the production method I got is better. The salt produced by drying is high-quality salt without bitterness. I don't want the salt production method to be leaked for the time being.

"As for the issue of salt business rights, this is also easy to solve. At that time, part of the profits from the salt drying in the palace will be handed over to the national treasury. In addition, I will set up a salt monopoly bureau, which is only responsible for selling salt, not for making salt. "

Anyway, this era is still a family empire, and even the entire Northern Kingdom belongs to him. What's the big deal if he lets the palace make salt? Moreover, the method of making salt itself was taken out by him. It's already very good that he handed over part of the income from selling salt to the national treasury.

For now, he is the only one who has the final say in the Northern Kingdom. The small court is all his people, and no one will say anything.

The palace has so many industries, and no official in the Northern Kingdom dares to say that the palace competes with the people for profits.

Of course, only Lu Chen can do this. If other vassal kings want to do this, those families will definitely jump out to oppose it.

Mu Zixuan said: "I understand, I will transfer some workers to the seaside to make salt later. "

Lu Chen immediately took the time to eat. After breakfast, he got up and left the main hall and went to Wang Qingci's yard.

When he left the study just now, the maid told him that Wang Qingci had come to see him last night, and Wang Qingci probably had something to do.

However, as soon as Lu Chen walked out of the main hall, he saw a beautiful figure in a red skirt leaning against the wall of the yard. Wang Qingci's S-shaped figure looked extremely attractive, with a protruding front and a curved back and a plump figure.

Before Wang Qingci could speak, Lu Chen smiled and said, "What does Master Wang want to see me for?"

Wang Qingci smiled and replied, "I'm looking for you because I have important information."

"The prince has been really busy recently. I have to wait for one night to report the information to you."

At this time, Lu Chen walked in front of Wang Qingci and put his claws on her willow waist naturally, "Master Wang, are you going to your room or my study? "

Hearing this question, Wang Qingci rolled her eyes at Lu Chen. She knew that Lu Chen didn't sleep last night, so she didn't worry that Lu Chen would scold her later, so she said, "Let's go to my room."

Lu Chen and Lin Wanyun stayed in the study room last night. The smell in the study room might be a bit strong now. Anyway, she was just reporting intelligence to Lu Chen, and it didn't matter where she reported.

Lu Chen said, "Okay."

Then Lu Chen put his arm around Wang Qingci's waist and came to Wang Qingci's bedroom. As soon as he entered the room, Lu Chen put her on the couch and pressed on her.

Wang Qingci was stunned for a moment, thinking that Lu Chen was going to do something to her, but soon she realized that she was overthinking it. After Lu Chen fell on the couch, he hugged Wang Qingci's waist and turned over, lying on his side. Holding her was like holding a pillow.

At this time, Lu Chen buried himself in her arms, took a deep breath of the fragrance and said: "Tell me, if there is any news in the recent dynasties, you can report it directly and put the paper information on the table in my study later. Just go on. I didn't sleep last night. Let me squint for a while.

When Wang Qingci came back to her senses, she said, how could Lu Chen criticize her at this time? Lu Chen was busy in the study all night last night. Even if he is a great master, he still needs to rest.

Wang Qingci then let Lu Chen hold her soft and delicate body, and she said: "The students from Huanyu Academy originally wanted to pass through the Daxia Dynasty and then come directly to the Northern Kingdom, but they were driven to the Dawu Dynasty by the Northern Kingdom's army. , the reason for Daxia’s army is that they are afraid that they will spread the plague, so it may take some time for those students to reach the north. "

If they were to pass directly through other counties of the Great Xia Dynasty, the students of Huanyu Academy would be able to reach the North Kingdom in three months. But now they take a detour through the Dawu Dynasty, and then have to pass through the Dayue Dynasty. This may take four to five years. It took months to reach the North Country.

Lu Chen hugged Wang Qingci's soft and fragrant body tightly and said lightly: "I understand, is there any other information?"

Wang Qingci continued: "It is said that the eldest princess of the Dawu Dynasty went to the southwest region of Dawu to negotiate with the rebel leaders and planned to recruit the rebels."

"Um?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen immediately raised his head from the warm fragrance of Wang Qingci's soft jade, and then looked sideways at Wang Qingci, "She shouldn't be the one to negotiate, right? She's a princess, and she's going to negotiate with her. Negotiations with rebel leaders?”

Wang Qingci said: "It was true that she was not the one to go at the beginning. At the beginning, Emperor Wu wanted to use force to quell the rebellion. At the same time, in order to accumulate some achievements for his two sons, he asked his two sons to lead troops to suppress the rebellion. As a result, his two sons were defeated, causing them heavy losses."

"Under the persuasion of Prime Minister Chai Jiliang, Emperor Wu once again agreed to peace talks. Because Princess Wu Chang had always had a better reputation among the people, he chose to let her negotiate with the rebel leader."

When Lu Chen heard Wang Qingci's words, Lu Chen smiled and said, "It's interesting. It seems that in a few decades, another queen will appear in this world.

"But having said that, since ancient times, there has been no such thing as a rebellion. Those rebel leaders shouldn't agree to surrender to the Dawu court, right?"

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Wang Qingci said with a smile: "Your Majesty, your guess is wrong. The Nu family heard that some of the rebel leaders in the southwest of Dawu were planning to surrender and chose to join the Chang Army. Princess."

this……

Lu Chen was stunned again.

After half of the rebellion, those guys aren't afraid of being reckoned with by the queen?

Lu Chen asked: "Is this news accurate?"

Wang Qingci replied: "Accurately, there are indeed rebels who intend to surrender to the Dawu imperial court, but there are also some rebels who refuse to surrender. Those rebels who do not surrender are basically from aristocratic families in the southwestern region of Dawu."

Lu Chen smiled. Those aristocratic families indeed had no way out. If it were ordinary people, even if they rebelled, the rulers might end up choosing not to punish the people because of the large number of people. But those aristocratic families were different. Those aristocratic families The rebellion is obviously aimed at overthrowing the rule of the Dawu royal family. Even if they surrender, they will definitely be liquidated in the end, so the war in Dawu will continue for some time.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen felt relieved. The situation in Daxia is also quite chaotic now. If Dawu recovers at this time, maybe Emperor Wu will send troops to attack Daxia immediately due to his character.

Although Lu Chen is not the emperor of Daxia yet, in his eyes, the entire Daxia dynasty will belong to him sooner or later. He does not want to see Daxia occupied by Dawu.

At this time, Wang Qingci continued: "In addition, there is another piece of information about the Dayue Dynasty."

Lu Chen said curiously: "Information about Dayue? What happened to Dayue recently?"

Compared to other dynasties, Dayue has always been relatively calm. Except for the 200,000 troops stationed in the border areas of the Northern Kingdom, there has been no movement.

Wang Qingci said: "The barbarians are moving south, and Dayuetun's 200,000 troops in the border area of ​​​​the North have gradually been transferred to the northwest region to fight against the barbarians."

Hearing this, Lu Chen fell into deep thought.

Although the main barbarian tribes in the north have been wiped out by them, there are actually not many barbarians in the north. The barbarians are divided into several large tribes, and each tribe has its own royal court.

Originally these tribes were unified, but after the death of one of their great leaders, these tribes established themselves as kings. Among them, the Tianlang King tribe and the Beixian King tribe moved to the north, while the other tribes remained in the northwest region.

Dayue, like Daxia, is invaded by barbarian tribes every year, and the number of barbarian tribes in the northwest far exceeds that in the north. Therefore, the barbarians from the northwest going south will put great pressure on Dayue.

Lu Chen thought in his mind that now Dayue had to resist the barbarian invasion, which meant that all the major dynasties had no time to pay attention to him.

It’s time to incorporate Northland into Northland!

After the Northland is incorporated into the North Country, the area of ​​the North Country will most likely directly exceed that of the Great Xia Dynasty. When the North Country develops, it will not be a problem for him to directly become the emperor in the North Country in the future.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen's mouth corners slightly raised, he buried his head in Wang Qingci's soft jade and warm fragrance again, and then continued to sleep with his eyes closed.

At this time, Wang Qingci said, "That's all the information I want to report. Your Majesty, do you have any instructions?"

Lu Chen asked in Wang Qingci's arms, "Has the Qian family made any moves recently?"

Wang Qingci replied, "The Qian family has been quite active recently, but compared to some time ago, they seem to be a little more low-key."

Lu Chen said, "Keep watching them."

Wang Qingci said, "Okay, Your Majesty."

Lu Chen then took a deep breath of Wang Qingci's fragrance again, and then said, "Okay, if there's nothing else, don't talk. Let me hold you and sleep."

Hearing this, Wang Qingci smiled slightly, and then stopped talking. Her delicate chin rested on the top of Lu Chen's head, and then she raised her jade arms to hold Lu Chen.

Holding Wang Qingci's soft body, Lu Chen soon fell asleep.

Time flies, and soon it was the day when Zhou Youyou was about to give birth.

Lu Chen had not left the palace recently. He happened to be in the palace on the day Zhou Youyou gave birth. Lu Chen came to Zhou Youyou's delivery room early in the morning and waited.

With Lu Chen standing by her bed, Zhou Youyou was not worried about what would happen later.

At this time, Lin Wanyun was standing outside the delivery room with Chu Yuqin and the others waiting. Lin Wanyun's thoughts were a little confused. Lu Chen had been having sex with her in the past few days, trying to make her pregnant. She felt that she had been completely marked by Lu Chen.

When she thought that she would also give birth to a child for Lu Chen in the future, Lin Wanyun's face flushed and her face became extremely hot.

No, no, she had to find the antidote quickly and help Rongrong escape. She couldn't keep thinking about giving birth to a child for this little bad guy. When she got pregnant, she didn't know when she would be pregnant.

At this time, Chu Yuqin looked at Lin Wanyun and said, "Sister Lin, why is your face so red?"

Lin Wanyun came back to her senses and said quickly, "Oh, I'm fine. I was a little obsessed with my training these days."

Hearing this, Chu Yuqin was stunned for a moment.

Obsessed?

Then Chu Yuqin found that there were many red marks on Lin Wanyun's neck, similar to those on Chu Qingli's neck. Chu Yuqin said, "Sister Lin, how come you also got possessed by the practice?"

Lin Wanyun said in confusion, "Is there anyone else in the palace who got possessed by the practice?"

Chu Yuqin said, "Yes, Qingli has been possessed by the practice for the past few months. Look at her neck. Those red marks are left when she got possessed by the practice."

"It's strange, why do you have so many red and purple marks on your neck after you got possessed by the practice."

Hearing this, Lin Wanyun and Chu Qingli, who were not far away, were stunned. Lin Wanyun and Chu Qingli turned their heads to look at each other at the same time, and found that the marks on each other's necks were indeed the same as their own.

Seeing this scene, Chu Qingli snorted in her heart. That lustful man didn't even let Lin Wanyun go.

She found out that Lu Chen didn't intend to let any beautiful woman in the inner courtyard go.

No, she had to hurry up and complete the deal with Lu Chen, and then rescue her sister.

After her efforts during this period, she didn't have many deals left with Lu Chen, so she had to speed up.

Although they could see that each other's body and mind were probably in the shape of Lu Chen, Chu Qingli and Lin Wanyun both tacitly didn't say it out loud. They both turned their heads to look at the delivery room at the same time, pretending that this didn't happen.