Chapter 861: All for You
Gu Fei nodded aggrievedly, "Better."
Xiao Yu picked up Gu Fei and sat down beside the bed, putting her on his lap. While gently rubbing her forehead, he whispered, "Don't think too much. There is a reason why Shitou is dressed like this."
It turned out that after conquering the entire Huainan County, the wealthy merchants and gentry in Huainan County could not sit still.
The court became the place of King Qi. How would King Qi treat them in the future? Would their lives and property be protected?
Everyone was unsure.
King Qi was not in Huainan County, and he could not see him even if he wanted to, so Xiao Yu became a hot commodity.
Everyone tried to ask someone to invite the prince to the banquet, while trying to find out the intentions of the Qi Palace, and trying to get close to the prince.
Xiao Yu had to go to these banquets.
Huainan County had just been conquered, and people were in a panic. Going there was to stabilize these gentry and wealthy people. Stabilizing them would also stabilize the people's hearts.
If one is not careful, and fails to appease them, and makes them feel that there will be no good days under the rule of the King of Qi in the future, these wealthy gentry may flee with their property, and once they run away, the people will naturally follow in chaos.
To conquer a place, you don’t want an empty city without people, which is meaningless.
The people are the foundation of a country and a city.
So Xiao Yu went to banquets every day these days. On the first day, someone sent him a beauty at the banquet.
He naturally refused, but the gentry who sent the beauty was trembling, thinking that the prince didn’t like him. How could there be a man in the world who doesn’t love beauties?
Xiao Yu had to think of a way. The next day, he asked Shitou to dress up as a woman and accompany him to the banquet.
There are too many benefits to doing this.
With Shitou, there will be no other beauties sitting next to him at the banquet to pour wine and serve food for him.
With Shitou, when others send beauties, Shitou will refuse them by relying on his status as a concubine.
Xiao Yu also wants to show that it’s not that I don’t want it, but I am also helpless to have a fierce concubine at home.
So the men whose wives and concubines were jealous of each other felt the same way, and suddenly felt that such a prince had weaknesses like them, and was amiable and lovely.
In the officialdom, a person without weaknesses is terrible and despairing, which means there is no loophole to exploit.
Xiao Yu and Shitou just came back from a banquet tonight.
This is not a barracks, but the garrison of Heyang City.
Shitou didn't want to be seen by Zhuzi, who lived in the same room with him, so he always followed Xiao Yu to his room to change clothes.
Seeing that Shitou had sacrificed so much, Xiao Yu naturally acquiesced.
Xiao Yu broke the story apart and told Gu Fei, and sighed, "I coaxed Shitou for a long time before he agreed to dress up as a woman. Now it's over. He will definitely not cooperate in the future."
Gu Fei finally burst into tears and laughed in Xiao Yu's arms.
Xiao Yu looked down at her helplessly, "You little rascal, are you happy now?"
"I'm doing this for you."
Gu Fei snorted and twisted in his arms, "Okay, okay, I was wrong, I will never be impulsive again."
Xiao Yu bit her lips lightly, "Silly, your husband is happy that you are jealous."
"But how can you say that?"
"If there is really a woman coveting your husband, you should slap her away. How can you take the initiative to make room for other women? Are you stupid?"