In front of the door of the room with the name of the Tianzi Bing, Chen Ji gently knocked on the door with his knuckles.

The wooden door creaked open, and Xiaoman said happily: "Young Master is back!"

As she said that, she took a handkerchief and dusted Chen Ji's body. The prince stood at the door and leaned out slightly, silently looking at the floor in the room and the curtains separated by the inner room.

There were charcoal basins burning in the house, chessboards, desserts and candied fruits on the table. Zhang Zheng and Zhang Xia were sitting cross-legged on the same floor, muttering something in a low voice.

Chen Liqin wanted to speak but stopped many times. He wanted to say what kind of conciseness this was, but he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Chen Ji walked into the house and said to Zhang Zheng and Zhang Xia: "Brother Zhang, Miss Zhang Er, the Prince is coming down."

Zhang Zheng and Zhang Xia hurriedly stood up and bowed to the prince at the door: "Your Highness, Prince."

The prince smiled and waved his hand: "No need to be polite. I just learned that the four of you were crowded in a room and it was quite hard. I simply prepared two more ground sizes for you so you can live separately."

Zhang Zheng was stunned for a moment and immediately refused, "Report to your Highness, it's great that we live here."

The prince said in confusion: "The two of you are usually rich in clothing and food in the Zhang Mansion. Are you used to living in the floor shop?"

Zhang Zheng said politely: "It doesn't matter, it's safer for us to get together. We have two more rooms, so we can arrange more soldiers from the Yulin Army to move in."

Li Xuan, behind the prince, spoke, "With the Yulin Army vigil, you don't have to worry about your own safety."

Zhang Zheng said happily: "So many Yulin troops have not defended the Dusi Mansion."

As soon as these words came out, the inside and outside of the house became stern.

Li Xuan wanted to refute, but could not think of how to refute. Someone burned the Dusi Mansion under the eyes of the Yulin Army, which was a great humiliation.

However, no one expected that Zhang Zheng would dare to pull off the Yulin Jun's face and trample on the ground in front of so many people.

At this time, Zhang Xia quietly pulled Zhang Zheng's sleeve.

Zhang Xia smiled and said, "I'll thank you, Your Highness, my brother and sister will move over now."

Zhang Zheng was reluctant, but Zhang Xia forced him out.

The prince made way for the room to open the door and let the two go out and go downstairs.

On the stairs, Zhang Zheng whispered: "We live there well, why change the place?"

Zhang Xia was silent for a moment: "Chen Ji wanted to get close to the prince, brother, don't cause trouble for him."

Zhang Zheng didn't understand even more: "There is the Chen family behind him. Even if the Chen family is unreliable, there are my Zhang family and Xu family. If you want a future, how can you ask others for help?"

Zhang Xia shook his head slightly: "He is not for his own future."

Zhang Zheng was puzzled: "What is that for? Have he told you?"

Zhang Xia thought for a while: "I didn't say it, but I can guess what he is going to do."

Zhang Zheng's eyes turned: "It's okay, the floor is still in the house anyway, so we'll sneak back quietly later."

In front of the door of the room with the name of the Tianzi Bing, the prince seemed to have nothing happened, and said to Chen Ji in a warm voice: "Thank you for your hard work today, let's have a rest early."

Chen Ji bowed: "Thank you for your concern."

The prince led Chen Liqin and Li Xuan into the Tianzi Ding Room. He sat at the Eight Immortals table and asked solemnly: "Do you think we should solve the problem of food and fodder?"

Chen Liqin thought for a moment: "Your Highness, I will go to the border camp tomorrow and convince Hu Junxian to allocate some food. Your Highness is the crown prince of a country, and Hu Junxian is also a scholar. I believe he will not be as ignorant as Zhouyou.

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The prince tapped the table with his fingers, not saying anything.

Li Xuan poured him a cup of tea and said respectfully: "Your Highness, tomorrow I will sprinkle the Yulin soldiers' hands to find food, and buy all the food that has not been confiscated. The Ministry of Revenue has more than 3,000 yuan in silver.

Two, more or less, can be used for emergency purposes.”

The prince sighed: "Now the price of Guyuan grains is probably going to rise to the sky, and three thousand taels of silver are just a drop in the bucket."

Li Xuan whispered: "Let the Yulin Army soldiers go to the porridge shed to get the porridge. The food they bought should be enough for you and Lord Chen's relatives."

The prince hesitated: "This is not good. I should share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers of the Yulin Army."

Li Xuan hurriedly knelt on one knee: "Your daughter-in-law, how can you go to the porridge shed to get porridge with the people? It is said that it will damage the majesty of the Tian family. If you are so destined to this point, what face will the humble position return to Beijing? It is better to be buried.

Here, the horse is covered with a corpse.”

Chen Liqin also stood up and bowed, "Your Highness, my Chen family is also receiving porridge with the soldiers of the Yulin Army, but your highness must not destroy the majesty of the Tian family."

The prince helped Li Xuan up: "Why do you have to say these angry words? I will arrange it according to your arrangement."

After a while, he took the map and put it on the table. Li Xuan pointed to the map and said, "Tomorrow, all the grain shops in the city will go to see if they have any hidden food..."

The prince suddenly asked, "You all think that now that the food in Guyuan City is out of stock, can you still be able to keep it? How long will it take for Taiyuan Prefecture to discover that Guyuan is surrounded?"

Li Xuan replied: "At most, fifteen days. After the 15th day of the first lunar month, if Taiyuan Prefecture has not seen the caravans coming and going, it will be suspicious. At that time, the Taiyuan Prefecture will only be fifteen days to come. I

It's enough to last a month."

The prince breathed a little relieved: "There is hope."

While I was talking, I heard footsteps coming from outside the door.

The prince stopped and listened quietly to the sound of footsteps and stopped in front of the door of the Tianzi C room next door. Then someone opened the door gently and the future went in.

Li Xuan and others looked at Chen Liqin together. The prince smiled and said, "It turns out that people said that the Chen family and the Zhang family have always had disagreements in politics. It seems that they are all rumors. The Chen family values ​​reputation the most, but they didn't expect to be so compatible with Lord Zhang."

Chen Liqin hurriedly explained: "The humble position is different from Zhang Zhuodao and he will not make plans."

"Oh?" The prince changed his tone: "I heard that Miss Zhang Er had worked as a doctor of Shushu in the Imperial College and could still remember it all. Is this rumor true?"

Chen Liqin sighed: "This is true. Miss Zhang Er is smart and can never forget it. When she was in Luocheng, ordinary literati and talented people were not her opponent at all. She was also a good player in counting the accounts. Unfortunately, she was a daughter, otherwise she would have taken it away.

A state is easy to take."

The prince curiously said: "Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhang were in Luocheng for three years. Never thought of deciding to make a marriage between Miss Zhang Er and Mr. Zhang?"

Chen Liqin waved his hands repeatedly: "How can my Chen family be related to the Zhang family?"

The prince picked up the teacup, lowered his head and sucked it lightly, and said softly: "Is that so a pity. Although Lord Zhang is unruly, he has a talent for strategy, and his father values ​​it very much."

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In the room number C of Tianzi, Zhang Zheng sat cross-legged on the floor and complained: "Living together well, the prince must break up for us. I'm so ignorant."

Xiaoman rolled his eyes: "I still thought that my young master could finally sleep on the bed, but you came back."

Zhang Zheng spread the floor like a hob: "It's so boring that no one stumbles with you!"

Zhang Xia ignored the two of them and turned to look at Chen Ji: "The granary in Guyuan City is really burning?"

Chen Ji nodded: "Yes."

Zhang Zheng sat up again and said worriedly: "When will reinforcements arrive?"

Chen Ji shook his head: "It's hard to say."

Zhang Xia thought: "Taiyuan Mansion cannot see the caravans coming and going after the Lantern Festival, so I'm afraid it will be noticed?"

Chen Ji was silent for a moment: "If I were the commander of the Jing Chaotiance Army, I would definitely send soldiers to Taiyuan Prefecture to pretend to be a caravan and report safety. If I hide it for one more day, I will have one more chance of winning."

Zhang Zheng widened his eyes: "Will you not be able to wait for reinforcements for a month?"

Chen Ji comforted: "The border army is not incompetent. Perhaps a major official has quietly left Guyuan and went to Taiyuan Prefecture to report the news. If it goes well, the official will be able to arrive at Taiyuan Prefecture within ten days."

Zhang Zheng sighed: "That's going to have to be kept for more than half a month."

Chen Ji smiled: "Fortunately, Xiaoman bought a grain shop in advance, and there were still two thousand stones of grain hidden in the cellar, so we can't be hungry. Xiaoman, will the grain be hidden? Will it be searched by the border army?"

Xiaoman thought for a while: "It should not be discovered by the border army in the wellhead cellar. The place is very hidden and is used to hide smuggled goods."

Chen Ji praised: "Xiaoman is indeed very good at doing business. If he takes back his aunt's property in Beijing, he can hand it over to you."

Xiaoman's eyes lit up: "Really?"

Zhang Zheng also gave a thumbs up: "Xiaoman is better than the crowd of people brought by the prince. They are now scratching their heads for food. If the Five Hundred Yulin Army starved to death in Guyuan City, it would probably be a big deal."

joke."

Xiaoman yelled, and became shy: "This is what my aunt taught me. She said before that doing business is to seize the opportunity. If you can see what happens three days later, you can be a vendor; if you can see it, you can see it.

If you happen in half a year, you can be a good businessman; if you see the fortune of a country, you can be a businessman with great hands and eyes... I just guessed what will happen in a few days, and it is nothing."

Zhang Zheng looked at Chen Ji: "Do you think the Yulin Army can get food?"

Chen Ji shook his head: "It's hard. At this time, everyone knows how important food is. A handful of food can be used as a piece of gold."

Xiaoman looked at Chen Ji: "Young Master, how should we deal with that batch of food? We can't finish so much. If we wait for a few days to sell it, we may be able to make more than ten times."

Chen Ji looked out the window and the fire in Guyuan City in the distance was not extinguished, as if the war had burned from outside the city to inside the city.

He replied calmly: "No hurry, I have great use of this batch of food. Let's go out tomorrow to see the market of food."

In this chaotic world, things that are extremely despicable will be more expensive than gold, while things that are extremely expensive are no one cares about, such as ginseng.
Chapter completed!