Faced with Yan Lu's rejection, Jing Salamander did not force himself, his expression remained as cold as ever, but there was concern in his tone:

"If you have a plan, I won't force you."

"Be careful, and don't forget you and your family if you get into trouble."

Yan Lu didn't say anything, just smiled at Jing Salamander, then raised his hands to the two of them, clasped his hands, and turned around to leave.

After Yan Lu left, Jingyu finally turned his attention to his daughter:

"What about you? What are you going to do next?"

Ayan lowered his head, looking like a good girl, and replied softly, "Farmer, we still need to wait for the opportunity."

"Do you know when is the right time?" Frightened Salamander asked again, neither salty nor cool.

"Maybe there are some clues."

"Then... do whatever you want, remember not to cause any trouble to your father." Jing salamander seemed to be completely free of Ayan and had no intention of intervening. Then he asked, "After I leave, where are you on the other side of the net?"

Can you handle it?"

Ayan immediately replied, "I'm sure I can fool him in a short time."

Once Jing Salamander returns to Xianyang, Ayan will have one less person to replace her in playing the role of Quexie.

Once Zhao Gao mobilizes the attributes of Lu and Quexie at the same time again, she will most likely be exposed.

But this situation is rare.

Shulu's actual identity is the leader of the peasant family, and she cannot leave the sight of the peasant family's senior officials at will. It is not a particularly important matter, and Zhao Gao is not willing to look for her.

Even if Zhao Gao needs to carry out the task for some reason, Ayan can take advantage of the peasant hero's refusal to carry out the task.

During this period, she has been very cooperative with Zhao Gao, and it's okay to put on airs appropriately.

In this way, it will not be difficult to fool him in a short time.

As time goes by, you can still think of ways to do it.

Seeing that his daughter had a solution, Jing Salamander stopped talking nonsense and left without even saying hello.

Ayan was used to his mother's "coldness", so he smiled calmly and turned around to leave.

………………

In the northern border of the empire, Shangjunjunzhifushi, the eldest son's mansion.

Fusu was sitting in his study room, with the desk in front of him filled with various files and slips.

These books are all about the Great Wall construction project and the straight road construction project.

He was sent to supervise the army in the county, and General Meng Tian was now responsible for supervising the construction of the Great Wall Project and the Straight Road Project, so these two epoch-making grand projects eventually fell to Fusu.

Of course, he could just ignore it, hang on to the empty title of military supervisor and not work, and let Meng Tian do all the work. No one would investigate whether a prince who was demoted from Xianyang worked or not.

But Fusu certainly didn't want to sit idly by.

But once you really get started, it's a mess and you're in trouble at every turn.

The Great Wall and the Straight Road are both important projects that have been under construction for a long time. However, time has changed and the difficulties and troubles faced by the same project today are completely different from those in the past.

Fusu rubbed his brows with a headache.

Meng Tian, ​​who was dressed in casual clothes, walked in at this time and saluted first:

"Your Highness."

The fighting in the North has basically ceased, and the remaining remnants of the wolf tribe were handed over to Wang Li by Meng Tian.

Wang Li came to the north to show off his merits and was in urgent need of gaining military merits.

Since Meng Tian and Fu Su had taken the greatest share of the credit for expelling the wolves, of course they had to let Wang Li drink some soup.

In addition to the defeated remnants of the Wolf Clan, Wang Li will also temporarily take over the defense of the northern border.

It is not only to give face to the Wang family, but also to give face to the emperor - the emphasis is on the latter.

Wang Lilai, who was sent by the Yingzheng faction, made it clear that he wanted to check and balance Meng Tian to a certain extent.

Meng Tian can't let Wang Li live too well, otherwise he will suffer a loss, but he must also be given some room for development, otherwise the emperor may look down upon him.

Of course Ying Zheng doesn't care how well Wang Li fares, but his goal must be achieved.

If Wang Li was suffocated to death by Meng Tian without any chance of growing stronger, the emperor might have to take a follow-up move.

Both Meng Tian and Fu Su hope that Beidi will encounter as little forcible intervention from the emperor as possible. For this reason, it is acceptable to indulge Wang Li for the time being. Anyway, he will not be able to make waves in a short time.

"General Meng, no need to be polite, please take a seat." Fusu waved his hand, motioning for Meng Tian to sit down.

Meng Tian was not polite and said as he sat down, "Your Highness is worried about the construction of the Great Wall and Straight Road?"

"How difficult it is for the people!" Fusu sighed with a wry smile, "The war in Lingnan has started again, and the entire defense in the north needs to be strengthened. Winter is about to come, but these two major projects cannot be stopped for a moment..."

Yingzheng was anxious to restart the Lingnan war, so he recruited more civilians to build the Lingqu canal quickly.

But now it is approaching the New Year of the Imperial Calendar (the tenth month of the Zhuanxu calendar is Yuan Shuo), and winter is not far away.

Cold comes and summer comes, autumn harvests and winter stores.

At this time, regardless of the garrison service, we should at least stop collecting and issuing all corvee services as much as possible.

However, Yingzheng not only did not allow the people to cultivate themselves temporarily, but instead repeatedly urged the advancement of various projects.

Among them, the most critical projects are the Great Wall and the Straight Road.

The Ling Canal project is located in the south, so even in winter, the temperature can remain within an acceptable range for a long time.

Not to mention border defense, no matter how cold it is, you can't relax, and the nomadic tribesmen will stop when the temperature completely drops.

But the Great Wall and the Straight Road... are hard to describe.

When it comes to border defense, they are of course also very important, but Meng Tian has just severely damaged the wolf tribe, so there is no need to worry about a large-scale alien invasion in the short term. Both projects can be slowed down, and there is no need to rush.

Fusu repeatedly wrote to the emperor to request the emperor to suspend these two projects to alleviate the people's livelihood difficulties, but the results were all in vain and no news was heard from them.

Meng Tian didn't think as much as Fusu, he just completed the task.
Chapter completed!