"What's going on?" Lin Xiao was stunned, with a vague premonition in her heart.
"I'm not from Lijiacun."
"Ai?"
"I am actually the Emperor's Nine..."
"Nine sisters?" Lin Xiao exclaimed, "Aren't you a princess?"
"……Um."
Li Yuyan wanted to reveal her true identity, but she was mistaken by Lin Xiao for being the emperor's sister. She couldn't help but smile bitterly and could only respond vaguely.
Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment.
She didn't expect that Li Yuyan turned out to be the Ninth Princess!
A majestic princess of a country!
"Then how did you end up like this?"
Not only did she remain anonymous, but she also earned the nickname Black Widow.
Lin Xiao asked in surprise.
Li Yuyan slightly modified his tragic experience to say that he witnessed Emperor Li Yuquan poisoning the healthy late emperor in order to ascend the throne.
In order to avoid exposing the truth, the first thing Li Yuquan did after he ascended the throne was to send people to hunt down Li Yuyan.
In order to survive, Li Yuyan could only pretend to be Li Yuyan, the daughter of Lijiacun who was living outside the village, and live a low-key life.
This princess is really frustrated!
"Sister Xiangmei and Brother Zhou, shouldn't they be your personal bodyguards?"
Lin Xiao's mind was running rapidly and he asked tentatively.
When Li Yuyan heard this, a look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on his face.
He nodded and admitted the matter.
"Let me tell you, I always felt that they had an indescribable feeling when they saw you. Now I understand, it's called admiration and fear!"
Lin Xiao suddenly realized and patted his forehead.
"The head of the family..."
"Oh, I don't dare to be, I don't dare to be. You are the princess of a country, how can you condescend to call me the head of the family? Just call me by my name!"
Lin Xiao waved his hands hurriedly.
"Okay, then I'll call you A Xiao!"
Li Yuyan nodded and said.
"Axiao, I really have something important to discuss with you when I come back this time!"
Li Yuyan looked a little more serious and said.
When Lin Xiao heard this, he couldn't help but become serious and said:
"Yu Yan, we are a family. If you need anything, just ask and I will do my best to help you!"
"Axiao, I want to avenge my father!"
Li Yuyan gritted his teeth and said.
"Revenge? Yu Yan, are you going to kill the king?"
Lin Xiao was shocked. No matter which dynasty, a heinous crime such as regicide would lead to the death of nine tribes!
When Li Yuyan was a member of the royal family, he was hunted down by the emperor and had to remain anonymous.
Are you still thinking about killing the king to avenge your father?
Why?
Just because he has a close relationship with General Bai Zhancheng?
This is too naive!
"Yu Yan, I pretend I didn't hear what you just said. Don't think of regicide again. Just saying it will send shivers down your spine!"
"No, no, I didn't want to kill the king!"
"Then what are you going to do?"
Lin Xiao asked curiously.
"I want to clear your side!"
Li Yuyan resolutely spit out five words.
Hearing this, Lin Xiao shook his head helplessly:
"Isn't it true that Qing Jun is regicide?"
"I know, but I have no choice!"
Li Yuyan shook his head.
Lin Xiao pondered for a while and said:
"Yu Yan, one general succeeds and ten thousand bones dry up. No matter whether you succeed or not, the final outcome is the same. There is no eternal winner in this world."
When Li Yuyan heard this, he fell silent.
Lin Xiao continued to persuade:
"Have you ever thought that even if you succeed, whether you sit on the throne as the queen yourself or support someone else as the emperor, you can guarantee that the new emperor will be better?"
"Besides, the Great Xia Dynasty has never had a Qing emperor in its thousands of years. If you do this, aren't you afraid that future generations will follow suit?"
"At that time, which one is better, a disintegrated country or a unified Great Xia Dynasty?"
"this"
Li Yuyan was stunned by Lin Xiao's words.
He had never thought that Lin Xiao, as a woman, would have such far-reaching considerations, and he had never thought of these things before.
Seeing his hesitation, Lin Xiao persuaded him again:
"Actually, I think there is no need for Qingjun to make a big show of it. You can just do it secretly!"
"For example, kill a few leading corrupt officials to serve as a warning to others!"
"If there are still people who refuse to change despite repeated admonitions, then continue to kill until no one dares to be greedy!"
Li Yuyan was stunned when he heard this.
Although he is a member of the royal family and has been involved in state affairs since he can remember, he has never had such profound thoughts.
"What's going on in your head?"
Li Yuyan looked at Lin Xiao in shock.
Why did he feel that Lin Xiao didn't look like a person of his generation?
"Hehe." Lin Xiao laughed sarcastically, "Anyway, you should think twice about this matter."
"This exchange with you has enlightened me. I will consider it carefully. However, no matter how I do it, I lack enough capital, so I want to ask you if you have any good ideas?"
Li Yuyan looked at Lin Xiao, his eyes full of longing.
Lin Xiao pondered for a moment and suddenly asked:
"Do you want me to completely hand over the salt-making technique to you?"
Li Yuyan knew how to make salt, but he didn't know how to check whether the filtered concentrated brine had reached the standard for making salt.
If the salt production standards are not met, the quality of the salt production will be greatly compromised.
What's more important is that if the toxins in coarse salt are not completely extracted, it will cause disaster!
"Well, I'm beating around the bush. To tell you the truth, selling salt is the fastest way to make money. I want to make salt in large quantities."
Li Yuyan made no secret of his inner thoughts.
Lin Xiao nodded and said:
"Salt is people's livelihood and the basis for people's survival. It is true that money comes quickly, but..."
Lin Xiao changed the subject:
"I can't give you the art of making salt!"
"Why?"
Li Yuyan asked hurriedly.
He thought that Lin Xiao would readily agree to him, but he didn't expect that she would reject him!
This was something he never expected!
The reason why Lin Xiao rejected him was simple. If you want to produce salt in large quantities, you only need to expand the scale of salt production. There is no need to hand over the core salt production technology to others.
Besides, this is her capital to settle down in the Great Xia Dynasty. How can she just hand it over to others?
What's more, she also wants to use salt to drive the whole village and even the whole town to become well-off!
"If you just want to make large quantities of salt, you can do it here in Linjiacun. As long as the mountain road is widened and repaired, there will be no problem with transportation."
Lin Xiao said.
Li Yuyan: "..."
His idea is very simple: get the core technology of salt production, that is, how to judge that the concentrated brine has been filtered.
Then a group of craftsmen were organized in the army to make large quantities of salt, and finally the produced salt was sold to salt merchants to obtain high profits.
By then, even if the emperor is unclear, a secret organization will be established that will scare corrupt officials and even Li Yuquan!
"Axiao, can I send some craftsmen over to help make salt?"
Since Lin Xiao refused to give him the core technology of making salt, he could only settle for the next best thing.