As soon as Xia Jing got into the king's carriage, she found the maid standing next to her with a happy face, "Um, I didn't disturb you when I came here, did I?"
King Qian rolled his eyes inwardly and said angrily: "If I said you were disturbing me, would you go back immediately?"
"Well, it's impossible to go back, but you can continue after we finish talking." Xia Jing raised an eyebrow at him provocatively.
King Qian: "."
The maid standing next to her was blushing with shame and wanted to get out of the carriage immediately. When she noticed Anu waving to her, she couldn't wait to exit the carriage as if she had received an amnesty.
After the maid exited, she, King Qian and Anu were the only three people left in the carriage.
Although King Qian didn't know why Xia Jing came here, it was unusual for her to take the initiative to come to him based on her behavior these days.
This aroused his interest, "My princess, Anu is not an outsider. If you have any questions, just tell me, and if you can, I will arrange for the strict housekeeper to handle it."
Xia Jing glanced at him, her red lips and white teeth were dazzled, and she knew that what this man just said was true.
She found a seat not too far away from King Qian and sat down, "What are your plans for the future, Your Majesty? You can't lead your team to wander around aimlessly like this, right?"
King Qian suddenly felt a headache when faced with this problem. He rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Now the emperor doesn't even know where he has gone. The world is so big, how can I know where I am going?"
Xia Jing stared at him: "Your Majesty, is this the attitude of the head of your family?"
King Qian shrugged, "I want to go to Jiankang, but you won't let me!"
Seeing his careless look, Xia Jing frowned slightly, "According to what the prince just said, are you blaming me?"
"How dare you!"
Hearing the tone, she still felt resentful in her heart. Xia Jing completely lost her patience. She didn't want to waste her words on him, so she directly talked about the purpose of coming here.
King Qian smacked his lips and said, "My princess, do you want to recruit private soldiers?"
His eyes were like searchlights, staring at Xia Jing curiously.
Xia Jing emphasized: "It's a guard!"
When King Qian heard this, he immediately laughed unkindly, "My princess likes to joke, and private soldiers are private soldiers, but you want to talk so grandly, what kind of guards are you recruiting? Could it be that my current guards can't protect you?"
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Xia Jing tilted her head and smiled, "I really can't protect my concubine. Even the five thousand soldiers and horses of the governor Cen can't protect his family. We have to send the family members out of the city in advance. And you are just talking about hundreds of thousands of guards.
You said you can protect your family in this troubled time? If these words were spread, wouldn’t it make people laugh out loud!"
"How did you know that this king only has a few hundred or thousands of guards?" King Qian stared at her expressionlessly.
"Oh~" Xia Jing's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that King Qian still had some backup plans?
But she still had a slight smile on her face, "I'd like to hear the details!"
"Humph, why do I tell you this?" King Qian turned his head and looked out the car window. He would never admit that he had a swollen face to make himself fat.
After a moment, he seemed to think of something, and then turned back, "I tell you that recruiting soldiers is easy. Once the flag is raised, as long as there is food to eat, a large number of refugees will be willing to join. The difficulty is, how will you feed them?
Soldiers?"
"If you want to use my food and grass to raise troops, I will tell you first, don't daydream, because this is impossible. The food the team brings now is not enough for the team to build in a month."
"If you cannot support them and cannot surrender to them, sooner or later you will be attacked by the soldiers you recruit!"
Xia Jing laughed softly, and after laughing, she mocked: "The first-class prince of the Yu Dynasty wanted to retreat when encountering difficulties, and never thought of moving forward bravely. It is no wonder that the royal family of the Yu Dynasty is not as good as the previous generation.
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King Qian was so embarrassed that he became angry: "I am kind-hearted to help you analyze the pros and cons, don't be ignorant! How many heads do you have enough for me to chop off if you slander our Li family?"
Xia Jing took a few deep breaths, suppressed her bad temper, and started talking to this old man. She would start to quarrel within a few words.
It seems that the two of them are really incompatible!
"Okay, don't talk about this bad thing!"
King Qian: "." How come the affairs of the Li royal family have become such a mess?
I really want to drag Mr. Xia out and beat him to the tune of fifty!
Xia Jing mentioned another thing that happened over here, "We can't keep running around aimlessly like this. Since you have no idea, then just go as I want."
"What do you mean?" King Qian swallowed his anger.
"According to the geographical location on the map, we are now at the boundary of Runan. Since we have arrived in Runan, we will simply bypass Jiankang, take a turn from Runan to Jingzhou, and then directly cross the river from Jingzhou, all the way to
It reaches the Wuling Mountains in the south, and finally crosses the Wuling Mountains to reach Lingnan."
King Qian was surprised when he heard her plan, "Do you want to settle down in Lingnan?"
Xia Jing nodded without hesitation: "Yes, Lingnan is the border where the imperial power is least intimidated, and it is also the barren mountains and rivers where the Yu Dynasty and other local forces are least willing to go. Only when we get there can we develop better."
King Qian grew up in Jinxiudui, and he couldn't understand why Xia Jing chose Lingnan, a place with harsh mountains and rivers.
"Yongzhou County and Guiyang County to the north of Wuling are also more advantageous than Lingnan. You are not asking for trouble because you have lived a good life for too long, are you?"
Xia Jing sighed helplessly, "Although the two places you mentioned are good, they are too close to the jurisdiction of Jingzhou. Would the governor of Jingzhou be willing to let a prince wander under his nose?"
King Qian glared, still a little bit princely, "I am the first-class prince of the Yu Dynasty. What can a little Jingzhou governor do to me? How dare he show off to me?"
After Xia Jing heard this, she really wanted to look up to the sky and laugh, so she did so.
"Haha, naive!"
"Xia!" How could a dignified first-class prince allow a woman to ridicule him one after another?
After Xia Jing smiled, she looked directly into his angry eyes, her red lips parted slightly, and she pierced her heart with each word, "The country is broken, the mountains and rivers are broken, the court is in vain, the emperor's orders are not left in the city, and the government orders are ignored. Even if you don't want to accept it, the fact is
Before our eyes, the Li Dynasty has reached its final stage of survival, and the Li Dynasty is in a precarious state!"
She stood up, walked to the lost King Qian, and patted his shoulder, "The building is about to collapse, wake up!"
"Xia, I will cut you into pieces with a thousand knives!"
Xia Jing jumped out of the carriage, and as soon as her feet landed on the ground, she heard a shocking roar coming from the carriage behind her.
Hongmei, who stepped forward to help Xia Jing, heard this roar and was so frightened that her legs went weak and she knelt on the ground.
"Girl, you don't need to give me such a big gift to say hello, right?" Xia Jing teased.
Hongmei covered her chest, which was pounding with fear, and looked up at Xia Jing. Seeing her relaxed face and in the mood to tease her, she asked innocently: "Princess, are you serious about what you just said?"
Xia Jing finally had time to stand in front of her, "What do you think?"
"The prince and you must be joking." Hongmei patted her chest symbolically, "I'm scared to death. The prince has cut you into pieces. Where can I find such a virtuous and capable wife like you?
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"Haha, girl, you are more enlightened than your prince, and you will have a bright future." Xia Jing glanced back at Wang Jia and deliberately raised her voice to praise.