Wang Xuan finally stopped tapping his fingers on the table and looked up and down. Cui Yan suddenly smiled and said: "I don't think your Cui family can be of much help with the expansion of territory in the north. It's not worth my while."
Let the Cui family go."
These words were like a blow to the head. Cui Yan was stunned on the spot. His heart seemed to be pressed by a huge boulder of 10,000 tons. It became more and more difficult to breathe. His eyes became black for a while, and the blood in his body seemed to start to flow backwards. He stood there, his body unable to stop.
Shaking, as if he was about to fall to the ground at any moment.
It's no wonder that Cui Yan doesn't have the style of a general. Wang Xuan was so frightened that he lost his composure with just one sentence. After all, the life and death of the entire family depended on this sentence, so he couldn't help but ignore it.
what to do?
Countless thoughts passed through Cui Yan's mind, but there was no way to solve the crisis at hand. At this moment, he deeply realized the feeling of being a slave and a fish. Only at this moment did he understand that when the central government has military power,
At that time, these nobles who seemed to control the fate of the world were so fragile.
He kept taking deep breaths and forcing himself to calm down. Suppression, anger, frustration, complaints and other emotions could not play any role at this moment. He raised his head and focused his eyes on Wang Xuan's face. He must find a breakthrough.
Gradually, he discovered that although the smile on Wang Xuan's face had disappeared, there was no murderous intention in his eyes. This made his confused mind clear. Does this mean that Wang Xuan actually did not want to kill their whole family?
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"Your Majesty, if you are given an order, my Cui family will do our best and never shirk it!" Cui Yan bowed to the end again. This time, he truly surrendered from body to soul, with no subconscious resistance at all.
"Haha, I hope your Cui family can keep your word." Wang Xuan said in a salty voice, "Get up, I have other plans for your Cui family."
Breathe in, Cui Yan breathed a long sigh of relief. He suddenly felt as if his body had been hollowed out. His steps staggered a little. When he relaxed, he realized that all his clothes were soaked with sweat. He walked to the chair and sat down.
, feeling a little limp all over.
"There is no need to go north. I would rather you go south."
"Going south!?" Cui Yan was stunned for a moment. Doesn't going south mean that he went to Cao Cao? At this time... for a moment, he was a little confused as to what Wang Xuan had in mind.
Could it be that he was testing himself? Cui Yan glanced at Wang Xuan with some uncertainty, "Is the prince joking? My Cui family has absolutely no intention of doing so. We will follow the lead of the prince in everything."
"Okay!" Wang Xuan raised his hand to stop Cui Yan from continuing, "Only Mr. Xuande is following his lead. Besides, I'm not kidding you. I just want you to go south to Jingnan."
Jingnan?
Cui Yan's eyes widened, and for a moment he couldn't figure out what Wang Xuan had in mind.
Wang Xuan silently took out a map from his chest again. Everyone was a little numb to Wang Xuan's behavior of always pulling out all kinds of weird things from his chest. Although they didn't know why, no matter what
What about him?
The map was spread out, and it was a map of Jingzhou. In terms of detail, it was the only one Cui Yan had ever seen in his life, but... why did Wang Xuan have such a detailed map of Jiangnan in his hand?
This reminded him of a rumor. Wang Xuan began to lay out his plans all over the world four years ago in preparation for sweeping the world in the future. Although he was unable to personally confirm its authenticity, Cui Yan believed it when he saw such a detailed map.
Eight points, he very much doubted whether Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou, had such a detailed map!
Wang Xuan didn't care what kind of inner activities Cui Yan was going through in his heart, but pointed to the lower reaches of the intersection of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River, where Yueyang City is, and said: "This is very suitable for city construction and development. I want your Cui family to take root here.
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Ah? Cui Yan looked at Wang Xuan with a confused expression, "I, the Cui family, build the city?"
Are you sure the word "building a city" can be associated with my Cui family?
Not to mention my Cui family, even if we unite two or three more families, we don’t dare to mention building a city. Not to mention whether we have the courage to build it, the key is that we don’t have that much money. These cities in Dahan are not built for generations.
It was passed down that a brand new city could not be built within a few decades!
"Ah what!" Wang Xuan frowned and glanced at Cui Yan, "It's just a city built, what's the fuss about!"
"..." Cui Yan opened his mouth and didn't know how to refute for a while.
"The newly built city in Changshan Zhending is not big. According to the plan, it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. According to the current progress, it will be completed in more than half a year, and you are not asked to build any big city. I was surprised.
What are you doing?"
Only then did Cui Yan realize that it seemed that after the man in front of him appeared, building a city suddenly became easy... So he immediately thought of the problem of going north. With such a fast construction speed, there are really several key points in the grassland.
After building a few cities, it really won't be a big problem to capture the grasslands.
A large part of the reason why the Han people have been unable to stand on the grasslands is that there are not enough cities to form a chain-type defense posture. An isolated city is useless, and in the grassland, it is extremely difficult to build cities, develop and profit
Out of proportion, this area has been occupied by grassland peoples.
"I understand this, but... my Cui family does not have the talent and ability in this field." After saying this, Cui Yan couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
Generally speaking, wealthy families like them will form a small self-owned economic system, based on several manors, from food to cloth to some other daily necessities, forming a closed self-sufficient small circle. It can be said that talents in all aspects
Yes, it has always been something that wealthy families are proud of, but now Wang Xuan's request is a bit too high-end.
"I will allocate some manpower later and I will arrange for people to provide professional training for them. This is not a big problem. I will prepare the architectural design drawings for you to build a city that combines fishery and agriculture. The reason why you are allowed to build the city here.
, firstly, to explore the development methods of Jiangnan, and secondly, you need to build a port here, communicate with Nanyang by water, use the Yangtze River for sea transportation, and communicate with Qingyou."
"Making room?" Cui Yan suddenly looked at Wang Xuan with wide eyes. Wouldn't this ruin the reputation of the Cui family?
Cui Yan wanted to refuse, but when he looked up and saw Wang Xuan's emotionless eyes, he held back the words that came to his lips. Let's just deal with it like this for now. After getting over the difficulties in front of him, Wang Xuan would really go to Jiangnan.
It's beyond reach.
"We can't even talk about making a living. It's thousands of miles away, and I don't expect you to do your best."
While Cui Yan was thinking about Xiao Jiujiu, Wang Xuan suddenly said.
"You can develop as you want. Even when you really need to do something, it all depends on your personal wishes. In my opinion, exchange of interests is more reliable than so-called loyalty, don't you think so?" Wang Xuan's lips suddenly curled up.
He smiled and said, "At least, when you make any mistakes, I can deal with them without hesitation without any psychological burden. After all, loyalty is mutual, and it will be easy to handle it when the time comes.
Difficult."
After Wang Xuan finished speaking, Cui Yan's face turned pale, and he opened his mouth to refute something, but he didn't know how to speak. It is really difficult for such a large family to be completely loyal to anyone, so there is no need to think about getting protection when something goes wrong.