I was a prince in ancient times

Xie Anlan's hand passed through Lu Chengjiao's smooth black hair, wrapped his arms around his slender waist, and held him in his arms. Holding a charcoal pencil in the other hand, he wrote gently on the paper.

Lu Chengjie followed his movements and looked at him, dazed.

The thin charcoal pencil is held by him in a different posture than usual, which is weird but beautiful.

The words falling on the paper are not as clear and eye-catching as Yu's pen. They are light and slender but also powerful and powerful, penetrating the back of the paper.

It turns out that His Highness doesn't know how to write.

Lu Chengjie's breath was stagnant, and he raised his eyes to stare at Xie Anlan's beautiful profile, and found that there were layers of fog in front of him, making it impossible to see the real face of the person in front of him.

"Why," Xie Anlan noticed his expression, and smiled slightly, "It scares you because you can write two words?"

Hearing this, Lu Chengjie shook his head, "I'm not frightened, I'm just wondering how much more capable Your Highness is?"

After finishing the sentence, he paused again, squinted his eyes slightly, and said slowly, "It's like a chain lock, one layer after another is unlocked, the novelty is addictive, and it makes people want to explore."

"Want to know?" Xie Anlan lowered her eyes and asked softly.

Lu Chengjie didn't respond, raised his neck, and asked, "Will your Highness say it?"

Being watched by Lu Chengjia, Xie Anlan smiled softly, the laughter was so magnetic that it made everyone's ears blush.

"will not."

After laughing, Xie Anlan still gave an affirmative answer.

Lu Chengjiao lowered his eyebrows and eyelashes, but he didn't lose sight of it, but in an instant he pricked up his ears again.

"However..." Xie Anlan played tricks, prolonging the ending, deliberately teasing people's appetite.

When Lu Chengjie was about to forget, he said slowly, "However, I allow you to spend your whole life slowly understanding."

With this sentence, Xie Anlan faded away from frivolity, and her tone was extremely sincere.

There are too many secrets on him.

Crossing, system.

Everything he said shocked him.

What's more, it's still different.

It is also a burden to hold two big mountains in my heart that I cannot tell others.

Especially in the era when ghosts and gods were respected and feared, he probably didn't understand what happened to him.

"Okay." Xie Anlan refused to say, and Lu Chengke didn't want to ask, anyway, he didn't intend to ask.

Whether His Highness is a human or a ghost, he will be with him for the rest of his life.

If you want to rely on it, you can't rely on it.

Who told him to provoke him first.

"En." Satisfied, Xie Anlan directly hugged the person into her arms, and made him sit on her lap, while the pen in her hand continued to run on the paper.

"Is this the exciting thing?" Lu Chengjia quietly watched him write.

Although many words were abbreviated, it did not prevent him from reading through the sentences.

What's more, after His Highness finished writing, he also added illustrations beside it.

It seems that His Royal Highness has redesigned a weird kiln, and there seems to be nothing exciting about it.

"Do you like Liuli?" Xie Anlan didn't answer his question, but looked around and asked.

"Liuli." Lu Chengjiao groaned softly, not knowing why His Highness asked him this question, his expression was indifferent, "It's not bad, it's quite valuable."

They have a pair of glazed cups in the warehouse of the Duke's Mansion, which means they look good, but in fact it is the same to drink tea with ordinary cups.

It doesn't seem to be useful for anything other than money.

"How about we use glass lamps to earn money from other countries?" Xie Anlan hugged him, buried her head on his shoulders, and asked affectionately with her hot breath hitting his neck.

"Yes, yes." Lu Chengjiao rolled his Adam's apple hidden under his clothes, forced himself not to think about the ambiguity around his neck, and frowned, "But Yongchao is not rich in colored glaze."

After speaking, he caught a glimmer of light in front of his eyes, bit the tip of his tongue, and pointed to the illustration on the table in amazement, "Your Highness is saying that this kiln can make colored glaze?"

"Probably." Xie Anlan tilted his head. The glass process is quite complicated. There is no machinery to burn liquid glass. Without machinery, it needs to be blown manually.

Compared with cement and sugar, the degree of difficulty is more than one degree higher.

Fortunately, it is quite valuable, especially the princes and grandchildren of other countries like to use it as a rare treasure.

Difficulty is worth it.

"Nanyue Kingdom likes colored glaze the most. Your Highness might as well take colored glaze to Nanyue for a try." Lu Chengjiao blinked. Even though Xie Anlan didn't say anything for sure, he believed that he could make it.

"Hmm." Xie Anlan frowned slightly, and asked again inadvertently, "Then what is Xue Guo happy about?"

"It's cold in the Snow Country, so of course the thing I like the most is something that protects against the cold." Lu Chengjia replied without thinking.

Xie Anlan nodded, wrote a line on the paper, and asked, "Chu country?"

"Except for the absence of winter in Chu State, other climates are similar to our Yong Dynasty, so it is rich in food. The Grassland Department plundered our supplies and would go to Chu State to exchange for food. Other countries also have grain transactions with Chu State to some extent. .”

Lu Chengjiao didn't think too much, Xie Anlan asked, and he patiently explained to him.

Xie Anlan wrote something on the paper while listening, and when Lu Chengjia finished speaking, she turned her head and read word by word.

There was a storm in my heart.

"Your Highness, do you want to openly declare war on the Four Kingdoms?"

Seeing the plans one after another on the paper, Lu Chengjiao was terrified. At this moment, he finally understood what Xie Anlan had just said.

Want some excitement!

This is indeed exciting enough!

It is indeed exciting enough to stir up the disputes among the five countries with the power of one person.

Xie Anlan stopped writing when she heard the words, and suddenly smiled, "How can we say that we are fighting against them, it is obviously to give them warmth."

Send warmth

Lu Chengjie took another look at the writing on the paper.

Indeed, if you don't look at what His Highness wrote later, just looking at the first few words does seem to be sending them warmth.

Send the colored glaze they love to Nanyue country, and send cold protection to Xue country. As for Chu country, His Highness wrote that he can't understand it.

What are potatoes and what are corns?

Although he didn't understand clearly, it didn't prevent him from seeing His Highness' plan clearly.

Lu Chengjie looked down at the wound on his shoulder that was about to heal, and couldn't help frowning.

His Highness didn't come up with these plans because of his minor injury, did he?

Lu Chengjie felt a little uneasy.

Not worth it for him.

"worth."

Seeing him frowning and staring at the wound, Xie Anlan guessed what he was thinking.

"Of course I did this not only for you, but also for the emperor, and myself." Through this assassination, Xie Anming realized that he had entered the eyes of the other four countries.

Then no matter what he does in the future, he may be targeted, and if he is not careful, his life will hang by a thread.

There is no reason to wait to be beaten and guard against thieves every day.

Since they were the ones who made the first move, don't blame him for being rude.

Xie Anlan didn't think she was a troublemaker, but he wasn't afraid of trouble if it happened to him.

Originally, his idea was very simple, to keep the Yong dynasty, keep his own life, and earn a little money, enough for him to spend his life in this dynasty in style.

As for the disputes between several countries, he no longer has the slightest idea of ​​intervening.

Now, he has changed his mind.

He has the ability to make his country and himself better, why not do it.

Xie Anlan's slender hand unconsciously turned the pen in his hand.

His hand shape is already good-looking, and his ability to turn the pen is even more fascinating.

"Then His Highness, let's do it." After learning that it wasn't all for him, Lu Chengjia felt relieved.

"En." Xie Anlan responded lightly, just as the carriage stopped to rest when it was time.

Xie Anlan hugged a medicine box and smiled, "It's time to change the medicine."

Lu Chengjie pursed his lips, loosened the brocade belt, and let the clothes on his shoulders slip off a little, revealing the wounds on it.

When the gauze was removed, there was an abrupt spot on the snow-white skin.

Xie Anlan used the handle of the spoon to gently scrape off the ineffective medicine on the wound, exposing the wound that was about to scab inside.

Xie Anlan looked at the wound while applying medicine gently, "I guess the injury will be healed in the capital."

It is now the beginning of April, when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming. The temperature is neither hot nor cold, which is also conducive to the recovery of the wound.

Lu Chengjie didn't care about his wound, but looked at Xie Anlan who was concentrating on applying the medicine, and asked abruptly, "Does your Highness think scars are ugly?"

"What?" Xie Anlan didn't understand what Lu Chengjia meant for a while.

Seeing him looking sideways at the wound, he understood, and said with a smile, "I have consulted with the doctor before, your wound is not serious, as long as you apply the medicine on time, so that the wound does not repeat itself, and it will recover well later, use some more The medicine for removing scars should not leave scars, don't worry."

Seeing Xie Anlan smiling happily, Lu Chengjie's lips stiffened, and he silently swallowed the words he was about to blurt out.

I feel depressed.

Xie Anlan concentrated on applying the medicine for him, and did not see his fleeting expression of disappointment.

"Prince, young master, the meal has been prepared, you can come down to eat."

After the medicine was delivered, Lu Chuyi knocked on the door of the carriage. Lu Chengjie fastened his clothes and followed Xie Anlan out of the carriage.

I have to say, Xie Mingrui is capable. Those servants in Yicheng who have families and rooms and are unwilling to leave, she stayed in the mansion and let them continue to take care of the house, and then those who were willing to follow them to the imperial capital Among the servants, a middle-aged man who had a family and was calm and stable was selected to stay as the housekeeper.

He was allowed to go back to the imperial capital every two months to explain the affairs of Yicheng and visit his family by the way.

In this way, Xie Anlan would not only be able to continue to control the situation in Yicheng, but also the family members of this servant would not be afraid that he would have second thoughts.

Of course, Xie Mingrui was also afraid that the housekeeper would deliberately deceive others, so he planted a lot of nails in the mansion to restrain each other.

The rest follow them back to the imperial capital, and take care of their daily life on the way.

Now they can comfortably eat delicious meals on the road at any time, thanks to Xie Mingrui.

Lu Chengjie thought that when he and His Highness came down, he would eat some dry food and cakes along the way, and the best time was just a bowl of broth, and he buried his head down.

Sure enough, there is no difference without comparison.

As soon as they got out of the carriage, Jin Jin, who was sleeping with his head in the corner, also stood up immediately.

Stretch your wings, jump out of the carriage with your head held high, and peck bugs everywhere around the carriage.

Seeing it jump out of the carriage, Xie Mingyi muttered, "It's best to run away."

Xie Anlan didn't care about the struggles between him and the chicken, and started to eat the meal after being poisoned by Chen Gui.

It has to be said that Chen Gui had a hard time on this journey. That day he punished himself with fifty boards and beat himself to pieces. As a result, Xie Anlan said that he was going back to the imperial capital.

He had no choice but to drag his still-unfinished body on the road, and the bumps along the way tormented him a lot.

Even so, he had to drag his sick body to help Xie Anlan test the poison.

After Xie Anlan finished his meal, he didn't even look at Chen Gui. Obviously, he was still brooding over the fact that Chen Gui almost killed Lu Chengjiao that day.

After eating, Xie Anlan didn't get into the carriage immediately, but walked around the surrounding area, moving his stiff body while riding in the carriage.

Suddenly, he heard the shrill sound of his gold clucking.

He took two quick steps towards the source of the sound, and found several people running behind Jin Zi, obviously trying to catch it.

Xie Anlan came out dumbfounded and shouted, "Stop!"

When those people heard the sound, they paused and slowed down a bit.

Jin Zi, who was about to be caught, escaped like this, and ran back to Xie Anlan's feet, shrinking his neck and not moving.

Obviously frightened.

Xie Anlan held it in her arms, squinted and asked these people, "What are you doing?"

Those few people saw that Xie Anlan was followed by a team of guards with knives, and they knew that Xie Anlan's identity was unusual.

Busy bowing to apologize, "Returning to the nobleman, we are servants of the merchants on this road. The owner said that we want to rest. We got out of the car to get some water. We accidentally ran into your chicken...pet, and mistook it for a pheasant. , I just... just wanted to catch him for a tooth sacrifice, to disturb the nobleman, and beg the nobleman to show mercy."

The more these servants talked, the more they found that there were more guards with knives around them, and they gradually surrounded them, sweating coldly from fright, their legs went limp, and they knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

"Pfft." After hearing this, Xie Mingyi couldn't help laughing, "I said he's going to be caught and eaten as a beggar's chicken."

"If you peck me, you will suffer retribution." Xie Mingyi looked at the gold in Xie Anlan's arms and smiled openly, always letting out a bad breath.

Jin Zi stretched his neck and wanted to peck Xie Mingyi, who was so angry, but Xie Anlan held him tightly, unable to use it, so he had to give up.

After Xie Anlan understood the cause and effect of the incident, she looked at Jin Zi, who was being fed so smooth and slippery, in her arms.

If he saw such a chicken in the wild, he would also have the desire to pick it up cheap.

It's really not my fault.

"Next time, let's see if you still run around." Xie Anlan handed the gold in his arms to Lu Chengjie, and let him put it back in the cage, lest someone really catch him and turn him into a roast chicken.

Facing these chicken thieves, he didn't care about it, "You guys go back, keep your eyes open next time, you can't take advantage of everything."

The fluff all over Jin Jin's body has been groomed cleanly, and he's been raised so well, these few people can't fail to see that it's clearly a desire to take advantage.

I also hope that if they suffer a loss today, they will be a little smarter next time, so that they don't know when they lose their lives.

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord." Seeing that Xie Anlan didn't care about them, several servants thanked them repeatedly.

Xie Anlan didn't take this matter to heart. After returning, she rested on the carriage and waited for the people to pack up before setting off.

Before I had too much effort, I heard a guard come and report, "My lord, some businessmen outside said that they came to personally apologize to the lord."

"No, just say something trivial that I don't care about." Xie Anlan shook her head, not planning to summon her.

Unexpectedly, my eyes overlooked the boxes of lychees they sent as an apology.

He changed his mind again, "Let's see each other then."

"Yes." The guard didn't ask why the prince changed his mind, and went down to report.

Not long after, five businessmen of different shapes stood in front of Xie Anlan.

Seeing Xie Anlan casually resting on the side of the carriage, they didn't dare to be careless.

He saluted respectfully.

Then each of them sincerely apologized on behalf of their own servants with a good attitude.

Xie Anlan raised her hand, expressing that she didn't care about the matter, and asked instead, "Which of you is the businessman in charge of this lychee."

Soon a middle-aged man with a pot belly stood up, "Go back to the lord, it's the villain, the lord has orders."

Xie Anlan waved his hand, "Seeing that your fruit is so fresh, it looks like it was just picked, so I became curious, so you don't have to be restrained."

The fruit merchant's surname is Jiang Dan, and his first name is a Chinese character. He is about 20 years old. When Xie Anlan praised him, his chubby face smiled into a big cake, "Thank you for your praise, our Jiang family's fruits are fresh as long as we are fast. The family has a lot of horses, and when the fruits are ripe, they are picked at night, and they can be sent to other states and counties in a hurry the next morning."

Xie Anlan realized that there was a horse at home, no wonder she was able to raise herself so strong.

In this era, those who can afford horses are not small families, and those who can raise many horses are naturally wealthy.

"No matter how fast it is, it can only be sold in nearby counties. It will take ten and a half months to get to the imperial capital. How can we keep fresh during this period?" Xie Anlan asked again.

Jiang Shen's chubby smile relaxed, and he said seriously, "Then we need to use ice cubes."

If ice cubes are used, the cost of lychees will be high, not to mention ordinary people, even some rich and powerful families can't afford it.

Xie Anlan nodded, expressing that she understood, and did not intend to ask further questions.

Maybe this Jiang Shen felt that the prince Xie Anlan was quite easy to talk to, so he boldly asked again, "The prince is the one who made cement in Yicheng."

Xie Anlan didn't know that his cement was so famous that even businessmen outside Yicheng knew about it.

However, it's not surprising, after all, businessmen rely on the road to eat, which is related to their food, and snacks should also be served.

Xie Anlan glanced at Jiang Shen with a half-smile, and nodded slightly.

Jiang Shen was surprised for a moment, and then he was a little embarrassed, "I wonder if the prince's cement can be sold to us merchants."

Jiang Shen's hands were hidden in his two sleeves, and he was so nervous that he was sweating.

They came this time precisely for the cement.

Originally, they didn't pay much attention to this cement, after all, they didn't know what it was, but after seeing the flat and wide cement road in Yicheng.

They quickly realized the great benefits of this concrete road for their businessmen.

Especially for businessmen like their family who are in a hurry, with cement roads, the speed of delivering lychees can be more than twice as fast.

But when they found out that the cement was only sold to the imperial court, they were extremely disappointed.

The efficiency of the imperial court is too slow, so much cement is produced every day, and it is shared by various states and counties, and it is unknown when and what month it will be repaired here.

The sooner this road is repaired, the sooner they will make money.

It’s not that they didn’t pay for road construction in the village in the early years, and they don’t object to road construction. Besides, the price of cement is quite cheap. One person can repair a section of road, and they can also repair their business roads.

In the end, he refused to sell it to them. In desperation, he thought about going to see King Chen, who made the cement, to see if he would sell it. When they came to the door, King Chen had already returned to the imperial capital with his family.

Thinking that there was no hope, on the way back with the goods, when they stopped to rest, the servants came back and reported that they had just offended a nobleman in the forest.

There are some businessmen along the way, some nobles from where, and many guards.

Together, I'm afraid they may have met Prince Chen's team returning to the imperial capital.

With such a mentality, after a little inquiring, it really is.

Why don't you come here to make amends with a heavy gift, and see if you can buy cement from King Chen by the way.

Xie Anlan shook her head, "The output of this cement is not much now, and it is only sold to the imperial court. I'm afraid it cannot be sold to you alone."

Since Xie Anlan learned that this cement is of great use to the Ministry of Industry in Fengzhi County, she has discussed with Xie Cangming that this cement will not be sold to the outside world for the time being.

Especially for businessmen.

Yongchao is now mixed with good and bad people. Among the spy spies last time, some of them were in the name of businessmen, so when their own country has not yet been built, this cement must not be sold to others.

Hearing this, Jiang Shen and his party couldn't hide the disappointment on their faces.

Everyone has heard that the imperial court has been unable to make ends meet these years. When the imperial court repairs this road, I am afraid they will be old and old.

And the court and the prince are probably not stupid. If the cement is sold to them, the court will not only need to pay for road construction, but also earn a fortune selling cement for nothing. Wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?

Xie Anlan saw that their expressions were not right, she changed her mind and understood what they were thinking.

The phoenix eyes raised lightly, and said with a smile, "Although you can't do this cement business, I have a very profitable cement road business here, do you want to do it?"

cement road?

All the merchants looked at each other, how to do business on this cement road?

Is it possible to knock the cement road back and sell it?

"My lord, please tell me in detail." Jiang Shen and the others thought about it but couldn't figure out why, so they had to look at Xie Anlan again.

"Why do you think the imperial court built this road?" Xie Anlan chuckled at them, "Is it just for the convenience of your business? Is the imperial court's material delivery convenient? Is it to make the news from all over the place spread faster?"

Jiang Shen and the others were taken aback: Isn't that the case?

However, in the next second, several people realized that this road was built by the prince himself, and none of the above can benefit the prince.

Now Jiang Shen and the others began to think deeply, what is the prince trying to do.

Xie Anlan saw that they were really stupid, so she didn't intend to continue to make detours with them, and said bluntly: "I plan to launch a long-distance car dealership all over the country when the road is repaired."

"What is a long-distance drive?"

Jiang Shen and the others were taken aback. They had heard of car dealers, horse dealers, and commercial companies, but they had never heard of this long-distance car dealer.

The literal meaning is a bit like an escort agency, and I don't know if their guess is right.

Xie Anlan explained, "Long-distance coaches are horse-drawn carriages that can carry people and goods to long distances. You can understand them as civilian escort agencies that can carry people, that is, escort agencies that ordinary people can afford to hire."

"For example, when the imperial capital goes to Yicheng, you merchants need to hire carriages, escorts, and drivers. You also need to deal with officials and bandits on the way. The minimum cost for one trip is about ten taels, and the journey will take ten and a half months. About, but the long-distance car dealership I established doesn’t require you to hire additional people or cars, it only costs about one or two taels of silver, maybe less, and can let your goods and people go from the imperial capital to Yicheng smoothly.”

Jiang Shen and the others were taken aback, "Is there such a convenient thing?"

This is much cheaper than running their own business.

Just as they were inhaling, Xie Anlan threw out another thing that made them even more suffocated, "Besides, with this concrete road, the goods that you used to take ten and a half months to arrive will arrive on time within seven days after expediting. If you can arrive within the specified time, our long-distance car dealership will pay double compensation according to the contract."

Jiang Shen and the other three businessmen, their hearts were pounding, and they were a little excited. If there is such a business, the prospects must be bright!

Only one person sneered in his heart, there is such a good thing in the world, I am afraid that the court is crazy about wanting money, and thought of a way to cheat money.

Sure enough, Xie Anlan's next words confirmed his thoughts.

The author has something to say: It has been rebuilt. I don’t know what happened in the afternoon. My hands kept shaking and I couldn’t type well. It brought you a bad experience. I’m sorry.

感谢在2020-07-0623:58:04~2020-07-0723:57:30期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: so because, there are idlers, who are guilty of their crimes, and they are filthy;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: sunset afterglow, 45531191, 琑: 1 bottle of Xiaoyaozi;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!